It WAS World Margarita Day…but it isn’t anymore
Sylvia Shawcross
Now I was looking at February 22. Nobody really cares about February 22 because it isn’t special or so you’d think. In truth this day actually is World Margarita Day, Be Humble Day and best of all World Thinking Day according to a google search.
You would be forgiven if you have to ask what the hell World Thinking Day is because thinking is a rather archaic thing we used to do once but rarely indulge in anymore, kinda like pot roast and horseradish on the side—a kind of delicious memory of better days.
Yes I know – save the cows, love the cows, eat the insects and all that – but still a pot roast with horseradish… that’s a thing worth thinking about even if we are deeply bovinely apologetic. And we really hate ourselves for having pointy canine teeth that seem to make us want to eat meat but we were born with canines. And pot roast… well pot roast is pot roast. It is the best china gleaming and the silver polished and the laughter around the table of better days. Distant days.
But I digress….
Anyway, World Thinking Day is something the Girl Scouts do every year and this year the theme is Our World, Our Peaceful Future. I can only say “good luck with that theme this year.”
But I digress.
As to the Be Humble Day I’m thinking of recommending that to the WEF for one of its main seminar themes for next year. Too late this year so hubris won the day again.
So. On February 22 I looked at all these things and made myself a Margarita for breakfast. It seemed like the right thing to do really.
I settled down to look at the news as I do in the morning. I wasn’t in the finest of moods because I live in Canada and am still trying to figure out which of three things I need to be outraged about: the Trucker Convoy Commission decision that leaves us open to all sorts of horrible things depending on who is in charge of the country, the fact that the Chinese may have interfered in our election or that the provinces seem to have sold us all out to universal digital ID for a federal check for healthcare. Decisions decisions decisions.
I was wondering why they keep calling all this the “clown world” when it really is a circus with all sorts of performers leaping about on top of elephants in the room, trying to tame lions with nothing more than than a duplicitous smile and a promise, doing a highwire act in a war zone and trying to teach old dogs new tricks. It is a circus of the insane.
It’s all a good spectator sport indeed as long as they don’t close the tent and insist we live it all with them. But apparently, they do. Whoever “they” are. Having the inmates in charge of the asylum is certainly a learning experience if nothing else.
If you’ve done enough news looking over the past few years eventually you settle in to a routine. I always check the mainstream media to see what the globalists want us to believe that day. Then I go to the United Nations to see any of their emergency sessions which seem to happen daily. I’m thinking they should subcategorize emergencies into horrific, not horrific and should we care. It would make it all so much easier.
I used to watch the Parliamentary sessions but that is so predictable now: One side demanding answers and the other side not answering and a lot of screeching and eye-rolling. I’ve fallen out of the practice of caring about them for the moment. Then I wander around aimlessly to see what people are talking about.
This February 22, 2023 there was a fire at the Knoxville Nuclear Facility in Tennessee but there is apparently nothing to see and all is well. Some weird huge metallic sphere washed up on a beach somewhere. There’s more sludge than earth in New Zealand after the cyclone floods now so there isn’t much left for the sheep to graze on. Ex-president Trump visited the toxic site in Ohio and gave everybody McDonald’s hamburgers. I’m not sure if he included fries with that.
Another train derailed in Detroit. The five toxicologists and environmentalists on the way to Ohio to help and assess the situation all died in a plane crash in Arkansas. Putin has postponed nuclear deals. The rabble who are the guinea pigs for the 15-minute cities are very angry in Oxford, England because they are sane logical human beings who know idiocy when they see it. The Pope has stated that pedophiles have a special place in heaven.
The Chinese are now supposedly supplying Russia with weapons. Biden fell up the airplane stairs on his departure from Poland because Zelensky wasn’t there to hold his hand. There was a 6.8 earthquake in Tajikistan. Spain is looking at legalizing bestiality provided animals are not harmed giving the SPCA something more to worry about. There’s balloons somewhere. And we’re not sure what North Korean rocket man is doing. We usually don’t pay attention anyway now. He hates that.
And that was just the supposed “facts”.
After that you have to read the opinion pieces. Reading opinion pieces eventually gets easier over time. There are after all only two narratives. Within one paragraph you can pretty much slot each opinion into one or the other. And life goes on. You decide whether to be outraged or discouraged or wildly optimistic and make yourself another Margarita for a mid-morning snack because there is definitely something lovely about February 22.
