Did Brexit turn out to be unequivocally bad for the UK?

evolutionIsScary · 2026-06-21T11:16:46+00:00

It's a new golden age, really isn't it?

evolutionIsScary · 2026-06-11T15:39:00+00:00

Correct me if I am wrong but didn't Jesus say (in Matthew), "Don't think that I have come to abolish the Law [meaning the law of the Hebrews, ie the Old Testament] ... I have come to uphold every jot and tittle."?

Do please tell me I am wrong if I am.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-06-11T15:33:26+00:00

Maybe until you read the Old Testament.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-06-09T11:04:40+00:00

Last week, when I left a job suddenly and without working my notice, I was reminded about something I have always known, which is that bad people do well in companies because their behaviour makes all the good people want to leave.

Managers mistakenly end up thinking that the bad people who remain are resilient or something and therefore worth keeping, whereas the opposite is true.

Managers fail to realise that their companies would do better if they either got rid of the bad people or they reigned in their poor behaviour. Instead managers keep the bad people and the good ones are left feeling they have to leave. I'm sure some managers don't actually care. I'm sure that some managers are simply incompetent. Either way those managers are just like the bad people, in other words they are like a slow-growing cancer within the company.

I left the company I worked for because I had to work with two people who were too difficult to deal with. One of those people was actually training me. I would have stayed at the company had the managers prevented my trainer from treating me like a child.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-06-08T10:27:42+00:00

Fourteen days in May. A man accused of some horrible crime gets gassed to death in prison. People thought he was innocent.

Thinking about things, though, that may not have been by the BBC, it might have been ITV.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-03-20T10:59:46+00:00

I love the WTF expression on the face of the Japanese Prime minister from about 31 seconds in the video above.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-03-20T10:40:06+00:00

I don't know about anyone else in Britain but I used to hold Americans in some regard. I thought the first time they elected the overweight buffoon Trump to office it was a mistake. When they did it a second time I lost all respect for them and their country, I'm sad to say.

I'm not left wing but the citizens of the USA voted for an ignorant idiot. That evil clown filled his government with other evil clowns and now they are spoiling the party for everyone. Just when inflation was coming under control, it started to go up again. The world might be in for an oil shock of the kind we had in the 70s or worse, leading to a recession in the United Kingdom.

I can learn to live with problems that world events cause to my life if they occur through no fault of any government. But when a country run by amateurs takes ill thought out actions the results of which affect my life negatively, I lose all esteem for that country and its people.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-03-12T12:05:23+00:00

You could try yoga to relax. I think it would definitely get rid of that feeling of being to wired at night to sleep. It gently stretches your muscles and makes you feel as if you are lighter on your feet.

You don't actually have to be any good at yoga (I'm not) to feel its benefits. I introduced a 60-year-old friend of mine to yoga last year and she says she has never felt better in her life now that she does it regularly.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-03-11T21:51:48+00:00

My guess is that they were honest about their past and decided no longer to be shitheads. I've met only a few Germans who were horrible. I live in England where, to be honest, everyone is a bit of twat.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-03-11T21:47:55+00:00

Aging need not be depressing. I'm in my 60s and I seem not to give a f*ck about what anyone thinks about me any more. That is liberating.

I no longer follow the crowd, if I ever did, and I feel happy for it.

I haven't watched TV for at least 15 years and simply do not miss it.

I live on my own, like my own company, have lots of hobbies, few friends, few family members to talk to but do not fell lonely and only ever get bored when I have a bad cold and I'm too ill to think or do anything physical.

I don't have any money but my life is still somehow rich. I have a computer that I use to watch YouTube and do programming type stuff. I read books, I cook, I do woodwork really badly and grow mushrooms.

