Friday Ephemera
I didn’t see that coming. (h/t, Ace) // Cats and dogs. // Have you tied and dyed today? // Testing defences. // Why are breasts called boobs? // Fidget cube. // Is Gab the new Twitter? // Six! is a game. // Can you see all 12 simultaneously? // Marvel’s film music is insufficiently humworthy. // A more common usage has been discovered. (h/t, Damian) // “What sort of man reads Playboy?” // Treat the dear wife to a toilet chandelier. // The taming of the fox. // “The footage depicts E. coli evolving to be 1,000 times more resistant to an antibiotic in just 11 days.” // He keeps ants. // Jack’s back. // How to speak auctioneer. // And finally, a catalogue of failed utopian communes, from poison-wielding sex gurus and tea-shunning vegans to nineteenth century radical anarcho-nudists.
(Switches EMP to SAFE. Safes weapon. Removes gloves and hazmat suit. Reaches for a glass and the bottle of Macallan 18, previously liberated from its hiding place behind the second bust of Churchill in the library. Relaxes.)
(Oh crap.
Grabs weapon, ejects mag, ejects chambered round.
Returns to libation.)
“Veronica recalls there being rumblings in her classrooms.”
Is inter-species cultural appropriation a thing now? As if adopting a bovine aesthetic is not enough, have they taken up chewing the cud too?
this practice might contribute to the construction of feminist knowledge as somehow less real or accurate.
And remember, at Brock University and of course elsewhere, these are the lofty standards expected of feminist intellectuals. I’m sure it’s entirely coincidental that among graduates of such courses – say, the ladies at Everyday Feminism – the subject of “imposter syndrome” crops up, quite a lot.
“All the faculty note the body language of their students who resist their feminist content. Rolling eyes, huffing, crossing arms, and snickering are all indicators of resistance…”
But, but.. didn’t a feminist perfesser just tell us that resistance is crucial?
For readers unfamiliar with Dr Lisa Mckenzie and her immense brainularities, she and they have been mentioned here before.
immense brainularities
LoL:
” ‘Cor blimey, look at the immense brainularities on ‘er.”
She’s a total clown show. And her video, this one, the one that’s hard to parody, was used by the University of Nottingham to advertise its sociology department and “centre for advanced studies.” Those are the standards of academic excellence currently expected.
Heh. That video is so lulzy it really need an Inimitable Steve fisking.
…the murial (LoL) really represents the young people of the estate, but also it’s really nice and colourful and it gives us a focus apart from all the grey concrete…
Yes, it really makes that piss-filled underpass feel homely.
I wonder if Dr McKenzie has a ‘murial’ at home?
Yes, it really makes that piss-filled underpass feel homely.
During the 90s I lived near that part of Nottingham and its reputation was deserved. (If you start Googling “St Ann’s, Nottingham,” one of the first auto-filled search options is “crime”.) Some of the locals were armed with crowbars and of an evening were very keen to break into the recording studio where I worked, just up the road, which was thrilling. So far as I know, they didn’t achieve their goal, though they did try very hard, many times. But Dr Mckenzie would have us believe that a tacky mural inspired by local gang members, car thieves and social blight is somehow an affirmation of the area, a sign of how jolly and uplifting the neighbourhood really is. Rather than further evidence that you might want to think about living somewhere else. (Unless of course you’re one of the thugs and thieves in question, in which case, for God’s sake stay where you are.)
… social blight is somehow an affirmation of the area..
The tragedy is that it doesn’t take many scumbags to ruin a previously pleasant community.
Natalie Jeffers, co-founder of BLM UK and a freeloading revolutionary, recently flew to Brazil at the expense of UK taxpayers to speak at the ‘black feminisms forum’ of the annual congress of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development. The civil servants who approved this expenditure must have been impressed by the content of her website:
http://mattersoftheearth.com
Matters of the Earth is an organisation that specialises in knowledge dissemination, engagement and impact. Matters of the Earth are bridging the gap between the academic and creative worlds by unarchiving, re-imagining and visualising knowledge for engagement and mobilisation. They creatively collaborate with activists, academics, communities and organisations and place innovative tools into hands to educate and empower people in organising, strengthening and building movements.
co-founder of BLM UK and a freeloading revolutionary…
Aren’t they all? Karl Marx himself set the precedent, the modern-day pretenders are only following the example of the founder of their religion.
…recently flew to Brazil at the expense of UK taxpayers to speak at the ‘black feminisms forum’
Of course she did, and the taxpayers should be grateful, damnit.
