@@adrianafamilymember6427 Even when I account for the typo your comment makes no sense. Bureaucrats helping? Literal insanity. The entire process is the opposite of helping anyone or anything it has any interaction with. It's the hedgemonic cudgel that's crushing plebs everywhere since ancient times.
@@adrianafamilymember6427 Meh ! things got bad (by quietly waiting my turn). Not only did I ended in a psych ward, even one month later in front of administrative clerks I was incapable to sign. Took me many failures to get the okay. Sure they help. But by slowing everything with no srense of triage, they kill too. Toss people like me without treatment on the street, you'll save a pretty penny before Spring..🙂🤔
All that's missing to make this a truly accurate depiction of dealing with bureaucrats would be long line-ups and hours-long wait times at each of the windows they visit.
I have spent the last TEN YEARS getting my wife a visa to live in my country permanently. It's nearly over. Every time we submit yet another 200 page binder full of ridiculous documents (and pay thousands of pounds for the privilege of doing so,) we ceremonially watch this video.
Wouldn't you be hiding the fact that tests are now part of the process ? She's had ten years to prepare, so, she's rock solid, isn't she ?? You just had to be THe MAN. I don't even wish you good luck, wherever you go if not some old school country . from the bottom of my heart, I don't want you in France. You have no place under Liberty Equality. Whoever takes you or HER might just as well take an interest and grant her a splendid divorce. Submit all you want if your wife doesn't master the language enough(after 3 years as a rule) to be included, YOU shouldn't be here. My guess is, she's welcome if she dares, you're not.
@an_Hardrada_Cicero Enable him ! sure. Nothing wrong in his narrative. My ex-husband and I had no problem because he fits in. Being also involved in politics in HIS country, he refused his double nationality. For which I gave him proper hell, but I understand that his position can't be "stay home and develop it instead of coming here with nothing" if his own ass is covered, no matter what. Number of migrants DON'T Share our values at all when it comes to women. I've taught long enough French as a Foreign Language (my first job) to see quality dramas unfold because of male egos who patted themselves on the back for authorising their wife to read. Slippery slope. Learn to Read, write, count (the 3R) and think for yourself.. Don't think for one second only the men dragging mommy under a Saudi-fashion garb to push the shopping cart are keeping them under their thumb by clipping their wings. I've been asking for tests since forever, upon entrance and upon asking solid papers should tell us all we need. And rejecting people IS a good thing. It's not the rejected wife you need to watch, obviously, but the husband..
@@Hardrian_Hardrada_Cicero it's nearly over! she just needs to: - resubmit two more signed photocopies of her bank statements (the two she sent before have been lost due to a clerical error) - submit her original birth certificate, NOT a photocopy - submit two RECENT passport photos with blue background, signed on the back - complete application form RN5 with FULL employment history - wait for an email with her appointment slot at the embassy (should take no more than 5 working days, but due to COVID restrictions, waiting time could be up to 4 weeks, please be patient) - once her appointment has been made, please go down to local council office to collect temporary residence registration form T60, to be FULLY completed and signed, and pay fee $100 to the registrar - you will then be handed form T40, please bring this fully completed form with her to the appointment ** we are currently experiencing serious delays due to Covid restrictions, so we regret to inform you that your appointment has been cancelled. please be patient and wait for an email with your new appointment slot. Thank you for your understanding **
@@MrPhantaze Goes for many services, all linked. The problem is nobody knows what hoop they got to jump into first. The most logical for us usually delays everything else. The most you try, the less you pressure social assistants who could tell you the right order (being such a good person and all let every asshole who can't get their fingers off their ass and stop barking get first in line with the nice lady..) Same stories everywhere in Europe !!! Nice ladies drop everything and put you first to avoid the worst after full-blown manic or psychotic crisis is a tad late. Put your pride in a tissue and forget it in your pockets and start whining or you'll end up in a psych ward for real. Social services and Hospital triage aren't rationnal. They take the screamers first and let emergencies die in the corridors. They're so brave 🙃 Whinies and bullies come first!