Pockets of resistance.
Who decided resistance always, always, always comes in pockets?
Now that hostilities have dimished and entire news bulletins can go by without blurry 'videophone' images from war correspondents, I am greatly relieved that the phrase 'Pockets of resistance' is rarely heard.
It got so that you could tell that a reporter, military type or newsreader was going to say it a couple of sentences before they did - you could see them building up to it as though it was some kind of incantation that would keep them safe from harm like their redundant rubber suits and masks.
I would like to write that I was shocked by and in awe of this stupid phrase, but I wasn't. It just irritated me.
Posted by frazerr at May 12, 2003 02:40 PM