tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post302203798849092646..comments2024-03-27T18:34:28.763+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: The Sunday Ishmael 6th September 2020call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-14648547333139562042020-09-13T12:23:16.772+01:002020-09-13T12:23:16.772+01:00Be careful Mrs Ishmael its not politically correct...Be careful Mrs Ishmael its not politically correct!Benjaminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-29877466097652136942020-09-13T11:24:10.084+01:002020-09-13T11:24:10.084+01:00Hi, mr benjamin, I will have another look on your ...Hi, mr benjamin, I will have another look on your recommendation. The Human Genme Project put paid to much speculation - both academic and bar-room, on the causes of human behaviour. Whilst we were happy to accept - since Gregor Mendel's work in the mid nineteenth century, that physical characteristics were transmitted from the parents; behavioural characteristics were subjected to the Nature v Nurture debate and it was usually concluded that poor maternal parenting was responsible for societally-undesirable behaviours. (That Freud -what was he like! Best avoided.)<br />The unravelling of the genome conclusively consigned to the trash-compactor much theorising that had formerly had academic respectability. Turns out we are not blank slates, waiting for our future destiny to be written thereon. Nope, the future person is in the genes. Popular wisdom had it taped, as usual - "look at the mother if you want to know what your gorgeous girlfriend will be like in 30 years' time".<br />The Jesuit saying - "give me the child until he is 7 and I will give you the man" -originally one of Aristotle's - refers not to those practices for which the Curch is infamous, but to the efficacy of the Jesuitical brain-washing programme. Again, it's theoretical position is that of the child as empty vessel, just waiting to be poured full of knowledge and ideology, to have its character and sexuality shaped. But NO! It's in the genes.<br />And the truly interesting, break-through corollary is that, because each individual human (and every other mammalian species)has their own genetic programme which is now understood, the precise type and dosage of medication for that individual can be fairly simply developed. You quoted the chairman of Smith Glaxo Klein, mr benjamin, as saying that there is no universal drug for everyone. That's right - but it is possible to have an individually-tailored drug for everyone. First, though, it would be some achievement to give every brown child a drink of clean water and stop bombing their asses off, as mr ishmael would have said. mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-16797384999757939052020-09-13T09:59:33.313+01:002020-09-13T09:59:33.313+01:00Perhaps theres a gene for homosexuality, transgend...Perhaps theres a gene for homosexuality, transgenderism etc, I remember two families when i was growing the males where effeminate and the females where masculineBenjaminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-76065461755305013212020-09-13T06:15:21.932+01:002020-09-13T06:15:21.932+01:00 there,s no there,s noBenjaminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-88099572325074003592020-09-13T06:14:17.158+01:002020-09-13T06:14:17.158+01:00Mrs Ishmael the mighty work is well worth a read i...Mrs Ishmael the mighty work is well worth a read if only for the article on genes, I didnt know that people from hot countries have a gene for the retention of salt and when they move to cold countries it works against them ie cardio problems, I think the chairman of Smith Glaxo Klein said universal drug for everyoneBenjaminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-59023872749407808362020-09-12T21:16:23.440+01:002020-09-12T21:16:23.440+01:00Thank you for the link, mr benjmin - I had a glanc...Thank you for the link, mr benjmin - I had a glance, but it seems a mighty work and I'm not sure I can commit to it.<br />Last Night of the Proms tonight, and a very strange one it is. God bless them for doing their best to recreate the Proms experience despite the Covid restrictions, but it simply doesn't work without the rabid Promenaders, their routines, fun and jingoism. As I type this, Jerusalem is being slaughtered. Yet another casualty of whateveritis that has seized the nation.<br />We must laugh, mr bungalow bill. I hope it is the remedy that may turn the tide. I don't recall it working so far, however, other than in the wave of ridicule occasioned by Gordon and his nappy-shambles.<br />You know, messrs mongoose and yardarm, it is the misunderstood pseudo-scientific bollox and accompanying "guidance" updated daily, that is the truly depressing element of the national paranoia. mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-53486597305493391422020-09-12T19:14:06.011+01:002020-09-12T19:14:06.011+01:00An interesting read for you Mrs Ishmael