🤣🤣. I almost died like that as a kid sharing an ambulance meant for me with another that was "fine" as sick kids go, but the whiney got the gurney. I sat and talked to the guys who looked over her as we travelled half our country. on very early 8O's roads. Arrived home with a whopping 42+°C and asked for my Snoopy video game. My mother blew a fuse insulting and threatening everyone in sight, wildly out of character. fevers that high without treatment can fry your brain crazy fast and a single degree more kills an adult. Any adult would have been delirious for hours or comatose on arrival. kids are magical ! close enough to nasty sandboxes and eating bacterias biting their dirty fingers or letting their snacks drop.. Finns can't even have half our bacterias, let them play. No poop eating, obsviously ! just regular dirt, regular play, regular soap.. they'll catch regular crap and will be able to eat cheese or travel without dropping dead.. Too bad that's basically how normal people don't proceed in the first place nowadays..Too bad MY lesson was "I can take it" like the old folks. instead of seeking help in a timely fashion. one day late and a dollar short is the motto of rescue teams too. we'll find the right balance. meanwhile we're crazy stupid.. 🤣🤣🤣
Having spent the greater part of this week dealing with Australian bureaucracies (and yes, it is a Centrelink requirement!) I can fully sympathize, and in my case, it’s not over, yet…
@@RayManiac90 Ain't they all ??? it's perfectly described in a comic book manner. i've had psychiatric disorders bad enough in front of the workers once that i couldn't write or sign, just move the pen and no matter how hard I tried I couldn' control it. Simple indeed.🙃
It gets less funny when it's all real. This installment of Asterix is bad but some scenes are good enough to redeem the whole. this one is INTERNATIONAL.
I invite you to watch asterix. this movie is the most controversial, but the worst. That part is good, some others are okay. the whole is Meh, not good. Every other album IS good. i guess you can wonder about Tintin. Sure. some volumes are TRULY Xenophobic. Asterix never was. You could blame House MD of nasty jokes and what is left without those ??
@@CommissarMitch; okay, but about what ? The movie mocks aspects of modern life instead of cultural differences that always get overcome by SOME people in the other albums. This movie is not quite Jules Verne extrapolating possibilities, neither is it a dystopian world, but I find it pessimistic. Just like Hercules falls, no matter how bravely, so do we. It's hard to be anything else than pawns in a large game that crushes and destroys not only people, but the planet..And yet, we play when the only sane thing to do is refusing to.
For the fact that just like everyone else in that place, they're goofing off like children instead of doing their jobs? Other than the old guy. He's just an old man who thinks he's too old to be nice/polite.
@@anb2456 or gets entertained by his female employee "promotion canapé" = couch promotion. A real common thing until the late 80s in administrations, banks...
Useless fat people in important charges, that's barely a metaphor. Makes me remember once I went to the local office of the health ministry of my country (Costa Rica) and asked a simple form that we had to fill up in my company... the jerk who was sitting there had to call someone to ask for help about it! Just to give you a paper!
@@Snoop_Dugg play it, get the game of the year edition and play through main and Hearts of Stone DLC as well as Blood and Wine. It was best game of the year for many reasons 😁
@@kacmac2340 This is a reference to the work of the writer Franz Kafka. From the Merriam Webster's definition, "Kafka's work is characterized by nightmarish settings in which characters are crushed by nonsensical, blind authority", much like what astérix and obélix are going through here
@@kacmac2340 If you're not into books, Brazil, the terry Gillian movie can do. Bit of the same creepy ambiance also in 1984 book or Brave New World. It's dystopian. Society gone crazy for a reason or another =dystopian. The movie Brazil is old, and a bug (coackroach)is the source of all bizarre things. Kafka and Camus both criticised Justice or bureaucracy in all its absurdity. It doesn't beat reading by half the sources of a lot of classic SCI-Fi too. Most of those are, in truth, about our failures. another sort, from the feminist Margaret Atwood's book is a hit called The handmaiden's tale on streaming. She imagined Evangelists taking power over a land (USA) so polluted that fertility became rare. It's creepy as hell !!!
Just watching Asterix and Obelix slowly, and slowly, and slowly going up and down through every floor's stairs already makes me feel nervously tired and tiredly nervous 🥵😡😅
When the building is called "The Place That Sends You Mad" you know that place has problems. The funny part is that this kind of thing exists in real life with bureaucracy.
