Try these

  1. What was Esso called before Esso?
  2. What was it originally called?
  3. Which state?
  4. Which anti-trust act was passed in 1890?
  5. What generic name was given to journos like Ida Tarbell
  6. The original firm was bought by whom in 1987?
  7. With which nation did S.O. war profiteer?

Friday [11 to 15]

(1140) Afternoon all, eventually. Dull grey out there. (1349)

 

15. The highly politicised Nobel Peace Prize


14. Chinese spies and civil servants


13. TDS report


12. Rotten Boroughs


11. There are still legacy issues with X


There’s another issue at X which cannot be laid at Elon’s door and that’s predators. Technique is that they first pretend to be either a fellow pundit of standing or else a Rubio, Vivek or even Elon himself but the account name always differs slightly from the main account. Let’s say the main account is Joe Bloggs 1234, this one will have the same header pic, profile pic, same or similar data.

They come in via DM, always, saying how good to find a fellow patriot, we chat, then comes the crypto come-on … do I have this code or that. When it’s a young female, it’s usually sexual, either for real or Boris in Moscow using a hot pic. Two ladies did seem to be real … Katie Pavlich and Hillary Klug the dancer.

The ladies are usually ok except this latest was by someone pretending to be Wendy Patterson. It started in a feminine way, but yes, I was suspicious as “she” asked where I was from, whereas a lady has usually checked that out. At that point, it suddenly went male, asking if I had such and such crypto code.

I always say pls check out my profile blurb about money and sex. Bye.

……

Ah, it seems to have taken off, thanks to Wendy. She, Laura Loomer, Lara, Alex and Kobie downunder, Emerald, Eva Vlaar, Charlotte Gill here … these are real headkickers, good gals, go for the jugular.

A married couple

Slight programming issue, now my delivery is here, coffee made and I sat down to look at the short feature, usually around 0815 but late today.

Issue was I knew I had a Saint episode left, two actually, at a pinch but in came IYE to save us again … good, that bit done for today and the weekend. But the shorts were not great … Jago on Locomotion was one, also a long (48 mins) on fallout shelters of WW2 … too long for this short timeslot.

Jago I’m thinking is running out of ideas, as is Ruairidh, plus the motorway man has dropped off, plus Chris Spargo … I had a think about running these two again, did my homework and was surprised. A few commenters had asked … are these two married?

The cynical would say the flame dies and the chemistry ends but with these two dancers from France, it seems not to have died. They won championships in 2017/18, they actually married in 2023, I’ve run some earlier dancing by them in the last few days and though they’re great imho, there are only so many things a pair can do within the format … her upside down walking is one … but her overall “infectious niceness” is so endearing in our currently troubled times and he’s to be commended too … holding up his end well … kudos to the chap.


Quite agree … I recall playing this some years back actually. She’s obviously happy, he’s on clover … what’s not to like?

And as performers … we want neverending chemistry, no? In film, bands, whatever. Thomas Audon and Sophie Allaf. So yes, a bit OTT with the “joined up dancing” of late but I find it charming … sorry, sorry.

Well well well … look what I just found:

Friday [6]

(0607) Morning all, soon to become light.

 

Beauty is in the human imperfections built into a great design

Was talking to a dear friend and she said: “Many of those after whom men lust, are so faux. I would imagine they would prefer themselves with an AI gal.  The best to the couple!” Quite agree.

There’s a clip which goes with it, I looked at ten seconds, then replied: “Just my own opinion, mind, but a woman reaches her physical peak mid to late 30s … starting to get that roundness, losing the angularity and in yer face earnestness of a child, which is wearing … if she basically just looks after herself, that lasts well into her 50s and beyond to my mind and after that, she holds up well if she kept it natural, unlike the French who are soooo artificial. Plus if she’s just a nice, friendly, happy person and not a neurotic, man-hating superwoman wreck … it shows through and can’t be hidden.

But the trillion dollar industry disagrees of course … and they influence women to try to be unnatural, maniacally chasing after some corporate idea of “beauty”, from balayage to botox to surgery. To wigs.”

I’m astounded at so many men too … the attitudes, the blind worship of the Sydney Sweeneys, whom I see as a little tart on the wrong path. And as for that ruined creature in the clip above! To my mind, Meghan Trainor had it partly right: “Men like a little more booty to hold at night.” Curvature, that is, not bloatedness. That’s true … you can keep your stick insect barbie doll.”

Didn’t get a response to that, possibly as she’d fallen asleep … one of my skills, that, putting ladies to sleep through my droning on. Anyway, I carried on: “I just can’t get females to see that artificial enhancement is so ugly … that woman in the short clip is awful. Yuk. Ewww.  But Grifty, with her imperfections … I’ve seen a pic … my friend had sent the Grifty YT … now she’s one to go for.  It’s those very ravages of age which make her appealing, not any artificial enhancement.

There’s something though in the female which is maniacally into change for the sake of change, plus unachievable perfection, can never be satisfied.  Why?  For men, the equivalent is in trying to improve something already working well … models of planes, trains, automobiles. Leave them alone … they were great designs, tweak them, yes, just that, change the face of them now and then … but the core systems are good enough as they are. That’s what we fell in love with in the first place.”

Higgs boson … why? Trying to play God? Tower of Babel? Just leave the fundamentals the way they are! Here endeth the rant.

