breakfast bombing

Don't be despondant, Justyn - can I help it if I have inside info?

www.theonion.com/onion3734/hijackers_surprised.html The terrorists in hell article has been archived.

dinner has so many pretensions though doncha fink andrea? more people died in italy today than in afghanistan so far. no one gives a feck though. perhaps bruce kent was right. we should have disarmed in the 70's. michael foot would have become PM. thatcher would still be a grocer (retarded sorry ... retired now) and we would all be calling each other comrade in the european soviet. don't ya just love politics?

Dropping Jamie Oliver would be a fantastic ploy; anyone listening to his flailing, hyperactive and 'pukka' verbal crumble would go hands up to the nearest Northern Alliance pitstop.

...or sliced bread with ham and cheese to make really nice toasties....!!!

i was about to disagree with you until i took into account the burning qualities of a hot Kraft slice to the face. that's going to hurt.

just been mulling over your "sliced, bead ham and cheese" theory and i don't think it's a viable option. i think even a slight wind could seriously effect the accuracy of the slices. perhaps leading to the loss of innocent lives.

Perhaps a breville is the answer..........

just as long as they don't expect me to help out with the cleaning up process. have you ever tried to get cooked cheese out of the hinges of those things?

no

you should get out more

Pretty bizarre stuff, I agree. Feed as you bomb. Not too many people to feed in Kabul anyway, I wouldn't have thought (except, maybe the Taliban) as most of the poor sods have fled, literally, for their lives. Anyway, it's estimated that if they dropped the same amount (of aid) that they did today for 6 months (every day) it would still only be enough to feed a fraction of the soon-to-be-starving millions. Anyone see the interview on the Beeb news this morning with the ex-CND, peace activist bloke (temporarily forgotton his name...Bruce something. Kent, maybe?) who, quite correctly, pointed out that the resulting riots, demonstrations and burnings in Pakistan were an obvious follow-up of the bombings and that if the Pakistani government is overthrown (a distinct possibility), we're all in real shite? A lone voice in the wilderness, unfortunately...

Excellent propaganda though isnt it?

someone burned down my house and gave me one rice krispie ... wasn't that kind?

Yes, it is, Liana, although I'm not too sure it'll work. Doesn't work for me, anyway. Even more bizarre: the food parcels were labelled 'A Food Gift From The United States of America' Sick, or what?

funny my rice krispie had a (very small) label on it saying "a food gift from the arsonist"

i'm sure if bruce kent can think of this others have already planned for it. 4 weeks ago i emailed some one my armeggedon scenario: west enters afghanistan. civil war in pakistan. india gets involved. tension with china. while everyone thinks america is busy all other rag bag countries start to fight one another iraq starts up big time israel gets stuck in pakistan and india let off a nuke... nah all too far fetched...... what do i know. ....must dash, got to cook tea.

They are well known (though I loathe stereotyping for having irony bypasses, so I can't help but think that most wouldn't see it that way. Or am I wrong? Please, tell me I'm wrong......

Ah yes, Stormy, not an unlikely scenario, I'm, afraid and one that's been (as you say) fairly obvious from the start. Do enjoy yer tea. Sounds funny to foreign (my) ears, that. Tea's the stuff wot you drink, not the stuff wot you stew...

dan, i too cannot help but wonder at what those food parcels actually did contain....half-baked potatoes, nuts, brains [fried or scrambled], slaughtered lamb, pick n mix fudge...?

i hope they had olive oil and fresh basil in them ...

...and jamie oliver?

Rice, fresh (?) veggies and 'other nutritional foodstuffs' according to my infallible source...

mind you ... more likely to be saltine crackers ...

and other ingredients for meatloaf : White Trash Meatloaf ground beef a pound or so chopped onion mediums OK saltine crackers 10 - 20 depending on amount of ground beef egg one should do salt and pepper err, huh??? ketchup whatever makes you happy, maybe 1/2 cup Add all the above together in a bowl or on a flat surface, it really doesn'tmatter - but you should mix them together well with your (clean and washed)hands. once mixed, form into a loaf and place in the middle of a baking panthat has been lined with foil. surround with carrots and small potatoes andadd more ketchup to the top of the meatloaf - if some of it gets on theveggies that's OK, it's really good! cover with foil and bake at or around 400 degrees until done - i don't even remember how long it take but i would guess and hour or so.i hope you enjoy this recipe when you get a chance but if you think it'sawful no hard feelings!!! (many thanks to ralph for the above)

Um, Fish, what exactly ARE saltine crackers? (rest of ingredients seem relatively palatable, though)

just cream crackers andrea ... just those

Right...ta. *dashes off to soopermarket*

Food falls from sky A parcel for hungry plains Can the mountains protect me?

I suppose I could point out that the military strikes target radar installations, jet fighters, airports, munitions dumps etc, in short all the weapons of oppression the Taliban have been using to subjugate the Afghan people, and that the food parcels are being dropped near the refugee camps no where near the aforementioned military targets, dropped to give some food to at least a few of the people being starved to death by their own rulers, not by the West, but I suppose that would be a redundant exercise, given the extraordinary command of the facts that some people seem to possess. Oh gee, I said it anyway.