@@RayanS93 That's an opinion, without sources your comment is not valid. Recently I read the same about Germany and Australia. I lived in Ireland and England and it's exactly the same. After that in Portugal and now in Spain, bureaucracy is the same, slow and expensive. You mention Italy and France, another two countries of G-8. Maybe in Niger?
Not gonna lie. Same here in my country, government offices are usually difficult to visit including the staff. Too much requirements, fill-out this and that, and go to the office number, building number...Then, expect a never ending queue. 😅
The funniest thing about this scene is that it's not anachronistic at all: inscrutable bureaucracy has been with humanity since as far back as the Romans, and even further!
No, it hasn't. Even then few people kept tracks of anything if not money. they sure spied but nothing like us. it started there, without being a Dedalus. Them via Greece and Nordic people are the root of justice as we know it. monarchy and religion is a different influence, and what happened happened. Good riddance.
@@auntisthenes2754 You're trying to make a difference of degree into a difference of kind, which is just plain misguided. Even the Greeks and Nords had much, MUCH more bureaucracy than you give them credit for, and I'd recommend looking into real history rather than making assumptions based on fantasy novels or Elder Scrolls games.
You say bureaucracy, I say democracy (the gist of it). Keeping records and tracking accountability took both ways. The first with a vicious angle and thoroughly despicable qualities much later as the clip shows, rather accurately through humour. Open brackets : Also in Psychiatry, we all share the same ingredients, just not in the same proportions. In sociology, 90% of people are sheep. Asterix is the one in ten or 200, if you count Panoramix, the Druid. Nevermind that I suppose, if clichés and anachronisms weren't at the center of the comics. But they're on right on target ! if not it would be the worst xenophobic series ever. It's just funny and witty. It would just please you if people were either evil or good therefore qualitative broadstrokes would fit YOUR desires for simplicity and clear conscience. That's the little demon on your shoulder talking 🙂🙂Neither Norse or Greeks were troubled by Christian beliefs and they were right. Do the godesses of Vengeance trouble you ? The second relies on organising those pesky records to make choices society will agree upon. Good try for your hypothesis aside from the fact that the Norse kept an oral culture until the High Middle Ages. No "bureaucracy" to talk about until roughly 1200 AD. Everything before has been recorded by foreigners. Hardly comparable to centuries before BC of Greeks and Romans. (that's just talking about us toddlers, not Mesopotamia) And yet, there is a sense of law and communities. Unlike old feodal monarchy and whatever followed in their footsteps allowing kings to imprison or release on a whim. We know very little of oral cultures and how their Law evolved, just the damage we caused. Say In Rwanda. our Hindsight is 20/20. Checking German records might have explained a lot. Talking to BOTH sides might have explained a lot. No, we followed bureaucratic views instead of democratic views.🤨🧐😟We had records aplenty and didn't bother to read any. If we had, we could have avoided a genocide.
@@connorscanlan2167 Not that wild. Human nature doesn't change. Sticklers for the rules have always existed IMO in large enough communities. Talking prehistoric age social pact.. IMO again, Being overly fussy and annoying about every little detail came both from records and from scrutiny. The more learned people, the greater the need to cover your ass as democracy or its idea grows, whereas traditional hiearchies tend to weaken when trade extends. and the appeal to toy with order or laws also grows. BUT As Confucius said : you rule a great State like you fry little fish.. He saw the excesses of bureaucracy. You can't turn and return and interfere to watch closely without shredding your fish. too bad people in power didn't listen then and don't now. Wild conjectures ? Possibly. Semantic battle over the sides of a same coin, definitely. Up to a point when YOU ARE RIGHT, but that's contemporay history. I could get really wild, but just with personal opinions and bartender psychology 😂. I suspect you've got a solid entirely different grasp on things without blaming the Vikings.
