Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense

After last week's equine excitements we can now return to day to day reflections. And I turn to a long established so-called friend of mine whose essential purpose when conversing or purporting to converse with me was to belittle me. I could not see the purpose and had constantly to rephrase his opening proposition to allow him to reconsider what he had, if anything, to say.

Eventually, he recognised that he was achieving nothing with me and contacted me four times, twice by email and twice by telephone call, to be extraordinarily abusive of me. I gave him a few days to reflect upon his conduct but he made no effort to apologise. Even more extraordinarily he sent me a condolence note upon the death of my father in 2019 and tried to wrap up an apology which was nothing of the sort.

He has clearly failed to learn the import of Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense. Poor fellow.

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The BBC uses the term far-right to mean anybody whom the BBC news writer of the day dislikes politically. It a quite absurd misuse of language since far right, if it means anything, means anybody who espouses lowest marginal rates of taxation. 

I do not think that this would matter save for the prime minister using it of any of his political opponents when he must know that this is merely a deliberate misuse of English.

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The Attorney-General Lord Hermer KC who is quite hopeless as regards offering common sense seems to think that one is only entitled to defend oneself after one has been murdered. He'll go far at winning the Super Silly Stakes.

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I would welcome comments from others. But to comment they have to know the link to ETS. This is: https://www.eviltakesstock.com/