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# Top Trumps: Leaders of Middle-Eastern Nations
Anyone else think this bbc article would make a good Top Trumps pack?









Edit: brb making full set of cards.
Edit 2: Right, that's all eleven of them. Took longer than I thought.
(Digits of Pi, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:24, archived)
# Hah, I thought exactly the same thing!
Top marks for actually doing something with it though.
(I helped save b3ta! the wub - guide onion for the blind, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:26, archived)
# haha
excellent idea
(I helped save b3ta! alpaca muffalo bozzerella, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:29, archived)
#
Missed off Israel, though.
(Good Penny, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 8:55, archived)
#
I was just going by what was in the bbc article. Thought it was worthy of being mocked due to having some glaring omissions, completely unexplained numbers (corruption score out of 178, wtf?) and the fact that the countries west of Egypt are not actually in the Middle East.
(Digits of Pi, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:50, archived)
#
Fair enough - I'll go have a word with the BBC, then. Wont be the first time. ;)
(Good Penny, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 19:22, archived)
# the corruption score shows the placing of the country out of a list of 178
more here:

www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results
(Mehitabel_Itrang, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 21:35, archived)
# bet he isn't smiling now
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:30, archived)
# I bet he is
lauding it up on some fat yaught somewhere.
(Quinni TK421 Isn't at his command post on, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:41, archived)
# probably.
what a cunt.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:47, archived)
# I give him 8yrs, he'll be 90 by then
and the pyramid aliens will come nack to the earth to take him to a nice retirement village in the cosmos.
(Quinni TK421 Isn't at his command post on, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:51, archived)
# stupid pyramid aliens
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:55, archived)
# Shoe Throwers Index
best of all the indeces
(I helped save b3ta! h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:32, archived)
# seriously, who throws a shoe?
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:33, archived)
# someone who doesn't want his shoes anymore I guess
(I helped save b3ta! h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:36, archived)
# fucking hippy
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:46, archived)
# I like this a lot
(I helped save b3ta! Mousing, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:35, archived)
# Get them all done
and sell the on here.
(Quinni TK421 Isn't at his command post on, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:37, archived)
#
I was tempted to... I guess I have the photoshop template now, so might as well.
(Digits of Pi, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:42, archived)
# Get it done
youz knowz itz makes sense.
Sell them on B3ta or get in contact with Viz Comic.
(Quinni TK421 Isn't at his command post on, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:43, archived)
# (Mu)...barak Obama
(imchocked CAPTAIN HE IS ALL TIME TOUCHING MY ASS, Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:43, archived)
# This
would actually do really well I think. Especially if you expanded it to include modern dictators in general. Mugabe, Pinochet, and various others
(I helped save b3ta! B3tan Housewife, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 0:33, archived)
# careful now
edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/08/germany.hitler.cards
(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 15:17, archived)
# Brill.
Also give Bashar ten optometry points, since that apparently is his occupation outside of dictating, I think.
(I helped save b3ta! Christian's Bolt and Ski, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 1:06, archived)
# Ahmadinejad should be the Super Trumph
As he is not an arab leader.
(Monocromatico Lady Godiva's horse, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 1:27, archived)
#
or president of Iraq
(lib319, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 2:48, archived)
# Well spotted.
(I helped save b3ta! Christian's Bolt and Ski, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 2:50, archived)
#
Aye, well spotted. Fixed it now, guess I was losing focus by the time I got to the last card.
(Digits of Pi, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:44, archived)
# Mubarak is good for my experimentation. =
(I helped save b3ta! I smash things in my sleep uruk-hai ...and I'll look low. Now where'd they go?, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 4:55, archived)
# dear god!
that is a thing of beauty
(augsav forgot about B3ta, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 6:03, archived)
# Ctrl+R
Search: "of beauty"
Replace: "that will haunt my dreams for weeks to come"
(I helped save b3ta! Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:29, archived)
# Pssssssssssst.....
Ahmedinwotsit. Not president of Iraq, as it says on his card. Yet.
(I helped save b3ta! prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 10:07, archived)
# Whoops!
Aye, he's the President of IraN.
Though to be fair, they're all the same powderkeg of insanity.

The only difference between em is that Iran HAS WMD's, IRAQ didn't.
(Touji Bugger me sideways!, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:43, archived)
#
Fixed, cheers.
(Digits of Pi, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:45, archived)
# Excellent.
Bonus game: Print these out onto flimsy paper.

You have 10 minutes to stack them in an unstable house of cards that mirrors exactly the state of the region.

NB. Do not play near drafts, children, or shoe-throwers.
(I helped save b3ta! Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:27, archived)
# You need Berlusconi in there, too!
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:42, archived)
# Agreed
And one-and-a-half cards for our own glorious leaders in the UK.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:51, archived)
# Hehe
I posted the exact same suggestion on twitter!

You didn't copy me did you? :P
(Cpl. Nobby Nobbs, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 19:43, archived)
# Amazing, bad taste and amazing
Makes Top Trumps of serial killers look positively sedate!
A whole game pack would be awesome and well worth the time invested. I am sure that those lads behind the Terrorism monopoly game type thing would love to hear from you!
(I helped save b3ta! Rev. Jayneflakes Buy my book, I need the cash for drugs and hookers, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 20:16, archived)
# fucking awesome work
from the bbc: sources - world bank, cia hahaha as corrupt as these cunts
(I helped save b3ta! Avast is still alive!!!!, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 21:14, archived)
# Superb!
(I helped save b3ta! snee held his breath since, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:08, archived)
# They exist already
Sorry, but some Danish guys have beat you to it. But I bet theirs are not as updated as yours - keep it up: www.alexanderband.dk/gammel/diktator0.htm
(I helped save b3ta! pallimut Ancient Lurker, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:55, archived)
# There's a
middle-east dictator called Bouteflicka (boot flicker) who measures his unpopularity in numbers of shoes thrown? Oh the irony!
(spankboy11 spanks boys. 11 of them, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 22:51, archived)
# Needs more
Berlusconi
(TheHorseWithSteelFrame Self-referencing comment in the third person, Thu 24 Feb 2011, 20:31, archived)
# David Cameron (UK)
Age 44 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron)
Corruption 20/178 (http://transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results)
Poverty 22% (http://www.poverty.org.uk/summary/key%20facts.shtml)
Literacy 99% (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_literacy_rate_of_the_uk)
Median Age 39.5 (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=6)
Youths out of work 15.6% (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12565041)
Unrest Index n/a
(I helped save b3ta! caldini Have you seen my polar bear?, Sat 26 Feb 2011, 17:14, archived)
# This is fucking awesome!
(cupc@ke, Sat 26 Feb 2011, 23:39, archived)