Spanish
Boozing:
It's reported that 17% of Spaniards
drink 'too much'. Though 25% of them only take a tipple twice a week
or less. More here.
Spanish
Longevity: Spaniards have the best life expectancy in Europe and
until this week boasted a 107 year old chap who attributed his long
life to 4 bottles of wine a day.
So, pick the bones out of those 2 reports.
Only in
Spain?: Our pre-Lenten festivities (Carnival/Entroido)
began yesterday. These include various prize-winning events and the
presentation of awards for one of these will take place at 2am next Saturday
morning.
Religious
displays in Spain: Despite very
low church attendance these days, there's still a lot of these. And
they're invariably garish. In 2014 a group of feminists
mimicked the standard procession of strangely-garbed penitents
bearing aloft some vibrantly painted idol or other. Only in their
case it was a large plastic vagina. The suitably outraged the
Association of Christian Lawyers, has now brought an action against
them for "provoking discrimination, hate and violence." I
wonder if I could do the same in respect of the Semana Santa
processions, arguing that I suffer the same reactive emotions in
their regard. Or do you have to be a Christian to be able to do this?
Worried
Spanish Bankers: Yes, apparently these fine survivors of
(profiteers from?) La Crisis do suffer from stress-induced
insomnia. Here's the ever-estimable Don Quijones on the 4 things that
keep them awake at night.
Facebook
Innovations: They have an endless list
of these, it seems. Today I had Games
You Might Enjoy plus the nomination as a
possible friend of a certain Luisa Avellaneda. Who appears to be a
portal for, inter alia, an on-line prostitution service. Don't all
rush to check this out, gentlemen; the site doesn't come up if you
search her name. Only some under-dressed young ladies who don't
apparently work in a brothel.
Finally
. . . There was an English chap on Russia's RT News channel
yesterday, supporting everything Moscow is doing around the world. I
wasn't too surprised to see this on his CV: Chris Bambery is a
leading member of the International Socialist Group. He was a member
of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party until 2011.
In 2014 he published "The Second World
War: A Marxist History”.
So, totally objective. One of those who believes the world has done a disservice to Stalin and who sees Uncle Joe, on balance, as a force for Russia's good. It takes all sorts.
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