Couple of quizzes to keep you entertained. There are no real rules; I will post the answers after a suitable period of time. Discussion is permitted.
Cwiz 1: Prisons
1. In which novel did Edmond Nantes escape from the Chateau d’If?
2. In which prison was the Marquis de Sade incarcerated?
3. Which South African prison was named after the Afrikaans word for seal?
4. Which Cavalier poet wrote, “Stone walls do not a prison make”?
5. Which US prison took its name from pelicans?
6. Who wrote
I never saw a man who looked,
With such a wistful eye,
Upon that little tent of blue,
Which prisoners call the sky.
7. Tartarus was a dungeon in Greek myth; for whom was it built?
8. Frank Darabont directed which prison movie?
9. Which isolated UK prison opened in 1809 to house Napoleonic War prisoners?
10. In 1952, the Kray twins were held in which historic prison?
This cwiz is courtesy of ProfessorPineapple
Cwiz 2: Scrambled Plays
1. Forgoing toadwit
2. Meth cab
3. Née in lewd farmyards
4. Limp agony
5. Anal seas fathomed
6. Sex up or die
7. A Leo knocking bar
8. See earthling games
9. I scorn hero
10. Sole had soul
Ovally Balls 
Lovely French onion soup and home made baguette for dinner. Can’t wait for restaurants to reopen.
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Barbecued steaks, courgettes and leeks with steamed broccoli and home-made chips. We never go out to eat anyway!
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hand-crafted artisanal chips.
We went to a forest for a walk earlier. Ended up playing crazy golf and I had a beer from a brewery that I’d only drunk with once before. It was good.
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Posh fish and chips – salmon (frozen) with spicy potato wedges and green beans.
I made a green peppercorn sauce to which I added scotch bonnet chilli – it was way too hot, but nice
The green peppercorn sauce is the one posh thing I can make and I do variations of it with mushrooms or sorrel or watercress, usually with chilli
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Some fine food cooked and consumed by the sounds of it! Think I may do a couple of steaks later. Will have to be late lunch though as the evenings are getting cold and dark early on. Might do a marrow and red wine sauce. Rich, but very nice.
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Can we have some more mayors/politicians like this please?
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Killer Mike also made a good speech at the same event.
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Anti 5G USB stick retailing for £339 turns out to be a £5 USB stick with a sticker on it
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BBC buys 5g stick, realises it’s fake, tries to put a positive spin on it.
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Refit – I saw that too.
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I probably need to read it again, but I went from ‘ooh scientist! to ‘erk! is this a bit whiffy?’
I probably need input from the OB hive to put my mind at rest.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/31/covid-19-expert-karl-friston-germany-may-have-more-immunological-dark-matter
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Mr X
He seems to be using “immunological dark matter ” to make it sound a bit sexier. I think he’s saying that the German population is healthier than the UK’s and so less likely to be infected. Doesn’t seem unreasonable, if the data supports it. No dark matter involved, sadly.
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It’s the old “my model is better than your model” argument. And he justifies it by saying after the event his predictions were right. I’ve no reason to believe his models are better than conventional ones. And they are bobbins.
And that thing about dark matter is just a fancy way of saying he doesn’t know why Germans appear not to get infected as often.
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That Bob Dylan’s been on the phone again. He’s not happy.
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That Killer Mike video won’t play for me here but I watched it via, of course, the Rage Against The Machine twitter feed.
A few years ago, maybe five, Reginald D. Hunter made a really good tv series called Songs of the South where he goes back to where he was brought up to explore the music of the Southern States. You can still see the whole three episodes on Daily Motion btw.
Anyway, at one point he is in his car doing a piece to camera when a group of white youngsters drew up in a car beside him, they were probably in their 20s. After an exchange of greetings and a “what you guys up to” type conversation they drove off. Hunter said he had never been so glad as to having a tv camera and crew with him – this was him back in his home territory and his experience was that his life would probably have been in danger if the tv crew hadn’t been there.
When people are made to feel like that, when the law enforcement that is supposedly there to protect you instead kills you for being black in the wrong place at the wrong time, what exactly are you supposed to do?
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Bravo, DCI!
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@Ticht,
It’s so awful, watching what’s going on. Makes you sick to think of it, and ashamed that police officers can be so evil. I know it’s a different country (and I know that plenty of dreadful things have been done by police here over the years), but this is absolutely shocking to see — the militarisation of the police, the utter contempt some of them have for decency. It’s shameful.
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Ticht – in happier news, did you see the Ella Fitzgerald documentary on BBC2 last night? Think I missed the first 10/15 minutes, but saw the rest. Really interesting, as I didn’t know too much about her.
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I haven’t watched it yet, BB, but I will do
I download stuff to watch whilst I sit in the Asda carpark as Daughter the Eldest does the weekly shop, Ella is on this week’s list.
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There seems to be more talk of the SA teams quitting Super Rugby and joining the Pro 14, though it also would presumably mean the demise of the Cheetahs and the Kings https://www.ultimaterugby.com/news/south-african-teams-to-leave-super-rugby-for-the-pro14—report/627556#
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The SA teams leaving/being kicked out of Super Rugby story comes up almost every year, ticht. The Aussies and Kiwis bleat about the Saffer kick-off times, the Saffers bleat about travelling. It’s a bloated comp with too many meaningless games – Who wants to watch 12 Australian derbies every year?
Things’ll change but who knows what’ll happen after this Covid-19 thing goes away. Who knows what’ll happen to Argentina.
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“The SA teams leaving/being kicked out of Super Rugby story comes up almost every year, ticht.”
