(1645) Almost evening all.

 

23. A bitta history

The Standard:

Mayall’s wife Barbara Robbin:

“He had a strong heart, so I don’t think it was a heart attack. But we just don’t know until the coroner’s report. “Maybe he had a fit, maybe it was his heart.”

22. Moosh corner

21. This Couric is completely out of order

20. Security certificates

Now, dear readers who wrote to me … yes, there was an issue around 3 p.m. and without going into it and spilling all the secrets, some of you received warnings about potential security issues. Technically, I’m the one meant to fix it, it’s on paper somewhere, it was going to be a job to find the right paper … mea culpa.

It’s certainly not a security issue to you, it’s a nuisance but it still needed renewing. Now done due to some timely intervention by Mr. Wonderful.

19. Avoid like the plague

18. It’s really very well done

17. There was footage yesterday which seems to have disappeared

… and I’m quite glad as I’m uneasy when it involves adolescents. Essentially, a girl was screaming at the person photographing, another girl was with her. The one photographing was a man jabbering in rapist language constantly, incessantly and she was screaming from a distance.

Why was he not approaching her? She had an axe in her hand, a bit longer than a tomahawk, plus some other weapon, didn’t watch closely, maybe a machete. Another anomaly was that the footage was being run by our pro Brit, pro English pundits … so where did they get it from?

First, I found this:

You wot? They arrested the kid? Utter insanity … kid had no idea what to do with the weapons, was just waving them around in a down position.

Now … what about kids and weapons? Girl kids I mean. Well, for a start, I’m thinking girls should be in minimums of three, plus trained … that gives them some chance. Weapons? Minimum pepper spray. I’d rather they did not go out with fewer than five but there it is. They really need someone from plod showing them how … also never to hang about awaiting attack but go straight for the perp, no consequences for the kids, nothing on their record.

Also, only with a demonstrable attacker. Also there really needs to be a code for any adult native males in the vicinity to all converge, again no consequences on record. Also, the two pervs immediately deported.

16. Steve at 1140

Hearts of Oak: The Week According To . . . David Atherton

 

Nasty plot of betrayal and denouement and yet it’s a quality noir of the time.

Review:

“Successful businessman Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) loves his pretty wife Irene (Helen Walker) more than anything. Little does he know she’s plotting with her lover to kill him. During the murder attempt, Walter is hit hard on the head but lives. The other guy, however, is killed in a car crash and burned beyond recognition.

Believed to have been the man killed in the crash, Walter decides not to come forward. Instead he goes to work as a mechanic in the garage of Marsha Peters (Ella Raines). When Irene is tried for his murder, Walter must decide whether or not to reveal he’s still alive.

Brian Donlevy is pretty good. He’s at his best when his character is angry or edgy. The sappy romantic stuff doesn’t fit him well. Helen Walker is a particularly hissable villainess. Lovely Ella Raines is the good girl. There’s no meat to the part but she does well with what she’s given. Charles Coburn plays the detective out to get to the bottom of things. He’s always fun.

Arthur Lubin’s direction in the first half is great film noir. I loved the scene where the lover tries to kill the husband. The whole thing was brilliantly executed. Then something happens and it’s like a separate movie.

The second half is much less like noir and more like a standard crime melodrama where a girl has to prove her guy is innocent of murder. If the entire picture had been like the first half, I’d say it was one of film noir’s best. But it isn’t. It’s still an enjoyable movie with some good twists and turns.”

My own tuppence ha’penny:

Most reviewers were all for the performance of Helen Walker, the beech tree of a wife, with accolades for other players, whereas I was for Ella Raines from the start … interesting that she was at the same time a Hollywood pinup … and yet a homebody believing in the sanctity of marriage … which she took with her into real life marriage … by marrying a WW2 fighter ace, married to the air force, there was an obvious clash and she refused to live in accommodation on the bases.

It could only have gone one way, esp. with his drinking. She knew what she was marrying, maybe she thought he’d settle for the homelife. Which is exactly the situation in the film, with a wheeler-dealer magnate suddenly finding himself in humble circumstances with her … and with her good but bright mother.

It was this backstory which gave the film an edge for me, plus her sad real life, inc. miscarriages and stillbirth. Just seems to me that my life was with the Helen Walkers … well, not that bad … and somehow not the Ella Rainses. But maybe the Ella Rainses saw me as too maverick to handle or maybe not bewitching enough. Ho hum.

Then there was the question of the beech tree getting her just desserts in the movie … yes or no? There’s much food for thought in this film, a long one at 1h 50m odd, kicking off here at 1420.

(1028) You had breakfast yet? (1120)

 

15. Comedy spot

Nah, not having that! These three are much worse:

Did you notice 7.4m views? Now, if they were 14 or 15, then the gross overacting of the third, trying to be a male, would be fine. These though, according to bios I’ve found, vary between late 20s to early 40s, making them Millennials … and their jokes seem to be about Gen Zees’ habits and fashion statements … cf. the things we go on about here.

My next door neighbours are late Millennial and early Gen Zee respectively … we do get on and have a laugh but no politics can ever be mentioned … not that there is disagreement … they just aren’t interested in politics, fair enough. I said that was fine but politics were certainly interested in them. They bought that one.

Now, given that level of political maturity, Starmer wants to give uneducated 16 year olds the vote?

14. Watching the Watchers

Probably need to be serious again, just this once. Here’s another which turns out, possibly, to be a bit iffy this Bank Holiday Monday (unless you’re not in Britland of course):

13. BBQ weather today

… going anywhere near Liverpool?

