The Daily Blog Open Mic – 5th April 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Dylan Moran on the lack of annoyance and well-balanced politics in the Brit Isles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDrq-jkKFmU
Fun – Bradbury v Trotter.
Verbal jousting is a way of releasing frustration.
And physical skills in NZ – Film ‘Bludgeon’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TflUa6IWNdk
That looks like fun and people want to do it and run things themselves; cleaner than FiFa or Rugby etc so let’s take that specialty up, make it a vocation – one where so much is decided within the code,by oneself, making one’s own armour perhaps, very self-determined and the thrust comes from the body and mind.
They want to have rules to guide behaviour, their own within the bounds of their own sport and nobility, in a sport that’s different, let’s people pit themselves against each other in controlled ways. It’s likely to be better than the government-organised wars, or being mercenaries though the two pursuits might coalesce.
I picked up a phrase in recent reading, ‘the fierce energies of young men’. Let men be men and within their milieu learn to contain and control their drives, people be people instead of being neutered under farcical class rules from our pollies, genuflecting to the moneyed and their pocket economists. And also women would like top participate somewhere; also enjoy supporting the men, as seen in the film Bludgeon.
Medieval type jousting overseas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhcHNR-3R0Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OHpDuc_geI
Woman jouster https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018809050/champion-jouster-sarah-hay
On scooters! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOLh1qfMFsk
Look at all the words we have in English to describe this –
under heading on google ‘belabouring meaning’.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513501/point-chevalier-roadworks-shaking-nearby-homes-upsetting-residents
It used to be that Councils decided what needed to be done and then checked if they had the money. Road works seems to be on a separate budget to the rest of our criteria. Not done where needed, and under continual r&m; so is it a makework system?