Hi Hong Kong and Singapore

I see many readers from Hong Kong and Singapore but are you real people and why do you find my pathetic little site so interesting all of a sudden? Are you spying on me?

Good luck

I want this policy in the UK

Word of the day - FRISSON

The word today is Frisson (Free-sohn)

This is a bit of a departure for us today as this is actually a French word, not from my native English.

Frisson is a noun and from my research means the following:

- A brief moment of intense arousal (pleasure/fear/peace/awe)

- A sudden feeling of excitement (or fear) giving pleasure or satisfaction

- A temporary rush of emotion(s) triggered by internal or external trigger(s)

French for shiver apparently

It is not known how many languages this French word has been absorbed into.

Frisson is a wonderful word encompassing many "feelings" 

Frisson is a pysical response to an emotional ocurrence (and vice-versa)

Frisson is described by the English phrase "A shiver down my back".

Frisson may also be described as "Made my hair stand on end"

A frisson may result from fear, happiness, contentment, awe or expectation

If you need more start here, here, here or here.

There is an index of words of the day.

If you are brave or foolish enough to dig into the different types of words in English, try this.

She almost got away with it (murder!)

Here is the story of a murderer; a young woman who killed both of her parents at the same time and for over 4 years no-one had a clue. In fact it took her immediate and voluntary confession, at the time her front door was smashed down by the police, before anyone could really comprehend what they had exposed. For four years she had lived alone in the house of her (dead) parents, with them secreted and entombed in upper-floor rooms. She almost got away with murder!

Being an aspiring painter with few acquaintances, she had formerly lived with her parents, but to free herself from a well of debts she took money from them whilst they were alive and then after their murders.

In one day she poisoned her father and battered her mother with a hammer until dead, then (rather craftily) did nothing. I suppose her thought was "no body, no crime", so she simply hung on to her parents and all evidence of their deaths. They went upstairs and the blooded hammer went under the stairs. Job done!

Covid-19 restrictions helped her explain their initial "disappearance" through to 2022, then up to September 2023 she explained to neighbours and former acquaintances that they had "retired to the Clacton area". She even had an unrelated visit by the police, who she invited into the house, but they didn't "smell" a thing wrong.

What she didn't foresee was a GP at her parent's medical practice referring them to a council "safeguarding" team, who eventually  called in the police; and her game was over.

Neighbours and the few people who interacted with Virginia McCullough described her as being "a quite pleasant fantasist", "funny and irreverent, with a dark sense of humour", though a 36 year sentence for double murder will no doubt knock that out of her. My irreverent sense of humour suggests the price of her paintings has just gone up!

Virginia McCullogh - Let me tell you officer, they are upstairs!

Read a press article here and another regarding the prosecution of an intrusive blogger.

Word of the day - LASCIVIOUS

The word today is Lascivious

Lascivious is an adjective and from my research means the following:

- Expressing a strong desire for sexual activity

- To be lustful, possibly in a predatory sense

- To be insatiable with regard to lustful desire(s)

Not good to be Lascivious!

England pronounces Lascivious like Lass-Iv-E-Uss

By acting lasciviously you are exhibiting lasciviousness

By acting lasciviously you are being lascivious

If someone says you are lascivious they think you sex-mad and creepy

Lasciviousness  is not what you want to be accused of!

Lasciviousness applies to any person, akin to predatory nymphomania

Lascivious and Libidinous of get mixed-up

If you need more start here or here.

There is an index of words of the day.

If you are brave or foolish enough to dig into the different types of words in English, try this.

Word of the day - INSIDIOUS

The word today is Insidious

Insidious is an adjective and from my research means the following:

- Working or spreading harmfully in subtle and stealthy ways.

- Steadfastly working to entrap or introduce treachery to others.

- To be unremitting in a beguiling yet harmful enterprise.

- Secretly and gradually cause harm(s) .

Insidious means an ongoing corruption is in play!

To be insidious you or they are unrelenting and deviously malignant

Acting insidiously, your insidious aim will reveal its insidiousness

If someone says you are insidious they think you are a bad influence

Insidiousness is not what you want to be accused of!

If you need more start here or here.

There is an index of words of the day.

If you are brave or foolish enough to dig into the different types of words in English, try this.

Phil Shiner - what a shit you are

Crooked ex-lawyer Phil Shiner

Phil Shiner is the sort of person I despise, because of what he has been found guilty of.

Hiding behind a façade of supposed respectability as a British lawyer, heading up the firm Public Interest Lawyers (who were NOT found guilty), his greed and self-serving actions undermined the very forces who would actually fight to their death to protect his cushy life in the UK. 

By fishing for business in the WOKE world of total righteousness', he engaged local "agents" to cold-call in Iraq in order to drum-up false claims against UK forces and thereby secure him paid work. 

If you ever meet him, don't forget to remind him that he's a parasitic slime-ball.

He initially denied his dubious practice but the truth finally came out and here is his story.