Friday Ephemera
Melodrama. (h/t, Julia) || Maintain focus. || Forbidden love. || Forbidden love 2. || Lighting and focal length. || “Allahu Akbar.” || Can confirm. || Masked hero rescues cat. One of these. (h/t, Tim) || Snail versus baby carrot. || Soviet synthpop, 1989. Big hair, cool shades. || On the origins of sports mascots. || On screenwriting. || A ride through the West End of London, 1959. || Just how wide is the neck of the Enterprise? || A heart-warming tale. || Today’s words are educator – and also poisonous harpy. || At last, director’s viewfingers. || The vanishing anus. You heard me. || Gives good tongue. || The treasures of Google Earth. || Possible lair location #46. || And finally, a premonition of trouble ahead.
You’re late. 🙂
I know, I know. For reasons that escape me, the scheduler failed.
A milestone innovation.
And finally, a premonition of trouble ahead.
Time to buy a new car.
It is constantly amazing that the left continues to resurrect the corpse of 19th century racism, merely innovating by inverting that philosophy.
What sparked the interest in the screenwriting video? Is our host working on something related?
What sparked the interest in the screenwriting video? Is our host working on something related?
Dear God, no. Can you imagine? I just stumbled across them and they seemed less pretentious, and more interesting, than most things of that kind.
the left continues to resurrect the corpse of 19th century racism, merely innovating by inverting that philosophy.
And so, if you don’t defer to Professor DiAngelo’s pernicious racial dogma, and don’t care to fixate on race or use it as a decisive variable in every interaction, like some neurotic bigot, then you must be “dangerous” to minorities.
These creatures really are the cultural and moral analogue of bone cancer.
Can you imagine?
For the record, I would watch a Guild of Evil movie.
Hey, where’s my hat tip and, more importantly, free drink?
For the record, I would watch a Guild of Evil movie.
The nudity would of course be integral to the plot.
Hey, where’s my hat tip and, more importantly, free drink?
What did I miss?
Dude has awesome peripheral vision, all I can say.
You missed the vanishing anus. Which, I grant, is easy to do, since it vanishes.
You missed the vanishing anus.
Ah. I swear I read most of the comments. No, really.
Help yourself to anything in the lost property box.
There have been lots of societies ruled by a crazy monarch of either sex, and some ruled by crazy men. The West is rapidly becoming the first one ruled by crazy women. The crazy men, however crazy they were, always had an understandable motive, generally that of getting filthy rich. The crazy women, on the other hand, seem to have no motive besides hatred of everything and everybody. They’re scary because their behavior is so un-human. How do you negotiate with somebody whose firm goal is to wreck everything?
Dr. Seuss, please report for your struggle session.
Is our host working on something related
Coming Soon! Guild of Evil – The Embickering
A milestone innovation.
Flourmite – either fluorinated marmite (9 out of 10 dentists approve), fluorescent marmite (so you can see what to avoid in the dark), or those damn bugs that get into your flour if the container is not sealed tightly enough.
Meanwhile, transparent wood, interesting, but seems a bit of a solution in search of a problem as I am not sure something soaked in epoxy or methyl methacrylate is more “biodegradeable” than either glass or plastic, either of which can be recycled.
Feminism, a play in two acts.
There’s dumb, there’s ignorant, and then there’s Clara Sorrenti:
https://twitter.com/ClaraSorrenti/status/1103347064547749888
Feminism, a play in two acts.
Does she not have a son? Who, if my high school biology doesn’t fail me, will grow up into one of those ‘men’ that ‘must die’.
Shouldn’t someone look in on him perhaps?
fluorinated marmite
See, now I have a mental image of Marmite toothpaste. Which just seems wrong somehow.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/06/man-behind-woke-twitter-account-titania-mcgrath-people-sick/
I wonder who posed as Titania for the picture? The article doesn’t say.
vanishing anus.
Band name.
“But when Tamm studied the warty comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi), he could not find its anus.”
Did he use both hands? And a map?
Dara O’Briain. I’m guessing I’m late to this party?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZiMwE2TZYk&feature=share
A milestone innovation.
