Friday Ephemera
Interrupted house. (h/t, Captain Nemo) || Continue the research. (h/t, Damian) || Re:scam is a service to irritate scammers. || She mingles and hobnobs like you wouldn’t believe. (h/t, Simen) || On H Tracy Hall and the invention of the synthetic diamond. || Deadpool 2. || Shoreditch. (h/t, Holborn) || Crabs of note. (h/t, dicentra) || When you need a fancier axe. || 1939 New York World’s Fair. || Because being a student is so terribly fatiguing. || What to do if your parachute fails. || Iron powder. || Translucent pumpkin pie. || “I travelled across the whole entire world for this.” || One for the ladies. Note the subtle change of title. || So does this count as “social justice”? || And finally, intimately, “Tatiana can see out of both of Krista’s eyes, while Krista can only see out of one of Tatiana’s.”
She mingles and hobnobs like you wouldn’t believe.
Zelig-like. Not original, but well done.
They are good at fetching things that are still suspended in the air. Good boy!
An escapee from the Island of Dr Moreau? Yikes!
That’s what I thought about the Shoreditch link.
Shoreditch.
Enrichment.
“Shoreditch. (h/t, Holborn)”
I can foresee cauldrons of boiling oil coming back into fashion…
1939 New York World’s Fair.
“I travelled across the whole entire world for this.”
Godzilla Meets Mona Lisa
Deadpool 2.
Reminded me of this one.
https://vimeo.com/211758157
A model of New York as the “City of Light” in the Consolidated Edison Pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.
Morning, all.
In news from the Clown Quarter, it turns out that by having an outdoor activity club that’s open to everyone, you’re somehow excluding “people of colour.” And the term “outdoorsy” is an expression of “whiteness,” and therefore racist.
Please update your files accordingly.
it turns out that by having an outdoor activity club that’s open to everyone, you’re somehow excluding “people of colour.”
These ‘woke’ white people always think brown people have no agency. There’s a word for that.
These ‘woke’ white people always think brown people have no agency.
Well, yes. It’s delusional and patronising. Though I somehow doubt that people like Mr McCann spend much time reflecting on their own modish assumptions. They’re much too busy signalling and doing the in-group dance. But the psychology is interesting. It’s basically, “Yes, I’m wasting years of my life and vast amounts of money just to walk around twitching and sticking pins in my eyes; but at least I can trick some of you into sticking pins in your eyes too.”
It does seem to boil down to that, or something very like it, with remarkable regularity.
Somewhat related, let’s not forget this one.
A Boy and someone else’s Dog.
(via Lisa)
p.s. might make your eyes feel ‘dusty’.
Shoreditch.
One of the joys of Diversity!
Related
re: the Mona Lisa,
I can get into the Louvre for free and without queuing thanks to my employer coughing up a load of dosh for them. I’ve not been once, mainly because I don’t want to visit a museum only to see a few hundred Chinese taking selfies.
Taylor Swift has some Explaining to do.
And the term “outdoorsy” is an expression of “whiteness,” and therefore racist.
Plan for the day:
1. Find something prosaic which people enjoy.
2. Take a big dump on it to make people feel guilty.
3. Bask in moral superiority.*
*With apologies to Iowahawk.
Taylor Swift has some Explaining to do.
Yes, that’s what we need. More starlets and pop artistes boring us, and insulting us, with their glib leftist politics. Instead of doing what they’re actually paid to do, i.e., jumping about and being pretty.
I have one of those fancy chopper axes . . . kind of. I got it used from a family member, and it is missing the little flip-out parts, and I suspect that 99% of those axeheads made are also missing their little flip-out parts. That’s because they’re almost guaranteed to break off with heavy use.
Put down that sandwich, you hater!
https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/11/feminism-food-and-fitness/
I’m not sure why she thinks East Asian women are submissive; maybe she is, but it doesn’t seem to be a widespread trait. East Asia’s where the tiger mothers come from!😄 Maybe what she means is they aren’t loud and masculine, and that’s quite true.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s…. err. Don’t look, children!
Put down that sandwich, you hater!
Ms Kuo previously entertained us, albeit unwittingly, with her views on how to order takeaway in a suitably woke and intersectional manner.
Somewhat related, let’s not forget this one.
Says someone who has never been in a bike shop. Maybe one has never previously been fitted with a tractor seat.
Oh well, so much for that excuse.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s…. err.
Well, I, for one, am impressed. Not everyone can do that.
This.
https://twitter.com/MetroUK/status/931484150925811713
On the other hand, David, if you’d listened to Ms Kuo and not given the Chinese place your business–I mean, culturally appropriated them–you’d have been a happier man last week. So I suppose we should call this one a draw.
This.
I have a theory.
