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Theodore Dalrymple on the British general election:
Perhaps the most alarming aspect of the election was the recrudescence of the politics of envy and resentment… The Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn radiated dislike of the prosperous, even the modestly prosperous. Corbyn and his party’s solutions to the country’s problems were supposedly to be paid for by higher taxes on the richest 5 percent of the population. This proposal overlooked the fact that the top 1 percent of earners already pay almost three times as much in income tax as the bottom 50 percent combined, and also the fact that wealth is dynamic rather than static, resembling more closely the bloom of a grape than a cake to be sliced. Taxes on capital (in other words, state expropriation) were Corbyn’s obvious next step, with capital flight the equally obvious consequence. None of this worried the young, who had as yet no stake in property, only what are sometimes called ideals. The Labour Party offered them and others the beguiling vision of living perpetually at the expense of others.
Related, a few of the beguiled.
Ben Shapiro on a “toxic masculinity” that feminists rarely mention:
The left routinely speaks about a world run by women and why such a world would create better men. But the most male-free environment in America exists in black communities, where well over half of black children grow up without fathers. This hasn’t made black boys less violent; it’s made them far more prone to criminality than their non-black peers.
Greg Piper on when “affirmative action” means acting out a racial caricature:
Not only did [Princeton] admissions officers refer to Asian-American applicants as all looking the same on paper and having no distinguishing activities, but they seemingly penalised students of other ethnic backgrounds for not acting ethnic enough… “Were there a touch more cultural flavour, I’d be more enthusiastic,” one officer wrote.
Emily Zanotti pokes through Evergreen State College’s course catalogue:
This coming fall, for example, you can take a number of classes that count as biology, but actually aren’t biology at all. They include Reproduction: Gender, Race and Power, but also Dancing Molecules, Dancing Bodies, where you’ll use the art of dance to communicate with your body and understand the chemical processes within.
And via dicentra, when selfishness and dishonesty are hailed as virtues:
No, I don’t have to tell you I’m trans before dating you.
Interesting theory. What could possibly go wrong? As usual, feel free to share your own links and snippets, on any subject, in the comments.
the other reason is they know that such surprises can result in considerable unpleasantness, including physical violence.
In the Cops episode mentioned upthread, the youth looked very drunk indeed and was seemingly unaware of the supposedly female prostitute’s bonus features, and, I’d guess, unlikely to be thrilled by their belated discovery. The police officer tried to explain to the intoxicated youth that, despite the heels and frock, the lady-for-hire – who was known to the police – could do quite a bit of damage to a displeased customer who changed his mind and decided not to pay.
Hi Farnsworth, don’t know about the toulets but we love our Japanese rice cooker! (He even does windows on alternate Thursdays! 😄 )
I’m guessing that “power deodorizing” affects only what’s in the bowl, with a spritz of some perfume or other substance. The phrase sounds quite malevolent, though – could also cover blasts of ozone, UV lights about the nethers, etc.
I think Wonder Woman does power deodorizing.
This coming fall, for example, you can take a number of classes that count as biology, but actually aren’t biology at all.
Academia is a social construct.
Thailand’s weird. They’re either completely decadent, e.g. ladyboys, or completely proper, e.g. my aunt, who makes Miss Manners look like a slob. Doesn’t seem to be any middle ground.
Yup. All depends on whether they have anything to do with expats or not.
Janice Fiamengo on the student and staff delinquency at Evergreen State University.
blow-drying,
Does the toilet come with noise cancellation?
Asking for a friend.
I neglected to notice until just now that “Unexpected Scrotum” is a good band name.
Tax freedom day.
https://www.adamsmith.org/taxfreedomday/
I neglected to notice until just now that “Unexpected Scrotum” is a good band name.
If anyone here forms a band called Unexpected Scrotum and sells five million albums while on a global sell-out tour, the house takes 20%.
This also applies to producers of niche pornography.
Only fair. The scrotum is unexpected, but the vig isn’t.
Your taxpayer-funded cultural betters speak.
I wonder if any are graduates of the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Advanced Studies.?
Modern toilets in Japan
Love those toilets (3 weeks in Japan last November)… I swear when we get to remodeling our bathrooms, I’m going to get them. At the very least, the heating function.
Does the toilet come with noise cancellation?
Actually, the sound selection is running water – which a lot of women use in the public restrooms as white noise to drown out any bodily noises.
The public restrooms in the train stations we encountered were modern & exceedingly clean.
Small wonder that the Islamists are certain they’ll win.
Well, according to the latest news, apparently they’re not convinced at all . . .
