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.
Oh look! I’m barefoot and heading for the kitchen.
Don’t come out until you are with child.
Don’t come out until you are with child
I’m well past that time, but I still enjoy practicing. 😉
I’m putting on some socks. That kitchen floor’s cold this time of year.
As long as we’re in here, would anyone like a sandwich?
Womynpersons, please take your seesaw out of the kitchen, it blocks the fridge door.
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https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/04/empowered-vs-objectified/
This is what happens when I’m not here to supervise.
No, they brought the seesaw by the other day when you were here, but you were passed out in a puddle of cheap wine at a back table, so you don’t remember.0
Weak? Are you mad?
Not at all, they never took what started life as an 80 HP single carb four banger and got 1400 HP out of it, no, they needed a special purpose built engine of 12 cylinders and over three times the displacement, and not one but two turbos. Sad; Alex von Falkenhausen and Paul Rosche last seen face palming at Porsche engineers.
Meanwhile…
Godfrey Elfwick tells us of his life as transblack genderqueer Muslim atheist at 27.
From Quillete back in September, Preachers of the Great Awokening.
Vandalism vs. Protest, starring none other than Miss Laurie Penny.
In American news, Jussie Smollet faked his own hate crime:
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/321995/
“[The] MSM hasn’t been this
blindlyenthusiastically wrong about a story that smears Trump supporters in *checks watch* 3 weeks. #Covington”What’s more, the brothers he hired to carry out the attack are from Nigeria:
“Hiring immigrants to do the crimes Americans won’t do.”
Farnsworth, I saw the ‘vandalism’ of Marx’s memorial yesterday. It’s produced more commie salt than Siberia.
Only a racist would be disgusted by this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_Yang_fish
“Yin Yang fish 陰陽魚 (also called dead-and-alive fish) is a dish which consists of an oil-fried whole fish (usually carp) whose head remains alive even after its body has been cooked…with its mouth continuing to gasp and eyes continuing to move…”
Laurie Penney is being denser than usual. What have women who served in WWII have to do with today’s politics? Those women, I’m sure, came from a spectrum of political beliefs but were united in the war effort. They prioritized. Or is Penney’s assumption that those women were probably majority “white” so eff em?
Laurie Penney is being denser than usual.
If she gets any denser, light will bend around her.
Farnsworth,
Not at all, they never took what started life as an 80 HP single carb four banger and got 1400 HP out of it, no, they needed a special purpose built engine of 12 cylinders and over three times the displacement, and not one but two turbos
If you are trying to tell me the BMW M12 was a stock-block engine producing 1,450 hp, you are mad.
(For what it’s worth, Wiki says 850 hp in qualifying trim, 640 hp for the race setup. The M12 was a purpose built racing engine based on a stock engine in much the same way the Porsche flat-12 was based on the 911 flat-6 powerplant. Sheesh.)
If you are trying to tell me the BMW M12 was a stock-block engine producing 1,450 hp, you are mad.
Penske goes to Porsche, together they spend the GNP of Bolivia developing from scratch a 12 cylinder engine to beat a Chevy V8.
Brabham goes to BMW for a F1 engine, Paul Rosche says sure, there are a bunch of M10 blocks in the scrap yard, we’ll chop two cylinders off an M88 four valve head (also in the scrap yard), and turbocharge the thing. Ecclestone is out about 12 DM and beer money for Rosche.
Wiki is Wiki, i.e., wrong.
Penske goes to Porsche, together they spend the GNP of Bolivia developing from scratch a 12 cylinder engine to beat a Chevy V8.
JFC, the flat-12 was already in development for the 1969 917 Le Mans car, Penske simply suggested they turbocharge it.
In other words, it DID NOT take the “GNP of Bolivia” to turbocharge an already existing engine.
(I thought Mopar fanbois were nutty, but damn. I am not a particular fan of Porsche, by the way, and I think it’s hilarious that an “obsolete” GT-40 beat a fleet of 917s in the ’69 24 Hours.)
JFC, the flat-12 was already in development for the 1969…
That doesn’t change the fact that the whole thing was designed from scratch strictly for racing cars, rather than made largely from existing road car bits lying about the shop and tweaked over the years into the most powerful F1 engine ever made