Roland Bates

I actually can't put into words the debt I owe to my parents. I know you may feel very differently.

It's all starting to make sense now!!!

Yes that's me. No sense of humour!

Top row: Django, St Francis of Assisi, me
Lower row: Paddy, her son Arthur, Ralf, Frances, Stanley Bad

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night to find the Internet sitting on the bed, staring at me. Just sitting there, staring!

Trump 2.0:

-Bombed Iran (twice), Venezuela, and Yemen
-Allowed Israel to repeatedly violate a ceasefire and kill civilians
-Ripped healthcare and SNAP away from millions
-Deployed masked ICE agents to terrorize American cities

The "Peace President."

❤️

Which, I hate to say, means that one of us in this picture will be next. Such is life.

My dad looks like Paul Giamatti.
The youngest person in this picture is now 42. My mum and dad have gone to their respective rewards.

Complexity

I have been reminded that my old mum died 9 years ago today. Without her I would literally be nothing.

God it's all so depressing isn't it. Listening to Allan Holdsworth. Might go and lie in a ditch shortly

AG

Just been catching up with this - I CONTINUE TO RECOMMEND. Don't think you'd need to have read Moby-Dick to enjoy it (I've only just started it), there's all sorts comes up. It's good!

Best bit in ch.3 that they didn't mention: description of the deceitfully tapered tumblers as "footpads' goblets"

Fuck yeah

It is her best one.

A war monger draft dodging pedophile con artist is the head of the theocratic fascist NAR HERITAGE FOUNDATION rapture prep snakkke?

I'm a heathen. Y'alls dogma bullshit gives me a whiplash.

Thank you I really needed some Ottoman support there

Energy is an anger, to quote Ronny Jotten

Ages ago I met John Cleese at a do for a charity i worked for an we were warned not to mention divorce as he was having one of his many divorces. We talked for ten minutes and he instantly brought it up himself

the motion of a Sperm Whale’s flukes above water dispenses a perfume, as when a musk-scented lady rustles her dress in a warm parlor

“Shooting and crying”.

It would be a joke, except it’s not.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shootin...

Top of the Pops (1st March 1984). Wang Chung are at number 42 with Dance Hall Days.

Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150 Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media

Nearly 150 school girls, murdered by Israeli armed forces in unprovoked attacks in the middle of diplomatic negotiations.

One of the most deadly school massacres in history.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Don't lose your revolution twice

I make no claim to understand such matters even though the beardy men hijacked a left-wing revolution in 79.

Ancestral voices

I know a British guy with Iranian heritage who wants the Pahlavis back. Hey what do I know? Zip. But that's a real view out there, whether a widely held one I do not know. I was surprised

Dearest people who don’t read or remember history:

The reason Iran is ruled by Ayatollahs now is because the U.S. overthrew the democratically-elected Iranian President in 1953 to help American oil interests.

Pelagius has never quite been eradicated! Didn't a recent Pope (probably Francis) attempt an accommodation there?