tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post4581720705359038024..comments2024-03-29T05:24:12.453+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: The Sunday Ishmael 29/03/2020call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-52871148405297474032020-04-03T16:38:27.772+01:002020-04-03T16:38:27.772+01:00Thanks, Mr Mike, the translated Italian scientist ...Thanks, Mr Mike, the translated Italian scientist makes for interesting and helpful reading, though I'm not sure what to make of the main/other author's remark in his list of criteria for a scientist's credibility: "Whether his physiognomy is in reasonable harmony with perceivable symptoms of credibility. An idea elaborated in extreme detail and with a massive related study, by the Swiss author Johann Lavater, at the end of the 1700." Cranky, much?<br /><br />v./Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-23985143667538634902020-04-03T12:00:55.139+01:002020-04-03T12:00:55.139+01:00These are dark imaginings, mr inmate and mr siegfr...These are dark imaginings, mr inmate and mr siegfried, and as we have noted, further down the road, the remedy may be worse than that from which it purports to defend. Thanks for the article, mr mike, it sets out the facts, arguments and opinions that we ishmaelites have already considered, but with a marvellous insight into Italy and its particular problems of corruption, propagandising and stupidity - a toxic cocktail, and not one unique to Italy by any means.<br />mr mongoose's little 'un is smacking straight into the problem - money is just a belief system and when we cease to believe, it all comes tumbling down. I had intended to sell mr ishmael's manse, urged on by a well-meaning friend, a widow-woman herself, who told me that the manse is far too large for me to manage. Now there is no buying and selling of houses, and we have to make the best of what we already have. Or haven't, in mongosling2's case. I'm thinking of getting some tatties and carrots in, maybe a few neeps - may come in useful when we all emerge into the post-covid19-containment world, blinking in the sunshine at the brave new world that has such people (although not all of them) in it.<br />mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-62515913474470908102020-04-02T19:04:11.890+01:002020-04-02T19:04:11.890+01:00That's another interesting article. It is almo...That's another interesting article. It is almost certinly true that a very great many people have the virus in them or have had it and not noticed. <br /><br />I see that Eddie Large has croaked, poor lad, "of coronavirus" or "having contracted coronavirus" depending on which story you read. Eddie had a heart transplant almost 20 years ago FFS and was in hospital when he apparently became infected.<br /><br />Mongosling2 is planning her life and wants to buy a house or a flat. Confused why her savings account pays no interest, I got up the BoE graph on MLR since I was a nipper. "Money's not worth anything!?", she squeaked. A flat and a nice car just turned intoa wee house near a railway in S Lincs and a runabout.<br />mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-71429902243657457932020-04-02T09:46:42.787+01:002020-04-02T09:46:42.787+01:00Indeed Mr BB. I oscillate daily on this. But there...Indeed Mr BB. I oscillate daily on this. But there is absolutely no question that Western economies, particularly the US, are bust, and the trillions being sloshed around now seem like the last hurrah, a lot of it only tangential to the virus. A yuge amount of money is on the move as we type. Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-35298833824536588922020-04-02T09:16:27.687+01:002020-04-02T09:16:27.687+01:00There is something very strange at work, Mr Mike. ...There is something very strange at work, Mr Mike. I have found it always wise to follow the money when I do not know where else to look.Bungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-43950161211012971012020-04-02T03:37:05.367+01:002020-04-02T03:37:05.367+01:00For all you people incarcerated at home, here'...For all you people incarcerated at home, here's an interesting article.<br /><br />https://thesaker.is/the-coronavirus-and-galileo/Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-22238080120791945992020-04-01T19:53:39.442+01:002020-04-01T19:53:39.442+01:00Mrs I and fellow Ishmaelites
I would suggest the c...Mrs I and fellow Ishmaelites<br />I would suggest the current lockdown is to slowly get the public used to the coming enforcement of UN Agenda 21, something that most nations are signed up to. <br />The Corona virus pandemic has come at a most opportune time for tptb, the chance to restrict movement, to cut back on non essential shopping, to gradually remove the useless eaters- old folk- to save on future state pension payments, get us used to not using private transport, even those electric vehicle nonsense. Even the St Greta green agenda was promised by the barren hag May, no petrol or diesel cars by 2030, no carbon production/emissions by 2050...please do fuck off. The building of high rise apartments crammed into city centres close to tram stops, rail and buses; for travel to and from the workplace only. The now constant tut-tut by our betters of dog walkers in the countryside, soon to be banned to allow it to return to wilderness. There will be vast areas of the world were no one will be allowed to live; as mr Ishmael often observed, fuck the black kids an their need for clean drinking water.<br />This is no conspiracy theory, it was thought up by perhaps well meaning scientists, statisticians and yes, probably a few wealthy globalists to save the planet for future generations of our betters.<br /><br />Thank Mrs I for publishing mr I’s drafts, keeping his beautiful writing out there ont ‘tinternet. inmatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-23023513489830447242020-03-31T00:01:40.527+01:002020-03-31T00:01:40.527+01:00@dave badfood
hey, badfood...
