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Updated With Video: Libya's Reaction To Ghaddafi's Speech - Flying Shoes
For those who are still confused why the latest trending index tracking the "revolutionariness" of various countries is called the shoe-thrower index, take one look at Al Jazeera video below. It captures the popular Libyan reaction to Ghadaffi's 90 minute rambling monologue. The item about to make an impact with the screen, you guessed it: a shoe.
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Freud would have a field day with this fist statue:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/picture-of-the-...
Worse, it's just a megalomaniacal lie. That jet blew his house and family to rat shit. No crushing was involved. Not even close.
Can we do it again, huh huh? Can we please blow that fucker straight to hell, PLEease?
Wikileaks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8294231/WikiLeaks-we...
So an acknowledged international terrorist with pretensions of gleefully blowing up Americans is doing whatever he wants anywhere he goes, because of oil interests.
Pity the poor bastard who owns the telly.
Do they pick these things up after they've thrown them or just walk away in disgust?
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/qaddafi-slideshow200...
Not just mad as a box of frogs, but stylish to boot...
Thanks, that was fun.
Absolutely Outstanding find. Gracias and regards. CI
I swear, the crazed doo makes him look like a well-dressed (define well-dressed here!) Alky! :>D
nice I guess Rex Ryan wouldn't want to live there............. he loves feet and shoes
Shoes are a symbol for your approach to life.
I guess they are tying to tell him to lose the crazy approach.
If they had a touch sensitive screen, they could upload the shoe polling data in real time.
I laughed
+1
When you dont have any weapons to kill a dictator with, throw smelly sandals! After you BTFD of course.
Sandal? Looked like a Hush Puppy from my angle...
Someone throw a zh logo on these shoes
The Crusades repeating on live tellie.
Not sure if the people are reacting to physical or mental hunger.
Not sure where "The Crusades" enters into this. But I'm open to an explanation.
I used the "Crusades" as a crutch for a conflict that is very old.
I thought perhaps that was the case. But please not that in all these riots it is North African Arabs demanding freedoms from a N. African despot. In all cases. Foreigners are not involved, are not being hunted down, and are leaving on their own for security reasons. I think these nations will emerge more international in character, rather than less, and will resume (or become) major players on the global stage as has been the case in the past.
I'm not so sure how these riots start. I think hunger, and the spot price of wheat plays a larger part out there. They don't buy their nourishment at the local A&P.
Politically, if they dig into sharia law, and the Koran as the arbiter of all things, it will fall apart (mho)
It's all to do with the exchange rate.
If the US prints twice as much money and that money isn't immediately devalued by financial markets then US dollar holders can buy twice as much food at the same price on international markets as other countries that don't print money. Countries that don't print money or print less because their economies are too small starve of course, because they can only buy half.
Under a gold standard this wouldn't be possible.
Kadaffy is toast. But it will take him 2 weeks and 10k dead before he figures that out.
One bullet. Someone, just do it.
I love the shoe thing.
Glad it's not mens' panties.
If you throw one shoe, might as well throw the other.
Not if you only have one leg...
I once tried to grace the band L7 with the man panties I was wearing at one of their concerts. Went to the toilet, took them off, stuffed them in my pocket, made it back towards the front of the stage as close as I could get, wound up, chucked them and...they fell short (yes, excuse the pun). Right in front of the stage.
I felt short-changed (haha). And dumb. Because it was. (Dumb.)
I am Chumbawamba.
I've only got one pair, and they're my lucky undies anyway, so I never take them off.
Why didn't Kadaffy duck?
lol, you're despicable.
Message to President: Support Freedom for the Libyan People and Justice for Gaddafi
PRESS RELEASE BY FAMILIES OF PAN AM 103/LOCKERBIE RE LIBYAN REVOLT
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/message-to-president-support-fre...
It would be hilarious to see a video of the protesters chasing him down a street with him in his golf cart type vehicle and his shades on, trying to evade them.
or in a delorean?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDS81Ibazdk
Holding his umbrella as shoes "rain" down on him! :>D
Having a shoe thrown at you in their culture is considered one of the greatest insults.
In ours it's debasing the currency.
But that is fast becoming the national sport, too. Here, let me debase you. It feels good.
