Friday Ephemera
On second thoughts, maybe not. || Mosquitoes say hello. (h/t, Damian) || Are you wearing your anti-motion-sickness spectacles? || Something overhead. || Teeny, tiny tentacles. || Two phenomena, possibly related. || Ah, those simpler times, before white people arrived. || River bottom findings. || Continue the research. || The percentages of air in various bags of crisps. || Plaything of note. || Chinatown, New York. || “Queen of nuance.” || This is one of these. || “Why did the rescuers have to be white people?” || So much unbearable whiteness. || The eternal struggle. || At last, a Gregorian chant generator. (h/t, Things) || It’s a surprisingly versatile product. || And finally, his patience tested, Zeus shoots back.
River bottom findings:
Hem, hem:
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2018/06/friday-ephemerarent.html?cid=6a00d83451675669e2022ad39cef9b200b#comment-6a00d83451675669e2022ad39cef9b200b
“Queen of nuance.”
Will ‘she’/’zie’/’zey’ be in charge of who can have what?
I’ll pass on the offer to see ‘her’/’xer’/’xems’ dick pics.
’And finally, his patience tested, Zeus shoots back.’
Can’t stop laughing!
Morning, all. It’s suspiciously quiet today.
Hem, hem
Ah. Well, you see the error happened downstream of management. While I was on holiday. Probably some underling in the sorting office. I’ll have them fired, obviously.
Will ‘she’/‘zie’/‘zey’ be in charge of who can have what?
The people making these noises generally seem to imagine that they’d be the ones wearing The Bejewelled Marxist Sorting Hat – merrily deciding whose wants are permissible and – the fun bit – who should be denied. Quite how one would construct a morally superior system in which the self-imagined righteous oversaw the rest of us in such detail and made sure that we couldn’t just buy things we deem important with our own earnings, is unclear. Just as it’s unclear how such a nightmarishly overbearing system would avoid the usual results, like economic catastrophe and people eating rats.
Though frankly, I see no evidence that Avery, our smasher of capitalism and remaker of worlds, has thought that far ahead.
Such is woke piety.
Though frankly, I see no evidence that Avery, our smasher of capitalism and remaker of worlds, has thought that far ahead.
*Says capitalism is a cancer on society*
*takes away capitalism*
*society collapses*
Capitalism is primarily that each person is an economic unit, as opposed to organisation via workplaces or other collective groupings. It leads to each person being respected as an individual. Which means it is tolerant of deviance — historically of religion, now of pretty much everything.
That a Trans person should oppose the very system that allows xim to be openly different is one of life’s little mysteries.
At least if we do go corporatist it will be end of such whining.
*Says capitalism is a cancer on society*
*takes away capitalism*
*society collapses*
I think we need that on roadside hoardings. And on the t-shirts of busty ladies.
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Probably some underling in the sorting office. I’ll have them fired, obviously.
Heh. To be fair, you were busy that week. And not everybody may have seen it the first time around.
[ Sounds of giant cannon launching underling into the Sun. ]
It’s a surprisingly versatile product.
Capitalism delivers!
“Pizarro and others have found that disgust induced by a foul smell can affect how judgmental people are of minority groups, how conservative they are”
Nothing is safe from research into why some people are conservative, not even a prank doo-doo smell.
Feminist media studies.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/46667/
Feminism: the haunting fear that some white guy, somewhere, somehow, is having a good time and not feeling particularly guilty about anything.
Hi Connor,
We could also say that capitalism stinks!
Yrs,
The Devil’s Advocate 😁😈
“Queen of nuance”
Correction. That’s “Comedian. Queen of nuance.” – where it seems the latter is very much a defensive fall-back position for the former.
See, if you don’t laugh at this , it’s your sense of humour that’s at fault. She can’t be held responsible for your lack of refinement.
Pass us one of them pickled eggs, will you?
See, if you don’t laugh at this, it’s your sense of humour that’s at fault. She can’t be held responsible for your lack of refinement.
Ah, woke comedy. You’d think that the inherent surrealism of being trans might provide a rich seam of comedic material. Alas, no.
Re: Liquid Ass
There’s a serious point about that. Which is that this evil free market stuff means that a couple of guys can muck about and create a smell for a joke, and enough weirdos want to buy it. And then it turns out it has a practical use in medicine. And then an experimental use in science.
This simply does not happen under the various totalitarian/socialist regimes.
