If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

The place has gone to pot since 1066. Battle has become somewhat better known, though. Ups and downs. An arrow in the eye here and there. These things happen. C'est la vie (ou, peut être, c'est La Guerre, n'est pas?) , as the Normans were wont to say. I've been to Battle twice - but not to Senlac H...

William Henry Davis wrote: What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

If you go to Picadilly or Trafalgar Square - you'll find the whole damn place is filled with out-of-towners.

The point might be made more effectively if the footage was taken closer to Whitechapel than Whitehall.

Londinium, that is.

The place has gone to pot since 1066.

(So far my favorite thing about Justice League Unlimited is The Question-- I love that his bedroom on a spacestation is a mess-- and he corrects a fellow superhero who says Question believes in 'conspiracy theories'... for using the plural. JFK, Loch Ness, the proliferation of corporate coffeeshops...

On the subject of 'Zulu' - I read that that the daughters of Private Hook walked out of the premier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_(1964_film)#Reception Obviously they thought that history was not just a lot of things that happened in the past, but also something you live with in the current da...

First steps taken towards interplanetary war...

Manga Uber Alles...and all that. I'll just dump this here: <...Madness excised...> (highly recommended "gateway" to the world of manga) Lovecraft his is own damned animal - or perhaps entity from an entirely different kingdom (though still a fun-guy). I recently re-read 'Jonah Hex: Riders of the Wo...

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ Some mad bugger has uploaded this classic #BLM movie to YT - catch it whilst you can!

You'll have to wait till the end to get the song performance.

As musicals go - I feel like they are not even trying.

Speaking of Comicsgate - (the SJW entry-ism into corporate comicbook companies, and the associated kickback) - as we weren't... I've not been reading Ethan van Sciver's Cyberfrog (the concept seems silly - and not in a 'Reid Flemming World's Toughest Milkman' kind of way). So, I'm wondering if any o...

I think I'm going to have to review my sources for medical advice.

The one quoted above seems to be be qualified to keep balls in the air - and very little else.

Speaking of...

*shrug* Is Twatson still relevant? Full disclosure : When this whole business started I believed her. Today my view is she lied. She was heading back to her hotel room alone and pissed off because she was not going to get an oil change. So shortly after she made a video stating that she was still v...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ ...forced my GF to evac around 1 a.m. About three miles from her house, about fifteen from mine. Lucky for her, it's burning in my direction.

I guess she won't be ordering takeout from that restaurant again anytime soon.

Holy fuck! Please let him win! Pleeeease! https://twitter.com/foxnewsradio/status/1303620299141926912 There'll be no peace until the vote is in...and quite possibly no peace afterwards (whatever the result). nb I'm fairly sure that neither of us should be quoting this tweet - as it is exclusive to ...

I've been hearing that many people want no truck with Ascension Millennium

...or possibly Extinction Rebellion.

So has anyone been keeping up with Bret Weinstein? He's currently promoting a new Pox on Both Your Houses Unity 2020 movement. Governor Ventura seems to be giving it his support - even when he can't seem to work out if it's a third party movement or not... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHl6NzH7p7g...

Wullie.

Though it's possible you were reading the English translation.

screwtape wrote: ↑
Bhurzum wrote: ↑ Um white man have doxxed redskin brave and made heap-big calls for um expulsion from white-man university. How!
Hey, I took that class at school as well!

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Just the other day someone was making the association between 'Wee' and 'Ben Nevis'.

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ I had to google that to see if it was an actual thing.

Smaller than you might expect. Though it was cold when I went there.

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ How low, how bottom-of-the-barrel, would you need to sink before you'd seek life-lessons from animal dicks?

If Herman Melville was correct there are times when you need an apron.

Perhaps a trip to Rejkavik and the Phallological Museum is in order.

Keating wrote: ↑ The Spy Who Love Me is my favourite...

Now you're sounding like Hunt's Thai roommate.

Watching Quantum of Solace on Netflix, realizing that I don't really enjoy the Daniel Craig version of JB. He's not as casually deadly as Connery and not at all funny, like Moore. I can't remember the exact quote, but was something like "Connery would kill you with a laugh and Moore would have you ...

And I love you, too. So, what shall we do about the Novichok? "Merkel urged to act" and "Merkel has the Mettle to Stare Down Putin" say the headlines in The Times. But what can or should she do? Notwithstanding...any possible sarcasm, I would hope that any affection and/or regard I have for yoursel...

I have had half of my right ear and none of my left since age eight. Ironically, caused by a (very) brief early 60's fashion for treating ear infections with a single IM shot of streptomycin, which kills the auditory nerve. I modified stethoscopes acoustically, and later tried a few electronic ones...

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ You should see what they did to Jeanne d'Arc a while back ...

Was it rare or well done?

Bollocks to Shakespeare and Tudor royalist propaganda in general. Half the time they update the costumes and scenery to something very much not of the time of King Lear (whenever that was), whilst still spouting artificial iambic pentameter-ish nonsense using words that didn't exist before the playw...

Brive1987 wrote: ↑Why do you ask?

It seemed relevant in the context of W. Sommerset Maugham

Not sure if there was a more dorsal motive - if so I'll have to get back to you.

