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“I like cats and I don’t like people who don’t!” (Roger Moore in “North Sea Hijack”, a film rendered memorable by this line alone, indeed by only this line.)
Miscellaneous posts, daily doodles, pastimes, comments, articles and reflections on this and that.
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“I like cats and I don’t like people who don’t!” (Roger Moore in “North Sea Hijack”, a film rendered memorable by this line alone, indeed by only this line.)
This gesture of commitment to the welfare of young people might look a little more convincing if the ban were extended to the sale of smartphones for use by minors. LJ
Britse regering wil verkoop ongezonde energiedrankjes aan minderjarigen verbieden | De Volkskrant
The Viennese polymath Egon Friedell once said of the poet Stefan George, “Schaut aus wie eine alte Frau, die wie ein alter Mann ausschaut.” (“He looks like an old woman who looks like an old man.”)
Superlatively witty, moreover I’m inclined to agree. LJ
A fine idea, which might be developed to exclude older teenagers who exhibit signs of irreclaimable addiction to their smartphones. LJ
De un restaurante que se llame ‘La cocina de la abuela’, uno espera cocina tradicional, decoración clásica y, sobre todo, ambiente familiar. Y en O…
— Read on www.20minutos.es/noticia/3425116/0/restaurante-ninos-prohibido/
Damning, if true. Social media will have a lot to answer for in due course, I fear. They clearly assist populism, by their very nature, whether this be that of the right or of the left, the latter being of greater immediate concern in the UK. People should stay at home and read Dickens, in particular Barnaby Rudge, in which the development of the Gordon Riots from a mere innocuous folly to acts of widespread arson in contempt of the rule of law are eloquently demonstrated to be imputable to the necessarily headless nature of the mob. Therefore, beware all mobs. Social media, notwithstanding benevolent intentions and doomed regulatory initiatives, engender mob behaviour. This may start in mere intellectual vacuity, through the false association of democratic freedom with the claim that self-expression, be it ever so ugly, ignoble or base, is legitimised, but what is held in store has the character of an enduring menace. LJ
The United Nations has accused Facebook of playing a “determining role” in stirring up hatred against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma.
— Read on www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/13/un-says-facebook-fuelled-rohingya-ethnic-cleansing/
“Comme les humains, les perroquets aussi rougissent sous le coup de l’émotion” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2018/08/24/01008-20180824ARTFIG00231-comme-les-humains-les-perroquets-aussi-rougissent-sous-le-coup-de-l-emotion.php
Qui l’eût cru? Le spaghetti obsède les scientifiques depuis près de cent ans. Des étudiants ont trouvé comment le couper net.
— Read on www.lexpress.fr/styles/saveurs/on-sait-enfin-briser-net-un-spaghetti-sec-en-deux_2031140.html
Je n’oublierai que difficilement celle de 2003… LJ
“2018, l’été le plus caniculaire en France depuis quinze ans” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2018/08/16/01008-20180816ARTFIG00195-en-france-l-ete-le-plus-caniculaire-depuis-quinze-ans.php
As true now as it was when he wrote it, the first chapter of “The Black Swan”, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. LJ
“The central idea of this book concerns our blindness with respect to randomness, particularly the large deviations . . . ”
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/books/chapters/0422-1st-tale.html
“Assomption : qu’est-ce que l’on fête le 15 août ?” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2018/08/15/01016-20180815ARTFIG00003-assomption-qu-est-ce-que-l-on-fete-le-15-aout.php
Situation très troublante. Il est temps d’agir pour protéger cette population menacée par notre arrogance myope. LJ
Actualités INTERNATIONAL: NATURE – Une femelle orque a poussé le cadavre de son bébé mort-né sur près de 2000 kilomètres, pendant dix-sept jours, refusant de le laisser. Un drame qui alerte sur le déclin de la population des cétacés. Menacés par le manque de nourriture, aucun bébé n’a survécu depuis trois ans dans son groupe d’orques.
— Read on www.lci.fr/international/une-orque-refuse-de-laisser-couler-son-nourrisson-mort-ne-et-le-pousse-pendant-17-jours-2095692.html
Reaktion auf Sanktionen: Erdogan kündigt Boykott von US-Elektronik an – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Der türkische Staatschef Recep Tayyip Erdogan reagiert auf die Handelssanktionen der US-Regierung: Amerikanische Elektronik soll künftig boykottiert werden.
