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[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 97 points 2 years ago (2 children)

World reacts to France being France.

Glad they're saying fuckoff to backlash

[–] CodeGameEat@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

*US reacts, rest of us don't care

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, we don’t work on Sundays 🤷🏻‍♂️

Try again in September, after the summer holidays.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] JASN_DE@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

World

Yeah no.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 81 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years 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?

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'd say that Borat mankini is mostly nude.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Barely clothed

[–] Haquer@lemmy.today 4 points 2 years ago

We like to call those banana hammocks.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years 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.

[–] thomas@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years 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.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years 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@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

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

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

“controversy”

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 13 points 2 years ago

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

[–] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 4 points 2 years ago

Video is DRM locked.