The BBC is now getting over the shock of President Trump doing what the voters elected him to do and is reverting to the institutional hate . Its’ favourite political Marxist party is still biting its’ lip -but it can only be a matter of time before is joins the BBC choir of hate .
Weekend 25th January 2025
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It seems that all is not well in the Obama household. Apparently he’s been dipping his wick where he shouldn’t have.
Out the blocks quickly NV.
Perhaps Michelle voted Trump?
In the bathhouse?
It seems to be about an ist-on from what I’ve found. I’d wondered about chic ago and certain clubs there.
Northern – I reckon I’d put money of the Obama divorce ahead of the meghan one . She’d rather hang onto the royal badge – unless Netflix gave her a real stash of cash for the harry divorce story ….
Normally the personal stuff is of no interest – but in the case of those 2 couples any bad news is good news …
Watching president trump in North Carolina giving the presidential podium to people affected by the hurricane . It truly is quite something . I know it’s the US – but with all he has on the agenda – time – it’s remarkable .
It’s deeply depressing to compare him and the legal Marxist robot Britain has to suffer until 2029 …
I have the feeling that the Left have been caught by surprise Fed and we are yet to discover what these nasty b@stards will try to do about it. Their problem is that assasination is a lot more difficult now he has the protection which the Democrats tried to strip him of to make it easier.
How far they will go in the cause of their belief is surpassed only by our Muslim friends.
All my recent postings have been deleted.
Censorship?
Flotsam, were they on the previous thread?
I haven’t noticed any of mine being deleted and I am as vocal as anyone (except Zephir of course).
Moi ?
How very dare you..
I am considering a picture of Ed Millaband now
and not conspiracy minded:
“A 12-page report, signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in 1962, details a secret plan to commit heinous acts against American citizens to justify war with Cuba in the 1960s.
Code-named Operation Northwoods, this top-secret plot proposed enacting terrorism on US cities in a what is known as a ‘false flag operation’, before blaming Cuba in order to fool the Americans into supporting war efforts to oust communist Fidel Castro.”
Flotsam – well i didnt do it … I’ll have a look in the deletion file in the morning to see what’s happened . I always say when I delete or edit something and thankfully I’ve not done that for a while ….
Flotsam
Did your posts contain the “N” or “C” words?
Flotsam – nothing you wrote is in either the spam or deleted files . So where they have gone I really don’t know ….
BBC:
‘Trump threatens to disband emergency agency during visit to hurricane-hit North Carolina’
This is the reality. And it’s nothing new:
‘Trump claims FEMA is getting ‘in the way’ and pitches abolishing it during first interview since return to White House.’
Mum must be so proud of Emily getting a job at the BBC. If she is far-Left, hates Trump and has zero scruples about being honest about the facts that is.
Maybe they have a large apprenticeship scheme, ie the govt gives them a shit load of money to ‘employ’ useless grads
Recently, there’s been a spate of radio ads for ‘media’ studies courses, so presumably the Beeboid Money Tree Admin is getting on the dog and bone to ‘colleges’ to dredge up the next cheaper ‘generation’ of cardboard cut-out cubiclists…
LBC are running a few of the ads, but of course, I I don’t hear a lot of them when O’Brien and Abbot are on, as the wireless remains firmly shut!
“President Trump saying that the disaster relief led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been disappointing, emphasizing that he would prefer states handle their own relief efforts.” As one commentator adds “For anyone who takes this headline the wrong way, he said that while speaking about how it would be more efficient for the federal government to send federal funds directly to the states, bypassing fema as a middle man, because the states know what they need better than an external federal agency.”
The BBC love to miss out key parts of the story to push their ridiculous agenda. It seems those running the BBC won’t be satisfied until the BBC is listened to and believed by no one.
The USA is a federal republic of 50 states. The habit of forming alphabet agencies largely began with the New Deal, and is basically unconstitutional, although they get away with it. The only powers the federal government has are given to it in the constitution. Every other power belongs to the states. If Trump is starting a rollback of the alphabet agencies he is doing the right thing.
The bBC has been downplaying the shite economic data of the last two weeks. Treasury intervention? That would beg a few questions about the news headlines during the Truss regime. More importantly the bBC chaff is getting in the way of effective analysis which is a significant risk to the UK. We can see it but how do we get to a larger audience?
Considering the rate high street stores are closing down I would hazard a guess that it’s a matter of time before a law banning publishing the closure details is rolled out by this government.
As a design consultant, I have two contacts in marketing who have both been let go this week “due the the strain caused by tax increases”….
Good news keeps on coming, all if it stateside unfortunately
Lucy – I think they are shocked that he asks them if they have any questions and then answers them . He did one in NC earlier about tariffs on Canada but if it wants to be the 51? State it would be welcome with ‘governor Trudeau ‘….
The shock also extends to what they’ve been used to in the last 4 years with an imbecile incontinent glove puppet … …
Morning Fed!
Somehow, sadly, that four-word description of the ‘sealion’* old man will stick with me all week-end…
*Jennings stories from way back…
Hello Scroblene . I hope all is well . Listening to “today “ – they managed to track down a ‘trump supporter ‘ – screechy female – who explained that Elon Musk is in the pocket of the Chinese and isn’t really a Trump supporter .
