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Saudi Arabian Textbook Shows Yoda Joining The UN (bbc.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader Mikkeles quotes the BBC:
Saudi Arabia's education minister has apologised for the production of a school textbook in which the Star Wars character Yoda is seen superimposed on a photograph of the late King Faisal... The image, which shows the diminutive Jedi Master sitting beside King Faisal as he signs the UN Charter in 1945, was created by the Saudi artist Shaweesh. He told the BBC it was not yet clear how it had ended up in the textbook... The 2013 artwork, entitled United Nations (Yoda), is part of a series in which symbols of American pop culture -- ranging from Captain America to Darth Vader -- are superimposed onto archive photos of historical events... Shaweesh said he included Yoda because, like King Faisal, he was "wise, strong and calm".
"Someone should have checked the image before printing," he added.
"Someone should have checked the image before printing," he added.
Check their sources they did not.
I'm sure significant more students will remember this chapter than previous students without that easteregg. So from an ecucationlas standpoint it makes a lot of sense!
This reminds me of the time the BBC aired the logo for the fictional United Nations Space Command (from the Halo series) instead of the real logo for the real organization United Nations Security Council. Apparently noone checks images when it comes to the UN, but goes with the first google result.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
. . . also cause a bit of a fuss when found showing The Prophet doing Tequila Slammers with The Very Late King Faisal at a sleazy Nevada Lap & Pole Dance dive . . . but it's nothing that you would want to lose your head over . . .
The Very Late King Faisal still enjoys his round of bridge on Thursday afternoons with Elvis, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix on their island in the South Pacific . . .
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
... doesn't mean it hasn't been altered. Like that time Bert appeared on an osama bin laden poster.
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
People do dumb things all the time.
Hardly worth a story here.
This goes into the "news that doesn't matter" category.
It also doesn't mean it's free.
Incoming lawsuit Mr. Education. Time to pay up for not doing your homework.
And that guy who drew Yoda owes Disney like, 80 quintillion dollars now.
Behold the true power of the Meh side.
will roll for this.
literally.
Shaweesh said he included Yoda because, like King Faisal, he was "wise, strong and calm"
This Shaweesh dude is missing some marbles upstairs.
Yoda is a fictional character that is as wise, strong and calm as the taste of the color yellow.
And the whole "super-imposing-images-onto-historical-archive-photos" smells nasty to me,
especially with social media sites depriving youth of their ability to read with their photo-picture
oriented nature.
Do I need to say anything else?
I'm sure you're intelligent enough to write this post for me.
That darn Charlie Chaplin and his evil Nazi regime!
Saudi Arabia? You mean where the 911 bombers came from?
Disney bought Saudi Arabia and history has been retconned, Hulk did 9/11.
He bowed to the Saudi King.
But the libs still love him.
Why didn't the libs complain when he bowed toward the Saudi king?
I'm in Canada and Nazism is expanding. It's not just something in the US (but the US is still very racist).
There was a Nazi rally in Ottawa last week. Every day I wake up I thank god I'm not black or Jewish.
Joined the dark side Yoda has.
MY OTHER COMMENTS
"Adventure! Hmph! Excitement! Hmph! A Jihadi craves not these things!"
"The Greens lynched a hacker in Chicago. Last month, but I think the body's still hanging from the old Water Tower."
Prohibiting education to women, this country is.
When Osama bin Laden was killed, the posters and T-Shirts of the protesters in Bangladesh had picture of Osama with the Seasme Street character Bart. It was hilarious!
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Except that I have a fear that the editor and anyone who was involved in providing photographs for the text book will end up losing their hands in the near future. Maybe they'll even lose more than that. What's the punishment in Saudi Arabia for insulting the the Royal Family?
Not the first time taking the first result from a Google Search has bit someone in the ass.
Bert from Sesame street appeared next to Osama Bin Laden on some protest posters in Bangladesh back in 2001.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sou...
This is what happens when you just go on Google and copy images without asking questions about origin and copyright.
You had me laughing at "Saudi Arabian Textbook," but then the Yoda thing...yeah.
It's especially funny when I think of all the people who would have seen this, having the opportunity to notice that someone who was clearly not human was in the picture...and still did nothing. Which, of course, goes back to why I find the phrase "Saudi Arabian Textbook" so hilarious.
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King Faisal was Obi-Wan Kenobi
Let's try and teach her the difference between big letters and small ones before getting into the complex stuff, shall we?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
So, Saudis steal images from foreign news agencies? Let's stone the perp!
If they were so stupid as to properly license this specific picture... let's stone the perp!
Taking notes for Kim Jong Ill's next photo op.
The farce is strong with this one...