Friday [11 to 15]

(1033) Happy elevenses. (1125)

 

15. Was looking for an excuse to post Kobie


14. Living in London


13. Georgia


12. Like Canada, like here


11. Back from walkies

Don’t know why I added walkies to the mix but I did … I’ve a short trail up the hill which would do at a pinch, plus a preferred longer trail taking me past a hotel/motel thing which I believe was full of invaders till a year ago. It’s nice by the water there with the squawking birds carrying on some call and dive action, wind was less today.

First return a week ago saw me really doddery, a few days back was much better but still only half to three-quarters of a mile. Today’s was getting on for a mile, inc. there and back. I’d thought the bike riding on gym day was enough but no … the walking does add something and also finds things out. Definitely need to watch hips … no Sloopy dancing for me thanks … sciatica does throw in an occasional reminder but only that.

I’m thinking, chaps and chapesses, that at this age, even stopping training for a week or two means two steps backwards and here’s the thing … we never get it back, unlike for a younger man. We can get some back, not all.

Anyway, along the way was that old pair who are 78 and 73 respectively and today they were at a window which had been pushed open in one of the businesses down there. I greeted them, then realised they were chatting up a bird (unfeathered variety) … must have been a good decade younger, naughty old men. Flirting with younger ladies … appalling!

So, got back upstairs here and had not thought to time it but the last post went up at 1015, I headed out about 1020, this post started about 1033, after drinkies. I’m thinking that that’s not bad going for a geriatric. What to eat? Might finish the oats, blueberries, bananas, yoghurt.

However, this was on Quora:

“Eating. Eating is a good thing to avoid if you are fighting aging and death.

I have read how great blueberries and strawberries are for you. I began to eat them. Till I came across an article saying that blueberries and strawberries are among the “dirtiest” foods out there. By dirty, they mean among the most heavily sprayed with pesticides. Pesticides are cancer threats. I quit eating blueberries and strawberries.

I’d read of how healthy salmon is for you. Salmon reduces cholesterol, fights inflammation, lowers blood pressure. So then I started eating salmon. Till I learned that they contain large amounts of mercury, something that can give you cancer.

I’d read recently of the wonderful benefits of watermelon. So I figured I would go the whole hog on watermelon by buying the Ocean Spray watermelon juice. I began to drink gallons of it. Good, too. Then I learned how heavily watermelon is sprayed with insecticide. Cancer again. So I threw all my watermelon juice away.

Lucky for me, I’d found an article touting the incredible benefits of olives and olive oil, one of the great Mediterranean foods, so I began eating 50 olives a day. I saw immediate results. My digestion began to improve, I felt more energetic than ever. Then I read an article yesterday saying that tests have shown that olives have the strange effect of metastasizing cancer quickly. That electrified me with fear. I was so terrified that I wanted to take an emetic to rid myself of every trace of olives and olive oil.

So here I sit with a fine pre-Thanksgiving pecan pie that my wife was good enough to make today. No fears on THIS food. After all, all the pecans in it fell from my very own trees. And I’m adding a huge shovelful of ice cream, now melting rapidly into the pie’s warm surface. Nothing wrong with ice cream. It’s the All-American treat!

Now don’t ruin it for me by telling me how many calories and how much fat it has or what it will do to my cholesterol. I have found the one food I’ve read nothing carcinogenic about. And anyway, if all the fat and calories and sugar kill me, I’ll die a profoundly happy man. Much better way to go than eating olives or guzzling olive oil.”

I’m thinking that if you are exercising well, you can get away with a bit of rubbish but not a lot. As for washing, I always wash fruit, then any veg used, each larger item one by one. Also cooking up. Sad but we must.

As for bread … well, it’s folic acid poisoned in the main, except for some sourdoughs, spelt, rye. Not so tasty imho. The conchiglie listed nothing but durum wheat … oats 100% oats. Can we trust the bstds though?

Friday [6 to 10]

(0833) Time racing ahead … already Oct 2nd, almost after brek walkies time. (0851)

 

10. Moo corner


9. The Deep State v each individual, in turn


8. Spotted by Toodles

… eagle’s nest by the river. Hope Toods was enjoying her swim in Gator River:


7. Theatre? Or real?


6. Georgia

Friday [2 to 5]

(0644) Morning all, light’s up in a manner of speaking behind dark, foreboding, poisonous cloud cover. Have a wunnerful Friday. (0702)

 

