It is peculiar that the French can have a sense of humour about Marie Antionette, but you frightbats get your petticoats in a bunch about it.

Dear Monty.
The opening ceremony was crap.
The UK tried to be crappiest with its pean to a health bureaucracy, but the frogs topped it with pedo smurf and the testicle tableau.

It was lame.

I saw the video of Trump addressing (evangelical?) Christians, it was not controversial, unless you are a gaslighting liar.

Have just boarded the Glacier Express, out of St Moritz to Zermatt. Eight hours but kills air travel, basically because a) you can move around a lot more, and b) great scenery.

I am coming to the conclusion that Switzerland is the Japan of Europe. Everything is clean, everything works on time and as it should, and the people all seem happy, co-operative and hard-working.

You know, obviously the gays are incapable of behaving themselves within the strictures of decent society, so perhaps we need to bring back the Prevention of Unnatural Acts Legislation that we used to have?
It would be unfortunate if we finally got jack of the sneers, the lies, the treatment of our children, and the general shitty behaviour of this once pilloried group and made them behave themselves again.
Remember that ‘Islam is right about the homosexuals’.

You know, obviously the gays are incapable of behaving themselves within the strictures of decent society, so perhaps we need to bring back the Prevention of Unnatural Acts Legislation that we used to have?

My impression is that most homos are quiet and just want to be left alone, but there’s a proportion who are naturally flamboyant and want to flaunt their condition. Tolerating the second group does nothing to keep them quiet, it just encourages them to more extreme behaviour because they desperately want to be noticed. And this goes on until we get the olympics opening ceremony.
Like M0nty, they want attention and to annoy the straight majority. It’s all rather pathetic.

Forgot one.

The Seine so chokkas with E-Coli that it’s unfit for training and events.

Tell you what:

There are a lot of people here in the Northern Territory who spend their lives carrying on about how the NT should become a State.

Taking aside the more obvious commentary response about relative GST percentages and the continual flow of Federal funding into the place, despite the NT being incredibly resource-rich, the actual retort is:

When you can get a pizza on a Tuesday evening, then you can be a State.

Not before.

I’d like to go off-topic for a bit.
I want to give a shout-out to all good physiotherapists.
I have mentioned here that I have have had both my knees replaced.
Because the ex decided that was an excellent opportunity to replace me, I didn’t receive as much post-op physio as I should have.

A couple of months ago, I decided to go for a course of physio to see if I could improve my balance and flexibility. It has been four and a half years since the op. I fall over easily but, the main problem is getting back up again. I have had to call friends to give me a hoist. This can be a problem when your nearest neighbour is 3 kilometres away.

Anyway, the physiotherapist I visited told me that, she really didn’t believe she could do anything for me as it had been so long since the op.
I said that I would like to give it a go.

Three weeks in and both of us were surprised at how well it was going.

Anyway, long story short, yesterday I was taking the pups out for a walk and, the big boy literally yanked me off my feet. For the first time in almost ten years, I was able to get myself back on my feet in less than two minutes.
No outside help needed. Still rather stunned by it.

It has been eight weeks since I started with the physio and the improvement has been amazing.

I still use a stick when walking in the paddock and for steps or uneven ground, but I can finally see a time when I can go up and down steps again.

So don’t forget to thank your physiotherapist if you are fortunate enough to have a good one. 😀

Australian women olympic rowers coming out of camera last in series of events.

Hang on. Aussie rowers were always the teams to beat. What could have changed?

Nah, not Government funding and universities taking over of rowing. That wouldn’t be then problem.

Ancient Cats will recall the annual national excitement over the two great Easter amateur sporting events – Stawell Gift and the Kings Cup rowing.

When those same outstanding athletes competed internationally they won fame with no Government support. Apparently something called merit had some influence in those days. Australian people followed their exploits avidly. Nobody expected or wanted Government involvement in our sport.

A pal down the street was a significant ladies international tennis player in the pre-professional era. I often question her about the requirement for women athletes to fund and drag around a ‘chaperone’ when they competed overseas. She hated it but said that it was nowhere near as objectionable as the arrival of Tennis Australia.

