Link Fester

In the future, everyone will be a nazi for 15 minutes.

Jordan B. Peterson on the archetypal symbology behind the restaurant Burger King – https://youtu.be/-BDgQMGs7Mc
“…he provides … burgers!”

I never liked Jim Beam, found it harsh. The Glen brands—Glenlivet, Glenfiddich, another Glen I can’t remember—are reliably good but expensive. Fortunately a little Glen goes a long way.

I will report to the hench-lesbians for correction and two fingers.
You might want to specify two fingers of booze, if you catch my meaning, if you get my drift.

So much for absurdities above being absurdities.
At least they’re sticking to something like historical staging. Two years back they staged an odd abridged version of the Henrys where the Archbishop of York and all his men were played by women in black hoodies wearing Anonymous-style Guy Ffawkes masks. I have no idea what the hell that was supposed to mean.

James Bond is an upper class lad acting the thug and is part of a tradition that includes The Toff and The Saint, although I expect this is not obvious to the younger viewer. From this perspective Daniel Craig (who always calls to mind Nigel Planer’s skit about not trusting actors with two first names) is not particularly convincing Bond as he comes across as a thug acting upper class. I can’t see that Idris Elba would be much of an improvement, although I expect he would make a great M. If they wanted to cast a black actor my vote would go to Lennie James as Q. Naomie Harris was great in Pirates but in Bond she might as well be carrying a sign saying “Token black person”.

Via Iowahawk, another study of desirable traits in men and women as measured by activity at a large online dating site.
It starts with the common observation: “The researchers determined that while men’s sexual desirability peaks at age 50, women’s starts high at 18 and falls from there.”
The bit that really caught my eye, though, was this: “Dr. Bruch also found that a man’s desirability increased the more education he attained. For women, that benefit ended with an undergraduate degree — and postgraduate education, in fact, made them less desirable.”
The researchers hypothesized that graduate degrees were an indicator that the potential partner was highly committed to school and career, and less committed to relationships and family formation. While this may be true, I tend to believe that the reason has a lot more to do with the severely educated women and their attendant behaviors as documented so thoroughly by our esteemed host.

You’re right, of course. Everybody knows that severely educated feminists are totes hawt.

Vice and Independent contributor Isobel Yeung interviews Islamic scholar and Afghan member of parliament Nazir Ahmad Hanafi.
I notice this now shows Twitter Account suspended.