Daily Archives: April 19, 2025

Youth

The original intention in this post, following on from Moosh’s tweet about love:


… which immediately reminded me of:

I walk along the street
I look into your eyes
I’m pleasant when we meet
I’m there when you go home

… which is New Order’s Lonesome Tonight, B side to whatever, just as Rain was the Beatles’ B side to something else. In both cases, there were many comments online about how the B side was the better song, even majestic, comparatively, to the A side. In a similar way, I prefer so many B movies to As, the latter which seem more contrived to my mind.

I was going to offer that song to Moosh but then read through the lyrics … yikes … far from being a love song, it was about human emptiness, so I dropped the idea and good thing too, as when I tried to work out what the song was about … twernt easy. Appears it wasn’t for others either:

*This is one of my favorite songs. No idea what its about but it has the best melody. I can’t believe more people don’t know about it.

*It’s about an attempt to relinquish a relationship from youth, where one person left the other. It seems like the person who wanted it was constantly wronged by the other in previous attempts at the relationship, so now when the other person wants it, they don’t. Perhaps they thought they did, and then realized that time doesn’t always take away the pain, and just couldn’t deal with it. Stuff like this never works, so I’ve gotta say I definitely agree with the idea of this song.

*It started probably around the time of the Republic sessions and got worse with every record since. “Hey you, you’ll be okay, do what you do…” became Sumner’s new-found mantra for over twenty years. WTF?! We are punks, we don’t care. We don’t want to feel okay or to be told what to do to feel okay. And that’s what he tells us in every song since 2001. 

*I mean, there’s no humor here […] What happened was is that, I think, Prozak really cured our hero because ever since then we have all these happy go around songs about nothing. “Two step forward, one step back…” Is it a group physical therapy class? Sure, it has a nice beat…

*Barney’s lyrics have always been shite. I don’t care. I’m 100% a “sound” person, and his voice is just another instrument in the mix to me. I still don’t know all the proper lyrics to songs I’ve listened to thousands of times.

*I always viewed Barney as having a certain mystery, and his lyrics were an attempt to get across his feelings. Does that make sense? Maybe he wasn’t so articulate and was struggling to get across the things he needed to express. Everything else about them was so unlike their peers, I could excuse the occasional clunky lyric, because you got the feeling it was sincere.

JH: Very much so … I mean, it was my (relative) youth too so methinks I have a right to criticise that youth … in fact, two lines of the song mention that:

Do you believe in youth
The history of all truth

Truth is, youth is not a time I wish to return to, vibrant as it was. It was also a time of soaring highs and plummeting lows, everyone around concerned primarily with him or herself and there was an incident when I visited a friend’s place … all housemates were at each other’s throats about stealing one another’s food, not paying his or her part of the rent etc. I just had to get out of there.

My working life was spent with yoof, by definition, so the prevailing mindset I had to hang onto was that it’s just mental expecting anything profound from what is virtually a child, at a time of finding out, finding themselves etc. Especially in herds. No thanks … I reached an age when I had to tell the head of dept that I’d gradually lost “the calling” and it was better for them that I moved onto pastures new. I still loved the things they came out with, was concerned with their concerns etc. etc. But it was time.

Another memory was as a 19 year old myself in the woods with a year level of our course, and a girl brought out her guitar and started playing “in the chilly hours and minutes of uncertainty, I want to be …“

Immediately we all went all gooey and lovey but why? Just as with Lonesome Tonight, it was the heartfelt music, rather than the lyrics which did it. Similar was driving that French girl home from Yorkshire to south of Paris (as one does) and it hardly mattered her French lyric songs and my English lyric (to an extent), such as the one above … the lyrics were hardly the thing.

I mean, let’s face it … young men are fairly emotionally retarded, as Christie gets Mr. Satterthwaite to think below in the book about Mr Quin:

“It was New Year’s Eve.The elder members of the house party at Royston were assembled in the big hall. Mr. Satterthwaite was glad that the young people had gone to bed. He was not fond of young people in herds. He thought them uninteresting and crude. They lacked subtlety and as life went he had become increasingly fond of subtleties.

Mr. Satterthwaite was sixty-two– a little bent, dried-up man with a peering face oddly elflike, and an intense and inordinate interest in other people’s lives. All his life, so to speak, he had sat in the front row of the stalls watching various dramas of human nature unfold before him. His role had always been that of the onlooker. Only now, with old age holding him in its clutch, he found himself increasingly critical of the drama submitted to him.”

I’m less critical of the kids themselves because of my working life. The purple haired girls and wimmin with tatts, nose rings and torn jeans are a product of, plus a reaction against, their upbringing at home and school. The new feral yoof (male) needs avoiding for personal safety reasons … it’s globopsycho which needs taking out.

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What’s the point of all this above? No idea … seemed a good idea at the time, before this site started playing up fifty minutes ago. Fifty minutes just to compose one post.

Saturday [5 to 11]

(0638) Low, grey–white, billowing Gates poison cloud out there, started coughing, had to close the window to. (0718)

 

11. Moosh and a most interesting scene

But what’s going on here?


Never mind, here’s a sshot:


10. This is where caution is required

Confirmation bias both ways is the caution. David Kurten is Heritage Party, so will obviously call out Farage, post-Lowe. Reform people largely close the mind to Farage abuse and controlfreakery.


9. TDS in blogrolls

Idea being to go to navbar, go to brolls, go to Daily Sceptic, choose:


8. Easter Egg Roll


7. Not so silent Christian preacher at Easter

British town, plod takes chap’s mic, lectures him on telling people to repent of sinning. Starmer style free speech.


