Oh, Iceland, so civilized even when you’re totally flipping your shit. First use of tear gas in 60 years, one cobblestone injury, everyone quieted down for the funeral. OK, there was fire and egg pelting, but that is so wholesome and traditional. And I bet there were hot dogs after. Best in the world!
ForcedPerspective
Forcing our perspectives since 2002
Yes, there probably were hot dogs afterwards, similar to the grill carts selling merguez (spicy lamb sausages) at all the demo’s in France. Icelandic demo’s look more orderly, maybe because wild screaming, shoving and chucking sharply increases your surface area/thermal mass ratio, which you don’t really want to do in a place like Iceland, at least not until the bonfire is going well. Their banking situation was something that disturbed this observer quite a lot, several years ago (helped by pointed questions in “The Economist”) so I for one was not surprised by the event, more by the fact that the sobersides of Iceland let it go on so long. Hope your friends there got there money out when they got their arses out!
Loyal reader John