tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post1046765980468258993..comments2024-03-29T05:24:12.453+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: CARING, THE NEW EVIL.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-38646063398422884292015-09-13T01:49:30.312+01:002015-09-13T01:49:30.312+01:00I meant, mr tdg, to say Valley of the shadow of D...I meant, mr tdg, to say Valley of the shadow of Death - the Almighty's valley, rather than the Lord Tennyson's; the 23rd Psalm, rather than the Charge of the Light Brigade. There is always something wrong.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-43181774979274180012015-09-12T23:14:48.634+01:002015-09-12T23:14:48.634+01:00THank you, mr dick but there is no great import to...THank you, mr dick but there is no great import to this treatment, no alaruinms and excursions and there are other options if it fails, this is just the least invasive.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-29082559742322037812015-09-12T20:09:11.764+01:002015-09-12T20:09:11.764+01:00Geez dude, all sounds a bit rum - all the very bes...Geez dude, all sounds a bit rum - all the very best and I hope the itching isn't driving you demented. I guess, on some tiny tangent - the quality of M&S ready meals are pretty dam good these days, vast improvement in the last few years. Seriously tho, good luck.Dick the Prickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02683095612320513712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-39139735969787475052015-09-12T13:34:08.162+01:002015-09-12T13:34:08.162+01:00One could profitably spend a week teaching the lit...One could profitably spend a week teaching the literary skilled how and why each word in this piece could not have been another. tdgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-87263830771402424832015-09-12T07:31:20.272+01:002015-09-12T07:31:20.272+01:00Spotted elsewhere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...Spotted elsewhere:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1PEWCmEMJM<br /><br />Sums it up, succinctly.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-69911239154059908152015-09-11T16:35:51.968+01:002015-09-11T16:35:51.968+01:00Here is an hour long documentary which only requir...Here is an hour long documentary which only requires you to sit back and let the presenter hit his fruity stride. It explains about the swan and how it came in to being, and what that meant socially, politically, technologically, and philosophically. <br /><br />Mechanical Marvels, Clockwork Dreams.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLb54FCMt9o<br /><br />Mrs Raft on tour.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-67860304482026156532015-09-11T15:17:36.627+01:002015-09-11T15:17:36.627+01:00Visited the mechanical swan but missed the 2pm per...Visited the mechanical swan but missed the 2pm performance, Mr Verge. They have beautifully presented videos on spooky floating screens for those unable to be there. I'm afraid we came over irreverant at the wee jewelled mouse, imagining it running round and being stamped on by a short-sighted guest, then Mr Bowes yelling "That cost me £22 I'll have thee know. Extorrrtionate". <br /><br />The place is a mad treasure house where taste swings widely from the sublime to the ridiculous. The bad stuff is almost more informative than the good. To be fair, their far-sighted decision to collect sample textiles probably looked silly at the time. Now it is a treasure trove of techiques and materials, much of it with original documentation. The YSL foundation chose a sympathetic museum to work with. People were dressing up for the visit. Mr Raft had the pleasure of driving his old convertible with the top down and parking it outside the chateau, then crunching over the gravel whilst wearing his best flat hat and leather jacket. Yves would have approved. In the glorious warmth of late summer, a pair of aging hippies finally achieve the cool of 1966, stepping in to the magazine picutures. We had dinner out and drove home with the lid still down, a warm wind blowing the stars around. Glamour does not last but by golly it is a powerful drug while it runs. <br />Mrs Raft (on tour).<br /><br />Here is the swan.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOXqCuqDOiI<br /><br /> Many of the items in the museum make more sense when they are understood as technical masterpieces which show off the ability to take materials to their limits. The spiral glass rods, for example, are fascinating even when still. <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-47290602639241196922015-09-11T14:42:09.664+01:002015-09-11T14:42:09.664+01:00Thanks, mrs woar, I will read that when I get home...Thanks, mrs woar, I will read that when I get home. I hope it gets as much coverage as the dead kid, and as much response.<br /><br />I an afraid I simply don't know what you and mr verge are talking about, is this a fish museum?call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-65486332745087579632015-09-11T14:36:56.579+01:002015-09-11T14:36:56.579+01:00A tenet of stanislavism, that, best keep out from ...A tenet of stanislavism, that, best keep out from hand of doctorbastard, fucking kill a bloke with filthy fucking hands, clothes all cover up with germ, and fucking idle greedybastard fucking arsehole excuse for physician give stanislav drug not fit to unblock fucking drain but PharmaRep says, eeyare, doctor, give this fucking rubbish to patient and have free holiday in Rio de fucking Janeiro; oh, fuck me, nearly forgot, have gold Rolex, too. Tested? Work on fucking guinea pig, is good enough, job done.