Thursday [16 till close of play]

(1403) Just finished training (tris and back), which was after a long conversation with MMutR whom I’m hoping is preparing an article for us. Before that I had to prepare a beef lunch, (fish later), as protein is the order of the day. Before that long conversation were around 10 to 14 topics to talk to him about … which followed the regular blogging you see before you at elevenses and earlier. In other words, full on until this moment now, when I start this evening’s blogging and Xing. Going to add a few of the 14 topics at a time, then rest up, perchance to snooze … you have your routines too of course.

 

30. Pringles

Another curiosity. I’ve given way to my Pringles addiction in the past few days … this morning, guess what was at the top of the recommended youtube list? Yep … analysis of all substances used in them, plus reconstituted potato … go ahead if you’ll still eat them now.

My interest is how did youtube know? The only way would be to access my supermart order online. Unless, of course, Someone else Above decided to warn me. Hmmmmmm.

29. A point of view


28. Saw this too


27. Saw this


26. It’s not just Moo I run


Quick quiz question … what fragrance does gorse give off?

25. Hard disks

If you’re a techie, you might be looking for 24Tb drives or multiples of that. This is not about the tech per se … more about the cost. A while ago, a 20Tb was around £200 … today £500. What seems to be happening is that the higher the ask in Tb, the higher the price shoots up … but there appears to becan upper limit to size, space.

If that is the case and tech is approaching its zenith about now … what then of AI demands?

24. Cirkear caught out, sneaky bstd?


23. At NOWP 1355

One from DAD, one from IYE … interesting viewing.

22. Viktor and this Magyar character

Well, for a start, Magyar is the ancient name for Hungary, rather than just a person’s name. Then there was Viktor conceding so easily, no insults, to someone from his own party offshoot. Who has now refused to open borders.

Uh huh. Was the whole thing a rightwing put up job … and now his successor has a supermajority? Interesting, eh?

21. A fellow Xer, Sophia

… the narrowboat ex-nurse, vaxx refusenik etc. (good girl), wrote a piece on X, warning off certain types … and I replied:


That’s not the part which intrigued me … it was that she reposted both parts.

20. Back to those topics from pre-midday

Giorgia, the clown and Italy … X is full of G and clown embracing … this sums up part of the nausea in Italy which I’ve already posted sshots on. Here’s another:


Giorgia has been taken, outmanoeuvered.

19. Moo corner


18. Karoline Leavitt

This is an exercise in not jumping before exploring. You’ll notice things in this:


It’s from a Johnny Midnight, using a Fox broadcast which I’ve taken a sshot of … presented by ILAN … did she really call Obama out by name? And in what context? I must go back to X and check.

……

Ok, I just rewatched it … yes, she very much did say it, she laid it out in detail what Obama did and when. Uh huh … now that precludes the influence, mishearing or whatever of JM and ILAN … she said it all right.

Ok … many have said this over the years. Yes, but this is KL at her presser, broadcast by Fox. Different other thing. Anything KL says is ok’d by the boss first. So … indictment?

17. Miranda

I mentioned the film, that there were two versions, one either side of the pond. He picked up on “Miranda” and said … and I scribbled some notes whilst listening … Miranda is connected to Serenity, which is part of the Firefly universe, which concerns an interplanetary govt experiment with widespread drugs which are designed to turn people compliant and meek … but instead turn them into monsters … a bit like globopsycho and the political class right now. He also mentioned The 27th Day … maybe that’s the film he was speaking of.

16. Redacted thumbnails

Youtube did a strange thing. If you look at the Wimpy post (thanks for the comments, chaps), you see a picture before you start it. All right but in my history queue, the picture is different:


In fact, YT warned me with a note, saying this video’s thumbnail has changed. Hmmmmm … what’s going on?

Thur Mat

 

Some interesting names associated with this film:

“If it weren’t for the fact that the two films came out around the same time in different countries, I’d say the other either copied the British Miranda or the USA’s Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid. Both William Powell and Griffith Jones go fishing and get themselves a fetching young mermaid for their troubles.

Ann Blyth’s Lenore in Mr. Peabody is a silent young lady, but that’s definitely not true of Glynis Johns in the title role of Miranda. She not only talks, but is rather well read on human kind. Of course one does not learn everything from books, especially some of the interspecies facts of life.

Because it’s a man that Miranda is seeking. The mermen of the oceans seem to be just not her type. And though Griffith Jones is married he is taken with her. 

Being a doctor, Jones concocts a wild cover story involving her being a paraplegic patient who has come to live with him and wife Googie Withers. He has dresses made an extra foot long to cover her tail and has her in a wheelchair for the most part. And she’s on an exclusively fish diet. Unusual doctor’s orders to say the least.

