Roger was very thin because he was afraid to spend a lot of money on food...
He looked forward to the day when his grandfather would die and leave him a fortune.
His grandfather was blessed with both a sense of humour and a sense of justice. So he planned that when he finally died, all he would leave to Roger would be a cookie.
But what a cookie.
It was made with butter churned from milk from a yak milked by a virgin milkmaid on the highest field on a hidden Himalayan peak next to the ultimate source of the sacred Ganges River.
It was made with flour harvested from plants of the single-grained EinKorn found growing on the site of a Neolithic Anatolian village and ground between millstones of Lapus Lazuli.
It was made from eggs collected from Peahen nests in the remotest marshes of outback Australia.
It was made from sugar boiled from a cane garden in a secret valley in New Guinea.
It was flavoured with a vanilla pod from the mysterious and still sacred original Vanilla Vine found by the Totonac people when they arrived in the Mazatlán Valley on the Gulf Coast of Mexico in the 15th century.
It had added flavour, as well, with chocolate chips made from the beans of a Cacao tree found on the site of a previously undiscovered Mayan temple.
When Roger's grandfather died, the cookie was baked by Gordon Ramsey in a kitchen built exclusively for the purpose.
It was the most expensive cookie ever baked, and its ingredients consumed the entire fortune.
The lawyers delivered the cookie to the anorexic Roger as his entire inheritance. Understandably, all the other relatives were more than a little put out, and they paid Roger a visit.
They all wanted their share of the fortune, but they couldn't find it because it had disappeared into the thin heir.
Gazan doctors: She has Leukemia
Israeli doctors: She has Leukemia
Italian doctors: She has Leukemia
The medical report: She died of Leukemia
The BBC: Israel starved her to death
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Monty Python's Life of Brian is 46 years old today.
13 Life of Brian Classic Moments - A THREAD
Brian could well be the funniest movie ever made, and one clip alone won't do it justice. So dive into this thread and find out why Brian was a very naughty boy. You splitter!
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali once explained why Muslims frequently litter and disrespect public spaces:
‘As a translator for other Somalis who had arrived in Holland, I saw this phenomenon in various forms. One was simply the clash of cultures when immigrant Muslims and native-born Dutch lived in close proximity to one another.
'In apartment complexes, the Dutch were generally meticulous about keeping common spaces free of any litter. The immigrants, however, would throw down wrappers, empty Coca-Cola cans, and cigarette butts, or spit out the remnants of their chewed qat.
'The Dutch residents would grow incensed at this, just as they would grow incensed by the groups of children who would run about, wild and unsupervised, at all hours. It was easy for one family to have many children. (If a man can marry up to four wives and have multiple children with each of them, the numbers grow quickly.)
'The Dutch would shake their heads, and in reply the veiled mothers would simply shrug their shoulders and say that it was “God’s will.” Trash on the ground became “God’s will,” children racing around in the dark became “God’s will.” Allah has willed it to be this way; it is there because Allah has willed it. And if Allah has willed it, Allah will provide. It is an unbreakable ring of circular logic.
'There is a fatalism that creeps into one’s worldview when this life is seen as transitory and the next is the only one that matters. Why pick up trash, why discipline your children, when none of those acts is stored up for any type of reward? Those are not the behaviors that mark good Muslims; they have nothing to do with praying or proselytizing.'
They believe that nothing is their responsibility. They do not plan for the future, or defer gratification. They treat the world beyond their doorstep as a wilderness, to dump rubbish in when the mood strikes.
You do not understand how these people think. They will not produce the same civilisation as us.