Seagal & Arpaio Team Up to Bring Heavily Armed Criminals Into Schools! Kids Safe Now!

[erezb]

You know... I was able to just blow this off as a publicity stunt. That's fine. Whatever.

But the part that filled me with rage is actually in Seagal's wardrobe choice. That thing around his neck is a shemaugh. A shemaugh is typically worn by several groups of people but primarily recognizable from two sources: Arabs and soldiers in desert environments. Well, Seagal isn't an Arab. And he isn't a soldier. So that leaves fucking tacticool poseur.

Now, I obviously have no issue with people buying shemaughs. I own a few myself. Apparently it's also fashionable on the runway these days. Honestly I doubt I'd have this viscerial gut reaction if I didn't already know Seagal was such a fucking posing poseur.

Is Shemaugh an arabic word? I was sure it is called Kaffia.
The Jordanians have red ones and the Palestinians have the black and white. When is saw it on him, i got pissed too..Here it is like a flag basically.

[Chili Pepper]

Is Shemaugh an arabic word? I was sure it is called Kaffia.

They're called both.

The Jordanians have red ones and the Palestinians have the black and white. When is saw it on him, i got pissed too..Here it is like a flag basically.

My old roommate had one in the colours of the PLO flag.

[ChuckWepner]

Is Shemaugh an arabic word? I was sure it is called Kaffia.
The Jordanians have red ones and the Palestinians have the black and white. When is saw it on him, i got pissed too..Here it is like a flag basically.

"Shemagh" (the preferred English spelling, although there are several others) is supposedly taken into English from British Army usage from soldiers stationed in the Middle East as an anglicisation of شماغ (šmāġ). According to various websites (perhaps all under the influence of Wikipedia), "shemagh mhadab" or "shmagh mhadab" is the term preferred by Jordanians for the headscarves in the version favored in their country.

Keffiyeh (spelled several ways) is from the Arabic كوفية (kufíyya), possibly ultimately from Late Latin cofea, meaning "helmet" (some say instead from the town name of Al-Kufa, Iraq).

One can also be called, depending on where you are in the Arab, Persian, Turkish, or Kurdish world, a ghutrah, ḥaṭṭah, mashadah, chafiye, cemedanî, puşi, or yashmagh.

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[Pharabus]

"Shemagh" (the preferred English spelling, although there are several others) is supposedly taken into English from British Army usage from soldiers stationed in the Middle East as an anglicisation of شماغ (šmāġ). According to various websites (perhaps all under the influence of Wikipedia), "shemagh mhadab" or "shmagh mhadab" is the term preferred by Jordanians for the headscarves in the version favored in their country.

Keffiyeh (spelled several ways) is from the Arabic كوفية (kufíyya), possibly ultimately from Late Latin cofea, meaning "helmet" (some say instead from the town name of Al-Kufa, Iraq).

One can also be called, depending on where you are in the Arab, Persian, Turkish, or Kurdish world, a ghutrah, ḥaṭṭah, mashadah, chafiye, cemedanî, puşi, or yashmagh.

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so, what you are saying is, Seagal is a posing tosser and Arpaio is an attention whore?

[ChuckWepner]

so, what you are saying is, Seagal is a posing tosser and Arpaio is an attention whore?

Exactly! And they need Chris Hansen to help them screen their volunteer deputies.

[Wing-Kwan-Fu]

One million training hours is only about 114 years of solid training. Doable.

[Sam Browning]

As much as I can figure out, Steve is a police groupie, who attaches himself to police departments that will have him. In many states, like Connecticut, you don't get to be a police officer until you have first passed a standardized police academy course that fulfill what is called POST standards. So I'm wondering, can Steve prove he ever entered and graduated a police academy, or is he somehow counting his martial arts training in aikido towards his thousands of hours.