

To move away from the rather grim realities of Gaza genocide, public policy, pedophiles, politicians, and so on, it all being grim mostly due to an absence of all of these parasites, mass murderers, and child rapists swinging from trees and lampposts, I thought I would share a slightly lighter event from my life, and that is my wife and I’s discussion of my celebrity crush: Emily Blunt.
When we watch the odd film, that my wife manages to stay awake for past the initial credits, there was a time that if Dwayne Johnson was in it, she would say “Oh yes!” to it, she has since gone completely off him after some allegations (I have no knowledge about their veracity or otherwise) that appeared somewhere that he was for hire to service men or women in what I think is the male equivalent of “yachting” for female actresses. Anyway, her tastes vary generally, or are more broad than mine.
I, a true connoisseur of refined taste, have only really had two celebrity crushes (and yes, yes, let’s all just pretend Hollyweird is not a hive of pedophiles and worse for a minute here, this is fantasy land territory).
The first was Madeline Stowe, who in her prime was a vision, and more recently, Emily Blunt.
Oh, there was also Famke Jannsen, but a couple of years ago I saw her in a new film or TV series or something, and Oh, my God… my brain was fried. Whoever her plastic surgeon was should be hung, drawn and quartered. While she was not quite Donatella Versace level of African Mask make-over, it was a rude shock. So much so my brain has practically excised her from memory.
So it’s Madeline Stowe, and yes, she has slightly asymmetrical features, and they only make her prettier.
And when Madeline was gracefully “retired” in my mind, the only other actress I found very attractive was Emily Blunt.
They might seem quite different women, but they are both in that range of beauty that goes near or above 9 and from which, no real agreement between men can be reached. No one is a 10 to everyone, but some are tens to some. Beyond 9, the numbers get hazy. As does the sanity, of course, as I wrote about many moons ago, nevertheless, while Stowe could have been described as more Latino-ish and smouldering, and Blunt more quintessentially English, they both have a playfulness that would no doubt come into it behind closed doors. I also probably had a soft spot for Emily because in many ways she does remind me quite a bit of my wife. Aside the pretty looks, they have quirky senses of humour, although I suspect Emily’s dark side is kept a little away from the cameras. But overall there is a playful intelligence and the generally somewhat amusing English shyness mixed with slightly ridiculous rigid logic and somewhat absurd concepts of empathy and humanity makes such women endearing to me.
Anyway, given our dark humour, my wife and I habitually tease each other on pretty much anything and everything. Needling each other with our hypothetical “crushes” on random actors/actresses is part of the fun. Of course, for all we know they are horrible people in real life, or maybe not, but I somehow think it’s unlikely we’d ever bump into them at the local rural market on a random Tuesday and find out or become great friends, so it’s all just fantasy.
Today, my wife struck a low blow. I received this message… out of the blue.
https://www.veraclinic.net/emily-blunt-plastic-surgery/
So uncalled for. Hurtful really.
I protested, said it was all lies, just vicious gossip. Our text conversation was quite tragic.
As I asserted Emily was all natural, and I was willing to prove it with my body! For science! She retorted that I would never be able to tell if Emily would enjoy the process, what with her being practically mummified now.
Wife: Shame, it made her eyes all wonky.
Me: LIES!!
Wife:
Me: Jealousy makes you evil!
Wife: Emily is a waxwork now darling, Lol!
I tried to placate the green monster…
Me: I remember thinking she’s around your age in the last film I saw (some drama about big Pharma) and she clearly has aged but is still pretty and I thought she is one of the few that has aged nearly as well as you…
I wasn’t falsely flattering her, I do think that.
Wife: But alas, she succumbed to the call of the plastic. Vain little creature.
Me: (more seriously) but did she? I skimmed the article you sent and couldn’t notice from the pictures in it I glanced at.
Wife: I saw pictures of her at a recent event and was like: Shit, what has she done?
Me: No! Not Emily!
Wife: I know it may take some time for these news to set in, But you’re a smart man, and clearly, though your brain gets all dizzy and F* up around certain types of women…
Me: Hot slutty ones?
Wife: you will clearly see in front of you here a botched bit of facial work. Sad. So sad Emily.
Me: (expecting a sadly revealing picture) No! Spare me the trauma! Let me Dream!
Wife: Ok.
Wife: Emily can’t do that (wink)
Me: (Waiting)
Me: You really not going to send it? I thought you knew me better than that. Send it!
Wife:
Me:
Wife:
Wife: Now she’s angry
You just can’t tell.
Me: (Laughing)
Wife: Bitch has gone full Essex on you!
Me: I can still dream… maybe seen from behind…
Wife: For now… but she’s on the train…
Me: Wow… the knives! The SCALPELS you’re throwing at poor Emily!
Wife: I can’t help it. I’m disappointed in her.
Me: (knowing this is probably true actually) Still, the cattiness… ferocious!
Wife: Ah… go write about it. (We have another way of saying this in Italian I think. It also starts with “Ah…” and also “Go…” slightly different ending though.)
Me: I will!
Wife: I’m sure.
Me: Title? Wife Savages Emily Blunt! Husband Worst Hit!
