Kazakh Gold Medalist Is Played Borat Anthem 155
Wo-wo-wee-wah! It looks like the Kuwaiti officials at an international shooting event never got the memo that the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan wasn't an actual documentary. Gold medalist Maria Dmitrienko stood stoically while the offensive national anthem from the film was played during the awards ceremony. From the article: "Coach Anvar Yunusmetov told Kazakh news agency Tengrinews that the tournament's organizers had also got the Serbian national anthem wrong." Nice!
But are they...? (Score:4, Funny)
The anthem supposedly praises their prostitutes. The obvious question is, then: are they really that good? ;)
Re:But are they...? (Score:5, Funny)
My sister says she's worth every penny.
Re:Double irony award? (Score:5, Funny)
This was at an International shooting event. Making mistakes like this seems to be one of those 'this is not a particularly smart thing to do' moments.
Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine if America, Fuck Yeah! played for an American winning team at the Olympics? That'd be so awk... motherfucking awesome.
Re:But are they...? (Score:5, Funny)
Do you agree?
Re:Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! (Score:5, Funny)
It has already been mentioned that the tune is rather similar to the actual Kazakhstan anthem, but with "nonstandard" lyrics.
It might be especially fun if the anthem-trolling did the same, using the basic national-anthem medley, but with more "interesting" lyrings.
In the case of the US, I can hear a choir singing the well-known (among American school-kids) lyrics: "Oh, say, can you see / any bedbugs on me ...".
It'd be fun to make a collection of all the national anthems, with variant lyrics like this. It would, of course, be online, so various sporting events would likely find it and use it as their source. ;-)
Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem (Score:2, Funny)
It was real, I'm from Toronto, and every Jays fan remembers that series.
I even remember Norm Macdonalds joke on SNL about it (he was doing weekend update) "It's a good thing this didn't happen to a country like Japan, who wouldn't tolerate such an insult".
Re:Double irony award? (Score:4, Funny)
Alternative even worse joke: So they wanted to seize the means of representation?
Alternative alternative even worse joke: Maybe they didn't leave because someone was standing directly in front of them and there was no one they could capture standing on the diagonal.
Re:Double irony award? (Score:5, Funny)
An armed tournament is a polite tournament.
Re:Kazakh wine (Score:5, Funny)
At least they didn't give them fermented horse piss as drinks.
What? Don't they have American beer there?
Re:But are they...? (Score:5, Funny)
Wait...you mean, Kazakhstan DOESN'T have the region's cleanest prostitutes? Uh oh...(makes doctor's appointment)
Re:Double irony award? (Score:5, Funny)
You might want to click on the link. Granted, the BBC is clearly a fly-by-night news operation with only a few reporters, no reputation to speak of and almost no history in journalism, but yeah...it's they who broke the story, not samzenpus.
Just be glad the Germans didn't win a medal (Score:4, Funny)
I'm sure they had "Deutschland über alles" and the swastika flag prepared, too.