From the Desk of Alexander Terry .M
This blog is about a former Englishman, now an American citizen and his clashes with American popular culture with an emphasis on religion's deleterious effects. Unless you live here, it is very hard to understand religion's pernicious grip - especially in the political arena.
Monday, April 26, 2021
Love this Spam Email starts "Hello Dear" from a US bank
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Limericks are Great
Who scurried around for a muse.
He wrapped a rifle barrel in bacon
Like a rightist’s true blazon
And yet he can’t understand why the GOP lose.
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Pun of the Year?
I know I shouldn't brag, this being one of mine.....
I hear the BBC might remake the Gormenghast TV show; Hugh Grant is a tremendous fan and has begged the producers for a part, a Flay Grant if you will.
But methinks this has some merit.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Movies to avoid in 2021 - There's been a Shit Build Up
Movies to avoid in 2021 – as every year, remakes, reboots, re-imaginings, sequels, stuff stolen from the TV of my childhood, shit with Mel Gibson in it, the ideas deserts that are comic book movies and Matt Damon as Jason Bourne.
Cinderella
BLITHE SPIRIT???????
Tom and Jerry
Coming 2 America
Masters of The Universe
The Boss Baby: Family Business
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
Bob’s Burgers
Mortal Kombat
A Quiet Place 2
Godzilla vs Kong
Spiral: From The Book of Saw
Cruella
Fast and Furious 9
The Conjuring: The
Devil Made Me Do It
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Minions: the Rise of Gru
Top Gun: Maverick
The Forever Purge
Space Jam 2: A New Legacy
Hotel Transylvania 4
The Suicide Squad (?????)
Don’t Breathe 2
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard
Candyman
Jackass 4
Death on the Nail
Halloween Kills
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Clifford The Big Red Dog
Spider-Man 3
Mission: Impossible 7
West Side Story
The Matrix 4
Sing 2
ONE EXCEPTION TO THESE RULES = DUNE
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Limerick
Thursday, December 03, 2020
The Collinsworth Limerick
Who seemed to not know women walked the Earth,
And they know schemes and plays!
Are we in the Last Days?
I'm sure he can find us the Bible verse.
Limericks gegen Rodney Howard-Browne
"Just send us your money"
"To me and my honey" "
And we'll laugh all the way to the bank"
More Haikus
Wednesday, October 07, 2020
Haikus of Despair
And as California burns
We spend our last pence.
Behind a glass screen
Spittle flies, policy dies
And a Country weeps.
Heroes just show up
Leaders preen, but only that.
And jobs go away.
Lemmy and Eddie.
Together. Ripping God’s ears.
Making angels dance.
He won; no she won
A Neolib shapeshifter
Or seller of doves?
Monday, August 31, 2020
Melissa's Race to Battle Brain Cancer
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Want to remember the US Presidents?
When A Joke Made Me A Joker,
Van Held The Poker,
The Fiery Poker.
But Long John Goose Had Gone
And Chased His Crazy Moose
‘Round The West Hollering,
“Can’t Help Rinse Those Empty Kettles Just Now, Friend."
Come ‘Round By Charlie’s Bed Often Tiny!
(or: Colanders Rinse Bad Cabbage Best, Obviously Traditional)
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- Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, (Quincy) Adams, Jackson,
- Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk,
- Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce,
- Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield,
- Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley,
- Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding,
- Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford,
- Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Want to remember the Kings and Queens of England?
Sunday, June 14, 2020
How's it doin'?
Monday, May 18, 2020
EPIC FAIL: Got another "We switched on your webcam" scam email
Wednesday, January 08, 2020
Movies to give a wide berth to in 2020
Friday, January 03, 2020
My Movies in 2019
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Want to see some phishing domains?
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@wandernest.icu
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@watchsite.icu
@weaponlong.icu
@worrypop.icu
@writeherb.icu
@yearmiss.icu
Sunday, August 11, 2019
Pinterest has suspended my account
Fuck Pinterest. They have arbitrarily suspended my account. I never violate their assinine ToS rules. If I lose access to my personal photographs, I think I will take legal action.
Monday, June 10, 2019
Friday, May 03, 2019
The Schism
Wednesday, April 03, 2019
PSA: You can ignore any emails you get like this one...
He’s right about one thing, he is untraceable. But if you receive an email like this, it is 100% shitcanable and I suggest you do just that. And then laugh your ass off that this schmuck.
Tuesday, January 08, 2019
And 2019's list of crap to come...
2018 - a few gems amongst the dreck
Friday, December 07, 2018
When hackers attack your email server...
larry@mydomain.net
Monday, December 03, 2018
Funniest Phishing Email Scam
Various security services will not help you; formatting a disk or destroying a device will not help either, since your data is already on a remote server.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Don't see these in 2018...
Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Movies I saw in 2017 - even shorter list than 2016.
Friday, December 15, 2017
That which confuses me.
That being said, and realizing as a man I am stepping into a minefield here, I want to address the issue of "Why Now?"
Why Now? Why is this an exploding issue now?
It was over 15 years ago that I had my first company training on sexual harassment. It was mandatory and we were told it was company-wide and everyone had to participate. It went on your training records and if you put it off, your supervisor would see you hadn't done it and not complete your annual evaluation until you had.
