“That this film has been reviewed as a comedy demonstrates, once again, that the British and American are two cultures [divided] by a common language. The humour here, of that characteristically British sardonic kind, is incidental to a drama of frustration, disappointment and inadequacy. The humour is just the way the British speak.”
Spoilers on what spoils the film:
“Oliver Reed’s cameo felt very out of place and was neither funny or tasteful. Also really did not buy how the crime was solved in so little time, not realistic, and Hyde at this point goes from meticulously intelligent to ridiculously sloppy just like that.”
(1054) Naturally you’ll never vote Labour, so the only issue is which other to vote for. Weeeelllll, we could discuss that forever. Was downstairs earlier, to my mind temp perfect, wind perfect. I checked upstairs … 19C, 3 mph. Has to be ideal. […] Afternoon all bythe way. (1214)
14. Seriously struggling here today
… to find anything political worth looking at. Bored wi’it all. This was fun:
13. TDS is up to its games again
The first item is paywall, subscribe wall, whatever … couldna be bothered. The second has an article attached but it’s open anyway … yes, these are the games the Met Bureau and RAF play.
12. You wot?
How dumb are Australians? I thought it was only Canadians, Brits and Americans … though the latter are redeeming themselves. This is from southern Victoria:
Again … you wot? Are you insane, woman? Sigh:
My stomping ground or sailing ground was lower right on the map. Portsea is for the toffs, govt ministers, slebs, lowlife film and music “stars”, Sorrento was the playground for city folk wanting a break, if you continue (lower right) down the coast line, there’s Blairgowrie, then Rye, with its long pier. Rye was where we were, inc. my boat of the time.
Once sailed to Mud Island, bit of a bore, very shallow. The Rye to Dromana area was relatively safe, could get rough, no chance of being dragged out of the heads. If you take a line from Point Nepean over to Point Lonsdale, that’s one of the world’s most treacherous waters … called The Rip.
Simple arithmetic says that when the tide turns at 10 knots and your craft does 7 knots or you swim at 3 knots, guess where you’re going to be swept out to, mateys? You see lower left on the map is open ocean, to be precise Bass Strait, a most treacherous crossing to Tas, even for a car ferry.
But you’d not make it that far. There’s a rock ledge under the water and whatever goes over it plunges to a depth of I forget … half a mile down? Maelstrom stuff, without the warning. So to actually swim out there from Lonsdale … insanity. Plus it’s a heavy duty shipping lane, both ways.
(0854) Good mood just now … yes, we’ll still caustically cover that sickening politics out there but right now … sun, greenery, floral mayhem, birds tweeting and flying every which way outside the window … plus the idyllic set-up inside here, plus our patrons sending pics, plus good coffee … well it doesn’t get much better imho. (0911)
11. Alberta
Danielle … do be careful now about your safety.
10. Nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach yer
… about sadomasochism, e.g. in Canada … Stockholm Syndrome perhaps …
Down at the bog and pond. The grassy area is boggy. In a few days there will be flowers covering the entire foreground … white with a hint of blue. Mucky area there in the grasses.
On the way to the river we pass by a pitcher plant bog. It looks different to the one above. Those plants gobble up insects! I hope to get a shot of them before long … they’re reddish and deep purplish with streaks of green…I think. It has been a while.
We played golf with a friend today. Though it still takes me several more strokes than necessary to get there … I won!
(0636) § In England, Starmer decided councils likely to return Reform would not have elections. (0739)
8. Op Ed on M’aidez 3***** (DAD)
Rennes … boarding up and gating yourselves in. In Russia, there were three doors … an inner wooden, first metal, then outer metal with the drop latch. After that, landing metal door. After that, downstairs combination locked outer door from foyer. All needed.
St Malo was once my entry point to France, from Jersey.
7. Op Ed on M’aidez 3**** (DAD)
Maypole. It’s pagan, therefore stemming from dark roots (think Wicker Man) and Moloch fire. Best avoided … think what happened to Tess. ☺️
6. Op Ed on M’aidez 1*** (Steve)
The Uke and India-Pak sit. I did watch Alex times two last evening, late, droning on and on and on, repeating themselves ad nauseam instead of getting to the point. Putin is never ceding ground won … whever would he? Negotiations start from there.
5. Op Ed on M’aidez 1** (Steve)
Habeas corpus. Those of us of an eschatological bent, esp. Revelation, Isaiah and Daniel, “know” about the anti-X and various signs. Suspension of habeas corpus might be a precursor to the abomination of desolation, it might not be. Juss sayin’ like.
There’s also this preTribber thing, midTribber, lateTribber, those saying the second coming has come. I’m of the don’t knowTribber kind, awaiting more signs.
4. Op Ed on M’aidez 1* (Steve)
This was about Archbish Viggie on True Catholicism. From our non-RC perspective, we need to remember Vatican 2, plus P2 still in the Vatican today with their smoke of satan for a start. John-Paul 1, Bank Ambrosia, Blackfriars Bridge, various evil cardinals … the Vatican is highly compromised, as are parliamentary assemblies in the west (congresses etc.) And that’s before the sexual abominations amongst highly-placed clergy.
