Tuesday 28 February: The heat pump drive is part of an energy plan that puts consumers last

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  3. Morning, all Y’all.
    Sunny and warmish at -3.5C.
    Anybody see any Northern lights last night?

      1. No lights for us :-(( but skiing was good. Loadsa snow, not many people, good food and plenty alcohol!
        Pity it ended, really…

      1. There is a very impatient queue on yesterdays page, with itchy fingers! What a hoot!😁

  6. The case for the lab-leak theory grows stronger by the day. Spiked 28 February 2023.

    In every living creature, DNA’s messages, spelling out the recipe for making and running the organism, are written in a simple four-letter cipher: A, C, G and T. (Coronavirus messages are written in the almost identical language of RNA, but virologists use the DNA equivalent letters to avoid confusion.) And here’s a short burst of that text that is right at the heart of the evidence for a possible lab leak: cct cgg cgg gca. That code is the recipe for four amino acids in a particular region of the spike protein of the virus: proline, arginine, arginine, alanine, or PRRA.

    It turns out that this message is unique to SARS-CoV-2. That is to say, if you look at every other sarbecovirus (SARS-like beta coronavirus) ever discovered – and there are hundreds of them – they all lack this little message in this place. You can line them up and show how the text matches almost perfectly up to that point and after that point, but the 12-letter text has been inserted into just the SARS-CoV-2 genome and into none of the others.

    A convincing exposition; at least to my admittedly untutored eye, as to why the virus was engineered and not natural.. I didn’t base my own belief that the Chinese were responsible on anything so esoteric. That the Virus spread from Wuhan and the photographs of the fake victims dropping dead in the street that Rik posted at the time, were sufficient to convince me of their culpability. This technical explanation has of course been long known. It was just inconvenient to mention. It was in fact suppressed. What has changed is the US’s attitude to China. They were quite happy to deceive us when it suited them. Now they need to get the peasants onside for the New Cold War.

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/27/the-case-for-the-lab-leak-theory-grows-stronger-by-the-day/

      2. No, largely financed by the American Taxpayer and probably predated Trumps accession to the White House by at least 10 years.

  7. Good morrow, Gentlefolks, today’s stories:

    A Whole Week’s Stories

    Monday
    The mother of a 17-year-old girl was concerned that her daughter was having sex.

    Worried the girl might become pregnant and adversely impact the family’s status, she consulted the family doctor.

    The doctor told her that teenagers today were very wilful and any attempt to stop the girl would probably result in rebellion. He then told her to arrange for her daughter to be put on birth control and until then, talk to her and give her a box of condoms.

    Later that evening, as her daughter was preparing for a date, the mother told her about the situation and handed her a box of condoms. The girl burst out laughing and reached over to hug her mother, saying,

    ‘Oh Mom! You don’t have to worry about that! I’m dating Susan!’

    Tuesday
    A man went to church one day and afterward he stopped to shake the vicar’s hand.

    He said, ‘Reverend, I’ll tell you, that was a damned fine sermon. Damned good!’

    The vicar said, ‘Thank you, sir, but I’d rather you didn’t use profanity.’

    The man said, ‘I was so damned impressed with that sermon I put five hundred pounds in the offering plate!’

    The vicar said, ‘No shit?’

    Wednesday
    Brenda and Steve took their six-year-old son to the doctor.
    With some hesitation, they explained that although their little angel appeared to be in good health, they were concerned about his rather small penis.
    After examining the child, the doctor confidently declared, ‘Just feed him pancakes. That should solve the problem.’
    The next morning when the boy arrived at breakfast, there was a large stack of warm pancakes in the middle of the table.
    ‘Wow, Mum,’ he exclaimed. ‘For me?’
    ‘Just take two,’ Brenda replied. ‘The rest are for your father.’

    Thursday
    One night, an 87-year-old woman came home from
    Bingo to find her 92-year-old husband in bed with another woman.
    She became violent and ended up pushing him off the balcony of their 20th floor apartment, killing him instantly.
    Brought before the court, on the charge of murder, she was asked if she had anything to say in her defence.
    ‘Your Honour,’ she began coolly, ‘I figured that at 92, if he was such a Superman that he could still screw, I thought he could fly too.’

    Friday
    A Doctor was addressing a large audience in Birmingham.
    ‘The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water.

    However, there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have eaten, or will eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?’

    After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said,
    ‘Wedding Cake.’

    Saturday
    Bob, a 70-year-old, extremely wealthy widower, shows up at the Country Club with a breathtakingly beautiful and very sexy 25-year-old blonde-haired woman who knocks everyone’s socks off with her youthful sex appeal and charm and who hangs over Bob’s arm and listens intently to his every word.
    His buddies at the club are all aghast.
    At the very first chance, they corner him and ask, ‘Bob, how’d you get the trophy girlfriend?’
    Bob replies, ‘Girlfriend? She’s my wife!’
    They are knocked over, but continue to ask. ‘So, how’d you persuade her to marry you?’
    ‘I lied about my age’, Bob replies.
    ‘What, did you tell her you were only 50?’
    Bob smiles and says, ‘No, I told her I was 90.’

    Sunday
    Groups of Brits were traveling by tour bus through Holland.
    As they stopped at a cheese farm, a young guide led them through the process of cheese making, explaining that goat’s milk was used.
    She showed the group a lovely hillside where many goats were grazing.
    ‘These’ she explained, ‘Are the older goats put out to pasture when they no longer produce.’
    She then asked, ‘What do you do in Britain with your old goats?’
    A spry old gentleman answered, ‘They send us on bus tours!

  10. Good morning, chums. Enjoy your day, which is getting longer daily as we head for March.

  11. ‘Morning All

    “Sex education has been suspended in Isle of Man schools after a

    drag queen allegedly told 11-year-olds that there are 73 genders.

    Isle of Man government has launched an independent review of its

    personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) curriculum after parents

    raised the alarm about the “graphic, disproportionate, indecent

    presentation” of sexual acts and different gender identities understood

    to have been taught in lessons.

    Parents of pupils at Queen

    Elizabeth II High School in Peel, on the Isle of Man, have reported that

    Year 7 pupils were taught by a drag queen who told them there are 73

    genders.

    When one “upset” child responded and said “there’s

    only two”, the drag queen allegedly responded “you’ve upset me” and

    made the pupil leave the class.

    Some 11-year-olds at the

    school were taught about oral and anal sex, while another group learned

    about sex change operations and were shown how skin graft taken from a

    girl’s arm could be used on an artificial penis, according to reports.

    “A lot of children are just too traumatised to even talk to their

    parents,” Eliza Cox, vice-chairman of Marown Commissioners, told Energy

    FM Isle of Man. “As a parent, you don’t know what children are being

    taught.”

    https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/27/drag-queen-teaches-11-year-olds-anal-sex-tells-73-genders/
    I hate to think how any UK schools are encouraging this filth

        2. I times of yore when we had Servicemen and women, if that had happened near any of their bases, the Preaching Dragger, would have been ‘seen to’

      2. I would be apoplectic if i were a parent of an 11 year old being taught this. Can the LEA be sued? It’s highly inappropriate.

    2. Good morning Rik. What are the chances of this filth being taught in predominately Muslim schools?

    3. Children are being badly advised by immoral teachers

      NHS Head and neck and Ear nose and throat clinics are always full of patients , as are STD clinics .

      1. It must be a different generation. In my yoof, anything advocated by teachers was an automatic turn-off.
        Apart from Mrs. Lock – who was a dead scary 5.0 fire breathing chain smoking monster – nothing that teachers pushed stayed in my brain past exam time.

  12. ‘Morning, Peeps. Another dry day forecast (hosepipe ban, anyone?) with a miserly 7°C. The negotiation over the NI Protocol seems to have gone reasonably well, so well in fact that some of the more bigoted NI politicians are preparing their salvo of torpedoes. There is at least some good news – that lazy, bumbling fool Johnson decided to push off on holiday instead of facing the music in the H of C, which should mean that any prospect of a return to any kind of office is not only dead in the water but is diving rapidly to the sea bed!

    Today’s leading letter:

    SIR – The cost of installing a heat pump (Letters, February 25) is often quoted as between £7,000 and £13,000.

    This may be true for homes built recently, but it was not my experience. I live in a four-bedroom house built in the 1960s, with cavity wall insulation and loft insulation. I was keen to install an air source heat pump and received three quotations – all over £20,000.

    The reason given was that larger radiators and pipework were required. As well as costing more, this would have involved a huge upheaval, with carpets and flooring tiles being lifted. Since the radiators would have been working at 40C, it would have been necessary to use electricity to heat water for baths, for instance. The operating costs were still expected to exceed £2,000 a year.

    Needless to say, an oil boiler is now being fitted instead.

    Roger Wood
    Weymouth, Dorset

    Well said, Mr Wood. The whole heat pump ‘promotion’ is already a busted flush for most of us. And the next obviously unaffordable scheme is……?

    1. I find the 2nd letter annoying.
      How much do 2 x 330′ boreholes cost and how many people can afford it?

      SIR – My Swedish ground source heat pump is served by two 330 ft-deep boreholes, and delivers heat consistently and cheaply.