The bbc is desperate for Trump to fail …. But is actions and performance in week one has left them flailing . Our Justin just doesn’t know what to say .
All overseas US aid has been frozen for 80 days to see if it supports US aims … if only we could do the same ….
Our government is more likely to stop paying out pensions than foreign aid.
One in eight Londoners are already getting their aid Mogs, which is money we don’t have of course…
My pension will go up in April, and then an increase in income tax clobbers the small private pension, so with the new power costs emanating from the toxic idiot Millipede’s disastrous meddling in things he doesn’t understand, I could use that aid meself!
Once (if) I can afford to tax and insure my car I’m going to drive to France and get a bloody dinghy back. I have no interest in 12 year old white girls but perhaps I could get a free alcohol allowance.
Moggie, come to France and stay. You have to jump through some hoops to get a carte sejour, but it is well worth it. No road tax, its on the fuel, a litre of diesel today 1.68 euros a litre on a par with theUK. The medical system is mostly superb, if your a UK pensioner, fill in the proper forms and Bob’s your mothers brother. We do pay medical insurance, which takes us up to 100% coverage The tax system is worth getting into, Don’t pay tax in the UK on state pension, all your allowances go against any other pensions you may have. I have a service pension and a local government pension that the French say I have to pay taxes on in the UK. So my allowances in the UK mean I pay little tax on those, as an aside Mrs V doesn’t use all her allowance, gives what’s left over to me. The allowances in France just about cover the state pension. Still paying as a married couple. No telly tax, council taxes cheaper than the UK OUT herein the sticks. Come and join us, it’s fun.
If benefits were paid in France, I’d go. My wife, no.
The Independent – a woke liberal rag, and I do mean rag – is delighted to reminisce and scoff at Trump’s erstwhile phone conversations with Johnson and May of yesteryear, during which staff and civil servants allegedly used to crowd into Number 10 to giggle at crazy old Orange Man.
Très drôle, ha ha.
Well, they’re not laughing now. A few years on, and those same staff and civil servants are either unemployed or pretending to be working from home in their underpants, May and BoJo are universally despised and out on their arses, while Trump has made the greatest comeback in political history and is reshaping the world.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-prime-minister-phone-calls-b2685864.html
The Independent, Saudis and Russians is it?
Pretend newspaper that actually croaked in 2016 ( in other words a zombie), retain a staff of smug leftoids and aren’t above inventing fake bylines for stuff they’ve not got the guts to put their own names to…
scum media incarnate
Day 5 of no phone call to TTK …. I suppose he’ll have to do it when mandelson is fired before taking up the job or when the US buys the Chagos islands and tells the UK Marxists to leave ….
This is like watching an episode of the old Batman.
President Trump has terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security deal that was being provided and paid for by the National Institutes of Health. It was pulled last night. Fauci has since hired his own private security that he’ll PAY FOR HIMSELF
Lucy
Strange thing is that President Biden pardoned Dr. Fauci BEFORE he had apparently committed an offense. At least not an offense that the general public are aware of. Most peculiar.
I think we should be told.
Article about our retarded leader Starmer.who is far left of Jeremy Corbyn but doesn’t get noticed as such
https://www.unz.com/article/finishing-the-job-starmer-the-pabloite/
“In 1986, in his mid-twenties, Keir Starmer attended a Communist work camp in what was then Czechoslovakia. This was at the height of the cold-war clampdown on free speech, and playwright Václav Havel was among those jailed for speaking out against Communism. This has echoes in contemporary Britain, where the issue of freedom of speech — and criticism of government policy in particular — is a hot-button topic. “
For which he will receive no thanks from the Czechs unlike:
” Roger Scruton was deeply engaged in efforts to resist the oppression of communist regimes in Central Europe. His involvement in the underground universities and active support of dissidents was recognized with the First of June Prize from the Czech city of Plzeň, the Czech Republic’s Medal of Merit (First Class) presented by President Václav Havel, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, and the Silver Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary. Often at considerable personal risk, Scruton organised seminars on forbidden topics, smuggled in censored books, and smuggled out exam papers of students for whom he arranged the possibility of taking Cambridge University degrees. Back home, at a different, though no less real, personal risk he publicly criticised the communist ideology, which in the West was championed and idealized by many influential figures.”
https://www.scruton.org/lifeofmind
Which one was the bravest Scruton or Comrade Starmer?
@Eddy, Jonathan – Thanks for posting. This should be more widely known, that we are ruled (misruled) by a commie of the worst sort.
Multi millionaire Coldplay Singer Chris Martin just played to a crowd in Mumbai, India.
“Thank you for forgiving us, for all the bad things Britain has done” He grovelled
(Marky Mark) HA HA HA! HA HA HA!
Reparations!
Martin is a proper dickhead
I thought Coldplay weren’t going to tour any more after the covids hit every band wanting to travel?
Weren’t they going to do everything online and save the planet?
I do still like ‘Clocks’ though…
BBC Comedienne Josie Long got an incredible 73,000 Likes
for her HATE tweet about Musk
@JosieLong Jan 23
hope elon musk dies.
https://x.com/JosieLong/status/1882550726645440598
10 people a day tweet that nasty phrase
but usually get no likes ..someone got 139 once
more info : “Best Newcomer award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for her show
…wait for it…”Kindness and Exuberance.”
