Comments on: Thai Navy's "Gangnam Style" YouTube remake lands officers in hot water http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Adelwolf http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1548027 Adelwolf Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1548027 I may be addicted to Gangam Style remakes, but I can't handle the ones where people lip-synch badly to them. Grrr! Just stop trying and DANCE! I may be addicted to Gangam Style remakes, but I can’t handle the ones where people lip-synch badly to them. Grrr! Just stop trying and DANCE!

]]> By: sosumi http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1547375 sosumi Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1547375 I think this might be the most fun these guys (and woman) have had in ages! Goofy or not, good for them. :) I think this might be the most fun these guys (and woman) have had in ages! Goofy or not, good for them. :)

]]> By: Koocheekoo http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546539 Koocheekoo Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546539 Is that Twilight on one of the monitors at about 2:28? Is that Twilight on one of the monitors at about 2:28?

]]> By: euansmith http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546537 euansmith Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546537 At last, Top Gun is knocked off its perch as most homoerotic military movie. At last, Top Gun is knocked off its perch as most homoerotic military movie.

]]> By: scolbath http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546463 scolbath Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546463 Philippine inmates:  http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#/video/world/2012/10/01/wr-inmates-dance-gangnam-style.cnn Apologies, the clip is extremely short. Not sure what 'Thai prison gangnam' would have returned, but the block may have saved you from something :-) Philippine inmates:  http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#/video/world/2012/10/01/wr-inmates-dance-gangnam-style.cnn

Apologies, the clip is extremely short.

Not sure what ‘Thai prison gangnam’ would have returned, but the block may have saved you from something :-)

]]> By: Daniel Zenon Klein http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546449 Daniel Zenon Klein Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546449 It's left right left left right left right right not just left right left right! GET IT RIGHT! It’s left right left left right left right right not just left right left right! GET IT RIGHT!

]]> By: Bevin Avlier http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546405 Bevin Avlier Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:24:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546405 I loved it! That was perfectly delightful, and put a huge grin on my face.  Needed it, too. Suffering from world's worst flu! I loved it! That was perfectly delightful, and put a huge grin on my face.  Needed it, too. Suffering from world’s worst flu!

]]> By: Boundegar http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546375 Boundegar Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546375 A perfect example of the fake apology.  "I apologize if anybody (is asshole enough to be) offended."  And I thought that was an American thing. A perfect example of the fake apology.  “I apologize if anybody (is asshole enough to be) offended.”  And I thought that was an American thing.

]]> By: peregrinus http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546352 peregrinus Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546352 I'm sure it's the coincidence of enlarged and bouncing Thai military tummies and the US military's complaint about unfit recruits that drove them to the naughty step. They lost face.  They really do look like a bunch of extras from  a mid-70s martial arts flick. I’m sure it’s the coincidence of enlarged and bouncing Thai military tummies and the US military’s complaint about unfit recruits that drove them to the naughty step. They lost face.  They really do look like a bunch of extras from  a mid-70s martial arts flick.

]]> By: TheMudshark http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546350 TheMudshark Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:20:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546350 More likely no sense of video editing. More likely no sense of video editing.

]]> By: Slartibartfatsdomino http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546321 Slartibartfatsdomino Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546321 Oh! If that's the case, then I wholeheartedly approve! That was a travesty. Even the US navy video posted by LinkMan above nailed the beats better, although they also failed to do the distinctive left, right, right, left, right, left, left... Gangnam style dance that most other parodies managed to get right. No excuses for not sticking the beat. Oh! If that’s the case, then I wholeheartedly approve! That was a travesty. Even the US navy video posted by LinkMan above nailed the beats better, although they also failed to do the distinctive left, right, right, left, right, left, left… Gangnam style dance that most other parodies managed to get right. No excuses for not sticking the beat.

]]> By: rattypilgrim http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546302 rattypilgrim Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546302 At first I thought I was watching the Village People. At first I thought I was watching the Village People.

