New kid on the block

 

Or to look at it another way … a different model of blogging or Xing. There’s also a new darling around:

Can’t remember if she was via IYE or Toodles or another commenter but I suspect, gladly, we’ll be seeing more of her. She wants the “facts on the table”, non-adversarial model of business practice, which is a bit naive unless you’re a right bstd to begin with. Allow me to explain.

There are so many feisty ladies online (good), on the right side of politics (good), real assets to this field (good) but they do not understand the sheer level of abuse and insult … I do put it down to them being ladies. There are differences and one is that unbridled abuse does hurt them inside.

One, Sophia, is now in hospital because of the stalking and worry on her canalboat. The good thing is her brother is with her for now, thank goodness. But he works, has his family. There is a way to gain strength … as Don McLean sang: “Father, Son and Holy Ghost.” These are anything but abstract, they’re a source of strength and calm. But of course, the majority want no part of that core assistance. So be it … one can lead a horse … etc.

This lady (in the clip) also does not want money, paid membership of her channel, tiers of payment, she just wants to share online. Good, good.

But she’s going to be trolled … sorry, night follows day. She’ll be simped too, men will want to bonk her. Is she going to engage with the trolling bottomfeeders, as if they’re open to reason … or just cut em, no further discussion? She owes it to her good commenters to cut out the bad … sorry, but it has to be done.

We’re lucky at Unherdables in that none of our core readers are known for taking a step backwards … so someone trolling meets a Rottweiler reception, excuse my French. Our two ladies are also tough.

Best to this one above and prayers for Sophia and her.

Wednesday [1 to 5]

(0551) Morning all. Have a lovely, non-sleazy Wednesday. (0636)

 

5. Brit sleaze

4. Steve at 1283

  • UN Facing ‘Imminent Financial Collapse’ Admits Secretary General as Countries Won’t Cough Up Membership Fees
  • FBI Raids Illegal Biolab Inside a Private Home in Las Vegas — Authorities Discover Thousands of Vials, Links to CCP-Connected California Lab
  • US Healthcare Executive Arrested in Serbia Over Massive $300 million COVID Fraud Scheme
  • French Far-Left Leader Mélenchon Celebrates the ‘Great Replacement’ for a New France
  • Migrant Encounters at Border Hit Historic Low Not Seen Since Nixon Administration
  • The End of the Energy Truce: Record Mass Strike on Ukraine’s Energy System
  • No One Left to Put in Trenches’: How Ukraine’s Coercive Draft Erodes Its Own Army from Within
  • Massive X Class Flares Puts Cardiac Patients At Risk – Be Aware and Proactive
  • BBC doesn’t only have a global audience, it also heads the Trusted News Initiative, a global coalition of media to tackle “disinformation”
  • Awards Season
  • Much more.

3. Vote fraud

2. DAD at 1283

a) French judicial authorities raided X’s Paris office today in connection with a politicized criminal investigation into alleged manipulation of algorithms and purported fraudulent data extraction.

b) La Défense (92): A Quebec tourist was raped after getting off a night bus; she bit Ahmed’s genitals to survive.

c) French Women in danger. It is encouraging to see a generation of young conservative women taking the floor for what is worth fighting for.

d) Iceland’s proposed EU Referendum Is a fraud.

e) Sad news. In Quelaines-Saint-Gault, the bells of Saint-Gault Church rang for the last time. In a few days, the 1000 year old building will be demolished to make way for a memorial, at an estimated cost of €120,000.

1. Thune

The day the music died [12 till close of play]

(1729) Evening all. February 3rd, 1959.

