Kazakh Gold Medalist Is Played Borat Anthem

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Kazakh Gold Medalist Is Played Borat Anthem

Posted by samzenpus on Friday March 23, 2012 @08:47AM from the Kazakhstan-you-very-nice-place dept.

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!

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But are they...? by tibit · 2012-03-23 08:51 · Score: 3, Funny

The anthem supposedly praises their prostitutes. The obvious question is, then: are they really that good? ;)

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1. Re:But are they...? by LordNimon · 2012-03-23 08:52 · Score: 4, Funny
  
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2. Re:But are they...? by Surt · 2012-03-23 09:03 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Do you agree?
  
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3. Re:But are they...? by Lunix+Nutcase · 2012-03-23 09:27 · Score: 1
  
  Unfortunately he has a very small krum so he's inadequate at sexy time.
4. Re:But are they...? by Shoten · 2012-03-23 10:43 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Wait...you mean, Kazakhstan DOESN'T have the region's cleanest prostitutes? Uh oh...(makes doctor's appointment)
  
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5. Re:But are they...? by YurB · 2012-03-23 11:57 · Score: 1, Informative
  
  Please sorry for my unclear language... I tried to say that jokes and discussions about 'which prostitutes are better' make me sad because of the injustice which the actual prostitutes experience: sometimes they are simply taken into slavery...
6. Re:But are they...? by hairyfeet · 2012-03-23 12:45 · Score: 2
  
  Ya know, being a musician that has lived many years on the wrong side of the tracks I've known, been friends with, and even had hookers for neighbors and ya know what? never met a slave. met one hooking to get her sleazebag BF off a meth charge, met a few hooking for their coke habits, never actually met a slave. While I'm sure that happens in third world hellholes that is the thing about third world hellholes in that EVERYTHING happens in third world hellholes because...well they are third world hellholes. Just because you can buy an 8 year old in bumfuckistan doesn't mean all hookers are slave ya know.
  
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7. Re:But are they...? by dunkelfalke · 2012-03-23 21:38 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  It does happen in first world countries as well.
  You haven't seen many things yet, doesn't mean they don't exist.
  I met a former slave once.
  
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8. Re:But are they...? by xaxa · 2012-03-24 02:03 · Score: 3, 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
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-14857004
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-14732841
9. Re:But are they...? by Caesar+Tjalbo · 2012-03-24 10:42 · Score: 1
  
  Nope, Turkmenistan.
  
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10. Re:But are they...? by philip.paradis · 2012-03-24 19:48 · Score: 1
  
  One day, you get this.
  
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Double irony award? by damn_registrars · 2012-03-23 08:51 · Score: 4, Informative

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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1. Re:Double irony award? by ColdWetDog · 2012-03-23 08:58 · Score: 4, 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.
  
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2. Re:Double irony award? by vux984 · 2012-03-23 09:05 · Score: 1
  
  I think it was banned in kazahkstan not kuwait.
  In any case surely there are official channels to request flags and anthems and other national symbols from...like the teams themselves...
  One doesn't think one would need to be hitting the pirate bay for this stuff...
3. Re:Double irony award? by mfarah · 2012-03-23 09:31 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  In any case surely there are official channels to request flags and anthems and other national symbols from...
  YEARS ago, Chile hosted the World Chess Championship. Players from Romania were *very* upset because the flag representing them still had the socialist coat of arms on it (the 1989 revolution had happened less than a year before). They threatened to leave unless steps were taken immediately to correct this... I guess it was solved to their satisfaction, because they didn't leave, though.
  
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4. Re:Double irony award? by interkin3tic · 2012-03-23 09:41 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  In soviet Romania, flag removes YOU!
  
  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.
5. Re:Double irony award? by Hatta · 2012-03-23 09:44 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  An armed tournament is a polite tournament.
  