Aye, but from reading it over the years it seems to be gathering a bit of momentum. I think once the Not Heine allow the SA teams to participate, something they should have done from the get go, the big four teams will come north
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Ticht – I saw that. Iirc there was a bit more to it than that. Reg said he was afraid and glad of the film crew, but that they were nice people and that maybe he needed to revisit his own prejudice given that he was immediately afraid of them.
I could be wrong, and will rewatch but I’m pretty sure that’s what happened.
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Ticht, If the Big 3 and Deebee’s Lions did go north it wouldn’t mean the end of the Cheetahs or Kings. They’d just make it up to 18 teams.
Was thinking how it would work and maybe they’d go for 3 conferences. The 6 SA teams in one, the Welsh and Italians in another and Scots and Irish in the third. Home and away games against your conference rivals, and you play sides from the other two conferences once. That gives you a regular season of 22 matchs.
It might seem unfair lumping the two Scottish sides in with the Irish, who’ve been consistently stronger than Welsh teams, but Wales and Italy have close cultural connections – we even have a word – a Bracchi – for a coffee bar (https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entries/fdcff8e1-66dc-34e2-b279-a6e7280958cc)
Plus, once that bridge gets built, travel between Scotland and Ireland’ll be dead simple.
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I haven’t seen that Reginald P Hunter series but found it’s on youtube.
The incident is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWkMmPV75No
Has Arrested Development’s classic Tennessee playing just before.
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Craigs, I eventually found the incident on the link TomP provided, Reginald D Hunter has spent almost half his life in the UK, but he grew up in the knowledge that his life was in danger in some situations.
I would be less inclined to bring up his “prejudices” given their origins come from real threats to life. If things have changed for the better and he is less likely to be killed in that sort of encounter nowadays then that is obviously a very good thing, but the feeling doesn’t come from nothing, as the killing of George Floyd illustrates.
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For sure Ticht.
I only bring it up because it was part of that segment. Reg is always very honest and even handed about this stuff.
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I’m going to re watch that whole series now. It’s a great journey through American music and history.
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He also did a series on the border with Mexico (only 3 episodes I think). Not quite as good, but interesting nonetheless.
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Racism was an overarching theme in the Songs of the South series.
BB, I don’t remember what it was now, but for some reason the broadcasts of the Border series was postponed, I think you and I talked about it at the time on the old notablog, then it was shown in a oner. There was some very good stuff in that second series, but yeah, possibly not as good as the first.
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Just watched the first episode. That scene with the people in the car in Tennessee is really to frame the episode – black man travelling into White Country. By the time he gets to Western Kentucky, he’s “deep into hillbilly country”.
I find a lot of Reg’s observations and asides and the set pieces a bit mundane but he’s not there to trick anyone and you can sense his enjoyment of the music. At the square dance he talks about hating it when he was at 98% white
Catholic school. I hope there’s more about that in the Georgia episode – though Georgia could have 50 hours of documentary and it still wouldn’t be enough.
Rennie Sparks from The Handsome Family is really very good. The second best part of the show for me is hearing musicians talk about the music. She’s just the best at doing that.
The best part is the music. It’s great.
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The section on Minstrelsy reminded of the Cape Town Carnival. It’s a complicated story – https://johnedwinmason.typepad.com/john_edwin_mason_photogra/cape-town-new-years-carnival-frequently-asked-questions-faq.html –
and on the music:
Click to access gregory2018.pdf
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/01/australia-nrl-fan-in-the-stand-cardboard-cutouts–hitler–mass-murderer-harold-shipman
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“The 100 greatest UK No 1s, No 5: Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)”
I didn’t see that coming.
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Reading the article , I find it a bit strange that it’s ranked higher than “Relax”. Good pop song, mind.
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@BadlyRB & OT, thanks for insights. The description of the modelling methods just sounded odd to me as a layperson. Like building a mountain of data but still sticking your finger in the wind while standing on top of it.
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Nice Bobbing, DCI!
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Probably should have said nice Bobbying!
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@iksy
That is what all modelling is. Useful to help understand experimental data, useless in predicting the future.
See also: climate science
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Graun doing a top 20 list worth giving a fuck about (no1 is a little strange but you can’t have everything):
Demons, death and dynamite dialogue: the 20 best episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Stories of Pete Burns when he worked at Probe Records
https://thequietus.com/articles/24272-going-for-a-song-a-chronicle-of-the-uk-record-shop-extract-pete-burns-probe-records
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Ah, Quillette, the best a man can get:
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@MrIks,
I see what you did there…. thanks!
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Ta DCI. Also for the words up there. My stomach is in knots most days these days. It makes me sick seeing so many rotten old bones being unearthed and revived. I’m dreading when and what the next ground zero will turn out to be.
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Jeez Iks, Don’t get in knots about things that aren’t your fault.
Watch this instead.
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‘That is what all modelling is. Useful to help understand experimental data, useless in predicting the future.
See also: climate science’
I’d contend the useless part.
Of some use as long as put in context and not relied upon as some sort of infallible exact prediction. You’re never going to nail all variables looking into the future of complex systems.
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Back in’t the day when I did me masters we had a presentation from someone who’d spent years developing a paleaoclimate model. By the end of 2 hours having it thoroughly pulled apart he looked really quite sad.
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@SBT
I’m surprised the good internet isn’t full of videos of “funny” ducks rather than funny cats – as (IMO) ducks are intrinsically funny
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Well, you could see that coming (to a degree) – Hitler ought to have been “picked up” on but there was always going to be the chance of some notorious individual getting through. Would Shipman be so well known in Oz that you’d expect him to be picked out on a cursory glance?
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