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27.11.05, 14:18
I had to abbreviate "Europe" as there seems to be a restriction on free
speech in the number of letters one can put in the title.
I don't know how we can talk about journalistic liberty in this country when
things like that happen, butidigress...
I see that we have been graced with a "choinka" made out of steel pipes,
which will have something like 2 million lamps on it. It is the largest in
Europe. There won't be any green on it, and of course it is no more a
christmas tree than the palm on Charlie De Gaulle's roundabout is really a
palm tree.
It is in fact a monumental piece of kitsch.
Unsurprisingly, the person who has sponsored this, a bloke called "Kott" from
some or other bank has a German surname (in Polish it would have a single "T"
at the end, although the full German version went through the second sound
shift and became "kotzen" in High German, but this is the Plattdeutch or Low
German version) and so Kitsch is in his blood.
I think they should stick the palm tree from outside the Stock Exchange on
top of it just to round it off nicely in all its kitschy glory, or failing
that we could stick Donny Tuthk on it to be a nice lithping Chrithmath fairy.
It would certainly give the leader of the PO something else to do other than
mince about being a sore loser.