Comments on: Open thread 1/8/2025

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 09:59:27 +0000

In re the “hacking” of chicagoboyz: in this comment thread, I was able to access one link,
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/72844.html
“At Long Last…
January 8, 2025 by Sgt. Mom”

but not another,
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/61294.html

which I have found to be the case ever since I first noticed a problem with the site last month, although I was late to the thread and didn’t get any responses.
https://thenewneo.com/2024/12/09/open-thread-12-6-2024/#comment-2776592

I did some sleuthing, and the posts that get me an ESET alert are older ones (backtracking to page 4 of the archive).
So, if the posts are numbered sequentially/chronologically, then today’s situation could fit that pattern.

FWIW

By: DAVID FOSTER

DAVID FOSTER — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:18:22 +0000

re the impact of WWI on British elites…there’s an interesting memoir, The Old Navy, by Daniel Pratt Mannix III, who served in the Spanish-American War, the conflicts in Cuba and the Philippines, and the First World War. At a luncheon given by the Lord Mayor of London, he met some British officers who were members of the First Life Guards, an “elite” regiment that was open only to the wealthy and titled…”Kipling referred to them contemptuously as the “fatted flunkies of the Army.” But:

“Twenty years later I was in Constantinople and the Household Brigade of the British Army was stationed there. I looked over the list to see if I could recognize any old acquaintances. Among all those names there were only two or three who had titles…Where were all those young earls and baronets and honorables? They were dead. Most of them had died in August 1914 during the terrible retreat from Mons when the old British Regular Army virtually ceased to exist. They were not “fatted flunkies” there.””

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/61294.html

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:23:48 +0000

Another view of the UK’s ruling class and their response to the Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs at

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/72844.html

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:20:35 +0000

Check out what we might term this crazy, save the planet, “tyranny of the containers” in the UK, as each household has to sort it’s trash into five different containers, mistakes, I believe, punishable under penalty of law.*

* See https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fVDpHRGHqNI

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:56:23 +0000

Take a look at this take on the Pakistani Muslim grooming and rape gangs, and official lack of concern because these girls were from the lower white working class. *

* See https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/progressive-contempt-for-the-white-working-class/

By: Marlene

Marlene — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 04:17:44 +0000

From John Tyler’s comment at 10:33 AM:
“… Joe Biden did not have the mental faculties to perform his role as the president of the USA , and that it was his aides / staff that were running the show.
Can the latter be held criminally liable for anything?
Did they violate any laws?”
Indeed. An important question!
I hope someone addresses it.
America needs to learn from the last 4 years, and especially how to prevent a repeat.

By: R2L

R2L — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 03:47:05 +0000

If it is valid that Britain lost a largish fraction of its best and brightest in WWI (a somewhat reasonable assertion), then does the same argument apply to France and to Germany? Did the WWII collapse of the French Army and the political takeover in Germany by the Nazi’s occur because their respective better and brighter cohorts were also less numerous?

On the polar bear and barnacles, I suspect there are many boat owners and many Navy schwabbees who would like to know how to remove said barnables so easily with such a relatively mild hose spraying. As one of the commenters said, what is the point of creating such an obviously fictional portrayal of a rescue?

By: DAVID FOSTER

DAVID FOSTER — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 02:37:12 +0000

There’s an interesting book, “English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850–1980”, which is I think relevant to Britain’s present situation I asked Grok for a review, which is linked here:

https://x.com/i/grok/share/zsSqqxxgRmjgvBonzblz4gION

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 02:01:40 +0000

P.S. Of course, you could also “lose” a book because it was misplaced a few feet from where it was supposed to be, when your collection occupies a reported 800 miles of shelf space.

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 01:57:17 +0000

Computers and CGI make all things possible.

Here is the supposed rescue of a polar bear who is covered in barnacles which, for a number of reasons, commenters point out does not seem real.

This ain’t friendly, “smoky the bear,” they’re supposedly dealing with.

To begin with, why is this huge, seemingly alert, supposedly wild Polar Bear so docile, his movements unnatural, and him essentially immobile?*

* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEON6Ug-Ei4&t=111s