Deliveries

Many thoughts went through the mind as to why Hermes are such a bad courier company, such that they had to change their name.  They completely messed up over the last days, with DHL also, delivering on the wrong day or at 7 a.m. or not at all, and then being ultradefensive.

I ordered three mats - same day, same company.  They had the same tracking code.  The order got to the last station, on go slow, then stopped, waiting for a complaint.  Once that came from the seller, they then split the order to send on different days … and held onto it until a week was up.  Someone ordered that.

I surmised it was just me, that I’d annoyed them with orders in the past.  Just talked to my mate, had not had a major problem, suddenly they’re doing bizarre things, esp. with this you can collect from.  Plus various readers said:

Andy: Although I am surrounded by good old fashioned pubs I still have beer delivered. The firm uses DHL who were, in typical German fashion, most efficient. Until recently. Every order in the last few months has gone wrong in some way. It is an inconvenience which if it carries on might make me think twice about continuing the arrangement.

Woodsy: Must admit we have been lucky, haven't had any of that 'collect from our depot' nonsense for some years. I think it's down to the individual drivers, most seem to have been sensible and friendly recently.

Ian J: have just missed a delivery by DPD - no sig required - they left a card telling me to collect from 10 miles away 'to save CO2' My response: to re-deliver w/o sig as per contract! Some drivers are good, others work for DPD, who used to be good round here!

Someone is ordering these things to be done.

Energy prices

We just can't trust these people.  This is the US situation via Last Refuge but the story's similar over here:

My jaw came near the floor when I opened July’s electricity bill to find a notification of a 28% increase in electricity rates, effective immediately.  An increase of 28%…. just like that. This month, August, even higher with less use.

My gas bill change was months ago, unless they have another hike in mind.  Call it stoopid on my part but I agreed to a direct debit fixed amount, i.e. they must go through a procedure to increase that.  Their way around it was a letter yesterday that I'd 'agreed' to a smart meter, so please call to arrange installation.

We're talking two and a half years ago and it was discussed, that's all.  The woman at the end of the phone concluded that it was not possible anyway to install a smart meter due to distances from meter to something or other.  That's what I'll be telling this new aggressive approach of theirs.

I use minimal electricity, they keep checking the meter, which is PAYG.  They're not making money at about £5 a week, so they are hitting the gas.  I was using about £3 a week in summer, £13 a week in winter ... doable.  They bumped it up to £80 a month, flat.

The issue is stopping the coercion, ditto with heat pumps. First approach is to ignore them, so any move is theirs.  Second will be to refuse, as with the deathjab.

I'd be interested in your situation.

Rather Refreshing, Eh?

The visibly disgusted sheriff described Black as 'the most despicable excuse for a human being I've ever seen in my life.'

He added: 'There is a special place in hell for this woman. Until she gets there, she's going to rot in our jail'.

Wow! No doubt this will have the Guardian-reading progressives clutching their pearls in horror... 

Ivy said the video was taken last October by a home surveillance camera and provided to the Sheriff's Department by a former roommate of Black's. Ivy called the incident sickening and showed visible anger and disgust as he walked Black into the women's annex of the Brevard County jail.

'If I hear as much that she has a pet rock, I will lose my cr*p because this woman doesn't deserve to have anything,' Ivy said. 'You know, usually when I'm walking people in, I have something to say to them,' he tells Black. 'I'm disgusted by you.'

But isn't it refreshing not to hear a law official sound like a social worker for once? We could do with some of that over this side of the pond...

Yes, but is it art?

Those of us who had a 'good' education had some exposure to art and music.  My primary was an LEA school, it only went 'public' school later.

Generally, even those who were lucky enough to have a multi-disciplinary education became jacks of all trades, pretty good at journeyman level at a few disciplines, master perhaps at one or two.  We move in certain directions and avidly pursue them.

My forte was English language but my heart was in sport, esp. sailing, cricket, rugby.  Any opportunity, I was outside indulging in that.  Which doesn't leave a lot of room for art.  Music you can listen to in spare moments, art requires application.

And yet art and architecture in particular were very interesting to me all my life.  So I read up on them, saw much ... but was never of an artistic temperament in the lefty-woke-luvvy sense, only in appreciating the different schools and movements.  My surrealism was of the Magritte and Escher variety, some Dali, not much Miro, forget whatever Pollock thought he was doing. Art Deco and Streamline Moderne were my thing.  Early to mid C20th colour and quaintness.

The final few words of this I'll come back to further down:

The term ‘artivism’ means political propaganda masquerading as art. ‘Artists’ receive funding from ‘cultural entyrist’ museum directors, who have politically captured the institutions they run, then launch some ‘installation’, ‘hub’ or ‘happening’. As Adams acutely observes, this ‘art’ is left-wing without exception. 

Quite agree with this:

Practitioners of artivism are parasites, chancers and charlatans sucking up public money, and their paymasters in museums and galleries are an arrogant elite who seek, in a rather colonial way, to impose a minority viewpoint on the majority – who merely pay for it and in return are held in contempt.

'Left wing'?  Well, these are just words, are they not?  The 20s to 50s left liked to think they had the discerning eyes whilst the right were brutal Marquesses of Queensberry ... trampling beasts with as much culture as a hippo.  I agree with the author of this article in wondering how the aggressive globo-beasts and luvvies hijacked art, which had been a noble pursuit, and turned it into a jargon-fed wankfest.

It's also interesting to me how the French 'gauche', meaning unappreciative and yahooish, also literally means 'left'.  And don't forget the other meaning ... sinister.  Hmmm, I wonder what a-droit could mean?

