(1658) Almost evening all.
21. DAD at 1515
French supermarket chains say cyberattack forced refrigerator shutdown. Some 150-200 Intermarché shops were targeted, along with almost 100 Cooperative U outlets, in the attack, they said. Paris prosecutors said the attack had prompted outbreaks of fire.
20. Looking for corroboration
Wonder if this has something to do with it:
19. Moo corner
18. The pound sterling
… so bad, it’s good!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space
Often in the bottom five of worst movies ever:
“It has since been called “the epitome of so-bad-it’s-good cinema”[10] and gained a large cult following.[11]“
(1355) Afternoon all. (1407)
17. Vatican
16. Glad the right people are seeing it
15. Exploiting the young v old to try to split Restore
14. As Kate says
13. Crooks at tertiary institutions
12. Will this crim ever be brought to book?
(1019) Here we go again. (1030)
11. Merseyrail … well of course
… the girls at head office are the best they can find.
10. Moo corner
9. Alberta
8. The boss of the company which busses the invaders
7. The Uke
(0823)(0823)
Steve and the Raj onwards
(Cough) Yes, not going to admit how much of that I remember, don’t wish to mention my age but the chap mentioning straw palliasses brings back memories … duckboards too. Strict fathers, women dressed as ladies. The only downer to my mind was primitive dental care, plus ills like polio, measles, chicken pox, mumps. Malaria was a big one overseas, plus typhoid, dysentry.
The music is Cajun zydeco, the dancing jitterbug, but at about 2:55 on for ten seconds or so, you can see the demonstrating instructors drop into some shimmying, which was yesterday’s topic.
Next Sunday’s jazz post (and it’s a bit of a blockbuster, songs already saved in the vault) is about the whole crossover with Gennet and Vocalion in the 1920 to 30 period, including the race divide and the move from ragtime to boogie woogie and flappers and then onto brass and woodwind. Though next Sunday is primarily piano, it is also a mix of all those genres.
In short, it’s the history of modern music encapsulated in four songs, ranging from 1923 to 1976. I became lost in it last evening. So here’s the first of the zydeco:
The things which struck me about this below were why old men have to look so grumpy much of the time and act in such a curmudgeonly manner? He’s a nice guy looking after his band as you’ll see and yet the two women at the far end seem to be shoved out of the way, while bags of space seem to surround the old man. Hope I never get old, ha ha.
The music? Very danceable, the whole intention … but that’s about it … not a lot of variation.
Back to the shimmying and there were two types … the shoulder shimmying favoured by the westerners as more discreet … and the hip shimmying favoured by the non westerners, inc. the Asians, plus Elvis … better known as belly dancing in the case of the girls.
No excuse now, boys … up on yer feet, come on y’all, weight off yer heels and onto your insteps … ready? 😎
(0616) Morning all … light coming up, overcast out there. (0711)
5. Too soon?
4. Steve at 1514 and 1515 (just to make sure)
3. Reasons for Restore, part two
There are other factors to consider:
2. DAD at 1515
a) France has ordered 3,000 substitute teachers into its worst-hit secondary schools, the first substantial concession on classroom conditions since a student revolt began spreading out of the Paris suburbs in late September.
French education minister Édouard Geffray said on TF1 on October 8 that the teachers would go from October 9 to 114 schools classed as red for overcrowding and staff shortages, and to another 400 rated orange. Rectors would also be allowed to recruit several hundred teachers beyond their quotas, he said.
La France Insoumise (LFI) leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a candidate in next spring’s presidential election, posted on X that the Place de la Bastille had been retaken and called for a bigger turnout on October 13.
[Nobody has said where the extra teachers will come from.]
b) France. Nantes (44): after being occupied for a few days by far-left students in support of high school rioters, a university building was found in a deplorable state—featuring vandalism, graffiti, bags of excrement, a death threat made with a knife, and more.
c) Germany. Another heavy blow has hit Germany’s traditional industrial sector. According to a report by Blackout News, the renowned porcelain manufacturer Kahla in Thuringia is shutting down its operations for good on December 31, 2026.
d) UK. Home Secretary knowingly plans to import more rapists. Mahmood’s new ‘safe routes’ for Palestinians and Afghans offer neither safety for women and children she cynically used to justify another ‘crime and terror’ corridor, nor comfort to past victims.
e) Germany is soon going to realise it made THE MOTHER OF ALL MISTAKES. And this one may prove lethal: it became France’s CREDIT CARD .
1. Reasons for Restore, part one
(1658) Almost evening, all.
20. Things connected with Liverpool are really working well atm … not
19. Moo corner
… just love those motors.
18. The Donald takes a stand?
17. Sometime back, Sophie on X said monsters are real and they look like people
… Sarah said monsters must not be allowed to roam the earth. This below I thought at first was Maria Bowtell, Restore councillor … but then I took a closer look. Can I tell a monster from a human? Not always, esp. if younger. Yes … eyes, movements, facial gestures … but also deportment. Continued under the sshot….
Anyone remember that wedding where the bride and party were all in green and they were all walking in one direction? All were slightly bent forward, heads forward in predator manner I mean and they were moving deliberately and swiftly … nothing light and easy, nothing feminine … it was all very masculine, like a gang.
Most offputting but at least easily apparent. Even if Brummies had been able to see the monstrousness of this one above, how could she be stopped?
16. All very ra-ra-ra, that’s the stuff to give the troops
… noble sentiments, all:
… but it’s not going alter anything.
Blackpilling is “oh woe is us, we’re doomed” and while it’s far more realistic, given how the baddies, the loony left and normies are … it can’t be countenanced … so therefore, the thinking needs to be more lateral. For example, if the MSM is the issue, then there need to be ways of taking it down, whilst cyber still develops new workarounds … just an idea, a thought.
A later number to open with:
Now this “shimmy” thing, was curious … but apparently, we must not do it 11 years earlier:
Well of course, upright citizen that I am … you’d never catch me playing the shimmy:
Now I admit, dear shimmiers, that there’s a much hotter version with Atticus Jazz … but just what is this shimmying?
Tomorrow morning, after the first polit post, I’ll be running two zydeco numbers and in the first, with a male and female instructor, in the last minute, they break from jitterbug into a few seconds of shimmying.