Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Iranian Comedy Gold!!




Outstanding

And proof, yet again, that the secret of great comedy is timing

Personally, I'm not currently of the opinion that last night's street parties were deliberately allowed to erupt by a complicit establishment. The Hegelian Dialectic is not the the infallible tactic some conspiranoids would have us believe

It's all very well and good arranging for something shocking to happen so that the public will clamour for a more repressive state. However if, as occurred last night, the state comes across as being incompetent and powerless, this Hegel thing can easily blow up in your face

The probability of the Royal Air Force helping to bomb Syria, or anywhere else, better in the immediate future just reduced considerably

In a (very) perverse way, those looters last night may have saved some lives

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4 comments:

AN said...

I'm not sure - I still kept seeing the same clamouring for use of the military and other lethal means. Perhaps an extremist minority like the rioters themselves...

George Harrison said...

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/872046-uk-riots-un-told-to-step-in-by-iran

Stef said...

A second career for Mahmoud on the stand-up circuit awaits...

Bridget said...

Syria and Libya criticise David Cameron over UK riots - video | UK news | guardian.co.uk