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Right on, Damo! I'm sorry the Green Party and their candidate in Rochdale appear to have messed up. However, this does now leave the way clear for a Galloway victory! And speaking for myself, I wish the man all the best. (He has spirit, which is important. Also showmanship, which is probably why some don't like him, but it helps you win in politics!)
For even those who don't like the old bruiser (and bruiser he is, verbally at least - and again that's what we want right now!) the enormous deficiencies of Starmer and his Labour party mean that a Galloway win, and his lnocking 'em left and right in Parliament, will be firstly, a strong possibility, and secondly, a very heartening sight! 😄🤞
So, for such a result I shall pray, seeing as I also live in Cornwall and cannot vote in Rochdale. 🙏
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There is already a heavy tax on the poor, the disabled and people on benefits, Damo. It's called VAT (& in my view it should be called 💩.) 😏
You know, I don't think the Tories are going to do this. I don't think they're going to have the time before the next election, nor will they dare impose this on any sections of the electorate, as they are already so unpopular. So much so, that I don't think that there is a chance of them getting in next year. What we are all hoping for, of course: is a hung parliament (that can do nothing - prolly the best thing at the moment 🙂) or a small Labour majority, with Sir Kid Starver having his arm twisted right up his back, by the SNP and the Greens! 🏴💚👍
It surprises me NOT IN THE LEAST, that benefit UNDERCLAIMING DWARFS "benefit fraud", and that both of those put together in turn are dwarfed by tax evasion: the larger figure of tax evasion being come up with by charities with an interest in the matter, who know all the tricks that all these companies and Tory grandees are basically using to cheat the Exchequer... Totes unsurprised!! 😏
(They'd better not come after my PIP, certainly. I only got it this year. 😡)
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That's PRECISELY what I was thinking, Damo! 🙂👍❤ Re Starmer's parents, for one thing. Jobs in the 1960s and 1970s were plentiful, but not always well paid. However, both Mr and Mrs Starmer seem to have had excellent jobs, for the time! A nurse (depending on the level) was always reasonably well paid; and as for a "toolmaker", whether or not his dad "owned the factory", I have read on the internet that it was a very skilled job, and paid somewhat on a par with, sometimes more, than a solicitor! Added to that the fact that at the time, married women with children did not often work (and rents and all that reflected that, so did mortgages), this highly skilled two income family would have been in a VERY advantageous position, for the times! 😏
Same goes for Sunak. A pharmacy was a very tidy little business. Then and now (though now, they tend to cash out by selling out to chains.) Him and his "Sky TV"! 🙄
And didn't Starmer go to some kind of private/selective grammar school? BAH! 😏👎
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Yes: the press WERE pretty hard on Ed too, weren't they? 😏 (Though he, unlike Corbyn, is no socialist!)
The press WERE pretty antisemitic towards Ed, bacon sandwich jokes and all, not that the Jewish Chronicle called them out on it.. And they were antisemitic towards Ed's late father Ralph Miliband, though it was all under the rubric "your dad was a Communist"! They were SO horrible about it, that Jeremy Corbyn felt obligated to step in and set the record straight. This was of course long before he stood for leader. And shows the integrity amd loyalty of JC! 👍
But at the time, I had no idea why people didn't vote for Ed rather than Cameron.. Even though Ed wasn't firmly anti-austerity. Of course, the Scots deserting "New Labour" for the SNP didn't help either.. But I knew New Labour was a busted flush really anyway by 2010, I suppose.. But STILL that wing of the party hung in and has now taken it over. Arrogantly thinking that the British public will love them, as they are, yes, that word again, "electable", ha ha! 😏😏
The irony really is that "electable" Starmer really might get in in a couple of years, due to nothing but the Tories imploding... So by default. 🤷♂️ But nobody will love him! Why would they?
(Ed: sp./typos. 😏)
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Oh, do you, Professor (or someone else?) think that the Harry Potter books are "derivative"?? I never thought so: I always thought they were pretty original; not so much in terms of the "school story" aspect (there are, after all, plenty of school stories) but in terms of all the magic; the "wizarding world", and the "fantastic beasts", some of which are from medieval bestiaries, but many of which I know to be Ms Rowling's own invention! 🙂
I know Ursula Le Guin's Wizard Of Earthsea novels quite well (or I used to); but I have never seen fit to compare the two fantasy worlds/series.
No. What I was most interested in, and struck by, when I first started reading the novels (this was as an adult) was the incorporation of, and KNOWLEDGE of, so much medieval lore: and medieval OCCULT lore, such as about the real-life (and very mysterious) alchemist, Nicholas Flamel: whom I honestly thought only fellow readers like myself, of authors like Colin Wilson, would know about. (Obviously Rowling must have done quite some medieval French reading, in that part of her degree course!)
I was glad that Rowling mentioned, but did not STICK to, only the famous (semi) historical magicians EVERYBODY has heard of, such as Merlin.
THAT I thought was original!
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Actually: ANOTHER thing NOBODY making these programmes/YouTube items wants to mention, it seems to me, is that Savile and others managed to work his way into the National Health Service, etc, precisely BECAUSE it was (is?) at least partially DEPENDENT ON PRIVATE CHARITY. The institutions didn't want to lose that funding : so they were prepared to overlook almost everything about the likes of Savile.. 😏
Anyway, I've been reading "misery memoirs" since the 1990s, about kids being brought up in institutions in the UK and Ireland. And I noticed that many of those said how "charity volunteers" at these places were only there to abuse the girls! And we're not even talking famous people. Or priests. 😏
So: at one time, anyway, this was a common occurrence.
As a socialist, I'd say that the answer, is to fully fund, from taxation, the health and disability services. The trouble in the UK is, as opposed to Europe, is that the middle classes don't want to pay enough tax, to sufficiently fund the NHS. Blame them.
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@Brainbuster Of course, the problem with the "smaller" payment systems, is that if you get paid for work online, many of the online firms do not support these smaller firms . So your choice is limited by the choices of companies that you work for. 😏 (I expect that the latter have all sorts of excuses, for only, or mainly, dealing with the "big boys". 😏) Companies that are India-based, or deal with Indian workers, generally tend to have Payoneer and Payeer as options. There are of course Russian and other international options as well. Skrill seems to be one that many firms/sites have as an option - any views on that??
Another thing, that I have found, may be a viable option for people who don't wish to be paid into a bank account, or who do work for online firms who do not support this as an international option, is to get their salary/remuneration paid into a "prepaid Visa" account, which is possible with a lot of them.
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BUT : WHAT about all the people on benefits, minimum wage, zero hours contract, all that crap: who can't afford new stuff, and can't afford what they need? Who are forced to buy polluting, expensive to maintain old bangers just to get to work? Are you telling me, Richard, that they don't want and need to consume more and better stuff? 😏
I think THAT would be your "growth answer". Make sure more gets to the people at the BOTTOM of the economic scale, NOT those higher up, who already "have enough".
I thought you knew this already? 🙄 Austerity is a blight. Ditto service industries. If people are counting every penny (even middle class people) and giving a large tranche of their income to greedy energy companies, they won't have money to go out. To spend on restaurants, pubs, entertainments, even going to the cinema, which is expensive now.
End austerity! 😠
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I completely disagree. (As for Suella, she can do one, btw.) I disagree that "protests don't work". People should get up off their asses, and off social media (bar the filming and uploading!) A LOT MORE OFTEN. If nothing else, it is beneficial for their health, and certainly for their sense of social connection, having a day's march with like-minded people.
It depends by what you mean by "work". If you mean that goverment would change its policy: well, there were even bigger anti-war marches in 2003, and it didn't: but this just proves to you, the LONGstanding degree of out-of-touchness of the political class! The PEOPLE didn't want that war: but Bliar went ahead with it for his own interests. The whole debacle exposed Blair as a war criminal. That was the importance of it.
The VAST majority of UK people don't support Israel. The political class might, but they are wrong and out of touch. They should make like Ireland and Scotland: voice disapproval and start thinking about expelling the ambassador.
I don't know why you are going on about "mass debate" Professor: because this is a "representative" democracy (ha ha) and therefore that is the one thing that voters cannot do. Next best thing: demonstrations. (And seeing as the stupid Tories don't even have room for rapists in their prisons, I wouldn't worry too hard that people are going to be banged up for waving Palestinan flags, whatever Suella says.)
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I wouldn't be excited about Trump either, Richard! (Mind you, I wouldn't be that excited about Kamala Harris winning either. I would only be excited if Jill Stein won! 💚)
I think that Americans are desperate financially, and that they've reelected Trump, because they want him to "make America great again", and revive what Americans call their middle class.
But once they find his protectionist and racist policies don't work, they won't vote for a Republican the next time! (And Trump can't stand again, according to the US Constitution.)
I agree with you that Musk's involvement is a bit worrying. He should keep his nose out of politics!
And if there is more inflation due to tariffs - well the good thing about the US system, is that they vote the entire House of Representatives in or out in two years! So Trump will lose control of the House. (Unlike here, where lazy careerist MPs, plus the likes of Farage, can sit there undisturbed for five years! 😏😏😏)
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Oh my goodness, did he just die?? ☹️
Raymond Briggs? (So many talented people dying right now: Issey Miyake, Olivia Newton John, that other Aussie singer... )
I loved Briggs too, as a kid/teen in the 1980s! 🙂👍 Fungus the Bogeyman, the Snowman of course, Father Christmas (😂!), and When The Wind Blows, the graphic novel of which was in my secondary school library in the early 1980s, along with its prequel, Gentleman Jim. But, when, a couple of years down the line, I heard they had made a movie of it, and I wanted to see it, I couldn't, because not a single cinema in Cornwall would show it! ☹️ Probably because they were all owned by Tories, giving "It's not commercial enough" as a justification. (Really meaning "Too pro-CND." 😏) Young me did actually discuss this over the phone with one of these proprietors, and he was very sniffy, as I recall! 👎 So, I didn't get to see it until years later, on video or on TV, I can't remember which.
Yes: I believe that Raymond Briggs really showed what the illustrated/comic strip format of literature was capable of. Funnily enough though, I have never heard any "comix fans" praising him to the skies! Probably because a) he was published by proper book publishers, and b) he wrote unashamedly for children - only his books were appreciated by adults too! In my view, Briggs was a LOT more talented than those two comic book wazzocks Alan Moore, and Frank Miller, to name but a few, if you'll pardon the expression! 😏
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You know though, I don't think she will, not all that much. She'll be lucky if she wins, because of the Tories finally getting "found out" over the last year or so, as Tories always eventually are! 😏 And also I believe because no female Tory leader since Thatcher has "had what it takes" (ie, being an imitation man) to inspire the Tory faithful. 😏
Far more likely, and better, in my opinion, will be a very weak and unstable Tory win; or, better yet, a hung parliament; necessitating a centre-left coalition (the Lib Dems are never going to want to go in with the Tories again!) To get rid of FPTP and easy Tory "shire" seats FOREVER. 👍👍
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No, I didn't mean 40%. But it was closer than you think. Just not in the right constituencies. And it came VERY close in 2017! Some people say that just an extra 2,500 odd votes - bit less than that - again in the right constituencies of course - would have tipped Corbyn over into victory and premiership. Certainly gave May a scare!
So basically: Labour people in the marginal constituencies should have given all their kids and their kids' friends and any student they came near, a big kick up the backside, in 2017, to get them registered to vote, and voting Labour. 😏
THAT would surely have helped a bit.
But, of course, the fact that many New Labour run constituencies, both in 2017 and 2019, didn't want to help Corbyn (even Andy Burnham is guilty) because they thought of him as the Antichrist - or rather they knew that they themselves were antisocialist - didn't help at all. And THEN, the morning after in 2019, I heard a torrent of them come on Radio 4, wailing and GNASHING their teeth and blaming Corbyn - all because they had been paid back for their basic party disloyalty, by losing their seats! 😏
At least THAT was a bit of satisfaction I had! 😌
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I have noticed however that there is a bit of a problem comparing Trump voters to UK Brexiters over three years on!! A few short weeks ago, Brits, Leave or Remain, had the chance to vote for a PM, Corbyn, who had a Labour manifesto designed to reverse most of the terrible effects of neoliberalism and austerity, and to give all over 18-yr-olds a £10 - at least - minimum wage. Whereas BoJo, our own particular blond clown who leads the Tory Party - well a few weeks after HE won the election (with all the ease of a Dubya, rather than a Trump) condescendingly promised the workers an £8.72 minimum wage - don't you just love those pinched pennies - in April, *as long as you are over 25*, because you see Brits under 25 aren't really of age, and don't deserve it..🙄
So - WHY, apart from INSANE NATIONALISM (Labour fudged over Brexit) didn't THEY VOTE FOR THE MATERIAL IMPROVEMENT OF TEN QUID PER HOUR IN THEIR HANDS??
Can you riddle me that, please, Jimmy??
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Hmm. I don't know what the point of this video is, unless it's for he Mensa-curious. (Or Mensa-jealous. 😏)
Incidentally: *you can stay in indefinitely without re-testing: AS LONG AS you continue to pay your membership fee! * If you drop out for a while, you must be re-tested to rejoin. 😏
I was a member many years ago: but let my membership lapse eventually after I'd moved to a more remote part of the UK, couldn't yet drive or afford a car, and there weren't that many meetings in my area anyway. This was before proper Internet and World Wide Web, never mind before social media. So there wasn't really any point for me any more, on a limited budget. Being a smart doesn't make you rich. It certainly didn't prior to the internet. 😏
I enjoyed their meetings when I lived in London, though. 🙂
I think you are making a lot of this up/making a meal of it, Todd. 😏
You are overcomplicating the Mensa test process. 😏
I passed my test first time, at the age of 19, and landed a score in the top 1%. I did not "prepare" for it in any way, as there weren't yet millions of books and sites as to how to improve your test score. And the ones there were,I couldn't find or afford.
The test itself did NOT cost lots! It was probably cheaper than a driving test.
As I recall, in the late 80s, the test in the UK consisted of two main parts: one testing verbal, mathematical and logical reasoning, which I believe I aced because of my good work at school. 🙂 The second part was completely different, and I believe the literature said it had been introduced more recently, to allow for "visual" thinkers and to try to eliminate cultural differences. It actually was all these horrible ugly little abstract graphics (that did not resemble mathematical solids or geometry - goodness knows who invents shit like that) that we were supposed to perceive "patterns" in. 😏🤢 I think THAT part of the test brought my score down a bit! 😏
There are NOT a million alternative tests: either you are lying, or US Mensa is just weird! (They probably do have another test for minors though.)
Incidentally: I found your analogy with the "tell people how intelligent you are only when you see them messing with electricity" to be, frankly, ridiculous! 😁
It would most likely be a kid or a teen doing that; so you would be far better advised, to use your authority as an adult, to tell them to STOP doing that. "Why?" They whine. "Because it's DANGEROUS and I say so!"
🙂
With regard to the "organic chemist" authority. That might work if for some reason, you have to live in some impoverished area; and some idiot for some reason boasts to you they know how to make crack or crystal meth. 😏
Him: "You take this, and put it in that, and do a shake and bake.."
You: You're more likely to create an explosion and burn your face off!"
Him: "How d'YOU know?"
You: "I have a degree in chemistry. But better yet , why don't you research stories like that on the Internet? Plenty of cautionary tales there!"
