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A lot of money went into this Nike ad
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@tim I heard the guys from Shihad in an interview, and people often asked why they haven't broken into (or tried) the US market....as simple as Shihad sounds too much like Jihad...and they weren't interested in changing their name.
But that...they best be watching their back, some dozey US law enforcement types might be a bit trigger happy...
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@tim I heard the guys from Shihad in an interview, and people often asked why they haven't broken into (or tried) the US market....as simple as Shihad sounds too much like Jihad...and they weren't interested in changing their name.
But that...they best be watching their back, some dozey US law enforcement types might be a bit trigger happy...
Memory may be failing, but didn't they change their name to Pacifier for just this reason?
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@stockcar86 not sure, I cant recall how long ago the interview was, but the tone of it was they didn't want to change their name.
Never heard of Pacifier.
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@stockcar86 yep they had that ill fated name change to pacifier! hmmm do we think Shihad would be better received now or back then??!!
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It's almost like Wikipedia is buried away on the dark web for some of you . .
Naming conflict[edit] This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The name Shihad was chosen after members of the band saw David Lynch's 1984 film, Dune, based on Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel of the same name, which uses the term "Jihad", in an approximation of the term used by Muslims which roughly translates to "the struggle", or as a reference to the "Holy War". Quote from an interview in Opus Issue 7 - 2003 (Newcastle University student magazine) Interview: Pacifier - By John Grayson. “ John Grayson: How did the name Shihad come about anyway? Tom Larkin: Well, see that's the biggest cock-up out. When we were 15 we were all into this sci-fi movie Dune. See, Dune uses all these Arabic words throughout the movie and the end battle is a Jihad. We were stupid and thought it'd be a great name for a band so we called ourselves Shihad cause we couldn't even spell it. ” Following the 11 September terrorist attacks, the band decided to change their name due to the similarity between the band's name Shihad and the Arabic word jihad. At the 2002 Big Day Out music festival in Auckland, New Zealand they released T-shirts with 'Shihad' on them, and 'Remote' printed below, indicating that 'Remote' was to be the new name. However, due to this name being taken already, they settled on "Pacifier", which was a successful single from their album The General Electric. They released an album, Pacifier, under this name in 2002. The American release of the album featured a different track listing to the Australian and New Zealand release, and included the song My Mind's Sedate from The General Electric. On 17 September 2004, the band announced to the world that they would change their name back to Shihad. To quote the band, "The events surrounding the name change and our choice to be known as Pacifier are well documented. As much as we believed in what we were doing, and the reasons for doing it at the time – the truth is we were wrong." On an appearance on the ABC TV show Spicks and Specks, Jon Toogood talked about how band members do not usually have to consider holy war when thinking of a band name. In an interview,[18] Jon Toogood spoke about an event that contributed to their decision: “We were in America while it invaded Iraq and had to play at festivals that were supposedly 'support the troops festivals' when we didn't believe in the war at all. That's what the song "All the Young Fascists" is about – the day we played Miami in front of 30,000 kids at this festival that was originally just a rock festival. A week out, just because of the timing, it was turned into the support the troops show and it was being simulcast live to Iraq. We were on this bill with these really ugly – what we call WWF – metal bands, and we were shitting ourselves. I just wanted to get out of there. Beside the stage was a paintball gun alley where kids were lining up to shoot effigies of Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and (French president) Jacques Chirac. That was the weirdest one. The amount of times I actually pointed out to Americans the fact that their Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French and they were supposed to be mates.” The band name "Pacifier" was raffled on the Australian radio station Triple J by Jay and the Doctor and was claimed by a little known band from Tasmania, Theory of Everything. -
@smudge or that TSF is better and Wiki isn't always that reliable
Was probably that interview I heard after they changed back, I just remembered it wrong, thinking back over the years, I have been wrong on occasion, I will try harder
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
I have been wrong on occasion, I will try harder
That's all I ask. Help me help you.
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Jesus @taniwharugby way to confuse! I thought I'd time travelled back fifteen or so years.
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Hogzilla!
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@mariner4life said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@tim we. are. fucked.
Yep. Not to get all Daniel Suarez on you, but did you see those co-ordinated drones from the olympics making a live animation of a bird?
Imagine that sort of co-ordinated swarm, but the drones have facial recognition cameras and lots of sharp pointy knives all over them. And you are the target....
Shihad - Wikipedia
