I’m so intelligent that,….

I calculated that I was in the top 0.1 % of  I Q in the USA

But I don’t understand what 0.1%  is in ordinary language. Can someone explain it to me ?

I can remember reading the information on the cornflakes box when I was only 18 months old. I  have never read a book since then.

My own IQ is very low it is one standard deviation below the norm that means I’m in the lowest 25% of the population and yet I have been to university and got a degree

This proves it is not of any use to work out what your IQ is as it says in the Bible

By their deeds you will know them

Free contraception for everybody

Dear doctor

Thank you for telling me certain free services from my local pharmacy.

If you think I need free contraception am I allowed to tell you that I would like to have a child now even if it’s a virgin birth. But do you think it’s safe at my age?

I am still young enough to get the free RSV vaccine.

I understand that you want to keep elderly people out of hospital in the winter so can I catch  a disease in the summer and spend some time in the hospital in July?

As long as they have air conditioning I don’t mind. But please don’t give me steroids.

I see there are about 10 services I can get from the pharmacy but the main problem I have is that I’m not mobile.

Do you think the pharmacist will come to my house or have the receptionist who wrote to me made a mistake and looked up the wrong person on your computer?

I must  repeat this if you really do believe that I can get pregnant now please inform me as soon as possible then I can try to find someone to oblige or failing that maybe you could ask God to send the Angel Gabriel round to my house.

God knows that I am disabled and indeed deformed in certain ways but Angels see the beauty in everybody. I do have very beautiful eyes despite everything.

Yours faithfully

Mary

Mary and the pink coat

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Emile woke  Mary up at 7am.It was a  Sunday in  late October, grey and damp though the sun was still not  too low in the sky
Go away, she told him.The clock has changed.It’s not 8 am yet.I have to wash my hair as well.Get the Observer out of the basket for me,please.
I can’t read. the dear animal replied.And why don’t you rebel and stick to Summer Time?
I know Stan wanted to send you to Eton but we couldn’t afford it.Yet you understand days and calenders, Mary joked  sorrowfully
She got up and found her fleece dressing gown; it was   conker brown covered in coloured spots.She went downstairs and gave Emile a Whitby kipper.Then she made some tea and took it upstairs so she could drink it while she came round from her dreams
Suddenly Annie ran into   her bedroom wearing a  long black vinyl coat and  red knee-high boots
You never locked the back door, she howled like a lost  leopard which has had no  food for weeks
I don’t suppose anyone wants my old TV as it is only 19 inches.And my Chromebook is not something worth re-selling.I do have a new coat.
How about Ray Monk’s life of Wittgenstein, Annie asked her defiantly, her apricot lips pouting childishly as the Riemann of Paris lipstick glittered uncannily like an imaginary number in a dream of Godel.
The people who might enjoy reading it are by virtue of that , not the sort to steal or buy it on the black market.
That is very racist, Annie told her.You should say:the beige market!
Then nobody would know what I meant, Mary said lovingly
Anyway, do you want to come to Marks with me? They have some beautiful coats in
I’d like a pink wool coat, said Mary thoughtfully
Quite right  ,said Annie.Bring back feminine colours
Actually, gay men might like pink coats, she continued.But if they go on the bus they might get dirty.Come to think of it, so will women’s coats
They will have to buy pink puffa jackets and we can wash them at 30 deg.Mary whispered
Using a special detergent, Annie asked?
I have never seen a detergent for washing gay men.I don’t think they will fit into the washing machine.On the other hand, you are small so you will fit in
Shall I get undressed first, Annie asked furtively.
Yes, I’ll try to put you on a  short wash for 15 minutes but it is your choice.Maybe a bath would be safer?
No problem, said Annie intellectually.Are you having one with me?
You’d better be careful, Mary ad-libbed.It might be sexual harassment.
Well, I am not gay , said Annie.
You never know till you try, Mary giggled ,like a child behind the school canteen
Why, we might become gender fluid and then who knows?
And so say all of us
Miaow

Retaliation..no.