      It has been running for three years without any problems, and the servicing costs are about £150 per annum. More importantly, when combined with a solar array and a well-insulated building, the results are staggering. My electricity bill for 2022 was a shade over £100. A temperature of 21C is maintained throughout the house. The fact that a ground source unit delivers four kilowatts of heat for each one consumed cannot be ignored.

      The payback period for the renewables in my house was estimated at 12 years when they were installed, but this will fall significantly if energy prices stay at their current levels.

      Peter Gilbert
      Llangarron, Herefordshire

      1. Me too, BoB. He fails to set out the extent of his capital ‘investment’, but at least he has the warm glow of smugness, so that’s okay then!

        1. Here’s what looks like an authoritative comment on the subject:

          gerard ward
          57 MIN AGO
          If the publication of Peter Gilbert’s letter is designed to offer some balance in the merits of the strategic adoption of heat pump technology as a central tenet of “ energy policy” then it demands challenge.
          Despite using the same principles there is a huge distinction between ground sourced ( (GSHP)and air sourced heat pumps (ASHP).
          GSHP’s are hugely efficient, with high reliability and low operating costs. The capital cost of installation is staggeringly high irrespective of the concept of a vertical bore hole or horizontal lattice arrangement. They are efficient as the variation in the sub surface temperature of the ground is fractional with a relatively consistent “ source” temperature. The life cycle costs may well be positive but this is irrelevant given that the vast majority of consumers have neither access to the initial capital for boreholes or a football field garden.
          ASHP’s are not efficient. The variation in ambient temperature across the operating range with summer’s of 16 degrees and upwards and sub zero or close to in winter. Electricity ( that stuff that comes free out of that thing in the wall) is required to get bath water to a safe level to avoid bacteria.
          No doubt the reason ASHP’s work in Scandinavia is the low humidity whereas in these Isles we have heavily moisture laden air that , guess what, turns to ice on the pumps in winter ( when they are most needed). The anti icing on my system kicks in for 20 minutes every hour just to keep itself warm enough to function.
          So when we talk about “ heat pumps” let’s be absolutely clear . Those that work and are efficient (GSHP)are prohibitively expensive and non viable as part of a solution to consumer’s future energy requirements. The others ( ASHP) sit in a box called “ con”

    2. Morning all.

      If the negotiations over NI protocol have gone well, as the MSM seem to be trumpeting, I want to know what has the U.K. promised to do in return for the concessions? The EU never concedes without extracting some other punishment.

  13. ‘Morning, Peeps. Another dry day forecast (hosepipe ban, anyone?) with a miserly 7°C. The negotiation over the NI Protocol seems to have gone reasonably well, so well in fact that some of the more bigoted NI politicians are preparing their salvo of torpedoes. There is at least some good news – that lazy, bumbling fool Johnson decided to push off on holiday instead of facing the music in the H of C, which should mean that any prospect of a return to any kind of office is not only dead in the water but is diving rapidly to the sea bed!

    Today’s leading letter:

    SIR – The cost of installing a heat pump (Letters, February 25) is often quoted as between £7,000 and £13,000.

    This may be true for homes built recently, but it was not my experience. I live in a four-bedroom house built in the 1960s, with cavity wall insulation and loft insulation. I was keen to install an air source heat pump and received three quotations – all over £20,000.

    The reason given was that larger radiators and pipework were required. As well as costing more, this would have involved a huge upheaval, with carpets and flooring tiles being lifted. Since the radiators would have been working at 40C, it would have been necessary to use electricity to heat water for baths, for instance. The operating costs were still expected to exceed £2,000 a year.

    Needless to say, an oil boiler is now being fitted instead.

    Roger Wood
    Weymouth, Dorset

    Well said, Mr Wood. The whole heat pump ‘promotion’ is already a busted flush for most of us. And the next obviously unaffordable scheme is……?

  14. 371652+ up ticks,

    Morning Each,

    28 February: The heat pump drive is part of an energy plan that puts consumers last

    Reality,
    Tuesday 28 February: The heat pump drive is part of an energy plan that will put elderly and vulnerable consumers in the grave.

    Money on the fact that if an INSTANT NO,NO was the order of the day a great deal of politico’s invested ill gotten gains would be in the lost volume.

    Yet another politico’s life supporting scam to add to the
    HS2, electric cars, lab/lib/con membership contributions / donations.

    1. No moral hazard there. Can’t see any parallels whatsoever to the causes of the 2007/2008 financial crash. No siree.

      1. Banks don’t threaten to blow off your kneecaps.
        Your drug dealer, however, is not as accommodating.

          1. 🙂 I live dangerously; I add brown sugar to my porridge ….. in front of half-Scottish MB!

    3. The other Clinton solution to a national problem.
      (The one that doesn’t involve ‘suicide’.)

  17. Amazon treats me worse than the warehouse robots – that’s why I’m walking out. 28 February 2023

    Everyone who I work with at the warehouse in Coventry is frustrated. Frustrated at bad pay, at the long hours we have to work just to make ends meet, and at sky-high profits that we don’t see any benefit from. The shifts are hard work, spent all on our feet, walking miles back and forth through large warehouses. All of that for just £10.50 an hour. That’s why about 400 workers at our warehouse are striking today.

    He’s not walking out from the job. Just on strike. I have never liked work. In fact at one time I had one very similar to this at a much lower rate. I stuck it out until another one came along that was better paid and more in my line. It is a sad fact of life that you have to shift for yourself in this world. No one, except in a Socialist Paradise, gets something for nothing and they eventually collapse.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/28/amazon-warehouse-robots-striking-50p-pay-jeff-bezos

    1. He should be quite fit being on his feet all day and walking miles. Office workers have it worse…sitting in a chair all day developing DVT and back pain.

      Good morning.

      1. I asked one of the porters at the NNUH how far he walked in a day – “About 16 miles on average,” he replied.

  18. Good morning, all. Clear skies. My poor old body barely works today after all yesterday’s hard work!

    Sell out by Fishi. Woke joke “king” shows his political spots. Idiot.

      1. I can barely walk. And my left elbow is swollen – feels like housemaid’s knee. (Though I hasten to add that I have NEVER felt a housemaid’s knee…!)

  19. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c4373422cb5dffd940d60c5aea78463a5f7db055733ad9a90dd19264486bc7e7.jpg

    https://twitter.com/PlebianScot/status/1630389742331219969?s=20

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/778a67e4f20de0f3095c3e33787a2dd700a7b44151e9e0e3ec8a5ce99aa15f81.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4764ad45d55b3b6ddb92e35f3c2ec32b1c13e6c3eb14e726e0da9c635584d097.jpg

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    1. Ursula (Little bear) has identified that our supposed King (Twat III) has been scammed on both Ukraine and (ha ha) climate change.

  21. SIR – I share the frustration of many drivers when encountering “lane hoggers” who refuse to move into the empty slow lane on motorways (“Yes, we hate lane hogs, but there’s no way we’re budging”, report, February 23).

    However, I do have a degree of sympathy with these drivers. The slow lanes on some older sections of our motorways are rough with ruts and potholes and best avoided.

    Even more frustrating on our smart motorways is the practice among overtaking HGV drivers of occupying three lanes, leaving only the outside lane for faster-moving traffic to proceed. The HGV speed differential is often so low that they might take several miles to complete their overtaking manoeuvres. So I ask: why are HGVs not restricted to the two inside lanes of these motorways?

    Terry Lloyd
    Derby

    Oh dear, Mr Lloyd, there are no ‘slow’ or ‘fast’ lanes on our motorways. How many more times does this need saying? And furthermore the ‘smart’ motorways are both dumb and dangerous. And we all knew that limiting HGVs (and newer vans) to 56 MPH would result in serious bunching…here at Janus Towers we refer to this tedious practice as ‘lorry racing’.

    BBC SE Today did a puff piece on ‘smart’ motorways last week, no doubt at the invitation of the Highways Agency. Their prepared item went out on the very same day that the dumb computer system failed for a couple of hours, with the prospect of broken down vehicles being left undetected in live lanes. That went well, then!

  22. 371652+ up ticks,

    The smile of the eu crocodile implies in my book that a feast of treachery is on the future menu,

    Rishi Sunak: My Brexit deal is a new way forward
    PM hails framework that delivers ‘decisive breakthrough’ on trade in Northern Ireland

    1. Ummmm …. do North Face sell fleeces?
      Since their wares are aimed at the disgustingly fit, I’m in total ignorance about their goods.

  25. Headline in today’s DT:

    “School suspends sex education after drag queen ‘told 11-year-olds there are 73 genders’

    Isle of Man suspends sex education after performer leave youngsters ‘traumatised’ with ‘age-inappropriate material’ ”

    No need to paste the whole article, the headline says it all.

    Readers are definitely not amused:

    Rob Burton
    6 HRS AGO
    Why can’t we comment on the IOM drag queen saga? So I will have to so here. I’ll make it short. These weirdos and their enablers need put in a cage, the key thrown away and the cage dropped off a quayside. Harsh but fair in my world.

    Steve Jones
    5 HRS AGO
    100% Rob and may I take the liberty and add – anyone in the education system, local government or any “official capacity” who thinks these freaks are anything but freaks needs to be out of a job and very probably in the hands of the law.
    What a diabolical disagreed these disgraceful people in authority have for the minds and well being of the young.

