BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[icowden]

Sorry - complete tangent but I just came across this and had to share it.

Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament - A New Yorker Profile​

https://mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/jonathan-gullis-the-seagulls-lament

On a watery Monday in Stoke, Jonathan Gullis is having his photograph taken beside a canal. The photographer, flown in from Brooklyn at ruinous expense, keeps asking him to “lean into the melancholy of post-industrial decline.” Gullis, who thinks leaning is woke, grudgingly obliges by staring at a discarded Greggs wrapper as though it is the last letter from a dying empire. The resulting image runs on the cover of this magazine under the caption “The Seagull’s Lament.”

I search his vexed face for clues, but at thirty-five, Gullis wears the perpetual expression of a man who has just been cut up by a Honda Accord. He never smiles. He reminds me of the depression-era hobo clown Weary Willie. He gurns, he grimaces, he looks permanently defeated. Emmett Kelly performed the character for decades, but offstage he struggled with alcoholism and the collapse of his marriages. You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis.

 

[BoldonLad]

Lies damned lies and statistics again. If you can't see that this country has been in a downward spiral since 2008 then I can't help you.
Any positive stats you can give are bought and paid for in the national debt which is spiralling out of control. Slowly but surely.

Oh, you are talking about the Country!, it has been in a downward trend since way before 2008, as I have said numerous times on here.

My original comment was on Richard’s comments on the Stock Market.

 

[Pblakeney]

Oh, you are talking about the Country!, it has been in a downward trend since way before 2008, as I have said numerous times on here.

My original comment was on Richard’s comments on the Stock Market.

The section in question was about printing money to afford stuff like the NHS.

 

[briantrumpet]

Lies damned lies and statistics again. If you can't see that this country has been in a downward spiral since 2008 then I can't help you.
Any positive stats you can give are bought and paid for in the national debt which is spiralling out of control. Slowly but surely.

That's telling you, PB.

 

[Pblakeney]

That's telling you, PB.

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All evidence backs up my position. You can't do anything about a problem until you acknowledge that you have a problem.
Once you've done all you can then it's time to sit back and enjoy. I'm not depressed, I just call out what is happening to the ostriches.

 

[BoldonLad]

The section in question was about printing money to afford stuff like the NHS.

Well, that was ONE of the points in the article linked by Brian.

 

[Pblakeney]

Well, that was ONE of the points in the article linked by Brian.

It was the highlighted ONE though. Was my interpretation incorrect?

 

[BoldonLad]

It was the highlighted ONE though. Was my interpretation incorrect?

Might have been to you, but, to me, Richard’s credibility, or otherwise, was the main point of Brian’s post.