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Good morrow, Gentlefolk – today’s funny:
Here is the definition of “paraprosdokian”.
“Figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently used in a humorous situation.”
“Where there’s a will, I want to be in it,” is a type of paraprosdokian. Here are a few to enjoy.
1. Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it’s still on my list.
3. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
4. If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
6. War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
8. Evening news is where they begin with ‘Good Evening,’ and then proceed to tell you why it isn’t.
9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
10. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.
11. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted pay checks.
12. Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says, ‘In case of emergency, notify:’ I put ‘DOCTOR.’
13. I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
14. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
15. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
16. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.
17. I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
18. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
19. Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.
20. There’s a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can’t get away.
21. I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not so sure.
22. You’re never too old to learn something stupid.
23. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
24. Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.
25. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
26. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
27. A diplomat is someone who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip.
28. Hospitality is making your guests feel at home even when you wish they were.
29. I always take life with a grain of salt. Plus, a slice of lemon, and a shot of tequila.
30. When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.
31. Dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish.
32. A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you can prove that you don’t need it.
33. Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
34. Why do Americans choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?
35. The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
36. Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.
37. I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.
38. A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it.
Excellent, Tom! Stolen!
Morning!
Good morning Tom.
Nicked and circulated.
Keep them coming.
Good morrow, Gentlefolk – today’s funny:
Here is the definition of “paraprosdokian”.
“Figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently used in a humorous situation.”
“Where there’s a will, I want to be in it,” is a type of paraprosdokian. Here are a few to enjoy.
1. Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it’s still on my list.
3. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
4. If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
6. War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
8. Evening news is where they begin with ‘Good Evening,’ and then proceed to tell you why it isn’t.
9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
10. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.
11. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted pay checks.
12. Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says, ‘In case of emergency, notify:’ I put ‘DOCTOR.’
13. I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
14. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
15. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
16. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.
17. I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
18. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
19. Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.
20. There’s a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can’t get away.
21. I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not so sure.
22. You’re never too old to learn something stupid.
23. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
24. Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.
25. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
26. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
27. A diplomat is someone who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip.
28. Hospitality is making your guests feel at home even when you wish they were.
29. I always take life with a grain of salt. Plus, a slice of lemon, and a shot of tequila.
30. When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.
31. Dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish.
32. A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you can prove that you don’t need it.
33. Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
34. Why do Americans choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?
35. The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
36. Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.
37. I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.
38. A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it.
Morning everyone.
I guess it was the Russians who blew up their own bridge this weekend.
It “obviously” must be, Paul.
After all, they blew up their own export pipelines, so it must be them.
The Ukrainians have wanted to blow up that bridge ever since it was built.
Forensic analysis suggests that the explosives were in place beforehand and triggered by some boat below the bridge at the best time. A passing munitions lorry or a train full of fuel might be a good time to set it off, and would need someone close by with a mobile phone to get the timing right.
Now, who would have access to information as to what is passing over that bridge at any time? A sacked general who’d rather his men were drinking vodka than teaching suspect Nazis a lesson maybe?
Good morning, everyone. Today’s Telegraph Letters are as annoying as usual. Many are happy to badmouth Liz Truss, blaming her for past governments’ lack of foresight on securing energy self-sufficiency, without acknowledging her plans deal with inherited problems and working to accelerate self-sufficiency by fast-tracking fracking and encouraging small Rolls-Royce nuclear reactors. Others attack her attempts to kick-start our economy by reducing her predecessors’ tax rises. Others claim that her priorities are not their priorities. When will any of these people give the poor woman a chance to prove her policies – the proof of the pudding is in the eating – and give her at least until Christmas before rushing up to condemn?
If we give her until Christmas, all we get is for appalling decisions and programmes that have been proved not to work, such as Trickle Down, to be presented as fait accomplis we can no longer do anything about. We should have done something about it at the time, rather than letting her press on with them with our tacit approval.
We are where we are. Saying “we should have done something about it at the time” is meaningless, unless you have a time machine to get us back to 20 or so years ago.
Will there be any pudding left after Xmas?
If things improve, hopefully there will be. If nothing is achieved then we can condemn her for her actions then.
Good morning!
If you didn’t pick up on earlier message, package arrived yesterday morning, thank you.
I’m now doing a batch of chutney!
Pleased to hear that, BoB.
Morning, all. Clear and calm in N Essex this morning.
Appears that some strong ladies are entering the political arena in these dangerous times. And we get…
Georgia Meloni
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Go to link to watch Meloni, the image is a screenshot. I cannot get GETTR posts to copy the same way as Twitter.
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Sabotage blamed for major disruption on Germany’s rail network. 9 October 2022.
“The cables were cut in two places,” said Mr Wissing. “It is clear that this was a targeted and malicious action.” Any sabotage of the cables would require “certain knowledge” of the rail system, the Bild newspaper reported.
A spokesman for the Federal Police in Berlin told Bild there was evidence of “targeted external influence”.
“We can’t say much at the moment, it is too early,” said a security source who added an intensive investigation into the incident had begun and there were a variety of possible reasons for it, including simple cable theft.
Actually it indicates a complete ignorance of their purpose. That a State Actor would be reduced to such pettifogging harassment that would make them a laughing stock if they were discovered tells us that the latter explanation is by far the most likely. A couple of lads nicking cable for the scrap copper!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/10/08/sabotage-blamed-major-disruption-germanys-rail-network/
What next? A plague of rude and anonymous letters?
In the UK lots of drain covers and the like went missing, believed stolen by Polish immigrants hoping to sell them for scrap. Too bad cast iron is useless (see railings cut down in WW2 “to make Spitfires”. There are still scrap yards with railings in heaps).
Romanian, I think.
Nowadays we are blessed with Albanian crims.
Not sure it was the Poles who were nicking our manhole covers (womanhole covers are a different shape, I understand). It sounds more the work of Romanians and Albanians, whereas the RoPers go for sheep rustling to supply the kebab trade.
Poles go in more for in-and-out odd-jobbing in order to make some hard currency to build the family home, and go home when the pound drops against the zloty,
It was the pikies
As ever….
Sabotage blamed for major disruption on Germany’s rail network. 9 October 2022.
“The cables were cut in two places,” said Mr Wissing. “It is clear that this was a targeted and malicious action.” Any sabotage of the cables would require “certain knowledge” of the rail system, the Bild newspaper reported.
A spokesman for the Federal Police in Berlin told Bild there was evidence of “targeted external influence”.
“We can’t say much at the moment, it is too early,” said a security source who added an intensive investigation into the incident had begun and there were a variety of possible reasons for it, including simple cable theft.
Actually it indicates a complete ignorance of their purpose. That a State Actor would be reduced to such pettifogging harassment that would make them a laughing stock if they were discovered tells us that the latter explanation is by far the most likely. A couple of lads nicking cable for the scrap copper!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/10/08/sabotage-blamed-major-disruption-germanys-rail-network/
‘Morning, Peeps. A fine and very still start to the day, 7°C now and the promise of 16° later. Mrs HJ is off to a craft fair in London today, so for me a walk along the coast beckons.
Today’s leading letter, and deservedly so:
SIR – I am disappointed to see the latest Ofgem tactic in the energy debate (report, October 7). Apparently power cuts are likely, but they will all be our fault. We must learn to turn down the heating, drive our electric cars less, and generally live more miserable lives.
Nothing is said about the cuts being the result of misguided government policy over the past 20 years. The mad dash to renewables such as wind and solar has exposed the country to shortages when the wind is not blowing and the sun does not shine.
The traditional response of successive energy ministers was that, in these circumstances, gas would make up the difference. How short-sighted they were. The public is now having to make up for this.
If plans for nuclear energy had been properly implemented and the hydrogen economy had been supported, we would not need to rely on gas for our power on sunless and windless days. Sadly, this was not done and now we are destined to suffer.
Why didn’t the Government listen to the engineers and scientists who have been suggesting a more sensible energy policy for years?
Professor R G Faulkner
Loughborough, Leicestershire
Very well said, Prof Faulkner! If they had put a fraction of the effort into a sustainable and affordable energy policy that they expended on greenie virtue-signalling we would not now be in this mess. Furthermore, our economy would have benefited greatly, leaving much of Europe in our wake. Perhaps a few power cuts will finally bring home the damage that our idiotic ‘net zero’ has done to this country. It is insanity on an epic scale, just as many of us predicted.
Sorry, Hugh J, I can’t agree with Professor Faulkner’s analysis. He says “Why didn’t the Government listen to the engineers and scientists… for years?” The answer is that “the Government” was only set up recently, just before Her Majesty the Queen invited Ms Truss to do so as one of the last actions before HM’s death. And the current Government is trying to do something about reversing all the inherited errors of past Governments. It cannot wave a magic wand and make all our current energy problems disappear in a flash, and this is why Ofgen is asking us to help out in getting through this coming winter with the minimum of disruption possible. Ofgen is not blaming us for this. If power cuts do occur, no-one (except for Professor Faulkner) is suggesting that “they will all be our fault”.
That’s being a bit pedantic, Else. Maybe Hugh should have said ‘government’ instead of ‘the Government’.
StormInaDcup: I don’t think I am being pedantic. Nowhere in his post does Hugh use the word government or Government. It is the Professor who does so, and it is him I am criticising. PS – The real answer to Prof Faulkner’s question – as he almost certainly knows – is that politicians in general prefer to kick difficult decisions into the future for someone else to deal with rather than deal with the problems themselves.
Why does it take 20 years to build a power station? We have the technology. Detailed plans as in a drawer. We should be able to do it in two years. The dreadful delays involving planning applications, objectors, public enquiries that last for years could be eliminated at a stroke if the government wished it so. (The government managed to cancel all our human rights, the Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta, and the UN Charter at a stroke, because of a bad ‘flu.)
‘Morning, Elsie – and no need to apologise. If you look again at his letter, he says “Nothing is said about the cuts being the result of misguided government policy over the past 20 years.” He is clearly blaming successive governments, not this one which is only 4 weeks old (although it may seem longer than that!). It is particularly shameful that much of this shambles has taken place under 12 years of Conservative governments. Admittedly Dodgy Dave did set in motion the construction of Hinkley Point C, but it simply wasn’t enough, and after that energy planning went rapidly downhill.
If I recall, the biggest issue with Hinkley Point C was that it was tied up with a contract with the French, who were cross with us over Brexit and determined to make us pay for it, and the Chinese, whose nuclear technology has not been shown to be safe.
We long disposed of our own expertise.
The arguments over the contract went on for a long time before Brexit. The EDF board approved the contract little more than a month after the referendum.
Our problem is at the very least twofold.
Firstly, some of our political class are aware of this phenomenon but are working to an agenda that has total control over the populace, including diet, finance, travel, health etc. as their aim.
Secondly, the remaining politicos are either too dumb to understand the basic science above; equally dumb about what their leaders are up to; are deliberately ignoring what is being done and do not care so long as the pay cheques and expenses continue to arrive or a combination of all three shortcomings.
Plausible denial i.e. “Policy was above my pay-grade” or “I was not on the information circulation list”, will not hold water. Neither will actually being dumb or appearing to inhabit that state of mind.
‘Morning, Korky. For me this BTLer sums it up nicely – his final para says it all:
Tom France
1 HR AGO
Loyalty is hardly the characteristic I would associate with any group of MPs, Conservative or Labour. The present unease in the ranks, sniping, open rebellion and plotting are symptoms of a government that is heading for electoral defeat. Perhaps if any Tory MPs actually cared about our country rather than themselves they might decide to keep mouths closed and give Truss a chance. Replacing her now would be folly.
Those of us old enough know what the alternative is. Militant unions, more strikes, way above inflation pay rises, more and more money spent on the NHS and Social care. Higher unemployment, lower productivity, more immigration and the downward spiral.
I am sometimes quite relieved that I am in the “autumn of my years” or perhaps winter-you never know.
Never, in over 50 years of taking an interest in politics have I seen such a lack of talent on either front bench. Just who amongst this shower of nobodies has any intellectual standing, integrity, natural authority and an impressive “hinterland”? Not one. We deserve better, so much better.
Can’t argue with that.
Governments listened to the scientists, they always do: unfortunately they invariably listen to the wrong scientists, climate change, Covid, swine flu, foot and mouth disease, etc etc.
I think, as amply demonstrated in 1992, that most people prefer income tax cuts today rather than warm homes in twenty years time. This is perhaps why there has been a poverty in investment over the decades which is now catching up with us.
Furthermore, why is it that building HS2 was given higher priority than building a power station to replace those we knew were coming to the end of their lives. Is it that zil lanes for influential corporate executives, so they could do the journey up north and back in a day without having to stop in a pleb provincial boarding house, was better for growth, growth, growth?
The answer to his question is “Because they were listening to the siren voices from Davos.”
Every PM since at least Blair has been in the pockets of the Bilderberg/WEF camp – as is new occupant of the throne.
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Industrial Inaction.
A further letter that should enrage those who sought to return us to the Stone Age:
SIR – Can any eco-warrior please explain why it is greener to cut down trees in Canada, turn them into pellets, then ship them to the Drax power station, rather than dig up trees underground that have been dead for millions of years here in Britain and use the result to restart our power stations?
When the lights go out in the winter I hope the greens will realise what they have done.
Jonathan Moore
Wimblington, Cambridgeshire
Any student of Schumacher might point out that the real villain here is centralising energy production onto Drax, necessitating global scale supply of fuel, rather than making best use of what is locally available.
The same technology could be used to coppice woodland in the UK. Wood harvested from stools exploit excess CO2 by growing faster, and after coppicing leaving the roots intact, the trees’ natural reaction is to put on a flush of growth making the return so much quicker. This can be kept going for a very long time.
However, it is unlikely that pocket coppices could satisfy the appetite of a large central power station such as Drax without clogging the roads with lorry traffic. However if coppice material along with scrap wood that would normally end up in skips or on bonfires fired up local generators at village or even household level, and then fed into the national grid, with enough of them, it may make a substantial difference to our overall national demand for energy, and mostly derived from CO2 we produce through living and through industry.