Yeah, sometimes you feel like you’re on a treadmill… in hell… and the Devil keeps upping the speed and incline. And that was how I was feeling.
So I made another Margarita for lunch and looked out the window to see if the worst storm of the century (it always is these days) was coming this way or not but there was only a few flakes and three angry crows who wanted their mid-morning snack. They’ll just have to wait because I’m worried about the elite in their bunkers in New Zealand. Has anybody checked to see if they’ve survived the floods?
I’m hoping February 23 will be World Hot-buttered Rum Day. If it isn’t, somebody should definitely start it.
This too shall pass as all things do. We carry on.
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I’m with you Sylvia .We have to read or watch or just glimps at MSM to see whats coming at us ,and take it with some degree of humour/sarcasm and also the comment section to see the % of people that are slowly starting to question . I’m in Canada as well , and I notice commenters (usually the same ones ) on the French major media platform willing to at least debate other points of view presented with acumen by others that a few years ago were agressive and completely dismissive.Any sign of eventualy recalibrating matters, even if it’s ”Au compte-goutte. Sometimes Margaritas and crow watching help with the ”Reflexions” .
i f you don’t udnerstand why Putin withdrew from the nuclear treaties that the US has repeatedly broken or dislke Russia working with natrual ally China maybe yiou really shouldn’t be killing more brain cells with Booze especially crticizing Chump for visiting Ohio when Biden was busy laundering money & sending our tax funds to NAZI ukraine. WTF are you dong of the off guardin you don’t belong here. you belong doin hit pieces forr CIA or MSNBC on US NAVY vet Patrick Lancaster bringing humanitarian aid to the children of Donbass that Ukraien has been shellinmg for 9 years now.
Thank you for your kind opinion. I guess you haven’t heard about the Polynesians reconnecting with the spirit world to recreate a navy of papyrus boats that can sneak under the radar to encircle the US navy in the Pacific? You didn’t seem to mention this and I’m certain it was just an oversight.
So far as I can tell, not one person has offered up the Jimmy Buffet song “Margaritaville.” I don’t like the song, but it must be presented either now or never (so saith a Capricorn Mercury). It’s only singing, with a smiling picture of Mr. Buffet. Nor have I mastered the technique of linking the actual video rather than the link.
Jimmy Buffet: Margaritaville – YouTube
I thought people would be leaping all over me for not including that song… lol Just you caught it. 🙂
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I love horseradish and we have been making pot roasts.And I watch loads of old movies because the future is scary.I pay attention to all the details and beautiful items-lovely gowns and suits made of real wool and furniture made of real wood and thick long lasting upholstery-not stapled together and fabric as thin and synthetic as a made in China table cloth.And, I think of how everything worked because it was well made as opposed to what we are sold today and it’s not cheap and I’m terrified to by an electric stove or a bathtub -but I must and if you read reviews it’s a gong show-its just a big fight-when you buy something you have to fight your way to the other side of Justice cause it’s hard to come by.And stoves and bathtubs aren’t cheap-a bathtub that may have “hair line cracks that appear “ after you’ve paid the plumber to install and the tiler to set the tiles-and then you may need to remove it -or the drain may peel away because it’s a finish-not real metal.The stove -well -the oven doesn’t Heat-or its “inconsistent “ or one of the burners don’t work or the Error light goes on forever and it costs $1600 and that’s not very cheap.The only thing that’s cheap is the shitty product and the wages they pay the poor soul who makes the stuff and the cheap trick they played on us when they sold us on free trade.I never bought it but now I have got pay for it.
Right on Hele! I’m with you. I know exactly what you’re talking about.
I settled down to look at the news as I do in the morning. I wasn’t in the finest of moods because I live in Canada and am still trying to figure out which of three things I need to be outraged about.
Nothing will change until we stop the above. Don’t complain about the system while you are still buying into it. Don’t be a hypocrite.
The idea, I believe, was to make The System as all inclusive as possible so that people could not opt out.
It is possible to opt out – if you’re young, and very healthy, and very strong. Perhaps that’s why older folks are far more likely to support the inanities of The System: they pretty much can’t opt out.
They risk being culled by The System, as Covid showed. Or being mauled by a bear in the wilderness.
Damned if they do; damned if they don’t.