For a start, no humour. Maoist China wouldn’t produce this. Nor the Taliban. And if you don’t have that foolishness and free play, you stifle creativity. A commissar would say that you are wasting resources with such olfactory frivolity, religious nuts would say you are disrespecting Allah. Even if a ‘genuine’ need for such a smell was recognised there would be badly organised bureaucratic projects to produce it, at daft expense, resulting in overproduction and something a bit like the smell they were after. And it would take five years.
It’s a general point about the failure of central planning. Nobody knew how useful this would be until it was produced. And it was only produced by a couple of guys for a laugh.
Ah. Rain at last. I think the lawn is sighing with relief.
“Why did the rescuers have to be white people?”
The esteemed Elfwick once again channeled The Amazing Criswell…
The Trump balloon:
Right. The impression from all the chest thumping over this stunt was that this thing would be the size of a WWII barrage balloon, not so small you need binoculars to see what the hell it really is from two blocks away.
For a start, no humour. Maoist China wouldn’t produce this. Nor the Taliban.
Khomenei proclaimed “no humor in Islam”.
Right. The impression from all the chest thumping over this stunt was that this thing would be the size of a WWII barrage balloon, not so small you need binoculars to see what the hell it really is from two blocks away.
It’s hilarious. Reminds me of the classic Stonehenge scene in “This is Spinal Tap:”
https://vimeo.com/94459739
so small you need binoculars to see what the hell it really is from two blocks away.
For £20,000, I was expecting a second sun.
Re: Liquid Ass
Okay, hands up everyone who didn’t foresee that one day we’d be discussing something called Liquid Ass.
*raises hand*
Today’s word is baizuo.
The stench so realistically mimics the human colon, it’s the perfect training tool to teach medical responders how to maintain focus and professional demeanor in the midst of a truly overwhelming smell.
#1 attended a top nursing school for her RN and they used state-of-the-art training mannequins (along with clinicals). I should ask if they used LA. Though she had been a paramedic before going for her RN so I believe her own professional demeanor from exposure to the gross had already been obtains (whoa, the stories!)
exposure to the gross
Speaking of bodily horrors. Not for the squeamish.
I wasn’t even aware that they existed…
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/46509/
Speaking of bodily horrors.
Just spitballing here, but I am thinking if you have no depth perception, you might want to find an occupation other than “standing in front of and goading an already enraged bull”.
I wasn’t even aware that they existed
As Glenn Reynolds says, “When taxpayers tire of funding this sort of thing, we’ll be told it’s because of ‘anti-intellectualism’…”
Just spitballing here, but I am thinking if you have no depth perception…
And if you spend your time torturing a large and very powerful animal, sooner or later shit will happen.
Liquid Ass demonstrates one of the most profound ideas in economics: Supply creates its own demand.
No sh!t, Sherlock…
https://pjmedia.com/trending/new-poll-americans-believe-theyre-better-off-financially-under-trump-than-obama/
Speaking of bodily horrors
Strzok summed up in a gif
Strzok summed up in a gif
It looks like he’s having some kind of gay seizure. Sort of Hannibal Lecter by way of Kenneth Williams.
The Trump balloon:
DrumpfHitler is finished this time!
Strzok had to know he was on national tv, right?
I think we have our guy for the Pee Wee’s Playhouse reboot! Tell the casting director she can take the weekend off.
Goodwood Festival of Speed Live Feed.
Check back often. That is all, carry on.
Agenda detected.
Via Damian.
I thought Hillary was not in the best mental shape during the 2016 election, but she continues going downhill…
https://pjmedia.com/video/hillary-clinton-says-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-will-bring-back-slavery/
“Are you wearing your anti-motion-sickness spectacles?”
Not at 99 Euromarks, I’m not. They look like something out of a Christmas cracker.
I mean, looking a bit daft is a small price to pay for curing motion sickness. But 90 quid is a very large price to pay for a bit of plastic and some tubing with coloured water in it.
“Nothing is safe from research into why some people are conservative, not even a prank doo-doo smell.”
But it’s such a mystery.
PRM: “There’s a serious point about that.”
Absolutely. I’m trying to add something to that, and I’m not coming up with much. It’s a very important point.
“Goodwood Festival of Speed Live Feed.”
Thanks, Farnsworth. I hadn’t realised it was this week. Well, that’s my weekend spoken for. Hold my calls.
But 90 quid is a very large price to pay for a bit of plastic and some tubing with coloured water in it.