I take your point, JM, but I suspect that our island could never sustain the biomass consumption of Drax, which exceeds 7 million tons* per year. If you saw Panorama last week you may recall the footage of a train loaded with 1,800 tons of biomass making its way to Drax. I thought to myself “Well, that should keep it going for a day or two”. In fact, it would consume that load in just 2 hours. I reckon that this country simply doesn’t have sufficient space to grow and harvest coppice at that rate, even if scrap wood was collected and used.
* To make 7 million tons of biomass requires twice that quantity of green wood to be dried and compressed before it can be burnt.
The Drax situation is in my view totally unsustainable for many reasons and should never have been implemented in the first place.
It’s patently obvious that all resources, even sustainable ones, are finite. Exceeding demand for the sake of growth inevitably leads to depletion and a much greater calamity than if we cut our cloth according to what we had, even if this means wearing the same miniskirt next year.
Why should we take a Single Market approach to energy production anyway? No one technology could provide for all our needs, but a combination of a variety of them, each individually exploited at a time of maximum availability, preference and lowest cost and shuffled around by the second if needs be, is a healthy market approach. It may be at odds with the directive conformity understood and favoured by experts though.
Our coppicing efforts in the garden feed our own woodburner.
Trees blown down by the wind feeds mine
Ther are still tidying up from last autumns storms, sorting the fallen trees and collecting them for timber.
So far, Firstborn has had 20 cubic metres of top quality pine collected, more to go. Payment will follow at the end of the year.
You are Bob of Bonsall, and I claim my 5 bob postal order! ‘Morning Spikey!
Morning Sue – jeez it’s blowing a hooley up here – I may end up with more wood
The Greeniacs will be delighted. All those people dying.
Yes. I fear Jonathan Moore is one of the majority who simply doesn’t realise where the goal posts are.
Good morning, all. Clear skies – chilly.
Behind Moscow’s bluster, sanctions are making Russia suffer. 9 October 2022.
Fears that Russia is navigating its way around sanctions are unfounded, according to experts who say Moscow is suffering a bigger hit than institutions such as the World Bank have been predicting.
Some analysts have interpreted the strength of the rouble, the size of the warchest of cash available to Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin’s ability to redirect exports destined for Europe to willing southern neighbours as a signal that the arsenal of sanctions deployed against Moscow is failing to bite.
They are? Lol. It doesn’t look like it from the second paragraph. I know what effect they are having here in the UK! Fuel and Food prices are going through the roof so much so that the government is obliged to subsidise domestic fuel bills. The £pound is sinking like Whale Poop and the American Strategic Fuel Reserve is on its last legs. Vlad may not be winning (at the moment) the War in Ukraine but in my view he’s ahead with the Economic one.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/08/behind-moscows-bluster-sanctions-are-making-russia-suffer
The expression is “Catching a Tartar”.
The Mail leads this morning with Gove and his continuing support of the Green movement with which Labour has aligned itself as an opposition tactic to the Government. With fossil fuels now as a critical ingredient to the growrh of both the economy and food production the Government’s attempts at increased UK self reliance must allow us to put saving the planet, in favour of the human race, on the back burner – that is if there is still enough gas in the pipeline!
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I really don’t know where Gove is going with this.
Firstly, the leader was appointed by a democratic vote, that he wanted, if he was not prepared to accept the outcome of that democracy, why did he vote to have a leadership contest?
And then, does he think the Tory party will be seen in a better light by having another leadership contest, taking another month or two months to appoint a new leader in the middle of a crisis when we have just had 2 months of governmental paralysis?
If he wants all the Tories to lose their seats, then crack on, but when I put the latest polling into an MRP model, it came out with the Tories currently getting just 14 seats and Gove would lose his
SIR – Letters on removing house guests reminded me of courting my wife.
We would watch television at her parents’ house. When the programme
ended just before 10pm, my future father-in-law would get up, turn off
the television, turn on the main light, turn off the heating and go to
bed.
My future wife and mother-in-law would then turn off the bright light, turn on the heating and get out the booze.
Why do you think I married her?
Rob Dorrell
Bath, Somerset
Lol.
Morning Phizzee
The shock and suprise I have every time when Moh says bedtime .. when I am sitting cosily watching a TV prog when he has been asleep on the sofa for a few hours.. The TV is switched off and the floor lights off .. overhead light on … and that is it ..BED TIME..
I usually squeak ..”But I am not playing golf early in the morning”
Good morning. Don’t you find his behaviour controlling?
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Good Morning! The sun may soon shine.
Good Morning Folks,
The sun is shining here
What a difference 3 minutes make!
Isn’t that a Marilyn Monroe quote.
It might be, but I know nothing and make it all up.
The public will feel the pain of winter power cuts after decades of government failure
It wasn’t failure, this is the outcome those that want us to do things differently wanted all along
Morning Bob. The present situation is the outcome (regardless of which party was in power) of twenty years of Socialism!
Good Morning everybody.
Another fine day
Good morning, everyone.
Good Morning Delboy
Morning, Bob. Chilly but glorious sunshine.
Good Moaning.
Sunny and crisp. Just like me.
Bright here but a bit Pearl Harbour
Brightish here.
Gales here, rain coming
Heading our way for later
Going home today after a w/e away. If the water’s not back on when I get back I’ll be glad of some rain to stand and wash my hair in.
Clucking Bell. That must have some water main.
Take a bucket of water away and home with you, that’ll save you standing outside 😉
Some time later. Penny drops. There is a nip in the air.
Were you deep and even as well when King Wenslas last looked out?
Another bl**dy septic word. The Welsh chap who invented it should have insisted on all words’ being British English before he sold it to NYT.
(I put a D as the first letter – who wouldn’t?)
Wordle 477 X/6
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Good morning D
There is only English or corrupted English.
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Does anyone know of any shops in the UK (outside London) that sell proper croissants that taste like the ones you get in yer Frogland?
No. Next question 🤔
Fairy nuff
There is an invisible force field around France and Italy that holds in taste, and prevents anything from tasting as good when taken or made outside the country…
When you say ‘taste’ I’m sure you really mean flavour.
Taste is a sense: flavour is what food imparts.
If you ask him nicely, I’m sure Grizzly will make you some.
If D-cup were local, I’d be honoured to do so.
I think there is a company in North West London that makes them. I remember passing it on the way to work in Hammersmith.
https://www.thespruceeats.com/best-frozen-croissants-5085181
Never understood the allure of croissants. Tasteless and cloying.
I have to make almond croissants, over here, to satisfy a local demand. I agree that plain ones are a bit overrated, but filled with a home-made frangipane, topped with toasted almonds and dusted with icing sugar they are vastly improved.
Almond croissants are our brekkie treat.
Do you have a recipe, as we just buy them from a local shop.
https://thecafesucrefarine.com/ridiculously-easy-almond-croissants/
I’ve tried a few but this one has become my go-to recipe. It always gets a big thumbs-up.
Ta muchly. Will have a bash.
A spot of Sunday Wail to pass the morning.
London’s finest doing the square root of bu88erall:
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Good to see the police being heavy-handed……
Good morning all.
A better night’s sleep than usual and it’s 1°C outside after a clear moonlit night. Dry with scattered cloud.
I slept well – had some interesting dreams – shame I can’t remember them. The moon had disappeared when I got out the second time but was very bright earlier.
Morning all 🙂
Bright start again, lovely.
Thinking about the lies our political classes have let seep out, this current situation is studded with absolute hypocrisy and more damn lies.
They lecture us on climate change and global warming electric car’s etc, etc. But have allowed at least the human content of Wembley stadium to arrive here and Iive off the British taxpayers for nothing. One hundred thousand people with an original carbon footprint each of zilch are now lording it up in hotels all around the country. The carbon emissions of each must now be enormous. But let’s remember that this is government speech. It sounds a lot like that horrible git Gove.
As more and more new homes are built on greenbelt and agricultural land the stupid government will move them in. Higher carbon footprints. They’ll own cars even higher footprints.
Established brits who work or own their homes are now being forced to pay for all this because of the lies regarding the rise in prices especially energy costs.
Grimes
National Trust chief says Truss is ‘demonising’ conservationists
“The boss of the National Trust has threatened to mobilise her 5.7 million members in a mass campaign to defend the environment. Hilary McGrady, who has been director-general of the charity since 2018, accused Liz Truss of “demonising” conservationists and said her members were “outraged and worried” about the threat posed by the new…”
We all remember the previous one, Golly Ghosh, who went on to be Master of Rainbow Bailliol. NcGrady is a tiresome Northern Irish greeniac. From Wiki:
“In 2020, the Trust celebrated its 125th anniversary, with McGrady announcing that the organisation would reach Net Zero carbon emissions by 2030, including the planting of 20 million trees.[8] She also pledged to create 20 ‘green corridors’: connecting urban areas with wilder countryside for people and nature. The first of these was announced in Bath in 2022.[9]
The majority of the anniversary celebrations were however cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic, with McGrady making a number of media interventions on the organisation’s financial losses, and the need for a sustainable recovery.[10]
The publication of a research document exploring National Trust places’ links with slavery and colonialism in 2020 attracted controversy.”
What have ‘green corridors’ got to do with the preservation of the buildings of Merrie Olde England for the nation?
Mission creep if ever there was
Perhaps they should start by 700 thousand of them turning up at Westminster kicking our the crop of political idiots and chucking them all into the Thames.
That’ll give the RNLI something more important to do.
They’re not conservationists, that’s the problem. They don’t conserve. They’re wreckers.
Good morning!
Extinction
I woke up just before 6 AM this morning and turned on the bedside radio to catch the BBC’s version of the News on Radio 4.
The next item was ‘Something Understood’ in which the author and Agony Aunt Irma Kurz, with her impeccable diction, played an eclectic selection of music and poetry in support of the concept of travel. I grabbed a pen and wrote all the items down.
I suddenly realised I had enjoyed it because there had been no tinkly-winkly ‘music’ in the background!
Soon after, there was a ‘Natural Histories’ item on how the Great Auk was deliberately driven to extinction in 1844.
There was a link here – the BBC has extinguished my enjoyment of most of its programmes because there is almost invariably noise (I won’t dignify it by calling it music) pushing itself in over the text. Those of us whose hearing is deteriorating will know how annoying this is.
That led me to think about Extinction Rebellion, Stop the Oil and other daft, disruptive people, many of whom have been arrested and several convicted. Since their names and addresses are known, it should not be too difficult to suspend their use of plastic (credit and travel cards), deliveries (Amazon, groceries, mail) and so on for a 3 month period to show them just how much their lives depend on plastics and essential transport-driven infrastructure.
I have now received five separate letters and an equal number of texts reminding me that I haven’t yet had a Covid-19 booster (which I will definitely NOT take up). There must be so many databases with everybody’s name and address on them, that to do as I suggest above with the daft protestors should be trivially easy.
EDIT: Sorry, Morning All!
A dangerous and extreme suggestion I feel?
I am no supporter of any of these fanatics, whatever their cause. But, in my view, freedom of expression and the rule of law are paramount.
May I gently remind you that anti-vax supporters like you (and me) protesting in Canada had their financial activity suspended without due process? Is this really what you are proposing?
Hello Sailor,
In my view, Freedom of Expression does not include deliberately impeding ambulances and workers going about their LAWFUL and often life-saving business.
I am NOT an anti-vaxxer – I accepted my two Astra-Zeneca jabs in January and April 2021, because my researches showed that it was prepared (like many other true and thoroughly tested vaccines) from a weakened (chimpanzee) adenovirus, rather than employing a tampered mRNA.
My first university degree in 1962 was in Microbiology (Virology Bacteriology and Mycology) and I have Microbiological publications in the scientific literature, as well as many in Experimental Pathology. Messenger RNA had just been discovered in 1961, and was becoming hot news to us Cell Biologists.
“You don’t mess with Messenger RNA” is a good mantra, unless you are attempting to genetically modify the cells of sufferers with inherited life-threatening diseases such as Cystic Fibrosis.
According to http://www.medlineplus.gov, ‘Messenger RNA is a type of RNA that is necessary for protein production. In cells, mRNA uses the information in genes to create a blueprint for making proteins. Once cells finish making a protein, they quickly break down the mRNA. mRNA from vaccines does not enter the nucleus and does not alter DNA’.
The trouble is, the ModeRNA injectate contains an mRNA that has been artificially built to include the modified nucleobase N1-methylpseudouridine (m1Ψ) to increase their effectiveness. Instead of being deleted by the body after they have done their planned ‘work’ in teaching cells to recognise Covid-19 spike protein, there is increasing evidence that these synthetic mRNA molecules are persisting and migrating to many other tissues of the body, causing a strong decrease in immune status (and so requiring many boosters to overcome this).
The only boosters available to me are Pfizer/ModeRNA, which I wouldn’t touch with a barge pole. I am 81 years old and after my two Astra-Zeneca jabs, caught the ‘original’ Covid disease (which I wouldn’t have known I had if I hadn’t asked a Care-worker for a Lateral Flow Test kit). I believe (and have evidence to back this up) that my naturally acquired immunity to all the spike proteins on the original SARS-Covid-19 virus [if that’s what I really caught in August 2021] is much better than that offered by synthetic mRNAs. The sh!t-storm is yet to come.
The suicide squad on manoeuvres – god help us.
If this is true the Tories are forming their own circular firing squad, Sunak is now carrying such baggage, like him being a billionaire, has a partygate fine, and would be easy meat for Labour to ridicule. They have gone completely mad!
The conspirators mentioned by name are a gruesome collection of all that is wrong with the parliamentary conservative party.
Yes, the article writer seems a little irony impaired after having gone to great pains to say Rishi wasn’t involved and then named him!
MoreDoubt is vacuous, I’m surprised at Wallace given he wouldn’t run himself, and I’m surprised at Cleverly, that’s not very clever.
Mordaunt is a WEF creature. Her book forward was written by Bill Gates.
