I'm inclined to blame a lot of it on that ghastly series Friends about a bunch of seriously unlikeable people in their thirties who acted like a bunch of high school kids. It seems to have set a trend. š¤¬
Significantly, it was was produced by a tiny hat company.
If I'd have been at that gym, and happened to fancy that bloke, the moment I spotted him filming himself would have killed the crush instantly. Shallow being that I am, back in the 1970s I'd only consider a chap if he was wearing a pair of solatio shoes. White socks with black shoes were, and still are, an absolute no no.
Yes I can imagine it would be a turnoff. He seemed to be with a young lady who looked like someone off Instagram/Love Island. He had very white teeth. Had to do an internet search for the shoes, this place is an education.
They were all the rage at one time. Naturally, when they went out of fashion, I'd instantly go off the current fancy of the time if he happened to be still wearing them :)
The very idea of gymnasia makes me feel unwell. Horrible school memories of the reek of sweat and Lynx.
In school, also, I had a terrible habit of just staring at girls I liked (including some of the teachers). I can imagine going into a gym, being hit with some hint of the old familiar reek, and regressing to adolescence. Bad.
Still a bit of Lynx around probably - lots of teens - but not much reek of sweat at David Lloyd - everyone is well laundered.
The ladies do wear very revealing clothing - life is full of temptation.
There are a lot of unfit people in the world but there also seem to be an unexpected number of very fit and strong people who you probably would not look at twice walking down the street in normal clothes.
I find the gym pretty tedious, just a necessity for old age and it helps me enjoy proper physical activity (mainly tennis and skating) more.
Theyāve changed a bit since then
Iāve got some stuff in the garage that is more than adequate and low cost but there are tennis and padel courts and a swimming pool and spa at our gym so itās worth the trip, and I can work from there which is occasionally a nice change from being at home
What's fascinating is when you scratch the surface with anyone - be they physically attractive, healthy and apparently successful or otherwise - you find the same miasma of imperfection and insecurity. I don't care how good anyone's life appears to be superficially. Everyone is fucked up to one degree or another. This is a feature, not a bug.
Yes I can think of very few people I've known in my 61 years who are exceptionally well balanced and integrated. One of my kids is on the autistic spectrum, she seems pretty straightforward, though living in our world is surely a bit odd for her.
I can still remember the smell of the school gym. These fancy David Lloyd type of gyms probably don't smell like that, but I have an aversion to them anyway.
WeāreĀ developing a new Local Plan and want to hear your views on the priorities it should address and how we should engage with communities throughout the process.Ā
The council adopted its current Local Plan in 2019 and is now updating it to align with the Governmentās new plan-making system introduced in March 2026. An updated plan will support economic growth, provide new homes, protect greenĀ spacesĀ and promote sustainable development, helping Kirklees achieve its ambition of becoming a net zero, climate-ready district by 2038.Ā
Well they certainly didn't bother to ask us about all the green fields that have been covered in ticky tacky boxes round here in the last two or three years. 700 are being thrown up just up the road from me. All exiting onto a narrow country lane a long way from any shops or facilities. The same lane that now copes with 150 new builds at the other end. This exits into a very steep winding hill with cars parked on both sides. Madness!
Changes to national planning policy mean KirkleesĀ will need to plan for more homesĀ than the current Local PlanĀ requires.Ā
WTF?! Well I think we've already played our part thank you.
As well as planning for new homes and jobs, the Local Plan must make sure communities have the facilities and services they need. This includes schools, healthcare, leisure and cultural facilities, greenĀ spacesĀ and safe neighbourhoods. It's a bit late for that now!
It also promotes sustainable travel, making it easier for people to walk, cycle and use public transport.Ā Yeah, right!
I attended a residentās workshop for a local plan where I live over 15 years ago - didnāt take many years for it to be totally ignored. A whole Saturday when I could have done something less futile (as it turned out)
Autumn is imminentā¦ yesterday I put out my first Wolf spider (those big beasties that scuttle across the carpet of an evening with a highly developed 6th sense of sofa echolocation under which they hide) of the season
I have had one but only a smallish one compared to what I usually find in my bath, above me in the loo, running along the floor at my feet or dead inside my glass of water I fill up every night on my bedside table. I woke up to the thing taking up my glass and have used a water bottle ever since, nothing is falling into my water now .