    Catherine Liversedge
    2 HRS AGO
    When I was young, I recall my parents had to sign a form agreeing I could attend basic sex education classes. How on earth can a school now allow this sexualisation of young children and trans gender ideology without explicit parental knowledge and consent. I would be absolutely furious if I had a child put in this situation.

    Catherine Liversedge
    2 HRS AGO
    Interesting that in another no comments article Tennessee and other American states are now looking to make drag acts illegal in places where children may visit. The fight back for common sense is starting!

    * * *

    I do object to the use of the word ‘freaks’…it is far too generous!

    1. I do object to the use of the word ‘freaks’…it is far too generous!

      I find ‘perverts’ works better. Parents should start threatening lawsuits.

    2. After Mastermind was on TV last evening, Only Connect came on the screen. One of the contestants looked a little strange and then he spoke. Dangling earings lipstick strange hair style.
      Off button handy,….. all gone, as he appeared to me I became a channel hopper.
      There are certain things we don’t need in our lives at a certain age.

  27. Morning, all. No frost, bright with thickening cloud and dry in N Essex at the moment.

    Much talk about Net-Zero costs and it’s nearly always related to ££££s. However, the cost will be much, much higher and will involve the complete re-alignment and impoverishment of our society: the elected councillors in Oxford/Oxfordshire, Canterbury, Bath and now Cambridge are preparing the start of the process in their fiefdoms.
    My own town city council is looking at the issue of ‘sustainability’, in my opinion a euphemism for the 15 minute city/20 minute neighbourhood which in turn is a euphemism for control and a drastic reduction of the broad spectrum of freedoms we currently take for granted.
    Once a measure of control has been implemented the screw will be turned until life becomes intolerable: in the current climate who is foolish enough to believe what politicians, whether at the national or the local level, promise? Once authorised these people will abuse their power and by extension the people.
    A question that needs answering is: how, and by whom, have these local politicians been convinced to even contemplate, yet alone impose, these oppressive measures?

    https://twitter.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1630137518208196608

    1. Ahem

      It gets worse

      “But Aman Jabbi is particularly concerned about new ‘smart poles’, described as the ‘brain of the smart city’, or streetlighting that feeds environmental monitoring information back to artificial intelligence (AI) allegedly to create ‘smarter and greener cities’.

      He says that the lights are there not just to make cities cleaner or

      help us find our way home, they are programmed to track our movements

      and can even listen to our conversations”

      .He said: ‘This is digital slavery with invisible chains that will be

      used to control our every move and to take away what little freedom we

      still hold on to. All in the name of protecting the planet from climate

      change and keeping us secure. This will be the final lockdown. Smart

      cities are designed to be prisons and the technology is already far

      advanced.”

      https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/is-that-streetlight-watching-you-and-eavesdropping-too/

    2. 371652+ up ticks,

      Morning KtK,

      They believe that it is unachievable then counter their beliefs by supporting & voting for the very peoples that say it is achievable, and they have the power given them by the peoples who say
      it is ………….

      Peoples are in point of fact accepting the restricting ankle ball & chain via the polling booth.

    3. Pipe dream? It’s just another Government controlled scam.

      That’s all gov’ts can do these days, scam the population because the majority are so gullible.

    4. Ask these loonies what would happen if they had to care for an elderly relative who lived just over the “border” in another 15min segment and needed to go every day and spend more that 15 minutes on it. Totally impractical

    1. The EU and the ECJ are still in Northern Ireland.

      Brexit is still undone and full re-entry to the EU is now in the fast lane.

  30. Good Moaning.
    Well, if you want a social life, Colchester tip is where it’s at.
    Chum and I went there yesterday with a cupboard and a small table to be recycled. We ended up chatting around the back of the Noddy car with a couple of ‘operatives’; chum with her ex-landlord, me with the recycling chap who is still in raptures over the old meat safe that I took there a couple of days ago.
    Not bad for a grey Monday lunchtime.

    1. Did that lady Sarah from the TV prog Money for Nothing turn up ?
      You could have been a star.

      1. She merely turns toot into future toot.
        Very rarely is the upcycled object any use, other than as a conversation piece in a chi-chi boutique.

        1. I know it’s all a bit silly really, but it encourages conversation.
          I remember a few years ago taking the content of one of my wife’s aunts flat to the local tip.
          My son and I carried a massive beech timber framed sofa up the steps to the crusher. I ask the attendant if it was okay to put it in. Yarss he shouted that’ll crush twentee tons mate.
          It didn’t crush the sofa. The machine was still out of order a week later.
          They don’t make-em like that anymore.

    2. Morning Anne ,

      Council tips here are ver well organised and monitored , and amazingly clean .

      We are regular visitors , with pruning/ hedge cuttings etc and we are always clearing stuff, plastic plant pots especially.

      I am shocked by the amount of bicycles and childrens garden toys that are dumped .

      1. Until recently, what appeared to be good furniture and other items, were just dumped in the skips. There are now chaps sporting yellow waistcoats who actually hive the stuff off for proper re/upcycling. There is one in particular who is very helpful and actually seems to enjoy his job.
        Given that charities are now so sniffy over furniture, I can now take usable items to the tip with a clear conscience.
        I hate waste, particularly of stuff that has done sterling service and still has many more years life in it.

        1. Our dump staff are to a trans unhelpful, off-hand and, frequently, downright rude. And the site is badly designed and awkward to use.

          2. On 13th. March, a booking system is being introduced. The staff are dreading it as much as the ‘customers’.
            That is one reason why half my life is spent there at the moment; I wish to clear as much as possible before the aggro hits the fan.

      1. As I wrote yesterday:

        They will be telling anyone who cares to listen that that murder is evil whitey’s fault.
        If only he had been showered with money and respect, as is his due as a black man, that would not have happened.

        1. I can never understand, and never will, why and how what is supposed to be the government in real terms, effs up every single thing it comes into contact with. There is no end to their marathon of unforced errors.
          It’s absolutely unbelievable.

          1. Politicians are lazy, easily bought, of limited intelligence and have done nothing but politics all their (so-called) working lives. What can one expect?

          3. A friend’s daughter inlaw use to work for a senior tory.
            Because of her down to earth and every day intelligence, she had to write all of his letters and speeches.
            She’s changed her job since.
            He would never tell me who she actually worked for.
            But I’m working on it.

        2. That ghastly Shola Mos-Shog. is lipping out again about how our white values and society should be exterminated. Look forward to a Britain that is even more like Nigeria than it has already become.

          Seriously, what has diversity brought this country and its indigenous people? A few new culinary dishes and rap. A very bad deal for us.

  32. Morning all 😉 😊
    Brightish no frost, leaves me a bit suspicious what the plan is for March.
    7:30 Bin men noisy as predicted.
    Not sure what this heat pump push is about, installation is very costly and they don’t work efficiently. Typically British. More of that to come, when our government opens the doors of all the hotels that are costing all of us (except politicos) an absolute fortune.
    Crime is still on the rise as well.
    What is the home office and government doing about this ?
    Absolutely nothing as usual.

    1. To find another time when this country was so badly ruled, you need to go back to the Wars of the Roses.

    2. Cold Cloudy and damp up here.
      Trying to work up enthusiasm to go and do a bit up the “garden”.

    3. Morning, Maggie.
      As my stock of Deep Heat is running low, I checked on Voltarol.
      Sadly, it contains diclofenac which sends up blood pressure.
      It’s a trait that I’ve passed on to elder son; he can’t take it either.

      1. I still take diclofenac tablets plus a Tramadol when my back becomes excruciatingly painful.

        Tramadol for pain relief and diclofenac to relax the muscles. Works for me, Anne.

        1. Can you get them over the counter? What are they called, please?

          I recently bought a band to put on my left leg for what I think is sciatica, and it seems to work – but I still get quite bad backache. I’ve given up on my GP.

          1. No, Lass, Prescription only and you must convince the quack that you know how addictive Tramadol can become. Taken rarely and sparingly.

          3. I believe that Diclofenac is the principal ingredient of voltarol and voltarol gel, sometimes referred to as Volatrene.

            One used to be able to get the voltarol slow release 75mg OTC and the 100 on prescription, the gel was OTC.
            Be very careful to read the restrictions and side effects. Tramadol has fallen out of favour recently as it has addictive properties

          4. Thank you, I will look carefully. It’s just that this back thing is a pain – there is so much I can’t do…

          7. I would recommend that you do so.

            Many people also use osteopaths and chiropractors as an alternative.

            One has to be careful that there are not underlying problems away from the Musculo-skeletal.

            Take care.

    10. Many thanks to all for your greetings.

      I have spent the last couple of hours arguing with the Spectator frothies, and will go for my walk around the block followed by a Pensioner’s Special at the carvery across the river. (Smaller plate, so I can be serious about not hitting 100kg during Lent).

      Then packing ready for the trip to Salzburg in a couple of days to attend Alma’s premiere.

      And I’ve been asked to do the Easter Exultet. It’s all about how the candle we stick nails in, dunk in holy water and set on fire, came to be. Normally the four pages are droned on with Gregorian plainchant and we all fall asleep, but I hope to make it a bit more interesting. There are some Morten Lauridsen chords I want to work in at the end.

