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Wrong Kazakh anthem played at ceremony

Mar 24, 2012#1

IronBrig4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17491344

So there was an international sporting competition in Kuwait. As the Kazakh champion received her medal, the Kuwaitis played the Kazakh national anthem. Unfortunately, it was the Borat version. The team was offended, but you'd think being the leading exporter of potassium and having the cleanest prostitutes in the region were good things.

Mar 24, 2012#2

Krisken

Offended? That chick appears to have NO IDEA that wasn't her national anthem.

Mar 24, 2012#3

IronBrig4

She wasn't offended, but team organization was. They did the ceremony over again with the correct anthem. When I read this story, the first thing that went through my head was "is NIIIICE!"

Mar 24, 2012#4

Bowielee

Well, imagine the shitstorm if someone played a parody version of our national anthem in this situation... Hell, it would probably spark WW3

Mar 25, 2012#5

fade

Maybe. Then again Making Fun of Americans seems to be a perfectly acceptable international sport these days.

Mar 25, 2012#6

checkeredhat

fade said:
Maybe. Then again Making Fun of Americans seems to be a perfectly acceptable international sport these days.

Well, I think the closest equivalent for the US would be

And I think most would be okay with that.

Mar 25, 2012#7

Krisken

checkeredhat said:
Well, I think the closest equivalent for the US would be

And I think most would be okay with that.

I think most Americans think that is our anthem.

Mar 25, 2012#8

SeraRelm

I thought it was O' Canada sung in spanish...

Mar 25, 2012#9

Null

Maybe they were offended because the anthem didn't have enough anti-semitism

Mar 25, 2012#10

ThatNickGuy

Mar 25, 2012#11

Bowielee

Nick, I demand the return of forever shot-taking Superman.

Mar 25, 2012#12

ThatNickGuy

The link to the gif broke.

Mar 25, 2012#13

HCGLNS

Mar 25, 2012#14

ThatNickGuy

Broken link, but I went to the site and searched "Superman." I'm back, baby.

Mar 25, 2012#15

fade

My liver hurts just watching that. And according to the name, I need it to live.

Mar 25, 2012#16

doomdragon6

I can't even see how they could mess that up. My best guess is they googled "Kazakh Anthem" and got the obviously more popular thing.

Also, I like the America Fuck Yeah song. I would never be offended by that song. But it's about how awesome we are. The Kazakhstan song is about how terrible they are.

Mar 25, 2012#17

checkeredhat

doomdragon6 said:
I can't even see how they could mess that up. My best guess is they googled "Kazakh Anthem" and got the obviously more popular thing.

Also, I like the America Fuck Yeah song. I would never be offended by that song. But it's about how awesome we are. The Kazakhstan song is about how terrible they are.

I think you missed the point of "America, Fuck Yeah"

Mar 25, 2012#18

Bowielee

My google-fu hath failed. I was trying to find the "Oh, the Irony" pic with the 70s woman reclining on the giant iron.

So, yeah, imagine I posted that in response to Doomdragon.

Mar 25, 2012#19

SeraRelm

doomdragon6 said:
I can't even see how they could mess that up. My best guess is they googled "Kazakh Anthem" and got the obviously more popular thing.

Also, I like the America Fuck Yeah song. I would never be offended by that song. But it's about how awesome we are. The Kazakhstan song is about how terrible they are.

Bowielee said:
My google-fu hath failed. I was trying to find the "Oh, the Irony" pic with the 70s woman reclining on the giant iron.

So, yeah, imagine I posted that in response to Doomdragon.

Mar 25, 2012#20

Bowielee

Broken image...

Mar 25, 2012#21

figmentPez

checkeredhat said:
I think you missed the point of "America, Fuck Yeah"

Obviously he did. The best choice for a patriotic song extolling the virtues of America is "Born in the USA".

Mar 25, 2012#22

Bowielee

figmentPez said:
Obviously he did. The best choice for a patriotic song extolling the virtues of America is "Born in the USA".

teehee, stupid Ronal Regan.

Mar 26, 2012#23

checkeredhat

I don't see what's unpatriotic about it:

Mar 26, 2012#24

Bowielee

Born down in a dead man town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the u.s.a., I was born in the u.s.a.
I was born in the u.s.a., born in the u.s.a.

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the U.S.A...

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said son if it was up to me
Went down to see my v.a. man
He said son, don't you understand

I had a brother at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone

He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run aint got nowhere to go

Born in the u.s.a., I was born in the u.s.a.
Born in the u.s.a., I'm a long gone daddy in the u.s.a.
Born in the u.s.a., born in the u.s.a.
Born in the u.s.a., I'm a cool rocking daddy in the u.s.a.

Yup, that sure paints a picture of a bright happy picture of the USA and is in no way an indigtment of how it's a decaying country that betrayed it heroes... nope not at all.