Thursday, 25 December 2025

Merry Christmas 2025

 

Warmest wishes and thanks to all Ishmaelites who have read my ramblings over the last year and occasionally contributed thoughts, knowledge and analysis to the commentariat. You are all the reason for the continued existence of this blog - were it not for you, it would be like the tree falling in the forest - does it make a sound if there is no-one there to hear it?
Particular thanks to editor mr verge, who painstakingly anthologised the four books of the writings of mr ishmael and his young friend, stanislav, the polish plumber, here to make better life.

Have a happy day, the sprouts should be done by now, and I sincerely hope that you've got the Gaviscon in.

Should you get bored, there's always The Ba', for a taste of Orkney life. Here's a little clip from a previous game:

The Ba' for the Boy's game is thrown up at 11:00 am, the Men's Ba' is thrown up at 1.00pm. The Balfour Hospital will get busy dealing with the injuries tomorrow, when the adrenalin has worn off. If you want to watch the action, here's a link to the live feed:(17) Video | Facebook 

Merry Christmas and watch out for incontinent flying snowmen.

10 comments:

ultrapox said...

a happy christmas to you too, mrs ishmael, and of course an equally happy christmas to all who comment here - unfortunately however, it will prove a hopeless christmas for many - an actuality which sir keir starver apparently recognizes:


keir starmer urges public to ‘reach out’ as he acknowledges cost-of-living struggle

prime minister keir starmer has acknowledged that many are “still struggling with the cost of living” in a christmas message posted on wednesday morning.

he said “we should each do our bit” as he urged people to “call around to a neighbour, check in on a friend or a relative who you haven’t heard from for a while.”

“at this time of the year, which celebrates love and abundance, loss or hardship can feel even more acute,” he stated, urging people to “reach out”.


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reach out?

if during the phantom-pandemic, sir killer had encouraged people to 'reach out', rather than to suicidally self-isolate, he could have prevented the unnecessary lockdown-deaths of over two hundred thousand vulnerable britons - who in fact perished from pre-existing, but treatable, health-conditions.

reach the fuck out?

has the prime miser lost all touch with reality?

in the uk, the only reason folks want to 'reach out' is to strangle the cunt.

mrs ishmael said...

Welcome back, mr ultrapox, and a very merry Christmas to you!

ultrapox said...

thank you, mrs ishmael, i was indeed last night left a little indisposed by post-festival fatigue, and in that consequence, must now beg your pardon for incautiously inserting a dash - in place of a comma - after the word 'here', in the first paragraph of uvw 1050.

mrs ishmael said...

'Twas the champagne that did it, n'est ce pas, monsieur ultrapox? We will forgive this lapse from your usual standards.

ultrapox said...

as our high hostess, i thank you kindly for your innate and inestimable tolerance in these libational regards...

but oh dear me...

in the misery-mired manner of the starmer-ministry, i seem to have entered a correction-continuum doom-loop, mrs ishmael, for i meant to write uwv, of course.

now, in answer to your piscatorially-prompted enquiry, i must emphasize that, no, i am simply not of the champagne-slurping - and nor, for that matter, cia-snow-snorting - class - which is, in these topsy-turvy times, pretty-much a labour-preserve, init...?

however, i do rather wonder whether the gallon of stone's ginger-wine - consumed hereabouts in celebration of our good lord's humble out-popping - might perhaps have had some small bearing on my recent incapacity...

i will return when i have duly completed my grateful - and graceful - acceptance-speech for the award of - runaway - caption-contest winner 2025.

this comment has been composed in aid of the christmas 'til candlemas rebellion.

stuff yer twelve days where the sun don't shine, queen vicky

Mike said...

Best wishes, mr ultrapox, and to all. I fear 2026 could deliver even worse results!!

Mr mongoose, 2 days for a test match FFS. I've been saying to anyone who would listen that in all my years I've never seen such green wickets. Very un-Australian. Cheating, I would say.

ultrapox said...

thank you mr mike, and may i wish a merry yuletide to you and yours. keep the yule-log burning, and roast an extra banger upon it for me.


as you will have guessed, my absence from the team has not been out of choice, but has been enforced by the prevalence of personal and domestic issues, the resolution of which can no longer be postponed - i just thank god that i am at least in a position to tackle these problems.

i'm afraid to say that i've barely found the opportunity even to read mrs ishmael's dissertations provocatrices and the pursuant contributions of the commentariat, however i note and respect your determination to stay at the crease in your struggle versus the 'covid' mrna death-jab.

a south korean study of 8.7 million medical records has "suggested epidemiological associations between the cumulative incidence of cancers and 'covid'-19 vaccination, which varied by sex, age and vaccine type", but the authors of this research have stated that "further studies are warranted to elucidate potential causal relationships, including the underlying molecular mechanisms related to 'covid'-19 vaccine-induced hyperinflammation.”

furthermore, the authors of an italian study of nearly 300000 health-records have come to the following conclusion:


"the subjects who received sars-cov-2 vaccination showed almost half the risk of all-cause death after a median follow-up of 25 months. we also observed an inconstant association between covid-19 vaccination and cancer hospitalization, depending on infection status, cancer site, and the minimum lag-time between vaccination and cancer. as the results might be influenced by the confounding effect of a differential healthcare utilization by vaccinated individuals, they must be considered preliminary, and further data are definitely required to elucidate the potential association between cancer and covid-19 vaccination."

Mike said...

Mr ultrapox: Those vaccination studies are definitive as far as I'm concerned. A very distinguished virologist here in Australia had requests for pathology on suspected patients declined. Unprecedented. Pathology of heart and other organ inflammation would be conclusive. This is all recorded on Dr Campbell's youtube channel in videos of approx 2 years ago.

BTW, I've written a few research papers myself, and its almost obligatory boilerplate to say "more studies are needed". Apart from anything else, it keeps the research money coming in.

ultrapox said...
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ultrapox said...

there's been a 'covid' death-jab cover-up, mr mike: from the inception of 'covid'-vaccine-trials until the present, it's been official policy not to investigate 'covid'-vaccine-injury and 'covid'-vaccine-death; there have been potentially millions of 'covid'-vaccine-injuries and tens of thousands who have died due to 'covid'-vaccination, yet how can we determine the scale of 'covid'-vaccine-injury and death, when 'covid'-vaccine-injury and death continues not to be investigated?

the causal relationship between 'covid'-vaccination and cancer is already known, however the guilt-ridden uk government has simply chosen to ignore the evidence of this link - which has been duly provided by the mrc toxicology unit, a world-leading research centre at the university of cambridge.

in brief, the mrc toxicology unit has discovered that 25-30% of mrna-‘covid’-vaccine-recipients have suffered ‘ frame-shifting’ or ‘slippage’, and that this glitch has caused recipients' body-cells to wrongly decode ‘vaccine’-delivered mrna - such that ‘nonsensical’, but ostensibly ‘harmless’, proteins have been formed...

unfortunately however, these ‘nonsensical’, but ‘harmless’, proteins have contrarily elicited an ‘unintended’, ‘off-target’, or ‘misdirected’ immune-response which could prove ‘potentially harmful’ - and therefore could, one might reasonably suppose, leave the body's immune-defence-door wide open to the development of cancer.

germany, some years ago, established clinics which specialize in 'covid'-vaccine-injury.

why hasn't the uk government set-up such clinics?

minister of health karl lauterbach - germany's 'covid'-vaccine supremo - was forced to apologize to the nation for pushing the hazardous 'covid'-vaccine upon the population.

why have not british people received a similar apology?

the danish government was forced to apologize to the nation for mass-vaccinating children against 'covid'.

why have not british people received a similar apology?