      2. Ah, there you are, Happy Birthday old troop, go out and have a blast plus 364 Happy Unbirthdays to follow.

      5. Happy Birthday! Hope you have a wonderful trip. Goodness, Alma is just 18 but of course Salzburg is accustomed to musical prodigies.

      1. One of each.

        NHS I had to wait Three days, after the assessment

        Private was 16 days, but 6 odd weeks sooner than NHS

    10. First time you look with a de-cataracted eye is amazing. I was looking at a Bougainvillea outside my living room window. I will never forget that, one of the most beautiful and brilliant events in my life. I hope you enjoy the experience as much as I did, fades unfortunately and the mundane world encroaches.

  40. Good to see that the DT has finally caught up with the rest of us:

    Women and ethnic minorities overrepresented in advertising industry, finds report

    ‘Woke’ advertisers risk becoming ‘out of touch’ with British public, industry leaders say

    By
    Matt Oliver
    28 February 2023 • 6:00am
    Women and ethnic minorities are now overrepresented in the UK advertising industry following a decades-long push to improve diversity, according to a new survey.

    A 2022 census found that an estimated 55pc of employees in the sector were women, compared to 45pc who were men.

    That was after the number of women increased from an estimated 11,600 to 14,400, an increase of 24pc, the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) said.

    At the same time, the proportion of non-white employees increased by almost one third to 24pc, compared to 18pc a year earlier.

    Women made up 51pc of the population in England and Wales in 2021, according to the Office for National Statistics, while non-white ethnic groups comprised about 18pc.

    In London, where most of the UK’s advertising industry is concentrated, non-white ethnic groups represent roughly 46pc of the population.

    The IPA said there was more work to do on diversity, as women still only get just over one third of executive jobs in the ad industry, while non-white individuals only occupy 11pc of roles.

    For years, women and ethnic minorities were severely under-represented in advertising and City jobs more broadly, prompting major initiatives to overhaul governance and hiring practices.

    Paul Bainsfair, director general of the IPA, said: “These latest results represent a much healthier pace of improvement than in previous years and demonstrate that our concerted collective efforts to improve diversity and inclusivity within our industry are beginning to pay off.

    “We must continue this great work to ensure our business is fully representative and inclusive for those working within it and attractive to those considering a career within the agency world.”

    However, the figures come amid claims that a focus on “woke” issues in advertising may be distancing consumers.

    Research into ads that won awards at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity showed that 2021’s crop was less effective compared to previous years.

    Winners included an Ogilvy campaign for Dove soap called “Courage is Beautiful” featuring the faces of NHS workers during the Covid crisis and another for Burger King featuring a mouldy burger, by INGO Stockholm, DAVID Miami and Publicis Bucharest.

    But consultancy System1 found that while winners between 2010 and 2018 were seven times more likely to score highly with the public, in 2021 they were just 2.5 times more likely.

    Last year The Pull Agency, a creative agency and consultancy, also warned that marketers were becoming “out of touch” with consumers and risked being seen as telling audiences “how to think”.

    The agency’s research found 60pc of those surveyed did not feel “well represented” in advertising for beauty products and that the majority wanted brands to focus on paying their taxes and “treating people fairly”.

    Chris Bullick, chief executive of The Pull Agency, said there was a perception among marketers that the industry needs to “do a lot more” about diversity and inclusion when in fact statistics showed it had “done enough, but clumsily”, with older and disabled people in fact the most under-represented in ads.

    In a May 2022 blog he wrote: “The un-thinking addition of ethnic, and in particular mixed-race couples, is seen by consumers as an ‘easy win’ for lazy advertisers and contributing to the impression that advertising has ‘gone woke’.

    “It was clear from our research and comments we received that people are simply looking for realistic representation of the actuality of UK population diversity.

    “Advertisers need to be more imaginative in dealing with this.”

    Separately, official data revealed that government targets to boost the number of women on boards had been hit three years early.

    About 40pc of FTSE 350 Board positions are now held by women, a goal originally pencilled in for 2025.

    The Government also wanted 40pc of leadership roles to be held by women, who currently only occupy one third of them, by 2025.

    Kemi Badenoch, the Business and Trade Secretary, said the figures showed that “change doesn’t always require top-down interventions but can occur when everyone is pushing in the same direction”.

    She added: “This progress is very welcome, and I’d urge business to keep up this momentum to achieve better balance in leadership positions as well as in boardrooms.”

    * * *

    No comments allowed by the cowardly DT.

    If you need an example of complete infatuation with wimmin, look no further than the BBC, and particularly the World Service – which is why I gave up on it. They force workery to completely new heights and show no signs of reversing the process.

    1. Perhaps the government should limit the number of Old Etonians to less than 1 in any ministerial office.

    2. Daily Telegraph. I’ve just complained about my subscription rates at £9.99 for monthly access plus £3.99 for the puzzles.

      It’s now been reduced to £3.00 per month for 6 months for both. Tel 03301 735 542. Worth a try.

    3. I just look at ads and think well that product is clearly aimed only at black people so I won’t buy it – except ads for funeral plans of course where it clearly is aimed at me and I think eff off!

      1. It’s saving me a bomb.
        That and those clever d!ck adverts all swooping angles and obscure pop music that the producers enjoyed when they were about 15.

      2. We, I in particular always turn off the ads on TV. But I’m well aware of whats been happening for around ten years.
        We record quite a lot of programmes where we can skip the ads.

  42. Why did the King allow himself to get dragged into the highly political Northern Ireland issue? And why did he allow this enormous con trick to be given the Windsor name?.

    We know that he has always had an appalling lack of judgement but is he even more stupid than we took him to be?

      1. I meant to reply to you yesterday re the Queen being political, Hl! I know she was, but she was rather more subtle about it! I couldn’t imagine her hosting the Fond a Lying woman for tea!

        1. Not under the present circumstances, enwrought with booby traps for unwary kings just out of the princely chrysallis!

        2. ER and Phil got lumbered with Ceausescus; that must have been a low – possibly the lowest – point of their reign.

          2. At least the Ceausescus purported to be head of state.

            Fonda Lyin’ is only head of an unelected body of despots and tyrants trying to pose as a state. And what a state they’re in!

          3. She didn’t seem to be charmed by the Chinese Presidents visit to the palace, either.

    2. One hopes he has good advice, but not on this occasion.
      Perhaps he feels the need to be more “executive” and “visible”.

    3. I don’t believe he’s been ‘dragged‘ into anything. He’s well into all the Green/NWO/WEF/Reset shite, and supports it all.

  43. Morning all!
    If you recall the other day, we had a sort of discussion about the possibility of being visited by aliens. This popped up in my You Tube feed last night and I immediately thought of our discussion. Eric Weinstein is no fool but he is a rebel. A blurb about his education:
    Weinstein received his PhD in mathematical physics from Harvard University in 1992 under the supervision of Raoul Bott. (Bott was not his advisor according to comments made by Weinstein on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, episode 1945.) [5][6][7] In his dissertation, Extension of Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations Across the Eighth Dimension, Weinstein showed that the self-dual Yang–Mills equations were not peculiar to dimension four and admitted generalizations to higher dimensions.”
    Don’t know what the rest of you know but the above is unintelligible to me!
    The most interesting part of this video is towards the end where Weinstein talks about space/time and traversing the universe. Also, how physicists are not doing proper physics and are stuck in their ideas, such as the speed of light and travel.
    Is the Government getting Desperate & Trying to Fake a UFO Invasion? – Eric Weinstein & Joe Rogan!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uip281TD_4&t=149s

    1. Perhaps. ‘Fake’ being the operative word here. There is a thought that that is how they will try to get away with their one world government, that we will be taken over by aliens from another world. They, our would-be NWO hopefuls Schwabby & Co, will in fact be the fake aliens. How stupid do they think we are? It is mediaeval in its thinking.

      1. I agree. I think a lot of this is motivated by trying to distract the general public from what really matters. Fact is that even if we discovered tomorrow that aliens really do exist and are visiting us. It makes no difference unless they contact us deliberately and openly. Then there would be a real change in our behaviour. As it is, things continue in the same old way. At present it boils down to getting excited about a possibility while those who seek to control us strive to make us not look at the elephant in the room.

          2. Don’t joke.

            A few years ago, a young schoolgirl won a competition to design a flag for the Black Country which incorporated s chain (inter alia) representing the Black Country’s industrial heritage.

            Needless to say, “political activists”, who didn’t take the time to bother to find out about all the symbolism the flag represented, and even a Wolverhampton MP (POC (sic) of course, goes without saying), managed to link it to slavery and get it banned.

            These evil vile people who do this. I can’t tell you how much I despise their lack of proper critical thinking skills. The only thing they seem able to do is a knee-jerk reaction and a parrot response. Surely we need better leaders than this.

          3. Chain-making was a cottage industry in the Victorian Black Country. PS, it’s called “black” because of all the smoke from furnaces etc.

          5. I remember some black woman MP from Wolverhampton saying that she “shuddered” whenever she saw that flag. Chains equalled slavery you see. The someone unearthed a photo of her wearing a gold chain round her neck.

          6. I’ve just been reading over on Spiked about some (black) race-baiter I’ve never heard of, demanding reparations for slavery.

