RIP Fidel Castro August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016

[DownwardDog]

They'll be dancing in the streets of Miami.

I think I had him, Gazzer and Shatner in the Death Pool.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'd lay in a cigar to smoke for tonight but I don't like cigars and besides I don't think hamlet are made in cuba

 

[DotCommunist]

considering all the attempts to kill him by powerful states 90 is more than good innings.

 

[Celyn]

Boo.

I would like to live 90 though, and to do some very good things.

Boo, blech and SPIT at 2016.

 

[Celyn]

This 2016 year is being very bad. Too many good people are going.

 

[dessiato]

A la pogofish there's another thread about this already.

I woke up quite suddenly at the time he died, and couldn't get back to sleep. I was thinking about Cuba and the Caribbean. Maybe it's an omen.

 

[Celyn]

A la pogofish there's another thread about this already.

I woke up quite suddenly at the time he died, and couldn't get back to sleep. I was thinking about Cuba and the Caribbean. Maybe it's an omen.

Sorry, did not see other thread.

 

[dessiato]

Sorry, did not see other thread.

It was only by chance that I did.

 

[DotCommunist]

the beeb have dug up someone from the guardian once upon a time who has never met him and asked him what he would have asked him if he had. And the man is a dick. But journalism ats finest etc.

 

[DownwardDog]

I wonder if Corbyn's going to the funeral. He might get to sit next to Lukashenko.

 

[Celyn]

I wonder if Corbyn's going to the funeral. He might get to sit next to Lukashenko.

Surely May will have to attend funeral, in a way of respects to (former) Head of State blah blah. Interesting.

 

[Celyn]

No idea whether Corbyn will, but I am suddenly wishing I were in charge of one of those tabloidy papers, so that I could do a quiz about "whom would you prefer to be in charge? Fidel Castro or Theresa May?"

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I wonder if Corbyn's going to the funeral. He might get to sit next to Lukashenko.

He could sit next to George Bush Snr, unless CNN get things their way

 

[JuanTwoThree]

¡Comandante!

The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interrèd with their bones

 

[J Ed]

Annoying right-wing contrarians on twitter are pointing out that the lizard queen II is still alive while Castro now isn't, what strange places their brains are.

 

[Celyn]

I am amused by the bit in the link given by Nine Bob Note where it says

... Fidel Castro outlived six of those presidents [[[ NOTE change to seven if George H W Bush dies before Castro]]]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

RIP Fidel.

 

[bi0boy]

Boo.

I would like to live 90 though, and to do some very good things.

Boo, blech and SPIT at 2016.

What did he do that was a "very good thing"

 

[danny la rouge]

I'd lay in a cigar to smoke for tonight but I don't like cigars and besides I don't think hamlet are made in cuba

Denmark would be my guess.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

What did he do that was a "very good thing"

Made Cuba a more literate country? I don't know any where near enough about him to defend or attack his legacy but I'm pretty sure that is true and that's a pretty good thing.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

What did he do? GTMF. Like most people he did some good things and some bad things. But being so powerful he was able to do very bad things and very good things. He turned urban Cuba from a corrupt playground for the Americans, run by the Mafia, and rural Cuba from a medieval fiefdom run by the United Fruit Company into something else, not altogether good but not altogether bad :

"Although responsible for indefensible human rights and free speech abuses, Castro created a society of unparalleled access to free health, education and equal opportunity despite an economically throttling USA siege.

His troops inflicted the first defeat on South Africa's troops in Angola in 1988, a vital turning point in the struggle against apartheid."

Peter Hain

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Oh yeah Cuba's roll in ending apartheid is too often overlooked.

 

[J Ed]

Media liberals, never too desperate to have an original thought, are happy cos Castro dying lets them recycle their decades old material.

 

[danny la rouge]

Well, I couldn't leave
Unless the old man chased me out
'Cause I'd already promised
That I'd milk his cows
I had to say something
To strike him very weird
So I yelled
"I like Fidel Castro and his beard"
Rita looked offended
But she got out of the way
As he came charging down the stairs
Sayin', "What's that I heard you say?"

I said, "I like Fidel Castro
I think you heard me right"
And I ducked as he swung
At me with all his might
Rita mumbled something
'Bout her mother on the hill
As his fist had hit the icebox
He said he's going to kill
Me if I don't get out the door
In two seconds flat
"You unpatriotic
Rotten doctor Commie rat"

 

[keybored]

Denmark would be my guess.

In a small village there.

 

[phillm]

'Here is a conclusion I've come to after many years: among all the errors we may have committed, the greatest of them all was that we believed that someone ... actually knew how to build socialism. ... Whenever they said. 'That's the formula,' we thought they knew. Just as if someone is a physician.' Castro in 2005.

 

[Pickman's model]

How many threads do we need?

 

[phillm]

How many threads do we need?

Just seen it coffee hasn't kicked in yet - thread closed !

 

[two sheds]

This one has the most informative thread title though.

 

[phillm]

This one has the most informative thread title though.

Respect the man for he was a titan amongst pygmies in an ever darkening world.