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If your were the tyrannical despot of a small oil rich country
how would you keep your citizens in check? What gaudy statues/palaces/aeroplanes would you purchase? What lolwaky schemes would you embark on?

Alt: Lunch *sigh*

Alt alt:Hoummus, gay or just bi-curious?
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 12:54, 141 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
I think I'd just expel them from the country for relatively minor infractions
There's not enough banishment in modern politics. I'd buiy myself an aircraft carrier and fit it out as a self-sufficient mobile island

Alt: Leftover Veggie chilli

AltAlt: it's greek, isn't it? Birthplace of bumderism
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 12:59, Reply)
Birthplace of that pesky democracy

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 12:59, Reply)
Therefore uber-gay

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:01, Reply)
Houmous is excellent.
I'd spend a shit load on education health and infrastructure. Make sure the justice system is accountable and corruption is kept in check. I'd try to create oil dependent industries locally so that export is not just of crude oil, but petrol gas plastics and other more profitable items.
Then I'd work on making farming more possible with irrigation and water purification plants.
Then I'd make sure there's a decent constitution and move to a multi party democracy.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:04, Reply)
Oh and I'd try to get the guns off the street, by buying them back.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:06, Reply)
Fuck off Hippy.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:07, Reply)
I'd make John Lenons "Imagine" the National Anthem.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:12, Reply)
I bet you'd bake a cake made of sunshines, rainbows and dreams
and let everyone have a slice.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:18, Reply)
It would be organic vegan and gluten free.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:19, Reply)
don't forget flavour in that list

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:21, Reply)
I'd build a pimp palace, fill it with cool gear and and all-female bodyguard
and force my subjects to live in abject, grinding poverty.

Obviously.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:07, Reply)
Are you Gadaffi?

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:09, Reply)
As for the tyrant, I'd con then into believing that workable cold fusion had been discovered.
By me. Any democratic nonsense, I'd introduce it, and have them eating sand and camel shit within the week.

Lunch, mushroom stroganoff, made with horseradish and mustard, new pots, rice and green beans.

Hoummus is excellent, particularly the garlic rich type.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:08, Reply)
I'll have a national will smith day where all forms of broadcasted media has to have will smith content at any point in time for that 24 hours.
And if build a statue of AlTheGeordy that is ilegal to photograph or video or draw or paint, and he'd be banned from the country so he'll never know if people are joking about it.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:09, Reply)
The voice of reason as usual

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:15, Reply)
I'd probably try and convince them
that there was only phantoms and shadows outside the borders of our lands who needed our oil as appeasement but gave stuff back. And that I was the only one who could protect them. That'd probably work. I'd just copy Augustus and be frugal and accessible, though of course with access to everything I want.

Alt: Lunch is a cup of soup with what I've finally found is an excess of black pepper, chilli and jalapeno sauce, and a bit of chicken cut in

Alt Alt: Houmous, just greedy
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:15, Reply)
Fear of violence.
I would instal a brutal secret police and instil a richly-deserved sense of paranoia through public execution of miscreants etc. I would siphon off vast sums from day one and have a ten-year get out plan, by which time I'd have enough for a new identity and a life spent on the Grand Tour. These idiots always hang about too long - I do not understand the lust for power. Power seems to be rather a burden, to me.

Alt: beans on fucking toast. Woo.

Alt: Hummous is fucking great. It's not bent at all.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:17, Reply)
What sort of beans?

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:19, Reply)
Mr

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:20, Reply)
Please die.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:22, Reply)
I rescued B3ta from the nerds
with their computer games marathons in the dark, only emerging from the computer for MOAR PIZZA
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:24, Reply)
and you honestly think this is better?
jesus christ
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:25, Reply)
Actually it is, marginally.
Much as I love reports of tricky computer games at least this one requires some creativity on behalf of those replying.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:26, Reply)
Much
i could not give a flying fuck about how many 'bad guys' some fat cunt shut in has 'fragged' whilst being racially abused by a 12 year old from Japan.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:26, Reply)
This might be POTD.
But then, this 'D' is a fucking poor one.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:32, Reply)
it must be if that shithead is getting close to POTD

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:34, Reply)
HARD TIMES, Vippers.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:39, Reply)
too right

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:41, Reply)
Are your scabs making you cranky?
Where is the love man?
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:45, Reply)
I'll take that
WHOOP!
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:34, Reply)
I don't think asking is enough
we need to make this happen. Then there will be less threads like this turgid piece of crap.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:25, Reply)
Heinz spicy ones with meatballs. Well bent.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:22, Reply)
You should get yourself one of those "All Day Breakfasts" in a can
comes with little bits of scrambled eggs, sausages and bacon in the beans.

