ModelUnitedNations
#83832
This troper has been doing MUN for 4 years now. The most spectacular thing she's witnessed is her school's Turkish delegation. In Hong Kong Interschool MUN, countries can wear national costume instead of suits, so they wore fezzes to the conference. Unfortunately, fezzes are illegal for officials to wear in Turkey... #QUOTE# '''President:''' Delegates of Turkey, please remove your headgear, as it is illegal in your own country. #QUOTE# '''Turkey:''' But madam President, this is not a fez. It is not made of the proper kilim fabric, but instead it is made of cheap red felt! #QUOTE# '''President:''' Nevertheless, remove the headgear or I will be forced to expel you from the GA. #QUOTE# ''The entire delegation walks out to applause.''
#83833
And here's part two. They sneak back in halfway through, as they're on the speaker's list. They are still wearing the fez, but the tassel has been cut off and a paper star and crescent has been taped on the front. #QUOTE# '''President:''' Turkey. Wait, I thought I expelled you from the assembly? #QUOTE# '''Turkey, at the podium:''' No, we walked out. We can walk back in. #QUOTE# '''Secretary General:''' They're right. They walked out so they have the right to walk back in. #QUOTE# '''President:''' Alright, but you must still remove the fez. #QUOTE# '''Turkey:'''
This! Is! Not! A! Fez! This is a patriotic National Turkish Winter Olympics hat! As such, it cannot be called a fez. I call upon the expert testimony of this gentleman in the audience, who has lived in Turkey for a while. Sir, is this a fez? #QUOTE# '''Guy:''' No, this is not a fez. #QUOTE# '''Turkey:''' Thank you. *gets ready to read out their prepared speech...* #QUOTE# '''President:''' Uhm, delegate, your two minutes are up.
#83835
This troper just returned from the Harvard Model United Nations, and the guy on my committee played North Korea to the hilt. He was constantly reminding us that the nuclear option was always appropriate for dealing with the imperialist developed world. He would begin every speech applauding "Our Leader", and he went a little crazy sometimes. The resolution he wrote, and that I signed off on, on a lark, involved addressing small arms and light weapons with a "Teddy Bears for Guns" program, where only those with guns AND teddy bears ''wouldn't'' be shot on site (think about that one), and that the Central African Republic be encouraged to invade the imperialist pawn Chad, for the purpose of clear-cutting the entire state and building a water park to employ all of the out of work militants. It was amazing.
#83836
As Saudi Arabia at the Hague MUN conference, a member of my delegation got up and started berating the entire resolution about increasing rights of women in the workplace by claiming that his five wives were happy serving his every whim. Never got picked again but it was a pure moment of hilarious jackassery.
#83837
If the chair had been any good, he/she would have immediately called the delegate out on breaking religious law: a Muslim man is not permitted to have more than ''four'' wives.
#83838
At my high school Model United Nations, my delegation was representing China and I ended up on the Human Rights Council. Everyone – except the Saudi Arabia rep who was also from my school – were horrified/shocked about how much of an asshole I was. I actually took home a joke award for 'being the biggest donkey's rear end' and for the 'best use of an elephant under a blanket' analogy. Needless to say, it was the best time I've had a Model UN. No one else seemed to appreciate my position or throwing my weight around – even though the only other big countries we had were Russia and France. It was awesome getting to be a huge JerkAss.
#83839
Hey, I've also won a few annoying delegate awards, and I must say it's great fun! Much more fun than just being polite and respectful. Somehow, the more annoying I am, the more likely I am to win Best Delegate, especially since I have a tendency to get countries like Pakistan and DPRK.
#83840
This Troper was chairing a crisis committee, the Italian WWII War Cabinet, at the Michigan State MUN conference. Near the end, one of the delegates was being accused of being a Mafia spy, but the crisis staff knew he was actually innocent. For some reason, he decided he was guilty, so he slipped the dais a note saying he fled the country and then ran out of the room before we could apprehend him. We thought he might have just gone up to the crisis planning room, but it turns out he left the building and stayed in hiding at the Starbucks across the street. It turned out another delegate was the Mafia spy all along; she barely talked in committee, but was sending notes to crisis sabotaging a lot of what the committee was doing. The kid who ran out to the Starbucks eventually got best delegate.
#83841
A few years ago, MSUMUN had a crisis committee about the 1968 Democratic Convention. A delegate playing Hubert Humphrey had to give a speech as staff members playing place officers beat down other staffers playing hippies. Unfortunately, I wasn't there back then.
