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17. Foggy’s football joke
http://foggy-mirror.blogspot.com/2022/11/and-then-repeat.html
16. Torqyaymada
Cat skinning and the W.E.F ....
https://youtu.be/8M4ejJlFkdU
[JH: Agreed -downright evil upon the people, emboldened by Canadian people’s cowardice. Bloody left liberals]
15. The vicissitudes of brunch
It might seem just a simple picture but what went on behind the scenes to produce it is worth a post item in itself.
Within minutes I'd rediscovered why I don't sit at a desk and blog on laptop - the aching back.
Then I'd forgotten how to use the laptop - all the little shortcuts, sign-ins etc. Passwords.
Then Gimp would not work - they'd done for it and during the process of installing again, three tech giants tried to muscle in on the process, so it took a round the corner run to get past them.
Then came all the sign-ins needing two step verification from other devices.
Just to get a picture up in Gimp to process for this post. While the new position of the desk in the room and its aspect were the first time in the cold weather. Learning, learning.
As for the pasta cheese and spinach in bouillon, it was the bouillon which was everything, together with "aldente" veg - slightly off-raw.
Tasted yum though, well worth the effort.
Any exciting adventures at your end?
14. IYE
Another win.
Who noticed "B double A L" in the ads? (It was in the roll of yellow tape on the floor in front of a little boy)
Red shoes also gets a mention.
13. Cockleshell heroes
12. Think this needs closer examination
A Dutch observer contemplates the strange lack of correlation between the declining number of vaccine boosts and the increasing number of deaths by suddenly:
If you wish to blame the vaccines, then you’re left with the struggle of explaining why there are so many cases in late 2022, beginning in July, even though hardly any vaccines are administered in July, August and September. It doesn’t look like there’s a clear correlation between doses administered and sudden deaths. As I have argued before, I believe that whatever is going wrong with the population, is a product of an interaction between the vaccine and subsequent exposures to SARS-COV-2. A simple delayed effect from the vaccine is insufficient to explain the peak in late 2021 followed by a decline in cases of people “dying suddenly”.
11. Next batch
Kari Lake news:
Yes, yes and yes:
10. In passing
“A typical home in England today costs 9.1x typical earnings. In 1997 it was just 3.5x.”
Think on’t …
Steve
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There's a memorial to the Cockleshell Heroes at RM Poole. Paddy Ashdown was there at its unveiling, having served in the SBS: successor to the Royal Marine Boom Patrol Detachment. I was there at the time, serving in a Combined Operations unit attached to 3 Commando Brigade. There's also a memorial to the Marine who was killed in a 'friendly fire' incident between the SBS and the SAS during the Falklands War. I knew of him. There's a back story to that sorry tale of what happened afterwards between the two units aboard ship in San Carlos Water. Suffice it to say there was violence.
10, I'm sceptical of such simplistic ratios. Definitely houses are ridiculously expensive now but a house cost for most of us means monthly mortgage cost. Mortgage interest in 1997 was in the range 6 to 9% so the actualy payment needed was rather more than a simplistic 3.5x income verses 9% income. In addition house values are now much more varied according to location. If you average in the costs in London and prime places this pushes the 9x higher while in other less desirable places houses are considerably cheaper. Consider also what constitutes a typical house - a 3 bed semi or detached with all fittings - while many of the the cheaper more 'primitive' houses of 25 years ago have been cleared. Add to that all the rigmarole of planning costs, regulation, section 106 costs, landowner windfalls if they win the planning lottery and some of the increase is built in by government. Consider also the longer term transition from a society where households had mostly 1 earner in a married household to a situation where women work: Has this reduced salaries overall and/or should we consider household income not individual income in the comparison? Up here around Stoke a desirable rural may be half a million but you can buy a fully fitted modern terrace for 150k or a doer-upper for around 50K, those aren't 9 times income and make decent starter homes for getting on the ladder. I wouldn't want to be starting out nowadays, yougsters are being screwed by the system, especially in cities, but simple figures are alarmist.
ReplyDeleteI'm also suspicious of "typical". If people mean 'median' or 'mean' they usually say so (even if they call the latter 'average'). But what does "typically" mean here? Probably that he's fudging the numbers.
DeleteYes, mean. median or mode, illustrated by this exercise:
DeleteA bloke runs a small business and employs 10 people. He pays them all 10k per year while he takes 100k in company profits.
Mean salary 200/11 or just over 18K per year. (but 90% don't get anything like that!)
Median slightly over 10k (there are minor corrections for uneven data)
Mode exactly 10k
Goodness only knows what typical is?
Steve
ReplyDeleteGot any Apple products?
Tucker Carlson: Apple is covering for the Chinese government
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHJ_tzgTZn0
Those cigars, a few years ago I stopped over at Bogota airport en route to Quito. The cigar shop there looked much like in the photo, complete with artistic display of cigars arranged as a giant flower. It wouldn't surprise me is this was where the photo was taken.
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