Oh bio
her past Hateyness
“Nov 15, 2024
My friend and I decided that “friend of thatcher” should be a euphemism for pedophile if it isn’t already.”
Josie looks like a near wholly BBC creation ?
Is she as hilarious as Nish Kumar?
The new Eric & Ernie innit?
Shouldn’t comedienne be in quotes. BBC and comedy no longer exists.
I wonder what would happen if Musk did the same to the
“comedienne” ?
NB Likes do not necessary come from Britons – being worldwide there are still a lot of deranged socialists in the US
COmedy
A federal offence now,,..?
“Mental wards full of people who shout at Radio 4”
Excellent JR – thank you for this!
I’d forgotten how a decent interview can be managed and expressed on TV – perhaps I’m getting too old…
BBC : Kim Leadbeater is the VICTIM
.. the Batley teacher still in hiding is a nothing
.. https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1882684839016480814
I’d just like to point out that – entirely as predicted – all stories about the horrific murder of the young girls by the Rawndan immigrant, the disgraceful cover-up by Starmer and the outrageous political persecution of anyone who dared protest has been entirely wiped from the BBC news page.
As a quick check the other 3 I picked at random – The Telegraph, The Times and even The Guardian – are all still running stories.
It’s 100% deliberate by the BBC because we’ve seen it so often before. It means a commissar on the third floor gave the instruction.
Unbiased my arse.
Luckily, there’s still a lot on LBC at the moment John!
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/
I know I whinge on about a lot of their stuff, but there is usually some content worth reading.
Sky have some too,
https://news.sky.com/story/southport-stabbings-axel-rudakubana-received-second-longest-sentence-in-history-and-un-prevents-harsher-punishment-says-downing-street-13295488
…so yes, you’re spot on, and there’s absolutely b****r all on the Cubiclists’s Extravaganza of diversionary omission, and the head-sub-undermanager for obfuscation has drawn his chubby felt pen across his orders!
This week has seen Presidents Trump and Milei set a blistering pace in rolling back Wokism and Globalisation. They have been magnificent . I’m sure that eventually their work will begin to have an impact here in the UK even if only because they are moving the Overton window .
But how far globalism and Wokism is rolled back and very specifically how far mass migration into The West is rolled back depends on the people of the West.
How prepared are we to protect our civilisation from the attack of migrants? Will the policy of mass deportation still be a vote winner when there are non stop harrowing images of deportees being captured and forced onto transports?
Getting rid of gang members in the US and violent criminals should be fairly non contentious , at least unless you are a woke moron, but when it comes people whose only crime is illegal entry and perhaps not having a job , then the harrowing images become more powerful.
Of course in the UK we are much more sensitive souls and it will be much more difficult to even defend our border than in the USA. But if the Overton Window is flung open , despite Barmy Starmer’s attempts to close it , then we might be able to discuss the very real threat that Islamification poses and begin to protect ourselves. What we do about the millions already here is yet another order of magnitude more difficult.
But at least Trump and Milei have started the job. Well done them.
DT,
All our main political parties including Reform are under Islamic influence though.
Double – yes I listened to the milei speech at Davos giving it to the woke evil globalists …. The network of sane nationalists is slowly growing . Perhaps Germany is next although I think the ‘guilt ‘ is still very strong – even with so many killings are rapes by third world imported vermin ….
I think the real pain will come if – if – president trump really does put up tariffs …( I really hope he does ) – we don’t export anything any more so we won’t be affected …
Jule in the crown etc etc
In other news
The RINOs like Mitch McDonnell ( dementing) tried to stop him . There were – I think 4 of them . …. Other candidates will be up for a fight . The democrats trying to slow them all down ….
Do you ever think blue lips ever had a hard on?
Your Mr AsI reserves a special place in his jaded heart for that rare breed of the contemporary media ecosystem – the admittedly anticlimactic headline…
Storm Eowyn a ‘damp squib’ in the south…
Swaths of warnings were issued, businesses closed and people warned not to travel. However, in London and much of England the weather event was branded a “damp squib”. A yellow weather warning in the capital suggested there could be some travel disruption, while amber signified a potential risk to life. But Susan Hall the former Tory mayoral candidate, who lives in London, said: “I think we can see there’s been a bit of an overreaction” (the mildly conservative Telegraph there speaking truth to weather)
My own pet theory is that weather warnings tend to act as self-fulfilling prophesies.
Full list of schools closed as Scotland hit by hurricane-force Storm Eowyn… The Met Office issued the most severe possible warning for Friday between 10am and 5pm, forecasting ‘flying debris resulting in danger to life’. (STV News)
A bugbear and unpleasant parasite creature of the media jungle is what I like to call the Keepy-Uppy headline… you know the sort of thing… stories our journos like to keep going using words such as: continues; still; even now
High winds continue as Storm Éowyn leaves nearly a million without power (BBC)
You’ll recall how that much admired theme of the Hollywood ‘wildfires’ gave our BBC a week’s worth of excuses for their top story fodder.