12. AKH has an important post up

… about Three Pads Rayner. 🤔 Hmmmm, reminds me of something I recall … can’t quite place it:

By the way, I BS you not … the lead in ad to the clip was … yes … selling sheds. Also, there’s a rumour going around that Andy’s off with his bit of skirt playing bowls … but don’t quote me.

11. Burly biker Longrider is a treasure trove

From comments:

It has been said that there are only 7 basic plots (see Wikipedia for a summary):
Overcoming the Monster
Rags to Riches
The Quest
Voyage and Return
Comedy
Tragedy
Rebirth

Taken together with the Rule of 3 this lays out a limited palette from which journalists can … catch your attention.

Plus:

That sounds a bit like Gell-Mann Amnesia.

(0900)(0959)

 

10. This Moosh Corner was evocative

I vaguely thought it was in August, 64 but it seems it was at Easter and in May … the MSM sensationalising it. As a little kid, I do remember it and promptly grew the hair from crew cut to long, coiffed, with brylcreem, but as I was the only one at school doing it, I soon dropped the grease and went Beatles mop. Later, I tired of that and went back to crew cut, which has pretty well been my hairstyle ever since, with a brief excursion into college cut.

Crew cut was a natural intro to skinhead but too narrow-tapered jeans put me off as much as stovepipes, though kept leather jackets going till recently, mainly bomber, narrowish jeans hems, never flares or bellbottoms … though I had flared guards over the 8” car wheels.

Violent? Nah, not in the sense of going around seaside resorts and glassing people … we used bare knuckles. How old were those mods and rockers? Well 18 for a start, so born 1946 or before … sorry, I was not to be even thought of for many, many years after that … missed that whole scene.

9. Lord Toby’s TDS today included this

8. Meanwhile, across the pond

7. Slow news day today

… as befits a bank holiday … on the other hand, only we have one. Leilani sums up the state of the news so far today:

6. Bless’ed are the flagmakers

… at least in England just now. Plus that pub where two bouncers prevented an English person going in with a CofStG. The footage carefully avoided the name of the pub … it was contrived, the whole thing … see Sun 23 here again … you might like to read it through.

Them desperately want the violence kicking off, presumably so they can find the most immediate fodder for the Ukraine meat grinder … this war MUST escalate in Them’s eyes. Of course, if Vlad were disingenuous and always intended taking Poland, then that’s another matter.

 

(0635) Morning all. Some low cloud out there, how dare it intrude. (0735)

 

5. Reading the fine print

Leaving aside Salvini for now or the petition, it’s well worth looking at every word of the south front report on the US missiles. Obviously, south front, being straight Russian, would say that … date was Jan 2024.

It’s becoming more and more difficult to ascribe weight to this report or that. WSJ suggests high bias, as does Richard Kemp … I’m suggesting you need to prioritise your sources into high grade down to guff afa you have been able to determine over time.

For example, you saw the report by QThestorm:

What about a double-double cross? What if it was not debunked at all? What if that FB page, and readers at X know I have an a/c but last used it years ago, so can access the link … what if it was set up after the QT report? All of this takes effort on my part, taking me away from our current business. This is what happened with a set of 100 qs sent me by proKnox people in the Kercher case … Harry Rag said each had been already answered within TDMK and once he came on the scene, the questions sender faded away.

All this is going on. I shall certainly make limited efforts to explore this one, also the one which came up at OoL a day or two ago.

(0756) All right, I did go in via a series of steps, which incidentally gave FB and ggl my login details which I changed and here’s what I found:

So the “community notes” on X were right … it’s a trolling site … done by someone looking like a southern good ole boy … right, left? Who knows, who cares? We learn.

4. Steve at 1139

• Bloody Microbe … Salvini Ridicules Macron’s Plan to Send ‘Peacekeeping’ Troops to Ukraine *
• Rapper Who Embraced Satan and Mocked Jesus Arrested and Hospitalized After Apparent Mental Breakdown
• Leftists Freak Out as President Trump Reportedly Plans to Send Military to Chicago, Including Possibly Active Duty Forces
• Over 2.3M People Sign Petition Begging for Clemency for Illegal Truck Driver Who Killed 3 Americans **
• The administration of United States President Donald Trump had approved the sale of 3,350 especially-designed, long-range missiles to Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on August 24. ***
• Russia To Soon Produce 6,000 Geran Drones Each Month
• Rhoda with Richard Kemb on UK civil war
• Much more.

*JH: This is taking on the shape and proportion of the emulsified high-fat offal tube from Dec 17, 1984 while James Hacker was aiming to be PM of GB and NI.
**How many middle-easterners signed that I wonder.
***Best read the fine print of this, i.e. go to 1139.

3. Redacted

At this link has an X video from Karli Bonne.

2. DAD at 1140

a) The French are overwhelmingly opposed, 84% against 16% who support it, to the elimination of two public holidays proposed by François Bayrou in his public finance recovery plan…

b) A new twist in the Aiton prison affair. At the end of July, the head of the remand center was arrested, charged, and placed under judicial supervision for acts related to the Samy Rebboah case…

c) The US ambassador to France, Charles Kushner, denounced on Sunday, August 24, the “lack of sufficient action” by President Emmanuel Macron and the government against anti-Semitism…

d) Rear seats, headlights, grilles, catalytic converters, batteries… Theft from mass-produced vehicles fuels a parallel market from the Paris region to West Africa.

(0311) Just this, then more sleep I hope, kick off again around 0730. (0316)

 

This post has been rewritten and abridged:

The Wall

… which leads into this one, just finished now, maybe still needs proofing, maybe not:

Messing with the propagation of the species