(1028) Might be a warm one today. (1040)
10. Moosh corner
9. Hamasland
8. Uh huh
7. Housekeeping
Request of readers here … when I post an item such as Wednesday’s:
… what you should be getting is at least this visual … but hopefully, should you click on the video … it plays. Being always inside the HQ-X nexus, I don’t always get to see what you see, even when signed out. Feedback please?
6. Falklands Day
(0718) Very, very late up this morning … good for the ole bod, bad for the blog. Housekeeping will be the opening item, referring to our patrons en vacances. (0905)
5. The natural tendency towards cynical virtue signalling
… in order to make ourselves feel good, esp. in an egregious, Wokeleft way.
Such as sending the sworn enemies of Britain … who have already established their hatred of us … sending them Valentines cards via 5 year olds, inviting them to come and rape, torture and slaughter said children … these are the Yorkshire schools doing it currently:
4. This one’s most certainly a worry for Britain
… via the backdoor sewer of The English Channel. One can have all the sympathy in the world for the world’s unfortunates but the thing one must never do is turn the natural tendency towards charity into cynical virtue signalling to feel good in our Wokeleft selves.
3. Before getting down to the main biz today
… a word to the boys about “symping” or “simping”. For a start, there was that ludicrous thing plod did in getting the two prettiest young ladies they could find, putting them in stab vests and sending them jogging, awaiting the wolf whistles … idea being that the male officers, presumably, would descend and arrest.
Those two lasses were sweetlooking to be sure but being dressed neck to toe in jogging attire … were hardly THOTs parading themselves, “disporting” themselves. To my mind, catcalling is weak … hiding among mates for security whilst shouting barbs their wives and gfs would give them the rounds of the kitchen over.
What would I have done? Maybe nothing or maybe started jogging a short distance from, yet beside her, played it by ear. There are two things here … being non-threatening, yet also in charge of oneself … and the other being non-simpy. The ex-gf told me she’d been come onto by some guy (it usually happened every 3.8 seconds) whose opening line was: “I know you could never look at me, never love me …”
Stop right there … under her power from the get-go? Man, you need lessons from these online relationship “experts”.
Which brings me to this gal:
Right … profile pic entices all right, seems a star on net or TV … ah, “good food gal” is a giveaway … should I? Think not just now and yet … that’s a pretty good question she asks, one which is always going to bring in sigma and alpha males … plus, unfortunately, all the women haters, male and female as well. This lady was holding out an olive branch there … tread carefully.
Interested, me? Obviously but also one must mind one’s situation and never be a “player”, even moreso towards one’s dotage … the rule of 7 applies, though I say 14 is more sane. That is … half your age, plus 14 for a viable chance. Plus does one wish to be always dragged around by young women any more … eternal travel, eternal home renovations, diminishing intim, no rest whatsoever, early grave?
On the other hand, one must not be a vacuous, narcissistic zero … one must give to get. Plus, what should a Christian male be doing? All good questions perhaps.
My stepfather was a high up in some outfit called Legacy and he kindly offered to do the weekly rounds of the war widows … how noble of him. My mother knew the score, she was always one who, despite her superlative qualities as a walking tornado, one did need a brief break from now and then … SF had his garage with its woodturning lathe. What’s more, he knew I knew and everyone was happy enough, inc. the war widows.
Just thinking though … just as a lady must never be a THOT nor slapper, nor a gauche Labour front bencher type … so a man has to watch the simpy, creepy, satyr-like, narcissistic traps … constantly.
2. DAD at 1131
a) “Let’s block everything” on September 10: what do we know about this movement that calls for paralysing France?
b) According to Le Canard, the CRS (riot police) tasked with protecting the home of Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the National Assembly, in Le Vésinet (78), were tasked with feeding her chickens during her vacation.
c) Four men were found dead in the Seine River in Choisy-le-Roi (Val-de-Marne) this Wednesday. The causes of their deaths remain to be determined.
d) Jenrick’s 48 Hours in France. (Video over at 1131)
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JH: I’m loathe to uglify the smooth DAD-flow over at 1131 by interrupting with this explanation … not sure whether to let 1131 be the current DAD collection en vacances or make an 1132 … just seeing how this pans out. 🍿🍿🍿
1. Housekeeping
MMutR said the other day … everyday is a holiday for you now, isn’t it? To a point … within each day is fairly regimented, given that there are different cunning plans for early or late start. It’s usually intense for the first four hours, then another similar time early evening.
Across the week, I’ve started using Sunday for more rest, just to stay afloat … you have your needs too. Across the year, well this is the vacation time now. If July 26 (N.O. Day) is right in the silly season, the period two weeks before September is really “last chance hotel” so to speak … all those things we planned to take care of in the summer.
At nourishing unherdables, the collective term for this complex of blogs, plus X, IYE is en vacances, Steve we know is doing doggies, DAD has family time but has surprised this morning with a drop at 1131 (coming up), AKH is en vacances (or was), MMutR I’m up with, the ladies too … Andy is about, I presume at bowls, Dearieme is about, Penseivat, Torquaymada, Microdave, Woodsy are about, plus occasional chaps. I see Sackerson and JD are about, Guido over at his place, Leggy and Longrider too.
