Snowdon is a dummy

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In any case, I would love the opportunity to visit your pub with you one day...and see the place for myself.

No you wouldn't. The toilets are so far below the standards of American toilets that I do believe you might faint clean away.

And if you opened your gob opining that to acknowledge what you do not know is a display of strength the landlord would likely throw a bucket of water over you. The very last thing landlords want is a serried rank of strong men acknowledging what they do not know.

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I have to repeat it again, because you obviously do not get it.

It's not for me alone that you repeat yourself ad nauseam, it's for everybody and on every subject... As evidenced all over A2K.

See? Told you you were a liar.

I am not a liar. You are someone who needs to call people "liar"...and you seem to get a particular kick out of calling me one.

I get a bigger kick out of watching you do it.

Yaaada yada yada. So why are you repeating yourself then?...

Good, so it's not compulsive or the result of senile dementia... It's self-inflicted.

And why oh why do you choose to?

Because I do.

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Because I do.

I hadn't heard this reply since primary school.

Well, whatever the reason, it's pretty wasteful of your time and makes you look like a rambling fool. Sorry for being blunt but I thought you needed to know.

I don't want to brag, but I was the Director of Instruction of the largest bartending school in the world ...

I hadn't heard this reply since primary school.

That's stretching poetic licence further than it is supposed to go Olivier.

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I don't want to brag, but I was the Director of Instruction of the largest bartending school in the world ...

A school for servants. Training people to jump to it when one of the tosspots shows signs of needing service.

No wonder you give us ****. It's a catharsis for all that bottled up frustration caused by having to be nice to a load of pissed-up wankers like me.

I often reprove a barmaid for saying "thank you" when she serves me. "It is I, my dear, who ought to be thanking you", I tell them. Usually offering a compliment. It's the best way to get served quickly on busy nights.

They are usually taken aback mind you but I suppose it's all that training in schools like the one you mention only on a smaller scale. You can trust the US of A to be the world centre of excellence in servility because there are so many Americans these days who feel special, having been handed a major in an 'ology and the grandiose visions of spendour it necessarily calls forth in the IQ range which has been treated in that fashion.

When I think of it there might be an explanation here for your agnosticism. A bartender cannot afford to take sides.

I wonder what Mr Snowden is doing right now.

Have you decided yet whether to guess that the affair is not a put up job? A stunt. I think it might be a Russian or Chinese intelligence expert's first guess.

What are we to make of Edward Snowden? I know what I once made of him. He was no real whistleblower, I wrote, but “ridiculously cinematic” and “narcissistic” as well. As time has proved, my judgments were just plain wrong. Whatever Snowden is, he is curiously modest and has bent over backward to ensure that the information he has divulged has done as little damage as possible. As a “traitor,” he lacks the requisite intent and menace..
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But (and?) I am at a loss to say what should be done with Snowden. He broke the law, this is true. He has been chary with his information, but he cannot know all its ramifications and, anyway, the government can’t allow anyone to decide for himself what should be revealed. That, too, is true. So Snowden is, to my mind, a bit like John Brown, the zealot who intensely felt the inhumanity of slavery and broke the law in an attempt to end the practice. My analogy is not neat — Brown killed some people — but you get the point. I suppose Snowden needs to be punished but not as a traitor. He may have been technically disloyal to America but not, after some reflection, to American values.

He may have been technically disloyal to America but not, after some reflection, to American values.

Yo...Spendius. I'm glad you got some of that frustration out.

By Richard Cohen

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What are we to make of Edward Snowden? I know what I once made of him. He was no real whistleblower, I wrote, but “ridiculously cinematic” and “narcissistic” as well. As time has proved, my judgments were just plain wrong. Whatever Snowden is, he is curiously modest and has bent over backward to ensure that the information he has divulged has done as little damage as possible. As a “traitor,” he lacks the requisite intent and menace..
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But (and?) I am at a loss to say what should be done with Snowden. He broke the law, this is true. He has been chary with his information, but he cannot know all its ramifications and, anyway, the government can’t allow anyone to decide for himself what should be revealed. That, too, is true. So Snowden is, to my mind, a bit like John Brown, the zealot who intensely felt the inhumanity of slavery and broke the law in an attempt to end the practice. My analogy is not neat — Brown killed some people — but you get the point. I suppose Snowden needs to be punished but not as a traitor. He may have been technically disloyal to America but not, after some reflection, to American values.

over time snowden has by his actions proven his worst critics wrong.