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In: finity and beyond
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | There is one problem with the Judeo-American policy of decapitating the Iranian hierarchy. It will, sooner or later, reveal the Judeo-American assets in the Iranian hierarchy. |
Sacha Baron Cohen broke his usual comedic mold to portray a Syria version of the same kind of Judeo asset. As a Hollywood film, it is of course portrayed as heroic, but it doesn't end well.
https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=80178151
Other Judeo-American assets are available.
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Mick Harper
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| Looks like Sweden is backtracking on the cashless society. |
I have to carry a pound coin around with me for supermarket trolleys. Tell them.
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Mick Harper
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When I was in charge of an underground station we would get periodic alerts that the locals had discovered a foreign coin that worked on the ticket machines and we were to 'keep our eyes out'. There would, however, be no objection to using one such on a supermarket trolley because you'd only be swindling yourself when you got it back.
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Boreades
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | I have to carry a pound coin around with me for supermarket trolleys. |
There's no greater indicator of the socio-economic divide (between the haves and the have-nots) than whether one shops at a supermarket that trusts its own customers so little that they hold the trolleys for ransom. Or short-term rental.
Anyway, on your next supermarket trolley dash, you might want to skip the porridge.
| Porridge recalled over mouse contamination fears. |
Why?
| Moma Foods has pulled some porridge pots and sachets from supermarket shelves and warned people not to eat them because of possible mouse contamination at a manufacturing site. | |
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Mick Harper
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The Hell's Angels use the phrase 'stirring the porridge' when queuing up to have sex with a biker groupie.
Or 'pulling a train' as they say, but I don't know what Waitrose shoppers call it. They may not even go in for these sorts of things. We at Tesco certainly don't.
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Mick Harper
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Another Brilliant Wheeze
Most of us are looking for that magic pill that will achieve something that anyone who knows anything about it says requires time and sacrifice to achieve. Most of us have fallen for something or other on the internet that will do it for us if we but send off £20 plus p + p. We have all told our friends and relations it's working wonders while quietly junking it. But we know there is something out there...
You sign up to this organisation that makes a pill--it will probably have to be a potion--that contains the working ingredient of all the super-foods that have been recommended so far. Beta carotene from carrots, Omega-3 from pilchards etc etc. Each time some new fad comes along they add it to the mix and you seamlessly get it with next month's supply without having to keep up with things.
Talking about keeping things up, yes, it will have extract of rhino horn.
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Boreades
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| Mick Harper wrote: | The Hell's Angels use the phrase 'stirring the porridge' when queuing up to have sex with a biker groupie.
Or 'pulling a train' as they say, but I don't know what Waitrose shoppers call it. They may not even go in for these sorts of things. We at Tesco certainly don't. |
I have noticed our local Waitrose does have an unusually large changing room, usually open to the general public. It could easily hold a dozen people or more. I will try and remember to ask at the Helpdesk next time I go in -
"Is that the room for the group sex sessions?"
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Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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AEL Farming Today (continued)
(and more from the Department Of Consequences)
Most of us pass by the "Organic" foods section in our local supermarket. It's usually overpriced with little or no visible difference to the regular stuff.
But if the farmers are not paying for chemical fertilisers and pesticides, shouldn't organic food be cheaper? Well, yes, it should. But organic farming is usually less efficient, producing significantly lower yields per unit of land. Or in the UK it has to be grown in expensive polytunnels and needs more manual labour, which puts the price up. Even more if the farm laborers are to get anything more than minimum wage.
Anyway, the criteria for "Certified Organic" status do not completely exclude the use of pesticides, they merely limit the use to "biologically derived" pesticides. Or it's grown outside the UK with wildly differing definitions of what "organic" means. Some places it can mean veg grown in human sewage.
But thanks to Trump and his adventure in Iran, many European farms will now have to attempt to "go organic" or try to get certified organic status.
Why?
Even if they could afford to buy the chemical fertilisers and pesticides at double the price last year, they might find nobody has any to sell.
Why?
