Remember how Sweden decided to employ “Underwater Neon Gay Signs” in order to ward off increasing aggressive Russian submarines from violating its territorial waters? (Sweden is a progressive place, where military spending is “icky,” but childish stunts make everyone feel smug.)
Sweden is using an underwater ‘gay sailor’ to scare off any Russian submarines which might enter their territory.
The unique device also comes with a sonar system that sends out the Morse code saying: “This way if you are gay”.
Apparently, this measure was not fabulous enough. So a Swedish Army band has decided to become even gayer and more fabulous than ever.
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By the way, don’t confuse my posting about this for outrage. A military band plays ABBA, and quite well. No big deal. I am not even outraged at the gradual collapse and debasement of Western Civilization. Though I rue and lament it, at this point, I just have to accept it as part of the continuum of history.
And it beats writing another post about the stubby-fingered Vulgarian.
…And the Euro-weennies think we’re the crazy-ones??
This is because the Swedes, like most liberals, think any sort of antipathy toward gays constitutes “fear”.
Understandably, because leftists live in a very binary world governed by fear — hence their need for “safe spaces”, segregated dormitories, and the like.
The Russians do not in the least “fear” gays. They simply have looked at the behaviors that the LGBT community champions and decided that they want no part of them. They also are aware of the fact that Sweden and other “pro-gay” countries are more than happy to throw LGBT people to the Muslim wolves as tribute, and thus see their supposed “pro-gay” views as nothing more than rank hypocrisy and pandering to placate a stupid minority.
I don’t see how a marching band playing Dancing Queen is supposed to be Progressive or pro gay. Back in the 90’s, my college marching band played Dancing Queen – a well known VERY conservative Christian college.
Quite a few American marching bands played it in the late nineties and the beginning of the next decade.
During WW2, when the Red Army infantry advanced, the special troops followed them. Not as shock-troops or reinforcements, but to machine-gun anyone who fled the line-of-battle or didn’t fight with sufficient “enthusiasm”. The Russian earned the hard-way there are few half-way measures in the real world.
When ‘Dancing Queen’ came out, ‘she’ still meant ‘she’.
Very true. Being too young to partake in a meaningful way, I watched the disco years from the sidelines. I still remember the 20/20 profile of ABBA which explained the relationships between the quartet. Yes, they had flashy costumes, but so did Elvis and Liberace (okay, so the latter is a bad example). Point being, I saw their songs as being the precursor of today’s Europop, not as a slyly coded sign of support a la The Village People. So when I heard a female singer do “Dancing Queen”, I thought of it as a tribute to a wannabe ballerina or similar.
I still do, except when it’s bellowing from a float in a pride parade or other such event.
They have been spoiled by having other people pay for their defense. They also think they can nag people until they like you.
Neon gay sailor signs? How brilliantly fabulous, or fabulously brilliant. If only the Ukrainians had tried that to keep Russia from annexing the Crimea.
It could be worse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ecasPqhgk
Regarding Dancing Queen, it was referring to a young girl who wanted to dance. It may have taken on a gay connotation later, but it was not there originally.
I even wrote in a story about a band who covered the song with a very blatant sexual and gay connotation to it. It lost them the competition, not because of the gay connotation, but the obvious sexual references.
Same reason why I DETEST a lot of Beyonce’s songs. Countdown, especially. “Grind up on it, girl, show him how you ride it.”
Um, “Dancing Queen” was just a story about a young girl who wanted to dance – nothing more.
And that it was written and performed by ABBA, that well-known Swedish export that is heard around the world; and that it is one of their most popular songs, is more likely the reason for the Swedish Army band playing it at the Swedish King’s celebration. Also, nothing more.
Which reminds me of a joke.
A guy is being given the Rorschach test by a psychologist. As the psychologist shows the patient each ink blot and asks him what does he see, the patient says “a naked couple having sex” each time.
After several ink blots and the same answer of “a naked couple having sex,” the doctor says “boy, you sure do have a dirty mind.”
To which the patient answers: “Me? YOU are the one with all the dirty pictures!”
Oh, and as far as that gay neon sign under water? Well, that is a rather good disguise for sub detecting equipment. Get everyone talking about the gay sailor, instead of paying attention to a boring piece of “official-looking” military equipment being lowered into the water. Rather ingenious!
The Swedes might come across as a bunch a left-leaning Eurowimps. But, they did keep the Nazis from invading their country while also pissing off some high ranking Nazis by taking in the Danish Jews. Their days as Vikings are long gone; I rather think they still have some of that ol’ fight in them.