Yes, it was that mandatory. AND additional training happened over the succeeding years as laws changed. AND that training was just as mandatory and unavoidable. The Corporate America I worked for comprehensively addressed sexual harassment as early as the year 2000.
And in that training we all learned about "Hostile Workplace" sexual harassment, which is basically "if someone feels uncomfortable, then that is harassment."
We learned that hostile workplace harassment is in the eye of the beholder. You as the guy ( and it usually is a guy ), have no recourse if someone goes to HR about you. So we were told "Don't even have a picture of your wife or girlfriend on your desk, just to be on the safe side. Especially not that cute one you took on vacation."
So my company over 15 years ago, knew this was an area ripe for accusations and they trained us all to not do ANYTHING at ANY TIME in ANY WAY that might be construed by ANYONE as contributing to a hostile workplace.
I guess HR wanted a quiet life.
So the point I am coming to is "Why Now?" And I am forced to draw one conclusion, And it is this....
Ordinary working stiffs have had sexual harassment training forever, and we knew that there could be serious repercussions over many perceived sleights by the harassed. So we took our training and we did what our companies asked. And we avoided, avoided, avoided anything that could make us open to accusations.
But what about all these people who are now so publicly accused? Why did they continue? Surely they all worked for someones company at some time? Gosh, even as contractors they got the training somewhere? Even running their own companies, the lawyers must have told them about the law and the consequences of accusations....
Why didn't they stop until 2017 when allegations became avalanches?
Could it be that it was because they were Big Shots and they thought the law did not apply to them?
"Don't you know who I am?" to the power of a google? The bullying "I can ruin you in this town" mentality?
I think it was that. They all deserve everything that's coming to them.
Friday, December 08, 2017
Grifters on the Instagram.
One came at me via Facebook Messenger and claimed to be the Page 3 Girl Lucy Pinder, but from her broken English, I know it really wasn't her.
In both cases I got lines about "Needing a normal friend" and "You seem a genuine person". You know, generalized sucking up.
Lucy kind of backed away after I didn't respond enthusiastically enough to her. But I have reached out to see if she still thinks I'm hooked.
Annabelle contacted me two days ago via Instagram. She quickly sent me her phone number ( 612 470-xxxx ) and we texted away; me telling her how lovely she was and her massaging my ego saying stuff like "You have a genuine heart" and nonsense like that.
Then of course, out came the "I am flat broke, my phone service is about to be cut off" ( so we would not be able to continue to text ) and "I need a $75 i-Phone gift card and no-one else will help me."
She was good, but I'm a 60 year old man and I know that a 34 year old woman is not randomly reaching out for friends on social media.
So then "Poof!", I blocked her phone number, deleted her texts and blocked her on Instagram.
On IG she trolls by the name of "sassyannabelle". So, Buyer Beware. Especially Olde Buyers.
Monday, July 24, 2017
Fuck Microsoft
Access denied, banned sending IP [AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD]. To request removal from this list please visit https://sender.office.com/ and follow the directions. For more information please go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=......
You are breaking Customers' E-faxing!
I used to have to Delist once a month when I sent out invoices, now you've fucked up my IP permanently.
You need to fix this. And you need to fix it YESTERDAY.
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Southern Baptist Convention: As Unchristian as they wanna be.
At a news conference, Barrett Duke, a Southern Baptist leader who had led a committee that decided which resolutions should be considered for a vote, said the resolution as originally written contained inflammatory and broad language “potentially implicating” conservatives who do not support the “alt-right” movement.
Well Barrett, that's the point isn't it? Conservatives are not really Christians. To paraphrase George Carlin, they are just a group of people who meet up on Sundays to compare clothes and cars.
If a resolution so palpably right actually implicates your members, then surely you look at them with questions, not at the language of the statement that exposed them?
Hands up all those who were surprised by the SBC's initial stance.
My hand is down.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Dateline 05/17/17
1. Obama is no longer President.
2. Obama publicly commenting on an investigation which he thought to have no merit is way less serious than Trump trying to influence an ongoing investigation privately.
3. "Let it go" doesn't mean "investigate but don't prosecute", it means DROP THE INVESTIGATION. Plus, the fact that the investigation continues is a reflection of Comey's integrity and not of President Trump saying that the investigation should continue.
If we want to compare Obama's actions to Trump's, anyone with half a brain will see that what Trump is doing is far far worse.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Word
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Monica Crowley's book has been pulled
Oh, Ms. M.Crowley, did you talk to the dead?
Your life style to me seemed so tragic
With the thrill of it all
You fooled all the people with magic
Yeah, you waited on Murdoch's call
Shining PhD, in nocturnal rapport
Uncovering things that were sacred
Manifest on this Earth
Conceived in the eye of a secret
And they scattered the afterbirth
Ms. M.Crowley, won't you ride my white horse?
Ms. M.Crowley, it's symbolic, of course
Approaching a time that is classic
I hear that Fox Babes call
Approaching a time that is drastic
Standing with their backs to the wall
Was it polemically sent
l want to know what you meant
I want to know, I want to know what you meant, yeah
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No really. What did you think you were doing?