Strange how people clutch their pearls at press intrusion and gossip about the Waleses, yet revel in it into the Sussexes. Its almost as if Harry had a point.
The same Meghan and Harry who have a flipping TV series bleating on about their secrets? That couple? Harry just wants to monetise and control the intrusion.
It's not intrusion if you commission it. It's about taking back control.
It’s double standards. They want everyone to be watching and talking about them and at the same time don’t want people talking about them. I feel sorry for Kate, but whoever was handling the situation did a rather poor job. In general they don’t set out to get the same attention as Meghan and Harry.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Vegemite is grim. As is marmite. And just because they invented it, so what? Eggs, standard grated cheese, effing marmite. None of these things improve avocado on toast, regardless of who came up with the stupid idea.
So only two more letters are needed to trigger a confidence vote in Sunak.
Replacing the leader again is probably even more destructive than things already are for reasons that have been gone into enough already.
But if a vote occurs they might as well go for it and oust him. Recent history shows that winning the vote will not guarantee him to be secure in position, and people who lose such a vote won't transform into loyal footsoldiers, and nor will the sizable chunk of the party's members and voters who have already checked out mentally, so things would remain unstable and questions about authority would remain.
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Vegemite is grim. As is marmite. And just because they invented it, so what? Eggs, standard grated cheese, effing marmite. None of these things improve avocado on toast, regardless of who came up with the stupid idea.
I love vegemite. Better than Marmite in my opinion.
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
So only two more letters are needed to trigger a confidence vote in Sunak.
Does Simon Clarke have previous form for letter-related bullshitting? If he's right then Sunak hasn't got a hope in hell of surviving past 3 May.
For the lolz they should hold the vote on Monday and Penny should call a 2 May election. I don't usually think local elections are especially important, but the London mayoralty is - and certainly this time.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Vegemite is grim. As is marmite. And just because they invented it, so what? Eggs, standard grated cheese, effing marmite. None of these things improve avocado on toast, regardless of who came up with the stupid idea.
I love vegemite. Better than Marmite in my opinion.
It has a weird chemical taste. I received a free jar at an event to celebrate Global Britain’s fantastic new trade deal with Australia that enables Barty to eat unlimited Aussie steak. An event marked by several dignified speeches by luminaries and military types about our special bond, and marred by a late arriving Kemi Badenoch who made a childish speech laced with jokes about woke.
I now have Vegemite and marmite in the cupboard and both for spreading on toast and seasoning sauces the Marmite is much better.
So only two more letters are needed to trigger a confidence vote in Sunak.
Does Simon Clarke have previous form for letter-related bullshitting? If he's right then Sunak hasn't got a hope in hell of surviving past 3 May.
For the lolz they should hold the vote on Monday and Penny should call a 2 May election. I don't usually think local elections are especially important, but the London mayoralty is - and certainly this time.
Surely no one other than old Mrs Brady really knows how many letters are in?
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I imagine these scenes being accompanied by dreamy panpipe music, ideally amplified with a bit of reverb. Please tell me these people walk around accompanied by the sound of panpipes.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Vegemite is grim. As is marmite. And just because they invented it, so what? Eggs, standard grated cheese, effing marmite. None of these things improve avocado on toast, regardless of who came up with the stupid idea.
I love vegemite. Better than Marmite in my opinion.
It has a weird chemical taste. I received a free jar at an event to celebrate Global Britain’s fantastic new trade deal with Australia that enables Barty to eat unlimited Aussie steak. An event marked by several dignified speeches by luminaries and military types about our special bond, and marred by a late arriving Kemi Badenoch who made a childish speech laced with jokes about woke.
I now have Vegemite and marmite in the cupboard and both for spreading on toast and seasoning sauces the Marmite is much better.
Bad Enoch proved even worse than Vegemite. An unenviable achievement.
If Rishi tried to short-circuit a party VONC by calling a General Election, when would polling day be? Is May 2 definitely off the table now?
Could there possibly be a worse day than the week after: May 9?
(It's also my wedding anniversary - romantic dinner for two followed by a night watching the swingometer. It's not ideal.)
Now we all have our kinks but “watching the swingometer” on your wedding anniversary sounds like a cruel pleasure denied thing. Mrs BP should not have to watch and wait.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Vegemite is grim. As is marmite. And just because they invented it, so what? Eggs, standard grated cheese, effing marmite. None of these things improve avocado on toast, regardless of who came up with the stupid idea.
I love vegemite. Better than Marmite in my opinion.
I agree, though eat it seldom. I have to watch salt intake, and its not good for gout too.
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I imagine these scenes being accompanied by dreamy panpipe music, ideally amplified with a bit of reverb. Please tell me these people walk around accompanied by the sound of panpipes.
The Colombian forest is an orchestra in itself. Seriously. 2000 species of birds. Highest concentration in the world I think
There are always birds singing all the time. It’s edenic
The kogi are quite intense. Much much shyer and withdrawn than the arhuaco and they look at you with a faint expression of pity
Its disconcerting
They believe everyone apart from them is foolish and out of tune with the world and creation. They call everyone else “the younger brothers” as we need educating
So only two more letters are needed to trigger a confidence vote in Sunak.
Does Simon Clarke have previous form for letter-related bullshitting? If he's right then Sunak hasn't got a hope in hell of surviving past 3 May.
For the lolz they should hold the vote on Monday and Penny should call a 2 May election. I don't usually think local elections are especially important, but the London mayoralty is - and certainly this time.
Surely no one other than old Mrs Brady really knows how many letters are in?
So Iceland has a web page for the upcoming presidential election. You can go in and enter your name in support of a candidate. In an attempt to do so, apparently 11 people accidentally registered as candidates and are now running for president. Looking forward to the TV debates.
