OK, yes, I know, this edition of everyone’s second-favourite series on Didactic Mind is WAY late. I have a good excuse. I’m travelling. (Yeah… not such a great excuse, admittedly.) But, I did land up here at midnight, and the taxi fare getting to the hotel was a colossal rip-off (I knew it, but wasn’t in any mood to argue), and yet I soldier on to bring you the latest in pictures and pulchritude from around the world.
Spare a thought, therefore, for your unfriendly neighbourhood Didact. It’s a tough life.
So let us carry on with this late, late edition of the Great Mondaydact Browser Smasher:
This week is all about one of my favourite drinks – good single-malt Scotch whiskey. The range available from Scotland alone is immense. I am particularly keen on the Speyside single-malts of the Macallan variety, but I am also highly partial to the really smooth, yet extremely smoky Ardbeg, Laphroaig, and Lagavulin Scotches. The great thing about drinking Scotch is that every single one of them tastes a bit different – you can literally pick and choose whatever you want, based on your own personal palate, wallet, and interests.
So, what whiskies do you NEED to try? Well, the answer to that question is EXTREMELY subjective, and I certainly cannot pretend to be an expert (though I have assuredly sipped and drammed by way through, by my best estimate, at least two dozen different brands of both single-malt and double-malt in my time). But, here is one possible answer:
What’s on your Scotch bucket list?
#BasedTucker is Based
Jan 16, 2023
Jan 17, 2023
Jan 18, 2023
Jan 19, 2023
Jan 20, 2023
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has lots to keep us busy today. We start with a great Honest Trailer concerning one of the very best dystopian sci-fi films ever made:
The accuracy of some of that movie’s predictions is genuinely uncanny.
John Stossel weighs in on the Great Scamdemic Debate:
PJW is unimpressed by this year’s Miss Universe clown show:
Let’s round things off with a bit of JP Sears:
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice looks at the increasingly fractious saga of Steven Crowder‘s issues with Daily Wire and The Littlest Chickenhawk:
DW tried to buy Crowder’s soul. Let’s see if they succeed.
The dynamic duo over at Redacted look at the rather belated recognition by the FAA about the number of commercial airline pilots suffering from attacks of Suddenly:
Jackson Hinkle breaks down the recent Russian victory in Soledar:
ะะตะด ะกะฒะฐัะปะธะฒัะน ะะพะฒะพัะธั!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about conditional logic and it usefulness in making decisions – and why Western “analysts” and “experts” have absolutely no clue about the realities of war:
Itโs All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran reckon the World Economic Forum is rapidly losing its lustre:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas is unimpressed by the latest Western aid package to Banderastan:
Semper Fi!
Maj. Scott Ritter discusses the coming failure of the 404th UkReich with the Morrises:
Warrior’s Rage
Col. Douglas Macgregor discusses the likely impact (or lack thereof) of Western “tanks” going to Banderastan:
Righteous Rantery
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan
Bad Medicine
Dr. John Campbell is curious about the increased incidence of strokes in young adults – whatever could it BE?!?!?!:
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle talks with Dr. Robert Spencer
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Mel from Sneaker’s Corner examine the oft-touted ban on alcohol in Izzlam:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Lloyd de Jongh explain why Izzlam simply cannot qualify as an actual religion:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp points out that no man is actually impressed by the clown-whore warpaint:
Joker from Better Bachelor notes that Tom Brady really appears to have bounced back rather nicely – assuming the rumours of him dating Veronica Rajek are actually true, that is:
Ms Rajek is, apparently, all-natural, and extremely attractive – so much so that she featured in an instalment of the much-beloved Friday T&A series a few years back. Go look her up, I assure you, she will make your day much brighter.
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge explain the self-immolation of Adam Sessler and Froskurrin:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock is delighted at the epic failure of the STAR WARS Galactic Starcruiser hotel:
Gary from Nerdrotic reports on a rather devious trick the Hollyweird whorenalists are trying to play on you:
Ryan Kinel shows us the Wages of Woke from the, awful, woketard Scooby Doo show (without the giant talking dog) that literally no one ever wanted:
The Drinker actually found a modern horror movie that he sort of likes:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and it basically shows that visiting green spaces regularly showed 33% lower rates for needing mental health meds, 36% lower rates for needing blood pressure meds, and 26% lower rates of using asthma meds:
Background Exposure to natural environments is thought to be beneficial for human health, but the evidence is inconsistent. Objective To examine whether exposure to green and blue spaces in urban environments is associated with mental and physical health in Finland.
