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!
Double irony award? (Score:5, Informative)
Although being as the story was posted by the fail master himself samzenpus, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if a large part of the story (or the entire damned thing) turned out to be crap.
Oops (Score:5, Informative)
The lyrics from this fine song:
Kazakhstan greatest country in the world.
All other countries are run by little girls.
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium.
Other countries have inferior potassium.
Kazakhstan home of Tinshein swimming pool.
Itâ(TM)s length thirty meter and width six meter.
Filtration system a marvel to behold.
It remove 80 percent of human solid waste.
Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Northern fence of Jewtown.
Kazakhstan friend of all except Uzbekistan.
They very nosey people with bone in their brain.
Kazakhstan industry best in world.
We invented toffee and trouser belt.
Kazakhstanâ(TM)s prostitutes cleanest in the region.
Except of course for Turkmenistanâ(TM)s.
Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Northern fence of Jewtown.
Come grasp the mighty penis of our leader.
From junction with the testes to tip of its face!
Oh this is precious!
The actual anthem (Score:5, Informative)
Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem (Score:5, Informative)
Other countries have made similar error. For example, during the 1992 World Series.
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/military-honor-guard-displays-the-canadian-flag-upside-down-news-photo/51549719 [gettyimages.com]
Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem (Score:5, Informative)
I happened to be watching the world series on TV when that happened. No matter what you think, they put it on upside down. Interesting fact is that the flags they were using were the two-grommet variety where you pre-thread the rope with the toggle on one end through and attach THAT to the rope on the pole. What this means is that the people attaching and raising the flag aren't to blame -- someone threaded the rope upside down ahead of time (intentionally or not).
Re:I am underwhelmed by the original video (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_351_400/is_music_prohibited_in_islam.htm [irfi.org] (Islamic Research Foundation International, Inc.)
"Conclusion: Music is not prohibited in Islam. Allah Almighty in the Noble Quran allowed music and inspired it upon David peace be upon him. Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him didn't prohibit music unless it was used for sinful activities. Otherwise, music is allowed."
Re:But are they...? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! (Score:4, Informative)
There's a rousing version of To Anacreon in Heaven at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqyQO3xhNx0 [youtube.com].
The melody is trivially different from the US national anthem, but quite recognizable. That page includes the lyrics, which might be a bit difficult for most people to follow otherwise.
It's actually not at all unusual for national anthems to be based on older songs, especially "folk" songs that everyone in the culture knows. One of my favorite examples is the Israeli anthem, which uses the melody of an old eastern-European Jewish song that is in turn based on one of the ur-melodies found all over Europe. With about half as many notes (and in major), we know it in English as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. ;-) But people in any European country can probably tell us their local name for it. In eastern areas, it tends to be in minor, as is the Israeli version. I know a nice Finnish shottish tune that's a minor-mode variant of the same melody.
Re:But are they...? (Score:3, Informative)
It does happen in first world countries as well.
You haven't seen many things yet, doesn't mean they don't exist. [t-online.de]
I met a former slave once.
Re:But are they...? (Score:0, Informative)
Oh how funny you are - why not give a stand-up about jews in original german?
In most cases, brothels have Abu Ghraibish conditions - how you can extract humor from this is beyond me.
See this on youtube as an eye opener:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbDoZvzvI2E#t=60s
Re:But are they...? (Score:4, Informative)
I think it's entirely possible that this happens a lot more in Europe (which has relatively easily-crossed land borders with "third world hellholes") than the USA. I see articles about in in the news fairly regularly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6459369.stm [bbc.co.uk]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-14857004 [bbc.co.uk]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-14732841 [bbc.co.uk]