Miranda is a nice little fantasy and Glynis Johns practically glows in the title role. Besides Jones and Withers, other performances of note are David Tomlinson as their butler and the irrepressible Margaret Rutherford as the practical nurse who is engaged.”

Thursday [11 to 15]

(1059) Elevenses already, folks. DAD has a video up at 1355. (1059)

 

15. Important story from IYE today

There used to be a sign in the staff room of my F-I-L’s shop – “ You don’t have to be mad to work here, but it helps!” Wonder if it also applies in the Trump admin?
“ Waffle House employees in Rome, Georgia, say they have never laid eyes on Gregg Phillips, a top FEMA official who claims he was once teleported there……”

https://web.archive.org/web/20260407064818/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/gregg-phillips-teleport-waffle-house-employees-b2951959.html

“ Despite the criticism, Phillips doubled down on his supernatural account this week, claiming that the incident occurred while he was “heavily medicated” and that the incident was a “miracle” performed by God.”

Uh huh.

14. In the absence of Moos

Just reminding myself that I should roll with what we have at any given time. Being recently bereft of shorts such as Holmes, Dragnet, suddenly I’ve come into a surfeit of shorts on all sorts of topics … oh thankee, YouTube. Films also seem to be around … interesting ones.

Thus, I need to rethink the Moos until they start rolling in again.

13. Criminals of the west


12. How to stop the bstds?


11. Seems to be all over the world just now … coordinated

Wimpy

 

In 1980, I went on a trip to Oberammergau by bus … the bus stopped near or before Dover … at a Wimpy’s … in Paris, later, I was confined to my hotel room, as sick as a dog. It put me off Wimpy forever. Never had that issue at Little Chef.

Just on presentations for a mo … not sure about this man’s voice … is it real? AI? And this mania for drowning out presentation with music, however subdued … grrrrrrr … no matter.

Thursday [6 to 10]

(0852)(0926)

 

10. Epsom

Also on the networking theme … with mainly ladies and some chaps reporting from different parts of the west, it can take us out of home territory for some time each day … which is why I’d largely missed the Epsom story:


9. Moo corner

She only just started posting just before this post … I was out of Moos.


Someone commented on Moo’s pics not always being sharp and light … for me, it’s what she writes, the sometimes quaint manner, more than the pic itself. Sometimes it’s the pic.

8. Was contemplating whether to mention this or not

… as it’s personal … there are many agendas online and in my X profile, I write not to DM me (direct message) unless already a friend. This was summed up some time ago by Elon:


X, to me, is a networking site … our chaps make much of the running, e.g. Sadbutmadlad, the chapesses see things and go off exploring, then reporting, many gals are good sleuths … along the way, we not only make friends but miss it when someone hasn’t checked in for awhile, Dearieme at HQ. I do not use DM for contacts … always en pleine on the timeline:


It’s kept at a certain “cocktail party” or out for a walk level, unless someone has trouble, e.g. Deryl’s hubby’s heart attack, in which case, many of us will kick in with support … same goes at HQ here … I’m not sure why it’s all important but it is … wondering if Andy’s ok at this point.

7. More on the blaze … it’s a definite “thing”


6. Warning from a youngster

Thursday [1 to 5]

(0523) Morning all … still dark. The sharp eyed might have noticed, Laze and Gem, that 1 to 5 these days is taking a lot to complete … this is because I’m also gathering, collating, posting at our other outlets, inc. X, doing correspondence. Purpose doing all that early is, just as with you, getting an overview of what’s happened overnight. (0636)

 

5. Reactions from Meloni’s Italy


4. At our other venues

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/04/hope-for-vaccine-injured.html

https://jameshigham.substack.com/p/hope-for-the-vaccine-injured

3. Steve at 1354

  • War Powers Resolution to Restrain Trump’s Action in Iran Once Again Fails in the Senate – One Republican Votes with Dems
  • US Military Releases Audio of US Naval Vessels on Patrol in the Gulf of Oman, Warning Other Vessels Amid Blockade – “We Will Use Force”
  • Lifelong Catholic Tom Homan Pushes Back Against Pope with Realities of Immigration
  • Radical Democrat Virginia Governor Signs Away the Commonwealth’s Electoral Votes to the National Popular Vote Scam
  • Irish Government Survives Vote of No-Confidence
  • Thousands Of Additional US Troops To Be Deployed Near Iran
  • Orekhov’s Clock Is Ticking: Ukraine’s Offensive May Delay, But Not Stop, The Inevitable
  • Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Completely Eradicates 100% of Tumors After a Single Dose in Mice
  • UK grid buckles under unmanageable green energy surge
  • Much more.