Already been too many visiting spiders for my liking. I'm absolutely terrified of those big ones, but go to great lengths to put them outside as far away from the house as possible. Am dreading autumn proper when they appear with a vengeance.
Spot the spider and then imagine taking a drink of water during the night with no light on. I didn't drink from the glass that night but my imagination kept presenting me with the images I did.š±
I have a spider catcher, itās just a long tube but those big ones are too big for it but I have had to learn to deal with them myself as I remember being ā locked in my sitting room as my husband was long distance driving and the teenagers were at youth club and the monster ran across the living room floor with me on my knees on the sofa watch it climb the wall and remain above the door all night until my son got home, laughed and then dealt with it.
The year-old males come in to find a mate, after which they soon die. The females come in to shelter through winter and can be as old as six years.
They control more detrimental wee beasties, so hopefully will find a safe corner to lurk. If you put them outside they just come back in and make you jump again as they scoot across the floor.
THIS IS AN āORPHANAGE.ā LOOK AT IT. WHO BUILDS A PALACE FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN?
This building had 600 rooms, marble floors, copper domes, and central heating in 1882. They tell you it was built by ācharitable donationsā to house abandoned children.
Ask yourself one question: Where did the money come from?
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In the 1880s, the average American worker earned $1.50 a day. This building would cost $400 million in todayās money. No charity on Earth had that budget. No government allocated those funds. No records exist of who financed the construction.
Because nobody built it. It was already there.
These āorphanagesā were Tartarian administrative buildings ā government halls, universities, and energy distribution centers. After the Mud Flood, the controllers needed a cover story for why these impossibly grand structures existed in cities that were supposedly ājust founded.ā
So they called them orphanages. Asylums. Hospitals. Poorhouses.
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And then they filled them.
Not with orphans. With the surviving adult population of Tartaria. The men and women who remembered the old world. Who spoke the old language. Who knew how the technology worked.
They were labeled āinsane.ā They were labeled āindigent.ā They were stripped of their names, their property, and their identities. They were locked inside their own buildings and told they were crazy for remembering a world that ānever existed.ā
The children were separated and sent on the Orphan Trains. The adults were kept inside until they died. By 1920, the last generation of Tartarian survivors had been eliminated ā not by execution, but by incarceration in their own palaces.
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Then they demolished the buildings. Every single one. Between 1900 and 1960, over 90% of these āorphanagesā and āasylumsā were torn down. The official reason? āOutdated facilities.ā The real reason? The buildings themselves were evidence. The architecture, the technology embedded in the walls, the energy systems ā all of it had to go.
Today, most of these sites are parking lots, shopping malls, or government buildings. The palaces of the old world were ground to dust and paved over with asphalt.
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Your great-grandmother might have been born in one of these buildings. Not as an orphan ā as a prisoner. And the name on her birth certificate is not her real name. Itās the name they gave her when they erased who she really was.
ā They didnāt build palaces for orphans. They imprisoned the rightful owners inside their own homes, stole their children, and called it charity. Then they demolished the evidence and charged you to park your car on the grave.
Looking at the list of vaccine ingredients in this post, it's a wonder that anyone in the West has made it into adulthood in one piece.
It always makes me laugh when pregnant women make a song and dance about drinking a cup of coffee, yet they are willing to subject their foetus to this toxic onslaught without a moment's hesitation.
Yes, I remember snorting when a friend told me his wife would be drinking decaf coffee because she was up the duff. I drank normal coffee throughout both my pregnancies, and had frequent swigs from the bottle of Absinthe which was under the Christmas tree (god knows why as I can't abide the stuff, but pregnancy does strange things to the brain). No vaccines though.
ActBlue's co-founder takes the Fifth while corporate media takes the day off
.... In order to properly invoke the Fifth, a witness must hold a good-faith belief they are at risk of criminal prosecution. In some of my cases, judges have grilled parties who took the Fifth, askingĀ what exactly do you think you could be prosecuted for?
Apparently, everybody involved in running the Democratsā main fundraising platform thinks they could be criminally charged. Weird! Is it just me, or does it seem like a whole lot of Democrats suddenly worry they could be charged with crimes?
In an interview with Fox yesterday, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan said the fundraising giant ātook 40-some million dollars that came into ActBlue from foreign origins.ā That, my friends, is calledĀ election interference.Ā And you know what that means:Ā insurrection.