 

13. The day the music died …

But February made me shiver
With every blogpost I’d deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn’t take one more step


12. Steve corner

a. At 1283:

  • Hearts of Oak: Stewart Rhodes – Oath Keepers: J6 Reflections & Defending American Freedoms

b. War Room

  • Mike Davis: I Didn’t Watch The Grammys; It’d Be More Fun To Go To An Insane Asylum, But I’d Say This: Who Cares What These Hollywood People Think? We The People Demand That Our Border Is Secure!
  • Peter Schweizer: The Head Of The Mexican News Agency Openly Admits: “We Are Quietly Carrying Out The Reconquest Of Our Territories The US Took From Us In 1848
  • Captain James Fanell: Don’t Be Misled; Xi Jinping Is More Powerful Than Ever. There Are Many Rumors Floating Around The Chinese Leadership That Are Not Based Upon Fact
  • Natalie Winters: Following The Radical Changes In China’s Central Military Commission, You Must Look Closely At Two Factions: The Younger Generals Who Want To Invade Taiwan As Soon As Possible And The Older Guard, Who Is A Bit More Hesitant
  • Chad Mizelle: If you work in government and can’t follow the wishes of the duly elected president of the United States, then you need to leave!
  • Dr Bradley Thayer: The EU Just Murdered Western Civilization

Tuesday [11]

(1615) It’s been one of those insane days, inc. long talk with MMutR, from which came four topics for the blog, plus cooking up days of food, plus washing. Because of all the lost time today, evening’s festivities will kick off at 1730, ok. (1653)

 

11. The Trigger

This topic is partly Shona and Watch if for Days (a Columbo episode review), pistols v revolvers, plus this idea of sudden triggering, even after a very long time.

Shona … this is a gal whose voice many find listenable and endearing, plus we admire her deep dive research, just as with Grifty imho. For me, it’s a pity her topic is old Columbo episodes but they’re her interest, so there we are.

The murder itself, bringing in suppressors, revolvers and pistols, I need not address, as Shona does it, plus some commenters. The bit I’d like to address is what MMutR mentioned … that sometimes a sudden decision is based on some longheld resentment or a lingering dislike or whatever, but nothing actually happens for maybe twenty years, then suddenly it does … maybe terminally.

MMutR used the example of an Azimov story I think it was where a long time Gardener, defender, all round useful chap, was going to be promoted by the Emperor, the Gardener did not want, he was happy as Gardener, as it got him outdoors. Now he’d be stuck inside with those sorts of people.

He begged the Emperor, the Emperor in his regal, OTT way, said no, you deserve no less than this promotion, the Gardener killed him.

All right, to the Trigger in the Columbo. The PA, helper, offsider, campaign manager, told the Senator (at 8:43) it would be done Y way, the Candidate wanted Z way. The CM said nope, I’ve looked after you till now, have always done it well, we’re doing it my way.

The look on the Candidate’s face should have been the warning, but worse was to come. The CM turned upon going through the door and said something like: “I know where the bodies are hidden.”

Er. Um. 😳

The rest you can guess. Shona goes on to talk about the sound of suppressed guns.

I have a short tale from today. There is a raped girl on X and we mutually follow. She is right down on Rupert Lowe for wanting to head this inquiry, she virtually says he’s a megalomaniac toxic male type. Anyway, she likes Kemi’s manner, plus Nige is soft too, she’s thinking of rejoining the Tories.

Er. Um. 😳

I had a think, thought I’d distance myself from her, went into X … gulp … she’s reposted something I reposted, with a heart.

Er. Um. 😳

Sudden change of plan … do nowt, stay shtum. My next thought was hmmmmm, I need to be a bit careful with our unherdable chaps here … what if I trigger one of you? 🫢 Chapesses too! ☺️

Tue Mat

 

When the body of a man nicknamed “Cock Robin” is found with an arrow in the heart on an archery range along with a chess bishop as a clue, Philo Vance investigates.

“”The Bishop Murder Case” is one of the best in the Philo Vance film series. The mystery seems a bit silly at first when children’s nursery rhymes are used by the perpetrator of the crimes to publicize his murders, not unlike methods used by present-day serial killers. But once the plot unfolds the nursery rhyme angle makes complete sense. The Bishop is a key figure in solving the mystery as the title indicates. So keep your eyes focused on that clue. I won’t say any more except to add that this is a complex mystery.