2. Main news is from downunder this morning


1. DAD at 1354

a) Alain Juillet, a veteran French intelligence figure who served as director of intelligence at France’s external intelligence service (DGSE) , has publicly stated that teams in power in Brussels do not hesitate to influence the course of elections in European Union member countries.

b) I found this ‘X’; I do not know if it is true – be careful. Péter Magyar (Tisza), the new Hungarian Prime Minister, drops a bombshell: This is Orbán’s policy… ONLY HARDER!!!  THE EU HAS BEEN TAKEN FOR A RIP-OFF!!! “We will maintain and strengthen the border fence. We’ll even repair the holes!”

c) Two brothers of Moroccan nationality, managers of several barbershops, are suspected of being at the heart of a large-scale migrant trafficking operation in the Tarn and Ariège regions.

d) France is facing record prison overcrowding. As of March 1st, prisons held 87,126 inmates for 63,353 places, representing an overall occupancy rate of 137.5%. In remand prisons, this rate reaches 168.4%….

e) A widely shared story by left-wing investigative outlet Correctiv in Germany, which claimed that at a “secretive” gathering ahead of the 2024 elections in Germany, several right-wing politicians and others discussed the possible deportation of two million migrants, was “plucked out of thin air”, according to a Berlin court.

Wednesday [21 till close of play]

(1642) Almost evening, chaps and chapesses. We’re a bit short of news and sshots right now. DAD has Sam up over at 1354.

 

19. Moo corner


18. When they lose all femininity

There was a comment by Charlotte Gill on some chap and they agreed on feminism being the killer of relations today. I’d add that in turn, it turned men into wimps or satyrs. Anyway, that’s all been talked through.

What I did notice was a picture of a scene, maybe near a clinic during covid … various people but one stood out as offputting. I’d say it was female and yes, carrying some extra lbs, not a bad face, drak hair, no effort put into style … in fact, there was zero style. If she was just big-bodied, well ok … we are what we are. Not particularly Amazonian, nothing to specifically say this or that was wrong.

So, what was offputting? I’ve thought it through a bit since an hour ago … the shape was certainly female, even if hands and feet were brutal. Yes … I’m thinking that that may be it … brutal. Standing, leaning against a walkway pillar in a very masculine way, full of herself, the voice would be deep and harsh … very arrogant, the features, as if she’s a Boss deciding this or that about people’s fate.

Masculine, which sat quite badly with her overall features, which were certainly female. That’s about it.

17. This has actually happened to me a few times


16. Diesel reserves

Wed Mat

 

“I had my hopes up for this movie for three reasons. First, it was pre-code (though only in American years–this is a British movie). That always adds hope. Second, it had a young Ida Lupino. Third, it was about photography, or at least hinted at it, and I’m a photographer. All of this is to say, I assumed the movie would be nothing much, and was watching just for kicks.

I was pleasantly surprised in several ways. It is a cute story with some simple twists that only go so far, but it is told really well–the camera-work and the editing are adventurous and loose and downright inventive. You can’t miss it. The cameraman Ernest Palmer I’ve never heard of (and looking at his movies, there’s nothing that jumps out there). But the editor?

You won’t believe it–none other than David Lean. Makes me want to watch it again. Lean was in fact an editor before becoming a star director. 

“The Ghost Camera” is a thoroughly British movie, even though Palmer is American and in fact so is the director here, not the very British Lean but Bernard Vorhaus, who made his reputation in England. And the two leading characters are both British. Yes, Ida Lupino for all her hard luck urbane American reputation was born and raised in England.

Here she’s plays a common type well, a girl with a heart who’s in a little trouble. The other lead, Harry Kendall, is a kind of British Harold Lloyd, and he takes some getting used to but in the end he’s really rather funny and fun. He’s famous at home for his work on stage, and was always dismissive of his movie career, but the movies are all we have now, so the irony of that must irk him in the grave.

The story? A classic idea not far off from Antonioni’s “Blow Up”–a camera accidentally gets in the hands of a pair of goofy innocent types who develop the film in it and discover a crime. Using clues in the negatives, Kendall bumbles his way into a comic and silly mess, filled with great camera-work and that fast, creative editing.

There is subjective camera (from Lupino’s eyes) and wobbly hand-held camera, and a series of wipes following a series of opening doors that will blow your mind. Or your eyes. It’s genius, even if it’s low budget stuff. It even has the elements of a screwball comedy, where two unlikely leads are destined to fall in love after all.

You can find a free stream or free download of this non-copyrighted movie on line easily. The quality is passable on a computer screen, but little else. But it’s worth it!”

Wednesday [16 to 20]

(1338) Afternoon all. No Moo just at this moment. (1347)

 

20. Those disappearing scientists


19. Birth of a new riding


18. Arch criminals


17. Never let them out of your sight


16. DAD from 1354:2

JH: Always good, that one.