I seriously doubt she could inspire a puppy to poop. How she got to be third says a lot about the current Tory Party.
I think a lot of Tory MPs of a certain age fancy a fat slapper – that’s why they went for Petty Officer Mordaunt.
Our politicians in government have already committed a treasonous offence by lying to the electorate before the last election. And so it continues on an hourly basis. They have even moved the landing points to under the white cliffs, to stop the media from counting the daily arrivals.
No blue birds allowed.
The manifesto promise was on LEGAL immigration policy which they have fulfilled as per the manifesto pledge.
Illegal immigration, by its nature does not respond to law changes because it was illegal in the first place.
Unfortunately for all of us, the government is constrained by law, unless it seriously changes those laws, its stuck by woke judges.
To change what is necessary will be delayed as much as possible by the woke Lords
Not one of those immigrants are legal, not one of them has applied to come here, through or usuing the proper established process.
Our politicians are nothing more than habitual and pathological liars.
Did you read what I posted? I said illegals don’t follow the law, so changing the law makes no difference does it?
Its the government constrained by PRIOR laws that it will struggle to repeal, because there are too many wets in the Tory Party – so will struggle to get past the commons and anything that gets past the commons will be held up in the Lords for as long as possible.
If the government do know what the problem is and what the people want. They are not the government. The government let all these people in and have way of knowing who or what they are. And don’t appear to care. Most of them will never be effected by the increasing population.
What is happening is similar to a person answering a knock on their door and a whole family pushing past and moving in. And as far as your much favoured legal system and the law is concerned by the time anything is done about this illegal act. The whole of our culture and social structure will be even further diminished.
One question, do you think a government should act legally and obey court judgements?
Or do you think it should break the law its supposed to be the “body” making law?
Remember the Liverpool hospital bomber? Failed asylum application in 2014, still here in 2021. Why?
Because they can’t deport him because no country will take him. What’s your alternative? have them shot instead?
I think you have answered your own question and mine and millions of other people’s opinions. They should not be able to come into the country full stop.
There’s probably an application process but our stupid political classes for their own dubious reasons, have shoved under the proverbial carpet.
So bring back all the people that helped wreck the country before?
Well, you can have Labour instead, if of course you think that’s a better option?
It wouldn’t be a better option, just more of the same
Oh believe me, a lot more.
If I offered you a choice of a punch in the face or two punches in the face, which would you choose?
They are all working for the forces of globalism it will be exactly the same.
Maybe it will all end a bit quicker but, do you rally believe that the people we elect have any power?
Yes I do, but as I said to the headbangers on the Speccie about a month ago, if everyone wants loads of tax cuts and an end to the green lobby, why are all the votes the Tories are losing going exclusively to Labour and not the Reform party that’s never moved from 3-4% in the polls?
They didn’t have any answers, do you?
That’s assuming the polls are right
Well, put it this way, there is a margin of error on polls, but its nowhere near 30%
Have you ever been asked?
I was once phone-polled about starving children in Africa. My reply was not what the woman expected.
Neither. Thus indicating that a third choice is needed – wasted though it might be, the lot of them need a drubbing like nothing else.
Then once they all lose their seats democracy imposed on them all.
There’s no damned difference. They all seem stupid, mendacious fools.
How come these people who voted in Untrustworthy now want her out? They haven’t given her much of a chance have they. For the record I think there was very little choice in any case. However it is as it is. These MPs are all only thinking of their own futures. I’m not sure I will bother voting again.
What they also ignore (and why they are plotting a coup without the membership getting a say) is that when Sunak was polled by members against Truss, Mourdant, and Badenoch he came out as a significant loser to all three.
There was only one person who could have saved the Conservative Party and that was Lord Frost and even he might well have failed to do so.
I think that the death wish is so strong in the party at the moment that many of its members knew that this was the case and so were determined that he should not be offered a parliamentary seat such as Tiverton which he would have won.
Bob Dylan’s lines in Love Minus Zero comes to mind:
She knows there’s no Success like Failure
And that Failure’s no Success at all.
Frost is likely staying out of the way. When the tories implode, he should be relatively unscathed.
The Tories who want to get rid of Truss are almost entirely “Remainers”;
They are quite happy to sacrifice themselves and their colleagues to get a Starmer Government, which would try to get us back into the EU.
The only hope in the medium term is that the EU will implode before we are returned.
A BTL under a DT article which I posted above:
It now looks as if we shall only get a proper Brexit when the rest of the EU has disintegrated but knowing our treacherous politicians and civil servants they will be so determined to thwart Britain’s chances that they will continue to apply EU rules even when the EU no longer exists!
Fairly inevitable, sadly
There was only one person who could have saved the Conservative Party and that was Lord Frost and even he might well have failed to do so.
I think that the death wish is so strong in the party at the moment that many of its members knew that this was the case and so were determined that he should not be offered a parliamentary seat such as Tiverton which he would have won.
Bob Dylan’s lines in Love Minus Zero comes to mind:
She knows there’s no Success like Failure
And that Failure’s no Success at all.
“… and give the party a better chance of holding on to seats at the next election.”
That’s their (ha ha) long term view of the next election.
I suppose they’ll superglue their bums to the seat.
Their only view is not the good-health of the country but the good-health of their purses and wallets.
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Well, good luck with the alternative!
Ancient Wisdom
Keep this in mind the next time you are about to repeat a rumour or spread gossip.
In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day an acquaintance ran up to him excitedly and said, “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about Diogenes?”
“Wait a moment,” Socrates replied, “Before you tell me I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Triple Filter Test.”
“Triple filter?” asked the acquaintance.
“That’s right,” Socrates continued, “Before you talk to me about Diogenes let’s take a moment to filter what you’re going to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you made
absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”
“No,” the man said, “Actually I just heard about it.”
“All right,” said Socrates, “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about Diogenes something good?”
“No, on the contrary…”
“So,” Socrates continued, “You want to tell me something about Diogenes that may be bad, even though you’re not certain it’s true?”
The man shrugged, a little embarrassed. Socrates continued, “You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter, the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about Diogenes going to be useful to me?”
“No, not really.”
“Well,” concluded Socrates, “If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me or anyone at all?”
The man was bewildered and ashamed. This is an example of why Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.
Fine words, I hope you remember them when Labour are busy undoing Brexit!
Ancient Wisdom
Keep this in mind the next time you are about to repeat a rumour or spread gossip.
In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day an acquaintance ran up to him excitedly and said, “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about Diogenes?”
“Wait a moment,” Socrates replied, “Before you tell me I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Triple Filter Test.”
“Triple filter?” asked the acquaintance.
“That’s right,” Socrates continued, “Before you talk to me about Diogenes let’s take a moment to filter what you’re going to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you made
absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”
“No,” the man said, “Actually I just heard about it.”
“All right,” said Socrates, “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about Diogenes something good?”
“No, on the contrary…”
“So,” Socrates continued, “You want to tell me something about Diogenes that may be bad, even though you’re not certain it’s true?”
The man shrugged, a little embarrassed. Socrates continued, “You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter, the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about Diogenes going to be useful to me?”
“No, not really.”
“Well,” concluded Socrates, “If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me or anyone at all?”
The man was bewildered and ashamed. This is an example of why Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.
There is NO alternative. I shall probably have to spoil my ballot paper with NOTA.
Same difference, you’ll still get Labour
I’m sick and tired of that bloody party. It’s a bunch of rats in a sack. For the first time in decades we finally get a bally blasted Tory government with Tory blasted policies and the bunch of squabbling, petulant brats set about promoting their own sodding careers over the national good.
The lot of them need taking outside, given a thorough drubbing and a kick up the back side and tod to behave like adults and do what’s right for the country – and tell the squabbling Left to shut up – or better yet, ignore them utterly.
My PayPal account is staying firmly cancelled.
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If anyone still has a PayPal account, apparently the 2500 dollar fine is already written into their terms and conditions…
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A thoroughly toxic company!
“Error”? Pull the other one!
‘Morning, bb2.
“It’s an error” = “Bu88er, they noticed.”
Birdie Three today
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Bit old (from early September), but shows there’s another plot to bring back Boris.
EXCLUSIVE: Tory MPs plot to bring back Boris Johnson with vote this winter to sack Liz Truss
They really DO have a death wish…
Well, before they threw Boris out, the Tories were polling 31-35% to Labour’s 38-42%, about a 7 pt deficit on average and below most mid term polling historically.
Now the Tories are polling 20-24 to Labour’s 48-52 – that’s a 28pt deficit, it currently looks like Truss has lost them 20 pts in the polls
“One Tory said: “Liz is not very bright.” Another added: “Our only chance is with Boris.”
Cameron and Gove’s policy of selecting Tory candidates from central office is catching up with them. Only idiots to choose from in Parliament. Gove thought he was so clever, only recruiting people he could control.
He failed to control his wife.
I wonder how much political ambition is driven by a fear of sexual inadequacy. Boris Johnson is another case in point – why was he so determined to show the world that he can seduce gullible women?
“that he can seduce gullible women?”He can be gullibly seduced by women?Liz Truss seems to me to be similar to a district councillor attempting a power point presentation .
Dear heavens , do I feel weary and fed up with politics .
Moh and I were watching Laura K interviewing St Nicola a few minutes ago , and Sturgeon is just as vacant .
The population of Scotland is 5,479,900… where does Scotland get all their money from ?
Guess!
Where? from us. Our UK budget deficit is 6.8%, In Scotland its 12.7%
Have you heard of the Barnett Formula?
Is it a new hair preparation?
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It’s the one where English tax-payers tear their hair out at the sight of their hard-earned cash being splashed up the wall 🙂
Bloody Hell! That’s rich coming from a Tory MP after what’s been happening since Cameron took over. Has this prat looked in the mirror lately?
Truss hasn’t had an auspicious start, resembling a WEF ‘plant’ with her support for kinetic war in the Ukraine. However, if she stopped the sabre rattling and got on with addressing the horrific problems at home by applying some genuine conservative policies alongside telling the EU to get lost she might have some success dealing with Labour. If she’s incapable of putting Starmer back in his box then she’s doomed, as we all will be.
One has to live with a modicum of dwindling hope.
What “sabre rattling” is she doing that Boris didn’t and that Sir Kneelalot wouldn’t do if he got in?
Your point is?
As far as I have seen so far Untrustworthy has been extremely keen to ramp up the rhetoric against Russia. It should be none of our business. And why we are sending Ukraine £ms heaven only knows. Money that we will have to borrow, too. I know Boris did the same and I couldn’t understand it then. Couldn’t care less about Sneer Karma, at the moment he’s irrelevant.
Putin’s bridge too far. Editorial. 9 October 2022.
Incredibly, there are still nations that support Moscow or refuse to condemn its war crimes properly. This ambiguity is unsustainable. It is imperative that China, India and all of Russia’s supposed allies tell it not to escalate the situation further. Any more grotesque hints that Putin might use so-called “tactical” nuclear weapons must immediately incur the total, unequivocal condemnation of every country in the world. Whether or not that would be enough, we do not know. But the time for stupid geopolitical games by countries that should know better is over.
This is pompous self-serving drivel. There is nothing incredible about it at all! The truth is that the majority of nations on the planet have not bought in to the anti-Russian rhetoric and that quite a few of them are actually sympathetic to Russia’s real aim which is to destroy the dollar hegemony. They may not be able to oppose the US openly but they are not going to help it either!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2022/10/09/putins-bridge-far/
“Incredibly, there are still nations that support Moscow or refuse to condemn its war crimes properly. This ambiguity is unsustainable.”
Hysteria!
Morning BB. I caught the BBC News yesterday and they are peddling the War Crimes story with every bulletin. I have looked at several of these in detail and I’m less than convinced. “Mass Graves” are not War Crimes per se. They are an inescapable result of any conflict.
The graves newly set out with respectful little crosses?
What is placed on the graves of Muslims? Presumably it would be considered a gross insult to place a cross?
It could be worse.
Croissants?
The head of an infidel?
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Just so you know, if anyone is thinking of bestowing a CBE on me I shall refuse it and then go on the telly and make a fuss
Fury after woke orchestra which has received more than £1m of public money refused to play the National Anthem after the Queen died because it ‘symbolises the ‘racist’ British Empire’ – despite its director and founder previously receiving a CBE
Chineke! Orchestra performed at Swiss festival during mourning the period
But founder and artistic director Chi-chi Nwanoku banned God Save The King
Move was criticised by MPs and musical figures as Ms Nwanoku accepted CBE
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Another quadroon.
Another nasty racist quadroon!
She is a slave to fashion.
Half Oirish so none too fond of the mother country {:^}}
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chi-chi1
adjective
attempting stylish elegance but achieving only an over-elaborate pretentiousness.
“the tiny chi-chi dining room”
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
Simples – take the CBE back!
…and the OBE and the MBE and the £1,000,000 (if you can find it)
Seize and sell their instruments.
The things people will do to try and get booked by the BBC
Bass-ically a Smug expression.
Good morning all.
Never heard of her, but her father was a wise man (born circa 1912 – died 2004, psychiatrist).
Extract from an interview “‘I didn’t raise my hand because my father taught me to turn the other cheek,’ she says. ‘He was a very calm person who used to say: “When people behave badly it says more about them than about you.” Anyway I was more fascinated by this word coming out of her mouth with such vitriol and passion.’
That word was ‘wog’.”
Racism is easy, tolerance can be difficult.
An acquaintance is an ‘ethnically diverse’ young musician, so the least I can do is to wonder about the other side of Chi-chi Nwanoku’s refusal.
The Chineke! Foundation has been awarded a grant of £150,000 by Arts Council England.
The Arts Council is funded by the government. It has been so taken over by the woke that it only funds left wing projects.
It should either be scrapped completely or funded by voluntary contributions. Why should people who are not of a left wing persuasion have to pay through their taxes to support this?
Wasn’t there an article on this over the weekend in the Terriblegraph?
Found it – today’s main paper.
