Prepare My Bathosub
Right, I’m off for a few days, a holiday of sorts. Chiefly, it’s to attend a niece’s wedding at a fancy country house in the middle of nowhere, but it’s also an opportunity to not think about whatever pretentious agonising is in fashion this week among our self-imagined betters. By all means use the comments to share links and bicker while I’m away. And for God’s sake, use coasters.
Oh, and while I remember, via Dicentra, this. And via Damian, this.
I’ll just leave this here.
[ Starts ironing things and packing enormous overnight bag. ]
an opportunity to not think about whatever pretentious agonising is in fashion this week among our self-imagined betters.
Enjoy your detox, David.
A possible career move for David Hogg might be doing voice overs for robo-checkers.
“Get a move on, you old fucker, we’re in charge now. Thank you for shpping with us.”
Click through, Mr. Millennial doesn’t quite grasp the concept of Hooter’s restaurants, or it appears, the fundamental function of any waitresses (or waiters, for that matter), or, from his second tweet, just what the hell a restaurant is.
The mystery is why they wonder why people laugh at them.
via Dicentra, this.
That. 😀
There he goes, leaving us heathens unsupervised again!
Because there is no real crime about which to worry, and getting back to yesterday’s question about the UK 5-0.
Is it a crime to say women don’t have penises ?
Right, do you have a license for that johnson ?
He’s gone?
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Alright, let’s get that liquor cabinet open.
Apparently those sex ed classes aren’t working too well.
I understood that reference.
Apparently those sex ed classes aren’t working too well.
Those are the lesbians who have been bullied into accepting that, yes, women do have penises.
Pocket inequality.
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1031887841687744512
Something must be done!
I LOL’d at your first comment David. And I never LOL.
On an unrelated note, I noticed a pretty severe Adam’s Apple on one of your Henchlesbian security contractors. I thought this place was TERF turf! I intend to write a letter to the union.
Enjoy your mental holiday.
I’ll just leave this here.
That’s what you mean by “use coasters”, David?
Pocket inequality. Something must be done!”
I first encountered that moronic complaint in the 1970’s, from a gay Marxist who for all his Superior Intellect could not seem to fathom the workings of a free market: If enough women refuse to buy jeans with small pockets, and instead only buy men’s jeans, then someone will start making women’s jeans with big pockets. But no, the sexist capitalist patriarchy must be blamed.
You left the pickled eggs, right?
You left the pickled eggs, right?
I wouldn’t want you to starve.
…who for all his Superior Intellect could not seem to fathom the workings of a free market…
Not only that, it seems he could not fathom the concept of clothes sizes and proportions. Pockets are smaller on a woman’s petite size, than the similar item in men’s tall and fat, unless you want Pocket Equality, in which case the man will have an abundance of watch pockets, or the woman clown pockets that go from zipper to buttocks.
OTOH, maybe we could start a Clown Pocket fashion trend.
Maybe the govt should dictate that we all have to wear some kind of formless grey pajamas.
You know, like they teach in university.
Maybe the govt should dictate that we all have to wear some kind of formless grey pajamas.
Even that may not guarantee Pocket Equality as we can see here the oppressed female Soldier has been given smaller and most unequal front pockets compared to her patriarchal counterpart.
True Pocket Equality will only be achieved in The Glorious World of Next Tuesday™ when no one, regardless of gender(s), will even need pockets.
Why do those self-checkouts use that scolding voice, and why are they always so loud? I use them maybe once every 6 months, so I’m standing there reading the screen to get an idea of what’s next, and the damn thing just keeps shouting at me!
We won’t need pockets because we will have nothing to hide in them. And we won’t object to 3am no-knock raids because doing so would be evidence of guilt and obstruction of justice. The contents of a thought will not be criminalized when the mere formation of one is sufficient proof.
God Bless You, Old Man. Have a fun time for a bit. Don’t worry about us, you’ve given us lots to chew on while you are out.
Why do those self-checkouts use that scolding voice, and why are they always so loud?
In The Glorious World of Next Tuesday™ when we don’t need pockets your problem will be solved as there will be no self-checkouts, or any kind of checkouts of any kind, because all the goods and services you will need will be determined by the state and provided, if there are any, to you.
Why do those self-checkouts use that scolding voice, and why are they always so loud?
I always get in trouble with those. For some reason they keep insisting I pay the five cent bag fee. I keep explaining that the kiosk asked me how many plastic bags I want to buy, and the answer to that question is always “zero”. I expect that buying $100+ worth of groceries entitles me to a couple of complimentary grocery bags.
Today’s Puzzle Challenge !
There are 11 things wrong in the photo, can you spot them all ?
Should we place bets on whose pants the beardo is trying to get into?
five cent bag fee
What is this “bag fee” of which you speak? Grocery bags are gratis here in the Great State of Texas!
What is this “bag fee” of which you speak?
I believe he is in The Great White North.
Meanwhile, this is not your grandfather’s Wehrmacht.
Apparently a recruiting thing, whole thing here and run it through a translator if you don’t speak German.
California (of course) high school gets a 100% score for diversity !
(College readiness 63.6/100)
California (of course) high school gets a 100% score for diversity !
There’s that word again.
Paging Inigo Montoya — courtesy phone, please.
The first thing I do at a self-checkout is turn the volume off.
Otherwise, it’s a fist through the glass.
What is this “bag fee” of which you speak? Grocery bags are gratis here in the Great State of Texas!
