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Alicia wrote: "Snobby but alive?Don't take a visibly ill child with one of the symptoms of the latest covid variants (coughing) out in public - unless you're a denier, and even then, you should not spread anyth..."
Well, yeh, there is that. Mwahahargh. I was particularly keen not to catch anything before I went to the theatre that night, where everyone had a mask on, pretty much all the way through the performance.
This week’s is a bit of a rant but I enjoyed writing it. There’s a book review too. https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2022/02/13/0f...
Wow :-)(oh yes and of course I shared it :-) )
Jim wrote: "Wow :-)(oh yes and of course I shared it :-) )"
Luckily I think the share has slipped under the radar of certain people. Mwahahahrgh! It was a bit of a rant but I'm just so sick of all this shit. Also there's NO comedy on the telly which just proves that a) there are too many extremists out there and b) that we are giving them far too much air time!
Cheers
MTM
The best cure for extremists is humour. When they realise that nobody takes them serious, they have no influence
Jim wrote: "The best cure for extremists is humour. When they realise that nobody takes them serious, they have no influence"Yep, I think that's very true. I remember seeing some graffiti in Portugal that said, 'Nazis have no sense of humour.' I was very amused at the time, but I've always liked it because it's actually spot on.
The intolerant cannot cope with humour, it undermines their sense of self importance and points out to everybody else that the emperor has no clothes :-)
Jim wrote: "The intolerant cannot cope with humour, it undermines their sense of self importance and points out to everybody else that the emperor has no clothes :-)"This is true. They get very angry if you poke fun at them, or even respond in a humorous fashion to the things they say.
I suspect a lot of the anger is because you obviously don't care about their anger
Jim wrote: "I suspect a lot of the anger is because you obviously don't care about their anger"Yeh. Maybe it feels rude to them. I do worry though. Hell, handcarts and all that.
M.T. wrote: "Jim wrote: "I suspect a lot of the anger is because you obviously don't care about their anger"Yeh. Maybe it feels rude to them. I do worry though. Hell, handcarts and all that."
Remember the debate in the Oxford Union (obviously you weren't there :-) )
"This House will under no circumstances fight for its King and country,"
It was passed with 275 votes for the motion and 153 against it.
Interestingly, and I quote the wiki, "Speaking after the debate, Digby [the proposer of the motion] said: "I believe that the motion was representative neither of the majority of the undergraduates of Oxford nor of the youth of this country. I am certain if war broke out tomorrow the students of the university would flock to the recruiting office as their fathers and uncles did." He was proved right: when World War II broke out in September 1939, the War Office organised a recruiting board at Oxford, which invited undergraduates and resident postgraduates under 25 to enlist: 2,632, out of a potential 3,000, volunteered. McCallum recalled at the outbreak of war two students, "men of light and leading in their college and with a good academic record" visited him to say goodbye before leaving to join their units. Both of them had separately said that if they had to vote on the "King and Country" resolution then and there, they would do so. One of them said: "I am not going to fight for King and Country, and you will notice that no one, not Chamberlain, not Halifax, has asked us to".
When the midden hits the windmill, when it actually matters, things will get real and the froth will disappear
As Chesterton wrote
"They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords,
Lords without anger or honour, who dare not carry their swords.
They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes;
They look at our labour and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
And the load of their loveless pity is worse than the ancient wrongs,
Their doors are shut in the evening; and they know no songs.
We hear men speaking for us of new laws strong and sweet,
Yet is there no man speaketh as we speak in the street.
It may be we shall rise the last as Frenchmen rose the first,
Our wrath come after Russia's wrath and our wrath be the worst.
It may be we are meant to mark with our riot and our rest
God's scorn for all men governing. It may be beer is best.
But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet.
Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget."
:-)
Jim wrote: "M.T. wrote: "Jim wrote: "I suspect a lot of the anger is because you obviously don't care about their anger"Yeh. Maybe it feels rude to them. I do worry though. Hell, handcarts and all that."
Re..."
That's fantastic. Love it. Anyone who can write the Father Brown books has to have a certain amount of wisdom, I suspect! :-)
Struck by the line with 'loveless pity'. Current lot in Westminster don't even stretch to that
Agreed. McOther, being self-made, is a staunch conservative but is just embarrassed by this lot. And those coming in behind just seem to be really unpleasant. It's like there's no let up.
