Author Topic: felix rex moves to Cairo (Read 262518 times)

felix rex · « **Reply #2775 on:** August 05, 2015, 12:15:46 PM »

(Stick a fork in...I should have gone with "stick a fork in...")

8manpick · « **Reply #2776 on:** August 05, 2015, 12:38:38 PM »

So you're coming home?

felix rex · « **Reply #2777 on:** August 05, 2015, 12:50:25 PM »

Quote from: 8manpick on August 05, 2015, 12:38:38 PM

So you're coming home?

More than likely. This is overblown (the dude was traveling alone where you should never travel alone in a clearly identifiable vehicle and predictable schedule/route). But the optics are probably gonna force an evac, at least for a couple months.

This time, though, I'm gonna find a hotel with Fox Sports 1. Fool me, can't get fooled again.

felix rex · « **Reply #2778 on:** September 01, 2015, 11:43:33 AM »

The gov's election commission just released the symbols that candidates will have randomly assigned to them for the parliamentary elections (there's a bunch of voters that can't read, so law stipulates candidates be assigned recognizable symbols).

Aaaaaanyways, they're amazing. They're just rough ridin' rando clip art. There's a microwave, a fire truck, a corn cob, a kitchen knife, some headphones, etc. All super outdated and 8-bity. I'll post them once they're public.

CNS · « **Reply #2779 on:** September 01, 2015, 02:34:10 PM »

This is just amaze. I love it.

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Skipper44 · « **Reply #2780 on:** September 01, 2015, 02:56:40 PM »

haven't you been in BFE for 3 years, how is this the first we have heard about clipart voting?

felix rex · « **Reply #2781 on:** September 01, 2015, 07:23:59 PM »

Quote from: Skipper44 on September 01, 2015, 02:56:40 PM

haven't you been in BFE for 3 years, how is this the first we have heard about clipart voting?

There hasn't been a parliamentary election. The 2014 presidential election also required symbols, but there were just two candidates so they kinda got to choose their own.

Fun fact: the presidency has decreed about 420 laws give or take since 2013. This new parliament will have just 15 days to ratify all of them once they're officially in place. It's gonna be rough ridin' pandemonium.

CNS · « **Reply #2782 on:** September 01, 2015, 07:30:58 PM »

I have faith in corn cob and toaster. Those guys can handle it.

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felix rex · « **Reply #2783 on:** September 01, 2015, 07:35:54 PM »

Quote from: CNS on September 01, 2015, 07:30:58 PM

I have faith in corn cob and toaster. Those guys can handle it.

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In the office, we've been dividing them into blocs. Microwave, toaster, boom box, and printer look strong, but horse, rooster, scorpion and peacock are dangerous. And if the big rigs (fire truck, 18-wheeler, ambulance) organize...who knows? The real dark horse is probs the carrot-led veggie bloc.

CNS · « **Reply #2784 on:** September 01, 2015, 07:38:01 PM »

I can't imagine having a job that needs done as fast as possible and not relying on microwave.

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felix rex · « **Reply #2785 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:18:22 AM »

There's a belly dancer running and she got the diamond ring.

felix rex · « **Reply #2786 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:29:02 PM »

Welp, that was a pretty colossal clusterfuck. And I'm speaking in relative terms of a country that has colossally clusterfucked a lot of clusterfucks. This may go down as the worst. Just rough ridin' outrageous.

puniraptor · « **Reply #2787 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:32:54 PM »

Quote from: felix rex on September 14, 2015, 01:29:02 PM

Welp, that was a pretty colossal clusterfuck. And I'm speaking in relative terms of a country that has colossally clusterfucked a lot of clusterfucks. This may go down as the worst. Just rough ridin' outrageous.

are you talking about the bad thing in the news? Was that an official egpyt govt op?

felix rex · « **Reply #2788 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:34:03 PM »

According to Egypt's state media, one of the tourists was an American citizen. According to the Mexican foreign ministry, the airstrikes against their picnic were carried out by Apaches. AND the Egyptian government demonstrably lied in trying to blame the tourist company.

felix rex · « **Reply #2789 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:34:32 PM »

Just an absolutely mind boggling clusterfuck from beginning to end.

puniraptor · « **Reply #2790 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:35:22 PM »

man, they even had a police escort. good god. can we cancel the lease on their apache fleet?

felix rex · « **Reply #2791 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:37:50 PM »

Quote from: puniraptor on September 14, 2015, 01:32:54 PM

Quote from: felix rex on September 14, 2015, 01:29:02 PM
Welp, that was a pretty colossal clusterfuck. And I'm speaking in relative terms of a country that has colossally clusterfucked a lot of clusterfucks. This may go down as the worst. Just rough ridin' outrageous.

are you talking about the bad thing in the news? Was that an official egpyt govt op?

Yeah. The military used Apaches to drop airstrikes on an afternoon picnic in a very popular tourist area (I and most in my office have been there), then opened fire with ground troops on those that ran, then lied about it, then got exposed by survivors.

Also, they just rough ridin' left them there. After they realized their mistake, they fled. The survivors were saved/treated by local residents. The bodies? THEY ARE STILL rough ridin' LAYING OUT THERE IN THE DESERT.

felix rex · « **Reply #2792 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:39:16 PM »

Quote from: puniraptor on September 14, 2015, 01:35:22 PM

man, they even had a police escort. good god. can we cancel the lease on their apache fleet?

Someone told a defense official today: "if my wife gives my daughter a nail gun and she blows off my toe, I'm not mad at my daughter."

felix rex · « **Reply #2793 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:40:26 PM »

I'm not an Egypt apologist by any stretch, but I try and defend the country when I can because I do like it. But holy eff this is a rough ridin' game changer.

puniraptor · « **Reply #2794 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:41:23 PM »

operation repo. in broad daylight from gun range it should be pretty easy to tell the difference between tourists and terrorists.

felix rex · « **Reply #2795 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:42:02 PM »

And the ARROGANCE! Oh my rough ridin' God. It's bad enough that Sisi supporters are literally quoting trump on Mexicans, but the military spox told the press "you don't have the right to question this."

felix rex · « **Reply #2796 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:46:11 PM »

I mean, what the eff is that? Egypt passed a counterterrorism law last month that prohibits reporters (including foreign journos) from publishing news on CT ops that "contradicts" what the military itself says (the law also says the military/police basically have impunity in this regard, which has always been the case I guess it's nice that they formalized it and got it on paper). So the journos are in a weird position where they can't publish the testimony of survivors w/o risking prison/fines and Egyptians have to get their updates from Mexico's foreign ministry.

mocat · « **Reply #2797 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:46:20 PM »

Quote from: felix rex on September 14, 2015, 01:37:50 PM

The military used Apaches to drop airstrikes on an afternoon picnic in a very popular tourist area (I and most in my office have been there), then opened fire with ground troops on those that ran, then lied about it, then got exposed by survivors.

i read that the tourists went off the road a few miles in an attempt at a short-cut, because one of them was diabetic and needed to eat or something. is that the equivalent of jumping into the lion area at the zoo? i mean i'm just trying to imagine how they were mistaken for terrorists

mocat · « **Reply #2798 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:47:37 PM »

the tourism area seems like a very "off road" type thing anyway

felix rex · « **Reply #2799 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:48:23 PM »

Egypt dropped airstrikes on foreign tourists, blamed the tourists for being in a restricted area, got busted in that lie, and then just said "you don't have the right to question."