If I left you out, then once the worsening memory kicks in again I’ll add to this post item … only half an apology as we all know about memory and health at our time of life. Please try to keep up exercise and liquid. Get that sleep and cease to worry about it.
The Christians present know it makes life far easier, plus harder in certain worldly ways.
(1515) Hope you survived that rain just then. VJ day is today or tomorrow or in September, depending where you are.
19. On a journey here, folks
Once you start delving into long-gone things, inc. songs, all sorts of spectres reappear, skeletons. Of late, I’ve been concentrating on three years … 1963 and the death of innocence, musically but also look at world events … Bay of Pigs, JFK gone, Vietnam starts for real … now tick the clock over to January 1968 and my own finale to youth but who had come out just prior to this?
In fact one year earlier, January 1967? The Doors’ debut album with the strangest diabolical themes … and who produced it? Wikipedia says:
“Paul A. Rothchild serving as producer.”
Uh huh. Starting to see a pattern? And that iconic, dystopic eleven minute last song The End, about death and destruction. Kids lapped it up, it overcame all attempts at banning it. Some Millennial just now reacted to the whole album, did not understand Backdoor Man, certainly did not understand The End, though he disliked the lyrics, loved the funky boppiness of the music … the hook for the kids.
Fast fwd to August 2025 and where we are right now. 1968 kid would understand today easily. 1963 kid would not have. 2025 kid is only just starting to.
He may have been too young, as I’d been in 1963 … but in 1968 I was exactly the age range, the demographic … this was designed for my mates and me. Now, I’ve already told you about a Damascene moment in 1964, right at the start of the Stones and Beatles. It may have kept me from many an abyss but there were plenty of others I rushed into, headstrong and unpredictable. Yet not over the edge.
And now here we are, mid August, 2025, at the brink again.
18. Toodles and the chain of command
Just what are these people doing there?
17. Luggage trucks and wives
16. Alaska
15. YouTube suddenly recommended this
Won’t inflict the follow up song so here it is.
14. Ireland
13. Downunder
12. Digital IDs experiment on MPs first
11. The other Charlie
10. Seizing defeat from the jaws
(1334) Afternoon all. Running this as a polit-post, not as a separate feature.
Things significantly changed between 1963 and 1964
… especially in music. Question is … what exactly? We could start here:
The song itself is not my style, a bit too girlie for mine but still better than the next year and the two after that … innocence of the west gone forever.
Bear something else in mind … which Penseivat wrote on Chubby Checker:
“Sadly, his career seemed to revolve around that atrocious activity called The Twist, and it didn’t last, as did (not) those who failed to adapt to music tastes…”
My thing about dancing was always for the male and female to be physically joined for most of a dance … shirley that was the whole point of it … contact with the girl … dancefests today at least concentrate on that aspect, though the “binary” is wonky and garish today … awful.
No, what had started around 1960 and Chubby Checker was largely responsible for it was male and female separating, showing off at each other their own individual moves … that was me gone for a start. 1963 was almost the last hurrah for real men, real ladies. You call The Stones men? Jagger prancing and mincing? The Beatles with their women’s hairdos? I warr but a lad in 1963, it was way before “my time”, which was 1968.
Plus the drugs insinuated themselves back in, post-Leary … not just grass but the hard stuff especially. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Controversial statement from me now, not in 1964 of course as a kid … but the sweeping away of innocence in The British Invasion was no advance for the west. Older style “fun” music, danceable, no longer required by “the kids”?
The angry, aggressive “hope I die before I get old” (The Who) … you call that an advance? What forces were behind such savage changes? Go to Laurel Canyon to find out.
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Fast fwd five or six years … in fact to January 68. One year later, the long (best) album version of Crimson and Clover came out. 👇🏻 The Sep before Jan 68, I’d had my first close encounter of the female kind, now it was reprised … in fact she and I were only discussing it a couple of days ago (2025).
So that song, though it did not emerge for another year, was soooo appropriate for the situation. What I might call the end of the time of romances, courtships … thereafter, everything was only about sex as it is today … can you see Paul and Paula (the song) selling today?
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And lastly, looking at the song itself … yes, one more time but not the uninterrupted version … it’s a reaction video. Now, I’m going to be waycist here … I’ve heard all sorts … black, white, male female … it’s the blacks who get best what the band is trying to do … and the younger the reacters, the better … these two seem late millennial to me.
Just remembering myself in Jan 69, hypothetically listening as a reacter: “Er not bad, we like the song, a bit complicated, a bit overthought.”
These two though start analysing the instruments, the mixing … mixing in 1968/9? Always fascinating to me to hear what the young have to say about what we did and heard.
(0811)(0902)
8. Without further comment from me
7. Housekeeping
As of tomorrow, we’ve temporarily lost another vacationer, in this case DAD, who has family biz. My attitude is … go for it, chaps and chapesses … look after your own and yourselves first … refresh, recuperate, renew, strengthen.
