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Morning arl. A swift break from George before returning to his warm embrace. Nowt ter say, but here's a thowt fer the day:

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience. I’m only just starting to get that....

Enjoy yasels. Stay well. Keep repeating: I don't know. Why? Here are some possible answers from Wislawa Szymborska, the Polish poet & winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996 (she died in 2012), extracted from her Nobel Lecture:


"I’ve mentioned inspiration. Contemporary poets answer evasively when asked what it is, and if it actually exists. It’s not that they’ve never known the blessing of this inner impulse. It’s just not easy to explain something to someone else that you don’t understand yourself.

When I’m asked about this on occasion, I hedge the question too. But my answer is this: inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists generally. There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It’s made up of all those who’ve consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners – and I could list a hundred more professions. Their work becomes one continuous adventure as long as they manage to keep discovering new challenges in it. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.”

There aren’t many such people. Most of the earth’s inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn’t pick this or that kind of job out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries. And there’s no sign that coming centuries will produce any changes for the better as far as this goes.

And so, though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.

At this point, though, certain doubts may arise in my audience. All sorts of torturers, dictators, fanatics, and demagogues struggling for power by way of a few loudly shouted slogans also enjoy their jobs, and they too perform their duties with inventive fervor. Well, yes, but they “know.” They know, and whatever they know is enough for them once and for all. They don’t want to find out about anything else, since that might diminish their arguments’ force. And any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. In the most extreme cases, cases well known from ancient and modern history, it even poses a lethal threat to society.

This is why I value that little phrase “I don’t know” so highly. It’s small, but it flies on mighty wings. It expands our lives to include the spaces within us as well as those outer expanses in which our tiny Earth hangs suspended. If Isaac Newton had never said to himself “I don’t know,” the apples in his little orchard might have dropped to the ground like hailstones and at best he would have stooped to pick them up and gobble them with gusto. Had my compatriot Marie Sklodowska-Curie never said to herself “I don’t know”, she probably would have wound up teaching chemistry at some private high school for young ladies from good families, and would have ended her days performing this otherwise perfectly respectable job. But she kept on saying “I don’t know,” and these words led her, not just once but twice, to Stockholm, where restless, questing spirits are occasionally rewarded with the Nobel Prize...."
 
Morning arl. A swift break from George before returning to his warm embrace. Nowt ter say, but here's a thowt fer the day:

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience. I’m only just starting to get that....

Enjoy yasels. Stay well. Keep repeating: I don't know. Why? Here are some possible answers from Wislawa Szymborska, the Polish poet & winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996 (she died in 2012), extracted from her Nobel Lecture:


"I’ve mentioned inspiration. Contemporary poets answer evasively when asked what it is, and if it actually exists. It’s not that they’ve never known the blessing of this inner impulse. It’s just not easy to explain something to someone else that you don’t understand yourself.

When I’m asked about this on occasion, I hedge the question too. But my answer is this: inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists generally. There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It’s made up of all those who’ve consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners – and I could list a hundred more professions. Their work becomes one continuous adventure as long as they manage to keep discovering new challenges in it. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.”

There aren’t many such people. Most of the earth’s inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn’t pick this or that kind of job out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries. And there’s no sign that coming centuries will produce any changes for the better as far as this goes.

And so, though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.

At this point, though, certain doubts may arise in my audience. All sorts of torturers, dictators, fanatics, and demagogues struggling for power by way of a few loudly shouted slogans also enjoy their jobs, and they too perform their duties with inventive fervor. Well, yes, but they “know.” They know, and whatever they know is enough for them once and for all. They don’t want to find out about anything else, since that might diminish their arguments’ force. And any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. In the most extreme cases, cases well known from ancient and modern history, it even poses a lethal threat to society.