Bung some luminescent chemicals in there and – boom – rave goggles.
Young people still rave, don’t they?
They most certainly rant.
Incidentally, and belatedly, I’ve just discovered Bosch and am halfway through season one. So far, so good.
Bosh, like Hieronymus? That Bosch?
Not for the squeamish.
Walking, talking monument to toxic masculinity that he is, I am certain that all the toothsome ladies he meets are instantly repelled.
After apparently attending a struggle session Scarlett Johannson bails from “transgender” gangster flick.
In English I think that means, “I didn’t want my career to be ended just now.”
Oh no, Scarlett. You can’t apologise to people who don’t value contrition and don’t believe in redemption.
I’ve just discovered Bosch and am halfway through season one. So far, so good.
I started with the books … 20 of ’em (I’ve stopped at 19 because I’m saving the last one a bit …)
I’ve now gotten to season 3 of Bosch and I’m so glad the author is the exec producer, even as a few things are changed (e.g. the books start in the 80s with Bosch as a Vietnam “tunnel rat” Vet) … the series really captures the books.
I usually don’t read a lot of mysteries but I got hooked from book one.
Oh, it really captures the rhythms of Los Angeles quite nicely. It’s a strange city – and I say that as someone who was born in El-Lay and grew up in The Valley.
Pogonip
Yep, Harry “Hieronymus” Bosch
For Darleen, the Valley Girl:
https://www.imaginaryforces.com/work/bosch-main-title
Been trying to get people to watch this for the last couple of years, and just tonight talking to my leftard friend about it (he’s halfway through season 3)
Incidentally, and belatedly, I’ve just discovered Bosch and am halfway through season one. So far, so good.
Have you tried Patriot?
“Have you tried Patriot?”
This is a type of condom?
Incidentally, I’ve only recently discovered that The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine (Anymore) is originally by Frankie Valli and Four Seasons, and not the Walker Brothers. Smh
Bosch is good, but I’m cheap, so most of my power tools are Ryobi.
What?
“What”
*while jabrwok is looking around the room for approval, quietly slips a pickled egg into his beer*
For Darleen, the Valley Girl
Love the opening theme.
BTW … I get a kick that a jazz musician that Harry goes to see in the later books, Grace Kelley, actually appears in Season 2 of the tv show. No clip from the show, but she composed a piece for her appearance and performs it later here, too.
oops … “Kelly”
“Why did the rescuers have to be white people?”
Don’t worry, when the BBC do their dramatisation they won’t be.
On Joan’s link.
But my anecdata shows that “let’s compete by eating something so stupidly hot that the pain in both our throats, and somewhat later, the bottom ends of the digestive tract make us want to kill ourselves”, which is what that Yank program(me) seems to be celebrating, is an almost exclusively male stupidity?
Been trying to get people to watch this for the last couple of years,
Thanks to nagging by The Other Half, I’m halfway through season one, where another grim twist is emerging – and so far, the series strikes me as well played, and paced, and shot, if not altogether original in terms of genre tropes. I don’t usually go for police procedurals, but I was drawn into its story threads quite easily. No small feat.
Have you tried Patriot?
I don’t know what that is. Is it a deodorant?
*while jabrwok is looking around the room for approval, quietly slips a pickled egg into his beer*
[ Slides along bar a large, overfilled ashtray. Nods towards Jabrwok’s beer. ]
Will ‘she’/‘zie’/‘zey’ be in charge of who can have what?
Avery’s nuanced political philosophy:
Apparently, there’s “nothing moral” about paying your own way and preferring not to be a needless burden on strangers.
Farnsworth M Muldoon:
Yes the one-eyed, without depth perception, were much more suitably employed in the 1950s.
Andre De Toth for example directed the 1953 film House of Wax… in 3-D.
Apparently, there’s “nothing moral” about paying your own way and preferring not to be a needless burden on strangers.
Zer/zem’s parents must be proud.
Zer/zem’s parents must be proud.
Quite.
We’re told, “Remember, babes, there’s nothing moral about work.” What Avery means, of course, is that there’s nothing immoral about habitual, opportunist freeloading. I.e., parasitism. And so, according to our self-imagined moral better, if you choose not to work and support yourself, some other sucker should be made to pay your bills as well as their own, indefinitely. Because hey, you’re just so fabulous, babe.
You’d think that being trans would be enough of a challenge in life without also being quite so obnoxiously narcissistic.
Quick Reflexes.
