Middle East Thread of Despair: More Broken Than Syria

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ShortStack: Jan 16, 2006; tinystax

Jamsque posted:

Three million died in Baghdad? Listen I am no fan of the war on terror but I think your numbers are a bit off there CQ.

Is anyone running a clock on this? He's been going for at least a quarter of an hour now.

He's pushing 40 minutes now.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:31

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# ? May 21, 2024 19:21

Moratorium: Dec 4, 2009

ShortStack posted:

He's pushing 40 minutes now.

UN speech was 96 minutes. Have a seat.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:32

Brown Moses: Feb 22, 2002

Wasn't his speech to the UN incredibly long?

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:32

Grand Prize Winner: Feb 19, 2007

I hope a complete transcript of this 'speech' shows up soon. poo poo's nuts, but the AJE livefeed keeps cutting out on me.

e: I feel real sorry for the poor interpreter. I don't speak any Dirty Foreigner, but I swear Gaddafi's slurring his speech worse than a sailor in Kolkota.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:32

Burt Sexual: Jan 26, 2006; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS; Switchblade Switcharoo

That statue is cool. Any one got a google long/lat on it yet?

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:33

Nuclear Spoon: Aug 18, 2010; I want to cry out
but I don’t scream and I don’t shout
And I feel so proud
to be alive

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

They interrupt the speech with interviews occasionally, but the translator's a lot better.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:33

Jamsque: May 31, 2009

ShortStack posted:

He's pushing 40 minutes now.

I must have missed more of the start than I though, holy crap.

He keeps talking about committees of the youth but the translator doesn't seem to be able to make sense of it. Something about wearing green arm bands?

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:33

Xandu: Feb 19, 2006; It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.

That translator just gave a big sigh before translating the last bit.

And his UN speech was 90 minutes.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:33

Javid: Oct 21, 2004

"and now, secondly"

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:34

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

The Brown Menace posted:

He's going to break Strom Thurmond's record, this is going to be his magnum opus, a 24+ hour long speech about his bum being on the Swedish.

Gaddafi is infamous for torturing people with lengthy speeches that jump from one conspiracy theory to another.

quote:

Muammar Gaddafi threw the UN general assembly into chaos today when he effectively hijacked the podium to make a rambling, unscripted speech.

The Libyan leader had been scheduled to speak for 15 minutes but spoke for over an hour and a half, in a wide-ranging, passionate address which took in the UN security council, the assassination of US president John F Kennedy, Somali piracy and a theory that swine flu was created for military purposes.

Gaddafi took to the rostrum at 4pm, prompting several UN delegates to leave the hall. When they tentatively returned 30 minutes later, expecting the Libyan to have finished, he was only a third of the way into his speech.

Gaddafi, who frequently broke off to pore over pages of notes, said the security council should be called "the terror council", saying: "We cannot have the security council under countries which have nuclear powers. This is terrorism itself."

The Libyan leader, who arrived in New York yesterday, also called for a permanent seat on the security council for the African Union - prompting applause from a handful of African states - and invited anyone who disagreed with him to an impromptu debate on the general assembly floor.

An hour into his speech, Gaddafi complained at some length about being jet-lagged from the 10-hour flight to New York, and having to get up early for the general assembly. Dressed in long brown robes and wearing a black hat, Libya's leader gesticulated with his speech papers - revealing his notes to be handwritten, at a variety of angles and in various colours, on pieces of paper torn from a notebook.

He eventually left the floor at 5.33pm, having promoted his website, Gaddafi Speaks.

Gordon Brown had been due to speak at the end of the morning session, but it is not clear if that will still happen.

Despite the mind-numbing length of his speech Gaddafi failed to break the all time record set by Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 1960, at four and a half hours.

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# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:34

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

Back in the history thread I read this post about a guy who tried to cheat on a sailing-trip-around-the-world and went insane trying to write a time-space continuum theory that would explain how he managed to beat world records in sailing.

It ended with something like: IT IS FINISHED / IT IS FINISHED / IT IS THE MERCY!

This is kind of like a real-time version of that.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:34

Zexerous: May 5, 2006; No Alibi. No Justice. No Dream. No Club.