“Two leading arts commentators are calling for Arts Council England (ACE) to be abolished, arguing that it has been taken over by “highly-politicised staff ” whose “Left-wing, woke agenda” is generally failing to support “art of real consequence”.
Alexander Adams, an artist and art historian, and David Lee, editor of The Jackdaw magazine, say that the funding body’s priorities are “now political, not artistic”, while “hostile to the taste and values of the majority population”.
They describe ACE’s ethos as “rotten with politicisation and disregard for taxpayers”, adding that ACE-funded venues “allow creators resentful of native British people, their history and their majority demographic status”.
Their criticisms fill a new pamphlet, titled “Abolish the Arts Council”, published this weekend.
Mr Adams said: “Good artists have given up patience because they have been shut out of the system for not conforming to ACE’s Left-wing agenda. So, ACE has become an obstacle to the arts in this country.”
The pamphlet’s authors condemn a “suffocating political monoculture in the public arts”, where administrators are “disproportionately” Left wing, anti-Brexit and anti-monarchy, and in which ACE “presents no genuine political diversity”.
ACE, alongside its regional sister organisations covering Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is the UK’s largest arts funding organisation.
The pamphlet’s authors note that ACE’s annual budget for 2020-21 was £690 million, including £149 million from the Culture Recovery Fund, and employs 639 full-time staff.
The authors despair that the current model of arts funding is “imperilled” by “politically orientated staff ”.
Mr Adams said: “Staff are expected to agree with the Left-wing identity-politics views of ACE regarding racial bias and historical injustice.” Mr Adams’s artworks are in the Victoria & Albert Museum, among other public institutions, and he has written books on Degas and Magritte. Last year, as reported in The Daily Telegraph, he accused the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London of having become a political platform.
The new pamphlet notes that, in 2019-20, the ICA received £1.7 million from ACE and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport: “In return – while ICA staff were at home, furloughed – it emailed provocative press releases promoting anti-capitalism, race grievance, bail funds for violent criminals, decolonialisation, pornography, migration advocacy, sex in public and religious sectarianism.”
The pamphlet also condemns last year’s decision by English Touring Opera (ETO) to drop half of its musicians in the name of diversity, in line with “firm guidance of the Arts Council”.
The pamphlet acknowledges ACE’s support for “serious cultural” projects, but laments that “this activity is not regarded by ACE as central to its mission”.
Ignoring the criticisms, ACE said: “The public want high-quality, worldleading art and we want to ensure that people across the country, wherever they live, have the opportunity to see and engage with brilliant work, from fantastic opera and ballet, to fascinating museum collections and world-leading theatre productions.”
ICA and ETO declined to comment.“
I hope no one pandas to this Chi-chi Nwanoku’s lefty nonsense.
‘Morning All
Modern Life……
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Some people here today will have a problem with that. 😉
My oh my! What a contrast!
Why blowing up the Crimea bridge is a double blow for Putin
Until now an attack on the Kerch bridge seemed unthinkable – for both practical and political reasons
By Roland Oliphant, SENIOR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
8 October 2022 • 6:06pm
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Russians Claim Crimean Bridge Partly Reopen, Damage ‘Insignificant’
Russian authorities claim the rail and road bridge linking Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula is already partly open and the damage to it “insignificant”.
Vladimir Konstantinov, a key figure in Crimea’s Russian-backed regional government, blamed the damage on “Ukrainian vandals, who have finally managed to reach their bloody hands to the Crimean bridge,” according to the BBC.
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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/10/08/russians-claim-crimean-bridge-partly-reopen-damage-insignificant/
What is this thing with writing how something was “unthinkable”? To me, since Russia was resupplying over the bridge, taking it down would be a quick and easy move to really mess up heir operations. So, it was thinkable.
There you go again! Applying logic to the situation.
🙁
My bad.
Should we start whistling “Colonel Bogovsky”?
Two for the price of one?
JAHM yahng • a day ago
Kim Jong-un is reported to be delighted with the distance his new rocket achieves but is concerned that the sat nav may be faulty.
The Woman King’s flawed history lesson. 8 October 2022.
In Hollywood’s history, Gezo is a reluctant slaver forced into the selling of prisoners to fund his purchases of weapons. In the real world, the King was an enthusiastic participant in the trade. In 1850, the British dispatched an officer to Dahomey with a simple mission: to persuade the kingdom to abandon the slave trade. He met with stout resistance. Gezo is quoted as saying:
‘I and my army are ready at all times to fight the queen’s enemies and to do anything the English government may ask me, except to give up the slave trade. No other trade is known to my people… it is the source of their glory and their wealth: their songs celebrate their victories, and the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery. Can I, by signing a treaty, change the sentiments of a whole people?’
This quote reflects the complex reality of slavery in West Africa; far from being solely an imposition by Europeans on African states, the system lasted for so long because it was mutually profitable for indigenous kingdoms to engage in it too. The eventual British colonisation of West Africa was driven in part by the difficulty of eradicating the trade once public sentiment in Britain moved against it.
This is worth reading if only for its rarity. It gives an accurate summation of the reality of the Slave Trade as opposed to the present Woke fantasies. It was not imposed on the Native Africans. They were its founders and the continuous source of it for three centuries. Without them there could have been no trade!
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-woman-king-s-flawed-history-lesson
Stolen from a tweet reproduced on Going Postal
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Babylon Bee TV (5 minutes): Californians move to Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MOy6Z_UP7c
Nauseating. Do they get shot dead at the end?
It’s the bloke wandering about with a gun that does it.
And feeding a dog salad is just horrible. There’s meat everywhere! They’re not going to be happy with ruddy salad!
wibbling, it is just possible that the dog was not really eating salad…
Brexit should have been a warning. Instead, the EU is busy fiddling while Europe burns
If the Bloc is to survive, it needs to reset its priorities – not dictate what USB cables people can use
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/08/brexit-should-have-warning-instead-eu-busy-fiddling-europe-burns/
BTL
Brexit could have been the golden opportunity for Britain but from the moment that Johnson overruled Frost and allowed the Northern Ireland Protocol to come into force and for EU fishermen to continue to plunder British fishing waters Brexit was doomed.
Johnson’s government then did as little as they could not to take advantage of the numerous opportunities that Brexit deregulation could have given.
It now looks as if we shall only get a proper Brexit when the rest of the EU has disintegrated but knowing our treacherous politicians and civil servants they will be so determined to thwart Britain’s chances that they will continue to apply EU rules even when the EU no longer exists!
Isn’t Untrustworthy busy signinG the U.K. up to Macron’s new club? EU mk II.
Good morning Nottlers, one and all. Apropos of nowt this made me chuckle; https://www.diogenesmiddlefinger.com/2022/10/local-woke-businessman-extends-welcome.html#disqus_thread
Edit to add, this is a humourous site.
One Mistake…..should have been card payment only. I would have thought 7 dollars would be easy to comeby.
Goat cum?
Quite.
I suspect the whole thing’s a spoof.
Indeed it is.
It’s a good one, because it could so easily be true in LA or similar places.
Adbul’s favourite condiment.
Old male goats, hmm that reminds me.
You know that film producer who was convicted and imprisoned in the USA for demanding certain favours from women who wished to appear in his films? If you look at a cast list of those who later became stars, one or two did not cum forward to complain.
Obviously it is inappropriate to mention any names especially as rich actresses can afford lawyers.
The rich and famous have their financial security, the also rans will be looking to a nest egg.
…and my BTL Comment on that site:
Talking of Diogenes
Ancient Wisdom
Keep this in mind the next time you are about to repeat a rumour or spread gossip.
In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day an acquaintance ran up to him excitedly and said, “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about Diogenes?”
“Wait a moment,” Socrates replied, “Before you tell me I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Triple Filter Test.”
“Triple filter?” asked the acquaintance.
“That’s right,” Socrates continued, “Before you talk to me about Diogenes let’s take a moment to filter what you’re going to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you made
absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”
“No,” the man said, “Actually I just heard about it.”
“All right,” said Socrates, “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about Diogenes something good?”
“No, on the contrary…”
“So,” Socrates continued, “You want to tell me something about Diogenes that may be bad, even though you’re not certain it’s true?”
The man shrugged, a little embarrassed. Socrates continued, “You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter, the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about Diogenes going to be useful to me?”
“No, not really.”
“Well,” concluded Socrates, “If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me or anyone at all?”
The man was bewildered and ashamed. This is an example of why Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.
Hmmm… it was true as Dio hadn’t just heard about it, he was doing it. As for good… that’s subjective, but, ultimately admitting his guilt would be a good thing. It would alos be useful to Soco.
Thus Dio misled Soco to contiue his deceit!
Here’s some more background to the PayPal 2500 dollar fines affair:
https://www.revolver.news/2021/08/paypals-unholy-alliance-with-adl-opens-the-door-to-a-massive-security-breach/
This has huge implications, which potentially include the handing over of confidential payment data to left wing activists with a proven history of persecuting conservatives.
The list of personal data they collect is really alarming! I’ve never used PayPal but if I was, I’d be cancelling asap!
I joined PayPal in 2007. I have today cancelled my account.
I have not used it for about 2 years and closed my account last week.
Yes – including the contents of online shopping trolleys if they can lift that information.
Trop Tard!!!
PayPal Reverses Course, Says Company Will Not Seize Money From People For Promoting ‘Misinformation’
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/paypal-reverses-course-says-company-will-not-seize-money-people-promoting-misinformation
Thing is, who decides what is misinformation?
After all, there’s scant evidence climate change is caused by man’s industry yet that’s promoted to high heaven.
Ask Saint Jacinda – she knows….
The agreement discussed in this article still stands.
They haven’t rowed back on their partnership with a bunch of left wing activists, nor have they removed the 2500 dollar fine from their t+c.
They remain an extremely dangerous company for any normal person to do business with.
In celebration of black history month I went to Sainsbury’s and walked out without paying for my shopping.
Follow me for more tips.
Stupid boy! Nice one, though…
Tut. Didn’t you stab an assistant or smash a display cabinet to give that genuine ethnic feel?
Ah, but did you try to take anything or, as I imagine you thought about it, realised how utterly heinous the idea of theft is, realised it was anti social, rude and down right criminal and thought ‘I am above such behaviour’?
No, man – he was jus’ into lootin’ man, innit?
I am waiting for White History month, but it will have to be white History 2 years to lay out all the good we have done.
They’ll have you for cultural appropriation.
Chilly in the house. Gorgeous sun outside – lunching in the garden….
Gawd! Just read that as ‘lurching’! Thought you may have overdone the beetroot juice!
Or taken up with hare coursing.
Bill on one of his better days…
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Well, that’s 4lb of peeled & cored apple chopped up, 1lb of onion likewise & several other ingredients chucked into a pan with 1½ pints of malt vinegar & assorted spices now quietly bubbling away on the Rayburn.
Now about to wash up the jars I’ll be needing and shove them into the oven to sterilise.
I use less than half that amount of Sarsons Malt Vinegar. How much sugar do you add?
1½lb in this batch.
Yikes. I never add more than 12 oz.
To how much fruit?
About 4 to 5 lb
I use less than half that amount of Sarsons Malt Vinegar. How much sugar do you add?
I use less than half that amount of Sarsons Malt Vinegar. How much sugar do you add?
Good very late morning from a Saxon Queen with blooded axe and longbow in handbag with marmalade sandwiches .
Both my husband and I had our flu jabs yesterday ( a little like after the horse had bolted for me ). Went to the surgery – no chairs – told to wear mask and be a good sheep and go through the corridor.
We were given a sheet of paper with the words Flu Jab or Covid Jab – I said flu jab – to make the point. As soon as the needle went into my arm I felt a terrible pain go through my arm and my arm has swelled up but apart from that I’m okay apart from a fever – it’s okay now – just under the weather but my husband was nauseous, dizzy and light on his feet and had severe reactions. This has never happened with the flu jabs before- assuming it was the flu jab and not anything else. I simply don’t trust the NHS anymore.
We ‘ve just had this year’s flu. Not too pleasant but have had very much worse. We had Covid in February which was extremely mild – I spent one day in bed, Caroline didn’t.
So we won’t bother with any jabs this season.
#ustoo.
It seems Covid is milder than the fear mongering.
That old saying ‘ an apple a day keeps the doctor away ‘ should be renamed stay healthy by staying away from the doctors.
After researching Quercetin, a flavonoid, for use against CV-19 infection, the information indicated that apples contain a good level of this helpful chemical. Helpful as the ‘gun’ that aids other chemicals to enter the body’s cells. In the case of a virus, Zinc is the ‘bullet’ that the ‘gun fires’ into the target cells. Zinc disrupts the virus’s ability to replicate.
Perhaps there is something to that old adage, after all.
I keep away from the surgery – last time I had need of the GP was in 2019 when I had shingles. I saw a schoolboy trainee doctor who agreed with my diagnosis (as did his supervisor) and prescribed anti-virals, which cleared it up and I had no post-viral symptoms.
We do take Vit D & Vit C from October to March. We are both well.
I am not an “anti-vaxxer” per se. I am anti-involuntary euthanasia. I am simply not prepared to be a guinea pig (laboratory rat) for an untested concoction of chemicals masquerading as a vaccine.
I do not have a flu jab (historical contra-indication) and I doubt there will be any more emerging new diseases that will persuade me to have one.
I am not a guinea pig either.
Pity there is not more like you Grizz.
Chatted with the attendant in my local launderette yesterday while my washing went around and around. He’s a migrant who took three years to reach the UK. His English is very good and he’s very articulate. Having got here and got a job, he’s disgusted with what he found here. He says the people are like obedient rats. Sadly it’s hard to disagree.
Is he cutting his losses and going home?
Possibly. I think he undertook the journey expecting our lost civilisation.
Not only have I never had the Wuhan jab, I’ve never had a ‘flu jab.
The one and only time I had a ‘flu jab, (1996??) I was very ill for a month. Pure coincidence the GP said… Yeah, right…
I would never have a flu jab as they can cause more harm than good, and they only guess what the virus is likly to be. As for covid the longer it goes on it has proved my point to never have one, even at 75. Mrs N has worked for many doctors and not one of the ones she has worked for had a flu jab. i wonder why.?