How they call cows in Sweden.
Today in Real Life or 4chan?;
Are MAPs a new subgroup of the LGBTetc movement?
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/09/pedophiles-lgbt-community/
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/pedophiles-desperately-join-lgbt-movement-acceptance-flag/
Hugs,
-S
Andre De Toth for example directed the 1953 film House of Wax… in 3-D.
Strangely, however, the cinematographers, who only required one eye to operate the cameras, had binocular vision…
Zer/zem’s parents must be proud.
a) Yes, but they are the ones who created zit.
b) Bear in mind she is a he. (…and the colored girls go doo doo doo, etc.)
But my anecdata shows that “let’s compete by eating something so stupidly hot that the pain in both our throats, and somewhat later, the bottom ends of the digestive tract make us want to kill ourselves”, which is what that Yank program(me) seems to be celebrating, is an almost exclusively male stupidity?
“For the two things that a healthy person hates most between heaven and hell are a woman who is not dignified and a man who is.” (G.K. Chesterton)
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2013/07/two-balls-bad-no-balls-good.html
A small act of kindness:
https://twitter.com/markaizatt/status/1017825170218737670
Wow … as in Holy crap, Salem witch trials couldn’t have been much worse.
Ah yes, the five stages of welfare parasitism:
1) Gratitude: “This money is a lifesaver, thanks!”
2) Entitlement: “Where’s my damn welfare check?”
3) Blame: “It’s not my fault I’m on the dole.”
4) Resentment: “You don’t give me enough. The system sucks!”
5) Contempt: “There’s nothing moral about work, babes.”
Wow … as in Holy crap,
Yet another illustration of how flashing one’s woke credentials just happens to coincide with all manner of spiteful and unsavoury motives. Strange, that.
Gif as art.
Via Damian.
I’m not surprised at Avery’s attitude. He obviously has no problem declaring his right to steal the identity of women.
Do I understand correctly from the Galloway story that the graduate student on whose word he blacklisted a job applicant is the same person who in the next paragraph accuses Galloway of sexual assault and is the same person who two thirds of the way into the article he admits to have been sleeping with (which turns the the blacklisting incident from a story about unaccountable institutional policies into a sleazy soap opera). If so, isn’t the job applicant the one we should feel sorry for, and isn’t Galloway just taking some of what he admits to have dished out?
Gif as art.
Damn it. I’ve just wasted five minutes watching that. Yes, I know – no refunds, credit note only, etc.
isn’t Galloway just taking some of what he admits to have dished out?
Admittedly, he acted just like SJWs want – take the woman at her word. I feel sorry for the candidate that didn’t get the job, but AFAIK Galloway didn’t lead a mob full of pitchforks and burning torches against this person. Indeed, that person probably went on unaware of what really happened to their application and has gone on with life.
Galloway was totally exonerated of all charges but he’ll never get back any of his life. Ditto anyone who dared to ask for due process for him.
Do I understand correctly from the Galloway story that the graduate student on whose word he blacklisted a job applicant is the same person who in the next paragraph accuses Galloway of sexual assault and is the same person who two thirds of the way into the article he admits to have been sleeping with (which turns the the blacklisting incident from a story about unaccountable institutional policies into a sleazy soap opera). If so, isn’t the job applicant the one we should feel sorry for, and isn’t Galloway just taking some of what he admits to have dished out?
Yes, that was my reading of it as well, though my sympathy gave out about two paragraphs before the “sleeping with” part that I just went back to see. The story winds its way around to that in a rather odd manner. Not that I don’t believe this guy but as you said he blacklisted another person on even less “evidence” than what was had on himself. And yet he got awarded $167K. As I said, I gave up on it and no desire to read through the rest of the TL;DR but I am curious if he ever expresses contrition for the blacklisting.
I have far more sympathy for a guy no one gives a damn about, one George Zimmerman, whose life has been completely ruined, even down to his personality. Who could stand up to such an onslaught? An entire nation, and beyond FWIU, hates him. And he didn’t get a dime from the slanderous news media attacks, the lies, the selectively edited 911 call. And to this day, nobody give a damn about what happened. Nobody cares that even “conservative” media would not support a man using a gun to defend his own life. All of these witch hunt stories are important, especially in the light of the most prominent one that has been going on for two years now, and the exposure of the nature of the mob attacks is very important. Yet I find it very, very hard to have an ounce of sympathy for this Galloway clown.
