Friday Ephemera
No messy hand. (h/t, Julia) || He lives on as a pair of shoes. || Unnatural passions. (h/t, O&G) || It could happen, people. || The humans have some kind of force field. || False economy. || Conflicting definitions. || Disgusting Food Museum, Malmö, Sweden. || On Cerenkov radiation and travelling faster than light. || A bit of a kick to it. || Ice crystals in the sky. || Hatchlings of note. || He does this better than you do. || Skillz. || Scenes. (h/t, Dicentra) || Think good thoughts. || A project for the weekend. || Mascot of note. || More scenes. (h/t, Damian) || 10 robots. || Aerial refuelling. || And finally, “When it became clear that Trump was going to be president, silence descended over the mostly naked crowd.”
One for the… actually, no, I don’t know either. (Warning: NSFW. I mean… maybe? Kind of? Your call, really. Don’t blame me.)
The beauty of magnified butterfly wings: https://twitter.com/BristolLive/status/1060135920324763648
(h/t https://twitter.com/DamCou)
Sorry, wrong link. The correct one’s https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1059541281502748672
No messy hand.
Fimally!
10 robots
The only interfacing I want to do with an industrial robot is over the RS232 interface. There is absolutely no use case for a car-painting robot to act as a pack and recognize human faces and hands beyond “don’t paint that, it’s not a car”.
False economy.
I had to watch to the end for closure.
Morning, all.
I had to watch to the end for closure.
Heh. And then the ones that don’t break become faintly irritating.
Caution: pseuds and saggy buttocks. Via Herb Deutsch.
Aerial refuelling.
Yes, a veritable pas de deux in the sky as the two aircraft glide effortlessly and gracefully through the ether.
Unless, of course, you are self loading baggage in the back of the aircraft being refueled and being bounced around like a basketball at a Harlem Globetrotters exhibition. It only looks smooth from a distance…
self loading baggage
Heh.
Being nude allows you to experience the artwork differently.
How? What is the practical difference between appreciating Impressionist paintings when fully dressed, and appreciating them when naked? Aside from the possibility that one may end up concentrating on the artwork more intently than usual, thus avoiding the act of looking at other people’s unsightly dangly bits, I can’t see there IS one.
I can’t see there IS one.
It’s one of the small tragedies of life. The people who take delight in their incongruous nudity, the ones who really need you to know how transgressively nude they’re being, are rarely the kinds of people whose efforts might be appreciated.
It wouldn’t be transgressive nudity if people liked it.
The champion magician – other good youtube vids of him available – is amazing; some of his act reminds me of Szechuan face changing magic, which I have seen live and is marvellous.
It wouldn’t be transgressive nudity if people liked it.
Yes, quite. It’s the kind of nudity that you’re supposed to find inapt and unwelcome, a needless imposition.
Because David’s eyeballs were scorched by the Saggy Parade ,so he couldn’t see to post this:
https://static.onepoliticalplaza.com/upload/2018/5/2/710431-rarephotos.pdf
Also, we have a postcard from the henchlesbians! Here, David, I’ll read it for you: “New England beautiful this time of year. Locals too cheap to eat in restaurants. David, please send money.”
P.S. Just checked Amazon—“Elevation” holding steady at 3 1/2 stars. Stephen King normally gets 2 stars just for being Stephen King, so that net 11/2 stars tells me “Elevation” is not one of his better short stories. Has anybody read it? His new stuff is so inferior to his old stuff I didn’t even bother to get on the reserve list at the library.
On the plus side, he’s slacked off on tweeting. He was flirting with full-blown SJW Syndrome, but seems to be pulling back from the brink.
We don’t have These where I live.
We don’t have these where I live.
Probably for the best, all things considered.
@Pogonip -I have not read it, but generally 3.5 stars on Amazon means rubbish.
Toxic masculinity.
Unnatural passions.
I’d watch that as a TV series.
I’d watch that as a TV series.
It does seem to imply a backstory and further adventures.
More scenes
Ah! There really was a “Ralph the Wonder Llama”. I am so pleased.
Is “I’d watch that as a TV series” replacing “Good band name“?
I am so pleased.
I think it’s the size of the car, and of the girl, that makes it special.
Is “I’d watch that as a TV series” replacing “Good band name”?
Now you’ve done it.
