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Post Your Toilet Roll Humour Here

Seems there’s been a run on toilet paper owing to panic buying. I found a couple of amusing comments on Styx’s latest YouTube video, so to get you started :

Toilet paper manufacturing is on a roll.

 

The situation with the toilet rolls is starting to unravel.

 

“So you prepped?” “Yeah 60 packets of toilet paper” “Good lad”

 

This virus is great news for the New York Times. When the toilet paper runs out, people will start buying newspapers again.

 

I had 46 years-worth of toilet paper. Unfortunately, the rats in my basement chewed it up and made a massive nest.

 

Cheers

Don Charisma

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Empty Pasta Shelves – Tesco Watford, UK – Rude And Aggressive Manager

Tesco, Watford, UK – Pasta shelves are completely empty. It was a similar sight in the tinned food aisle, and some of the others. The in-store pharmacy had completely sold out of paracetamol.

The store manager (the guy in the blue shirt in the photo) was quite rude and aggressive towards me for taking the photo, which has never happened before to me in the UK. I ceased and desisted for a quiet life. Not quite sure why he would be annoyed at me taking a photo of empty shelves, maybe he didn’t buy any for himself and now there’s none left ? Or could just be he’s an asshole. My guess is the asshole theory.

The checkout guy was a complete contrast, we had a chat about wearing masks and beards etc. I guess he was bored and having a chat with someone beats scanning items and collecting money, all day, over and over again, just to fill the pockets of his globalist overlords, so they can afford their Krug, Foie gras and Caviar.

Anyway, enough of saying what I actually think, here’s the photo :

Taken about at 15:30, 13-Mar-2020 UK time.

Cheers

Don Charisma

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South African Flag Added To My Sidebar

I’m proud of my own flag – I assume others are too.

A kind commenter reminded me the South African flag is missing from my sidebar, as I have nearly 9000 page views from South Africans.

You should definitely visit her site, there’s some beautiful photography – a gem amongst blogs :

Kavitha @ Sunshiny SA Site – Kavita Ramlal, Proudly South African – https://sunshinysasite.wordpress.com/about-kavita/

Lastly – welcome and hello to all my South African readers, best wishes to you all. Thankyou for reading and visiting my blog.

Cheers

Don Charisma

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Philippine And Indian Flags Added To My Sidebar

I’m proud of my own flag – I assume others are too.

In my stats I noticed I get a lot of views (14422 page views) from people in the Philippines, so I’ve added Philippine flag to my sidebar

And my Indian readers are even more prolific (27198 page views) so I’ve added the Indian flag too.

So welcome and hello to all my Filipino and Indian readers, best wishes to you all. Thankyou for reading and visiting my blog.

Cheers

Don Charisma

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Nietzsche – “Without music, life would be a mistake.”

I have found music, blog-wise, quite polarizing, because people like what they like. Which is fine.

Plus I’m an absolute novice in creating music !

Anyway – I like this quote, so sharing for you.

‘What trifles constitute happiness! The sound of a bagpipe. Without music life would be a mistake. The German imagines even God as a songster.’

 

OR Sometimes expressed simply as:

 

‘Without music, life would be a mistake.’

 

– F. Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer)

 

I’m not widely read on Nietzsche, so don’t know if these quotes are correct (exactly), please feel free to correct me in the comments if you’re better read than I.

Cheers

Don Charisma

(Nietzsche photo is public domain – more than 100 years old)

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Viktor Frankl – “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

Thanks to Anna for sharing this quote. I think it’s worth passing on :

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

 

From Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

 

Courtesy, Anna – https://avoicereclaimed.com/bio/

(Photo courtesy – Prof. Dr. Franz Vesely, Viktor-Frankl-Archiv)

 

Cheers

Don Charisma

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Rent Party Rag by "Spider" John Koerner

Rent Party Rag by “Spider” John Koerner

1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.

Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic

Track 14 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica

(More info at Discogs)

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Things Ain't Right by "Spider" John Koerner

Things Ain’t Right by “Spider” John Koerner

1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.

Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic

Track 13 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica

(More info at Discogs)

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Blog Update And Coronavirus

I’ve been doing my best to pass on useful information regarding Coronavirus, as it’s the right thing to do (especially as fakestream media et al continues to lie). Also the situation is now obviously a pandemic, and a very serious situation.

