Posted by sigismund on June 8, 2011, at 0:07:32
In reply to Re: Capt. Kirk » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on June 7, 2011, at 22:14:15
>called this Kaua'i a third world country
How very first world of her.
I feel so much better in third world countries.
VS Naipaul would say that that is because I am 'slumming', but I think it is because the people are nicer.
They have fewer illusions to begin with.
In Kathmandu I always made a point of asking the people I had spent any time with how they voted.
One of the American college kids was saying wide eyeed to her teacher in the coffee shop at breakfast 'And they have TWO communist parties?'
To which you long to reply 'All the better to eat you with, my dear.'
The Marxist-Leninists (as opposed to the Maoists)were centrist and respectable trade unionists.So you can use one of those mobile phone thingos?
I used one the other day but didn't know how to turn it off.
Eventually I will have to learn as they reduce public services still further.
But there are so few people I wish to speak to (present company excepted, of course). I could always learn to do without. (Sig has gone into silence.)
I did remember your Hungarian ancestry.
I'm fond of lost causes.
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