http://crookedtimber.org/2003/10/19/the-micropolitics-of-melbourne-cafe-society/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Thu, 24 May 2012 18:53:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://crookedtimber.org/2003/10/19/the-micropolitics-of-melbourne-cafe-society/comment-page-1/#comment-6232 dmm Sun, 19 Oct 2003 22:48:16 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=448#comment-6232 Apparently you need to carry around a copy of "How The Irish Saved Civilisation" for just such an emergency. Apparently you need to carry around a copy of “How The Irish Saved Civilisation” for just such an emergency.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2003/10/19/the-micropolitics-of-melbourne-cafe-society/comment-page-1/#comment-6231 matt Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:46:43 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=448#comment-6231 If I'd only known that the reason people hate americans was that we force them to straigthen their papers and share a table! All this time I thought it was our bombing them and supporting oppresive dictators... This is pretty funny, though. If I’d only known that the reason people hate americans was that we force them to straigthen their papers and share a table! All this time I thought it was our bombing them and supporting oppresive dictators… This is pretty funny, though.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2003/10/19/the-micropolitics-of-melbourne-cafe-society/comment-page-1/#comment-6230 Anthony Sun, 19 Oct 2003 14:14:58 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=448#comment-6230 Shame you didn't have a copy of "Hey! You're a Dickhead!" to flash back at him. You could have spent an amusing (and expensive) hour rushing into Borders or Readings (his preferred choice, I'd imagine) to find books with appropriate titles to reveal to each other. Shame you didn’t have a copy of “Hey! You’re a Dickhead!” to flash back at him. You could have spent an amusing (and expensive) hour rushing into Borders or Readings (his preferred choice, I’d imagine) to find books with appropriate titles to reveal to each other.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2003/10/19/the-micropolitics-of-melbourne-cafe-society/comment-page-1/#comment-6229 Andrew Edwards Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:58:56 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=448#comment-6229 Heh. Nothing like a hard leftie trying to passive-aggressively start a debate. Glad you had the sense not to open a conversation. Heh. Nothing like a hard leftie trying to passive-aggressively start a debate. Glad you had the sense not to open a conversation.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2003/10/19/the-micropolitics-of-melbourne-cafe-society/comment-page-1/#comment-6228 Peter Wilkinson Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:26:18 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=448#comment-6228 From the general tenor of your diary, I doubt that you were surprised by the existence of the book. If you are in Melbourne, looking for people well enough informed to know that Iraq is about oil fields, Afghanistan is about the gas pipeline, private corporations run rigged elections in the some states of the USA and that Dubya is a crook, Lygon Street is amongst the best places in Melbourne to find them. From the general tenor of your diary, I doubt that you were surprised by the existence of the book. If you are in Melbourne, looking for people well enough informed to know that Iraq is about oil fields, Afghanistan is about the gas pipeline, private corporations run rigged elections in the some states of the USA and that Dubya is a crook, Lygon Street is amongst the best places in Melbourne to find them.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2003/10/19/the-micropolitics-of-melbourne-cafe-society/comment-page-1/#comment-6227 johnx Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:30:33 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=448#comment-6227 Looks like it may be a good book. Looks like it may be a good book.

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