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
So Iceland has a web page for the upcoming presidential election. You can go in and enter your name in support of a candidate. In an attempt to do so, apparently 11 people accidentally registered as candidates and are now running for president. Looking forward to the TV debates.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I imagine these scenes being accompanied by dreamy panpipe music, ideally amplified with a bit of reverb. Please tell me these people walk around accompanied by the sound of panpipes.
The Colombian forest is an orchestra in itself. Seriously. 2000 species of birds. Highest concentration in the world I think
There are always birds singing all the time. It’s edenic
The kogi are quite intense. Much much shyer and withdrawn than the arhuaco and they look at you with a faint expression of pity
Its disconcerting
They believe everyone apart from them is foolish and out of tune with the world and creation. They call everyone else “the younger brothers” as we need educating
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Vegemite is grim. As is marmite. And just because they invented it, so what? Eggs, standard grated cheese, effing marmite. None of these things improve avocado on toast, regardless of who came up with the stupid idea.
I love vegemite. Better than Marmite in my opinion.
A circumcision with a rusty butter knife is better than marmite though.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
I can understand why they left that verse out of that song from the Sound of music.
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
I think some PNG tribes are pretty much “Stone Age” and the Andaman Islands guys - top tip, if the spectator send you there it’s a hint they can’t afford your redundancy.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
Andaman Islands? Edit. See already suggested. That's an indication that PB hive mind has a brilliant idea for the next Knapper's Gazette assignment.
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
I think some PNG tribes are pretty much “Stone Age” and the Andaman Islands guys - top tip, if the spectator send you there it’s a hint they can’t afford your redundancy.
Have you been to the Andamans?!
A friend of mine got invited to a proper shamanic ritual in PNG. The guys who wear spear-like penis gourds. His photos are astonishing. Naked men with spear-penises leaping through fire at 2am
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I imagine these scenes being accompanied by dreamy panpipe music, ideally amplified with a bit of reverb. Please tell me these people walk around accompanied by the sound of panpipes.
If Hollywood has taught me anything it is that most non-white people are continually surrounded by appropriately ethnic music at all times (except in Vietnam, where 70s rock music was blasting across the jungles 24/7, usually from CCR).
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
Andaman Islands?
Yep.
Particularly this island. If you go there you may well be killed and the government thinks that OK.
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
I think some PNG tribes are pretty much “Stone Age” and the Andaman Islands guys - top tip, if the spectator send you there it’s a hint they can’t afford your redundancy.
Have you been to the Andamans?!
A friend of mine got invited to a proper shamanic ritual in PNG. The guys who wear spear-like penis gourds. His photos are astonishing. Naked men with spear-penises leaping through fire at 2am
That’s a good night out
I think there some Kiwi pilot still being held prisoner there with the threat of death so I’m keeping my spear-penis fire dancing to Jersey where it started as a pastime and we have safety rules these days and are allowed home afterwards.
At a guess, perhaps half of the issues would be found in a similar study of UK voters. (I'd love to see whether I am right about that.)
Luckily for Biden then, the US economy is going ahead like an express train....
I'm still expecting Trump to make the bond on Monday BTW. I'm sure somebody will do a deal on his Truth Social, possibly taking an option exercisable in 6 months or as soon as he acquires the earlier right to trade shares. For one thing, it would help lock in the simply crazy value already there. Although it was rather amusing that the quoted value of the entity now holding it, Digital World Acquisition Corp., fell nearly 14% on Friday when the deal was announced. A fall comically close to the value of the bond he needs to post on Monday....
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
Andaman Islands?
Yep.
Particularly this island. If you go there you may well be killed and the government thinks that OK.
I recall seeing a video about the place, which mentioned the expeditions in the 90s referenced on the wikipedia where friendly contact was made on several occasions. Yet less than 10 years after that the islanders were apparently on kill on site mode.
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
I think some PNG tribes are pretty much “Stone Age” and the Andaman Islands guys - top tip, if the spectator send you there it’s a hint they can’t afford your redundancy.
There was a brilliant programme on the BBC recently - actually filmed in probably the late 60s - a very young David Attenborough on an expedition in PNG attempting to make contact with a previously uncontacted Stone Age tribe. Well worth digging out.
At a guess, perhaps half of the issues would be found in a similar study of UK voters. (I'd love to see whether I am right about that.)
Luckily for Biden then, the US economy is going ahead like an express train....
I'm still expecting Trump to make the bond on Monday BTW. I'm sure somebody will do a deal on his Truth Social, possibly taking an option exercisable in 6 months or as soon as he acquires the earlier right to trade shares. For one thing, it would help lock in the simply crazy value already there. Although it was rather amusing that the quoted value of the entity now holding it, Digital World Acquisition Corp., fell nearly 14% on Friday when the deal was announced. A fall comically close to the value of the bond he needs to post on Monday....
He'll post a bond, or get an extension from the court for a month or something, I am sure. His assets are mostly tied up but despite his pleadings he has options.
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
I think some PNG tribes are pretty much “Stone Age” and the Andaman Islands guys - top tip, if the spectator send you there it’s a hint they can’t afford your redundancy.
Have you been to the Andamans?!
A friend of mine got invited to a proper shamanic ritual in PNG. The guys who wear spear-like penis gourds. His photos are astonishing. Naked men with spear-penises leaping through fire at 2am
That’s a good night out
I think there some Kiwi pilot still being held prisoner there with the threat of death so I’m keeping my spear-penis fire dancing to Jersey where it started as a pastime and we have safety rules these days and are allowed home afterwards.
Ditto. Like many of us here on PB. I do quite a lot of naked spear-penis fire dancing at 2am but there’s no way you’re getting me to do it without proper health and safety
These things need organisation. That’s WHY there’s a Royal British Naked Two AM Spear-Penis Fire Dancing Association, I believe @kle4 is the new Treasurer
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
Andaman Islands?
Yep.
