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You are here: Home / Can’t stop the music

Can’t stop the music

by Tim F|  May 6, 20131:01 pm| 33 Comments

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Justin Bieber pauses a concert in Turkey – twice! – to respect the Muslim call to prayer.

Bet that I know what my next blast email from Frank Gaffney will be about.

BTW, whichever one of you signed me up for that can eat nails.

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    May 6, 2013 at 1:05 pm

    What, for letting you find out that the Biebster isn’t a total dick?
    (By the way, it wasn’t me.)

  2. 2.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    May 6, 2013 at 1:07 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I think he’s talking about the Frank Gaffney stuff.

    I wonder how many reports we’ll get of dad’s tearing down their daughter’s posters of Justin for all the wrong reasons.

  3. 3.

    Cris (without an H)

    May 6, 2013 at 1:15 pm

    Real freedom-loving patriots call it Constantinople.

  4. 4.

    scav

    May 6, 2013 at 1:16 pm

    Very weird is that’s one of the few sets of fans he hasn’t apparently annoyed recently, based on the barrage of headlines I was unable to completely avoid even at the Guard (the fiends). Monkeys? Anne Frank? V. Baroque set of nouns involved.

  5. 5.

    ? Martin

    May 6, 2013 at 1:18 pm

    @Cris (without an H): Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

  6. 6.

    The Dude Abides

    May 6, 2013 at 1:28 pm

    I prefer Byzanthium.

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 6, 2013 at 1:29 pm

    @? Martin:

    Why did they change it? I can’t say.

  8. 8.

    jayjaybear

    May 6, 2013 at 1:30 pm

    Nobody’s business but the Turks…

  9. 9.

    danimal

    May 6, 2013 at 1:32 pm

    Respect for the Mooslim is unAmerican. I’m outraged that Bieber is sacrificing the memories of the 9/11 victims in this cruel, heartless display of dignifying anti-American foreign ‘religions’. By following Sharia Law, he has lost the following of this BeLieber!
    /Geller wannabe

  10. 10.

    jayjaybear

    May 6, 2013 at 1:33 pm

    @danimal: That would raise his fan base’s mean intelligence several points.

  11. 11.

    Bruce S

    May 6, 2013 at 1:36 pm

    Justin Bieber is a fat slag…

    Pam Geller is organizing a CD burning of Bieber’s oevre, not realizing that Bieber fans don’t buy CDs, they download everything. Maybe she can shake her fist at The Cloud.

    (I made the Geller thing up, but I expect her to do her part in the effort of our Right-wing to make satire obsolete by putting up a Bieber post any minute now.)

  12. 12.

    jayjaybear

    May 6, 2013 at 1:39 pm

    @Bruce S: The GOP: Mortal Enemy of Irony.

  13. 13.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    May 6, 2013 at 1:39 pm

    @Bruce S: Is Gellar still around?

  14. 14.

    Haydnseek

    May 6, 2013 at 1:45 pm

    @Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): Yeah, she’s still around. She’s like herpes. Just when you’ve forgotten about it, you get an irritating flare-up.

  15. 15.

    mdblanche

    May 6, 2013 at 1:45 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: People just liked it better that way.

  16. 16.

    Haydnseek

    May 6, 2013 at 1:47 pm

    @mdblanche: Ain’t gonna do it without my fez on…….

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    May 6, 2013 at 1:54 pm

    @danimal:

    Respect for the Mooslim is unAmerican.

    If any fool right-winger should raise this point, Biebs can give Wolverine’s reply: “I’m Canadian.”

  18. 18.

    Cassidy

    May 6, 2013 at 1:56 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: People just liked it better that way.

  19. 19.

    scav

    May 6, 2013 at 1:59 pm

    @Haydnseek: Fezes are cool.

  20. 20.

    artem1s

    May 6, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    Holy Bieber Batman, how long was that concert?

  21. 21.

    Haydnseek

    May 6, 2013 at 2:04 pm

    @scav: I love mine. I wear it to “They Might Be Giants” shows. In comment 16, I thought I would reference a line from a Steely Dan song and see what happened.

  22. 22.

    danimal

    May 6, 2013 at 2:10 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I thought of that, but I believe we’ve established that Canada is really part of America now that Ted Cruz is considering a presidential run.

  23. 23.

    Yatsuno

    May 6, 2013 at 2:12 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I find it fascinating that he did this in Turkey, which is the most secular of the Muslim nations. And the military is not enamoured of the current Islamists in power, so this was a big risk. Biebs is still gonna flame out hardcore on drugs or booze. It’s just a matter of when.

  24. 24.

    scav

    May 6, 2013 at 2:16 pm

    @Haydnseek: Well, it was tempting NuWho bait, what can we do surrounded by said possible Giants?

  25. 25.

    Haydnseek

    May 6, 2013 at 2:20 pm

    @scav: Sorry, I’m not getting the NuWho reference, but when surrounded by said possible giants, I endeavor to build a little birdhouse in my soul. Can’t post a link, but YouTube has plenty of They Might Be Giants doing “Build a Little Birdhouse In Your Soul” videos.

  26. 26.

    scav

    May 6, 2013 at 2:31 pm

    @Haydnseek: Merely for reference, in furtherance of fez literacy, it rather starts here, with roots in Bow Tie.

  27. 27.

    Haydnseek

    May 6, 2013 at 2:36 pm

    @scav: Great video! I hope that was CGI, and that no fezzes were harmed during the shooting of that scene….

  28. 28.

    Sly

    May 6, 2013 at 2:39 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    When the English took New Netherland – the province; New Amsterdam was just the port city on lower Manhattan at the time – from the Dutch, King Charles II bequeathed the territory as a royal colony to his younger brother, James, the Duke of York (who later succeeded Charles as King James II).

  29. 29.

    Roger Moore

    May 6, 2013 at 3:15 pm

    @Sly:
    And there was already a Jamestown, which had been named for James I, James, Duke of York’s grandpa.

  30. 30.

    ? Martin

    May 6, 2013 at 3:21 pm

    @danimal:

    but I believe we’ve established that Canada is really part of America now that Ted Cruz is considering a presidential run.

    Well, of course. Hosti gezen in dayne lebn? They whiter than us! Woof!

  31. 31.

    catclub

    May 6, 2013 at 3:26 pm

    @Cassidy: Perhaps.

  32. 32.

    Davis X. Machina

    May 6, 2013 at 3:34 pm

    @The Dude Abides:

    πῶς γαρ οὔ; ἐμοί γε ἐτι ᾽Βυζάντιον᾽ ἐστι.

  33. 33.

    Wally Ballou

    May 7, 2013 at 7:33 am

    @Cassidy:

    Still, it’s Turkish delight on a moonlight night. (Amirite?)

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