Depends. it worked for me ONCE to create a BS Excuse that made total sense and WAS real. Got me a replacement car for one month when mine burnt. small victories. taking the bus cost me clients, not my job right away. At long last, yes.not right away.
yes I've often wondered about that, play them at their own game. invent some random document, and watch them go into a panic as they try to understand their own ridiculous system
@9664 I didn't invent anything official. Just said that I had been told such and such. Pure lie, but, it made sense that measures existing in some places, as discreet as they were could exist in my town. and after moving my butt to the most overwhelmed and busy place that overrules ordinary social assistants and talking to the right person (REALLY searching the intel on my say-so, probably by sheer curiosity) , my bluff paid. There were indeed vehicles available (one month)for workers like me, victims of vandalism, but not reimbursed by their assurance for old cars set on fire, who couldn't afford immediate replacement and whose job demanded mobility. TWO cars for about 200 000 people explains the fact that nobody knows. THe irony is, I would have gotten a new car IF I had been unemployed for 2 years and signing my contract...Keeping the job is entirely optional past two months. Administrative logic made in France..🤣🤣🤣Let's get people fired or spiraling down until they're nuts on toast, at which point, we will help. I dare say I have cost much more than a 10 y-o car since the "incident" deeply impacted my boss.
I don't think there would be any legal consequences. There is nothing illegal about asking for documents that don't exist. If they create a commotion as a result, then that's on them.
see, simple formality !!! In order to reassure you, French people only register new cars.My driving license is minty fresh from 1996 ! Able to drink and drive, not at the same time. it's bad enough as opinion diverge. You can't book appointments. Unlike foreigners who have to, but thanks to internet, they can't, there's' a market stealing and dealing places..Ain't that beautiful 🤣 They don't press charges against X, many Xs, lose their papers, lose their job all because they're scared and obedient. Or rush 100 at a time to make a point not one of them dare declare or laywer up about. I like foreigners as a whole, but I never miss an opportunity to remind them where there are for good or bad. We are overly fussy about paperwork, not out to get them. If anything, we're overindulging them way too long in France. the USA has the right of it when they don't screw the pooch. Who knows anymore ? When did it become RIGHT to put children in cages ? Rather peculiar, so American...
This joke will last as long as bureaucracy exists.
Except the for fact that they actually help
@@adrianafamilymember6427 Even when I account for the typo your comment makes no sense. Bureaucrats helping? Literal insanity. The entire process is the opposite of helping anyone or anything it has any interaction with. It's the hedgemonic cudgel that's crushing plebs everywhere since ancient times.
@@adrianafamilymember6427 Meh ! things got bad (by quietly waiting my turn). Not only did I ended in a psych ward, even one month later in front of administrative clerks I was incapable to sign. Took me many failures to get the okay.
Sure they help. But by slowing everything with no srense of triage, they kill too. Toss people like me without treatment on the street, you'll save a pretty penny before Spring..🙂🤔
All that's missing to make this a truly accurate depiction of dealing with bureaucrats would be long line-ups and hours-long wait times at each of the windows they visit.
That's what the stairs represents.
I have spent the last TEN YEARS getting my wife a visa to live in my country permanently. It's nearly over. Every time we submit yet another 200 page binder full of ridiculous documents (and pay thousands of pounds for the privilege of doing so,) we ceremonially watch this video.
What's the status with your wife's visa now?
Wouldn't you be hiding the fact that tests are now part of the process ? She's had ten years to prepare, so, she's rock solid, isn't she ??
You just had to be THe MAN. I don't even wish you good luck, wherever you go if not some old school country . from the bottom of my heart, I don't want you in France. You have no place under Liberty Equality.
Whoever takes you or HER might just as well take an interest and grant her a splendid divorce. Submit all you want if your wife doesn't master the language enough(after 3 years as a rule) to be included, YOU shouldn't be here. My guess is, she's welcome if she dares, you're not.
@an_Hardrada_Cicero Enable him ! sure. Nothing wrong in his narrative. My ex-husband and I had no problem because he fits in. Being also involved in politics in HIS country, he refused his double nationality. For which I gave him proper hell, but I understand that his position can't be "stay home and develop it instead of coming here with nothing" if his own ass is covered, no matter what.
Number of migrants DON'T Share our values at all when it comes to women. I've taught long enough French as a Foreign Language (my first job) to see quality dramas unfold because of male egos who patted themselves on the back for authorising their wife to read. Slippery slope. Learn to Read, write, count (the 3R) and think for yourself.. Don't think for one second only the men dragging mommy under a Saudi-fashion garb to push the shopping cart are keeping them under their thumb by clipping their wings.