From an earlier thread:
It’s a Floor Wax and a Dessert Topping.
Probably a product developed for the military.
From the Titania article:
Some 30 years ago a psychiatrist told me that “perception is reality”. I said that there would be consequences for that. He informed me that I was being naive in refusing to accept this reality. We went in circles. He was very smart. I was very dumb…well, uncredentialed specifically. And now here we are. Not that there’s any connection whatsoever.
Probably a product developed for the military.
The F-35 comes to mind.
There’s dumb, there’s ignorant, and then there’s Clara Sorrenti:
Well, OK, other than the lack of food and consumer goods, there was the world famous Soviet auto industry that nearly brought the US, German, and Japanese auto industries to their knees.
#denser than depleted uranium.
BBC Newsnight…
https://twitter.com/LincolnJopp/status/1103425925486727169
and then there’s Clara Sorrenti
The only tempting thing about becoming an actual Stalinist is the thought of joining the actual Stalinists when they teach all the people who think they’re Stalinists about Stalinism.
These creatures really are the cultural and moral analogue of bone cancer.
They are the Nazis they claim of others.
And I’m not using the term promiscuously. Nazis were obsessed with race and racial purity. Individuals no longer existed for them, everyone was to be catalogued, and judged, by “race”.
“He was very smart. I was very dumb…well, uncredentialed specifically. And now here we are.”
It’s amazing how often common sense trumps the collective wisdom of the worlds greatest Thinkers.
Heh.
Man using the ladies is triggered by man cleaning the ladies. Problematic.
It has electrolytes, it is what plants crave, but you need a license, or something.
Just how wide is the neck of the Enterprise?
Glad we’ve cleared that up.
“At its peak, the Soviet Union was an industrial powerhouse that was capable of rivalling the U.S. economy.”
Looking back, it’s appalling how many supposedly knowledgeable people in the West told us exactly that. I still wonder how many of them realized they were perpetuating lies.
“the world famous Soviet auto industry”
“Made In Russia: 19 Of The Worst Cars The Russians Ever Made”
Q: 19? Was that models or production figures?
A: Yes.
Glad we’ve cleared that up.
It confirms that the neck was always the worst part of the ship’s design.
Just how wide is the neck of the Enterprise?
Did you notice how tiresomely long and drawn-out that video was? Who actually sits through that junk? 11-year-old kids?
I can’t decide what’s more problematic – the ignorance of the Constitution or the anti-religious bigotry.
Man using the ladies is triggered by man cleaning the ladies.
At my gym, at 10:30-11:00 hour or so, there’s always a woman cleaning the men’s locker room. Occasionally there’s a sign out front of the ladies’ stating that there are men working in the ladies’. One day both lockers had signs saying the opposite sex was working the opposite sex locker rooms. The stupid in me was puzzled as to why since both same sex workers were working, why the woman couldn’t work the ladies and the men work the men’s. The sexist patriarchal society bad no goodnik in me understood, however.
Man using the ladies is triggered by man cleaning the ladies.
Obviously raised on an irony-deficient diet.
“the world famous Soviet auto industry”
This used to be common knowledge during the Cold War, but bears repeating. I expect it comes as news to millennials:
Oh, look! Brie Larson, whose new feminist Captain Marvel is totally uncontroversial, is Wikipedia’s featured article today. Because Wikipedia is impartial. (Link to the archive where it’ll appear from tomorrow, because it’ll disappear from the front page.)
[I]t’s a fact that you had to wait for years to buy a car in the Soviet Union.
Oh, look! Brie Larson, whose new feminist Captain Marvel is totally uncontroversial…
Who are you going to believe, critics who are professional reviewers who review critically, or some bunch of rando schlubbs who actually saw the film ?
Well this is a shocking discovery.
Obviously raised on an irony-deficient diet.
Careful Steve. That’s how one gets hamster urine’d round these parts.
Also, that tweet filled my dumb quota for the entire week. All by itself. See y’all later.
Well this is a shocking discovery.
I’m just glad I was sitting down.
[ Adds pineapple to shopping list. ]