John Coopey

Vive la Revolution

Saturday 22nd February 2014 10:44 am

(I'd be equally happy to take this bet with any of my left-wing friends on WOL, starting today)

I recall a conversation from 1968 with a fellow embryonic leftie. It was the time of the Czech Uprising, and the Paris Student and Chicago Riots.

He argued these were the death throes of capitalism, heralding revolutionary socialism in the West.

I reckoned he wasn’t right in the head; that these were nothing more than hiccups to capitalist western democracy.

We made a bet that I would pay him £1000 on the day the revolution came to Britain and he would pay me £1 for every day it didn’t.

He owes me £16223 to date…

…and counting.

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Comments

John Coopey

Fri 28th Feb 2014 22:55

MC, you should never throw in the teet owl - it is an endangered species.

M.C. Newberry

Fri 28th Feb 2014 15:19

So, when you get to Ga-Ga in Selby are you said
to have "thrown in the tea towel"?

John Coopey

Thu 27th Feb 2014 13:25

You're welcome, MC. It's from a tea-towel we sell in Selby Abbey.

M.C. Newberry

Thu 27th Feb 2014 10:31

Ho-ho! Like your own "ages" and have shared them elsewhere.

John Coopey

Sun 23rd Feb 2014 16:35

Yes indeed, MC. I'll never get my brass. I was rather hoping some revolutionary friends on here might have taken up the offer.
I dispute the Ages of Man. I always thought it was Lager, Aga, Saga, and Gaga.

M.C. Newberry

Sun 23rd Feb 2014 15:07

The "Three Ages of Man"?
Idealist
Revolutionary
Realist
JC - I'm sure you've long given up on your money.
To that mindset words are a means to an end,
with little value as "currency" when the bank of real life calls in the debt.

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