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Valentine’s Day [12 to 15]

(0930) Like wow. Last post, I scribbled: “There’s a good film but I’d prefer it on Saturday … let’s see how it pans out today … the cunning plan is no plan.” Well, YouTube certainly had a plan … eight short docs, plus two discarded … shall suffice as film length, plus going looking for a Valentine’s thingy now if there are any good ones. Uncanny that that should suddenly happen … must be for all you lovers out there. (1155)

 

15. Jack


14. IYE today

Here’s today’s update from Monk3ywerx

“Middle East Watch – T- 1DAY and Counting ”


Also:


13. Moosh corner

… or bring back smog:


12. Bring back steam trains

Not sure Dearieme would agree with those sentiments … dirty, smelly things.

Friday [7 to 11]

(0828) I simply do not have any lasses at lunchtime ready, no point forcing this. Nor do I have a quiz yet but could make one by late afternoon. There’s a good film but I’d prefer it on Saturday … let’s see how it pans out today … the cunning plan is no plan. (0830)

 

11. Moosh corner

… better than poisoning pigeons in the park:


10. Lawless demonrat judges


9. The Ukraine


8. Grifters


7. AKH on Starmer the Llama Harmer*

HERE

“Anyone unconstrained by ideology has known for some time that UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is too limited, too ideologically motivated and too evasive to be an effective political leader. Knowing this from an early stage was partly due to the pattern recognition that is intuition. The reasons came later when the painfully obvious incompetence kicked in.”

* Attributed to Lee Anderson (Reform), on his way to work.

Friday [3 to 6]

(0633)(0657)

 

6. Need we say more?


5. Actually the night before


4. Steve at 967

Five: Thomson Reuters, a Far-Left Propaganda Arm, Receives Funding from the U.S. Department of Defense … Afghan Migrant Plows Car Through Protest Crowd … much much more…..

Four: McConnell Vile Statement Against RFK Jr. … Trump v Biden legatees … reciprocal tariffs … much more…..

Three: Uke sit-rep … Trump Putin … more…..

Two: EU v Trump-Putin summit … Egypt Gaza vision … hating Musk, French farleft hatred for its people … much more…..

One: RFK Jnr … DOD Controlled COVID Program From the Start … USAID … EU … much more…..

3. DAD at 968

a) The French Customs brigade intercepted a refrigerated truck from Spain. Inside, customs officers discovered a cache in which 60 kg of cocaine were hidden.

b) What is it with politicians that they think that tax monies are for their personal use? Three weeks in Tahiti for the Maire of Paris and five others.

c) The Italian government will introduce electronic tracking for migrants and turn its offshore centers into repatriation hubs, sidestepping judicial roadblocks.

d) As European Commissioner for Health Olivér Várhelyi was working on a new update for the EC’s tobacco directive … in 2025, smoking cigarettes, alternatives to smoking and possible bans on both were expected to be heavily debated topics.

Friday [2]

(0522) Morning all. Dark out there. (0612)

 

That TDS piece on generations

HERE

The big thing for me was a Gen X going on about a Gen Zee, no mention of Boomers any more, nor Millennials. Millennials we’ve done so much on over recent years, Gen X I’ve generally laid off, due to most of my friends being Boomer or Gen X.

However, there was a time when all you ever heard was GenXers like Vox Day interminably moaning about wicked Boomers. And Boomers’ views on Gen X? Still living with parents, resenting Boomers having the jobs (prepared to work, not feckless?), earring in one ear, given to raves, drugs, techno, less educated … don’t shoot the messenger, juss sayin’ what Boomers said. Perceptions wildly divergent from how each saw itself.

With hindsight, I’d say Boomers were “play radicals” … certainly better educated, due to their parents, the Great Generation, but sadly, those parents gave us too much rope and we were sitting ducks for all the evil forces preying on us. Overall though … we were certainly free … ride our bikes and graze our knees, interminably fighting and wrestling, tumbling.

Thing was … in the middle of that were the Woodstock generation, then prog rock … preyed on by The Pill, by Phillips’s narcotics … and the miscreants in all that were born around 1935 … Depression years … was it some sort of radical payback, using us? Timothy Leary, Frankfurt School, Spock.

Gen X were the first tech gen to be sure … we latched onto it of course but it was driven by Gen X … as well as utter cynicism about society, potty mouthed too. I’m truly Boomer/GenX cusp, yet I feel close to DAD’s lot too … I used to admire the older boys and girls of the 50s and their fashions, their ways … the Big Kids. Millennials were my students … son and daughter types.

Was interesting reading a Gen X going on about Gen Zee … the world turns and now Gen Zee are the new journos and doers … see Karoline Leavitt (1997, Millennial/Gen Zee cusp).

