Oh happy memories, at least for this armchair anarchist. Reminds me of the riots following the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. The Chinese Government laid on coaches from the universities to the British and American Embassies to make sure all the rioters could get there in good order, and when they arrived the riot police directed them to heaps of stones which lay by the roadside, as the pavements were being repaired. Making sure that all the students were properly supplied with missiles, the police then let them through the barricades.
Meanwhile your correspondent was trapped in the British Embassy. Not exactly trapped by crossfire or anythin interesting, more by the fact that escaping to the safety (and limitless food and drink supply) of the Ambasador's Residence required climbing over a wall that he was too fat to surmount....
What three otherwise sensible people have said about Webside Gleanings
It is a treasurehouse of the bizarre and the offbeat, and it could quite easily eat up 30-60 minutes of your day every day unless you approach it with caution. So - be cautious, be self-disciplined, but do go and have a look. It's a gem.
A charming compendium of the amusing, irritating and obscene, often in the same link. Its cross-eyed editor is an unsung genius who provides a happy meeting place on the net for the disillusioned, the slightly sociopathic, and people with a laptop who have a long time to wait for their train. A familiarity with the more arcane reaches of Church history may help the reader with the less obvious jokes.
It's like wandering into an emporium with lots of choice trinkets and ornaments that you never knew existed and would look just lovely on the mantelpiece.
Not only is it difficult to know the truth about anything, but to tell the truth when one knows it, to find words that will not obscure or pervert it, is in my experience an exhausting effort.
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Oh happy memories, at least for this armchair anarchist. Reminds me of the riots following the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. The Chinese Government laid on coaches from the universities to the British and American Embassies to make sure all the rioters could get there in good order, and when they arrived the riot police directed them to heaps of stones which lay by the roadside, as the pavements were being repaired. Making sure that all the students were properly supplied with missiles, the police then let them through the barricades.
Meanwhile your correspondent was trapped in the British Embassy. Not exactly trapped by crossfire or anythin interesting, more by the fact that escaping to the safety (and limitless food and drink supply) of the Ambasador's Residence required climbing over a wall that he was too fat to surmount....
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