Friday Ephemera
This thing here. (h/t, dicentra) || I’m assuming that what we’re looking at isn’t food preparation. || A pleasing tense. || “Who would have known playing God could have such terrible consequences?” (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Bridge Constructor Portal is a game. || Police dog entrances of note. || Liquor store parking. || Snow labyrinth. || Papa’s person is ringing; a mystery unfolds. || So many questions. || For 96 minutes. || Augmented climbing. || Making soap by hand. || “The highest standards of scholarly peer review.” || She does this better than you do. || Video title of note. || Tweeted riposte of note. || Underwater hiking trail, Brazil. || One More Brick is also a game. || This is one of these. || And finally, Dinosaur, a short film by Nathan, aged four, with a little help from his dad.
“The highest standards of scholarly peer review.”
I can’t tell you how pleased I am that my taxes are paying Doctor Springer’s salary.
Underwater hiking trail? Underwater hiking…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfKW8a8t2i0&feature=share
I thought it was underwear hiking. Whole different concept.
Liquor store parking and old bloke with a phone are my favorites this week.
It does seem a bit hard to believe, though, that a scholarly journal called ACME is not a parody….
It does seem a bit hard to believe, though, that a scholarly journal called ACME is not a parody….
Official Meeting Facilities Guide
That CPR story revives my faith in humanity.
Dinosaur, a short film by Nathan, aged four,
It was gorier than expected. 🙂
The squirrel looks bigger than 5ft. #factcheck
The squirrel looks bigger than 5ft. #factcheck
But even at two metres-plus, they’re still quite adorable. Until they start pounding on the roof or tipping over your car.
they’re still quite adorable
Rats with good PR…
It was gorier than expected. 🙂
It has everything a good movie needs: a beginning, a middle and an end.
“Who would have known playing God could have such terrible consequences?”
For only $24.99, who knew the power of God was so cheap ? #cooltimewaster
For only $24.99,
The potential for disaster is quite impressive. “Oh-kay. That… exploded.”
What would we do without “veteran journalists” ?
I’m not convinced that kid’s name is really Nathan. I think it’s Bawwy Kwipke.
Poached pooches. Dogs are like the celebrated English Eccentrics of old. Each one may have its unique behavioral oddity.
Our Malti likes to be cocooned in a towel – wrapped tight from head to toes – when she gets wet. Our Lab catches toads and carries them around live in his mouth.
Why we should encourage our children to pursue a STEM education. (H/T Ace of Spades HQ sidebar)
http://www.katc.com/story/37560947/student-investigated-after-allegedly-saying-a-math-symbol-looked-like-a-gun
“symbol looked like a gun”
I think it would have been the death penalty if that kid had also eaten his Pop-Tart into the shape of a pistol.
You just can’t be too careful these days, you know, and the square root symbol could be considered a weapon of math destruction.
Where’s my coat?
Where’s my coat?
The Joke Police confiscated it and then set it on fire.
Holy crap!
I think it would have been the death penalty if that kid had also eaten his Pop-Tart into the shape of a pistol.
Sure a Pop Tart gun is bad, but not as bad as a chicken finger pistol, particularly when it is brandished. The kid was reportedly a good egg till he went to school and was cooped up all day and that scrambled his tiny mind.
As someone who does a fair amount of work with the Mayo Clinic, I thought this story sounded familiar. Sure enough, it’s a re-print of an event that happened in 2011.
I’m not sure why SunnySkyz is pretending that this is news today, but I’ll concede that even with this lapse, they’re better than most media outlets, in that this is an event that actually happened.
“symbol looked like a gun”
That’s amusing at first: but note that they did do an investigation, and they did search the student’s house (how can that possibly not be an ‘unreasonable search’) and they have turned it over to the School Board to determine the appropriate disciplinary action for the student’s “extremely poor judgement.”
This is a kind of institutional madness. I will not be astonished if one of these days a parent of a child who is being persecuted like this goes berserk with a machete on the School Board; which, of course, will only confirm the institution in its determination to utterly regiment all aspects of life for those within its power.
the square root symbol could be considered a weapon of math destruction
SOOOO stolen.
SOOOO stolen.
Don’t encourage him.
Yeah, but now my coat’s gone so I can’t leave.
[ Summons henchlesbians, who drag PiperPaul’s table nearer to the gents’ toilet. ]
which, of course, will only confirm the institution in its determination
Where would Nurse Ratched be, if she couldn’t keep her wards crazy?
IMO, all Dogs should have their own musical accompaniment .
This is one of these.
Regarding the chicken finger pistol – I’m sure the teacher’s involved were only concerned in preventing any sort of fowl play. Of course, perhaps the child was only feeling peckish. Peckish! Don’t want the kid getting too cocky either. Perhaps he only brandished the chicken fingers because the other children were egging him on. Anyway, hopefully the action taken by teachers didn’t ruffle any feathers.
Jon, be careful, that men’s door swings open without notice and very fast.
Anyone seen my coat?
This
That water is suspiciously clean…
[ Henchlesbians grab Jon’s table and drag it into the gents’ toilet. ]

While you’re in there, make yourself useful.
This is one of these.
And the award for Most Preposterous Male goes to…
[ Summons henchlesbians, who drag PiperPaul’s table nearer to the gents’ toilet. ]
Jon, be careful, that men’s door swings open without notice and very fast.
[ Henchlesbians grab Jon’s table and drag it into the gents’ toilet. ]
Like it ain’t crowded enough in this corner already. Did I mention the wifi over here sucks as well?
You know, for kids.
Only $19.99.
Well, I for one like it in here. The acoustics are fantastic.
Speaking of kids.
Ha, I knew you’d post the gif of the kid with the dove.
That’s amusing at first: but note that they did do an investigation, and they did search the student’s house…and they have turned it over to the School Board…
Given the sloppy use of the subject “the student” used in that article, I’m still not clear about whose house was searched. Was it the kid accused of doing math, or the kid who tried to get him in trouble? Because if it’s the tattletale whose life is being turned inside out, my outrage level goes way, way down.
Though I suppose that would be too much to ask from the Powers That Be.
So when you have a square root symbol and negative comments you end up with an imaginary gun?
And finally, Dinosaur, a short film by Nathan, aged four
Still significantly better than anything Nelvana has produced in decades.
Black female student at NYU is embarrassed about being black … has black cooks fired.
re the square-root search warrant, elsewhere (Althouse?) I read that the student A drew a radical, B remarked (approximately) “that looks like a gun. we better get going on this math before I shoot you with a gun”, that was overheard by C and D, rumor spread, and a search warrant was issued for B’s home and it was searched.
You know, I had guns around when I was a young kid in the 60s, both family and friends. Can’t recall anyone ever making a “joke” remark like that. I think my (Marine officer) dad would have smacked me if I had.
IMO, all . . .
. . . should have their own musical accompaniment.
—the opening of the original trailer is even funnier . . . .
Ha, I knew you’d post the gif of the kid with the dove.
In a few years, I’ll be hiring her as a bouncer.