Basil Rathbone is second only to William Powell in breathing life into S.S. Van Dine’s famous private investigator. It’s obvious from this performance why Rathbone was chosen at the end of the decade to play Sherlock Holmes. The other actor who shines in this movie is Roland Young. Though much of the acting hearkens back to the silent era which was coming to an end, Rathbone and Young seem modern in their approach. From playing on stage and in silent pictures, actors were used to wild exaggerations and outlandish gesticulations which were no longer needed now that movies could talk. Several of the characters in “The Bishop Murder Case” have not yet adjusted to working with sound. Not so Rathbone and Young.

Another early talky distraction for modern viewers is the absence of music for dramatic effect. Since live music was used to accentuate the silent screen action and mood, it seems strange that music was not immediately utilized for the same purposes on the talky screen. Producers were misinformed that music coming from nowhere would puzzle and confuse the audience. So it took a few years for Hollywood to rid itself of this misconception. The decision not to use music plus fairly primitive sound effects (the viewer will readily recognize the sound of thunder as the sound of huge sheets of metal being snapped)take away from the overall effects of this otherwise clever and well-written murder mystery.”

………..

JH: Pity they did not disabuse themselves of late, of the now accepted notion that one must, as a documentary maker, shove in way too loud “mood” music to ruin the narration.

Tuesday [6]

(1024) Just re-awoke and have to say either the Good Lord is looking after me or the ole bod itself. Don’t recall the last time I slept from 0650 to 1020 but am not saying no, thank you kindly. Continued in Tuesday 6 …

 

6. Being pushed into doing things

There are various ways to stop the bstds imposing their sh*** on us and this from Python was one:

Bureaucrat: Good. Out of the door. Line on the left. One cross each. Next. Crucifixion?
Eric Idle: Ah, no. Freedom.
Bureaucrat: What?
Eric Idle: Er, freedom for me. They said I hadn’t done anything, so I could go free and live on an island somewhere.
Bureaucrat: Oh. Oh, well, that’s jolly good. Well, off you go, then.
Eric Idle: Naa, I’m only pulling your leg. It’s crucifixion, really.

Except that the bureaucrat (remember “the banality of evil” whereby the directive is to make life a misery for the human before you … it’s in the Standing Orders … and so first torture, then kill the miscreant should he fail to happily comply) … the bureaucrat then calls over the head guard who has carte blanche to do whatever he wishes.

I woke up just now to Apple trying yet again to update to that awful 26 version many bright people are flatly refusing … no way I’m giving them my financial details … but they’re presenting it now such that it’s a fait accompli, we have it in hand …

No you bloody well don’t, you bstds. I’m not doing it. End of. So those two panels, one saying Update Now or Update Tonight, don’t apply. So I click out and go to my other ipad.

Bring on the punishments for noncompliance.

………..

Comments thread

Each of the sites your humble blogger writes at has its own system of commenting … half a decade ago, I understood that a “forum” is not the way to get any for’arder in increasing knowledge for various reasons.

One is the ideological idiocy of half the population, as exemplified in Minneapolis of late but there’s an added second factor … trolling, paid or unpaid. It’s designed to get in the way, to obstruct learning.

Plus there’s my own mindset … I’m there to learn, not to lecture. Yes, as blogger, I have to choose topics … many suggest themselves, so do readers … but it’s my job to dig a bit, find out, present. 

I then rely on readers, e.g. Mark Matis, James Wilson, to add to the story, maybe even put an angle I might not have seen. The model is not “adversarial camps”, as in assemblies and in academia, but more that we’re in a room with a table … and on that table we put what we’ve found.

Readers then can decide for themselves which make sense now, which later, which never at all. The thing which will destroy that meeting of minds is someone with an agenda, e.g. the Wokerati, the Fabian, the chip on the shoulder Hostile.

Therefore, at our other sites, Wokery and Globopsychosis do not find a platform. Any new commenter is welcome to add sane takes on what’s happening but if he/she is clearly a woke nutter … bye bye.

Even within our own “80% in the same direction folk”, there is that 20% which two people will disagree on. For example, this morning, on X, there’s a raped girl from grooming gang days who does not like Rupert Lowe as a leader … maybe as he’s a strong, “toxic male”, who knows?

Thing is, reader … it’s going to happen, innit? There’s no way to make everything idyllic but there are some moves, as mentioned above, which at least make commenting and replying possible.