I used to make my own using posh ingredients until I got too fat to leave the house.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:23, Reply)
That sounds actually revolting
has anyone ever eaten one of those?
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:27, Reply)
they ming
all they do is add horrible mush and chewy bits to the beans that makes the beans taste less good
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:28, Reply)
Making your own is nice though
you can use proper meaty sausages and nice crispy bacon, the egg doesn't really work through, so you can leave that out.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:29, Reply)
that does sound quite nice
I like to fry up some bits of chorizo and then add beans and heat up. That's good eating.

I wonder if I have any chorizo....
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:30, Reply)
I think it's in the pocket of your waterproof trousers

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:31, Reply)
but my waterpoof trousers just have holes so you can get to the pockets of the trousers you are wearing underneath....

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:32, Reply)

get to the ... wank
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:33, Reply)
nothing like a hillwalking dangerwank.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:38, Reply)
I nommed a load last night in a tomato sauce with cannelini beans
I also have more in the fridge as slices. Always have chorizo!
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:31, Reply)
al would eat them cold from the tin at 4 in the morning when his 7 computer game epic was in a delicate
stage and he couldn't leave the 'bean bag' in case he lost control of his 'base', and by 'bean bag' I mean arse
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:29, Reply)
I used to always have one in for hangover sunday mornings
but now I just cook actual sausage and bacon and fried egg and beans, it's so much better.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:30, Reply)
This^
As emergency mega hangover gear it is fine
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:30, Reply)
There are occasions when anything more complicated is impossible

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:34, Reply)
Indeed
2 mins in the microwave - ding!
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:39, Reply)
I live less than a minute away from a good greasy spoon.
Fuck cooking and clearing up my hangover breaskfast. Also to buy eggs, bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes, bread, beans and black pudding would cost about fifteen fucking quid. It's better quality but if you're hanging, a £5 spent round the corner seems OK to me.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:45, Reply)
I'd have to put trousers on to go to a greasy spoon though
there are a couple within walking distance where I am now, so it might be worthwhile.

I do have sausage, bacon, black pudding, eggs and mushrooms in the house currently.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:49, Reply)
I'll be round in an hour.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:50, Reply)
I'd rather put trousers on than stand over a stove and load a dishwasher when I am hung over.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:51, Reply)
In hindsight, this question was designed for you.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:20, Reply)
I would keep the citizens in check by dividing the oil profits evenly
50% for me and 50% for them. I would then hire a number of actors to impersonate a parliamentary system to keep the UN happy, and give the US a small discount on oil so they will come and hug me rather than shoot at me.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:26, Reply)
Newslink
I'd impliment this policy as well. www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/28/powerpoint-party-switzerland-ban#start-of-comments
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:26, Reply)
That's fucking stupid

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:27, Reply)
So's your face!

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:29, Reply)
Touche!

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:29, Reply)
Oh, what a bunch of absolute fucking tools
there is nothing wrong with powerpoint. The issue is how people use it, i.e., the problem is fucking people.

I'd love to see that twat and his cronies draw a forced-fluorescence AFM image of a cell using a flip chart.

twats, and twats wasting public time and money.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:37, Reply)
I agree with this whole heartedly

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:38, Reply)
They are Swiss
and they aren't really wasting money. They are just looking to stand for parliament, and by the looks of it they won't.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:39, Reply)
Someone at the Guardian has written a fucking article about it.
I assume that someone was paid to do so.

ergo...
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:40, Reply)
Yeah, but given some of the shit people write articles about ...

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:50, Reply)
true enough.
But I'm not sure a journalistic "scraping the bottom of the shit barrel" contest detracts from my point all that much.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:06, Reply)
A solid gold, motorised castle
Afternoon all, I have returned from Le Disney

Alt:
Jacket potato with chicken and sweetcorn

Alt Alt:
I'm a latecomer to hummous, and it is good
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:29, Reply)
There's nowhere near enough
solid gold motorised buildings about. You have my support for this. Not that, as a despot, you'd need it, but sometimes even despots need friends.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:35, Reply)
Otherwise Kim Jong- Ill would be ever so lonely

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:37, Reply)
Hello sir
Did you, and more importantly the kids, love DisneyLand?
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:38, Reply)
A nice man took him up 'Space Mountain' to the 'Magic Kingdom'
and then roughly arse fucked him
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:40, Reply)
Best of all the rides
I had FastPass too - which meant I shit all over his cock
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:42, Reply)
Hahaha

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:49, Reply)
Afternoon
Yes, they very much did enjoy it. My credit card is in shock however!

