Friday Ephemeraren’t
Yes, another opportunity to throw together your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. Being a generous guy, I’ll set the ball rolling with some suspicious-looking trousers; some people looking at art; a demonstration of how to have fun with blood and magnets; and Mr Tom Baker sharing tales of tingling titties and poisonous bottled farts.
Oh, and a visit to the world of competitive grave-digging.
First on the pile (reposted from the last thread, ’cause it’s absurd enough for two):
The chronic masturbators at 4Chan /pol/ are up to no good again…
Of course it’s okay to be white, so say the Progressive(sic) Left, so long as you are sufficiently deferential and subservient.
“Epic victory” I believe is what the dweebs at 4Chan call successful trolling of this magnitude.
The charm of HRC. The real cringy stuff starts about half way through.
https://youtu.be/hTfmuLm56yQ
“Bisexual student criticized radical Islam. Guess what happened next …”
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/38392/
I wonder if he’ll undergo a paradigm shift though?. Assuming he’s a “progressive” that is.
Bisexual student criticized radical Islam. Guess what happened next
You have to wonder whether the academics and bureaucrats involved ever register just how dishonest – and creepy – they are.
To borrow a phrase, toxic academia.
Headline of note.
Well, the creepy trousers et al have wasted enough time this morning.
Nose back to the grindstone or whatever the saying is!
Bisexual student criticized radical Islam. Guess what happened next
Millennials everywhere realised that the new left is intellectually repulsive and incoherent in equal measure? They abandoned their unquestioning allegiance to left-wing parties, rejected the misological dogma inculcated into them in their madrassas and became genuinely open-minded and accepting of new ideas?
Haha, no – just kidding. The left can do whatever it likes, but it will always have the young in its pocket.
Real jobs.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/73575/strange-well-paid-jobs-really-exist
Boo!
Everybody needs good neighbours.
What?
Boo!
The sofa was pretty scary too.
The Tom Baker video is gold.
Street racing in Colombia.
“Epic victory” I believe is what the dweebs at 4Chan call successful trolling of this magnitude.
Some of the 4CHan stuff is lame, but by damn their ongoing campaign of locating Shia LeBeouf’s flag is absolute genius.
The Tom Baker video is gold.
He gives good interview. There’s another video somewhere in which he recounts some upmarket pub crawls with the painter Francis Bacon, whose own stories are, um, rather salty.
The chronic masturbators at 4Chan /pol/ are up to no good again…
If you want prima facie evidence that Canada is too far down the leftist ****hole to be saved, it’s the fact that BLM wasn’t laughed out of the country the moment they showed their faces. Canada has no history of institutionalized slavery; we were the endpoint of he underground railroad. The only widespread slavery we had here was practiced by the indigenous tribes until the British Empire showed up and made them knock it off.
it’s the fact that BLM wasn’t laughed out of the country the moment they showed their faces.
Youngsters who can contemplate spending north of $100,000 on a degree in Angry Studies, and then spend their study time pissing about playing activist, aren’t on the firmest footing to invoke personal victimhood or “the legacy of slavery.” You’d think that supposedly clever people might register this detail. But apparently not.
The only widespread slavery we had here was practiced by the indigenous tribes until the British Empire showed up and made them knock it off.
That sounds like a plea to come and do it again!
(Only we’re not far behind your idiocy ourselves, and catching up fast.)
NYT:
Somehow.
Somehow.
It’s like the NYT in 1944 had published a missive about how “the real meaning of Banzai!!! is far more innocent”…
NYT:
Related from our self proclaimed intellectual betters.
Unrelated, anti-black capitalism is the root of fatphobia,, and also in antiblackness, because there are no Persons of Avoirdupoisity and Pallor, or something.
The Arabic phrase, which means simply “God is great,”
The thought-correctors at the NYT can’t even get the translation right. Nor does the Times see fit to mention that Muhammad himself is supposed to have used the term in exactly the same way, for exactly the same purpose, as modern jihadis – i.e., to proclaim supremacy and instill fear.
But hey, newspaper of record.
Unrelated
Isn’t “Ashley Shackleford” the same hambeast with the whiteboard scrawled “All white people are racist. PayPal me.”
When I was a lad, my grandfather would chuckle and say “Kamikaze!” any time he let go a really ripe fart. You can imagine my confusion when I sat in history class learning about the war in the Pacific.
You can imagine my confusion when I sat in history class learning about the war in the Pacific.
You can imagine my confusion when I sat in history class learning about the war in the Pacific, then coming home to tell my father, who was actually there at the time, what I learned only to go back to school with questions and then hear from my baby-boomer teacher, who was most certainly NOT there, that people like my father were too busy off in the jungles fighting to get the REAL story of what was going on. Also, the US Civil War was not about slavery. Another thing I learned in AP history class (you know, the one for the “smart” kids). It was all about states’ rights. Which I understand The Narrative now states that the US Civil War being about states’ rights is something only ignorant people (i.e. white southerners) believe and thus THIS is another indication how we need a common core public education to properly educate people how such a perception is wrong.