Just going to finish this (still dark out there) with that tale I’ve mentioned a few times … we were by the summer seaside, there was a fair/carnival, with marquees, we were the kids, the new young radicals (what’s the matter with kids today).

There was a ring or small arena … boxing, singing, a band … and the MC was introducing a group of older kids in real 50s costumes (I was maybe 11/12) … swirling skirts, boys with ties … and I thought … wow, they’re so cool but so old, I dare not go up to talk to them.

Suddenly, to some rockabilly song or whatever, they started jiving, so they called it. I mean, this was not just what you saw in old movies … these were actually the real deal … they’d always been like that. And man, they could dance, they could really dance, joined up dancing I call it … mesmerised I was, realising there was a half generation ahead of us who were way cooler than us.

Never forgot that.

Friday [1]

(0412) Another early morn. (0508)

 

Opening sermon on this dull grey Friday

First up … Steve


Sermon? Was that its religious reference, its interminable, sleep-inducing droning or its attempt to morally instruct? Nevertheless, it does suggest an alternative heading today:

What people choose to talk about, their topics, says more about them …

… than the subject matter they cover …

… which to my mind is not a particularly profound observation … but awakening today, there were things in the queue from Andy, Steve, IYE, Dan Wootton, TDS and others and in each case, there was of course the subject matter, good reads … but there were also curiously idiosyncratic and smile-inducing choices … for example, Andy at 968:


Entertaining but it also had me thinking … which of our tavern patrons visits the Grauniad and BBC fairly regularly, plus listens to LBC? Plus appears to be our nocturnal nightwatchman, thank goodness?

Next was Dan Wootton, who’s prime concern was …


… before even getting to his concern of the day …


“Helping me create a media revolution” …? You wot? It was about there being tensions between Ginge and Whinge, with Harry storming off to Canada afterwards … presumably to be closer to his family, in his mind.

Then came TDS on generations, but that will be item 2 in a short while, plus IYE.

Thursday [13]

(1201) Afternoon all. This post is one of those hiding to nothing jobs.

 

The Era of Fakery

In 1990 something, we heard that Betty Boo had been booed offstage in Taswegia downunder because she’d dropped her mic and the singing had continued. One does wonder if those people had ever seen top of the pops and countless other performances of a major nature.

However, it was also probably true that the majority of performances, esp. when lower in quality than the studio album, were the “real thing”. It’s a debatable point and fakers would argue that punters pay and attend for two things … “good music”, plus seeing their heroes in action … not necessarily both in one.

Whichever your position, there’s also the DAD, possibly Steve, possibly IYE stance that indeed, calling it music possibly should be put in inverted commas. I, on the other hand, thinking of Stairway to Heaven, the Dire Straits Alchemy Sultans of Swing, many of the CCR songs, maybe the Bloody Moos, certainly some of our Sunday jazz … we’d maintain that within their genre, these are classy examples, truly great in fact.

We could go further and call some of the basso continuo early Baroque ditties pretty good, even great, though classicists might disagree. I for one am not going to dismiss a genre in itself but I’m certainly going to excoriate poor quality and reprehensible practices within those genres.

Anf that’s all Fil is doing below in the two videos. The second, the Taylor Swift one … I’m certainly not running here … in fact I have no intention of watching more than Fil’s intro … rather, I’ll put the url embedded in the text below.

Now the Taylor Swift thing:

Thursday [8 to 12]

(1050) Morning all … elevenses. (1105)

 

12. Stay asleep, folks


11. Bombing Hamas … or Russia?


10. TDS


9. DAD at 967

a) Twelve injured, two seriously, after a grenade exploded in a bar in Grenoble. “For the moment, there is no hypothesis that is being favored, apart from the terrorist attack which is a priori ruled out,” added the prosecutor…..

b) The new law now restricts the care of undocumented immigrants to life-threatening emergencies. In Lisbon, the government is removing access to the public health system…..

c) Another major scandal is unfolding, with European Parliament (EP) President Roberta Metsola and European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen at the centre of the accusations.

8. IYE

I’ve been trying to find info on Yarvin, one of the founders of the D E, which hasn’t been written or presented by a lefty. Not easy!

There’s this:
“Curtis Yarvin is a major influence on JD Vance and Steve Bannon. His ideas are nonsense.”
https://archive.is/VoaFF
And here’s something by Yarvin himself writing under his pseudonym Mencius Moldbug
“WHY DO ATHEISTS BELIEVE IN RELIGION?”
https://archive.is/2iHGr

{Spoiler: Good luck with that last word salad}

……

JH: Interesting thing also was that IYE was in “pending” … wonder what could have been the factor this time?