Him: Either goes away for a Google, or decides to ignore you. Stupids gonna stupid!!🤷
As to "never telling people you have a high IQ, or are a Mensa member" - what's that all about? 🤔
You would often make it known, if you have a membership of a professional organisation, if you have a professional qualification like a degree, or if you ever got into any kind of "hall of fame"!
So why not if you're a Mensan? 🙂 There are always going to be jealous people. Ignore them! 🙂👍 They DESERVE to be ignored. They would certainly be laughed at for being jealous of a professional or even a gifted amateur sportsperson! Or of resenting a rock star.
I think it's time to shame the jealous dummies, if anything!🙂 We don't need more dummies in society. We need more confident smart people! 🙂👍
You shouldn't be trying to "shame" us high IQs!! No, no: I think it's time for us Mensa-level IQs to be out and proud! After all, in a way, we're as "different from the majority , as are trans people; or those on some kind of "spectrum" such as Asperger's. And it can be a disability: a sort of a social disability, when you're a child, and you get teased by other children, for having a much bigger vocabulary than they do. Or just them not understanding where you are coming from, because they are *thick*. 😏
I cite that I passed the Mensa test quite frequently on Twitter, even though I am no longer a member. There are a lot of bullshitters on Twitter , and also bullies who frequently ask one for one's qualifications. I find that standing by my IQ score and sticking to my guns, generally drives them off!
But I'm not surprised you say that lots of people will be jealous if you tell them. After all, you live in a country that elected both Bush and Trump! You are therefore intimidated because of living in Dummy Central!
Lol. 😁
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You know what?? Personally I think it's just as ridiculous, to say that a horse was "conscripted", as to say that it "returned to duty". 😏
But generally speaking, I always thought that working dogs and horses, tended to live more satisfying and fulfilled lives, than do bored pets?
But anyway. I hope that all this attention, directed st the royal cavalry horses, gets them better conditions! (I also doubt they'll put down any, with the TV cameras watching!)
I was thinking, about what kind of access, the horses could have to grass, living in that barracks. This worried me when I came to think about it. I think they need access to a paddock. Maybe they will now be given one, in Hyde Park? 🤞🙏
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This case was not a hoax. (Your joke, btw, is inappropriate and verges on the racist: it implies that a black man is so stupid that he would mistake a hand grenade for a pineapple. Shame on you Todd Grande!! 👎👎👎👎👎👎)
The case was not a hoax, whatever Todd Grande may think, because:
1) No motive. In fact, given that they were a mixed race couple during the 1960s, there was a NEGATIVE anti-motive: they might have drawn unwanted attention to themselves and their relationship.
2) The psychiatrist who examined them, after they had been constantly troubled by strange dreams, Dr Simon, said that they were not fabricating. (And he was a lot better qualified than this "Dr" Grande fool, I am sure. 😏 Nor did he have to put up disclaimers saying that he was "not diagnosing" someone, as in this case Dr Simon was indeed in a position to diagnose them!)
Dr Simon, as I recall, did I think make some tentative suggestions that the couple might be experiencing a shared delusion. But the important thing was, he said that they indubitably believed in the truth of their experience .
Dr Simon was a very conventional psychiatrist, though I recall he did have to use hypnosis to release the details of the Hill's experiences from their subconscious minds. But as a conventional doctor, he couldn't really go out on a limb by vouching that their experience was real. I'm sure he came to his own conclusions though.. And that they were the diametric opposite of Todd Grande's. 🙂
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"if the people lose trust in elections and that their vote counts". THAT'S what the Democrats in particular are the MOST afraid of, aren't they?? 😏
Because elections in the recent past of the US HAVE been stolen before. In 2000: with the help of the Florida Supreme Court and Jeb Bush. In 2004, most probably: with the help of hacked voting machines put out by a dodgy company. But the Democrats didn't care THEN. Their candidates Al Gore and John Kerry didn't even have the GUTS to challenge the results!
But of course: I suppose they didn't mind so much the fact that George W Bush "won", twice. 😏 😏 But Trump... For some reason he alone seems to be Anathema Maranatha, to Democrats!!
I don't like this stupid idea that the Democrats promote, that US elections are always fair, and that they shouldn't be challenged. Just because THEY never had the guts to challenge one...
And incidentally, I have no interest in promoting Trump. I'm from the UK, and am proud to call myself a socialist.
But this dumb liberal idea, that elections are always fair, and are the answer to everything.. 😏
IS for the birds.👎
And Biden is rubbish!! 👎
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Yes, you certainly are right, Rick!! That is some complicated song, with a million complex chords, chord changes and modulations.. We're certainly a long way off from that three-chord structure which everyone says characterized the earlier days of rock and roll. (Maybe some songs are actually becoming more complex?) I'm not sure what popular musical genre it falls into - cool soul? What would one call it?? 🤔 (Reminds me a tiny bit of a song called Zoom,I think.)
But when this video is talking about the subject of "most complex song ever" - when we are talking complex, which criteria are we using? 🙂 Complexity based on chord changes, or on song structure ? (Or even lyrics? I believe the most lyrically complex popular music to exist is rap music and its offshoots: grime, drill etc.)
Some people of course are going to be "all about that bass"! 😁
I'm surprised the top commenters on here haven't been nominating their picks for "most complex song of all time"! 🙂 How about - Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody? (It certainly was always one of the longest...)
Personally, also, if you want some unusual harmonies, I'd nominate Seal's Kiss From A Rose On A Grave. I like that! It's got a nice kind of Renaissance-cum-jazz vibe going on... 🙂👍 And that lilting beat....🙂👍
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What a pair of unfunny plonkers.
But I don't see what bearing this has on the current accusations, Professor. And that was quite a while ago, and both the pair were disciplined by the BBC, by having their radio show cancelled. And Gordon Brown even weighed in... Isn't that punishment enough?
Anyway. Brand was definitely still on the drugs/alcohol back then. Years since, he has turned his life around.
And just WHY aren't people currently re-digging-up Jonathan Ross' behaviour, and pestering him about it, then? He was DEFINITELY old and experienced enough back then, to know better. I'm not sure whether Brand was. He has emotionally grown much since.
If you want someone to blame, Professor Wilson: tell me that Jonathan Ross was irresponsible, led Brand astray, and egged him on in the case you are currently dissecting.
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@codenamexeno6595 "Dunning-Krueger effect"? I thought that had been recently debunked! There are certainly videos on YouTube detailing why.. 🙂
Re all your other rubbish: So you are claiming that I am a "nobody", while you, or possibly the creator of this video, are "somebodies"? What evidence have you for that? Certainly, I see no celebrities here! 😏
And so you are denying that your US government are evil enough, to not have either tried to, or inadvertently, changed the climate and weather patterns on past, documented occasions?
You are VERY naive. I have read accounts by Bill Bryson (the respected Anglo-American writer) that at one point post WWII, the US government/military were thinking of blasting massive canals using hydrogen bombs! Think THAT wouldn't have affected the weather, do you? 😏😏
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@DanSk451 Gobekli Tepe. (Albeit that's not underwater. So it's easier to excavate.)
Stuff without carbon in it, can't be carbon dated. There IS, I believe, some process to date stone: some kind of crystalline analysis or something. (But would that tell you when the stone had been WORKED?)
And just HOW are you going to date (scientifically, not just based on art styles and stuff) the likes of a golden statue? For instance?
So. It's not as simple as you think. I've read tons of books on it, or referring to how we date things. So stop being a dummy, and taking other people for one. Most of these scientists don't know Jack, because we simply don't have the dating technology. And I bet that trying to date by stratigraphy underwater is well nigh IMPOSSIBLE.
Anyway. In India (here I go again 🙂) I remember a couple of documentaries saying that they had discovered some unknown script (not Sanskrit) which appears to predate, probably significantly, so like 9,000 years ago! the supposed "invention" of writing in Sumer, which of course is the place (Middle East) all Western scientists and archaeologists especially have been obsessed with for centuries. So they're not keen on the ancient Indian writing.. It's all cultural bias. 😏
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@classicraceruk1337 Rubbish!! I'll tell you what has changed. The mindset of the youth. Most people under 30, 35 even. (I have looked into this whole subject!) Thatcher successfully tapped into the individualism of the post war period, that was gaining traction in Britain. The working class and the lower middle class were doing much better since all the reforms, that had been ushered in post war, since the Bevan report etc. They were becoming much more middle class and aspirational. It was the "baby boomer" thing, as it came to be called in the US. * The ones in the UK no longer wanted to be trapped in the "flat cap" stereotype/lifestyle. They had their eyes on better things! *Thatcher was clever because she saw/intuited this. Mix all that with a bit of rubbish about the "go-getter" mentality; talk about bad unions and inflation, and she had several generations within her grasp.
Well all that is no more. The go-getter society is dead; the fat cats and landlords have eaten up all the wealth, and the C1s, C2s and C3s (yes, I know market research terms!) are no longer upwardly mobile.
Hence their disillusionment with Blairism, Thatcherism's intellectual heir.
Enter socialism. 🙂
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@saw6386 This is all nonsense. It didn't happen when the minimum wage was introduced: and similar (Tory) arguments were then being ranged against it.
Anyway - how do YOU know what people will treat themselves to? A coffee is far more affordable than a holiday. Everything is expensive nowadays (and maybe not that good quality). But if coffee shops, chain or otherwise, weren't sufficiently popular to make their existence worthwhile, they wouldn't have mushroomed over every high street in Britain.
And as for holidays - I really don't know what you are arguing here! Nothing very well thought out. 😏 You didn't mention for example that a foreign holiday would take most of that money out of the UK: whereas a staycation might bring that money to for example, Cornwall, where I live! 🙂 (We need it, thank you very much!)
And I know what it is like to have to manage on a small income, and to try to avoid luxuries for most of the time, and to save most of my income for groceries or bills, because I am on ESA disability benefit! And I am sure that Corbyn very much understands the lives of his constituents who are on low incomes, too! Why do you think he got reelected?
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Hmmm. Storm in a teacup. The US is full of conspiracy-lovers. And as you say, Dr Grande: there is no way in which Andrew can be an alien lizard humanoid: they would be FAR more Machiavellian!! 😁
The title here is a bit click-baity: Prince Andrew has NOT been stripped of all his titles. He is still a Prince, a Duke and an Admiral. He just lost the HRH (join the royal club) and a few honorary military titles.
I am GLAD you did say he has a right to defend himself: and not to give in to just any hysterical gold-digger! 😁 But that surely also means, he can't gush empathy over the rest of these - victims. 😏
I don't like Victoria Guiffre one little bit. I don't even like the way she looks, and I am a woman. I believe her case is almost certainly weak. How could she have been a "victim" - of Andrew or of Epstein - if she had sex with Andrew (or Epstein!) In 3 different Western countries ?? She either needn't have travelled there, or she could have claimed asylum/gone to her embassy once she got there. She's not a terrified non-English-speaker who had her passport confiscated. Bah. Go away, Virginia! Stupid girl! 🙄 (Oh, and a 17-yr-old is NOT a child, btw. 😏)
The problem with these Me Too type cases is, that once a man becomes associated with one, he is then judged (by the public) guilty by association . The human love of and need for gossip is so great, that many (lesser-minded, in my Mensan view!) people cannot resist doing this. I think it is THAT aspect of things, people's willingness to believe trashy gossip, that you should REALLY be doing a video on, Dr Grande. 😏
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There IS no Corbyn v Starmer "psychodrama". 🙄 You lot on Joe are trying to make all this seem "legitimate": eg like "the warring brothers Miliband." 😏
Newsflash to Joe politics and subscribers:
1) British politics is not Marvel Comics/movies (it would be far less dirty if it were!) 😏
We are not talking a Shakespearian/comic book "battle of the rivals" here. All it is, is a nasty little two-faced man (Starmer), financed by Israel + God knows who, attacking, marginalising, and as we see now, eventually purging an honest man, namely Jeremy Corbyn.
The irony that Starmer started politics on Corbyn's front bench should not be lost on the UK voting public. 😏
It shows basically what a rotten structure the Labour Party now is, though.
Also ironic, is thar Starmer is yet another of these political amateurs: rather like BoJo the blundering clown. 🤡
Whereas it is Corbyn: despite his lack of Cabinet service (which no-one was going to give him during the Blair years anyway 😏) who is the experienced politician.
2) Down with each and every click bait title on YouTube!
Having said that, the body of the video was informative, even if "impressionistic": because vox pops by their very nature are not representative. 😏
I find it telling that the fresh-faced young guy feels himself able to say he "supports Corbyn" (remaining in the Labour Party?) But doesn't dare campaign for him, as he knows he would be expelled.
My question is: the Labour Party in the UK is now such a rotten structure - that why would anyone "grassroots" want to support it at all?? 😏
Especially anyone young. I suppose the young man interviewed is one of these "urban leftists" who support the Labour Party on grounds of identity politics, or something.
Not good enough a reason to be a Labour Party supporter, I'm afraid. 😏 He could always go Green.
And the majority of the country aren't going to support a Labour Party which is anti-worker and pro-elite. 👎
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Yeah. Nobody's perfect. But putting the word "Hitler" on your thumbnail is unforgivably inappropriate, which is why I've thumbed down your video. STOP CLICKBAITING!! 😠
IF Churchill were "like Hitler" in thoughts and im personality, he would have sought to TEAM UP WITH Hitler, as the fascist Mussolini did. He didn't. He defended the UK to the hilt. Even when Britain was "fighting alone", which we were at the start. Hitler wanted to put Churchill in a concentration camp.
IF Churchill would have been a modern liberal wimp - like Keir Starmer for example - the closest equivalent then was Neville Chamberlain: well he wanted to capitulate to the Nazis! All sellouts in all ages are similar, imo. 😏
& I'm a socialist, & I'm prepared to come out in favour of Churchill. Mind you, I am the daughter of a Free Czech airman, who fought in the Battle Of Britain and later joined the RAF. 😏
Tariq Ali might well have a beef against Churchill: but then he would, because he is from a colonised country! 😏 What Thatcher tried to do with Churchill's memory is neither here nor there.
But the desire for modern "political correctness", particularly on racial issues, in my view has totally distorted politics (look what's happened to the Labour party!) And made people AHISTORICAL and unrealistic in their analyses.
Stop putting "Hitler" on your thumbnails in that ahistorical, "woke" and frankly ridiculous manner, and then I might bother to watch a video like this to its end. Otherwise, not. 👎
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Incidentally: the word "hoax" implies a trick or a fraud. Dr Simon said he did not believe that the couple were fabricating. "Fantasy" is not the same as "fabrication". Get your definitions right, Grande! 😏
As for "physical evidence", I seem to recall off the top of my head, that the hood of their car was found to be covered with lots of circles of burned-off paint, which, when a compass was brought near to it, made the needle spin
.. This was witnessed by a neighbour. This was one of the things that made them research the experience further.
As for Betty Hill's later experiences,I understand from the literature that she did indeed have further UFO encounters, but they were of a much more minor nature. As she was not a professional photographer, I'm not surprised she didn't manage any good photos of the UFOs she subsequently saw. (I also think she may have been a bit psychic, in common with so many people who have these experiences. UFOs are probably not all down to extraterrestrial beings: there are other (non-conventional) explanations.)
