Saturday [6 and 7]

(0639) Morning all.

 

7. DAD and the Prewar Generation

As DAD writes:

3. Don’t forget that there a few of us ‘Pre-war’ generation left.

This is the latest comment under Saturday 3. Right, so exploring time again, back soon.

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Back! This:

“In the United Kingdom, the Silent Generation was also born during a period of relatively low birthrates for similar reasons to the United States and was quite traditional upon coming of age. They lived through times of prosperity as young adults, economic upheaval in middle age, and relative comfort in later life.

The Sixtiers is a similar age group in the Soviet Union whose upbringings were also heavily influenced by the troubles of the mid-20th century. The term “the builders” has been used to describe a similar cohort in Australia.”

Never heard of the Builders although it was certainly what happened … they built homes, families but where does Dr. Spock come into it? Let them be bratty and have everything we didn’t (Boomers)?

Plus:



These latter ones were whom I was referring to (in Britain) as the War Generation … that is, they were born late Depression and lived through the War, Rationing etc.

Generations certainly get messy as we go back earlier than Boomers. Boomers are quite clear … born post-war, even post-rationing … in the US and Oz, they come of age late Vietnam War, the Korean were the previous “diagonal lot”, hardly Boomer parents, more big brothers and sisters.

If a generation is 16 to 18 years long, e.g. Boomers being 1946 to 1962/3, then strictly speaking … chap demobbed 1946, young man, marries, baby arrives in early 1947, the earliest that that baby has a baby, apart from accidents, was around 1970, mid-Gen X. Does my ’ed in, all this.

Thought-through scenario … demobbed mid-1946, meets or returns to a sweetheart … who knows but maybe they try to build a nest egg first, bank credit might come into it. I see the baby arriving maybe 1948. (After WW1, there was a delay due to the 1918 plandemic. After WW2, polio comes into it.)

Oldest Boomer then is maybe 76 years old right now. So DAD of course is right … long time before, quite a different generation, I’m honoured our little site here still has him. If we go 1928 to 46, we get our 18 year long Generation … DAD is midway (naughty or hopeful parents?)

What to call them? Pre-war? Silent? Builders? Wrecked? Penury? Dour? War? Maybe DAD can fill us in … a bit before my time, this.

6. DAD at 1096

a) On June 10th, President Macron spoke out against “the tyranny of news” (faits divers) and said that the French were being “brainwashed” about murders that hit the headlines and shocked French public opinion in recent months.

b) SCOR [a global group of re-assurance] CEO Thierry Léger identifies three major risks…..Currently, the only almost absolute exclusion from insurance coverage is war. Riots, on the other hand, are widely covered worldwide.

c) [The] Firewall finally crumbles? AfD set to work with Wagenknecht Party. The two populist forces could dramatically reshape regional governance.

d) “Complete Madness:” EU’s 2040 Climate Plan branded a betrayal of Citizens. The EU’s climate targets are facing growing political resistance, with critics calling them unrealistic, expensive, and disconnected from economic reality.

Saturday [1 to 5]

(0148) This is one of Pattern A … woken up middle of the night by neighbours but better anyway for aches and pains, think a bit, post this, go back to sleep if possible. Sounds like rain out there. (0232) Trying for some more sleep … hopefully see you other side of that. (0233)

 

5. Lee Rigby birthday July 4th


4. Steve at 1096

  • Globalist Denmark Wants to Deploy ‘Nuclear Option’ to Remove Conservative Hungary’s Voting Rights in the European Union
  • Ukrainian Government Targets Orthodox Church in Crackdown (JH: Wot, again?)
  • French Police Puncture Rubber Boats With Illegal Migrants Trying to Cross
  • Labour Bosses Are Planning a ‘Palace Coup’
  • NATO Сannot Disguise Ukraine’s Plight
  • Testimony Of Ukrainian POW: Mass Flight Of Draft-Eligible Men To Romania
  • Andrew Bridgen v. Matt Hancock: “Hancock’s done far too much harm. And he’s the first domino that’s gonna have to fall”
  • Much more.

3. Zoomer is a good word for Gen Zee (1997 to about 2013/14)

… a generation which, interestingly, has now closed … there are Gen Zee, Millennial (he shudders), Gen X, Boomer, War generation … that’s many completed generations you know (I’m feeling old), let alone their subdivisions.