"Video Alarm Detected"

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:35

Moratorium: Dec 4, 2009

That's what this speech is missing. He hasn't promoted his web site yet.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:36

Suntory BOSS: Apr 17, 2006

There are also similarities with certain threads in TCC.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:36

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

CNN just cut him off! "40 minutes and counting or so ... went off on a bizarre tangent"

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:36

quadratic: May 2, 2002; f(x) = ax^2 + bx + c

He's making Saif sound reasonable by comparison.

Poor AJE translator has sighed loudly about 3 times in the last few minutes.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:36

brylcreem: Oct 29, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Al Jazeera on twitter with the :iceburn:

AJELive
#Gaddafi talks about Falluja, Tiananmen Square, al-Qaeda, Somalia, Israel.... Watch his speech live http://aje.me/ajelive

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:36

Jamsque: May 31, 2009

"I don't have money, I don't have a palace"

Yes you do you lying scumbag, you have a vast fortune and SEVERAL palaces.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:36

Xandu: Feb 19, 2006; It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.

But he lives in a tent

. Yeah he's insane.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:37

Swoon: Jun 14, 2008

Anyone else getting flashes of that video-taped speech in True Lies where the batteries start to run out?

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:37

married but discreet: May 7, 2005; Taco Defender

BBC anchors are having a hard time not laughing inappropriately.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:38

Monkeytime: Mar 20, 2010

Is he talking about the DC sniper right now? What the hell?

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:39

Priapist: Aug 10, 2002; Heeeere's Herbie!

This guy was just a minute or two away from not existing in 1986. Thanks, whoever warned him! (Craxi)

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:40

Jamsque: May 31, 2009

In actual news, the BBC is reporting that the UK is working on sending a ship and a plane to get British citizens out of Libya.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:40

Suntory BOSS: Apr 17, 2006

The Eye of the Storm.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:40

Bro Dad: Mar 26, 2010

Xandu posted:

But he lives in a tent . Yeah he's insane.

Hey man just because I camp in my backyard dont mean I'm homeless

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:40

married but discreet: May 7, 2005; Taco Defender

Ok BBC translator is much better than the AJ one, still completely rambling.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:40

quadratic: May 2, 2002; f(x) = ax^2 + bx + c

I think he just tried to inspire the people with the John Allen Muhammad story :psyduck:

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:40

ShortStack: Jan 16, 2006; tinystax

"You wackos, I didn't set fire to a police station!" - Muammar Gaddafi 2011

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:42

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Hah, he returned to Boris Yeltsin and the Davidian Sect now.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:42

Xandu: Feb 19, 2006; It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.

"Oh crap, I lost my place, let me start at the beginning again." Didn't he already mention fallujah?

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:42

Jamsque: May 31, 2009

He's now talking about the LA riots.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:43

Pureauthor: Jul 8, 2010; ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST

What the hell is this speech even about?!

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:43

Xisticide: Nov 27, 2005

I had to nip out for a bit, he's still going?

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:43

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

"Nobody can allow their country to become an international laughing stock in the hands of a crazy person"

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:44

Xandu: Feb 19, 2006; It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.

Pureauthor posted:

What the hell is this speech even about?!

Confusing the opposition.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:44

Monkeytime: Mar 20, 2010

I fondly remember when we obliterated the blacks in California. We couldn't let that happen!

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:44

Slantedfloors: Apr 29, 2008; Wait, What?

I'm just waiting for him to segue into how JFK was kidnapped in 1993 by gay Saucermen from beyond Negative-Pluto in an attempt to steal his identity so they could use counterfeit commerative plates to steal Libya's bountiful harvest of astral bear cheese.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:44

MrQwerty: Apr 15, 2003; LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL (づ￣ �￣)づ♥(�∀�●)

Waco? Seriously? You're going to talk about Waco WHAT THE gently caress IS HE EVEN SAYING I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY SEMBLANCE OF COHERENCY IN 20 MINUTES AND ITS MAKING ME FEEL INSANE

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:44

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Zippy the Bummer: Dec 14, 2008; Silent Majority
The Don
LORD COMMANDER OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES

Someone should make a :catdrugs:

with CQ's head. Because this is full on crazy mode.

# ? Feb 22, 2011 17:45

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