Monday 16 July 2018

Temptation


The World Cup is over. Back to work. Quite a few Brits have lost their jobs by not returning home when they said they would. Their bosses never believed that England was going to get as far in as they did. You can understand it though - how could anyone tear themselves away from a semi-final match with their own country playing?

Now that the survivor of the latest Novichok poisoning  has recovered enough to talk to investigators, he has obviously been able to let them know that the container was still in the house where he lived with his partner. He was also able to tell his brother that the container was a perfume bottle of the spray diffuser kind. This could explain why his partner died and he did not.

Just think about it. You find a bottle of perfume in a park and pick it up. The woman will not be able to resist trying the scent, so sprays some on the back of her hand. Her partner becomes contaminated by the close proximity, or even by touching her, but having received a smaller dose, he survives.

It is very sad. It reminds me of the 'Butterfly' bombs of WW2 (above). The Germans made little bombs the size and shape of a medium pork pie. They had two little folding wings on them which opened up from the canister when dropped from the plane and, like sycamore seeds, they floated down and gently settled in fields. They only exploded when they were picked up.

There is a nasty twist to this. They were painted in bright colours which always attracted children. These colours seemed to have no real meaning or purpose, so it is thought that the painting was a deliberate tactic.

The children were evacuated to the countryside to escape the bombs on the cities.

19 comments:

  1. I wonder what is going on at Porton Down at the moment. It is looking like it could all end up at their door.

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    1. I haven't heard anyone suggesting that it could be Porton Down apart from the Russians, who suggested that it could also have come from the Ukraine. If either of these turn out to have a grain of truth in them, then we are going to have to make a massive apology to Russia. As Corbyn rightfully pointed out, the U.K. needs hard evidence before accusing anyone of this horrible crime. It doesn't help that everyone now loves Russia for a brilliant World Cup!

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  2. The perfume bottle theory sounds right for this situation but wrong for the first outbreak. ...

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    1. Oh yes, the first was a deliberate attempt and the second was collateral damage.

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  3. Is there any thing in yours media about the balloons that burn all the south here? just balloons that any child can throw and are connected with explosive charges, they are sent from Gaza and land here in the fields.

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    1. Yes we hear about them. We also hear of the IDF's response to them. I do not want to get into that old argument again. It is a difficult problem and Hamas do not help.

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    2. OK.I also don't want to argue here, you people have your real important "blogger"'s argues here, keep them going.

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    3. And the response was to the 180 rockets at one night last week, not to the balloons. I shall not say more.

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    4. I know, Yael. I really do feel for you and I really do despise Hamas using human shields, but I really do feel for ordinary Palestinians too. Is that allowed in your world?

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    5. I also feel for them,I can not see a solution to the problem here.

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  4. Booby traps have always been inventive. I'll never forget reading about certain German booby trapped binoculars that had knives in the lenses. Very nasty!

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    1. Most booby traps are hidden. Those bombs were the opposite of hidden.

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  5. We really have few redeeming qualities, we humans. Only the urge to help those maimed.

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    1. I'm listening to a lecture on morals and rules in war right now.

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  6. Here on the Isle of Sheppey in WW2, an experiment took place with balloon bombs. The idea being a balloon with a bomb suspended on a long wire which, while floating high in the sky would see the wire catch the wing of a German plane and drw the bomb up tothe plane. Alarge number of these boms were released one night to float out over the nearby Thames Estuary but unfortunately the wind changed and blew them back over the fields here, the result the next morning was at least one child being blinded in both eyes by picking one up.

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  7. What is the device in your picture, is it a weight scale?
    Greetings Maria x

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  8. I have read your post again, you did explain what it is, sorry.
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