Posted On: Wednesday - April 2nd 2025 6:00PM MST
In Topics: Humor Anarcho-tyranny
Man, I got about 2/3 or more through the follow up EXCUSES post, with no other excuse other than I'm tired right now. That one, about the possible Motives and Means for foul play in JFK, Jr.'s death will have to appear tommorow.
I did have this hilarious Monty Python skit in a tab that's not helping my speed here at all, so... enjoy this one. I know most of these guys (excepting Michael Palin, I believe) have been lefty 'tards that we really didn't need to hear from in that regard. However, funny was really funny, back in the day. The customs man is Graham Chapman, and the smuggler is Michael Palin.
We have been discussing tariffs lately, so this take on the Custom's man is somewhat, errr, timely.
PS: I had to add that Anarcho-Tyranny tag for that ending (of the actual skit).
Comments:
Hail
Thursday - April 3rd 2025 9:17AM MST
PS
Also, on October 1969 (the date of the skit's filming; see earlier comment): Was not the world still supposedly in the midst of the "Hong Kong Flu pandemic." No one noticed; no one cared. The show went on.
No lockdowns, no masks, no nothing. Normality. No busybody-wackos in gas-masks hectoring people with "But what if someone transmitted the virus?!?"
The maniacs of 2020 were not in charge in 1968-69; the humorlessness of the Lockdowners of 2020 might have been satirized by these same Monty Python people, but the idea maybe never occurred to them -- too far-fetched?
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This, today from Jonathan Engler:
(quote) "I believe that pandemics are socio-political events, not biological phenomena. It is -- to my mind -- no coincidence that the plethora of “pandemics” or “near pandemics” (SARS, H1N1, MERS etc) declared in the 21st century coincides with the widespread adoption of new sequencing-based technologies used for “virus hunting”. In other words, it’s a phenomenon caused by looking for - and finding things - which are already there, and then reacting to them." (end quote)
(In: "Re-visiting HART'S "Virus Model" Statement from 2023, ...and what I currently believe about 2020 and pandemics in general.")
https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/p/re-visiting-harts-virus-model-statement
Also, on October 1969 (the date of the skit's filming; see earlier comment): Was not the world still supposedly in the midst of the "Hong Kong Flu pandemic." No one noticed; no one cared. The show went on.
No lockdowns, no masks, no nothing. Normality. No busybody-wackos in gas-masks hectoring people with "But what if someone transmitted the virus?!?"
The maniacs of 2020 were not in charge in 1968-69; the humorlessness of the Lockdowners of 2020 might have been satirized by these same Monty Python people, but the idea maybe never occurred to them -- too far-fetched?
___________
This, today from Jonathan Engler:
(quote) "I believe that pandemics are socio-political events, not biological phenomena. It is -- to my mind -- no coincidence that the plethora of “pandemics” or “near pandemics” (SARS, H1N1, MERS etc) declared in the 21st century coincides with the widespread adoption of new sequencing-based technologies used for “virus hunting”. In other words, it’s a phenomenon caused by looking for - and finding things - which are already there, and then reacting to them." (end quote)
(In: "Re-visiting HART'S "Virus Model" Statement from 2023, ...and what I currently believe about 2020 and pandemics in general.")
https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/p/re-visiting-harts-virus-model-statement
Hail
Thursday - April 3rd 2025 8:00AM MST
PS
The Watch Smuggler skit and the others paired with it were all recorded on October 3, 1969.
That according to the "Monty Python Fandom wiki" (see https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus_episodes), and aired on TV a few weeks later.
4:30 to 5:20 of the video I see as a commentary on democracy. The eternal problem of stupidity in the public, malcontentery, quackery, bad-faith actors, and raising to an "art" the making of bold pronouncements with any stray thought that drifts into the head. (This also applies to the letter writers.) Ron Unz identified Donald Trump as embodying many of these characteristics,
The guy who says "anyone who leaves the country should be banned from returning" is a parody of a boorish right-wing reactionary, of a type that every era has plenty of. Around the mid-2000s, the word "Patriotard" was coined to refer to this type.
It's interesting that late in the year 1969 the men behind Monty Python put in the right-wing-reactionary boor's mouth the words: "I'm no racialist" (5:10, during increasingly incoherent rant in self-defense of own moral character).
I know things like this get said again and again, but that kind of expression -- putting into this kind of character's mouth the words "I'm no racialist!" -- would have been unthinkable in 1949 or 1959, had become possible in 1969 (if 'just'), and would be standard to the point of almost being cliche by 1989. This (kind of) line would rise to the status of sacred inherited tradition, in many quarters in the UK and USA and elsewhere, by the dawn of this lousy century of ours. (The British riots of summer 2024, after that Black migrant from Somalia murdered those White children -- and did a "satanic glare" for his mugshot -- the riots proved it was not a 100%-consensus.)
By the way, the "Adolescence" show that everyone's talking about, the smash UK hit, had just started filming when the riots broke out. The film was largely produced following the riots. A rare oversight by Steve Sailer to miss this connection.
The Watch Smuggler skit and the others paired with it were all recorded on October 3, 1969.