I’ve only taken the flu jab once – in 2020. Never before or since have I considered I needed it. I’ve had many jabs in my life, mainly for travel, but I don’t trust them any more so won’t be renewing them.
Many many decades of governments mishandling . and not dealing with greedy power suppliers has helped to lead to this. Also the elephant in the room being unlimited immigration upon a small Island – everyone of them also needing heating etc.
The selfish neglect and incompetence is staggering.
I am suprised its taken so long to come to a head. Totaly out of touch all of them.
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Narnia?
Game of Thrones!
Game of Thrones.
Ms Truss should have dealt with any dissidents in the Cabinet who went public. She should have sacked them. Disagreement and argument in Cabinet is fine. That’s why there is a Cabinet. Bur speaking publicly on Cabinet disagreements is very far from fine. They can all be replaced. The decision on policy on tax and so on should have been pursued. Any Tory MP voting against her proposals should have been made aware in advance that they would lose the party whip and would not be reselected at the next election.
If you have power, then use it.
That would be decisive action. Which is why it won’t happen.
COVID is blamed for spike in potentially deadly pregnancy complications and STILLBIRTHS: Doctors fear infections can trigger dangerous blood pressure and destroy the placenta.
* Experts say women who contracted COVID-19 during their pregnancy also face an elevated risk of stillbirths. But believe vaccination can help prevent this.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11295971/COVID-blamed-spike-potentially-deadly-pregnancy-complications-stillbirths.html
BTL
Are the birth problems caused by Covid infections or by Covid injections? Or is one not allowed to ask such a question?
The question of ladies’ problems re pregnancy, stillbirths etc. in the CV-19 era have been answered by Naomi Wolf’s work with the 3,500 experts and lawyers who have been analysing the Pfizer documents on behalf of the War Room.
The attempts solely to blame the infection are risible.
The vaccine has totaly failed. it has caused many more problems than it has solved. How anyone would risk a booster needs help.
Anyone who risked taking it need help! even if they don’t know it yet.
The DM commenters are not taken in by this BS. They know it is caused by the jabs, not the virus.
There, that’s equally likely.
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For anyone interested, this is the recipe I’ve based my current batch of chutney on. I’ve doubled up on the amounts for this one.
I’ve now got 18 clean jars in the oven & matching lids in a pan of water simmering on the stove.
I’ve binned several lids and put the now lidless jars to one side to await me getting round to order replacement lids.
I use a 1948 Marguerite Patten recipe…!!
Well don’t keep it to yourself!
I’ll see if I can scan it – it is very stained!
Sounds like mine – grandmother/mothers recipe book started circa 1924!
Diana’s Apple Chutney based on Marguerite Patten’s recipe
500g (1 lb 2oz) onions (finely chopped)
1kg (2 lb 4oz) Apples (after peeling and coring)
450 ml (¾ pint) vinegar
125g (4 oz) sultanas or raisins
1 tablespoon pickling spice
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 tablespoon paprika
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon ground coriander
350g (12 oz) brown sugar
1. Put the onions into a preserving pan with about a third of the vinegar and
simmer until nearly soft.
2. Add the chopped apples, dried fruit, salt, ground ginger spices (tie the pickling
spice up in a muslin bag) and just enough vinegar to stop the mixture from
burning.
3. Cook gently until the fruit is soft, stirring from time to time. Add the
remainder of the vinegar and thoroughly stir in the sugar.
4. Boil steadily until the chutney is thick. Remove the pickling spices. Pour into
hot jars and seal tightly.
5. Store in a cool, dry place. Leave for a couple of months before using.
I use a lot more ginger; lots of allspice/cloves/black peppercorns as well as the pickling spice mix.
For that quantity of fruit – less vinegar (½ pt) – prolly the same amount of sugar.
Probably tastes nicer when the MR makes it…
Bollox. I have won prizes for my chutney. She makes jelly and jam. And wins prizes.
Ooh…touched a nerve did I? :@)
Sulks…..
Ta muchley!
Copied to Notepad & saved.
Marguerite Patten was the doyenne of post-war British cooks.
Still the tops for me (after J Oliver, of course…!!)
Of course.
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That sounds jolly pleasant Bob!
Smells nice when cooking too.
Still a bit runny so I’ll give it another hour!
Great if you like chutney (we don’t) but I’ve still got one or two very old jars still lurking in the cupboard.
I’m with you, Jules. I’ve never been a fan of any home-made chutney. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been given a jar as a present from friends. After tasting it and reaffirming my dislike, it inevitably gets chucked in the bin.
I don’t like anything pickled – I dislike vinegar in/on anything.
But I’ve been pickled a couple of times
Sounds delicious!! 🙂
Saved for future use. Unfortunately we have just finished juicing the remnants of our apples.
I’ve still got a bloody tree full!
And permission to use next door’s apples!
Maddening thing, gluts. We have more than we know what to do with. Neighbours hide when they see us approaching with bags of fruit…. No one round here makes cider/apple juice…..
I have a Spartan, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Braeburn and two Unbekannt (one should have been an Egremont Russet but wasn’t and the other came from a neighbour who had no idea what it was). They are laden and the Lord Derby, despite having had two boxes taken off it, is still pretty laden.
Three star Michelin restaurant in Paris served a courgette flower with a piece of plastic in side it to a food critic from Le Figaro.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11296253/Paris-restaurant-three-Michelin-stars-skewered-critic-finds-piece-PLASTIC-food.html
My money is on sabotage. Any good chef would check the inside of the flower. It could have a slug or ants in it. The restaurant has had three stars for 25 years. I don’t see them making a mistake like that.
One way of ridding the world of plastic AND a critic at the same time… What is not to like??
Any chef committing the atrocity known as “French trimming” on any lamb rack, chops or cutlets deserves a damn good thrashing, not a Michelin star.
The trimmings are not wasted. They go in the Marmite.
They should never be trimmed. The meat and fat on lamb rib bones is the tastiest meat on the animal, in a similar way to how it is with pork ribs.
There are videos on YouTube of a very vocal female Greek/American chef who not only thinks the same as me, she loudly scolds anyone for even thinking of doing it.
Not only that, to serve up any meat dish with bare, scraped, bones, looks like you are serving the corpse of a hyena-chewed zebra! It is wrong on so many levels.
Let’s agree to differ.
If you have the whole rib joint you can remove the fat and flesh leaving the ribs French trimmed and then stuff the breast and create another dish.
I differ with the majority of chefs on this subject. They invariably trim rib bones. I shall never do so.
“The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.
Pick it up with your fingers, and enjoy the full treat.”
They should never be trimmed. The meat and fat on lamb rib bones is the tastiest meat on the animal, in a similar way to how it is with pork ribs.
There are videos on YouTube of a very vocal female Greek/American chef who not only thinks the same as me, she loudly scolds anyone for even thinking of doing it.
Not only that, to serve up any meat dish with bare, scraped, bones, looks like you are serving the corpse of a hyena-chewed zebra! It is wrong on so many levels.
Of course, a lot of people don’t like Marmite….
Stupid boy ! A Marmite is a stock pot !
Gettaway.
But you omitted the indefinite article, and gave the word a capital M. Stupid Boy
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Lunch in the garden was delightful. Very warm; very sunny. Like summer. And I had a bet with myself that I was the only person in Norfolk drinking a bottle of beer brewed in Quiberon.
To church shortly. New vicarette. Her first service here. No longer a believer, I still attend events in church which are important for village life. And the MR managed to get a proper organist to play the Harvest Festival hymns. What’s the betting words have been changed to suit vegans….{:¬((
You are no longer a believer.. in the Church, or the minister?
Both
After this morning, I am rapidly catching you up, Bill!
:-((
They plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the land
we’re only here to see the queers and watch them use their hands?
You would be lucky to find anyone not drinking Beeston Brewary ales.
I drink Affligem – Belgian.
You had a bet with yourself. Did you win?
How was the service, Bill? Mine was mayhem (although we did have traditional hymns this time and the sermon was about Leviticus and the first Harvest Festival, rather than not using our gas guzzlers) – see above.
Just back. There were over 50 present, which, for a very small village, was a good turnout. It was a bizarre form of service, no doubt “designed” by some wazzock at Lambeth who has never been to a real church. Never prayed for “creative entrepreneurs” before…. Two of the three hymns were good ‘uns; the first, no one knew.
As for the vicarette, the 20% of the congregation who could hear her said she was OK. I know I am 50% deaf – but it still amazes me that people who speak in church – reading lessons, doing the interminable “intercessions”, preaching etc can’t BLOODY SPEAK UP. In the days when I was allowed to read the lesson (before they ditched the proper Bible – and I gave up going) everyone could hear me: not shouting, just speaking up. Simple. In moments of reverie, I wonder how such people would manage on a parade ground…..
I’ll go for Remembrance Sunday – as I have always done; and prolly on Christmas Day.
It’s many years since I went to church for a proper service – just funerals these days. Most of those are at the ‘crem’ with a ‘celebrant’ – hardly a Christain service. I think I’ll have to plan mine so my sons know what music I want, and a Christian prayer.
I told my sons what I wanted a few years ago.
And I’ve threatened to come back and haunt them if they don’t follow my instructions.
I will have to give it some thought. And write my instructions down. When my Mum died I just had to organise things as I thought best, as she left nothing to say what she wanted.
I’ve stated in my will that I want to be buried and I’ve made a start on organising my order of service. I hope I shan’t need it for a few years yet, though!
No – it’s the kind of thing you want to put off.
I’m being stitched into a hessian sack. Thrown into a hole and an Oleander planted on top of me. No family allowed.
When I read your first sentence I thought you were planning to join stroppy concubines in the Bosphorus.
Oh ! I hate the word ‘crem’ – it makes it sound cosy and comfy and familiar when it is anything but. In fact I hate the use of most abbreviated words, ‘mayo’ being another.
Many actors were the off-spring of the vicarage; Daddy had passed on his thesping skills.
Our rectorette is the same re audibility. She needs to slow down and articulate clearly. Even though she uses a microphone, she isn’t always clear. We were expected to ask forgiveness for not looking after the planet properly. Who says I don’t? I’ve no children, I oppose housebuilding on green fields, I don’t use my car unnecessarily (and it’s economical), I grow my own fruit and veg organically to mention but a few things I do to help the planet. I didn’t feel I could take communion given the way the “consecration” was worded, never mind it was ordinary, leavened bread (brown, obviously, and maybe gluten free). It really was little different from the bring and share lunch (which I did take part in). To show it wasn’t really consecrated, the children all got to eat it. I can’t remember the last time I felt so alienated in church. Instead of being uplifted and filled with a sense of peace and well-being, I felt stressed and depressed. As for standing up and doing the “Lord’s Prayer” with hand actions, words fail me! It was a pantomine. Why are childfen so scruffily dressed these days? Hoodies, jeans, trainers, tee shirts with Spiderman on, girls in dresses with boots … I have turned into an old curmudgeon.
I feel for you. At least we are spared children here…
I detest the Tories…the wicked witch spat…https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11296243/Nicola-Sturgeon-hints-election-deal-Labour.html
Time she joined her best friend in Eurp.
Venal harridans.
All day long the media talks about ‘mental health issues’ and symptoms.
There’s a glowing example of exactly what they talk about. But people like her never get a mention.
All of them in Westminster, the Welsh and Scots “governments” are round the bend and into the straight.
Include the N Irish assembly and shut the lot down, taking both the responsibility and accountability back to Westminster.
‘Twill save the taxpayer an enormous amount.
Forgot about them but I do rather like Arlene Foster, the former first minister, I believe.
Several stops beyond Dagenham.
Up Barking Creek without a
paddlebrain cell.Just tell them to buck up and sort themselves out. and watch the wets fly into a rage. Thery are trying to make victims of everyone.
Hate speech?
Wasn’t she one of those complaining about the ‘toxic atmosphere’ at the time of the referendum? Funny how it is always the ‘tolerant, inclusive’ Left who spit the most bile. Imagine Liz Truss had said she detests the SNP?
My BTL Comment:
Sturgeon, willing to put Starmer into No 10 and displaying what a nasty little left-wing opportinist she is.
Charging the Kona.
Having done 52 miles, the driver’s screen looks like this: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/486584456c3add5415b2c4658b8ae1a2959254c2841efca015ce9eb575df96d7.jpg
In my first (test) charge I used the provided domestic 13 amp charger at its lowest setting of 6 amps to replace the energy I used going to see the cardiologist and back (8 miles and 2kW) which took me down to 80% charge leaving a range of 226 miles.
I am curently (😉) charging from 80% to 90% with the 8 amp charge setting like this: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9e95ca0776aff0d663b3b6c8a872585b59be0a9c997389c51e26e22d699c5f0e.jpg
I checked charging status on the driver’s screen early on in the charge to check the actual charging rate {1.7 kW) and measure the degree of temperature rise in the domestic plug at the 13 amp socket (rise from 17.5 degC to 20.5 degC).
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I just fill up with petrol every month.
I just fill up with diesel when I need to.
#Me Too and I shop around for the cheapest prices.
I usually go to our local garage – but when passing yesterday I noticed the price difference between petrol and diesel has widened again. Diesel had gone up a few pence from the last time I noticed. My tank’s still nearly half full so I don’t need to worry just yet.
Differential here is 20p – the widest I’ve ever seen it.
Corrrection; I just went past today and it’s 30p difference! Blimey!
Diesel used to be the cheaper of the two – we diesel drivers must be subsidising the petrolheads.
Diesel was cheaper to get people to buy diesel cars. Once most people had them, they whacked the price up.
I won'{ ever need to go to a fossil fuel station again. 😉
Your electric could be generated with fossil fuel every time you charge. Germany is moving back into coal. We use oil and gas.