]]> By: Ian Wood http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546289 Ian Wood Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546289 You've got to get somebody good. I mean <i>really</i> good. Even then you're still likely to get your ass kicked in a 4th-sex restroom on S'ri Kando or some wretched nonsense like that. Non-hominds...they can just tell. Not fair, but true. You’ve got to get somebody good. I mean really good. Even then you’re still likely to get your ass kicked in a 4th-sex restroom on S’ri Kando or some wretched nonsense like that. Non-hominds…they can just tell. Not fair, but true.

]]> By: Jee Hyung Lee http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546268 Jee Hyung Lee Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546268 I think that's what they got in trouble for. I think that’s what they got in trouble for.

]]> By: SomeGuyNamedMark http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546257 SomeGuyNamedMark Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546257 They came dangerously close to putting themselves in a positive and human light.  Can't have that now. They came dangerously close to putting themselves in a positive and human light.  Can’t have that now.

]]> By: Culturedropout http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546243 Culturedropout Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546243 I'm right with you.  Maybe we should look into species-reassignment surgery? I’m right with you.  Maybe we should look into species-reassignment surgery?

]]> By: musesum http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546238 musesum Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546238 So, I just search for "thai prison gangnam" for the infamous thai prison dancers. Youtube video was blocked by Sony. WTF? Has Sony diversified into prison based entertainment?  So, I just search for “thai prison gangnam” for the infamous thai prison dancers. Youtube video was blocked by Sony. WTF? Has Sony diversified into prison based entertainment? 

]]> By: HubrisSonic http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546227 HubrisSonic Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546227  tru dat  tru dat

]]> By: Mark Dow http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546219 Mark Dow Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546219 The Vice Admiral officially apologized; "I admit that in some respects it may not be... But if anyone feels discontented or sees it as inappropriate, I apologise.", but I'm betting he's holding his head up high. Admiral Surasak caps it off with "I will only warn them like brothers and there will be no punishment". I'm hoping for a YouTube bootleg of that high fiving pep talk. The Vice Admiral officially apologized;
“I admit that in some respects it may not be… But if anyone feels discontented or sees it as inappropriate, I apologise.”,
but I’m betting he’s holding his head up high.

Admiral Surasak caps it off with “I will only warn them like brothers and there will be no punishment”. I’m hoping for a YouTube bootleg of that high fiving pep talk.

]]> By: Guido Núñez-Mujica http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546212 Guido Núñez-Mujica Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546212 We live in a fucked up world. Had those men killed other men from a different country, they'd be getting promotions. They dance and cheer and they get punished. Sometimes I despise humanity. Then I remember I am human myself. ARGH. We live in a fucked up world. Had those men killed other men from a different country, they’d be getting promotions. They dance and cheer and they get punished.

Sometimes I despise humanity. Then I remember I am human myself.

ARGH.

]]> By: Fred Sobotka http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546199 Fred Sobotka Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546199 If there's one place you really need unity, it's in a unit. If there’s one place you really need unity, it’s in a unit.

]]> By: LinkMan http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546191 LinkMan Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546191 I don't think anybody had an issue when the <a>22nd Company of the USNA did it</a>. I don’t think anybody had an issue when the 22nd Company of the USNA did it.

]]> By: Slartibartfatsdomino http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546192 Slartibartfatsdomino Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546192 I learned that the Thai Navy has no sense of rhythm. I learned that the Thai Navy has no sense of rhythm.

]]> By: jaytkay http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546188 jaytkay Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546188 K-pop is in ur naval base K-pop is in ur naval base

]]> By: franko http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/thai-navys-gangnam-style.html#comment-1546182 franko Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184704#comment-1546182 aww, that was totally FUN! i can't believe they got in trouble for that. i hope they regret making a big deal out of this. i think it says a lot when your soldiers can get together to do something fun like this with their downtime. aww, that was totally FUN! i can’t believe they got in trouble for that. i hope they regret making a big deal out of this. i think it says a lot when your soldiers can get together to do something fun like this with their downtime.

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