As far as education goes, which opened this post, far from wishing to be of an elite, I firmly believe that education should be rounded for all but that the talented and committed in any field can be backed and encouraged to pursue excellence.  Yes, I'm afraid I'm talking grammar schools.  Why not?

The perversion of science

Briggsy is one of the gallant thousand:

I am one of the more than one thousand scientists and related professionals who signed the World Climate Declaration, an effort started by a friend of ours Marcel Crok and Guus Berkhout.

Since so many of us say there is no climate crisis, and those in the Consensus say there is, it means we have to understand exactly what this Consensus is. 

The Consensus is that collection of scientists who are led by Experts and followed by True Believers. Experts, we recall, are those who have expertise, credentials, and appointments, the folks who supply The Science to the regime. True Believers are any however minimally trained persons who work with or for the Experts.

It started long before the hockey stick, hundreds of years before, Wiki does not even try to hide it or its purpose:

The Invisible College has been described as a precursor group to the Royal Society of London, consisting of a number of natural philosophers around Robert Boyle. The concept of "invisible college" is mentioned in German Rosicrucian pamphlets in the early 17th century.

Essentially, it was about replacing one religion with another, with added dogma. The Order of the Rosy Cross is a good starting point, you might then like to explore the hijacking of the Enlightenment.  Thus the NPCC was, then, nothing new but following an old pattern of coercion to comply with the official Science, as decreed by your betters.

South Africa is descending into Barbarism and Riot.

The Headline from the Telegraph can be found here. I do not exaggerate, I do not publish fake news; I tell it as I see it!

It's Not Green Flag's Fault, Judge...

A judge has slammed Green Flag for refusing to help a stranded nursing student motorist 'because she wasn't parked on the hard shoulder' before she was killed when a truck hit her car.

The accident happened a few moments after the call. Unless they had a Star Trek style transporter they couldn't have got to her in time anyway...

'In my judgement, Green Flag should take it upon themselves to ring 999 to help the person because it was obvious that Mrs Dumbuya would have been panicking and wondering whether to stay or leave the vehicle. She would have been worried about crossing the motorway.'

Why the scathing remarks about Green Flag? Why should it be their responsibility, rather than the driver? Just because she was a nursing student, or because she was from an ethnic minority, two groups we are supposed to worship? 

'It would be easy to wreak revenge on the defendant by jailing him but I rather suspect Mrs Dumbuya's family are not interested in vengeance.'

Bowers, 33, of Bamber Bridge, Preston, Lancashire, admitted causing death by careless driving and was sentenced to six months in jail, suspended for 12 months. He was also banned from driving for three years.

I guess he was of good charact...

Oh. 

Dashcam analysis revealed Bowers, who had a previous conviction for drink-driving and driving without due care and attention from 2016, was travelling at 55 mph and had an unobstructed view of the Kia from about 150 to 175 metres away - but an accident report concluded he did not appreciate the Kia was stationary.

He initially denied wrongdoing but eventually pleaded guilty ahead of his trial 18 months later.

Sounds to me as if the judge was misdirecting the rightous anger he should have been feeling. And in a macabre postscript, the 'Mail's' lack of proofreading gives us this gem:

 I think she knew...

Flynn on moral courage

Via PD, elsewhere:

Forwarded by Gen Flynn via CH

Message to the unjabbed.

"Even if I were pollinated and fully vaccinated, I would admire the unvaccinated for withstanding the greatest pressure I have ever seen, even from partners, parents, children, friends, colleagues and doctors.

People who were capable of such personality, courage and critical ability are undoubtedly the best of humanity. They are everywhere, in all ages, levels of education, states and ideas. They are of a special kind; they are the soldiers that every army of light wants to have in its ranks. 

They are the parents that every child wants to have and the children that every parent dreams of having. They are beings above the average of their societies, they are the essence of the people who have built all cultures and conquered horizons. They are there, next to you, they look normal, but they are superheroes.

Cont'd at the link below:

https://t.me/scifiworld0/3025

Archie, and his saddened, deluded, frantic Mother

When the best medical advice states that there is nothing more which can be done; best take the path offered, let things be, let that tortured body lie in peace: and if you believe, say a prayer for his soul.

Guido watch

We have to get Britnews from somewhere ... why not from comments threads?

Ron Tutt

The Gove article is a lot longer and more twisty-turny than what GF reports. However I think Nutsaka abandoned countless small-business when he handed out the treats to the sponge-caste and the already making big profit companies.

David Lindsay

Sunak ended up employed by his father-in-law. After nine years, Truss had three of unemployment, and then two as Deputy Director of some think tank while she slept her way into a safe seat. Between those two and Starmer, there has never been a weaker field for the Premiership.

In Crawley

OT: I see that Sir Alex is sticking up for Giggs in court, one question is why did the woman in question put up with it for so long?  Anyway I am sure a few people thought Fred West was a nice bloke.

Jan

I like Portillo….

Zero Sugar

 "The sitting MP`s gave the party a couple of duds"

The idea of letting MPs choose the final two was dreamed up by proven loser William Hague, and it's turned out to be a terrible system. It's led to a fake "campaign" that's making the Tories a laughing stock.

If the Tories were serious about democracy, they'd let the membership have runoff votes between all the candidates, and lock MPs out of the decision completely. Who really cares about the opinion of a gang of metrosexuals, deviants and socialists sitting in Westminster?

Meanwhile, in London, icon of the UK:

Dim Sum

Not to mention "Jobless Kids Loot Shops In Central London".  Seems to have escaped the MSM for some reason:

Yep, nothing for it but to round up the ethnic English M25 bubblers and ship them off to Rwanda for this crime of repeatedly voting in Khan and being Remoaners.