Why would any sane person look at lies every morning, knowing they will start perceiving them as truth? I mean that’s pretty insane. Why are people so intent on self-harm?
Yes I get your point about age but I’ll be opting out even when I’m 80, to be honest. Even if that means not watching the damn news (LIES).
ZenPriest, not to worry. I read the headlines and not much more of the MSM just to see the other side.I don’t spend much. time there at all. Thank you for being concerned.
What we really need is World Water Day. A time where every child, woman and man has easy access to clean drinking and bathing water.
Fat chance while PSYCHOS RULE.
We’re rapidly moving to a point when there will be no more clean water – not for anyone. The madness of psychos cannot be bothered with such trivialities as water, or air, or food, or clothing, or shelter.
These things are guaranteed to them (so they think). It’s power and wealth they seek, not sustenance.
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/russo-ukrainian-war-schrodingers
a remarkably clear & mature discussion of the battlefield, reshaping of Russian battle strategies, etc.
meanwhile back home on the ranch it seems old hair sniffer has some “home action” planned?
the ultimate false flag attrocity?
creepy joe has clearly exhibited such “love” of his kinsmen and women…
Meanwhile the posibility that the deranged coke adicted queer at the helm of the now doomed ukr has been blackmailing the biden family re what he knows about their involvement in the greatest crime ever comitted against humanity gathers pace….
and by this i do not mean a fake virus, i mean a fake virus designed to push a deadly “remedy”, whose full purpose is only just begining to be understood.
And satans minion requires all forms or resistance that may play against him to be quoshed, dark, dark days
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2023/02/27/six-leaders-fired-from-air-force-nuclear-base-in-north-dakota/
Sylvia Shawcross,
You write like a girl from Royton, or maybe Shaw near Oldham.
“You would be forgiven if you have to ask what the hell World Thinking Day is”.
but haven’t you noticed the change over the last few weeks….it can’t just be me…
All this complete evil and nonsense we have been subjected to over the last 3 years, is being rapidly discredited, by people having the courage to tell the truth, even when they risk losing their income, their job, and possibly even their life….
The Truth is Leaking. Everyone is Beginning to Get it.
These Bastards are Trying To Kill Us – and We Object.
We want to Live
Check Out Logan’s Run
She’s Still Cute same age as me within a few months
https://jennyagutter.net/
“Logan’s run (1976): “You can live! LIVE!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2aC2UY-APQ
Tony
People are amazingly courageous and there are many thank heavens
I’m advocating World Microchip Discovery Day. This is when people discover that the strange keloid like lump of skin on their body conceals a microchip.This revelation then leads them to conclude that their recent onset, weird, uncharacteristic behaviour could be down to bein ‘chipped’.
Thanks for the quick overview of what the scum of the earth in parliament do. I’d like to see a train derail on top of the parliament buildings during a 9.9 earthquake. I’d like to see the janitors escape unharmed with a pitcher of Margaritas and finish drinking it outside on the lawn while the bodies of the scum of the earth are disposed of. I wish Putin would agree to only use nuclear weapons on parliament buildings. I wish the parliament buildings were a big cow pasture and we could all live happily ever after in MOO heaven.
I’m in.
bound for Mu Mu land ; )
EXCELLENT article Sylvia! Succinct, humorous…frankly I laughed my ass off! You are someone I would definitely like to share several pitchers of Margaritas with. Imagine the laughs we could get out of February 23?
Yes. A+. One of your best.
Wouldn’t it be fun Scoopais! 🙂
Spooking Ms. Hyde, indeed, the jesting Jekyl in you, Sylvia, could easily usurp the ‘goddesses ‘ of the Guardian and develop the concept of St.MargaritaMarinaDelMar.
Syl.Shawcross’s Redemption (& Hanks, if yer’ parner’s name is Hank). as a weekly written version of, as an abstract of,
‘There’s no such thing as a Fish’ … ( a spotify podcast on weird facts ), whatsoever.
You made me laugh to the point,
Others were telling me to shut up…
Early one morning, N’during Peak Oil Business, economic Warfare & Terror-porn.