A little more to the left please.
Ahhhhhh. Thanks kitty cat. :>)
You monkeys are a sick bunch. 5 million years you stay out of claw reach, and now all the sudden you enjoy it. I should be happy, but it's kinda freaking me out.
Yes, because having a shoe thrown at you in our culture is considered a compliment.
I am Chumbawamba.
I think these bandwagon shoe throwers owe royalty fees to the Iraqi gentleman who first popularized the notion by chucking one at ole' W!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM3Z_Kskl_U
To bad the son of a bitch missed.
As I have mentioned, not one great pitcher in the history of MLB.. Despite all that rock throwin.. Even that guy 15 feet away was high and right of GW. Not that inbreeding is the certain cause of this http://www.consang.net/index.php/Global_prevalence
Isn't he still in an Iraqi nick?
The Shoe thrower index! Love it! LMAO. Is it broken down into subcategories? eg. boots, tennis shoes, loafers ?
Running Shoes!
Jack Boots
Ah, the thrown shoe. I am familiar with that form of protest, although as I recall, the chant that went along with it was something along the lines of "who the fuck is Charlene and why is she texting you at 2 in the morning!?!"
You only got a shoe thrown at you? I had everything thrown on the front yard.
lol glad you can have a sense of humor about it. That's hilarious.
Post of the day. It will not be beaten.
LOL!
interior minister just defected.
Are you sure it was a shoe?
Ya know, these people are known for not using toliet paper.
We can put on the exchange. xlst. Right under the xlf.
We have seen that speech before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RHgtX6wyYmU
Just watch out for the 'russians', Mr. Gaddafi...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncptk5jBdrw
Dr. Scholls b!tches
I believe showing someone the bottom of your feet/foot is the insult. The shoe throwing thingy is a proxy for that insult as I understand it.
You are correct. Shoe throwing in that area of the world is any but a term of endearment.
Kind of a waste of a good shoe don't you think? I thought most of these people were too poor to throw away shit they actually need.
Indeed. Some Iraqis whacked Saddam's statue with shoes after he was toppled. An who can forget the Jorge Booosh shoe thrower? Hilarious!
They really owe royalties to Austin Powers, international man of mystery. "Who throws a shoe, honestly?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D5oKEVqQJg
go long odor eaters
This is related - honest - if only in a six degrees of separation sort of way. Plus it's the bears. So they moonlight on non silver issues - and trade voices.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-shore/who-gets-into-heaven_b_825735.html
Pete
That would make a good Nike commercial.
Ghaddafi needs some training in hand gestures. His clenched fists look like a pussy's!
He must be getting some good advice somewhere though. If he can frame this whole thing as a civil war he will be on his only possible path to survival, aside from running. 100,000 people massacred in the streets doesn't set well with the world press and public. But 100,000 killed in a "civil war" is well......different. It makes things look more even, more "fair". Many small countries in history have had "civil wars" where many thousands died and the incumbent's remained in power. If the incumbents are removed tptb just have to pick up the pieces and do the best they can to retain a piece of the pie. I would guess there are major world powers that would be willing to give Ghaddafi a covert hand if it looks like he has a chance. No one wants to lose that Libyan oil, eh? The longer this continues the more prospects Ghaddafi may have of receiving aid. The quicker the Libyan people bring an end to this and make him swing the better. Hopefully not longer than a week.
Good advice? You mean like using the air force for crowd control?
Man, I actually listened to most of his rabble trying to see if he regained any semblance of improved cognition since his bizarre appearence before the UN a while back. No chance. This guy is without doubt running on cerebral impulse power.
So, you're saying he's one melted dilithium crystal short of a full skull? :>D
Don't feel bad. I'm sure we all imbibed. Personally, I was looking for a bottle of single malt scotch (on or under his podium) gifted for milking BP's pee wee.
"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."
-Étienne de la Boetie
Who is the TV anchor? Those Middle Eastern women are just too damn beautiful!
Certainly not politically correct, but the promise of 40 of those beauties in the afterlife might cause me do something irrational as well :-)). JOKING!
Ahk laa! Rashid! I said 'shoot' him...!
wacko
They hate us for our shoes.
Well, they're mostly sandals anyway..