The Lockdown Diaries (9)
Or, His Neck Finally Buckled Under The Weight Of His Hair.
Let us share links and bicker. I’ll set the ball rolling, via Noah Carl, with an ingenious solution.
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Update: Today’s saucy topics include crime and punishment.
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Quite peckish now.
Here, I never did eat the bar snacks you set out.
Here, I never did eat the bar snacks you set out.
[ Peers over spectacles. ]
Americans only buy firearms for personal protection in their vivid imaginations. That has effectively been the rule since most of them failed to stand up for George Zimmerman.
pst314: “Would it be wrong of me to wish the politicians and senior police commanders who make policy to be the victims of vicious crimes?”
I’m sure it would be morally wrong, but if things are to change in favour of safer lives for the law-abiding majority it might be useful to see bureaucrats and politicians on the receiving end so they actually felt some discomfort, even fear. As for social work/SJWs types being robbed/assaulted I suspect that they would come up with a million reasons explaining how [insert groups to blame starting with Caucasian men] caused the criminals to become so dysfunctional as to rob those trying to ‘save’ them and society. [Also see social workers and changing lightbulbs.]
NTSOG, yeah, but I gloomily suspect that nothing less could shock these people our of their delusions and corrupt indifference.
So again in the interest of Let us share links and bicker, as this is about the only place I find information I can mostly trust…
Do any of you have some educated thoughts/experience, second hand even, regarding CBD oils? I’ve been trying to do my own research but I’m having difficulty discerning what is real from what is hippy-dippy BS and what is reactionary anti-hippy-dippy BS. I have a dear 90 year old lady friend who tried it for leg pains she was having. Didn’t work for that but she also didn’t have any odd reactions to it. She’s a very stable, conservative woman originally from York. The old-style sturdy British type.
Sorry, I know nothing at all about CBD.
“CBD”
Central Business District?
I have a dear 90 year old lady friend who tried it for leg pains
Internally or externally?
Trying it I mean, not the leg pains…
I thought Brits had been cutting each other’s hair all this time? Am I to understand the Isles are now populated by Cousin It lookalikes?
AIUI, it’s only taken orally. The kind of nerve pain she was having I doubt she was using it extremely but I didn’t think to ask.
Do any of you have some educated thoughts/experience, second hand even, regarding CBD oils?
My experience has been hit and miss. I suffer knee pains and have tried it for that. I’ve tried CBD oil and some edibles. If it has had any effect at all it has been for a very short duration. Over-the-counter pain pills do a better job and are cheaper in the long run. There are several different types of oil. I had the best result with the more complete oil that also contains trace amounts of THC.
I had a similar experience with accupuncture. I had some shoulder issues that were causing a lot of pain. I would get a treatment in the afternoon and feel great until around bed time when the pain would come back. I stopped the treatments after the sixth one.
WTP
I don’t have a clue about CBD oils. However, for nerve and skeletal paid, search out a reputable cryo-therapy place. My husband has sciatica and sometimes flareups are bad. It really helps. A co-worker with degenerative shoulder joints and carpal tunnel goes regularly and it’s the only thing that allows her to function until she can retire.
“pain” … argh
Looking for anxiety relief. The nightmares start around 3 or 4 AM and are really starting to get to me. Having trouble at times putting a proper sentence together. As perhaps you can tell by some of my recent posts…or maybe not. Anyway, I’ve found that alcohol helps a good bit but I don’t want to fall into that trap. At least from an all-day perspective. Was thinking CBD might be the ticket. But I definitely don’t want any THC.
WTP
Have you tried melatonin supplements? Helped #2 daughter through high stress situations where she suffered insomnia.
Looking for anxiety relief.
My friend’s mother suffers with parkinson’s. In addition to the shaking and other outward symptoms she is struggling with anxiety which makes all her other symptoms worse. They give her CBD gummies. I’m not sure of the dosage. My friend claims that it helps, though her mother’s symptoms are so severe I’m not sure how you’d tell. Personally, I didn’t notice any calming or relaxing effects when I used the oil. YMMV.
I have friends who tell me that mild THC works wonders with calming and relaxing. I haven’t tried it personally. It’s all legal here in Canada and the CBD and THC concentrations are disclosed on the label. We have pot shops on every other street corner where I live.
Looking for anxiety relief. The nightmares start around 3 or 4 AM and are really starting to get to me.
It’s going to sound facile, I know, but unless you have an actual neurochemical imbalance that requires medication the following will help:
* Get an hour of cardio exercise every day. You should be breathing hard and sweating by the end of it.
* Start lifting weights. If you can’t get weights or to a gym, try a jailhouse workout.
* Get as much natural sunlight as you can. If you don’t live in the south, try a tanning salon. If you’re locked down, see if you can get a SAD therapy lamp, but do a bunch of research as there’s a lot of quackery.
* Talk to your doctor about testosterone replacement therapy.
The endorphins, the increased muscle mass/metabolism, testosterone and the vitamin D production will all help.
Strength training.
Diet of the keto/caveman/whatever-they’ll-call-it-next-week variety.
Get outside.
If a black dog is seriously on your back for a long stretch, consider micro-dosing with one or two magic mushrooms.