Greetings from Denmark, amiss Danish and Bulgarian pipeline perspectives of
Territorial Jurisdiction, from the Keystone cops over Russian Corporate ‘ prostitution ‘,
Of politicians pride & glory be…the Danish Airforce cannot take delivery of their
F-35’s , due to a U.S. ‘mishap’ minor crash, money banked already, just like Bulgarian
F-16s, money for nothing, Billions in NYC. No product delivery, and now an extra
5 MILLION KRONE for a PLASTICFIRKIN’MOCKUP F-35 for Danish Public display, pending Penworthy- patents & financial-shitfuckery, I assure you…. not forgetting Danish pastry Howitzers from France… now about Bornholm, Baerbock & Belladona vax der Leyen, dancing with Bulgaria’s President Radev, uneasily: it takes 2 to Tango the future BalticBlackSeaBossaNova:- and you know when you’ve been Tangoed & the Russians are coming… for your Golden monetary reserves. Eyes on Jurisdiction and balls 🙃 ups in communication terms and time wise, Destination Fuk’d approaching…
Yer’ gonna’ hav’a’whole lot to luv, coming soon, on your spoon.
Get stuck in, to ‘Bankers’ Delight’, bugger the Turkish 😂 Erdogan still quaking in his boots, when to flip-flop on NATO & Financial constraints and economic Terrorism.
Will Wagenknecht connect, in Den Haag, with Christine LaGuarde’s budgetary criteria ?
The ECB & IMF KristalinaNacht draws in… a bloody confrontation ? Please excuse me…
Hitch ‘bitch slap’ bankers for whom bells toll, next… please. UWomen @theHelm, now…
Even, Jens Stoltenberg in utter resignation.
Spot his successor. Iron-man elephant in Musk’s starlink express,
ft. Sarah BrightMan ? Who gonna’ p(l)ay the Military Pied Piper of Hamelin ?
Dua 💋 Lipa ? Ft.Elton John. Gay Rocketman sues Kim & Trump for identity theft ?
& Copyright infringement, while Stalinka overseas the glorious bastards-series
Of soap opera-Divas of Davos, Free-land coming soon… on Scottish islands.
There is something seriously amiss in both Denmark & Bulgaria.
And any Legal mind or regional Banker can evidence this, to the US Pipers of Pompeo !
Let alone the cost of Energy, gas & 🛢 peak oil R.O.I.
Wheels keep on turning as peak oil keeps on burning.
Rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ on a railroad, or pipeline past Palestine…
Way to go…
Bang on Syl.
Balky
“When, lo, as they reached the mountain-side,
A wondrous portal opened wide,
As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed;
And the Piper advanced and the children followed,
And when all were in to the very last,
The door in the mountain-side shut fast.”
You are full of plotlines and plots Balkydj. The whole world is a stage eh? When I’m stuck for an idea I’ll have a look at your list. I think you should write a few…. 🙂
I like how you take the time and effort to respond to our comments…first class!
I dunno about pot roast and horse raddish on the side…I’m a Sandwich Guy, myself…And
Sandwiches appear to be the ‘in’ thing in Sydney…Sandwich Bars are poppin’ up everywhere…A local sandwich bar charges $19.50 AU for a round (you can buy 5 – 6 loaves for that)…
If indicative of a Cultural Change, what does it mean ? A turn to ‘healthy’ food – away from the Greasy Stuff ? A turn away from Chinese, or Asian take-away ? (a sign of Racism ?)
The Return of The Poor ? Or indicative of hard times among The Middle Classes ?
This PC has the US dollar sign – $ – but not the Euro, UK pound or other countrys sign…
Should i interpret it as a sign of US Imperialism ?
“PC” ?
“
PC” “pc”…Just ask next time whether the bread contains ground-down mealy worms or insect. Bakers in Europe are starting to mix that stuff into bread now.
At the moment the sandwiches are a fair feed (even egalitarian ?),, but i reckon the enterprisers will soon Macdonalds-ize the product to: the basic product, and a list of “extras”…and thus introduce Class distinctions via the number of “extras” you can afford…There’s just no way of getting away from the buggers !…?
Are they at least labelling the stuff? So we know?
I would DEFINITELY interpret this as a sign of US Imperialism. When they’re at the level of messing with sandwiches then there is no denying it.
Can if you want to I can currently food & drink on 20 bucks a week my main problem is covering rent. An American asking someone to buy a cigarette for a buck knowing he’ll smoke it twice is pretty real to the early ’70’s where I’am from, a Bob for a single smoke.
Come back at me I won’t listen to snobbery I can guarantee you that.