She can now barely walk but remains a terrifying golf player.

Report from Cork.
Airbnb a little awkward. After complete silence since May when I politely mentioned to my host I would like to do a load of washing and have dinner at home there was fussing about her private spaces, even though the listing said there was kitchen and ‘shared spaces’.
I was a little put out and wondering whether I should bail to a nearby university student accommodation.
Anyhow she was in the office then home late so I had my Dunnes Stores microwave meal in peace and have yet to spot her.
I have wandered the streets this morning, mass at St Finbar’s ‘the oldest Catholic Church in Cork’ buildt 1766 just around the corner from the remnant tower of the Red Abbey, and the site of the first school opened by the founder of the Presentation Sisters in the mid 1700s, now handed over to the state as social housing.
I’ll go to the gaol this afternoon and catch the train to Cobh tomorrow, I want to visit the emigration museum. The tourist office lady told me there’s a cruise ship in and Cobh is buzzing but I’d kind of figured that from clumps of tourists in town.
Cork is an old fashioned cbd, department stories, baby wear shops, men’s wear and ladies fashion with 1960s mannequins in blonde wigs wearing shirtwaisters in the windows.
I’m having lunch out but not at the joint advertising Pride and Pints.

I’m so old that Susan Ley and Bridget McKenzie look sexy.

Acting Secret Service Director Deflects After He is Confronted About Sniper’s Email Warning Another Assassination Attempt Against Trump Could be Imminent https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/acting-secret-service-director-deflects-after-he-is/
There’s an interesting list of the positions he’s held – he’s a Democrat functionary in charge of security.
President Trump needs to sack the lot of them and have his own security detail. It can’t happen because of the legal issues, but it would at least put the spotlight on the Democrat corruption within.

Breaking, Shock/Horror!!!
Racist comment made at football club.

It’s turning into a rout now.

The EV Blues: German Car Parts Giant ZF Lays Off Thousands over Lousy Electric Vehicle Sales (30 Jul)

Dismal electric car sales have reportedly forced German car parts giant ZF Friedrichshafen AG to cut jobs. The layoffs are in response to “the changes in the mobility sector, particularly in the field of electromobility.”

“The number of employees in Germany is to be successively reduced by 11,000 to 14,000 from the current level of around 54,000 by 2028,” ZF announced, according to a report by France 24. …

Klein went on to cite strong competition from foreigners, cost pressures, and weak demand for electric vehicles as reasons why the company needed to restructure its electric motors division, France 24 reported. … Klein nonetheless claimed “the future belongs to electromobility,” and vowed to continue investing “heavily in this area.”

Investing “heavily” in products people don’t want seems like a really great way to go bankrupt. I wonder when ZF will go under?

On the Southport murders. Rumours abound about the killer – was he a lad from Cardiff or a Rwandan illegal?

The police statement favours the former. The local people appear to think otherwise.

Here’s a thought. How about the police stop obfuscating on these types of crimes and identify the perpetrators once statements are acquired? There were clearly enough witnesses to identify the man.

The spectre of Rotherham lies heavily on the people of the Midlands, and elsewhere. The police should try to restore public confidence, not suspicion. Otherwise events like the mosque riot will continue, giving even more grounds for accusations of “white supremacy” and the like.

Perhaps that’s how they want it.

Some good news.

Air New Zealand Scraps Promises to Cut Carbon Emissions by 2030 (30 Jul)

Too hard and too costly. That sums up the reason Air New Zealand has abandoned a goal to cut its carbon emissions by 2030, blaming a range of difficulties Tuesday for the decision.

Delivery delays of fuel-efficient aircraft and the affordability of alternative jet fuels were the two key factors in the surprise move.

The move makes it the first major carrier to back away from such a climate target, the BBC reports.

I’d think the recent election has something to do with it also. Air NZ wouldn’t have dared to announce this under a Labour government, but it is politically feasible with the new right-wing one.