https://...An interesting read for you Mrs Ishmael<br /> https://analyseeconomique.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/richard-d-fuerle-erectus-walks-amongst-us.pdfBenjaminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-82297927427821871522020-09-11T22:29:45.636+01:002020-09-11T22:29:45.636+01:00I suggested above that it was getting beyond a jok...I suggested above that it was getting beyond a joke, but nothing does that. Let's laugh at little Handjob and his sweaty, twitching desperation; let's laugh at our deranged Pennywise PM. Let us, above all, laugh at our moronic, hanky-chewing compatriots, aching to submit.<br /><br />Fuck them all and may they drown in their absurdity. We only need to keep pointing it out.Bungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-53633892324774829332020-09-11T01:21:51.771+01:002020-09-11T01:21:51.771+01:00Indeed, mr yardarm. The only way out of RNA corona...Indeed, mr yardarm. The only way out of RNA coronavirii, coronaviruses (?) is to wait for them to mutate to a lower lethality - as mrs i talked about the other day. The government, all governments, are hip-deep in doom-saying loons. "Something must be done!" It does look as if the 1% mortality error was true. Not 1% of folk who get the virus - becasue most of them won't know - but 1% of those who get it seriously. All these governments must know now and are just trying to con us that the economic disaster was "necessary".mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-24554192942357769492020-09-10T21:05:04.713+01:002020-09-10T21:05:04.713+01:00Is it called a feedback loop ? The government pani...Is it called a feedback loop ? The government panicked in March with blunderlock and have since blundered from one panic to another, blundering, flapping; moribund quacks like Whitty covering their arses, Johnson comatose with post viral fatigue and trembling with fear, knowing his time in office will be forever cursed, worthless prats like Hancock, unspeakable in his uselessness, most people I know flapping like headless chickens, shitting themselves with imaginery terrors. Fear reinforcing fear.<br /><br />The fact that most councils are skint might prevent them from hiring covid marshals, useless fucking noddies.yardarmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-83345113765518052412020-09-10T12:54:20.849+01:002020-09-10T12:54:20.849+01:00Indeed, Mr Mike, and now too poor to argue.
This ...Indeed, Mr Mike, and now too poor to argue.<br /><br />This is interesting:<br /><br /><i>"If your chances of having coronavirus are already quite high – say because you have a new continuous cough or fever – then a test comes back positive you can be confident you have the virus.<br /><br />But currently only about one in 2,000 people chosen at random have the virus. The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies says that assuming a test picks up 80 per cent of true infections and gives the all clear 96 per cent of the time this would mean of the 4,152 people who test positive out of every 100,000 only 160 people of them would actually have coronavirus.<br /><br />The other 3,992 face being told to isolate needlessly for two weeks. Scaled up nationally, this is millions of people a day."</i><br /><br />from https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/statistics-teach-us-to-be-sceptical-about-operation-moonshot-fx3xtgqdhmongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-72063058449303721132020-09-10T11:49:45.749+01:002020-09-10T11:49:45.749+01:00Indeed Mrs I, and the ratchet only works one way. ...Indeed Mrs I, and the ratchet only works one way. As for the dog fighting back, if I have understood correctly, well that bird has flown. Too fat, too lazy, too stupid, too dependent on the state.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-85330846484451685982020-09-10T10:25:11.414+01:002020-09-10T10:25:11.414+01:00Riot Shields, helmets with face visors and side ar...Riot Shields, helmets with face visors and side arms, mr mongoose. No point in waging war on the citizenry unless you take all proper precautions.<br />Ce chien est très méchant. Quand on l'attaque il se défend!<br /><br />In the space of 9 months this country has descended into totalitarianism, akin to mid- twentieth century Europe and USSR.