Recipient of the coveted NOWP comments award goes to our Steve for his MftWC 1 … yay! It’s the site’s 15,000th comment … how bout that!
It’s a bit of a mixed bag … HQ has 6718 comments just now, while NOWP has been going, I think, since 2009. Still, congrats, Steve … your award is a weekend at Bernie’s.
… that it might be something worth seeing. You see, right now, I’m going back through the Unherdables posts and if it’s any good, it’s usually in a different format, only viewable from that older post.
The humour here is that he has no idea I’m posting this … just why youtube decided to put it in notifications now is a puzzle. Plus the humour is … one lady and I have been talking many names from the past, of whom Lord Somber (blogrolls) is one. There is a long history with us. Plus our boys here are probably going to cough and ask WTAF, whilst our girls will just enjoy, ha ha.
(0645) Morning all. Morning after the day before. Dull grey out there, wall to wall, rain in the air. (0726)
5. Moo corner
JH: While in reflective mood, what’s with Moo at this site? Wunnerful lady, does not suffer fools, her replues to me are usually five words or less, ha ha … but a stalwart for this land and there’s mutual trust. She’s a good’un.
4. Christine puts a question
I’m thinking it’s as well to know who’s who. There are two Christines just now in our orbit … Christine Oswald, dyed-in-the-wool Reform head office honcho … and Christine Easdale, the much vilified (afterwards) former Reform councillor who went across to Restore and is a stalwart there, if a feisty lady all the same. In short … a good girl in our eyes. I like much vilified people doing right.
Plus we have so many powerful ladies and young guys coming in now on the side of good, of honesty.
3. Evets at 1445
Foreword by JH: It’s pretty vital, methinks, that strong signals be sent that any sabbaticals make zero difference, that all is as it was … because the standing or falling of this blog complex depends on consistency in all ways. If a tavern is on wonky foundations, then it is hardly a haven, more like a death trap or scene of destruction. And none of us put in the effort for that result.
On the other hand … there is some tweaking now and then and sorry, but Bannon has blown his cover and I won’t run his anymore until he comes clean on Epst. … I ask the noble and highly needed (our) Steve to pls desist on posting WR for now.
All else as is.
Trump Warns Democrat-Run States Are Going to Become ‘Ghettos of the Future’ as Rich People and Companies Flee
New Jersey Dem Governor Makes Damning Admission: ‘Serious Software Error’ Allegedly Led to Registration of Thousands of Non-Citizens and Some of Them Voted
Nigeria: Fulani Islamists Claim to be Victims Amid Ongoing Attacks on Christian Villages
CPAC Great Britain Was a Bit of a Let-down – If I’m Honest
Two More Vessels Seriously Damaged Following Iranian Strikes Near Hormuz
No Safe Harbor: Russia’s Sustained Campaign Targets Odessa Shipping
UK class action lawsuit isn’t costing AstraZeneca anything; it’s costing the taxpayer everything
Four cultures, one flower: How hibiscus tea matches blood pressure drugs
Former FBI official Nikki Floris: “I’m basically running a shadow government across the FBI at this point”
The Odyssey: Nolan’s Toxic Assault On Western Civilization
Much more.
2. Life in Romania
1. DAD at 1445
a) The Metropolitan Police have announced that it has found “no evidence” to charge anyone in connection with a widely reported alleged far-right plot against an Islamic event in Suffolk….
b) Britain’s migrant crisis risks being pushed back to ‘elephant in the room’ status by the government once again as new left-wing Prime Minister Andy Burnham declined to mention the policy area once in his first speech….
c) On Sunday, July 19, Daniel Ortega—whose presidency has been challenged by the international community for nearly twenty years—announced that there would be no more elections in Nicaragua. The goal?….
d) King Charles hails Europe’s first eco mosque as a ‘remarkable example’ of faith and sustainability. (Satan at large, in charge, locusts everywhere. They move among us.)
(1723) Evening all. Productive day, back to the blogging.
20. Father adores his daughter … what’s not to like?
19. Brunel
18. Folic acid again
17. Lord T, via email
16. Steve on football, but not as we know it
The Champions Who Forgot to Play Football!
Here is a statistic to frame above your fireplace and show your grandchildren: Argentina’s first shot of any kind in Sunday’s World Cup final arrived in the 115th minute, a record of futility for a World Cup. Spain finished with 20 shots to Argentina’s two, twelve on target to none. Not one. In a final. ESPN called it arguably the worst World Cup final in living memory, and that was the polite version.
NBC Sports put it plainly: Argentina were more concerned with fouling and fighting than playing football, and the way several players behaved was a disgrace that tarnished their legacy.
According to Football365, Scaloni’s men committed more first-half fouls than they completed passes into the attacking third. Their 12.29 fouls per game was, per NBC, far and away the highest of any semifinalist.
The punditry class reached for the thesaurus. “It’s a disgrace,” said Gary Neville on ITV. Alan Shearer told the BBC that Leandro Paredes “threw two or three haymakers into someone’s face” in the post-whistle brawl that earned him a red card after the final had ended. Joe Hart called it “disgusting.” Lee Dixon called it “anti-football.” Wayne Rooney simply shrugged: we’ve seen this from Argentina before.
And where was the captain? Sitting on the turf, weeping, while his teammates disgraced the shirt he made famous. Sorry, but no. A captain’s job in that moment is not to cry. It is to get up, wade into the scrum, grab the idiots by the collar and order them to behave like gentlemen. Messi shook every Spanish hand, as Hart noted, and fair play. But leadership was required, and leadership stayed seated.
Consider the route, too: a group of Algeria, Austria and Jordan, then Cape Verde in the round of 32. All the jeopardy of a heated driveway.
Spain were everything football should be. One goal conceded in eight matches, the fewest ever for a champion. Rodri took the Golden Ball, Ferran Torres the trophy. As Norwegian commentator Trond Johannessen put it: mighty scenes, but the right outcome. The victory bandits were finally caught.
Wherever Argentina play next, anywhere on Earth, they will walk out to a wall of boos. They earned every decibel.
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Spanish footballer, Ferran Torres, wore a “Make Spain Great Again” cap at their World Cup celebration The far-left Spanish government does NOT represent the people! 🇪🇸
As mentioned yesterday, I’ve restarted scouring through Unherdables for films, even as far back as Sep 2024. What I’ve found is most films over a year old on the site have gone. However, there was this …
