Friday Ephemera
London wildlife. (h/t, Holborn) || Interspecies communication. || It’s a chemical art. (h/t, Matthew) || “As languages develop, they create colour names in a certain order.” || Packaging of note. (h/t, Obo) || Debra Soh on transsexuality, fetishes and gaydar. || Nocturnal time lapse. || Heh. (h/t, Julia) || Her bad day was way worse than yours. || The big bitchin’ choons of the ancient world. (h/t, Pogonip) || For working dogs. || In Missouri, sideboob and underboob are banned in public. || Tapping tape. || “The size of Dan’s scrotum affects every aspect of his daily life.” || Holedown is a game. || She’s a druid, obviously, and a feminine chaos dragon. || And finally, I think you’ve got a little something on your face.
Hello David,
As a long time fan, well since 2013 when I discovered your very seedy dive, I would like to pay a little off from my bar tab. But Firstly, I’ve asked you before as you long ago mentioned a book, and I am becoming sorely tried in the waiting.
Where is it? You know you have it in you.
You have a marvelous way about you, and you have a great set of regulars and occasionals, and as you often correctly say, the ATL’s are really only the springboards for what’s to follow.
Now, I’m going to tickle your big fat glistening belly, and throw a few jinglers into your moth-eaten bowler hat. Also give me more Laurie Penny, I like Laurie, she is a ludicrous fool, but I wouldn’t mind getting on her case…
*Tickles David’s Big Fat Glistening Belly, and hopes for more of my Lovely Laurie…Sigh…*
It’s magic!!!
She’s a druid, obviously, and a feminine chaos dragon.
That’s an impressive Hapsburg chin on that gentleman.
She’s a druid, obviously, and a feminine chaos dragon.
My first thought was Austin Powers’ “That’s a man, baby!”
Now, I’m going to tickle your big fat glistening belly…
Oh, gawd. You’re gonna make him post that creepy Jeff Goldblum gif.
[drinks up]
[picks up hat]
[exits]
Snowflake running for Congress.
Morning, all.
As a long time fan, well since 2013 when I discovered your very seedy dive, I would like to pay a little off from my bar tab.
See, that’s a sentiment I can get behind, and much appreciated.
You know you have it in you.
It isn’t so much the writing of one that’s an issue, but the selling of one. As a use of time and effort, writing a book – almost any kind of book, and certainly the kind I’d write – isn’t exactly lucrative. Such things rarely sell in numbers that make sense and are generally done at a loss as part of an attempt to build a wider media career, which is not an enticing prospect. Besides, anything that would be in one is probably already here, albeit in bits.
Also give me more Laurie Penny
I’m sure she’ll make an appearance before too long. Being, as she is, so reliably wrong.
Oh, gawd. You’re gonna make him post that creepy Jeff Goldblum gif.
This one?
What?
I suspect any book would require careful libel checking before a decent publisher would touch it. Writing a book to give money to a lawyer seems a bad proposition to me.
(Books get taken for libel actions in ways blogs don’t because publishers have real money. )
Writing a book to give money to a lawyer seems a bad proposition to me.
Yes, that’s pretty much what would happen. When the clear implication is that certain statusful academics and media figures are dishonest, hypocritical or hilariously incompetent, it’s a publishing minefield, even when you can prove each point with the subject’s own words and actions. For the kinds of small publishers that might find such content appealing, it’s simply not worth the expense, when challenged, of proving each unflattering statement.
The tolerant left, part 4,091.
He’s an educator, you know.
Re London wildlife, I’ve been away for a while now, is it normal for pedestrians on Leytonstone High Street to go barefoot?
It isn’t so much the writing of one that’s an issue, but the selling of one. As a use of time and effort, writing a book – almost any kind of book, and certainly the kind I’d write – isn’t exactly lucrative.
Nonsense! My recent campus satire The Biscuit Factory is bringing in hundreds of pennies, and I’m now planning a slap-up trip to a Harvester to celebrate. Might even be able to afford to take my wife as well.
Might even be able to afford to take my wife as well.
Let’s not go crazy.
“The size of Dan’s scrotum affects every aspect of his daily life.”
Nope. Not a chance. (sweat breaks out on brow while struggling to fight the overwhelming urge to CLICK THE LINK!)
(sweat breaks out on brow while struggling to fight the overwhelming urge to CLICK THE LINK!)
Embrace the fear.
Sandifer has been a notoriously unpleasant cunt in that unholy crossover between doctor who fandom and sjw-dom for many years so it’s no surprise to see he’s now claiming to be a woman
Our educated betters:
Via Ben Sixsmith.
Our educated betters:
Always a blue tick.
Always a blue tick.
I suppose it’s possible, in theory, that one might almost feel pity for them – the endless contortion and neurotic posturing must take a toll. It all seems rather soul-withering. But not being a saint, I can’t get past the fact that they’re so nauseating and socially corrosive.
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/08/09/drunk-irritable-wasps-britain/
“Homeless people wearing barcodes to accept cashless payments”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/08/homeless-people-wearing-barcodes-new-project-increase-donations/
“The size of Dan’s scrotum affects every aspect of his daily life.”
Bright lights and cold steel. There are people out there called “urologists” who can fix this, but then one actually has to want to be cured.