Blaming a predator’s actions on ‘poverty’ is also a convenient way to distract from the much more pertinent contributions of family breakdown and cultural degeneracy.
It’s also rather insulting to anyone who is, or has been, short of cash, yet has somehow managed not to mug other people, or car-jack them, or break into their homes. Again, as mentioned in the studio anecdote linked above, the people trying to rob us weren’t discernibly inflamed by a concern for social fairness or some other lofty principle. They were, quite clearly, practised predators. They were organised and seemingly fearless. Contrary to any number of Guardian columns, theirs was not some one-off act of desperation, engaged in reluctantly or under duress. And it’s entirely conceivable that the thugs – the ones armed with knives and crowbars – had more access to ready cash than many of the people they were trying to rob.
I believe Dalrymple also sees that criminality as essentially pathological – and that perceiving (and treating) its perps as Jean Valjeans as equally so.
It can be an interesting exercise to think back to any personal experience you might have as a victim of crime, or a witness to crime – and then mentally contrast it with the excuses for such behaviour that appear routinely in the pages of the Guardian. If you juxtapose a first-hand experience of criminal predation with the arch blathering of China Miéville or Nina Power or Laurie Penny, or any of the other identikit clowns, it reveals a mismatch, a ludicrous unrealism. A perversity that’s almost funny, in a twisted sort of way.
For instance, if your home, or the home of an elderly relative, has ever been broken into and robbed, picture the grinning face of Guardian favourite Clive Stafford Smith, who tells us, confidently, that crimes like burglary are undeserving of prison sentences and are “really quite inconsequential,” such things having “zero” emotional impact on the victim, even if it happens, as it often does, repeatedly. And even if the victim has no means of replacing whatever has been stolen or destroyed.
Dear Clive, you’ll recall, doesn’t have much time for the victims of burglary, however distressed and fearful they may be as a result, and whose expectations of lawfulness and justice he dismisses as “idiotic attitudes.” The victim’s sense of violation – and their attachment to their possessions – is merely plebeian, unsophisticated, something to be sneered at. He is, however, terribly concerned for the wellbeing of the burglar, especially if said burglar is “a young black person.”
It would be an awful shame if Clive was a victim of said “inconsequential” crime.
[Looks pointedly at barman who moonlights as super villain]
It would be an awful shame if Clive was a victim of said “inconsequential” crime.
Well, I don’t wish to seem unkind, but the ideological contortions on display are so contrived, so perverse, it would be interesting to see how well their pretensions hold up when the home being ransacked and violated, and stripped of anything of value, again, is their own. Note too the glib conceit that whatever may be stolen is merely a matter of insurance. No biggie. As if every victim of burglary can afford insurance, and as if everything that might be stolen or destroyed could have no other kind of value.
They really are quite contemptible. And remember, theirs is the position they regard as morally sophisticated.
Doesn’t the UK prosecute people for defending themselves with cricket bats? Why is the guy with an effing machete not in jail (not that he should be)?
About that BBC license fee…
https://order-order.com/2021/02/23/30-staff-attend-bbcs-lesson-in-how-to-drink-water-properly/
“It’s going to sound facile, I know, but… Get an hour of cardio exercise every day…lifting weights…natural sunlight”
Yes.
Best wishes.
“Clive Stafford Smith, who tells us, confidently, that crimes like burglary are undeserving of prison sentences and are ‘really quite inconsequential,’ such things having ‘zero’ emotional impact on the victim…”
Has he ever been burglarized, his home ransacked, possessions stolen or smashed, family mementos destroyed, and a large turd left on the living room carpet?
It would be an awful shame if Clive was a victim of said “inconsequential” crime.
It’s worth noting that these contortions are hardly uncommon. Readers may recall the middle-class Marxist China Miéville, a man whose professed sympathy for thugs and sociopaths is equally remarkable.
In 2011, following the London riots, Miéville claimed to be “horrified” that members of the press and public had used the word feral when describing the career predators and assorted thugs who, seeking excitement and a sense of power, had beaten pensioners unconscious and burned random women out of their homes. And who, on the arrival of firefighters, had dragged them from their vehicles and punched them insensible too. According to Mr Miéville, the people doing these things, often while laughing, they were the real victims. The ones deserving of our sympathy and indulgence.
But if your moral calculus is driven by a kind of narcissism, in which status is accrued by identifying the most exciting and improbable victim group and pretending to care about them, then perversity will follow.
Like when a local druggie broke into my parents’ home when my Mum was out shopping and my Dad was in a wheelchair following a stroke. My Dad ended up on the floor and My Mum’s jewellery was stolen. My Dad had been in the RAF and some of the jewels were brought back by him from trips to Nepal and other interesting places. So, no, real people know that burglaries are awful and burglars are scum.
’ The lawyer and founder of Reprieve on defending clients on death row, why the whole justice system is flawed – and his fear of appearing sanctimonious’
It’s not appearing sanctimonious you should fear, Clive.
real people know that burglaries are awful and burglars are scum.
As are those who defend them.
