Friday Ephemeraren’t
Due to your host being sleep-deprived, you’re getting a precious opportunity to throw together your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. I’ll set the ball rolling with a demonstration of inadequate planning; via Holborn, the thrill of knitting patterns; some New York City scenes circa 1911; a photogenically frozen Siberian lake; and, because you deserve it, some high-quality cinema.
Oh, and a headline of possible interest.
[ Sprays R. Sherman with cold water. ]
Damn you, Sherman!
Glad I’m not Catholic. God only knows what one should be expected to say in a confessional following such surprises.
On the short side, balding and yet…
So who wins, Statham or Bruce Willis?
Says he’s very nice, but a bit of a ponce. Lot’s of “Can we stop for a bit, I’m a bit chilly” and “Cor, my wrists hurt, can you take over”.
Also- he’s quite old.
Given that he’s 50, I wonder if the “ponciness” isn’t mere age.
I walk for an hour and my hip starts to hurt. I can’t take part in active rugby coaching any more or I get finger issues. I have had plantar fasciitis for years, so I can’t stand still for very long.
And I’m a reasonably active man in my early 50s, and can still play some football. I know others that are far more broken than me.
New York city is infested with fast-food places that will give you Jesus cooties!
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/yankee-bigot-scared-of-chick-fil-a/
But it’s not racism when POC do it, right?
Given that he’s 50, I wonder if the “ponciness” isn’t mere age.
Unless one is a distilled adult beverage, 50 isn’t exactly old, so my money is on ponciness, given its endemicity among the acting class.
Damn you, Sherman!
It’s research for a new paper I’m submitting to Everyday Feminism. The working title is, “Perky Nipples . . .something, something . . . Ingrained Misogyny . . . something, something . . . Trump.”
@R.Sherman
Don’t forget wypipo and cultural appropriation of brown body nipples from cultures that traditionally wear neither tops nor bras.
This is what the BBC thinks it is to be British?
The Immigrant People
“Answered my own question:”
Blimey. Suspended for that? They’re really touchy unless you’re calling for the slaughter of the infidel and/or kulaks, aren’t they?
“On the short side, balding and yet…”
…has a movie career and a pile of cash.
Be honest. Mr. always-buys-his-milk-in-pints-‘cos-those-litre-bottles-are-a-ripoff* Duncan here never gets the “and yet…”, does he?
Fascists.
*And that’s sound household management, right there. I’m a keeper. I mean, what’s a little designer stubble and a winning smile when he’s pissed all his money away on overpriced groceries, eh?
http://theothermccain.com/2018/04/13/sperm-costs-too-damn-much/
If you are, as the saying goes, “not conventionally attractive,” why would you want to wear—in this instance— a topknot, purple lipstick, and a sour expression? I see a lot of this among the Woke. It’s like they enjoy being eyesores, as if the citizenry were not already bombarded with more than enough inanimate ugliness. I wonder what they get out of it? They have to look at each other too.
I remember one memorable photo where the Wokette stared into the camera with a fiercely disapproving expression—while holding an adorable puppy. How the heck does anyone manage to scowl while holding an adorable puppy? I wonder if the Woke are on their way to becoming a separate species. While standards of What Looks Good differ from time to time and place to place, nowhere, until very recently, have people devoted effort to being What Looks Bad. This is not normal human behavior.
Farnsworth, my dad was on Okinawa in the summer of 1946; the Americans had not yet trained Okinawan women to stay fully dressed in the miserable heat. Dad said he not only got a heat rash, he darn near got whiplash from whipping his head back and forth as the ladies passed.
With every passing day “Idiocracy” looks more like a documentary than a satire.
Chester, have you tried rolling a tennis ball around under your bare foot while sitting around? That’ll help loosen up the plantar fasciae. It worked for me.
It’s easy to forget that most of the burly and strapping action heroes now hurling themselves off buildings and punching through concrete were formerly drama students.
I have played Dungeons & Dragons with Vin Diesel (no, really). He has a high-pitched voice, he’s about 5’9″, and he giggles.
It’s like they enjoy being eyesores, as if the citizenry were not already bombarded with more than enough inanimate ugliness. I wonder what they get out of it?
Oh, that’s easy. People who are deeply, self-destructively insecure will ugly themselves up because then they have a built-in excuse for why no one finds them attractive.
Well, we all ugly up sooner or later, if we’re lucky; it’s called getting old. Daniel may have hit on the reason the young ugly up. I sure wish they’d quit.
People who are deeply, self-destructively insecure will ugly themselves up because then they have a built-in excuse for why no one finds them attractive.
True. Though to be fair, the woman highlighted in McCain’s piece–at least from the shoulders up–has a sort of “James T. Kirk, your date is here” vibe. So, she’s got that going for her at least. Which is nice.
Eric loves broccoli.
Farnsworth — I didn’t say he was old. I said there are effects of aging that mean 50 year olds can’t do what 30 year olds can.
There’s a reason why professional contact sports have almost no players in their 40s, let alone 50s. Age slows you down, lowers your stamina and makes you more brittle.
Pogonip — I have all the management techniques sorted. Stretching is the most useful — the ball rolling only treats the symptoms, not the cause. Though it does help.
The thing is that standing brings it on, and as a school teacher I am on my feet 4 hours a day.
The cause is micro-cramping in my calves. I need to figure out how to get rid of them for it to go away. However leg cramping is a known feature of age and my reading has found that many find it incurable.
apparently this sort of thing is a booming business.
Amazing how you can make an entire business model out of finding the posterize filter in Photoshop.
