An Unusual Bulging

“Perception trumps reality” + narcissism explains a helluva large percentage of the moronstrosities we see these days.
Oh, and also implacable idiots taking this quote way too seriously:
“The reasonable man (Warning! Misogyny Detected!) adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man (Bzzzzt! Double infraction!).”

Oh, Piper. You committed way more than 3 infractions just there.
– Assuming there is an objective reality (world)
– Assuming “reason” is a viable approach to anything
– Assuming “persistence” is not an aggression against more “real, laid-back”‘ cultures
– Assuming “trying” (i.e. effort) is a viable approach to anything
– Assuming one thing might “depend” on another, i.e. the fallacy of cause-and-effect
I could go on.
Report to the upstairs hot tub for “gentle correction” by the henchlesbian-on-duty. Immediately.

What form of video embedding does Twitter use? Because I always get an error message saying the videos can’t be played.

Because I always get an error message saying the videos can’t be played.
I get that message with my Pale Moon browser but not Firefox.

OTOH, I don’t have an add-blocker on Chrome, so it eventually goes apeshit (because of all the pop-ups and pop-unders?) and flash stops working altogether. Some sites are much worse than others in that regard.

I remember the magic mirrors in the tavern men’s rooms that made me look more handsome with every beer I drank. I was almost good looking after 6 or so.
Those were the days!

I would have to agree with Liz, that it makes no sense at all for a business to make its customers look worse when trying on the clothing sold by that business. What would sell more clothing is for the customer to perceive that they look subtly better if they wear that store’s clothing, even if they are identical to the same brand bought in another store. This is not in a famine ravaged country, where heavier usually means higher survival and thus evolutionarily more desirable. Thinner in our society is generally more attractive (“You can’t be too thin or too rich.”), so you would expect a mirror that subtly reflects a thinner customer would be installed instead of one that make someone look fatter.
Of course, there is the white patriarchy, who are obviously interested in destroying the self-confidence of women and is prepared to have their businesses fail in order to achieve this.

SJW clown perceives a funhouse mirror effect where there actually isn’t one. It’s kind of appropriate, really.

Lol. Wouldn’t clothes shops use slimming mirrors to sell more clothes?
Yes that is the BLINDINGLY obvious piece of reasoning that wasn’t done before she wrote that very pompous tweet (“[curved mirrors] frankly, have no place outside a fairground funhouse”)
Note how articulate she is with the dignified outrage, though. It almost appears well-practiced..

She is never a size 14, mirror or not.
Ladies’ dress sizes are a mystery to me, but… ouch.

Thankfully, my life is arranged in such a way that ladies rarely ask me to estimate their dress size.

Ain’t it grand to have a gal so big and fat that when you go to hug her, you don’t know where you’re at? You have to take a piece of chalk in your hand, and hug a ways, and chalk a mark, to see where you began.

“The best part is that those words were written by a Fabian socialist.”
Which is probably why they’re a load of baloney. Shaw decided, in the usual collectivist fashion, that all men fall neatly into two categories of the entirely reasonable and entirely unreasonable, then misrepresented the attitude of the reasonable.
Because even if we accept his dichotomy for the sake of argument, the reasonable man, by definition, uses the most appropriate strategy for the situation, adapting himself to the world when adapting the world to himself is impractical or impossible, but attempting the latter when necessary, if the opportunity presents itself. Only an unreasonable man would persist in adapting himself to the world even when other strategies were open to him. What could be less reasonable than that?
Other unreasonable men – the sort Shaw admired – attempt to adapt the world to themselves regardless of necessity and practicality, causing resentment and unrest. It’s true that progress is occasionally stumbled upon by these men – sometimes they’re even necessary to remind the more reasonable that other options are open to them – but it’s usually secured by the reasonable.
For example, were the American revolutionaries unreasonable? It seems to me that they were, in fact, highly reasonable men forced reluctantly by circumstance into changing their world. And, moreover, because they were reasonable men, doing so as little as neccessary to secure peace, happiness, and prosperity.
‘Course, Shaw probably wasn’t thinking of them…

Am I the only one who thinks she looks the same in both in is trolling people on twitter?

The Fat and the Furious.

Am I the only one who thinks she looks the same in both in is trolling people on twitter?
. . . . Dunno about trolling, what I see is a pair of normal displaying mirrors—as shown by the lack of distortion of the items behind the person—with the same person at two different distances.

“A sense of perspective needed…”
May I humbly suggest the Total Perspective Vortex
http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex

See, this is what happens when ‘shame’ is abolished. Now, people say the first thing that comes into their heads and aren’t a whit embarrassed when they consequently prove themselves to be blithering morons…

Pale Moon are currently releasing a major reworking. Videos they have refused to play for a few months are now playing well.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb discovers the #LindyEffect, but what could he possibly mean by it?

Piper,
I like it because it follows close to zero of the heraldry conventions, hence can be a never ending source of subtle decodings for the modern literature student.
keep them busy and off the street, I say.

Hal, it would be unusual to have four charges on a single field. Normally you would quarter it.
I suggest gules (red) for the blood of our oppression, and or (gold) for all the money we make out of it.
The cat would sable (black) of course on or. The unicorn argent (white) on gules. The castle argent on gules. The woman proper (naturally) on or.

Well, yes different charges. That is what we are talking about.

Bad resolution and no color.
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Seen on today’s Shirk Report at Twisted Sifter:
“A Californian company called Skinny Mirror sells mirrors that make you look thinner. When installed in the changing rooms of clothes shops, they can increase sales by 18%.”
(Gee, are we still talking about mirrors?)