#83842
That would be 2009, which was the same year that China went terrifically OffTheRails, forcing the committee to discuss the Spratly Islands RedHerring crisis in the Security Council despite
the crisis staff's best attempts to keep them from doing so, and Russia invaded Ukraine despite an assassination attempt on Medvedev as NATO helplessly stood by. And in the aforementioned 1968 DNC,
George Wallace won best delegate for his complete mastery of being George Wallace, shady politics, abject racism, and all. 2010 saw the
Double Cross Committee, in which IanFleming ordered that
a warehouse full of children be burned to the ground and that diseased corpses be dropped over Germany, at the same time that the US National Security Council was dealing with a crisis more or less lifted from ''
24'' and the Security Council was fighting a civil war in 2017 SaudiArabia that was finally resolved by the
French. Somewhere along the line, MSUMUN got really ''weird'' (but still awesome...maybe CrazyAwesome?)
#83843
It should be noted that the summer of 2009 saw several MSUMUN staffers practice their art (for fun) with a Batman crisis (based heavily on ''TheKillingJoke'')...perhaps that explains things.
#83844
This troper (a Mexican national) a few years ago roleplayed the USA delegation in a committee full of Americans playing other countries. It gets better. The issue at hand was the US-Cuban Embargo and the Cuban delegate was American and the head student from a school with a reputation of being a
Bad Ass Army in MUN circles.
Hilarity Ensues.
#83845
Sometimes when commmittees get boring the staff will introduce a crisis in debates where it makes no sense. In one glorious moment of insanity, delegates in several different committees were informed that a
Giant Wall of Watery Doom was headed towards the Pacific Coast. After some discussion delegates in one committee came up with the perfectly appropriate solution: use an army of
Ice Pokémon to freeze it. In another committe, a delegate revealed that his country had
Mass Teleportation technology and could warp out the entire continent to avoid the wave.
#83846
Ah, yes. MUN. This dele- troper has been in MUNs since the start of this year, and participated in MUNs as an observer last year. His crowning moment was as the delegate of DPRK. The Crisis was on a nuclear disaster off the coast of Greece, and his council was debating on the right for nations to get nuclear energy. He got commended by the chair for being a {{Chessmaster}}}. Firstly, he repeatedly called for unmoderated caucuses, and went up to ramble on the awesomeness of nuclear energy, so that his ally, Egypt, could finish his resolution. Then, this troper went around spreading misinformation in other delegates, convincing the more influential parties (such as Israel, China, and Iraq) that USA shouldn't pass his resolution. When Egypt tried to introduce his resolution, USA objected, pointing out that he submitted his resolution first. Egypt and I objected, since we believed that was not a sufficient reason, and we motioned for a vote. We succeeded in blocking USA, and moved on to ours. USA tried to forcefully merge his resolution into Egypt's resolution through an unfriendly amendment. This troper took his resolution, divided it up among Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, Ethiopia and him, and we proceeded to rip all of USA's points to shreds, using the points this troper used during the unmoderated caucuses. When it came down to voting, Egypt's resolution passed, with 30 for, 1 against, and 9 abstentions. It was a glorious moment, especially after we found out that USA went to complain to the Secretary General because we ganged up against him.
#83847
Laconic version: This troper was DPRK. This troper formed a 6-delegate team, convinced Iraq (and by extension, his voting bloc) to help backstab USA in the Crisis. Said backstabbing, and turning the tables involved a large amount of LawfulEvil maneuvering, loud and passionate speeches and careful preparation that the chairs overlooked, because everybody loves a story where the underdogs win.
#83848
I hate to break it to you, but that last story is pretty tame for MUN Chessmaster standards. I call and raise. Take this example in a committee with over a hundred delegates where one pair represented none other than Swaziland. Google it.
#83849
Day 1. Before the debate even started said pair of delegates went around forged an early alliance with everyone who looked like any potential competition. Essentially, they formed a monopoly of heavy hitters before any other alliances had been formed. Then without obstacle their resolution was drafted, sold around and passed.
#83850
Day 2. Most of rest the committee felt a little bit cheated for being won over so easily and several new blocks were formed which didn't want to work with the strong group. Now no block had enough votes to pass anything worthy. Solution? Half of the Swaziland team went around to talk with the other groups and play around with the idea of switching sides. The other half played interference calmly distracting other groups in their attempts to finish their own drafts and winning votes. By the end of the day, between messing with the work of others and collecting enough support they passed their resolution. No other delegation noticed what they were doing. Apparently not even the Chair. And if someone did they didn't say anything.