Do you mean to say that my Eon Next electricity supply doesn’t just come from windmills, solar panels, hydroelectric plants. nuclear installations, wood chips and palm oil?
https://www.eonnext.com/electricity-and-gas
Of course not you have no idea no matter what they tell. it must include oil,gas, coal and nuclear and the last 3 will have to increase.
👍🙂
Sounds very complicated.
Even the sales guy reckoned that the switches and displays were as complicated as an aircraft cockpit:
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/cox/2019/02/15/plane-cockpits/2865482002/
Good job you’re a technocrat!
I’d always be worried about the electricity running out/being unavailable/being too dear.
Same here. I have too much anxiety about the electricity bill to switch the dishwasher on! Definitely couldn’t bring myself to go out in an electric car.
They won’t work too well in the coming winter with all the power cuts.
Two deer
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Two deer
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Witth my traded in Mazda I was always worried about diesel running out, pumps being out of use and the fuel getting so much dearer tnan petrol. 🙄
How do you that the figures are accurate?
Even so, it is amazing that the Belgian manufacturers went straight from coffee glasses to hightech.
As a very infrequent user of my car, would be worried about how well EV battery charge would be held during the lengthy periods when not in use, and how often I’d need to recharge as ‘insurance’. At present I know that the few gallons of petrol in the tank will get me quite a long way.
Conventional lead-acid batteries in petrol / diesel cars inevitably also self-discharge when car is not being used, but is easily overcome by use of solar panel on dashboard.
The data on the Kona are displayed as ball park rather than car park. 🤔
That’s interesting Angie. After a short while you will be treating your car like your mobile phone and will be charging it the same way.
When I get down to about 70 miles range I just plug it in to charge up to my predetermined level of about 80%.
70 miles is approximately twice the required distance to the nearest superchargers, in other words I know if I had to, with 70 miles range left I can set off in any emergency and still get there no matter how far away the emergency is.
Range anxiety, I never suffer from it.
When I went into the desert, apart from water (lots and a plastic sheet and stone) fuel was never a worry.
Tank full, jerrycan full – would never contemplate it in an EV.
Like buying an off road vehicle without a spare wheel/tyre.
Fuel would not be a problem for me either, I have never ventured in to a desert. Norf Zummerzet can be considered by some to be the back of beyond, a desert it ain’t, at least not yet.
I am pretty confident the A4, A36, A303 etc are still free of sand dunes.
🙂🙏 and long may it remain so.
True, I shall need to charge it like my Nokia 3310!
Gawd. Would flying a Dreamliner be simpler?
Probably. I think it’s fly by wire 🙂
The only thing missing from the Kona is an autopilot but it will do a pretty good of driving the car as long as you know what all the switches and displays are for:
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/cox/2019/02/15/plane-cockpits/2865482002/
Kona displayed 55 minutes to go at 3pm but actially finished about half an hour later.
Plug temperature at 13 amp outlet at a nominal 2kW (8 amps @ 240 volts) was 23 degC (ambient 18 degC) and charger measured 32 degC.
The range has increased after charging from 80% to 90% to 259 miles.
Adding it all up, I have charged the Kona up to its delivery range of nearly 270 miles.
After 52 miles I have done two charges – one at 2 kWh and one at 8 kWh.
This works out at about 5 miles per kWh which is consistent with its quoted 300 mile range.
i.e. 64 kWh battery x 5 miles per kWh = 320 miles.
At the cost of the capped electricity rate of £0.34 the Kona will take us to our coastal lodge (50 miles away) for a 10 kW charge of £3.40 when charged at peak rate. We can reckon on the cost of petrol for the same distance in MOH’s Subaru Forester which does 40 mpg to be around 40 m/g ÷ 4.5 l/g x £1.80 /l= £16.
edit: there is an error. In the latter calculation which should be increased by a factor of 52/40.
Adding it all up, I have charged the Kona up to its delivery range of nearly 270 miles.
After 52 miles I have done two charges – one at 2 kWh and one at 8 kWh.
This works out at about 5 miles per kWh which is consistent with its quoted 300 mile range.
i.e. 64 kWh battery x 5 miles per kWh = 320 miles.
At the cost of the capped electricity rate of £0.34 the Kona will take us to our coastal lodge (50 miles away) for a 10 kW charge of £3.40 when charged at peak rate. We can reckon on the cost of petrol for the same distance in MOH’s Subaru Forester which does 40 mpg to be around 40 m/g ÷ 4.5 l/g x £1.80 /l= £16.
edit: there is an error. In the latter calculation which should be increased by a factor of 52/40.
Charging the Kona.
Having done 52 miles, the driver’s screen looks like this: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/486584456c3add5415b2c4658b8ae1a2959254c2841efca015ce9eb575df96d7.jpg
In my first (test) charge I used the provided domestic 13 amp charger at its lowest setting of 6 amps to replace the energy I used going to see the cardiologist and back (8 miles and 2kW) which took me down to 80% charge leaving a range of 226 miles.
I am curently (😉) charging from 80% to 90% with the 8 amp charge setting like this: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9e95ca0776aff0d663b3b6c8a872585b59be0a9c997389c51e26e22d699c5f0e.jpg
I checked charging status on the driver’s screen early on in the charge to check the actual charging rate {1.7 kW) and measure the degree of temperature rise in the domestic plug at the 13 amp socket (rise from 17.5 degC to 20.5 degC).
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A rogue elephant got loose in a BBC studio and was filmed careering round the room. Luckily no-one was injured but the mental/emotional cost to the licence payer was enormous:
https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/backup/2022/10/08/1481926034459936571/640x360_MP4_1481926034459936571.mp4
The little keeper trying to calm it down
is actually married to it in real life.Really? I thought they were strangers until the casting of this grotesque burlesque too place.
I may have read it wrong but someone will put me right. Perhaps her ‘wife/husband’ is some other person.
Edit: Strictly’s Jayde Adams describes same sex partnership with pro Karen Hauer as ‘completely natural’ and dispels dancing stereotypes – before jesting that ‘boys ain’t strong enough’ to lift her
The comedian, 37, makes up one of this year’s two same-sex pairings with pro dancer Karen Hauer
I read it wrong – it is a dance partnership. She is just a GLBT activist.
Not just boys that aren’t strong enough to lift her – I think some cranes might struggle!
Which one is the professional dancer?
The one on the left. The other one is ship’s ballast.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/09/24/09/62754507-11245465-image-a-9_1664008936472.jpg
Is it a freak show or a dance competition?
It’s a circus freak show. Ceased being a dance competition several seasons ago.
I’ve never watched it (ok, clips on ‘news’ bulletins), so I can’t tell how much it’s changed since it began.
It used to be Cum Dancing with Wogan in the chair – now it appears to be scum dancing.
With a predetermined winner.
It’s more BBC virtue signalling.
The BBC – Conscience Of The Nation. “If we can do it, then so can you”.
This is her real husband – Clayton Wright – Founder of Little Gay Brothers and multiple LGBTQ+ Organizations. Quote: “The reasons why their marriage was successful. The couple sleeps with whoever they want and lives wherever they want”. and they certainly do.
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That’s a bit whorey.
‘He’ looks like Novax Djokovic!
This is her real husband – Clayton Wright – Founder of Little Gay Brothers and multiple LGBTQ+ Organizations. Quote: “The reasons why their marriage was successful. The couple sleeps with whoever they want and lives wherever they want”. and they certainly do.
https://api.mixedarticle.com/uploads//2022/9/43c7566e-7813-4ee2-b9b8-3e39dedf3749.webp
Well, the dance is recognisable as a cha-cha and these days on Strictly one has to be grateful for that much.
Your comment reminded me of the time Blue Peter had an actual elephant in the studio https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/lulu-the-elephant-blue-peter/zf2smfr
I remember it well.
“We dined at 9.”
“We dined at 8.”
“I was on time.”
“You were late.” Oh yes, I remember it well 😉
I remember his accent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQxM5rJ-uiY
Ah yes – the Grand Collaborateur…
Was he? I thought he was a horseman!
From the musical about a filly?
From the musical about a filly?
Classic! John Noakes – “Oo get off me foot! Oh dear, I’ve trod right in it – well they say it’s lucky, don’t they”.
Bloody good thing elephants don’t roost in trees…
Tsk! Tsk!
Ah, but drop bears do…and twice a lethal as their aim is good.
Q: Why don’t you see elephants in cherry trees?They paint their toenails red as camouflage!
A:
Boom! Boom!
How do you get 4 elephants in a mini?
2 in the back and 2 in the front.
Only after you take out the giraffes, though.
Tricky getting their heads out of the sunroof though.
It’s called a moonroof nowadays so bum first, moon the world!
Q. What is the biggest drawback in the jungle?
A.An elephant’s foreskin.
Are the old ones always the best? I remember when our boys were aged about 6 and 8 I read out this riddle as if it had came out of the Christmas cracker I had just pulled. The boys howled with delight but one of our guests, a rather prim German lady, tut-tutted and said how scandalous it was for Christmas cracker manufacturers to put such disgraceful things in their crackers.
How do you get an elephant up an oak tree?
Sit him on an acorn and wait 20 years.
And the classic:
How do you get an elephant down from an oak tree?
Sit him on a leaf and wait till autumn.
The old ones…always the oldest…
Q How do you hide an elephant in a bowl of custard?
APaint the soles of his feet yellow
Curses. No readundery.
I’m amazed it managed to stand up again!
Pure and applied fat shaming ..
We were rather shocked ..
What next, hairy ladies and 2 headed twins ?
Strictly Wheelchair?
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Salman Rushdie was robbed of the Nobel Prize. 9 october 2022.
Especially when there is someone far more “uncompromising” – or rather, lethally and unjustly compromised – who could have won: Salman Rushdie, who was nearly stabbed to death by Hadi Matar, a Lebanese Muslim, two months ago while giving a public lecture. It was the anniversary of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s 1989 fatwah against him.
My faith in the Nobel Prizes evaporated when Obama won the Peace Prize for doing exactly nothing1
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/09/salman-rushdie-robbed-nobel-prize/
That was 2009. They went one better in 2012 by awarding it to the EU
‘E din’t do nuffin’ – They never ‘do nuffin’. That’s why he got the Nobbly Prize
#metoo.
Torbjørn Jagland, ex Norway PM and arsekisser of all things Merkin, chairman of the committee, pushed it through. Obama got it for being Obama, supposedly black, and talking a lot.
Both Biden and Hochul, the Governor of New York State, are toxic, even to their own brand. A catastrophic mid-term election wipe-out for the Democrats is predicted and politicians elsewhere should take notice. The turn-around can’t come soon enough.
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Afternoon, all. I’m here early to recover from a Janet and John harvest festival. It was supposed to be a communion service, but I don’t think tearing bits off a bloomer after having muttered the equivalent of wedding vows being “do you fancy having this woman? I don’t mind if I do” is the eucharist, frankly. Not to mention the noise, the milling around and the general scruffiness of the schoolchildren. It was purgatory for me; after what happened to end my teaching career, I seem to have the equivalent of PTSD when it comes to loose children in large numbers. It was all I could do to stay in my seat rather than escape. I feel stressed and depressed. The bring and share lunch afterwards was very messy, too. The floor was sticky with trodden in food. If this is going to be the norm, I shall be voting with my feet. Incidentally, lots of people were saying how wonderful it was. Their standards are clearly not mine, unfortunately.
Oh dear! Sympathies.
Thanks. Tonight Evensong (or “evening prayers” as it’s worded on the pew sheet) is sung so I’ll go to that and hope it gives a sense of peace at the end of the day (and since I shan’t have to drive afterwards, I’ll open a bottle of wine!). The Director of Music wasn’t very pleased that it didn’t get a mention in the notices, so I’m definitely going to go to support him and the choir. I had intended going anyway, but I’m determined not to let this morning’s bad experience put me off in case there aren’t many there.
Drink the bottle of wine before you go. :@)
I would if I didn’t have to drive 🙂
Good luck. Be glad you are not asked to “Open your red service books…” (as the BCP is known in these parts….
We have a leaflet booklet for our BCP service. I wonder if that will be phased out. Next Sunday is a “Songs of Praise” to celebrate Ralph Vaughan Williams, so at least we shan’t be expecting communion. The last Songs of Praise (led by the Director of Music as we were in an Interregnum at the time and the retired priest who was supposed to be officiating didn’t turn up) was excellent.
Don’t get me started on bloody leaflets…..
Then cheers, and here’s hoping!
It was a delight. The choir is magnificent (and apart from two hymns, they do all the singing). Feel much better.
Great to hear!
The modern clergy seem determined to drive away the older, more traditionally minded, members of their congregations.
As the former Bishop of Norwich (spit) said to me when I said ow unhappy we were that the then Rector refused to use the Prayer Book and the Bible – “You have to move with the times…”
I recall a happy-clappy service back in 1991 or so, with a hymn whose verses consisted of:
God is Lord – repeated about six time
Jesus is Lord – the same.
God is Lord. ditto
To electric guitar and drum set.
Nothing upliftinh, stimulating or even musical, it was awful and cringeworthy.
“The children are the future” is the mantra. Well, yes, I agree, but why can’t they be brought up with a sense of reverence and respect and to appreciate the beauty of the litergy and ritual?
Perhaps they have and we don’t appreciate it?
Look at the reaction to the reverence, beauty, and pageantry of the Queen’s farewell.
I think I’d recognise reverence when I see it – shouting and throwing things (judging by the noise) during the time we were supposed to be praying isn’t it, in my view.
Don’t get me wrong here, I agree there should be reverence.
The problem in my view is the adults even more than the children.
If they appeared as a school group they will almost certainly have included children of people who never normally go to Church and thus would not have been instructed how to behave.
Harvest festival, like Christmas, is one of those events where one expects what you experienced.
If I were to be asked who was at fault, I would lay the blame on whoever decided that it should coincide with a Communion service.
Agreed about the parents. I would say we shall not see them again until the Crib service (which I shall avoid like the plague).
