I hate the speech pattern that goes
Dud duh duh duh duh duh duh duh .. DEE DEE
and
Blah blah blah blah blah BLEE BLEE
.. it’s been around for a while - but more as an exception … but clearly someone has set up a school somewhere that teaches people to talk in their low, ponderous tone for 90% of the time - and then at the end of each sentence, go up an octave or two to emphasize - and to really drill it home - make it ‘sing songy’.
Sadly if I unsubscribed to podcasts that include such behavior - I would have nothing left to listen to.
🔗 Simon Cowell sells London home for £30m below asking price.
He was asking 45 million - he took 15 million. Now that’s a discount!
Spark is now available on SetApp
2023 | 08 | 23
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Frasier? Again?
I see Uber has finally made a profit - but still nobody is explaining why we need a global taxi / food delivery service.
2023 | 08 | 22
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🔗 Someone Paid Almost $2 Million for the Rusted Shell of a 1954 Ferrari
Puts that $2.5 million electric sports car that Marques was testing the other day into perspective.
🪦 Farewell Mr Warnock, I am old enough to remember talk as to whether the ‘portable document format’ was going to become a defacto standard (it wasn’t a slam dunk) .. you did good.
Meanwhile - somewhere in The Guardian. (I think).
If you had hired as many different builders in the past five years as Britain has hired home secretaries, you would assume your house was deeply flawed. Yet the latest, Suella Braverman, one of four in that time, has managed 10 months under Rishi Sunak and is reportedly under pressure to be sacked. It is hard to imagine how a senior minister in a controversial department can operate when those around her think she is about to go. To put it mildly, the job should be held by someone with the authority to act. The habit of Boris Johnson and now Sunak of using cabinet jobs not as a reward for competence but in return for loyalty has been disastrous. The Home Office is not alone. In the past four years Britain has had six education secretaries and three transport secretaries. No wonder the British government is a mess.
They used to be ‘deplorables’ Is ‘listless vessel’ a promotion?
🔗 Ron DeSantis calls Trump supporters ‘listless vessels’ in Republican broadside.
🔗 In photos: Tropical Storm Hilary unleashes flooding and mudslides California - The Washington Post
I guess WaPo had a photographer on hand in Coachella Valley. Hardly anything about LA.
That riverbed is normally dry.
Just Sayin'
2023 | 08 | 21
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Stood out in the rain today, refreshing and cooling … making the most of the lul.
Woody, Woody, Woody … what the hell are you thinking?
In the middle of Hurricane Hillary ….
2023 | 08 | 20
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This is actually the first time that tropical storm watches have been issued on the West Coast of the United States," said Elizabeth Adams, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in San Diego. Typically, when a tropical storm makes its way to the southwestern U.S., it has severely dissipated, weakening to a depression or storm remnants, she said.
But not this time.
Hang onto your hats. In all senses of the expression.
It’s a start …