I will try and keep up updates as and when I have time, but I do have a busy period ahead, that may prevent me from posting and answering comments etc, for a few weeks.

I have already shared many links for information sources, you can view all my Coronavirus posts here :

https://doncharisma.org/tag/coronavirus/

Thank you for following my blog, all the likes and comments – appreciated.

(Hopefully I’ll get back to more creative stuff later in the year.)

Hope you and your loved ones are safe.

Cheers

Don Charisma

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Hal C. Blake by "Spider" John Koerner

Hal C. Blake by “Spider” John Koerner

1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.

Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic

Track 12 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica

(More info at Discogs)

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Coronavirus – “Contagion more rapid than we thought” – Dr John Campbell

This update from about 4 hours ago @ 26-Feb-2020 14:32 UK time.

(Dr John Campbell has also been making reports regularly, check out his earlier videos on Coronavirus)

Hope you are safe, and stays that way.

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Baby, Don't Come Back by "Spider" John Koerner

Baby, Don’t Come Back by “Spider” John Koerner

1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.

Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic

Track 11 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica

(More info at Discogs)

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I Want To Do Something by "Spider" John Koerner

I Want To Do Something by “Spider” John Koerner

1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.

Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic

Track 10 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica

(More info at Discogs)

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Need A Woman by "Spider" John Koerner

Need A Woman by “Spider” John Koerner

1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.

Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic

Track 9 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica

(More info at Discogs)

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Delia Holmes by "Spider" John Koerner

Delia Holmes by “Spider” John Koerner

1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.

Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic

Track 8 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica

(More info at Discogs)

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Ramblin' And Tumblin' by "Spider" John Koerner

Ramblin’ & Tumblin’ by “Spider” John Koerner

1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.

Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic

Track 7 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica

(More info at Discogs)

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Nietzsche – “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

Been browsing some of my fellow blogger’s blogs today, and I came across this quote. I think it’s worth passing on :

‘The one who answered himself the question: “Why live?” – Will be able to bear almost any answer to the question: “How to live?”‘

 

OR Sometimes expressed simply as:

 

‘He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.’

 

F. Nietzsche

 

Source – https://realaliveword.home.blog/blog-feed/

I’m not widely read on Nietzsche, so don’t know “the most correct” of these quotes (suspect the first version), but the meaning is about the same.

Cheers

Don Charisma

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Shortnin' Bread by "Spider" John Koerner

Shortnin’ Bread by “Spider” John Koerner

1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.

Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic

Track 6 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica

(More info at Discogs)

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Born To Be Wild – Steppenwolf (+Photos !)

(Experimental)

After some hours of trying to make a still photo slideshow with ffmpeg, I gave up. Some of the features are missing on the Windows version, would probably have been easier using Linux.

So I used the inbuilt video editor in Windows 10 to take a bunch of still photos, add music courtesy Steppenwolf. Then finally added my watermark of DonCharisma.org with ffmpeg.

So, long story short – it’s some photos I took, with music 🙂 Experimenting with a different format for presenting my photos – rather than a long page of photos.

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Corrina by "Spider" John Koerner

Corrina by “Spider” John Koerner

1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.

Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic

Track 5 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica

(More info at Discogs)

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Spider Blues by "Spider" John Koerner

Spider Blues by “Spider” John Koerner

1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.

Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic

Track 4 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica

(More info at Discogs)

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Nice Legs by "Spider" John Koerner

Nice Legs by “Spider” John Koerner

1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.

Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic

Track 3 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica

(More info at Discogs)

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I Want To Be Your Partner by Spider John Koerner

I Want To Be Your Partner by “Spider” John Koerner

1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.

Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic

Track 2 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica

(More info at Discogs)

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Good Luck Child by "Spider" John Koerner

Good Luck Child by “Spider” John Koerner

There was a couple of people who liked to hear some 1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – So I thought I’d share the rest of the album.

Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic

Track 1 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica

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Just The Two Of Us – Bill Withers – Valentines Day Special

Sorry it’s a bit late, I only just thought of it, I’m terrible with dates …

No idea if this is the best or even the right photo for this, but I like the bohemian thing going on with the guys just chillaxin’ playing games on their smartphones.