I've been asking for tests since forever, upon entrance and upon asking solid papers should tell us all we need. And rejecting people IS a good thing. It's not the rejected wife you need to watch, obviously, but the husband..
@@Hardrian_Hardrada_Cicero it's nearly over! she just needs to:
- resubmit two more signed photocopies of her bank statements (the two she sent before have been lost due to a clerical error)
- submit her original birth certificate, NOT a photocopy
- submit two RECENT passport photos with blue background, signed on the back
- complete application form RN5 with FULL employment history
- wait for an email with her appointment slot at the embassy (should take no more than 5 working days, but due to COVID restrictions, waiting time could be up to 4 weeks, please be patient)
- once her appointment has been made, please go down to local council office to collect temporary residence registration form T60, to be FULLY completed and signed, and pay fee $100 to the registrar
- you will then be handed form T40, please bring this fully completed form with her to the appointment
** we are currently experiencing serious delays due to Covid restrictions, so we regret to inform you that your appointment has been cancelled. please be patient and wait for an email with your new appointment slot. Thank you for your understanding **
@@auntisthenes2754 Your sexist ideals is exactly why my personal trek has taken over 10 years and $10,000 to resolve.
Disgusting.
4:50 I still say the Prefect is the scariest one of them all, his calm 'see, there was nothing to get so worked up about' manner
Just follow like a good little sheep. Forget about slaughterhouses, it's very humane 🙂
Let's be honest, this is the scariest part of the movie.
Its certainly the task they struggled with the most
We Finns veey much find this rather funny as thisis exactly how the service that gives you economical support works
@@MrPhantaze Goes for many services, all linked. The problem is nobody knows what hoop they got to jump into first. The most logical for us usually delays everything else. The most you try, the less you pressure social assistants who could tell you the right order (being such a good person and all let every asshole who can't get their fingers off their ass and stop barking get first in line with the nice lady..)
Same stories everywhere in Europe !!! Nice ladies drop everything and put you first to avoid the worst after full-blown manic or psychotic crisis is a tad late. Put your pride in a tissue and forget it in your pockets and start whining or you'll end up in a psych ward for real.
Social services and Hospital triage aren't rationnal. They take the screamers first and let emergencies die in the corridors. They're so brave 🙃 Whinies and bullies come first!🤣🤣. I almost died like that as a kid sharing an ambulance meant for me with another that was "fine" as sick kids go, but the whiney got the gurney. I sat and talked to the guys who looked over her as we travelled half our country. on very early 8O's roads. Arrived home with a whopping 42+°C and asked for my Snoopy video game. My mother blew a fuse insulting and threatening everyone in sight, wildly out of character.
fevers that high without treatment can fry your brain crazy fast and a single degree more kills an adult. Any adult would have been delirious for hours or comatose on arrival. kids are magical ! close enough to nasty
sandboxes and eating bacterias biting their dirty fingers or letting their snacks drop.. Finns can't even have half our bacterias, let them play. No poop eating, obsviously ! just regular dirt, regular play, regular soap.. they'll catch regular crap and will be able to eat cheese or travel without dropping dead..
Too bad that's basically how normal people don't proceed in the first place nowadays..Too bad MY lesson was "I can take it" like the old folks. instead of seeking help in a timely fashion. one day late and a dollar short is the motto of rescue teams too.
we'll find the right balance. meanwhile we're crazy stupid..
🤣🤣🤣
They also translated the name of that place buch better. "The House of Madness" sounds a lot better than "The place that sends you mad".😉@@MrPhantaze
@@Rebelcommander6 the French bureaucratic system can break even the mightiest warriors. Hercules himself would have failed at this one
Having spent the greater part of this week dealing with Australian bureaucracies (and yes, it is a Centrelink requirement!) I can fully sympathize, and in my case, it’s not over, yet…
I see nothing but a simple administrative formality
@@RayManiac90 Ain't they all ??? it's perfectly described in a comic book manner.
i've had psychiatric disorders bad enough in front of the workers once that i couldn't write or sign, just move the pen and no matter how hard I tried I couldn' control it. Simple indeed.🙃
As a kid I thought this was funny because ha ha running around.