That according to the "Monty Python Fandom wiki" (see https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus_episodes), and aired on TV a few weeks later.
4:30 to 5:20 of the video I see as a commentary on democracy. The eternal problem of stupidity in the public, malcontentery, quackery, bad-faith actors, and raising to an "art" the making of bold pronouncements with any stray thought that drifts into the head. (This also applies to the letter writers.) Ron Unz identified Donald Trump as embodying many of these characteristics,
The guy who says "anyone who leaves the country should be banned from returning" is a parody of a boorish right-wing reactionary, of a type that every era has plenty of. Around the mid-2000s, the word "Patriotard" was coined to refer to this type.
It's interesting that late in the year 1969 the men behind Monty Python put in the right-wing-reactionary boor's mouth the words: "I'm no racialist" (5:10, during increasingly incoherent rant in self-defense of own moral character).
I know things like this get said again and again, but that kind of expression -- putting into this kind of character's mouth the words "I'm no racialist!" -- would have been unthinkable in 1949 or 1959, had become possible in 1969 (if 'just'), and would be standard to the point of almost being cliche by 1989. This (kind of) line would rise to the status of sacred inherited tradition, in many quarters in the UK and USA and elsewhere, by the dawn of this lousy century of ours. (The British riots of summer 2024, after that Black migrant from Somalia murdered those White children -- and did a "satanic glare" for his mugshot -- the riots proved it was not a 100%-consensus.)
By the way, the "Adolescence" show that everyone's talking about, the smash UK hit, had just started filming when the riots broke out. The film was largely produced following the riots. A rare oversight by Steve Sailer to miss this connection.
The Alarmist
Thursday - April 3rd 2025 6:13AM MST
PS
You should see the look on a Brit’s face when I drop a “Well bless your heart” with a southern inflection in it into response to something they tell me.
Americans don’t have to pretend to be stupid with Brits, because they and their cousins across the Channel are certain that we’re all stupid, bless their hearts.
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You should see the look on a Brit’s face when I drop a “Well bless your heart” with a southern inflection in it into response to something they tell me.
Americans don’t have to pretend to be stupid with Brits, because they and their cousins across the Channel are certain that we’re all stupid, bless their hearts.
🕉
Moderator
Thursday - April 3rd 2025 5:59AM MST
PS: "This video was prescient - a satirical take on what interactions will look like once the citizens, and the institutions, become really really stupid."
Indeed, I've expected some additional incompetency at restaurants, etc., but it's spreading to many new fields.
That was a pretty funny comment, albeit true, by the UR commenter. Do you remember who it was?
2nd thought: What if the FBI guy is stupid too?
Indeed, I've expected some additional incompetency at restaurants, etc., but it's spreading to many new fields.
That was a pretty funny comment, albeit true, by the UR commenter. Do you remember who it was?
2nd thought: What if the FBI guy is stupid too?
SafeNow
Wednesday - April 2nd 2025 11:03PM MST
PS
This video was prescient - a satirical take on what interactions will look like once the citizens, and the institutions, become really really stupid. (Yes, like Idiocracy). A commenter to an Unz essay recently suggested, Look, you have to learn to be stupid, because everything is stupid now, and if you yourself are not stupid, you are not going to fit in, and life will be one frustrating and harmful event after another.
In this vein, I once posted: When the FBI comes for a “knock and talk” you must be able to sound, and look, stupid. Practice “the stupid look” in front of a mirror. The FBI guys will conclude that this guy is harmless…. Don’t bother sending him to an internment camp.
This video was prescient - a satirical take on what interactions will look like once the citizens, and the institutions, become really really stupid. (Yes, like Idiocracy). A commenter to an Unz essay recently suggested, Look, you have to learn to be stupid, because everything is stupid now, and if you yourself are not stupid, you are not going to fit in, and life will be one frustrating and harmful event after another.
In this vein, I once posted: When the FBI comes for a “knock and talk” you must be able to sound, and look, stupid. Practice “the stupid look” in front of a mirror. The FBI guys will conclude that this guy is harmless…. Don’t bother sending him to an internment camp.
I'll check out Mr. Engler's blog.
As I wrote elsewhere, I truly would have never heard of that show "Adolescence" had I not been linked to iSteve's column and seen discussion about it on the iSteve Open Threads on TUR. Must be nice? It is! I mean, it's British TV too, but I guess that doesn't mean much in the age of streaming.
I did read comments (the count was in the low 60s at the time) under on of Mr. Sailer's obviously un-paywalled posts on this or something else about TV, plays, movies with black actors. Even AnotherDad, who is very reasonable, gave a long, long synopsis of one show and all the woke agenda within, yet, HE! DID! NOT! TURN! IT! OFF!
Not only are there better things to do, but if it is the time to relax and watch some series, it's not like you don't have 10's (100's?) of thousand of them to pick from. When the agenda comes through, CLICK! You WILL send a message in this way - with modern electronics/databases, if they wanted to (and they do), the streaming companies can collect data on things such as when the movie or episode is being terminated (with extreme prejudice)