Particularly this island. If you go there you may well be killed and the government thinks that OK.
Gosh! They are the very essence of sovereignty and taking back control against unwanted immigration. Is there a Spectator writer available to go there and report back to express his admiration?
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I imagine these scenes being accompanied by dreamy panpipe music, ideally amplified with a bit of reverb. Please tell me these people walk around accompanied by the sound of panpipes.
If Hollywood has taught me anything it is that most non-white people are continually surrounded by appropriately ethnic music at all times (except in Vietnam, where 70s rock music was blasting across the jungles 24/7, usually from CCR).
One curiosity that I have discovered is that amongst the other music that sells well in rural Malawi is reggae, soul, rap and kwaito but also American Country Music.
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
Andaman Islands?
Yep.
Particularly this island. If you go there you may well be killed and the government thinks that OK.
Would you rather the police send in an armed unit to try to apprehend the perps? Prosecutors might have difficulty finding a translator to translate the charges, evidence, pleas. Only a suicidal headbanger would go there. Best just to leave them alone and try to stop any outsiders from visiting.
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
I think some PNG tribes are pretty much “Stone Age” and the Andaman Islands guys - top tip, if the spectator send you there it’s a hint they can’t afford your redundancy.
Have you been to the Andamans?!
A friend of mine got invited to a proper shamanic ritual in PNG. The guys who wear spear-like penis gourds. His photos are astonishing. Naked men with spear-penises leaping through fire at 2am
That’s a good night out
I think there some Kiwi pilot still being held prisoner there with the threat of death so I’m keeping my spear-penis fire dancing to Jersey where it started as a pastime and we have safety rules these days and are allowed home afterwards.
Ditto. Like many of us here on PB. I do quite a lot of naked spear-penis fire dancing at 2am but there’s no way you’re getting me to do it without proper health and safety
These things need organisation. That’s WHY there’s a Royal British Naked Two AM Spear-Penis Fire Dancing Association, I believe kle4 is the new Treasurer
I don't participate, I just enjoy facilitating the activity. It's good to support to growth of civic society.
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
I think some PNG tribes are pretty much “Stone Age” and the Andaman Islands guys - top tip, if the spectator send you there it’s a hint they can’t afford your redundancy.
Have you been to the Andamans?!
A friend of mine got invited to a proper shamanic ritual in PNG. The guys who wear spear-like penis gourds. His photos are astonishing. Naked men with spear-penises leaping through fire at 2am
That’s a good night out
I think there some Kiwi pilot still being held prisoner there with the threat of death so I’m keeping my spear-penis fire dancing to Jersey where it started as a pastime and we have safety rules these days and are allowed home afterwards.
Ditto. Like many of us here on PB. I do quite a lot of naked spear-penis fire dancing at 2am but there’s no way you’re getting me to do it without proper health and safety
These things need organisation. That’s WHY there’s a Royal British Naked Two AM Spear-Penis Fire Dancing Association, I believe kle4 is the new Treasurer
I don't participate, I just enjoy facilitating the activity. It's good to support to growth of civic society.
At a guess, perhaps half of the issues would be found in a similar study of UK voters. (I'd love to see whether I am right about that.)
Luckily for Biden then, the US economy is going ahead like an express train....
I'm still expecting Trump to make the bond on Monday BTW. I'm sure somebody will do a deal on his Truth Social, possibly taking an option exercisable in 6 months or as soon as he acquires the earlier right to trade shares. For one thing, it would help lock in the simply crazy value already there. Although it was rather amusing that the quoted value of the entity now holding it, Digital World Acquisition Corp., fell nearly 14% on Friday when the deal was announced. A fall comically close to the value of the bond he needs to post on Monday....
Isn't the problem with rights to the shares in six months time, that they may not be worth anything in six months time?
There certainly seems to be some parallels though between Trump's supporters and the Gamestop mantra that "we can remain retarded longer than they can remain solvent."
So Iceland has a web page for the upcoming presidential election. You can go in and enter your name in support of a candidate. In an attempt to do so, apparently 11 people accidentally registered as candidates and are now running for president. Looking forward to the TV debates.
Sometimes, too much democracy really is a thing.
I look forward to the same happening for the next Conservative leader. Where Dura Ace was trying to leave a cartoon of a cock and balls - and accidentally ends up leader....
It was a good day. The sun came out, I shopped well, I had a nice relaxing lunch in the pub, I walked to the bus stop courtesy of bus times.org and got on to a clean friendly bus with no nutters, sat down and relaxed...
...as the bus turned in the wrong direction. Wrong bus.
In a kerfuffle I dinged the bell, got off, ran back but could not get back in time for the right bus. And then realised I had left half the shopping on the bus.
True story.
👿
Sympathies. Sounds like the start of an interesting novel!
Honestly? Could be worse. I've lost about £40 of various stuff from Boots and I do feel sorry for the faithful shampoo and toothpaste stuck on a bus waiting for their owner to return (I can be unbearably sentimental), but if I grit my teeth and be rational about it it's not so bad. Although bear in mind I apologise to socks when I throw them out and tell them that they were good socks and shouldn't feel bad. Plus I was bought up on the it's a sin to waste good food principle, so leaving shopping behind does not sit well.
Damn
I'll phone the company.
No sorry, that won't do.
Your shopping needed to be picked up by a mysterious loner, who soon after calls the police from a public phone box saying he has knowledge of a planned assassination attempt on a leading public figure... The police quickly track the stranger down but he flees leaving the shopping bag with a receipt for your shopping in it, which the police trace back to you. Since you bear a passing resemblance to the stranger, and have no alibi for the time of the call or the near capture of the stranger, it takes you 24 hours in police custody to convince them they're mistaken.
Meanwhile, a leading public figure (not the one the stranger identified, but similar) is assassinated...
..and so on.
You may find someone on social media is trying to find you to give it back. It can restore your faith in human nature sometimes.
