Yes, as soon as this post is done. I’ll be doing it all again.
It’s as close to Christmas cheer as I’ll get.
Last night I had to reset FireFox. It got too sluggish. I hate doing it because all my plugins disappear and I have to hunt them and reload them to get rid of the ads and all the trackers. It’s a hassle.
I have been reading about ‘Panic Saturday’, the last Saturday shopping before Christmas. It happened here in Brazil too. Stupid, stupid people. Hundreds of thousands of people out buying Christmas presents. Wild horses couldn’t drag me into town to do this.
Yesterday, I went to town, just the perifery, and it was insane. You couldn’t navigate the footpath for illegal stalls selling all sorts of crap. I eventually got to the butchers, got my stuff and got a taxi the hell out of there as fast as I could.
Silly Box: Raul Castro, Putin and China’s Xi, all qualify collectively for the silly box today. Castro becauses he’s pushing a weel recognised idealogical failure, communism; Putin because he’s a megalomaniac arsehole and driving Russia to the brink with his stupid ideas and Xi because he’s flying the ‘one China’ idea at the expense of the well being of his country ignoring the fact that the Islands of Macau and Hong Kong don’t want anything to do with one freakin’ China.
Right now my mind is dealing with important matters like, what do I put on the grill first. Pork ribs is the answer.
I should put my pants on (just finished Nap-fu practice) and mosey along to the botequim.
I may have photos to post later.
So, later.
Part of tne problem is that much of HK isn’t an island but part of the mainland. Macau is technically a peninsula but used to be an island. HK isn’t really self sufficient and relies on PRC for much of its water. It is in effect a hostage. Its a very fine line the so-called government walks. It alienates Beijing at its peril. Its high degree of autonomy is gradually being eroded and is there purely by the ‘goodwill’ of its masters. Britain can do nothing and will do nothing. Matters may come to a head over 2017. We shall have to wait and see.
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>Andrew, I was aware of the geographical aspects, I used islands as a generalisation. Interesting to read about the other points, though.
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Idiot box note: N Korea stopped Sony from releasing a movie (The Interview), obama is mad. Didn’t want us to look like pussies. Now surely, this 2 star movie will become a blockbuster hit! Too funny!
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>MWPG, it wasn’t actually NK that stopped it. It was the distributors and theatres that did that as a result of the hack. With all the publicity, as you say, it will become a hit, sadly. NK’s actions have once again drawn attention to the exact thing they wanted to prevent… fools.
AV
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Why do we have to have nations! If Tasmania wants to leave Australia, it’s just fine with me!
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>but, John Lennon’s song Imagine… š
AV
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