(1348) Afternoon all. Not all that well, usual of late. (1429)
15. Seems legit
On X:
On Telegram:
14. Another twofer
13. Another from Sarah White
12. Not even going to wonder why
Thought I’d look at the YT front page … almost complete reversal … back to familiar topics. Uh huh. One was single mothers, the baggage, or au contraire, the positive according to some men. One topic was horrible “stars of tele in Britain”.
It had all the red flags on the front, the loud, garish banner … one of the comments was “AI slop”. Whoever had written it had learnt hyperbole as a weapon … every sentence contained harsh criticisms of the “star”.
There were twelve starring names but only a few found near universal condemnation in comments, while others were not uppermost in most commenters’ minds but I never liked those “stars” for some reason. One commenter took the writer to task … they were all dead, the “stars”, how creepy to list people who could never reply.
Fair dos but let’s press on. The one near universally loathed was Cilla Black The others had varying degrees of criticism by commenters … Wilfred Brambell (nasty to H H Corbett), Tony Hancock (nasty to all, inc. to Syd James), Leonard Rossiter, Paul Daniels, a few others.
These first three were unpleasant characters anyway onscreen, so hardly different in RL … the others tried to cultivate nice personas.
Nato blocksde.
Wouldn’t worry the Royal Navy has nothing to send to enforce a blockade. Sabre rattling in the msm mirrored in “fringe meetings” at a political conference. Coming soon after the FFF colour me shocked.
Well, the mythical WMD was getting old. 😉
Fear sells, it is said. Question is what is being sold by fear?
Short answer is illness.
https://blogs.bcm.edu/2024/10/24/what-fear-can-do-to-the-body/
…”Long-term effects of consistent fear can include memory impairment and other cognitive issues, in addition to immune resistance. A person’s physical health can be affected the longer their body stays in a fear state….
… Understanding how common long-term fear is can be helpful in handling its symptoms. Shah said the most common fear typically changes on an annual basis, and that 10 percent of Americans live in a state of long-term fear.
In the first few years of the pandemic, COVID-19 was a top fear of people surveyed in the U.S., Shah said. That fear has subsided for many now.
“Right now, the most common fear is economic fear with people worried about finances and about wars; the start of World War III,” he said. “With a changing world, these fears change.”…”
Turn off the news, or better still don’t switch it on in the first place. That’s the way to keep off the emotional roller coaster.
So the Spanish Inquistion were onto something!
Bugger The Simpsons predicting things Monty Python beat them to it.
15. Donny would like an excuse to postpone the mid-terms.