(1257) This is very late and very long … plus it’s one of two, the second tomorrow, both at HQ and Jstack. They’re well worth a read imho, esp. as it’s by an older Pole. (1329)

 

Tolerance

 

Lloyd Bridges before Airplane.

Not doing too many of these … at this stage, only two of them. Was fine as a child but now … hmmm. And the way they handle thos topic of The Female … not sure any actress would take the role now. As always, I’d like to see a state of relations midway … neither patriarch nor matriarch, with firm man and sane woman.

(1026) Morning all … looked as if it were brightening up, now back to threat of rain … the Britain of old. Been frenetic, I’m coping less these days, slowing down. Maybe you too? I need to explore Morrisons and Vox Populi … more on those later. (1044)

 

5. You hungry?

This one’s for our junk food junkies, in Britland and across various ponds. £1GB = $US 1.35 this morning.

4. Steve at 1484

Ah, nowt as yet … shall have to chase Steve up, not about blog but if he’s ok. He did mention his mate. That’s to do.

3. Turkish Airlines … uh huh

2. DAD at 1484

a) UK. Just one in 100 asylum claims are true – and migrants use ‘the same script’, Home Office whistleblower says.

b) [With all the excitement of events at Dover and Portsmouth reports of this event were lost. Two translated texts.]

The March for Life took place in London on Saturday, September 5. This year’s theme, “Human Rights for All Human Beings,” highlights the many rights affected by the legalisation of abortion—specifically those of the unborn child, the mother, healthcare professionals, and even those who hold or express pro-life convictions.

c) Brussels pays for research aimed at cutting right-wing appeal among young men

Four Horizon Europe projects worth a combined €11.1 million examined how the Right uses gender, and three of them financed work designed to blunt its appeal.

d) Belgium’s ‘aid worker’ in Gaza turns out to be a Hamas terrorist in the Khan Younis Brigade

Nabhan had worked for Enabel since 2020 on a European programme supporting small businesses in Gaza.

e) Vox takes Sánchez to court over Ceuta

The party has authorised a criminal complaint charging the Prime Minister, the Interior Minister and the Secretary of State for Security with collaborating with terrorism.

(0652) Late up again, took that second sleep after an 0200 wake up … did not post but just gathered in the middle of the night, then crashed again. That wound on the forearm from yesterday healed up naturally, so that at least was good news. Only mentioning it coz a few were following the story. (0834)

 

The chances of being taken in

Most people of some intelligence, with at least half a brain, imho do allow their own opinion of themselves (I can’t be taken in any more) to blind them to deluberately included misleading words and images designed to draw them in, knowing full well how highly they rate themselves. There’s a name for it … Dunning-Kruger:

“The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability or limited knowledge in a specific domain greatly overestimate their own competence.”

There’s a field of study, much beloved by the psycho-left (Them) called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (hereafter NLP) and an example from years back was in a Nourishing Obscurity post about Groupthink … it was mainly about Common Purpose in this country, out of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). They loved techniques such as Delphi (itself a buzz word).

The normie with unused thinking processes was easily taken in (much beloved by advertisers, supermarts etc.), young people often needed more though and as the young often see themselves as the ants’ pants (got it all taped, dial-in ability) … well it needed more.

And the ones most easily fooled were the “intelligent”, college professor types who “could never be taken in” … add to that techies, those in IT. One obstinate group needing to be played on were what I used to call the Colonel Harrumphs … they’d vote Reform these days … even Restore … they are awake to Them’s tricks but being educated, Them were no way going to fool them. And they’d only ever respind to slick, learned articles in respected publications (e.g. The Smithsonian?).

The key words in the Dunning-Kruger above are in bold … in a specific domain. You can be quite clever in a variety of domains and then start thinking within some other domains, e.g. health, medicine … or the law of the land … or online in general …

… and truly clever people can take you/take me, make no mistake … happens often, playing on your/my weak spots. It’s how we’re sold things.

And so to today’s item on X

For a start, I do NOT like capitalisation in memes. Now I do have a Morrisons catalogue right here and so can check if that’s a genuine bag decoration or not … here is a further one at the “Wild Veracity” link:

I’ll report back later on the veracity of the bag. This is the writer by the way:

All sorts of red flags, from the profile pic being a graphic (mine now is at least a real photo of me, as is the gallery pic in Masquerade) to scant bkgd info (paratrooper? a woman?).

And so to Jane:

You’ll notice no “follows you” on the profiles … that’s why I check … remember Leah? I did not handle that diplomatically and yet she still needed checking out. Mutual followers means we’ve both checked the other out. Stage after that is DMing, e.g. Julia, Moo, Martin. A polit-pundit MUST do that, it’s an imperative, esp. these days.

So, what remains is for me to check out a real Morrisons bag … that might take some time, as the bath is still hot, plus I have to say hello on X. But I will come back here to report. …/END for now.

