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Kazakh Gold Medalist Is Played Borat Anthem
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!
The anthem supposedly praises their prostitutes. The obvious question is, then: are they really that good? ;)
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The story indicates that the movie Borat was banned in Kuwait. Hence they chose the wrong theme, from a movie they couldn't even view, in that country.
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.
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Posting anonymously because I'm quoting other posts elsewhere that already covered this story...
Someone brought up that Borat was banned in Kuwait, and that might have been why they did not recognize the fake anthem.
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Kazakh anthem plays you? Borat sings from Internet? The anthem runs you to Kazakhstan? Banned-movie mock-anthem slips into your speaker system? The possibilities seem limitless with this one... =)
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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.
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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!
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found here sounds amusingly similar to Baron Cohen's version, although the intro does sound like the start of an old Disney cartoon!
Imagine if America, Fuck Yeah! played for an American winning team at the Olympics? That'd be so awk... motherfucking awesome.
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Other countries have made similar error. For example, during the 1992 World Series.
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They probably said, "Crap! She won! Does Kazakhstan even have an anthem? Google it!"
Someone searched for "Kazakhstan anthem" and came up with this. I wonder if they found it on Britannica.
Because this is news that god damned MATTERS.
It seems like someone willfully took the movie, recorded it, and used it.
and it's not even our fault this time.
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At least they didn't give them fermented horse piss as drinks.
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Honestly if I'm her I'd walked off the podium. Still... absolutely hilarious.
The story is admittedly funny and awkward, but - why on earth is this story even on Slashdot?
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They should have known better to not let Borat's brother Bilo pick out the music.
The movie was so mediocre that it has been forgotten by most people, that explains no reaction from the part of the woman.
Besides, she is ethnically Russian and probably has no particular feeling for both fake or real anthem, or any other ridiculous cargo cult attributes of Kazakhstan.
By the way, Kazakhs are Muslims and music is prohibited in Islam.
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I would think that just about everything Western (TM) would be banned in Kuwait.
Didn't the West (TM) come in and bail Kuwait out when Saddam's Iraqi forces invaded?
If you get embarrassed for the US all the time by things not even related like this then the problem is not the US, it is you, and yo need examine why you have this problem.
While the article doesn't explictly state from what site the organizers downloaded the tune, the implication is that the organizers acquired it from a not quite legal download site. That or the organizers barely know enough English to read the song titles on Apple music store. Methinks they just Googled for "Kazakh anthem download", and got the Hotfile, Mediafire, etc links from soemone's page-ranked blog.
I'm sure they had "Deutschland über alles" and the swastika flag prepared, too.
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Insulting the winners of a shooting competition. I suggest doing just a little bit more research before next year's event.
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Kazakh's StAn, very funny,
and their prostitutes, very sweet,
but the penis of their poor leader,
is impossible to b-eat.
I have it on good authority they frequently played the wrong anthem for Kuwait itself for a short time in the early 90's. At least until it was pointed out by a group of visiting foreigners that had been staying just over the border in Saudi Arabia.
You'd think the Kuwaitis could afford to license the appropriate music rather than snarfing it off the Internet.
As a Canadian - had I seen that game - I probably would have been torn between being mildly offended and mildly amused.
That being said, it seems that Bush Sr was more well-spoken that his progeny.
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Hm, good point. Juvenile, crude mockery it is, then.
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