http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/819/special-penguins/ Serpentine Percipience Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:22:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/819/special-penguins/comment-page-1/#comment-2320 Jeremy Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:43:23 +0000 http://allaboutlatvia.com/?p=819#comment-2320 You know Im probably the only person in Latvia who finds this 'ridicule' a fraction infantile and at the moment probably not the best focus for making change in government. Ok the 'nothing special' comment maybe should be singled out as an example of incompetence but I dont know whether it needs to be the catchcry of Latvias economic downfall. Theres a whole range of influences that brought us to this stage and all we can do is make fun of a badly worded reply.... And the penguin thing....please example really why this was a fauxpas, to me he was making a reasonable ( albeit not the best) analogy to the upcoming troubles....the idea was there, everyone understood it but we all sniggered at it like a rude word in the playground. Did everyone just hear the word penguin and start picturing maroon and white tuxedos? And then that becomes Latvias next revolution.... seems to me Latvia is obsessed with naming revolutions; singing, umbrella, penguin, where will it stop? Perhaps we should try and effect some real change somehow instead of creating witty websites, protesting with witty presents or waiting for newly formed political parties to organise the next self-serving (insert name) revolution. You know Im probably the only person in Latvia who finds this ‘ridicule’ a fraction infantile and at the moment probably not the best focus for making change in government. Ok the ‘nothing special’ comment maybe should be singled out as an example of incompetence but I dont know whether it needs to be the catchcry of Latvias economic downfall. Theres a whole range of influences that brought us to this stage and all we can do is make fun of a badly worded reply…. And the penguin thing….please example really why this was a fauxpas, to me he was making a reasonable ( albeit not the best) analogy to the upcoming troubles….the idea was there, everyone understood it but we all sniggered at it like a rude word in the playground. Did everyone just hear the word penguin and start picturing maroon and white tuxedos? And then that becomes Latvias next revolution…. seems to me Latvia is obsessed with naming revolutions; singing, umbrella, penguin, where will it stop? Perhaps we should try and effect some real change somehow instead of creating witty websites, protesting with witty presents or waiting for newly formed political parties to organise the next self-serving (insert name) revolution.

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