So for a “diversity is  our strength” valentines day, I made this :

Cheers

Don Charisma

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“Honey For Nothing” – Guest Blogger – UnionHomeStead.com

UnionHomeStead and I had some chats recently. I visited them on my “day off” and really liked their blog. Sorry I don’t know all your names, and it’s no worries, in these days where privacy is rare 🙂 (Google and FaceBook I’m looking at you)

They are Kiwis from New Zealand, running a smallholding, growing their own food and raising their own animals (and kids and children !). All as ethically as they can.

Some concerns where expressed to me, about being a guest blogged (presumably because of exposure to 39000 followers) – but I promise it’s really nothing to worry about. I’d say 99% of those following are nice people, or at least the ones that I’ve had the privilege to converse with. WordPress.com is much friendlier social network than Twitter etc., kinda why I”m still here.

Hopefully, my guest blogging UnionHomeStead.com will bring them some more followers and friends. They are nice people, feel free to pay them a visit, say I sent you.


Honey for Nothing…

Having been asked to guest by The Charismatic One is both incredibly flattering and hugely terrifying. What to write was the number one concern because here is where we confess to being *whisper* utterly, completely, totally disjointed from the world around us. Well, perhaps that is overstating things a tad. Way back when the Homestead was but a twinkle in two bright-eyed kids visage, we were rather proud of being up with the play and in the know. We had some pretty set ideas on ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’ and we weren’t scared to scream ahem…speak them. In fairness, Maggie, Ron et al did give us plenty of fulminating fodder but we fumed with relish; waving our placards from our tiny piece of the planet. That is, right up until the little Homesteaders started along.

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Intelligent Spam, Picking Best Photos And My Social Media Links

I remember I was quite offended at the time. It was fairly soon after I started my blog in 2014.

Thanks for following my blog. I suppose your blog is an intelligent kind of spam based on the wish of bloggers to let their ego develop on the net.

 

I have respect for your intelligence and wish you good luck.

 

(Kind thanks to drwilly of drwillylip.wordpress.com for a most excellent insult)

I came to realise, It’s actually a reasonable comment. A reasonable question to ask oneself. Sometimes criticism may seem harsh, but, it can be some of the best advice one will ever receive.

It’s a question I ask myself when I’m writing or sharing – is what I’m creating enriching people’s experience of life, or am I just creating “Intelligent Spam” ? Am I sharing something people wouldn’t normally see ? Am I distributing information which is interesting ? and so on.

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Leak Humour And Country Flags (Water Filter Is Fixed BTW)

In response to my post about my leaky water filter (which is now fixed) – My friend and fellow blogger – who’s taking a break from blogging, and has been so kind in helping me, in my comments section, left me this comment today :

On a somewhat related note, when we first move into our house we started receiving calls all day from a waterproofing company who just would not take no for an answer. My wife, who worked night shift, got tired of the calls waking her up as she tried to sleep during the daytime.

 

Next time they called and asked if we had a problem with water leaking in the basement she responded, “Yes, we have a terrible problem. When it rains the water comes in and starts filling up the basement, but before it can get more than two feet deep it starts leaking out. Can they come out immediately and stop it? We just can’t get it deep enough to do any serious swimming.”

 

They never called back, but for a couple weeks afterwards she got nervous whenever someone came to the house, assured it was going to be the men in white coats coming to take her away.

 

Author – (c) 2020 The Modern Theologian

As I said they he is taking a break from blogging, so please bear that in mind if visiting his blog (I’ve linked to, because I always cite sources with links if possible).

And, the “And” part :

I’ve been slowly adding the flags of the countries of my commenters on my sidebar (as I’m proud of my own flag, I assume others are too). Just added Spain, Australia, Canada and Denmark. If I missed anyone please leave a comment which flag you want to see and I’ll add it for you.

Cheers

Don Charisma

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Archive Activism! Archive Every “News” Link You Post, Cross Platform

This guy has been posting some useful information regarding coronavirus – I just posted about UK imposing forced quarantine. The FT article I shared was behind a paywall.

So I picked it up from – http://archive.ph/

He also says that you can get articles from – https://archive.org/web/

As I understand it, I can share the article for “satire or discussion”, and guess what ? My posts have a comments section, ie a discussion, so I can re-post under copyright fair use rules.

Anyway – I’ll let “Styxhexenhammer666” explain more about “archive activism”, in order to hold the fakestream media to account :

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