Of far-right rallies and the weasel-words of the MSM

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Nige via Clacton - all eyes on the pier today

Just posted this on X:

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We Enter Topsy-Turvey Land....

A Guardian article where they celebrate the fact that punters are getting ripped off by rapacious big business? Surely, you jest? 

There is, I can’t deny, something funny about the notion of clandestine agents roving the country’s drinking houses and measuring their pours down to the millilitre. But let’s take these findings seriously. Let us imagine that this is, in fact, one of the most pressing issues facing consumers. And let us focus specifically on beers, as this seems to be where the problems are greatest. What exactly a perfectly poured beer should look like is a tricky question. Some people like a bit more head on their pint of lager than others. Go to any pub in east London right now and you will find three graphic designers willing to talk to you for up to an hour about exactly how much foam there should be on top of a Guinness.

Ah, I see. It's a rant about 'Yuppies'. Did she sent this column in from the Eighties?  

Some people will happily just look at their pint, see it’s a little short, and ask the bartender to top it up. I’m not one of those people. I just can’t bring myself to do it, except perhaps in really egregious cases of underpouring. This is because there is a human being standing there who just gave me the pint. We have a culture of OK service in the UK. We don’t generally go in for the thrilling rudeness of, say, Parisian waiters, or the obsequious attention you get from US servers. I like it this way.

You like being shortchanged and treated like an inconvenience when you're handing over money? Strange... 

And when I worked behind a bar, if someone asked me to top up their beer, especially if the pub was busy, and especially if they did so with a look in their eye that implied I had intentionally shortchanged them, I hated it. I hated them. Oh, do excuse me, did sir want a thimbleful more beer? Will that be all, my liege? Does master’s pint meet with his approval now?

Ah, I see. You were resentful at having to work at all. Sorry, princess, but the bills have to be paid!  

...I sort of see the point of those who ask for the top-up. You buy a pint, you should get a pint. A simple and fair exchange of money for a specified good.

But … while it might be correct to the letter of the law to get a full imperial pint every time you order one, it does not feel true to the spirit of pints to quibble about it. Of those 86% of beers that were underpoured, the average deficit was only 4%. We are talking about less liquid than a single espresso.

It doesn't really matter what the amount is, it's the principle, surely?   

But for marginal cases, suck it up. A pint is, to a point, an idea. It is a lovely yellowy brown glass of “having a nice time”. The exact measurement should, rightly, be neither here nor there. Put the tape measure away, and enjoy your beer. Cheers.

Well, the customer is always right, didn't they teach you that one in your bar training? They want a full pint and they are entitled to one.  

My first thought after hearing about the attack was "I hope people react rationally and don't get aggravated"

A rather baffling response to yet another Islamist attack on free speech. Thankfully others are beginning to react more rationally:

A 74-year-old pensioner, who travelled to Mannheim from the neighbouring Rheinland-Pfalz state to pay her sympathies to the victims, said she had 'goosebumps' ever since she heard about the attack. 'This is not normal that something like this happens. I immediately thought yesterday that it could happen to my child, to anyone. I can't understand this,' she told MailOnline. 'One should live in peace without attacking another person with a knife. Someone like that is not human to me. No one has the right to hurt others.'

She gets it. 

One member of the public, who prefers to stay anonymous, came to the market square in Mannheim today with a home-made sign saying 'Democracy - no Islamism'.The 35-year-old told MailOnline: 'It was another attack on someone who was using his democratic right to free speech. It is bad that something like this happens and it's happening more often, especially at the hands of Islamists. 'I have experienced today how it affects a lot of people here. They want to talk about, but many are afraid. Islamistic terror is coming closer and closer and now it has arrived in Mannheim.'He said he had thought about whether it was a good idea to come up to Mannheim from his nearby hometown to voice his concerns about Islamism, but ultimately decided to put his trust in the police to keep him safe. 'But I'm really scared of the future, of what is yet to come,' he added. While some people, including Muslims, came up to him and said they were sorry to hear about what happened, he said he also encountered people who looked 'as if they want to strangle' him.