I think what I just posted about what someone said to me in the hospital could be restated a

Don’t retaliate.

Some people think that’s soft. But when we retaliate sometimes we do it against another person not the one who hurt us.

Either way it seems as if it creates  more evil

And  so it goes.On and on

How the cat ate the curry

I left a pan of curry on the stove
Hot as ash combined with burning coal
Yet when I went back in a cat stood there
Eating this strong curry with no care.

It must have had thick skin inside its mouth
Before I looked ,it ran out of the house
To think it gobbled up our supper so
Leaving me with nothing but a glow

So then I made a chilli beef and beans
My heart ached as I listened to puss scream
Can cats learn that pans are out of bounds?
I’d hate to hear again its anguished sounds

Be sure to close the kitchen door or else
You too will suffer torment from cats’ yells

I’m angry with the media yet again

I am sorry that I read stories that are deliberately trying to make people anxious.

For example there’s a lot of rumours and even published articles claiming that the government are going to means test state pensions

State pensions are taxed in the usual way if the state pension plus your job related pension or any other pension rise above the personal allowance which is round about 12,000 pound per annum

The state pension will never be taken away from anyone ( unless they move out of Britain)

If if the state pension rises above the personal allowance then the excess will be taxed in the normal manner

To my mind that’s rather low  if that’s all you’re living on

But these newspapers and websites publishing the frightening stories make me very angry because they pretend to be helping people by giving them useful information but in fact it’s all lies or mostly it is

The headline is frightening and then the article when you read it is actually saying the opposite of what they are suggesting to you but how many people will read all of those?

So much misinformation around really it’s not just Donald Trump and his fellows

Because they want to affect our emotions they want to cause distress and that may possibly in some cases lead to riots or troubles in society.

And that can lead to complete tragedy

A 61-year-old man was put in prison after being involved in the riots in and believe Rotherham and very sadly he has committed suicide after a few months.

And I blame some of the media for these sort of things because a lot of people don’t understand what’s going on and they don’t know what asylum seekers are as opposed to illegal immigrants and this should not be happening.

I suppose I’m over optimistic because people always like to gossip and create rumours but it’s dangerous now because of the spread of the internet and the devices we have

I apologise for the American spelling of some of these words when I use the dictation and maybe I’ll be able to change it if I do a bit of work

It’s already difficult in this country with rising prices still going on etc and why let your blood pressure be raised by fear. Well a lot of people are not literate or numeric enough to be able to understand what’s going on and they rely on some kind of media but now we’re told the BBC is very left wing so that poly deters some people

Let’s face it some people enjoy being frightened and creating trouble and frightening other people and I suppose it’s always been so and it’s always will be unless we try to stop it.

Why it’s better to use a crutch

If you have problems with mobility, you may think it’s better not to use a stick or a crutch or that dreaded object the Zimmer frame.

But if without some support you are unable to stand erect and walk about amongst other people having your eyes at the same level as most adults then it’s better to use a walking aid.

It’s rather like spectacles. I met a new colleague a few years ago who had a very good reputation was very interesting and intelligent but all I was aware of when I was with her was the fact that she obviously needed spectacles: that she was very short sighted

But clearly she believed that she looked better without her spectacles on. I’m not sure why she would do this in a staff room when you’re not normally signalling your availability to be someone’s sexual partner but even if you were I think it would be better to wear your spectators or contact lenses rather than peer about.

Maybe I’m just a bit dim I didn’t realize that the staff room was the place for picking up partners of any kind. But would you rather date someone who was going blind or someone who was wearing some very attractive spectacles and seemed lively and interesting?

After  all you can take the spectacles off when you go to bed.

If you wear lipsticks which doesn’t last long on your lips then you can either just forget about it or you can do what  some women used to do namely keep reapplying their lipstick every 20 minutes or so regardless of where they are or what else is happening.

