Qatar: What P Should Write About

[David Morris]

1.  "Parasitic Plutocracy," newly rich in a new Synthetic City with foreign
slave emigrants?  AtD comes to mind...
2.  Pynchon loves pigs. And that was the CUTEST photo!  Sweet Spam?

Like I said B4, ain't no rules or rulers here.  Aint 't no taboos nor
sacred pig lovers. Sorry if my CM spam complaint offended.  But, like I
said, the Curmudgeon label was meant as an invitation to ignore my
complaint.  You got to roll with the punches here, and these are just
pillow fights compared to days B4 my youth here.

David Morris

On Tuesday, September 24, 2013, Markekohut wrote:

> Dear Mr. Curmudgeon,
>
> I would have read this but for the subtitle. But that's just me....You who
> recently called a flurry of
> TRP review links and other remarks--some trivial, I'm sure---SPAM....just
> sent around a picture
> Of a pig eating ice cream.
> Here, Ms. Adams, almost a foundational member, I guess, wanted substance
> and many agreed, it seems.
> But, as I bothered to overargue, I want the ice-cream eating pig and
> Everything else.
> What I don't have time for is repeating what you don't believe even as you
> read it now since it must have been nothing but spam when you first didn't
> read it.
> But that's just me.
>
>
> foundational member I understand
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Sep 24, 2013, at 7:40 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'fqmorris at gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
> http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/human-rights-in-qatar-092413
>
> *In 1992*, in preparation for the World Cup's run here in the United
> States, I spent two weeks in Qatar, where they were playing the Asian Zone
> qualifier. My hosts were perfectly amiable, and they made sure we all were
> taken care of very well.  And I left hating a society more than I'd ever
> hated a society in my life.
>
>
> I spent two weeks there and never saw a Qatari do any actual work. I met
> Americans who worked the oil fields. I met a Brit whose skiffle group once
> lost a battle-of-the-bands to John Lennon's Quarrymen, but who was in Qatar
> to teach the emir how to play snooker. And I met a terrific young Filipino
> kid, tending bar at the Marriott -- when you're going to have Americans to
> pump your oil. undiscovered loopholes in the Koran's prohibitions against
> alcohol magically appear -- who knew two things about America: Guns 'n
> Roses and Michael Jordan. What I later found out was that this kid stayed
> in Doha because his employer had confiscated his passport. This, it seemed
> to me, was as clearly a parasitic plutocracy as could be imagined.
>
>
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