Original YT playout date: 14 August 2010
Duration: 45:28
Here we see what is going on in Krakowskie Przedmiescie, the actions of the right wing group Solidarni 2010 and their demand to have the Smolensk disaster investigated as well as the victims properly remembered.
We see some of the atmosphere as activists engage with people on the streets and enter into discussion with someone who claimed that he was making private comments when as you will see he was de facto, whether he realised in or not, addressing a crowd of about 12-15 people. He asked for his comments not to be viewed as public statements, but that’s fine, because we can keep them just in my group of viewers which probably won’t get over a thousand views a year anyway, which is still pretty private by media standards. Continue reading “Warsaw’s Cross … Very!”→
If “we” are vegans, it is because catfish are not vegetables.
If “we” are Jews, it is because Siluroides do not have scales, but either naked skin or bony plates. Therefore they are not kosher. Not kosher is not kosher, don’t ask me to justify it biologically. If you want to be frum, eat kosher, that’s all.
If “we” are anyone else, then the question turns on what do we mean by “catfish”.
The huge biodiversity of catfishes
There are over 3000 species of catfish in the world and they demonstrate vast diversity. From the candirù of South America which swims up people’s urethra if they urinate in the water, all the way up to giant Pangasias or Siluris species among the largest freshwater fishes of the world. Plus various marine species also.
“My name is Vandellia / They call me Candiru / It won’t be you be eating me / It’s me be eating you.”
Just to be clear about how astonishing that fact is, it means that 1 in 20 of the vertebrate species in the world is a species of catfish, in Siluriformes. There’s no other order of vertebrates like that. And the cladists have been trying to break it down until they were looking like clado-masochists, and the geneticists have been getting frenetic and still the Siluriformes is reckoned to be all the product of a single putative common ancestor.
Some species of catfish deliver toxins, some electric shocks, some like Corydoras or Otocinclus are too tiny to be of use as food, but are very popular in aquaria. Some species makes sounds, some get out of the water and walk about, some are transparent and you can see right through them.
There is one catfish fossil despite all of this, its name is Corydoras revelatus and the author has held it in the palm of his hand in the non-public area of the British Museum of Natural History thanks to the kindness of the late Dr Gordon Howes, ichthyologist.
Catfishes which are regularly eaten
The catfishes most commonly farmed as food are European catfish, Silurus glanis. As long as you have got one from sustainable sources they make good eating. I recommend “som fri”” in Russia or the Ukraine. Clearly they are a sports fish too, and in these cases we put them back, we don’t take them and eat them.
In the US it is channel cats, the Ictalurus and Ameiurus species which the song “Walking in Memphis”” references in the words “they got catfish on the table””. These are also fine eating as long as they are fished from sustainable and legitimate sources.
In the Amazon region they eat large Loricariids like Plecos. If you should be there as a tourist and are not a Vegan or kosher Jew, you might want to try one.
A lot of tropical rivers though are home to parasites that can transfer to people. And here I come onto the kind of catfish which has become more popular in supermarkets in recent years, namely Panga.
These can be farmed in particularly polluted parts of the Mekong river. I suggest you don’t make these a part of your menu, although trying them once might be ok.
Original YT playout date: 26 June 2010
Duration: 36:20
On the occasion of this making 1000 videos visible on my channel (in fact there are 25 more than that but the other 25 are taken to private on legal advice).
Drivelled and droned
I drivelled and droned on aimlessly for more than half an hour saying what’s in the first 1000 videos, how there’s more minutes of material on this channel, for whatever that might be worth, than any other channel I know (if you know different please let me know) and where it’s gonna go from here.
Basically, at this point, 1000 videos, 1 of my three targets for 2010 has been achieved just before the half year was up. Now the aims of getting 3 million views and 3,500 subbers still need to be achieved. In the meantime I am marking this point in the channel’s history with a small break. I will be in the meantime preparing new stuff to play out when the new season starts, and to find out some of the things I have in mind for that you’ll have to listen to the guff hereby visually and audially (?) appended. One thing’s for sure – it will be better and more experimental than ever. I’m always experimenting and the mix will change and develop from what has been here till now.
Two WordPress Blogs
In the meantime, please keep up with me on my two wordpress blogs. The serious one with all business and that in it is http://quoracy.com, and the one which is going to be the repository for all the non-business stuff, including all the films on this channel properly classified. As well as my old website stuff which my former host removed, with my hymns, various articles and posts from different places, the poems of Julia Stroganova and the entire canon of stuff about the goldlist, and much more, is http://huliganov.tv . See you there, and see you back here in the new season.
Needless to say, if you haven’t subscribed, you won’t know when the next season kicks off, so please sub up, watch some of the old stuff again in the meantime, and stay in touch with your ratings and comments. Continue reading “My 1000th Video – what’s next?”→
If you are a man, it is. Poland doesn’t do same-sex marriage.
The next prerequisite is finding a Polish girl who wants to marry you.
You then need to visit her family. On the last evening, when there is a big meal and you are the guest of honour, it is the time when you formally ask for the daughter’s hand in marriage. This you do after the main course but if you were given duck blood soup, a dark sweet soup called czernina as the first course, then it is a signal not to ask, as she is already intended for another nobleman.
Once these formalities are concluded the rest is easy.
Original YT playout date: 26 June 2010
Duration: 12:29
The scariest thing I’ve done this year was get in the chair lift in Prague Zoo. It doesn’t stop for anyone. I wasn’t sitting very square in it and the drop was quite a long way to the wire net below.
When they saw me get on it, the lift operators started calling on the name of the second person of the Trinity and His earthly mother, which didn’t bode well. Anyway, I filmed the whole thing. I supposed the ski lift could drag me away despite their fears that it might not hold, but the wild horses to be found at the top of it couldn’t drag me out of Prague Zoo before closing time, even though the battery was only good for the six small films you have here. I could certainly do another six at least with what’s left to show, but I’ll save that for another time. Continue reading “They couldn’t drag me away… (PV #36)”→