LA braces for stronger winds as fires continue to burn (BBC)
LA braces for renewed high winds as three wildfires continue to burn (BBC)
I’ll say this for failed PM Boris Johnson (and goodness me, we’ve had more than our fair share of those lately) that dishevelled polar bear had an interesting off-kilter way with words: People I meet abroad PITY us in Starmer’s socialist sogfest (Daily Mail)
Back in the eighties rock guitarist Mark Knopfler noticed some working class bloke complaining about all those apparently over-paid, under-talented, pretty-boy bands strutting about in the MTV vidoes with their make-up and weird hairdos. Taking muscular language cues from this main street American working man for his muse, he (along with writing assistance from Sting) banged out a scathing critique of the then emerging pop scene – which ironically became a massive MTV hit song. The first song played on MTV Europe when it began airing. It won Video of the Year at the 1986 MTV Video Awards. In a further bit of irony for us now so well-accustomed to auto-tuned, sampled and soon to be AI-generated music – the video for the song was one of the first examples of CGI human characters.
Hah, now look at them yo-yos, that’s the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it
Money for nothing and your checks for free
Now that ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it
Lemme tell ya, them guys ain’t dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb
We got to install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We got to move these refrigerators
We got to move these colour TVs
See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup?
Yeah buddy, that’s his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot, he’s a millionaire
Knopfler’s band was of course named Dire Straits
Sometimes these segueways write themselves
Labour taxes leave firms in ‘dire situation’ (Daily Mail)
Job cuts rekindle stagnation fears… Pace of staff reduction surges (FT)
Back in the eighties, like a Peter Kaye misheard lyrics routine, your Mr AsI used to hear: That ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it, Money for nothing and your “chicks” for free – as opposed to ‘checks’ in the American sense of your restaurant bill – perhaps back then that was just a case of: In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love [Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
Apropos of nothing in particular – kudos goes to Joanna Lumley, interviewed in the Telegraph, who avoids that bear trap of the female millionairess angst feature – no claims of ADHD, breakdowns, dyslexia, PTSD etc for our Joanna bless her: I’d like to shoot horrible people
In the west of Scotland it is frequently referred to as
“A bit breezy”
“I might change my fishing tackle”
There are other hazards, which I think about before ordering scampi.
The fishing vessel Antares was a pelagic trawler based in Carradale, Kintyre in the United Kingdom.[1] She was fishing off the coast of the Isle of Arran on 22 November 1990 when she foundered with the loss of four crew members after her trawl line was snagged by Royal Navy Trafalgar-class nuclear powered submarine HMS Trenchant. An investigation by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch concluded that the accident had been caused by “a partial breakdown in both the structure and the standards of watchkeeping on board Trenchant”.[2]
AsI, when I used to bank with Natwest, I was in a bit of a pickle for a short while, and had to grovel a bit to get financially reorganised.
The ambient music being played while I waited for ages for a reply on the phone was…
…by Dire Straits!
Of course, they took no notice of my withering wit when I mentioned it!
Hitchin College, 1978 during the punk era £2.50 to see a band called Dire Straits”
First Thought, nope sounds like another punk band.
I can beat that. Early 1978. North East. 50p to see the then unknown Dire Straits.
Up from 50p to £2.50 in one year. I suppose it was the high inflation Labour era.
Beer was about 25p a pint then. Just saying.
AsISeeIt,
Ha Ha! I always thought it was “chicks” For free. You’ve put me straight.
I’m a big Dire Straits/Knopfler fan but that was one of the few songs I’m not keen on. Not unusual for me as I’m not not a “chart hits” type of music listener.
It is chicks for free.
But is the word faggot still allowed?
Only with chips and mushy peas.
I recall – as kid – getting a free ticket to go see ‘Queen ‘ at the odeon Finsbury Park – at Christmas 1976 ? – at the time Queen was very 70s ‘glitter ‘ type ( like ‘sweet ‘) . Anyway – my mum and dad wouldn’t let me go – so I didn’t . Seen the video since – great show …
‘Killer Queen’, has one of the best ever guitar riffs ever played!
(Brian May is exactly the same age as me, to the day, but has more hair…, and is much better on guitar than I’ll ever be)!
Money for nothing ?
YouTube has the press conference between president trump and the Marxist mayor of California -bean? The people whose properties were destroyed want to get on with the clear up – but the Marxists are refusing to let them . Trump won’t have it and demands they start when they want …. A real power struggle in that mad place …
In the wake of the Southport stabbings and trial and sentence of Axel Rudakabana, aged 17 at the time of the murders, The Times today has this headline
‘Starmer rules out whole-life orders for teenagers’
Readers may spot a teeny weeny yet appalling hypocrisy in this.
The Labour Party wants to lower the voting age to 16.
Old enough to vote. Not old enough to kill and get a whole-life sentence.
We were spoilt for choice at our local youth club
Which version of Fleetwood Mac, Zephir?
Quite an interim lineup, I am guessing.
From about November 1971?
Not sure Sluff. it was a while ago, blues based so probably Mr Green.
I do remember though, whilst consorting with a rather nice lady, I happened to remark at a gathering, about finding Stevie Nicks rather attractive and, not being musically educated they all went quite quiet, and rapidly changed the subject.
