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Top Trumps: Leaders of Middle-Eastern Nations





















Edit: brb making full set of cards.

Edit 2: Right, that's all eleven of them. Took longer than I thought. Anyone else think this bbc article would make a good Top Trumps pack?Edit: brb making full set of cards.Edit 2: Right, that's all eleven of them. Took longer than I thought. archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:24,

Hah, I thought exactly the same thing!

Top marks for actually doing something with it though. ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:26, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:26,

haha

excellent idea ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:29, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:29,



Missed off Israel, though. ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 8:55, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 8:55,



I was just going by what was in the bbc article. Thought it was worthy of being mocked due to having some glaring omissions, completely unexplained numbers (corruption score out of 178, wtf?) and the fact that the countries west of Egypt are not actually in the Middle East. ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:50, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:50,



Fair enough - I'll go have a word with the BBC, then. Wont be the first time. ;) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 19:22, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 19:22,

the corruption score shows the placing of the country out of a list of 178





www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results more here: archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 21:35,

bet he isn't smiling now

( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:30, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:30,

I bet he is

lauding it up on some fat yaught somewhere. ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:41, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:41,

probably.

what a cunt. ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:47, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:47,

I give him 8yrs, he'll be 90 by then

and the pyramid aliens will come nack to the earth to take him to a nice retirement village in the cosmos. ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:51, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:51,

stupid pyramid aliens

( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:55, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:55,

Shoe Throwers Index

best of all the indeces ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:32, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:32,

seriously, who throws a shoe?

( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:33, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:33,

someone who doesn't want his shoes anymore I guess

( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:36, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:36,

fucking hippy

( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:46, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:46,

I like this a lot

( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:35, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:35,

Get them all done

and sell the on here. ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:37, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:37,



I was tempted to... I guess I have the photoshop template now, so might as well. ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:42, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:42,

Get it done

youz knowz itz makes sense.

Sell them on B3ta or get in contact with Viz Comic. ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:43, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:43,

(Mu)...barak Obama

( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:43, archived) ( , Mon 21 Feb 2011, 23:43,

This

would actually do really well I think. Especially if you expanded it to include modern dictators in general. Mugabe, Pinochet, and various others ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 0:33, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 0:33,

careful now

edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/08/germany.hitler.cards archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 15:17,

Brill.

Also give Bashar ten optometry points, since that apparently is his occupation outside of dictating, I think. ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 1:06, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 1:06,

Ahmadinejad should be the Super Trumph

As he is not an arab leader. ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 1:27, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 1:27,



or president of Iraq ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 2:48, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 2:48,

Well spotted.

( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 2:50, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 2:50,



Aye, well spotted. Fixed it now, guess I was losing focus by the time I got to the last card. ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:44, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:44,

Mubarak is good for my experimentation. =

archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 4:55,

dear god!

that is a thing of beauty ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 6:03, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 6:03,

Ctrl+R

Search: "of beauty"

Replace: "that will haunt my dreams for weeks to come" ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:29, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:29,

Pssssssssssst.....

Ahmedinwotsit. Not president of Iraq, as it says on his card. Yet. ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 10:07, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 10:07,

Whoops!

Aye, he's the President of IraN.

Though to be fair, they're all the same powderkeg of insanity.



The only difference between em is that Iran HAS WMD's, IRAQ didn't. ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:43, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:43,



Fixed, cheers. ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:45, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:45,

Excellent.

Bonus game: Print these out onto flimsy paper.



You have 10 minutes to stack them in an unstable house of cards that mirrors exactly the state of the region.



NB. Do not play near drafts, children, or shoe-throwers. ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:27, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:27,

You need Berlusconi in there, too!

( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:42, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:42,

Agreed

And one-and-a-half cards for our own glorious leaders in the UK. ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:51, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:51,

Hehe

I posted the exact same suggestion on twitter!



You didn't copy me did you? :P ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 19:43, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 19:43,

Amazing, bad taste and amazing

Makes Top Trumps of serial killers look positively sedate!

A whole game pack would be awesome and well worth the time invested. I am sure that those lads behind the Terrorism monopoly game type thing would love to hear from you! ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 20:16, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 20:16,

fucking awesome work

from the bbc: sources - world bank, cia hahaha as corrupt as these cunts ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 21:14, archived) ( , Tue 22 Feb 2011, 21:14,

Superb!

( , Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:08, archived) ( , Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:08,

They exist already

Sorry, but some Danish guys have beat you to it. But I bet theirs are not as updated as yours - keep it up: www.alexanderband.dk/gammel/diktator0.htm archived) ( , Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:55,

There's a

middle-east dictator called Bouteflicka (boot flicker) who measures his unpopularity in numbers of shoes thrown? Oh the irony! ( , Wed 23 Feb 2011, 22:51, archived) ( , Wed 23 Feb 2011, 22:51,

Needs more

Berlusconi ( , Thu 24 Feb 2011, 20:31, archived) ( , Thu 24 Feb 2011, 20:31,

David Cameron (UK)

Age 44 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron)

Corruption 20/178 (http://transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results)

Poverty 22% (http://www.poverty.org.uk/summary/key%20facts.shtml)

Literacy 99% (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_literacy_rate_of_the_uk)

Median Age 39.5 (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=6)

Youths out of work 15.6% (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12565041)

Unrest Index n/a ( , Sat 26 Feb 2011, 17:14, archived) ( , Sat 26 Feb 2011, 17:14,