perfidy

It is important to understand English, I suppose. Either that or to get thicker skin:

I had a bunch of Euros I needed to exchange, so I went to the currency exchange window at the local bank.

Just one lady in front of me . . . an Asian lady, who was trying to exchange yen for dollars, and she was a little irritated.

She kept asking the teller, 'Why it change?? Why it change?? Why it change??' Then she continued, 'Yesterday, I get two hunat dolla fo yen. Today I get ony hunat eighty dolla?? Why it change?'

The teller shrugged his shoulders and said, simply and carefully, 'Fluctuations.'

The Asian lady glares at the banker, 'Fluc you white people, too!'

From today's Onion:

Beer Production Threatened By Climate Change According to New Zealand climatologist Jim Salinger, climate change may result in reduced malted barley, which would limit beer production. What do you think?

Fake responses included:

Heidi Marsico, Systems Analyst "Very clever, ‘Dr. Salinger,’ or should I say, Al Gore!"

and my personal favorite (no offense, Johno, wherever you are):

Hans Weinburger, Secretary "Could this limit the ability of my neighbor to brew his own beer, discuss brewing his own beer, boast about his talent for brewing beer, and browbeat his neighbors into trying his beer? Because in that case this could be a good thing."

...Unless you're involved in the publishing industry.

Here's what's going on, with Amazon.com playing the drunken frat boy to Print-On-Demand Publishers' ugly girl home alone on a Saturday night.

And in case you're interested, yes it is affecting me and my book sales. My reaction is here, complete with a troll commenter whom I strongly suspect to have Amazon ties.