Yeah, the local facebook groups are full of this stuff.
About 4 years ago I went on a 30 mile long cycle ride and lost a) my phone and b) all my bank cards. I retraced the route in the car and found my bank cards (after about 18 miles). Also someone picked up the phone - they could see me trying to call it from an unknown number and found a way to contact me.
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I imagine these scenes being accompanied by dreamy panpipe music, ideally amplified with a bit of reverb. Please tell me these people walk around accompanied by the sound of panpipes.
If Hollywood has taught me anything it is that most non-white people are continually surrounded by appropriately ethnic music at all times (except in Vietnam, where 70s rock music was blasting across the jungles 24/7, usually from CCR).
One curiosity that I have discovered is that amongst the other music that sells well in rural Malawi is reggae, soul, rap and kwaito but also American Country Music.
My visits to Sana'a in Yemen involved me being woken by the muezzin with what can only be described as Ra Ra Rasputin played on a Rolf Harris Stylophone.
Many mocked, until they had the same experience. "Yep...that's what it is."
It was a good day. The sun came out, I shopped well, I had a nice relaxing lunch in the pub, I walked to the bus stop courtesy of bus times.org and got on to a clean friendly bus with no nutters, sat down and relaxed...
...as the bus turned in the wrong direction. Wrong bus.
In a kerfuffle I dinged the bell, got off, ran back but could not get back in time for the right bus. And then realised I had left half the shopping on the bus.
True story.
👿
Sympathies. Sounds like the start of an interesting novel!
Honestly? Could be worse. I've lost about £40 of various stuff from Boots and I do feel sorry for the faithful shampoo and toothpaste stuck on a bus waiting for their owner to return (I can be unbearably sentimental), but if I grit my teeth and be rational about it it's not so bad. Although bear in mind I apologise to socks when I throw them out and tell them that they were good socks and shouldn't feel bad. Plus I was bought up on the it's a sin to waste good food principle, so leaving shopping behind does not sit well.
Damn
I'll phone the company.
No sorry, that won't do.
Your shopping needed to be picked up by a mysterious loner, who soon after calls the police from a public phone box saying he has knowledge of a planned assassination attempt on a leading public figure... The police quickly track the stranger down but he flees leaving the shopping bag with a receipt for your shopping in it, which the police trace back to you. Since you bear a passing resemblance to the stranger, and have no alibi for the time of the call or the near capture of the stranger, it takes you 24 hours in police custody to convince them they're mistaken.
Meanwhile, a leading public figure (not the one the stranger identified, but similar) is assassinated...
..and so on.
You may find someone on social media is trying to find you to give it back. It can restore your faith in human nature sometimes.
Yeah, the local facebook groups are full of this stuff.
About 4 years ago I went on a 30 mile long cycle ride and lost a) my phone and b) all my bank cards. I retraced the route in the car and found my bank cards (after about 18 miles). Also someone picked up the phone - they could see me trying to call it from an unknown number and found a way to contact me.
I remember losing my virginity and some woman on Facebook keeps sending me angry messages that I lost it in her bedroom and I still haven’t contacted her about it.
At a guess, perhaps half of the issues would be found in a similar study of UK voters. (I'd love to see whether I am right about that.)
Luckily for Biden then, the US economy is going ahead like an express train....
I'm still expecting Trump to make the bond on Monday BTW. I'm sure somebody will do a deal on his Truth Social, possibly taking an option exercisable in 6 months or as soon as he acquires the earlier right to trade shares. For one thing, it would help lock in the simply crazy value already there. Although it was rather amusing that the quoted value of the entity now holding it, Digital World Acquisition Corp., fell nearly 14% on Friday when the deal was announced. A fall comically close to the value of the bond he needs to post on Monday....
Isn't the problem with rights to the shares in six months time, that they may not be worth anything in six months time?
There certainly seems to be some parallels though between Trump's supporters and the Gamestop mantra that "we can remain retarded longer than they can remain solvent."
They may well be worth nothing. That might not bother somebody looking to buddy up to Trump this weekend in the off-chance he becomes President again.
And even if he gets jailed, he will no doubt insist it is his fundamental human right under the Constitution to still post on Truth Social. Although it will probably be buoyed by subscriptions from Democrats, enjoying his latest post on prison...
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I imagine these scenes being accompanied by dreamy panpipe music, ideally amplified with a bit of reverb. Please tell me these people walk around accompanied by the sound of panpipes.
If Hollywood has taught me anything it is that most non-white people are continually surrounded by appropriately ethnic music at all times (except in Vietnam, where 70s rock music was blasting across the jungles 24/7, usually from CCR).
One curiosity that I have discovered is that amongst the other music that sells well in rural Malawi is reggae, soul, rap and kwaito but also American Country Music.
My visits to Sana'a in Yemen involved me being woken by the muezzin with what can only be described as Ra Ra Rasputin played on a Rolf Harris Stylophone.
Many mocked, until they had the same experience. "Yep...that's what it is."
I had a similar experience staying in an old hotel in the centre of Sfax in Tunisia. We were right opposite the main mosque and being woken before sunrise was something I never managed to adjust to.
Mind you the hotel was where Rommel had been headquartered which kind of made up for the inconvenience (if not for the lack of air conditioning).
At a guess, perhaps half of the issues would be found in a similar study of UK voters. (I'd love to see whether I am right about that.)
Luckily for Biden then, the US economy is going ahead like an express train....
I'm still expecting Trump to make the bond on Monday BTW. I'm sure somebody will do a deal on his Truth Social, possibly taking an option exercisable in 6 months or as soon as he acquires the earlier right to trade shares. For one thing, it would help lock in the simply crazy value already there. Although it was rather amusing that the quoted value of the entity now holding it, Digital World Acquisition Corp., fell nearly 14% on Friday when the deal was announced. A fall comically close to the value of the bond he needs to post on Monday....
