Monday, 1 September 2025

WGS84

Genuflect: Kneeling on a pew in worship.

Cicadian rhythm: Your body's natural 24 hour clock. Your wake-sleep cycle.

Proletariat: The workers of society/the working class.

Solipsism: Believing that only your mind or your views exist or are valid


"It's equal rights. I have the right to see fine in every colour" - (Mary Jackson, Hidden Figures).


"If you don't like how a sausage is made, eat it with your eyes closed" (John Shaft II).


"I'm an equal opportunities ass whooper" (John Shaft II).


"Apologising does not always mean you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego" 
- (Mike Matthews)


A tiger that protects the King.
(Song-sak, The Fiery Priest, S1:E13)


With age, people should gain dignity, not visceral fat.
(Kim Hae-il/Father Michael, S1:E14)



You should think carefully, since you only have one canvas (when Prosecutor Park wondered if she should get a tattoo).
(Kim Hae-il/Father Michael, S1:E14)



I was just feeling the gravity.
(Yo-han, The Fiery Priest, S1:E20)



Kindness should never be against the rules.
(Father Brown, S12:E7)



My nerves are turned on. 
I hear them like musical instruments. 
Where there was silence the drums, the strings are incurably playing. 
You did this.
Pure genius at work. 
Darling, the composer has stepped into fire.
(Anne Sexton)



Watch out for love
(unless it is true,
and every part of you says yes including the toes)
(Anne Sexton)



Have nothing in your room that you do not believe to be beautiful or know to be useful.
(William Morris)


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WGS85

Are you sure you aren’t applying 21st century standards to a patriarchal value system that was normal then but no longer informs the ethos of our society?

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Gender egalitarian society.

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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind
is to survive and move to higher levels - (Einstein).

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Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.Violence ends up defeating itself.
It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers - (Dr Martin Luther King Jr).

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A society that values women without diminishing men.

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Raise daughters to take their place as equals and feel confident, beautiful, capable, and courageous. Raise sons to love and admire their female equals -  (Maleka from Merumaya)

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It takes a strong back
and a soft front
to face the world.
— (Roshi Joan Halifax).

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I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation - (Wednesday Addams)

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There's a blessed equity in the English social system that ensures the public school man against starvation
- (Captain Grimes from Decline and Fall written by Eleanor Waugh).

The above quote and the 'tempering discretion with deceit' notion reminds the Domestic Goblin of certain buffoons in the Tory party... 

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Their democratic flavour doesn't suit my palate (Lestat, Interview with the Vampire)

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White Ravens

Series 1
Episode 5
Time stamp: 40:28

Helen Webb threatens Cole Atwood:
"If you can't get us Trent, then we don't need you. And if we don't need you, then I'm gonna get Sam here to march you to Hampstead Heath and shoot you in the back of the head."

Cole Atwood looks at Sam Young and asks him:
"Is that true?"

Sam Young sighs, and says:
"It would probably be Richmond Park..."



Series 1
Episode 6
Time stamp: 45:23

Helen Webb: You don't seem like a mob boss' son.

Trent Clark: My mother's not a mob boss. She's a criminally adjacent person of influence."