As an adult... I feel this in my bones.
It gets less funny when it's all real. This installment of Asterix is bad but some scenes are good enough to redeem the whole. this one is INTERNATIONAL.
I invite you to watch asterix. this movie is the most controversial, but the worst. That part is good, some others are okay. the whole is Meh, not good. Every other album IS good.
i guess you can wonder about Tintin. Sure. some volumes are TRULY Xenophobic. Asterix never was. You could blame House MD of nasty jokes and what is left without those ??
@@auntisthenes2754 I disagree.
@@CommissarMitch; okay, but about what ? The movie mocks aspects of modern life instead of cultural differences that always get overcome by SOME people in the other albums.
This movie is not quite Jules Verne extrapolating possibilities, neither is it a dystopian world, but I find it pessimistic.
Just like Hercules falls, no matter how bravely, so do we. It's hard to be anything else than pawns in a large game that crushes and destroys not only people, but the planet..And yet, we play when the only sane thing to do is refusing to.
@@auntisthenes2754 You seem to be operating under the delusion that bureaucracy is a modern invention...
That whole scene with the two ladies talking..thats so realistic i had some bad flashbacks
This is a scene that everyone on a civilized country can relate to
And, scarily, not an anachronism
"civilized"
Obelix's meltdown at the end - we've all been there, my friend
Nothing represents (specifically) italian bureaucracy better than this. It is insane, you have to dodge rabbit holes on daily basis.
That secretary swinging the old guy on the rope swing... i wonder what's that a metaphor for 🤣🤣
For the fact that just like everyone else in that place, they're goofing off like children instead of doing their jobs?
Other than the old guy. He's just an old man who thinks he's too old to be nice/polite.
Probably one of those French bureaucrats who has no work to do, a job for life, and plenty of time to entertain his mistress.
@@anb2456 or gets entertained by his female employee "promotion canapé" = couch promotion. A real common thing until the late 80s in administrations, banks...
Useless fat people in important charges, that's barely a metaphor. Makes me remember once I went to the local office of the health ministry of my country (Costa Rica) and asked a simple form that we had to fill up in my company... the jerk who was sitting there had to call someone to ask for help about it! Just to give you a paper!
It wasn’t until recently that I understood the meaning of that scene…
Obelix: We shall never get out of here, Asterix. The magic potion won’t be any help to us here. We’ll go mad, and we’ll be Julius Caesar’s slaves!
The Witcher 3 Blood and Wine DLC made this a side quest xD, needed permit A38, then form 202 ect ect ect
Yup the people that worked on Witcher knew some really good stuff xD
This makes me exited to play it
@@Snoop_Dugg play it, get the game of the year edition and play through main and Hearts of Stone DLC as well as Blood and Wine. It was best game of the year for many reasons 😁
YES, the moment I heard "A38" in the game I knew EXACTLY what I was getting myself into
As soon as I heard that I needed a permit, I knew what was coming.
Kan you feel the Kafka?
Excuse me, what is Kafka?
@@kacmac2340 This is a reference to the work of the writer Franz Kafka. From the Merriam Webster's definition, "Kafka's work is characterized by nightmarish settings in which characters are crushed by nonsensical, blind authority", much like what astérix and obélix are going through here
@@nathanfrandon2798 Ok, thanks.
@@kacmac2340 If you're not into books, Brazil, the terry Gillian movie can do. Bit of the same creepy ambiance also in 1984 book or Brave New World. It's dystopian. Society gone crazy for a reason or another =dystopian. The movie Brazil is old, and a bug (coackroach)is the source of all bizarre things.
Kafka and Camus both criticised Justice or bureaucracy in all its absurdity. It doesn't beat reading by half the sources of a lot of classic SCI-Fi too. Most of those are, in truth, about our failures.
another sort, from the feminist Margaret Atwood's book is a hit called The handmaiden's tale on streaming. She imagined Evangelists taking power over a land (USA) so polluted that fertility became rare. It's creepy as hell !!!
