Eunoia
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--> Most recent Blog Comments Policy DSGVO Impressum Maths trivia Search this site RSS Feed Eunoia, who is a grumpy, overeducated, facetious, multilingual ex-pat Scot, blatantly opinionated, old (1944-vintage), amateur cryptologist, computer consultant, atheist, flying instructor, bulldog-lover, Beetle-driver, textbook-writer, long-distance biker, geocacher and blogger living in the foothills south of the northern German plains. Not too shy to reveal his true name or even whereabouts, he blogs his opinions, and humour and rants irregularly. Stubbornly he clings to his beliefs, e.g. that Faith does not give answers, it only prevents you doing any goddamn questioning. You are as atheist as he is. When you understand why you don't believe in all the other gods, you will know why he does not believe in yours. Oh, and after the death of his old dog, Kosmo, he also has a new bulldog puppy, Clara, in the pipeline for September :-)
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Sunday, September 30, 2018
Getting to know one anotherSeveral of you wrote to ask for more photos of Clara, our new puppy. Here's one with the title "Getting to know one another" :-)Next month it'll be back to the Baltic trip reports. Comments (3)
Friday, September 28, 2018
Sand Statues on the Curonian SpitWhile we were in the Baltics, driving south along the narrow Curonian Spit peninsula, which is basically a sand dune 60 miles long and 1-2 miles wide off the coast of Lithiania, we came across a village resort which had had a sand-statue building competition the previous week. These are four of the excellent sand sculptures remaining :-)
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Buggering the Boys :-(Germany's most prolific pervert and paedophile club, more usually known as the priesthood of the Roman Catholic church, has produced a report on just how many Roman Catholic priests (1670) buggered just how many children (3677) over the time-frame 1946 to 2014. This is of course an underestimate of the true extent of the problem because of the way they did their self-survey (aka tip-of-the-iceberg). This was a mixture of a survey and (anonymous?) self-reporting. AFAIK, none turned themselves into the police. Nor did their bosses, the bishops turn any of them in either, preferring to do a cover-up and just move the offenders to a different parish, where there were new victims :-(Most of sexually abused children were young boys buggered by gay RC priests, a minority were raped girls. Either way, totally inacceptable :-( The bishops' conference of the Roman Catholic church has failed utterly in its moral responsibility to bring the offenders to justice! The "apology" by archbishop Marx is simply not enough. There should be significant compensation payments and the church's tax privileges should be removed at least until the systemic organisational problem is removed. YMMV. We know that the Vatican has the lowest age-of-consent of any country, only twelve, even if the leader of another religion did take a "wife" of the age of only six, pedophiles all! And we can deduce from Genesis 5:4 that the bible favours incest. But these pedophile Roman Catholic priests and the bishops who covered them are the real evil bastards :-( Just as well that Deuteronomy 23:2 tells us that bastards can never be admitted to heaven. But they need to be locked away down here too, and defrocked of course and de-pensioned too! Comments (3)
Monday, September 24, 2018
Touring the Baltic CountriesMy wife and I have just spent a fortnight touring the Baltics. Over the following weeks I'll blog some of our photos; you'll get to see some of what we saw. It was my first time there, so it was all new to me.The map below shows an area from Hamburg (Germany) in the lower left corner to St.Petersburg (Russia) in the upper right corner. It is a Mercator projection. The numbers represent the day-number during our trip, starting with Kiel (Germany) on day 1 and finishing there on day 14. We took the ferry from Kiel, 19 hours eastwards to Klaipeda in Lithuania. We spent a day on the Curonian Spit peninsula, which leads south to Kaliningrad (a Russian enclave, affording their navy easy access to the Baltic Sea). Turning north again, we drove up the Baltic coast to where it meets the Bay of Riga on day 4. Then a day in Riga (the capital of Latvia), another in an inland national park(6), then back to the Bay of Riga(7). From there we headed north into Estonia, visiting first the capital city of Tallinn on the Gulf of Finland on day 8. Days 9 and 10 were spent in the backwoods of two national parks in Estonia. Days 11 and 12 saw us travelling along the southern border of Latvia, where it borders on White Russia (Belarus), for which we had no visa. A short stop in Vilnius (13 : capital of Lithuania) then we headed west via Trakai back to Klaipeda to catch the evening boat back to Kiel. An enjoyable tour, a bit tiring with all the driving, and often rather scurrilous :-) More details and photos in posts during the following month. This summary was just to get you hooked for more ;-)
Saturday, September 8, 2018
The Chosen One :-)After the sad death of our old bulldog, Kosmo, due to a tumor, SWMBO decided we needed a new puppy as soon as possible. So last weekend she visited some breeders who had good healthy puppies and chose this one which we can pick up at the end of this month.
This is the chosen one, she will be called Clara :-)
So much for my vague intention of us travelling the world between dogs. Now we'll have to get around to puppy-proofing the house again : moving everything even remotely chewable up by a couple of feet, lick-proofing all the electrical outlets, locking the shoe-cupboard, hiding firewood etc etc ;-) Comments (2)
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