Or from the latin the seventh month, OCTober being eighth, NOVember ninth, DECember tenth, talking to a 40 year old a week or two ago who did not know this.
Came about because of a discussion about what they did know, apparently, because everyone knows it, do I look fucking stupid?
September literally means the seventh month, yet it is the ninth month, how do you reconcile that with your claim that you know shit because everyone knows shit… did you think the dinosaurs used the same calendar as us then?
Did you not know that things as fundamental to society as culture and calendars have changed through time, and in many ways are still changing, it was only a couple of years ago that the length of one day per year was altered every so slightly.
I used to like to wind up astrophysicysts (sic) by asking them since we could calculate the event horizon of a black hole and therefore circumference, what was a diameter, since you talk about schwartzwild radius, after all, Pi is alleged to be a universal constant, and black holes are in the universe, so please tell me what circumference / diameter = for a black hole.
One or two would say actually that is a *fucking* good fundamental question that relates to our entire concept of space time geometry, most would tell me that I could not possibly understand the math, should they try to explain it to me.
Practically Pi works anywhere here on the surface of the earth, and practically our current calendar and time system works anywhere here on the surface of the earth, so to all intents and purposes, they are universal.
However both existed before being codified and quantified by man, time passed, and geometry existed.
Apparently it is no longer good enough to take thermometer readings, I can sit a sea level and place my newly made tube into boiling water and make a mark on it, and into ice and make another mark, and subdivide the difference with 100 other equally spaced marks, or 180 if you prefer, but no, this is not acceptable, all these historical sea temperature numbers now need to be “adjusted”
Similary one would have thought that if N1 = total number of working age people in a country and N2 = total number of people in full time employment and N3 = total number of people in part time employment and N4 = total number unemployed, then N1 = N2 + N3 + N4, but oh no, we have “seasonally adjusted” numbers for N4, and the skank ho pumping out womb turds on the state isn’t counted, nor are the layabout “disabled” and all the rest of the shit.
The question wasn’t are you blind or deaf or stupid, the question was do you drive a railway locomotive for a living, because we are trying to work out how many do vs how many passengers there may be, I do not want to know your reasons for not being Casey Jones, I just want to know if you are, or are not.
But, the problem is, some people just won’t be told, even when it demonstrably costs them money…
I had a customer last week, wanted something done in marine ply, which comes in two varieties, one to a British Standard that comes with a BS kite mark, and one to Lloyds spec with comes with a kite mark and a lloyds stamp.
Only the lloyds is good enough for boat building, the other one is good for all exterior use.
The british standard says anything over 3/16″ has to be at least 5 ply and use waterproof glues and not contain knots etc.
So I quote the guy for materials and he says it is too expensive, he’ll get the materials himself, so he does, and it’s some shit from indonesia and it certainly ain’t marine ply, it ain’t even normal ply, it’s lagged in fire retardant, so it doesn’t cut on a laser.
So he tells me to go out an buy ordinary builders ply and do the job, so I do, and he is whining about the wasted materials, and I tell him to get his money back, and he can’t, because they said no, fuck you, and he accepted it.
So I have done my bit of the job perfectly, but overall he is unhappy, because of his bit of the job, but nothing is his fault and no lessons will be learned so the unhappiness has to be shifted on to me.
GOOD / FAST / CHEAP, choose any two… bwahahahaha, spits dummy out, no, I want all three.
so choose any two then becomes choose any one, but not from that list…. the cheap indonesian shit + the cheap builders shit cost near enough the same as the marine grade, but now the job has been done in cheap builders shit, which I can break apart with my hands, so it’s arguable that even putting the “gets wet all the time” aspect aside for the moment, the shit may not even be strong enough.
get this, it’s a fucking prototype of a thing, and it is going to the client, so if they like it, they will order 50 more.
what do you think the chances are?
It’s a bit like the guy down the road, he has a fancy car, drives it hard from cold and generally abuses the fuck out of it, but every saturday he spends 3 hours washing and waxing and detailing the fucking thing, so it *looks* beautiful, but beyond the paintwork and wheels and interior it just gets rode hard and hung up wet.
If all this seems sort of random and disjointed it isn’t really, it’s all about nobody knowing the innate nature and history and usage of anything, and the thing is, most of them like it that way, and will fight and resent you if you try to tell them otherwise.
which brings me to the three guys I met last week, they were all very crifto and understated and flying under the radar, and there was a tense moment when one of them said something and I said something and so on, and suddenly one of them said something very neo-nazi white-power, and they just look at me, I just grinned, I got my own beliefs boys, I don’t care what yours are, and I don’t care if you like mine, but me and mine are the only ones I give a fuck about.