That would have been Genisis before they went poppy then eh?
A Flower ?
I have fond memories of a friend of mine, no longer with us, who was at the Genesis soundcheck above.
They said to Peter Gabriel, “Is that Ok for you?”
He replied “It’ll do for this dump”
He was a music aficionado but from that day on refused to listen to any Genesis
Back in 1963 my Dad booked a group to play at our local dance hall – Rolling Stones. I was 15 and selling tickets at school for 10/- (50p). One of lifes memories – being backstage and trying to make sense of what Brian Jones was on about !!
Briss, I’m so jealous! The Stones were one of my favourites for a long time.
There is a big Tesco store in Baldock. It used to be factory where they had concerts now and again.
Lucy, there is a pub across the road called the Boot. (nad now turned into flats)
When the Stones played they chucked Kieth Richards out, refused to serve him because he had “Long hair”
Used to be a very useful factory that made fully fashioned nylon stockings.
Ahem.
Despite my comment above, they provided canteens, swimming pool and many other worker facilities.
It could possibly be called benevolant captilasim, before selfishness took over the world
Lucy – the chap with the guitar was my Dad – 10 years ago I was contacted by the local rag and asked for my recollections of that night and how it came about. I wrote a lengthy piece and it was printed in its entirety.
Fabulous pic, Brissles!
Can anyone enlighten me as to whether I misheard or misread something about the Stones back then?
When they first came on the scene, I think in Plumstead, it was said that they all had home-made instruments…
I know we all wondered how Bill Wyman could play bass like an orchestral base, and Mick Jagger’s maracas, (Oooh Matron), were always in attendance, but it still sticks in my mind that the band did in fact use ‘early’ kit!
Ritchie Blackmore:
Did you use a Marshall amp in the early days of Purple?
No, I was still using the Vox miked. It used to buzz like mad. I changed to Marshalls about eight years ago. I knew Jim Marshall [see GP, Feb. ’77]. He was a drum teacher, and I saw the Marshall setup and liked the way they looked. The design I liked, but the sound was awful. So I went back to the factory because I knew Jim and I said, “Look, I want this changed and I want that changed.” And I used to play in front of all the people that were there working; there would be women there assembling things, and I had the amp boosted to 400 watts. So I would be playing away right in front of all these people and they’d be trying to work. I’d go, “That’s not right, more treble,” and they’d take out a resistor. I had to play full blast or otherwise I couldn’t know what it was going to sound like. The people hated me.
You changed to a Fender Stratocaster for the third album, Deep Purple In Concert?
I think it was, yeah. In fact the Strat I used belonged to Eric Clapton. I used it and liked the sound of it; it was very sharp but impossible to play The neck was so bowed, it was really bad. He just had one kicking around the house, and I picked it up and he said, “Take it away.” It had a great sound for a wah-wah pedal because it was so sharp, but it was very difficult to play because it was so bowed. I thought it was an interesting guitar at the time, even though all the octaves were out.
You actuallv used that guirar on the third album?
Yeah, there are quite a few tracks where both guitars – the ES-335 and the Stratocaster – are used. But I can’t remember what songs were with which.
Did you find it difficult changing from the Gibson to the Fender?”
Yeah, the transition was really hard. I found great difficulty in using it the first two years. With a Gibson you just race up and down, but with a Fender you have to make every note count; you have to make the note sing or otherwise it won’t work. It’s more rewarding because with a Gibson nobody has an identity, as I said before.
Had you heard people like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page using Les Pauls?
I was into Les Paul guitars when I first saw Albert Lee [see GP, Aug. ’77] play. He’s probably one of the best guitarists in the world. I first heard him play a Les Paul in 1960. That’s when I wanted one. When it became popular and everyone had one, I dropped it. But I loved Les Paul [see GP, Dec. ’77] and Mary Ford anyway; I had all of their records. I was into Les for about four years. Chet Atkins was the other guitarist that everybody was into, but his thumb thing got on my nerves a bit. I thought Les Paul was much better, and Mary Ford was better to look at.
Did rou hear rhe album with Les Paul and Cher Arkins, Chester & Lester [RCA, APL1-l167]?
Yeahy I wasn’t too impressed. I would like to someday meet Les Paul. It was like him, Scotty Moore [see GP, Aug. ’74], and James Burton [see GP, Mar. ’72] who were my main influences. They were real guitarists, not posers.
What about rhe Green Bullfrog album?
That was me, Albert Lee and Jim Sullivan. Ian Paicc and Roger Glover were on it and whoever else was around at the time. Tony Ashton was on it, I think. It was awful, disgusting. It was done in a day and nobody knew what we were doing. I was embarrassed; I never heard that L.P actually.
It’s interesting to hear when each of you takes a solo.
I was there with my stack, Albert was there with his little amp and Telecaster, and Jim was doing his fingerpick stuff.
So it was the Stratocaster and Marshall for the duration of Deep Purple?
Yeah. It was really hard at first, because they didn’t match. It just looked right, espccially the Marshall, so I thought I’ve got to make that amplifier sound right if it’s the last thing I do. The standard ones are awful.
What did you do to change your Marshalls?