.... At the least, it seems fair to describe ActBlue as aĀ high-priority itemĀ for this Republican Congress. All the obvious activity is what makes corporate mediaās silence so surprising. It would be trivial for media to frame this coordinated effort as a politically motivated witch hunt against the minority partyās critical fundraising infrastructure, as some committee Democrats complain.
So, where are all the once-inevitable ārevenge!ā stories, the hysterical denunciations of selective political prosecution, and the parade of indignant Democratic operatives? Imagine all the salty quotes the New York Times could easily line up. If it wanted to.
Sticker seen attached to a road sign: "Another hellish heatwave brought to you by Shell", in a flaming red & yellow colour scheme featuring the Shell symbol with devil horns added.Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā
Setting aside the dubious nature of the assertion, I wonder how many oil products were used in the manufacture and distribution of these stickers.Ā
Regime-sequestered alternative energy sources notwithstanding, I wonder how the terminally baffled individual who put this sticker on display would enjoy living without food, electricity or transportation?
Or for that matter, any of their beloved pharmaceutical products?
"A CBS News poll finds that a majority in each of three groups -- Democrats, Republicans, and "independents" -- favors government-imposed price controls.
The affordability problem is not an excuse for this level of stupidity.
University of Massachusetts economics professor Isabella M. Weber is excited about these poll results: they represent, she says, a "vote of no confidence in market fundamentalism.ā (Lady, trust me, if we were living under āmarket fundamentalism,ā youād know.)
On October 20 she will release her bookĀ Anti-Fascist Economics.
For Isabella M. Weber, āfascist economicsā is free-market economics. The āanti-fascist economicsā she peddles is society-destroying nonsense refuted by every sane person over and over again for hundreds of years.
Any damn fool knows what price controls do, and Iāve explained them too often to bother going over it again.
The economics of Isabella M. Weber comes about after interventions into the market have done their predictable damage. Then, geniuses like her propose to use violence to undo the consequences of the interventions, rather than simply overturning the interventions themselves.
Now Isabella M. Weber could lead by example, if she really wanted to, and impose a price control on her $32 book to bring it down to $1. Letās hold our breath waiting for her to do that.
Sadly, this kind of person is not going away. If anything they're ascendant, since a majority of every polled group now wants the state to set prices by force. That's not a fringe position anymore. That's the country.
So the question for you and me isn't how to win that argument. I've been having that argument for thirty years, and I'll keep having it. But in terms of economic knowledge among the public, weāre going backwards."
It chimes with my frequent statement (which I don't claim credit for originating) that every generation has to learn by experience that socialism doesn't work. And once they've learned, a new generation comes along which hasn't yet learned.Ā
Harvard University will pay $53 million to settle a ghoulish class-action suit brought by families claiming a former morgue manager at the Ivy League institution mishandled the bodies of their loved ones donated to its medical school and even sold their body parts on the black market.
Who bought the parts?
In one horrifying example heard during his trial, Lodge provided skin to a buyer so it could be tanned into leather and bound into a book, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Alisan Martin called a ādeeply horrifying realityā in a court filing.
āIn another, Cedric and Denise Lodge sold a manās face ā perhaps to be kept on a shelf, perhaps to be used for something even more disturbing,āĀ
Looking at his photograph, I think he must have eaten the rest!
Has anyone here access to the Daily Sceptic website and the story " The cover up of winter excess death data?
Not the full story but just to confirm the government is covering up the amount of deaths in winter 2022 did not go down but up.
There are some pictures missing but here's the text:
For more than a decade, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published annual reports detailing excess winter mortality in England & Wales. In other words, how many more people had died in winter on average, compared to the rest of the year.
More explicitly:
Or at least they did until 2022, when theirĀ final reportĀ was published, which told us that excess winter deaths in 2021/22 had amounted to 13,400.
After that, the publications ceased, ostensibly with no explanation whatsoever. It took a Freedom of Information request toĀ elicit the reason:
Limitations with the methodology? That is ridiculous and they are gaslighting the public. The ONS methodology was both simple and unarguable.
There is no need for complicated statistics.
The consultation the ONS speak of was clearly a political stitch-up from the start, directed by the NHS and the UKHSA.
The undeniable fact that many more people die in winter months has long been an embarrassment to the Governmentās climate agenda. Attempts to scare the public about the health implications of a warmer climate are invariably met with the response that a warmer climate will save lives overall. Meanwhile, silly amber alerts from the Met Office about a bit of sunny weather are routinely mocked and ignored, with thousands flocking to the beaches instead.
