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  • Southerly: Primary School for Beginners,

    (Before my time, but my mother was at primary school in the era where teachers still used the edge of the ruler to smash the hands of left-handed kids until they learned to use their right hand.)

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 512 posts Report

  • Southerly: Primary School for Beginners,

    Actually, thinking back, they'd limited it to the headmaster and the dputy headmaster. Presumably my offense was enough to merit a hiding only if it didn't have to be explained to the boss.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 512 posts Report

  • Southerly: Primary School for Beginners,

    1990

    Are you sure? I remember being yelled in in 4th form (1986) by my French teacher who assured me that if was still able to cane me he'd have flayed my hide over some piece of minor impertinence.

    (For the curious, being too lazy to come up with 7 outfits for the week I explained I'd have a pair of trousers and a shirt especialy for Monday, another for Tuesday, etc. Quite how this merited a hide-flaying is beyond me...)

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  • Hard News: The newest neocon catastrophe,

    Arming the weak state of Georgia to prevent its invasion and forcible regime change by Russia

    You mean, "Arming the weak state of Georgia, which decided to break a 15-year peacekeeping deal in a contested region by shooting peacekeepers and civilians." Unless you've got more reliable information than is appearing before me in various organisations.

    Putin may be a Czarist shit with nasty friends, and Russia may be taking undue advantage of this opportunity presented to them on a platter, but the Georgian government opted to start a war with an unannounced, unprovoked attack on a peacekeeping force.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 512 posts Report

  • Hard News: The newest neocon catastrophe,

    Hush, Sam. Don't you know China is just misunderstood by big Western racists?

    It's such a burden advancing these savages, especially when they don't know they need it.

    The funny thing is, of course, that this applies to both sides...

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 512 posts Report

  • Hard News: The newest neocon catastrophe,

    Hush, Sam. Don't you know China is just misunderstood by big Western racists?

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 512 posts Report

  • Hard News: The newest neocon catastrophe,

    otherwise none of us would be here today

    Well, some of us would, some of us wouldn't. There would likely still have been a European colonisation, most likely French, which could have been better or worse. After all, the French didn't throw their colonies overboard with nary so much as a "fuck you very much" when they joined the EU...

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 512 posts Report

  • Hard News: The newest neocon catastrophe,

    Also, the main thing I'm starting to wonder about Georgia is if it's another Iraq-style fuckup in another sense - remember the claim that Iraq only invaded Kuwait after the US gave the wink?

    And, additionally: Surrender or Else.

    I have to say, that while demanding Georgia "...abjure all use of force to resolve Georgia's territorial disputes with the two breakaway pro-Russian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia..." may be "humiliating" it doesn't seem especially unreasonable.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 512 posts Report

  • Hard News: The newest neocon catastrophe,

    'At least Mussolini got the trains to run on time'

    Don't be hating on Mussolini. He invaded Abyssinia to get rid of slavery.

    Just like China in Tibet!

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 512 posts Report

  • Hard News: The newest neocon catastrophe,

    </quote>The most recent historical parallel I can think of is the British Empire, which as we know only existed to bring englightenment and the benefits of civilisation to those who desperately needed it</quote>

    The French Empire had much the same set of rationales,

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