You STILL haven't come up with a credible motive for the "theory" that they were LYING. 😏
AS for the aliens' "genital obsession", this is a detail that has been independently corroborated by 1000s of people worldwide since, most of whom have never heard of Betty and Barney. So it's a real pattern.
Your video is a lot of shallow, complacent crap anyway!! 👎
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Sigh. I really don't know what to comment to this stupid video, which tells me a "fact" that I never really wished to know in the first place... it's true I didn't know that the law on this subject had changed in 2022, because I was about to point out that it has been legal in this country for many years, for 16 and 17 year olds to marry with the permission of their parent(s) or guardian. That age group is a minor age group - but are they children? I think not! (And neither does the justice system, if the "children" happen to commit offences.)
Personally, I am against law changes for stupid "politically correct" reasons. I suspect this entire law change in the UK, was got up by middle-class white do-gooders under the excuse (though they'd never frame it exactly this way!) that it was something that was "bad for brown people".
That stigmatised young marriages, including love marriages, as something that "only ignorant people of other races" do!
Newsflash: WHITE people (a small proportion of them) have been doing this for many years in the UK without issue. In fact, a good few years ago I watched a documentary about such a love match between two young people decades ago, who had to go to court to confirm it or something like that, because their parents wouldn't. They did OK. What a fuss about nothing! 🙄
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We don't really talk about "the popular vote" here, since it is an American term, applicable to Presidential elections.
The FPTP system also causes large distortions, including some quite bizarre ones, as detailed in Alex Nunn's book about Corbyn, The Candidate.
But interesting things come out when the breakdowns are done properly! Such as that Labour did LOTS better in 2017 than it did in 2005, never mind 2010 - its vote peaked in 2017 - yet that STILL wasn't enough to win it an election, whereas a lesser result was in 2001 and 2005. 🤷♂️
Labour didn't do NEARLY so badly in 2015, either, as the Tories and their sympathisers would have you believe. They had a good old sneer in their papers at Ed afterwards. Yet: the Labour "vote share" went up slightly overall, and up 3.5% or similar in England. BUT the LibDem vote collapsed, probably because of their treachery to the students (and this was before Brexit, as well, so people couldn't vote for them as "the party of Remain".)
So the Tories had those seats; the SNP hoovered up most of the seats in Scotland, and overall the working class wasn't much inspired by Ed's "austerity lite" manifesto. So the Tories won overall in 2015, without even having to go into coalition. So that really marked the end of New Labour ruling the Labour Party, and the rise of Corbyn and his supporters. Everything since 2019 - and before - has just been a result of that outmoded wing of Labour trying to claw its way back to power again. If they win through the avatar of Starmer in a year or two, it will only be by default. 😏👎
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@bikeradam Yeah... A lot of these videos go back to the early 2000s though. Prior to modern Photoshop, AI or any of this current crap everyone is now getting their knickers in a twist about. Besides, there are ways of testing a digital video or photo file to see if they have been altered. Also: Just WHY would the US Navy admit to their pilots sering "UAPs" if they HAVEN'T? (They're not allowed to call them UFOs in interviews though, or to say they're of alien origin. I've seen these interviews. These pilots and ex-pilots are serious. It's no joke nor hoax. Mind you: I'm not at all surprised, because I've taken the reality of UFOs seriously since the 1990s. Ever since I saw a UK ITV (as I recall) documentary in 1993, which was one of the first documentaries I saw that took the subject seriously. It covered a lot of UFO sighting cases (no abduction cases.) The one it led with was the 1990 Belgian UFO sightings/aerial pursuit. Massive triangular UFOS were seen from the ground over a large area of Northern Germany and Belgium. On several occasions during the winter of 1989 to 1990. By hundreds of people, including police, military and other trained observers. They were picked up on radar by several air force bases. The Belgian air force went in hot pursuit, and obtained gun camera footage, but were unable to lock onto these highly manoeuvrable triangles. (A couple of famous photos of them were also taken, I believe from the ground.) The Belgian air force later spoke to the press about it; I think there were press releases. It was all over the Belgian, French, German and other European press. But the English-speaking press in the UK and USA refused to follow the story. Now why is that, do you think?? 😏 "D Notices" in the UK, if you know what they are? 😏
I speak both French and German: but the internet in the early 1990s didn't exist in the UK: certainly not for ordinary Brits. So I didn't find out about it until the 1993 documentary: & I subsequently bought a book published by a small press I think, by a British paranormal investigator who found it equally fascinating.
Ever wondered why the press/authorities are so RELUCTANT, in the English-speaking countries, to let news about, well, "paranormal" (but very well-attested) events, get out, to the people? MUCH more reluctant than the authorities/MSM of many other countries: eg Belgium, Mexico, Spain, Portugal?
Photoshop my backside! 😏 The Anglo world likes to treat its people like mushrooms: feed them on sh*t and keep them in the dark. Before the internet was online to spread news internationally, this was of course child's play. Now we're all online, it is of course more difficult. Hence what I call the US Government's "blurt" of September 2021, when it finally admitted UAPs were real. Scientists have recognised these videos and these admissions. I thought everybody knew it by now. Seems like some are slow on the uptake. 😏
If I were you, I'd do a YouTube search for some of those "Belgian triangle UFO" videos. I watched a long documentary on them on here last year, I think. It was fascinating, and confirmed all I have read.
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Mentoring, yes, mentoring... The thing is, Professor Tim, is that most state school teachers will tell you they haven't got the TIME for individual mentoring, these days... They're spread too thin, because the Tories haven't invested nearly enough in education, as they haven't in everything else. Haven't you seen those news stories a few weeks/months ago, that said how teachers were even having to buy class supplies out of their own non-inflation-matching salaries? 😏
I believe (as many people seem to in the comments, all of which so far I have read) that teachers should play an INSPIRATIONAL role, as well as a "mentoring" one. The fact that not all teachers are inspirational, is something that still has to be addressed. I watched some programmes earlier in the 2000s that seemed to be interested in this. How to inspire working class children to take an interest in science, especially. And other subjects.
As for AI: I've tried it, it still seems fairly rubbish! Seems better at drawing pretty pictures, than either at writing or at ideas. 😏
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Well: I think maybe they would be, if they applied it exclusively to the multimillionaire and billionaire "farmers", aka tax dodgers..
But, you see, according to other YouTubes I have watched, farmers are NOT totally concentrated on complaining about income tax! They want things like: the government to ban supermarkets etc using staple products (like milk) as loss leaders; they want planning rules to be changed to allow for more farm shops and farmers' markets, to make then less dependent on those supermarkets.. And a whole raft of other things like that. As one farmer said: the UK cannot afford to lose 5 farmers per year, let alone 500! (Which is the projected figure, at this rate.)
And I think you are being Pollyannaish, about what you think the GOVERNMENT will think the land is worth! The IRS are HARDLY likely to say any land is worth "zero", now are they? 😏 Farmers are understandably worried, that every time a farm is passed on to an inheritor, that inheritor will have to sell some of the land, to pay the tax bill. That would whittle the land down to nothing in a few generations. 😏
Why do you trust the government not to do this?
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This was a silly question/video from five months ago!! 🙄 Especially now it's proven by months of polling that #Starmer is NOT popular!!
Why did you, Joe interviewer, interview all these fogeys? And where did you dredge them up??
And where are the YOUTH?? Moved to London, to get jobs?
All the problems mentioned here - need for job creation, end to rough sleeping, etc, WOULD HAVE BEEN SOLVED BY THE ELECTION OF JEREMY CORBYN: And by the implementation of the manifesto the party, under him, voted for!!
NOT by "Keeef". He's a right-wing #wetwipe - as the team producing your excellent music parody videos well know - and they sing it out loud!! 🎶👍
Bolsover should be ashamed of kicking their faithful MP,, Dennis Skinner, both in his teeth and while he was down: for a hip operation!!
What good could a scummy Tory ever do for Bolsover?
👎👎👎👎👎
#StarmerOut
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Yes: major props to John Trickett. But I think it's hard cheese, not to count the 7 Labour MPs who have already had the whip removed over the 2-child benefit cap, as Labour MPs. They are, aren't they? Because their constituents elected them as such. Kid Starver Granny Freezer Pensioner Killer may wish to get rid of them, but he can't outside of a byelection or a GE. So - don't they count as Labour rebels too? 🙂
Anyway. Tons of newspapers, such as the Independent and even tne Daily Express, say that Starmer has endured a massive rebellion, due to the 50-odd of his MPs who abstained. Of course, 50 No votes would have been even better, because he couldn't have withdrawn the whip from that many! 😏
(I don't believe in a "whipping system" at all, btw. It undermines democracy because it makes MPs betray their constituents. 👎)
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Why don't you read the case, indeed, of Betty and Barney Hill, who, as you claim, started it all? (And were both examined, due to disturbing dreams and flashbacks, by a psychiatrist probably a lot more qualified than are you. 😏)
How are polygraphs and hypnosis "pseudoscience"?? They are used by the FBI!! 🙄 You're just not allowed to use them as your evidence in court. You can use them to support your investigation. I'm British, and i know that about US courts, when you obviously don't!🙄
Sleep paralysis had nothing to do with the Betty and Barney Hill case. They both first observed the UFO while driving through a fairly remote area. They were not abducted till they left the car of their own accord, to investigate.
They did indeed experience missing time: and the day after they got back,they noticed that there were small paint-bare circles all over the hood. A neighbour brought a compass and helped them check it out by passing it over the car. It spun wildly, denoting that the car had been exposed to a strong magnetic field. They had no Geiger counter, so couldn't check for radiation.
But they probably wouldn't have pursued it with the psychiatrist, were it not for the outbreak of dreams, the like of which they'd never had before. They were examined/hypnotised separately. Their stories under hypnosis tallied.
WHAT deception or "narcissism"?? These people were a black postal worker and a white schoolmistress ! You are a closed-minded fool, Dr Grande!! I'm more likely to believe that YOU are the narcissist!! 😏
They were examined by a doctor, as I have already mentioned. It's all a matter of record.
How STUPID are you to believe, that people get SLEEP PARALYSIS IN A CAR??! They would have crashed the car!! 🙄
And DID you know that NASA/The Pentagon, have recently ADMITTED,that their pilots have been seeing UFOs?! 😏
There was no online, in the 1960s!!
You're stupid. I'm out of here!!! 😏😏😏👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
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Thank you for covering this story, and for uncovering yet more of its associated drawings/engravings/coloured lithographs, some of which I still had to see! :)
However, respectfully, I would like to point out that you have got some aspects of the story garbled. It is one I have read many accounts of for many years, in both books and on the internet. I think that Bedtime Stories does one of the best and most detailed retellings on YouTube.
Well, for example: you said the first guy, the King's marksman, shot a large wolf. Yes, he did: and he gave instructions for it to be stuffed and transported to the King, while he went and shot its mate and at least one of its cubs. Looks like they got rid of quite a few wolves which may, indeed, have been bothering the area, hence the multiple attacks. Some of which were fended off by the likes of the kid Jacques Portefaix and his friends with pikes, which you do not mention But with regard to the hybrid theory: once they got the corpse, or at least the skin (and head/skull?) Back to Paris, some expert noted that it had double sets of dewclaws, which apparently is a sign of canine interbreeding.
And the other beast, the one which was shot almost 2 years later by Jean Chastel (most sources say that either a silver(ed) bullet or one blessed at a shrine was used). Well, the skin of that was preserved as well, and kept at the local noble's chateau, where apparently it was examined by all sorts of surgeons and doctors. Pity none of them thought to do some naturalists' drawings! 😏 But apparently some of them thought it was a hyena. And the preserved remains were destroyed years later in a fire, something like that. So nothing remains but the engravings which were based on accounts, probably drawn years later.
I have never believed any of the so-called "rational theories": they are garbage. Serial killers training dogs - C'MON!! 🙄🙄🙄 La Bête looked nothing like a mastiff, Chastel's or anyone elses. Mastiffs don't have wolflike faces and pointed snouts. The only thing they had in common was that the mastiff you showed was red, and the Beast was said to be russet coloured - *with a paler underside*. Hence, no doubt, the rumours! 😏
Wasn't a lion, either, sub adult or not. Lions have short faces, not long snouts. Come on - are we disregarding the testimonies of so many eyewitnesses, in order to make what they saw , conform to what we think it should be?? 18th c peasants on the whole had a better knowledge of animals, and spent more time watching animals, than we do. They would have known what a lion is, because it is a heraldic beast!! It looked to them more like a wolf than anything else, ergo it was no lion. Trust the dozens of witnesses!
*It was a cryptid. An unknown animal. * Need I really underline that more?? It looked so weird, that if we decline supernatural explanations like "werewolf", it must have been something like a prehistoric beast, a very rare Ice Age survival
I did a bit of Googling earlier, for "hoofed carnivores" (for some witnesses said it had hooves or very strange feet) and I came up with a variety of things there... Can't post them bcos YouTube at the moment has the habit of deleting posts with external links, but I thought the prehistoric Mesonychid Andrewsarchus, or something like that, was a pretty good fit! Had that black stripe down the back and paler underside, too: long narrow toothy snout, right kind of broad and formidable build. Take a look for yourselves!
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Claudia Webbe is "a disgraced Conservative MP"?!?!?! 🤪🤪🤪 DID I hear you aright, Professor?? 😏 Claudia is NEITHER Conservative, nor disgraced!! I had thought you better informed than this!
It is perfectly possible, and acceptable, to cross the floor, or to become an independent MP, for a variety of reasons.
Claudia Webbe was embroiled in a legal "scandal", and was later partially exonerated. (Seems her "victim" was some kind of a - lying - slag, too! 😏) Keir Starmer was of course looking for any kind of an excuse to expel her from Labour, as he has done with so many dissenting MPs, including of course Jeremy himself. (Well has Keir earned himself the sobriquet "Starmlin". 😏)
After all, Claudia is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, and she is pro-Palestine. (She also still sits on a number of committees.)
I have friends who say she is a very good MP! 🙂
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Is clown-boy Fox host seriously suggesting that "the left" doesn't know how to do podcasts, social media (granted, no leftist or liberal owns a social media network where they "retweet" everything they agree with), or memes, or YouTube, or anything... 😏
Then what am I watching *now*, Kyle? 😏
(Fun fact: In the UK where I live, it was said in our parliamentary elections in 2017 and 2019 (the former especially) that the Conservatives really didn't understand social media (whereas Labour supporters, especially the younger ones, certainly did) and that the Conservatives wasted tons of money on bad Facebook adverts, whereas the Left had really cracked Twitter and Snapchat. This all worked in the favour of left-wing candidate for Prime Minister at the time, Jeremy Corbyn, and he did a lot better than conventional pundits predicted. *However, he still didn't win the premiership*, because all the press in the UK is right-wing (and that's mainly what the "fogeys", the older generation consume); the modern BBC itself is full of right-wingers such as Laura Kunssberg, and "the left" does not own a newspaper, a TV station or so much as a radio station in the UK. So: Murdoch, who hates the left, started with his usual smears; then in the run-up to 2019, the Zionists started with their "antisemitism": the result being, that Corbyn's Labour lost the 2019 election badly, which resulted in Corbyn (and "the left") being blamed for it all!
When a more accurate "blame game" would rather mention Murdoch, divisions in the Labour party between left and right (and the Blairites' rabid hatred of the left) plus a lot of dim old fogeys who believed in Brexit and therefore in everything Boris Johnson (the winner) told them.
