Comments on: Photos of pimped up private jets that belong to African dictators

By: ian71

ian71 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

‘d sy thy prbbly smll lk th cnts tht nhbt thm.

By: lorq

lorq — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, I’ll be — that looks like a John Berkey painting hanging on the wall in photo #5.

How much you wanna bet that particular plane belongs to George Lucas? (Remember Chancellor Palpatine’s chambers…?)

By: bklynchris

bklynchris — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@ian 71

“I’d say they probably smell like the cunts that inhabit them.
‘

Are you laying the groundwork for some racial epithets in later comments?

Cause if you ain’t a cunt, you do not to get to throw down cunt. So, is you is, or is you ain’t a….woman?

By: Nadreck

Nadreck — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Now, now: the evidence for Idi Amin being a cannibal is very slim. A vicious, paranoid killer directly or indirectly responsible for a million or so deaths yes; but a cannibal, maybe. We have only the word of one foreign correspondent on that.
Bokassa, on the other hand, was the full meal deal: mostly school children.
Amin was a Hero Of the Left; Bokassa a Hero of the Right.

By: Nadreck

Nadreck — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I dunno if the pictures of naked women are redundant: maybe they’re instruction manuals – kind of like those old Fred Astaire Dancing School diagrams.

By: arborman

arborman — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m with the steampunk theme – if I ever get a gulfstream I want to make it look like the parlour of Sherlock Holmes.

Of course, if I ever get a Gulfstream we’ll be in a post-civilization cannibalistic anarchy and we will have actually eaten the rich already. So I guess I probably shouldn’t hope for it to happen.

By: ZippySpincycle

ZippySpincycle — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow–That’s easily the weirdest combination of a relevant comment and straight-up spam that I’ve seen. I’m not sure whether to applaud or vomit.

By: gregduncan

gregduncan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

well, we really need to regroup. I guess my yamaha raptor 250r should be taken into consideration too..

By: Daedalus

Daedalus — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“I am a king! Should I not live like one?”

By: Felton

Felton — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I thought the sex instructions were printed on the back of the aircraft safety cards.

By: alllie

alllie — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I didn’t see much in the way of seat belts. Meaningless display over safety.

By: Yamazakikun

Yamazakikun — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Teodoro Obiang’s must be pretty sweet, but it’s not in that gallery â€” none of those shots are narrowbody enough to be a Gulfstream V.

By: Rayonic

Rayonic — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Makes me proud that my 25 cents per day helped fund one of these cool jets.

By: jpixl

jpixl — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I saw Syd Mead talk one time and he showed some slides of crazy, high-end aircraft interiors he’d designed for a mega-dictator/rich dude of some kind.

By: ackpht

ackpht — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

A G5 is what these people use to pick up their kids from school. Think 747 or A380.

By: Felton

Felton — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

They would have just walked to school, but, statistically speaking, flying was safer.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Waverunner in a jet:

You might get a 60m run in a 747, so make the pool 5m wide and .5 m deep. That’s 150 tons, well within the cargo limit for the 747.

If you can prevent sloshing, there’s no reason you couldn’t set up a temporary pool in a 747 cargo jet.

By: jaytkay

jaytkay — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, Mark.

Why do you use the word “pimp” on the particular post?

Just wondering?

By: Felton

Felton — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s in the linked Telegraph article. Or are you asking what it means in this context?

By: dw_funk

dw_funk — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If I ever meet the guy who came up with the “slideshow” webpage design, I’m going to punch him in the throat.

By: AnthonyMitchell

AnthonyMitchell — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh, I recognize that aircraft, registration number JY-ABH. Itâ€™s an A340-211 that was originally outfitted for a member of the royal family of Brunei. It was sold to the King of Jordan in October 2000.

By: proletariat

proletariat — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m sure Fox News will be disappointed to see that Air Force One is not pictured.

By: Lexicat

Lexicat — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

eat the rich.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Looks like the Enterprise D decorated by Imelda Marcos.

By: jimh

jimh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Shit, these guys are biting my style.

By: inkfumes

inkfumes — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Disgusting.

By: grimc

grimc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Silly British press: It’s pimped out.

By: Teller

Teller — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The last word in understated if the last word is Not.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

eat the rich.

That was African dictator Idi Amin’s philosophy! No, wait- that was “eat your political adversaries.”

I wonder if his ride is in this show. He probably had a fancy jet at some point, but it’s hard to get the smell of unspeakable horror out of the upholstery.

By: Lobster

Lobster — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Next, let’s have a look at the anti-aircraft missile launchers in use by their political opponents. Note the spinners…