I had an extra output stage built on. I have no bass at all on the amp. There’re an extra two valves [tubes] built into the output stage so there’s more output. It’s boosted to about 250 or 300 watts. I use the old 200- watt amps, which you can’t get anymore because thcy don’t make them.
Do you use 200-watt heads?
Yeah, which are boosted. They’re the loudest amplifier in the world on their own. I’m not saying I play the loudest – it depends on how many you use. But one on its own is the loudest. I don’t like to use a lot of cabinets, I think just two cabinets is enough; otherwise the sound is all around you. l like to keep away from the sound, and that’s why onstage I play to the left of it and point it the other way. Then I can get a perspective of what’s going on; otherwise all you can hear is yourself. And you tend to get feedback and overtones you don’t want.
Did you initially use one stack and later add the second?
Yeah, I just have the other one as a reserve. It’s on, but I’m not using it. It’s just if I blow the first one.
Do you blow them very often onstage?
Yeah, all the time lately. I don’t know why. It’s the output transformer that blows up. It’s like a finely tuned car, you can’t expect it not to break down. I really push it.
You use the same guitar/amplifier setup in the studio?
Yeah. Actually I don’t play in the studio, I have someone else who takes my place. Jim Page comes in.
Scrobs
I got distracted and missed your question
It was skiffle stuff Loney Donegan etc washboards and teachests,
Desperately trying an American accent….
George Best was not impressed
Week news summary
LA fires gone
Hamas sausage release gone
Ukraine – whatever
Paki Muslim racist rape gangs – gone
Inquiry gone
Davos WEF – let’s not talk about it
Racist Rwandan Muslim child killer – forget it
Failing Marxist economy – no no
Continuous invasion -?- it’s okay
Instead …
Let’s talk about – windy days – something called ‘the traitors ‘
Wind ? it’s Brexit
Oh ! how they’re squealing ! Trump halts all money going out to the World (except Israel & Egypt).
Oh ! how they’re bleating ! They’re just woken up to the now vacant position of ‘Sugar-Daddy’ the US has become over the decades.
Watch the news, particularly the Marxist BBC, for more bleaters soon………….
Also usable replacing ‘Brexit’ with ‘Climate Change’ and adding comments such as ‘it rained today’
Excellent column by Fraser Nelson in The Times today.
I offer three snippets.
‘Carbon emissions ( in the US) ( during Trump’s first presidential term) fell more than all the other G7 countries put together’
This aligns rather well with the next quote
‘When Sad Dick Khan tries to sell his ULEZ tax to Londoners, he won’t admit the city’s air is purer than at any time in its history. Politically it’s more helpful to talk about an air quality ‘emergency’ without releasing much in the way of data’.
Nelson continues ‘Britain’s economy is 44% larger, our population is 16% bigger, yet our carbon emissions have almost halved’
And now over to Justin Rowlatt at the BBC.
I made that last bit up.
This will probably not sit well with some (apologies Scrobs )
Having studied and qualified:
I will quote :
What’s so bad about wood burning?
Many people have positive associations with wood burning – as a cosy, attractive way to heat a room, or as an allegedly carbon-neutral fuel, yet even the most ‘eco-friendly’ wood burning stoves emit high levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5). This report commissioned by DEFRA reveals that on an equivalent hourly operational basis, an Ecodesign stove is likely to emit six times the mass of PM2.5 than a diesel Euro 6 HGV (see figure 2 on page 18).
PM2.5 is one of the most problematic pollutants and has been associated with a range of conditions, including decreased lung development and function, exacerbation of asthma, allergies, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder), pulmonary fibrosis and an increased risk of lung cancer. It is also linked with increased morbidity and mortality.
A major source of particulate matter
In the UK domestic combustion is one of the biggest sources of PM2.5. The term “domestic combustion” covers the burning of wood, coal, solid smokeless fuels, and fuels derived from waste such as coffee logs. Most of the PM2.5 emissions from domestic combustion come from households burning wood in stoves and open fires.
Despite a network of smoke control zones introduced after the Clean Air Act of 1956, emissions of PM2.5 from domestic wood burning have grown in recent years. These emissions increased by 56 per cent between 2012 and 2022, to represent 22 per cent of total PM2.5 emissions in 2022. This is more even than road transport, which contributed 18 per cent of PM2.5 emissions.
I have to admit that coal and wood fires can trigger my asthma. I had noticed on the rare occasion that I watched daytime tv, probably 20 years ago, possibly A Home In The Country, the BBC pushed wood burning stoves. At the time I was surprised so homes had one. It was probably before I had really realised the BBC was pushing an agenda, but it was very obvious. I assume it was part of the let’s get away from fossil fuels.
Yes, interesting.
My soon to be ex wife made a big thing about my smoking to the point that she made a complaint to our GP.
She failed to mention that she worked in a glue factory with no ventilation, which has been found to have five health and safety violations, or the fact that as Chinese she had an obsession with washing her clothes every day and the black mould found in her room
Nope it was me.
I see many poor families, usually african , complanng about mould in social housing, there is a thing called bleach if you are so concerned for you children
No need to apologise, Zeps – my open fire just burns the wood that other fires cannot reach – i.e. old pallets, which I am reliably informed are useless elsewhere, as they’re full of rusty nails!