I expect the others did too, they just hid it better.  

Roland said he was 'a bit scared' to share his opinion openly after Islam-critic Michael Stuerzenberger was attacked, but he continued: 'We reap what we sow. Who doesn't fight for their rights and freedoms will be a victim and will be under Sharia law.'

Amen, Roland. 

'It really hit close to home. There was only hate and violence behind it, nothing rational, nothing human, just rage,' Leo, who moved to the city for university, said.

And meanwhile, in the UK, it seems the police are waking up a little bit: 

A bit too little, too late, but still welcome. 

As "best" practice, even "good" practice, falls away ...

"Netiquette" or unofficial "bloggers union rules" were quite the thing way back when all sorts of "good practice" was voluntarily followed as blogging took off around 2004-6 and the key rule was attribution of sources, linking to others to give them reader visits as well as yourself.

By around 2010, the start of Pigboy Dave's tenure, all sorts of "best" practice, even "good" practice, had largely fallen away, replaced by top down governmental interference as campaigns such as No2ID became popular, as new types of bloggers appeared, vlogging, netflix, tiktok, all sorts, as blogging as citizen journalism was replaced by any newbie following any practice he/she wanted in personal behaviour ...

... while the quality of the new Millennials and Zoomers themselves, reflecting the new parenting and poor school teaching, abided by no rules except what gained them advantage ... cutting corners became the thing, finding themselves and self-fulfilment, victimhood, shortchanging by mean little amounts becoming the thing, public behaviour becoming poorer, all sorts of aberration becoming the norm ... plus the global invasion picked up speed and pretty much replaced the at least lip service ethics which had been vaguely subscribed to over the preceding centuries.

At the same time, govt corporatism was becoming more and more draconian on things like copyright, with a view to extorting money for cronies and killing pleasure for the masses, pricing them out of any pursuits they'd once enjoyed. 

Some of you saw the clip of the two twin kid sisters walking from the ice-cream van after the extortionate prices demanded, plus it had to be card.

That's not what this post is about but it does background what follows ... it's about shoddy, cut-price, corner cutting practice ... this time in "modern" house building:

Around 25% of Britain’s housing stock was built before 1919, the highest proportion in Europe. These houses were built according to time-tested techniques to manage the ambient moisture of Britain’s Atlantic climate through air flow – that is, the very draughts we now spend money attempting to eradicate. Air-permeable lime mortar between brick and masonry and lime plaster on the walls allowed moisture from within the home to evaporate outside, much like a high-tech wicking fabric. Draughty single-pane glazing allowed air to circulate, preventing the build-up of mould: the problem of heating draughty houses was efficiently solved by the simple, if now unfashionable expedient of burning vast amounts of wood, and later coal in open fires.

But after WWI, when many skilled tradesmen had been killed in the trenches, housebuilders adopted the newly-introduced solution of gypsum-brd plasters and cement mortar, as cheaper and quicker to work with. Because both are impermeable to moisture, houses began to be constructed with air cavities and external vents or air bricks for circulation. Over time, the old skills were lost, and houses built before 1919 – perhaps including yours – were renovated with impermeable gypsum plaster, and overlaid with non-breathable plastic-BRD paint.

Draughty windows were replaced with sealed double-glazing and chimneys were bricked up in favour of central heating, reducing air flow further. The result was an explosion of damp in British homes, and whole new industries of damp-proof courses and chemical injections – none of which work – aiming to resolve the newly-introduced problem. …

In my own place, there are two contrasting situations ... no mould at all for most of the place but rotted ceiling in another with direct water leakage from outside, not mould ... go out onto the inside sealed landing and there's mould everywhere, rising damp etc., also into the stairwell.