On the other hand, David, if you’d listened to Ms Kuo and not given the Chinese place your business…
[ Nods to henchlesbians, who promptly drag Pogonip’s table even closer to the gents’ toilets. ]
Re:scam type thing: “‘Lenny’ is a collection of recorded messages, designed to fool telemarketers into thinking they are talking to a real person” – https://www.youtube.com/user/ToaoDotNet/videos
“Shoreditch.”
Oh… jeez… I’m eating my lunch here.
“One for the ladies. Note the subtle change of title.”
You see how far western civilization has fallen since the ’60s? None of my married friends’ wives has ever belly-danced for us. Not one.
Eel smuggling?
I have a theory.
Don’t forget to clear your browsing history.
“Eel smuggling”
Was sent in to deal with the gerbil, perhaps.
it turns out that by having an outdoor activity club that’s open to everyone, you’re somehow excluding “people of colour.” And the term “outdoorsy” is an expression of “whiteness,” and therefore racist.
Well, all I heard was…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM6EHcPFKCQ
Well, all I heard was…
The frog has more reason to be upset.
“Why are you pretending to be aggrieved? Your complaints are absurd and patently contrived. It’s embarrassing.”
“But I like pretending to be aggrieved.”
“Yes, but why?”
“Because pretending to be aggrieved gives me power over idiots.”
re the Hate Outdoors…
Keep in mind the oped writer is a white, obviously well-heeled college FRESHMAN. He’s done precisely what he was taught to do: find racism in a subject where nobody had previously found it and rile up sane people. Mission accomplished! I’m proud of the boy. His parents, teachers and role models, however…
The exercise itself is easy enough: (1) find something you primarily associate with either black or white people, preferably with good reason, then (2) project your own perspective on to everyone else and (3) chide everyone else for presumably agreeing with your perspective, preferably while treating minorities like vulnerable children. The hard parts are finding a large enough microphone and cramming and industrial-sized barrel of smug inside of it.
Shoreditch
From the replies:
The left bare handed arse wipe was the most telling of this tale
Yeah, I noticed that, too, but wasn’t going to comment on it, because that would be rayciss.
“Because pretending to be aggrieved gives me power over idiots.”
Andrew Klavan doesn’t get anywhere near the fame Iowahawk does, sadly.
Regarding the “privilege” of wandering around in the weather, I would defer to the illustrious Dr. Sheldon Cooper: “If outside is so good, why has mankind spent thousands of years trying to perfect inside?”
To borrow from the editors of Wikipedia: “Citation needed.” Any taxpayers from the State of Maryland who’d like to file a FOIA request for every communication the library has received requesting napping pods? I mean, the University Libraries Communications Director says it’s a ‘frequent’ request, so surely he has a stack of feedback cards from the suggestion box to back up his assertion. Wouldn’t take more than a few minutes to put everybody’s mind at ease about the legitimacy of this need.
it turns out that by having an outdoor activity club that’s open to everyone, you’re somehow excluding “people of colour.”
Among all the howlers in the rant, there has to be some prize for this:
Like, ohmygod, why does the wilderness have to be, you know, so far away and not, like, you know, along a busline near my apartment highrise?
/valleygirl speak
To borrow from the editors of Wikipedia: “Citation needed.” Any taxpayers from the State of Maryland who’d like to file a FOIA request for every communication the library has received requesting napping pods?
I vaguely recall reading, possibly even at this fine establishment, were this very thing was tried, with great fanfare, and the “Napping Pods” rapidly become “Fapping Pods”, and were soon removed, without so much fanfare…
Oops, “where”, not “were” – hell “that” would have been better.
Yeah, I know, autocorrect doesn’t correct for grammar…
He’s done precisely what he was taught to do: find racism in a subject where nobody had previously found it and rile up sane people.
Meanwhile in Oregon, raycissism found in billboard featuring black boots with red laces.
Unfortunately the laces in question are plaid, for the holidays, as the billboard indicates, but, hey, let’s all get offended over some damn hipster boots, the store is in Portland, after all.
Like, ohmygod, why does the wilderness have to be, you know, so far away
It’s interesting that the little Mao-lings may have no ability to string together a coherent argument, and show no sign of ever being told that facts and logic are useful tools, and yet they all know, and know emphatically, which buzzwords to use and which things – usually white people – that they’re expected to disapprove of. And this, it seems, is enough.
“We’re here to help students succeed academically,” Bartheld said. “We hear from them frequently that they want EnergyPods or a napping room or something just to help them make it through long hours of studying.”
a) We are supposed to believe that there are students actually studying.
b) We are supposed to believe that these fictitious students are not just looking stuff up in Wikipaedia for their “studies” and actually using “books”.
c) We are supposed to believe that they don’t get enough sleep in class, should they deign to go.
d) Learning to nap anywhere is a valuable life skill.
And I’ll thank you not to judge me.
Well, David, it took 58 years, but I’m finally one of the beautiful people, with a permanently reserved seat.