Spanish
Politics: Instead of putting the [issues] to the fore, they
have decided to spend their time battling egos rather than winning
over hearts and minds. This pathetic squabbling is wasting valuable
time. The mud-slinging serves no purpose. Actually,
this is not an observation on the current political scene here - though it could be - but one observer's slightly modified comment on the UK
organisations which endorse a Brexit.
And here is that excellent article.
Spanish
Courts: I'm told I might be called as a witness in a civil case.
And it's been stressed I'd have to tell the truth. In contrast to the
parties themselves, who'll both do what's expected - and legally
permitted? - of them and lie. Leaving the judge to toss a coin. Or to
favour the pretty one.
Carnaval:
We may have had our own pre-Lent celebrations postponed because of
bad weather but in places in Spain where it rains less, they've gone
ahead as crazily as ever. Here's The Local with a few
examples. They don't include the one that involves chucking a a live
turkey off a church tower. Nice to see we have some of the craziest
in Galicia.
A Heartwarming Story: A HT to my friend David for this article on a Spanish hero of WW2..
Religious
Proscriptions: This is one of the silliest responses I've ever
heard. But one which says a lot about the impact of odd religious
beliefs. It was in a podcast about British men who've become
Muslims:-
Would
you have fallen in love with and married him if he'd not been a
convert to Islam?
No,
he would have been a different man.
Surely,
he would have been the same man?
No,
he would have been able to drink alcohol and eat pork and these are a
complete no-no in Islam.
This
is someone's view of the top ten countries for the best looking
women, ranked her from 10th down to 1st :-
- The Netherlands
- Italy
- Venezuela
- Russia
- Colombia
- Argentina
- Denmark
- Ucrane
- Brazil
- Switzerland
I
have to say a list which doesn't include Spain and which puts
Switzerland first seems dubious to me.
Finally
. . . Facebook: I theorised that, if I kept telling FB who and
what I didn't want to link to, they'd eventually stop repeatedly
suggesting them. Especially as they kept thanking me for helping them
tailor their stuff to my (undeclared) interests. This has proven to be
useless as it makes not a jot of difference to their practices. And so I've now reverted to ignoring everything. Unless it comes with a foto
of a beautiful woman, of course. I say 'undeclared' but they do, of course, get a
mountain of info from my posts, my blog and my emails. Or, rather,
their dumb computers do. On which they then make stupid proposals. Unless, as I said, . . . . . .
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