The only thing, EVER, to survive in Indonesia …
… is the Olympic torch. Indonesia, of course, is a little tiny country where every single fucked up thing that could ever happen, does, including but not limited to tsunamis, earthquakes, oppressive dictators, terrorist attacks, blood thirsty tiger maulings, outbreaks of disease, and death-spewing mud volcanoes. But still, somehow, the goddamned Olympic torch made a successful (though guarded) victory lap around the country even as everyone who lives there was drowning in a terrorist-sponsored, mud-soaked tsunamiquake AND being mauled by a tiger. Amazing.
[UPDATE: My friend Paul pointed out that Indonesia is not, in any way small -- it actually has the 4th biggest population in the world. My bad, and my bad in an overly America = king of the world way. I was trying to make the point that everything fucked up that could happen to any country, anywhere, ever seems to happen to Indonesia, and yet the stupid torch lived.]
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Uh, Ben … nitpicky point here. Indonesia’s the 4th largest country in the world (population-wise.) Unless of course you were being sarcastic and I have no sense of humor, which is entirely possible.
Tiny in so far as it isn’t America, or Texas.