Woo he's gone
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12433045
(PsychoChomp, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:19, 100 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

That last line
sounds like a terrible threat. Though I'm sure it wasn't meant to be.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:23, Reply)

I thought that but it was said by one of his very close allies
so it might have been.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:24, Reply)

meanwhile a fair and democratic reaction from his lovely neighbours with the kind of government we don't want egypt to end up with:
"Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has been put under house arrest, his website says, after he called for a rally in support of Egypt and Tunisia's popular uprisings"
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:25, Reply)

Iran is a cunt though,
we all know that.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:29, Reply)

I'm going to be interested in what happens
in Jordan and Yemen now.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:30, Reply)

Jordans King has defused the situation so far
so we'll see. Yemen Oman or Syria will be next I would think.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:32, Reply)

Yeman?
Rasta Mouse - yeah-man!
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:37, Reply)

Oh Man!
*facepalms*
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:44, Reply)

He be making a bad ting good.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:46, Reply)

this is Syria's bizness

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:46, Reply)

Qatar waste of time.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:48, Reply)

Kuwait years for a revolution
then loads come at once.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:52, Reply)

It would be different If Iran the place.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:56, Reply)

Saudi this I'm going home.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:00, Reply)

well Jordan a good job with your lot so far

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:00, Reply)

They're all cunts.
Flag-burning, wailing-in-the-street-given-any-opportunity cunts.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:31, Reply)

They're finally not spending all their time caring about what the west is doing though.
They're taking responsibility for their own future.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:33, Reply)

A future filled with wailing in the streets and flag-burning...

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:40, Reply)

you should try living near the iranian embassy
man those iranians who live over here hate their government!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:34, Reply)

They just want a different swarthy wailer at the helm.
*shrugs*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:41, Reply)

i blame the religion for a lot of it
it even tells believers how to wash their hands, ffs. how can you be expected to have freedom of thought or expression or lifestyle under those rigid principles?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:43, Reply)

Religion's key purpose
is denial of freedom of thought, expression and lifestyle through rigid principles, enforced through exploitation of simple-minded people's fear of death.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:50, Reply)

opium of the masses was not strong enough
semtex of the masses would have been more accurate
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:51, Reply)

If it was the opium of the masses I'd be interested in joining up.
I rather like opium.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:56, Reply)

Opium is the new breasts.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:02, Reply)

that is the risk here
that they will end up with some similar tosser in charge justifying his every move on a book that was written some 2000 years ago.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:37, Reply)

It's not really
there isn't a significant religious leader in Egypt like there was in Iran. The problem is there isn't really any opposition.

But, if they have a free election and most of the people vote in favour of a more theocratic government, then who are we to say that's a problem.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:42, Reply)

and if they get that kind of government, great
but there is a real risk that there will just be chaos, the army will run it with an iron fist, and eventually someone will come out on top as a dictator, justifying it all on the basis of allah's word.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:44, Reply)

See, so many people are pissed off with what goes on in this country
but would we actually ever achieve anything by protest? It'd just never happen here. I'm not sure whether this is a good thing or not.
(berk, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:25, Reply)

They said that about Egypt as little as 2 months ago.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:26, Reply)

But nobody has said that our elections were anything except free and fair
so we got what we deserved, and we can kick them out soon enough.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:28, Reply)

the fuel protest worked at the time
but when you think now that was over it going up to £1... and it's now nearly £1.40...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:27, Reply)

No it didn't, it did nothing or the sort
what on earth do you think it achieved?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:29, Reply)

it did
the prices came down for a little while.

it's the only protest i can think of that had any effect. things like the fucking tamil tigers protest that made me miss my friend's fucking wedding, however.... they can fuck right off.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:32, Reply)

The prices came down because the price of oil came down.
The level of tax remained exactly the same.
( Kroney, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:33, Reply)

I think the poll tax riots had some affect.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:34, Reply)

There is an argument put forth by some
that the poll tax was being scrapped anyway and the riots didn't make any difference.

Personally I don't know.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:36, Reply)

They made a diiference to me.
I nicked a Bentley.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:37, Reply)

The fuel protests achieved precisely bugger all
and as a nation I suspect we're too apathetic to do anything about it now as it continues to rise. Is it really £1.40 in London?!
(berk, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:33, Reply)

it's about £1.36 i think
the motorways are the worst, unsurprisingly
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:35, Reply)

I think in defence of the UK
we haven't been living under a dictatorship backed by the army for over 30 years.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:28, Reply)

That's just what NICK CLEGG AND HIS CRONIES want you to think.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:33, Reply)

Yeah, him and TONY BLIAR and GORDON CLOWN

(Bazongaloid, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:37, Reply)

And HUNTINGDON LIFE SCIENCES.
The true AXIS OF EVIL.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:38, Reply)

Didn't the Poll Tax riots
play a part in the downfall of Thatcher?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:39, Reply)

Are they accepting applications?

