by Bananiot » Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:46 pm
Thanks for the advice, GR of some pages ago. I see you are well acquainted with the scientific method.
Let me tell you a true story now. It was early 70's and I was a student in London. On the floor above where I was renting (5 pounds per week then) rented a student from Greece. Diogenis was his name. As he had no refrigerator he would bring his food to the refrigerator in my flat. One day I was very hungry and had no money to buy food. Reluctantly I opened the refrigerator and ate the ham that belonged to Diogenis. Come evening Diogenis came down the stairs and when he realised his ham was no more he gave me a good old roasting. He warned me, at the end, that if I repeated the act, he would bring food to the refrigerator no more!
When I hear people boasting that we will close the gate next time a couple of pseudo policemen venture into the buffer zone, I remember the story I just described. Hopefully, some people will understand what I mean.
Then, I would like to comment on the naive people of this forum that think that politicians mean exactly what they say in public. In this case, political analysts would be looking for new jobs, had it been as simple as this. Christofias came back after hardly arriving at the UK because he did not want to leave DIKO deal with another crisis situation. Nicholas, that is Papadopoulos's son, only the other day accused Christofias that he offered "earth and water" to the occupying forces in the deal he made on Ledras. You can understand of course who told him to say this.
Of course, Kifeas and GR will go on thinking that the issue of two Turkish Cypriot policemen straying into the buffer zone was the reason Christofias came back to Cyprus.
Of course, the papers said it ...