Todays Zimbabwe headlines from the Telegraph:
-Bungee cord snaps over river.
-Air Zimbabwe passengers stranded as airline runs out of money.
-Prostitute 'bites penis off client'.
-Zimbabwe PM fined four animals.
-Zimbabwe's sacred 'Hanging Tree' is felled.
-'Cameron satanic for backing gay rights'.
Lots more hilarity here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/
at least they gave up on their "fuck it, print more money" scheme which resulted in a several billion % annual inflation rate…
money to buy a beer in zimbabwe:
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/sokwanele/2073320987/
now they use foreign currency:
"Bicycling is a healthy and manly pursuit with much to recommend it, and, unlike other foolish crazes, it has not died out."
- The Daily Telegraph (1877)
so, how come there's a section for Sudan and another for South Sudan, and two sections for USA, but I can't find the Canadian news? There's not even a North America tab FFS.
edit, sorry, there is a North America tab, but it's all Mitt Romey, Iowa primaries and an ape that lights a fire.
Because it's the Telegraph. Probably has a Cape Town or Johannesburg bureau. Zimbabwe news is relevant to South Africa.
"Bicycling is a healthy and manly pursuit with much to recommend it, and, unlike other foolish crazes, it has not died out."
- The Daily Telegraph (1877)
Freedom of contract. We sell them guns that kill them; they sell us drugs that kill us.
an ape that lights a fire.
newt Gingrich?
Pastor of Muppets
Check out the video of the bungee snapping.
I've done that bungee off the train bridge over the Zambezi In Victoria Falls. That was back in 1998. They are likely still using the same bungee's.
They ran it from the Zambian side of the bridge, you would sign up for it and pay in Vic Falls then go over the bridge into Zambia and do the jump from their. I don't think they were licensed to operate in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe is a beautiful country that has been run into the ground by a Mugabe. If they had oil he would have been ousted decades ago.
http://dailycurrant.com/2013/08/05/robert-mugabe-blasts-coward-nelson-mandela/
"I am the greatest African who has ever lived," Mugabe said. "The world should love me more than the idiot Nelson Mandela. F**k Nelson Mandela. As I waged war against colonialism, that coward sat on his ass in prison for 27 years. He's a coward.
"I have been leader for 33 years. Mandela was president for five years. What kind of idiot gives up political power? Great leaders like me know how to stay in power.
"While Mandela sits comfortably in a hospital, I stand before you fit and healthy, ready to lead this country and the Zimbabwean people for at least another 25 years," Mugabe added, referring to the 95-year-old Mandela's ongoing treatment for a lung condition.
Mugabe also mocked South Africa's multicultural "rainbow nation" in his speech, claiming that Mandela didn't care about the interests of black Africans.
"There is only one color allowed in Zimbabwe, and it is black," he said. "I banned the color white in my country. Nelson Mandela told all the white people to stay in his ridiculous rainbow nation. He should have thrown all of the whites and homosexuals out of his country like I did. South Africa would be so much better off."
Kn.
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion.
^^^^
The guy sounds as much of a nut as Calgary West MP Rob Anders
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2001/06/07/mandela_mp010607.html
http://dailycurrant.com/2013/08/05/robert-mugabe-blasts-coward-nelson-mandela/
Kn.
Yikes. I had to see if that was an Onion article.
Being an agoraphobic adrenaline junkie would be pretty convenient, because you could get your rush from just going to the store to get some milk instead of having to jump off a mountain or out of an airplane.
they also call me "balloon"
Yikes. I had to see if that was an Onion article.
It is a satire site … but holy crap does it ever come off as believable.
Kn.
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion.
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