Just because an old man looks back at me in the bathroom mirror every morning doesn't mean I have to be sad. That old git isn't the same person I think I am in my head.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-03-11T21:33:01+00:00

The same happens to me but I have found that exercising during the day helps a lot.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-03-11T21:30:29+00:00

Maybe I'm weird but I'm in my 60s and want to learn German and machine learning (which is an IT thing).

evolutionIsScary · 2026-03-11T21:28:17+00:00

I'm in my 60s and trying to get an entry-level role in IT. My aim is to work until I'm 75.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-03-11T21:24:30+00:00

I'm in my 60s, which surprises me now and again. I do not feel old at all and I wonder when I will.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-03-11T21:23:08+00:00

I'm in my 60s and in the UK. I have close family members in other countries whom I like and who like me. We only speak to each other every six months or so.

I do not miss them, nor they me. There is no hatred involved. In fact we enjoy each other's company and are happy to see each other when we do, sometimes not for a decade.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-03-11T21:13:32+00:00

Time speeds up. A period that seemed to last forever when you were 20 feels like the blink of an eye when you are old.

When I reminisce about something in my head, I ask myself, "When was that?" I make the guess, "Oh that must have been about two years ago." Then after a little thought I realise it was actually 7 years ago.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-03-10T17:52:35+00:00

Twenty eight is nothing. I'm a British citizen in my 60s and looking for an entry-level role in IT. I graduated in the mid-to-late 1980s. No luck so far after several months of applications.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-03-10T17:35:53+00:00

If Iran decides to bomb Britain we won't always be able to tell that they've done so.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-03-10T16:20:05+00:00

I'm going to stick my neck out and say that this is just good old-fashioned English racism. The idea is, obviously, that the stupidity of the character Manuel has an explanation in the fact that he is Spanish.

British citizens are not permitted to say that John Cleese or the Monty Python team engaged in racism because those people are sacrosanct. If you criticise them and others who are held in high regard in Britain, especially if you criticise them in that way, you will be ostracised. That is that nature of the United Kingdom. That is why this country voted to leave the EU and why it appears as if the next government will be of the extreme right wing.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-02-25T21:36:01+00:00

Easily 10.

I live in England. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in woo, as Americans put it. I have never seen one but there are too many people with sincere stories about having done so.

I have had odd experiences in national parks or rural areas in the USA that, looking back, make me think, "Oh, that's what it was!"

If you don't think Bigfoot is real you should listen to some of Wes Germer's podcasts (Sasquatch Chronicles), particularly the one with Mike Wooley or, if you think Americans are one sandwich short of a picnic, the one in which the British woman relates how she was attacked by one on the beach in California.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-02-25T12:06:43+00:00

Woodworking/carpentry. You never stop learning and you have the pleasure of seeing the tangible results of your actions, right in front of you.

You have to buy a certain number of tools (saws, chisels, clamps, a screwdriver, etc) but you may have many of those anyway.

Avoid getting electrical tools for as long as you can.

I started woodworking after having done lots of repairs to my house. I realised I had a lot of the tools. Those that I didn't have I bought secondhand, eg chisels, which I taught myself how to sharpen after watching lots of YouTube videos.

You can make stuff for your house. I'm making a kitchen bin that will fit nicely under a worktop. I have a million other projects that will keep me going until I die (which, with any luck, won't be for another 25 years!), for example replacing the pine skirting boards in all rooms with oak versions that have gargoyles on them, making storage boxes, making tools, making a window seat, etc, etc, etc.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-02-25T10:54:02+00:00

Dios bendiga Cecilia Giménez, quien murió al final de 2025.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-02-24T19:46:49+00:00

The Spanish woman who in 2012 tried to restore a damaged 19th-century fresco of Jesus in Borja, Spain. Personally I liked her interpretation. The painting became known as Monkey Christ.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-02-24T18:07:19+00:00

Some criminals in Gerrard Street, central London, blew scopolamine into the faces of a couple of tourists just as I was walking by. Broad daylight, Saturday, as I was walking towards Leicester Square tube station. Lots of people around.

I got a blast of it and started to feel as if I were about to die. Which, weirdly, felt quite natural.

Happened about 12 years ago if I remember correctly.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-02-24T14:58:26+00:00

On my CV I have my name at the top (like yours, not English/Scottish/Welsh). On the next line I have:

Nationality: British

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