Not to be taken more seriously than you really want to

[andrewducker]

Following the news that Saddam Hussein's defence lawyer has just been shot dead I started to wonder why anyone would want a job that dangerous.

I then started to wonder why anyone would want to live in a place that dangerous.

And then realised that there was an answer so obvious that everyone's parents think of it. If they can't play with it safely, then they can't have it.

I propose we evacuate the entirety of Iraq, and that everyone has to go and live somewhere else for five years. Shias get to go live in Iran, Sunnis in Saudi Arabia, Kurds get shifted down to the end of Turkey (which will serve the Turks right).

They can have their country back when they've all agreed on a way to split it up, made up and given each other a big hug. And not a moment before.

Comments

[trav28.livejournal.com]

*grins*

Then they can go play in the park and have milk and jammy dodgers for tea. If they are super good, they can stay up and watch Doctor Who on Saturday aswell ;)

[andrewducker]

Some people might consider that last bit a punishment :->

[trav28.livejournal.com]

heh - only people with questionable taste ;)

[andrewducker]

Off with their heads!

I watched Love & Monsters again tonight, and up until the reveal it's _fantastic_ - after that it goes off the rails, but the first 3/4 are great.

[joxn.livejournal.com]

The logical culmination of ethnic cleansing...

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

What reveal?

[andrewducker]

Of the monster.

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the monster was a bit silly, but c'mon! What do you expect from a 9 yr old?

"The Abzorbaloff was created by 9-year-old William Grantham of Colchester, Essex, who won a "Design a Doctor Who Monster" competition, held by the children's television programme Blue Peter. The prize was to have his creation appear in an episode of Doctor Who. Conditions of the competition meant that the monster had to be able to be made from prosthetics and not require CGI."

[andrewducker]

Actually, the monster was fine by me. It was
1) The monster saying "You've seen me, so I must kill you" and then chasing him down the street in daylight.
2) The fact that the people it had absorbed could pull him apart - but for some reason needed the Doctor to spur them to action. Bit of a strange design flaw.
3) Bringing back just Ursula's face didn't work as a resolution to that story for me.

The monster himself was cool, and I thought that Peter Kay was dead good.

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

This sounds like my plan to solve the Troubles in Northern Ireland - ship the lot of them to the Falklands and let the Bennies move up here. The nutters could do what they liked thousands of miles away. Perhaps we move the Iraqis there instead - they'd be more worried about keeping warm and chasing penguins to cause any trouble

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

He also envisoned it as being the size of a double-decker bus. Now, Peter Kay may be healthily proportioned, but he's not that big.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Shias get to go live in Iran [...]

As I understood this, Iraqi Shia are Arabs, and don't get along with Iranian Shia, which are Persian (some sort of horrific war in the fairly recent past also not helping). Of course, you've already admitted that this is not a serious solution, but I'm having trouble seeing the Turks sit tight for five years with regards to the Kurds having a sovereign territory in or nearby their country.

But then, didn't the ancient Persians disperse everyone that might cause problems, and have it work for a while?

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

You mean religion divides rather than unifies and brings strife not peace? I'm shocked!

[derumi.livejournal.com]

In this case, I doubt religion even figures into it. "Them's not like us!"

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Yes, although religion would incline some to argue that they are all brothers, believing in the same God, and all that BS, even if they don't believe it.