This makes you seem like an airhead.

If that’s what you want then fine but if you don’t want to look like that then you either need to give up wearing lipstick or do a bit of research into how to make it stay on your lips longer. It could be you just need to buy a more expensive brand.

It could also be a nervous tic that you’re not really aware of. The other people will notice you constantly fiddling in your bag or your pocket and then applying this unguent to your lips

It’s very distracting when someone appears like this

But it’s not as bad as reapplying your deodorant to your armpit while you’re in a meeting whether it’s a mother’s meeting or a business meeting or a religious meeting

Of course applying lipstick can be very seductive similarly so is powdering your face in certain circumstances but these are unlikely to occur in most situations in life.

And anyway it’s a waste of money buying lipstick. Don’t you wonder why it doesn’t last  very long? In the past I remember one of my teachers at school saying that scientists could have found out why our nylon stockings were always getting ladders but they didn’t want to.

Well we found the answer which is to wear trousers which do not get ladders in them strangely. I wonder why that is

But anything that you can do that makes you feel more confident or improve your posture etc then do it if you can afford it. But when it comes to face lifts.. probably best avoided.

Unusual things you need to know about washing your clothes

We are looking at you yes

Apparently you should turn socks inside out before you put them in the washing machine all the bowl of water because there will be dead skin inside.

So it might be a good idea to wash your feet before you get into bed

In fact if you wash your entire body before you get into bed you might not need to change your sheets as frequently.

Because it’s expensive washing a lot of things frequently so the more you can minimize the better

So wash your body frequently to avoid having to wash your clothes frequently n

One very sensible hint is that especially in the winter you wear some cotton leggings or pyjamas underneath your trousers and then you can wash the undergarment frequently and wash your trousers less frequently

Since trousers may need to be ironed you can also save yourself work by wearing these cotton leggings underneath your trousers as long as you do not get the urge to iron the cotton leggings every day or every week

It is true though that ironing your clothes will kill bacteria

So if you can’t wash your trousers then  iron them with a hot iron

Did you ever get the feeling that skirts were easier than trousers in some respects ?

Skirts are looser and don’t sit so close to your body and when I was younger and wearing skirts we wore petticoats underneath which is a similar principle to wearing cotton leggings

And if you wore tights then you would wash your tights every day and they would have absorbed some of the sweat from your body and the dead skin from your skin etc

My god I’m going to have a nervous breakdown thinking about all this dead skin and the sweats and so on and so forth.

Maybe it will be better to move to a hot country where you can spend your time wearing very few clothes and the dead skin will get washed off because you maybe going into the sea frequently to swim or whatever.

It makes me wonder why does our skin die and drop off into our underwear or socks? I’m not sure of the answer but skin is fragile

But once it’s dead it’s not removed then it will attract bacteria and sometimes this can be the explanation for the horrible smell coming from your socks.

Still it just seemed rather cruel to deprive the bacteria of their food as God made the bacteria just as he made you.

It’s a puzzle listen to it it seems that every creature except for cows and the ruminants eats another creature

Bacteria are very kind because they eat dead skin cells which don’t feel pain because they’re dead.

So on balance bacteria seem to be very kind creatures which is good because they can’t get married and buy houses and buy clothes and washing machines

And sll the other fun things that we humans have to do

I mean what do bacteria do to pass the time?

They can’t watch the television. They can’t read they can’t talk to each other as far as we know but would we ever be able to detect it?

In fact are they really alive! They mutate but I don’t think they have sex as we would understand it

So what is the purpose why are they alive?Dieæ this mean that some beings are alive but they’re never enjoy any pleasure but since they have no brains they can’t think consider don’t know about pleasure and deprivation.

In a sense they have a very restricted life but they don’t have to get a job they do not have to comply to the wishes of others and develop a false self as we have read human beings do when they are not in the right environment.

