NationStates Jolt Archive

It's that joyous time of year again, Robert Mugabe's birthday, alas, the economic times we live in means it's been hard to raise the necessary funds, so there was a radio address..

In a sign of the times, the 21 February Movement set out to raise only $500,000 (£350,000) for Mugabe's birthday week against a reported $1.2m last year. Last week Sikhosana made a heartfelt plea on national radio for benefactors to make good on their promises: "We know things are tough, but it would be nice to honour the pledges you made."

Have you ever had a request from someone, so inappropriate, it made you gasp?

Link (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/22/robert-mugabe-birthday-banquet)

I'm guessing he's not talking Zimbabwean dollars. Because if that's the case, I have 3 cents that ought to cover the whole event. ;)

Mugabe crossed over the line from ordinary villainy to cartoonish super-villainy so long ago I'm amazed anything he does still shocks me. But there it is.

One can only hope for a tall red-skulled fellow to show up at the party.

Mugabe crossed over the line from ordinary villainy to cartoonish super-villainy so long ago I'm amazed anything he does still shocks me. But there it is.

Yes, I am at the "Doesn't he know bones are crunchy? Who wants to eat a crunchy pudding?" point.

He's your neighbour* now innit, Barry? You should try getting on the guest list for his birthday bash. From what I read, it's gonna be a good 'un, look at what he's ordered in for it:
2,000 bottles of champagne — Moët & Chandon and ’61 Bollinger
500 bottles of whisky — Johnny Walker Blue Label, 22-year-old Chivas
8,000 lobsters
100kg king prawns
3,000 ducks
4,000 portions of caviar
8,000 boxes of Ferrero Rocher
16,000 eggs
3,000 cakes — chocolate and vanilla
4,000 packs of pork sausages
500kg cheese
4,000 packets of crackers
A postscript adds: “No mealie meal” — the ground corn staple on which the vast majority of Zimbabweans survived until the country’s collapse rendered even that a luxury.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5697712.ece
gotta admit: He knows how to throw a party!

*by neighbour comment I mean Mugabe's daughter goes to a HK uni and his wife went on a shopping spree in HK recently, buying among other things a lovely apartment there for several million. The PRC - of course - defend letting a mass-murdering tyrant buy property in their town by saying HK allows Falun Gong members and Dali Lama supporters buy apartments in HK so there's no difference.

how do i get an invite? maybe if i claim to me an American that supports him he will fly me there for the event and fly me back ?

He divorced himself from reality many years ago. You don't impose price controls on something, throw people in jail if they don't follow them and still retain some sense of connection with the real world.

It's just a question of degrees, and there seems to be a steady progression in people of his type.

500kg cheese
4,000 packets of crackers

How many crackers are in a packet? Even if it's the standard 35-40 you find in a sleeve of saltines, he's still looking at a lopsided cracker-to-cheese ration, with crackers being by a wide margin the limiting reagent. (Semi-pun semi-intended).

How many crackers are in a packet? Even if it's the standard 35-40 you find in a sleeve of saltines, he's still looking at a lopsided cracker-to-cheese ration, with crackers being by a wide margin the limiting reagent. (Semi-pun semi-intended).

if its the fine cheese sometimes you eat it on its own. and perhaps some will be used in cooking and other pursuits as well.

How many crackers are in a packet? Even if it's the standard 35-40 you find in a sleeve of saltines, he's still looking at a lopsided cracker-to-cheese ration, with crackers being by a wide margin the limiting reagent. (Semi-pun semi-intended).

I'm thinking more of the fact he ordered in 16,000 eggs, 500kg of cheese and 8000 boxes of chocs. I hope he gave out some laxatives at the end of the night - otherwise there's gonna be a lot of bunged up elite in Zimbawe this week! Poor sods will think they're shitting a wardrobe.

I'm thinking more of the fact he ordered in 16,000 eggs, 500kg of cheese and 8000 boxes of chocs. I hope he gave out some laxatives at the end of the night - otherwise there's gonna be a lot of bunged up elite in Zimbawe this week! Poor sods will think they're shitting a wardrobe.

Haha, yes. Hope he's inviting a lot of people.

As an aside, I never really understood those Fererro Rocher truffles. They're not bad, but nothing special. Now, those Lindt truffles...mmm..

Honestly, I'm suprised the people of Zimbabwe haven't started a nation wide rioted, stormed his palace and killed him.

He's your neighbour* now innit, Barry? You should try getting on the guest list for his birthday bash.

You're right, I should, I didn't know his daughter was here at University, I'd love to meet her, I wonder which bar she hangs out at.

*googles*

I can't blame him, I told the guy reality was a bitch but h wouldn't listen to me, I only spent the better part of my 25 years trying to please reality but she is such a cruel mistress... Fantasy treats me so much better.

I can't blame him, I told the guy reality was a bitch but h wouldn't listen to me, I only spent the better part of my 25 years trying to please reality but she is such a cruel mistress... Fantasy treats me so much better.

There's a lovely sentence by Will Self, not sure which book but it's stuck with me for ages, and I might get it wrong but I think this is pretty close:

'Reality is a whore that's been had and had again, until our eyes are like genitals rubbed raw from' ....something or other

As an aside, I never really understood those Fererro Rocher truffles. They're not bad, but nothing special. Now, those Lindt truffles...mmm..
agree with you totally there. Only reason I can work out why Fererro are so popular is that they're in gold foil, so look expensive.