Friday Ephemeraren’t
I know, I know. I’m leaving you to fend for yourselves again. But after nearly a decade of Fridays, I’m sure you know what to do in the comments. To get things rolling, here’s one of these, and one of those, and some of that. Plus, a Morgan Freeman flashback circa 1971, Brad Bird on animation, and because I know you so well, a searchable historical compendium of coarse and vulgar English.
First (and new — aloha, y’all).
I remember Morgan Freeman as “Easy Reader” from the PBS show The Electric Company when I was a wee one.
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a searchable historical compendium of coarse and vulgar English.
Martha, will you show her where we keep the, uh, euphemism?
Street Eels – from a while ago so maybe seen before. Most of the (proper) bad words used.
“Cheap feed”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmdXaMu5Zuo
Fun with fuel
This… http://badkidsjokes.tumblr.com/post/147234729110/in-chinese
…is one of these. http://badkidsjokes.tumblr.com/
Mixing paint.
https://vimeo.com/190094414
Morning, all.
First (and new — aloha, y’all).
[ Slides bowl of trail mix along bar, followed by cocktail menu. ]
Oh, and here’s an x-ray of a pregnant dog.
And according to Everyday Feminism, you should feel sorry for people who can’t vote because they’re criminals or illegal immigrants.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15893
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EsJLNGVJ7E
@David
I think we’ve mentioned the above lunatic before.
I think we’ve mentioned the above lunatic before.
Yes, Ms Abramovic cropped up briefly here.
Incidentally, I gather she’s been upsetting people by saying unflattering things about Australian aboriginals.
a searchable historical compendium of coarse and vulgar English.
I’ve learned a lot this morning.
I’ve learned a lot this morning.
It’s personal growth.
And according to Everyday Feminism, you should feel sorry for people who can’t vote because they’re criminals or illegal immigrants.
Everyday Feminism’s comics: as dogmatic as Chick Cartoon Tracks, but oddly devoid of the latter’s unintentional humor.
but oddly devoid of the latter’s unintentional humor.
I suppose that depends on how grim your sense of humour is.
Because I know your readers have eclectic tastes, a soccer–excuse me–football game of note. Some of us might conceivably have a rooting interest.
a searchable historical compendium of coarse and vulgar English.
I didn’t know that.
I didn’t know that.
See also, growl at the badger and badger-gassing. Two events that probably shouldn’t occur at the same time.
Well, I say that. You never know.
I think this is what having kids must be like.
Soccer is a perfectly good English word; it’s only in the last couple of decades when some sort of linguistic snobbery has started deprecating it, and even that is, I get the impression, dieing off. Of course, proper football allows one to pick up the ball and run. But not to wears helmets or throw the ball forward…
“Soccer” is a perfectly good English word.
Depending upon the officiating today, I may be referring to the “course and vulgar” resource listed above.
The Beach Boys were contaminated with “beach privilege,” and their tunes never “helped anyone toward self-determination or achieving their social rights.” Who knew, eh?
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441761/new-york-review-of-books-beach-boys
The latest ephemera from Wikileaks appears to be that some of the Clinton’s people participated in “spirit cooking”, an activity which may have originated as a form of occultism, but has since then degraded into the kind of paint-walls-with-blood-and-breast-milk modern art featured on this blog.
More as the matter develops and the hysteria settles.
Soccer is a perfectly good English word; it’s only in the last couple of decades when some sort of linguistic snobbery has started deprecating it, and even that is, I get the impression, dieing off.
Agreed. There were plenty of British football magazines aimed at teenagers in the 1970s and 1980s that used the term soccer, one even had that as its title.
There were plenty of British football magazines aimed at teenagers in the 1970s and 1980s that used the term soccer,
Reminds me of the time a school friend asked me if I wanted to trade my Mighty World of Marvel annual for a Roy of the Rovers annual.
Oh how I laughed.
Linking this from Ace, the Atlantic has descended into madness. Or at least, Award Winning Mascot Author Chimamanda Adichie (R) has.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/366663.php
“The people who love Hillary Clinton know that the IT system at the State Department is old and stodgy, nothing like a Blackberry’s smooth whirl.”
Just reading that, I can taste some kind of meringue and smell blood. Am I having a stroke?
Seemed apt.
Incidentally, if anyone has trouble with comments not appearing, email me and I’ll rattle the spam filter. She’s a temperamental beast.
They pick off the weak ones first.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/04/squirrel-attacks-retirement-home-leaving-at-least-three-injured-6234479/
It is amazing that Morgan Freeman can be cool and at the same time holding a sign that has correct spelling and punctuation.
A chorale prelude that is most likely not by J. S. Bach but by one of his students, that I adore anyway… http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-740/
Also, though am I sh*t compared to the Great Bach, I’ll use this as an opportunity to self-promote: https://soundcloud.com/philip_daniel
Redundant?
Hi all… I’m just kicking back with my Saturday morning (6:44 am, 11/5) coffee taking a few moments to here to read and catch up.
It is so much calmer to be in Tokyo away from the Crazy Year in America leading up to the election.
Carry on!