No mould at all for most of my own place ... why not?  It's because it's draughty in all sorts of places, making the triple glazing a joke, necessitating me keeping the heating on well into May and after Gates's cloud seeding ... into June.  Expensive, yes? Me no worry ... no mould, not ill.

But spare a thought for the poor sods reliant on woodburning to stay warm and even cook ... and there are quite a few ... then we come back to some fallacies about the "good old days" of homebuilding.

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/05/31/why-modern-british-homes-are-getting-mouldy/

A Different Sort Of Activist Infiltration...

We're used to trans cultists and Islamists, now that other scourge of modern life has decided to worm its way into the ranks of the decision makers:

A widower has today claimed a cycling lobby in Government tried to stop his seven-year battle for tougher penalties for killer riders. It comes after the House of Commons backed an amendment this week to create three new offences for dangerous cyclists — 'causing serious injury by dangerous cycling' and 'causing death by careless or inconsiderate cycling'. Campaigner Matt Briggs, 53, raised a glass to his late wife Kim upon news of the victory last Thursday, telling MailOnline it would hopefully give authorities a 'clear process to prosecution'.

They have such a process in other crimes and often drop the ball, so don't expect this to be any different... 

Kim sustained catastrophic head injuries after being hit by Charlie Alliston who was riding a fixed-gear bike with no front brakes at 18mph in Old Street, east London in 2016. She died a week later in hospital, aged just 44. Now, Mr Briggs has said one of the biggest setbacks to his campaign was 'forces' in Government that did not want cyclists to be held legally to account in the same way motorists are.

Can't be Boris, can it?  

Speaking to The Telegraph, Mr Briggs said he'd 'occasionally felt like giving up', after the former transport secretary Grant Shapps stated twice that new laws would be introduced but they never materialised. 'I was brought up to believe that when people in authority say something is going to happen, it does,' Mr Briggs told the newspaper.

*boggle* 

A reaction to the Trump verdict

 First to arrive, from multiple sources, was a bible verse posted or sent ... Matthew 16:26 ... but reading around it, I'd suggest the whole section 21-28 is most relevant to this night now (night in Britain). That specific verse 26, by the way, says (KJV):

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

All that I'll come back to in a subsequent post at some stage. This post now concerns the political response of mainly major players online, plus a few others. It also starts with X which, despite its shadow banning WEFer CEO, still managed to get posted and then a few from **b, which tends to be more hardline and remembers past snippets better ...

... not unlike Em***** *ob**son over whom I came a cropper last time with Chau***/Fl*** ... she's regarded a tad more fearfully than other pundits, she also predicted the showtrial in 2021, as did La*** Lo**** ...

LL was predictably feisty, talking of "coming after" targeted names ... and man does she have some of those, supplied by who knows who. (Incidentally, at 0338, first light has arrived and the birds are tweeting.)

Now some "official reactions" ...

All right ... now onto maor online pundits who are deeply embedded on the MAGA side and are known by all serious players and watchers ...

Em R is in this major pundit category but I ran her first as she has form. Now to lesser pundits ... widely read and seen outside of the US but not being American, the impact is lessened, plus some medium level American Xers ...

Quick word about this chap ...

All right, two at our level, my colleagues ...

Now to **b ...

More horrifying was this from young people:

Red Wave Riders are like Young Conservatives used to be over here ... but a bit more awake to reality ... not enough to vote maybe.

Lastly, this by Buzz Patterson:

Just a reminder that that is not the statue of "liberty" ... it's the joke on America since Mas**s in America gave it and it was put up at the entrance to NYC. It's actually Ish*** or a statue to enslavement, whether to the English or to sat** himself.

Fake meat is but one aspect of the horror

Reader Andy wrote this:

How many times have you seen sausages alongside pork chops and shoved the sausages in your basket? I have sometimes got to the checkout and seen that the so-called sausages are plant based sh*t. Below I leave a pasted sub head from Plank Baste Nuse. Not even going to link. | "Budget supermarket Lidl has seen an increase in plant-based meat products after placing them next to animal meat in store." | Keep your eyes peeled, the b*st*rds will catch you out any way they can.

