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Camels disqualified from Saudi beauty pageant

by Jonn Lilyea••42

On a day of strange news stories, this might be the topper. It seems that a dozen camels were disqualified from participating in a beauty pageant at the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Saudi Arabia because a doctor was caught giving them botox injections, along with other cosmetic alterations which make them more attractive, relatively speaking. From NPR;

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.

I know my driver ogled camels while we were in Iraq screening for Shi’ites escaping Saddam Hussein’s rampaging army. He would talk endlessly over the intercom about his attraction to their large lips. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was one of the beauty contest judges.

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42 thoughts on “Camels disqualified from Saudi beauty pageant”

    1. Actually, the beauty contest was to be between the women and the camels…except….they didn’t have enough botox for the women! 😉

    2. As someone that worked in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for 2 1/2 years, this shit is the real deal. Never saw a bunch of people get all worked up over the looks of a camel before… and don’t want to see it again.

  2. I thought they were all into goats and sheep. Guess not. I don’t even want to think about camel lips.

        1. Well, from what I’ve heard of the foolishness that takes place over there, they have to spit or swallow. I guess they choose to spit. /s

  3. One just has to wonder if these disqualified “ships of the desert” will receive all the love they deserve from Saudi sailors.

  6. I got nothing.

    “Camel” and “beauty pageant” do not belong anywhere together in any sane world.

    1. That there even is such a thing speaks volumes regarding how irredeemably fucked up the Middle East really is.

      1. Yeah, it’s weird, but, given how we hold beauty pageants for little girls, dogs, and livestock, I’m not sure we’re in a position to throw many stones at this particular custom.

  7. So… big lips and a big nose are considered hot on the camel glamour scale.

    This is something useful to keep in mind for the next time I’m shopping for camels.

    Thanks, Jonn!

  8. Camels. An abomination in the eyes of Almighty God, Western civilization, basic decency, and all that is good in the world. And these people have pageants for the damn things.

  11. You got a real purty mouth

    They should stick to the camel racing with the monkey and/or robot jockeys. Now that’s hilariously entertaining.

  13. As camels go, I suppose they are lookers. Still, without the swimsuit competition, I can’t pick one.

  16. And they still get pissed when we refer to them as “Camel Humpers”, were they trying to make regular camels look like the filter tip variety?

  18. I just hope that the ‘non winners’ don’t end up in low budget Iraqi porno.
    That would ruin their chances of finding a good husband.

  19. Dare I ask whether the camels are male or female?

    I think it says something that they spend money on cosmetic surgery to make their camels look more attractive (to them, not the other camels) while hiding their women in tents.

    I am surprised they have not yet found a way to surgically implant burqas in their women.

    Perhaps they should consider selective breeding to make their women look more like camels. Of course for all we can tell they may already do so.

    Have you noticed that you really cannot tell front from back in a burqa? I think that is as far as I wish to go with that thought.

  20. The hajjettes that I once dated and have seen ‘beyond the burqa/hijab’ seem to always have pasty, cellulite ridden body flesh and a moustache that would put Freddy Mercury to shame.
    To their credit, they all love anal

    1. Yes, when are we going to have a camel toe beauty pageant? Who will be the first Miss Camel Toe of the Universe? One benefit is there will only be one category, the swimsuit competition.

      1. LMFAO

        I second a Miss Camel Toe of the Universe competition!!

        I am confident that the older, nastier Canadian sister of the Camel Toe can be found….. The Moose Knuckle

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