Wife: How I know She Loves me. Hahahaha
And so there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
And Emily, if you ever read this… please, for the love of God, stop. You’re still beautiful, and you know, you can come round our place and my wife can give you a pep talk about self-confidence. Or I can. It’ll be fine, we’re Catholics, we can’t divorce, and I still have good reflexes, the knife stabs probably won’t kill me. Maybe a little scarring, but hey, you’re not new to that eh?
Oh and even if I liked his Jack Ryan series, it’s ok, you can leave the husband at home, someone needs to look after the kids after all.
Yeah, that’s how we roll. We’re not really very nice people. That’s why we’re Catholics. God came to save the worst of the lot, didn’t you know?
As Civilians in Gaza are carpet bombed and killed by the thousands, noticing this fact, along with he mass graves, actual call for genocide by the Israeli government officials representing it and so on, goes on, the worst crime you can commit, is noticing it.
And being able to do math and telling others about it is a crime punishable by law now in Germany.
Tell me again how the great replacement is a “conspiracy theory” and how the mass media is not run by a small group of people that also controls the banks and world finance and promotes transgenderism, homosexuality and mass immigration into Europe and the USA of illegals that cause disproportionate levels of crime. And how, they also are disproportionately represented in the people who were at the head of all the aspects of the COVID fake VAXX mass-murder event.
I’m listening, go one, “educate” me on how these are all just “conspiracy theories” and so obviously false that you need to criminalise simply making public information from the government that is already public anyway.
Seriously, go on… I am curious as to how you explain it.
Race, Religion and Nation
Adam wrote an excellent piece on this here, and I urge you all to read it.
Adam is a proper Catholic (Sedevacantist) and has got this point about race and religion right.
Nevertheless, I, as a Venetian, have some more nuanced view (or extremist, take your pick).
My country, my nation, has been usurped and annexed first by the French under that megalomaniac Napoleon, and essentially dissolved by the French on 12 May 1797,
He then gave it to the Austrians, who then gave it to the Italians in 1805 (under Napoleon still) but then took it back by force in 1814 with help of the English. Between then and 1866 it went back to independence, then back to Austria, then back to France, then finally to the Italian Kingdom in 1866. Despite this, there has been an undercurrent of Venetian wish for return to independence that has never ended, and that will never end.
On April 25th 2016 I was in St. Mark’s Square during the traditional feast for the patron Saint of Venice. The mayor started out strong claiming Venetian nationality but then went full diversity and the crowd pretty much turned their backs on him with not a few shouts of “bastard” and “traitor”.
It was more than the Catholic religion that held those people together and that calls to me too. Despite my having never felt any loyalty to Italy as a country in general, I feel one towards Venice.
I grew up all over the world and when I lived in Cape Town for over a decade, I loved that city, and the sea, and when I would come back to it after a trip, driving in, seeing the Ocean below I always wondered “Is this my place?“ I liked it and I had chosen it, but it never felt truly mine, even though I liked it more than any place I had been before. It was much later, in 2004 or so when I worked in Aviano’s US base that on one of my forthrightly trips to London, when the plane took a turn over it and I saw the waterways and laguna not close to the city really, that instinctively, powerfully, seeing that desolate and water-logged land from the porthole-like window of the plane, I felt a pull in my chest and the words came into my mind unbidden:
That is my land.
I was shocked by it. I had been a nomad all my life and spent more time in various countries in Africa than I ever had in Europe. I had refused and avoided military service in Italy thanks to having lived overseas since a young age, but on principle I hated the idea of being enrolled in a military if not by my own choice.
I knew my grandfather was Venetian and I went there on holiday with him and my grandmother as a little boy of 2 and 3 years old, where they (both champion swimmers) taught me to swim.
I loved the sea, unlike my brother who was scared of it as a little boy.
But I barely had ever taught of Venice or being Venetian. But from that day, that visceral, instinctive pull made me aware of it.
Then in 2016 I lived in Venice for a year and there it become clear. This was, my city. And the Venetians, ornery critters that they are, are recognisably my people, both in the things I detest about them as well as those I like.
There is more to it than mere religion, though I agree it is the main glue that binds a people.
And there is more to it than race, for it has never prevented me from loving a person I cared about, although differences are undeniable, even if we happen to share a religion.
But there is a deeper sense yet, and it might be in the blood, genetics, or maybe there is even a link to the soil, because I can no more explain why a place I was not born or lived in for my entire life other than one year in 2016 should have ever had such a pull on me, in 2004, and when seen from the air that. And not the city or the glory of it, but the swamps and waterways unpopulated by anyone other than birds and fish.
So, yes, while religion binds us above all, so does race and even nation.
Venetians have always been a mixed breed of bastards, because we travelled and explored and traded with the whole world, and we partook of pretty women wherever we went and the Venetian girls were known throughout Europe for being if not easy to keep, certainly adventurous.
We are not phased by difference from us. I certainly have never been. But that is not to say we don’t recognise it.
We are a nation of explorers, and explorers try and do and see. And they learn to appreciate it all; even as we remain ourselves.
My children have a Venetian father and an English mother, and already, I can see, like me, (and their mother too) they are curious and explorers at heart, and like us, they too, are people of the sea.
And I will teach them their ancient history. And see they ignore the lies of the demons trying to conquer us all and make us all the same.
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By G | 8 May 2024 | Posted in Ancient Technology, Catholicism, Increasing Happiness, Relationships, Sedevacantism, Social Commentary, Travel, Writing