i hear johnson'...@dave badfood<br /><br />hey, badfood...<br /><br />i hear johnson's gone so far fuckin' left 'e's started to wear red socks...daley doobienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-87724735986796510732020-03-30T23:59:21.751+01:002020-03-30T23:59:21.751+01:00@daley doobie
if johnson's grown a tache whil...@daley doobie<br /><br />if johnson's grown a tache whilst in hiding from the plain bloody scientific truth, i'll sue the cheeky bugger for trademark-infringement - and that goes for you too doobie, you dozy prat.dave badfoodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-87892258280687570412020-03-30T22:24:34.681+01:002020-03-30T22:24:34.681+01:00@siegfried scheißspinner
to verify whether the pr...@siegfried scheißspinner<br /><br />to verify whether the prime minister is indeed a natural dialectical materialist, i propose that we first examine the state of his tache.daley doobienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-55811437028718886192020-03-30T22:13:14.263+01:002020-03-30T22:13:14.263+01:00by subjecting us to a totally redundant social cra...by subjecting us to a totally redundant social crackdown - and thus slashing carbon-dioxide and highly toxic nitrogen-dioxide levels with his revolutionary marxist-leninist sickle - has stir-crazy stalinist boris inadvertently saved the world from an impending climate-change-catastrophe and rescued our poisoned urban populations from the capitalist-pig-pumped pollution of lethal diesel-engine-emissions?siegfried scheißspinnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-31915291887658272412020-03-30T00:18:24.176+01:002020-03-30T00:18:24.176+01:00There is a phenomenon in life, mrs i, sin't th...There is a phenomenon in life, mrs i, sin't there that "saying" a problem makes one think it out a little bit further. (This is especially true of crossword clues btw.) Anyway, I have now solved the workshop gig and we will be as good as new tomorrow sometime. <br /><br />That's a good article, Mr Mike, thank-you. Dr Lee is a sound lad.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-43672250486541818372020-03-29T21:46:20.301+01:002020-03-29T21:46:20.301+01:00thank you, mr mike, for the link - it is to an art...thank you, mr mike, for the link - it is to an article by Dr. John Lee, a recently retired professor of pathology and a former NHS consultant pathologist, writing in The Spectator. It doesn't say anything that we have not already discussed here in the blog, but it sums it up very neatly. I particularly like his distinction between dying with the virus as opposed to dying of the virus - the point being that eventually everyone who dies will die testing positive for Coronavirus - but that is not a death rate of 100%, it is a consequence of the entire population having been exposed to the virus, so that they carry the antibodies that their immune systems have developed to deal with the invader - but they are actually dying of one of the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. He concludes that the death rate is comfortably below 1%, as we have been saying throughout.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-22033843527083016242020-03-29T21:26:53.456+01:002020-03-29T21:26:53.456+01:00mr mongoose, I have all that stuff in my byre, but...mr mongoose, I have all that stuff in my byre, but the costs of sending it would outweigh the utility of the stuff, I should think. Does your local Jewsons not deliver? Are they not allowed to deliver? A shame not to do a proper job, especially if a stream is involved. But nothing wrong with bodging. mr ishmael told me that bodging, or chair-bodgering is a traditional woodturning craft, using green (unseasoned) wood to make chair legs and other cylindrical parts of chairs. The work was done close to where a tree was felled. The itinerant craftsman who made the chair legs was known as a bodger or chair-bodger. mr ishmael used to know that sort of stuff, on account of his furniture restoration and life-long learning.<br /><br /><br /> mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-73202594828451287422020-03-29T20:53:52.666+01:002020-03-29T20:53:52.666+01:00A good read along the lines we have been discussin...A good read along the lines we have been discussing in recent days. <br /><br />https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-to-understand-and-report-figures-for-covid-19-deaths-Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-48887049810957021232020-03-29T20:25:54.798+01:002020-03-29T20:25:54.798+01:00yes indeed, the amateur days of ten-pints-in-the-t...yes indeed, the amateur days of ten-pints-in-the-tank, dave bedford, are gone, along with his eponymous van, and replaced with the prissy professional personalities of politically correct perfection - dave's rough-cut rebel-image, once an object of frenzied media-condemnation, now cynically subverted as an unashamed source of pirated profit for the amoral ad-men.