Friday Ephemera
I think it’s fair to call it a partial success. (h/t, Damian) // Today’s word is unceremonious. // Space make-up. // Thinking meat. // Crab versus banana. // With its devilled crabs and gold piano, the Everleigh Club was a better class of brothel. // Because at some point you’re going to want to hire a male belly dancer. // Some British follies. // Museum of Failure. // Fifteen seconds in, something can be heard. // Create your own language. // Lead us, oh wise one. // How to carry wine. // The coffee revolt of 1674. // Converted school. // Unrealistic New York apartments. // “I’m trans and I love Jordan Peterson.” // It’s the Japanese way. // His hand-carved food is more intricate than yours. // Feminist dilemma. // How to fix a faulty traffic light. // And finally, bluegrass interrupted.
French muslim. Heh.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4434914/French-Muslim-held-Paris-mayor-Anne-Hidalgo.html
Fuel Filter,
…the ongoing white-knighting of wymyn drag racers
Good grief. It’s as if none of them have any idea who Shirley Muldowney is.
And don’t even get me started on Anton Brown being the Jackie Robinson of drag racing.
No kidding.
Television sports coverage in the US has become cringe-worthy. It’s as if the national sports networks (all of them) are run by “woke” 20-somethings. Damned amateur hour.
Television sports coverage in the US has become cringe-worthy. It’s as if the national sports networks (all of them) are run by “woke” 20-somethings. Damned amateur hour.
http://www.sportingnews.com/au/other-sports/news/jason-whitlock-interview-liberal-sports-media-espn-politics-fs1-comments-bill-simmons/1k6lfy4epd11s1x1x7xffmo6wb
In for a Penny, in for a pounding . . .
Oh, c’mon now, don’t hold back, tell us how you really feel . . . !
Some old bit of sheepskin turns up in the files.
Penny really can’t get a grip of the fact that Theresa May is popular. It’s kind of frightening that she can look at the public opinion polls and still not grasp this simple fact.
Now, I understand that Penny might think that May’s popularity is one or more of 1) wrong-headed, 2) short-lived, 3) bought by roubles or 4) because the alternatives are unappealing. But to actually think she isn’t popular just defies belief.
I presume after you’ve spent decades re-writing history so that Margaret Thatcher was never popular either, despite massive election victories, bending the present to suit your ideals is child’s play.
I think the damage to Labour might actually be worse than Penny imagines.
Utterly depressing but, at least in the US, alumni organisations could discourage donations and try to exert some influence
Rob Dreher has more:
That, as they say.
And the mild-mannered-to-a-fault Christina Hoff Sommers is apparently an “alt-right rape apologist.”
I’ve been assured that socialists are the clever ones.
David’s crab bucket + Hal’s cartoon = ^
Sort of.
And the mild-mannered-to-a-fault Christina Hoff Sommers is apparently an “alt-right rape apologist.”
Ben Shapiro is a FORMER editor for a reason. He’s also an Orthodox Jew (who gets called a ‘Nazi’ by the Ctrl-Left a lot) who Milo went out of his way to personally attack after he left Breitbart.
“alt-right” has fast become a meaningless label.
In for a Penny, …
I may be alone in this, but on reading that Slate article, I felt a palpable sense of relief – Miss Dreadful has finally come out of the political closet she has been hiding herself in all this time and has just come straight out with it (my italics):
We are sick and tired of years of watching invertebrates and parasites suck the life out the body politic and being told this is what democracy looks like …
… this is allowed. It is absolutely allowed, in a system that calls itself democratic and has not yet faced prosecution for false advertising. It shouldn’t be allowed, but it is.
Theresa May […] has abandoned almost all pretense of respect for the veneer of democratic decency lacquering the cracks in British civil society
I am no longer a supporter of Scottish independence. I am now an advocate of Scottish invasion.
Britain doesn’t do crypto-dictatorship with as much braggadocio as other nations I might mention, but we do it all the same. The answer is that British democracy is broken, and the pieces are on fire, and the people picking them up, the people trying to reassemble a fractured future for themselves in the shoddy rubble of this fucked-up country, will never work in Westminster.
There you go.
