Just asking for it, really
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@dreikin I think the joke is his license plate says "GTA", which is an acronym for Grand Theft: Auto, so someone should steal the car? I dunno either.
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@dreikin said in Just asking for it, really:
You clearly don’t have my kind of OCD, namely, reading (the letters on) license plates.
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@gurth said in Just asking for it, really:
@dreikin said in Just asking for it, really:
You clearly don’t have my kind of OCD, namely, reading (the letters on) license plates.
No, I read it, but the connection to Grand Theft Auto seemed rather tenuous. I was left wondering if someone had knocked the mirror off or if it was, as I'd first thought, simply folded in.
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@gurth said in Just asking for it, really:
You clearly don’t have my kind of OCD, namely, reading (the letters on) license plates.
The numbers are randomly assigned, so. You can't say he's "asking for it" if the number was randomly assigned.
If it were an obviously customized license plates like US States have and they PICKED "GTA", well, ok. But as-is the joke doesn't work.
That's not even getting into the whole "whatever weird Euro-country that has lightning-bolt cars and those strange licenses probably doesn't even use the term 'GTA', possibly because they don't even speak English" thing. (For instance, the UK apparently calls it "TWOC", Taking Without Owner's Consent.)
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@blakeyrat @Gurth is Dutch; we just call it theft (of a car). He was probably thinking of the videogame series.
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@pleegwat Is this one of those things where shitty Euro-countries have zero culture of their own and so you get stuff like, say, people in Norway claiming they have Miranda Rights because they keep seeing it on the US TV shows they watch because all Norwegian TV shows suck ass apparently?
(Ironically, I believe most if not all of the GTA video games are made by British developers; but they are set in the US. Or a weird simulacrum of it.)
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@blakeyrat The US is universally recognizeable, specific EU countries less so.
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@pleegwat said in Just asking for it, really:
@blakeyrat The US is universally recognizeable, specific EU countries less so.
Also the US has all those guns, and all those prostitutes, and all that immorality, don'tcha know. The EU has none of those things. :>
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@pleegwat said in Just asking for it, really:
@blakeyrat @Gurth is Dutch; we just call it theft (of a car). He was probably thinking of the videogame series.
I was indeed — I just find a car with a license plate that can be taken as a reference to a video game series in which the object is to steal cars, well, funny. I also get the impression that (at the time of writing) 15 other people made the same connection, so it’s (probably) not like only my mind works that way.
@blakeyrat said in Just asking for it, really:
If it were an obviously customized license plates like US States have and they PICKED "GTA", well, ok. But as-is the joke doesn't work.
Did I suggest the owner is asking for the car to be stolen? Maybe I meant that the license plate suggests the car itself is asking for it. Who knows? And do I care? It’s a joke. If you don’t find it funny, fine.
@blakeyrat said in Just asking for it, really:
Ironically, I believe most if not all of the GTA video games are made by British developers; but they are set in the US. Or a weird simulacrum of it.
Probably because European countries have been so bombarded with violent crime in American popular entertainment that their go-to setting for something involving violent crime, is the USA.
For comparison, there’s a German cop show called Alarm für Cobra 11 (“Alert for Cobra 11”) which puts the kind of things you see in American shows, like big car chases, gunfights on the highway, explosions, etc. on German roads instead. From an American show, I can easily accept that sort of stuff; a show set in Europe with the same elements, though, just comes across as silly. The reason is that TV has taught us that that sort of stuff happens in America but it just doesn’t in Europe.
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@gurth There's plenty of Dutch camera car and dashcam shows. But that doesn't pack as much as fiction.
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@blakeyrat said in Just asking for it, really:
The numbers are randomly assigned, so. You can't say he's "asking for it" if the number was randomly assigned.
Sure he can, because it's a joke. It wasn't meant to be taken literally.
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@gurth Meanwhile the Aussies made Danger 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z09bNgSeMI
I mean if you're gonna do it, do it right.
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@blakeyrat said in Just asking for it, really:
@pleegwat Is this one of those things where shitty Euro-countries have zero culture of their own and so you get stuff like, say, people in Norway claiming they have Miranda Rights because they keep seeing it on the US TV shows they watch because all Norwegian TV shows suck ass apparently?
Culture has no nationality. Not anymore.
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@blakeyrat said in Just asking for it, really:
@gurth said in Just asking for it, really:
You clearly don’t have my kind of OCD, namely, reading (the letters on) license plates.
The numbers are randomly assigned, so. You can't say he's "asking for it" if the number was randomly assigned.
Moral of the story: Don't tell jokes to robots!
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@blakeyrat said in Just asking for it, really:
(Ironically, I believe most if not all of the GTA video games are made by British developers; but they are set in the US. Or a weird simulacrum of it.)
Yes, based in Scotland. They had to think of a place where a life of crime is normalised (surprised they didn't think of Glasgow). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_North
The 'prototype' of GTA was also developed in UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_(video_game)
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@helix said in Just asking for it, really:
TIL. Of course I never had an Amiga... also very reminiscent of Carrier Command which came out a few years earlier.
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@gąska said in Just asking for it, really:
@blakeyrat said in Just asking for it, really:
@pleegwat Is this one of those things where shitty Euro-countries have zero culture of their own and so you get stuff like, say, people in Norway claiming they have Miranda Rights because they keep seeing it on the US TV shows they watch because all Norwegian TV shows suck ass apparently?
Culture has no nationality. Not anymore.
Something something cultural appropriation.
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@blakeyrat said in Just asking for it, really:
@gurth Meanwhile the Aussies made Danger 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z09bNgSeMI
I mean if you're gonna do it, do it right.
Now where did I leave my torrent client?
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@gurth Back when I watched it they put all the episodes up on YouTube for free.
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@blakeyrat You’re right, season 1 is at least, and season 2 seems to be as well. Thanks :)
Hunter (video game) - Wikipedia
