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Regular soldiers looked down on General Hamdan and his paramilitaries as a motley crew — “a bunch of jumped-up yahoos from the sticks, not proper military men,” as one Western ambassador put it.

In the trenches, boyhood crushes and childish rivalries are transformed into pointless braveries and deadly squabbles, love and hate wielded like bayonets in the hands of jumped-up children.

He loathes these new “jumped-up bookshops that masquerade as art galleries with nice little walnut tables.”

When associates of a leading minister refer to you as “that jumped-up oik”, you may sense you’re not winning friends in high places.

The guys animate their answers with fist pumping and jumped-up bro hugs and take-thats and all manner of behaviors that make it seem like we’re participating in football practice and not a dry Quiz Bowl.