He'll post a bond, or get an extension from the court for a month or something, I am sure. His assets are mostly tied up but despite his pleadings he has options.
He claims he has half a billion dollars in cash. Despite his lawyers telling the court he hasn't got two beans to rub together...
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I imagine these scenes being accompanied by dreamy panpipe music, ideally amplified with a bit of reverb. Please tell me these people walk around accompanied by the sound of panpipes.
If Hollywood has taught me anything it is that most non-white people are continually surrounded by appropriately ethnic music at all times (except in Vietnam, where 70s rock music was blasting across the jungles 24/7, usually from CCR).
One curiosity that I have discovered is that amongst the other music that sells well in rural Malawi is reggae, soul, rap and kwaito but also American Country Music.
My visits to Sana'a in Yemen involved me being woken by the muezzin with what can only be described as Ra Ra Rasputin played on a Rolf Harris Stylophone.
Many mocked, until they had the same experience. "Yep...that's what it is."
I had a similar experience staying in an old hotel in the centre of Sfax in Tunisia. We were right opposite the main mosque and being woken before sunrise was something I never managed to adjust to.
Mind you the hotel was where Rommel had been headquartered which kind of made up for the inconvenience (if not for the lack of air conditioning).
Somewhere on the idlewords site (imagine a flint-knapper blog, but told by someone successful) is a story along the lines of "It was a sad day when Islam met Electronic Amplification".
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
I think some PNG tribes are pretty much “Stone Age” and the Andaman Islands guys - top tip, if the spectator send you there it’s a hint they can’t afford your redundancy.
Have you been to the Andamans?!
A friend of mine got invited to a proper shamanic ritual in PNG. The guys who wear spear-like penis gourds. His photos are astonishing. Naked men with spear-penises leaping through fire at 2am
That’s a good night out
I think there some Kiwi pilot still being held prisoner there with the threat of death so I’m keeping my spear-penis fire dancing to Jersey where it started as a pastime and we have safety rules these days and are allowed home afterwards.
Ditto. Like many of us here on PB. I do quite a lot of naked spear-penis fire dancing at 2am but there’s no way you’re getting me to do it without proper health and safety
These things need organisation. That’s WHY there’s a Royal British Naked Two AM Spear-Penis Fire Dancing Association, I believe @kle4 is the new Treasurer
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
How can anyone not like feta?!
Too acidic; too much salt. Otherwise, it's quite pleasant.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
How can anyone not like feta?!
Too acidic; too much salt. Otherwise, it's quite pleasant.
When I went through my home cheese making phase (I gave up after a while as most of my efforts tasted like sick and one ended up crawling with tiny maggots because fruit flies got into the container I was maturing it in) feta was one of the interesting ones I didn’t get round to trying. You make it exactly like lacto-fermented veg, immersed in brine.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
How can anyone not like feta?!
Too acidic; too much salt. Otherwise, it's quite pleasant.
Yet absolutely perfect in a Greek salad, on a hot day, with crusty bread and COLD white wine. Bliss by the Aegean
It’s one of those cheeses which is meh on its own and needs to be combined
I honestly think a really good Greek salad, in Greece, by the sea, is one of the peak culinary experiences. The only question is: do you crumble the feta or serve it as a block on top? (With oregano either way, obvs)
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
How can anyone not like feta?!
Too acidic; too much salt. Otherwise, it's quite pleasant.
Yet absolutely perfect in a Greek salad, on a hot day, with crusty bread and COLD white wine. Bliss by the Aegean
It’s one of those cheeses which is meh on its own and needs to be combined
I honestly think a really good Greek salad, in Greece, by the sea, is one of the peak culinary experiences. The only question is: do you crumble the feta or serve it as a block on top? (With oregano either way, obvs)
Crumbled with fresh mint, shelled peas, fresh chilli, diced tomatoes,lemon juice and black pepper. A nice glass of cold white. A 12 o’clock snack on a hot day.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Vegemite is grim. As is marmite. And just because they invented it, so what? Eggs, standard grated cheese, effing marmite. None of these things improve avocado on toast, regardless of who came up with the stupid idea.
I love vegemite. Better than Marmite in my opinion.
It has a weird chemical taste. I received a free jar at an event to celebrate Global Britain’s fantastic new trade deal with Australia that enables Barty to eat unlimited Aussie steak. An event marked by several dignified speeches by luminaries and military types about our special bond, and marred by a late arriving Kemi Badenoch who made a childish speech laced with jokes about woke.
I now have Vegemite and marmite in the cupboard and both for spreading on toast and seasoning sauces the Marmite is much better.
Well I don't know what the jokes were but Badenoch can claim some credit for standing up to the trans fanatics in a way very few others in frontline politics have been prepared to do.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
How can anyone not like feta?!
Too acidic; too much salt. Otherwise, it's quite pleasant.
Yet absolutely perfect in a Greek salad, on a hot day, with crusty bread and COLD white wine. Bliss by the Aegean
It’s one of those cheeses which is meh on its own and needs to be combined
I honestly think a really good Greek salad, in Greece, by the sea, is one of the peak culinary experiences. The only question is: do you crumble the feta or serve it as a block on top? (With oregano either way, obvs)
The Wikipedia image is, unusually for food Wikipedia pages, actually a good example:
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
How can anyone not like feta?!
Too acidic; too much salt. Otherwise, it's quite pleasant.
Yet absolutely perfect in a Greek salad, on a hot day, with crusty bread and COLD white wine. Bliss by the Aegean
It’s one of those cheeses which is meh on its own and needs to be combined
I honestly think a really good Greek salad, in Greece, by the sea, is one of the peak culinary experiences. The only question is: do you crumble the feta or serve it as a block on top? (With oregano either way, obvs)
Crumbled with fresh mint, shelled peas, fresh chilli, diced tomatoes,lemon juice and black pepper. A nice glass of cold white. A 12 o’clock snack on a hot day.