Just watching Asterix and Obelix slowly, and slowly, and slowly going up and down through every floor's stairs already makes me feel nervously tired and tiredly nervous 🥵😡😅
This, Futurama, and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy are my only insight on bureaucracy! 😂
How peaceful it might have been to live in a village back then
When the building is called "The Place That Sends You Mad" you know that place has problems. The funny part is that this kind of thing exists in real life with bureaucracy.
This is life of an adult 😂😂😂
Italian/French bureaucracy be like:
I think bureaucracy is like this in all over the world
@@scottparker5501nah, some of them are really efficient
@@RayanS93 That's an opinion, without sources your comment is not valid. Recently I read the same about Germany and Australia. I lived in Ireland and England and it's exactly the same. After that in Portugal and now in Spain, bureaucracy is the same, slow and expensive. You mention Italy and France, another two countries of G-8. Maybe in Niger?
And Poland
wait till you experience the greek one😂
This was made how long ago? And it's still just as relevant, wherever in the world you may be, if not even more.
in france (original country) it's release at 19"76". The guys who directed that have understand everything!
Not gonna lie. Same here in my country, government offices are usually difficult to visit including the staff. Too much requirements, fill-out this and that, and go to the office number, building number...Then, expect a never ending queue. 😅
6:40 Now he's totally flipped!🤪
6:54 So THAT'S why the famous Venus statue doesn't have her arms.🤔
6:40 STOP IT!!! (Goes insane)
Asterix: Calm down, Obelix! Calm down! There, there. Calm down.
6:43 bro really became French💀
Is this what the ecclesiasticy from Warhammer 40k is like?
Very long wait always make people go crazy after long hours.
You identify with this a lot more as an adult than you did as a kid.
2:47 When you're trying to get to the top floor, but the elevator's broken.😣
Bureaucracy in Brazil:
tentando resolver pepinos no meu CPF que me impedem de tirar o CIN para depois poder renovar minha CNH 🤡. Não desejo isso pro meu pior inimigo
3:07 In French Obelix says "Iv?!", and Asterix replies "No, not iv! Four! We're going to the sixth."
The funniest thing about this scene is that it's not anachronistic at all: inscrutable bureaucracy has been with humanity since as far back as the Romans, and even further!
No, it hasn't. Even then few people kept tracks of anything if not money. they sure spied but nothing like us. it started there, without being a Dedalus.
Them via Greece and Nordic people are the root of justice as we know it. monarchy and religion is a different influence, and what happened happened. Good riddance.
@@auntisthenes2754 You're trying to make a difference of degree into a difference of kind, which is just plain misguided. Even the Greeks and Nords had much, MUCH more bureaucracy than you give them credit for, and I'd recommend looking into real history rather than making assumptions based on fantasy novels or Elder Scrolls games.
You say bureaucracy, I say democracy (the gist of it). Keeping records and tracking accountability took both ways.
The first with a vicious angle and thoroughly despicable qualities much later as the clip shows, rather accurately through humour.
Open brackets : Also in Psychiatry, we all share the same ingredients, just not in the same proportions. In sociology, 90% of people are sheep. Asterix is the one in ten or 200, if you count Panoramix, the Druid. Nevermind that I suppose, if clichés and anachronisms weren't at the center of the comics. But they're on right on target ! if not it would be the worst xenophobic series ever. It's just funny and witty.
It would just please you if people were either evil or good therefore qualitative broadstrokes would fit YOUR desires for simplicity and clear conscience. That's the little demon on your shoulder talking 🙂🙂Neither Norse or Greeks were troubled by Christian beliefs and they were right. Do the godesses of Vengeance trouble you ?
The second relies on organising those pesky records to make choices society will agree upon.
Good try for your hypothesis aside from the fact that the Norse kept an oral culture until the High Middle Ages. No "bureaucracy" to talk about until roughly 1200 AD. Everything before has been recorded by foreigners. Hardly comparable to centuries before BC of Greeks and Romans. (that's just talking about us toddlers, not Mesopotamia) And yet, there is a sense of law and communities. Unlike old feodal monarchy and whatever followed in their footsteps allowing kings to imprison or release on a whim.