The civil servants who approved this expenditure must have been impressed by the content of her website:
Let’s ask actor Jeff Goldblum what he thinks………
In other news:
Via Kristian Niemietz.
Time, I think, to revisit this.
What?
Time, I think, to revisit this.
I’m scared….
Time, I think, to revisit this.
Somebody posted that on 4Chan’s anarchic /b/ board yesterday. Some of the “/b/-tards” were amused and one wrote that it was “wonderfully creepy”.
Speaking of which, on Amazon, Clarkston, Hammond and May are back 18 November…
A teaser.
I’m giddy.
On a completely different note, the Ben Hur Chariot Race, to the tune of Yakety Sax
Ben-Hur, condensed
I just found today’s Winner of the Internet:
I want to write that wonderful insult, obsequious rumpswab, on the fleshy tables of my heart, to remember it evermore and to recall it when needed.
And definitely add it to my browser’s spell-check dictionary.
Dicentra,
Swiping that for the ‘elsewhere’ I’m about to post.
Posted.
h/t Ed Driscoll at Insty’s
That Only in Russia twitter feed from the I didn’t see that coming link.
More entertaining than anything on my TV.
“This guy?”
That one most of all. (Although I did always fancy being a pilot. But I get vertigo standing on a chair.) I mean, space babes in jumpsuits driving futuristic supercars? Yes please. Instead we have SJWs picking their noses… to quote Glenn Reynolds, this isn’t the 21st Century I was promised.
“I’ll be right with you, honey. Just finishing this fascinating Playboy article on the new ion jump drives. Warm ‘er up for me…” [Raises eyebrow suggestively.]
Fun with domains and email
Google for david@guild-of-evil.com and the first response that comes up is Zionism – The Occult Guild Of Antichrist – Rense
Imposter Syndrome is real enough — I doubt any teacher hasn’t had it creep up on them, especially when first starting. Even a decade in it’s liable to catch me from time to time.
What it isn’t is specific to women.
From Hal’s Google search, there’s a FB page for a group calling itself “The Guild of Calametous Intent”. Allies or enemies? Admit I admire their motto, “Hate you can trust!” Does the GoE have a motto?
https://www.facebook.com/The-Guild-of-Calamitous-Intent-18220489799/about/?entry_point=page_nav_about_item&tab=page_info
This definitely could use some work but it’s a start, just a suggestion, and I have to walk the dog now.
“The GoE is a non-profit for-profit organization whose mission is to scout profitable and nefarious growth opportunities in, but not limited to, finance, faux-feminism, and phrenology, both overtly and covertly, in legacy and emerging, mission inclusive markets, and explore new paradigms of villainy and then filter and communicate and evangelize the findings.”
Does the GoE have a motto?
I’m open to suggestions.
Does the GoE have a motto?
I’m open to suggestions.
Why, Yes, that is indeed an excellent motto . . . !!
The Guild of Evil – no refunds, credit note only.
.. but not limited to, finance, faux-feminism, and phrenology…
But not physiognomy? A serious miscalculation IMO.
:::snort:::
https://twitter.com/TarheelKrystle/status/777677495927644160
Hal (h/t David) and Captain Nemo are tied for first, but the race is not over, folks!
How ’bout “Moderation is for monks.” ? Ya gotta admit it’s at least on-topic, neh?
Sam,
Although I did always fancy being a pilot. But I get vertigo standing on a chair.
I have an almost debilitating fear of heights (due to a really bad fall I had as a child), but put me behind the controls of a light aircraft and I’m in heaven.
FWIW, I never completed flight school (it was expensive even in 1980-81), but I had a friend (the editor at the small-town newspaper where I worked) who took me up for air-to-air photo shoots. He let me do the flying when we weren’t shooting, then took the controls on final approach. Thanks, John, you may never know how much I appreciated that.
Spiny: Interesting. I get vertigo near cliff edges, but have no problems flying aerobatics. I know a lot of pilots – perhaps I should poll them.
A little off topic but…Captain Obvious was over at my place last night and we were partying pretty hard and trying to come up with a list of uses for homemade bombs that are NOT terrorism related. All we could think of were removing paint and lacquer from antique furniture and opening pickle jars. Curious if GoE members have thoughts on the matter. Apropos of nothing.
. . . uses for homemade bombs that are NOT terrorism related.
Noting a matter of define homemade, and noting different geographical areas, features, and immediate resources; removing stumps, removing small spare buildings—or at least reducing a large object into more easily removable chunks, art work of various sorts . . .