The Tom Baker video is gold.
There are some great youtube video interviews available. Dick Cavett from the 60s and 70s, with Richard Burton and Orson Welles are great, as well as old Parkinsons. Apologies, but I am an HTML spaz and can’t post clever mini-links… It doesn’t matter, no-one is reading this in the spam filter anyway.
Bisexual student criticized radical Islam. Guess what happened next
Professor Browning sounds like a right nasty piece of work. Not just stupid and narrow-minded, but the sort of person who finished 1984 and thought: “That was good, we ought to do that…”
Abu Afak had it right fourteen centuries ago.
But what do old people know?
no-one is reading this in the spam filter anyway.
Shockingly, and for reasons I can’t fathom, she left you unmolested. As it were.
Wow! I have had a bad day, maybe there is some compassion in there.
Wow! I have had a bad day, maybe there is some compassion in there.
If it’s any comfort, there was a time, for a couple of days, when the spam filter started eating my comments.
Imagine the indignity.
The worry du jour from Everyday Feminism:
https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/10/southeast-asian-mental-health
I cannot reconcile Melissa Fabello’s bubbly-cheerleader demeanor with her unrelentingly dark web site, where EVERYTHING is a problem. After all, you could, at least theoretically, have a feminist site with stories like “How Having My Antennae Always Up For Sexism At Work Garnered Me A Huge Settlement,” “Feminism Made My Kids Happy And Secure,” “The Joy Of Feminism,” “The Guy Who Dumped Me Now Has A Campus Show Trial Verdict Against Him That’ll Follow Him The Rest Of His Life,” “Feminism Saves Me Time, Money, and Aggravation,” and so forth. And as happy as Melissa seems to be, you’d think she could write some of these herself.
David, the reason the spam filter ate your comments because it was tired of pickled “eggs.”
Suggest you read “Better Spam Filtering With Feminism” and follow the recommendations.
Feminism Made My Kids Happy And Secure,
Heh. And yet I’m the one who’s often accused of having a dark sense of humour.
MC, there are also some good YouTubery on Eric Hoffer.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eric+hoffer
There are some great youtube video interviews available. Dick Cavett from the
This is my all-time favorite DC, the one where Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer show their artistic refinement…ok, 2nd only to Groucho’s last appearance. What it lacks in Groucho-level humor and sentimentality it makes up for in popcorn ready entertainment..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8m9vDRe8fw
Sounds like a rather other-than-divine wind, frankly.
David, how in the world do you keep track of all your entries?
[ Peers over specs in a manner both alluring and mysterious. ]
but the sort of person who finished 1984 and thought: “That was good, we ought to do that…”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hillary-clinton-doesnt-get-george-orwells-nineteen-eighty-four/article/2634245
“Unsolicited emotional theater.”
Via Instapundit.
Unsolicited emotional theatre.
What’s amazing is how long it takes some people to catch on, albeit dimly.
What’s amazing is how long it takes some people to catch on, albeit dimly.
What’s distressing about the article and those who nominally object to the antics of the protesters is that those objecting still feel compelled to give the protesters the benefit of the doubt, i.e. qualifying their objections with comments about the “valid points” or whatever.
Oh for someone to just say, “You’re at Reed College! You’re full of shit! Go back to your dorm and study harder!”
Sounds like a rather other-than-divine wind, frankly.
In hindsight, it seems a perfect fit for Grampa (mad genius that he was), in that it was something of a suicide move. As the man at the epicenter, nobody stood a lower chance of surviving the gas attack.
And BTW, my youngest–thanks to his college boards–got a fulsome solicitation from Reed this effing week, telling us what a great place it is. I’m going to print off the article and send it back with a two word rejoinder about his interest. (And mine, given that my cooperation is necessary to pay the fucking tuition, were he interested in attending.)
those objecting still feel compelled to give the protesters the benefit of the doubt,
As a general rule, and as a basis for a functional civilisation, it helps to recognise malice when it stares you in the face.
[ Peers over specs in a manner both alluring and mysterious. ]
Yes, I think we get the picture.
Have you tried the pickled eggs…?
“You’re at Reed College! You’re full of shit! Go back to your dorm and study harder!”
When I was studying engineering at my alma mater, the coursework started at 40 hours a week in first year and went north from there rapidly. Had anyone tried this sort of thing, they’d have been introduced to the contents of a CO2 fire extinguisher in short order.
(As an amusing aside, although they’re normally reserved for special environments I found out that the reason the university used them was that recharging a CO2 extinguisher was faster and cheaper than cleaning up after a dry chemical extinguisher given that the undergrads were going to be irresponsible with them)
I was thinking more this, myself.
David: Benny Hill or Tommy Lee Jones? Vote early and vote often!