Definitely did not see this one coming – #DumpTheGuardian
niche pornography
Niche Pornography is also a good band name.
Niche Pornography is also a good band name.
It occurs to me that someone should publish a book of Great Unused Band Names. For those just starting out on the beat combo journey.
Oh, how I’ve missed these little chats.
I must go away more often.
It occurs to me that someone should publish a book of Great Unused Band Names.
Great Unused Band Name would be a good band name.
Also ‘Beat Combo’.
We’re spiralling into madness.
We’re spiralling into madness.
Spiralling Into Madness is a Cover Band.
“Spiraling Into Madness” would be a fantastic name.
Well, according to the latest news, apparently they’re not convinced at all . . .
You know that anyway, because they support terrorism.
Terrorism is the actions of a group that are so desperate that they will die in the hope of making transient damage to the people and infrastructure of the enemy. Actual damage to the political structure being beyond them. How many terrorist organisations have ever actually brought down an enemy regime?
For all the terror inflicted on Israel, it has been weakened barely at all, and it is their enemies who are disarray.
Japan ended WWII with kamikazes, which it never used at the start.
The Beach Xirs
https://twitter.com/GarethSoye/status/874043873768742912
Dancing Molecules, Dancing Bodies, where you’ll use the art of dance to communicate with your body and understand the chemical processes within.
*raises hand* I wanna be hexokinase!
the morals of a Thai ladyboy
I wonder how many of them were sold as children into the sex trade by their impoverished parents.
What a way to start out your life. I guess the lucky ones OD on heroin sooner rather than later.
I’m sure one of the angry-studies lesbians would be just fine to pick up a butch looking chick
Many radfems won’t admit MtFs into the sorority BECAUSE they are horrified at just such a scenario. Something about the “cotton barrier”? Something with “cotton” in it.
Something with “cotton” in it.
Mississippi ?
PiperPaul at 00:10
“Pre-Poo Toilet Spray” is a great name for a grunge band.
Hey, you can’t spell recrudescence without crud.
Actually, modern ladyboys like their lives, for the most part, and there are families with long traditions of a number of sons becoming ladyboys.
As mentioned, Thailand has some very odd customs.
There are a few other places where someone so inclined can be a 3rd sex, but the change is permanent. Only the modern West is forming a custom where you can change your sex daily or even more often. I don’t expect it to last because it’s just too confusing.
There was a Thai word for “ladyboy” that sounded something like “kaflooey,” but it’s old-fashioned and now they are generally called, and think of themselves as ” a different kind of woman.”
On the hopeful side, the comments on the Odyssey article are running about 20 to 1 against the author’s premise.
On the hopeful side, the comments on the Odyssey article are running about 20 to 1 against the author’s premise.
As we’ve seen many times, leftist activists do tend to give terrible lifestyle advice. In that, if you wanted to make someone neurotic, or ruin their life, perhaps irreparably, or in this case even endanger it, it’s hard to see what you’d do differently.
Cotton ceiling, I believe, after the glass ceiling.
Kathooey (also spelled with single O or ‘katooey’.)
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Starting to think I’ve been here too long if I know such things.
Starting to think I’ve been here too long if I know such things.
I like to think of this place as a nourishing educational resource.
What?
I’m tangentially reminded of how kontextmaschine once said that the West used to have a very strong “third sex” tradition of its own: eunuchs and castrati.
Which I found a refreshing perspective.
Which I found a refreshing perspective.
Hmmm. I wonder how the eunuchs and castrati thought about it?
Regarding Thailand: https://www.indexmundi.com/thailand/total_fertility_rate.html
TFR=1.5 children per woman. “Woman” being defined as human entity with two X chromosomes in each cell and a functional, naturally-occurring uterus.
I don’t think the “ladyboy/kathooey” phenomenon will be an issue (heh) for much longer.
I wonder how many of them were sold as children into the sex trade by their impoverished parents.
To an approximate order of magnitude, none. Wifey used to know a lot of them very well (hence sometimes I’d come home and find ladyboys in my apartment), and they have some fucked-up backstories but none like that.
Oh, and their preferred pronoun is most definitely “she”.
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you’re lucky then the god’s a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
As so often, I understand barely half of what goes on here.
Come now, quoting from Murray Head singing an Abba derived song from a musical about chess isn’t that odd.
…is it?
As so often, I understand barely half of what goes on here.
For your edification: https://youtu.be/RnagSceaXss?t=40s
It turns out that being “woke” is terribly competitive.
Via dicentra.