Is it any better in CofE and all Protestant churches, also Orthodox? Not in the least better, which is why the only safe route is bibilical, relying on well read laity in their commentaries on scripture. The last ones to trust, just as in politics, are the be-robed, pointy-hatted, incense swinging illumined. That also applies with the open enemy cult in their temples, esp. any degrees above the blue (1 to 3).
Also avoid Gnosis, Yoga, Wicca, anything else satanic like that. And especially avoid the fanatical and coercive. Avoid any talk of money being involved.
(0555) Bleah out there … but warm, eye-irritating bleah. They do hate us for sure.
3. DAD at 1035
May Day. Anybody going Maypole dancing? ****
a) In the coming days, Bruno Retailleau promises to present a report on the “entryism” of the Muslim Brotherhood into French society.
b) Some Rennes residents have spent around €19,000 themselves to install these iron grills, replace the intercoms, and reinforce the doors. *****
c) France looks to Musk-Style ‘DOGE’ tactics to trim Government spending.
d) A major anti-terrorist operation was launched this Monday, April 28, 2025, at 6 a.m. in France, targeting nearly twenty suspects in the Paris region (Seine-Saint-Denis and Seine-et-Marne), Marseille, Bordeaux, and Lyon.
2. Lawfare
To say this is outrageous is an understatement, it is no less than highly politicised lawfare, per instruction for brownie points from the demonrats.
1. Steve at 1035
Rubio Announces Has Located Biden Dossiers to Censor Americans Including Trump Officials
Former USDA Program Director Pleads Guilty in $400,000 Kickback Scheme
FBI Arrests Ringleaders of International Sadistic Child Exploitation Network
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: Bergoglio “Was Never the Roman Papacy” *
Race-Baiting Biden Judge Ignores a Federal Law, Orders Border Agents to Not Detain Illegals
Trump Opens the Door to Suspending Habeas Corpus **
Military Situation In [The] Ukraine On April 30, 2025 ***
Catherine Austin Fitts: While the central bankers are building the control grid, they are also preparing for a near-extinction event to save themselves
DOJ Launches Investigation Into Top Medical Journals Over Bias, Fraud, and Corruption
The amount of denial even here some years back, was jawdropping … the standard line being that the tanks are only just testing machinery for the plane.
Even granted some pics may well, through the lack of expertise of the filmer, been of other cargo, it does not alter what I saw yesterday, directly overhead. As the plane spewing the trails went over, the gunk was coming out of four places not connected with the engines. The plane was quite low, the markings could be seen. And it was straight line.
Within ten minutes, planes appeared from three other directions in the distance, criss-crossing the other’s trails … once it was dumped, they disappeared, presumably back to their landing strips.
19. Steve at 1035
Suspension Of Habeas Corpus: DC Draino On The Constitutional Mechanism To Repel The Illegal Invasion
“They Chose Cheap Chinese Crap Over America.” Mike Davis On Amazon’s War With Trump
Natalie Winters: “President Trump Is Unwinding Original Sins Of The Globalist Economic Model”
President Trump And Defense Secretary Hegseth Address Troops At Selfridge Air National Guard Base
What matters is not the truth, which was obvious long ago, but the narrative. Blair has said these things with only a couple of days to go before Labour gets what Northerners call a ‘threaping’ at the polls in the local council elections.
I looked at one bag and it was Canadian electoral all right.
14. Another from Quora
Why is Jethro Tull not in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame?
Mostly it’s because of politics…the nominating commitee (or inner circle, if you will) of this institution doesn’t like Jethro Tull, or any other band who went above and beyond what they consider to be rock and roll.
That weirdo Jann Wenner (who I believe is the president of the HOF, or chairman or whatever), has made his bias against certain genres quite clear…him and his HOF committee generally do not like the more complex, esoteric rock offshoots such as prog rock, electronic, or heavy metal.
Most rock journalists like Wenner and Robert Christgau believe those styles are a betrayal of what true rock and roll is meant to be, which in their minds means working-class, rebellious, danceable, and unintellectual.
With that said, Genesis, Yes, Rush, and the Moody Blues have all been inducted in recent years – probably not because Wenner and his cronies have newfound respect for prog, more likely it’s because these bands have topped fan polls year after year, to the point where the committee realized how out-of-touch they were by continuing to weaponize their personal biases in order to keep these groups from being inducted.
Tull have been eligible for decades and haven’t ever been nominated, but along with King Crimson and possibly Kansas, they are the only other big name holdovers from the prog era that still has an outside shot (unfortunately I don’t see ELP getting the nod even though they deserve it, and most of the other acts like Gentle Giant and Van Der Graaf Generator are not well-known outside of prog circles).
Anyway, while I’m sure Ian, Martin and Co would appreciate the temporary boost in interest that comes from being inducted, and many fans want their favorite band to be recognized, does it really matter if Tull has the seal of approval from that group of dunces over at the HOF? With some of the nonsense they’ve been inducting in recent years, it might be better to not be inducted.