On the plus side, I found a gold coin that I won in a "counting the number of jelly beans in a jar" (no really!) competition in our local paper many years ago. Just had it valued at £110! WOOP!
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:41, Reply)
Bloody hell
Don't tell the kids, they'll be after a return trip
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:46, Reply)
This pays for Toy Story and Princess toys we came back with
The kids bought some too
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:47, Reply)
If I was the prime minister, I'd make it iligal for anyone else in goverment to earn more money than me out of the goverment perse...purse...wallet.
I don't get it, you wouldn't get a server at McDonalds earning more money than the manager.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:35, Reply)
But Gonz, in terms of what he actually has to do, the Prime Minister doesn't actually get paid that much.
Plus there are a whole host of other benefits, such as the houses and transport and the rest, plus, once you've been PM you are set for life as a "consultant" to other businesses.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:41, Reply)
The manager of McDonalds doesn't do that much compared to those on the counters or in the kitchens, eaither.
But if the place hit the fan, then he's the one on the chopping block.

And to be honest, I can't see what the fuck a 'counciler' does at all, they're not the MP, they're not elected, all they seem to do is sit around getting £150-250kpa to shout at people when they think they'd make him look bad.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:45, Reply)
They are elected...
And they run all of your local services, but they are cunts
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:47, Reply)
Then they should be held accountable for the massive extreme inificances their departments have.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:51, Reply)
If you mean local counciller
they aren't usually paid at all.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:56, Reply)
I think your 'hepatits' is fucking with your spelling.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:59, Reply)
He needs to give me a job

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:01, Reply)
fucking hell, yeah
trying to do more than one thing at once. Impossible unless I grow a vagina.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:07, Reply)
some
would say you already are one.

i am not "some", but. you know.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:11, Reply)
I know, I'm genuinely surprised about how many people think I'm a cunt on here
then, of course, I remember that I am a massive cunt and so I shouldn't be surprised.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:27, Reply)
Nah, you've been downgraded to 'twat'.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:31, Reply)
Woohoo *punches air*
Only 8 years. With this progress, I'll be down to 'tool' before I'm 40.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:33, Reply)
It's slightly fluffier than cunt, but a bit more on the aggressive side than minge.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:34, Reply)
P.S. I am joking.
Anyone with the good sense to live in Edinburgh is OK in my book. Well, nearly anyone.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:33, Reply)
They get paid a bit.
Attendance at council meetings, expenses, bits like that.
But the real reward is in taking backhanders and freebies.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:01, Reply)
I'd buy a World Cup
Bindun?
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:36, Reply)
yes, by Qatar.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:39, Reply)
And Russia
Let's be honest
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:46, Reply)
I'll stick an extra question here
I'm off for a second appointment with the doctor in ten minutes, mentioned this to a friend and her first reaction was to say 'oooh have you googled him to find out if he's hot.' It's never occurred to me to google doctors, seems strange to me. Any of you miscreants done it?
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:40, Reply)
No, that's weird.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:47, Reply)
Fuck no.
I have no interest in the 'hotness' of my doctor. Seeing as my last three have been an octagenarian Indian man, a twenty stone African woman and weird-looking bummer I have no reason to start doing so.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:48, Reply)
I met a hot trainee doctor on saturday.
I'm tempted to add her on facebook, but she's a bit too nice. "I'm going hiking with my parents tomorrow" nice.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:49, Reply)
You're wasting your time there.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:52, Reply)
That's my thinking, I'll cross her off my to do list.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:54, Reply)
*Sigh*
do rape.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:28, Reply)
It's never a waste of time when you've got your lucky charm rohypnol with you

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:54, Reply)
and everywhere else
you have to give him credit though, he's forever posting on here about some "hot" bird that he is after. none of them become his girlfriend, ever. even accidentally. but he keeps cheerfully plugging away in pursuit of the next "hot" "chick".

it's inspirational in its cheery persistence. inspirational and fucking creepy.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:14, Reply)
Oh man, I thought you were being really racist there, calling them orangutangs [type of monkey]

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:52, Reply)
Hahahaha

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:52, Reply)
They aren't monkeys, Gonz, they're apes.

Are you some kind of massive apeist?
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:55, Reply)
: (

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:56, Reply)
I had a gastro doctor growing up, 'Prof Walker Smith', he was the lead peado-gastro doctor in the _world_.
Reguarly when I had treatments (via private) I would see people from all over europe and even the states, to get his treatment. He basicly pioneered the usage of [whatever kind of drugs it is]. He saved a rediculous amount of lives through his innovations.

