Well, it’s Monday again, and honestly, after just a few hours of this crap, I’m DONE for the day. It is nothing particularly bad, but when you have dreary weather, colleagues who can’t get their shit together, and looming project deadlines, it all combines to bring you the Mondayest Monday that ever Mondayed.

Fortunately, the Great Mondaydact Browser Squisher is here to solve all of life’s problems.

As it happens, today is a fairly important day – indeed, this whole week is kind of important, given the sheer number of made-up holidays that happen over the next 7 days. I’ll hand over here to our good friend, The Male Brain, who has a great reason to celebrate today.

Take it away, bro.

March 11 is the birthday of one of our favourite Sci-Fi writer, and probably the best one to combine humour with Sci-Fi to show us the human condition.

Adams was born in Cambridge to Christopher Douglas Adams (1927–1985), a management consultant and computer salesman, former probation officer and lecturer on probationary group therapy techniques, and nurse Janet (1927–2016). The family moved a few months after his birth to the East End of London, where his sister, Susan, was born three years later. His parents divorced in 1957; Douglas, Susan and their mother moved then to an RSPCA animal shelter in Brentwood, Essex, run by his maternal grandparents. Each remarried, giving Adams four half-siblings.

Adams was 6 feet (1.8 m) tall by age 12, [TMB – can relate. I was 1.8m at 14] and stopped growing at 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m). His form master, Frank Halford, said that Adams’s height had made him stand out and that he had been self-conscious about it. His ability to write stories made him well known in the school. Adams became the only student ever to be awarded a ten out of ten by Halford for creative writing – something he remembered for the rest of his life, particularly when facing writer’s block.

[Dawn Pine and I have actually met in person. He IS, in fact, a REALLY tall dude. – Didact]

On the strength of an essay on religious poetry that discussed the Beatles and William Blake, he was awarded an Exhibition in English at St John’s College, Cambridge (where his father had also been a student), going up in 1971. He wanted to join the Footlights, an invitation-only student comedy club that has acted as a hothouse for comic talent. He was not elected immediately as he had hoped, and started to write and perform in revues with Will Adams (no relation) and Martin Smith; they formed a group called “Adams-Smith-Adams”. He became a member of the Footlights by 1973. Despite doing very little work – he recalled having completed three essays in three years – he graduated in 1974 – English literature.

After leaving university Adams moved back to London, determined to break into TV and radio as a writer. An edited version of the Footlights Revue appeared on BBC2 television in 1974. A version of the Revue performed live in London’s West End led to Adams being discovered by Monty Python’s Graham Chapman. The two formed a brief writing partnership, earning Adams a writing credit in episode 45 of Monty Python for a sketch called “Patient Abuse”. The pair also co-wrote the “Marilyn Monroe” sketch which appeared on the soundtrack album of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Adams is one of only two people other than the original Python members to get a writing credit (the other being Neil Innes). He also made 2 appearances in the show.

At this point Adams’s career stalled; his writing style was unsuited to the then-current style of radio and TV comedy. To make ends meet he took a series of odd jobs, including as a hospital porter, barn builder, and chicken shed cleaner. He was employed as a bodyguard by a Qatari family, who had made their fortune in oil!

The lack of writing work hit him hard and low confidence became a feature of Adams’s life; “I have terrible periods of lack of confidence […] I briefly did therapy, but after a while I realized it was like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it”

Some of Adams’s early radio work included sketches for The Burkiss Way in 1977 and The News Huddlines. He also wrote, again with Chapman, the 20 February 1977 episode of Doctor on the Go, a sequel to the Doctor in the House television comedy series. After the first radio series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide became successful, Adams was made a BBC radio producer, working on Week Ending and a pantomime called Black Cinderella Two Goes East. He left after six months to become the script editor for Doctor Who. [TMB – Im shocked. Had no idea.]

