Spent, He Retired To His Fainting Couch
Right, I’m taking a few days off. Call it a long weekend. A revitalising interlude. By all means amuse yourselves by sharing links and snippets in the comments and then bickering about them. I’ll leave you with some conversational possibilities, including an inadvisable solution; an activity for the weekend, the rules of which are somewhat unclear to me; some stop-motion cross-sections; a small boy’s sporting monologue; and, via Damian, how to spot a classy diner.
The reheated series and greatest hits are there to be poked at.
The less said about the current crop of alleged libertarians (RINOs with bongs), the better.
Shouldn’t have mentioned them, then, huh? =)
I’m curious how you characterize that sort of person though. I interpret as someone who largely supports foreign intervention, fiat money, public schools, gun rights, free speech, and liberalized prostitution and drug policy.
Being “transgender” not at all a mental issue
I took one look at his pics and I thought “Klinefelter’s?”
Anyone else?
Further re the Klinefelter’s, this pic in particular got me thinking:
Note the hips.
‘This’
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1101571413025132544
David, come home! All is forgiven!
I took one look at his pics and I thought “Klinefelter’s?”
If you mean does she look like a Kleinfelter’s syndrome case after her surgery, yes, but if you meant she was a case prior, no, as there is no indication she had the requisite male naughty bits or she would have “been assigned” male at birth.
Meanwhile in the world of science, California wants to ban biology class dissections, because taking apart dead things to learn about living things is cruel, or something. However in a moment of brilliance that could only come from a politician the bill excludes “histological samples of any species.”
That one cannot get histological slides without dissection at some point appears a point lost to the rocket surgeons of the California legislature.
Apparently, the ‘Slippery Slope’ doesn’t exist:
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada ordered that a 14-year-old girl receive testosterone injections without parental consent. The court also declared that if either of her parents referred to her using female pronouns or addressed her by her birth name, they would be considered guilty of family violence.
” It’s just about our right to exist, bigot”.
… if either of her parents referred to her using female pronouns or addressed her by her birth name, they would be considered guilty of family violence.
That is not a slope, that is a cliff.
When you wanted to swim with Whales, but someone Else turns up instead.
MenWomen are better at sports than women.via Lisa
Why tax collectors have been historically despised.
Why tax collectors have been historically despised.
Considered taking the wheelchair. Well, alrighty then, mighty big of them to leave that, meanwhile, the IRS is furiously taking notes.
When you wanted to swim with Whales
Timothy Treadwell was unavailable for comment. Yet again.
It’s a slope (slap) . . . it’s a cliff (slap) . . . slope (slap) . . . cliff and a slope . . . it’s a slope, and it’s a cliff . . .
https://twitter.com/briandavidearp/status/1100774565435920385
Jane and her too-cool-for-chairs friends
Farnsworth,
If you mean does she look like a Kleinfelter’s syndrome case after her surgery, yes, but if you meant she was a case prior, no, as there is no indication she had the requisite male naughty bits or she would have “been assigned” male at birth.
Ah, right you are. I lost track in the pronoun salad of which sex she really was and somehow took her as a male. My mistake, thanks for catching it.
My mistake, thanks for catching it.
No worries, as you said, the word salad does make it a conundrum at times…
Meanwhile, there is never a meteor around when you need one.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/01/05/woman-plans-marry-tetris-breakdown-relationship-calculator-called-pierre-7206091/
I can never decide if these folks are actually crazy or are just having fun with gullible girl
reporters. I hope it’s the latter.
I can never decide if these folks are actually crazy…
Based on her Twitter and blog, she’s not crazy, but she’s a nerd with nerd affectations that she’s escalated in a (successful) bid for attention. Part of “nerd culture” is to be “obsessed” with things that nobody else thought it was appropriate to be obsessed about. This feeds into the nerd’s self-image as a quirky underdog surrounded, like Harry Potter among the Muggles, by people who don’t appreciate his or her brilliance and future greatness.
Kitty saved once again.
Sonny Wayze: ‘skeet surfing’.
A fortnight ago the RedLetterMedia did a review of the movie that introduced us to Skeet Surfing: “Top Secret – re:View” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVC5n6hYTFY
As they said most of the jokes are still funny and didn’t date as badly as you’d expect – but maybe it’s because it itself is a parody of two different eras mixed together.
Kitty saved once again.
Source? There is no signature or other identification in the cartoon.
Part of “nerd culture” is to be “obsessed” with things that nobody else thought it was appropriate to be obsessed about. This feeds into the nerd’s self-image as a quirky underdog surrounded, like Harry Potter among the Muggles, by people who don’t appreciate his or her brilliance and future greatness.
Quirky yes, but I wonder how often ability (or lack of) plays a role: How many nerds get into Bat’leth fighting because they are not any good at normal sports? How many get into the Klingon language because it’s much simpler than any real language? There is obviously lots more going on than that (I have seen some very skillful broadsword fighters, fast and dexterous, who presumably could have done well in other sports.)
Source?
I’m not sure, I’m sorry. It appeared on my Facebook and I liked it. Perhaps one of the other astute readers here…
Baguette a clue?
Source?
It’s from here, I think. The artist is Pascal Jousselin.
I’m not sure, I’m sorry.
I have that problem a lot.
Baguette a clue?
Not in 2019 America. Maybe if it were still 1969.
It’s from here, I think.
Thank you. Looks like a lot of fun.
Great find, David! I was wondering why he was carrying one of those French baguettes around…
In the light of David Lammy’s ham-fisted attempt to white-shame Stacey Dooley, this is a glorious piss-take from some years ago.
Radi-Aid -Africa for Norway
https://youtu.be/oJLqyuxm96k
https://youtu.be/pkOUCvzqb9o
https://youtu.be/xbqA6o8_WC0