Thanks to sanctions, we stopped importing from the cheapest sources.
| Russia and Belarus are among the largest exporters of potash and nitrogen fertilizers. Sanctions, shipping disruptions, and insurance constraints have all reduced availability. |
Well, can't we just ignore the sanctions?
| Russia has suspended exports of ammonium nitrate during the spring planting of this year, to prioritize its domestic needs. |
But can't we get it elsewhere?
| The Middle East, a key source of natural gas used to manufacture nitrogen fertilizers, is now unstable. |
But can't we get it elsewhere?
| China saw this coming early. Long before most Western governments were willing to acknowledge the scale of disruption, China began locking down |
It's not just rare-earth metals for semiconductors.
| Depending on the product category, between 50 percent and 70 to 80 percent of export volumes are now restricted or effectively blocked. |
There are going to be worldwide disruptions in agriculture, especially for any countries that are net importers of food.
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Mick Harper
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| Borry wrote: | | Most of us pass by the "Organic" foods section in our local supermarket. It's usually overpriced with little or no visible difference to the regular stuff. |
You cannot say it is overpriced (unless you are being deliberately pejorative). There usually is a visible difference but the point is there is a difference and hence a different price.
| But thanks to Trump and his adventure in Iran, many European farms will now have to attempt to "go organic" or try to get certified organic status. |
It takes several years to 'go organic' so Trump and Iran will have no effect on farming unless his adventures there result in a permanent change in the price of petrochemically-derived fertilisers.
| Even if they could afford to buy the chemical fertilisers and pesticides at double the price last year, they might find nobody has any to sell. |
There will always be enough chemical fertiliser even if some farmers can't afford the new prices.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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There are, as far as I know, only two people in the whole wide world who have read my years-in-the-making defining opus Revisionist Historiography. One is an eminent Oxbridge librarian who liked it very much but not to the extent of putting it on his library shelves.
| One thing we're not short of is books. We've got 'em coming out of our ears. Sorry. |
As he didn't say. The other was this geezer
| While Ive read Mick's book and I remember that he uses Peter James' Greek Dark Ages book as the jumping-off point, I don't remember the details. | |
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Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | While Ive read Mick's book and I remember that he uses Peter James' Greek Dark Ages book as the jumping-off point, I don't remember the details. | |
Neither did I. So I looked it up.
| His best known work, Centuries of Darkness (1991) ... |
Oh, yes, now I remember. Got a copy on a bookshelf somewhere.
| Reviews at the time were sharply divided on the merits of the book... |
But at least he got reviews.
| ... there was generally more praise for the critique of problems in the conventional ancient Egyptian chronology ... |
They grudgingly acknowledge there's a problem
| ...than for the proposed knock-on revisions to the chronologies of surrounding cultures. |
But they don't want to change anything.
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Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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For Harpo's supermarket shopping list.
| Ed Miliband’s department has announced that “within months” you will be able to buy “plug-in solar panels” from supermarkets while you’re doing your weekly shopping. |
Huzzah!
A quick search of the internet reveals that an 800 watt plug-in solar PV system costs of the order of £500, and a 1 kW system is a little more at £600.
We're told:
| there’s “no need for approved electrician to sign off”. |
You just need a spare £500 or £600.
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Mick Harper
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| What is the most significant thing on Kharg Island for applied epistemologists? |
The sixth century Christian monastery.
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Mick Harper
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By a remarkable concatenation of ambient light in my bedroom, I find when going to sleep there is no difference whether my eyes are open or closed. It looks the same to me. And I mean exactly the same.
However I cannot tell whether closing my eyes aids falling asleep or not. Presumably it does but I'm asleep by the time I find out. Does anyone else experience this phenomenon and therefore in a position to compare notes?
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Boreades
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | Borry wrote: | | Most of us pass by the "Organic" foods section in our local supermarket. It's usually overpriced with little or no visible difference to the regular stuff. |
You cannot say it is overpriced (unless you are being deliberately pejorative). There usually is a visible difference but the point is there is a difference and hence a different price. |
I think you will find I can say it, because I just did. Perhaps you mean "should not"?
You also failed to explain why a visible difference justifies a different price. Unless it's just marketing-talk?
As the organic stuff usually has a worse appearance - blemishes etc.
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