QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL

[Stanley]

"I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it."

Norman Tebbit.

[Tripps]

""If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, each of us still has one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange them, each of us now has two ideas.""

George Bernard Shaw.

[Stanley]

Never heard that quotation David. I like it, it makes sense.....

[Tripps]

Until today the name Camus took me back to an 82lb (big) red fawn coloured greyhound, called Prince of Camus that was thrown off Salford as he was too big to cope with the sharp bends. Owner Harry Martindale took him to Belle Vue where he had some success - especially in very heavy going.

I learned today of Albert Camus - a French philosopher who had some interesting views on life (and death).

Camus emphasized the importance of facing the inevitability of death, arguing that it can heighten our appreciation for life and encourage us to live with greater intensity and awareness. He suggested that meaning isn't found in grand philosophical systems or religious beliefs, but rather in the choices we make and the actions we take in the face of the absurd.

For Camus, the meaning of life is "whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself".


Such as watching the likes of that dog hurtling round a bend in the lead - 'on the bunny' at full speed.

You don't have to read this rubbish you know. - it's quite optional . . . .

[Stanley]

Albert Camus was on the money.... You don't survive by accident, it's planned and very carefully executed.....

On a completely different matter.... One of my favourite quotations is from George Bernard Shaw's 'Major Barbara' (So I have always believed....)
Here it is as I remember it.... "There are, about her, the remains of a fine woman."
I went looking for it yesterday and Google AI tells me I am wrong and the quotation doesn't exist. In my mind, this simply demonstrates that AI is not infallible! (Mind you, neither am I!)

[Tizer]

Here it is as I remember it.... "There are, about her, the remains of a fine woman."
I went looking for it yesterday and Google AI tells me I am wrong and the quotation doesn't exist. In my mind, this simply demonstrates that AI is not infallible!

Dialogue following No. 2 from the The Pirates of Penzance
Frederic: What a terrible thing it would be if I were to marry this innocent person, and then find out that she is, on the whole, plain!
King: Oh, Ruth is very well, very well indeed.
Samuel: Yes, there are the remains of a fine woman about Ruth.
Frederic: Do you really think so?
Samuel: I do.
Frederic: Then I will not be so selfish as to take her from you. In justice to her, and in consideration for you, I will leave her behind.

[From this forum LINK ]

[Stanley]

Well done Peter! It was me that was at fault. Now I can sleep at night!
Written of course by W S Gilbert.

[Tripps]

Angela Rayner's conveyancer issues this statement:

"My firm does not deal with trusts or offer tax advice. The Stamp Duty Land Tax as calculated using the HMRC calculator and was strictly based on the facts and information provided to us."
6:00 pm · 4 Sep 2025

[Stanley]

That's been the unknown all along hasn't it. What information she supplied her advisers.... I heard yesterday that Starmer was 'strongly supporting' her.... What could possibly go wrong?

[Stanley]

" “We won the First World War. We won the Second World War. We won everything before that and in between, and then we decided to go woke, and we changed the name to Department of Defense,”
So said Trump as he announced the change of the title to Department of War,
The man is ignorant and deluded.
I heard a programme on World Service this morning suggesting that high lead levels in blood tended to make people more stupid..... Given historic levels of lead in petrol in the US and the amount used, could this explain why this man and his followers are so stupid?

[Julie in Norfolk]

Another Trumpism:

He told crowds on 4 July the Continental Army "took over the airports" during the American Revolutionary War in the 1770s.
Observers quickly pointed out there was no air travel in 18th Century America.
Explaining away the slip-up on Friday, Mr Trump also said it was hard to read the teleprompter in the rain.
During his "Salute to America" speech at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday, he was talking about the year 1775 when he said: "Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do."
Critics pointed out the rebels could not have seized airports more than a century before the first powered flight - credited to the Wright brothers in 1903 - took off.
In the same sentence, Mr Trump also appeared to date a battle at Fort McHenry to the American Revolution, when it unfolded decades later during the War of 1812.

Just think what he could be like if he had a brain. As he has no sense of history, he has learned nothing from it.

[Stanley]

"As he has no sense of history, he has learned nothing from it."
Precisely Julie, you hit the nail squarely on the head.

[Tizer]

The man who ghost-wrote Trump's `Art of the Deal' and got to know him very well said that Trump `lives in the moment'. He simply says what comes into his head in that moment and doesn't think back or beyond it. It explains a lot about him!

[Tripps]

Re the current state of the Labour Party -

A commentator has said "it's not like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic- more like radioing ahead to book a room at a New York hotel.


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Probably quite irrelevant -but a good excuse to post "The Ballad of Cape Henry (1781)" which is about a naval battle, and favourite toon of mine. File under 'American Roots - High Lonesome sound'. I can't explain the album cover.

[Stanley]

One thing seems clear.... anyone who seeks to analyse the reshuffle and make political sense out of it is on a hiding to nothing so perhaps the record cover image is appropriate.....
Later.... "I love the smell of deportations in the morning" Attributed to Donald Trump in an AI generated film clip. See THIS link.
Trump threatens Chicago with apocalyptic force and Pritzker calls him a 'wannabe dictator' President Donald Trump is amplifying his promises to dispatch the National Guard to Chicago by posting a parody image from “Apocalypse Now" featuring a ball of flames as helicopters zoom overhead
ByWILL WEISSERT Associated Press
September 6, 2025, 9:27 PM
President Donald Trump on Saturday amplified his promises to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to Chicago by posting a parody image from “Apocalypse Now” featuring a ball of flames as helicopters zoom over the nation's third-largest city. “'I love the smell of deportations in the morning,'” Trump wrote on his social media site. “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” The president offered no details beyond the label “Chipocalypse Now,” a play on the title of Francis Ford Coppola's dystopian 1979 film set in the Vietnam war, in which a character says: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” In response to the post, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, called Trump a “wannabe dictator.”
Unbelievable.... how insane can he get without being checked?

[Julie in Norfolk]

I'm sure his doctors know, I'm equally sure that those around him know. The problem is the sycophants (crikey I got that word right first time) and those that are as insane (RFK junior) and those that will toe the party line for anything just to keep their jobs. The likes of Bernie Sanders are the only ones who appear to have a spine.

He threatens (like the bully he is) all of those around him.

It wouldn't surprise me if there wasn't an agency getting all the proof needed for the next impeachment.

[Stanley]

I hope so Julie. How can a nation allow itself to be collectively destroyed by one man's ridiculous posturing....?

[Tizer]

In response to the post, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, called Trump a “wannabe dictator.”

Keep an eye on JB Pritzker, he's out to get Trump and he's much in the US news at the moment. If he became POTUS at least Zelenksy would be pleased: Pritzker's family is of Ukrainian descent.

[Stanley]

I don't know about the wanabe bit.... Strikes me he's acting like a dictator already.....

[Tizer]

I first saw this in The Times on Saturday. Looks like South Korea might be a bit annoyed when they are supposed to be an ally of the US...
`Raid on Hyundai plant in US swept up workers on visitor visas'
Many of the car workers arrested in a huge US workplace immigration raid had violated their visitor visas, officials say. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said 475 people, mostly South Korean citizens - were found to be illegally working at a Hyundai battery plant in the state of Georgia on Thursday.

[Stanley]

They may be but if the charges are genuine I don't see what they could complain about! $75 offenders at one plant is a lot.