Flying penis disrupts Russian meeting
Rob Cockerham says: "Video of a real flying (helicopterish) phallus buzzing and disrupting a Russian meeting of some kind." (It's Gary Kasparov) Link
Rob Cockerham says: "Video of a real flying (helicopterish) phallus buzzing and disrupting a Russian meeting of some kind." (It's Gary Kasparov) Link
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Dear god, Second Life memes entering the real world!
RAW, isn't it?
Holy crap, it's Eva Gebloomenkraft!
It seems someone does, in fact, give a flying f*ck about Russian meetings! Or maybe they're just dicking around. In any case, it's a mighty cocky thing to give them the shaft like that. Not quite like linking to Propellerman or anything that ballsy, but still a long hard way from public decency.
I say props to 'em!
This may be the first case of life imitating Second Life.
Oh, I really want a translation of his response, the quip that got the applause!
Kasparov looked pretty worried there for a moment, when the whirring began. You know the whole Other Russia deal is not hugely popular with some people.
Somebody should do this at Corey's next book signing. If we only knew when the next one was...
#5 beat me to it.
#1 beat #5 and #9.
Shades of Beckett.
Some context: most Russians despise Kasparov - he opposes the political status quo and he's an Armenian Jew. This is not a harmless prank, it's some pro-putin group mocking Kasparov's Russian opposition meeting. He looks worried because he's been physically assaulted before.
#11- I meant to convey that in my earlier post. I felt tense when the officials in the room flinched and looked for cover.
I would just like to note what an appropriate name rob has ,and thanks for sharing :-)
drag racing power tools is certainly old news, they now fly!
Cock BLOCKED!
Now - if this creates a new real-world meme for say United States presidents and the China Olympics - then I'll be one happy camper.
Russian ingenuity at it's finest.
Every single place I've seen this brought up, I've seen a Second Life reference. :)
not bad, only one bodyguard openly reached for his gun
It's a good thing security had been trained for just that scenario.
Of course, it won't be quite so funny when the next one sprays Kasparov with needles dipped in blowfish venom.
Helicockter.
I don't get the Second Life references at all but this is still the second funniest thing I've seen all day.
It's too bad that dickhead knocked the copter out of the air so soon.
My god. Someone tore a hole in the time-space continuum and Second Life is merging with our universe! The horror. THE HORROR. D:
#6:
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After the security guard swatted it to the ground, Kasparov says, "I think we have to be thankful for the opposition's demonstration of the level of discourse we need to anticipate. Also, apparently most of their arguments are located beneath the belt." Someone in the audience shouts, "Finally the political power shows its face!" Kasparov quickly replies, "Well, if that's its face..." to laughter from the audience.
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(From the link).
I appreciate opposition figures who can take this sort of thing in good humour. Russian fatalism FTW.
Wow. OK, so based on some of the comments in the original post, I now understand the situation:
Basically, the "colour" revolutions in Georgia and the Ukraine (well, shifts in political power via elections), were driven by youth movements organised by an "NGO" called Freedom House. Freedom House, however, is a clear pawn of the Neocons (James Woolsey, the chair from 2002-2005, was a founding member of PNAC). Its goal is clearly to destabilise nations deemed a threat to American supremacy.
(article explaining this here)
So, in Russia, Putin and co organised their own pro-government, "anti-fascist" youth movement, Nashi, which carries out pranks like these, and probably somewhat more sinister stuff, with the implicit support of the police, against individuals considered a threat to Putin's supremacy.
(article talking about Nashi here)
So, this really comes down to a clash between Putin and the Neocons, with "spontaneous" youth movements being used as pawns. It's a funny old world.
It's a Rehnquist!
Yup. This flying cock definitely has Nashi's fingerprints all over it.
The great thing about dueling youth movements is that they can beat up on each other while the national cops (OMOH) look on indulgently and the press view it as no more serious than a punchup between rival football clubs.
At least they do as long as the likes of Nashi, who do have football hooligans (Arkan's Tigers of tomorrow) among them, are beating up the Other Russia guys, and not the other way around. Actually, however such battles go, the cops always arrest the "Other" guys.
That's life in a democracy that's managed to a degree to which my own government's executive can only aspire.
As much as the Second Lifers wish to think that they were the original "Flying Penis" prank, Revered alt-culture writer Robert Anton Wilson wrote the scene in his book _Schrodinger's Cat_, which took place in a church and involved one of the characters, named Eva Gebloomenkraft. The book (actually, orignally published as a Trilogy, known as The Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, back in the 1980's) predates Second Life by decades.
ttyl
Farrell
Real life LOLDONGS. Real life Rehnquists. Is this what immanentizing the eschaton looks like?
I'm waiting for the instructable.
I'm waiting for the instructable.
#22 Kieran,
it's tricky to base your understanding on the political post's comments. As well as on the article in The Exile newspaper.
As someone who knows about the "colour revolution" in Ukraine from within I'd say that Freedom House played little (if any) role in it.
And it's Ukraine, not the Ukraine, btw
Eta KHUY-icopter, tovarishch.
In Soviet Russia .... bah, this is already too weird for extrapolation.
We used to have an Asian fusion restaurant in Cheltenham that also sold Asian bric-a-brac. When it opened, the bric-a-brac on sale included carved wooden winged penises, from Bhutan, I seem to recall. So I think the Bhutanese probably have precedent on Robert Anton Wilson and Second Life.
Re: #32 by Nelson.C
It is not a "winged" penis that is the joke, it is a "flying penis" where is the joke! Especially one that is in a place one would not expect...not that you expect flying penises anywhere....except for maybe the film Caligula...but that's from the univers next door...not this one...or is it...it's hard to keep the universes sorted out...
ttyl
Farrell