After
2 years and an expenditure of €6m, FIFA has finally produced a
report on corruption among its executives, with particular regard
to the preposterous award to Qatar of World Cup rights. All well and
good. Except that no one is going to see it. Or so says FIFA. The
reaction to this has naturally been severe and there must be hope of a change of heart.
Talking
of money not terribly well spent . . . . After 'investing' €500m on
a large judicial complex, the Madrid government has abandoned it
after only one building has been finished - The Institute of Legal
Medicine. I wonder whether anyone will resign. Or pay back the
commissions. Just joking.
La
Crisis may finally be over in Pontevedra. I see we now have a
Sushi bar. Plus a few new - or re-opened - estate agents.
Just
returning to the subject of Spanish names . . . I discussed insurance
this evening with a lady call Cuqui (Kookee). This turns out to be
the diminutive of Concepción. Your guess is as good as mine as to
why. But this is often the way with Spanish diminutives. 'Paco' for
Francisco, for example. And 'Pepe' for José.
Spanish
Idioms Section: Una fiesta que os
habéis pegado - 'What a good time
you had'. Maybe.
Finally
. . . I had the Windows-scam call again today. I managed to get as
far as the Indian gentleman (in 'San Francisco') asking me to read
out the message on the screen after pressing the Windows key and the
R key. When I told him it was Fuck off, he put the phone down
at something in excess of the speed of light.
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