As for me, I’m on perma-vacation here … everything works well, the views are lovely from the windows, the food good … though I should be physically training more … once we lay off, the troubles start.
6. Famliar? And yet it’s from downunder
Same thoughts from me, as with item 5.
5. Please support the new generation of “right thinking people”
… no matter how ruined they were by the evil “education” industry … and Charlie was indeed almost ruined, saved at the last moment. Maybe you can follow her @astor_charlie if you’ve not already done so … this is the new generation now making the running … they need our support. There’s also a male Charlie connected with Rupert. A society which neglects its youth has truly lost them.
(0528) Heavy, low cover of poison cloud out there. (0608)
4. Not totally sure what this is about
… but looks good anyway:
3. Where did this money or even Newsom’s go?
Or into pollie pockets or squandered on madcap schemes.
2. Britannia Hotel, Canary Wharf
Sadbutmadlad, at X:
That a door is open doesn’t stop someone being charged with breaking and entering. It’s still entering with intent to commit burglary. 14yr prison sentence if the property is a home/dwelling/residence. https://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/9
This was covered elsewhere as well:
1. DAD at 1131
a) The highly controversial La Peyratte wind power project has suffered its first setback. The measuring mast, installed in April 2025, was vandalised and destroyed….
b) France’s online anti-tax revolt rattles Macron’s Elysée … The “Nicolas picks up the tab” online campaign evokes uncomfortable memories of the Yellow Vests protests.
c) In the UK today, it’s sometimes safer to be the criminal than the victim of crime.
d) UK police forces will disclose the ethnicity and nationality of a suspect when it could reduce the risk of disorder, there are high levels of false information about an incident or there is significant public interest.
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16. At 2101, I’m almost asleep
… just as things suddenly start hitting the inbox and other places. First is a message for Torquaymada in the sidebar. Second is an episode of Grifty which I was going to run for IYE but I looked through it, watching parts … it was a female on female hit, no doubt true but not great watching.
Third is a not easily accessible blog page which may well be worth your while taking time to look through.
Fourth is from Toodles but everything in the email except the url has disappeared, is a blank. Yet I saw the one line lead in, so she certainly wrote it. Now, there are two main reasons not to go to that episode of that vlog. The first is what one viewer commented … 50 minutes it goes for and the girl just rambles on and on and on, almost never getting to the point. Personally, I can listen to a nice gal, honest, sweet, rambling for hours … not an issue for me … but I don’t expect anyone else to.
The far more important reason is that it’s messing with some very nasty occult doings. Interesting that both a line in the gospels, plus a male witch in Russia when I was there, warned me not to touch it. A pretty high grade warning I’d say. That’s where I also learnt about the Statue of Liberty being nothing of the kind … it’s a statue of a character in the occult starting Ish…
Right … so this thing turns on a woman coming into a pastor’s gambit in the States under an assumed name, totally out of her skull. Now the reason I don’t pooh-pooh this story is it has corroboration about the pastor himself but that’s still not conclusive in itself. Plus I saw similar in Russia, where they’re more at the mercy of the occult, with only Eloi like defences, poor sods. We’re getting that way too now.
Plus some of you will recall me referring to a tarot reader called Cypra whom I knew, visited, spent time with. A dark story indeed … she ended up ostensibly throwing herself off a balcony to the carpark below … it always seemed quite Nietspe or David Kelly to me or Sonny Bono. Plus the Latina girl I ran in a post item who called out the human eating monsters at a Washington party. Plus you could add Diddy and Bieber … plus all the weird things across the west … was that creep on the bus demonically possessed?
Ok, the point where I bought it was that the girl narrator was going on about rae rae. Almost every search result says bunkum … her name was quite different, there was only one daughter of this known fiend, surname LaVey. Ok … she had an instagram account … name rae rae. At this point, I jump off, jump clear, go to bed … have no truck with any of that, there’s only one defensive system and most have not availed themselves of it.
15. A song from … oh, I don’t know …
… how about 1963 for a change?
14. Hearts of Oak as if it were Steve
13. We can’t escape it anywhere
12. I have my own tale about murderers of wasps
… it’s my venus flytrap … I think … it doesn’t seem to be feeding … rather they seem to be getting in at another window, going to the sill in another room where the vft is … and just dying on the sill. One was earlier today. Now what exactly is it killing them? Something exuded, harsh sun … me?
11. Not all good
Review:
“”Count Five and Die” is a very good wartime espionage film. However, I’ll be honest, it starts off slowly and only gets interesting later in the movie. Fortunately, it ends quite well and is worth seeing.
In this film, an American (Jeffery Hunter) and Brit (Nigel Patrick) are in charge of a spy mission in which they are to deliberately misdirect the Germans by convincing them that the upcoming invasion of the continent will be in Holland. It all takes place in London and the key is their feeding the false information to Nazi agents in the city.
As I said before, this is a very slow film at the beginning. Fortunately, the picture improves and really becomes quite taut and intelligent towards the end. Not a great film like “The Man Who Never Was” (which covers much of the same material) but well worth your time…and patience.”