Borat 2
buttercup - Looks like a plant by SBC's people to me... The Daily Mail? FFS...
I may be wrong, though.
When poor simple peasant folk from Romania are paid to do a job of work and then later realise their incredibly rich employers were exploiting them and laughing at them, then that's definitely grounds for legal action, isn't it?
Huang Guang Chen - That's quite an emmotive little piece, eh what?
"Glod: a remote mountain outpost with no sewerage or running wate."
"where locals eke out meagre livings peddling scrap iron or working patches of land."
"to scrape together whatever modest sums they can muster"
"Cambridge-educated Baron Cohen"
But fuck them, it was funny. In any case it was never supposed to be about them, rather Borat's mystical Kazakhstan. As it turns out, they've won a little time in the limelight and pocketed a bit of loot. They are making much bigger fools of themselves by being a party to this obvious stitch up, or is it really just a money grab?
Pathetic.
HG
bob - There actually "are" really poor people in the world you know. If Ali G took advantage of that poverty, and if, in the process, decieved them about what they were involved with and characterized them as sexually depraved then he is an asswipe, that's all.
buttercup - That's all. Lining up to take your cut is also not classy.
Have you seen the first four minutes on youtube? It has women pulling carts, children with guns. You can't 'deceive' someone into thinking that's going to be anything positive.
bob - You can decieve anybody into thinking anything.
Dragonbones - joesax wrote: I've always thought that Borat would have been just as funny, but much less offensive, if he had been from a fictional country; another "...stan", instead of Kazakhstan.
That was one of my first thoughts when I heard he used a real country name. He could have been just as funny, without offending quite so much.
joesax - That was one of my first thoughts when I heard he used a real country name. He could have been just as funny, without offending quite so much.
I may be wrong, though.
When poor simple peasant folk from Romania are paid to do a job of work and then later realise their incredibly rich employers were exploiting them and laughing at them, then that's definitely grounds for legal action, isn't it?
Huang Guang Chen - That's quite an emmotive little piece, eh what?
"Glod: a remote mountain outpost with no sewerage or running wate."
"where locals eke out meagre livings peddling scrap iron or working patches of land."
"to scrape together whatever modest sums they can muster"
"Cambridge-educated Baron Cohen"
But fuck them, it was funny. In any case it was never supposed to be about them, rather Borat's mystical Kazakhstan. As it turns out, they've won a little time in the limelight and pocketed a bit of loot. They are making much bigger fools of themselves by being a party to this obvious stitch up, or is it really just a money grab?
Pathetic.
HG
bob - There actually "are" really poor people in the world you know. If Ali G took advantage of that poverty, and if, in the process, decieved them about what they were involved with and characterized them as sexually depraved then he is an asswipe, that's all.
buttercup - That's all. Lining up to take your cut is also not classy.
Have you seen the first four minutes on youtube? It has women pulling carts, children with guns. You can't 'deceive' someone into thinking that's going to be anything positive.
bob - You can decieve anybody into thinking anything.
Dragonbones - joesax wrote: I've always thought that Borat would have been just as funny, but much less offensive, if he had been from a fictional country; another "...stan", instead of Kazakhstan.
That was one of my first thoughts when I heard he used a real country name. He could have been just as funny, without offending quite so much.
joesax - That was one of my first thoughts when I heard he used a real country name. He could have been just as funny, without offending quite so much.
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