Fearing Empty Time

The Iraqi Communist Party

So I’m eating a falafel at the stand of the Iraqi Communist Party and I’m wondering how I came to be eating a falafel at the stand of the Iraqi Communist Party.

Well, the real reason is because I’m hungry.

The Portuguese Communist Party stand is selling some smelly fish and the Irish Communist Party stand only has beer.

I didn’t realise Iraq even had a Communist Party.

But a falafel is a falafel. It tastes okay, there are no tomatoes but I do note a Marxist-versus-theocratic-conflict spice.

The motto of the event, organized by the French left-wing paper L’Humanité, is Humans first.

Attendance is good due to the ongoing debt crisis and rising unemployment and growing inequality. Speaking of which, when is the new iPhone coming out?

Revolutionary Time

After the French Revolution, a decimal time system was put in place.
The day was divided into 10 hours, of 100 minutes each, of 100 seconds each.
So 1:23 wasn't 83 minutes long but 123 minutes.
The week was divided into ten days -but still only 1 day off- and the months were renamed.
The aim was to remove any royal and religious influence from the calendar.
The experiment didn't last long.
The decimal experiment that is, I think it's still too early to say on the Revolution experiment. (That's a Zhou Enlai gag...)

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