All posts by stereophonicbreadsticks
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Saturday, 27 December 2008
quote [ The same oil-rich dynasty that pumped money into the Taliban regime as they blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan six years ago has so far avoided international criticism for similar acts of vandalism at home. ]
However you feel about Islam this is a terrible loss for the historical and cultural heritage not just of the Middle East or the Muslim World but of all of humanity.
[politics] [by stereophonicbreadsticks@10:58pmGMT] [+10 Interesting] [71 comments] |
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Friday, 2 April 2004
quote [ In 1541 a peasant army attempted to turn on the landowners but the uprising was suppressed and the leader Gyidor Dvokic burned alive on a red-hot iron spike, giving rise to the modern Molvanian witticism ?eich zdern clakka yastenhach!? (literally ?my rectum feels as if a great heat is being applied?). ]
A travel guide to a non-existent eastern European country, apparently it's causing a bit of a controversy in the UK for playing heavily on stereotypes, but whatever, it's pretty funny.
[by stereophonicbreadsticks@10:59amGMT] [+10 Funny] [2 comments] |
