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Well, that's the last straw (for those of you who drink your beer through a straw).

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22218867-38195,00.html

AFTER a busy day trying to survive Zimbabwe's economic crisis, Jeffrey Ndoro likes to relax after work with a beer.

Even with inflation spiraling out of control, beer had been comparatively cheap before a price crackdown by President Robert Mugabe's government caused supplies to dry up.

“Of all the things, you can't find beer - this is too much,” said Mr Ndoro, sipping a soda at his drinking spot, the Chelsea Pub.

This time, Mugabe has gone too far. Imagine - a country with no beer.

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink beer, they may be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "Is it better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver?"

I can't believe it. With a 20,000% inflation rate, Toilet Paper is 500 dollars a roll. I can't even imagine the overhead for Breweries. :eek:

Go Zimbabwe Go!

Screw up your country even more!

Oh no! Not the beer! :eek:

WHAT?

OK, no bread, no pasta, no petrol, no money. That I could live with.

No beer?

Revolution time!

I give him until the end of next week, tops

Mugabe has FAILED as a leader. As in, he is much more incompetent than even Bush could ever dream of being.

The women of Zimbabwe might be able to save the country.


http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/content?oid=23587

Mugabe has FAILED as a leader. As in, he is much more incompetent than even Bush could ever dream of being.

Except Zimbabwe was never a superpower with global influence to begin with.

Well, time to start an illegal beer-smuggling business.

Well, time to start an illegal beer-smuggling business.

It's Zimbabwe. How the hell are they gonna buy the bootleg beer?

It's Zimbabwe. How the hell are they gonna buy the bootleg beer?

They've got to have a lot of guns, or some kind of useful raw material, right?

Worst comes to worst, I could just accept Mugabe's Monopoly money and start a paper mill (after all, I think they're also running out paper products too) across the border.

I'm guessing a revolution in Zimbabwe will take place any moment now. And btw who the hell drinks beer through a straw?

And btw who the hell drinks beer through a straw?

Some types of homemade beer have a lot of sediment in them and the straw is used to filter it out so that the beverage can be consumed.

This is especially true in Africa where the starchy pulp of crops used in the beer has nutritional value and is kept in.

Some types of homemade beer have a lot of sediment in them and the straw is used to filter it out so that the beverage can be consumed.

This is especially true in Africa where the starchy pulp of crops used in the beer has nutritional value and is kept in.

oh. Well that just confirms what I already thought, African beer fails.

*hums 'pub with no beer (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/19/1063625209187.html)'*

Well, that's the last straw (for those of you who drink your beer through a straw).

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22218867-38195,00.html



This time, Mugabe has gone too far. Imagine - a country with no beer.

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink beer, they may be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "Is it better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver?"

Why hasn't anybody knocked Mugabe out flat on his ass?

Did he never hear of Prohibition? That didn't do a lot of good for America...

You may initiate government collapse in five...four...three...

Ian Smith should try to reclaim his lost country.

i am outraged. beer is the only thing that keeps the working person going. i mean, fuck, i wouldn't do the job i do without free beer.

Am I really the only non-Morman or Muslim who doesn't drink?

Except Zimbabwe was never a superpower with global influence to begin with.

Rhodesia/Zimbabwe was the jewel of Africa, even if it wasn't a superpower.

Am I really the only non-Morman or Muslim who doesn't drink?

i declare you an abomination if you are... :p

\o

the me does not drink, and is neither Mormon nor Muslim.

no abomination for you.


though i really do wonder how in the heck Mugabe's government is even still relevant. when the nation's that screwed, in most cases it'd either collapse into anarchy, or have some sort of revolution.

Well, that's the last straw (for those of you who drink your beer through a straw).

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22218867-38195,00.html



This time, Mugabe has gone too far. Imagine - a country with no beer.

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink beer, they may be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "Is it better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver?"

An activist folk-singer needs to do a parody of 'A Pub with No Beer' about the crisis in Zimbabwe.

Rhodesia/Zimbabwe was the jewel of Africa, even if it wasn't a superpower.

Back when it was a British colony.

Did he never hear of Prohibition? That didn't do a lot of good for America...except the beer isn't illegal... it's just damn expensive.

Am I really the only non-Morman or Muslim who doesn't drink? Me!!! I don't Drink Either!

I see at least two other people immediately flashed on "The Pub With No Beer." :D

Ditto to those who say this country is ripe for a revolution. There's only so much people will put up with; African beer is bad enough, but no beer at all? That's an extremely serious breach of international human rights norms.

No wonder the Australia cricket team is refusing to tour there.

Good. Very good. Not like it helped them anyway, it probably caused a lot of trouble like it does here.

And I thought a Pub with no Beer (see below) was bad enough...

An activist folk-singer needs to do a parody of 'A Pub with No Beer' about the crisis in Zimbabwe.

Maybe combine it with John Lennon's "Revolution"...

I see at least two other people immediately flashed on "The Pub With No Beer."

Me four...

(BTW, do any of the resident Aussies know if the pub in Taylors Arm the song was about still exists? One of these years I will finally make it down there, and I'm collecting a list of places I want to go to.)

Why hasn't anybody knocked Mugabe out flat on his ass?

It's a good example of how, along with North Korea, people will take it and take it and take it again rather than storm the palaces.