😏
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I don't know if Spring-Heeled Jack can be considered a mere "urban legend". 😏 Imo, it is a true unsolved mystery. There were loads of letters about him initially to the Lord Mayor of London, no less. Dozens of newspapers, both provincial and London-based, featured articles about him and his "victims". (This was journalism, not "creepypasta".) It was only LATER that the "penny dreadfuls" (basically, early comics) started to feature him.
(Incidentally, I think that your "theory" that SHJ inspired, not only Batman, but VARIOUS later superhero characters, holds more water than you may think! 🙂 But then, children's writer Philip Pullman wrote a graphic novel about it in the 1980s.)
But your sociology is way OFF. It was NOT illegal, or punishable by prison, to "approach someone outside of your class". Piffle. There were socialists back then too, you know. 😏. AND old-time Chartists, who usually forebade their children from tugging their forelocks to their "betters".
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My two cents: I don't think that it bodes very well for your profession, Dr Grande, or for all the "years of training and licensure", if you can admit that you and your colleagues "aren't very good at diagnosis, even when the subject is sitting in front of us." 😏
That may be an honest diagnosis to make - but honestly, which MD who had a physical health specialisation, would say the same thing?
Makes me wonder what the years of training and license are actually for? 😏
Again, it is probably honest of you to admit, that basically, diagnosis of mental conditions is for treatment purposes only.
As for that 25th Amendment, I reckon that a sitting president would have to do a Madness Of King George, before that got invoked! 😏
But, as people have said here, narcissistic people rarely present themselves to psychiatrists - and why should they? They LIKE being narcissistic! 😏
And personally, I believe that the amount of "top" people with some kind of personality disorder, must be LEGION! In Hollywood, and in the arts and entertainments industries, as well! I remember reading quite a bit of stuff in a book about (in several of its chapters) the wife of the conductor Andre Previn, who treated her assistants like a sort of lesbian mistress... Completely inappropriately and unwantedly! And then, reading up online about Woody Allen's ex wife, and how she "coached" her kids, in all sorts of bizarre "sexual molestation" fantasies! These people are all nuts, completely neurotic ! Even a lay person can literally see that, from a distance, as well..😏
Why we are supposed to have all this faith , in our "betters", is what beats me!
The amount of politicians and CEOs, even in Western democratic countries, who must surely have some sort of personality disorder and certainly act like it, must be massive, as well. After all, that's what that "professional" book, Snakes In Suits, was written about, no? And that was about psychopaths in the workplace! At least 4-5% of CEOs, it said. The number of narcissists in these top jobs must be multiples of that! Otherwise, why would the world be in such a state? 🙂
(Although I think that even books of that sort recognise that there is also a positive side to narcissistic and "grandiose" qualities - because who , without bags of self-confidence and a fair bit of ego, would ever try to lead or start a major company, or lead a political party, after all?)
As a closing statement: I think that some of the most grandiose (and frankly, grand) statements I have ever read, have been in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
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I found this video by accident this morning, and was genuinely shocked by it!
I don't know WHY anyone is allowed to get away with this any more: especially a large respected company like Paypal. Unless they are allowed to get away with it, BECAUSE it is owned by PayPal! In which case, Peter Thiele is a bigger crook than I thought he was! 😏
I really haven't seen any ads for Honey sponsorships on Youtube, probably because I don't watch the right computer type channels.
But I have heard of the Honey browser extension. I even downloaded it once: but found it doesn't work particularly well in the UK, imo. There are other cashback/discount sites we use over here.
I will go on a bit longer though, as to why I am SURPRISED that the US government in particular allows this! (You have a lousy government and consumer protection. 😏)
It is BECAUSE, this type of internet scam, involving affiliate link theft, is not at all a new scam .
Back in the day, so in the 2000s, I distinctly remember a news story about a fairly small player, *being caught out. For just this type of thing! *
He was a software developer: and he put out some free programs (don't think they were even apps in those days) that were to do with geography I think. Maps and stuff like this. And people could download these maps or widgets for free.
But what they didn't know, was that these things contained malware, which sat on their computer, and each time an affiliate link was clicked on that computer, the malware changed it to an affiliate link belonging to this guy! He made millions off unsuspecting consumers doing that!
Well: in the end, some US Government department caught up with him, and he had to pay a fine. Didn’t go to prison; and didn't have to pay anyone any compensation, afaik. But it was seen as malware/fraud. And this was decades ago!
So why aren't the US Government prosecuting Honey for fraud? They've prosecuted others before for the same thing..
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@molybdomancer195 Yeah. The point you are missing, is that the sensible person is seeking to EXPLAIN things, rather than to defend them. Personally, I'm not really very interested in people's hysterical, moralising reactions (That is unfortunately what social media brings out) and tbh, I question Professor Wilson's wisdom, in bringing up this piece of very old news, in relation to the new one. The fact of the matter, is that Brand SHOULDN'T be judged, for a "cruel and malicious act" that wasn't a crime. That is prejudicial, if you want to bandy legal terms. Idiots I encounter on the internet seldom have even a layman's knowledge of the law.
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No: I personally think that he believes and/or is invested in, every issue that he covers. (I think I know the REAL problem here 😏 - and as a neopagan, I would, as a matter of fact!! 😏) The "liberal left", because it THINKS it is rational (when it is NOT: because it generally supports all sorts of ideological frauds, such as postmodernism, and extreme forms of identity politics, such as the 1619 Project, and indeed, much of it really supports the fraud of neoliberal economics!).. Anyway. The "liberal left", because it THINKS it is rational, gets all squeamish and "hot under the collar" when people, particularly people once considered to be under their rubric, develop an interest in things "new age"; in things "fringe" and in anything not under THEIR narrow ideological umbrella. Rupert Sheldrake has had exactly this problem too. So has Graham Hancock - talk about an ancient, much older than generally supposed, world-spanning advanced civilisation - and that makes you what? "Right-wing" and "antisemitic", according to some liberal nuts - we ALL know where they're coming from, once they start with the "antisemitic"! 😏😏 And just because you go on Joe Rogan to talk about your ideas - well, it's the same as the leftists who go on Al Jazeera and Press TV. You HAVE to frequent the outlets that (for whatever reason of their own) will give you air time, simple as that.
Hence all your unreasonable talk about "grifting". 🙄
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And you have to also take into account, that this was cruel to the animals, as well! 😡 Indeed the demand for "beasts for the arena", made lions, bears, and other such creatures extinct, or near extinct, in Northern Africa, which was the nearest place for them to get them from.
I don't know about lead poisoning, but it seems to me that all governments, even today, tend to be somewhat sadistic. 😏
Personally, I think I'd prefer the leather bag/river treatment. 😏 If you managed to conceal a knife, you could escape, Count Of Monte Cristo style. And if you got to the bank, and ran out of the city (or were swept outside of it), and were never so stupid as to go back there, *they'd never know*. Bet lots of people did just that! 🙂
Hmm. Well Julius Caesar certainly gave the European colonialists and anti-Native-American genocidalists some inspiration, didn't they?
This "enemy of the state" thing. The US government does similar today: viz. Julian Assange. 😏
And if they think you have anything to do with drugs, the US government will use THAT to confiscate your property, as various writers have pointed out.
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Well: whatever (or not) lawyer types & folks from the Democratic party think, about it being a "right" or not a right, it is a biological imperative. Probably felt most strongly by male humans, because of the hormone testosterone.
Therefore, LIKE IT OR NOT, sex, + who gets it and who doesn't, will always be an enormous MOTIVATOR, AND a primary effect on human behaviour. In fact, I think that the influence of sex and the sexual drive on human behaviour, is grossly underestimated, and has, post-Freud, largely almost been forgotten!
And of course economics plays a great part in this. In human mating behaviour. 😏
Ah well: now at least the liberal left appears to be WAKING UP on the issue! Young men deprived of sex being a gateway drug to right wing politics!! 😄😏 Yes, it's true! (How do you think these Islamic terrorist groups abroad recruit their young men?? Basically, they marry them to their female recruits! (Or worse. 😏))
The #MeToo "movement" (astroturf) in my view achieved nothing at all (particularly for ordinary women.) Unless you mean ending or nearly ending several men's Hollywood and/or creative careers. #AmberTurd 😏
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@edby263 Yeah: it's that "Moldbug" techno-fool, thinks of himself as a "philosopher". 🙄
"Vice-president JD Vance has cited Yarvin as an influence, saying in 2021, "So there's this guy Curtis Yarvin who has written about these things," which included "Retire All Government Employees," or RAGE, written in 2012. Vance said that if Trump became president again, "I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'"
Wikipedia. (So that's who the Cheeto has been getting his playbook from. 😏)
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Really?? Do they run out with tags, going EEEEEEE as they run out the door?? Aren't they banned from the store?
I think that security guards are allowed to "grab" people like that, you know. Anyway. I remember they used to be a LOT more strict in shops, in the UK in the 90s and 2000s; I remember some poor guy in the recession of the 90s, obviously wanting to steal a toy for his kid (it was coming up to Christmas) ROCKETING out of a non-automatic glass door in the old Woolworths in Newquay, Cornwall (he nearly knocked me over: would have done if he'd exited one door down!): running up the steep hill at the side of the Woolworths - and a uniformed male shop assistant in hot pursuit of him on foot! The thief apparently soon lost his nerve though: and dropped the stolen goods somewhere at the top of one of the paths: but I heard the shop assistant on a walkie talkie or something; saying to his colleague that they should look for this guy in the car parks in the streets above the town, or something! 🙄 Definitely a very zealous shop assistant, and no store detective, either! (Nowadays they would just try and track the guy on the CCTV cameras that have mushroomed everywhere, though.)
And in the 2000s, shops like big supermarkets had policies that stated they would prosecute every shoplifter, no matter how trivial. I suppose preferring to push the burden of shoplifting kids (because it was mostly kids and teens then doing it) onto their cash-strapped council estate parents. I wonder why they stopped doing that? Maybe because the parents wouldn't/couldn't pay the fines/restitution? 🤷🏻♀️
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Why should a "price cap" go UP? Particularly by any significant, let alone huge, amount. A price cap should BE EXACTLY what it says it is. 😏 Like a controlled rent. It should not be raised at all above the basic level of inflation, IF THAT, in times like these. The power companies, and electricity generators and so on, aren't LOSING money: they're making it hand over fist! SO, as Ed Miliband says, there should DEFINITELY be a windfall tax on all that lot. But not only that, a PROPER regulatory body should DRAW A LINE, beyond which further price increases are simply illegal. Indeed, emergency laws should be passed, to make the companies DIAL BACK the prices. After all, the UK produces most of its own oil and gas, or at least half of it. Nothing to do with Russia! That affects Europe way more than us, and their energy prices are cheaper! Wake up Britain! Do like the Guatemalans or whoever did with Bechtel: and expel the buggers from the country . 😏
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@bipolarbear9917 Why do you think the Ilkley Moor case is a hoax?? YOU have no evidence of this: unless you mean what you read in a discredited skeptics magazine, the organisation behind which can't even get their experiments straight! (Look up "sTARbaby scandal". 😏)
It was looked into at the time by a couple of very respected paranormal researchers. The photographic negative was sent away to be analysed by experts, and was cleared. Guy's compass was even sent away to be analysed, because it had been magnetised to show the wrong reading!
Nobody apart from the UFO researchers knows the name of the abductee to this day. He certainly wasn't doing it for publicity. 😏
For the record: As a very young woman, I didn't really "believe" the Ilkley case. Especially seeing as the photo was so blurry and underexposed. (But no Photoshop then, remember? So, whatever it was, it wasn't that. Some people at the time said "he took a dummy up onto the moor". Yeah, right. You couldn't buy blow-up aliens or similar pop culture figures back then. And this wasn't a Grey. Not that I even knew what a Grey was, back in 1989!)
I was just intrigued by it! It was only LATER, in the 1990s, when I started watching documentaries and reading the lore, and especially when I had read all about that Belgian UFO flap occuring at around the same time, which had mysteriously been kept out of the British press (wonder why?? 😏) That I really started to "believe". Enough evidence and good arguments, are enough to make me ignore skeptoids and their magazines, which always remind me of German goalkeepers with extra large gloves, DESPERATE to keep the footballs out of the net! 😏
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@tthomas184 You mean, this mysterious unnamed person that you cite, provided what to him was a POSSIBLE explanation for the UFO. Just because he could show (IF he could) that something in the area could RESEMBLE.a strange light, does not prove that it WAS that light source.
Now, if the Hills had managed to take a picture, not of a structured craft, but of a "strange light", which they initially saw, and originally mistook for the moon, if memory serves me - but it was in the wrong position! 😏
AND your mystery man had matched the light in the (nonexistent) photo to the tower, and proved it was in the same direction at the same elevation - THEN you might have something! But you don't. 👎 But photo analysis CAN be a great way to debunk things!
Anyway - what's a blinding light doing on a tower, in the middle of the mountains? You Americans so crazy, as to have inland lighthouses? 😁
Or WAS it a prison, with a searchlight?? 😁
Betty and Barney Hill were plagued with disturbing dreams, because of PTSD! The ufonauts wiped their memories (which is of course what beings with the technology to do so, would do.) But the human subconscious cannot be completely wiped . The memories surfaced again through strange dreams, which were so disturbing, that they sought professional help, which they presumably had to pay for.
You wouldn't get that off lights on towers, misidentified moon or Venus, or sleep deprivation on a holiday trip! 😏
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@bipolarbear9917 "Reading your comments, it's quite obvious you have a disposition to want to believe in this stuff. But believing doesn't make it true. Humans have been attracted to magical thinking for at least 50,000 years. My guess is you also believe in Bigfoot, the Lochness Monster and that the Earth is flat too."
No. Basically. (As regards a flat earth, read what people above you on this thread have said about that. Ptolemy didn't believe in a flat earth. He believed the sun orbited the earth. But he didn't believe in a flat earth.)
As for Bigfoot and Nessie - that's because there is evidence for those! 🙂 Especially the former. 🙂 Patterson-Gimlin footage? DNA, even.
As for myself, I started to question the "modern Western consensus", back in the 1990s, when I was in my 20s. I came to the conclusion (as have people like Rupert Sheldrake and Colin Wilson, who I shall mention later) that Western thought/science has basically been labouring under a closed-minded DELUSION since the Enlightenment. (Though as a practising pagan I also tend to believe that "Christian exceptionalism" played its part. 🙂)
After all, Western arrogance used to be so great (bringing my left-wing political leanings into play here) that white Western middle-class men used to think that they were the pinnacle of creation ! Or evolution. And that all other races, and genders, and cultures were necessarily inferior. 😏
And the same goes for the closed Western "scientific" mind."Oh, that can't exist, because we say so, and it doesn't fit into our system, so there must be a 'rational explanation'. Explain away, explain away, blah blah blah..."
Arrogant, narcissistic madness. 👎
As for the writer Colin Wilson, who was certainly a white man, but by no means a stupid one... Actually he was an existentialist philosopher, who laboured under the handicap, of working in a country, England, where existentialism was never fashionable nor respected as a philosophy.. Anyway, he earned his living by writing lots and lots of books, many of them commercial, many on arcane subjects.
