A Dozen Camels Disqualified From Saudi Beauty Pageant Over Botox Injections
Some pageant contestants hit a hump in the road this week. That is, a camel beauty contest in Saudi Arabia disqualified a dozen camels for receiving Botox injections to make them more attractive.
Saudi media reported that a veterinarian was caught performing plastic surgery on the camels a few days before the pageant, according to UAE's The National. In addition to the injections, the clinic was surgically reducing the size of the animals' ears to make them appear more delicate.
"They use Botox for the lips, the nose, the upper lips, the lower lips and even the jaw," Ali Al Mazrouei, a regular at such festivals and the son of a prominent Emirati breeder, told the newspaper. "It makes the head more inflated so when the camel comes it's like, 'Oh look at how big that head is. It has big lips, a big nose.' "
Real money is at stake: About $57 million is awarded to winners of the contests and camel races, The National reports, with more than $31.8 million in prizes for just the pageants.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @02:45PM (6 children)
A camel beauty contest? In Saudi Arabia? Do they not realize the optics of this? Do they know that the reason camels are called the ships of the desert is because they are full of Arab seamen/semen? Does the winner go home to meet the in-laws of one lucky towelhead?
These are the important questions.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DutchUncle on Thursday January 25 2018, @02:54PM
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday January 25 2018, @03:59PM (1 child)
Camels don't wear burkas.
They have to use what they have for beauty contests. While sheep may be easier to hold down and won't resist as much, the climate is probably unsuitable for sheep.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by bob_super on Thursday January 25 2018, @05:19PM
Goats are the universal low-maintenance solution. And when you're done doing a beauty contest between the baby goats, they will quickly grow up to either very tasty or good milk machines.
(Score: 2, Funny) by DECbot on Thursday January 25 2018, @05:18PM (2 children)
If you're soft and squeamish about ethnicity and racial jokes, do not read. It's funny because it is absurd, not because it is true.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @06:42PM (1 child)
Mohammed said it was OK to relieve your sexual urge inside a goat or sheep or donkey.
US soldiers in Iraq and Iran have seen it numerous times. There are many videos of it, typically via night-vision from a helicopter. More recently, a refugee in Germany was caught with a donkey in a petting zoo.
I don't know about camels... that sounds dangerous. There is other weirdness with camels though: drinking camel urine is commonly done.
People ride camels of course, and one would likely want lessons.
So, in conclusion: MOSTLY TRUE at minimum
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday January 26 2018, @02:59AM
I've been there, it's a beautiful country. And many people do drink the pee. They drink the camel pee, that's their medicine. We say laughter is the best medicine. But they say it's camel pee.