(1736) With Labor Day over in the US, politics is light-on today and all we have here is Portsmouth … important, yes, but think we might have covered it. So I’m in Gab just now, seeing what’s going on.

 

21. Back to X

20. Over in Britain

19. Moo revisited

18. Lainey

Please note that members of the House of Representatives have worked 81 DAYS this year. 

Let’s give a little perspective here – A typical Monday–Friday employee, after federal holidays, would have worked roughly 170 days during the same period. 

 So House members have spent less than half as many days in Washington as a conventional full-time employee has spent at work.

And their 2026 schedule just got shorter. House leadership canceled voting for the weeks of September 21 and September 28. After the current break, members are scheduled for only four more legislative days, September 14–17, before the November 3 election.

In regards to lodging/per diem reimbursement, here’s a “fun fact” – 

The House allows members to claim Washington lodging on qualifying days, up to the applicable GSA rate. And, unusually, they don’t have to provide lodging receipts if they certify that they incurred the eligible expense. 

This year will be the one with the least number of days in Congress for the House Oc Representatives. 

Tell me, are you OK with this?

(and this is not even getting into the overall reimbursement for travel, lodging, meals, including staff, etc., and that we’re going to have this year) 

Did you know this? 

Congress appropriated $849,834,914.41 for the 2026 Members’ Representational Allowance. That’s the official figure, not an estimate. 

Divided across 435 voting districts, that’s about $1.95 million per district on average, although individual allowances differ because things such as distance from Washington (related to travel/lodging/per diem). 

Are we getting what we are paying for?

17. Mintwolf

Should you get any vaccine? A few months ago my Dr. recommended that I get the flu, measles, pneumonia vax’s. Without giving a yes or no answer, I asked that he send the vaccination nurse in (at the clinic, this is all she does, is give vaccinations) as I had a couple of questions. When she came in, she started with her assurance that these were totally safe, and that she has been doing this for 6 years. I asked her what was in the vaccinations. She looked at me kind of crabby and said she didn’t know. Let that sink in, 5+ yrs. giving vaccines and has no idea what is in them. This really happened and I declined.

16. Diamond and Silk

Nike is officially being removed from the S&P 100 index before trading opens on September 21, 2026! After a nearly 18-year run, the company’s shares have plummeted 76-79% from their November 2021 peak.

With over $200 billion wiped from its market cap and controversial marketing campaigns sparking debate, what’s next for the iconic brand?

 

(1425) Afternoon all.

 

15. Pretty much my position on politics right now

… continuing my tradition of being derivative:

14. Briefly back to Portsmouth

13. They seem to be putting folic acid into all sorts now

… way before the December due date. I was given to understand that wholemeal was exempt. Just had a look at Morrisons baps and … folic acid … also in biscuits.

12. The problematic Pink Ladies and Pink Loonies

I’m told Toodles quite disagrees about the Pink Loonies or Clancy herself and I await if it is for or against Clancy. Meanwhile, there is IYE’s MM piece on it, accessible from comments and post … the coinky-dink one.

Meanwhile, over here, the Pink Ladies were for a time vaguely aligned with Restore but someone said something … and they were male … a crime in itself to way too many women, esp. on the left. Orla first of all left Restore, she was already out of Reform … now she seems to have gone altogether.

That’s the Pink Ladies of a certain … er … maturity. However, from the comments of the younger Restore ladies … they lean more to the middle, even the raped girls. I’m thinking we could be more gentle with our ladies but who asked me?

(1311) Afternoon all on this auspicious day. (1336)

 

Birthdays!

Queen Bess, Toodles and this here blog … Unherdable Cats …

… Happy Birthday, all three !!!

Plus some lines via IYE:

Lives of great men all remind us.
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us,
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
HWLongfellow.

Just hope the next one, if there is one, will be more or less like last year’s.

As for this here blog … it’s the patrons who give UHC its character, plus our backender, the techie, plus my eccentricity and provocative nature. Very great thanks from the landlord to the backender and all patrons … shall strive to please.

Just as a matter of passing interest:

 

Having run out of the current crop of watchables, I’ll have to go out on a hunting expedition again. Of course, there are radio plays and Christies galore to tide us over in the interim.

(1159) Almost afternoon. (1159)

 

10. Moo corner

9. Looking at the folic just now, even in wholemeal!

8. The forfeiture committee

7. Yet another angle

6. IYE

https://mileswmathis.com/clancy.pdf

Did you catch this snippet?

“Update September 6, 2026: Several readers have informed me this is just a copy and paste of an Irish
case from 2020, where nurse Deirdre Morley allegedly smothered her three children and got off on an
insanity plea. The children there were named Conor, Carla and Darragh. The children in the Clancy
case are Callan, Cora, and Dawson. Wow….” 

Those pesky clinks-dinks! (Coinky-dinks)!