            She was on the US equivalent of Who Do You Think You Are.

            Turns out she can trace her ancestry back to the Mayflower with one of the only four women who survived the first winter. Oops!

            But it’s worse! In the Civil War another of her ancestors turns out to have been a slave owner. double oops!

            Seems she’s not as black as she wanted to be.

            But like the fragrant MP for Wolverhampton who sees a chain and automatically thinks of slavery, life is a little less black and white than she wants it to be too.

    4. Popular store in California, Trader Joe’s, they sell Bison meat. It is supposed to be really good. Never tried it myself, not that found of red meat.

  46. Have any of you had earache .

    I have earache .. my right ear.. doctors appointment/ nurse etc 14th March .

    I have to present myself early tomorrow in case there is a cancelled appt.

    Gland up in my neck, I feel very uncomfortable .

    2. Hi Belle. To much wax? Look up the trick of using warm olive oil.
      I have problems with occasional earaches but I know exactly what causes it, ear bud I use all night. Also slightly deaf from numerous infections when I was a child.

  47. Well, that’s a first. A month ago I was asked by the GPs if I would like an annual review. I sad yes, made an appt for today – then checked if it was online or face to face. Online. Tricky taking blood-pressure etc. So I cancelled.

    They have just rung to do another online “consultation” about something else!!

    Can’t fault them for keenness.

    1. Over the last two year my health has dropped precipitously. From being able to go shopping I am now housebound, use a Zimmer frame and, when out, a wheelchair. Had plenty of online consultations and they have done me zero positive use. I honestly believe that my doctor doesn’t realize how sick I am because I haven’t seen him in person, for such a long time. I’m not being pessimistic, but at the rate things are going, I would not be surprised if I did not see out the year. Not that I could be surprised if I upended😊. But, thanks to Covid……..

      1. I am sorry to read this. We are extremely lucky here. If one really DOES need to see someone, it can be arranged, often at very short notice. Even the Dr or Nurse that one WANTS to see.

      2. So sorry to hear that. Be the squeaky wheel and insist upon a face-to-face consultation! Even the worst practices must still have some. Using your third sentence from the end might jolt them into action for fear of legal comeback, if nothing else. Good luck.

        1. My doctor is a very good man. He knows what is going on with me it is just that he hasn’t seen me and thus doesn’t have a full awareness of how screwed I am. Seeing is believing, as they say.

      3. JR That is absolutely dreadful have you contacted PALS ? Patient Advice and Liaison Service.
        They were very helpful in my situation. Far more helpful than the so called medical professionals.

        1. I used PALS in order to get my operation, the one I had in January, after being postponed 4 times. They were very effective, surprisingly so. About the only people who were actually on the ball at the hospital.

          1. I’m currently having a more than a bit of problem trying to get treatment for return of afib which was kicked off by the covid jabs two years ago.
            I’m hitting a brick wall.

      5. Heart breaking to hear about your health concerns , Johnathan .

        What about a private consultation with another doctor ?

        Many of us have unresolved health issues since the start of Covid , and the absolute anxiety that lock down put upon everyone , including the Covid jab programme.

        Moh and I feel as if we have altered sigificantly healthwise , and of course we are 1947/1946 baby boomers..

        Where as we felt youthful pre Covid now we feel dragged down and lacking in energy and zest.

        1. I think your suggestion about a consultation is a good idea. The only reason I haven’t done it is, you guessed it, because of Covid. But now that is over and done with I should make an effort.

    2. Over the last two year my health has dropped precipitously. From being able to go shopping I am now housebound, use a Zimmer frame and, when out, a wheelchair. Had plenty of online consultations and they have done me zero positive use. I honestly believe that my doctor doesn’t realize how sick I am because I haven’t seen him in person, for such a long time. I’m not being pessimistic, but at the rate things are going, I would not be surprised if I did not see out the year. Not that I could be surprised if I upended😊. But, thanks to Covid……..

    4. I have CKD and am supposed to have annual checkups to make sure my BP, cholesterol and kidney function are still okay. I haven’t had one now for probably a couple of years before Covid. I used always to be refused medication repeat prescriptions if I hadn’t had a review, but that was with my previous surgery. Since I was forcibly transferred, such reviews are a thing of the past and my medication is renewed without any check.

    1. There’s still one near me, I think (I haven’t used it for years). They now have competition with Huws & Gray.

    2. Travis Perkins? Who are they?
      We’ve got Twiggs for metalwork and tools,
      Salisbury & Wood for building materials,
      Can’t remember the name, but a local plumbers just up the hill from S&W alongside a local electrical dealer,
      And Gregory’s Sawmill up in Tansley for wood.

  50. Between 12 noon GMT on Tuesday 28th February and 12 noon on Wednesday 1st March it will be:

    The Notional 29th February 2023

    Ped

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e281877e66f9640965428cfaf7612b736a56b10f037dc7830d6ff3f7e0f8aba9.png

    another notch edged onto the PEDometer of life

    Are you still in articles having not yet reached your 21st Birthday like the apprentice in The Pirates of Penzance?

    We hope you’ll have a very good celebration and many joyous returns!

    Very best wishes,

    Caroline and Rastus

    5. I shall not wish you a Grattis på födelsedagen, Ped, since you do not have one this year.

      Instead I shall wait until next year, when you do have one, and wish you a happy birthday four times!😉🎂🥂👍🏻😊

  51. Between 12 noon GMT on Tuesday 28th February and 12 noon on Wednesday 1st March it will be:

    The Notional 29th February 2023

    Ped

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e281877e66f9640965428cfaf7612b736a56b10f037dc7830d6ff3f7e0f8aba9.png

    another notch edged onto the PEDometer of life

    Are you still in articles having not yet reached your 21st Birthday like the apprentice in The Pirates of Penzance?

    We hope you’ll have a very good celebration and many joyous returns!

    Very best wishes,

    Caroline and Rastus

  52. Good afternoon everybody.
    This ‘Windsor Framework’, isn’t something missing? Shouldn’t the title make a nod towards the European Commission’s role?
    My suggestion would be to call it the ‘Windsor European Framework’.

    1. Wish I hadn’t watched that, Eddy, it is yet more proof that HMG gives not one fig for us Brits. Replacement coming along nicely.

      1. Our friends on Victoria told us about 4 Somalians robbing a grocery shop on Philip Island a few months ago. They just walked in and took what the wanted and walked out. The element of surprise is astounding every one. In our western civilised culture it’s not something we expect.
        Politics seems to have slammed into a self built brick wall and and has lost control of the situation. I don’t know what they are trying to achieve that can ever in a million years be justified.

        1. That’s why all shopkeepers should be allowed to keep a shotgun under the counter.

          This is a trend that is not going to go away.

          1. I find it hard to believe our political classes are/were far sighted enough to have banned fire arms from the public domain a few decades ago.

    2. His biggest error of judgment is his last sentence about ‘about time our government waking up and listening to the people.’

  54. Yes, yes …. but do they smack the teaspoon on the Big End or the Little End?

    “The Young Vic has warned theatregoers that a new production “involves the handling of cooked egg”.

    The theatre is staging a revival of the 2000 play Further than the Furthest Thing, about the inhabitants of a remote island and the tragic consequences of their displacement.

    Amid warnings about strong language and depictions of mental illness in the show, a content warning issued by the Young Vic states that actors will be handling “cooked egg”, amid concerns about allergies.

    The online warning states: “This show contains strong language, themes of climate displacement and xenophobia, and depictions of pregnancy and infant homicide.

    “The show contains references to sexual violence, mental illness, death and implied suicide, and has moments of loud music. This show involves the handling of cooked egg.”

    A spokesman for the Young Vic explained: “The warning is there for anyone with an egg allergy as cooked eggs are handled during the show.””

  55. 371652+ up ticks,

    DT,
    Brexit latest news: Rishi Sunak hints he will go ahead with deal even if DUP reject it.

    Democracy being kicked into touch ? if so all that stands between us descending into the shite filled abyss is the DUP.

    Seemingly no help from the Kingly one, I believe he is on a WEF promise that he will extend his kingdom to the whole of Europe is
    a promise that echos.

  57. OT – during lunch, just had an example of one of Nature’s wonders.

    Outside our kitchen is the drive – 10 feet across it is a hedge. Behind the hedge – perhaps 15 ft from our kitchen window is our neighbours’ garden.

    We saw sleet/rain teeming down in the neighbours’ garden – while our drive was dry as dry!

    I know all rain clouds must have an edge – but it is unusual actual to SEE that edge…!

    1. The Good Lord is merely ensuring that your well remains dry so that you have something to moan about throughout the Spring and Summer. {:^))

    2. I experienced something similar in NC. Went to the supermarket and came out, heavens opened and I got soaked to the skin. Drove home and 5 mins up the road, it was bone dry and there had been no rain at home. I had to put dry clothes on.