Look, don’t knock Jason Statham. As Bill Peschel above points out, his self-parody in “Spy” is just brilliant. And in “The Transporter”, there is an evocative scene where his character and the police inspector, who is trying to bring him to justice in an ever so civilised French way, chat about memory while eating madelaines. When did Arnie or Bruce Willis (or Asterix the Gaul for that matter) ever make such subtle reference to modernist cultural iconography?
Okay, who put a life-size cardboard cut-out of Jason Statham in the gents?
My new favourite photographic genre:
https://twitter.com/silkspectres/status/984585212007997440
My new favourite photographic genre
We don’t get a lot of that over here.
True, in this country we don’t. Doesn’t mean we can’t like it when we see stoned bears fall out of trees onto trampolines in the States or Canada.
Hi Chester, try tonic water. It stopped my cramping.
“Captain Kirk, your date is here—and does she look pissed!”
I said there are effects of aging that mean 50 year olds can’t do what 30 year olds can.
Yeah – in WWII the myth was that 25 was over the hill for a pilot, meanwhile, Robin Olds, who flew in WWII, was shooting down Migs in Vietnam at the ripe old age of 45.
However, speaking as one for whom 50 is becoming a speck in the rear view mirror, that all depends on the 50 year old. I am guessing you have never seen a division four mile run with the 50+ year old commander leading the 18+ year olds, and, when I was a mere stripling of 55, I was required to do everything my 30 year old counterparts did with the exception of running as fast for two miles twice a year. Given that I have always been a crappy runner I was good with that, but I had an equally antediluvian pal who was a marathon runner and could smoke the average 30 year old (and for that matter, younger) cohort.
There’s a reason why professional contact sports have almost no players in their 40s, let alone 50s.
In American football during a one hour game that lasts four, there are, on average, about 11 minutes of actual running around, which translates to even less for an individual player given that one is usually just on offense or defense, so I’ll go with the reason is that (barring injury) they are pampered and overpaid and just quit. George Blanda was unavailable for comment.
However leg cramping is a known feature of age…
No, leg cramping is generally a feature of overuse, electrolyte imbalance, or vascular insufficiency, all of which are age independent though there is a higher age related incidence of the latter related to usually preventable lower extremity arterial disease. Studies have indicated the incidence to be fairly equally distributed across all age groups, with women having a higher incidence than men, which will come as a shock to the writers of Everyday Feminism.
Other causes include some medications (e.g., statins, diuretics), some endocrine disorders, peripheral neuropathies, and the highest prevalence is among those with liver cirrhosis. Regardless, identifying the actual cause is what drives the cure – if it is overuse, exercising to build up the affected muscles; if it is medication related, a trial of a different medication; if it is vasular, fixing the plumbing,and so on.
Ahoy Chester – I’m just a touch younger than you, and I was able to fix my plantar fasciitis with seated calf raises. Take off the plates, throw a five-pound weight on there, and do a hundred of them. You’ll want to die at thirty or forty, just break it into sets.
If you’re not a gym-goer like me and Jason Statham, likely any calf lift will do, including one on a step. It seems to have more to do with muscle tone than flexibility, but I defer to Farnsworth on the mechanisms.
Fat-studies scholarship.
Fat-studies scholarship.
Lord love a duck, I’ve been to a rodeo, a world’s fair, and a picnic, and that is the stupidest thing I’ve heard come over a set of headphones. Today, anyway, though the whole thread is in competition for the title.
Finally got around to watching Alien: Covenant.
Oh dear.
Finally got around to watching Alien: Covenant.
Oh dear.
Right. It’s not Prometheus 2, it’s Prometheus ^2.
Lord love a duck, . . . that is the stupidest thing I’ve heard come over a set of headphones.
Now, now. The paper has citations and footnotes! Those tell us it is the product of a serious mind.
Sherman,
Here you go…
Blogger Says She Was Stopped from Taking Photos in a Bikini Despite Getting Permission – People
A blogger says she was stopped from taking photos in a bikini at a Las Vegas hotel, despite previously getting permission from the staff. Anna O’Brien, who runs the blog Glitter + Lazers, says that she contacted the hotel where she was staying ahead of time to set up a photo shoot for her website. The New York-based blogger says that the hotel, which she declines to name, approved her request and said that she could shoot anywhere except the casino floor. Read the full story…
http://people.com/health/blogger-stopped-bikini-photos-despite-getting-permission/
Why is this lady posing in Donald Trump’s apartment?
A blogger says she was stopped from taking photos in a bikini at a Las Vegas hotel, despite previously getting permission from the staff.
Siiiigggggghhhhhhh.
Dear hotel staff. When cheerfully announcing Yeah, no problem. Perhaps, just perhaps, you should also consider what you might later find to be a problem.
Before the possibility of involving the lawyers.
As has been noted in the comments of this article, this is a piece of terminal, virtue-signalling performance art…
I’m sure we are all wracked with eco-guilt as a result…..
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/14/green-activist-lawyer-burns-himself-to-death-to-protest-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-2790499
apparently this sort of thing is a booming business.
A couple of years ago, I was on a flight from the UK to Greece. Sitting across the aisle from me were two women in their late teens/early 20s. They spent the whole flight working avidly on colouring-in books.
“It’s easy to forget that most of the burly and strapping action heroes now hurling themselves off buildings and punching through concrete were formerly drama students.”
NOW, yes. But look at the CVs of the leading men in the 50s and 60s. These guys had been there and done that. Steve McQueen actually did most of the motorcycle riding (not ‘the jump’, I know) in The Great Escape. No cutaways so the stunt double can sub in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zwW7iWinrk
Just try to imagine Leopold DiCarpaccio (or whatever his name is) riding a Triumph twin on grass.
To stop a little further back in time, look at Audie Murphy. It is said when he was making a film of his own wartime experience he asked them to tone it tone a bit as he didn’t think audiences with would believe the reality.