Talk:List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock

Think we can get rid of the Needs Work box. Anyone know how?216.162.196.11 19:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC) Someone did it - thanks! Garydave 17:18, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock has survived vfd again. See: talk:List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock/Delete -- Wile E. Heresiarch 03:03, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Don't want to be obsessive about this, but a good half of what is listed here is not swearwords. If your ship is nearly in collision calling people 'Pirate', 'ship-wrecker', 'hoodlum', 'roadhog' are all insults but not swearwords. 'Black-marketeer' is not a swearword. Can we be more precise about this or change the title? DJ Clayworth 17:55, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

How about List of Abusive Terms? The Fellowship of the Troll 20:27, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

How about List of Oaths then? Auric The Rad 00:57, Feb 3, 2004 (UTC)

How about just merging this with the Captain Haddock article? By the way, I'd call them 'exclamations'. ike9898 03:01, Feb 3, 2004 (UTC)

Let's go with 'exclamations' then - anyone opposed to moving it? The Fellowship of the Troll 01:30, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

"I was delighted to come upon the article, because I love Tintin trivia. Nevertheless, this is a general, not a trivia encyclopedia.  The article cannot appear out of the blue and would require many related articles that simply do not belong here.  The fact that this is an electronic and not a paper publication does not mean it should completely lack focus. VFD" GCW
 * Agree. ike9898 15:33, Feb 5, 2004 (UTC)

We're in real trouble if the fact that all needed related articles on a topic are not written yet means we must delete what is there. The Fellowship of the Troll 21:01, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Request that we change the category for this page to 'Tintin characters'. As a side point can I delete talk which is no longer relevant at all? (the requests to rename the page) JohnFlux 10:25, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

OK, this is my new favorite Wikipedia article of all time. Billions of blue blistering barnacles! Foxmulder 19:14, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I prefer calling this article as Captain Haddock's Curses. I am a fan of Captain Haddock and am against moving or deleting this article. Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles on ten thousand thundering typhoons.Sauron 10:39, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Time to grow up, folks!
Yes, I too was an ardent fan of Tintin when I was a kid. I first started to read Tintin when I was 10 yrs old with the Red Rackham's Treasure and the Destination Moon series. Since then I have found so much that is disturbing about Tintin and Hergé that I cannot recommend these books to any young man.

Hergé was a product of the Belgian colonial empire and as such demeaned and insulted anyone who was not of European descent. Look at Africans, Arabs, Native Americans, or any other indiginous people in all of his books. Their treatment is so harsh that it disgusts me today, even though I thought it funny when I was a kid.

All of the nonsensical insults above are funny, it's true, but please remember that these are all translations. These are as much a reflection of the translator's cleverness as of Hergé's. In the orginal French one finds a lot more racially motivated insults (often used in Belgian colonies).

All that I have written so far is pretty tough on Hergé, and I hope that this would be enough to dissuade any potential reader from starting in on Tintin. Racism and empiricism are evils that we must avoid at all costs, and the Tintin series is based on just that. But how about a little more? Aside from being an outright racist, Hergé was a collaborator with the Nazis during their occupation of Belgium.

Is this what you want to expose your kids (or yourself)to? No. Xian

pneumothorax
Erm, am I the only one who's noticed that, although a point is made of "pneumothorax" in the article proper, it doesn't actually appear on the list?

Is this true of anything else mentioned in the narrative-text portion of the article?

4.225.130.185 09:06, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Merge
I've merged the useful information (IE. the prose, not the exclamations) to the Captain Haddock article, and redirected this article to that one.--Drat (Talk) 12:26, 4 October 2006 (UTC)