tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post6389237984053322769..comments2024-03-29T01:58:40.773+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: EquityYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-67547019069354933412021-10-23T07:32:49.725+01:002021-10-23T07:32:49.725+01:00I tend to the view that such fantasy is pointless ...I tend to the view that such fantasy is pointless and even potentially dangerous when it has no possibility of actually seeing the light of day. Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-36062796464170690142021-10-22T22:33:28.589+01:002021-10-22T22:33:28.589+01:00Well I am glad I stirred some more jewels from the...Well I am glad I stirred some more jewels from the gravel at the bottom of The Haggerty Aquarium.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-84005956024536829212021-10-22T22:25:23.628+01:002021-10-22T22:25:23.628+01:00I like your thinking professor!I like your thinking professor!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-21833877463362079162021-10-22T22:24:18.651+01:002021-10-22T22:24:18.651+01:00Okay you have tempted me to come on over Kelly.Okay you have tempted me to come on over Kelly.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-1486057599150275072021-10-22T19:54:57.611+01:002021-10-22T19:54:57.611+01:00My father spoke about a fruit and veg shop which s...My father spoke about a fruit and veg shop which sold rotten tomatoes in brown paper bags to patrons of The Glasgow Empire. <br />He felt sorry for the artists when they got a pelting and were booed offstage.<br />Sometimes the stage was awash with rotten fruit to gales of laughter.<br />Boris and his crooked cronies deserve rotten eggs.<br /><br />J.B. Priestley wrote a novel *Lost Empires* inspired by The Bradford Empire.<br />It was adapted for television with Colin Firth.<br />Arnold Bennett corrected proofs in music halls for his Friday page in The Evening Standard; and Ford Madox Ford frequented them too.<br /><br />More problematically Walter Sickert painted scenes from the London music halls in the tradition of Degas and Lautrec.<br />If I thought Sickert really was Jack the Ripper I could never look at his melancholy paintings again. He did use a dark palette.<br /><br />*Mr Nobody or Jack the Ripper: The Infamous Art of Walter Sickert.*<br />An online essay by Laura Thipphawong.<br />HaggertyHaggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03878998597580981583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-47598212354434393122021-10-22T19:48:03.528+01:002021-10-22T19:48:03.528+01:00You write such thought-provoking posts! (and you&...You write such thought-provoking posts! (and you've certainly had me thinking...)<br /><br />Meanwhile, I post about things like beer labels. Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00859017153454691633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-51588888299733262802021-10-22T19:22:02.730+01:002021-10-22T19:22:02.730+01:00Your idea of tokens seems like it would only grind...Your idea of tokens seems like it would only grind the economy to a halt as those who need tokens would have no way of obtaining them since trading posts would be torched by eco warriors such as yourself. I think a better way is simply to pay per unit of measurement of consumption, with the cost being equivalent of removing the unit some other way. Those that need to use lots of tokens, say hotels or rental car companies, would still exist but then would be charged a lot to remove the carbon footprint by other means. Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214319366049620074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-43369896832880302122021-10-22T18:34:12.359+01:002021-10-22T18:34:12.359+01:00I realise you were only joking Steve but anybody w...I realise you were only joking Steve but anybody who thinks it is acceptable to allow the rich to just carry on as before is sanctioning ridiculous unfairness as the rest of us strive to address this climate crisis.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-41307056933270299022021-10-22T17:22:11.982+01:002021-10-22T17:22:11.982+01:00Communist!