WTP
I have sympathy for all individuals who run afoul of the mob regardless of their flaws. Zimmerman was rightly acquitted — so even if he’s not a sterling character, I believe he should be left alone to live his life. The complete demonization of Darren Wilson is also unfair and I have a lot of sympathy for a man who has to live in a clandestine way just to protect himself. Anyone standing up for him?
One can pick apart anyone’s life and find flaws. The perfect person is not in need of due process, it is the flawed person precisely because sympathy counts for nothing when the mob is working to lynch you.
Speaking of attitudes and senses of entitlement, Deep Thoughts™ from the loser of the last presidential election:
1. I can’t help but to have noticed that “the most vulnerable” to whom she refers have been the ones disrupting traffic, setting fires, shouting down speakers, and generally rioting.
2. “Contempt for our values”; if by “our” values she means her values, well, yes there is, if, OTOH, she is pretending to speak for the values of most ‘Murkans, again, yes, but the obvious thing is it is her side to blame.
*while jabrwok is looking around the room for approval, quietly slips a pickled egg into his beer*
[ Slides along bar a large, overfilled ashtray. Nods towards Jabrwok’s beer. ]
Pfft. No one appreciates good humor anymore.
[Drinks.]
And another thing…hmmm…piquant, yet bold…and chewy…and…like…have you ever really *looked* at your hand before?
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………………….
have you ever really *looked* at your hand before?
It should wear off in 8-12 hours.
“There is nothing moral about work” is merely an assertion, lacking argument and evidence.
Babe, how about you review a dozen or so moral philosophers and put together a cogent exposition of your position… or is it a pose?
Ten bucks for naked pics of Ms Edison? This is so sweetly naive. Photoshop, babe.
Ten bucks for naked pics of Ms Edison?
It is all in the fine print, it is actually Mr. Edison.
I’ll assert there’s nothing moral about my job (bookkeeping) but nothing particularly immoral about it, either. It’s just there, paying the bills.
It depends Pogonip. Do you do your accounts honestly, without fear or favour? Assuming yes, then it is moral. The system works based on millions of people making moral decisions, albeit small ones.
Because there certainly are immoral bookkeepers!
And countries where bookkeeping is regarded as an inventive occupation don’t run so well.
Incidentally, and belatedly, I’ve just discovered Bosch and am halfway through season one. So far, so good.
The actor (Titus Welliver) who plays the protagonist bears a striking resemblance to a slightly older James Nesbitt.
Are MAPs a new subgroup of the LGBTetc movement?
There’s a very real problem hidden in there, which is that people with strong paraphiliac urges towards minors have absolutely no avenues for support to prevent them acting on those urges. Just admitting to the urge, even under medical privilege, could be social and career suicide.
Much like gender dysphoria, though, a tiny but real mental illness is getting seized upon and normalized for political purposes.
Zer/zem’s parents must be proud.
More of Avery’s deep wisdom. Apparently, wealth causes poverty.
Are MAPs a new subgroup of the LGBTetc movement?
I bloody well hope not. One of the most disgusting and offensive tropes used by anti-gay/anti-bisexual bigots 50 years ago, and one still used today to a lesser extent, was that all gays were/are pedophiles. And so, as someone who’s bisexual, it would be nice, really nice, if today’s activist left stopped trying to prove those bigots right.
“As a woman, you should know this.”
Apparently, wealth causes poverty.
Look at the replies to that tweet. This is what a large percentage of people, I would even say most people, believe. Break this misconception that most people have and you will go a long way toward solving the problem of creeping leftism and a good number of other social ills.
Zimmerman was rightly acquitted — so even if he’s not a sterling character, I believe he should be left alone to live his life. The complete demonization of Darren Wilson is also unfair and I have a lot of sympathy for a man who has to live in a clandestine way just to protect himself. Anyone standing up for him?
Well neither Zimmerman nor Wilson were active participants in the kind of mentality of which they became victims. I have not heard much about Wilson but I am fairly certain he has support of a good number of police officers and society in general. Zimmerman, not so much. Tell you what, if the day comes where Galloway is simply driving down a road and someone fires a weapon at him simply because he is Galloway, I might reconsider. As for “so even if he’s not a sterling character”, this in itself is part of the problem. To my knowledge he was a decent guy, no different from the vast majority of people of his socioeconomic background and such. His character has been degraded by the horrible way he has been treated by our society in general. That man is truly a victim of a much bigger, far more threatening, and far more dangerous mob.