Transcript:
Man 1: After everything we've done for you, it' time for you Afghans to step.
Man 2: "Step Up"
Man 1: While we stand down.
Man 2: You mean, step out.
Man 1: And double down.
Man 2: How about shut up?
Man 1: And that's what it's all about!
I remember the amazement expressed three decades ago by Chinese in Beijing who simply couldn’t understand why students from the US were so wild about the fact that Cannabis sativa grew wild in places like the Summer Palace Gardens (the Yihe yuan (颐和园), which like the old Summer Palace, the Yuanming yuan (圆明园), was trashed by the British and the French during the Second Opium War) and could be picked for the taking. «Only old peasants smoke that stuff», they would say, shaking their heads….
Henri