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-41257457387503015082015-09-11T14:28:01.015+01:002015-09-11T14:28:01.015+01:00I was watching a sign-zone version of a Panorama s...I was watching a sign-zone version of a Panorama show, mr inmate, in the early hours, about the menace of socialism, when Mr McCluskey appeared at some Northern Gala which was hosting JC but not the Austerity Triplets. This is our national health service, he thundered at NewLabour, these are our schools, so keep your hands-off them, YOU THIEVING TORY BASTARDS! I lolled out loud, just at hearing a bit of passion, instead of the usual business speak, in which even the dogs in the street now consider themselves fluent.<br /><br />The thing which most annoys me is that MediaMinster applauds the idea of poorly trained nurses and doctors and social care workers fetching-up here. That frail old people, much less seriously ill hospital patients, should, in their time of dying, be surrounded by Poles and Pakistanis and now Syrians, who not only do not speck English but whose whole enculturation is alien to the vulnerable in their charge. It is absolutely monstrous. The need for such workers, may and should be lessened by smarter accommodation, monitoring and medication solutions but we will need tens of thousands of well-trained, English-speaking, well-paid and well respected workers; Ludmilla, on the cheap, cursing the old folks in Latvian, is taking the piss.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-65973586660408789172015-09-11T14:19:58.158+01:002015-09-11T14:19:58.158+01:00rule no7: stay away from hospitals - they are full...rule no7: stay away from hospitals - they are full of sick people<br />rule no8: eventually it is the blasted doctor who kills you<br /><br />I received my getting-fucking-old invite to a medical the other day. This came complete with a toddlers' guide to drinking and eating. Do I eat five or more once a week, once a month, once a... Do you skip breakfast - more than once a week... It was at that point that I knew I was one my last legs because I skip breakfast seven days per week, and have done since I managed to escape Primary School. Anyway, it has been binned. Impertinent fuckers.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-85339708495646039022015-09-11T13:58:59.981+01:002015-09-11T13:58:59.981+01:00Did you see the piscivorous automaswan while you w...Did you see the piscivorous automaswan while you were there, Mrs Raft? (Not sure what the nowaday equivalent might be, in the more-money-than-sense department - buying a berth on Brancid's spacehopper, perhaps?)<br /><br />Thanks for the Australian newsfeed - Mr K claimed "the captain jumped into the sea and fled". On the back of a passing porpoise I expect.<br /><br />verge./Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-13378081811508732702015-09-11T13:08:53.729+01:002015-09-11T13:08:53.729+01:00Here it comes. Sydney Morning Herald.
One of the ...Here it comes. Sydney Morning Herald.<br /><br />One of the surviving passengers of the boat paid $10,000 for their passage but did not think to buy her own children so much as a rubber ring. Just give me strength. She says she paid it via an intermediary to Mr Kurdi, the one who has conveniently lost his wife and children, who was in fact the skipper of the boat.<br /><br />But the fucking idiot couldn't drive the thing and was playing silly buggers, with the result that they hit a wave and capsized. I don't think that you need particularly bad weather to flip those over if they are over-loaded and wrongly handled. <br /><br />I repeat: do not make public policy on the basis of weeping parents who are in the understandable grip of trying to shift their own culpability for the death of their children. And that goes for the weeping woman, too.<br /><br />http://www.smh.com.au/world/migrant-crisis/aylan-kurdis-father-is-a-people-smuggler-woman-claims-20150911-gjkt2m.html<br /><br />Mrs Raft (just back from the Bowes Museum YSL exhibition, which is strangely poignant as his working life charted the glamour years from 1958 to 2002. It will enrage some but I urge you to see this as there is more to it than just frocks.)<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-34421251005705707512015-09-11T12:43:18.662+01:002015-09-11T12:43:18.662+01:00Aye, 'tis the new gold rush. Unless of course ...Aye, 'tis the new gold rush. Unless of course you are one of those carers; Zero hours contracts, minimum wage, unpaid for travelling between 'client's' homes, pay for your own transport, one day off a week. I'm sure most carers would welcome £3000 a week for cooking, cleaning, arse-wiping and trying to be pleasant to some old duffer who probably hasn't a clue whothefuck you are.<br />They are angels, most of em, and after he has erected the shiny Guillotine brother Corbyn should recognise the sacrifice they give for our old and infirm, bring them back under the states wing and reward them accordingly.<br /><br />As an aside,the CEO of the local, not national, Guide Dogs charity 'earns' £250,000, while the trainers work as volunteers. inmatenoreply@blogger.com