I googled him about a month ago, and it turns out he got struck off, for saying that MMR is linked to verious imume deseases. But you know what, coming from a patient who knows fuck all, he was right... everyone had huge flair ups within a year of taking them, it was a common thing agmonst us lot.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:49, Reply)
And they never struck him off for being a paedo?

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:52, Reply)
LOL

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:58, Reply)
Roffle.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:59, Reply)
LMAO

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:18, Reply)
Gonz, it's not. There is not one single shred of valid published medical evidence linking the two.
And I presume you mean John Walker-Smith? He was struck off for running an unethical medical trial on children and then lying to cover it up. He was fairly fucking lucky not to go prison.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:54, Reply)
That's the guy ! Lovely fella.
Hold up a sec, what medical trial? really? can you link me please. Oh my.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:56, Reply)
This is like the bit in Hook when the kid's playing baseball and the pirates are yelling "RUN HOME JACK" instead of "HOME RUN JACK", and he starts to realise that Hook isn't really the good guy =S

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:56, Reply)
Do you have superpowers now Gonz?

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:57, Reply)
GMC's record of his hearing
www.gmc-uk.org/Professor_Walker_Smith_SPM.pdf_32595970.pdf
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:57, Reply)
He ran the trial
that Andrew Wakefield (MMR bullshitter extraordinaire) used to publish his evidence that MMR, autism and bowel diseases were linked in children. Which he made up. Because he was being paid by a company that had a vested interest in selling single vaccines rather than the triple one. Which has since, because the fucking Daily Fail refuse to let the truth stand in the way of a good gossip, resulted in vaccination levels dropping below what is necessary to prevent disease epedemics, and hence the resurgence of mumps and, to my knowledge, at least 3 deaths are directly on their hands.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:03, Reply)
To be fair to Walker-Smith
he probably thought he was doing the right thing, he didn't gain financially, and he was an old man about to retire anyway. But he still broke the hippocratic oath, acted unethically and lied to try and cover up. I'd prefer, on balance, to not have a doctor who does those things.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:04, Reply)
Oh good, I'd hate to think he's actually a crook, I don't mind him being a bit senial.
I was 16 when I moved from the kid's ward, so that's a good few years ago.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:28, Reply)
alt alt: hoummus must be joking!

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:47, Reply)
Please die, also.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:52, Reply)
I don't think I've ever knowingly had hoummus
spicy chickpea mush, right? Might have had it in a falafel wrap once. Is it nice?
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:56, Reply)
Are you joking?
You're joking, right?

Are you joking?
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:57, Reply)
Why the big paws?

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 13:59, Reply)
Because I've got horse AIDS!

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:00, Reply)
Do you think I asked for a 12" pianist?!

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:00, Reply)
Bumraped by a tramp.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:03, Reply)
Have you not died yet?
I said please, ffs.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:04, Reply)
WITH A KNIFE!!!

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:04, Reply)
That's not a knife, THIS is a spoon

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:06, Reply)
I can see you've played knifey spoony before.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:11, Reply)
You 'um it, son, an' I'll play it.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:06, Reply)
"Know it? I fucking wrote it!"

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:16, Reply)
and I'm fuckin' dis-custard

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:20, Reply)
I'm deep in dis pear.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:29, Reply)
Nope
just not really crossed my radar.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:06, Reply)
houmous is amazing
preferably either spicy houmous or pesto topped homous ftw.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:12, Reply)
I think plain is best, topped with QOTW olive oil and perhaps a squeeze of lemon.
I quite like the Moroccan one Sainsbo's do, though.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:20, Reply)
I love the Morroccan one, we are like houmus brothers!!
*hoummus hugz*
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:24, Reply)
Gerroff ya fucken pooftah.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:28, Reply)
i like the butternut squash ones.

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:29, Reply)
I find it really weird in Come Dine WIth Me when people don't know what I consider basic food.
Ok, I've grown up in a greek/turkish area, so I know most of their quizeen, but I find it hard to find someone doesn't know what taziki, humous or taramasalata is.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:33, Reply)
is a quizeen a bowl for keeping quizzes in?

(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:33, Reply)
When I lived with my aunt and had all the hummus I could eat free of charge I never ate it.
Now I am older and wiser and eat about three metric tonnes a week I have to pay for it. This sucks.

That is all.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2011, 14:23, Reply)

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