(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.