Well, as he said after he'd written his seminal bestselling overview on the matter, The Occult, in the early 1970s... Once you really look into the matter... And he did; he was very thorough and erudite, and went back through all sorts of original sources, going back to the ancient world and the Middle Ages, as well as more modern times... And the 19th century, covering all sorts of semi-obscure, semi-famous historical figures, such as Franz Anton Mesmer, and the scientist Baron von Reichenbach.
Well you tend to find, that there's quite a lot "in it". As it were! 🙂
Now why don't you educate yourself, and go off and read The Occult, for starters??
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@bipolarbear9917 Bollocks! It's probably run by the CIA, for starters. Probably that's why YouTube use it. 😏
&I know for a fact, that university tutors do NOT allow you to cite Wikipedia as an academic source. Because it does not use named, traceable experts and editors, unlike, for example, the Encyclopedia Britannica. Anyone can edit it. I've found all KINDS of trolly things on there - which, as a Lokean, I haven't attempted to remove, because (by the God of Mischief!) I found them FUNNY! 😂 AND wondered how many people would be fooled; or how long it would take Wackypedia to notice and remove the insults, etc! Hmmm. Yes. Very amusing! 😂
It's fine for pop culture. I look at summaries of comic book plots on there all the time! (&once found a passage in an entry on The Penguin, that he, and I quote, "went out with fat prostitutes he found on Jdate". An obvious anti-Semitic slur.😏)
Yes. It's mostly fine for stuff like that, instant updates on who has died, and general blanket summaries of this'n'that. (Scientific articles, however, such as those on astronomy or chemistry, for exact, do seem to be much more carefully edited. But then I'm not a chemist or an astronomer. Still might be full of mistakes!)
And WHEN it comes to "fringe science", alternative medicine, paranormal etc, I have found that it is FAR from unbiased or even-handed, and goes so far as to use pejorative language . As I have already said, in a race or a gender context, this would nowadays be forbidden! But some minorities are less favoured by the (post) modern "consensus" than others... It's no wonder there's an independent Witchipedia, is all I can say. We witches need to have our own space, away from the US patriarchy: the wing of it that calls itself "liberal". 🙄
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All these things are going to be largely environmental, though, aren't they?? According to epigenetics, genes can get turned on and off due to external factors at an early age, as well as in the womb.
A child that "senses" it will be born in a hostile environment such as a ghetto or a war zone will tend to have all those aggressive and less empathic genes turned on.. For survival's sake. Also the brain is very plastic till you're about 2 or 3 years old.
Mind you. As to whether we've ever "met a psychopath". I really don't know how to define one that isn't a criminal. If "millions" - 1℅ are that - surely many are at a very petty level!!
But - "have I met a psychopath"? No I don't think so - but I have met many people who are varying degrees of selfish, cruel, impatient, conceited, anti-social, bullying, prejudiced, xenophobic etc, from my schooldays onwards. Plus teachers - and others with authority in a specific field such as nurses - who have been on power trips. Women don't generally get a lot of power, so when on petty power trips they can be very unpleasant. And so on.
So are they all sociopaths, or what ??
Actually, my best candidate for sociopath right now is a near neighbour of mine. She is selfish, lying (says she or her sons have done stuff for you that they haven't), a malicious gossip, conceited, only cares about herself and her family and that's it - has an excessive sense of her own importance and righteousness, and makes unreasonable demands - or then bursts all over you because you haven't fulfilled the unreasonable demands she hasn't even had the guts to make to your face before!! My nasty neighbour, who never impressed me with her goodness before, REALLY showed herself in her true colours a couple of months ago by her irrational and venomous outburst of this kind.
So is that a psychopath? Or just a poisonous stupid old woman?
Another occasion which gave me misgivings last year was when quite a well known British female author (who is known for writing more "touchy feely" books than the reverse!) blocked me from her Twitter over something REALLY trivial. A hashtag.
And she called me (and persists in calling me) a troll.
But the real problem with her, I have ascertained, is that she can't take criticism. Particularly not informed criticism. Terrible, for an author, no??!
Because it was actually when I passed her on a link to a negative review on a specialist site on the web, composed by someone who was not me (and was American) but belonged to a similar religious minority to myself, that she really started to turn nasty! It's all right if people from that minority flatter her. *But it's not OK if they - or anyone else, presumably - say anything challengingly critical*, no matter from how informed and expert (and personally affected) a standpoint.
That's bad, don't you think, peeps??
Well I was just wondering whether that denoted psychopathy - or at least some form of malignant narcissism.
Because I have heard that these psychopaths, and narcissists and so on, can't tolerate criticism. Like many past dictators and other nutters.
(It's the: "I don't care if the other person could be said to have more intimate knowledge of Subject X than I do" factor that really rings alarm bells with me!
Of course, in certain respects today that attitude is socially prohibited because of political correctness. Usually when the minority in question is of another skin colour. But when they're not... 😏)
The previously described attitude to me however suggests a person with a weak ego, not a strong one.
Thoughts, people??
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Actually George and followers (and fellow #Corbyn supporters): I believe that Jeremy Corbyn needs some much better, much slicker advisers and media advisers; much like Obama had in the USA. To deal with all the annoying, equally ludicrous, wild Republican conspiracy theories such as the "birther" nonsense. Democrats treated that as it so obviously was: an attempt to deny Obama the presidency on spurious grounds!! I ALSO wish we had some (nominally neutral but basically liberal) fact-checking websites like Snopes.com but based in the UK, to squash all silly theories. Such as the above. I've said this on my same-named Twitter account.
And this whole idea, of Jeremy Corbyn being an anti-semite, or any kind of racist, or of allowing or encouraging the same is EQUALLY IF NOT MORE LUDICROUS than any American far right conspiracy theory.
But think what would have happened, if, say, Obama were accused of being an anti-semite. His party machine would have squashed that: not dwelt on it and magnified it, because they are far less divided than the Labour Party over here.
Anyway. Someone on You Tube, I think it was Finkelstein, might have been Chomsky, said that Jeremy Corbyn should have made one firm statement on anti-semitism and that should have been it. His party and advisers should not be apologising for the issue, for him, or making it the story in any way.
(That's why some of us have started the #AnotherCorbynSmear and #BestCorbynSmear hashtags on Twitter, to satirise all these pathetic smear attempts. Please join in! ☺️👍)
As for the #IHRA: I'm so fed up with them, don't want nothin' to do with 'em! 😏
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That guy'll certainly NEVER be Prime Minister! 🙄
Just listen to him! Not only does he have a stupid, Rodney-ish voice, he is :-
a) A snake 🐍 And a backstabber.
b) A hypocrite - "Without an electable manifesto"? 🙄 The 2017-19 manifesto polled as very popular on most of the pledges - that's one reason he pledged to keep most of it, and the other was the support of large sections of the membership! And NOW he's reneged on it!! 👎👎👎
c) He's also an enormous hypocrite for pretending that he is working class, or even "a workman" into "work", because of what his PARENTS did! 🙄 He's a LAWYER. Who couldn't even prosecute Jimmy Savile! 😏
d) Going by this alone, Keir and his team are SERIOUSLY in denial! Pathologically so!.😏
Very few people are going to vote for Rodney "Special K" the clown come next election. BECAUSE NOBODY LIKES HIM. 😏 The youth, and other people who want change don't like him, because he is authoritarian, conservative and TOTALLY uninspiring. Most of the Labour membership now don't like him, because he has stiffed them over the manifesto and over what he is about, AND he has deliberately made himself harder to remove, especially by a more left-wing candidate!
The broad electorate have no reason to find Starmer either inspiring or trustworthy - hence "electable". 😏
And the Tories and the gammons he's constantly trying to court would far rather vote for Bojo the clown, or for Farage; or for someone even further to the fascist right. Besides, they'll remember he was against Brexit. And if they forget, there's always the S*n to remind them!
#StarmerOut
#StarmerMustGo
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@goodlookinouthomie1757 Yeah? Balls!! How COME some people can eat "anything they like" (ie, eating "normally", not high protein or keto or anything else - yet they never put on much weight, and are always a "normal" size? And for others, to LOOK at a slice of cake makes them fat? And if they go on a diet, they "plateau" very quickly, hence "dieting makes you fat"?
And it's NOT usually because the "normal weight" folks do a lot of sports, or (these days especially) have a very physically demanding job, or anything! Incidentally: nursing is a very physically demanding job, yet I've seen loads of fat nurses!
Do your research. (There's not enough on the issue on my view. But one of the more interesting things they found out decades ago, was the difference between white fat and brown fat. The skinnies have a lot more brown fat (thermogenic fat) than white.)
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@Freshbott2 Good question: but THAT I cannot tell you (except that the references to them in the texts of old Roman writers, Norse sagas etc were real! Certain African tribes at later dates also had such things). I cannot tell you what was in them really; because that knowledge is lost to modern science. It is all submerged in the mists of entheogenic lore! 🙂 I'd have to do a lot more research and read lots more books, but even then I doubt I'd find out any proper recipes, as all the knowledge of this is lost or secret!
Some people have speculated (that for the northern latitude potions) that they contained things like "magic mushrooms", so psilocybes, probably, then - even maybe a bit of fly agaric as well! 😝 Hallucinogens, then: plus something that increases adrenalin production (that would be the strength increasing part!) But, well, I am a little bit of a witch: and I can tell you, that none of these traditional - mixtures - contain just one thing, or two things. It's always a case of them being a mixture of a lot of things, hence "witch's brew"..😏
Honestly. There are sly (or more blatant) mentions of this type of strength potion all over traditional culture - even modern pop culture based on it! You ever read a couple of Asterix the Gaul comics? 🙂 You remember that there was a strength potion in that - that "Getafix" the druid manufactures? 😏 These comics are all meant to be humorous, but the actual things and history mentioned in them are real. And I bet you thought that comics writers, including French ones, just made stuff up! 😏😁
(There's a partial recipe for that one too, given in one of the comics. To my recollection, it contains mistletoe, and coal tar. Among other things. It's like I told you - they never give you the full recipe! 😁)
Hope that proved at least marginally instructive! 🙂 But sure: the "berserker" superhuman strength effect is real. It's mentioned in several sagas. It's similar to the massive reserves of strength some people find in crisis situations, so they can lift a car off a person. There would probably be a ritual to induce this in a traditional society, but you can be sure it would have involved some kind of drug preparation.
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Yeah: mucho disgusting! But I have an observation, or rather a question, or two. WHY did so many of these young girls get so infatuated with Watkins? What was the attraction, of him, to them?? (Why did their mothers let them tart themselves up to look older and go backstage? 😏) WHY were they so eager to promise Watkins "anything" (worshipping Satan, their own babies) so they could spend some time with him? Just WHAT was the attraction?
Yes, so the police unfortunately didn't take the case seriously. But... isn't this all just a cautionary tale?? About how young women (underage or "of age") SHOULDN'T be so STUPID, and basically prostitute themselves, and even their own moral sense, so as to get into the circle of a "star"?
I think that many women still sell themselves too short, and that they need a fair bit of consciousness-raising. 😏 After all, this hasn't been the only sexual scandal in the UK in recent years. And they don't all involve stars. In another context - WHY were so many young white women, mesmerised by both younger and older Pakistani men, Albanian gangsters and the like (I've read all the "misery memoirs") and basically allowed themselves to be "turned out" and used by "grooming gangs", or indeed spirited abroad and used as prostitutes to earn money for more sophisticated gangsters?? Who took nearly all the money anyway?
Now IF a woman has a true sense of self-worth, whatever her age: she will simply never allow that.
I reiterate: WHAT was the fascination, of the pathetic Ian Watkins?? To these girls? It's not even as if he was a Beatle or a Rolling Stone (or a younger version of same. 😏)
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What's so special about Jews, anyway?? 😏 Unless they're Orthodox, nobody in this country or others knows who they are, or that they are of that minority. And if they are in the media, their FAVOURITE trick, I have noticed, is if someone says boo to them, they suddenly pull out their Jewishness, which the person criticising them or the crap they say, probably isn't even aware of! That's what happened to Ken Livingstone.
Being Jewish, is essentially the "privileged" minority, to a large degree because it is also the "hidden" one - QUITE UNLIKE SKIN COLOUR.
For example: Until recently, how many people knew Keir Starmer has a Jewish wife? Many probably still don't. They'd certainly know it if he had a black wife! And HOW the papers would harp on it!! 😏
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I appreciated the lecture. The cartoons were great!! I especially liked the one of the drunk in the saloon...
Mind you: that - the "victim mindset" and paranoidly persecuting people, is what the State Of Israel is doing right now!! And they believe they are "the victims" - all because of what happened to their forebears in different countries, 80-90 years ago. 😏 And whenever anyone dares even to CRITICIZE what they are doing to the Palestinians, it's "Oh - you're anti-Semitic"! 🙄 And those of your politicians who believe in what they call an ethical foreign policy - are "anti-Semitic". 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 And so forth and so on...😏
And very few people, almost none in the MSM, or even on YouTube, dare to cover THAT, or say anything about it. Only the likes of John Pilger. I don't know whether Jordan Petersen has covered it..
Basically: I am a socialist: but I hate the modern kind of "identity-based victim mentality": because I think it's for whiners!! 😏😏 (Not that I'm saying that there aren't different identities; and that some of them are not oppressed.)
I have heard about the oppression of the kulaks, and the subsequent famine in the Ukraine, the breadbasket of the Russias!
I thought that everyone with a passing interest in history did?? It's been covered/mentioned in loads of novels, films, biographies, autobiographies, documentaries..
And Mao basically caused famines in China - which several million people died in, in the 1950s or whenever. But, to be fair, China, where many peasants were so poor they couldn't even afford farm animals, suffered from famines throughout its history.
*I wonder why those Russian Communists - who were trying to be 'scientific socialists" or so they said - were so basically STUPID, as not to realise that some food had to be left for the farmers, so that they could work and raise new crops? * 😏🤔
After all, even the Nazis gave a basic food allowance to people in concentration camps. Which probably grew scantier as the war went on..
The Nazis had that kind of irrational attitude towards the Jews, though, didn't they?? Gave these speeches saying that the Jews had been persecuting them ! Or Germany as a whole, or something... Really I suppose that the human race has been subject to this sort of "irrational blame" thinking throughout history. It's what was responsible for the highly irrational witch hunts and witch trials of the Late Middle Ages and the early Modern period anyway...
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@rayboish That's the first part of my reply. The second part is that all these Eastern European countries were satellite countries of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union has long been recognised, as not really a Communist country as Karl Marx envisaged, but as a form of state capitalism, as opposed to individual capitalism. (They had social classes and wildly differing wage rates, so I don't see how it could be described differently. Or if you're a Trotskyist you could describe it as a "deformed workers' state", I suppose: but frankly I don't bother!)
I don't see anything in the basic doctrine of Socialism (and remember, Karl Marx was not the first socialist) that says that it should be authoritarian socialism, or any kind of non-democracy. If you have that kind of "socialism", you're only going to have a situation where the pigs take over the farm, anyway: just like in Orwell's fable. 🙂
The late George Orwell, like the late Tony Benn and the very much alive Jeremy Corbyn, was anyway a *libertarian socialist*. Which is the same as what I am. 🤷♂️
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Why so dismissive, Thoughty?? 😏😏
I don't know anything about nano-nauts; not "interdimensional eggs": but Chaos Theory is a real science ! It's a branch of mathematics. So if these people (if such ever existed) were real faculty from a real university, chances are the they were "real scientists"/mathematicians.
