Eleanor Rigby and Ruby Tuesday

 https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/eleanor-rigby-grave

1957, John Lennon was introduced to Paul McCartney by a mutual friend after Lennon’s band played a small show at St Peter’s church in Woolton, a village on the outskirts of Liverpool. The meeting took place in the hall across the street from the church. (Today, a plaque on the front of the hall commemorates the historic meeting.)

Earlier that day, Lennon’s band the Quarry Men had played during the Woolton village fete. The afternoon stage was set up on the school grounds directly behind the church. Lennon and McCartney would regular take short cuts through the church grounds in the early days before they became The Beatles. In the cemetery at St. Peter’s, a gravestone bears the name of Eleanor Rigby, which would eventually become the title of a 1966 hit song written by McCartney and included on the Beatles album Revolver.

Old comics

Mad Magazine

The Beano

Still Friday

6.  Phil the Greek has died

Saw it at 12:47. If anyone would like to do an obit, go ahead, we'll run it here, for or against.  I'm saying nothing whatever about him one way or the other, beyond saying it was a pity he could not make the big 100 and get a telegram from the Queen.

5.  No wonder people have sleep issues

... especially with all this happening:

Friday too

2.  Laurence Fox is a prat

I see Laurence Fox has fallen for the playbook as many have before him trying to be politicians:

No such thing as native Brits. Just Brits from all different backgrounds, united under a flag, who stand for freedom of speech, equality under the law and democracy. 

He's being eviscerated on social media and rightly so. Crossing to the US for a moment - you pay hundreds of thousands of people from Honduras to pour into your country, set them up in hotels and pay them again and you have an issue of course - over time, it's not going to be Anglo and/or European in shared  history and values.

But it is going to be similar in religion.  Wiki:

Christianity is the predominant religion in Honduras, representing 76% of the total population according to a 2017 estimate. The pre-Hispanic peoples that lived in actual Honduras were primarily polytheistic Maya and other native groups. In the 16th century, Roman Catholicism was introduced by the Spanish Empire.

However, it's not the brightest and best pouring in from there.  Nor from Mexico - it's the thugs and dregs overwhelming the good quality people from .  

Story over here is quite different - it's not Christian nation refugees, it's death cult nations which mix not at all.  And why is nothing done?  Because the cabal has cleverly played the guilty conscience card.  Playing on Brits' muddling and 'mustn't fuss' nature, they've jammed a crowbar in there which always catches the non-thinking Laurence Foxes.

There was an incident in the States, via Andy Ngo, where someone was running an 'all niggers must die' campaign.  And of course you've guessed it - it was a hoax by a black man. BLM.  Leaving aside brainwashed post-Millennials, how is the average Brit here on racism, in the sense of what occupies his or her mind during the day?

Friday

1.  It's the combination

Julia quoted this about July 2020:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/tui-plane-serious-incident-every-miss-on-board-child-weight-birmingham-majorca

A software mistake caused a Tui flight to take off heavier than expected as female passengers using the title “Miss” were classified as children, an investigation has found.

The departure from Birmingham airport to Majorca with 187 passengers on board was described as a “serious incident” by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB).

Combine that with N5 here:

https://nourishingobscurity.blogspot.com/2021/04/wednesday-too.html

... plus all the posts on dumbing-down and education in general ... plus this:

... plus this yesterday:

KISS tech

Haiku:

Applies to most industries where "overload the buyer with features that they don't need" is seen as a plus, far outweighing the basic KISS principle of a working solution:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/the-takeaway-is-that-we-dont-tend-to-take-things-away/

As a society, we seem to have mixed feelings about whether it's better to add or subtract things, advising both that "less is more" and "bigger is better." But these contradictory views play out across multibillion-dollar industries, with people salivating over the latest features of their hardware and software before bemoaning that the added complexities make the product difficult to use.

A team of researchers from the University of Virginia decided to look at the behavior underlying this tension, finding in a new paper that most people defaulted to assuming that the best way of handling a problem is to add new features.