Trouble with Zoomer as a name is that there aren’t as many, proportionally, as Boomers were but never mind. As Yuri indicated in 1985 … there’ll be a mindless generation, manipulated, brainwashed into destructive left psychoism (just look for the Hamas flags, running onto roads, throwing paint at ancient masterpieces etc. … out of control, bratty) … and yet many now appearing are cynical enough not to buy Big Brother speak. New shoots appearing … isn’t nature wonderful?

Rachel Reves … 1979 … early Millennial, incompetent. Fits.

2. Anyone can make interesting points

… even if only once every so often, even if they’re biased.


1. The constant input of angles online

… is a very good thing, providing our filters are honed … blocking out incoming bollox which we learn over time, letting through to our minds trusted info … but not always … sometimes our own trusted people have fixations we have to allow for.

And we have prejudices … for example, this lass, easy on the eyes, we still might dismiss as a young whippersnapper teaching grandpa to suck eggs … and we’d miss key points by doing so.

More than most things, we need wisdom just now and if we’re in short supply with that … then vast experience, mind open, looking around 24/7 for danger. Memory loss does not help.

Friday [7 to 10]

(1025)(1059)

 

10. We don’t need this, never wanted it …

… never voted for any of it.


9. The British conundrum

Such good people, these, being played so badly by unprincipled pollies.


8. For how much longer?


Bad players there, all over the place, demonrats and RINOs … there’s so much pain coming up as things slowly become better. Over here, the scenario seems to be Reform getting in, Farage puts in a couple of months, hands over to Yusuf.

7. Vox on New Delhi

Now the transformation of Silicon Valley into New Delhi Northwest suddenly makes a lot more sense.

The Price of Takeover

Friday [6]

 

Isilme and that time of year again (part two of two)

Part one is here

I started picking again and after a little while a few chirps started up. Then they flew into next door’s rhododendron bush and a huge chirping ensued. I think they were passing on to their neighbours the horrors of their berries being picked.

Berry picker

Beloved then came out to help me. He has a gadget. An old fashioned berry picker that his brother gave him as a birthday present one year. It worked well and we ended up with six punnets of blackcurrants. Yay! I’ll get some more tomorrow maybe….if the sparrows leave me any.

Mangetout and raspberries

Meanwhile, in the back garden we have the mangetout and it has been very good. Half a large mixing bowl full of pods! We immediately had some with our meal. The apples are extremely plentiful this year and our poor eating apple is groaning. We had to prop up one of the branches. We will thin out the apples of course, but even so it will be heavy when they grow bigger.

Courgettes

The courgettes are puny and small at the moment but in a little while we’ll be collecting those. See those little apples under the courgettes? That’s because the courgettes are under the Bramley apple tree! It’s shedding its own little apples from the overwhelmed branches.

Eating apples branch

The broccoli is coming along well too. The creeping Jenny and the sedum are taking over the path by the raspberries, but we quite like that.  

Friday [2 to 5]

(0614) Awake a second time … busy traffic out there. (0637)

 

5. Campaign for a Return to Watchable TV


4. Alex Phillips comes good for once


3. Awwww, crying into my breakfast cereal


2. DAD at 1095

a) This news has sent shockwaves through Catholic circles attached to Church tradition: documents reveal that the Vatican deliberately lied in order to implement a reform drastically restricting access to the traditional Mass and thus stigmatising thousands of faithful around the world.

b) France. In the first five months of the year, 322 anti-Christian acts were recorded, compared to 284 in 2024 over the same period last year, the ministry announced on Thursday.

c) With some 640 bikes disappearing from its radars each week, Agemob, the public organization that manages Vélib’ shared bikes in the Paris region, is “warning” that the level of vandalism is “three times higher” than normal.

d) There will be more climate bollocks from the BBC. The BBC Complaints Director Colin Tregear has enrolled on the green grooming course run as a six-month sabbatical by the Oxford Climate Journalism Network (OCJN).

e) MP Zarah Sultana who was ousted from Labour announces she is starting new political party with Jeremy Corbyn.

JH: DAD got in before me with the scoop. ☺️


I’d encourage all Labour MPs to resign and form far left commie factions … the more the merrier.