Peas? MINT???
NOOOO
Cucumber, tomato, black olives, peppy onion, maybe green pepper, MAYBE a hint of chili, that’s it. Superb olive oil, white wine vinegar, cracked black pepper, sea salt, the best possible feta, dried oregano - sorted. Crusty bread and wine
The key is great ingredients, and also: be in Greece
It’s one of those sublime foods that makes you feel healthier for having eaten it. Like Vietnamese pho or the best Japanese
in America they often put balsamic vinegar on Greek salad which makes me want to VOM. Sacrilege
Today I met a person from the Stone Age. A kogi. They are directly descended from the muisca, the pre-Colombian civilisation of Colombia. They are the last community to live as they did with their culture intact and they do not count or tell the time and they cannot write (or they choose not to) and they put their sons in darkened caves from birth until the age of 9 so they can become closer to god and these spiritually gifted males are then known as “mamos” - the “men of the sun”
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
That’s the problem, you were driving a Suzuki Swift, if you had been driving a VW T-roc the Stone Age man would have sorted it.
They are brilliant. I also met their cousins the Arhuaco who were having a reunion in the jungle. They are like the kogi but less shy and more attuned to modern life (cars and phones etc) and as it was a special day they’d all washed the white clothes they always wear so they were drifting around the forest like brilliant white ghosts
I stumbled across a bbc thing on I-player where Alice Roberts was the object of my dreams still and she was presenting a series on the expansion of humans from Africa with an episode on each landmass and the Americas part was v interesting (it all was really) in terms of how quickly humans moved through the Americas and down the South American coast. I don’t know why this is relevant to your post but thought I would write it. Something about South American tribes and cultures being quite insulated from change relatively or something.
That’s probably right. Is there an equivalent to the kogi in Africa or Australia or anywhere? A unique and “bizarre” pre-industrial society living exactly as they did 500 or 1000 or 2000 years ago? I doubt it
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
Andaman Islands? Edit. See already suggested. That's an indication that PB hive mind has a brilliant idea for the next Knapper's Gazette assignment.
Sometimes I’m really thankful that Scotland has practically no flint resources.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
How can anyone not like feta?!
Too acidic; too much salt. Otherwise, it's quite pleasant.
Yet absolutely perfect in a Greek salad, on a hot day, with crusty bread and COLD white wine. Bliss by the Aegean
It’s one of those cheeses which is meh on its own and needs to be combined
I honestly think a really good Greek salad, in Greece, by the sea, is one of the peak culinary experiences. The only question is: do you crumble the feta or serve it as a block on top? (With oregano either way, obvs)
The Wikipedia image is, unusually for food Wikipedia pages, actually a good example:
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
How can anyone not like feta?!
Too acidic; too much salt. Otherwise, it's quite pleasant.
Yet absolutely perfect in a Greek salad, on a hot day, with crusty bread and COLD white wine. Bliss by the Aegean
It’s one of those cheeses which is meh on its own and needs to be combined
I honestly think a really good Greek salad, in Greece, by the sea, is one of the peak culinary experiences. The only question is: do you crumble the feta or serve it as a block on top? (With oregano either way, obvs)
Crumbled with fresh mint, shelled peas, fresh chilli, diced tomatoes,lemon juice and black pepper. A nice glass of cold white. A 12 o’clock snack on a hot day.
Peas? MINT???
NOOOO
Cucumber, tomato, black olives, peppy onion, maybe green pepper, MAYBE a hint of chili, that’s it. Superb olive oil, white wine vinegar, cracked black pepper, sea salt, the best possible feta, dried oregano - sorted. Crusty bread and wine
The key is great ingredients, and also: be in Greece
It’s one of those sublime foods that makes you feel healthier for having eaten it. Like Vietnamese pho or the best Japanese
in America they often put balsamic vinegar on Greek salad which makes me want to VOM. Sacrilege
Not those sort of frozen peas, the ones you pull out of a big shell and steam for a few mins. I forgot the cucumber. But I promise you the mix works amazingly.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
How can anyone not like feta?!
Too acidic; too much salt. Otherwise, it's quite pleasant.
Yet absolutely perfect in a Greek salad, on a hot day, with crusty bread and COLD white wine. Bliss by the Aegean
It’s one of those cheeses which is meh on its own and needs to be combined
I honestly think a really good Greek salad, in Greece, by the sea, is one of the peak culinary experiences. The only question is: do you crumble the feta or serve it as a block on top? (With oregano either way, obvs)
The Wikipedia image is, unusually for food Wikipedia pages, actually a good example:
I can taste it from here.
My only quibble is the green olives. I prefer the wrinkly black ones in a Greek salad (kalamata?)
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
How can anyone not like feta?!
Too acidic; too much salt. Otherwise, it's quite pleasant.
Yet absolutely perfect in a Greek salad, on a hot day, with crusty bread and COLD white wine. Bliss by the Aegean
It’s one of those cheeses which is meh on its own and needs to be combined
I honestly think a really good Greek salad, in Greece, by the sea, is one of the peak culinary experiences. The only question is: do you crumble the feta or serve it as a block on top? (With oregano either way, obvs)
The Wikipedia image is, unusually for food Wikipedia pages, actually a good example:
I can taste it from here.
My only quibble is the green olives. I prefer the wrinkly black ones in a Greek salad (kalamata?)
Kalamata are the big pinkish ones that look like I imagine bollocks do when you have been kicked in the scrotum. Or they look like tiny versions of cooked sheep testicles.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
How can anyone not like feta?!
Too acidic; too much salt. Otherwise, it's quite pleasant.