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6. Re:Double irony award? by treeves · 2012-03-23 09:54 · Score: 1
  
  I would think that just about everything Western (TM) would be banned in Kuwait. Except cars.
  
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7. Re:Double irony award? by sjames · 2012-03-23 09:56 · Score: 2
  
  The BBC is fairly careful about that sort of thing.
8. Re:Double irony award? by an+unsound+mind · 2012-03-23 09:57 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  And playing the wrong anthem is an exceedingly impolite thing to do.
9. Re:Double irony award? by Shoten · 2012-03-23 10:54 · Score: 4, 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.
  
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10. Re:Double irony award? by damn_registrars · 2012-03-23 10:57 · Score: 2
  
  I think it was banned in kazahkstan not kuwait.
  The BBC article states it was banned both in Kuwait and Kazakhstan.
  
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11. Re:Double irony award? by cowboy76Spain · 2012-03-23 13:03 · Score: 2
  
  In a tennis competition in Australia, the Spanish Republica Himno de Riego was played instead of the Royal March when the players got in the podium.
  Anyway, except for the few bureaucrats who thought their work was to show the world how enraged all of the spaniards were, most people understood it was just an error and not a political statement and a few make a few jokes. That was all about it.
  
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12. Re:Double irony award? by damn_registrars · 2012-03-23 13:43 · Score: 1, Interesting
  
  You might want to click on the link.
  I did. And that is the only reason why I view the story as being the least bit credible, as samzenpus has a long proud history of bringing distortion and epic failure to the front page of slashdot.
  
  However, even the BBC gets fooled on occasion. I trust them enough that I watch them for my morning news while I eat breakfast - however they are in the end still human and prone to human mistakes.
  
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13. Re:Double irony award? by Ltap · 2012-03-23 18:34 · Score: 1
  
  Or perhaps they liked it, given that Spain has always had an uncomfortable relationship with its monarchy and the fascists who propped it up for decades.
  
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14. Re:Double irony award? by fremsley471 · 2012-03-23 21:03 · Score: 1
  
  At the Rugby World Cup in Wales in 1991, Australia were playing Samoa in a small stadium in some hell-hole in the Valleys. The local brass band duly trotted out 'Advance Australia Fair', but they obviously had trouble with their comms to the South Pacific as the Samoans got "Theme from Hawaii-Five-O"...
15. Re:Double irony award? by BeardedChimp · 2012-03-23 22:46 · Score: 1
  
  However, even the BBC gets fooled on occasion. I trust them enough that I watch them for my morning news while I eat breakfast - however they are in the end still human and prone to human mistakes.
  The BBC makes mistakes? Surely not!
16. Re:Double irony award? by drinkypoo · 2012-03-23 23:08 · Score: 1
  
  Triple irony award: The BBC story has a picture of Borat (Cohen in character, that is) but not a picture of the athlete. Fucking beeb.
  
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The national Anthem by sconeu · 2012-03-23 08:56 · Score: 1

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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Oops by MysteriousPreacher · 2012-03-23 08:57 · 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!

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The actual anthem by Brannoncyll · 2012-03-23 08:57 · Score: 4, Informative

found here sounds amusingly similar to Baron Cohen's version, although the intro does sound like the start of an old Disney cartoon!
Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! by Cazekiel · 2012-03-23 09:00 · Score: 5, Funny

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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1. Re:Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-23 09:04 · Score: 1
  
  I anticipate the Olympics one year to be anthem-trolled. No country will be introduced with their actual anthem. Many parody artists will need to begin work devising alternate anthems for countries that don't get Hollywood attention.
2. Re:Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! by jc42 · 2012-03-23 09:17 · Score: 4, 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. ;-)
  
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3. Re:Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! by ColdWetDog · 2012-03-23 09:44 · Score: 1
  
  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. ;-)
  Put in the public domain, post it as a Wikipedia article.
  Sit back, grab popcorn.
  