      1. Hello m’Dear!
        A couple of pictures taken in 2019 before I began doing the major works up the “garden” to give you an idea of what I’m doing.
        These first two are of a tree I had to fell because it was dying off and in danger of falling into the road. Note I’d already removed one dead limb from it.
        Looking towards next door, The Bungalow, at the Cromford end of the “garden”.
        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9d808c01deeb421c197944ef4e9f8839bee507d8c5eec162f6c1061e1a28125f.jpg

        Looking in the other direction with the house just out of sight round the corner:
        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a27a1153b78e4cdcc5083046d694491b393303a105adec8bf2dd174e6301bf2e.jpg

        The tree felled with Student Son’s assistance:
        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a27a1153b78e4cdcc5083046d694491b393303a105adec8bf2dd174e6301bf2e.jpg

        Jump forward to September 2020 and I’d just finished the large shed and thought it was liable to slide downhill some time in the future:-
        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/05f32ef7600a07d09d6fc7f79d507296472271e5e0376e06d78d23409fd67a3d.jpg

        And so I started building the top wall:-
        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/698e19b594df0d0ba51545c7c317a74614dab84463113380736fb9dca8a00267.jpg

        2. Thanks Bob, it seems like the labours of Hercules to me. I am sure it will be super when you are finished.

    3. We often get that effect between the front and rear of the house, raining on the North side and sunny on the South.
      I’ve no idea why it should be so, except there is mainly grass to the south and trees to the north, very odd.

          1. CCTV with a fish-eye lens, when he sees something that over-excites him it brings him out in puns.

          3. I believe there is only the one now, he chased the rest off with the threat of bonfires when the wind blew their way.

          4. So not only does he spy on his neighbours but threatens arson too. Must have overdosed on trombetti and it sent him even more doolally.

    5. We had a cloudburst here some years ago on a quiet Sunday afternoon.
      Because of the lack of traffic, we could not only hear the falling torrent, but see the advancing ling of wet road as it came down the valley!!

      1. One day I was at the top of Beeston Castle ruins and I could see the squall advancing across the Cheshire Plain. Unfortunately, the castle is a roofless ruin and there was nowhere to shelter 🙁

    7. I remember mentioning it to my parents that it was raining in the front garden, but not the back. Early 1970s.

    8. I’ve seen the line across the A49 where it had been raining heavily on one side and not a drop had fallen on the other. Ditto with snow on the Oswestry road.

    1. I liked a BTL joke:-

      2 Germans in a bar in London:
      – 2 Martinis, please.
      – Dry?
      – NEIN! ZWEI!

  61. How our schools lost control. Spiked. 28 February 2023.

    Teachers are not the only ones striking in Britain’s schools – now pupils are at it, too. Across the country last week, children were downing pens and picking up placards.

    At a school in Oxfordshire, pupils demonstrated in opposition to the introduction of a gender-neutral uniform. In Merseyside, pupils protested against skirt-length inspections. In Cornwall, children ‘flipped tables and chanted while shaking fences’ over the introduction of stricter rules on toilet breaks. Video footage, widely circulated on TikTok, shows some incidents are more akin to brawls or even riots than organised demonstrations.

    Lord of the Flies! If you are a teacher nowadays you need your head examining!

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/28/how-our-schools-lost-control/

    1. Strangely the protest by schoolgirls against sexual assaults by Afghan “Children” doesn’t get a mention
      Quelle Surprise…………

    2. Monkey see, monkey do. I’m glad I’m out of it. Our caretaker used to dread the days after the school series (Byker Grove?) had been on TV. Whatever mischief they’d got up to, he had to deal with the following day.

    2. Someone should tell our rectorette. I shall be penning another email of complaint to the Archdeacon later.

  63. I don’t know what the new deal with Northern Ireland is yet but if Ursula and Joe Biden like it then i probably won’t.

  64. Eye Eye,,Eye am back

    Thanks for your kind words

    For the first time in 60 years I do not need specs…. yet

    By next week I should be able to drive. That will help my blood pressure

    6. Good news. Is the improvement instant? I’m told that I’ll need cataract surgery in due course and that thereafter I will only need glasses for reading, which seems bizarre to me. Since I was two years old I’ve needed glasses to see my way out of bed, let alone read.

      1. Yo Sue

        Get it done
        Drops put in your eye
        Lie back, with head in U shaped rest
        Eye lids taped Open

        Watch bright ‘disco’ light
        Water and drips put into eye
        In 10 minutes, light source removed
        You stand up and walk away.
        Sorted

          1. The NHS claim it fails for one in a thousand, which is 0.1% rather than 5% but I’m also very hesitant. I’m told I have early cataracts but I haven’t noticed any deterioration in my vision that my glasses don’t correct so I’m in no hurry to meddle with what as yet doesn’t need to be fixed.

          2. Driving at night is very tricky for me. If I could guarantee the result, I’d have it done like a shot.

          11. I’ve only had one eye done as the other ‘wasn’t ripe’. The one I hade done deteriorated, over a 5 month period, from 6 x 6 vision to 6 x 12 (almost blind). I think you and your optician will know when it needs doing.

          13. I did edit. I was born with crap vision so when I refer to deterioration I mean deterioration that’s beyond being corrected by lenses. I’m told that having started with poor sight, over time the development of cataracts was inevitable.

          14. 1 in a 1000, problems
            1 in 10,000 death

            I have survived Two Eyes being done alters the odds for people following.

            Seriously Bill, if you need it, get it done

            No injections. On the ‘Table’ for less than 15 minutes

          15. Don’t forget he’s a lawyer, if you had one strapped to a table and a sharp instrument in your hand, how could you resist temptation?

        2. That sounds very encouraging, OLT. I shall have to have it done sometime in the future as cataracts are forming in both eyes.

      2. On advice of my surgeon I had my eyes set to focus on reading rather than distance. I now wear glasses most of the time and just pop them on my head when I want to read.

        1. I’d be the other way round if they couldn’t arrange monovision like my current situation (one eye is distance, one is reading).

    7. Cool!
      Great that you’re visioning better, OLT! Mother had it done, was well chuffed (but enough of her private life…!)

    8. Good stuff. It’s amazing how quickly they do it.
      It’s the colours that really surprise you.
      Have a good night’s rest.

  65. 371652+ up ticks.

    OGGA1,

    Many did NOT want to recognise the ingredients of this Batten fruitcake he really was a threat to THEIR party.

    “Their party’s” lab/lib/con amalgamated post Mrs Thatcher into the equally shared pro eu, mass controlled morally illegal immigration, paedophile umbrella coalition party, as bent as a nine bob note.

    https://gettr.com/post/p29x0kb5799

    Ogga1,

    Now we all suffer from the actions of self destruct, Country killing,
    people maiming, dangerous fool,s tis not only the politico’s at fault.

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    17h
    And the whole point of the ‘negotiations’ with the EU since the Referendum has been to keep the EU in a position where it can tell the UK what to do, so that Brexit will be seen as a failure & the way is open for re-entry.

    I was the ONLY politician who actually wrote a plan on how Britain should leave the EU. Fundamental to that was to do it by means of unilateral & unconditional withdrawal, & to tell the EU how it was going to work – not ask them how.

  66. 371652+ up ticks.

    OGGA1,

    Many did NOT want to recognise the ingredients of this Batten fruitcake he really was a threat to THEIR party.

    “Their party’s” lab/lib/con amalgamated post Mrs Thatcher into the equally shared pro eu, mass controlled morally illegal immigration, paedophile umbrella coalition party, as bent as a nine bob note.

    https://gettr.com/post/p29x0kb5799

    Ogga1,

    Now we all suffer from the actions of self destruct, Country killing,
    people maiming, dangerous fool,s tis not only the politico’s at fault.

    Gerard Batten
    @gjb2021
    ·
    17h
    And the whole point of the ‘negotiations’ with the EU since the Referendum has been to keep the EU in a position where it can tell the UK what to do, so that Brexit will be seen as a failure & the way is open for re-entry.

    I was the ONLY politician who actually wrote a plan on how Britain should leave the EU. Fundamental to that was to do it by means of unilateral & unconditional withdrawal, & to tell the EU how it was going to work – not ask them how.

  67. This weeks Canadian scandal.

    It has been rumored for some time that China has interfered with Canadian elections but naturally this has been debunked by China loving Trudeau. Even after someone in the security service leaked a few memos showing evidence of interference, Blackface continued to deny it.
    Now they have named an MP who is alleged to have won his seat because of Chinese meddling. Naturally questions are being asked by some politicians and reporters. Trudeaus response is to attack the questioners, stating that they are racist.

    One can only hope that Trudeau cannot take much more of this questioning, he needs to resign.

    1. His response to the Truckers strike in Canada was an utter disgrace. His actions revealed him to be av truly evil individual.

    2. Meanwhile in my neck of the woods the tinted represent about 0.1 of the population (and frankly, I’m beginning to think that’s too high!).

  70. Has Richard (Tier5) deleted his Disqus account? Has something happened and can he be contacted and the situtation remedied?

    1. He unfortunately made a very rude post to someone. If he were to say sorry for his language i am sure we would all welcome him back.

        1. Early doors. It needs to be in the evening when we have had a few for a good slapdown wrestle and hair pulling …erm…innocent face….. :@)

  71. ‘That’s my neighbour’: Mariupol residents’ shock at Putin’s parade line-up

    Survivors’ disgust as children thank ‘rescuers’ in a lavish Moscow celebration.

    At the climax of the pageantry in Moscow to mark the first anniversary of the start of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war in Ukraine, the Kremlin wheeled out children from Mariupol in occupied south-east Ukraine to “thank” their invaders.

