Friday Ephemeraren’t
Yes, a chance to assemble your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. I’ll set the ball rolling with some interrupted smuggling; a faint hint of subtext; some unforeseen consequences; some little critters; and this, which is one of these.
Oh, and how to impress the neighbours.
“some little critters”
See? Bugs can be cute when they try. Most of ’em are just lazy.
“Oh, and how to impress the neighbours.”
I just installed a new graphics card. It barely fits in the case. Gotta say, I feel a bit like that guy right now.
But at least I can safely avoid the great space heater scam. (I feel this may be too useful to be true Ephemera, but it’s the best I can do at short notice.)
“A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.”
*Sniff* I’ll pat you, good dog. I’ll pat you.
and this, which is one of these.
Wow. Is it the Romulan look?
Wow. Is it the Romulan look?
Looking at the end result, it’s hard to extrapolate which particular alluring effect she was going for.
Temporally-anomalous car designs.
Via Tony Moclair.
“Our values.”
Our values
The Times* is similarly trumpeting ‘our’ need to virtue signal by letting this women back in the country.
Just as a reminder, in her interview with the Times she said this: “I see a beheaded head in the bin and, it didn’t faze me at all.”
And their moderators have been busy deleting quotes already today, as it seems their readership is not quite in agreement with the editorial line.
*or The Guardian for Higher Rate Taxpayers as I like to call it
And their moderators have been busy deleting quotes already today, as it seems their readership is not quite in agreement with the editorial line.
Our degenerate media, part 3,046.
They seem determined to present this creature’s decision – to join a jihadi cult that exults in atrocity and random murder – as if it were scarcely more serious, and of no more moral gravity, than shoplifting a pair of tights.
An oldie but goodie: The great space heater scam.
(Well, it’s not quite a scam….)
If anyone has trouble with comments not appearing, email me and I’ll rattle the spam filter.
The great space heater scam.
Oh my.
Five minutes after he made his dramatic exit, I grabbed my phone and typed, “You’re a dick.” I pressed send.
More here.
How to make a name for yourself.
More here.
Wow. That’s not how I remember letters to Penthouse. No wonder nobody’s having sex anymore.
Temporally-anomalous car designs.
They wouldn’t be so goddamn boring, and they would come in colors other than black, white, various shades of gray/silver, and occasionally red and blue*.
I get that idiotic regulations about such things as bumper height, CAFE standards, and Japanese and other manufacturers aping German designs has led to a regression to the mean to the point where the only real style differences are the grilles and taillights, but other than some “retro” cars (Minis, Chargers, etc.) paint these days costs the same regardless of color (unless you are doing some weird metallic/pearl job), so why the bland colors is a mystery. The only good thing about Porsche (spit) is that a 911 still looks like a 911, an no one is going to confuse it with a Kia.
It is almost as if they want to make cars so boring no one wants to drive. Oh, wait.
*(US spec, and I am lumping in the occasional barely discernible pastels with the grays – “Grabber Orange” they ain’t.)
Vital and Important Information.
I’d buy that ’72 Cayenne if such a thing existed. Hell, if I had the time and resources I’d commission one- probably a pre-74 911 front end mated to a VW Variant shell from the A-pillars back, 2.4 Porsche flat six under the boot floor and the 4×4 doings maybe bastardised from a Steyr-Puch Haflinger.
Our degenerate media, part 3,046.
They seem determined to present this creature’s decision – to join a jihadi cult that exults in atrocity and random murder – as if it were scarcely more serious, and of no more moral gravity, than shoplifting a pair of tights.
The Times has now turned off all comments for articles about the junior jihadi. Clearly too much wrongthink.
https://hyperallergic.com/484888/politicize-your-bookshelf-with-colorful-codified-stickers/
I have come to believe the first step in getting woke is to swallow a dictionary and then regurgitate long words at random.
That bright light business, burning holes in the neighbour’s walls. I have a relative who objected to a chapel/church across the road from his house which had installed bright lights to guide the souls of the faithful (well, at least their physical bodies for now) so one night he crept out with a tin of black paint and painted over the most glaring parts of the lights.
The result was no one said anything or did anything, and the blacked out parts of the lights are still there shining if a little less bright. I presume souls are still being saved, so no problem.
‘Burn ’em all down’ is now sanctioned.
http://nomosshere.tumblr.com/post/182816883422
I just installed a new graphics card. It barely fits in the case. Gotta say, I feel a bit like that guy right now.
I can just picture the chap’s neighbours cowering behind the sofa as searing light bursts in through the curtains, singeing everything in its path. “Maurice! They’ve come back! Don’t let them probe you!”
Politicize Your Bookshelf with Colorful, Codified Stickers
I’m reminded of the librarian character in Kingsley Amis’ That Uncertain Feeling being asked by a committee member what his policy on Welsh language books was, and answering along the lines that he’s running a public library, so if the public want Welsh language books he’ll put them on the shelves, but so far the public haven’t been asking for those kinds of books.
These people have gone a step further than the everyday kooks who pester librarians because the collection doesn’t revolve around their pet cause. They want to put color-coded stickers on each book that doesn’t meet their criteria.
Written by or about a white man – pink stickers of shame blighting our bookshelves, bringing us to a crisis of conscience about why we’ve given no thought at all to Nigeria’s literary heritage.
