Posts by Joe Wylie
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I call paninis "pretentious toastie pies" and the next service drone who gets snotty about it, will also learn my preferred sobriquet for food service drones with attiude.
Good on you. You might make your point even more effectively if armed with a solid jaffle iron.
"Toastie pies", ffs - ghod we can be such an effete little nation at times.
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I know Israeli people who still try to keep that particular ideal alive. Interestingly they opposed the occupations and the general belligerence of Likud, whilst at the same time voluntarily doing military service (their residence outside Israel meant they didn't have to).
As the kibbutz movement was strongly identified with the historical goals of the Israeli Labour Party it seems only natural that those who still support such ideals would have little in common with a right-wing party such as Likud. Of course that hasn't stopped those who oppose the socialist aspects of the kibbutz movement from exploiting the stereotypical image of the resourceful and independent kibbutzim for propaganda purposes.
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Nope. A full five years elapsed between Sabra and Shatila and the first Intifada.
And the first intifada took place almost a full decade before "arguing on the internet" came about. If you'd like to dispute that I'll have to pass :)
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. . . but the overall attitude of the left was still widely supportive even at the time of Lebanon and Sabra and Shatila.
As the Sabra and Shatila massacres took place in 1982 I'll have to assume that 1987's a typo.
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. . the (Italian, but I'm sure it happened elsewhere too) left went from supporting Israel to just the opposite in the space of one autumn of protest marches.
Seriously Giovanni, if you believe that any left-wing movement anywhere in the world largely supported Israel after 1967, you'd do well to question your memory. By 1987 the whole romantic kibbutzim sctick was a distant memory.
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The moderator is gone. Let's trash this joint - who's with me?
You'd be setting a great example by settling things out in the middle of the Negev. Minimise civilian casualties & all, y'know.
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. . . marvel over the astonishing man-porn of Khan's costuming.
The mullet, the mullet . . .
Truth is, I didn't know they were called mullets back then. Used to think of them as Australian rock star haircuts.
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That story has to be Russian, right?
That night, as he gnawed upon a turnip before retiring to his bed atop the stove, the villager ruminated aloud: "You know, little mother, if it weren't for that pesky dirt the donkey would have been mine."
Even if it is Russian, it's still a Scooby Doo story.
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Thanks for that Sacha - will redeem my xmas book tokens for Here Comes Everybody.
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See what I'm talking about.
Couldn't be clearer. Shattered to the core to have doubted you.
The gears are especially fetching.