"Shocking, horrible, out of order, wrong, old-fashioned, behavioural problems that need to be attended to?
"They're doing these horrible things in order to protect what's theirs," he says.
You have to make big horrible mistakes in order to learn how to make something better.
Despite the horrible law and order situation, the private sector still survived, schools, hospitals and universities functioned, and people continued to live their lives in an ordinary manner.
Ordering horrible-sounding things that turned out to be delicious was a bizarre but exhilarating adventure.
We pressed the server, asking him what would be so horrible about putting in an order for some appetizers, to be shared by all of us, right away.
"Whether you think the political order is so horrible that it needs to be destroyed, or so silly it's not worth discussing, the comedic instinct is similar: unrestrained, boundary-pushing, kill-all, farcical, and sometimes tasteless parody".
On Monday, the opposition parties, known as the J.M.P., released a statement saying of the factory explosion: "This horrible crime came after the order of the authority to openly withdraw its military and security in favor of Qaeda and other armed groups, in a desperate attempt of President Saleh to confirm his argument that Yemen is just a ticking time bomb".
The horrible irony is that in order to devote more attention to this bizarre, narrow interpretation of their holy canon, people like Agema have come to align themselves against politicians and programs (like expanded access to health care) that help alleviate poverty, by far the greatest concern of the Bible as a whole.
While he endured numerous operations to save his sight and minimise scarring, Moscow police secured a confession from another dancer, Pavel Dmitrichenko, who admitted coveting Filin's job and paying a couple of thugs to beat him up, although he denied wanting or ordering anything as horrible as acid.
