Gulf News is among the most reputable regional papers – is this for real???
“US troops pullout from Iraq to start in 2010“?!
BAGHDAD – US will start pulling out their troops from Iraq from 2010. The decision was reached after several rounds of talks between US negotiators and their Iraqi counterparts. Speaking to Gulf News Haidar Al Abadi, a prominent leader of the Shiite coalition said, “The Americans recently agreed to the scheduled withdrawal and evacuation of US forces from Iraq starting the beginning of 2010 and the Iraqi negotiator was informed of US approval days before, and the debate between the two sides began to focus on the important details of this date.” Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish leader also confirmed to the daily that “there is American approval for the rescheduling of withdrawal from Iraq at the beginning of 2010.
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QUESTION: [photo by thankyouverylittle] |
ANSWER? Hello hero, hipster holocaust hello! |
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A little gumball-esque machine that vends fun? Incredible! From the guy at Zoomdoggle which in itself comes replete with its own push-button fun generator. (It’s pink too).
I used to do something similar with a little glass jar with a makeshift pastel cardstock and tissue paper lid-with-coinslot (yeah it was mad girly). Instead of money though I’d drop in one liners written on cigarette rolling papers then screwed up into a tiny ball, to be retrieved for future songs or writings. A kind of piggybank of ideas, if you will, albeit probably of the superpretentious will-to-adjectivise type. I’d kind of love to read some of them now, but it’s sitting on my desk at home in Dubai.
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I am unsure of who this man is or what it is that he’s doing. This does however characterise my current relationship with the Arabic language rather accurately. Today I was told that I sound like an ambulance siren (a quieter, more mumbly version) when distressed. I’m not sure how I feel about this? [I would like to learn to whine/wail to the theme tune from M*A*S*H when I grow up please]
But I’m reminded of a goldilocks level of bitterness – Philip Larkin poem:
