@HP Baxxter: balles are not bullets but balls – same as Italian, both senza palle and senza coglioni can be used to convey the same meaning.

Yes the Steiger film is a Fistful of Dynamite, and it is hardly a history book – it’s a spaghetti western. It was Edmund Burke who first stated that the French Revolution was instigated by radicals, who used the peasants to conquer France and the rest of Europe.

Dak ir-ritratt mehud fil-games area f’Baystreet.

They’ve got the same mentality.

It looks more like a kids corner somewhere. Maybe he was looking for Mark Vella Gera?

They must be the descendants of the Sette Giugno thugs. Bet they feel they are heroes of our democracy, too.

“Point taken Alan!”

See, we have a sense of humour on this blog, and understand what tongue-in-cheek means.

Had I posted that on the other site, my father would instantly be a pufta, my mother a one-legged mangy whore, my children would be sons and daughters spawned by the devil incarnate himself and …. well, you get the point.

Ara Denis. Wasal tal-basal.

Point taken Alan! Given that they have perseverence they will get there.

We have been reared to hold on to our truths and people will generally rise up to it. I really hope they read us.

Remember the days when the socialists tried to reduce everyone to the level now expressed in that horrid environment of tasteyourown….?

“balles”? Bullets? Nahseb ridt tghid “couilles”.

And don’t perpetuate certain myths about the French revolution. It was never driven or led by the peasants, but by the usual bourgeois “intellectuals” who are responsible for all revolutions in history.

You might want to view “Duck, you sucker!” and listen to Rod Steiger’s monologue on revolutions and revolutionaries.