6. Steve last evening at 1024

  • Tulsi Gabbard Releases 10,000 Pages of RFK Assassination Documents
  • Jerome Powell Complete Disaster Caused Extreme Suffering US Middle Class
  • Father of Austin Metcalf Swatted After Karmelo Anthony Press Conference
  • Time to End the War Is Now’: Rubio and Witkoff Meet [warmongering loons]
  • Media Research Major Networks 0 Seconds on Rachel Morin Killer’s Trial, 64 Minutes on Deported MS-13-Linked
  • Growth Of Ukraine’s Azov Units Follow Path Of The Waffen-SS
  • US demands UK protect free speech, repeal hate speech authoritarianism
  • Who’s Really Pulling the Strings in Portuguese Politics and Press?
  • WHO Pandemic Treaty sparks global debate over sovereignty
  • Puberty blockers dangerous chemical mutilation of children
  • A tool to test PsyOps and control people’s minds
  • France’s 3D Mapping Of Romania’s “Focsani Gate”
  • Much more.

5. Andy at 1024

Here we go, not one year into this government and they are going full-on East Germany. |  https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/hmrc-set-hand-out-cash-31383528.amp | In fairness, they do say that this is to target businesses and high worth individuals but it won’t be long before they widen the scope.

Easter Saturday [1 to 4]

(0525) Morning all … so, Jesus is now in the tomb or downstairs sorting out satan or whatever his list of jobs entailed. Now I really must report what Toodles wrote about the crucifixion and afterwards. She writes colourfully, most of which you don’t see but when she described Him on that last trip to Calvary, she wrote “looking like roadkill”. Nearly spilt the coffee.

The last person on earth to be irreverent is Toodles, but this is how she observes things … in great detail, e.g. the lizards on the veranda of the riverhouse … she has named them, when they get huffy etc. … I for one find such things easy on the mind. And we have a second person doing similarly … must be a girlish trait … Isilme … they observe everything, girls, which is a double-edged sword. (0623)

 

4. DAD has dropped this report at 1024

a) French philosopher and writer Renaud Camus, known for his stance against mass immigration and for popularizing the concept of the “Great Replacement,” has been refused entry to the United Kingdom. *

b) “This is no longer immigration, this is displacement” – For the first time, Muslim students outnumber Christians in Vienna’s schools “Austrians will soon be strangers in their own country”. **

c) No fewer than 298 American scientists have applied to pursue their research at Aix-Marseille University, university president Éric Berton reported on franceinfo on Thursday, April 17. ***

d) A sad Good Friday in Les Sables-d’Olonne: early in the morning, the barbaric destruction of an altar and a statue of the Virgin Mary was discovered, shattered into a thousand pieces, on Rue de la Bauduère in the town center. ****

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* Saves me a job … saw this one earlier. Shades of Martin and Britanny some years back. At the same time, Starmer proposes a US trade deal, as his admin fulfils the “free speech” demand.

**There was a shot of a Viennese park in another report, presumably with Stefansdom in the bkgd and not “an Austrian face” anywhere. Pre-WW2 history suggests the Austrians were far “worse” than the Germans for “racial purity”, so let’s see how this one plays out.

***There’s a punchline to this one over at 1024 (yes all right … clickbait).

****JDS? Jesus Derangement Syndrome?

3. This is a politically low info time, Easter

… and so this type of thing comes out:

At one of these last evening, our time, the Donald was going on about China, then there was a commotion among the press:


I presume just a precaution … nothing more came of it. Yet.

2. First sign of dementia?

Some readers would be aware of going into another room to get something, can’t recall, go back and do the trip over, thinking this time about the job in hand.

Well, I have an addition to that … if I’m not organised, with reminders all over the place, I’m in deep shtum, if there is such a word. But there’s one other thing … I’ve taken to singing to myself (not out loud, at least not yet) a single line of a song … for example “always something there to remind me, wo, wo, wo, wo, wo“.

1. Opening today with IYE and Toodles

Mwerx “Geo-Engineering on Steroids” [17/4/25]

Toodles:

The comments on that channel are interesting and several dispute some of what Monkey claims about the chemtrails….how and who disperses them. Most of the commentators are saying what has been said by JH, probably you and others at this site as well, for quite a while. 

Monkey is probably correct about the drones being up to mischief and maybe even about the additives to the petrol used by aircraft, but I think more than that. I mean… what airline pilot is going to go criss cross over the skies, or makie star designs all over the place instead of going to his destination? Also, the many stripes side by side in the sky shown on his channel would be very odd for airline pilots to be putting out. I am not saying he is wrong maybe just not all the way correct. 

James, usually gives daily reports.

12 Sept.,1979 I really started noting odd weather. Since then and really starting in the 1990’s odd occurrences in our weather really kicked in. Down here it has been getting more peculiar and ferocious ever since.

I am not saying we never had foul weather. It is just different now.

Also about 8 years ago I was in Bham ., AL. I was on a cliff high above the downtown area. It was during a late winter’s eve that I stood at the window looking down and saw a very odd thing.

Covering the downtown area was a see-through green bubble. It was as if a huge clear tinted plastic, or cellophane shower cap had been placed around it.

JH:

In the early 90s, our plane was descending near Los Angeles and there was a thick haze, yellow-brown, covering the entire city … like a thin soup … not particularly inviting. Over Vancouver, it was clear. That’s all I can add.