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/erdogan-will-us-elektronik-boykottieren-a-1223078.html
Interesting, but “prestatiedruk”? Mon cul!
“Soms gaat dat gepaard met verslaving aan alcohol, drugs, of internet (excessief gamen of porno).” QED
Surprise, surprise! Stop looking at social media, don’t do drugs, ignore the tattoo parlour, think for yourselves and do some disciplined studying. This will greatly relieve your conscience and enable you to sleep soundly and to greet each morning for the miracle it is, whatever duties it may herald. LJ
Cigarette smoking is a leading contributor to death and illness among Americans and drinking alcohol remains the number one drug problem in the U.S. There is growing evidence for genetic and biologic predispositions for alcoholism.
— Read on www.emedicinehealth.com/what_are_the_health_risks_of_smoking_vs_drinking/article_em.htm
“«Sur l’immigration, dépassons les affrontements binaires pseudo-moraux»” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/2018/07/26/31003-20180726ARTFIG00341-sur-l-immigration-depassons-les-affrontements-binaires-pseudo-moraux.php
Craft beer is mostly dreadful. There is a reason for the success of established beers. They are simply better, having been made by experts for generations. LJ
Britain is undergoing a craft beer revolution, and pubs are brimming with
idiosyncratic ales. But not everyone is happy…
Read on www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10638933/Am-I-the-only-man-in-Britain-who-hates-craft-beer.html
Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.
Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.
I’m no more your mother
Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind’s hand.
All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.
One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat’s. The window square
Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.
I love this dish, but only when it is prepared perfectly, for botched approximations are invariably grotesque parodies and an offence to the palate. I have never eaten a good one outside France and I have yet to be served a good one in a restaurant. The best I have ever had was with a wonderful family who welcomed me when I was hitch-hiking as a student. They had fought with the resistance in the mountains near Grenoble during the war and I was greatly privileged to be shown the location of their operations and to join them at the ceremony commemorating the massacre at the Massif du Vercors. They were amongst friends there and the poignancy of the enduring solidarity between them was palpable. LJ
“L’art de préparer une vraie ratatouille provençale” : http://madame.lefigaro.fr/cuisine/lart-de-preparer-une-vraie-ratatouille-provencale-090818-150053
“Troubles psychiques : le sucre nuit-il au mental ?” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2018/07/27/01008-20180727ARTFIG00224-troubles-psychiques-le-sucre-nuit-il-au-mental.php
“Décès de V. S. Naipaul, écrivain du déracinement et historien des empires déclinants” : http://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2018/08/12/03005-20180812ARTFIG00036-disparition-de-v-s-naipaul-ecrivain-du-deracinement-et-historien-des-empires-declinants.php
It is difficult to imagine that such research can attract financial support, given the competition for funds from far more worthwhile fields of human endeavour. It can only be imputable to a kind of infatuation, I infer, notwithstanding the ephemeral charm of certain of their songs. LJ
England play against India in the Specsavers Test Series at Lord’s, London, between 09 – 13 August 2018
and I shall be there… LJ
Source: 2nd Test, England v India, Specsavers Test Series | England and Wales Cricket Board Official Website
I have edited the title of this, changing “human” to “human being”, in an attempt to confer some dignity upon our kind, not that we necessarily deserve this, of course. LJ
For decades scientists aspired to modify the code of life. Tom Whipple meets Jennifer Doudna, who succeeded
— Read on www.1843magazine.com/features/how-to-edit-a-human
Actualités CONSO-ARGENT : JT 20H – Le produit star de l’été, c’est le melon. Il se déguste en entrée, en dessert ou même en plat. Nous en consommons quatre kilos chacun tous les ans.
— Read on www.lci.fr/conso-argent/les-enquetes-de-l-ete-les-conseils-pour-bien-choisir-le-melon-2095144.html
The Red Admiral, on buddleia in Graham and Abi’s garden.
The Comma, on buddleia in Graham & Abi’s garden
From Graham & Abi’s garden
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