The moment of tension passes, and they start opening up and talking, and fuck me, talking about their neo nazi beliefs is like talking about the shit tank discharge port on a 747, there is a *lot* to these guys and they are all busy educating themselves as hard and fast as they can, all sorts of practical skills and old fashioned knowledge, not a fucking whisper about planet nbiru or any of that shit…
What is interesting is a comment one of them made that I promptly forgot until today, he said that a credit reference agency had been hacked, heard it on “neo-nazi-(dark)net” he said, I’m not sure what I really thought when he said it, sort of yeah well everyone is being hacked lately, and that’s just the stuff that gets outed, and sort of dismissed it as there was an ongoing conversation, then today we learn it was Equifax, and it was big, and ongoing for months, and the scope was enough to perform identity theft on at the very least tens of millions of customers.
I sort of dismissed it by saying who cares, I don’t have any credit or debt anyway, and all three of them said same here, and the conversation sort of drifted on to other things.
See, the local bike garage that does my MOT’s, they rent the premises off my pet motor mechanic, who is literally next door, and my pet motor mechanic is actually a friend, and has quite the exotic car collection on the quiet, and on the quiet it is, he is a quiet guy, but everyone local with class who has a classic car knows him, and uses him.
But they see me as some middle aged born again wannabe, got a harley that I can’t ride and don’t ride, it’s a garage queen, you can tell from the odometer, so they are polite and all, and nice and pleasant and all, but, I can see it in their eyes… know what I mean.
Now in the case of the garage, I don’t care, they are 500 yards away and the price is right for an mot once a year, but I do observe that they do not observe that I get on well with their landlord, and someone who gets on well with their landlord is not going to be the sort of person they have me pegged as, but, they don’t see it.
The neo nazis, in a way I also don’t care what they think, and made no effort to make them think one way or another, but in a way I hope they got it right, when they looked at me, not *too* right, but not too wrong either, as in by all means come calling when the wheels fall off the wagon, but come politely.
It all reminds me a bit of Kim and the Nukes of Nork (great name for a band) in that nobody really seems to be concerned if they are reading the other guy wrong, or if the other guy is reading them right, it’s all a big game and they hold most of the cards, so who gives a fuck.
Kim had an english and swiss education, the sort you only get when daddy is a king or a shipping magnate, so it’s a dead cert he spent his formative years in the company of those who pull the strings of politicians the world over, and at that point it doesn’t matter if he is smart or stupid, he grew up alongside these people, and they him.
It’s the same sort of mistake Netenyahoo (sic) and tail wagged dog allies made with Syria and Assad, everyone overestimated their own hand and role in the game, and under estimated the other guy.
Now the saudis are courting russia and the chinese, because their erstwhile best buddies yewessay and double secret best buddies israhell are starting to look like johnny depp in a truckstop fist fight, the makeup is running, they’ve spoken all their cool lines, and the other guys are still stood there holding tyre irons, and they aren’t backing down.
Back to the beginning of this spiel, people who don’t know the meanings of anything any more, people who forget that the british royal family was mainly german, and only changed their name to windsor because of the nazis, or, to be factually correct, because of the english people, who would have deposed them if they didn’t distance themselves, in appearance at least, from the bloody germans.
the war ends and everyone is best mates again, seems the bloody germans weren’t so different from the bloody english after all, in fact they had more in common with each other than the bloody poles, bloody belgians and bloody french, who stood in between the two.
a sentiment that was often expressed by old adolf himself, and many bloody englishmen, before our glorious leaders and bankers drew us into a war that nobody wanted.
one of the never quoted little snippets of fact is that in the 72 years since the war ended, nobody has ever found even one shred of documentary evidence that adolf was lying when he said he had no plans to invade der bloody britishers, nor even the bloody french.
he *might* have stopped at reuniting the germanic peoples, or he *might* have stopped for a bit, then carried on later, which is the argument many make, but the fact is we will never know.
we will never know because others forced his hand, and if there is anything that this piece is about, it is the fact that history is replete with examples of people who had their hands forced by the actions of others, and bereft of examples of people sitting back and letting the other guy get on with it.
Let us not forget that the crusades were a response to the expansion of the muslim empire into western lands, and one thing humanity is never short of is scores to settle.
The last 60 years is little more than an accounting of various peoples writing out future IOU’s for such scores, thinking that they would never come due.
So another way of looking at history is not so much who has been shitting on who, big time, but who has been called all sorts of nasty names, but nobody has actually tried to shit on them.
Nobody has actually shit on the USA, or Russia, or China, not mainland style, but Russia and China haven’t spent the last 60 years shitting on others, and now more and more players are getting up and saying you know what, fuck it, and fuck this shit.
Kim and the Nukes of Nork, the Syrians, the Argentinians, the little guys that nobody really liked, but most people admired for not ever giving up against the gang of popular bullies, and now we have Galicia and Basques talking about quitting spain, the scots want out of the uk, it’s spreading everywhere, brexit frexit italexit grexit, and it not fringe splinter loonies any more.
large numbers of people are saying good riddance, let the fuckers go
large numbers of people are saying let us the fuck go, we already voted, now fucking do it
increasingly smaller numbers of people are saying noooooo, keep the status quo.
“the shot that was heard around the world”
this is what putin was talking about with the norks
Half Life 3, “beware of unforeseen consequences”