Yet absolutely perfect in a Greek salad, on a hot day, with crusty bread and COLD white wine. Bliss by the Aegean
It’s one of those cheeses which is meh on its own and needs to be combined
I honestly think a really good Greek salad, in Greece, by the sea, is one of the peak culinary experiences. The only question is: do you crumble the feta or serve it as a block on top? (With oregano either way, obvs)
Crumbled with fresh mint, shelled peas, fresh chilli, diced tomatoes,lemon juice and black pepper. A nice glass of cold white. A 12 o’clock snack on a hot day.
Peas? MINT???
NOOOO
Cucumber, tomato, black olives, peppy onion, maybe green pepper, MAYBE a hint of chili, that’s it. Superb olive oil, white wine vinegar, cracked black pepper, sea salt, the best possible feta, dried oregano - sorted. Crusty bread and wine
The key is great ingredients, and also: be in Greece
It’s one of those sublime foods that makes you feel healthier for having eaten it. Like Vietnamese pho or the best Japanese
in America they often put balsamic vinegar on Greek salad which makes me want to VOM. Sacrilege
Not those sort of frozen peas, the ones you pull out of a big shell and steam for a few mins. I forgot the cucumber. But I promise you the mix works amazingly.
I just can‘t hack peas and MINT in a Greek salad. Mint is SWEET. Ugh
Greek salad should never be sweet in any way. That’s why balsamic is an abomination worthy of Pazuzu
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
How can anyone not like feta?!
Too acidic; too much salt. Otherwise, it's quite pleasant.
Yet absolutely perfect in a Greek salad, on a hot day, with crusty bread and COLD white wine. Bliss by the Aegean
It’s one of those cheeses which is meh on its own and needs to be combined
I honestly think a really good Greek salad, in Greece, by the sea, is one of the peak culinary experiences. The only question is: do you crumble the feta or serve it as a block on top? (With oregano either way, obvs)
The Wikipedia image is, unusually for food Wikipedia pages, actually a good example:
I can taste it from here.
My only quibble is the green olives. I prefer the wrinkly black ones in a Greek salad (kalamata?)
Kalamata are the big pinkish ones that look like I imagine bollocks do when you have been kicked in the scrotum. Or they look like tiny versions of cooked sheep testicles.
Google says they are purple-brown to black
Anyway it’s THEM ONES you want in a Greek salad, soft and bitter and small, not the big fat green ones which are a meal in themselves, the olives should not predominate in a Greek salad, they just provide a flavour subnote. To my mind
Just as I feel like losing all faith in Britain there's news of Storm Shadow missiles causing havoc in Crimea. Hopefully be some good news in the morning.
New tropical tree puzzle. Right next to the last tree
Close up of fruit. Is that avocado? Just realised I’ve.not ever seen avocados growing
It can't be an avocado, there's no toast.
Presumably you grow it alongside breadfruit, and set it on fire.
Incidentally avocado toast is best grilled with some cheese grated over the avo. I was introduced to this 30 years ago in Australia and have been eating it since, and still managed to buy a house. Maybe it's because I don't like latte much.
What do the Aussies know about food?
If you must gild the lily, try it with buffalo mozzarella, sundried tomatoes and drizzled with a good homemade chilli oil. Crispy streaky bacon bits optional. Don’t grate standard cheese on it.
The Aussies INVENTED the smashed avo on toast breakfast genre. And they also had the brilliant idea of adding vegemite (or marmite). And it really works for reasons I do not know
Drizzle warm toast with olive oil, rub a cut clove of garlic over. Spread with smashed avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes on top, sprinkle with dukkah. Perfect.
Avocado, feta and cherry tomatoes. Three of my least favourite foods. And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
How can anyone not like feta?!
Too acidic; too much salt. Otherwise, it's quite pleasant.
Yet absolutely perfect in a Greek salad, on a hot day, with crusty bread and COLD white wine. Bliss by the Aegean
It’s one of those cheeses which is meh on its own and needs to be combined
I honestly think a really good Greek salad, in Greece, by the sea, is one of the peak culinary experiences. The only question is: do you crumble the feta or serve it as a block on top? (With oregano either way, obvs)
The Wikipedia image is, unusually for food Wikipedia pages, actually a good example:
'When asked if voters would prefer a Tory government led by Sunak or a Labour one led by Starmer, Opinium found that Labour under Starmer would have a lead of 18 points. If Mordaunt were to lead the Tories against Starmer, Labour would be 15 points ahead. This would still mean a sizeable majority in the House of Commons.
But if Braverman or Badenoch were to lead the Tories, the Labour lead would be even more, increasing to 24 points, and with Cleverly in charge it would go up to 21 points.
Overall, when asked which party they intended to vote for, without citing current or potential leaders, Labour’s lead remained unchanged from a fortnight ago at 16 points. Labour is on 41%, the Conservatives 25%, Reform 11%, the Liberal Democrats 10%, and the Greens 8%.'
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The country's badly in need of a good laugh.
But if a vote occurs they might as well go for it and oust him. Recent history shows that winning the vote will not guarantee him to be secure in position, and people who lose such a vote won't transform into loyal footsoldiers, and nor will the sizable chunk of the party's members and voters who have already checked out mentally, so things would remain unstable and questions about authority would remain.
So if it happens, just do it.
It was my first ever time talking to someone from the Stone Age and someone with a culture stretching back unbroken to 2000BC and I’d been preparing myself for it because it was important but in the event, due to mishaps, this pivotal dialogue went like this
“Hello. Habla ingles?”
Stone Age man of the sun: “no”
“Ah. Ok. Er. My car is broken. Donde auto reparas. Do you know?”
Stone Age man of the sun, who spent nine years of his childhoood immersed entirely in darkness to take him closer to God: “No”
For the lolz they should hold the vote on Monday and Penny should call a 2 May election. I don't usually think local elections are especially important, but the London mayoralty is - and certainly this time.