Brive1987 wrote: ↑
From 15:00 on is all you need to know about the culture wars.

This from a commentator who is very anti racial identitarian.

We seem to be using the same word in different ways.

Did you ever see (or even read) 'The Razor's Edge' ?

Carry on...

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ It’s fair to say our society could no longer withstand a barbarian horde.

From time to time - it's worth reminding ourselves what our culture is...

For those not so musically included - or just outright tone-deaf - there is always history...

KiwiInOz wrote: ↑
MarcusAu wrote: ↑
John D wrote: ↑ Don't the dog in New Zealand bite?
No - it's familiar with everyone there.
Even the post man.

I was wondering how this was going to be linked back to Trans*Rights.

John D wrote: ↑ Don't the dog in New Zealand bite?

No - it's familiar with everyone there.

resolve, even.

Cobblers to re-soling.

I note of late that there has been a problem with Britannic Rule - particularly with respect to the BBC.

My suggestion would be to resole such issues in the traditional manner - which may come as a revolution to some.

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ Crude, rude, extremely offensive - it's the perfect tweet!

Seems to clearly give more regard to the male perspective rather than conventional marital traditions.

Pitchguest wrote: ↑ Can someone fill me in on the Rose Garden thing?

Maybe, but I'm not making any promises...

And just for fun, here's a screenshot of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks in the House of Lords talking about anti-semitism. Do, please, look at who is asleep inn his purple waistcoat, and reflect upon what the purple waistcoat means - yes, he's an archbishop. Screen Shot 2020-08-21 at 1.12.00 PM.jpg With...

Strangely, I think my Primos Triggersticks work better. https://media.midwayusa.com/productimages/880x660/primary/179/179659.jpg Spent the morning watching videos of ex-chief rabbi of the UK, Lord Jonathan Sacks. Feeling strangely consoled by humorous common sense. As he says in one, "you don't hav...

What in the actual fuck? https://twitter.com/TraceyFLGirl/status/1295571751687073794 Is that even English? Sorry, "American-English" as our septic tank cousins call it. Has she suffered major brain damage or something? Also, and this is what truly confuses me, why would anyone look up to or seek ad...

On the topic of unpronounceable names - condolences to Comhcinc on the death of Kamala Harris.

Percentage wrote: ↑ But there's nothing to be done anymore. Rest in peace, Ed.

If I was deciding who should write the eulogy - I think you would probably be getting the job rather than Myers.

But that's a fairly low bar to pass...

To settle the Pit-Karens, PZ and Ed didn’t part in best of terms PZ didn’t get a mention in Ed’s farewell. Certainly he failed the leadership test. PZ can’t afford to actually bad mouth Ed as he carks it. The solemn “he’s dead” pronouncement is a nice piece of passive ambiguity. Either “there are n...

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ Once again I am astounded by the quality of your informed response.

You'll get over it.

Brive1987 wrote: ↑That’s all he wrote.

There's no reason that he should write more, or indeed anything at all, if he does not want to.

So as a very few of you may remember, I live near an abandoned amusement park. It has recently been acquired by BassPro, and they are spending a bunch of money fixing it up into a fishing retreat. Plowing down a lot of old things that need plowing down, and hopefully preserving a few bits of memora...

Sounds like everyone has decided on who they are going to vote for.

Ah, Greenwich Palace. My father-in-law's last plum posting in the RN was as Captain in charge of the Royal Naval Staff College, and for two years he lived in luxury there, attended by RN stewards. We lived over the river in West Ham (cheap!) but would bicycle over with a long dress and a dinner jac...

Personal bias... of course. I am not naturally gay... but if Service Dog was interested... he might be my first gay relationship. I think we would have to date first.... and then try some spooning or something. This would be a big change for me so I doubt it will ever happen. Still.... well... just...

Seriously, though, it's mad. The explosion was caused by 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate that reportedly had just been stored there at the dock since 2014. Now the port's completely ruined. 2,700 tons! I was a little concerned we'd lost our crown, but the Halifax explosion still wins at 2.9kilotons....

Brive1987 wrote: ↑
There is that. This, for instance, is my preferred trad rucksack.

Swedish M1939.

Looks like you could be buried with it. Or have been.

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ Could be swung for Father’s Day ...

Figuratively speaking.

I would have thought that half the appeal was that you can exercise with something that looks like it was manufactured circa 1910.

TradKet.

I read (or at least listened to) one of the books (Bernard Cornwell) - so can't speak to the series directly. But I would not have thought that hereditary monarchy was libertarian. Or indeed if in the context of the times that it was entirely hereditary - something about 'Athelings' (or royal candid...

The white smoke means they've decided. The black smoke less so. What does the red indicate?

Service Dog wrote: ↑ I've never wiped with the Constitution, but the little pocket versions would be good for travel & emergencies.

I think even Samuel Goldwyn would admit that there are some things that are worth the paper they are written on

Service Dog wrote: ↑ Sure, but they burned a nice silky supple double-ply American flag, too.

Your Supreme Court made a ruling on that.

Damn right they were too.

Lucky you are to have them, and the constitution too.

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