<br /><br />to be honest, when you see nubile new-comer dina dasher-mascara naïvely roped into doing a cheap 'n cheezy gym-promotion, you really wonder whether the sugar-dusted promise of rat-racing celebrity-world will all end up being rather a desperately disillusionary disappointment - and worth dedicating herself to the <i>de rigueur</i> dictionary-devouring diet.<br /><br />yeah, of course, i would...<br /><br />let her boost publicity for my own carbon-free fitness-and-funeral-parlour...<br /><br />coz let's face reality man, when we put "stiff" steve ovett in a pink skin-tight crop-top 'n leggings it scared all my fucking punters off.<br /><br />what projects 'ave i got lined up for the future?<br /><br />well, you know, now we're all in permanent political lock-down, i'm just busy beavering away at my unauthorized collective-biography of boris johnson's cabinet...<br /><br />and although i've not made too much progress on the actual writing-part yet, i've at least managed to come up with an acceptable working-title:<br /><br />yep, it's gonna be called <i>cunts are not the only cunts</i>.daley doobienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-10104304658720021422020-03-29T20:10:53.034+01:002020-03-29T20:10:53.034+01:00Pleasure to read, Mrs I, in these dark times. Than...Pleasure to read, Mrs I, in these dark times. Thank you.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-39157407644305916702020-03-29T19:28:53.656+01:002020-03-29T19:28:53.656+01:00I imagine that we are all stuck at home, getting t...I imagine that we are all stuck at home, getting through all those things that never got done. One of mine is the rotting bits of the platform over the stream that supports my workshop. (A workshop in this case meaning a rather large wooden shed.) I don't have enough timber of the right dimensions to fix it properly and I am not allowed out to buy timber. <br /><br />So I am on the verge, Mr BB, of fucking it up. Bodging it. Making it do. Nobody will ever know. Except me, that is. I cannot quite bring myself to do it yet. So it is sitting out there half-done. A silent rebuke. A couple of railway sleepers and three or four shorter scaffolding poles and we'd be perfectly sound for another twenty years. Or recycle a few half-rotten bits and deck it over. Turn my back and flee.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-47374055453897552532020-03-29T18:59:45.757+01:002020-03-29T18:59:45.757+01:00Marvellous and inspirational as ever, Mrs I!Marvellous and inspirational as ever, Mrs I!Oldrightiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03192587284458430556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-23498861676366980982020-03-29T15:44:33.605+01:002020-03-29T15:44:33.605+01:00There's still a great deal of material, mr BB ...There's still a great deal of material, mr BB - I'm currently transcribing the Buddha Bulletins, which may make it onto the blog, although they are early stuff. Thank you.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-4103753188566874252020-03-29T15:18:20.027+01:002020-03-29T15:18:20.027+01:00Thanks, Mr BB - more than likely.
v./Thanks, Mr BB - more than likely.<br /><br />v./Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-84195686975238879382020-03-29T14:50:50.609+01:002020-03-29T14:50:50.609+01:00That last piece reads as complete to me, and as on...That last piece reads as complete to me, and as one of his best. The part about us all self-loathing and fucking things up, crawling through the days, is something to take to heart, because it’s true and it’s liberating. I hope this makes it into the anthology, Mr Verge.Bungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-74134409351111909762020-03-29T14:42:03.648+01:002020-03-29T14:42:03.648+01:00A pleasure and a privilege, mr verge.A pleasure and a privilege, mr verge.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-16693911538128331952020-03-29T13:13:30.808+01:002020-03-29T13:13:30.808+01:00Thank you, Mrs Ishmael; well worth the trouble you...Thank you, Mrs Ishmael; well worth the trouble you've taken to bring this into play. And imagining his own conception like that - Tristram Shandy for the Fuck This Generation?<br /><br />v./Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com