I now have Vegemite and marmite in the cupboard and both for spreading on toast and seasoning sauces the Marmite is much better.
Starting to understand why my complex, nuanced musings on world affairs remain unpublished.
(It's also my wedding anniversary - romantic dinner for two followed by a night watching the swingometer. It's not ideal.)
V v tight now. No 'wash up'. King lined up this weekend etc etc.
Seems extremely unlikely
Rishi Sunak is already out of power. For the sake of Britain he has to recognise it > Mail on Sunday >
There are always birds singing all the time. It’s edenic
The kogi are quite intense. Much much shyer and withdrawn than the arhuaco and they look at you with a faint expression of pity
Its disconcerting
They believe everyone apart from them is foolish and out of tune with the world and creation. They call everyone else “the younger brothers” as we need educating
Three of my least favourite foods.
And I'm not fussy. But good grief!
I mean - jeez - look at the state of things.
Maybe some of the most remote Indian Ocean islands, maybe Papua New Guinea? Even then I wonder
It’s the new world. The last place to be corrupted. And the Spanish and Portuguese never really bothered with the vast tracts of forest and mountain - unless they thought there was gold or silver to be had
Ironically the troubled history of Colombia has likely also helped them. Keeping tourists and developers away for a century
Edit. See already suggested.
That's an indication that PB hive mind has a brilliant idea for the next Knapper's Gazette assignment.
A friend of mine got invited to a proper shamanic ritual in PNG. The guys who wear spear-like penis gourds. His photos are astonishing. Naked men with spear-penises leaping through fire at 2am
That’s a good night out
Particularly this island. If you go there you may well be killed and the government thinks that OK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island#:~:text=North Sentinel Island is one,isolation from the outside world.
I'm still expecting Trump to make the bond on Monday BTW. I'm sure somebody will do a deal on his Truth Social, possibly taking an option exercisable in 6 months or as soon as he acquires the earlier right to trade shares. For one thing, it would help lock in the simply crazy value already there. Although it was rather amusing that the quoted value of the entity now holding it, Digital World Acquisition Corp., fell nearly 14% on Friday when the deal was announced. A fall comically close to the value of the bond he needs to post on Monday....
These things need organisation. That’s WHY there’s a Royal British Naked Two AM Spear-Penis Fire Dancing Association, I believe @kle4 is the new Treasurer
They are the very essence of sovereignty and taking back control against unwanted immigration.
Is there a Spectator writer available to go there and report back to express his admiration?
Prosecutors might have difficulty finding a translator to translate the charges, evidence, pleas.
Only a suicidal headbanger would go there.
Best just to leave them alone and try to stop any outsiders from visiting.
There certainly seems to be some parallels though between Trump's supporters and the Gamestop mantra that "we can remain retarded longer than they can remain solvent."
I look forward to the same happening for the next Conservative leader. Where Dura Ace was trying to leave a cartoon of a cock and balls - and accidentally ends up leader....
About 4 years ago I went on a 30 mile long cycle ride and lost a) my phone and b) all my bank cards.
I retraced the route in the car and found my bank cards (after about 18 miles). Also someone picked up the phone - they could see me trying to call it from an unknown number and found a way to contact me.
Many mocked, until they had the same experience. "Yep...that's what it is."
And even if he gets jailed, he will no doubt insist it is his fundamental human right under the Constitution to still post on Truth Social. Although it will probably be buoyed by subscriptions from Democrats, enjoying his latest post on prison...
Mind you the hotel was where Rommel had been headquartered which kind of made up for the inconvenience (if not for the lack of air conditioning).
Somebody's lying.
@BidenHQ
Trump: We're going to win by knocking the hell out of Obamacare, terminating it
(This would rip away health care from tens of millions of Americans and allow people to be denied coverage for having a preexisting condition)
https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1771553261553676371
https://idlewords.com/
His account of being arrested for 'spying' in China is worth a read :
https://idlewords.com/2006/08/i_spy.htm
Otherwise, it's quite pleasant.
It’s one of those cheeses which is meh on its own and needs to be combined
I honestly think a really good Greek salad, in Greece, by the sea, is one of the peak culinary experiences. The only question is: do you crumble the feta or serve it as a block on top? (With oregano either way, obvs)
FACKING ****
Fine pianist.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6cxkLZoEFEk
And in 1960.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AgxozYMYEEA
I can taste it from here.
NOOOO
Cucumber, tomato, black olives, peppy onion, maybe green pepper, MAYBE a hint of chili, that’s it. Superb olive oil, white wine vinegar, cracked black pepper, sea salt, the best possible feta, dried oregano - sorted. Crusty bread and wine
The key is great ingredients, and also: be in Greece
It’s one of those sublime foods that makes you feel healthier for having eaten it. Like Vietnamese pho or the best Japanese
in America they often put balsamic vinegar on Greek salad which makes me want to VOM. Sacrilege
That’s pretty much perfecto
On the other hand, Late Night with the Devil is quite a clever horror film.
Greek salad should never be sweet in any way. That’s why balsamic is an abomination worthy of Pazuzu
Anyway it’s THEM ONES you want in a Greek salad, soft and bitter and small, not the big fat green ones which are a meal in themselves, the olives should not predominate in a Greek salad, they just provide a flavour subnote. To my mind
I sense a PB schism looming
it is… fervent
But if Braverman or Badenoch were to lead the Tories, the Labour lead would be even more, increasing to 24 points, and with Cleverly in charge it would go up to 21 points.
Overall, when asked which party they intended to vote for, without citing current or potential leaders, Labour’s lead remained unchanged from a fortnight ago at 16 points. Labour is on 41%, the Conservatives 25%, Reform 11%, the Liberal Democrats 10%, and the Greens 8%.'
May as well keep Rishi then
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/23/swapping-tory-leader-labour-lead-bigger-poll-opinium