He had also previously attempted to submit a potential film script, called “Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen”, which later became his novel Life, the Universe and Everything (which in turn became the third Hitchhiker’s Guide radio series). Adams then went on to serve as script editor on the show for its seventeenth season in 1979. Altogether, he wrote three Doctor Who serials starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was a concept for a science-fiction comedy radio series pitched by Adams and radio producer Simon Brett to BBC Radio 4 in 1977. Adams came up with an outline for a pilot episode, as well as a few other stories (reprinted in Neil Gaiman’s book Don’t Panic: The Official Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Companion) that could be used in the series.

According to Adams, the idea for the title occurred to him while he lay drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, gazing at the stars. He was carrying a copy of Тhe Hitch-hiker’s Guide to Europe, and it occurred to him that “somebody ought to write a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.

BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first radio series weekly in the UK starting 8 March 1978, lasting until April. The series was distributed in the United States by National Public Radio. Following the success of the first series, another episode was recorded and broadcast, which was commonly known as the Christmas Episode. A second series of five episodes was broadcast one per night, during the week of 21–25 January 1980.

While working on the radio series Adams developed problems keeping to writing deadlines that got worse as he published novels. Adams was never a prolific writer and usually had to be forced by others to do any writing. This included being locked in a hotel suite with his editor for three weeks to ensure that So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish was completed. He was quoted as saying, “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” Despite the difficulty with deadlines, Adams wrote five novels in the series, published in 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, and 1992.

In 1980, Adams began attempts to turn the first Hitchhiker’s novel into a film, making several trips to Los Angeles, and working with Hollywood studios and potential producers. The next year, the radio series became the basis for a BBC television mini-series broadcast in six parts. When he died in 2001 in California, he had been trying again to get the film project started with Disney, which had bought the rights in 1998. The screenplay got a posthumous re-write by Karey Kirkpatrick, and the resulting film was released in 2005 [TMB – the movie OK, casting was good]

Between Adams’s first trip to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine in 1985, and their series of travels that formed the basis for the radio series and non-fiction book Last Chance to See, Adams wrote two other novels with a new cast of characters. Dirk Gently‘s Holistic Detective Agency was published in 1987, and was described by its author as “a kind of ghost-horror-detective-time-travel-romantic-comedy-epic, mainly concerned with mud, music and quantum mechanics” [TMB – the 2 books are far inferior to the HHGTTG].

Douglas Adams created an interactive fiction version of HHGG with Steve Meretzky from Infocom in 1984. In 1986 he participated in a week-long brainstorming session with the Lucasfilm Games team for the game Labyrinth. Later he was also involved in creating Bureaucracy as a parody of events in his own life.

Adams was a founder-director and Chief Fantasist of The Digital Village, a digital media and Internet company with which he created Starship Titanic, a Codie award-winning and BAFTA-nominated adventure game, which was published in 1998 by Simon & Schuster. Terry Jones wrote the accompanying book, entitled Douglas Adams’ Starship Titanic, since Adams was too busy with the computer game to do both. [I’ve read that book. It was kind of scattershot, to be honest – some great moments in it, but rather poor and forced everywhere else. – Didact] In April 1999, Adams initiated the h2g2 collaborative writing project, an experimental attempt at making The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a reality, and at harnessing the collective brainpower of the internet community. It was hosted by BBC Online from 2001 to 2011.

Unfortunately, Adams was a “Radical Atheist”. Adding “radical” for emphasis so he would not be asked if he meant agnostic. As a former Agnostic, we can only shake our heads.

Adams was also an environmental activist who campaigned on behalf of endangered species. This activism included the production of the non-fiction radio series Last Chance to See, in which he and naturalist Mark Carwardine visited rare species such as the kākāpō and baiji, and the publication of a tie-in book of the same name. In 1992, this was made into a CD-ROM combination of audiobook, e-book and picture slide show. In 1994, he participated in a climb of Mount Kilimanjaro while wearing a rhino suit for the British charity organisation Save the Rhino International. Puppeteer William Todd-Jones, who had originally worn the suit in the London Marathon to raise money and bring awareness to the group, also participated in the climb wearing a rhino suit; Adams wore the suit while travelling to the mountain before the climb began. About £100,000 was raised through that event, benefiting schools in Kenya and a black rhinoceros preservation programme in Tanzania. Adams was also an active supporter of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

