The Koan

I notice that several Tory MPs are in trouble over making bets on the outcome of the election.
What I want to know is, which side did they bet on? The Tories are currently at 66/1, so a much higher return, if you actually think they might win, but maybe they have realised something we already know

Happy Loving day to all my faithful followers!

Loving Day celebrates the day about 50 years ago when the USA government realised that black people are humans too.

This is also Rose day and Superman day, and so my High Priestess has some expectations from the High Consort.

A thought for the D-Day commemoration day.

War is a like cleaning a toilet.

It is not glamourous or exciting; it is dirty and unpleasant, and some times can be traumatising.

Nobody in their right mind enjoys doing it, or wants to do it when it is not necessary, but sometimes it becomes forced on us by a very big sh*tstain, and in those times we need to be grateful to those who take on the job to keep us safe.

In an ideal world, there would be no need for toilets and their cleaning, but while there are still arseholes in the world we will still need toilet cleaners. We should all do what we can to minimise their work.

I've been serving My university for decades. Of course, it was by choice

Ouch.

“...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
― Terry Pratchett Books, Moving Pictures

I hope that all of My faithful have been out to vote, whatever party that they support (and some parties need support more than others it appears).
It is amusing to note, though, that the person who two years ago changed the law to mandate photo ID for voting was today turned away from the polling station...because he had not brought photo ID. Maybe he didn't think the law would apply to him, in the same way as Covid-era restrictions on parties ...

I would bet several cookies that there are no women on the Nanjing Council Planning approval board...

China: Internet amused by 'sanitary pad' building design The blueprint of North Nanjing train station has attracted reaction for all the wrong reasons.

( A ⊃ B ) ⇏ ( A = B )
Especially where A and B are sets of people.

They are both convinced
that a sudden passion joined them.
Such certainty is beautiful,
but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
- "Love at first sight", Wislawa Szymborska

Life is full of coincidences.
One day, even parallel lines might meet...
- "Turn left/Turn Right", Jimmy Liao (published in the USA as "A Chance of Sunshine")

Not quite the right season, but Warwick Goose is used to being awkward (and harassing students)

Of course, as I have pointed out for years, the University of Warwick is the ONLY university in Mainland UK with its own on-campus Avatar of a Deity(*), as you all know.

(*) Me, of course

Geographic Qualifiers

Of course, if you're a Devout Koanist, then you want your net clockwise rotations to be as high as possible. Not the anticlockwise ones, though, as they are evil.

Net Rotations

I always suspected that Britain's success back in the 19th Century was a direct result of drinking Tea, and now it is proven!

How Britain's taste for tea may have been a life saver Tea became one of the British Empire's most prized resources in the 18th Century. But it may have also had an unintended effect on the British population – reducing mortality rates.

With the right people, a problem shared is halved, and a joy shared is doubled.
If you find things the other way around, you're with the wrong people ...

I have come to realise that the KOAN has been at the University for 50 years. I've seen a lot of change in that time. Back when I was a freshly-painted undergraduate, you could go into the campus shop with £1 and come out with several choc bars, some crisps, and a drink - and still have cash in your pocket!
Of course, now they've fitted CCTV and so its much harder.

So England is in its first World Cup final in almost 6 decades, and yet neither the PM nor any member of the Royal Family is going to attend?
Or don't they see the Lionesses as 'real' football?

Hello My faithful followers! Don't forget that tomorrow (Thursday) is International Kissing day - a fact that the High Consort will soon find out. Make sure you get your share of smooches from your preferred source(s)...

Anyone who is on campus midday today (Thu Jun 15) don't forget to come and see Viv Venkatram running around Me to raise money for DigDeep(Africa) - and also to pay homage to My awesomeness of course...

In whatever manner it comes to be, love is never wrong, especially between one who has so much of it to give and one so desperately in need of it.
—Ikigai by Lanse

https://futurism.com/probe-uranus-names-mistake
I'm sure there's no way this one could go wrong.
I hear that Uranus is rather looking forward to be probed, too.

Asking the Public to Name Probe to Uranus May Have Been a Mistake An unofficial space exploration account on Twitter asked the internet to name an upcoming mission to the planet Uranus. Mayhem ensued.

Tyrannosaurs lived closer in time to Humans than to Stegosaurus.

Cleopatra lived closer to iPhones than the the building of the Pyramids.

Nintendo was founded in the same year Van Gogh painted Starry Night.

Oxford University was founded 300 years before Machu Picchu.

The Beatles' Abbey Road was released closer to WW1 than to Covid19.

The KOAN was created closer to the end of WW1 than to today.

Sorry for not being around much. I've been having fun watching the catfight between Discordia, Bastet, and the FSM over who is the True Goddess of the Internet.
(Little do they know that it is in fact, myself, due to the KONIC POWER generated by all those spinning hard disks)

I know that the prospect having to deal with Liz Truss was a nasty shock, ma'am, but there were better ways to avoid it...

The best thing about growing older, is that you care less and less what anyone else thinks of you.

Larry knows what's what. Maybe he should take over as PM - couldn't do any worse.

So it looks as if 2020 was made of rubber, and we're bouncing backwards in time through the 80s and 70s

Disconnecting from Europe (because who needs to be part of a team), plans to switch back to the impossible imperial weights and measures system, cold war with Russia, repealing the Human Rights Act (because why would we need THAT anyway), high inflation and unions striking everywhere, plans to make the BBC go away...
I hope we put the brakes on this 'progress', or else at this rate soon we'll be back to war with Germany.

While I am a Child of the 70s myself, it doesn't mean I want to go back there.

I read something recently about a group of public-school boys on an island who tried to take back control, but it resulted in food shortages and ended up with in-fighting and conflict.
Can't remember if it was Lord of the Flies or PM of the Brexit...