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It's enraged you. It's charmed you. And perhaps by now, it's monotonous white noise quality has hypnotized you to a state of catatonic indifference. Of course, we're talking about the vuvuzela.

Forget the Rolling Stone, the new "arrival" mechanism for world-wide or American zeitgeist is now... Hitler and (subject of zeitgeist)

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Deadspin does their part here with a roundup of "Annoying Use of the Vuvuzela Throughout History"


After Netherlands 3-2 dispatching of Uruguay yesterday, the 2nd semi-final takes place today between Spain and Germany. Enjoy pronouncing Sebastian Schweinsteiger in your best over-the-top German accent.

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Courtesy the L.A. Times totally rockin’ blogs...

Does one have to be a knuckle-dragging reactionary to be repulsed by Roman Polanski and his whole sordid namesake ordeal or does the Tinsel town literati just make it seem that way?

For the Times, the drugging and forced sodomy of a 13 yr. old = long-ago personal transgression.

The mere mention of Polanski is bordering on Hitler territory where any rationalization of anything even as benign as say his interpersonal management style (I am against everything Hitler ever did or stood for, however, he did….) makes one look like a complete imbecile.

The current tack of the Hollywood liberati is to defend Polanski by attacking the right-wingers for their attacks on Polanski, reminiscent of Cold War anti-anti-communists: Though we are somewhat troubled regarding what he did to an underaged girl over 30 years ago… he’s like a really good director or something.

Memo to Hollywood: Stop it. The man and everything about him is toxic. You stumble right into the briar patch with your righteous indignation concerning conservatives’ treatment of the man, looking the fool while doing it while re-enforcing the image of Hollywood as a relativistic cesspool.

We hereby declare this site as a Polanski-free zone.

Rich Rodriquez would be pleased to know he was being compared to ol’ you-know-who.

And upon descending from the plane in his first visit to the U.S. and upon seeing the crowds this past Sunday, Hitler remarked, “Well, shoot… I must be more popular than Jesus”.

Honestly. Where the hell does all this all come from? We are obviously obsessed with the man at every level and extent of our culture to where that sweet, lisping grandfatherly figure you see pictured felt compelled to play the Hitler card over the weekend in the context of….. Michigan’s football program? Either that or we are just too damn lazy and dumbed-down to make any cogent and relevant analogies any longer.

Good lord, people. Enough!

The details (and reader comments, of course) here from Deadspin

It appears they have neglected mention of "The Sanchez"

We’ve no earthly idea what is going on here but its MEMRI so we’ll assume its perfectly legit so let's just uhhh, roll tape:

Following are excerpts from an interview with members of the Egyptian Unique Moustache Association, which aired on Egyptian TV on July 11, 2008.

Interviewer: "I'm sure many people have pressured you to shave off your moustache, saying, 'What is this? Enough of that.'"

Association head Fathi Ahmad Mahmoud "Moustache": "My personality forces people to treat me with respect."

Interviewer: "Didn't your friends, relatives, your wife, or your children say 'Enough is enough?'"

Fathi Ahmad Mahmoud "Moustache": "They are all proud of me. My youngest boy, Nader, calls himself 'Nader Moustache.' Get it? All his friends call him 'Nader Moustache.'"
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Interviewer: "Do you respect all types of moustaches - regardless of their size, length, or width?"

Allam Muhammad Abdel Al-Halim: "Of course."

Interviewer: "Even Hitler's moustache?"

Captain Sayyed Shahada: "By the way, I respect the moustache of this Hitler, because he humiliated the most despicable sect in the world. He subdued the people who subdued the whole world - him with his '11' moustache. By the way, that kind of moustache is called '11.' The generation of this Hitler... When I was little, my father, may he rest in peace, grew that kind of moustache, and so did all his classmates. They all had this '11' moustache. That was in the days of Hitler...

Fathi Ahmad Mahmoud "Moustache": "We have different styles. One style is 'the Douglas.' Then there's 'the Pretzel,' which is rolled like this... The 'Two Swords' style stands up like that... The 'Mafroud' is flat like a ruler. Another style is the 'Carter,' which comes out from here and is very wide."

Interviewer: "What is it called?"

Fathi Ahmad Mahmoud "Moustache": "The 'Carter.' We have two special hair designers, Muhammad Salomon and Yasser Imam. They are the association's designers. They designed all these styles." [...]


Video of this auspicious and enlightening occasion can be found here.

And what of Hitler's mustache and this "11" business? Ah, wait a minute. It seems the #11 holds strange and mystical powers over those who come under its spell.



We will be standing by for reaction from the American Mustache Institute who has been crusading for a Super Bowl Saturday vs. a Super Sunday, an idea of which we whole-heartedly concur. We can't imagine the lads will be treating the EUMA with a soft touch.

The Third Reich would appear to be having some Brett Favre issues of their own

No, this isn’t the first time the German film, Downfall has been used for parody’s sake but this time its in the name of the ubiquitous one… no, the other ubiquitous one, Brett Favre which means you’re going to sit there and you are going to like it.

Because it's in German we’re pretty confident that what the actors are actually saying doesn’t have anything remotely to do with Favre, the Packers, Green Bay, phantom sacks, flip-flops, tea bags or vicodin, but the subtitles are definitely NSFW.



H/T: DeadSpin