Adams was a Macintosh user from the time they first came out in 1984 until his death in 2001. He was the first person to buy a Mac in Europe, the second being Stephen Fry. Adams was also an “Apple Master”, celebrities whom Apple made into spokespeople for its products (others included John Cleese and Gregory Hines). Adams’s contributions included a rock video that he created using the first version of iMovie with footage featuring his daughter Polly. The video was available on Adams’s Mac homepage. Adams installed and started using the first release of Mac OS X in the weeks leading up to his death. His last post to his own forum was in praise of Mac OS X and the possibilities of its Cocoa programming framework. He said it was “awesome…”, which was also the last word he wrote on his site.

Adams used email to correspond with Steve Meretzky in the early 1980s, during their collaboration on Infocom’s version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. While living in New Mexico in 1993 he set up another e-mail address and began posting to his own USENET newsgroup, alt.fan.douglas-adams.

Adams never married but had a daughter with his partner.

Two days before Adams died, the Minor Planet Center announced the naming of asteroid 18610 Arthurdent. In 2005, the asteroid 25924 Douglasadams was named in his memory.

Adams died of a heart attack due to undiagnosed coronary artery disease on 11 May 2001, aged 49, after resting from his regular workout at a private gym in Montecito, California. His funeral was held on 16 May in Santa Barbara. His ashes were placed in Highgate Cemetery in north London in June 2002.

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The Mighty God-Emperor

His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, is apparently an all-round awesome guy to hang around:

He also greeted none other than #BasedOrban, which was every bit as epic a meeting as you might imagine:

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#BasedTucker is Based

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Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain has other great stuff for us this week too. We start with an Honest Ads take on the House of the Devil Mouse:

DaveScripted explains the show, Dexter, and its problem with moral dilemmas:

Economics Explained wonders whether capitalism has finally gotten to the stage where it eats itself, thanks to AI:

Solid jj unpacks the DASTARDLY plan of the Legion of Doom, which will eventually… create a European-style social welfare state:

Believe it or not, most of that already exists in Russia, right now.

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Mind-Expanding Drugs

Your General Knowledge of the Week is from The Male Brain, and it goes into the details of all the things you didn’t learn about the Dark Ages in school:

Here is something else that video didn’t tell you, because it got the history almost completely wrong:

The true Dark Ages did not start in the late 5th Century. They ACTUALLY started in the late 7th Century, and only ended about 300 years later.

And the true cause of those Dark Ages?

Islam.

Don’t take my word for it. Read Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy by Emmet Scott, which delves deep into the archaeology and history of that time to explain how Izzlam destroyed regional trade flows and wiped out entire civilisations.

Also, the notion that Islam had a “Golden Age”, has come under serious challenge of late, and rightly so. The reality is, the Muzzies conquered vast swathes of territory once populated by Byzantine Christians, Jews, and Persians, all of whom had far more advanced knowledge and technology than the conquerors did.

THAT is why the knowledge of the ancient world was “preserved” at the time. Not because of the Muzzies, but IN SPITE of them.

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Death Smiles At Us All…

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Poli-Ticking Off

Mark Dice watched Brandon’s State of Disunion, so you didn’t have to:

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The very-thoroughly-married couple at Redacted analyse the trends in the Banderastan War, and they look EXTREMELY bad for the continued survival of Ukraine as an independent state:

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PJW brings to global attention the plight of a Spanish couple – consisting of an old dude in his sixties and his VERY HOT and much younger girlfriend – who were assaulted in India, and wherein the young lady was gang-raped:

Unfortunately, the liberal hive-mind rot has plainly set in with these two, because they then tried to stop the generalisations about India being a particularly bad country for rape, as PJW pointed out.

Here is the reality: India is one of the most dangerous countries IN THE WORLD for young single women, of any skin colour, but especially for Whites. (It is also one of the most dangerous in the world for Christians, and I do not believe this to be a coincidence.)

Indian culture and psychology is deeply sick. I can say that with considerable knowledge of the place. Male psychosexual suppression there is truly off the scale. You have to see some of it to understand just how bad it is – you would not believe me if I simply told you.

