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vxbush
11/14/2022 7:07:31 AM
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In #1 Occasional Reader said: Turkish interior Minister: we do not accept US condolences over Istanbul bombing. Doesn't that require a white glove to slap the face of some American?
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JCM
11/14/2022 7:42:03 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 2: Followed by anchoring a fleet of battleships in their harbor!
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lucius septimius
11/14/2022 7:46:48 AM
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Finally the glorious State has decided that more than two years after I lost my health insurance I can get some next year. Yay! Now I have to see just how much it's going to cost.
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buzzsawmonkey
11/14/2022 8:03:02 AM
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If H. Rider Haggard were writing today, he'd be writing about "She Xi---Who Must Be Obeyed."
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Occasional Reader
11/14/2022 9:28:26 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 5:
I'll admit, I had to look that reference up.
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buzzsawmonkey
11/14/2022 11:06:59 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6: There was a film of "She" back in the '60s (I think), starrin Ursula Andress. Never saw it---but a few weeks ago I picked up a copy of the Haggard novel that someone had left free-for-the-taking on their stoop. I'd read "King Solomon's Mines," also by Haggard, and was curious. I've been slogging/spelunking through the book for a while (it goes on, and on).
The interesting thing to me, aside from the Sax Rohmer-grade racism which pervades both novels, is how similar the two Haggard works are. In both, a couple of intrepid Englishman, acting on knowledge gained from ancient maps/relics, head off to some unknown/little-explored area of Africa: in "Mines," they are of course looking for the treasures supposedly (actually) contained in those storied mines; in "She," they are seeking to find out the truth of a legendary female monarch of incredible beauty who enjoys perpetual life. In both, they encounter such a woman: in "Mines," it is the shriveled evil hag known as "Gagool, the witch-finder"; in "She," it is She herself, who is indeed several thousand years old---also evil, but unlike Gagool, perpetually beautiful, until... Anyway, in "She," the woman is constantly referred to as "She-who-must-be-obeyed." And, given Chinese influence over the current administration, I thought it fitting.
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Occasional Reader
11/14/2022 11:11:06 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 7:
Well, yes, I got the pun, and the source of it even dimly rings a bell (and I've heard of King Solomon's Mines); I just didn't know Haggard's name.
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buzzsawmonkey
11/14/2022 11:20:13 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 8: I wish I'd saved my entire collection of late-19th/early-20th century racist adventure fiction. Sax Rohmer probably takes pride of place on the basis of his output; his Fu Manchu novels are basically all warnings about the Yellow Peril, and highly race-based, but his book of short stories "Tales of Limehouse" manages to throw in plenty of slags at blacks and Jews. His novel "Grey Face," which I only dimly remember at this point, was a little more toned down. E. Phillips Oppenheim, also a prolific popular novelist, was less blatantly and consistently racist, but his "The Treasure House of Martin Hews" is antisemitic to the core. Haggard certainly belongs within this dubious pantheon, as does Robert E. Howard, the creator of "Conan the Barbarian"; his short story "In the Valley of the Worm," which is part of a pulp-fiction anthology called "The Pulps," is solid white-supremacy---as also is much of HP Lovecraft's output.
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buzzsawmonkey
11/14/2022 11:22:58 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 8: Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 9: To which I'd also add that when the TV cartoon "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" debuted some time ago, it was no surprise that "He-Man" was a blonde behemoth with an Iron Cross on his chest, and that one of his nemesis Skeletor's henchmen, Beast-Man, was basically a re-working of medieval anti-Jewish stereotypes, with a beard, a hunched back, and, IIRC, red hair.
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Occasional Reader
11/14/2022 11:49:29 AM
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Oh, geez.
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buzzsawmonkey
11/14/2022 12:04:38 PM
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Tried to post an image, got a "service error." It's a photo of a poster we picked up in England back in '60-'61, touting "the cheapest central heating there is---solid fuel." If I can email it to someone who can actually get images to post, I will do so.
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Occasional Reader
11/14/2022 12:36:55 PM
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In #12 buzzsawmonkey said: "the cheapest central heating there is---solid fuel." Meaning what, exactly?
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buzzsawmonkey
11/14/2022 12:49:22 PM
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In #13 Occasional Reader said: Meaning what, exactly? Coal.
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Occasional Reader
11/14/2022 1:01:28 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 14: Ah. That's what I thought. As I recently posted at Insty, on a thread about how Germans are supposedly taking courses in "how to deal with blackouts this winter":
"If only there were some sort of... magical rock of some sort, that you could dig out of the ground, and then burn for heat and energy..."
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buzzsawmonkey
11/14/2022 1:07:36 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 15: As I've said before, coal and petroleum are Nature's batteries, storing the power of the sun for millions of years until it is needed.
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JCM
11/14/2022 2:20:12 PM
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Kosh's Shadow
11/14/2022 4:26:49 PM
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In #9 buzzsawmonkey said: Fu Manchu novels are basically all warnings about the Yellow Peril, Wasn't COVID created by Flu Manchu? 
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buzzsawmonkey
11/14/2022 4:34:14 PM
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Do children now try out to be "puberty blockers" on the highschool football team?
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