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[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 183 points 5 days ago (1 children)

1957 Ice Hockey World Championships, Moscow, USSR

Sweden unexpectedly won the tournament against the Soviet Union, and the host country did not have a recording of their national anthem ready to play. The players agreed to sing the anthem in place of a recording, but as they did not know the full lyrics, they instead sang the drinking song "Helan Går".

Pretty funnty

Still can't stop laughing! Imagining the players to be in drunk state and giving salud to the flag... 🤣🤣🤣

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 135 points 5 days ago (5 children)
[–] thekidxp@sh.itjust.works 79 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Oh no, some of those feel like the wrong thing was cue'd up for some reason. But accidentally playing a fake song from Borat is brutal.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 54 points 5 days ago (2 children)

There's video of that one as well. The athlete holds it together well.

Testing: Do Lemmy/Mbin support directly embedding videos?

Video from The Guardian of Borat spoof anthem playing at a Kuwaiti shooting competition. The Kazakh medal winner stands and listens stoically before smiling as the incorrect anthem ends.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I think the embedding depends on the client/UI. I'm on desktop using Alexandrite and there is no embed, but I think mobile clients and apps tend to handle this better.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I'm on mobile firefox and it is embedded perfectly.

Edit: Also works perfectly on firefox desktop.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Voyager embeds it perfectly as well.

[–] dabster291@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

For me, Voyager is failing to load the embed. Strange.

[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

On my end (also voyager) it loads the embed but there’s no audio toggle for it so it’s just the muted video

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think Voyager (the progressive web app) does not specify whether controls should be shown so the underlying browser uses its defaults. Firefox on desktop shows controls while neither Firefox nor Chrome on mobile do.

Same here. It’s just a silent video with no way to unmute.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Does it support it? It do!

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Oh no, some of those feel like the wrong thing was cue’d up for some reason

The China/Chile ones make sense too.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I just want to say thank you for starting with the actual link to the article in addition to fun screenshots. So many people get that wrong, but you did good.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks. I always try to do both, because I know most won't want to click off site and are happy to just chuckle at a screenshot, but a lot of people will always want the link.

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can you at least remove the m. from the link? If you're on mobile, it will automatically redirect to the mobile site. But if you're on desktop and the m. is still there, you have to manually remove it, and that's really annoying because the mobile site is missing some important desktop features.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Honestly to avoid another Borat incident they should just make Livin' La Vida Loca the national anthem

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That Borat mix up was nothing more than a dick move though.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Commenting to say how again was Borat so wildly accepted but if it was the other way around it’s racism

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wdym? Please explain.

I live in a similar shitty post soviet country, the kazakh scenes were filmed in romania, and noone finds it offensive here, even Kazakhstan uses the slogan "very nice" nowadays.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 32 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's an interesting case. Most of the movie is Cohen doing patently ridiculous things to an audience who just go "Welp, foreigners sure are weird." The joke is mostly on the people who are willing to believe that Borat is an accurate representation of what Kazakh people are like.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, as always with these things, it depends on which party is being made fun of. Like In Tropic Thunder, RDJ's black face doesn't make fun of black people, but of Hollywood actors who do ridiculous things for the sake of method acting, so it doesn't become a racist joke.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Exactly, the joke they are making is simply not racist in nature. At the same time, the idea that using blackface to make a joke about entrenched Hollywood racism trivializes the harm of using blackface isn't unreasonable. It's a layered issue, people can land in different places. Ultimately though, the controversy over Tropic Thunder, then and now, being so minimal does indicate that for most viewers, the joke justified itself.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Borat is explicitly racist, on purpose. It’s just that he is mocking the racists, not the race he is portraying.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

A lot of people miss the jokes that are making bigots look like morons so we can laugh at them and think it means the show was being bigoted.

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Usually in this kind of comedies fictional countries are used, so noone could be offended. It wouldn't work here, an interviewee could notice that, so they had to choose one, but anything east of the iron curtain could have worked the same way.

The stereotypes he parodises, all based on some actual things, like the running of the jew is based on Krampus and other old messed up racist fesivities. When he shits on the street it's joke about how the squat toilet (we call it balkan toilet) is still very common in the region

It's similar when disney made the Coco cartoon, some american sjws said it would be offensive to mexicans, but in realitythey loved it there.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago

people were upset that rugrats had very jewish great grandparents on the show

totally missing the fact that the creators based them off their own great grandparents

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

The ending to Coco made me tear up. There, I said it!

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

During the inauguration ceremony of the stadium, which was funded by the People's Republic of China (PRC), the national anthem of Taiwan, officially called the Republic of China (ROC), was played before the PRC's ambassador Qian Hongshan

oof, i hope noone got hurt on that occasion

ducking in advance.ml in shambles

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

Your spoiler doesn't work on Jerboa. It needs a title.

So glad only a cricket was there to hear it.

[–] waterproof@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh yeah, I remember the video of the malta one, it's pretty funny !

https://youtu.be/rVXMqw0uxd0

[–] Valorie12@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago

Malta: I'm tired of being what you want me to be

[–] m33@theprancingpony.in 3 points 3 days ago

@The_Picard_Maneuver Nobody got mad at this one 😎

[–] psud@aussie.zone 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

1985, Melbourne, Australia uses West Germany's anthem for Australia

Come on guys

I wonder if it was deliberate, in support of the country

Then again in 2008 with a rock song instead of Advance Australia Fair in an internal footy match

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 days ago

yay! glad to see something about my tiny country on here.

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Slovakian anthem for Slovenia was sure to be there.

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

And vice versa!

[–] Spaniard@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Spain wins with more incidents than anyone!

Can someone please play 三民主義 when introducing the PRC at the next olympics? 😏

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 4 days ago

This town is coming like a ghost town