Thanks for the tips but I already do most of those things and some more. Walk three times a day so get plenty of sunshine, swim hard three times a week, rehabbing rotator cuff (thus the only 3 times a week swim) with stretch bands, isometrics, etc. Then some physical work around the house if I can get myself motivated. Thus I sleep pretty well…exhausted at night…until about 4 AM…not so much 3 AM anymore but sometimes. But the CBD…thinking I will give it a try anyway. Thanks for the input.
As are those who defend them.
Again, it’s moral exhibitionism. It’s all about display and in-group positioning. Mr Miéville and his peers – including Nina Power, Priyamvada Gopal, and, inevitably, Laurie Penny – aren’t motivated by a concern for the poor, and certainly not for the victims of the violence and predation that they tied themselves in knots trying to excuse. As seen during the riots, when push came to shove, these elevated leftists took the side of the thugs, thieves, and predators. The ones who burned down small businesses, exulting in the thrill, and who punched fire-fighters, while people cowered in their homes.
Despite the alarming scenes, broadcast round the clock, our self-imagined betters seemed to find it titillating, and the attempts to gaslight the rest of us, to invert reality, were almost immediate.
As for defending burglars, as I pointed out on one of the past posts that David linked back to, burglary does far greater psychological damage to women victims than men. Thus defending such creatures is rather misogynist. But I suppose since men and women now are exactly the same in all manner of physical and psychological temperament, perhaps the misogynists are right.
…thinking I will give it a try anyway.
The Lovely Bride started taking CBD drops several months ago to address some low-level anxiety she was feeling (mostly lockdown-related, though I’m sure the stress of being cooped up with me for months on end didn’t help). We haven’t really talked much about its effects and effectiveness, but she’s repurchased the drops a couple of times since then, so it must be worthwhile to her.
As she said at the beginning: “Even if it’s just psychosomatic, at least I’ll feel better!”
Best of luck with your experiment; I hope they provide some relief. And if you don’t like what they do to you, it’s a simple enough matter to throw them away. (Or find some middle-school kid who thinks they’re real drugs and make him mow your lawn in exchange.)
For your delectation :
http://twitter.com/fred035schultz/status/1364514072419532801
“Even if it’s just psychosomatic, at least I’ll feel better!”
Thanks. That was kind of why I was asking in general…though for opposite reason. Being a rather highly skeptical person, marginally effective drugs have very little effect on me. Rarely do I get much relief from aspirins or such.
For your delectation
I can’t decide whether that is real or fake: would any woman stop her car and get out and confront the men she thought were following her? Well, it’s a big country so anything is possible.
Gotta be fake. No way one of those gas hoses comes loose easily. I’ve even seen someone pull away from a pump with the hose still in. It stayed attached to the pump.
I wouldn’t say it has to be fake, as people do sometimes drive away with the gas hose. There is a safety device that is supposed to cause the hose to break away and shut off the flow of gasoline. So for me the more dubious matter is the woman getting out of her car to confront the dangerous man who is following her. However, I wouldn’t rule out fake, since people do make goofy videos just to get attention or money making traffic.
David: “As are those who defend them.”
And also those who urge early release for criminals sentenced to long terms in gaol for major crimes. Consider an “Oklahoma man who had been released early from prison in January as part of a mass commutation effort is now accused of three killings, including the death of a neighbour whose heart he cut out, …”
I for one do not think society is safer when social justice wonkers continue to pretend they have the ability to turn sinners into saints just by singing Kumbaya or whatever chants they utter to perform their ‘magic’.
David: “As are those who defend them.”
I agree, but most intensely experienced this in the period of my career when i defended such scumbags in their criminal appeals. I saw my job as an important and decent one in assuring the prosecutorial system remained clean and that constitutional rights were appropriately observed. Living as I do in a very liberal city, however, I was frequently ‘thanked’ by fellow dinner guests & others for ‘doing god’s work’ in ‘defending the marginalized’ (from The Man, or some version thereof).
I used to amuse myself by telling them proudly that I had an almost 100% failure rate and was extremely happy about that. Lol
In Japan, even the babies are hardcore!
“Research by Jun Kohyama, CEO at the Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center, and colleagues has found that babies in Japan tend to nap less than those in other Asian countries once they reach three months of age, possibly, he says, because “sleep is considered a lazy attitude in Japan”.”
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-the-unusual-ways-western-parents-raise-children
I agree,
To be clear, that was pst314, not me, and I’m assuming he was referring to apologist contortions in the media, rather than customary legal defence.
That is correct, David.
Never doubted that, guys 😉 Btw, fwiw, that experience only confirmed my belief (shared, i think, by Dalrymple and others) that my clients (mostly murderers, btw) were more likely poor because they were criminals than the other way round. Or, more precisely, that their criminality and their poverty each stemmed from a common set of other causes rather than from the other.
Or, more precisely, that their criminality and their poverty each stemmed from a common set of other causes rather than from the other.
This.
And that common set of causes are mostly known or strongly guessed at, but it is veroboten to say out loud for fear of being called some kind of -ist, or -phobe and being cancelled and having one’s livelihood taken away.
I’ll take things that never happened for 100 please Alex.
I’ll take things that never happened for 100 please Alex.
Corn Pop again? 😀