Well I wish that Netanyahu would develop a false self

Perhaps he could take Putin with him for a respray

True or false well at least they would look better with some new paint on them which could be washed down regularly but the bacteria would not be there because when you’re outer shell is paint it has no nutritional value at the moment but it’s possible that creatures may evolve that can live on bits of pain there’s a dropped off cars or human beings similar to what might happen to lipstick that drops off women’s lips

I feel I’m going in the wrong direction and perhaps I need a new brain

Never pass water in public.

The saying

Never pass water in public

Might make it difficult if you live near  a lake or river.

Or it’s been raining and there’s a puddle on the payment mother told you never to pass it in public

Never skate on our water until it freezes

Passing water can be hard for the elderly so remember this when you’re drawing up your walking expedition. Don’t take them to the lake District.

Now moving on what about passing out?

I once passed out at the dining table but usually soldiers pass out after they’ve completed their training. That’s why they look so numb

Some drugs make me pass out the main one being gtn or glycerol trinitrate. This is a treatment for angina which blows open all your arteries. But if you are inexperienced and use too much of it you will feel as if your eyes can’t see properly your scalp will start to sweat profusely and the world will shrink around you

If you feel like this try to kneel down or lie down on the floor to avoid injuring yourself when you faint. Is there any happened to me once and it was horrible

Remember not everybody is drunk when they act in a strange way because it can also because by diabetic medication to lower the blood sugar.

If it goes too low you can actually pass out or even die

But your doctor won’t get into trouble because they were giving you the treatment recommended the fact that it affects you more than other people it’s nothing to do with the doctor.

They are all terrified of being accused of doing something wrong

Well that’s only right isn’t it?

By the way if you pass large amounts of water and feel terribly thirsty that may very well be a sign of diabetes.

If you get to the point when you’re losing weight it is not because your drinking half a point of water before every meal. It is that you’ve got diabetes your body cannot take the sugar out of your blood to feed the cells and for some reason which I don’t quite understand it begins to  digest your muscles.

I’ve known two friends who were so happy they were losing weight until the real reason was found.

One of them had an eating disorder and she could eat very few foods so she concentrated on cheesecake as being full of protein

You can’t live on cheese cake

You could live on bread and cheese plus salads  and maybe some boiled eggs, tomatoes etc

The end of the public convenience in the United Kingdom

Make it your duty never to pass water.

You maybe pleased to learn that under the last 14 years of conservative rule 673 public conveniences or bathrooms as Americans call them have been closed.

This makes it very difficult for some of us to go out. If you are near a shopping centre or a department store that might be okay but what about in the evening when these places are closed?

It’s the least we could expect and moreover there are now a lot of people traveling around delivering parcels or into the vast increase in  online shopping.

In many cases there is literally nowhere for them to go.

And buying incontinence products is very expensive and moreover why should people be forced to become incontinent just because they’ve got weak bladders or their elderly or they’ve just had a baby?

These are the minimum requirements for a city or even a town that there should be enough provision in the evening or in the morning before shops open for Peter who need to go to the toilet.

I know what happens near me. There’s two phone booths by the general post office and I’m glad I no longer have to use them because the floors are always swimming in urine. If you are a man who likes to drink a lot of beer kindly urinate before you leave the pub not after though I understand that it could be difficult for you.

There is only rhythm

Indefinite as  watercolor paint

There are no edges, boundaries no ends

In the Nothingness of all become a saint

Then the grace of colour will consent.

Lost in beauty like a  deep sea fish

Swimming in a rhythm,a Schubert song.

Such a creature  is an ordinary wish.

In the flowing  paint there is no wrong.

I am you and you are me that’s so.

Do not worry where the boundary lies

Let it all be done in patience slow

The mermaid on her sea shell  gives a sigh

There is no solid world,no compliant me.

Oh god of rhythm come now and set us free

Trust the dark

 

Trust the unknown force that grew you,
From the joining of two cells.
Act of love and of self giving,
Creating then a new born self.