Methods The Helsinki Capital Region Environmental Health Survey was conducted in 2015โ2016 in Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa in Finland (n=7321). Cross-sectional associations of the amounts of residential green and blue spaces within 1 km radius around the respondentโs home (based on the Urban Atlas 2012), green and blue views from home and green space visits with
self-reported use of psychotropic (anxiolytics, hypnotics and antidepressants), antihypertensive and asthma medication were examined using logistic regression models. Indicators of health behaviour, traffic-related outdoor air pollution and noise and socioeconomic status SES) were used as covariates, the last of these also as a potential effect modifier.Results Amounts of residential green and blue spaces or green and blue views from home were not associated with medications. However, the frequency of green space visits was associated with lower odds of using psychotropic medication (OR=0.67, 95% CI 0.55 to 0.82 for 3โ4 times/week; 0.78, 0.63 to 0.96 for โฅ5 times/week) and antihypertensive (0.64, 0.52 to 0.78; 0.59, 0.48 to 0.74, respectively) and asthma (0.74, 0.58 to 0.94; 0.76, 0.59 to 0.99, respectively) medication use. The observed associations were attenuated by body mass index, but no consistent interactions with SES indicators were observed.
Conclusions Frequent green space visits, but not the amounts of residential green or blue spaces, or green and blue views from home, were associated with less frequent use of psychotropic, antihypertensive and asthma medication in urban environments.
An even simpler and shorter tl;dr version from Dawn Pine:
“Get your ass outside and you will be a lot more healthy”
Your long read of the week comes by way of reader AuntRat, who sent over a long article from Big Serge about the way in which the Western project is now unravelling in Ukraine:
Since Russiaโs surprise decision to voluntarily withdraw from west bank Kherson in the first week of November, there has been little in the way of dramatic changes to the frontlines in Ukraine. In part, this reflects the predictable late autumn weather in Eastern Europe, which leaves battlefields waterlogged and clogged with mud and greatly inhibits mobility. For hundreds of years, November has been a bad month for attempting to move armies any sort of significant distance, and like clockwork we started to see videos of vehicles stuck in the mud in Ukraine.
The return of static positional warfare, however, also reflects the synergistic effect of increasing Ukrainian exhaustion along with a Russian commitment to patiently attriting and denuding Ukraineโs remaining combat capability. They have found an ideal place to achieve this in the Donbas.
It has gradually become apparent that Russia is committed to a positional attritional war, as this maximizes the asymmetry of their advantage in ranged fires. There is an ongoing degradation of Ukraineโs warmaking ability which is allowing Russia to patiently maintain the current tempo, while it organizes its newly mobilized forces for offensive action in the coming year, setting the stage for cascading and unsustainable Ukrainian losses.
In Ernest Hemingwayโs novel, The Sun Also Rises, a formerly wealthy, now down on his luck character is asked how he went bankrupt. โTwo waysโ, he replies, โgradually and then suddenly.โ Someday we may ask how Ukraine lost the war and receive much the same answer.
The rest of the article goes into some detail about the operational and tactical situations in and around Ukraine, and makes for some very interesting reading. Well worth your time.
