Extweets for November 2024

SingingOrganGrinder
@elorganillero

Bio: Kazoo Academy & Barrel Organ Disco/Yorkshire Almanac/translator Romance & Germanic languages & Russian/old-style jazz trombone & vocals/brass bands/allotmenteer

Fri Nov 01 19:56 Good piece by Tina Vallès on the dismal state of children's literature, dominated by (ghosted) celebrities & experts in emotional education
Fri Nov 01 21:32 Sensational cooking by Stuzzi at Ilkley Tap this afternoon, shame the infants wouldn't let me drink
Sat Nov 02 11:20 Comment: - Do you encourage small children to climb big hills to build character? - It's more about preventing character-building by the psychotherapists who rule library shelves & family gatherings, fomenting Dark-Age-hermit-like introversion via smartphone apps & junk food
Sat Nov 02 11:22 Comment: The smartphone is to humanism as dark Romanesque architecture is to Gothic. Aquinas didn't have a phone
Sat Nov 02 19:52 RT @kwilso1975: @elonmusk Peanut is now protecting Trump from Heaven.
Sun Nov 03 10:30 Saturday night daisy chains: Barry Lyndon connects via duelling to Sweet Revenge, which connects via Liz Smith to (and seems the comparatively rationalist offspring of) Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Sun Nov 03 18:13 Probably not greetings to our Reith But hoping the infant will transfer her affections from hamsters, Smurfs etc to German acoustic Hi NRG
Mon Nov 04 20:25 Elderly lady at the library, new to me, about to be made homeless, zero digital skills. "If I give you my passwords, will you tell me what's happening?" Probably not much bank balance to pillage, but still.
Tue Nov 05 09:32
Wed Nov 06 14:02 RT @DaveThroup: Inevitably there’s considerable interest in what impacts a Valencia type of rainfall event would have on the UK. A 🧵 ht…
Wed Nov 06 22:14 Go, Bede! I think of Thomas Aquinas as a huge figure, so slightly puzzled by his showing, but see the qualification re dates further down the thread.
Wed Nov 06 22:48 A great Quincy interview Comparison of racism in South & North reminds me of a border Turk on the Germans & Dutch: the former hate you to your face, the latter behind your back
Sun Nov 10 21:52 The whole point of Remembrance Sunday is surely that you do the sad bit at the memorial & then parade to the Legion club for a drink - death affirmed in life, like old-school New Orleans funerals. Lose part 2 & the whole thing is doomed
Mon Nov 11 12:47 RT @LeedsPlusSocial: The Leeds café changing the lives of people with Down Syndrome… but now facing closure 😲 The charity behind 21 Co. Ca…
Tue Nov 12 20:47 The school sends so many texts that doubts have expressed as to whether one is having an affair.
Tue Nov 12 21:52 RT @DisRightsUK: 🚨NEWS🚨 CW: Assisted Dying Disability Rights UK’s Statement on Assisted Dying Assistance to die should not be easier to a…
Tue Nov 12 23:00 To be fair, American colleagues showed concern in some quite alarming ways when one British *adult* decided to walk to work
Wed Nov 13 16:18 Life of Bryan
Thu Nov 14 06:32 Into the local arts centre café with 2 small girls, drinks purchased, civilized conversation underway, & a middle-aged laptop warrior, one of a host, most with no recent purchase, starts tut-tutting. Pay for an office, mate. R's C calls it pedophobia.
Thu Nov 14 07:50 Warm autumn at the allotment - strawberries flowering & producing lots of green fruit, & a randy bullfrog - obviously not going to end well short term, & implications for fertility long-term surely disastrous
Thu Nov 14 19:37 - So where's your daughter? - CM. - But you're SO catchment, aren't you? What swung it for you? - CM has a really good carpark.