Keep in mind, this is what Indians are like IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY.

Now imagine bringing that culture to Western countries in large numbers, and you can immediately begin to understand why much of the formerly First World, now looks like a Third World shithole, with exactly the same problems of rising violence against women, rape, public fouling, and the total degradation of morality, art, and beauty.

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Rulings from the Bench

Judge Nap had a busy week hosting lots of great talking heads. We start with Col. Douglas Macgregor, who talks about the utter stupidity of NATO policy toward Russia:

We should make one thing clear – the Russians are not in the least bit afraid of the European NATO nations. They know full well the NATO poodles have no hope of taking on the Russian military.

The only military force they worry about – they no longer really fear it – is Amerikhastan’s. And even that is not a source of substantial problems for them, provided a conflict between America and Russia stays conventional. They have seen first-hand what American so-called “doctrine” looks like in real life, thanks to the Ukies, and they are not impressed.

The real problem is what happens when the FUSA realises it is losing. At that point, it WILL almost certainly go nuclear. And then we all die, because the Russians can defend to some extent against an American first strike – but neither Europe nor the FUSA can defend against a Russian retaliatory strike with hypersonic nuclear-tipped missiles.

Maj. Scott Ritter analyses the probability of the current conflicts going quite literally thermonuclear:

Capt. Matthew Hoh looks at the implications of the Cookie Monster’s resignation over the disaster in Ukraine:

Alistair Crooke has some serious warnings about the instability sweeping the Middle East:

Larry Johnson & Ray McGovern appear, separately this time, to discuss the fallout of those “secret” discussions between Kraut officers about striking the Kerch Bridge with Taurus missiles:

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Margin of Victory

DA KERNEL responds to Brandon’s State of Disunion address in epic fashion, via the platform for Our Country Our Choice:

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Дед Сварливый Говорит!

Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the 700,000 “missing” soldiers from the AFU’s recent audit of its own forces:

Are all of those 700K dead? Quite probably. It is also possible that this number counts recently demobbed soldiers, who have gone back home – but that is hard to believe, given the fact that every able-bodied Ukrainian man is currently being swept off the streets to go fight and die in Donbass.

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Polonium

Ania Konieczek talks to Grandpa Grumpuss about the unfolding state of WWIII:

She also had a big announcement to make – she is going to buy some real estate in Russia and move there permanently if she can, and good for her:

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Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentes…

The good gentlemen of The Duran talk to LTC Tony Shaffer at some length about all the crazy stuff happening around us:

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The Bald Truth

Brian Berletic of The New Atlas breaks down the failure of the latest American wunderwaffe in Ukraine, the much-hyped M1A1 Abrams:

Admittedly, it is uncharitable to run down the M1A1 like that, absent further context. In fact, the M1 platform was an excellent one. It is, however, outdated. The M1s sent to the Banderites are also of the older vintages, without the latest armour, optical sights, thermals, electronics, and so on and so forth.

Moreover, the fact is, the Ukrainian tank crews were (and are) NOT trained to American standards.

It has been known for YEARS that, in tank-on-tank combat, it is not so much the machine that matters, it is the men. In such engagements, the better-trained crew usually wins, especially if it fires first.

If you were to take a poorly trained Russian crew and put it in the T-14 Armata, against a well-trained, well-prepared M1A1 crew, the latter would almost certainly win. This is just the truth of things.

Further, of the first 3 M1s taken out (a fourth MAY have been destroyed over the weekend), the first two were ploinked by drones and ATGMs, which the original M1 was never designed to fight against.

None of this changes the fact that the M1A1 was hyped up to be some sort of superweapon against the Russians – and it burns, just like all the rest have, and will continue to do.

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Bad Medicine

Dr. John Campbell talks about the latest demand by UK MPs to see the data around not-vaxx deaths and damage:

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Dr. Suneel Dhand explains what to do if you have a crap doctor – as so many of us do, these days:

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Warriors of Faith

Tha Dizzle walks with his good friend Apostate Prophet through the streets of Jerusalem, to experience Israeli “apartheid”:

Let us be clear about something:

Israel is (or was), for the most part, a pretty tolerant place. I’ve been there. I know.

