Daily Archives: May 14, 2025

Eurovision this weekend … apparently

 

I’ve so far only watched three minutes and I’d expect a Christian perspective on how Eurovision has changed … not just shlock now but vile shlock. See what you think.

1997 … first born Gen Zee appeared … end of the now lost Millennial generation (1978 to 1997). Music virtually died about then.

Last time it died before that was 1959 (American Pie) through to around 1964/5.

1997 was a watershed for sure … I’d gone to Russia, still in a better time over there, still innocent outside of Moskva, Britain was about to endure Blair … and you kept voting the *&£#£&* back in, over and over. Why?

Wednesday [5 to 7]

(0552) Just repeating … there’s a scheduled gap coming up late morning during which MMutR and I will talk software, hardware and setting the world to rights … over tea and coffee. So civilised. (0657)

 

7. Two topics


Yes.

6. Films and shows

Gathering these is ongoing and we’re still ahead … except that some turn out to be unshowable, inc. some from the later 40s revolving around infidelity. The unfaithful man is one thing but the unfaithful woman was having a postwar resurgence in film and I for one do not wish to watch such things, all resolved in a jolly manner at the end no doubt … no thanks.

Sorry to be a wet blanket but this is the same strategy as 12 atonalism … to blight marriage, blight enjoyment and exactly as I’m thinking this, what appears on YT recommended but the young Scot, on Eurovision. Immediate thought was ah … young Scot … EuVn, that gross, emptyheaded perversion fest … Christian homily about nobility versus Eurotrash follows.

Watched his intro and you know … it wasn’t bad, a nice potted history … then I had to write this, so I’ll watch the rest of it later. Yes, EuVn was a bit of fun years ago, hosted from the UK by Tel Wogan.

Not now. Meanwhile, into the recommended came a George Baker episode I’d never watched … Wexford. Ah, thought I, he’d been in Bertram’s Hotel, hence the recommendation. Then I started watching and yikes … no way am I running that episode, An Unkindness of Ravens in a post.


It was about an older man doing it with his daughter(s), there are other women, one once 15, now his wife, there’s a girl’s tennis club, there are murders … the whole thing is far too seedy. While I can at least claim not to have watched it through, I did check the last five minutes to see whodunnit. Yuk.

Quite apart from protecting your virgin eyes and ears, readers dear, there’s self-preservation involved … no way should any man my age be anywhere near anything like that, esp. as we’re hacked … on X, I’ve noticed certain men of an age focussing on way too young females … I avoid both, quietly deleting those accounts. Had to drop Ladies at Lunchtime, dinn I?

The upshot is that we have to be vigilant, we have to preview material via, say, IMDb, Wiki … it’s also why films and shows after the mid 70s are not so much tacky but they’re unpleasant … at least to my sensibilities. Am I censoring? Well yes but openly … you know ahead of time what I’m not running here.

5. Steve at 1047

  • Federal Judge Gives Green Light for IRS to Share Illegal Immigrants’ Tax Data with ICE *
  • Trump Says EU “Nastier Than China **
  • Trump Secures $600 Billion Investment From Saudi Crown Prince
  • Inflation Drops to 2.3%, Lowest Since 2021, and US Treasury Records Second Biggest Surplus in History Thanks to Trump’s Record Tariff Revenues
  • Goodwill Gesture: Only Ten Russian Drones Reportedly Targeted [The] Ukraine ***
  • Climate data manipulation published in blogs key to climate change myth
  • Much, much more.

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*Necessary I’m afraid.
**Both communist.
***Drones seem the thing now … worrying … remote controlled death.

Wednesday [1 to 4]

(0425) Busy day coming up at this end. MMutR coming and we’ll sort the world’s probs over tea … late morn, elevenses on, so film around that time. (0532)

 

4. DAD’s just dropped over at 1047

a) In a display of foreign policy independence, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni chose not to attend the summit held in Kyiv on Saturday *

b) The Tit-for-Tat between France and Algeria continues…..The Algerian authorities demanded, on May 11, the immediate repatriation of 15 French agents recently sent as temporary reinforcements, particularly in the visa sector.

c) Slowly, slowly the wheels are coming off the ‘Green Agenda’. Norwegian energy company, Statkraft, announced it is putting on hold all development of new projects for producing “green hydrogen”.

d) A Dutch couple, Ronny van Unen (72) and Saskia Scheltes (66), were refused Swiss nationality by the municipality of Unteriberg, near Zurich, despite twenty years of residence, a perfect command of German and a clean criminal record.

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*Significant.

3. An example, with Steve

… as to the strange way the Higham brain operates. The Keith Woods link gave:

Yes indeed. The second link was a rerun of the one I posted yesterday, of the families being that … families, not fighting age thug men. The third link had one of the unmentionables and as I’m having early brek, no way reposting the creep’s pic. That’s the sort of redacting decision on the fly.

Steve has an earlier comment on same as well. Plus he runs Colin Rugg, who writes:

“MSNBC’s Yamiche Alcindor hyperventilates over the White South Africans who were granted refugee status by Trump.”

Ok, now we might differ but I have no desire in reposting this Alcindor creature … point’s been made, ok? Colin himself … different matter of course.

2. Housekeeping

How to use comments to our advantage has sensitivities attached … namely, why are some comments left as comments, some are re-run in posts? Wish I knew myself … to a point, it’s trusted regulars, it’s also links rather than just a short thought on a matter, and not all links are reposted, mainly for cybersecurity but also for other reasons.

I assure you it’s not favouritism, not completely … it’s more a case of does it take us further? Justin’s dad I did not repost, Redacted I’m about to look at those links. Steve is a bit more difficult … he links to X, which is good for Xers like me, gives me sshootable quotes to run … but not much use to non-Xers as a link, so they stay in comments.

There’s no hard and fast rule, other than … does it move us forrader or what, for me to repost? Each and every time. Is it best read in situ in comments? And so on.

1. IYE and the topic of catharsis

Some Cringe lunacy seems apt for a full moon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCtqh5MZejI

It’s Grifty, not running it expanded for safety reasons but it illustrates something about the way I misuse the word catharsis … broaden it to mean general reluef, relaxation, to have a break from the fray. I for one have a number of such ladies in “lullaby crazy” mode but apparently my voice too can knock people out, though in my case, it’s probably through sheer boredom … bore y’all to sleep.

It’s one of the reasons I’m keen to run Chris Spargo (Twinning for example) and running mini-landscapes in the sidebar. Ruairidh is more for info-hunger. But readers, we do need a break. AKH is another, so is the estimable Churchmouse. Once you realise that that is a fine outlet there on the topics of the day … well, we need those things … here are Dearieme, followed by CM:


The depth of info at CM’s makes it a must read imho. Sackerson and Rolf Norfolk are the same person … he does not comment here as a rule but he does read. He and I go way back in time and adventures.