Sorry you were so disappointed, Conners. It’s a real bummer when something you have hopes for turns out to be scruffy, disorganised and stressful – just when you were expecting some comfort and inner peace. Like, going to your favourite tranquil copse, lined with bluebells, and finding it’s become an apartment block whilst you weren’t watching.
I had a sense of foreboding when I saw the troops of junior school children traipsing to church. The one good thing was that they performed a song and they did it very well and tunefully (we had to applaud everything they did, of course, which I don’t like in church – it isn’t a place of entertainment, after all).
When the grandchildren attended ‘family’ Christmas services – usually under the guise of some sort of school recognition that the event was a Christian festival, the experience was always squirm inducing.
We particularly enjoyed the service at Boxted church with children running up and down the aisles and assorted parents wandering around shouting into their mobile phones.
That makes a change. Some good news from Scotland.
https://twitter.com/BeardedBob7282/status/1579106779832942592
I also think that the world is a better place with Tobin gone, but disapprove of hoping that someone ‘died in agony’. This is what some American ‘professor’ hoped had happened to Queen Elizabeth II. If it’s wrong for one person, it’s wrong for another.
If there’s a God, he’ll get his due punishment in the afterlife.
If there isn’t a God, then at least the bugger is dead.
If there’s a God, he’ll get his due punishment in the afterlife.
If there isn’t a God, then at least the bugger is dead.
How about a compromise? Can we hope he died feeling a little worse than the women and girls he raped and killed?
‘Tobin reportedly boasted in prison of having murdered 48 people.’
Christians hope that all die repentant.
Really?
Yes.
Is there a reason for it?
Luke 15:7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
So if he didn’t repent he will roast in Hell then?
Yes.
I agree with the sentiments – but it does seem rather too often that God is not keeping his side of the bargain as far as vengeance is concerned.
We won’t know that until we’re on the other side.
Very negative thoughts will have no effect on the target but they diminish you as a person. It can be corrosive.
You’re probably right, but aren’t you glad we’re not paying for his upkeep anymore?
Presumably the state pays for his funeral….
Yes. I am glad about that. I also think he should have been hanged.
Quickly or slowly?
One can always hope.
It’s often all that is left, Oberst. As Pandora found out!
She had her ears boxed.
It was a gift she had!
Is that true? We would like people to die repentant, but human nature being what it is, it’s not guaranteed.
Don’cha lurve the Aussie’s notion of fair play?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/cricket/2022/10/09/TELEMMGLPICT000312135958_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqrXmLPJPc5RpbmJWVy6HzkVmti7teVGtAQHqmrAqZ_9k.jpeg?imwidth=640
I saw it, the commentators were unsure of the exact laws involved and no one appealed apparently.
They don’t like losing. 🇦🇺
Does a discussion need to be had on this subject?
Should a tattooist be able to refuse a customer’s damaging requests? At what stage should they save a customer from his or her unwise wishes? Do they suggest that a potential customer at least needs a chat with their GP before proceeding with any further work? This man is in the grip of escalating self-destruction; he has ruined his life, and is basically bludging off the taxpayer.
I have a visceral loathing of government interference, but there is a reason why people who are a danger to themselves are sectioned.
“Among his body modifications, King Body Art has dyed both of his eye whites black.
He has also removed his nipples so tattoo artists to have a smoother canvas to work on and has a crown-shaped implant embedded under the skin on his right hand.
The 42-year-old has plans for further modifications, and recently shared photos on Instagram of a small black tattoo, telling followers he will be covering other tattoos in the dark ink (in a process known as ‘blacking out’) in the future.”
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That surely isn’t Grizz?
Clearly has mental health issues.
His body, his choice. However, when it’s my money, he can’t have it. He must face the consequences of his idiocy.
Now we know it takes less than 100,000 pricks to create one giant one…..
Stupid is as stupid does.
We must champion the Iranian protesters, not appease the ayatollahs
At this critical moment, Western powers should not be signing up to a bad nuclear deal with Iran’s oppressive regime
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/09/must-champion-iranian-protesters-not-appease-ayatollahs/
In my view there should be some levelling up or levelling down. We need to have no more mosques in Britain than there are churches in Saudi and iran
BTL
Why is it permissible to ban the Bible and burn down churches in the Middle East while it is not permissible to ban the Koran and burn down mosques in Britain?
Does this mean than Christianity is more tolerant and peaceful than Islam?
A less tolerant ‘religion’ than Islam would be hard to find. Maybe the Aztecs, with human sacrifice?
The sacrifices were willing, though.
Erm! Not too sure about that, wibbling! They had to ‘anaesthetize’ them with cocoa, then bash them on the head with a stone! Not sure how willing the children were!
Hah, I should cocoa!
Although yes, if some bloke decided to chop my heart out I’d have to be off my face on Dairy Milk too!
With added coca leaves, chewing for the use of?
Hah, I should cocoa!
Although yes, if some bloke decided to chop my heart out I’d have to be off my face on Dairy Milk too!
I think many were prisoners of war or children ‘offered’ up by their obedient parents (forbears of compulsive mask wearers?)
They certainly mashed their head in.
Smell Chokker strikes again.
Monsters, they were….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_culture
Rather like modern man’s reaction to Covid, sacrifice in honour of the expert Gods of modelling science.
Golly, they were more advanced than we think!
I think Whitless and Unbalanced (thank you Uncle Bill!) should be first, followed by Ferguson and slimy Hancock! Oops, not forgetting Gove, the Michie bitch and Van Tam!
Curtsies…
Can we help you back up?
Closer to the truth than you might think!
I already have that problem too and i’m half your age at 58.
You’re confusing your IQ with your age…
You’re confusing your IQ with your age…
I heard the cracking of knee joints from here.
Just think, if human sacrifice works, there will be centuries of prosperity and peace for the human race when all the Covid experts are seen to on the Altars.
Funnily enough, the old testament reading tonight was about trying to make Nehemia afraid. Made me think of Covid.
Religion provides a way for fanatics to blame something other than their own spiteful bigotry.
Rather than getting rid of mosques – a good idea though – the better option would be to ban welfare for 1st, -3rd generation immigrants. As muslims are over 70% welfare dependent it’ll boot most of them out of the country.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/10/09/nicola-sturgeon-accused-using-dangerous-language-saying-detests/
I detest the Barnett formula. I detest how she blames her failures on London. I detest the socialist nonsense she perpetuates, the drug addled, drink sloshed iniquiti of Scotland under her premiership.
I detest that she is given a smidgeon of airtime when she is a vile, spiteful Lefty. End the Barnett formula, offer independence immediately under terms so onerous she cannot sell them, then force the vote – with the demand that she be silent and respectful of her sodding masters, England’s tax payers.
“I detest the Barnett formula”
Keep your hair on…{:¬))
I object to Scotland being run into the ground by a whining harridan and that the funding that permits that come from me.
She needs a good wigging?
I see I have opened a can of worms… or perhaps a syrup?
That fig-ures…
I’m trying to weave a story round this….
Cornrows?
There’s a grain of truth in that…
I knew you would cotton on.
Bolls to that!
Well, she used to be a very dodgy solicitor! Not sure how close she got to wearing a wig! Oor Wullie, maybe?
Irn shru?
Very good, sos! 👏🏻
I had to girder myself up to write it…
Damn! Beat me to it!
Best you retreat…
I wasn’t sure if you’d seen the advert in yer France
I probably haven’t, is there a new marketing campaign?
Well it’s the ‘girders’ one so I guess you have! It started back in the ‘80s!
I always knew of it as brewed from girders.
Every 10 years, or thereabouts, I drink some Coca-Cola. It reminds me how foul it is.
I can’t recall the last time I drank Irn Bru!
Perhaps once was enough…
Elder Greek nephew, who now lives in Bishopbriggs, absolutely loves it! Apparently great with Grey Goose vodka??
Bit of an elderflower is he?
Well he wasn’t an evzone and he has 2 children, so not a pansy anyway!
Working on the test trains I had to be careful of shift start times when I drank alcohol and was often totally fed up with the piss-poor soft drink selections in most hotels and very often Irn Bru was the only semi-palatable alternative to J2O and similar.
Not as good as Whisk he.
Respect. One to treasure.
Be fair Bill.
Friern tonight?
What time are you getting to Hatfield tmz ?
Depends on traffic – and my instructions from the MR. And the weather. And my bad back.
Give me a ping, I’m only 15 minutes away.
At least it should be capped! As ever it is not so much the ‘takers’ of monetary gifts who I hate but those who would be so stupid as to keep offering cash to those who detest us who pay.
It’s only about 30% of Scots who like Sturgeon. The problem is, as you say that every time that wretched woman invents some new way of wrecking Scotland she immediately blames ‘not enough money because England’.
Agreed and it’s pretty obvious that she’s always operated from behind her malicious tribalism.
She’s a nationalist. She’s a socialist. That makes her a National Socialist.
Sieg MacHeil.
Can you not learn to like her.?
Absolutely not. Nasty little piece of work.
I’m just fed up with obvious crooks milking the system and flourishing at the expense of honest people.
‘Night All
Random stuff……..
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Au revoir, mes amis. I’m off to find some warm clothing to put on for Evensong. Hopefully, back later in a better frame of mind.
Bonne chance
If it’s dreadful, resist the temptation to sing your heart out.
a) The NHS won’t care
b) Coolio will miss you
c) We’d like to hear from you again.
That’s kind. It was very pleasant, fortunately. BCP and the choir was absolutely magnificent.
Great, I hope you enjoyed it, particularly after the earlier experience
I did, thanks. Came out feeling uplifted and spiritually renewed – which, after all, is what I go to church for. Irritation and annoyance accompanied by loud noises I can find any day of the week!
Peace be with you.
And also with you.
Et cum spiritu tuo.
Thank you.
Non relinquam ius
That’s “translate” for I’m a proddy dog not a cat lick
Ego te absolvo.
The sign of a true Christian!
In hoc signo vinces.
In vino veritas;-)
Hoc ei propinabo!
Just enjoying a rosa vinum as we type.
Wot?
The two fingered sign!
Signum crucis.
When I’m angry?
See avatar!
In hac cruce salvatio.
In Hac (Cruce) Salus
Possibly that, too.
Pax vobiscum.
Et cum spiritu tuo.
And also with you.
Countryfile this evening (HG’s, not my choice) discussing proteins, and the interviewee has asked for ideas about new sources of protein for human consumption.
Process dead people and eat the proteins. Better still, process illegal immigrants, via pigs, and eat the pigs.
I see no reason why people cannot be used once dead to fertilise the land but it must be done in a decent and dignified way. Cremation is a ridiculous waste.
Oddly enough, I would tend to agree.
With modern technology an awful lot of so-called waste could be converted to something far more useful, it’s persuading the squeamish that’s the problem.
As people no longer die, they simply “pass” – you have some way to go to get any sort of consensus.
We can make a start with French people?
Grief I bloody HATE that expression.
My brood already know that if they ever refer to me as having passed, I’ll come back and haunt them.
Snap.
The US has several Human composting facilities – the process takes about one month (depending on how much alcohol the body has consumed prior to expiry!)…..
Is that true?
I would be there for eternity !
The first part yes – the second part I sort of made up based on a hunch!!!!!
I have just discovered Ocado M+S sell frozen Porn Star Martini mixes. Just add Vodka. Hurrah ! I’m saved !
Jesus! You’ve just discovered Jesus?
He went passed on a bicycle so i followed him.
Ahem….past.
Close,
Phizzee’s pist (sic)
I’m watching Maverick. Not really payin’ attenshun. :@)
DVD, pay per view?
I’m looking forward to it being available on TV I can afford
FREE.
Try going ti the pitctures!
“Try going ti the pitctures!”
I’ve had a few, but really?
You did understand the communication though didn’t you..
Abhorrent
Is that “I’m richer than you are Ha ha ha”?
You’re the one that lives in Chateau de Chassalais !
Abhorrent
Vokda
Forgiven.
Isn’t human flesh described as ‘long pig’? In that case, it would be unacceptable to Muslims (mind you, what isn’t?)
It is, and I believe it’s regarded as a delicacy.
As to Muslims, they prefer to eat shi’ite
New sources of protein? Meat. I suggest the BBC be offered soylent green – from other BBC employees. Won’t taste of much as they’re all limp wristed lefties.
And as they pass, lettuce pray?
That’s me for tonight. I’ll look in tomorrow but not take part until Tuesday – and then only for a short time as we have a Study Day at the local Arts Society – on “The Golden Age of Dutch Art” from a real expert from The Hague.
So – have a spiffing evening. Play nicely.
A mardi….
Given the trials and tribulations going on in the World perhaps a Spliffing evening would be more appropriate?
Don’t surrender. Until the end.
Interesting critique of Jamie Oliver.
Entertaining!
https://youtu.be/1d6AtUddCz0
The Asian is a TWAT.
Strong language there Soz! Why?
Because I despise people who are quite happy to snipe from the side-lines over what other people are doing.
I can be reasonably confident that JO could do exactly the same over a similar video published by that TWAT.
He does seem overly critical without being helpful.
My suspicion is that that TWAT is trying to raise his profile, via social media, off the back of someone who actually has achieved something.
I’m not particularly a fan of JO, but I do object to TWATS who are parasites off the backs of those who actually have been successful!
He’s probably trying to muscle in on the success of other restaurant owners in the vicinity.
I wouldn’t be surprised, but I doubt that he’s anything other than a social media moron.
Gordon Ramsay gave it back in spades.
Good for him.
Do you have a link?
And again I’m not a great fan of GR, but he’s successful at what he does, and unlike that TWAT doesn’t prey on others’ success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5zLvsJZAwA&ab_channel=mrnigelng
it’s a shame that twat can’t be expanded beyond TWAT easily.
He now owns a large property on Rock (Cornwall) Road left hand side heading for the harbour.
Builders were in as I walked past in early August.
I expect he’ll have been giving them a hard time as well.
An inelegant exit, sadly the way I would probably have to exit also these days. Tempus fugit.