I live just outside the City of Toronto, which instituted a mandatory five cent grocery bag fee municipally some years ago. That does not apply in my city, but the proximity to Toronto means the grocery stores like to claim it does as a way of pocketing a bit of extra cash.
This has led to more than one lengthy…conversation with a grocery store manager about fraud and the proper treatment of long-term customers. It doesn’t help their case that within two blocks there’s a luxury grocery store that gives bags away gratis. There’s something quite entertaining about phoning them up and asking them politely how much they charge for plastic bags and having them cheerfully tell you they’re complimentary and no, there is no municipal bag fee in this city – while the grocery store manager is standing in front of you listening.
When your students say “Her ideas are not sane”…
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/48114/
25,000 feet. No parachute.
https://twitter.com/kenradio/status/1031570060903477249
‘The story of the man living in the Soviet Union who literally did not believe that Marks & Spencer was open to the public. He was sure it could only be accessible to Communist Party members’.
https://twitter.com/CommunistTerror/status/1031797260844195841
When your students say “Her ideas are not sane”…
I don’t see why.
Right, I am not at all sure waht a “non-human person” is, but get back to me when pigeons start doing calculus.
Hang on, a minute ago she wanted to de-humanize math.
You will no doubt be surprised to learn that the good “Doctor” has a PhD in the highly demanding field of “Curriculum and Instruction”.
*Nepanthia
So basically a made up “Aztec” word for “it is all wypipo’s fault.”
Writer, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, described nepantla as time where individuals experience a loss of control and suffer anxiety and confusion as a result.
So in other words, it’s another attempt to turn some sort of mental/emotional pathology into a virtue.
Got it.
By all means, let’s make sure the latest edition of the DSM becomes an integral part of teaching multiplication tables.
Related.
Sound dating advice for these troubled times.
[T]his is not your grandfather’s Wehrmacht.
Also related.
This has led to more than one lengthy…conversation with a grocery store manager about fraud and the proper treatment of long-term customers. It doesn’t help their case that within two blocks there’s a luxury grocery store that gives bags away gratis. There’s something quite entertaining about phoning them up and asking them politely how much they charge for plastic bags and having them cheerfully tell you they’re complimentary and no, there is no municipal bag fee in this city – while the grocery store manager is standing in front of you listening.
So here’s the thing about this “bag fee” that I’m not getting. Similar to taxes (actually exactly like taxes but don’t want to get into that philosophical argument), how do you know that the 5 cents/bag is not getting absorbed into the general cost of things being sold? How do the various governments track the number of bags distributed to the fees charged? It’s five cents. I would guess there’s about $10-$15 worth of food in a given bag? So what is 5 cents, a half of a percent or less? How is this supposed to impact people’s bag/non-bag usage on a wide enough scale to have any serious impact? Which of course it’s not. It’s just another tax. Ah, but I said I didn’t want to get into that argument. Sigh.
When your students say “Her ideas are not sane”…
From the University of Illinois @ Urbana. At least now we know what happened to the HAL 9000.
Also related.
Also also related, the German government has lost its mind.
However, they will still sit and wonder why there is a growing “alt-right populist” movement.
Which of course it’s not. It’s just another tax. Ah, but I said I didn’t want to get into that argument.
Yeah, but if you have the misfortune of living in one of those misbegotten places where they charge for bags, you can always screw with them by bringing your own. They are about two cents each at Amazon (Prime, even) for a case of 900, and given that you can use one indefinitely, they are essentially free, or you can sell them outside the store for four cents and double your money.
When your students say “Her ideas are not sane”…
To be fair, just about any libertarian professor would have pages and pages of such comments against them. Can you imagine the reaction of a group of undergrads to the assertion that private charity is superior to the welfare state on every measure, both philosophical and practical? They’d throw rotten produce at you!
you can always screw with them by bringing your own.
No, that’s the desired behaviour. You see, all the grocery stores sell reusable woven grocery bags made of recycled plastic manufactured in China. For $4.99.[1]
Also, you’re thinking too small. My This Isn’t Even My Final Form argument is to insist on buying a large, 3-digit prime number of individual bags. And demanding they be counted out individually so I know I’m getting all the bags I’m paying for. This will jam up the checkout line for at least twenty minutes.
To be fair, just about any libertarian professor would have pages and pages of such comments against them.
Well, yes. One of the reasons I don’t think “look at this professor’s ratings” is a particularly good argument is that 17-year olds are rarely good at evaluating professional competence.
[1] Which led to another lengthy conversation with the grocery store manager about the mass of the plastic in the reusable bag vs. the mass of several of the flimsies, plus the amount of diesel oil necessary to package up and ship all that plastic to China so it can be remanufactured and then shipped back. Saving the planet, we are.
[1] Which led to another lengthy conversation with the grocery store manager about the mass of the plastic…Saving the planet, we are.
Next time you can also point out that they are breeding grounds for bacteria, unless you wash them out after every use, which is a further imposition on Gaia, or you can just get sick, which of course has no costs. OTOH,if you die from a nasty salmonella infection, you do reduce your carbon footprint drastically.
I suppose it was only a matter of time before they trotted out this old chestnut, if you don’t accept “trans” people as what they claim to be on any given day, that is only because you are a latent “trans”.
that is only because you are latent ‘trans’
I have yet to hear a “moderate, reasonable” liberal object to such obnoxious BS.
that is only because you are latent ‘trans’
So if they refuse to accept me as their Lord and Master (as which I identify) and abase themselves before me, then the only possible explanation is that they hate me and want to kill me.
Got it.