(0954) Well, there goes most of Sunday morning … posted the music 0538, crashed, just awoke … so that’s a solid four hours of sleep! Wow. Sad that at our age, we count that as a win … and no aching bones? (1050)
15. Think this was part of Andrew Torba’s article … on X
14. Students actually marching for a good cause for once
13. The university (college) games we played
I’m afraid I must admit to readers that I was at four tertiary institutions, graduated at two of em, kicked out of the other two … ended up professoring at a fifth. At one of em, the tutor decided to play a little game she’d devised … it was all about buying and selling, a la Monopoly, and I’m pleased or not to say that I was not arf bad at it.
However, certain things were noticeable. For a start, the girls, who were half the group roll, were over-represented among the “winners” still standing (don’t forget that this was a woke left game decades ago) and the “losers”, meaning those who refused to lie and cheat their mates out of their portion of the spoils, were overwhelmingly male … idea was that if they dropped below a certain “poverty line”, they were made to go into a “jail” and just sit there, twiddling thumbs.
I was still out there in the corridors and dealing rooms, with a tidy pile, was approached by one girl, I remember, who took me for a fellow headkicker and step-over-your-dead-grandmother type. Suddenly, I said, “Here,” and gave her all my chips. This was not unlike decades later during lockdown, as an unvaxxed Untermensch, whilst the later-to-die-in-droves Vaxxed were free to go anywhere, including to the cafe/canteen for sustenance.
It was an interesting game … give the lady tutor that. The girl I gave the chips to was utterly shocked and mystified … what was the trick? How had I gypped her? I hadn’t … I may have looked like a swindler type to many, too fast talking by arf, but I’d had enough of living like an animal of no morals, so I walked into jail before the stasi even got to me. It was rough in some ways in there but they left me alone after awhile … miserable, glaring sod I was … went into solitary … theory was that any in there would become a mental wreck, being a pariah, no one speaking to the poor sod.
You know where this is going … it was blessed relief, peaceful in my solitary cell, a bit open to the elements but otherwise fine.
12. Tale of Andrew van Swol (on X)
11. Noticing a strange change at X
They seem to be giving blue ribbon Xers the facility to write lengthy blogposts such as this below … I’ve reposted a few so far, thinking hmmmm, they seem quite lengthy, these pieces. Nothing wrong with that of course, whilst we ordure-kickers get curtailed, reach-suppressed etc. … I’m fine with that … going to tell you a little tale in Sun 13.
Re #12 – No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in….
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JH: Ain’t that the truth.
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11. Won’t open for me as I’m not on X. The shorter ones you link to are always ok.
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JH: Andy, it was never going to open but I did take a quote about Millennials and Gen Z from it as a sshot later.
15. Generational generalisations have too much Venn overlap to be anything more than vague truisms. Plus, there’s always an overreliance on the third person plural for conflated claims of what “we” did.
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JH: Welcome, dear sir.
I agree with lordsomber. Whatever it is I have said trying to convey my meaning when the subject has come up, which is often, certainly didn’t come out so fancy, so intellectual and so on point as put forth by him!
This assumes, of course, that one is only applying Venn diagrams in each of the situations and besides, plus one must define the universal set of parameters.
If different models are applied for different factors, e.g. economic level/class, nationality, ethnicity, gender (mansplaining/Hultgreen-Curie), married/single mother (subsidised/unsubsidised), education (state/local/private/public), Christian precepts or other, political leanings … and so it goes on … then each of the “vague truisms”, when overlaid, can pinpoint accurately enough to draw valid conclusions.
It of course depends on who’s doing it and for what a priori purpose.
Taking just the gen designation, there are the eight and a half year turnarounds too, e.g. Generation Jones, plus the precise truism that this applies well to an end WW2 startpoint till post-covid and vaxx/lockdowns. It luckily falls into roughly 17 year periods, themselves in half, within the postwar period … but not so well before that.
And obviously, there are western military alliances too, e.g. US/Oz v Britain on Vietnamese and Korean wars or Britain and Commonwealth. Plus local wars, e.g. the Irish Troubles.
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