(I'm joking, but there are people ...Communist!<br /><br />(I'm joking, but there are people who would say that to your arguments!)<br /><br />I agree we ought to have a more equitable way to divide the world's resources and use them skillfully. I think the pols want to make a difference but not enough to make meaningful change -- they want to have their cake (under our current economic system) and eat it too. In fact I believe Boris has been quoted using that very phrase in the past.Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-25370802047519245372021-10-22T15:37:58.563+01:002021-10-22T15:37:58.563+01:00Chucking rotten fruit and vegetables should return...Chucking rotten fruit and vegetables should return as a sport. I would love to hurl a rotten tattie at Johnson's heid. "GET TATTIE DONE!"...SPLAT!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-89092867049068270652021-10-22T15:33:03.809+01:002021-10-22T15:33:03.809+01:00I was chiefly thinking about the climate crisis an...I was chiefly thinking about the climate crisis and how the wealthy tend to have much bigger carbon footprints. You seem to totally overlook what was the very core of this blogpost and instead picked up on a side issue.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-56476572109847126142021-10-22T14:08:03.106+01:002021-10-22T14:08:03.106+01:00As my father used to say, Rabbie Burns never wore ...As my father used to say, Rabbie Burns never wore a kilt in his life.<br />Tartan suits the Ladies.<br /><br />I Belong To Glasgow is attributed to comedian Will Fyffe (1885-1947) born in Dundee, buried in our Lambhill Cemetery. He appeared in English films.<br /><br />Fyffe said he heard the song in a pub and paid the poor unknown composer a couple of bob for it. He never saw the man again.<br /><br />The song has been sung by Gracie Fields, Eartha Kitt, Danny Kaye. <br />Kirk Douglas sang it in a televised Royal Command Performance.<br /><br />Will Fyffe was popular at the (long demolished) Glasgow Empire, the toughest audience in Britain, where my mother as a wee girl saw Fred and Estelle Astaire dance. She was with her father, in the 1920s.<br /><br />Glasgow folk would buy rotten fruit, before going into the Empire, and throw it at poor acts. Des O'Connor fainted before going on. <br />The Empire stood at the corner of Sauchiehall Street and Buchanan Street.<br /><br />Movie star David Niven went to the Empire when he was a young officer, stationed at the Maryhill Barracks (now a run-down housing estate) during WWII.<br />Niven fancied Glasgow girls but did not like the way they spoke.<br /><br />The summit on climate change will be held at the SEC Armadillo, down by the River Clyde. The auditorium holds 3000 seats for concerts.<br />A curious building, it is clad in overlapping aluminium sheeting, floodlit at night, reflective by day.<br /><br />I got my two Covid vaccines at the Armadillo, the first time I had ever been inside, and found it terribly oppressive.<br />It is as black inside as the devil's nightshirt.<br /><br />If I had a free ticket for Joan Chamorro's Sant Andreu Jazz Band (my favourite band) I would not sit inside that building; the seats are way up in the roof.<br />Rather terrifying.<br /><br />*2014 Moody's Mood Sant Andreu Jazz Band: Magali Datzira, Eva Fernandez, Andrea Motis.* YouTube.<br /><br />Joan Chamorro plays double bass and started the Jazz School in Barcelona for children and teenagers. <br />He lost his little boy to cancer and has dedicated his life to teaching music to the young. <br />He does not charge them a penny. The school is financed on ticket sales.<br />Haggerty<br /><br />Haggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03878998597580981583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-18988921765545128072021-10-22T14:04:06.057+01:002021-10-22T14:04:06.057+01:00You are a socialist through and through. You have...You are a socialist through and through. You have drunk the Kool-Aid. You throw around phrsses like "we all" and "the majority of people" casually. You paint a picture of a Utopian world that I pray will never exist. Forced equality is no equality at all. It certainly is not freedom. It is domination by the State or by Whoever Is In Charge.<br /><br />A pox on your ill-conceived dreams.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-53366747422036102422021-10-22T12:00:14.414+01:002021-10-22T12:00:14.414+01:00Happier than Roman Abramovich that is for sure and...Happier than Roman Abramovich that is for sure and more connected to the world around him.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-68193419617760629552021-10-22T11:04:36.282+01:002021-10-22T11:04:36.282+01:00What struck me is how completely happy the man in ...What struck me is how completely happy the man in his little woven boat looks. Life needs an overhaul. 'Stuff' does not equate with happiness. We do not need the latest, the best, the newest, the popular. Yet, we are raising our children to believe that they do. Debbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09531125606268748793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-638240756878614672021-10-22T11:01:12.800+01:002021-10-22T11:01:12.800+01:00I don't think so. Sounds like that eminent man...I don't think so. Sounds like that eminent man was some kind of climate change denier like Donald Trump. I agree with you that there's a tendency to vilify the little people at the bottom and not the monsters at the top. Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-73077010640202470142021-10-22T10:29:16.176+01:002021-10-22T10:29:16.176+01:00With regards to plastic, the manufacturers are to ...With regards to plastic, the manufacturers are to blame not us. Why doesn't the Government force them to change to other packaging, again money I suspect. But at the same time let's blame the little people at the bottom. There was hardly any plastic when I was a child. <br />I was listening to and eminent man the other day who claimed that there was hardly any difference in the core temperature now than before. Are we being fed a lot of garbage in order to fit their bill for some other means?<br />Briony<br />xcrafty cat cornerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06251582085392890533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-44574779666092230622021-10-22T10:10:57.476+01:002021-10-22T10:10:57.476+01:00I am irked by images of containers stacked up at p...I am irked by images of containers stacked up at ports or on massive container ships. What do they contain and do we really need that stuff? So much plastic crap that should not be produced any more.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-23740678573386879502021-10-22T10:09:00.379+01:002021-10-22T10:09:00.379+01:00The only thing that will crashing down in your hea...The only thing that will crashing down in your head is Lord Peregrine when he trips over your pink crocs.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-60449406344221950782021-10-22T10:07:54.549+01:002021-10-22T10:07:54.549+01:00There would be photo ID and tokens would be number...There would be photo ID and tokens would be numbered and non-transferable. That matter would be easy to address. Anyway, I know it's just a fantasy.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-68227485355370550432021-10-22T10:01:49.263+01:002021-10-22T10:01:49.263+01:00Your tokens idea is great but as Andrew and Mrs Mo...Your tokens idea is great but as Andrew and Mrs Moon have noted, all that would happen is that there would be a thriving market in tokens, the poor selling theirs for money to buy food, to those who have money to spare for extravagances. In some respects this exists in the Kyoto Agreement carbon credits system - F grows forestry in NZ, gets carbon credits, and makes money selling them to other places and industries that create carbon debits.Tigger's Mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829665785202495073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-29377088602200911352021-10-22T08:41:56.613+01:002021-10-22T08:41:56.613+01:00Well, now I feel like just crawling back to my bed...Well, now I feel like just crawling back to my bed and hiding under the duvet until the world comes crashing down on my head. JayCeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01373622852406554111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-5807095387190967532021-10-22T07:30:11.931+01:002021-10-22T07:30:11.931+01:00When BJ was still Mayor of London, he was perceive...When BJ was still Mayor of London, he was perceived as a rather green character over here. People loved it that he rode to work by bike, and generally seemed not to care about flash cars and such. How he has changed - and not for the better!<br /><br />Something else in this context is irking me at the moment: Christmas presents. The media keep telling us of the difficulties in logistics, with huge amounts of freight containers not being forwarded etc. But instead of going to the roots of the problem, and encouraging people to stop and think about what they really need and what would really make sensible Christmas presents (if any), they advise us to buy early so that we make sure WE get the items we want - sod all the others who decide late on their orders and then will have to go without.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-43631662009810481352021-10-22T06:31:07.932+01:002021-10-22T06:31:07.932+01:00I am so pleased that you have quickly grasped the ...I am so pleased that you have quickly grasped the essence of this post Red. What can we do? What can we do?Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-87225402589494797772021-10-22T06:30:00.900+01:002021-10-22T06:30:00.900+01:00There seems to be no brake. No brake at all. I am ...There seems to be no brake. No brake at all. I am reminded of those TV images of containers held up at ports around the world. All bulging with wastefulness.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.com