And WHO, WHICH academic, I am just wondering, in any American era post the McCarthy period, so from the 1970s onwards, would be dismissed from a university for "sedition"?? 😏Was this part of your fable based on any truth?? 😏
I mean, I know "they" - really - did it to Wilhelm Reich: but that was during the McCarthy period. 😏
Not sure if they'd dismiss any Chaos mathematicians for "sedition". Maybe for being un-PC, these days! 😏
I think I have heard of Incunabula; but never of "alternate reality games", unless they are played on s computer!
And what about the Jersey Devil?? 😁
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@bestcomsystems4458 OK. So you've defined your terms.
By "politically interested people", I think I mean more or less what the YouTuber Michael Lambert means. Ie, not people who are fascinated by political parties; maybe people who have voted or considered voting for different political parties throughout their lives; people who understand and are prepared to research the issues, as well as various politicians ' attitudes towards them, so that they the voters can make a rational choice. NOT, on the other hand, people (Lambert alludes to them) who think that politics and elections are just another form of entertainment, who aren't prepared to seriously engage; and who are guided by impressions: such as, Isn't Boris such a lovely funny entertaining bloke, he can't mean any harm, I'll vote for him! 😏
You'd also be surprised how many younger middleaged people I've seen in pubs and cafés reading tabloid newspapers. Also, tons of younger people read the Mail Online for the celebrity gossip. And then there's the BBC - most people still get their news from the TV - which is now not at all impartial. So.
And Kernow Damo's channel is not at all uninformed!
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Why so dismissive, Thoughty?? 😏😏
I don't know anything about nano-nauts; not "interdimensional eggs": but Chaos Theory is a real science ! It's a branch of mathematics. So if these people (if such ever existed) were real faculty from a real university, chances are the they were "real scientists"/mathematicians.
And WHO, WHICH academic, I am just wondering, in any American era post the McCarthy period, so from the 1970s onwards, would be dismissed from a university for "sedition"?? 😏Was this part of your fable based on any truth?? 😏
I mean, I know "they" - really - did it to Wilhelm Reich: but that was during the McCarthy period. 😏
Not sure if they'd dismiss any Chaos mathematicians for "sedition". Maybe for being un-PC, these days! 😏
I think I have heard of Incunabula; but never of "alternate reality games", unless they are played on s computer!
And what about the Jersey Devil?? 😁
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Yes: I think that you are right, Damo. The story of the sub, although obviously newsworthy, is I think being treated as something of a distraction. And no, the media don't seem to care about drownings of migrants: not even 100 migrants children. It is disgusting. 🤮
And I take on board about what you have said about the greedy capitalist submarine company cutting corners, in order tp descend to such depths (in so many ways! 😏) without the safeguard of safety testing and even keeping to known safety limits.
And about the ill-advisedness even of the submarines name, "Titan"! (You see, a neopagan (such as myself) would never consider embarking in such a thing with such a name; because of the obvious hubris of it: and the likelihood of attracting negative synchronicity with such an ill-omened name. 😏)
When I first heard this story on the news a couple of days ago, I will admit that my first reaction was a cynical "meh". However, I now do recognise that whatever the outcome, the stricken sub or its wreck MUST be found. It's akin to locating wreckage and black boxes from air disasters; professionals have to find and analyse it all so as to avoid future disasters.
Also what you were saying about rescue at such depths being impossible.. Well, not exactly. If the exploration company had had another backup submarine (which they haven't) it could have sent down its backup immediately to locate the other sub: and then (apparently they have armlike devices) to dislodge the stuck sub and/or grab it and tow it to the surface. Might help for the subs to have built-in towing hooks! 😏
But since they don't have another manned sub on-site, what people were talking about was sending a large unmanned robot-type sub, with a pair of pincer arms, to do the same thing. But they must locate the Titan sub first!
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They still have electrically heated fabrics today - you see them in every catalogue, my dears!! 🙂 Electric blankets, throws,and even clothing. The difference is, that nowadays such things run off safe stepper-downers, batteries, and now, of course, USB connections! 🙂👍
So - now you've got me interested though - are there any statistics, for house fires caused by electricity, prior to WWI?
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Yes. This is a real pity, that this show was canned. 😏 Lifetime is obviously a rubbish company, if they can only commit to a mini-series, when it is obvious that even just the first book requires a "box set,", so a full series.
Personally, and as a woman, I am really IRRITATED that a series by a MAN, such as Game Of Thrones, gets so easily greenlighted, when something with an obvious feminist (but by no means man-hating) message, such as Auel's Earth's Children series, is basically still-born as an adaptation, and gets cancelled before it hss even started. 😏 Must be down to some MALE executive's decision. 😏
I personally find, also, that a thing like Game Of Thrones, is at least in some ways, sexist trash..(Look at the wsy the character Circe is treated, for example. Very "inspiring" to UK reactionary "opinion-former" Jeremy Clarkson... 😏)
So anyway. I really do think that still sexist Hollywood/cable TV needs to take another look at the Earth's Children series. Especially seeing as, as this YouTuber states, CGI has come on in leaps and bounds! And I am sure there are fans of David Attenborough and the like, who would watch it just for the prehistoric animals! 🙂
But expecially now that Hollywood has had such a great success, with the Hunger Games franchise, featuring another strong, independent young woman. It's time for them to take another look at Earth's Children. I don't see how they could lose.
Another magnificent speculative fiction series, also by a woman, incidentally, which I would like to see made as a BOX SET (not as a movie - it's far too complex) is The Saga Of The Exiles (basically, epic sci fi & time travel, + lots of Jungian philosophy and creative anachronism) by the late Julian May. This too was optioned before the author's death in the 2010s, but again was sadly never made.
(Again, I'm afraid I detect sexism here. 😏)
Anyway. I'm telling you something. The May, like all these epic series, has a vast cast of characters. But the real standout (for me, anyway) is the young lad called Aiken Drum. I swear: put him on screen with a good young actor in the role (no-one too soppy-handsome or conventional-Hollywood looking, thanks) and practically every kid in the WORLD would adore him, for his rebel personality, and half of them would want to BE him, or copy his attitude. (Much to the distraughtness of many of their parents, snd every conservative in existence, no doubt! 😄) I did, aged 15. I still want to see him up there on the small screen.
Anyway. Thanks for listening, peeps: or rather, reading!! 🙂 Thank you also to the creator of this video, for explaining what happened to the COTCB series. I only found this on YouTube now: so a happy New Year 2024 to all, as that is when I am typing this! 🥂
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Short(ish) answer: No but..
It's remarkable, how true Marvel get to the spirit of the myths: one might even say closer to the original pagan spirit.
Whereas (re)writers like Neil Gaiman for example, seem too obsessed with the Christian teachings of the society they were brought up in; with modern "atheist" musings, and with a basic discomfort with (neo) Paganism and Heathenry in general, to get much beyond bland moralism, and "isn't Loki evil". 🙄
(Personally I think that the late Terry Pratchett might have done a lot better, writing a Norse Mythology book, but he never did.)
Marvel: with their generally sympathetic attitude towards, and treatment of, villains and anti-heroes, seem to have done a much better job with Loki, from the start. Certainly in the last 20 years! Read Rob Rodi's "Loki" graphic novel. Not at all a laugh a minute; but both epic, and a psychological study of Loki. 🙂 (And it quite deliberately makes reference to something Thor actually THREATENS to do to Loki, in the old eddaic poem Lokasenna.. Well: here I believe he actually gets to do it. 😏)
But things really started to move positively for Marvel's Loki, when they started the Kid Loki series, in 2012. THAT was I believe the start of Loki's trajectory, from antihero, to beloved antihero, to hero! 🙂👍
No, Marvel's versions of the gods aren't so Eddaically "accurate". But I believe they certainly are in many ways more accurate to the spirit of the gods: both in their original pre-Christian versions, and to the way in which modern worshippers feel (who, unless they are "folkish" as f***, are inevitably going to be influenced by modern humanistic and progressive ideas. Which Marvel also reflect.)
So. That's why I as a Neopagan and a Lokean, am always going to defend the modern Marvel versions.
Even if they are a bit "silly", like the recent movie Thor: Love And Thunder" was. Yes: it was a great romp (& I preferred the "criticism of all gods" contained therein to many a pompous atheist polemic); but also, I think, a hidden gem: with some sly satirical messages. 😏 For Heathens, too: but definitely not anti-Heathen. I shall have to write an essay on it.. 🙂
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I think that the REAL questions, PoliticsJOE, for a channel such as yours both to ask and answer, instead of all the nonsense being indulged in by today's "pundit" (silly made-up names for social segments in "focus groups" and things like that.. 😏)
Are: QUESTIONS like, WHY do we have such awful, rotten, insincere and corrupt (and totally incompetent) politicians in Britain today?? 😏😏
Hmm?? Riddle us that!! 😏
AND: WHY, whenever any prospect for REAL change rears its head in a political party, which can ONLY come from the left: WHY is that ALWAYS headed off, by some poisonous combination of the MSM, and people like Farage?? Who the MSM give full rein to? 😏
And WHY don't sites like your own devote more time to THOSE questions, and interrogating every prat you can get your hands on re them: and nor merely giving airspace to "pundits"?? 😏😏
And you can tell that guy, that Reform UK are NEVER going to be the answer to ANYTHING!! 👎👎👎
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Yes, well. Nigel Farage is a charlatan: and as has already been remarked on here, his political party is in fact a private company.
It is easy to sell right-wing garbage to tons of ignorant people: largely because those people believe most of that which the MSM have to say. I don't believe in right-wing populism one jot: and if all those people think that getting rid of immigrants will help them one bit, THEY are in for a rude awakening! Ditto in the USA. 😏
I don't see the EU as a bad thing (a small country needs to be part of its nearest trading bloc. Leaving the EU has already cost us many jobs. And piled on the red tape!)
I'm not so keen on Nato.
And finally, I do have to say that I'm tired of all this talk about "latte drinking London urbanites" and the like. I don't even see the Starmer cabinet as that. I see them as careerist neoliberals, no more and no less.
All this talk about lattes and avocados and what have you, will only put off younger, more educated people from socialism. So, the "student class", if you will. Without whom, you cannot have socialism. So will any scaremongering re transsexuals.
I don't think you can have a socialism that is only supported by a mouldy bunch of provincials, to put it mildly.
So I think you're wrong about that, George. 😏 (And you USED to support the gays, too! 😏)
And abortion is a HIGHLY important issue in the USA right now! It's only right-wingers who want to deny women their rights.
And Keir Starmer will NOT bring us back into the EU. He's too cowardly for a start: and he's probably been paid off by the same kind of people as pay Farage! 😏
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In the 1990s there were several documentaries on UK TV that could hardly believe (or at least they had skeptoids on there who didn't) that birds such as ravens could use tools (there's one species called the Caledonian raven I think? Which does so regularly.) Or that common British captive ravens in a zoo-type environment could use "reasoning"-type thinking (instead of trial and error, basically, which was thought to be all that animals used) to work out, that if a bit of meat (In a plastic tube) was tied to a string and its other end to a perch, then what the raven had to do was to pull up a bit of string with its beak, then stand on it with its foot, then repeat the process several times, until finally it had gathered up a hank of string under one foot, and had the meat in its beak! 🙂
The ravens generally worked it out very quickly, with few false starts, I recall.
However they had at least one animal biologist on (hardly a greybeard) who made such a stupid aghast face, as soon as the research's conclusions were presented to him ; as if the experimenters were breaking some sacred taboo, or something... 🙄😏
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@mathmagic9137 Now listen, you, whoever you are! 😏 I haven't got time for a lot of politically-correct rubbish (especially not, since I still have a backlog of excellent YouTube Halloween videos and scary stories to get through! 🙂)
It seems to me, that a lot of people get "offended", by other people simply stating the plain truth. I don't know where you got your statistics from, but I do know that governments often use statistics to lie ..😏
What I also know is that:
a) India has no social security, whereas European countries like the UK do.
b) India has no national health service, whereas the UK and other European countries do.
c) "9% poverty"? Compared to what?
But again, I do know that there are millions of poor landless peasants in India. There are also millions living in abject poverty in slums, which are really just shanty towns. There are farmers, some of whom even own their own land, who are committing suicide because they can't make ends meet, or pay back loans, and this has been going on for decades. 😏 I'm.not an expert on the exact causes, but there are a thousand documentaries on and around the subject. I do know that there was a major small farmers' revolt recently in India, which was basically crushed by the government. UK media didn't give it a lot of attention, but the former Labour Party leader, and ex-leader of the Opposition in the UK, Jeremy Corbyn and his Peace And Justice Project did, and so on...
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@KernowDamo Don't mention it Damo!!😊👍 (What's not to like: a Cornishman and a socialist all in one! Says this Newquay dweller.. 🙂👍)
So: it was the abominable Rishi who got you well over the 1000 followers mark!! Great that he's good for something!! 😄
But seriously: at least that viral video and others on your channel will make you a little money now! 👍
I'd just like to give your viewers some tips about how to support you through the ads. (I looked this all up before the last election.)
1) Turn your b___y ad blocker off, peeps, for the left wing channels! 🙂
2) Now. You may get some longer ads, especially on your phone. (On the TV my experience is that a lot more short "TV type" ads come through on YouTube.) But don't worry about the long ads.I'll tell you what to do, peeps! 😊
For the channel owner to get any benefit from the ads, if they're under 1 min, you need to watch at least half. So, for a forty second ad, you need to watch twenty seconds; for a 1 min ad, 30 seconds.
For any longer ad, never mind how long (some people promote an entire video via an ad) all you need do is watch 30 seconds of it, however long the ad is: or to be sure, just over 30 seconds.
That way, you'll make a few cents a time, maybe even a dollar, land in your favourite YouTuber's ad revenue account. At no cost to yourself!! 🙂👍
If you are a YouTube Premium subscriber, then a small amount of your monthly Premium fee should go to each site you watch at all regularly. 🙂
(I don't know exactly how they work that last one out, so I'm not sure if I trust it!)
For anyone who says YouTube don't put ads on left-wing sites: I've already watched a slew on here, on both phone and TV! I've been seeing them on sites like Novara Media and Al Jaxeera for ages too. (I now at last have WiFi Damo: so I have both going at the same time, unless the phone's on the charger! 🙂)
For anyone who doesn't know this: it doesn't matter if you have a 10 year old TV. I have, and I've digitized it! 👍 If it has an HDMI socket on the back: you can stick something like an Amazon Firestick in that, or to my preference, a Chromecast with Google TV (so that's the white dongle type thing with the white remote control in the box with it. You'll have to look on YouTube for setup instructions as they're not in the box 😏) and hey presto! You can watch Damo (and others on Youtube - and yes, Tiktok too) on the big(ish) screen! 🙂👍
Oh and Damo. YouTube are monetizing Shorts - did you know?? You should stick some of your shorter TikToks on there: or edit some down! 🙂👍
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The trouble with free speech is, isn't it, that SO many people seem to want it for themselves, and "their side" exclusively.
Look at how the left, both Marxist and liberal, recently cheered on the online silencing of Trump. THEN, a couple of weeks later, many of THEIR Facebooks etc I were taken offline. 😏
#Censorship, once resorted to, is used against all sides. Jimmy Dore on his YouTube show has been making this point for weeks.
