Right, here’s the cunning plan, chaps and chapesses … we have to go with the available material, rather than go searching. For example, there are eight shorts in the queue, from 2 to 18 minutes and building … there are zero good films of the quality of the last few. Searching takes hours. Solution simple … run some shorts this afternoon, reduce the backlog, hold off on films.
First short is this girl who does her own thing, she runs a clothing line, is artistic, aesthetic. Don’t agree with all she says and the accent is middling … but she has interesting angles on things, for example this one on how nuclear war impinged on aesthetics. I for one found it interesting. My reaction overal at the end was … she’s a good girl, this one.
(1015) Morning all. Not bad out there. Cunning plan is to run below what would have been the OoL post, plus an added graphic, there’s one more from Toodles (maybe tomorrow morn … involves a golf buggy), there are other shorts too, a bit of other politics as well. (1052)
10. Farage’s switch in tactics
9. Dragged back to the bad ole 70s
8. Lord Toby can eff off with his paywall
7. That conversation with prm and Steve
Going to put it over at UHCWP, as it’s a long, combined, then going to run it on X … think it needs to be seen.
6. The Cross of St George
First up … I’ve said a few times that the CofStG is my rallying flag. At the same time, I refuse to put people down who have fought for the Union flag … it includes our Forces, our allies, e.g. the gurkhas, the Poles.
Someone just ran the Union flag at X, plus three home country flags. Errr … how about Northern Ireland or even Kernow? The Union does help with that. However, the CofStG is universal too … yes, England adopted it:
Yep, that Warsi can just eff off as far as many of us are concerned. But why are we also adopting the poem-song Jerusalem? Never mind, this is a strange land.
And if we look more carefully at the CofStG, there are Crusader overtones, Christendom, the West. When I was in Sicily, they fiercely used the CofStG too … why not, say I.
Image Max Payne
In one way, it’s a bit difficult the way the CofStG has become just England … also used by Templars, the Rosy Cross, all the baddies. Gets complicated.
But it’s such an easy rallying design, the white with the red cross on it. Now Elon has even got behind it. Farage won’t though … it’s too Rupert, too TR, too “that lot” or us. But MAGA understand the colour scheme. Hmmmmm, thinking about all this. 🤔
This is from a lefty, apologies, and yet the talking points are ours too … that needs to be thought about … there are issues where the Wole left are in alignment with us … yea, even the Demrats themselves … and where Donny is just plain wrong:
This is for all girls’ safety groups and individuals, e.g. @WomenSafety_UK @Donna_Rachel_ @darrengrimes_1 @SamanthTaghoy … many more. Ladies, you need to start advising girls all over the UK on these matters. (One of five)
1. If we get stuck in the journalistic reporting of the ongoing horrors, it can be like a rabbit in the headlights or the Eloi in The Time Machine, just waiting to be picked off … outrage after outrage:
2. There are initial questions … who’s doing the stabbings, rapings, paedo attacks? Well … a few demographics … obviously the imported rapists and killers and the argument “not all are like that” is bogus … not all, no but they’re certainly FROM those demographics and that’s a warning to all girls. Then there are the online western Saviles using chat with kids … kids go out to meet the creeps.
So there are the first lessons … do not go near the imports, do not meet up with any male online without a series of interim steps. Girls will ignore that as always … there is their doom sealed. There’s the first task for Women’s Safety groups, Sammys, Donnas etc. … educating girls to never do that.
Where are fathers and teachers in all this? Fathers are absent from homes, mothers bring in “male friends”, teachers fail children in this duty because they want everyone to love the perps, inc. rainbow flags on classroom walls.
So who teaches the girls (plus boys)? It has to be the WSIs, Sammys etc. … but they’re not teaching the girls what’s in this series, they’re stuck in the publicity for victims stage, over and over and over.
3. The women’s groups, for example, MUST shift from victim-only status to practical advice for girls. For example:
a) Girls only travel in groups of 3 to 5, because that number is needed for girls to stall an attack. Not stop, not end, just stall. Girls must always be in company in public, never alone with older male or other demographic.
b) All girls should carry a largish tote bag … what they put in there I’m not suggesting, that’s for them to sort out … such things can only stall the attack, not end it. Minimum three girls together, two to insta-attack perps, third to come in from the side. Practise it, girls … and to women’s groups … train your girls for goodness sake.
c) Demeanour is everything … wild eyed rage is best, ultra-aggressive (works for me – the nutter look) … NOT frightened little girl. Girls MUST change their demeanour, in gangs of three or more. It’s a hard shift for younger girls. WSI … teach all girls! And girls … use your natural screeching, top volume, holler and scream non stop, like harpies, dervishes … DO NOT GO SILENT! Use whistles, yes but your voices have better carry.
Remember, you only have to “stave off”, frighten away, before the last decent men rush to you en masse to deal with the menace.
4. Again … girls MUST shift from outraged victimhood silence to “insta-attack in numbers” mode. Far from being the victim child, be one of a group of attacker-girls.
The numero uno question, as all grown males must also decide, is at which point to switch from wariness, caution, body position … to actual attack. THIS IS THE CRUCIAL insta-moment, that decision, and the decision must be joint … all three girls say, “NOW !” I’d never suggest it to a lone girl … so never be alone.
Again … NEVER be alone, be in trusted numbers. If you have no one, then make some friends for the moment … from women about you or a young couple or other girls. NEVER be alone in public.
Above all, sort out that fight or flight instinct in the head … I’d suggest flight is now gone as an option, the creeps can usually outrun you … so switching to insta-fight is something I learnt with all other boys since my own childhood … we were insta-fighters and we attacked in packs.
Today, sadly, kids are insta-scaredies, stuck to a phone. Phone helps for sure … but not at that moment … put it away when on the move, look about, be aware.
5. Last part … once you have the insta-fight mindset sorted, far better is planning routes … subways, narrow throughways, secluded places … they’re bad. You might think it’s “only” a short distance … don’t you think the creeps have thought that one out too?
Do NOT go alone, even a short distance which always used to be fine. Be ready to scream and attack, instantly. Insta-pray, then insta-attack, en masse, girls. No nightclubs, creep-havens they are, no drinking, no substances … not any time in public … choose your routes with your gfs, by phone.
4. Across the pond
3. Marxism in local govt
2. Steve at 1140
Mexican Senator Exposes President Claudia Sheinbaum — Claims She Works for the Cartels and Is Funded by Narco Money
Austria, Germany, Netherlands assaults
Trump and AG Bondi Respond to TGP’s Question on Abrego-Garcia’s Surrender
Grassley Helping Democrats Block Alina Habba’s Confirmation as US Attorney
Governor Making New Yorkers Pay Billions for Illegals, While Altering Census
Carney open to boots on the ground
We are medicating our children to death
Much more.
1. DAD at 1140
a) Juctice – French style 1. A year ago, the French police took me into custody for four days because some people I’d never heard of were using Telegram to commit crimes. Arresting the founder and CEO of a major platform for the actions of its users wasn’t just unprecedented—it was legally and logically absurd.
b) French style 2. [Shades of No 17 on UHC yesterday] “Our friend Antoine Martelli, an honest and hard-working family man, is in custody this evening at the Ghisonaccia Gendarmerie. His son was assaulted last night at a dance by some youths.
c) Two businesses and four apartments were damaged by fire on Place Racine overnight Sunday to Monday. No injuries were reported, but the incident left a lasting impression on residents of the Beauregard neighborhood.
d) A WEF global water crisis is planned as climate change and the pandemic did not work.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