That does not mean it is friendly toward Christians. It is not.

Nor does this mean the Israelis have any desire, any longer, to live alongside the Palestinian Arabs (and Christians) who live on that same land. They want them wiped out and removed. They have tried, for 70 years, to trade land for peace.

They are done with that. The ultra-Orthodox types are now in the ascendant, and have no interest in such deals. They will slaughter every last Palestinian, if that is what it takes to achieve peace.

And then, they will turn on the remaining Christians in Israel, and throw them out too.

This is not hyperbole. It is fact. It is precisely what people like Itamar Ben-Gvir have stated publicly.

As a result, Israel has LOST whatever moral high ground it might once have held.

I have no interest listening to Holocaustianity any longer, especially given the fact that Israel is now starving, shooting, and cleansing Palestinians off the Gaza Strip right now.

“From the river to the sea” is no longer an Islamic supremacist slogan used by the Pali-Walis to claim the entire Holy Land for themselves. It is now being used by no less than Benjamin Netanyahu to provide a vision of a Greater Israel.

This is inexcusable. Israel lost the moral level of this war a long time ago – and now is losing the physical one, to my complete lack of surprise. Its economy is cratering, and yet the crazies in charge are now talking about attacking southern Lebanon (which is still home to a large population of Lebanese Christian Arabs), during Ramadan.

It is all insanity, and if it continues, Israel itself will cease to exist.

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Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Al-Fadi from CIRA International have a new series out about historical anachronisms in Izzlam:

This should come as no surprise to anyone who knows the history of the Koran. It is in fact a patchwork of many previous books, including the Bible, various Gnostic gospels, several Syro-Aramaic Christian lectionaries, Persian poetry, and other oddball sources. And it was assembled over several centuries, not all at once.

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Christian Prince continues to do the Lord’s work by destroying the falsehoods of Izzlam:

As so many of the comments on videos like these say – “without lies, Islam dies”.

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Sam Shamoun patiently explains to a particularly oblivious Muslimah the realities of her own stupid book:

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Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel has a strong message for our Jewish friends:

And another one for the LGBTQWTFISTHISSHIT crowd:

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Please, Lord, Can I Have Some More DEUS VULT?

Christiane Najjar sings Agni Parthene (“O Virgin Pure”), in Arabic (I think) and then Greek, in a Greek Orthodox cathedral:

Yes, I know, it’s a Marian hymn, and Marianism is not Christianity, but it is a beautiful song nonetheless.

And here is some more of the same – starting with the same Marian Hymn, in the original Greek, but getting right back on track with the Beatitudes in Old Slavonic:

Jim Caviezel recites The Lord’s Prayer in ancient Aramaic – and you can see the impact it has upon him, and his audience:

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Manly Men of Manliness

Terrence Popp absolutely goes OFF on someone who is silly enough to question his take-no-prisoners attitude toward divorce:

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Joker from Better Bachelor takes apart a surgically-enhanced Middle Eastern Instathot who had the temerity to criticise a down-home country girl:

I have to agree with him. If you polled all the men who read this site, and made them watch that video, at least 90% of those men would argue the young lady from the country roads would be the better choice.

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Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Midnight’s Edge talks about a company called Sweet Baby Inc., which introduced DIEversity into gaming, and has caused tremendous problems as a direct result:

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Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock piles on the bad news for the House of the Devil Mouse:

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Gary from Nerdrotic asks and answers a rhetorical question:

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The Critical Drinker talks about that same Sweet Baby thing:

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Reading Too Much Into Things

Your Science is F***ing Weird moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and looks at whether marriage makes Chinese people fat (paraphrasing somewhat):

