Notice what these
dictators have in common?:-
- Kim Jong Un 175cm/ 5ft 9
- Pol Pot 175cm/ 5ft 9
- Hitler 173cm/ 5ft 8
- Putin 170cm/ 5ft 7
- Mussolini 169cm/ 5ft 6½
- Ceausescu 168/ 5ft 6
- Napoleon 168cm/ 5ft 6
- Stalin 165cm/ 5ft 5
- Franco 163cm/ 5ft 4
- Could it be they were compensating for something?
I wouldn't want to give the impression it's compulsory to be 'vertically challenged' to be a tyrant. There are, in fact, a
few dictators who are/were tall:
- Mao Tse Dung - 180cm/5ft 11
- Mugabe 185cm/ 6ft 1
- Idi Amin 193/ 6ft 4
It's Mugabe who surprises me; I always thought he was rather short. Perhaps it's all relative.
Glancing at the reviews
on IMDb of The Seven Samurai - my favourite film - I noted there were
at least 50 pages of people rating it 9 or 10. So I jumped to the
last page (57) to see if anyone had ever disliked this. And I found
this: In my life, I have had the extreme misfortune to see some of
the worst movies ever captured on film. I'm talking extreme bad, plot
holes, no character development, nothing. Terrible movies which make
you want to slowly pull your eyeballs out and tear your hair out of
your head. None of them - NONE OF THEM - are nearly as terrible as
this terrible piece of crap. THIS IS THE WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME!!!
Whoever directed this abomination should be ashamed of himself and
his family should hide in shame for the rest of their existence. My
first thought was this person would feel pretty stupid if he, too, saw there were hundreds of people giving it top marks. And then I
realised he wouldn't.
HT to my fellow blogger
Lenox, of Business Over Tapas, who writes: "There are over 1,900
public figures accused in different cases of political corruption
across Spain. A video called Radiografía de la Corrupción over at
Irispress explains how Spain has come to this." Perhaps the most
disturbing fact is the huge gap between the number of people
convicted and those seriously punished. As opposed to being slapped
on the wrist by being banned from office for a brief period.
Phrases come and some
phrases go. I wonder whether the currently popular "kick on"
will make the grade. Or just fade away. My guess is the latter.
When it comes to
eating, Gallegos are decidedly conservative. But I might just have
stumbled across the first Galician culinary invention in a long time
- Mussel paté. Now, if I could just get them to make mackerel paté.
Or even just eat mackerel and put it on a menu or two! Trouble is,
they don't rate it at all. Meaning, though, that it's dirt cheap down
in the fish market.
Well, a couple of
demolitions did take place in the gypsy encampment down the hill this
week. And this happened, the papers say, without the usual game of
cat-and-mouse. This was because the council offered the owners
accommodation elsewhere, which might prove a good model for the other
40 illegal houses on the site. It has to be said, though, that there's a
history of adverse reaction by folk already living in the blocks of
flats to which gypsies are relocated. And allegations that taps,
copper wires, floorboards, etc. have been stripped from the new homes.
Which may or may not be true.
Finally . . . This is
a beautiful painting by the 17th century Spanish artist Murillo. It's of 2 Gallegas, so
merits an appearance here for more than one reason.
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