Friday Ephemera
Are you bregant or pergert? // “Have you got clouds stuck in your tongue?” // Conveyor belts. // Grim London. // Tiny, swarming robots. // Robots make tiny springs. // Sad chairs of academia. // When your problems multiply. // Mardi Gras Indians. Not known for toning it down. // African visitors to the Tower of London, 1949. // In search of Steve Ditko. // A six-year-old’s drawings brought to life. // Made with old newspaper. (h/t, Julia) // 10,000 things of possible interest. From the tree goats of Morocco to the Icelandic witchcraft museum. // How to bake Icelandic volcano bread. // Earliest known depiction of improper broom use. // Don’t look now but there’s something under the porch. // And finally, via Jen, and as it’s almost Hallowe’en, The Thing With Two Heads, 1972.
Are these saggy feminist boobies
No, Ted, noooo…..do your (presumed heterosexual) self a favor and take a peek. Nice, young perky 20-somethings. They even got me to consider Bernie Sanders for a few minutes. Or going to a Trump rally. Maybe set up a trampoline there…
I note their chant is “Fuck Donald Trump”. Presumably he’d like the young ladies to form a queue to oblige them…
“take a peek”
Hmm. Did that.
Advantage of being my age – when I was twenty I’d have found that interesting, nay, possibly even thrilling. When I was 45 I’d have ignored that as “Meh, nothing I ain’t seen a million times before, attached to a bunch of nuts I’m better off staying away from”. Now, it’s “Hey look, free boobies! Cute!”
Fred, I’m guessing we’re the same age. That being “not dead yet”.
Somewhere on the internets, there is a site called something like “Babes for Trump”. Most of the lassies there are pretty classy.
“Hey look, free boobies! Cute!”
***Klaxon Sounds*** Future political career aborted! ***Klaxon Sounds***
Regarding witches and broomsticks. It is considered that the witches “flew” by using psychotropic drugs such as “magic mushrooms” and other stuff but applied it by dipping the end of a broomstick in the goopand inserting it into their “ladies front bottom”. Their trips were described as flying or astral travel. Yep – I’m a font of obscure knowledge.
And for those of a scatological bent, then this might amuse:
https://www.amazon.com/review/RZFIYJTPVUZ94/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000EVOSE4&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=16310101&store=grocery
it isn’t a one off event either – scroll past the Questions and answers for the … errr .. FULL effect:
https://www.amazon.com/Haribo-Gummi-Candy-Gold-Bears-5-Pound/dp/B000EVOSE4/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1477849452&sr=8-1&keywords=sugar%2Bfree%2Bharibo%2Bgummy%2Bbears&th=1
***Klaxon Sounds*** Future political career aborted! ***Klaxon Sounds***
In many cases, that can be a form of insurance.
. . . . barring the occasions when those voting then announce Screw That, you’re getting elected anyway!!!!
Some people have complained, or tried to complain, that Obama got elected that way . . . .
When fan initiatives go wrong
Things that look like Hitler. Not sure if this is the source.
Pareidolia – Is it Movember yet?
“Academic freedom is great: as long as you don’t use it.”
Oh…here’s a choice bit from the 12-person
lynch mobLiberal Studies Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group on the heretic professor who dared to question safe spaces, trigger warnings, et alAnd this from the same committee
He’s guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
The Left’s Culture of Death will brook no dissent.
“Hey look, free boobies! Cute!”
***Klaxon Sounds*** Future political career aborted! ***Klaxon Sounds***
Piper, my political career came and went about [mumble] years ago when my cohort and I engineered a takeover of our Explorer Scouts troop. It wasn’t all that much fun, in the event.
Later, at UC Berkeley, I was approached by a student government “senator” who thought he needed a technical consultant, and would I be interested? It had taken me all of 20 seconds listening to him to decide to keep plenty of distance between us, and far away from anyone else who talked like that.
Now, office politics (also known as applied psychology) on the other hand, I learned to use and value after a few years working. I even “published” papers on the subject for new-hires in engineering at (large tech firm). But you don’t have to be elected to anything for that.
I suppose I should add that I read Twain’s story of running for governor (IIRC) when I was 13. Forewarned is forearmed.