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4. Re:Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! by jc42 · 2012-03-23 09:50 · Score: 1
  
  Most Americans wouldn't notice the difference.
  
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5. Re:Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! by SuricouRaven · 2012-03-23 09:54 · Score: 1
  
  Then the British team may sing along.
6. Re:Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! by Tetsujin · 2012-03-23 11:00 · Score: 2
  
  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 ...".
  While it lacks the juvenile fun of a crude mockery of the "Star Spangled Banner" lyrics, I think I would lean toward the anthem's built-in parody potential, the lyrics of "To Anacreon in Heaven", whose tune was used for the anthem. Though reaching that far back for trolling material means a lot of people won't necessarily even understand the joke...
  
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7. Re:Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! by gmuslera · 2012-03-23 11:00 · Score: 1
  
  Could end being the official anthem for that country, If i remember right that movie (First Olympics? ok, was a movie, not sure how much real was it) would not be so different to the way that was picked the "official" US Anthem for the olympics,
8. Re:Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! by Tetsujin · 2012-03-23 11:01 · Score: 1
  
  Most Americans wouldn't notice the difference.
  "Oh, they must be starting on the second verse. I always forget how the other verses go..."
  
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9. Re:Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! by jc42 · 2012-03-23 14:32 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  There's a rousing version of To Anacreon in Heaven at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqyQO3xhNx0.
  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.
  
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10. Re:Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! by jc42 · 2012-03-24 10:49 · Score: 1
  
  The version I learned goes something like "Oh say can you see / any bedbugs on me? / If you do, take a few / 'cause I caught them from you." or slight variants on that. I did a quick google check for "Oh, say, can you see any bedbugs on me ...", and it said there are about 1590 matches right now.
  But "Star-Spangled Banner parody" has over a million google hits, including a Snoop Dogg (apparently not actually by him). A quick glance shows parodies of all sorts. Some aren't true parodies, though, since all they use is the melody, with unrelated words. Sorta like how the anthem uses the melody of To Anacreon in Heaven, but has totally unrelated words, so it's not really a parody, either.
  There is an old tradition of recycling tunes to fit new lyrics with the same meter. This is institutionalized in the hymnal business, in the "metrical index" pages that give a hymn tune's metrical structure so that it can easily be matched to poems that will fit.
  Just yesterday, I heard the Blind Boys of Alabama's rendition of Amazing Grace, sung to the tune of House of the Rising Sun (though as I recall, that recombination was discovered by another singer, but I've forgotten who).
  
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11. Re:Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! by jc42 · 2012-03-24 13:25 · Score: 1
  
  Aux enfants de la tequilla, l'heure de boire est arrivÃ©e...
  That's hilarious! Where are the rest of the lyrics? I tried googling it, and got no match.
  (But I have heard a number of other good parodies of la Marseillaise. For some reason, at least half of them have to do with drinking. ;-)
  
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12. Re:Starbucks! Disney World! Porno! Valium! by Kiaser+Zohsay · 2012-03-26 07:57 · Score: 1
  
  Just yesterday, I heard the Blind Boys of Alabama's rendition of Amazing Grace, sung to the tune of House of the Rising Sun (though as I recall, that recombination was discovered by another singer, but I've forgotten who).
  It works to the tune of the Eagles' Peaceful Easy Feeling too.
  
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Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by mrsquid0 · 2012-03-23 09:03 · Score: 4, 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

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1. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by Swanktastic · 2012-03-23 09:06 · Score: 1
  
  Haha. Error. Right.
2. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by Moheeheeko · 2012-03-23 09:10 · Score: 1
  
  Its just Canada. What would happen besides them saying "Sorry, our bad. That flag is confusing isnt it, eh? Here, have a doughnut"
3. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by mrsquid0 · 2012-03-23 09:10 · Score: 2
  
  It is hared to believe that the US Marine Corp could get something that simple wrong. On the other hand, it is hard to believe that the US Marine Corp would do that deliberately.
  