Debra Soh on transsexuality…An abbreviated response to the transgender business.
In Skullbone, a woman may not “pleasure a man” who is operating a motor vehicle.
Be safe, if you drive, wear a condom, and if you have sex, use your seatbelt, remember, coming and going don’t mix.
Heh.
Maintaining Teh Narrative™.
This is nifty – Wind powered animals. More here where you can buy kits for mini-versions.
I denounce myself.
An abbreviated response to the transgender business.
While I agree with much of what she is saying, I don’t find her argument sufficiently convincing. She’s glossing over the hermaphrodite and chimera factors. Not that those factors are close to explaining 100% of the transgender issue, and I agree that much of it is a form/manifestation of some sort of mental illness, but I don’t think she’s doing justice to her main point in framing her argument in that simplistic manner. As DNA testing becomes more widely used, we may find that a lot more of these cases have slipped under the radar. She also seems a bit too dismissive of the genetic factors, especially in regard to common genetic mutations, in human behavior/sexuality.
…I don’t find her argument sufficiently convincing. She’s glossing over the hermaphrodite and chimera factors.
That is but a two minute snip of this longer video interview in which these are mentioned, bearing in mind “intersex” is the PC term du jour for actual biological variants caused by errors in transcription which cause these variations.
“Wind powered animals.”
Former Mythbuster Adam Savage builds a Japanese knockoff, his own (pedal-powered) knockoff, and meets the real thing.
Hipsters on parade.
(Books get taken for libel actions in ways blogs don’t because publishers have real money. )
An issue with blogs.
Friends don’t let friends piss away money on “Whiteness Studies.”
Friends don’t let friends piss away money on “Whiteness Studies.”
Slight correction for accuracy.
This is good (despite being in The Atlantic)…
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/why-the-left-is-so-afraid-of-jordan-peterson/567110/
This is good (despite being in The Atlantic)…
That, as they say. I scarcely need to point out that woke posturing is horribly narrowing and its conclusions are usually predestined – well in advance of any mental activity that might accidentally occur. It practically strangles thought. Which I suppose is why some people like it.
In Missouri, sideboob and underboob are banned in public.
The linked post, titled “The Most Absurd Sex Laws in the US”, includes:
Spouses can sue if their partner gets an abortion without their consent.
alongside such things as requiring a no-kissing notice on reptile sales and the like. Sorry but…isn’t allowing civil action against a married women who surprises her husband with an abortion imminently reasonable? I’m sure the linked website thinks that alimony is equally absurd, right? Right?
Sorry to piss on the Ephemera Parade with abortion AND men’s rights virtue signalling, but a tiger can’t change his stripes, ya know?
This belatedly occurred to me. The Norfolk, VA police dept got most of the attention…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywAz5ba9Qs
To go while coming was a “thing” in the late 1970s. Nelson Rockefeller made it.
“…it’s like carrying a ball and chain…”
More ball than chain, a lot more.
As long as the package graphics do not inadvertently write “Allah”, I’m good with it.
Me: I’m not a Nazi! Will you please listen? I am not a Nazi, do you understand? Honestly!
SJW: Only a true Nazi doesn’t like my amazing haircut.
Me: What? Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am a Nazi!
Leftists: He is! He is a Nazi!
Me: Now, FUCK OFF!
Found here:
https://twitter.com/ElSandifer/status/1027636345546661896
You know, I’m surprised that more people when faced with the riposte “but white people can’t be racist because racism = prejudice + power yada yada yada” don’t simply respond with: “OK, but being an asshole to someone simply because of their skin color is wrong.”
I know the severely educated would try valiantly to justify the behavior, but it’s one of those things that most (think 90%+) of people understand fundamentally, and therefore any bullshitting around it would be seen as such.
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real genuine frontier SJW gibberish in a timely manner.
As was pointed out farther down, the tweeted line was hardly gibberish. The author’s well groomed lack of self awareness, unfortunately, merely prevented them from aiming it at the more fitting target.
Thanks for the rattling, David.
Ok, trust me on this. In the process of assisting my spouse find some audio visuals for a history class she teaches, I opened a new tab on the computer and located this: this. So, while it was playing in the background, I scrolled up through the comments and noticed that the video sort of synced with the Goldblum gif.
Bottom line: That’s enough internet for today.
SJW: Only a true Nazi doesn’t like my amazing haircut.
I was unaware that male pattern baldness was a haircut, but then, I guess if he thinks he is a woman, he probably thinks that purple mess is a Farah Fawcett mane.
That guy with the purple lipstick needs lessons on how to apply same. Lipstick, I mean. The lesson on how to apply bright purple lipstick is “Don’t, except on Halloween.”
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I’m having trouble with that last picture appearing…because it’s appearing. Yikes. How many credit notes do I need in order to purchase a pickled “egg”?
How many credit notes do I need in order to purchase a pickled “egg”?
You’re in luck. There’s one left in the ashtray, barely touched.
It’s on the house.
The good doctor seems to have Zhits nose punched sometime in the past.
I am sure that is nothing a little makeup will fix up in a jiffy.
Of course, men can be ugly women too. Only haters would object.
From Ace and apparently the only sane sociologist in California, how to tell rayciss microaggressions from woke SJW talk.