Partly it's because people are having enough trouble securing their next meal to think of dropping everything but it's also a fundamental reluctance of people to stand up and fight an established order, even when that order is so clearly a disaster.

If it makes you feel better, one day -- probably soon, according to my instincts -- Zimbabwe will run out of Mugabe.

It's a good example of how, along with North Korea, people will take it and take it and take it again rather than storm the palaces.

Partly it's because people are having enough trouble securing their next meal to think of dropping everything but it's also a fundamental reluctance of people to stand up and fight an established order, even when that order is so clearly a disaster.

Yeah. Those poor slobs have to take it. :(

i am outraged. beer is the only thing that keeps the working person going. i mean, fuck, i wouldn't do the job i do without free beer.

Would you like to try this brave new Soma?

I'm sure there's beer! Except it's probably all given to Mugabe's friends.

I can't help but feel Zimbabwe would be better off as a UN mandate or British colony. Poor bastards; not even beer....:eek:

not sure how it'd fair as a British colony Now, Britain's changed, after all... but I'll never be quite sure that completely dismantling the empire was a good idea in the first place :S

which, given that the major driving force behind it was American [something to do with helping/settlements in WW2, i believe] isn't all that surprising.

as for UN mandates...

that depends who gets put in charge and how seriously it all gets taken.

at this point, one thing it's Very easy to say truthfully:

it'd be hard to screw up worse than Mugabe has :)

heh. hopefully they won't run out of complete incompetents before i get my army together and go invade... mwahahahahaah. it'd make a good starting point for my empire ....

'course, knowing me, I'll never get the resources together to start that project, So... maybe i shouldn't hope for that. think of the children, and all.

Except Zimbabwe was never a superpower with global influence to begin with.

Well it may have been in pre-Roman times. It was certainly a dominant local power - but that was a completely different Zimbabwe

(BTW, do any of the resident Aussies know if the pub in Taylors Arm the song was about still exists? One of these years I will finally make it down there, and I'm collecting a list of places I want to go to.)
Yep. And not just that...they've got their own brewery now. :D

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/01/02/1136050379653.html

Am I really the only non-Morman or Muslim who doesn't drink? I'm neither and I don't drink.
Personally, I think he's getting rid of beer to prevent people from making Molotovs to thow at him.

This guy is unreal, he sounds more like some Noob NS nation leader.

On a late note, I'm not muslim (or christian or whatever) and I don't drink. The only alcohol I've had was two doses of a capful of 10% alcohol liquid madicine. And you will NOT find me drinking that horrid horrid thing ever again. A pox on the fraudsters who claim it's cherry-flavored!

On a late note, I'm not muslim (or christian or whatever) and I don't drink. The only alcohol I've had was two doses of a capful of 10% alcohol liquid madicine. And you will NOT find me drinking that horrid horrid thing ever again. A pox on the fraudsters who claim it's cherry-flavored!

having eaten a variety of cherries....

NOTHING is EVER cherry flavored. whatever the package may say.

Edit: unless it has actual cherries in it.

Mugabe has officially takent he lead from Kim Jong-Il in the Who Can Royally Fuck An Entire Nation Most Effectively competition.

I expect Kim to ban water or something next week in order to regain his standing as World's Dumbest Dictator.

Well it may have been in pre-Roman times. It was certainly a dominant local power - but that was a completely different Zimbabwe

Indeed, Monomotapa (as the Empire of Zimbabwe was locally known as) was a regional power. But Monomotapa wasn't pre-Roman - it coincided with the Eastern Roman Empire ...

The Monomotapa Empire, centered on its capital city of Zimbabwe, flourished between the 5th and 15th centuries. The Great Zimbabwe ruins, about 110 miles (180 kilometers) south of Harare, consist of an acropolis atop a 200-foot- (60-meter-) high granite hill and a great enclosure in the plains below. The fortified acropolis housed the priestly class of the Mwari Cult, and in the great enclosure traders exchanged local gold and ivory for porcelain, glass beads, and other luxuries from overseas markets as far away as India and China. In 1980 Rhodesia was renamed Zimbabwe in honor of its historical and cultural heritage.
http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-210593

Yep. And not just that...they've got their own brewery now. :D

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/01/02/1136050379653.html

Sweet. Clak up one more planned destination in Oz. :)

Mugabe has officially takent he lead from Kim Jong-Il in the Who Can Royally Fuck An Entire Nation Most Effectively competition.

I expect Kim to ban water or something next week in order to regain his standing as World's Dumbest Dictator.

A race to the bottom eh? Sierra Leone, Sudan. and Somalia musat be in the running (ruining?) as well...

A race to the bottom eh? Sierra Leone, Sudan. and Somalia musat be in the running (ruining?) as well...Somalia's been out of the running for the past 16 years. No leader, no spot on worst leaders list.

Somalia's been out of the running for the past 16 years. No leader, no spot on worst leaders list.

Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed http://www.somali-gov.info/

Well, that's the last straw (for those of you who drink your beer through a straw).

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22218867-38195,00.html



This time, Mugabe has gone too far. Imagine - a country with no beer.

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink beer, they may be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "Is it better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver?"

There is nothing so boring so dull or so drear as to sit in a pub in a nation with no beer.