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.
David, you can’t give away THAT pickled “egg”! We’re throwing it a Sweet Sixteen party tomorrow for its birthday!
I’m starting to think looking into the Hungarian real estate market might not be a bad idea…
Craziness in Seattle… I mean major league crazy
how to tell rayciss microaggressions from woke SJW talk.
As the thread there makes clear, the intellectual inconsistency is quite spectacular.
And again, as they brag, these are educated people.
And so the question arises – have these expensively educated journalists, for Vox, Slate and Salon, spent their time and money learning how to lie opportunistically, with a bare-faced disregard for any kind of standards, or just learning how not to think clearly, in case it undermines the “social justice” ideology in which they’ve invested?
And not entirely unrelated.
Note the preening tone, by now so familiar, of Dr Marsha Henry, our “feminist, academic.”
Also note Dr Henry’s repeated and unironic retweeting of Crystal Fleming, another woke academic, Harvard educated, and whose departures from reality have entertained us more than once.
Via Julia.
Puzzling cabinet of note:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWYexjYqinU
…or just learning how not to think clearly, in case it undermines the “social justice” ideology in which they’ve invested?
Seeing as how all they do is spout the same boilerplate, I believe the issue is learning how not to think period, or, as Patton put it, “If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.”
Speaking of regurgitating boilerplate and not thinking, SJW ideology 0: Real World 2.
Racist breakfast.
A) I am a bit confused how one “hides” a toothpick with Union Jack on it. I suspect Aoneilly may be a few beans short of a full breakfast.
B) I am likewise confused why someone knowingly ordering a full English breakfast, in London, would find a UK flag in said breakfast “racist”.
C) I remain confused about the whole concept of why people actually eat a full English breakfast, but that is a separate issue…
I remain confused about the whole concept of why people actually eat a full English breakfast…
[ Starts handing out pitchforks and burning torches. ]
the intellectual inconsistency is quite spectacular.
They’re consistently anti-white. They’re upfront and proud of their anti-whiteness, which is a founding principle of their intellectual system, not an anomaly.
If you replaced “white” with “Jews”/”blacks”/etc it would be regarded as “racist”, but that’s just restating the axioms of the anti-white activists, it’s not catching them out being untrue to equalist principles (that they don’t claim to have), or going overboard with rhetoric (they mean what they say).
Euphemia Ephemera.
“Campus Reform’s Cabot Phillips traveled to Columbia University, an Ivy League school, and offered $20 to any person who could name all five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. Not one student was able to list the five freedoms, which are freedom of speech, religion, assembly, press, and petition. While Phillips reported that many students were able to name one or two of the freedoms, many were seen on camera struggling to name even one.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/34179/watch-millennials-try-explain-first-amendment-ryan-saavedra
As our host would say, “Our betters”.
They’re consistently anti-white.
It does seem to be the only imperative. All roads must end there.
[ Starts handing out pitchforks and burning torches. ]
[Slides plate of biscuits and gravy, sausage, and hash browns down the bar to convert the savages]
From Farnsworth’s link, we find this quote, which exemplifies the mindset of the “elite” who graduate from college with degrees in the (modern) humanities and presume to lecture the rest of us:
Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own.
How one can be exposed to recorded human history and or, the daily news feed on one’s iPhone and reach that conclusion is beyond my comprehension. And, BTW, I sincerely doubt the author of that statement would apply it to his dealings with POTUS or the “deplorables” who support him.
Darleen: “Craziness in Seattle… I mean major league crazy”
Ir’s unthinkable that this could happen after 9/11. How does a mechanic get to steal a plane & not get shot down before he’s retracted the undercarriage?
[Slides plate of biscuits and gravy, sausage, and hash browns down the bar to convert the savages]
See, the problem is, for a Brit, the word biscuits calls to mind images of Digestives, Hobnobs, or perhaps a Custard Cream. Things you might dunk in tea.
Are those BAKED BEANS in that cup?
I recognize the egg and the link sausages. The triangular things look like deep-fried toast points? And what’s the rest of that stuff?
Ir’s unthinkable that this could happen after 9/11. How does a mechanic get to steal a plane & not get shot down before he’s retracted the undercarriage?
What?
See, the problem is, for a Brit, the word biscuits calls to mind images of Digestives…
No, no, those are cookies or crackers, and I am not talking about the things you pull at Christmas.
“I am likewise confused why someone knowingly ordering a full English breakfast, in London, would find a UK flag in said breakfast “racist”.”
I’m confused as to why the Union Jack is racist today when it was all “Cool Britannia” back at the turn of the century. And in the 1960s. I certainly remember it being racist when I was at school, right enough. It’s really hard to figure out any pattern here.
