28 May 2017

And Then A Couple Of Things...

First-up is a nice list of commandments I’ve got on loan from Nanny Knows Best – with apologies. I do believe I may print and frame it. You may also consider making it into a greetings card and sending it to any of the annoying folk of your choice. And your MP, but that’s only common sense.  The last line says so much; ‘Don’t like your rights taken away? Don’t try to take away the rights of others.’

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Twos-up was when I turned on the TV in time to see Amber Rudderless talking about Manchester and security in general. All just words with nothing behind them but one bit did catch my attention. Briefly.

She stated that great progress was being made in relation to the investigation into the Manchester outrage and there were now eleven fellows in custody. Well done those security folk I say. I believe it’s now twelve - or as that nice Diane My-Brain’s-Out-and-Abbout would say, eleventy one.

However, moments later this was put into some sort of perspective when she stated that there were presently something like twenty five thousand people – that’s twenty five thousand – on one or other of the security services various watch-lists. By my reckoning, that would be eleven down and twenty four thousand, nine hundred and eighty nine, that they know of, still out here. Way to go girl! Lets get that ol’ threat level down from ‘Oh-ho’ to ‘Fingers Crossed’ then. Feel safer now? It’s just words; it’s only words.

As for her name, I know what amber is and it’s beautiful but I did that Google thingy anyway and it came up with this: ‘Fossilized resin from coniferous trees of the Tertiary period, typically yellowish in colour.’ So there you go, we have a Home Secretary who’s folks must’ve spotted, early doors, that she was going to grow-up and end up with the IQ of a stone that has a yellow streak. 

Quote;  John Wyndham.

“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that ‘it can't happen here’ - that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

What's the collective noun for Lone Wolves?
ConEvil

Mac said...

Anonymous,
A fifth column?
I did find this: ‘The lone wolf is a contradiction in terms as wolves always form a rhizomatic multiplicity'.
And wouldn’t that make for a snappy headline to further bamboozle their audience? “It’s Believed The Perpetrator Of The Attack Was Just A Lone Rhizomatic Wolf Of Multiplicity.”

Anonymous said...

I'm sure I have plants with rhizomes - must be wolfsbane.
ConEvil

Mac said...

Anonymous,
I do hope all your other plants are celebrating the enrichment and diversity and I also hope they’re doing their best to integrate although the wolfsbane may not help in this respect.

Anonymous said...

Sadly, the Head Gardener, Missus May, has fired a lot of the street weeders and speciaist security weeders and now the wolves are spreading out of control.

Mac said...

Anonymous,
Fewer 'official' gardeners and still we aren’t allowed to purchase weed killers that work...