This study investigates the impact of marriage on the body mass index (BMI) of individuals aged 18–45 in China. We used data from ten rounds of the China Health and Nutrition Survey spanning from 1989 to 2015, and applied Difference-in-Differences (DID) model to examine the impact of marriage on BMI. Our findings reveal that marriage has a significant positive effect on BMI, especially among males, with post-marriage elevation of male BMI continuing to increase over time. Moreover, marriage is associated with a 5.2% increase in the prevalence of overweight and a 2.5% rise in the incidence of obesity among males. While energy intake levels for Chinese women did not undergo significant changes after marriage, nor did their energy expenditure levels, men experienced a marked alteration in energy balance, characterized by an increase in caloric intake and a decrease in physical activity. Furthermore, our study confirms significant period differences in the effect of marriage on BMI, with post-marriage elevation of male BMI continuing to rise over time. In contrast, there was no clear trend for female BMI after marriage. Our research highlights the importance of promoting physical fitness and health management within families while fostering intimate relationships through marriage. Public health policies should consider the potential impact of marriage as an intervention window for addressing individuals’ weight management needs. Distinct post-marriage body management plans should be designed for both genders.

tl;dr version: YES

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Your long read of the week is from Substacker Cherry Anne, and talks about whether the NHS was actually truly overwhelmed during the Scamdemic:

Let me explain some of the events that took place during that period in our recent history.

I stood in a daily ‘huddle’ that took place on the ward where I was working at the time, to listen to the latest information, dripped down the pipe from the government, and disseminated to us by our lead consultant. I can only state that I stood agog at the sheer madness of it all, but more to the point, the way in which it was delivered, by a clinician that I had previously respected, with not a hint of cynicism or questioning. Just regurgitated as fact. This information contained details of when ‘the wave’ would hit…..”it’s going to be this weekend, the army are on standby”, when nothing happened, we were told the wave was delayed, honestly, you couldn’t make it up, oh, sorry, they did. The reality was that the hospital was, to all intents and purposes, empty.

Interestingly, in March, overnight, the hospital was festooned with hand sanitizers, mask stations, stickers in the stairwell and on doors, warning of the capacity allowed into that area at any one time, lest we were struck down. It was almost as if those stickers and banners were pre-printed waiting to be used.

In the canteen it was one person allowed at a table, despite the fact that we were sitting next to each other, maskless in the ward areas. Infection control staff stalked the wards and offered new information and rules which changed almost on a daily basis, and made no sense. Arguments and debates about how far a droplet will travel, how long it will be suspended in the air, how this dictates if you need to wear a gown or a plastic apron, etc etc. These are seemingly intelligent people having these meaningless conversations.

There had been a concerted effort to discharge any and everybody that could conceivably leave the hospital, and that included many elderly, sent back to residential and nursing homes, replete with their requisite DNAR (do not attempt resuscitation) orders in place, and their ‘just in case’ (end of life meds) prescription. Visiting was stopped. At that time those patients admitted with serious life limiting events, died alone, away from their families.

In my role, I assessed patients coming into a&e for their suitability for the service that I worked in at that time, and as everybody will be aware, a&e is generally not a great place to be, with long waiting times. Not at that time. I have NEVER seen a&e so empty in my life. The permanent a&e staff were kitted out in full body suits and elaborate respirators, but those staff, such as myself who were not permanent a&e staff, were fine to don the plastic pinny, the blue paper face mask and vinyl gloves. Clearly, the ‘virus’ could tell us apart….

The ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ zones of the department were sectioned off by a wheeled screen about 5-6 foot in height. If I needed to take a patient to radiology, the screen was pulled back, and I wheeled on through.

Our ward area, with a 42 bed capacity, had an average of 6-8 patients at this critical time, and for several weeks, as the ‘wave’ crashed through. I have to report, I didn’t notice its presence. However, the hospital lay practically empty. No outpatient clinics, no regular surgery, no ambulances queued up outside, wards at lowest ever occupancy. This is the reality of the ‘so called pandemic’.

I have done some analysis of publicly available NHS datasets on bed occupancy across all of the various trusts around the country, with a particular focus on adult critical care, general admission, and ICU beds. The data confirm what she writes above – with very few exeptions, at no point was the NHS in true danger of collapsing due to a lack of beds.

