"No to drug addicts and Rock Homos" - Uganda protests against Geldof

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Now I know Band Aid 3000 or whatever it was was cack on a bap but . . .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4371265.stm

I suppose this raising the wider Iraq-like question of whether aid is enough or whether "we've" got to go at other countries goverments that underperform or hamper aid efforts? Is Geldof just pushing a Bush-like line here in demanding Presidents step down?

And are we all a bunch of "Rock Homo's?". This an other revelations to be debated below -

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i like that they capitalised the term. i'm against anyone being in power for that long but then again look at Alex Ferguson...

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"cack on a bap"!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

You can't win a Ugandan election with kids.

xpost

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

very fast and full of flair these Ugandans...

― Barry Davies (blueski), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Museveni - "I would love it if we beat them. Love it!".

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Geldof "The thing about Museveni is he's what's known in some schools as a . . . ."

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

expletive deleted

― Big Ron (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

balls, you're too quick lynskey

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Geldof has no right to tell the Ugandans how to govern their own country (he also looks hideous in that photograph).

― Wee dave wiggums, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

he has a right to express an opinion, as do homophobic Ugandans i suppose

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahh Africa's fucked religious extremism, civil war, aids, famine, political corruption, every form of intolerance you can imagine prevalent in society.

It's the biggest fucking mess on the planet it's going to take billions of dollars over generations to even begin to sort it out and that's if America starts giving a shit.

And its probably all Europes fault.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

fair dos

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

And its probably all Europes fault.

You mean these dweebs?

http://www.dancefloor.com/IMA/europeFC.jpg

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

See that guy on the left? He's directly responsible for AIDS.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

His name is Anders Globusmonkey

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"No to drug addicts and Rock Homos"

this sounds like something jon williams would write.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I like drugs!

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Geldof suggest replacing the Ugandan government with Sun journalists, perchance?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Replace them with Sam Allardyce.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

can he achieve at a big club like Uganda though???

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

but do you like Rock Homos jon? you can't pick and choose here.

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://fw_alden.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/jockocover.jpg

rocko-homo?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40125000/jpg/_40125244_museveni203bap.jpg

"This is a message for possibly the best supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!"

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven years pass...

excellent thread

― the kids are alt right (darraghmac), Monday, 31 October 2016 04:47 (nine years ago)

yeah

― viborg, Monday, 31 October 2016 06:47 (nine years ago)

I was reading some V.S. Naipaul, and in a novel written about this general region of Africa in the 1970's he said:

In the daylight—though the colours could be very pale and ghostly, with the heat mist at times suggesting a colder climate—you could imagine the town being rebuilt and spreading. You could imagine the forests being uprooted, the roads being laid across creeks and swamps. You could imagine the land being made part of the present: that was how the Big Man put it later, offering us the vision of a two-hundred-mile “industrial park” along the river. (But he didn’t mean it really; it was only his wish to appear a greater magician than any the place had ever known.) In daylight, though, you could believe in that vision of the future. You could imagine the land being made ordinary, fit for men like yourself, as small parts of it had been made ordinary for a short while before independence—the very parts that were now in ruins.

I read that and I was like, 'ordinary', hmm. Bet that would go over well on ILX.

― viborg, Monday, 31 October 2016 06:49 (nine years ago)

But then he also said this which I found more interesting:

Every man here knew that he was watched from above by his ancestors, living forever in a higher sphere, their passage on earth not forgotten, but essentially preserved, part of the presence of the forest. In the deepest forest was the greatest security.

― viborg, Monday, 31 October 2016 06:51 (nine years ago)

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