“Nazification” is ALWAYS a hoax!
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/sheriffs-message-to-accused-antisemitic-agitators-these-scumbags-came-to-the-wrong-county
Sheriff’s message to accused antisemitic agitators: ‘These scumbags came to the wrong county’
February 27, 2023
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https://edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2022/01/31/nazi-flags-seen-at-freedom-convoy-in-ottawa
Nazi flags seen at freedom convoy in Ottawa
CityNews speaks with a hate crime researcher who speaks about nazi flags and hate symbols appearing at anti-vaccine mandate protests in the nation’s capital over the weekend.
sigh… The usual drumming up divisiveness by painting with a broad brush. This is “not” the Canadian way. Until now apparently.
In what way is it “divisive” to “paint with a broad brush”? And if you think there’s an exception to the general rule (i.e. “Nazification” is ALWAYS a hoax!), please go ahead and state it.
I was referring to the powers that be that seem to want to make it about nazification when it was clearly exceptional at the protests to see any of that nonsense. To then condemn the protest and protestors as nazi’s is painting with a broad brush what was clearly not the case. It is an attempt to discredit legitimate protestors and further the divide.
I wouldn’t fuss over that it’s commonplace as a the universal language that privately collects fine historical art. Conversely those to whom possess such as the first printing of classical novel., or coming across a Roman coin.
Look at all the songs the TV. It’s all to make you feel disgusting it’s all to make people awful it’s all a lie. Listen to the world the sounds of the birthed green of the grass the colours of the animals the blue of the sky.
Go out 4-6am before all the lunatics are up. No cars, birdsong – it’s heaven.
and chemtrails ha!
but aye, indeed.
reminds me of first lockdown ; )
Oh, go out into the countryside cliff’s seashore turn up the volume to max on a simple old player and record your own. I guarantee you’ll love it.
In honor of Trump, I supersized a couple Old Fashions and when the whiskey ran out, I moved to Gimlets. By the time I was done, dinner had been canceled. My blood sugar still isn’t normal.
For yuks I like to visit the AP and UPI home pages and compare them to headlines on CNN and MSNBC. It is amazing how they are all in perfect lockstep telling the same exact stories over and over again.
They are such a joke, it amazes me that are able to keep a straight face. All with the nothing-behind-the-eyes-deer-in-the-headlights-look. Just like their heroes Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi who are masters of “the-look”.
I also digress.
Fuck you NSA. Computer geek traitors who hate the Constitution even more than Lil’ Castro(Trudeau).
This is so unfair. Mr. Trump wouldn’t be caught dead handing out Kool-Aid.
Wine Coolers maybe. Or tonic water. But never Kool-Aid!
Lockstep, Goosestep = No Difference…(anon)
I drank wine, Georgian brandy, and sometimes 45% chacha in the blustery sea-spray of my vacation.
Holiday notes
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/eurasia-note-72-tourist-batumis-lessons
Here’s one to add to your morning checklist.
https://www.biometricupdate.com/
Unfortunately in this world, things don’t pass anymore. This is a war, they advance.
Hello Sylvia. Stunning delivery by Adam Lambert. Mad World indeed… Thanks.
Perhaps I am the first Yank to open this web page this morning (it is 7:30 am here).
Well, by the time I post this three more will have jumped in ahead of me.
But February 22 is vitally important to us, especially if you enjoy a holiday
or shopping sales.
It is the birthday of our first president.
I could go on but there is a movie clip that is very appropriate.
President Lincoln appears to be drinking margaritas one after another
while telling a joke about the British and George Washington (our number 1).
Enjoy:
I really haven’t laughed so heartily while reading an article in a long time. Thank you for that! And laughing is probably one of the few worthwhile things we can do in the face of all the insanity that is thrown at us on a daily basis.
That is very kind of you. Thank you Agnes
The above puke fest is what pass;s as journalism in 2023, whilst the same people ridicule normal media.
You should pay us to read this tripe.
Shilling..implying that, if and when the opposite party gets in, They wouldn’t do that and off course Trudeau will. (remember it is Off g and it has be mentioned at least 3 + times a week by so called different authors..why..?)
She’s on oligarchy alt media crack. Chinese inferring is about as real as Donald fighting the deep state.
