JAFAAC: Funny Foreigner

It's just a picture of Borat. Doesn't even look at foreign... and it's not him doing anything.

I don't have any suggestions though...

Motion to pull

Great example, but JAFAAC here.

How do you have a picture of someone "being foreign"? Honestly, Borat would be foreign in any country, particularly in that outfit with that hairdo with that expression—which is also funny. It fits. Even someone with no knowledge of who Borat is would be inclined to say "Yeah, that guy's probably not from around here, and he's definitely a weirdo." Leave it alone.

edited 24th Aug '11 3:53:10 PM by karstovich2

Yeah, he doesn't really look like he's from any particular place, just Ambiguously Foreign.

Anyone else for/against the pull?

I like Borat, but maybe another image of him. What about the cover of the movie, doesn't that show him with a suitcase?

The cover of the movie would have a lot of clutter on it, wouldn't it? Current picture is fine. It's hard to "look" foreign but he looks silly and out of place and the rest can be inferred even if you don't know him.

Are you kidding? That's a classic JAFAAC...without the caption you have no context at all.

I don't think an immediate pull is necessary, but we should search for another image

Really? Name one country that he'd look normal in.

A guy with a funny hairstyle, a big grin, and doing the "thumbs up" doth not a foreigner make at first glance...hell, he could be a cheesy comedian or used car salesman for all the pic gives us.

edited 14th Oct '11 4:18:39 PM by Willbyr

Not a country, but somebody who looked like that walked through any major city, people probably wouldn't bat an eye. It's just a guy with a weird mustache making a funny face.

How about someone doing the same sort of thing while holding a flag?

You mean like this?◊

Other suggestions: Willie and the accident-prone French waiter◊ from The Simpsons.

^There you go. The flags add the element of foreignness the current picture lacks.

And really, I don't see how someone unfamiliar with the context would see the current image and think the guy's foreign.

That is exactly what I was thinking.

Unfortunately, it appears to be a crappy Photoshop job, but if it's small enough people shouldn't really care. Plus we can crop the blurry bottom part.

Borat with the flags works for me.

Clock is set.

Honestly, the slight blurriness at the base of the hands is really only apparent if you look specifically for it, I didn't notice it until you pointed it out.

Time to shut this down. I trimmed a little off the bottom of the pic with Borat holding the flags so the 'shopping isn't evident and put it on the page, since it makes the "foreign" aspect a little clearer...don't like it, but it's marginally better than what was there. Locking up.