The progress of the Olympic torch around the world becomes ever more surreal. Delhi has devised one solution - make sure no one can see it (even workers in buildings overlooking the route, who are forbidden from looking out of the window) and no one knows it's happening. Meanwhile, the pro-Tibet elements lay on the star-studded celebration with a parade of their own. Is it too late to start a parallel Tibetan torch relay, perhaps going the other way around the world?
It seems Australia's going to be fun too, as the Aussies have warned the Chinese goons that they'll be arrested if they so much as raise a hand to anyone. Excellent.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
True, but the Chinese government is not really unhappy about that. It plays well to their xenophobic domestic audience
ReplyDeleteSort of a Delhi bury.
ReplyDeleteExcellent idea, about a Tibetan torch relay. But my understanding is that Tibetans are devotees of the butter lamp. Thus it would have to be a butter-fuelled torch. To ensure adequate supplies of butter this means that a large herd of fierce yaks would need to be driven after the torch and milked with the precision of a Ferrari pitstop team. But that in turn means adequate supplies of forage for the yaks. They're no good at goring Chinese thugs if fed only a few scraps of straw. Of course this wouldn't be a problem in Britain which as everyone knows has the finest and most nutritious grass in the world, but alas I wish I could say the same of some other countries ...
ReplyDeletePerhaps the whole thing will just implode.
ReplyDeleteSo Nige, any word from Bryan? Is he on a bender, or what?
ReplyDeleteHe moves in a mysterious way, Duck, but is believed to be somewhere in the US. I think he should be back, er, fairly soon...
ReplyDeleteNot to complain, Nige. You're doing a bang-up job!
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