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1579060114442461184?s=20&t=Jds1bEBOaUsb9CtrwvFvlQ
But was it worth it? YES!!! is probably the answer.
When I’m doing server duty at church and we kneel on the altar steps for communion, I have to get up on all fours. There just isn’t the strength to pull myself up without putting my hands down.
Me too. When I am doing anything at ground level I have to get up like a toddler now – I have watched my grandsons – legs straight and push off with my hands. It was on a walking holiday in Madeira when I first realised there might be a problem in this area, I couldn’t get up as I once used to be able. I will leave it to your imagination to guess what that particular activity was…..! I was somewhat shocked at this new revelation of encroaching age.
You are so cruel.
Phizzee has just blown a fuse, BT is recalling his youth, Bob of B is laying slabs, and Geoff G is wondering whether to ban you…
Eh, wot?
I suspect Sos is sozzed 😉
I think he’s imagining you pulling yourself up with your hands……🙄 Men, eh?
Bzzzzttt. Lightning strike, Phizzee recharged. What were we talking about?
How’s the little guy? Has he settled in OK?
6am. Breakfast. 6am and 30 seconds Dolly looks surprised her bowl is empty. 3 hours of play fighting and stampeding back and forwards. A short snooze. Lunch. Repeat breakfast. Afternoon…play fighting for 3 hours. Lots of wee puddles and poo heaps.
I walk with a mop and earplugs. :@(
Wellies might be an idea too;-)
See above, darling!
You, being pure in heart and mind, won’t ever understand!!!
While I appreciate not all folk can do it, there are classes more mature fellows can go to that’ll help build leg strength without having you do cross fit.
The stronger your muscles are, the more they’ll support the bones beneath them from injury.
It was my balance that chased me down from the scaffolding at Firstborn’s farm, where I was trying to finish painting the outside of the barn before winter. Couldn’t finish, was afraid of toppling off. So, we struck the scaffold & put it away until spring, job half finished. Bugger.
Yep, you’ve got to be sensible. As I have the balance of a small tank and the same weight, I worry that I’ll fall or, my knee will go and I won’t be able to walk.
Beginning to be tired of all this ageing stuff, but I guess it beats the alternative.
Someone’s got to pay Mother’s bills for her, she’s too daft to do it herself.
Age is not for the faint of heart, Paul. I am weary of all the BS these days and find it hard to keep my cool. A shorter temper seems to be part of the aging process.
…and varying forms of depression at the antics.
Fuck ’em, Tom. Fuck ’em.
And, if they are young and pretty, enjoy it as well.
Ain’t that the truth. Grumpiness comes from experience that tells you that the proposed solution is BS.
But the failing body I can live without (if you see what I mean). I used to be some kind of scaff monkey – this morning, I couldn’t move from one side to another without crawling.
So, put it off til next year and struck the scaffolding WITH NO PROBLEMS WITH BALANCE!! AAA! Give me strength (or, at least, balance).
:-((
I have not mentioned this before but, a couple of weeks ago, I had a bad fall. Had gone up to bed, no problem, took off precious jewels, jeans and was heading towards bed when my right knee gave out. I went flat on the floor and MH heard the thump and came up to help. I thought I had broken my hip or summat. I began the night sleeping on the floor and then my inner grit kicked in. I made it into bed and was sore next day and for a couple of days. All is well now.
The docs keep on about ECGs and etc but they don’t seem to want to know about my osteoarthritis in my knee and the pain involved.
Bloody hell, are you STILL going through the mill?
At least you have someone to give you a hug when you need it!
I do and he did a wonderful job on the fridge yesterday. Tonight I made herbed chicken breasts, sauteed potatoes, a large hassleback spud, carrots and steamed spring greens for dinner- as a reward for all his hard work. The large spud was for MH as he loves potatoes.
I did cheese & ham omelettes for self & the DT when she got home from work tonight with a bit of salad and a dollop of the bit of today’s chutney I had left over.
Very nice!
Don’t you have an altar rail you can use? Or are you too far away. I’d never get up if I couldn’t use the rail.
The servers kneel on the steps immediately in front of the altar, beyond the rail. Nothing to cushion the knees there either.
Ah, I see. Not a good look to pull the frontal off the altar 🙂
Would do better with a Series 2 or 3 Landy.
I have to say, our XC40 is rather nice to get in and out of, even for me, and I’m basically the same size as a menhir.
You sound a little unhenged…
In soooo many ways!
I like my VW Tiguan. You barely need to be in the car to drive any place.
Yes, the less work you have to do when driving the better. My favourite button is ‘overtake’. The car does everything for you!
I’ve a gammy knee, so the more I can straighten it and flex it the better.
Power steering, power seats, self-parking, automatic DSG gearbox, aircon, leather seats, high up, stereo with CD, quiet, good diesel consumption… wonderful. No draughts, unlike a Landy, no effort to guide the car, either.
For the same reason I like my Vivaro. I don’t sit down to get in it, I climb UP into it.
I am absolutely loving driving my old Volvo 940 estate again after a monster seven-seater with all the mod cons I don’t want (long story) 🙂 Prior to this, I thought cars divided into Jaguars and not-Jaguars.
That’s not a Ferrari. it’s a Lamborghini. I took my Dad to test drive such super cars once. He loved them, but complained you couldn’t see out of the window, they were hard to park and didn’t have room for the shopping.
Something odd is happening. Junior’s bag is packed and by the door. The Warqueen is in slippers and pyjamas and dressing gown – she’s obviously sorted her office out as there’s power draw from her devices.
And my goodness! The cereal bowls are down and the washers loaded! having the heating off has turned them into the ideal family!
Divorce papers in the post tomorrow.
Nah. Mother in law is visiting tomorrow. It usually has her sharpening the knives.
In that case feed her up with a big meal. Might slow her down a bit …………………
Mother in law will slide down the driveway being over the limit to drive, will bash in and start complaining about [something]. The psychic feedback loop of hate will send the Warqueen’s brain fizzing with rage and that door will open, there’ll be an almighty fight and lots of shouting.
Now that is arriving in style.
Could you take up golf by tomorrow?
It’s more like rugby tackling. You intercept before she can wind up. The best way is with a mojhito and then pin her down with dog. immobilised, drinking she tends to drift through the afternoon and is then driven home around 4. It’s a waste of a day, an annoyance for me but it stops an argument.
Then one day she will, be gone and you will be able to reminisce in an eulogy.
A pity that we cannot appreciate now.
I suggest you use a light dose of Rophypol or tell her to fuck off.
You’re past your time, you hyppy Flunitrazepam-ist
It’s Rohypnol.
I only take herbal tea now.
T for two and two for T Hello Dolly, it’s Harry makes three?
Leave them to it.
Be careful, there’s revolution in the air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZoJ01FpD8
It is disconcerting. they’re just not… not this organised.
Perhaps you are finally getting on top?
Wishful thinking. She had a raging headache yesterday after recovering from a kidney infection.
Oh, hang on, you meant in the other…
Enjoy it while you can it won’t last….
Maybe not, but when she’s old, wrinkly, gone off it completely she will still be the most beautiful woman in the world and I’ll still love her. She’s got a mind like a razor and no matter what can always make me laugh.
Oi
That’s copyright.
HG has secured world wide rights on that!
HG?
Her Grace, the lady sosraboc.
It’s a long story.
She has a title that passes when she dies, because it only went down the female line.
HG?
That’s the best thing I’ve read all day. Thanks!
“She’s got a mind like a razor”
Mine has a sharp tongue, does that count?
SWMBO listening to a radio show… surely, that should be a radio tell??
Is Radio Tell related to William Tell?
Apple has the rights
To William Tell? surely out of copyright now?
I thought that the Lone Ranger assumed the rights to the music.
I’m tone deaf to music, and no one had the heart to correct me when I thought the Black Beauty theme tune was the one for the Flying Doctors.
It’s how you Tell ’em that counts
To William Tell? surely out of copyright now?
Wordle, anyone?
I can’t get in; I can only see two lines of the display – 3rd and 4th, perhaps …
Can’t play 🙁
Does anyone know how to fix it?
No.
Sorry, don’t care.
Nice (sarc)
Try moving the cursor around a bit and look on the right for a scrolly thing.
Wordle 477 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟨🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Thank you, Mola; no luck so far …
It was a very American word, anyway.
Today’s word is an American colloquialism.
https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html?fs=e
Evening, again. Back now after a very pleasant service. The choir is to die for; they sang beautifully and it was the BCP version, none of your modern rubbish that sounds like the cast of Eastenders.
Excellent!
Hopefully gave you a lift after the last service, Conners.
Bodies need food, so does the spirit.
It did. I need a dose of spirituality on a regular basis.
Back home. Il y a d’eau!
Yaay!
Bath night… !
pluie sur la reine!
Thank goodness, Phizzee was saying he thought you needed a shower!
I haven’t had a shower or bath since 1st August. I use scent like the French. It also happens to ‘Clear the way’.
Guaranteed seat on the bus.
What is this bus you speak of?
I suspected as much.
But, to be fair, I can only smell you when the wind is from the wrong direction…
Come on Sos. You can do better than that ! You could have said plants wilt as i walk by….you’re losing your touch !
Wilt?
Die more like!
I have nasal polyps. Nothing smells.
Could be worse.
True.
Phizzee is the living proof…
Does that mean you can’t smell at all?
Yes.
And taste, being mostly smell, is badly affected too. Tongue-taste works, but that’s about it.
Does that mean you can’t smell at all?
Urk!
Queen Elizabeth I reportedly bathed once a month, “whether she needed it or no”.
James I of England and VI of Scotland only ever washed his fingers. Double urk 🙁
What about his thumbs?
We do not know;-))
And used his sleeve as a handkerchief (the suits of his that survive have the lower part of the sleeve rotted away).
Triple urk!
He was not a very prepossessing character, by all accounts, and so terrified of assassins his jerkins were padded.
Yes, you’re right. A rather nasty person who persecuted older women as witches when they were simply wise women.
And he’s what Queen Mary of Scotland was forced to give up the throne of Scotland for,
I thought she was forced to give up the throne because of her Papist ways and scandalous behaviour with Bothwell. James was psychologically damaged by the Rizzio incident (even in the womb).
Reminds me of the chip shop in the village of which it is said changes the oil every six months, whether it needs to or not.
Is that where Elvis lives, Stormy? Lol.
That’s because the Elizabethans used baths for medicinal purposes.
I have met the lady in question. We have hugged and kissed and plotted on how to destroy you. Then decided not to bother…..
Odd that…
None of the Nottle females ever admit to meeting you.
Can’t imagine why!
It is because they do not respond to men who refer to them as females.
That might explain your lack of success!
I’m not trying to ‘score’ ! I only have one and a half legs!
Spot on Phiz
He only does it because he thinks he is out of reach. We may surprise him. A Chateau in France is not so far away………………………………. :@)
We could hire a charabanc;-)
Cheaper to hire a hitwoman…..
Run the taps for 30 minutes to dilute the rat piss.
That’s where you are.
Huzza!
B et you’re glad to be back and with water.
Chapeau!
Tips it…
That’s me. Away to work tomorrow, to deal with an idiot boss who couldn’t find his arsehole with both hands and a map. I started in the oil & gas industry in 1981, he about 15 minutes ago, and is apparently smarter than God. What a shit. I might be out of work tomorrow evening…
Stay cool and focused. Unless you do want to chuck it all in in which case…..you know what to do….
Tell him you sabotaged the Nord-streams and left his business card in a plastic bag.
I suspect that your surmise may well be fulfilled …
Evening all!
Just listening to the last bit of Bruckner 5 before heading up to bed.
This is the result of my culinary efforts today. 10 jars of VERY nice spicey apple chutney!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0565a00853e97e8cbc054937625ea3646e8bef0feda427798dfbcac75e9fcd58.jpg
https://youtu.be/UJ1a8EHk_Ok
Well done with the chutney, BoB. Good night, and sleep well.
Goodnight and God bless, Gentlefolk, until the morning’s light.
Good night!
I’m also off!
Bloody hell- it’s the end of the Waltons. Goodnight Bob Boy;-)
Good night, Tom. Sleep well.
And, the Bruckner now finished, I am also off to bed!
Good night all.
Sleep well, BoB.
Right, that’s me off to bed now. Good night, everyone.
Goodnight, all. The dogs are demanding a fuss and I don’t have a free hand to type any more. A demain.
Haven’t tried the Canine Assist option yet! 🤔
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5fbb6a416639ca4e84aea12ca6849aa7778f11d6aefc923d84dc517fd6c778ee.gif
Well, of course, it’s a Golden!!
They appear to be going a lot faster than the front wheel is turning
Strobe effect.
https://twitter.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1579215276641775616
750 on boats to Dover today!
Who is organising and financing this complex invasion?
Who chooses not to know?
Who chooses to do nothing to prevent further incursions?
The invasion is government policy dictated by the WEF and Bilderbergers who care not a jot for us English.
Much the same is happening in the USA with Biden and his handlers relaxation of any southern border controls. It is all by design.
Eventually the social systems will reach breaking point. We are fast arriving at civil upheaval. This shit on top of the wicked Covid scams and deliberate destruction of SME’s and the effective poisoning of our people with the jabs. I saw a bus in a Tesco car park advertising these evil concoctions with slogans on its side saying ‘GRAB A JAB’.
Pure evil intent. Those pushing this stuff deserve to serve life sentences for their crimes. This includes Johnson and other complicit Gates’s ‘paid for’ politicians.
Not to mention the Green CO2 Scam and their embarkation on the (ha ha) renewalable energy and the impossible net-zero scam
Good morning all! A fantastic clear sky this morning! Mars is glowing like a beacon over Orion, and Capella is very bright! Have seen a train of satellites (5 or 6) so I’m guessing they were part of Elon Musks Skylink. Not too cold but very crisp with a full moon! I’m up horribly early because Dobby was demanding breakfast!
Morning Sue! Pouring down here…
Sorry about that! We must have sent it down….
Good morning all – Monday’s new page is here.
Thank you and good morning, Sir.