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:27, Reply)

tugnut for president!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:54, Reply)

I'd back him to the hilt

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:56, Reply)

Darth, give Zoz's log-in back or I'm going to the mods.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:58, Reply)

hahaha!
*looks nervous*
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:59, Reply)

are you 'rooting' for him?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:01, Reply)

behind him all the way

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:04, Reply)

My campaign slogan is "An eedjit for Egypt".

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:58, Reply)

bread hats for everyone!

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:29, Reply)

Yeah!
Whilst driving through Clapton earlier, I laughed out loud at an Orthodox Jew walking along with a bright blue plastic bag wrapped around his hat (which was then on his head) to keep it dry in the rain.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:32, Reply)

They are so fucking weird
that some of them have these specially-made plastic hat covers: like the blue bag but transparent and a bit more 'tailored'.

God, it seems, has also chosen them to look fucking ridiculous. Cheers, God.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:36, Reply)

I have to agree.
Bum-fluff and dangling ringlets do nothing to stir my loins either.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:39, Reply)

A hearty musk, on the other hand...

(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:42, Reply)

And black silk dressing-gowns, homburgs and weird aprons.
The demented rituals 'God' demands of them lead me to conclude that the God of Abraham is playing a kind of pissed-up game of 'Simon Says' with his 'chosen people'.

'Yahweh says 'wear a dressing gown'
'Shave your women's heads after puberty and make them wear cheap cancer wigs'

AHA - YAHWEH DIDN'T SAY 'Shave your women's heads after puberty and make them wear cheap cancer wigs' - YOU'RE OUT
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:44, Reply)

+OF THE PROMISED LAND FOR ANOTHER FORTY YEARS

(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:47, Reply)

And the hassidic jews can look rather like rastas if one is a liitle confused...
...and trying to score some weed.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:39, Reply)

I've never understood the attraction to headwear which features in most of the major religions
it's like, yes, God created all things, is omnipresent and omniscient - but he's a stickler for millinery.
(berk, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:39, Reply)

Go away Ross Noble

(Bazongaloid, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:44, Reply)

He has a good point though
if it's not headwear it's something else - mormons have special underpants, for instance, and then there's all that nonsense with the burka. I mean, if God really did create everything, do you really think he gives two shits about the colour of your undies and whether they cover you from neck to knees or what?
(berk, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:48, Reply)

There is no God.
Only stupid fuckers in churches/mosques/temples.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:51, Reply)

Oh Berk, you're so silly.
God, despite being the sole creator of the tops of people's heads, finds the sight of them insulting. Du-uh! Do you know nothing?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:46, Reply)

Apparently not
perhaps he should have made the tops of peoples heads pointy instead, then from above the view would be different. He's only got himself to blame.
(berk, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:50, Reply)

A good idea in principle
But it wouldn't do to look down upon the Great Earth that He had created and end up poking His eye out because a particularly tall person was standing on top of His tallest mountain.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:56, Reply)

Omniscient though
God, if he existed, would never poke his eye out on anything.
(berk, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:59, Reply)

It makes me sikh.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:49, Reply)

and to have sex in the dark through a hole in a sheet
mmm, erotic.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:45, Reply)

Really?

(Bazongaloid, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:46, Reply)

I think that's a myth.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:46, Reply)

Maybe just the real munters.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:49, Reply)

Hahah
'Yeah love honestly they all do it'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:56, Reply)

Sounds more Victorian English than Hasidic
But I could be wrong.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:48, Reply)

only way I can get off

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:48, Reply)

With you it's a rubber sheet isn't it.

(Bazongaloid, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:50, Reply)

stop telling my secrets!!!!!!!!!!!

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:51, Reply)

it's called Slip-n-Slide Sunday round your house

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:54, Reply)

that's it, you lot are never getting invited to Slip-n-Slide Sunday ever again.

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:57, Reply)

ah fucksocks
*puts mask and snorkel on eBay*
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:01, Reply)

Mmm, wipeclean.

(berk, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:52, Reply)

It stops you having to sleep in the wet patch

(Bazongaloid, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:56, Reply)

Since the wet patch is generally of the gentleman's making
he can bloody well take the bullet and sleep in it himself. Not that this is a problem I am currently having, of course.
(berk, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:58, Reply)

is that what he told you?

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:49, Reply)

The VP is a Suleiman
Can't see any problems developing there, no sir.
( Kroney, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:32, Reply)

But they're magnificent!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:34, Reply)

It's funny because...

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:37, Reply)

I got it

(Bazongaloid, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:39, Reply)

No it isn't.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 16:39, Reply)

In other news, video footage of cows swimming
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-12430571
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:01, Reply)

now that's real news

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:02, Reply)

Misread that as cows rimming!
B3ta has definitely corrupted me.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:12, Reply)

I'll bet the water is friesian

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:15, Reply)

Get. Out.

(berk, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:17, Reply)

Bet you laughed. Even if it was a relactant smile.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:18, Reply)

I sighed, Jeff.
I sighed a deep and world-weary sigh.
(berk, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:20, Reply)

I thought it was good mate
*pats on back*
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:29, Reply)

Barry's taking an alternative stance:
Well you came and you ruled without taking
but I sent you away, oh Hosni
well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
I need you today, oh Hosni
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 17:20, Reply)