I challenge you to watch the whole thing. Fortunately they fast forward through some of the boring parts.
https://youtu.be/VWKt4AOM5Yw
Crunchy things you dunk are cookies. Tooth-breaking hard things you dunk are biscotti (Italian for “cookie,” if I remember right). Biscuits are little round quick breads you bake; you either mix up a batter yourself, in which case they are homemade biscuits, or get them out of a can with a spiraling seam in it, in which case they are whomp biscuits, because after the little tear-strip that is supposed to open the can tears off in your hand, you have to whomp the can on the edge of the counter to break it open.
There will be a quiz later.
Whomp biscuits can also usually be opened by pressing a spoon into the seam on the can. But please don’t call whomp biscuits spoon biscuits, because there is a souffle-like concoction called spoon bread, and we don’t want to make this any more confusing than it already is.
After the pickled “eggs” have sat in the ashtray for a few years, they become whomp eggs.
“We read Orwell as a warning; they read Orwell as a textbook.”
“We read Orwell as a warning; they read Orwell as a textbook.”
Paywalled, sadly.
Paywalled? That’s weird. Hmmmmm… Maybe if you follow through the link on Jordan Peterson’s tweet
Paywalled, sadly.
David, you can get to it here. Hit the link in the top tweet in the caption under the screencap.
The basics:
Much more at the link.
Maybe if you follow through the link on Jordan Peterson’s tweet
Ah, thanks. “I think we should be really, really clear about this…”
Farnsworth
I watched the indignant Jacinta Allan sputter and gulp at being challenged to state one objectionable thing broadcast in the stations after it was pointed out to her that the Cottrell interview did not air in the stations. Absof**kingamazing.
Not being an Ozzie and thus not familiar with Sky New, I presume they are like Fox News? While I’m sure these government weasles would be quite fine with leftist friendly news programs at those stations, I do see the point in general. Personally one of the things I find most annoying about flying in the US the last 15-20 years or so is the ubiquitous nature of CNN in damn near every airport on screens right by the gate where you are generally stuck for 30 minutes or so in the boarding process. I’ll never forget changing planes at George Bush Airport and having to listen to CNN talking heads blather on and on about what a fascist George Bush is. I could do without that myself. Assuming it was applied equally. Which I’m sure it wouldn’t be.
Absof**kingamazing.
Indeed, such a “long list” she couldn’t name one. I am still recovering from “They Day”, however, and the fact of its attendant “enforcement officer”.
More fresh hell from the clown quarter.“Male, pale and stale university professors to be given ‘reverse mentors'”
I see. An old white, male, expert, will be assigned a young, ethnic, female, non-expert “mentor”. Yeah, I can see nothing possibly going wrong with this.
…[T]he scheme will allow eminent professors to confront their own biases and leave them “feeling quite uncomfortable”.
In Humphrey Cobb’s novel Paths of Glory, a young lieutenant is ordered to submit the names of men in his platoon who will be tried for cowardice, regardless of their actual behavior on the battlefield. Instead of complying, he writes to the general that he’s pleased to report that none of his soldiers are cowards. He then goes riding and is unavailable to further comply with the order.
I would suggest that such eminent professors take the same approach. Tell the dean, “I’m pleased to report, I have no biases,” at which point, they take a vacation.
Tell the dean, “I’m pleased to report, I have no biases,” at which point, they take a vacation.
Reporting you have no biases is just proof that you have so much bias you can’t see your biases.
That is some catch, that Catch-22.
“reverse mentors”
Unintentionally apt nomenclature there.
Male, pale and stale university professors to be given ‘reverse mentors’
I think that one deserves a short post of its own.
Punctuation mark of note:
https://twitter.com/ImACultHero/status/1027997956438478848
Punctuation mark of note
Heh. Open for business, as one wag quipped.
Presumably the restaurant in question is accessed by the rear entrance. What?
Ir’s unthinkable that this could happen after 9/11. How does a mechanic get to steal a plane & not get shot down before he’s retracted the undercarriage?
It’s our TSA heroes in action.
It’s our TSA heroes in action.
Much as I loathe those clowns, in this instance the guy was a baggage handler/ground ops so he had full access to the ramp area and therefore the planes, this one can’t be blamed on their general fecklessness.
Hopefully this guy wore a cup. Don’t see any references to him ever having children, so perhaps not?
https://youtu.be/_Jflun5CyIc
It practically strangles thought. Which I suppose is why some people like it.
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IncSoc smiles.
It practically strangles thought. Which I suppose is why some people like it.
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IngSoc smiles.
there is a souffle-like concoction called spoon bread
Ambrosia.
Lions and tigers and bears… oh my
https://twitter.com/SirBasilBrush/status/1028590825025032192