defrog: (hercules!)
defrog ([personal profile] defrog) wrote2008-12-16 12:05 pm

CRUEL SHOES II: WHY I OUGHTA ...!!!

Inevitably, the Iraqi Shoe Chucker is now the Interweb’s new favorite GIF meme.

BoingBoing is collecting them, but I rather like this one (via [livejournal.com profile] substitute ):



Nyuk nyuk nyuk, etc.

And while we’re at it, regarding the whole “Throwing shoes is disrespectful in Iraq, unlike in Kentucky” thing, the BBC actually has a good piece explaining what some journalists were trying to get at – that shoes are a particularly strong insult tool in Muslim culture whether you throw them or not.

Which I already knew, and fair call, but too many news reports didn’t make that distinction clearly enough.

Shoe fly,

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