Posts by Tom Semmens
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giovanni tiso - this isn't aimed at you, I hope you don't mind!
Danielle, not the right forum I know, but everyone seems desperate to pretend fascism isn't on the march in Italy in the hope it will go away.
I'm not half as obnoxious as the Fascist goons masquerading as Italian Police who ran amok at the G8 summit in Genoa - If you haven't already, read this story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/17/italy.g8
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/15/italy.g81Undoubtably, Rome's mayor (arrested in 1981 for beating up a student with four other neo-fascists wielding baseball bats and welcomed to office by crowds chanting "Duce, Duce") would approve.
Then there is the appalling, fascist motivated racism against the Gypsy population in Italy, with mobs (including, again, police) burning down Roma camps in Naples. Or people blithly standing by as some Roma girls drowned on a Naples beach, or not prosecuting fishermen who beat with sticks survivors from a boatload of illegal immigrants attempting to reach Italy from North Africa, leaving them instead to drown.
The Economist Intelligence Unit already characterises Italy as having a "flawed" democracy. Silvio Berlusconi (""Fascism in Italy was never a criminal doctrine...") and the rest of his right wing mobsters are transforming Italy into a neo-fascist state that is democratic in name only. As I said, it will be interesting to see how long the rest of EU can continue to ignore the elephant in the room...
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"...I was outraged we couldn't even manage to rig the competition..."
Don't worry, with the rise of Fascism in Italy they'll be doing that in no time, and blaming the gypsies.
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Everyone know that to eat well in Britain requires you to eat breakfast three times a day. Oh and a steamed pudding to. When I was last over there I succumbed to this tradition, its great. Down the cafe around 9am, bigh brekkie with a quality tabloid, then off the days adventures. Beautiful.
Hours of wasted time to be had at this celebration of British cuisine:
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Crickey Che, S&M and a Lamington! What higher homage to our English heritage could you pay?
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I digress into seriousness for a moment, I also try not to buy factory farmed pork. Compared to the free range ones we have they are nothing when it comes to flavour, and pigs are not meant to be kept in little cages. I love watching over the fence as our happy and friendly pigs go about their tasty business.
I also no longer buy chicken that has not been been free-range farmed - it seems to have shot up in fat content in recent years and now its all fat. Might as well eat a duck.
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Lighten up I/S! i'ts Friday and the bars and bright lights of Palmerston North lay at your feet... oh wait...
And I still think the mighty Lamington is the Japanese rock garden of baking when done properly and in its proper cultural context. -
Coffee snobbery, slightly sillier but four times more tedious than wine snobbery (at least wine gets you drunk) but neither are anywhere near as bad as olive oil snobbery.Its oil. From olives. I get it.
Down with imported foreign muck like wine, coffee and olive oil! Give me Anglo-Saxon beer, tea and butter or give me death!
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So in other words Craig, you think its fine for some wannabe local aristocrat to assert his feudal right to paint "Vote for me" on every building in town, and because he owns the town only have to account for the paint in his electoral return?
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Lets face it, Burqua Bob got elected on the "Clarkson discount" that allowed him to use his position as a local potentate to wrought the electoral spending laws and get away with it.
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Hmmm, I'd miss Winston in the "I would vote for New Zealand First if the choice was between Winston and Sue Kedgley" kind of way.