What colour sticker does one affix to the books under the “pretentious twaddle” category?
Which now leads me to wonder if there have been any studies to determine which is the “wokest” colour.
I have come to believe the first step in getting woke is to swallow a dictionary
Or perhaps the book is written with the presumption that in order to cook the dish a five-gallon pot of boiling water is required. It’s amazing how far the loons will go to find fault.
I have come to believe the first step in getting woke is to swallow a dictionary and then regurgitate long words at random.
Or swallow the DSM-II.
“Add a yellow sticker if this book…is written with the presumption that the audience is able-bodied.”
… and a yellow star if it has Jews in it, a pink triangle if it contains gays …
Do these people never listen to themselves?
“The only good thing about Porsche (spit) is that a 911 still looks like a 911, an no one is going to confuse it with a Kia.”
I liked Porsche before they decided everything had to look like a 911. One thing we can be certain about is that if they’d decided do build an SUV in 1972, it would have looked nothing like that.
Cool drawings, though.
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-male-teachers-highly-university-student.html
is the headline
Male teachers are most likely to rate highly in university student feedback
Of course the body of text….
if they’d decided do build an SUV in 1972, it would have looked nothing like that.
Ya, I picture some sort of VW Microbus abomination.
I liked Porsche before they decided everything had to look like a 911
For a moment I thought you’d written “1911”.
Of course the body of text….
And so an article in a supposedly rigorous and analytical publication rushes headlong to a conclusion it hasn’t earned. The authors don’t consider, even momentarily, that the evaluations could be accurate, or fairly accurate – an actual reflection of the students’ learning experience. If the teachers rated highly by students include slightly more men than women, this must be conclusive and damning proof of “bias against women.” The word bias being used no fewer than 19 times.
There being no other conceivable – or permissible – explanation, presumably.
My requirement for a partner isn’t whether they consider themselves a Conservative or Liberal
“a partner”. “they consider themselves a”.
Miss McSweeney needs a grammar book.
Given that none of the article that I could force myself to read included any indication that she is a lesbian, then what’s her rationale for not saying “a boyfriend”, or “he consider himself”?
Newspeak. It’s not just for dystopian fiction anymore.
AMC built an SUV in 1979 that looked a great deal like that, or rather, as an AMC Concord would look given that same treatment, because it more or less was an AMC Concord with Jeep Wagoneer parts.
Although in fairness to the topic, AMC were both poor and quite insane.
“politicize-your-bookshelf-with-colorful-codified-stickers/” — I left the following comment:
“Maybe next year the yellow sticker can signify ‘Written by a Jew.’ And at the end of the event, you can burn them.”
Although in fairness to the topic, AMC were both poor and quite insane.
Mark Donohue begs to differ.
For a moment I thought you’d written “1911”.
Porsche 1911…
Mark Donohue begs to differ.
Perhaps insane isn’t quite the right word, but while they were fully on the rails in a way, sometimes those rails were N-scale while everybody else was HO. And in a different room.
There being no other conceivable – or permissible – explanation, presumably.
I say it is bias, but it’s the good kind of bias. I mean, we’re talking about a bunch of students on either side of 20 years of age, who’ve been programmed from age 4 to recognize that women are smarter, more compassionate, more cooperative, more empathetic, better able to multi-task, more effective at communicating, and in every other measurable and immeasurable way superior to their male counterparts (if “counterparts” is even an applicable label for such inferior beings).
Given this truth, it only stands to reason that expectations would be set accordingly. So a student with a half-competent male professor will be so pleasantly surprised that the student will give him a high mark, while a female professor will (by definition) be perfect, and any who fall short of perfection will be marked lower as a result.
So you see, it’s not that our children have some innate bias against women — it’s that they’ve spent their entire lives listening to women explain how wonderful they are, and have internalized that teaching to the point where any experience short of wonderful leaves them puzzled and uncomfortable.
You’ve only yourselves to blame, ladies!
That “partner” bit referring to bf’s and gf’s is ridiculous. What next? “The law boyfriendship of Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe?”
Grumble.
McSweeney uses boyfriend right throughout the article. It’s in the title and conclusion! A stray ‘partner’ here or there signifies nothing particularly important.
I disn’t read the article, that was just a general gripe. I’m surrounded by people who have “partners.”
“a classic example of how the NYT makes unwelcome stories seem boring by massaging inconvenient facts”
AMC built an SUV in 1979…
Glorious, in its wood applique plumage. Someone in town still had one puttering around when I was growing up. Good for the snow, I suppose.
The other guy who gets almost as much hate as Jordan Peterson.
It’s too late to watch given by Mr. Prager, of whom I had not heard, but I still can’t figure out why people get so worked up about Mr. Peterson. “Clean your room” is rarely bad advice.
Pogonip
I’ve listened and read Prager since the 1980s. He’s the creator of this.
Hmm… blog ate my comment … must be a sign. 😉
Freed.
Hi Darleen
I wonder if the Khan Academy (which I highly recommend, by the way) got the video teaching for ordinary folks from Mr. P?
Paranoia strikes deep, into your heart it will creep…
Not really, just a daily dose of feminist wisdom going on here, so all you men* take notice.
*(Men: noun, synonym for rapists and pre-rapists.)