Friday [1 to 5]

(0410)(0456)

 

5. DAD at 1170

a) The French political crisis continues. The “stability platform” imagined on Tuesday, October 8 by Sébastien Lecornu seems too fragile to emerge, nipped in the bud by the demands of the parties and their internal dissensions, on both the left and the right.

b) Here is a fourth option not envisaged by the video maker (from part a)

c) I value Hélène de Lauzun’s opinion that “Macron rules out dissolution and bets on a New Government. This decision just reveals the extent of the French president’s blindness”. (JH: I’d call it bloodyminded wilfulness, hope against experience)

d) ‘Brussels Signal’ agrees. “French President Emmanuel Macron was racing to find a new prime minister within a two-day deadline after the resignation of outgoing premier Sébastien Lecornu tipped the country deeper into political crisis”.

4. Perfect example of the mindless directing our affairs today

… 14 years too late as a party.


3. Never try to “fix” what ain’t broke in the first place

The arrogance of humans is so easily played on … Tower of Babel stuff, Sodom and Gomorrah. There is one natural tendency though which does need stopping any time it’s seen … the tendency of humans to abandon their Maker and plunge headlong to the nadir, never upwrds to their zenith.

We could labour this point all day, everyday, but suffice it to say that that combination of arrogance and incompetence in the human is the ultimately destructive course … try telling that to the brainless Wokerati.

2. This is a second item from TDS today


Who’ll give them that warning or is it as Bob Dylan sang in the early 60s … your sons and your daughters are beyond your control. At least he recognised male and female, so that’s something I suppose.

1. First of two items from TDS today (navbar, brolls, middle column)

A fragment of the go woke go broke advertising madness:

“What emerges from all of this is a striking imbalance: while some groups – particularly black women in fashion and beauty – are consistently elevated, others such as pregnant women and pensioners remain virtually invisible.”

This imbalance was referred to in the bible more in sexual terms but it still applies whether it’s advertising or car design … when brainwashed humans “leave off the natural use” of things with a purpose just the way they were meant to be … only trouble ensues and accrues.

That applies just as much to CO2 as it does to foodstuffs. Which an Enemy knows full well … and we have both enemy and quisling in our lands now. Plus there’s this thing called payback time when those who’ve been played on as oppressed suddenly see the Wokerati cravenly abandoning every advance, e.g. in medicine substituing voodoo med practice and every doctor for him or herself.

This is the policy of self-destruction, as those at this site well know.

Thursday [11 till close of play]

(1439) Afternoon all … starting this early … cleaning and cooking afternoon, tubbing, storing.

 

14. Two Tier and rogue judges


13. Well yes … quite right ☺️


12. Moosh corner


11. More birds flying south

… or so I thought, the chirping and squawking was loud out there … then I realised it was down, not up.

2025 … am concerned where those three are taking those kids … to a drag show in a hall further down? Maybe it was innocent … was looking at those teachers and they certainly fitted the Woke pattern imho.

The second thing which struck me was that there were some non-indigenous in there … thing is, we’re a pretty homogenous demographic where we are, not like in the cities and towns … so two or three is quite unusual around these parts.

IYE Thursday Theatre

 

Review by one James Waltz:

It’s the film debut of Norman Maine #2 (James Mason), and he’s absolutely phenomenal as a reporter on a newspaper waiting around for his big break, and told by others that you don’t waste time waiting around. A veteran reporter, content with just having a job, shows Mason his prize possession: an umbrella marking 15 years of service, and no glory to show for it.

Breaks happen in the business when least expected, and Mason gets it immediately after thanks to a bank robbery which leads to the death of a cop, and along with fellow novice Virginia Cherrill hunts down his own variation of the story which leads to a twist that involves murder. Boss Alastair Sim gives him cynical encouragement, and the break scores for Mason in a surprising manner.

The break really wouldn’t happen until Mason passed through the quota quickie phase, became a matinee idol in Gainsborough melodramas, and finally hit enough pay dirt through working both in Hollywood and British cinema, and no sad Norman Maine style ending. Quick editing of people reacting to the initial story and responding to knocks on their door gives a glimpse into British culture of the 30s. The creakiness doesn’t get in the way of this being a better than expected film.

Thursday [4 to 10]

(0930) Morning all … if HQ seems tardy at times, apart from lurgy and visitors, it’s probably because I’m somewhere else in our online-land inflicting posts and comments on the unsuspecting, such thoughts which do come back here eventually. (1304)

 

10. Moosh corner


9. Who funds the bstds?


8. Housekeeping at UHC-WP

Just spent an hour and a half trying to work out how WP now does page breaks. It’s one thing discovering it … it’s another applying it, with new obstacles set in the path of each of the nourishing unherdables sites.

Glad to say it’s now done back to before last Christmas, plus a latest posts widget. Between that and posts grouped by patron … what’s left to do next time is a widget with posts grouped by theme … but for now, the site is far more navigable.

With NOWP, unless you note which reader drop number it was at the time, it’s near unnavigable. For example, if I want recovered N.O. posts, I need to have noted that it was around the time of the 18th blog birthday … so archives in the sidebar also helps here.

7. Via Julia


6. Gamergate


5. Over at UHC-WP

Even a Tory can now and then get it right

4. Delightful Croydon

…London at its finest, as with every major western city now.