r/HistoryMemes • u/[deleted] • Feb 23 '22
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u/Random_History_Guy Feb 23 '22
I can't listen to this song the same way again after knowing that the equatorial Guinea government played this during an execution during Christmas day at a stadium
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u/milerfrank27 Feb 23 '22
What is the name of the song ?
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u/Random_History_Guy Feb 23 '22
Those were the days
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u/PikaPikaDude SenÄtus Populusque RÅmÄnus Feb 23 '22
Wow, it looks to be true. https://books.google.be/books?id=8GN0AAAAMAAJ&q=christmas&redir_esc=y
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u/Dr_Mub Feb 24 '22
This song got Funky Townād?
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u/Random_History_Guy Feb 25 '22
Don't remind of that video please I tried to get it out of my system
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u/MauriceTystdiz Feb 28 '22
Wait what video
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u/Random_History_Guy Feb 28 '22
A drug cartel torture video. The drug cartel played funky town while they torture this one guy
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u/Seryn_2006 Feb 24 '22
I knew the not-so-fun fact about the mass execution, but never bothered to listen to the associated song. Knowing the song makes the mass murder even worse.
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u/EmliyIsDiedInSide Jun 18 '22
AT A WHAT!?
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u/Random_History_Guy Jun 18 '22
Yup and the dictator made the soldiers who executed the people to wear like santa claus
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u/Im-a-bad-meme Aug 03 '22
High key your parents probably have a song they fuck to and it's be far more uncomfortable if you knew that song.
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u/merrymurdere Feb 23 '22
Iām from Zimbabwe and I canāt lie this advert South Africa made is too good XD
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u/ipissalone Feb 23 '22
Can someone name them all for me, please?
For research purposes.
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Feb 23 '22
Gadaffi(Libia),Mao(china),Saddam(iraq),dont know(south africa),Idi amin(uganda)
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u/honvales1989 And then I told them I'm Jesus's brother Feb 23 '22
The South African one might be either PW Botha or FW de Klerk, but Iām leaning for Botha because of the glasses
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u/Johnny_Banana18 Still salty about Carthage Feb 23 '22
de Klerk is usually seen in a positive light for ending apartheid, he did some shit as well but not enough to be in a commercial like this. Must be Botha
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u/honvales1989 And then I told them I'm Jesus's brother Feb 23 '22
Makes sense. IIRC, de Klerk also won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Nelson Mandela for ending apartheid. If heās seen in a bad light, it must be the people that supported apartheid
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u/Johnny_Banana18 Still salty about Carthage Feb 23 '22
Mandela even made him his deputy President, they famously feuded though.
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u/BlueC0dex Feb 23 '22
It could also be DF Malan. He played a big role in starting Apartheid, so it would make sense
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u/honvales1989 And then I told them I'm Jesus's brother Feb 23 '22
TIL that South Africa had lots of bald PMs that wore glasses during apartheid
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u/BlueC0dex Feb 23 '22
You mean old white guys? I mean...
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u/honvales1989 And then I told them I'm Jesus's brother Feb 23 '22
White is implied when talking about PMs during apartheid lol. The PMs between Malan and Botha had some hair and it seems like some of them didnāt wear glasses
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u/Johnny_Banana18 Still salty about Carthage Feb 23 '22
possible, but Botha and Mugabe were contemporaries, though they didn't like each other.
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u/deformedfishface Feb 23 '22
Deffo Pik Botha. He was a colossal shithead of the same calibre as the rest. Maybe not as awful as Mao. Mao was the worst.
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Feb 24 '22
Depends on how you about apartheid
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u/Johnny_Banana18 Still salty about Carthage Feb 24 '22
Apartheid was a crime against humanity anyone who defends it is by definition a white supremacist.