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4. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by Dzimas · 2012-03-23 09:20 · Score: 1
  
  Easy. We'd stop exporting oil across the border and force you to walk.
5. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by JamesP · 2012-03-23 09:26 · Score: 1
  
  Well, it's not like they can display the Japanese flag upside down
  or the old Lybian flag
  
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6. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by jhoegl · 2012-03-23 09:29 · Score: 1
  
  Its hard to believe you think that is real.
  Considering that the Canadian flag is the only one "in the wind".
7. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-23 09:40 · 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".
8. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by jc42 · 2012-03-23 09:44 · Score: 1
  
  Its hard to believe you think that is real. Considering that the Canadian flag is the only one "in the wind".
  Yeah, we tend to expect that photos are 'shopped these days. But there's also something a bit funny about the upper edge of the Canadian flag in that photo. It's like there's something along that edge that is keeping the flag in place. I've seen flags displayed like that, so they'll be spread out even when there's no wind.
  Of course, that "funny" edge to the flag could also be faked by an expert in photo editing. It's hard to know what to believe, these days.
  
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9. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by Em+Adespoton · 2012-03-23 10:20 · Score: 4, 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).
10. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by HornWumpus · 2012-03-23 10:22 · Score: 2
  
  Look here. A 51st stater who thinks his country is actually sovereign. Hard to believe.
  
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11. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by busyqth · 2012-03-23 10:26 · Score: 2
  
  That might be an effective way to unify our two great nations.
12. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by Tetsujin · 2012-03-23 11:08 · Score: 1
  
  It is hard to believe that the US Marine Corps could get something that simple wrong. On the other hand, it is hard to believe that the US Marine Corps would do that deliberately.
  Maybe they were still holding a grudge over the Battle of Bladensburg and the burning of the White House?
  
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13. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by ChunderDownunder · 2012-03-23 11:33 · Score: 1
  
  Spain got upset during the Davis cup once. The national anthem from the 30s before Franco was played. Though I suspect if you'd made such a cock up in Barcelona, Catalunya there'd be bemusement and muffled applause. When I was there a few months ago, the republican flag replete with purple was visible among 'occupy' protesters.
14. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by RDW · 2012-03-23 12:02 · Score: 1
  
  tour de france played the Danish nation anthem when Contador won in 2009
  Well, they did play the Spanish anthem when Andy Schleck won in 2010...
15. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by cowboy76Spain · 2012-03-23 13:10 · Score: 1
  
  Spain got upset during the Davis cup once. The national anthem from the 30s before Franco was played. Though I suspect if you'd made such a cock up in Barcelona, Catalunya there'd be bemusement and muffled applause. When I was there a few months ago, the republican flag replete with purple was visible among 'occupy' protesters.
  No, we where not upset. Most of us understood that shit happens, that whoever was looking for the hymn just chose an outdated source, and that it was not a political statement from anybody. And that anyway none of us knew the Hymn of Australia, so it was a tie. Most that happened was some jokes and a little nostalgia from some people.
  Of course, a couple of politics decided that they had to show off their "dedication to our country" by acting as if Australia was in the brink of declaring war against Spain, and showing what a bunch of bullocks we usually have in government. That's all.
  
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16. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by formfeed · 2012-03-23 14:21 · Score: 2
  
  Look here. A 51st stater who thinks his country is actually sovereign. Hard to believe.
  Hey! Don't insult the Canadians. I really like their state quarter.
17. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by Alomex · 2012-03-23 15:37 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  President Bush (the Elder) apologized for it, and when some Americans expressed displeasure for him having apologized he said:
  
  All I'm saying is that if that had happened in Canada and we had seen the United States flag flown upside-down, every American would have been very, very upset.
18. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by SydShamino · 2012-03-23 15:59 · Score: 1
  
  In anticipation of Puerto Rico's upcoming vote, I think we've already slid Canada down to 52nd..
  
