Before getting to an enjoyable film or episode of a series, there are a series of obstacles.
First is what’s on offer at YT or Bitchute, with the answer being “not a lot”. However there are some … usually middling tales but all right for a Saturday afternoon.
Second is getting through that appalling commented upon version, or an audiobook which is just someone reading, but sometimes we can strike lucky with an old radioplay. All classic films as we knew them have pretty much gone.
Third is at least settling on a leading character we know, e.g. David Suchet and thus I spent some time looking at the start of the 2020s version of Cards on the Table … great novel, altered for the 80s film but not shockingly.
That’s when its appallingness started to impinge immediately … the chief baddy … well he couldn’t act, he was wooden, they were all like cardboard cutouts, speaking when required, saying the lines. Just what David Suchet made of them … who knows?
My question, seeing as I watch no TV, go to no cinema, is … can anyone act today? I did see a trailer for that La La Land and no one could act … it was all “script calls for emotion here” … overall, it was dead. Part of that, of course, is the scriptwriting plus the direction.
So if I could not find one of the 80s episodes, I wasn’t going to bother. Why the 80s? No idea why it became dire after that … one reason, e.g. in the revived Dr. Who, was the wokery … some episodes had flashes of good acting, reasonable plots … but then the wokery blighted it.
So … a lesser Christie story … Triangle at Rhodes … seemed as though it might be halfway decent. About to watch it. More later.
Later
They did it very well … settings, costumes, the Italian a bit overdemonstrative, the overdemonstrative anger called for that way by the story … changes from the book, yes but appropriate ones and the key element to my mind was Frances Low as the fellow conspirator with Suchet … that was a nice touch.
Holes, yes, awkward now and then … overall grand. Made me realise though … I have zero desire to go to the Med, Africa, India or China these days … maybe Sicily or Greece to a point. …/END.
(1107) Not sure how the afternoon will pan out at HQ. If I can find a good film. Have quite a few feature shorts in the pipeline. 🍿🍿🍿. (1126)
15. There’s a tendency to blame the footsoldiers, not the donkeys above
… that is, we fall out on platforms and apps whilst Them above escape all flak … well … stuff the gang of four. I can’t help if Reform voters, desperately hoping against hope, are hellbent on Reform winning at all Uniparty costs, ignoring the gang of four … the things they do. We are NOT backing down on this no matter what … for the sake of the country, for those abused girls, for all the risks those speaking out take. There it is.
14. The two gals have known each other a long time now
13. This is very close to, if not actual treason
12. Just a sshot, not the clip
… too unpleasant to watch … well done these gals for tackling it.
… but it also relates to DC obstructors to whom Laura L referred, one of those, SW, mentioned below:
Onwards:
9. Laura Loomer
She’s a curiosity. Just hypothetically, were I Mossad, for example, and required someone independent to discover things … well dot dot dot. Either way, her intel is first rate, hence her complaint.
Another:
Comment:
Good reader … how particular are we about our sources? I don’t mean in accuracy or if obtained by menaces … I mean continuing great intel from an iffy bunch.
8. IYE on Nole
“Elon Musk said Friday his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has acquired his social media platform, X, for $33 billion in an all-stock transaction.
Key facts:
•Musk announced the deal in a Friday post, saying it valued xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, or $45 billion if the social network’s $12 billion in debt is included.
•Musk, who purchased X for $44 billion in 2022, when it was known as Twitter, said the acquisition entails the combination of xAI and X’s “data, models, compute, distribution and talent.”
•The two Musk-owned companies already have plenty of overlap, with X’s AI chatbot, Grok, being developed by xAI, and all xAI staffers being X employees, at least on paper, according to The Verge.
•An $80 billion valuation for xAI places it somewhat closer to rival AI company OpenAI, which is currently valued at $157 billion and is close to finalizing a SoftBank-led funding round that will boost its valuation to a whopping $300 billion, according to Bloomberg.”
JH: It then goes into net worth of big players … I can’t post this as it would no longer just be an excerpt … excerpts are allowed under fair use. Link is in comments.
7. Coming back to these two parents complaining to their school
… raided by plod and kept eight hours:
In greater detail:
6. Life in Toodles’s section of the U.S.
This brave guy in Florida came up with a pretty clever way to deal with an alligator!pic.twitter.com/L0yBJBhlq7
(0621) Latish start because of my single topic at OoL and on X last night and this morning. I’ll get to our chaps asap. (0813)
5. Last night it happened again
Now, before I accuse any one agency or platform, I do have to say it happened before posting to the WP or other site, which means it could be EE, Apple or a hacker who’s got in, inc. QHCG … could be any.
You might just be able to make out the names, the topics … check the one further down as well. The question of course is … what precisely were they objecting to?
Bottom line is it only happens with sensitive topics, yet it’s not text, except with OCR. Who with access to my ipad can use OCR to determine a breach or non breach of their corrupted narrative?
4. DAD at 1007
I’m going to have to euphemise below in my own (JH’s) words:
a) In a post by @visegrad24 on January 7, 2025, Iranian Shi’ite cleric describes women as “animals”
b) “How many immigrants are there for whom you are responsible?”
“Dunnow”.
Magali Segonds, a representative of France Travail, spoke to provide an overview of the situation, clarifying the data, and reminding that France Travail can only intervene within the framework of government regulations.
c) It is no wonder that ‘According to the poll, a record eight in ten people in France believe the country is at risk of experiencing a “social explosion” in the coming months.
d) d) Is Poland also looking to cancel elections and persecute the opposition if a candidate unfavorable to the left-liberal establishment wins?
3. Steve at 1007
Elon Musk and DOGE Team Reveal that Nearly Half of Social Security Calls are from “Fraudsters” Stealing Social Security Benefits
Colorado Democrat Makes Case for Killing Babies Because a Murder Is Cheaper Than a Birth
Friedrich Merz’s and Olaf Scholz’s Incoming Coalition To Turn Censorship Into Overdrive, Crack Down on Social Media and ‘Ban Lies’
British MP Rupert Lowe Launches a National Inquiry on the ‘Rape Gangs’ Scandal
Judge Boasberg Sides with Criminal Gang Members, Extends His Block
Connecticut GOP Lawmakers Alert AG Pam Bondi After 150 Election Fraud Charges in Bridgeport Democrat Ballot Stuffing Case
Putin’s Peace Plan: Get Rid Of Nazis And Put [The] Ukraine Under International Governance
France – UK have de facto declared war on Russia, ignoring the US-mediated Black Sea ceasefire
The deep state loves the “no virus” narrative
King Charles, Queen Camila and Keir Starmer may wish it so, but we are not a Muslim country
