Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 3-10-2025 — Speaking in Tongues

3rd October, 2025: Speaking in Tongues.

Yesterday was Yom Kippur: the Jewish Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the Jewish year.

The day when Britain’s Jewish community would be praying, fasting and seeking forgiveness for the sins of the past year.

And the day when an attacker killed two people at a Manchester synagogue: something police are calling a terrorist attack.

It’s … 

I’m having to think about wording, here.

You and I may not like the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza.

I know I don’t: I think the actions of Netanyahu’s government border on religiously-motivated genocide.

I disagree with that government’s actions.

That does not give me the right to kill, injure, or maim, people for being Jewish, nor does it give me the right to kill people at prayer.

It gives no-one the right to kill!

I’ve long felt killing in the name of a cause is a bad way of promoting it, is tantamount to invalidating it.

That’s what the killer did, yesterday.

In taking the lives of at least two people, he has not promoted cause of the people of Gaza.

He’s killed it: as certainly as he’s killed Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz, his victims.

~≈✡️≈~

A few days ago … ?

I told you of the government’s proposed digital ID: and of how there was a petition against it.

I object: largely on the grounds of cost.

But also as I feel that making it mandatory — as Sir Keir Starmer was proposing — is a bad move.

And a waste of effort: as most of us who are hunting, already have valid ID.

At any rate, if you’re in the UK, I’d appreciate you signing that petition.

Every little helps, and all that!

But I should add a few things.

The web site tells us enough signatures have been gathered: and that the petition must be debated in Parliament.

And tells us that the government has responded.

By telling us:

“We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, and enable wider efficiencies.   We will consult on details soon.”

They also tell us:

“… there are too many people who are excluded, like the 1 in 10 UK adults who don’t have a physical photo ID, so can struggle to prove who they are and access the products and services they are entitled to.”

And that: 

“It will not be compulsory to obtain a digital ID but it will be mandatory for some applications.”

There’s possibly a ton of things, there.

The one in ten adults the response tells us “don’t have a physical photo ID”?

Do they have smart phones?

That’s the point that my objections hinged on: if you don’t have/can’t afford a smart phone, you can’t have this ID.

An ID that the response tells us isn’t compulsory to have … but whose use is mandatory.

Either the government has no idea what it’s saying.

Or its use of double speak is improving.

Or … ?

It’s all mouth and trousers.

~≈⏫≈~

In the midst of all that … ?

I’m actually up, early: and was hoping to get out early.

I’ve an optician’s appointment, today!

Heigh ho!

~≈🤓≈~

Let’s move on.


Yesterday’s Teaser saw Mum*, Olga† and Debbi‡ putting in their answers: with everyone scoring five out of five.



Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?

Here they are, along with the How To, License and video.

Q1)        3rd October, 2024, saw Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit given Classical Language Status.   By which country: China, India or Brazil?

Q2)        How many classical languages does that country have: nine, ten or eleven?

Q3)        Name one of the other languages.

Q4)        How many languages has the country recognised: twenty, twenty-one or twenty-two?

Q5)        Finally … ?   Name either on of the country’s two most widely spoken languages.

Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers … 

Q1)        Avery Brooks was born on 2nd October, 1948.   He played Captain Ben Sisko in which Star Trek series?

A1)        Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Q2)        Phil Oakey was born on 2nd October, 1955.   He was the singer for which synth-pop band: Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode or the Human League?

A2)        The Human League.

Q3)        2nd October is Batik Day in Indonesia.   Batik is a type of dyed what: cloth, rice or clay?

A3)        Cloth.

Q4)        2nd October is the feast day of Saint Leodegar of Poitiers.   Where is Poitiers: Belgium, France or the Seychelles?

A4)        France.

Q5)        Finally … ?   Robert Runcie was born on 2nd October, 1921.   He’d been Archbishop of where: Canterbury, York or Dublin?

A5)        Canterbury.

Here’s a thought …

“The [ … ] Classical languages, or the Śāstrīya Bhāṣā (Hindi) or the Dhrupadī Bhāṣā (Assamese, Bengali) or the Abhijāta Bhāṣā (Marathi) or the Cemmoḻi (Tamil), is an umbrella term …”.

From the Wikipedia entry on the classical languages.

And an video …

The next ten question set is on 24th October: it’s about Zambia

Your comments will be published, tomorrow morning.

Today’s questions will be answered in tomorrow’s Teaser.

Decisions about scores are final.

Thank you for coming: have a good day.

*        Hello, Mum!   (Did you mean Robert Runcie’s son, Mum?)

†        Oh, know, it wasn’t a region thing, Olga.   I had to resize the video, after I’d dumped the original project, and used QuickTime, which exports to .mov, rather than Handbrake, which uses recodes a file to .mp4.   Blogger refuses to play .mov files.

        A water melon … ?   A whole water melon … ??   That gives me an idea!   Either way, it sounds like Loudes and her aunt were close: ending up with a flat full of memories would’ve been something!   (Aunty Bella rented the family home for years: so I couldn’t inherit it, unless I was on the tenancy.   Which is a shame: I’ve as many memories of it as Lourdes does of her place.)

        As a final thought … ?   Southend football club has stopped taking cash: apparently, they’re facing a backlash!   (London buses only take contactless cards, or Oyster card.   You can pay cash on the London Underground: but it’s cheaper to use contactless.)

‡        Yes, I’ve corrected the scores, Debbi!

        I don’t know if there’s any missing Danger Man episodes, Debbi: but all bar the last two episodes were in colour, I think.   But I know The Avengers first few episodes were in black and white, as well: and the series had a lot of missing episodes.

        Oh, I’ve just checked The Avenger’s wikipedia page.   There was an actor called Jon Rollason — blowed if I know why his name rings a bell! — who appeared in three episodes: as a replacement for Ian Hendry.   Rollason also crisps up in “The Web of Fear” as a anotty journalist.