We know very little of oral cultures and how their Law evolved, just the damage we caused. Say In Rwanda. our Hindsight is 20/20. Checking German records might have explained a lot. Talking to BOTH sides might have explained a lot. No, we followed bureaucratic views instead of democratic views.🤨🧐😟We had records aplenty and didn't bother to read any. If we had, we could have avoided a genocide.
@@auntisthenes2754 "Oral cultures don't have bureaucracy" is a WILD take.
@@connorscanlan2167 Not that wild. Human nature doesn't change. Sticklers for the rules have always existed IMO in large enough communities. Talking prehistoric age social pact..
IMO again, Being overly fussy and annoying about every little detail came both from records and from scrutiny. The more learned people, the greater the need to cover your ass as democracy or its idea grows, whereas traditional hiearchies tend to weaken when trade extends. and the appeal to toy with order or laws also grows. BUT
As Confucius said : you rule a great State like you fry little fish.. He saw the excesses of bureaucracy. You can't turn and return and interfere to watch closely without shredding your fish. too bad people in power didn't listen then and don't now.
Wild conjectures ? Possibly. Semantic battle over the sides of a same coin, definitely. Up to a point when YOU ARE RIGHT, but that's contemporay history. I could get really wild, but just with personal opinions and bartender psychology 😂. I suspect you've got a solid entirely different grasp on things without blaming the Vikings.
Bureaucracy... Bureaucracy never changes...
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5:55 what did he say?
"You want the port? You're beginning to get me down!"
@@JasonE406 Thank you!
you and the ponty pickety to get me DONE!
If you did as Asterix by turning the table on this kind of staff in real life what would the consequences be?
Depends. it worked for me ONCE to create a BS Excuse that made total sense and WAS real.
Got me a replacement car for one month when mine burnt. small victories. taking the bus cost me clients, not my job right away. At long last, yes.not right away.
yes I've often wondered about that, play them at their own game. invent some random document, and watch them go into a panic as they try to understand their own ridiculous system
@9664 I didn't invent anything official. Just said that I had been told such and such. Pure lie, but, it made sense that measures existing in some places, as discreet as they were could exist in my town. and after moving my butt to the most overwhelmed and busy place that overrules ordinary social assistants and talking to the right person (REALLY searching the intel on my say-so, probably by sheer curiosity) , my bluff paid.
There were indeed vehicles available (one month)for workers like me, victims of vandalism, but not reimbursed by their assurance for old cars set on fire, who couldn't afford immediate replacement and whose job demanded mobility. TWO cars for about 200 000 people explains the fact that nobody knows.
THe irony is, I would have gotten a new car IF I had been unemployed for 2 years and signing my contract...Keeping the job is entirely optional past two months. Administrative logic made in France..🤣🤣🤣Let's get people fired or spiraling down until they're nuts on toast, at which point, we will help. I dare say I have cost much more than a 10 y-o car since the "incident" deeply impacted my boss.
I don't think there would be any legal consequences. There is nothing illegal about asking for documents that don't exist. If they create a commotion as a result, then that's on them.
Labour department where I live
this is me today.....
Thanks
What did the Romans ever do for us?
THIS. RIGHT. HERE.
The modern day DMV looks lame compared to this 😂😂😂
see, simple formality !!!
In order to reassure you, French people only register new cars.My driving license is minty fresh from 1996 ! Able to drink and drive, not at the same time. it's bad enough as opinion diverge.
You can't book appointments. Unlike foreigners who have to, but thanks to internet, they can't, there's' a market stealing and dealing places..Ain't that beautiful 🤣
They don't press charges against X, many Xs, lose their papers, lose their job all because they're scared and obedient. Or rush 100 at a time to make a point not one of them dare declare or laywer up about.
I like foreigners as a whole, but I never miss an opportunity to remind them where there are for good or bad. We are overly fussy about paperwork, not out to get them. If anything, we're overindulging them way too long in France. the USA has the right of it when they don't screw the pooch. Who knows anymore ? When did it become RIGHT to put children in cages ? Rather peculiar, so American...
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context please
They're doing 12 challenges to decide the fate of their village. In this one, they have to get a permit (A-38)
@@alan62036 did they also make a DMV joke?
@@sollunadonis1995 This whole section is a joke about bureaucrats in general
This is stange to hear it in English.
I'm so rich
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