What sorcery is this, madam? Are you a witch from the future?
Hell, David, who cares if she’s a witch. She’s from the FUTURE! Ask her what today’s closing price on APPL or IBM or ORCL is going to be, for god’s sake! Those henchlesbians have to be paid somehow, you know.
Hey, I may be from the future, but I’m having a real hard time understanding why the Harvard soccer team has been suspended for a whole season for engaging in normal male behavior…
hell, gossiping about the attractiveness and sexual desirability of the opposite sex is what BOTH sexes engage in.
:::sigh:::
Every time I believe the Left has reached peak absurdity with their anti-male Puritanism, they outdo themselves.
Darleen: the charitable view goes like this:
We gotta DO SOMETHING!
This is something.
Let’s do that.
It’s not hard logic to follow, if you can convince yourself you’re dealing with two-year-old mentalities.
Me? I think they are taking actions like this out of malice and power-hunger, not because they are stupid. See also: Duke LaCrosse, U-Va fraternities.
I think they are taking actions like this out of malice and power-hunger, not because they are stupid.
Agreed, and part of the strategy is to pathologize normal sexual behavior and emotionally cripple young people and keep them from forming healthy, bonded relationships with the opposite sex.
A strong family unit is something the Left despises.
Darleen, at my son’s high school, it is tradition for the boys’soccer players to jog around all the practice venues on the first day of Fall tryouts shirtless, stopping in front of the various girls’teams — field hockey, softball, volleyball and tennis –where they sing, “I’m A Little Teapot.” As you might imagine, the girls are quite vocal in their evaluation and approval.
Yet, no one has been suspended.
Since it’s already Saturday ’round about our host’s parts, I’ll go ahead and post this now.
Remember, remember the fifth of November….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RqdfEhG_GU
Yet, no one has been suspended.
Operative word: Yet.
for a whole season for engaging in normal male behavior…
Talking about girls in the way the team did is normal male behaviour. Committing it to e-mail/paper, is not. Even more so when it is not comments in passing, but a detailed report.
The difference is the potential audience: what I say can at best be related second-hand, but what I write is rather more permanent.
I don’t know how many of the Harvard mens soccer team are intending to be lawyers or business managers, but they just learned an extremely valuable lesson. They do that in their business and the punishment will be rather more than missing a few games.
Committing it to e-mail/paper, is not
Little black books were not a myth.
I agree that in this age of hyper-surveillance that any young male – even teens – who dare’s to leave a paper or electronic trail less than Puritan pure is asking for trouble; however, it doesn’t mean the behavior of ranking the sexual attractiveness of The Other(s) is criminal or pathological.
Women of my age would be lying to say that our own group girl activities, like slumber parties of the junior high set, did not include ranking boy classmates and endless games of “truth or dare” where by we challenged each other on how far we “would go” with any particular boy.
Cancelling a whole soccer season and very public hand-wringing over “rape culture” is just plain WRONG.
Americans probably know all of this; I don’t know how well this is known on the other side of the pond:
The White House Is Falling Down
From another link:
the spam filter. She’s a temperamental beast.
Ooooh! Something something everyday sexism… (Do I really need to add /snark?)
Ooooh! Something something everyday sexism
I denounce myself.
Destroy a First World Country using this One Weird Trick
Just popped in to let you know that there’s been another visitation from Planet Sociology:
“Universities produce racism”
Reports Dr Kehinde Andrews who is – almost inevitably it seems – an Associate Professor in Sociology.
(Really, what on Earth is going in sociology departments across the English-speaking world? Dr Lisa Mckenzie, she of Class War fame, is in Sociology; so is Dr Ben Pitcher, the one who speculated that BBC Radio 4’s Gardener’s Question Time is racist; so too is Dr Robert Weide, the one who declared ‘I lift Bro”during a heated exchange over whether or not Ben Shapiro should be allowed to speak on his university’s campus is in Sociology and he has apparently been at it again, complaining that he was intimidated by some flyers for another Shapiro event)
Dr Andrews also notes that universities are:
“no less institutionally racist than the police […] Outside of [Birmingham City University] you’re very unlikely to see a black sociologist anywhere in the UK and that must be caused by institutional racism: I don’t have any other explanation,”
His reason for this state of affairs?
Andrews believes the curriculum is a key factor. In his own discipline – sociology – the canon taught as the foundation of the subject is “a collection of dead white men”, he said. “And that’s the same at every university.” […] the impact of studying authors who not only fail to interest but sometimes “actually alienate” students can harm their education. “So if you’re reading Kant and Kant’s talking about European enlightenment and talking down about Africa and the rest of the world … it’s really difficult to get into that stuff.”
So Andrews has discovered that students sometimes find reading Kant a wee bit challenging? Who knew?
The mind truly boggles … the rest here.
“Universities produce racism,” reports Dr Kehinde Andrews… “I don’t have any other explanation”
Well, our inept sociologist is right about something, albeit unwittingly. Many universities do encourage racialist sentiment, even outright bigotry – such that disdaining “white males,” “straight white males,” and “straight, cis white males,” dead or otherwise, is both the height of fashion and, for some, the basis of a career.