A reader sent this on March 22nd, 2022:

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/lab-grown-meat-unborn-cow-blood/

The cells they grow in the lab to make fake meat are fed with nutrients from foetal bovine serum which they get from a slaughtered unborn calf. Try explaining to a vegan that what they are eating comes from an aborted calf. The serum currently costs $1,000 a litre. They tell us we can’t eat real meat but they will have to grow cows, impregnate them and then slaughter them to get the ingredient to produce their Impossible Meat. How that ‘saves the planet’ is anyone’s guess and it is hardly slaughter free, is it.

[They're messing with our food.  How to be sure it's just natural?  Plus maybe some preservatives?  This is the real green question.]

And this from Steve on  May 7th this year:

Fake meat: It’s all part of a plan to control the entire food supply | https://expose-news.com/2024/05/06/fake-meat-is-all-part-of-a-plan/

They’ll never eat it themselves, the bstds, nor get jabbed, nor invite hordes of fighting age men into their sumptuous homes, will they?

Also:

Bournemouth today

Special report from our Man from the West Country re Patrick O'Flynn's comment on X:

This happened at Durley Chine - a chine in this context is unique to the IOW and Dorset and refers to the deep narrow ravines that lead to the beach (Old English: cinu ‘cleft, chink’). There are others such as Alum Chine and Branksome Chine, formed during the last Ice Age. 

Back to the story I live about 3 miles from the nearest chine and they are indeed as Patrick says 'sedate'.

Update:

Croydon 20-year-old arrested for Bournemouth beach murder | https://insidecroydon.com/2024/05/29/croydon-20-year-old-arrested-for-bournemouth-beach-murder/

The Continuing Cost Of MacPherson...

A cash-strapped fire brigade forked out more than £40,000 in legal fees after being sued by a firefighter who was sacked for buying weapons online.

Yes, this is yet another casualty of the war on common sense. 

Tyrone Bahar alleged the Royal Berkshire Fire Authority was 'institutionally racist' for firing him in light of his criminal offences, which saw him jailed for five years. An employment tribunal heard the firefighter, who was behind bars when he brought forward claims, felt the sanction to dismiss him was 'too severe'.

He sued for unfair dismissal and race and disability discrimination, but his claims were thrown out after an employment judge found the authority was right to sack him, stating it was a perfectly 'reasonable response' to his crimes.

Thank god for a judge with sense, but even so, the taxpayer is still on the hook for the cost. 

Now, a freedom of information request has revealed the fire brigade had to fork out £41,683 in legal fees to defend these claims.

In August 2020, the first investigatory meeting was held and Mr Bahar told bosses whilst he accepted that he pleaded guilty to possessing firearms, he asserted that he had thought they were legal and would not have bought them if he had realised they were illegal. The panel heard evidence from a psychological report, which stated the firefighter had a 'disorder of collecting items' and this hoarding 'could explain the behaviour exhibited by collecting several weapons'.

Good grief! And when the mental health tack failed, pull out the RaceCard!  

Whilst his prison sentence was live, Mr Bahar brought forward a claim of unfair dismissal. In a 251 page witness statement read by the panel, the firefighter alleged there was an 'unhelpful atmosphere' at the Royal Berkshire Fire Authority which was 'based on race'.

These claims were not upheld by EJ Thomas Talbot-Ponsonby who said: '[Mr Bahar's] case is that he perceives that there is institutional racism, and that he has suffered ongoing discrimination and harassment due to his race, which he feels is either tolerated or even condoned by management.

'The tribunal consider that, having regard to the pleaded case... [Mr Bahar] has not provided evidence to support this allegation.'

Perhaps where there's palpably no evidence, legal aid to sue should be automatically refused?