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 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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
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 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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3. 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.
4. 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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5. Re:Double irony award? by sjames · 2012-03-23 09:56 · Score: 2
  
  The BBC is fairly careful about that sort of thing.
6. 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.
7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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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 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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2. 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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3. 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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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 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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2. 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".
3. 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).
4. 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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5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
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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Re:I'm embarrassed for the USA... by shutdown+-p+now · 2012-03-23 09:50 · Score: 2

Everything is the fault of the USA, if you just try hard enough.
For example, in this particular case, it's the fault of you guys that Kuwait even exists! ~
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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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."
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.
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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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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