Sunday, June 26, 2016

Football, Stadiums and Orban

Looking at the recent success of the Hungarian football team I developed a theory. Perhaps Orban and Co. are not a bunch of corrupt crooks, but misunderstood geniuses. Perhaps there was another reason behind building all those stadiums.

Maybe, just maybe football is like a nuclear chain reaction: once you reach the critical stadium/capita ratio, your team performance exponentially improves. Only time will tell.


Thursday, June 23, 2016

Peter Griffiths and the weird twist of events in the UK

So this respectable gentleman said the following in the '60s:  "if you want a nigger for your neighbor, vote labour".

The whole campaign for Brexit is essentially hinging on the hatred and suspicion against immigrants (or expats as I like to call us, as the British living in Spain are called).

This got me thinking: we got to the stage where I, as a white male from Central Europe, became the "nigger".

I feel strangely accomplished.

What is wrong with Rings of Power and the criticism of the critics

So Rings of Power season two is coming out, and the flame-wars flared up again on social media. So let's take a look at why people hated...