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[–] TwoBeeSan 97 points 3 months ago (2 children)

World reacts to France being France.

Glad they're saying fuckoff to backlash

[–] CodeGameEat 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

*US reacts, rest of us don't care

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Tbh French far right and some Christian are crying here as well. Basically saying the whole ceremony was a disgrace, woke bla-bla-bla, they even criticized the kids at the beginning for being "from immigration".

The funny thing is that organizers decided to annoy the fuck out of them when the announcement of Aya Nakamura (the woman singing with the national guard during the ceremony) was received with racism from far right and twitter.

That day they said to themselves "ok, we’re going full inclusive and fuck then all".

That’s a job well done, bonus point for making maga cult cry as well from the other side of the Atlantic.

[–] meco03211 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How dare you!? I demand to speak to the manager of France.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, we don’t work on Sundays 🤷🏻‍♂️

Try again in September, after the summer holidays.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

What do you mean summer holidays... In America we say Summer Christmas like Jesus intended!

[–] JASN_DE 21 points 3 months ago

World

Yeah no.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Originally, the Olympics were performed entirely in the nude. This shouldn't be controversial.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Also, judging by the close-up video posted by @PhatalFlaw, he's as covered as a modern Olympic swimmer.

[–] MapleEngineer 59 points 3 months ago (4 children)

"Mostly nude"? Doesn't that mean not nude? Isn't being nude like being pregnant, either you are or you aren't?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'd say that Borat mankini is mostly nude.

[–] kamenlady 11 points 3 months ago

Barely clothed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

We like to call those banana hammocks.

[–] Valmond 13 points 3 months ago

There is some old greek (IIRC) story where some woman should come not at day, not at night, not clothed, not naked (and something more I don't remember, not walking, not being carried?).

She went in the sunrise draped in a fishnet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

He had a costume that mimicked nudity and was singing a song about being nude (something about, if we were all nudes, there will be no wars). So i guess the description mostly nude applies here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

That depends a lot on what your culture says counts as nude. The technical term would only apply if they were completely nude, but a bikini may well be considered nude in certain parts of the world where showing hair is considered degenerate by some.

Hell I'd have difficulty defining nakedness myself... to stay with the bikini example, depending on skimpiness it leaves nothing to the onlooker's imagination. It might as well be a simple layer of color over the intimate regions instead, and then we are essentially talking bodypaint which I would say definitely qualifies as nude in my book, but probably not in a lot of other people's.

[–] MapleEngineer 3 points 3 months ago

He was apparently painted from head to toe and his genitals were covered with a leaf or leaves.

[–] MapleEngineer 2 points 3 months ago

nude adjective

  1. wearing no clothes;

He wasn't wearing "clothes", per se, so I guess one could argue that he was technically nude.

[–] PhatalFlaw 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure NBC censored this (even during their "live" stream), so I was confused about what they were talking about, but here's one of the few clips I could find.

[–] cm0002 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Fucking religious pearl clutchers, ruining everything, even in the comments in the link LMAO

[–] dohpaz42 16 points 3 months ago

I’ve seen more revealing imagery on broadcast TV commercials.

[–] FlyingSquid 17 points 3 months ago

I thought that a naked Smurf singing a song was weird, but the French will be French.

[–] Zachariah 17 points 3 months ago

“controversy”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Wait until they see how the swimmers and divers are dressed. Scandalous!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

It's Philippe Katerine, I'm surprised he kept his undies until the end.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Video is DRM locked.