The village loved playing volleyball. It was fun, it was exciting, it was easy to set up - a makeshift net strung across a small open area on poles - and it was cheap.
Crowds would gather to watch the play and the matches became community events.
At one major gathering, on January 1, 2011, the crowds were having the time of their lives as the sides battled hard for supremacy. Many of those lives were very soon ended.
In fact, half of the village of some 260 people were dead or injured.
A suicide bomber had rammed his truck into the people of Shah Hassan Khel in Pakistan and the detonation of 250kg of explosives left 97 people dead and a further 40 wounded.
The attack was the Taleban's revenge for the village's defiance in not bowing to their extremist Muslim terror. Despite the horrific toll, village elders vowed to continue to fight against the brutal religious fanatics.
And it really isn't surprising because the Taleban sponsor terrorists, they oppress women in truly horrible ways and will kill anyone who they brand an enemy of Islam.
Among ignorant, backwards thugs they are No 1 in the list of animalistic brutes and they deserve nothing more than total extermination.
While some peahearts in the West may not think so all you need to do is check with some of the victims of the Taleban regime in Afghanistan.
The most obvious victims are women who suffer under the misogynistic turbaned zealots.
When the Taleban were the Government of Afghanistan 225 women were rounded up in one go and sentenced to a whipping because they violated their extreme dress code. That was nothing because a woman also had the top of her thumb cut off because she wore nail polish.
And smart women were not tolerated by the Taleban who banned them from schools, education and jobs.
One of the Taleban's statements was: "Women, you should not step outside your residence."
And it wasn't just women. The ethnic minority Hazara people were butchered by the Taleban in an ethnic cleansing that made Balkans atrocities seem tame.
And woe betide you if you are gay, want to marry someone not picked by your family, or horrors - think of becoming Christian.
You can look forward to public beatings, amputations or being stoned - and not the fun one. You'll be dug chest deep into the ground, have a bag put on your head and dozens of ill-educated peasants will smash your head to pieces with rocks.
Mind you, there are some Taleban things we could adopt - such as the death penalty for murderers and lopping the hands off thieves. Wouldn't leave too many crims unaffected in New Zealand would it.
And a bit of Sharia law would also cut down on the promiscuity here.
Under Taleban rule a single woman just walking with a non-relative male would face flogging. If she were married - she would be stoned to death.
And on the list of Taleban-ned things are: Children's toys, kites, card and board games, cameras, photographs, paintings, cigarettes, alcohol, magazines, newspapers and books. So in the light of the appalling things committed by the Taleban, should four US Marines be punished for urinating on the bodies of dead Taleban terrorists?
In my opinion, no.
The US soldiers, who had lost many comrades fighting those scum, were at war and had vanquished the enemy.
Good on them I say.
And no one who is female, gay, free-thinking, a child, or a parent, educated or a liberal should in anyway disagree.
Because under the Taleban your views would not be considered.
We all know Ozzie Osbourne, like many musicians, fried his brain with booze and drugs.
What we didn't know is that many American music students are just plain stupid.
Here is a snippet from one empty-head's music history paper:
"Bach was the most famous composer in the world. and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large.
"Bach died from 1750 to the present. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf.
"He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this."
Dumb, dumb, dumb, daaaaah;
dumb, dumb, dumb, daaaaah ...
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