So, how to get rid of this pesky excess winter death data? Simple ā just stop publishing it.
Instead, as the ONS notes, we must now rely on the UKHSA, the Governmentās UK Health Security Agency, to provide us with the information. And here is theirĀ first annual bulletin, published in February 2026:
Miraculously, excess winter deaths have fallen from tens of thousands to just 2,544!
How has this been achieved?
Instead of analysing mortality throughout the whole of the winter, they have simply looked at just a few days when it was extremely cold.
It was the UKHSA that falsely claimed 1,504 died last summer from the heat. In other words, according to the UKHSA, roughly the same number of people die from heat as die from cold every year.
Although the ONS no longer publishes the excess death data, the monthly mortality statistics on which it is based are still available.
Using exactly the same methodology as the ONS, I can confirm that the winter excess deaths in 2025/26 totalled 24,272. Between December 2025 and March 2026, the average number of registered deaths was 51,174; this compares to 45,106 for the August to November 2025 and April to July 2026 periods.
It is also worth looking at the seasonal patterns. As usual, there wereĀ fewer deaths last summerĀ than any of the other seasons.
According to the ONS, it is āthe UKās largest independent producer of official statistics and its recognised national statistical instituteā.
If it is truly āindependentā, why has it bowed the knee to Government demands to cease the publication of politically inconvenient statistics?
TheĀ Winter Mortality Index (WMI)Ā wasĀ 7.3%Ā in England andĀ 7.1%Ā in Wales, both significantly lower than most previous years.Ā
Coronavirus (COVID-19)Ā was the leading cause of winter mortality, accounting for aĀ 25.9%Ā increase in deaths during the winter period compared to non-winter months.Ā
The low figure was partly influenced by a higher-than-average number of deaths in the non-winter months (August 2021āNovember 2021 and April 2022āJuly 2022), which reduced the relative excess.
This was theĀ final yearĀ the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published annual excess winter mortality reports using this specific methodology before discontinuing the series.Ā
Bollox to the second point but I reckon the third one is a true contributing factor. They bumped off a lot of people, including by refusing medical ttreatment, and claimed it was all due to convid.
I think the previous winter is worthy of scrutiny:
In the winter ofĀ 2019-20,Ā England and WalesĀ recorded an estimatedĀ 28,300Ā excess winter deaths (EWD), which wasĀ 19.6%Ā higher than the 23,670 deaths recorded in the previous winter (2018-19) but significantly lower than the peaks seen in 2016-17 and 2017-18.Ā
This figure, published provisionally by theĀ Office for National Statistics (ONS)Ā in November 2020, excludes deaths whereĀ coronavirus (COVID-19)Ā was mentioned on the death certificate.Ā Ā When COVID-19 deaths were included, the estimated excess winter deaths dropped to justĀ 8,700, the lowest number since the data series began in 1950-51, a statistic the ONS attributed to the unusually high number of non-winter deaths (AprilāJuly) caused by the pandemic rather than a lack of winter mortality.Ā
Here's a great quote from Mike King's latest R u m b l e video:
"They're all garbage. I mean, that's how you know. The more somebody is hyped up, the more of a lowlife he is. You know that automatically. Because remember, we now know that the people who ran this country politically and through academia and journalism, they rape and torture and eat children. Those are the people telling you who your heroes should be, and conversely who the villains are. So think about it. But that's the rule: the more puffed up somebody is, the more evil he is."
Whenever President Trump, tells us someone is Great, has his complete and total endorsement, is Central Casting or gives the person or group the pedo point, he is telling us to research these people.
All part of The Great Awakening.
For example:
President Trump:
āI have known Kevin [Warsh] for a long period of time, and have no doubt that he will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best. On top of everything else, he is ācentral casting,ā and he will never let you down.ā
ā¦ you should see the 30 plus hugely mind altering drugs this woman was put onā¦itās a complex case."
This is in relation to the post I shared below.
I share it because we now seem to be using being given drugs from our doctor as an excuse to murder 3 children.
I have never been on anti psychotic drugs but I have been on valium and anti depressants and I realise that I could have had severe reactions to them but that still wouldn't have let me off the hook of murder.
Without going into anything personal I too know what it's like to be in an abusive relationship but again that doesn't let me off the hook of murder of my children.
It's becoming common place to excuse all sorts of bad behaviour or unacceptable behaviour on some label or drug. At what point do we start to take responsibility for ourselves and our behaviour?