This week, I have been having a good old rant … it’s sort of tongue in cheek and sort of exorcising my concerns by doing a Basil Fawlty on them. Enjoy https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2022/02/27/oh...
I really hope you are right MT and they realise nuclear is not a good option!
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "I really hope you are right MT and they realise nuclear is not a good option!"Me too. I suddenly remembered ‘Russians’ by Sting and I’ve added that at the bottom. He puts it rather better than I did.
Might have to look that up
I excelled myself this week. An absolute titanic fuck up which was also funny. :-) Enjoy. https://mtmcguire.wordpress.com/2022/...
Brilliant I mean only you would admit it :-)
Daphne in the kitchen, with a petal.
Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "Daphne in the kitchen, with a petal."🤣🤣🤣 Well, it makes a change from Professor Plum, in the library with the lead piping.
Jim wrote: "Brilliant
I mean only you would admit it :-)"
🤣🤣 as you know, I have no shame.
Jim wrote: "Love it"Delighted to hear it. 🙂
Just read the blog MT, I'd give you a hug if I met you in real life, I know how horrible disagreeing with family members over dealing with a loved ones dementia can be, and I ended up in the middle of two differing opinions, which kind of split the family for a long time. At least your blog made me laugh after crying! I hope this is the last of the administration issues for a while and you can have some semblance of life for a bit to keep you sane x
Thanks. Bless you. I haven't posted honestly about the dementia for a long time and I just needed to rant a bit. 🤣🤣
I don't think of your posts as rants; more as advance warnings for the rest of us. Nothing you say is untrue.
Alicia wrote: "I don't think of your posts as rants; more as advance warnings for the rest of us. Nothing you say is untrue."Sadly, you're right, it is the truth but hopefully it won't happen to any of you lot! :-) I'm taking magnesium supplements now in the hope that'll stop it happening to me.
I've been taking magnesium for ages - didn't know it was supposed to help.
That's interesting, I use it for my foot pain, but I have noticed I've been playing my game better recently, thought it was just not having neighbour sapping my energy
I think there are different kinds of magnesium because I take it for my achy joints and I use a magnesium cream as well. I was originally recommended it as something to help with the menopause--the whole thing; hot flushes, brain fog all the rest of it. But I couldn't find a magnesium supplement that combined all three. It was either the other two and not the brain fog on. The brain fog one is the one I need most, so that was the one I went for in the end.
May I have the details on the brain fog one? That's my biggest problem, too.
Alicia wrote: "May I have the details on the brain fog one? That's my biggest problem, too."It's Magnesium Threonate. I think it is making a slight difference to me, which is grand, although it's not affecting the achy joints. I need a different type of magnesium for that I think.
Thanks, MT. Will look it up. Some of my meds carry brain fog as a side effect - adds to what I already have - and that plus exhaustion brings me to a standstill.
Can you take different kinds of magnesium?
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Can you take different kinds of magnesium?"You can indeed, Magnesium Sulphate is Epsom salts and a laxative but can be injected subcutaneously into dairy cows to combat acute magnesium shortage :-)
Jim wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Can you take different kinds of magnesium?"You can indeed, Magnesium Sulphate is Epsom salts and a laxative but can be injected subcutaneously into dairy cows to com..."
Yep, the three ones they tend to talk about are Magnesium Threonate for brain fog and brain especially, there's Magnesium Citrate which is about absorbtion of minerals etc, and Magnesum Sulfate for joint pain. But I think there's a fair few more. Avoid OD you're supposed to get most from your food but we only absorb half. The gist of most articles is that it seems to do something but there isn't enough research to be sure.
So there’s another blog post, just to let everyone know I’m still alive!https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2022/06/19/fu...
Here’s this week’s … it’s a lot more up beat than last week’s. :-)https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2022/08/28/care/
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Don't take a visibly ill child with one of the symptoms of the latest covid variants (coughing) out in public - unless you're a denier, and even then, you should not spread anything else in public either.
Parents concerned with a sick child are more protective of that child than you describe.