    The star of this orgy of Russian patriotism was Anna Naumenko, a 15-year-old with black hair, who was pushed on to the stage of Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium to thank a soldier nicknamed “Yuri Gagarin” for rescuing her: “Thank you Uncle Yura for saving me, my sister and hundreds of thousands of children in Mariupol.” Anna’s sister, Karolina, covered her ears against the noise of the crowd as she stood nearby.

    No wonder the Ukies are Miffed. Lol! The Russians have shot their kidnapping fox here. The children were evacuated to safety from a war zone and quite rightly.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/25/thats-my-neighbour-mariupol-residents-shock-at-putins-parade-line-up

    1. What’s with the reference to black hair. Are Russians only allowed to look like the Vikings who founded Rus? Down on the Black Sea many will be of Greco-Turkish descent but nearly 250 years after the Khanate ended, they’re Russian.

      2. My stepfather was, and most of his relatives, are as blond as the blondest Scandinavian. Don’t know what the point of the black hair remark is. Many Russian look distinctly oriental because of the Mongolian fold, so….. Another ignorant remark from a non Russian imposing stereotypes.

    2. It looks as if most of the children are wearing hats, did they mean black hat rather than black hair?

    1. Smith is an excellent example of an anti-democrat, doing everything in her power to reverse the result of the Brexit referendum.

      1. Wasn’t this the woman who got free vibrating dildos when her husband was enjoying the porn that was bought from her expenses as an MP?

        2. That’s the one, Rastus! Lovely woman, isn’t she? And didn’t even have the grace to blush!

        3. And was Home Secretary when the first reports of child sex exploitation by Pakistani rape gangs came to the surface. She must be a great friend of Cur Heel Stormer. No prosecutions it was a lifestyle choice.

  74. A woman who gave evidence to the Grenfell Tower inquiry received nearly £400,000 in support after she falsely claimed to have lost her home in the disaster, a court has heard.

    Salma Said, 48, allegedly lied about being a resident at the tower block in the aftermath of the blaze in June 2017, which killed 72 people and left hundreds injured.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11799147/Woman-falsely-claimed-lost-home-Grenfell-fire-received-400-000-court-hears.html

        1. With this government !..She will probably have to rearrange pillows in 5 star hotels one morning a week.

          1. You mean, she will probably be staying in a five star hotel by the end of the week, all expenses paid

    2. I wonder where she’s been living since then, which hotel did we put her up in? Don’t suppose she works at all. What bloody mugs we’re being taken for. All courtesy of HMG. I see she was a ky assisted by her sister and 3 other people.

      As I said to Alf, for the number of residents at GT, an extraordinarily high number of fraudulent claims were made afterwards. And in the rush to be woke and sensitive loadsa money was dished out to all and sundry.

  75. Just come back from Woking town centre to collect an item from M&S and was looking round the boots. One was labelled “suitable for vegans”!

      1. Plastic and glued together with synthetic resin. No animal products. Just oil derivatives. Yer average XR loving vegan ain’t very bright?

        1. 100 upticks.

          They are probably such dumbpucks because they haven’t had enough protein and minerals.

        2. I think that goes without saying, Sue. If they were bright, they wouldn’t be XR loving vegans.

    5. I had a lodger in Birmingham who resented the fact that she had to sit on my leather Chesterfield. She was an English student at Aston University. She liked to wear Dr Martens. Go figure !

  76. The English countryside still feels like a white middle-class club. We can – and will – change this. 28 February 2023.

    But we also have to make sure that people from all backgrounds can feel comfortable in these natural public spaces. A tiny portion of England is open to the public, and many people feel excluded or alienated from even that sliver.

    Where I live in Stroud, Gloucestershire, I feel privileged to have a gorgeous view of the valleys out of my bedroom window, stretching as far as the eye can see. It’s a postcard-perfect sea of green that looks just as beautiful in summer sunshine as it does on a frosty winter’s morning. But, as a person of colour living in a rural area, many of the fields I can see feel off limits to me. A government review in 2019 found that I’m not alone in thinking this – many Black, Asian and ethnically diverse people reportedly view the countryside as an “an exclusive, mainly white, mainly middle class club”. This is despite the 1942 Scott report, which clearly stated that there must be “facility of access for all” in rural areas.

    Of course. There’s a turnstile on every field that refuses to rotate if you are not white.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/28/countryside-white-middle-class

    1. Who asked us if we want it changed? Nobody. Whereas once I would have been welcoming, I now feel like telling any element of diversity to eff off back to the city!

    2. If they want to feel connected and rooted to the land with the blood of their ancestors in the soil then go to the country where that is the case.

      1. They could make a start, if they intend to stay here, by wearing normal dress, speaking English and adopting English customs.

    3. On my last visit to the Lake District i was crossing Windermere and viewed four coaches turn up. All of those people were berobed and veiled. Not a single one of them were to be seen in the Tea house or anywhere else. I think they brought their own vittles and chose to distance themselves because it was they that were racist. Just saying.

          1. It is said that the only safe way to cross the street in Rome is to join a posse of nuns. Even mad Italian drivers will not mow down nuns.

      3. I was up there 18 months ago with my old mum and dad. We went to a posh hotel for a lukewarm coffee that my father hated, but that’s a different story.

        In the hotel was a veiled woman with her Philippino nanny and two children. There mist have been either a husband or a friend for the veiled woman to be talking to but I can’t remember precisely.

        What I remember is:
        – the nanny was treated appallingly
        – they put music on their mobile phones and played it very loudly, without any regatd to other guests.

        Maybe they were an exception.

    4. They’ve got the bleedin’ cities and now the bastards want the land between the cities. I’ve never been a racist, but now I’m really not so sure.

    5. Frankly, I don’t want it overrun with litter dropping chavs and foreigners who won’t respect it.

      Bluntly I don’t want them here at all.

      1. I often read comments and uptick without registering who wrote the comment.

        But quite often a comment really resonates and i think – blimey, i could have written that.

        And more often than not, when i look, it’s a comment from you, Wibbling.

        If I didn’t know better, i’d worry that you were me (or vice versa).

  77. 371652+ up ticks,

    Has any of the founder members of the referendum
    design / trigger team UKIP ever been consulted post victory, that is beside farage.

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    No10 said the Government believes it has “secured the right deal for all parties in Northern Ireland” and it is ready to answer “questions about how it works in practice”.
    But nothing is CHANGEABLE.

  78. Afternoon, all. It isn’t just consumers that are a long way down the list of priorities; efficiency, cost-effectiveness and reliability don’t make much of a show, either.

  79. Three conclusions to be drawn from this Dr’s whining:

    1. Infected after 6 jabs: maybe consider that the efficacy of the jab isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
    2. Wearing a FFP3 isn’t all what it’s cracked up to be.
    3. She hasn’t been paying sufficient attention i.e. the jab destroys the immune system.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3645931f0c349f37f85e99d00ea0d778b0e2cfb82e2b3eb072b6384d2a706208.png
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    4. Clearly she didn’t suffer badly from Covid because of the protection offered by the jabs and all the boosters!

    5. D’oh!

      Just think of all that lovely snot and CO₂ your face has been marinaded in for the past umpteen months.

    8. Or…. perhaps… just perhaps Doctor… wearing a mask doesn’t work, the vaccine doesn’t work and you need to get on with life and stop being so frightened?

    1. The obvious conclusion is that our politicians actually want to encourage illegal immigration.

      1. No doubt about it. My conclusion is that they’ve bought the ‘upside down’ age demographic that says we’re top heavy with oldies, and that our economy (ha ha) will fail unless we ‘top up’ with young immigrants. They want immigration, illegal or not. The most short sighted way to create a 3rd world shithole.

      2. 371652+ up ticks,

        Evening R,
        Then after decades of supporting & voting for them why does the support, as in encouragement,continue.

        Our politicians ? that does sound rather like acceptance.

          2. “Ever since we commenced our Trans-Antarctic trek I’ve been a little concerned about Miss Oats’ presence, and now she has left the tent for a walk and been gone for some time.”

    2. Par Four again.

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        1. Perhaps your copy is a fake; every BF Wordle game has a number, presently a three-digit number.

          1. True, but only after you share/save it to paste. Can’t see any number before that I don’t think.

  82. That’s me for today. Nasty, cold, damp day – thank God I had the bonfire yesterday. A day of leisure at resort for me – to rest my weary bones! Wasted the afternoon very pleasurably watching the live auction of the (mainly) tripe we saw at Christie’s last Thursday. The PRICES, my dears – the prices. Unbelievable.

    Have a jolly evening – preparing for March to enter with wintry wind…. May be chilly later in the week – at night, anyway.

    A demain.

  83. I picked up the link to this information from a comment on Daily Sceptic.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/eb628e80a46a0727eacb26d2e888e69f108d6405a6eca10da036e70f143d034c.png

    Steve Kirsch is an activist with regards to the “vaccine”:

    Nota Bene

    This may well be the most important article I’ll write in 2023.

    In this article, I publicly reveal record-level vax-death data from the “gold standard” Medicare database…

    …apparently there is one whistleblower who is interested in data transparency.