With six 50kg bags of smokeless fuel every month, costing just over £100.00, I can keep a half-decent temperature throughout The Turrets all day, but the lumps of wood provide the boost when I wake up at some ungodly hour having started on one episode of ‘The Sweeny’, and then find myself watching the end of the next one…
> I see many poor families, usually african , complaining about mould in social housing
Zeph
I would like to commend a product called White Vinegar to combat mould. This clearly waycist product has some nice attributes. It is less harmful to humans than bleach and the slight smell it leaves is not unpleasant. I have an (unproven) theory that bleach might react with a wall leaving a salt (Chloride) layer which is highly hydroscopic. The Dutch are so keen on using this stuff that they call it Cleaning Vinegar.
Our illegal invaders may not realise the importance of ventilation to reduce damp and mould. Something our Victorian ancestors clearly understood with their rattling windows and roaring open fires.
Es ist klar. Der Starmer ist ein Pharisee.
I thought the Spitfires and Hurricaines got rid of that language.
Starmer is doing his very best though.
Who died in prison, for expressing his views..
A Muzzie politicain
Der community said 5 times within 1 minute
Listen and learn you twisted individal:
1400 raped kids over 20 years – 0 riots – UK Is the most INTOLERANT place in the world and that is why 180 people jump in dinghies to ensure that they can make the UK tolerant of Islam again.
Dover MP Natalie Elphicke told the Commons that the BBC’s “shocking report” contained the “breath-taking” disclosure of free French public bus services being used to ferry migrants from camps to Dunkirk beaches.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63229010
….
Today the BBC journalists Michael Keohan and Colin Campbell released a shocking report on the channel crossings. It showed people smugglers selling their wares brazenly in the migrant camps and many children living in unsafe and dangerous conditions, as well as—this is breathtaking—a free French public bus service that migrants can use to travel directly from the camps to the Dunkirk departure beaches. Will my right hon. Friend allow a statement on the issue of tackling the small boat crossings and the Government’s response in their work with France?
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2022-10-13a.258.0#g262.1
SACK THEM ALL!
14 yeas chaos – labour, hold my beer can do the same in 6 months …
“A new season trailer video will air each day on a fake streaming platform, Conflix.uk, starting from Monday at 7am. The site states: “After 14 years, Chaos & Decline is coming to an end. If you vote for it to.””
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/05/chaos-decline-labours-spoof-stitches-together-14-years-of-tory-low-points
“Watch: Moment four Israeli hostages released by Hamas”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c5yd3p38l17o
BBC to interview Jeremy Corbyn an ask if Hamas are still our friends (c) BBC verified 200%
“… message of world domination directly to the global elite.”
“… he simultaneously menaced with threats of tariffs to those who did not choose to shift their factories into the US.”
“…. ‘America First’ President was beamed in like a 30-foot interplanetary emperor, into the beating heart of the rules-based international economic order.”
“Christine Lagarde, David Miliband, and John Kerry shuffled into the hall.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5g3y6dxzgo
Domination? “EU enlargement”
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/eu-enlargement_en
rules based? “Christine Lagarde avoids jail, keeps job after guilty verdict in negligence trial”
Threats? “Ford’s £80m EU loan to boost Turkey factory – and close Southampton’s Swaythling plant”
……………………….
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a Chinese strategy to improve trade and economic growth by connecting Asia, Africa, and Europe with infrastructure. The initiative was launched in 2013 by the Chinese government.
Senators receive fresh allegations about defence pick Pete Hegseth
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r5exn1n57o
So I see the general trend now is for Democrats to find some activist to make ‘allegations’ against everyone Trump nominates, talk about them as much as possible to slur their character then every single one vote against their nomination.
Then they get nominated anyway because Trump won by a landslide.
Meanwhile the BBC run all the allegations and slurs as big headlines to make sure everyone knows about them.
It’s quite the most pathetic display I’ve ever seen. These people are no better than spiteful children.
The allegation get’s it’s proper treatment here:
Hegseth lawyer slams ‘flawed and questionable affidavit’ from ex-sister-in-law
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pete-hegseth-lawyer-slams-flawed-questionable-affidavit-from-ex-sister-in-law
ZERO INTEREST IN BIDEN NOMINATIONS due to fact Biden did not make them! HA HA HA AH HA HAHA H AH !
Mike Graham and Dan Wootton make the point that the gruesome twosome of Mateless and Sopel are nothing but left-wing activists and not journalists at all. They remain totally silent on Southport and that satanic-looking murderer from hell.
‘”They hate Britain & its people” Mike Graham fury as Emily Maitlis & News Agents IGNORE Southport’
“The White House has since publicised some of these efforts. On Friday, the new White House Press Secretary shared images of deportation flights being carried out by military cargo planes.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyn2p8x2eyo
……………….. MEANWHILE IN UK ……………………………
600K Immigrants lost by the UK Home Office.
20K + 20K Terrorists on the UK terrorist watch list.
3K Extreme Terrorists on the UK terrorist watch list.