Fri Nov 15 06:30 Sweet 15 minute window Thursday afternoon between dropping off one small girl & picking up another in central Headingley, so @whistle_shop - a cheeky half, & a chance to hear what Karl's got on the decks
Fri Nov 15 06:46 The X84 route & timetable changes may work for First, but they're crap from a public perspective
Fri Nov 15 07:21 Unexpectedly moved last night by the appearance of the harper in the Nausicaa episode of the great Andrew Lang (et al) prose translation of the Odyssey
Fri Nov 15 10:16 Comment:
Fri Nov 15 10:25 Eternal: "We're on the same page in different books."
Fri Nov 15 16:48 Comment: @NHPNA1 What's the alternative? It's far safer for pedestrians (generally Meanwood residents) than it was, even though the council hasn't erected bollards to prevent parking on the wider pavements.
Fri Nov 15 17:29 Comment: @NHPNA1 Sorry, I was hoping that one of the opponents would be able to clarify. Haven't tried cycling through it yet!
Fri Nov 15 23:24 The great speckled bird
Sat Nov 16 15:20 6 barrow-loads of 80s carpet, & I think there's none left on this allotment
Sat Nov 16 15:57 Ah, yes, NeXTSTEP
Sat Nov 16 21:13 Extwitter less objectionable than the alternative?
Sat Nov 16 23:43 - And how old might you be, young lady? - I'm five here, but on the trains I'm four. Rather like Liz Smith's "no pig" in A Private Function.
Sun Nov 17 07:00 Mr Hartley finds "a sleeping dictionary" in the 1940s Arabian diary of his dad's friend, & that seems to have been standard British (military) usage, so no idea where my "pillow dictionaries" came from
Sun Nov 17 07:02 Comment: Walked past SOAS the other day on the way to the Building Centre. Bloomsbury transformed - from cesspit of vehicle traffic to campus
Sun Nov 17 07:14 Atlantic Harris profile a year ago
Sun Nov 17 07:14 Comment:
Tue Nov 19 22:05 Role play with children sometimes feels like a non-statutory form of assisted dying. "Instead of telling me to voice Floppy saying she doesn't want to go to school, and then this, and then that, why don't you sit down and write the whole bloody screenplay?"
Tue Nov 19 22:45 This post was my introduction to riding a rail as a means of shaming, but now I meet it everywhere - see examples below from O Brother, Where Art Thou? and from Singin' in the Rain
Wed Nov 20 12:49 Image alt text isn't visible to most and can create doubt as to the real subject of a story. "How charity's warm coats keep children learning" from the BBC:
Wed Nov 20 12:53 Why I like Northumberland - pleasant for strangers, affordable for locals
Wed Nov 20 12:57 Underneath the arches
Wed Nov 20 12:58 Comment: Story
Thu Nov 21 20:45 Comment: Last Night of the Crazy Gang in 1962: Bud Flanagan comes on at 38 & is joined for a while by Chesney Allen at 45 Re the audience: is the art of whistling lost?
Fri Nov 22 23:03 @Opera_North Hey, your website (without the www) hosts unauthorised 3rd party commercial content going back several decades
Sat Nov 23 13:38 Opera North hosts a website for an escort agency
Sat Nov 23 13:38 Comment:
Sat Nov 23 14:51 At a meeting of one of the few surviving associations, diminished in numbers & energies. During the break everyone gets out their phone & there is no conversation. Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat/Tiktok/etc hint at the remote authority sketched by Tocqueville in Democracy in America
Sat Nov 23 14:53 Comment: Several laptop worriers driven off by children at Café 21 yesterday
Sun Nov 24 00:11 Comment: @azforeman Early 20th century mid-Welsh relatives could apparently understand bicycle-mounted Breton allium salesmen
Mon Nov 25 11:35 If it is true that the right is less keen on assisted suicide than the left, then Ms Leadbetter could surely neutralise their objections by proposing a pilot scheme for murderers.
Mon Nov 25 11:42 @Opera_North A reminder that Fastnet appears to be using your website to store a fair amount of 3rd party sites
Mon Nov 25 11:43 Comment: Still my favourite
Mon Nov 25 17:31 Comment: @lordbonkers Surely a relative of the one about the BA who applies for a job on a building site & bravely distinguishes a girder from a joist: one wrote Faust, the other Ulysses
Mon Nov 25 18:18 "So the infant has been off sick for a week, and today the head comes up to me & says, sotto voce, 'Good to see her back, & it's OK if you've been on holiday.' Negative: they suspect me of lying to admin. Positive: the fact that they never fine anyone will come in handy."