If a scripted staged event of buying the easily confused a Macdonald’s is what it takes, your just as clueless watching the TV reality fake news as thoses that would of eaten a Maccy ds in a Poison Designated zone as that is what it is.. because the chemical spill according to you people is deadly – why would you eat there. !!
Princess Diana kissed and held a black Aids victim to win people hearts and change the public image about Aids.
Donald Trump pops into Maccy d in Ohio and buy contaminated Maccy d and oligarchy conservative alt media melts with hero worship and worse still, thoses that watched it also get wet with excitement.
Fake outrage by oligarchy alt media screaming blue murder about Canada Convery Commission decision..
But Ron Destantis Mr anti establishment 5 years in prison for hate speech doesn’t get a mention, why is that..?
Good to know the helpful alternative to the mainstream , has got your prioritie$ £traight when it comes to reporting important issues..
it must be China or mail in ballots or illegals or broken voting machines
They never remember that the voting machines are propietary though..
Calm down.
You’ll be okay.
No, the commenter “switchedON” will not be okay until the rest of us learn to read sentences as literally as he/she/they do.
“open to all sorts of horrible things depending…” simply MUST be read to mean the author still believes in a two party system which still works and will save us.
My God, could anything be more literally obvious!
I’m struggling this this.
I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or not.
Sarcasm doesn’t transfer well to the (type)written word.
I would say that reading into sentences things that may not be there is not healthy.
Exactly. Which is why I cannot condone the above referenced commenter’s doing just that: putting ideas in the article author’s meaning.
I would say, though, that sarcasm does quite well when the comment one is replying to already establishes it as a basis for its inclusion.
Trudeau sucks. So do Ardern and Biden.
“But Ron Destantis Mr anti establishment 5 years in prison for hate speech doesn’t get a mention, why is that..?”
Correction: It is not Ron DeSantis speaking in the film clip.
State Legislatures are tasked with “legal” and Lawful passage of civil Law. Not sheriffs. Not police chiefs. Not judges.
I love you too switchedON
Florida is going full Fascist.
So the J6ers or the Truckers charged with some minor infringement will get 5 years if the judge deems it to be a “hate crime”.
Head goon: If they stand on the side of the street and wave a sign, they have every right to do that.
But if they jaywalk or drop a piece of litter they get 5 years!
I look forward to reading your publish article(s)
Where’s the off switch, man. I’m not sure I get these diatribes against Off-G for not mentioning who or whatever, like that means Off-G is controlled opposition or something. The gold standard at this point is about the scamdemic imo and Off-G is one of the few that dare to state the truth about it. That and the so called Great Reset or New World Order. The assumptions, i.e., “you must support voting!, or “see, you want DeSantis but he’s the same!”, when leaving out names is ridiculous at times, much like from the left when they automatically assume you’re a Trumper or far right. I’ll say “Biden is a war criminal and he should be in jail”, and they’ll say, “hey Trumper, how’s your boy today?” So I try to say, “Biden and Trump should be in jail for being war criminals.” That really fucks them up, then they get tongue tied.
“It’s All Too Much !” (George Harrison cc ’66).
Tantrums is not The Answer…
Try Switching Off and Dropping Out (Tim Leary cc ’67).
Or Sucking Your Thumb…
“the Trucker Convoy Commission decision that leaves us open to all sorts of horrible things depending on who is in charge of the country”
Shilling..implying that, if and when the opposite party gets in, They wouldn’t do that and off course Trudeau will.
Er, no it is you who is reading too much into this.You are the one doing the implying.
I read it to mean that different parties may or may not do different horrible things. They won’t necessarily all do the same things.
Yes JohnPretty, you read that correctly.
I take it – hope, at least – that you’re young. That would explain your equation of snarling and shaking one’s fist with good journalism.
I was young once and enjoyed a good snarling article now and again. That was during the Vietnam War – and I was draft age (had to refuse induction, but that’s neither here nor there). Even then, I enjoyed a lighter, more nuanced article occasionally.
How did you do that, i.e., “refuse induction”? Did you go to Canada?
No. Canada wouldn’t let me in (I drove my little VW Beetle to the border and back). Which, incidentally, is why I laugh whenever I hear all the horrors being inflicted upon the Canadian people: there but for fortune go I.
I simply – to my great surprise – won my case on a technicality. Then MY HERO Tricky Dick set up a Draft Lottery. My number was low (96) but it got me to my 26th birthday in February.