Also: private companies such as Twitter, Facebook should not be the ones to decide who has access. Independent journalist Gordon Dimmack has made this point.
Twitter and Facebook are now public utilities like phone companies and should be made to operate as such. (Jimmy Dore, again.)
Yes the UK does need a First Amendment - but until we get some control over those corporations... 😏
Anyway: Wetwipe Keir Starmer should stop trying to rewrite the rules of the Labour Party; and let's get rid of him and be #AgainstAllCensorship. 🙂👍
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@shangrila448 You SURE that was all it was? 😏 I thought it was because the children came from poor communities and went to "sink" schools. (Incidentally, I've read quite a number of the "groomees" memoirs: and while I feel very sorry for them, in some cases I feel the parents were at fault. They failed to see the warning signs; and at least in one case, a girl moved into an area with a frankly rubbish school, where the teachers didn't care, and she was thrown in with a lot of girls who were under-age drinkers and who were involved in "risky business" - why do you think that charity was called that?
Now MY parents would never have let me have friends who were like that; and, I think, although they had no money for private schools, they would have moved heaven and earth, to ensure that I went to a school that was a bit better than THAT! (They would have had success, especially after the rules changed in the 1990s and you could choose your school, because I was academically successful.) Savvy parents know, that children tend to copy and imbibe the behaviour of those around them. Don't let your kids associate with the stupid ones or the violent ones. 😏)
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yes hello Do you mean that women don't deserve bodily autonomy, or what??
It's all a question of priorities. The planet can't sustain unlimited people. The best way to limit that is via contraception. Then comes safe, legal abortion for women who have medical conditions, are victims, or simply cannot handle a baby - or a pregnancy. Like they're too young. For example.
Modern societies are lucky in that they have the technology for safe abortions for unwanted pregnancies. Before that, all abortions were EXTREMELY unsafe. So much so, that the major way of dealing with unwanted pregnancy was infanticide. Like it was in medieval Iceland, I happen to know, having studied that culture somewhat. (And no, not even the coming of Christianity ended the practice. They were a small, poor island: and just couldn't afford unlimited babies.)
Poor communities in India do the same to this day. Now: WHAT us better/less traumatic, for all concerned?? Abortion - or infanticide?? (Including "slower" infanticide, through child abuse and neglect.)
Someone should put it to your Senate like that....
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What ignorance! 🙄🙄🙄 (On the part of Tim Urban or whoever it is. 😏)
He's just told us that people of the past (he really means pre-Enlightenment or pre-20th century) "didn't know anything". 😏
They, apparently, "didn't know" they were going to die. 🙄
What rubbish. They knew about death much more intimately than the sanitised people of today.
They "didn't take hot showers".Even if they were George Waahington! 🙄
Has Tim Urban ever heard of heating water for a tin bath?? The kind people have in front of a fire, in Western movies??
THAT'S how it was generally done, you see. I don't think that "cold showers" were much of a thing for anyone, until British public schools started using them as an anti-masturbation measure. 😏
And ALL this temporal chauvinism!! Towards EVERYONE in this land of the past, which "didn't have hot showers". 😏
Is Tim unaware of cultures which were a lot more cleanly (and technology and kuxury-oriented) than quite a few of the medieval and indeed Western societies that came after?? 😏 (Now THAT was an example of reverse progress, which also happens in history. 😏)
Like the Romans: with their ubiquitous public baths (often taking advantage of hot springs) and their under-floor heating, in cold countries like Britannia? 🙂
Has he never heard, either, of the saunas and sweat lodges, of cultures like the Finns and the Native Americans??
Was this guy REALLY BORN yesterday?? 😏
He certainly wouldn't make a very good historical novelist.
And as for modern people "taking hot showers for granted" - no they can't!! These days!! What if they can't pay the electric bill? The gas bill?? Or the extortionate amount for a tank full of fuel oil? (Incidentally: I'm still waiting for the delivery of mine, & my shower's gone cold. 😏)
This stupid episode assumes too much.
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@jde-jj1lu Actually, in THIS rare case, it is! I've already worked it out. From the point of view of the HUMAN RACE. IF a couple of hundred nuclear warheads are coming your way, you are doomed. IF you retaliate, you also kill most of the people on the other continent. IF you forbear to do so, at least half of humanity will survive! (They will not be able to "invade" your country as it will be far too radioactive, for centuries. Look at Chenobyl.)
Therefore, a weapon that would be pointless to use, is a useless weapon. Therefore, why pay for it?
But the unions wouldn't have let Corbyn get rid of Trident, because of the jobs.
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@danxnation2159 Sainsburys is really the only supermarket they have in Newquay, Cornwall. (Other than budget supermarket Aldi, owned by one of those not-so-nice German billionaires I was talking about in one of my comments here.) Plus two teeny Tescos. Plus a Lidl and a Morrisons, both out of town. (The Morrisons is really the biggest supermarket we have: but up until quite recently, the bus service "considerately" stopped running to it from my village (only 3 miles away! But obviously, "First National" and until recently their subsidisers Cornwall Council didn't think it was important, that one of the largest "exurbs" of Newquay should have any public transport access to two of the biggest supermarkets 😏) and even post-Covid the service isn't great. 😏).
Oh yes: and there is a Co-op on the outskirts, for what it's worth. And since about 2012, my village's one local shop has been a Spar, with integrated post office. But it's a pretty small Spar. (Found anything evil about Spar? Someone told me it was South African owned! I thought it was German. Means "save" in German. 😏)
Basically I CANNOT BE BOTHERED to go chasing around town, looking at labels. Apart from price labels! Life's too short: and the rich own everything anyway. I have better things to do with my socialist energies! (Like finally making some money in my life; and donating some of it to this Cornish ex-Labour blogger I approve of; and some of it to Jeremy Corbyn's Peace and Justice movement.. And to other worthy sites on YouTube. 🙂 )
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Fact: You see, Jimmy, there are some people who take their religion seriously, and there are others who don't. Or who just interpret it all their own way - ie, all the "prohibitions" apply to people you don't like or who are poorer than you - but with the elite, like with taxes, "sins are for the little people". 😏😏 Michael Moore probably naively thinks that you can morally appeal to the latter kind of person.
But anyway - other than another term of Trump, what did you think that the elite would allow to happen last autumn? What should really have happened, is if the Dems truly hated Trump, they should have let Bernie Sanders through in 2016, when he definitely would have won against Trump.
And btw, I couldn't give a sh*t about Michael Moore's hair.
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@thigearlatha Yeah. They're a bit funny in Germany now, about people who once worked in concentration camps... They should really have a statute of limitations for that; although in a few years, it will be irrelevant. And I know what the German's motivations are for such foolishness. It's the same as British journalists etc. re Jimmy Savile. They are experiencing belated guilt, that they didn't get (any of, really - apart from the handful at the Nuremberg Trials) the "big fish", and that most people who were real Nazis were seamlessly reabsorbed into German society, and often allowed into, or to re-take-up their jobs in quite responsible professions: judges, the civil service and so on. So, because Germany and its authorities did very little to de-Nazify Germany post-war (their focus was, in many ways quite understandably, on economic reconstruction) they are making these "gestures" now. I hate gesture politics. Anyway, in order to get rid of ALL Nazis in post-war Germany, certainly all Nazi party members, you would have had to IMPRISON AT LEAST HALF THE COUNTRY; at least half of all the adult males. There are good practical reasons why countries aren't stupid enough to do such things! (DId you know, that post the Restoration of the monarchy, England had to have an amnesty, on ALL crimes committed during the English Civil War?)
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@AC-dk4fp Graat for you! 🙂👍 (This friend of mine is bi-polar and went a bit funny on me. This "Loki is an evil villain" shtick, comes I think either from books he's read by conservative Heathens (eg Stephen Flowers/Thorsson).. can't be off Rick Riordan, he's a bit too old for those! 😄 Or at least to BELIEVE those, I've read them.. Or you know, a conventional Christian upbringing can really make you prejudiced/blinkered in some ways.. 😏 This guy is a fairly militant atheist now, but is also quite heavily into angelology and demonology. (Oh, and Chaos magic.) But is still quite conventional-thinking in some ways I believe.. (Thing IS, I don't tell him what to believe about angels, because they're not my specialist subject! Loki, on the other hand... Is mine, and not his! 🙂) Well I think some therapy via Zoom has calmed him down a bit, is all I can say.. 🤷♀️)
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Yes. Jeremy was, and is, so totally right.
If Labour had voted in any other policy on Brexit, than the one that had been cleared at Labour Party Conference (which it was, so you can't blame Corbyn), they risked losing votes, and MPs, in London and the South-East. (And in Scotland, but I suppose it was thought then that there weren't any there further to lose! 😏)
But perhaps Labour should just not have made that pledge, about the second referendum?
If they hadn't been so frank about where they stood: if they were a bit vague about the issue - as are Boris Johnson's Tories, on most issues apart from Brexit - it would have given them more room to manoeuvre, and set less people against them. 😏
But Corbyn was fighting against a large section of his own party - and I don't mean grassroots Remainers! He had to concede to the Neoliberal right the main policy it wanted - and it lost Labour the election. Also I don't think these Blairites ever want to admit, how sick voters in general were of Blairite MPs, in the "safe seats" in question. Often they were "parachuted in" from outside these communities: and they didn't bring these deprived areas any jobs . The irony is, that Corbyn's Labour, once in power, would have!! 😏
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Yes, there is a climate emergency. But I'm going to tell you frankly what I think, Damo: Which is that our technology and economy is not yet at the stage of tackling it properly!
Take electric cars. Which are supposed to be one of the ways the planet is going to save itself. (There are plenty if YouTube videos contradicting this idea, however. 😏)
These highly expensive vehicles, even when bought reconditioned (which are however supposed to get their drivers relief from road tax, ULEZ and a ton of other crap) use inefficient batteries, which are not at all suitable for longer journeys. I have looked into getting an electric vehicle myself (only advantage I can see down here in Cornwall is if you could charge it up from solar panels, which I have likewise yet to get!!)
But I've been told the batteries need replacing every four to five years; and they cost thousands to replace and.... 😏😏☹️👎
Plus: they are dependent on rare earth minerals, such as cobalt. Which are only to be found in a few places in the world. I read that some cobalt, along with some lithium and even rarer elements, is even to be found in our county of Cornwall! (Making it more worthwhile to start mining the tin again. 😏 Ive seen plenty of articles GASSING about firms re-starting deep
mining in Cornwall: but I haven't bleddy seen them DOING it! Why not?!)
And so one of the sources of current cobalt mining is in fact Australia, I have read: but the cheapest and the most plentiful is the so-called (ha ha 😏) Democratic Republic Of Congo, where it is scratched out of the hillsides, largely by child miners! Apparently all of the world's corporations are complicit in this, as you can watch on YouTube. How is that good for ANYTHING?? 😏
THEN there is the crappy so-called "congestion charge". I must say, whatever the Green Party think of it, I do think that the vast majority of voters are HIGHLY SKEPTICAL of any new charges, which just press down on them as ordinary people. Along with the cost of living crisis and the mortgage crisis - you think that people in the UK or Outer London want to pay yet another fee or charge? I don't: and I do think that's why Labour failed to win Uxbridge. Voters were obviously fed up of Sadiq Khan's policies more than they were of the Tories. 😏
£12.50 a day?? (Also in an urban area, where public transport doesn't work very well, at getting you from outer area of London to outer area: because the transport system, especially tube and trains, is arranged like the spokes of a bicycle wheel all leading into the centre: not connecting up the outer areas! As I very well know from living there years ago! 😏)
No, this has been very poorly thought out. And what about businesses? This would put up their charges. What about delivery drivers for Amazon and other firms?
Scientists are right now working on pioneering new battery technology. Give them another few years. Then push to roll out electric vehicles. It's still premature to do so.
There. That's my piece Damo. 😏
Signed, Liz K.
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Hmm well: the rest of this might be all right: but for one thing, Roald Dahl's language, in his writing for children is NOT outdated. And a "lefty" of sorts of your age, should KNOW THAT!! 😏 I think that you are still shamelessly cowering to the "young, woke" mob. All of whom are upper-middle-class anyway: so no working class person ever cared about such a thing! 😏
Blatant racism is one thing: using "language" that might make "snowflakes" feel "offended" - eg calling Augustus Gloop "fat" or even "fat and greedy" is another. 😏
Dahl was fine with even middle-class children and their parents in the 2000s: he got a posthumous award, as something like the UK's favourite children's writer!
The Spectator was right to point out and criticise the spineless censorship of today's publishers. It's a pity that only a right wing magazine was prepared to do that. A large wing of the left has descended into puritan identity politics. We don't NEED any bowdlerisation of children's literature thought perfectly fit for purpose 20 years ago.
I have ALSO noted in older British writers, such as Dahl (especially him!), C S Lewis etc, quite an underlying sense of justice (hence Dahl's horrible humorous punishments for horrible adult's and the odd horrid kid) and a detestation of bullies and bullying. This contrasts with the works of one or two much NEWER, younger writers, including a woman writer I can think of, who, to my consternation, appear to condone bullying. Of certain people. Of men by women. Of outsiders and so on.
You WON'T find that in Dahl. 😡
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"Characteristics of narcissistic personality disorder" - "entitledness" - You've just described most ruling classes, and elites, throughout HISTORY! 🙄 WHY do most psychologists, including yourself, never mention CLASS, or bring CLASS ISSUES into it?? 😏
The fact that all this "narcissism" and 'entitledness" is encouraged in the rulers and their children, and discouraged in the ruled?
Even Ian Brady knew that! And he was a British serial killer! 😏 Who was bright, and bitter enough, to know that if he had been born into a significantly higher class, he would probably have found a (class) acceptable outlet for his negative impulses, his narcissism and his grandiosity, that might not have ended up in his being a serial killer of (British) children, and him ending up spending most of his life in British prisons and in Broadmoor! 😏
He however had no illusions as to the moral probity of the ruling classes, particularly vis-a-vis indigenous peoples, and so on.
Looks like America was started by a bunch of psychopaths and narcissists, then! 😏
Riddle me that, Dr Grande!
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C'mon Professor!! 😏😏 Keir Starmer is a scummy little man; who will say anything to anyone, to get what he wants! Stop giving him the oxygen of credibility; it ill becomes any academic.
A speech can be "well written"; and also a complete tissue of lies. I think you need to listen to the YouTuber who calls her channel No Justice. She makes the very good point, that Starmer (and his "policies") are the complete opposite of those of Clem Attlee. The UK was far economically weaker after WWII than it is now; yet the Attlee government borrowed/spent the money, that was necessary to rebuild Britain. They even started the NHS, for Pete's sake! 😏😏 Starmer, on the other hand, thinks he can rebuild after Tory mismanagement, not through actually spending money, but through "growth". He is an idiot. Everyone says he knows nothing about economics...
Starmer has been spending his entire time in leadership, trying to convince people and the media that "he is not Jeremy Corbyn". But WHO is he putting on this act FOR?? CERTAINLY not for the majority of the electorate, the working class, I don't think. 😏 Corbyn was actually POPULAR, not only with the youth, but with the workers. You could see that, from every single walkabout he did! Starmer by contrast, is popular with NOBODY. He is constantly trying to appeal to Tory voters, which I think is a really bad tactic, as it certainly doesn't appeal to the majority of ordinary people who actually hate Tories! He won't gain any ground with workers or trade unionists, or, no need to mention, youth! (The latter have all gone Green anyway.)