Mon Nov 25 19:15 RT @NewYokuTimes: 「ゴジラ対(つい)サガ」佐賀県嬉野市岩屋川内ダムのゴジラダムアートに謁見してきました！これはすごいぞ！スケールがまさにゴジラ級！汚れの部分は苔があるため、雨天後の乾き始めの頃が最も鮮明に絵を楽しめるそうです。 #ゴジラ #ダムアート #岩…
Mon Nov 25 19:19 Comment: "But next time she's sick do I mail the office every day, or would they prefer that a friend in Varna sends them a postcard? Where does that leave education stats? How do I explain to the infant that this makes it possible that they're not being completely honest about God?"
Mon Nov 25 19:24 - Man, we're singing at Fountains Abbey in December! - Chilly since Henry VIII.
Mon Nov 25 19:55 Evolution in Spanish retail banking customer service from the 80s
Mon Nov 25 21:04 Yet another reason to (continue to) like Notepad++
Tue Nov 26 20:44 It seems to an atheist that Christians, when required to sing the nation's most popular carols, should do so with enthusiasm (life) or not at all (death), but not mumble (what weird limbo is that?)
Tue Nov 26 20:48 Comment: I hadn't seen my conducting god at work before (also hadn't realised how many of his recordings are now available in decent versions) Some admittedly strange stuff is far outweighed by the immense creativity & sensitivity
Tue Nov 26 22:00 Comment: Fantastic Dutch documentary about Mengelberg from 1995
Tue Nov 26 22:23 Comment: "Ich hab es nie gewusst" 04:15
Wed Nov 27 09:53 I'm curious about the intersection between "funny weddings" - which appear to be a Yorkshire/Northern England thing - and "mock weddings," satirical or serious
Wed Nov 27 10:30 Turns out I've misunderstood Solent tides all my life
Wed Nov 27 10:34 Comment: @PlashingVole SE/30 only starts in even years
Wed Nov 27 10:56 Very appreciative of @HOS_Headingley for letting 3 infants & 3 adults in after the Xmas lights yesterday evening for a game of shuffleboard
Thu Nov 28 23:02 RT @BobFromAccounts: On the right of these images is a demonstration of efficiency, while on the left a depiction of the amount of space sa…
Fri Nov 29 10:03 The suspicion that Louise Haigh (RIP), talking yesterday about mass transit in Leeds (pop 810K), used as comparator Dijon (pop 170K) rather than eg Rotterdam (pop 600K), because government ambition is correspondingly small
Fri Nov 29 10:16 Inverse pay-per-view. It is said that after WWII the local landowner at B Castle, on taking his place in the family box pew in full view of the pulpit on Sunday, would put a row of coins along the edge. The longer the sermon, the more of these would return to his pocket.
Fri Nov 29 10:45 RT @yuanyi_z: Mother of the House, Diane Abbott, rises to speak. "I would remind the House that, in 1969, the House of Commons voted to ab…
Fri Nov 29 14:45 "Who are you?" "I'm a Burdon." "First door on the right, please."
Sat Nov 30 20:10 The Sardinians are disqualified on linguistic-historical grounds from suing Europeans
Sat Nov 30 20:10 Comment:
Sat Nov 30 20:26 Edwin Heathcote in the FT re the calculated termination of Smithfield meat market. When I came back to London I derived a crazed pleasure from taking the night bus to New Billingsgate - never saw the old one - & once got lost walking back with a very lively lobster
Sat Nov 30 20:31 Peace Corps volunteer in 60s Nigeria: "Sop I thought I'd teach the kids how to swim under water. 'Whatever you do,' I said, 'remember you'll always float back to the top.' So they went down, to the bottom, & stayed there, until I pulled them out. No meat in their diet = no fat."

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