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-41382093918780041442020-09-09T22:09:19.589+01:002020-09-09T22:09:19.589+01:00I had seen it indeed, mrs i. I am sure that it is ...I had seen it indeed, mrs i. I am sure that it is necessary that this militia is set in place to ensure the security of the people against, err, against, err, against themselves! <br /><br />Are they going to wear black shirts, do you think?mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-91202486225131804472020-09-09T21:06:22.600+01:002020-09-09T21:06:22.600+01:00You heard about this, mr mongoose? "Mr Johnso...You heard about this, mr mongoose? "Mr Johnson said marshals would be sent out to ensure people are keeping a distance of at least 2metres from those outside their household and are not meeting in groups larger than six. He said: “We will boost the enforcement capacity of local authorities by introducing COVID-secure marshals to help ensure social distancing in town and city centres and by setting up a register of environmental health officers that local authorities can draw upon for support.”<br />mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-68613262992343533902020-09-09T20:28:19.763+01:002020-09-09T20:28:19.763+01:00The piccie was taken with a v long lens, as I reca...The piccie was taken with a v long lens, as I recall, that is, your honour. Wasn't it couple of fields over and having shinned up an apple tree or similar?<br /><br />I see that Boris has come up trumps for us:<br /><br />'But as your Prime Minister, I must do what is necessary to stop the spread of the virus and to save lives. And of course we will keep the rule of six under constant review and only keep it in place as long as is necessary.'<br /><br />One more time...<br /><br />So spake the fiend, and with necessity,<br />The tyrants plea, excused his devilish deeds.<br /><br />I see also that they are making the argument that the rise in cases is not an artefact of the number of tests being undertaken. We shall see about that.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-65617435217998093392020-09-09T10:38:43.816+01:002020-09-09T10:38:43.816+01:00I’ve often wondered that myself Mrs Ishmael. The f...I’ve often wondered that myself Mrs Ishmael. The fact that our betters have the means to secure their privacy then hell mend them if they see their tits in the paper.<br />Must have been a right FFS moment for all concerned though.<br />Although with technology these days; a simple free software off the interweb and bobs your uncle. I believe they used to call it airbrushing.<br />I wonder if the editor of whatever paper bought these photos had the guarantee that they weren’t touched up…so to speak.<br />Doug Shouldersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-35110693916773814172020-09-09T09:42:03.427+01:002020-09-09T09:42:03.427+01:00Indeed, mr mike - with fame and fortune comes the ...Indeed, mr mike - with fame and fortune comes the violation of privacy, as the Duchess' never-to-have-been mother-in-law discovered, and then exploited, to her great cost and the sorrow of a grieving nation. I was in central Birmingham at the time of Princess Di's death, and drawn by the scent of flowers, walked over to Birmingham Cathedral, where the lawns around the Cathedral were thickly covered in masses of flowers, all in their cellophane wrappings and sparkling in the sunshine.<br />It is astounding that, with all the knowledge they have of the resourcefulness of the paparazzi; the wife of the future King of Great Britain and the mother of his heirs, should choose to strip off outside where it might be expected that a photographer would capture the moment to his own great delight and certain profit.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-50639598843151291832020-09-07T22:53:24.183+01:002020-09-07T22:53:24.183+01:00I can understand why the noble Duchess tried to ha...I can understand why the noble Duchess tried to have that picture banned.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-77353669156778317872020-09-07T22:11:02.094+01:002020-09-07T22:11:02.094+01:00He surely does, mr verge - lets them know that he&...He surely does, mr verge - lets them know that he's in charge. Force of nature, our Harris. You remember how he routed the cow invasion from the garden? Beasts so heavy their feet sank inches into the lawn, and Harris had them on the hop back over the garden wall, barking at their ankles. 7.8 kilos of pure aggressive hatred for all things bovine and feline.<br />Personally, I don't speak Belfast, but one of the ishmaelites will help us out, no doubt.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-63261731978994006552020-09-07T19:37:57.915+01:002020-09-07T19:37:57.915+01:00Love that "Harris is back, MFs" - does h...Love that "Harris is back, MFs" - does he still put it about like that?<br /><br />And "the Devil will shit when he meets me" - never heard that one before. Every day a schoolday. I wonder if it's another Belfast turn of phrase?<br /><br /><br />v./<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com