The reason we weren't ALLOWED to have a Labour (Corbyn) government the last time, is because the elite and the Tory press DIDN'T WANT IT. They're the people who call the shots! There are quite a few politically aware working class people; but unfortunately they are swamped by those in the more provincial parts of the country, who have tendencies to believe in illusions such as Brexit, (And who are anti-immigrant. 😏) Were it not for this ILLUSIONARY tendency, on the part of the Red Wall, or whatever, then despite all the lies of the Murdoch press (and those of the right-wing spoilers inside the Labour party itself), Corbyn would be PM now. And that would certainly be better than what we have got! 😏)
And as for "scapegoating", Starmer has proved himself VERY ready to play that game, given by his mentions in his speech of: "We take the problem of small boats crossing seriously."
DON'T be fooled! 😏
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@Andrew-rc3vh Which Johnson? (And aren't many subjects and authors, eg Shakespeare, branded by kids as "boring". because of the uninspirational way they are taught? In fact, I was thinking about my own school experience this morning, in a context nothing to do with AI. Like in French lessons in the 1980s. They weren't quite as bad as "the pen of my aunt", but they had NOTHING to do with contemporary French culture, pop culture or anything else, and made NO attempt to include it. How can you properly learn a modern language, by being totally divorced from that country's current culture? Much of first year French vocab lessons was wasted, in trying to draw stupid drawings of objects and things. YOU try and draw a bicycle anyway, if you have no technical drawing skills! 🙄 I understand the visual element, but why weren't the students provided with STICKERS, so they could stick the diagram of the object or action in their books, and then write the word or phrase in French underneath?? I had the nous to think of that, when I was 11!
And so on. Most of the educational materials for our comprehensive school French lessons were totally uninspiring. 😏 There were kind of posters, featuring the really very boring "adventures" of a pretty arbitrary trio of schoolchildren, who appeared to be led by this young lad in a polo neck jumper, by the name of Xavier. 😏 The way the kids were dressed was already out of date, looking like they were out of the 1970s, when we were already into the 1980s. There was no reference to any modern pop culture, or really ANY modern pursuit - such as skateboarding, even! The publishers of this dross probably avoided any specific references, so that it wouldn't date so quickly - but it was already dated, and they could have updated it every year anyway. And so on. I thought it was rubbish, anyway! Although I enjoyed learning French - but it wasn't because of those lousy "Xavier strips"!! (And to THINK what marvellous bandes dessinees the French have always had, btw - and to think that our class wasn't introduced to a single ONE of them!! 🙄) And the teacher rather sloppily thought it didn't matter - but when we DID start writing essays about our favourite films, I made SURE to find out what that Hollywood movie was actually called in French! "Le retour du jedi", for example. I thought it DID matter! 😡)
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@Kay No: what I'm referring to (not that I have travelled in the Asian nations) is the cultural differences, which I have picked up on through TV, word of mouth etc. I think that this goes beyond politics. The Japanese seem a bit like the British, with an even higher regard for politeness, and etiquette, and delicacy. (Just go watch a Studio Ghibli movie and say that's not so.🙂)
Whereas the Chinese seem happy to be - ruder. (Maybe this is part of peasant culture in their nation, idk.) The thing that comes to my mind in this regard, is a couple of tourist information films, that the Australian government felt compelled to make, a few years ago, featuring humorous characters in panda suits. These were meant to represent Chinese tourists urinating on trees in parks (!) 😁, pushing to the front in bus queues etc. They were meant to gently guilt trip said tourists into better behaviour. Look it up if you don't believe me!
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Fancy equating Covid and Corbyn in the same sentence!! 😡 Mandelson should wash his lying mouth out!!! 👎👎👎👎
Anyway - it's the usual excuses, from the Blaireites! 👎
Somebody should tell Mandy, that when the Democrats in the US started all this "the working class has nowhere else to go" - they ended up doing very badly!! They had to promise something "different": and that's why they let Obama have a go. When he proved not to be, the workers, particularly in the rust belt states, just weren't buying Hilary Clinton any more. 😏
So they voted for Trump. (Though polling showed Bernie woulda won, if the DLC or whatever it was had let him through in 2016. In that*, the usually rather illiterate (by my impressions) working masses, *proved that they were being much more intelligent than their British rust belt equivalents! Because the Yanks had the brains that they would have voted for a democratic socialist populist, had he been offered on the presidential ballot .
Whatever goes wrong in the North, part of it surely is the North's own fault!! If you believe the Sun and the Mail; if you "live on past glories", as my immigrant mother used to put it (of nostalgia and past days of Empire)... If you're a bloody idiot who thinks that Corbyn is an IRA anti-Semite or whatever -
Then you DESERVE to be ruled and exploited by an evil clown!! 🤡
🤷🤷🤷
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Now just WHAT is the point, of going after a NINETY-SIX-YEAR-OLD SECRETARY?? 😏😏😏👎
Who was a TEENAGER at the time,??
I hate Nazis - but how could a TEENAGER a) actually be one, with full knowledge and informednes??
B) How could a TEENAGER fight the Nazis - or even refuse to work for them - unless she had a suicide wish like some of those Weisse Rose idealists??
This is, quite frankly, sick. I thought we had seen the last of it when Germany prosecuted that camp accountant.
You HAVE to ask yourself, who is behind pushing all this pointlessness.
Personally I think that part of it is because Germany - and other Western nations - feel guilty, because they didn't get all the much bigger fish , who escaped abroad under Operation Paperclip and so on, some of whom the USA even took on as scientists . 😏 Why doesn't someone prosecute the US Government?
Secondly, I think that the State Of Israel and their lobby is encouraging all this, to distract from their own CURRENT crimes in Palestine. 😏👎
Looks like the latter is the puppet master controlling nations and political parties all around the world. Look what it did recently to the UK Labour Party.
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Good video. Certainly a very good economic analysis from a musician guy! 🙂👍
But I'll tell you what I think about Amazon's Rufus: I like Rufus, because he saves me time. Using Rufus, which is far as I can see is only available on the Amazon app, means that I don't have to scroll through all the reviews (I still can if I want to, and sometimes I do! ) because Rufus will do a summary of them for me at the top. I can also ask Rufus direct questions. Neither do I have to scan right through tons of small print to find out things like product ingredients, or even pack size, when it isn't displayed at the top of the listing, which sometimes it annoyingly isn't, because Rufus will find this for me. Usually! Therefore, Rufus is a great saver of otherwise wasted time.
I think the same of Google AI: I'm a fan of that recent edition to the site, too, because it summarizes what I want to know on a topic, without me having to pick and sort through several articles. Of course, I can if I want, click on and read through the articles, because Google AI references the ones it has used to produce its summary. So Google AI is in my view totally transparent, more so than something like Chat GPT even. So basically, this consumer, ie me, likes AI. 🙂
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Oh Jesus and Loki in a handbasket! 🙄😏 I'm glad I clicked on this, as I almost never do on Spectator "recommendations" on YouTube. I didn't know about this until now: I don't take the Telegraph: but trust only a Tory paper to point this out! All the f**cking "liberal" lefty rags obviously won't. 😏
So they're attacking Dahl now? AND when he was voted I think the most popular English children's author in only the 2000s; and children reading out his poems were featured all over the BBC and other channels; and when there's a Roald Dahl Prize in his name, I think it's for humorous children's fiction...
Are these nitwits going to try to change JRR Tolkien next? 🙄 The actual texts, I mean: not some kind of TV adaptation as was recently made.
Yeah. About Dahl "fat-shaming". I think that all that is referring to, is ONE sole character: that of Augustus Gloop, in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. 🙄😏 I was a chubby child, and I was never offended or embarrassed by Augustus Gloop. You see: yon little wokeites, as WELL as I think the makers of this video, MISS THE POINT, of Dahl's grotesques, and they are grotesques. (Though I think the Charlie stories are one of the few instances in which he features child grotesques: most of his are adults.) They personify UNATTRACTIVE QUALITIES; which are not so much physical, as they are to do with their personalities; how they are unpleasant and selfish and also reckless; in that they disregard the advice of a qualified adult such as Willy Wonka the factory owner, and so they come to a sticky conclusion. 😏 (Hmm: nowadays that could be a sort of parable for Trump voters and the like!)
The Chocolate Factory story is of course a cautionary tale: one of a genre which adults have almost certainly been telling children since time immemorial.
If "wokeites" object to that - well they'll be coming for Mr Ballen on YouTube next! 😏
Mum yeah: back to the "fat-shaming". Personally, as a chubby small child in the 1970s, I was a little bit sad that there didn't seem to be any books featuring either male or female chubby kids as heroes! To this day, one of the FEW I can think of is a
boy called Frederick Algernon Trotteville (called by his friends jocularly Fatty, as much for his initials as anything!). Who is however a genius, a master of disguise, and a great fan and emulator of Sherlock Holmes! 🙂 He is from a lesser known series of Enid Blyton's called The Five Find-Outers. Unfortunately, unlike her The Famous Five, the Find-Outers were never adapted or televised, though those were the series of her books featuring kid detectives that I preferred.
And personally: I for one find the attitude to let us say "heavier kids" of a writer such as the more contemporary J K Rowling much more disturbing (not that I'm trying to be down on her, but I do notice that she is very much on the thin side, and so are the heroes of her children's
fiction).
In the Potter books and movies both, the heavier kids are portrayed as being literally, the "heavies"! Ie, the villains and the bullies! (When it's likely to be the opposite way in real life. 😏) There are two heavy boys who are portrayed as both pretty thick and lacking self-direction, who are the sidekicks throughout of the far suaver (and svelter) child villain, Draco Malfoy. (See - in Rowling, the fat kids don't even get to be top or sophisticated villains! Oh: and Harry's cousin who he lives with at Privet Drive and who likewise bullies him is portrayed as a fat child. I think Rowling has some kind of unconscious hang-up here! 😏)
And this is something I have never seen Rowling criticised for. All sorts of other racialist nonsense, yes: this, never.
Whereas Dahl, "fat-shaming"?? Bah! 🙄
You don't NEED government agencies, or the Church, to BOWDLERISE (that's the word you need! 😏) works of especially children's literature in the interests of PROPAGANDA. All you need are some "convinced" (usually middle class, often white) young(ish) "woke" zealots working at publishing houses ("woke" being the home of cancel culture) to do this. It IS a case of culture (and of the middle-class intelligentsia which is convinced it is "left" when it is just into identity politics).
I think that all this stupid fashion in publishing should be of concern to, and should be fought against by GENUINE socialists (like myself) who are on the libertarian end of that spectrum, and who greatly value freedom of speech.
I mean - Phrases in Roald Dahl being replaced?? WHY the hell are his children and grandchildren agreeing to this?? 😡😡
It certainly isn't for commercial reasons, as the guy onscreen admits. (He is sitting on the f***ing fence too much of the time however, instead of chewing these ignorant asses out. 😏)
I think the saying should be rather: "Go bland go broke". Because: if you are a committee of timid little mice, trying to please EVERYBODY influential you can think of (especially Israel! 🙄), and thus are unwilling to take or to allow artistic risks, then what you produce or edit will be 💩. (Bit like the attitude of YouTube really: trying to bowdlerise everything down for a children's market. 😏)
Real art (whether for children or not) takes risks. It says the unsayable. I know it; Loki (my Patron! 🙂) knows it; Dahl knew it; the likes of Melvin Burgess know it.
Bugger bowdlerism!
Roald Dahl was an EXTREMELY moral writer in my view; who loved the underdog, and hated adult abuse of children (obviously based on memories of his boarding school) and he hated bullies in general.
I have however read YA books by other English authors published DECADES later, that in some way condoned bullying. 😏 And Dahl doesn't. I praise him for that. I've often thought it was something that the post-war generation of writers understood, and that the Thatcher and subsequent generations of selfish neoliberal prats don't. 😏
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Too many businesses are owned by the Tories; this is the problem. We socialists have to get more business-minded; it's as simple as that. 🤷♂️ (I suppose I'm making an argument a bit like the US one, for black-owned businesses.) We CAN'T currently avoid shopping at all shops owned by Tories, because they own so much and so many! (Though I'm glad to find out Tescos has a policy of NO political donations: that's nice to know!)
The Co-Op is all very well: only they've had their share of scandal in the past. There is one not that far from me in Newquay, and now they even have a petrol station. But, I've never heard local people say they were totally enamoured with them. One says they're too expensive: another says their food isn't that good. (Oh: and to expand their business in my town, they bought up the BP filling station, *and displaced a small local deli business right next to it*. 😏 ) Though I do quite like their Fair-trade brands! 🙂
But that's only one business: bit of a narrow choice, to rely on!
Then there's the thing about what MOST, lower-income people, those most hit by the cost of living crisis, will and must do to get by. They can't drive for miles to get some fancy "ethical" brand. They have to get what's available locally; what's cheaper, and what there are special offers on! Or even those evil Sainsburys' Nectar points! 😈
I've heard plenty of unpleasant things about the owners of the German companies Aldi and Lidls as well. But that doesn't change the fact that tens of millions of Britons rely on them for cheap food, and even discounted cycling and camping gear, garden products or the like. You're NOT going to dissuade millions from shopping at the cheap shops; or at Poundland - who owns that, do tell? Is it Boris? Or Satan? 😄
(There was this American TV show in the aughts, featuring this guy who worked at a facsimile of Home Depot (basically their Homebase) who was a natural son of Satan... The Devil... it was a supernatural show. So, you never know!! 🙂)
I'm not going to avoid Kingsmill and Warburton bread, Patak's spices/sauces, Ryvita and practically every widely available brand and type of sugar and a million popular products (many of which will be carried by the Co-op!) and chains because YOU say so, mate! 😏👎
What about Tetley's tea and McVitie's biscuits: why don't you tell us what's wrong with them? 😏
"Ethical" health foods cost the earth - that's the trouble with them! 😏
We all know about Wetherspoons: and there are still lots of independent local pubs..
And though, to imagine that you can last the week through, without inadvertently putting some money in the pocket of some Russian oligarch, or person like that; or to think you can have much to do with PC computing, without dealing with Microsoft, is FANTASY LAND! 🦄🤣
This is what I'm saying: none of these "ethical" buying tips are much good to the vast majority of the population, right now, in the era of the cost of living crisis.
You can't avoid Tory money. It's everywhere! 🙄
That's why I *just don't believe in "ethical shopping", or whatever they call it, especially NOT NOW! It's a middle-class fad at the best of times. Sorry.
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@Eternal Ments You are wrong! 🙂😤 All human action matters. 🙂 It's people who sit on the sidelines, vote for nobody, protest against nothing, who are the real drag anchors and obstacles to human progress.
And, well, Brexit did make a sort of a difference, to the established order. It was a bit of a kick in the pants to neo-liberalism: the "ideas" of the likes of Tony Blair. 😏 Unfortunately, because there are "two warring factions" among the political elite, as many YouTube videos have informed me, this development has only really opened the door further to the right, so to the neocons and fascists. 😏
It is now time for the 99 or 90% to take their own destinies into their own hands. Not to give up!
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