    Last night, I got a USB drive in my mailbox with the Medicare data that links deaths and vaccination dates. Finally! This is the data that nobody wants to talk or even ask about.

    Steve’s substack article isn’t an easy read – plenty of graphs and explanations – but although the outcome is disturbing, to many it will not come as too much of a surprise.

    Steve Kirsch – Medicare data shows the COVID vaccines increase your risk of dying

    1. This might be a game-changer, let’s hope he’s not being set up.
      I don’t trust the bastards behind the vaccinations an inch.

    1. With a bit off luck, her re-employment chances have just been trashed. Apart from the University of Bog Lane.

      1. Unfortunately, I suspect she might well be sought out and recruited by a woke university, probably Cambridge.

      1. Wog’s da matter, you’se feeling browned off?
        Nigger mind, go black home, maybe you’ll feel all white…

  85. San Francisco committee suggests $5m reparation for all black citizens

    Politicians say quoted figure ‘undercuts the credibility’ of the campaign after government-approved panel admits there was no maths involved

    By Jamie Johnson, US CORRESPONDENT
    28 February 2023 • 4:02pm

    Every black resident should receive $5 million (£4.2 million) to make up for “decades of harms”, a San Francisco reparations committee has said in a widely-criticised proposal.

    The 15-member committee also says that black residents from lower income households should have their wages supplemented to match the median income in the city for the next 250 years.

    Last year that was $97,000 (£79,923).
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    Charles Pritchard
    2 HRS AGO
    If you’re mixed race, do you only get $2.5m?

    Paul Williams
    2 HRS AGO
    Reply to Charles Pritchard – view message
    Your white half owes your black half $2.5m, so you neatly cancel out.

    4. Lawksamercy, Ah now do declare dat I be self-identeefying as black, deep deep, darkest black and claim mah 5 mill.

      1. Get out there and tote some bales, maybe get a little drunk and land in gaol.
        Old Man River – what a wonderful song.

    6. Even as we read, someone out there is working on a chain of upmarket 24 hour crack dens with organic fried chicken and personalised rap.

    1. Or it could be that he owns thousands of acres of farmland and is growing crops on them, and then selling those crops to his next business to make more money?

    3. I used to deliver beer (Biere du Cardinal) to WHO (OMS) in Geneva. No, sorry, I’m wrong, it was CERN.

      1. Thr Dutch brewed version is a perfectly decent pilsener. The UK version is pishh. In Khazakstan, I was drinking a Russian brewed version which was fine.

        1. In general I am not a huge fan of any lager-type beer, no matter its origin (I’m a dyed-in-the-wool cask-conditioned bitter aficionado).

          I do, though, enjoy the odd glass of draught Tuborg when in Denmark; and the proper Budweiser-Budvar from Czechland bears no resemblance to the appalling, rice-infused, abominable pseudo-copy (with a similar name) concocted by the dreadful Anheuser-Busch in Yankland.

          1. Due to the paucity of pubs round here, I use a club in the suburbs which sell decent bitters. My usual is Wye Valley Butty Bach at 3.20 a pint!

  87. Bogey five today

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  88. Meet the ‘toxic trauma’ expert interviewing Prince Harry
    He’s treated his patients with psychedelic drugs and written books on ADHD, addiction and stress. Get to know Dr Gabor Maté, who is set to interview Prince Harry this weekend

    One poor sod will be poisoned by the experience, the other will be traumatised having been shafted.
    Your choice which will be which.

      1. There was a small group at the pub when we used to go that we and others called the Flat Earth Group. Unbelievable some of the stuff they came out with.
        Maybe one day we will go to the pub again, it will be a while.
        Edit for poor grammar. Shame on me.

    1. Perhaps you would translate that data into sensible conclusions, bb2; I’m too old to absorb the numbers . . .

      1. I was hoping that some NOTTLer more knowledgeable than me would do that…

        Probably gold is the single most important, as it is money, and that is surprisingly sparse in Russia and China – but that won’t count if China controls the countries that produce it.
        The industrial metals – as richardl says, it’s a balance – they can’t afford to impoverish us so much that they lose our markets. But maybe they think that the new industrial revolution in the east will open up new markets, so they can ditch Europe (but NO developing country that I can think of enjoys the freedom from corruption that helped Britain during the industrial revolution).
        Anyway, we are about to enter an era where commodities will be a lot more expensive, which means that countries that don’t produce them will be correspondingly poorer.

        We used to produce ingenuity – that’s being bred out of us.

    2. Don’t worry, the West will pose sanctions on Russia and China. If they cannot export their rare metals, the shortage will go away.

  93. Feeling too tired to do much more today, so I’ll wish you all a good night, chums. See you all next month.

  94. Goodnight, all. I’m off to read the racing results, watch a likely race and write a practice report.

    1. That will please all the indigenous folk who’ve been on the council’s Housing Waiting list for years…..

    2. Rik, I watched a video on YT last evening about an urban explorer. Can’t recall his name but he was walking round an enormous housing estate somewhere in Greater London that was totally abandoned. WW II era and most of the houses had outhouses. Yes, they are largely derelict but all still standing. The area is huge.
      Why on earth weren’t they used to rehouse people from the East End after the war? I had never heard of this before.
      Tidy these places up and house the immigrants in there- temporarily.

    3. If I just rock up in England, will they build me a home free of charge to me? No?

      1. Given that these erstwhile ladies secured the vote for women, I guess they’ve done the blokes a favour by sharing 50/50 the responsibility for electing governments of all stripes that have not defended our cultural heritage…..

    4. Jesus wept. I remember Dorothy Tutin as Cleopatra opposite Timothy West back in the seventies at the Old Vic.

      This woke racist nonsense will go nowhere. Folk will simply stay away.

      I expect Swan Lake to be performed with black swans shortly, if some racist has not already promoted such a production.

      1. Ballet Trocadero have a black swan. There again, the guy underneath the costume is white so maybe that doesn’t count.

        Today marks the end of black history month over here, odds on that there is no reprieve from this divisive nonsense.

        2. Well you have the son of Castro whose Native American name I am told is ‘Blackface’.

          This compares favourably with the Native American name given to Barack Obama viz. ‘Walking Eagle’ so named because in the words of an Elder Chief “he is so full of shit that he cannot fly”.

      2. “Folk will simply stay away” … let me finish that “and the Arts Council will divert even more of its taxpayer funds towards the Old Vic”.

        1. Just so. The Arts Council has now withdrawn funding from the ENO English National Opera at the Colisseum in St Martin’s Lane.

          The ENO perform Operas and plays in English and their popularity is because English folk following Opera could thereby understand the Libretto of especially German, French and Italian operas.

          We are witnessing an attack on all things English by a government largely ruled and obedient to foreigners. We are being betrayed left, right and centre.

  97. Lineker targeted by HMRC because of his fame, his lawyer claims

    Representatives of the BBC and BT Sport presenter are appealing a £4.9 million tax bill over a five-year period

    Partly correct: If he were not ‘famous’ he would not have been employed by the biased broadcasting company and paid millions of pounds.

    Using his status he should not have made political comments, whilst defrauding us.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/28/lineker-targeted-hmrc-fame-lawyer-claims/

  98. A small amount done to the wall today, but it never really warmed up and stayed cloudy most of the day.

    Had a nice hot bath and am now off to bed.
    G’night all.

        2. About forty years ago there was a miniature toy kit entitled Billy the Builder. I know because I was presented with one such by a couple of clown mechanical and electrical engineers.

          1. If I’ve remembered correctly, I think you indicated some time ago you were looking to sell up and move. Is that still the plan?

          2. Our buyers withdrew at the last minute. We decided to make a few improvements to our property answering some of the observations of potential buyers.

            We are presently replacing the Rayburn with a new ‘Heritage Stoves’ model and replacing the hot and cold water systems, presently a 30 year old vented installation we installed when we bought the property, with an unvented system and installing a modern shower room with WC at the far end of the house.

            We intend to add the costs of these improvements to the asking price when next we launch the property onto the market. God knows when!

          3. Sympathies. A Grade II listed property not far away, with a Valley roof that had new slates installed 4-5 years ago, was bought a year ago. During a range of remedial works that included the use of lime plaster internally, said roof leaked causing extensive damage. Judging by the number of tradesmen visiting the house over the past 6 months I guess it has become the proverbial ‘money pit. Hope your improvements and subsequent move proceed smoothly.

  99. Check out this link. Bakhmut and the Donbass are lost to Russia, tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops likely dead, CIA using satellite guided location drones to target sites deep inside Russia.

    The hot war WWIII will be between NATO (that includes our Forces) and Russia. Given the anti-war sentiment of every sentient being in Europe and especially German guilt and war-weariness after the C20 debacles I just hope that the people revolt against this madness.

    https://rumble.com/v2ba0ow-losing-bakhmut-losing-donbass.html

  100. This evening we had a visit from the Whirling Dervish, AKA the physio; to add to the other ironmongery, we now have crutches for my husband. The physio is coming again next week and has said he will get MH outside. What did I say? Cartwheels on the grass.
    Husband can do without the crutches but it might help if he wants to go to the pub- e.g.

  101. In a country which is so into Drag Queens at schools, why cannot the BBC give us a rerun of the ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’ comedy series?

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