March 25, 2022

Bring in the dancing police!

33 comments:

MadisonMan said...

I have no clue how important dancing is in the Turkmenistan culture. Somewhat more than here, apparently.
It did look like they might benefit from more practice however.

rcocean said...

This is what happens when your police force is homophobic.

RideSpaceMountain said...

This Andrei! I am Yakov! Now is the time on 'Ashgabat' when we dance!

JaimeRoberto said...

Not nearly as intimidating as the Haka or the show that the Indian and Pakistani soldiers put on at the border.

Candide said...

You can’t steal the joy of this man. Cory Booker he’s not.

Jokah Macpherson said...

For context, he’s the son of the previous ‘president’ who just stepped down after a 16 year term. I’d be dancing as hard and enthusiastically as I possibly could, lest anyone notice otherwise.

rehajm said...

Turkmenistan? Isn’t that near Irktusk?

PM said...

I love our world.
esp those officers' hats which are maybe immenser than North Korea's.



R C Belaire said...

@ PM : Yeah, the size of those hats must be compensating for something.

rehajm said...

There’s some Rockettes, some Laker Girls, a little hip-hop. Could be worse…

Temujin said...

Hilarious. And to think some of us were questioning Gen. Lloyd Austin's new Woke Military. No one loves a dancing infantry more than I, but I did not think the world was ready for it. I may have underestimated the rest of the world.

Next, I want to see the chorus lineup from China.

Clyde said...

Kim Jong Un looks on and thinks, "Amateurs!"

rehajm said...

That pic before the video rolls- a car parked way off in the distance and a mile of carpet means nobody thought to drive him up there in the car…

Readering said...

https://twitter.com/Peter__Leonard/status/1506738828043816964?s=20&t=gPPfsJV_F9IqP7JeVRqYTw

Patterns big in Turkmenistan

The Drill SGT said...

finally, somebody our new woker Army might be able to beat if we got to go first

Dave64 said...

Is this from a Mel Brooks movie. Reminds me of Springtime for Hitler.

Howard said...

Don't worry Drill Sgt, they'll send in the Marines first.

rhhardin said...

Derbyshire for years has unhesitatingly correctly pronounced Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, the previous President. His son Serdar is a lot easier.

A couple of hours of practice was necessary but there was a big payoff through a dozen years of podcasts claiming intimate friendship with the man.

catter said...

Sorry,had to post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLUyEXO-jI0

wildswan said...

To YMCA tune

"It's fun to belong to the Tuuuuurkmenistan Police/ We're not your faaaaaather's police"

BUMBLE BEE said...

Dave64... Don Pardo, tell him what he's won!

Curious George said...

Norks: "hold my beer"

Josephbleau said...

When I see Police get down I want to see the iron in the air, Truncheons, auto pepper balls, heat, all juggling from front to back. They used to have tv shows of Army squads in class A's spin tossing their M14's with bayonets up and down the file.

Wince said...

De-fun the police!

Narr said...

Ooh, you military fairies! Pythonesque.

So stoneface is the son of Gurbanguly, he of the big gold dog.

NYC JournoList said...

I visited Ashgabad in 1983. The chai was very good. Not a lot to do then. Saw no dancing but did ride a camel.

Money Manger said...

“Very pretty. Very pretty. But can they fight ?” — Donald Sutherland in The Dirty Dozen.

Josephbleau said...

"So stoneface is the son of Gurbanguly, he of the big gold dog."

Ach soo the glean of Nehfertix, bairn of the horx of carnix. Xhe who canas bairn the ultansos. Ares dexta theen sax nanrah!

Narr said...

That's exactly what I was thinking, Josephbleau!

What does it mean?

Josephbleau said...

It means little, to those who don't care. I have said enough.

ken in tx said...

I sees it as sloppy close-order drill. Maybe they got the idea from the Movie 'Stripes'.

Joanne Jacobs said...

Volodomyr Zelensky can do his own dancing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEuUuc25PYM

realestateacct said...

Somehow brings to mind Evelyn Waugh's observation in one of his war books that in the Romanian army only the officers are allowed to wear lipstick.