5. Modern Britain


4. Steve at 1507

  • British Police Announce Arrest of UK-Iranian Dual National Connected to Foiled Attack on UK’s RAF Fairford Base
  • AUR Chief Simion Draws Red Line Over Georgescu’s Imprisonment: “We Do Not Betray the Romanian People and We Do Not Yield to the Deep State”
  • France: Bedridden 93-Year-Old Marie-Louise Raped and Strangled In Her Home; Naked Sudanese Man Found On Her Body (JH: Sudan … was that not mentioned elsewhere on this page today?)
  • France Burns: Islamo-Marxist Unrest as Migrant Youths Set Schools on Fire, Douse Teachers in Gasoline, Hunt Police, and Hundreds Are Arrested
  • Florida AG James Uthmeier Sues Pfizer and CEO Albert Bourla — Alleges Drug Giant Deceptively Marketed COVID Jabs as “Safe” While Pregnant Women Miscarried and Teenagers Suffered Heart Attacks
  • Immigration to America From Muslim-Majority Countries Drops to All-Time Low on Trump’s Watch
  • Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Taps Elon Musk for New Pentagon Role Focused on Futuristic Warfare
  • Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee Halts Remaining Execution for 2026 After Christa Pike Survives Two Doses of Lethal Injection in Unprecedented Execution Failure — Orders Third-Party Investigation
  • IRGC Panics As Blockade Crushes Shadow Fleet And USA Flexes New Jet
  • Russia Takes Out Kyiv’s Lights And Keeps Gaining Ground
  • Former trauma surgeon testifies to the fraudulent statistics, dangerous hospital protocols and denial of care to unvaccinated patients during the COVID “pandemic”
  • The vast majority of published psychology and human behaviour studies are false
  • Much more.

3. An important point


2. DAD at 1507

Phriday.  The phive phellas of the phantasy of the phamous phive of phairford are now six.

a) UK. Andy Burnham’s announcement of a new National Centre for Information Defence warrants attention for reasons that go well beyond Russian bots and AI-generated deepfakes. 

Burnham said Britain had suffered an “industrial-scale assault” on its “information environment” and tasked security chiefs with beginning work on a centre capable of detecting, attributing and disrupting hostile-state information attacks. 

Britain’s information shield is starting to look remarkably European.

b) Dutch Intel warns modern cars can spy on secret talks.

The Dutch intelligence service has warned government and business officials that modern connected vehicles pose espionage risks and should not be used for confidential conversations.

c) Can you imagine Wes Streeting [UK Defence Secretary] saying this…

“We are no longer the woke department or the weak department… no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdoes, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors.”

d) Spanish King sets date for first visit to Ceuta and Melilla since the invasion.

Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will travel to the two Spanish cities on October 13 and 14, nearly 19 years after the last visit by a Spanish monarch.

e) France. One million elderly people almost never leave their homes—a figure set to rise in the coming years due to the ageing of the population, warns the association Petits Frères des Pauvres [Little Brothers of the Poor].

…a number set to rise as the population ages. “Some homes are becoming prisons,” says Yann Lasnier, the association’s executive director. “We all know of such cases among people we know,” he adds, calling on public authorities to address the issue.

Friday [1]

(0538)(0613)

Neighbours

This post builds on an article at Lord Toby’s site which you can read in full here, within the Unherdables system … or you could go over to Lord Toby’s. I received it via newsletter.

My half of this post really makes little sense unless you do view that Lord Toby article first to see what view the author took. So, here’s my comment:

There’s a standard response, short of calling someone a waycist, and it’s to say, here paraphrased by me, “Well I know someone from way back, lived around the corner, a shop actually, and he was a delightful chap. Yes, his first name was Mo but I never, as a customer, had any trouble.”

The second part of that … he’d rush to say I was putting words into his mouth, which is true … anything after Mo was more my comment on that argument. We do need to be accurate in this.

There was a meme some months back, which had a swimmer in a circular pool, saying, “Honestly, I’ve never had any trouble with sharks (plural) and it showed his one pet shark swimming with him. However, an overhead crane end was tipping a dozen new sharks into the pool at that exact moment.

I once had some Indian friends and went with a girl to Russia on a visit. Zero drama. I had a Jamaican mate in my workplace and he was fine but there was also a Sudanese and he was not. I’ve already mentioned that, whilst in Russia one summer, the govt brought in a hundred Somalian youths for a holiday … they were all expelled after two weeks to stop the rapes and race war.

My own living quarters, a house I’d been in … the next door tenant, a Brit from London … was the worst I’ve ever seen and heard … wild parties at all hours with gay violence, physical fights. There was another in the flat down the corridor who ended up in prison for drugs and women … he was a straight Brit. There’d been another on the other side to me who was belligerent … half the time he was ok, care home lad.

There were three others came in … Polish and two Romanians … ideal neighbours and life in that place was an idyll. I’m just stating what was in each case. It shirley comes down to behaviour, does it not? But behaviour, as the article above states, does appear more commonly in certain groups. Not going to name those groups as Plod might try to make something of it.

Also, I’m running it here at HQ, rather than at OoL, because I really must, as regulars know, control this specific discussion, specifically here, this morning. Strictly legally, as admin, I am responsible for my commenters. Regulars are good at euphemising, disguising when they wish to do so (hint, hint) … more occasionals are sometimes another story.

Plus we are on a list … I have evidence inside the site, which euphemistically they call algorithm. So, dear commenter, please be careful in your comment.