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Linkage is good for you:

• Sergey Strokan examines the real reasons for the Cookie Monster’s resignation, which seem to have more to do with the ascendancy of the China Hawks than anything else;
• Maj. Scott Ritter explains how the current conflict is creating a new, stronger, much more resilient, self-confident, capable, and forward-looking Russia;
• The Bellendsky Regime has just sent Gen. Potato as their Ambassador to London, which just does not make any sense, given how garbage he was at his previous job;
• In a momentously ironic twist, the Ukies have been setting up call centres to scam some of their strongest supporters, particularly in Canuckistan;
• THE RUSSIANS ARE BREEDING RADIATION-RESISTANT SUPER WORMS IN CHERNOBYL NOW!!!, or so the headline would have you believe;
• The Israelis and Palestinians trade jabs over “What Would Jesus Do?”, and inevitably, both get it very badly wrong;
• A woman with an otherwise-innocuous name is going to get an extremely embarrassing email handle at her new job;
• For those who think the current job market is ridiculous – you are right, and one kid has proven just how bad it is with actual data on FIVE HUNDRED (not a typo) applications;
• A premed student waited 30min on a Zoom interview, for someone who didn’t show up, and then got rejected, which is just absurd at a whole new level;
• It isn’t just new graduates struggling in the current environment – tech job interviews have gotten ridiculous, and it is simply getting worse;
• On the plus side, Canonical Software, the originators of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, turned 20 this year, and what a ride it has been;
• Remember that story above about the Spanish couple who were assaulted, and the woman gang-raped? The Indian authorities have finally gotten around to arresting a few of the assholes who did it;
• British government support for Israel does not translate into popular support, and it has serious consequences for the Jewish population of Londonistan;
• A woman who went “viral” for her very enthusiastic display of support at a recent NBA game, turns out to be a prostitute, which is all kinds of hilarious if you think about it;
• OBADSDL(PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible explains why a top UFC fighter will always defeat a highly-trained SpecOps warrior in a cage match;
• Gen-X has little patience for the Millennialtars and Gen-Zyklon on the subject of being middle-aged, which many of them are by now;
• New evidence from the MH370 investigation lends credence and support to the theory that the pilot committed a mass-murder/suicide, though this will be debated for many years;

And some more from Dawn Pine:

• Goolag continues to fail to live up to its own “Don’t Be Evil” motto, after firing its own people from YouTube who asked for better pay and conditions;
• The Japanese are proud of their culture, and rightly so, but they are clearly in severe population decline, to the point where their own (really weird) festivals are getting cancelled due to a lack of people;
• The Japos also appear to be getting wise to the insanity of Izzlam, in the wake of the Oct 07 attacks, and rightly so – Islam is a religion of lies and war, and the Japos want nothing to do with any of that;
• Supposedly, The Putin has AI deepfake PR0N waiting and ready to go to destabilise the West – which is ridiculous on its face, the West doesn’t need Russian help AT ALL in this regard;
• As any fule kno, you should never, EVER trust lawyers, especially if they managed to secure a US$53B judgement against the founder of Tesla and now want US$6B in shares;
• AI is definitely upending the film industry – you can now tell AI to create videos for you that are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing – and movie studios are waking up to this in a hurry;
• The same technology is also turning out to be very useful for doing the police’s jobs for them, because apparently those police are too busy dealing with mean words on the internet;
• However, AI is also vulnerable to malicious code – and the consequences are likely to be far worse, given the exponential increase in computing power required for serious AI;
• And, as always, the fatal flaw with AI is the humans behind it – turns out, a Goolag software engineer stole secrets from the company and sold it to the Chinese, and unsurprisingly, he is himself Chinese;
• Going back to Goolag again, its own woke AI refuses to condemn paedophilia (which I can confirm is true, having run that experiment myself in Gemini – it tries to dodge the question);
• Have you ever wondered how turtles can breathe underwater in a mossy-covered lake? Turns out, the answer has to do with the way they metabolise oxygen;
• A woman who thought she could get a hall pass, because female, banged her personal trainer is now experiencing some severe regret, because he is threatening to reveal all;
• The Germans used to have a reputation for competence and discretion, but it is likely that was badly overstated, given recent revelations about their use of ridiculously simple passwords for sensitive information;
• In Dubai, things are a lot weirder than anywhere else, as this article about guys dressing up with jetpacks and racing each other between skyscrapers will show you;
• Movie stars are fleeing Hollyweird in droves – they just don’t want to tell anyone about it, which is why they are taking any excuse to GTFO of Dodge;
• Taking on farmers is always going to be a losing battle, because they make the food and have access to really cool shit (literally) the rest of us don’t;
• Readers of a certain vintage will be old enough to remember the ridiculous brouhaha over “Y2K” – turns out, though, that Feb 29 generates ACTUAL software glitches in Kiwiland and with PlayStation games;
• A dad with a lot of time on his hands built a seriously realistic Boeing 737-800 simulator in his garage – and it is almost certainly far better than any of the training used for the MAX series;
• The “corpse flower” is quite a thing to behold, and a crowd in Clownipornia is gathering to witness one of them opening up, because it is a very rare event;
• Do you want to be more attractive to the opposite sex? Then stop eating carbs, because they make you look fat and ugly, even after just a single sandwich;
• And here is the pop-sci take on the Science Corner study above, which points out that marriage does make you get fatter;
• A nuclear power plant backed by one of the founders of OpenAI is aiming to go live in 2028 – good luck to them, it is extremely difficult to do nuclear power properly in Amerikhastan now;

