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Pointless Meandering
Aug. 18th, 2020 01:38 pmA fog hung over the street last night, and when we went to bed we opened the window to let in a breeze straight out of the North. It was just the right kind of chill, soothing and cool on my skin. The result was a dream about Barack Obama, telling me to put my good shoes on.
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Meanwhile our PM, from yet another holiday location, does a U-turn and teacher-predicted results, rather than faulty algorithms, will be used to determine grades. Quite what happens to those students who have lost their place at universities of preference because of this bungle remains an interesting conundrum, alongside the question of what happens to the students who were offered a place when the first choice students got lower grades than they needed. Personally I'd say just take them all in, even though it's going to put pressure on resources.
And now we have the declaration that Public Health England is going to be dismantled in favour of some new thing to stop the pandemic, a desperate attempt to blame PHE for the government's incapacity. This new whatever will be run by Dido Harding, whose last attempt at running anything was the abortive Track & Trace. Why has it gone to her? Her husband is a tory specifically anti-NHS mp. Gawd, there is no end to it!
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TV, um... Giri/Haji's creaking a bit. Love the animation and Takehiro Hira, it all started so strong... And now it's irritating. More to my taste is the mayhem of Lovecraft Country; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7mJrItb4zM
Clearly I am a child. I have no shame about it.
As to my mate's circle hunting/orb chasing videos, he was meant to be going somewhere in Wales and it looks as though rain stopped either the journey or the interview. I do get the sense that he's mortified with me, that he sees my lack of subscription as a lack of good faith, dissing his new enterprise.
I wish we could get together in a pub or a coffee shop or something, because discussing these things in person might be more appropriate than text messages. Of course it may be that he succeeds, gets over a thousand subscribers and makes money out of the whole thing. But that's a different issue.
It's not necessarily a lack of belief in the phenomena. Crop circles were so common when I was a kid, people just assumed that either there was something wrong with the crop, like a weird fungus, or the farmer did it for some obscure good of the soil type reason. I walked through dozens of the things. Orbs, well, any light or dust particle on a camera lens can be an orb, and I've no reason to believe, as my mate claims, that this is alien technology being used by humans. Of course, as he might point out, I've no reason not to believe.
But that's not how I do.
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Meanwhile our PM, from yet another holiday location, does a U-turn and teacher-predicted results, rather than faulty algorithms, will be used to determine grades. Quite what happens to those students who have lost their place at universities of preference because of this bungle remains an interesting conundrum, alongside the question of what happens to the students who were offered a place when the first choice students got lower grades than they needed. Personally I'd say just take them all in, even though it's going to put pressure on resources.
And now we have the declaration that Public Health England is going to be dismantled in favour of some new thing to stop the pandemic, a desperate attempt to blame PHE for the government's incapacity. This new whatever will be run by Dido Harding, whose last attempt at running anything was the abortive Track & Trace. Why has it gone to her? Her husband is a tory specifically anti-NHS mp. Gawd, there is no end to it!
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TV, um... Giri/Haji's creaking a bit. Love the animation and Takehiro Hira, it all started so strong... And now it's irritating. More to my taste is the mayhem of Lovecraft Country; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7mJrItb4zM
Clearly I am a child. I have no shame about it.
As to my mate's circle hunting/orb chasing videos, he was meant to be going somewhere in Wales and it looks as though rain stopped either the journey or the interview. I do get the sense that he's mortified with me, that he sees my lack of subscription as a lack of good faith, dissing his new enterprise.
I wish we could get together in a pub or a coffee shop or something, because discussing these things in person might be more appropriate than text messages. Of course it may be that he succeeds, gets over a thousand subscribers and makes money out of the whole thing. But that's a different issue.
It's not necessarily a lack of belief in the phenomena. Crop circles were so common when I was a kid, people just assumed that either there was something wrong with the crop, like a weird fungus, or the farmer did it for some obscure good of the soil type reason. I walked through dozens of the things. Orbs, well, any light or dust particle on a camera lens can be an orb, and I've no reason to believe, as my mate claims, that this is alien technology being used by humans. Of course, as he might point out, I've no reason not to believe.
But that's not how I do.
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