The gods were with me – which makes my being an atheist a bit dicey.
Your to dangerous.
oh I think switchedON has a lot of feistiness and knowledge and will become quite the character one day. Already is one. I don’t see dangerous myself.
Who needs th think when one can have a extra thumb?…
https://dump.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/02/human-augmentation-with-robotic-body-parts-is-at-hand-say-scientists
The interesting thing is how they are trying to sell their insanity. This time it’s productivity. They have been emphasising the crippled but now it’s apparently time to start on this being for everyone. They’ve obviously chosen the least drastic body part that will seem least unsettling.
Any way they cut it, it’s the thin end of a very long wedge that cukminates in the brainchip.
sold already..
Heart bypass, Stem for pancreatitis, steel plate in facial – head injury’s,
Hip replacements. (notice they made a big thing about Laim Gallagher getting 2 hip replacement at 50 years old to normalize hip replacement making it hip and trendy selling the cyborg future.
Which is a metal bolt.
If you’ve broken anything in the last 20+ years This means putting the bones back together with plates, screws, wires, etc also called pins.
#When Conor McGregor suffered a broken leg against Dustin Poirier in front of 100 millions people, they couldn’t wait to mention the type of treatment he was having which mentioned covertly pins sold and painted as a normal healthy recovery.!
Your smart phone app, now deliver’s your insulin shot.
So they’ve taken the old expression “I’m all thumbs!” quite literally, have they? What’s next? “Hung like a horse?”
Well that makes me want to run screaming into the night
I’ve never understood people’s propensity to celebrate this day, that day, the other fucking day.
A case in point would be the Valentine’s Day. I’d consider it the gravest insult toward my current favorite member of the opposite sex to express my love to her on one day a year, designated by who the fuck knows who, imposed on me by the fucking calendar. Fuck that! I love my girl every day, as much as on the previous day and as much as on the next day. Until we split up, I guess … ha ha … !
Same goes for Christmas, fucking birthdays, and the other usual suspects. Like the independence day. Fuck, I’m independent every day, every month, every year, every second of my life. I don’t need a day a year for that, allotted by the fucks in the office where they run everything from!
Margarita day? Beer day? Rum day? You kidding? I do that every day too! Mainly thanks to the fact that my aforementioned girl owns a bar … ha ha …! Best selection of rum in the world, I swear!
Speaking of earworms ….
The instrument featured in this music is called steel pan. If any musical instrument is a symbol of freedom, the pan is it. In the past, the Trinidadian government banned people from playing musical instruments (if you watch the clip you’ll get a good idea why – the power of the music is CRUSHING). So what did Trinis do? They said, fuck them. Grabbed steel barrels that were aplenty around because of oil extraction on the island, and created a brand new instrument. A testimony to the fact that no shithead can stop the tree of liberty from growing, even if they try to stomp it into the ground, cover with concrete, whatever!
Once there was St Monday…And St Tuesday to get over St Monday…Sometimes St Wednesday and St Thursday too… They were Holy Days…
But those holidays were soon ended…Heavenly inspired, weapons & whip weilding sourpusses appointed themselves to impose God’s Command “Get to WORK, you lazy buggers !”…The Devine, Worshippers of Mammon, squeeze as much work as they can from us, and Good Philanthropists that they are, grant back to us a few days a year to celebrate the memory of our defeat…And we continue to lose, now even required to work on St Sunday, the Day of Rest…
And soon they’ll erase all memory of A Day of Rest and of Independence Day, too…
There is Father’s day and an interminable number of others. International Women’s day infuriates me most. But I disagree on music. It is not universal and people of various cultures and age groups detest music from outside their own bubbles.Media promoted musicians shape society the way their masters want (as with comedians and other “entertainers”). This was most detestably evident during convid with these entertainers pushing the lethal clot shots.
Amazing story of the drums Kurt. The human spirit is something else! When it chooses to be….
It feels like I’m being taken on an endless cycle of misdirection as mass attention is paid towards futility.
Quite understandably.
I think the right direction is to use whatever gifts and talents you possess in order to develop a rich inner life, and live there until the outer life once more becomes habitable.
Yeah, that’s how it feels. Some days. The point is finding the right direction to pay attention to.
Thank you, Sylvia. A good start to my day. It expresses exactly how I feel.
thank YOU James. 🙂