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MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!

The Neo-Tsar met with some really lovely young ladies at the Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation Academy in southern Russia:

He even trolled (gently) the Defence Minister of Russia in the process:

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HALO Nation

Slayergod Remy aka MintBlitz does his thing while going over the various things 343i wants to improve with HALO Infinite, after asking the entire community what they want to see:

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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

Scholar’s Lore explains space hulks:

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Superheroics

Have you ever wondered what iconic DC Comics and Marvel characters would look like, if drawn in 1990s anime style? Superhero Remix answers that question for us:

And, seeing as how last week witnessed the death of the legendary creator of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, and all of its immense universe of spin-offs, it seems only fitting to go over some of the greatest moments in that series:

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Creature Features

What Lurks Beneath talks about cryptids in the Manistee National Forest:

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Oh No! Anyway…

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

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Comedy Hour

Nobody did comedy better than St. Reagan of the Right:

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Meme Warfare

We begin with some epic memes from Dawn Pine about the Krauts who let slip all their secret war plans:

Plus some other dank memes:

[I have. Highly overrated. – Didact]

[This is why we NEED to hang whorenalists. It’s like some journo-school dropout got confused between “submarine pitcher” and “ambidextrous pitcher”, and came up with “amphibious pitcher”. – Didact]

[DAMN RIGHT I DO!!! – Didact]

True story:

I had a boss who disliked long emails. He was a junior VP in a multinational corporation.

One time the marketing VP (same hierarchy) sent a long email (he was on the TO list) and he ignored it. When she directed the email to him asking why he did not answer he replied with “You are an idiot”. She wrote a long email to him complaining to the CEO, he replied “You are absolutely right” – again without reading the email. He lasted 13 years in the company.

[Also known as “delegating” – this is the art of management. – Didact]

And now, as our LRFotS RobertW would say:

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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:

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REPS FOR JESUS!!!

Gym beast props this week go to Tuomas Hautala:

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Also, Jeff Cavaliere explains the problem with using a predetermined number of reps and sets to build muscle:

Brian Shaw and Eddie Hall are really just giant kids:

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Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs

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They See Me Rollin’…

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Palate Cleansers

Axe Me Anything

Drumlines

MOAR DAKKA!!!

Mighty Wings

Jump-Starts

Gingervitis Injections

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Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods

[Einstein pic here]

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Rock Out With Your Glock Out

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Thot Shots

And finally, after much messing around, here is your Instathot for the start of the week. This is one Talia Lewis Cole, age 21 from PommieBastardLande, and she is a full-time TikTokist and professional lip-syncer. She also apparently did cheerleading at one point, and won a bronze medal at some sort of global championship for it. (Look, just because I report on these things, doesn’t mean I understand them. YOOT truly is wasted on the young.)

Anyway, that’s all, back to work now, boys.

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