An Artistic Interlude

Juvenal would throw his hands up in despair.
How does one say “I got nuthin’, bro. ” in Latin?

First one of these you put up that made me ill. Considering your record, that is saying something.
No refunds. Credit note only.

Or at least water down the liquor.
Why it’s damn near homeopathic now!

It “appears” that Claude’s rumbling tumble in the hay was more exciting than he anticipated. Hopefully his gear remained intact and the swelling was temporary.

Can you keep it down please, Australian football is about to start.
There’s an entire planet between us. About 6,000 trillion metric tons. You’d think that the molten iron core would dampen the noise somewhat.
And I’m sorry, but I don’t believe there’s such a thing as Australian football.

And where is the camel fat?

Camel fat required

Dribbling and tapping a cup. My kids used to do that until I told them not to be so daft.
If only they had continued they could be famous performance artists. Ah, I regret so much now…

Woke™ Science!™
I need a research grant to look into the Lauripennian Uncertainty Principle, whereby it is simultaneously true that 1) men and women have no significant differences, and B) men are terrible monsters responsible for all the woes endured by women. I’m almost certain that the research will require a new approach to the two-slit experiment.
I’ll just show myself out now.

There’s more than one mug in that video.
Aside from the fact that these things are sometimes fascinatingly bad in their shunning of competence and discernible aesthetics, there’s also the assumption that we, the audience, are not supposed to notice this, or at least not object. Apparently, we’re not supposed to have standards or discernment, and will therefore pretend.
Which is faintly insulting.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6824039/Battle-shrunken-heads-Gruesome-trophies-headhunting-tribe-fire-protesters.html

Unhappy visitors this month labelled the exhibit [of shrunken heads] ‘a freak show’ and such concerns have led the museum, which was founded in 1884 by wealthy archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers, to review whether it should continue to exhibit the heads.
It’s not the first time the Pitt Rivers has come under criticism. Last year, two human scalps from North America were removed from the same cabinet after Native Americans claimed that such displays were disrespectful to the deceased.
…But wherever you stand on the debate, one strong argument for keeping them at the Pitt Rivers is that they remind us of the role played by the unscrupulous European collectors who encouraged their gruesome trade.

http://www.unz.com/isteve/conan-the-librarian/

In the second half of the 20th Century, academics engaged in a concerted effort to make the prehistory of Eurasia sound kinder, gentler, and much, much duller. For example, the Battle Axe culture of Northern Europe of 4,000 to 5,000 years ago was renamed the Corded Ware culture. Instead of invasion, conquest, enslavement, and rapine, the past was more about different peoples getting together in a spirit of sharing to teach each other their arts, their crafts, their languages, their values, their hopes, their dreams …
For the entire 21st Century, though, Greg Cochran has been predicting that when genome analyses of ancient buried corpses are finally done, the prehistory of Eurasia will wind up looking a lot less like the later 20th Century conventional wisdom and more like the fantasy world created by the bookish Robert E. Howard for his Conan the Barbarian stories in the 1930s.

Pogonip – I had the same first impression when I would peruse Dalrock’s writing but I gave him a chance and his worldview is far more nuanced than “God says wife is servant”. I’m not even religious but find it interesting to read a “red-pilled” Christian’s take on the world and the state of Christianity.
IMO he believes men and women should follow biblical teachings and avoid those in the church that seek to flatter female egos by diminishing their sin and placing all of the burden on men. Again, I don’t even believe in all of that but reading his accounts of what is actually being preached explains a lot of why the faith is losing people – men in particular – in droves.

Hi Sam,
I did look at his site and he sounds like a decent fellow. So I hope he and Mrs. Dalrock are both happily married.
Although I’m still a bit suspicious that a hidden microphone would pick up quite a few “yes, dear”s. But if he’s happy & she’s happy, that’s OK with me.

I was waiting for someone to throw a cream pie in his face. Now THAT would have been some performance art worthy of a donation! Next time just puke at the audience…same effect.

Get this guy a sippy cup.