The line about wishing for an invasion by the Scots is intended as a joke, obviously, but the intention behind the joke is as startlingly clear as the other extracts I’ve picked out – Penny is begging for the iron hand of a dictator to sweep aside all those icky things she detests – you know, those icky things like other people having points of view that are not to her personal liking.
Like a thousand spoiled and smarmy pieces of shit that preceded her – Unity Mitford springs to mind – allowing the plebs the vote leads to all manner of bother – bother of the kind that sees Penny’s pet politics never see the light of day (or if they do, only ever see it stillborn).
“Fascist” is so over used that its currency has been practically devalued – nevertheless, I find it really quite hard to read that Slate piece by Penny and not arrive at the conclusion that she is a thorough-going anti-democratic snobbish dictator-worshipping piece of shit.
This week’s fake ‘hate crime’…
http://www.tribstar.com/news/isu-professor-arrested-accused-of-making-up-threats-and-attack/article_c7ca5b60-26d9-11e7-a35a-0f3c7868f652.html
The answer is that British democracy is broken…
Meanwhile, in France, members of Femen, allegedly feminists, were arrested trying to block people from voting for a woman who would be France’s first woman president. I know I am mad to expect any kind of consistency from people, whether in the UK, the US, or now France who scream their adoration of democracy, but don’t quite grasp that it really doesn’t mean “riot when we get results we don’t like”.
“The line about wishing for an invasion by the Scots is intended as a joke, obviously”…
Not so obvious really, but then I am Northern.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/woman-discovers-adding-lol-is-great-excuse-to-be-an-utter-shit-20170423126421?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailymash+%28The+Daily+Mash.+It%27s+news+to+us.%29
A bit belated, but a note on complications from graduating from college in Canada . . .
‘The millennial side hustle,’ not stable job, is the new reality for university grads
—Or as someone I ran into a few months back described it, The scraps economy.
Dr. Seuss on Hypnotism
When our girls strike they stage a floatout, and it’s just too embarrassing for words.
That Canadian engineering guy sounded wrong — well qualified mechanical engineers get jobs. They might start with shitty jobs, but they get jobs.
Reasearch suggests a shortage of mechanical engineers in Canada:
http://www.cdicorp.com/report-reveals-demand-mechanical-engineers-canada/
https://www.randstad.ca/hot-jobs/engineering-jobs-in-demand/
Apparently mechanical engineer is even on the official shortage list.
Aaaaand — he’s got a job after all.
That Canadian engineering guy sounded wrong . . .
For general reference, the original /. article I ran across . . .
the hiring managers dont want to hire you if you are smarter than they are
Bull. Self flattering bull. If true, no one would have a job. Yeah, no one will hire me, I’m too smart. It’s an attitude problem right there. Or he has no such degree and is making this shit up. Or the number of applications is inflated. Who is vetting any of this BS?
Chester, while not being in Canada, I can tell you straight up that a shortage in engineering positions is buoyed by a demand for years of experience. I myself applied for several hundred jobs straight out of school, and can attest that a *starting* position without the HR “knack” or solid extra-hire process connections to make the sale is very, very difficult to obtain.
While the self-flattery the fellow puts on display is not to his credit, my impression has been that HR personnel usually have no understanding of job requirements in a technical field and must therefore use the (often overly specific) listings specification as Canon Law rather than a wish list. No great surprise that positions go begging.
“my impression has been that HR personnel usually have no understanding of job requirements in a technical field”
Oh, definitely part of the problem. I have gone recruiting with HR to campus job fairs and such. It would not surprise me that such is not part of this young man’s problem, but the arrogance of “the hiring managers dont want to hire you if you are smarter than they are”, being specific to the hiring manager, well..
It also would not surprise me if this young man might make a great first hire but if he has no one mentoring him on how the process works for a professional, or specifically, engineering environment, he has no means of understanding what he’s failing at. But either way, a mechanical engineer should be open to other engineering positions as well or at the very least, take a mechanic-type job not something in a grocery store. Such would be fine for a business major.
I got out of engineering during undergrad to transfer into CS; best decision I ever made.
One thing I can say is that regardless of what the numbers say about demand, engineering in Canada has a closed shop problem. Existing engineers will only hire grads from the schools they went to.