Open letter to Unherdables’ regular and occasional readers
We have, chaps and chapesses, at Unherdable Cats, a most intriguing and potentially damaging conundrum, a crisis if you like, especially for a site relying, as it does, on a disparate lot across the oceans, each with his/her own strong views, plus tribalism which is now exacerbated, as IYE pointed out thus:
“Societal breakdown is ugly..” Indeed. It creates extremism which is what Them want.
The very intolerance of the others’ way of presenting, the sources, the angles, the turn of phrase, colloquialism, jargon, style, command of the English language, grates on the others and truly we have here “unherdable cats” in one “tavern” by the sea. Can you imagine what taverns in far flung ports, e.g. in the Caribbean, must have been like in days of yore.
That’s the first divisive point on the list. The second is technical. MMutR must be creasing himself laughing because he’d know instantly what the core issue with Redacted’s output here is … I know too but how to describe it to non-techies? I myself am “advanced user” so I’m told, meaning a pain in the backside to “real techies” … the advanced user has a certain amount of added tech knowledge, just enough to get in the way and really bgr things up.
Before even getting to Redacted’s “word salads”, there is a simple tech issue … American platforms, OSes etc. of a certain vintage, plus European and often Oz and NZ, even South African, use a highly regulated length of line … Miles Mathis does too … you do know his text cannot be selected and copied, except with certain moves on my part to select, which I’ll not explain here for the tavern.
In short, someone offering a Word package to readers has already been in there, curtailing line length to a set number of characters per line, after which it auto-returns, i.e. goes to the next line. However when, by its own rules, it reaches the end of its own line, it auto-returns again … hence the chip-chop non-paragraphing. The paragraphs, you see, do not partially add space, say 0.3 of a line. Andy might understand this.
Result, unbeknowns to most … is apparent “word salad”. My eyes therefore read Redacted, (and haiku before him, remember him?) as unformatted text, not as the English language was taught in schools … in sentences with rules, with paragraphs, with formatting. When we add the non-professional writer status of most contributors … vastly preferable, imho, to slick journos, MSM, politicians … then we just have an added yoke for our necks.
Now add the variety of antediluvian devices … even Dell for goodness sake, which catch on fire from time to time and lose their hinges … or this ipad which has now added “lag” to letters such that typing “s” at speed comes out as “a” or “i” as “u” … then you see yet more basis for frustration and anger.
Now add age to that and natural intolerance as we get older … then add a variety of medical complaints, especially in 2025 with the poisoned skies, beef, fish, foodstuffs … and you do start to see why Them are also creasing themselves laughing.
Now add the traditional WW2 type Monty v Ike misunderstanding between Brits and Americans, then add the split between south and north in both countries … just the temperaments themselves are widely divergent and clashing … and let’s not even start between Canadians and Americans or indeed Albertans versus Quebec and Ontario … you do see where I’m headed here. Or rural v cityslicker.
All of which pressures me into waking in the middle of the night and having to move Redacted’s outpouring plus Steve’s rejoinder, plus checking that DAD’s output is still outputting … IYE is largely staying out of it … plus my metabolism has for two days been packing up on me, such that I’ve had the phone and flat buzzer off, splitting headache … then you can see a sitcom here not unlike in Fawlty Towers.
Oh … and no one’s being paid a brass razoo for their work. Them must be quite hopeful, gleeful in fact, that the levee will finally break and that’s another pesky site washed away, a bit like Camp Mystic Christian girls camp (see Redacted at UHC:WP, item 8). MMutR will quickly add: “No one cares what you write, James, they have bigger fish to fry.” Which we can only pray continues if true … let’s pretend we’ve not lost four sites already and counting and that everything’s roses in Unherdables land.
Therefore, at 0341 Tuesday, I really did have to step in, do some editing and write this first post item. Frustrating? Yes and no … yes because it’s a pain having to shift someone’s flooding text when I’ve warned over and over that Redacted’s longs go to UHC:WP and he pays not the slightest attention to the way Unherdables works. Which then gets Steve sniping and he’s not one of the more regular snipers.
But also a no on that. It does raise the question … is Redacted’s non-English worth the time? And the answer is … yes it is. His pieces on Camp Mystic, plus Eli Crane … do actually point out some real anomalies. For example, the highly unusual conditions behind the flooding and that nice military account Redacted quoted … there’s much in there to start stroking the chin. 🤔. And I’m speaking fundamental stuff too … which does relate to Eli Crane and that is where Steve and IYE themselves, bless their hearts, have reason to fall out. Steve keeps quoting Gateway while IYE keeps showing how a certain non-Jewish Jewry is behind much of the strife behind the scenes. It’s so.
This is an ancient war which any bible scholar knows full well … plus it’s approaching a denouement on earth. How can Redacted and I explain that to Steve and IYE? You do see the dilemma.
Now, at 0354, I’m totally cream-crackered, with headache again … so I’m going to bed. Have we found a way through? Yes, but it will take much concentration on my part keeping disparate elements from clashing and yet follow all those leads just the same … after all, that’s why we exist at HQ … to gather leads in one place, that’s our raison d’etre. …/END.