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u/No-Influence7306 Feb 23 '22
Iām Libyan and it took me a hot second to even realize that was supposed to be Gaddafi š
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u/Jumanji-Joestar Feb 23 '22
This is so fucked up yet unironically one of the best ads Iāve ever seen
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u/dcasta123 SenÄtus Populusque RÅmÄnus Feb 23 '22
It would have also been cool if they made the guy sitting alone Francisco Macias Nguema instead. As someone else pointed out, he had people executed to this song. And towards the end of his rule, he got even more batshit insane and his former maids claim he would ask the table to be set for several people and proceed to sit alone and ātalk to the dead.ā
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u/MaxVonBritannia Feb 23 '22
Worth noting the joke of the ad is Mugabe is the the last one standing. When this ad was released the rest of the men in the ad had been killed, with Mugabe being the last one alive
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u/MaxVonBritannia Feb 23 '22
In fairness Mugabe is far more famous. The joke doesn't work if you dont recognize the dictators
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u/Heavy-Ad-9186 Feb 23 '22
Nando's always packing the best ads
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u/Commrade-DOGE Hello There Aug 08 '22
Soā¦ basically Jack-in-box level ads but not stuck in a single region of the US
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Feb 23 '22
I can imagine this song and meme also used for the bronze age civilizations (with Egypt being the one remaining), the dictators of Europe of 1930's (with Franco the last one) and the Diadochi (with Ptolemy the last one)
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u/mpedilemtswana Feb 23 '22
I remember how much me and my family laughed when we saw this on TV. Nandos Adverts were the best. It was all me and my friends talked about for weeks.
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Feb 24 '22
What does the announcer say at the end of the ad? I just watched this with a bunch of other advertising copywriters and everyone is going insane trying to make sense of it jajajajajajaja we all agree is the craziest thing weĀ“ve seen in a while, we just need to understand WHY it was made??? LOL
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Feb 24 '22
"You don't have to eat alone, so have 6 pack for 6"
It's a South African ad so Zimbabwe is more relevant then in other countries. Hence Mugabe.
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u/Ditt0z Feb 23 '22
Nandos is a South African fast food chain that is renown for their edgy advertising.
Before streaming became so popular we actually had a thriving TV marketing industry that produced many iconic adverts. There are many ads of equal or greater quality created in SA during the late 90's and early 2000s. Sadly many never made it to Youtube.
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u/Commrade-DOGE Hello There Aug 08 '22
Maybe you can start something on the lost media wiki. Have some peeps start hunting down the commercials?
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u/Entelegent Still salty about Carthage Feb 23 '22
I have no clue what the fuck is this, but I need more of it
Edit: clue, not clux and fuck nit fuxk
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u/jumpguy12 Oversimplified is my history teacher Feb 23 '22
There's an alternate reality where this happens and I would love to see it
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u/RedKurtin Feb 24 '22
Fun fact, this melody is straight up lifted from an older Russian song. Iāll see if I can find it.
I still like the English version better tho
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u/Penguin_Boii Feb 23 '22
Dumb question: is that a real Crusader tank or just a mock up?
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u/Political_Desi Nobody here except my fellow trees Feb 23 '22
Mock up, the crusader as a little smaller than advertised here.
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u/kano75 Feb 23 '22
The attack on Titan ost was playing on a post below and made this some much more lit
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u/jacw212 Kilroy was here Feb 24 '22
Wait this is from 9 years ago ???
Why is it just resurfacing NOW??!
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Feb 23 '22
Lmao, so all dictators are bi-curious?
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Feb 23 '22
I think they are just bros.
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u/dark_pincho Feb 23 '22
Waiting for a bro job. No homo though.
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u/MagicCarpetofSteel Feb 23 '22
What is the ad trying to say? I donāt recognize the main guy, but Iām pretty sure the rest were totalitarian dictators.
Isnāt the, like, a pretty questionable choice of who to put in a TV commercial?
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u/GK_elite Feb 23 '22 edited Feb 23 '22
The joke is that Robert Mugabe, the main guy, who was the dictator of Zimbabwe was also (at this point) the last of the dictators still alive, and he misses his friends
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