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19. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by px2 · 2012-03-23 16:11 · Score: 1
  
  And Reagan, or his aids, playing Edelweiss upon the arrival of the Austrian representative, probably in the mistaken notion that it was the Austrian national anthem, or an Austrian folk song, or at least Austrian.
  It was written for The Sound of Music.
  http://www.professorwalter.com/2011/01/edelweiss.html
20. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by px2 · 2012-03-23 16:28 · Score: 1
  
  Make that "or his aides."
  Apocryphal?
21. Re:Not Just A Kuwaiti Problem by mrsquid0 · 2012-03-24 01:03 · Score: 2
  
  In general, Americans, from Big Bush down to the Marine Corp, and on down to the average Joe handled the Canadian flag incident very well at the time. It is amusing, though, that now some people are trying to pretend that it never happened.
  
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Re:VERY NICE! by Moheeheeko · 2012-03-23 09:05 · Score: 2

That country, is very smart not.
Darn Internet Searchers by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-23 09:07 · Score: 1

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.
so we have copyright infringement? by goffster · 2012-03-23 09:11 · Score: 1

It seems like someone willfully took the movie, recorded it, and used it.
1. Re:so we have copyright infringement? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-23 09:51 · Score: 1
  
  Or, they were in a rush, searched it on YouTube and downloaded the first result.
I'm embarrassed for the USA... by gestalt_n_pepper · 2012-03-23 09:12 · Score: 1

and it's not even our fault this time.

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1. Re:I'm embarrassed for the USA... by shutdown+-p+now · 2012-03-23 09:50 · Score: 2
  
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Kazakh wine by Lunix+Nutcase · 2012-03-23 09:22 · Score: 2, Insightful

At least they didn't give them fermented horse piss as drinks.
1. Re:Kazakh wine by ColdWetDog · 2012-03-23 09:45 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  At least they didn't give them fermented horse piss as drinks.
  What? Don't they have American beer there?
  
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2. Re:Kazakh wine by Desler · 2012-03-23 09:48 · Score: 1
  
  Off topic? Their post is a Borat reference about Kazakhi wine.
Re:Kazakh by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-23 09:50 · Score: 1

We are all rocket scientists? Neat!
Unbelievable. by grumpyman · 2012-03-23 09:55 · Score: 1

Honestly if I'm her I'd walked off the podium. Still... absolutely hilarious.
1. Re:Unbelievable. by TapeCutter · 2012-03-23 12:12 · Score: 1
  
  Honestly if I'm her I'd walked off the podium. Still... absolutely hilarious.
  I would like to think my response would have been to stand to attention and salute, with my tounge visibly distorting my cheek. As it is, I think she starts looking a bit bewildered as it progresses, she's possibly sensing something is going on from the audience but is not sure what it is. There's also a good chance she doesn't speak english and since the two tunes are apparently quite similar may have thought it was just a very lame western-ised version of the real thing. Regardless of what was going on in her head, she certainly looks relived when it ends with an explosion of applause from the audience.
  
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Unanswered question by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2012-03-23 09:57 · Score: 2

The story is admittedly funny and awkward, but - why on earth is this story even on Slashdot?

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1. Re:Unanswered question by HarrySquatter · 2012-03-23 10:05 · Score: 1
  
  Because this is idle and samzenpus posts pretty much anything here?
2. Re:Unanswered question by TapeCutter · 2012-03-23 12:18 · Score: 1
  
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Haha by HarrySquatter · 2012-03-23 10:08 · Score: 1

They should have known better to not let Borat's brother Bilo pick out the music.
I am underwhelmed by the original video by mapkinase · 2012-03-23 10:20 · Score: 1, Insightful

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.
I can't wait the moment when Mujahedeen will kick Nazarbaev's ass to London - the cloaka of Soviet and post-Soviet has beens.