Linkage is good for you:
- Ahmed Salan comments on Maj. Scott Ritter‘s view that Gen. Valeriy Gerasimov‘s appointment as overall head honcho of the whole shebang in Banderastan spells disaster for the 404th UkReich;
- Viktor Medvedchuk, the former opposition leader in Banderastan – surely no paragon of propriety or honesty himself – expresses the view that the West wants no peace at all in Ukraine;
- Pepe Escobar notes the growing sense of panic in the West as the Banderite project fails;
- Larry Johnson is unimpressed by the sudden narrative shifts with respect to Western tanks in 404;
- Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible explains how Clown World is eating the clowns in a desperate attempt to save itself;
- Bernhard from Moon of Alabama gives a detailed sitrep on the 404th UkReich, and reinforces Big Serge‘s analysis about the sheer numbers of krainians being thrown into the Bakhmut Meat-Grinder;
- The Banderites very stupidly executed their own chief negotiator last year, even though there was no evidence whatsoever of any wrongdoing on his part;
- Dmitry Trenin warns of the very urgent need for Russia to continue building its relationships with the Global South in 2023;
- Helmholtz Smith explains that Ukraine has killed off so much of its own fighting potential that its flab is gone – and now is cutting deep into the muscles and organs;
- Andrei Martyanov is thoroughly unimpressed by American attempts to break the pattern of grinding attritional warfare in 404;
- Speaking of whom, his good friend Andrei Rayevsky (aka The Saker) checks whether Grumpuss is right in his criticisms of Western elites as being uneducated and incredibly stupid (spoiler: YES HE IS);
- Bob Bishop looks at the decay and decline of American cities under some of the most progressive and globalist mayors – many of them Republicucks – in history;
- The Daily Fail actually does its job for a change and investigates the world of incels – though, inevitably, it comes to completely the wrong conclucions about the root causes of Incel-Gamma Rage;
And some more fromย Dawn Pine:
- JPMorgan Chase appears to be so busy persecuting Jan 6 “rioters”, and the bipolar nutbag/truth-teller known as Ye, that it has forgotten how to do basic due diligence against student loan scams;
- For those who think that knowledge-based professions, like law and consulting, are immune to the coming wave of AI automation, think again;
- As this poor bastard who sent ยฃ600 to his “online lover” – who was almost certainly a dude – discovered the hard way, there is a sucker born every single minute;
- I like a good Dumb Polack joke every bit as much as the next man, but there are times when the Poles can actually be very, very clever indeed, especially when it comes to ripping off customers;
- The latest Chief Grand Beardy Todger, or whatever they call their weirdbeards in Iran, is discovering the hard way that the old ways don’t work in maintaining his popularity (or so a Jewish source says);
- We know it is generally illegal to smuggle gold, animals, humans, and drugs, but in the Philippines, it is also illegal to smuggle fruit and vegetables, as one odd case shows us;
- Remember that PJW thing from upstairs? This is the story that inspired the rant, about how Miss USA is now Miss Universe, even though Miss Russia and about a dozen other girls probably looked better;
- The World Economic Forum is a great demonstration of supply vs demand – because the demand for “escort services” (read: prostitutes) went through the bloody ROOF during that annual shinding of the world’s most evil people;
- Want to traumatise a vegan? Explain to him (more likely, her) that Parmesan cheese is actually not vegetarian, at all;
- The House of the Devil Mouse richly rewards those who fail upward, as the comms chief who completely cocked-up the response to the Florida Parental Rights Act discovered, to his immense benefit;
- Netherflix is looking for people to work on its own internal version of something that is very likely to turn into Lolita Express 2.0;
- Not that any of us needed a reminder, but the Fibbies are an entirely anti-democratic Praetorian Guard designed specifically to protect the American elite from the common people;
- A dude who pretended to drop the engagement ring when proposing to his fiancee, just before bungee jumping, plainly has balls the size of church bells, made of solid brass;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar reckons Russia is doing just fine in the SMO, and with good reason, in my opinion:
Those Who Fail To Learn From History…
History lessons of the week:
HALO Nation
DOOM Man looks at one of the ultimate “what-ifs”:
And now let’s watch slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz do his thing, while commenting on some odd happenings at 343i:
Learning at the Master’s Feet
Nerd of the Rings explains the life and times of Maglor, one of the Sons of Feanor:
Bring on the Grimdark
Does anyone remember this game, from back in the days of full-motion cutscenes?
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Comedy hour:
Meme Warfare
We start with some memes from Dawn Pine, related to the last JP Sears video upstairs:
Onward:
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
And finally, your “Meanwhile, in Russia” moment of the week:
The Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to the lunatic Russians of Egor Klimonov‘s team:
Seriously, the whole of Russia is just one gigantic meme.
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
Palate Cleansers
Shuffle Off
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Russian Desserts
Drums of Doom
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Hot Totty
And, at long last, to get your week off to a suitable start, here is your Instathot. She is Amber Jepson, age 26 from PommieBastardLande, and her primary claim to fame is being the apparent latest squeeze of American actor Michael B. Jordan. You might remember him from various movies, most of which were eminently forgettable, and from Creed, which apparently was memorable.
OK, that’s it, back to the salt mines, boys.
4 Comments
Have you tried Glenrothes?
Lagavulin is my favorite single malt. I tell people that it tastes like a swamp fire, which is a compliment.
I know you like Halo 4, and I do too, but I’m rethinking that stance after watching this video. I’ve never liked 343i retconning the Forerunners into a separate alien species, but when I see all the pieces this guy put together about what they were supposed to be, it makes me even madder.
https://youtu.be/j2XcD7BV95E
Whoops, that was part 2, part 1 here:
https://youtu.be/YjZMRcpbK2E
Glenlivet 15 yr. for me, please.