This is why I value that little phrase “I don’t know” so highly. It’s small, but it flies on mighty wings. It expands our lives to include the spaces within us as well as those outer expanses in which our tiny Earth hangs suspended. If Isaac Newton had never said to himself “I don’t know,” the apples in his little orchard might have dropped to the ground like hailstones and at best he would have stooped to pick them up and gobble them with gusto. Had my compatriot Marie Sklodowska-Curie never said to herself “I don’t know”, she probably would have wound up teaching chemistry at some private high school for young ladies from good families, and would have ended her days performing this otherwise perfectly respectable job. But she kept on saying “I don’t know,” and these words led her, not just once but twice, to Stockholm, where restless, questing spirits are occasionally rewarded with the Nobel Prize....

morning marra

Christ I wrote less for me English GCSE exam
The word FUCK (and its derivatives) is almost certainly the greatest and most useful word in our vocabulary and language.

fuck is allowed but fuucking isn’t 😆
 
Morning Andy, sorry to reveal my ignorance to the world, but is that J-Lo? If not, who is it?
Ha, ha! It's my latest conquest - her name is Nora. She's Moroccan/French but lives in Copenhagen. Seeing her on Wednesday. She'll (probably?) be pleased to hear you thought she was J-Lo :)
Morning Mr D

Hope all good there marra

Wotafuckon ere, T locked my laptop so can’t get on proply ffs. Still got my job work to de

Mekin some Moroccan spiced veg soup, defrosting fish for a pie the morra & cleaning up a bit

Avvegudden mate 👍
I'm doing Moroccan too - but not until Wednesday
 
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Morning Hank

Morning Dilly, Becs, Wakey, SFATI, Cloughiewobble, Echoman, Chorley, Musicman, Lonious Monk, Janey, Sismanhatton, AndyGray1985, VicCarlton, MK Mackem, Kingdom Bhoy, Kid Galahad, Chunky Lover53, Tipton Baggie, VHFC, eddtheduck, Bonzo, Snorbens, Storford, phunboy, johnap, glass slippers, annie228, St Joes Lad , Tunstall Birdman, Buster, Rip van fish, cfg , The Professor, oilcat , wandofaleftpeg, Sunnybrow Red, WillD, NikNak123, T-Bone, KarenDent, Blue Bell lad, Heroes of 73, Huffy Duffy, Thamesvalleyman, Malcolm X, Drexel, B1gals, Heroesof73, Bachhus, Cattach safc, Gluepot and all.

Might give the Liverpool game a watch.

Have a good day everyone and stay safe 👍

Morning young Spammy
Morning @hank williams and good morning all. Got to say what a great thread yesterdays was...Wish it was yesterday having seen what's in store here today, bleedin' ell. So hopefully the Southampton match or some of it later. Not much time this morning, loads to sort out and get out, but we'll be back to normal and I know at some point things will calm down and quieten off...soon...I hope. Have a great day, stay safe, take care and keep smiling, 👍 👍 😷 😷 😊 😊 .

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Got to just say a really big thank you to the Mortician who did my late Mother-in-law's hair, it was lovely. You could barely see the horns....... To me, To you.

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Morning young SATI
 
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I’ve got some bits and bobs to do but nowt taxing. Might go for a run later if it stops hissing down long enough. Wish I could help with your pooter but I’m hopeless with those things.
Cheers mate but T is handy - it’s cos it’s new with different systems & log ins for various email addresses ( for work). Think she got them mixed up.

Our IT man will sort it later, just frustrating with so much to do (& it’s to help others out - both beneficiaries & £ for them working on them).
Could have been worse, I nearly got up at 2 to work - I’d have been even more knackered & annoyed if I had 😠
 
Cheers mate but T is handy - it’s cos it’s new with different systems & log ins for various email addresses ( for work). Think she got them mixed up.

Our IT man will sort it later, just frustrating with so much to do (& it’s to help others out - both beneficiaries & £ for them working on them).
Could have been worse, I nearly got up at 2 to work - I’d have been even more knackered & annoyed if I had 😠
It’s bloody annoying. Our IT security people sent us new passwords to log in to our works accounts, about 18 characters numbers and symbols which we couldn’t save or change. Obviously nee bugger could remember them so accounts were locked out left right and centre, idiots, it took them days to sort out the mess.
 
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