From the “One For The Ladies” thread:
[S]kinny, effeminate-looking men with bad posture
Only a good band name in someplace like Austin or Portland, but definitely not something I’d watch as a TV series.
mostly naked
Band name.
Think good thoughts.
This seems to be a thing at reddit: anonymous trolls will “report” damn near everything, just because they can.
I think it’s the size of the car, and of the girl, that makes it special.
That, and the fact that its clearly not that Llama’s first time to take a taxi.
We don’t have These where I live.
In film and TV, “wolves” are nearly always played by huskies or wolf-crosses, which are much smaller than the real thing. In the wild, well-fed wolves are terrifyingly huge. There’s a reason they’re the villains in fairy-tales all over Europe.
its clearly not that Llama’s first time to take a taxi.
It’s got that eagerly looking out the window thing dogs do on a car ride.
toxic masculinity
Yep. Buncha patriarchal cis-male, probably heteronormative, sh*tlords assuming that Womyn aren’t Strong and Independent! Treating womyn like delicate flowers who need Big, Strong Men(tm) to “protect” them is literally rape!
The last item links to Tim Newman’s amusing piece on an obese anarchist ‘prepper’ whose book has a foreword by Laurie Penny. Apparently, she and Laurie met at a fetish club….What might Laurie’s fetish be? Nasal excavation, perhaps?
What might Laurie’s fetish be?
Her vilest innermost desire? Secretly wanting to be a contented housewife and mother…..
What might Laurie’s fetish be?
Whatever it is, I doubt it’s something as prosaic and bourgeois as rubber bondage.
It’s the kind of nudity that you’re supposed to find inapt and unwelcome
Thanks for the link. I’ve spent twenty minutes laughing at it. I needed the cheering up, so thanks.
There’s a reason they’re the villains in fairy-tales all over Europe.
But, but, wolves are peaceful creatures who would never attack humans.
The wolves at the zoo are ALMOST that big.
My understanding is that wolves normally avoid people, but, like anyone else, if a wolf gets hungry enough, he’ll eat what he normally wouldn’t. And of course they can catch rabies.
In short, Mother Nature isn’t your enemy…but she isn’t necessarily your friend either.
…Tim Newman’s amusing piece on an obese anarchist ‘prepper’…
…who will find out that using your coronary arteries to store cheese fries is not exactly a great “prepping” idea.
(“Medic”, LOL)
In the wild, well-fed wolves are terrifyingly huge. There’s a reason they’re the villains in fairy-tales all over Europe.
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My understanding is that wolves normally avoid people, but, like anyone else, if a wolf gets hungry enough, he’ll eat what he normally wouldn’t.
I nearly always hear “wolves avoid people” in the context of “we must not demonize nature’e noble beasts as those wicked fairy tales do.”
I believe that those fairy tales arose because at one time wolves did prey upon humans, and only learned to avoid us with the proliferation of firearms.
Disgusting Food Museum
Or as we called it back in college, the cafeteria. Thank you Serv-O-Mation.
I just don’t get the people who spend their lives looking for things to throw hissy fits over. Not enough beatings as a child? Vegan diet? WHAT?
Fans of the image rushed to defend Haehl’s work, saying that the picture put them in the “Christmas spirit” as she recreated a “fond memory” of a classic film.
“A Christmas Story” is a brutal (for the time) satirical deconstruction of Christmas movies. Having fond memories of it is like having fond memories of The Crow.
“A Christmas Story” is a brutal (for the time) satirical deconstruction of Christmas movies.
I am not a fan of Christmas movies. Christmas movies are hokey and manipulative. The one I dislike the most is the one that is shown the most. “It’s a Wonderful Life”. No. It. Isn’t. Especially if you were Jewish around the time it was made.
I’m a fan of Christmas movies (though, ‘it’s a wonderful life’ is NOT on my list)
In no particular order, these are the ones I pull out to watch on the weekend after Thanksgiving while I decorate the house
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
A Christmas Story
The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
Home Alone
Die Hard
The French have a favourite Christmas movie:
Le Père Noël est un ordure
Odd choice, but then the French think Jerry Lewis was a comic genius.
Die Hard
So we’re agreed, then? Die Hard is definitely a Christmas film?
Someone buy this loon a Farsi to English dictionary.
Well, were it in there, yes, yes indeed I would, then I would shoot my computer to put it out of its misery.
then I would shoot my computer to put it out of its misery.
Perhaps I need more coffee, but I’m not sure what the point is that they’re trying to make.