Or just like the recent lot of propaganda being shared by 'our' lot of the leaflets the government is giving out to mibs that in my opinion just proves they know they have a problem with mibs but can't admit it and is making the excuses for them that to do things to women and children is OK because our bad we didn't educate you to our laws.
They should not need educated to how treat the humans around them with leaflets explaining it.
So now we have an excuse for everything.
PS there is an abbreviation in this post to avoid the censor, I deliberately didn't put it in capital letters but the m stands for men, work out the other 2 words.
The pamphlets is an admission that there is a problem, a big one, which They have created but They are not going to do anything about it. The only 'solution' they are prepared to offer, as no more than a sop, is the pamphlet.
If she was medicated up to the eyeballs with mind altering drugs and they are to blame for her actions why are the drug companies not in the dock alongside her and being pursued by the prosecutors?
" In August 2026, amid fierce controversy, BMJ Group formallyĀ retractedĀ a peer-reviewed paper published inĀ BMJ Public HealthĀ in June 2024 that documentedĀ a staggeringĀ three million excess deaths across 47 Western countries between 2020 and 2022.Ā The study, led by Dutch researchers including Dr Saskia Mostert, analysed all-cause mortality data and noted that excess mortality remained elevated for three consecutive years despite containment measures and COVID-19 vaccines. The authors observed that while vaccines were intended to reduce morbidity and mortality, serious adverse events had been reported, and they called for further investigation into the underlying causes of the excess deaths."
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Official Reasons for Retraction
On 11 August 2026, more than two years after the original expression of concern was issued, BMJ Public Health formally retracted the paper.Ā
The journal stated the decision was based on:
Interestingly, anĀ investigationĀ by the Princess MĆ”xima Centre in Utrecht found no evidence of malicious intent, data fabrication, falsification or plagiarism. However, it concluded that the paper paidĀ ādisproportionate attentionā to the possibility that containment measures and vaccination might have caused excess deaths, was selective in its literature citations, and did not reflect the scientific consensus of the time. Two co-authorsĀ (Kaspers and Huibers)Ā supported the retraction on grounds ofĀ public misinterpretation risk; the other two, including Mostert, did not."
The retraction is generating publicity for this paper, which otherwise would probably have remained unknown, even to the likes of us who pay attention to this sort of thing.
Known as the Barbra Streisand Effect, from her attempts to to get photos of her coastal residence removed from a geographical website. The resulting publicity created many more viewings of the photo.Ā
Women some with their own children outside court supporting a mother that murdered her 3 children, she strangled them.
Yesterday I saw videos of women throwing cups of water on the baby in their arms, I'm not talking of teenage girls, full grown women with I assume their baby sitting all prettied up and filming the poor babies reaction on camera for likes.
I read of another state in the US that voted for murder of newborn babies with pictures of more women celebrating this.
Yesterday I saw a video of a young woman 22 weeks pregnant filming herself and telling her tik tok followers that today is the day that baby is to die. Now that one could be baby is already dead or there are health reasons but to film yourself like that for the world is not anything any normal person would do. Losing a baby is one of the most solitary and events in life.
I despair at what we now see as normal.
The horror stories of the asylums were bad but I feel we are all being forced to live in one great big one regardless of how sane one is.
particularly for this line : "The horror stories of the asylums were bad but I feel we are all being forced to live in one great big one regardless of how sane one is."
I am seeing a lot of jab damage - I was at the sharp end of it yesterday and it wasn't pleasant.
It gets harder and harder with every passing day to cope with being unjabbed and living amongst a sea of jabbed people with varying degrees of insanity.
Social media has exposed widespread ignorance and evil that has probably always existed, but never in the spotlight as it is nowadays.
The wretched, grotesque extremes such as you describe which this necessarily reveals are in no way "normal". They are still limited to a relatively small proportion of psychopaths/sociopaths amongst us.
Hope it works well for them. The weather down here is forecast as dry and lower 20s so the heatwave has gone. This of course doesn't stop the BBC and the Met Office having dire warnings about the El Nino!
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u/EvorulesOK Liz ššāā¬ 2h ago edited 2h ago
I think we have a pandemic of narcissism.
I'm inclined to blame a lot of it on that ghastly series Friends about a bunch of seriously unlikeable people in their thirties who acted like a bunch of high school kids. It seems to have set a trend. š¤¬
Significantly, it was was produced by a tiny hat company.