Trust the dark,the unseen aspects
Of the life we all do live.
Trust that there is wisdom elsewhere,
To your emptiness to give.

Wait in patience for the time
When inspiration comes at last
Trust in darkness,silence,lowness.
Opposition forms the cross.

Pain is bearable in lowness,
Like the worm in earth I dwell.
When I look I see the sunrise
And I trust all shall be well.

The Jigsaw broken

My life was like a jigsaw quite complete

I had all the pieces fit there looking neat

But circumstance and weakness broke it down.

Yet I have to smile where I would frown.

I can’t complain of suffering in excess

Nor order god himself to mete redress.

Loss and grief and loneliness are here.

Hostility and rage complete the sphere

Men who look alike in DNA

See themselves as other,war as play

And when the fighting stops they stand in blood

And so it is they rape for motherhood.

How can women bear to carry on ?

The wombs are empty and the world is done

I cannot make the puzzle pieces fit.

The sacred tablets broken have no wit.

Try shoplifting

I found my vocation at last

Shoplifting is hard to resist

So do it full time

As I recommend in these rhymes

With such theft you will surely be blessed

Do you complain about tax?

Are church candles made out of  wax?

The chancellor reigns

So forgo your gains

These it is clear all the facts

We learn by love

The pathways to the heart are learned by love

And those who find this knowledge never lose.

As virtue’s  grace may help us from above

All we see are hills and rocky views.

With willingness to cross the seas of mud,

To drag ourselves through tangled briar-filled woods.

Our soul shows us the truth and what is good,

For trees that looked quite dead are now in bud.

With wild flowers kissing feet and blessing toes

Encouragement is finally received

And as we smell the fragrance of the rose,

We know our gladdened hearts were not deceived.

Fortune favours those with steadfast feet.

The journey may be long, the end is sweet.

Note: The saying “Fortune favours the brave” is attributed to several people..Virgil, Pascal, Montaigne are ones I have found

Disenchanted universe

The Romantics, faced with a disenchanted universe, attempted to discover a new source of enchantment in the human imagination, and poetry became a metaphor for that creative, life-enhancing power. Poetry used to mean poems. Now poems began to seem like just one habitation, and far from the grandest, of the force that is poetry. Naturally, this fateful division between poetry and poems had enormous consequences for the way poems were written. After all, if poetry is ineffable and infinite, there is no reason it should be bound by the mechanical laws of meter and rhyme. In the modern age, poetry became antinomian.

Then you were gone

North sea

How white and blue together recollect us
to the summer sky and the imagined swallows
darting in exquisite geometry
under the great domed space of the heavens,
like the Basilica in Constantinople
containing and giving space.
And how I held you for a moment that was infinite
and then you were gone like an angel fearing enchantment
into some finite boundaried world

How to be the murderer

This is not autobiographical

How to kill the cancer without killing you as well.

How to be the murderer of these errant cells

How to be accepting when they give you more bad news

How to get your anger out when they don’t ask  for your views

Please dont ask the doctor please don’t ask the nurse

I learn the diagnosis and put it into verse

There’s something wrong with my DNA so the bad cells will not die

Take me to my sister dear for she will let me cry

The cancer is omnipotent, it wants to rule the whole

It’s put me into handcuffs and tossed me on the coal

There are no hierarchies each cell plays a part

And so it is with organs, the brain is not the heart

A tiny change can escalate the tempest and the storm

Yet in the centre of the beast the still small voice is calm

Act yourself

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Who did gooseberries fool?
Why do strawberries jam?
Do eggs lie on toast?
She fried her own eggs daily
She even made her own bread
We had grapefruits bigger than the grapes.
Why do sheets change?
Do pillows have good cases in law?
Why get married when you can go to prison free ?
Why have a man when you could love a cat
Why marry a wo/man when you can go fishing?
Just relax and act naturally
How do dreams get out of our unconscious into the conscious mind?