22 Lost in Manchester according to Theresa May.
1 More attack labelled bad driving this month of August.
3 children LOST (c) Theresa May wording
The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office has been at the front line of this endeavour since 1782. As such, the Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the United Kingdom.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about
The woke activist Bishop that berated Trump in her church the other day. Here she is in 2020. The Republicans are going to have to do better at vetting.
lmao – look at the bodyguards she feels she needs whilst mixing with those people.
I wonder if the main reason she does it is that she hates Trump and this will get her the most exposure.
I hope no sane conservative ever sets foot in her evil Episcopalian church again.
(They’re even more left and woke than our very own CofE)
Week in Westminster
The delusion of the political class . Trying so hard to stop saying the usual nasty things about President Trump . How tunes change
They also think people will invest in Marxist Britain
They focused on Davos – but didn’t mention that Reeve – as chancellor didn’t speak to the main meeting … and has returned silent . No achievement . Sane people don’t want to hear .
Thankfully Trump has doomed the Marxist regime – I just hope he destroys it real quick – by whatever means …
In Re Elon Musk and the arm gesture .
It`s what policemen do the world over ( and policewomen ) .
Ask a policeman on the beat where such and such street is , and if its a fair distance his arm would be raised rather than level to the ground as he points you in the right direction .
An expert view of Elon Musk’s ‘Nazi salute’
He is, it is said, autistic. I think it is this that’s behind his gesture. I do not think he is a fascist
https://thespectator.com/topic/expert-view-elon-musk-nazi-salute/
The Leftist spiteful children have wet their panties over this : they don’t care one bit if it really was a salute or not : they want to believe it was.
But what stands out a country mile as ‘proof’ is that it’s the perfect thing to ‘fact check’ and not one of the lefty activist ‘fact-checkers’ have gone near it. Including ‘BBC Verify’ or any of their multitude of self-appointed ‘fact checking’ groups.
The Left have no ethics and no shame.
If that’s the best they can come up with as a sneer – need to do much betterer …. The attempts to undermine the White House structure has begun …. But the sooner the cabinet is fully approved the quicker the democrat swamp can be destroyed ….
Btw – they are still hiding pardoned J6 and Mexico has refused a deportation flight … enjoy the tariffs guys ..
I’m looking forward to more information on links between Mexican criminals and Democrats / DNC operations in the US southwest.
I’m curious about how that Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo nut job actually got the top job in Mexico.
Trump did the right thing about the J6 prisoners. Just release them all. The leftists will go mad if you release one or 1600, so you may as well let them all go free.
The whole “insurrection” was a con job orchestrated by Fed agents provocateurs anyway. Trump may like to try and get them to release those records along with the JFK ones.
The point for ALL the Jan-06 prisoners is that whether they did it or not, none of them got a fair trial.
Same as the Soutport rioters. They went to jail no matter what.
Both farces were directed by Left wing governments who wanted the most active Right wing supporters removed from the streets.
I am still in disbelief that they can send Tommy Robinson to a maximum security jail for Muslim extremists for a simple ‘contempt of court’ then place him in soliotray ‘for his own protection’ and the BBC are silent. It shows their extreme double-standards and proves they don’t give a shit about anyone if it doesn’t suit their own agenda.
Where are his human rights BBC ?.
Quite a touching video on X of a mother – jailed until 2028 for protesting outside an abortion clinic . The lady had her husband and young child with her thanking president Trump for her pardon .She mentioned in passing that when the true president is accused of racist – remember her – being a person of colour …..
The evil of the Obama Biden years being washed away …
The Jewish Chronicle this week has an article written by the man who didn’t pay for his own spectacles. It is so nauseating I can’t bear to read the whole thing. It is headed
‘We must make sure the phrase ‘never again’ means what it says’
He then talks about his photo opportunity at Auschwitz, as though he had never known about the atrocities carried out there. (A bit like Jimmy Saville?) The article is so cliched that I couldn’t get further than the first few lines. The JC obviously didn’t think the PM writing exclusively for them was such a big scoop as the article is now off the on-line front page and well buried.
OMG !!
It’s worse than we thought !!
NAZIS EVERYWHERE, even AOC and Taylor Swift, not to mention Saint Obama et al.
This is absolute pisstaking.
What they do in their own time is their business – what they do when we’re paying them to do a job is quite another.
@tomo – We need a Trump to end all that madness, ON DAY ONE.
Executive Order.
Done.
Our nearest variation was nut nut ( boris Johnson ) mr toad and Cummings – but the system was far too much for Cummings to deal with …..
The corrupt British state could never produce a Trump – it’s now a totalitarian system run by one cheek or other comrade ….
My memory is that Faisal Islam was best ignored when he worked for Sky News. He hasn’t improved at the BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5g3y6dxzgo
“Certainly sir, would you like large bias with that?”
The sooner the BBC becomes the MySpace of public broadcasting the better….
I notice the BBC doesn’t go near the number of high wealth people leaving the UK and the consequence of big falls in the tax take . There is stuff on YouTube showing the big hole being left by them .
I mean – if someone has the wealth – why would they hang around Britain ? – you’d need very high walls to stop the ferals – including the taxman – coming in and robbing you ..
Declaration – I am not wealthy but am in the lottery …. And not in the UK … until next week ..if spared …
Licking the balls of Starner
They are very quick. with their muzzie lawyers with “police brutallity”
Meanwhile, in their ideal world..