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1. Re:I am underwhelmed by the original video by tepples · 2012-03-23 10:44 · Score: 1
  
  music is prohibited in Islam.
  Citation needed.
2. Re:I am underwhelmed by the original video by Ambvai · 2012-03-23 11:09 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_351_400/is_music_prohibited_in_islam.htm (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."
3. Re:I am underwhelmed by the original video by HablaMas · 2012-03-23 12:03 · Score: 2
  
  IANAM (I am not a muslim), but from spending a lot of time in countries that are officially Muslim, it would seem that music is not prohibited. However, on the same token, there were certainly times where I wish it *were* prohibited.
4. Re:I am underwhelmed by the original video by GLMDesigns · 2012-03-23 12:17 · Score: 1
  
  It seems that there are different definitions of "music." I've heard some say that singing is not allowed and yet there is some pretty cool sufi music (for instance Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan). Others differentiate between holy / religious / uplifting singing which brings you closer to god and profane singing.
  
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5. Re:I am underwhelmed by the original video by TapeCutter · 2012-03-23 12:26 · Score: 1
  
  unless it was used for sinful activities
  Problem is, there are multiple and conflicting lists of "sinful activities" enforced by various sects.
  
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6. Re:I am underwhelmed by the original video by Desler · 2012-03-23 14:50 · Score: 1
  
  76% of them, yes.
7. Re:I am underwhelmed by the original video by Desler · 2012-03-23 14:52 · Score: 1
  
  And yet Kazakhstan has a national anthem which pretty much invalidates your claims.
8. Re:I am underwhelmed by the original video by bill_mcgonigle · 2012-03-23 16:16 · Score: 1
  
  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.
  She still managed not to crack up, which shows pretty good sportsmanship.
  
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Desert Storm by tepples · 2012-03-23 10:32 · Score: 1

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?
1. Re:Desert Storm by dave420 · 2012-03-24 01:00 · Score: 1
  
  Yes, but Saddam only invaded because the West (TM) told him it was cool to do so.
Then you need to do some introspection by Sycraft-fu · 2012-03-23 11:07 · Score: 1

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.
1. Re:Then you need to do some introspection by gestalt_n_pepper · 2012-03-23 14:03 · Score: 1
  
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Just be glad the Germans didn't win a medal by Opportunist · 2012-03-23 13:13 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm sure they had "Deutschland über alles" and the swastika flag prepared, too.

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1. Re:Just be glad the Germans didn't win a medal by Opportunist · 2012-03-24 02:16 · Score: 1
  
  Old joke:
  Swiss guy: You know why the Austrian Flag is red-white-red?
  Austrian: No?
  Swiss guy: So you idiots can't hang it upside down.
  Austrian: Ahhh... that explains the Swiss flag.
  
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Good idea, eh? by rnturn · 2012-03-23 17:10 · Score: 2

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-stan, very funny by theNAM666 · 2012-03-23 17:49 · Score: 1

Kazakh's StAn, very funny,
and their prostitutes, very sweet,
but the penis of their poor leader,
is impossible to b-eat.
Re:Filesharing now mainstream? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-03-24 00:19 · Score: 1

Are anthems copyrighted? I thought they were sort of public domain (considering the age of most of them)... I'm more surprised by the fact that they didn't bother to contact the embassy. One would think that embassies all over the world can provide PR material such as canonical recordings of anthems for such occasions as sport events etc.

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I thought Kuwait was rich? by superdude72 · 2012-03-24 05:16 · Score: 1

You'd think the Kuwaitis could afford to license the appropriate music rather than snarfing it off the Internet.
Well said by phorm · 2012-03-24 14:28 · Score: 1

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.
award ceremony by s.t.a.l.k.e.r._loner · 2012-03-24 18:41 · Score: 1

Great success!
Re: Star Spangled Banner is also another song by Tetsujin · 2012-03-26 11:13 · Score: 1

Hm, good point. Juvenile, crude mockery it is, then.

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