С празднечкам вас всех!! C Новым Счастьем! Тут можно поздравлять и дарить подарки. С наступающим новым годом! Здоровья и удачи всем! Buon capodanno a tutti felice anno nuovo! Allora…buone vacanze…all’anno prossimo…una bellissima fine anno e un inizio felice 2010 !!! Je vous souhaite une très bonne année et que tous vos désirs se réalisent. Je [...]
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Now cocooned away from the charms of younger ladies, it’s maybe safe to come out and say what I really think of them. The theme of this post is: Why ageing men should neither go near, think of nor consider a younger woman. A doctor friend of mine, my sailing partner, was 49 when he [...]
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Via Jesse’s Café Américain, a NYT snippet: The Financial Times has chosen Lloyd C. Blankfein, the Goldman Sachs chief, as its person of the year. What’s his view on his job of f—ing over the American people? In an interview with the Sunday Times of London, [he asserted] that Goldman was “doing God’s work”. Ex [...]
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This is Part 2. Part 1 was here. When someone generally sympathetic towards this blog’s articles, someone like Richard From TEV writes of: “the Global elite that I am not sure exists in the first place” … after some of them have just been named, shown their interrelationship and what they have actually done to [...]
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Well done to the Corkadoragha Romford boy on hitting the Big 100. Jams explains his choice of blog name thus: Why the Poor Mouth? Why not! I suppose I chose the chose the expression in tribute to one of my favourite authors the late, great Irish novelist/humorist/civil servant, Flann O Brien. The final message on [...]
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Dearieme’s contribution:
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When one reads on certain blogs that we’ve had not a bad year overall and Gordo is getting to grips with the internationally induced troubles in the UK, one weeps at the chutzpah when everyday the tale emerges of our woes and the utter corruption of government. You need go no further than DK’s quoting [...]
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The Tate puts it this way: As the artist Hans Arp later wrote: ‘Revolted by the butchery of the 1914 World War we in Zurich devoted ourselves to the arts. While the guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might.’ The founder of Dada was a [...]
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We’ve no reason to love China but the simple fact is that the Pakistani chap was caught in possession of a large quantity of heroin in their country. If a country has a history of executing foreigners, e.g. Thailand, then it seems logical that you keep it off your visiting list. The only exception to [...]
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You all saw the Aston Martin attempt at a small car and many comments were made on that, not all cutting. Seems there is a veritable plethora of small cars being released in the New Year and I have some questions about them. First of all, a reasonably nice one: I don’t know much about [...]
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A U.S. college student has written to a debt management advisor, asking how to reverse her bad debts and get back on track. The advisor gave a lot of financial advice about percentages and so on but skimmed over his real advice – the young woman’s change in attitude and it’s not totally certain she [...]
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How important is height? In Napoleon’s case, not very much or perhaps it was – perhaps that was one thing driving him on. The list of leaders is long – Churchill, Putin, Mevedev, Stalin, Hitler, John Howard, it goes on. If a man lacks inches, he needs drive, panache or both, which Sarkozy undoubtedly has [...]
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Just what does the other side of the world think of EU politics? The Age says: Outrageous political rorts, sexual scandals and general bad behaviour have become a European trend. It should be dubbed the Year of Men (and women) Behaving Badly. From politics to high finance, 2009 is likely to be remembered for the [...]
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Cassandra has a quite puzzling definition of post-modernism, that it is in fact a negative, whereas I see it as a positive. On the other hand, she sees Enlightenment as a positive whereas I see it as a negative.
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The gay, the debonair and the beautiful young things
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In the 2002 UK Census, 92% of the population was white and the blacks comprised: 1.0% Black Caribbean 0.8% Black African 0.2% Black (others) The UK prison population at the same time comprised 86% white and the blacks comprised around 11%.
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A blue moon is on its way according to the scientists: Astronomer David Reneke from Australasian Science magazine said it was rare for the event to happen on New Year’s Eve – another blue moon will not fall on the last day of the year until 2028. The event has an added significance – it [...]
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Neither Le Figaro nor Le Monde are running this today but it’s Bruni in hot water again: France’s glamorous First Lady Carla Bruni, often accused of meddling in the state’s affairs, has now landed into a “nepotism” controversy, after her son’s godfather was recently given a top government job. Francois Baudot, a 60-year-old former interior [...]
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Where does one start on the refusal of the government to give Ian Luder a knighthood ? The first reaction is yes, well done Gordo – you nailed the greedy swine – but the more considered reaction is that it was Gordo who did it and Gordo is the arch-hypocrite. Naturally, he denies he had [...]
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Barring setbacks and with Wild Oats on its tail, Alfa Romeo seems to be set to take line honours [at one stage it had the handicap too] in the Rolex Sydney to Hobart blue water classic not long from now. The UK boat ICAP Leopard is third and the other UK-based boat RAN is closing. [...]
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Chuckle. I knew there was a reason I liked Karl Denninger: In this case said nutjob recently visited a place known to be a terrorist hotbed, we knew he was there, and even more damning, the NSA knew he was on the plane before it entered American airspace – yet that flight was permitted to [...]
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Lypsyl has run a survey as a promo on who has the most kissable lips and they came out this way: Male: 1. George Clooney, 2. Brad Pitt, 3. Daniel Craig Female: 1. Cheryl Cole [who?], 2. Angelina Jolie [yuk], 3. Holly Willoughby [who?] It is, in fact, a trick question. We would surely not [...]
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It’s a pity so many yachting posts have gone up here in the past few days because I’ve just stumbled across one which transcends all rules of decency and has left me shaking my head. In 1983, Australia lifted the America’s Cup after 132 years, the longest winning streak in history but the event was [...]
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Boxing Day The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon tradition giving seasonal gifts to less wealthy people and social inferiors. Until their distribution, these gifts were stored in a “Christmas box”, which was opened on December 26, when the contents were distributed. It used never to be on a Sunday but nowadays it is on St [...]
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Hampered by lack of scanner, the only way to convey the idea for the craft is to put up a series of “near” pictures and hope your imagination can do the rest. Step 1 is to pick up a longboat such as the above or maybe below, looking at from 31 to 34 feet in [...]
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The new British yacht RÁN has taken the overall lead of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this afternoon, Niklas Zennstrom and his crew making an early charge on Zennstrom’s hope to win the 628 nautical mile race on handicap, adding to his overall win of the Rolex Fastnet Race in August.
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If there was ever a topic to divide those with a open minds from those with sceptically closed, it is Lady Luck. Throw the issue on the pile of “don’t knows” because it’s another we are never going to resolve. Terry Gilliam is known for his bad luck in his films: Gilliam’s productions are so [...]
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The words are by English hymn writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98 in the Bible. The song was first published in 1719 in Watts’ collection; The Psalms of David: Imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and worship. Watts wrote the words of “Joy to the World” [...]
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