Resistance Is Futile
Via Neontaster comes news of an intriguing technological development. Apparently, the device “makes the patient feel comfortable,” while “the strong currents impact and rub.” Hey, I’m just reading what it says here.
Oh, and yes, there is a more intimate video.
Also, open thread.
There’s an interesting observation regarding all the commentary on “genocide” in the Americas
The Great Dying, the Little Ice Age, and Us
“news of an intriguing technological development”
It looks like my razor.
Is it dual-purpose?
Someone needs a nap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Rd7bwQkbnoA
Seriously, we’re in the midst of a mental health crisis among young adults. People like the young lady in the video shouldn’t be anywhere near a college until they’ve dealt with their issues. Just listen to her diatribe about wearing a turban and seeing how long it takes before she gets attacked.
Colleges only indulge them and encourage the behaviour. Will they (the colleges) ever be held accountable?
Our host: “Oh dear. As a result of the post above, my YouTube recommendations are taking a strange turn.”
Mine suggests “Top 10 Most Brutal Forms of Execution in History.”
YMMV
Oh dear. As a result of the post above, my YouTube recommendations are taking a strange turn.
Mebbe if you mix something else in.
People like the young lady in the video shouldn’t be anywhere near a college until they’ve dealt with their issues.
Judging by her turban argument, she’s not intelligent, and for that reason she shouldn’t be in college. But she is sane, grounded in reality, and acting in her self- and group-interest. She perceives correctly that white people are reluctant to defend themselves against confrontational blacks. She knows that she has a good chance of forcing a humiliating concession, where the MAGA hat goes into her trophy cabinet, and she’s emboldened for the next incident. She also knows, whatever she says about black bodies being murdered, that she’s in a safe managed environment where the worst thing that can happen to her is what happened in the video – the campus cop asked her to keep her voice down, which she can reframe as The Man oppressing her for heroically speaking up.
Invasion of the giant technicolor squirrels:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/yes-giant-technicolor-squirrels-actually-roam-forests-southern-india-180971886/
The tragedy was inevitable from first contact. If the only Eurasians to reach the Americas had been peace-loving Spanish nuns – or peace-loving Chinese monks, for that matter – the Great Dying would have happened anyway.
And it happened both ways too. There were many millions died in Europe of the new American diseases.
Still are, if we counting (tobacco) smoking as one.
She’s serious, too
Her thesis, apparently, is that the Sumerians, Egyptians and Indus Valley natives were white.
I found the “reading is a leisure activity” assertion particularly risible.
According to the book 1491, the devastation was closer to 97% of the American population was wiped out.
Good lord. I don’t even know where to begin.
I don’t even know where to begin.
Aside from the fact that it was a Hans Christian Andersen tale, not “50s” (well maybe 1850s…), translated to Normals English that means “I will now try to cover for the fact that I am so illiterate I never heard of a classic fairy tale”.
Regardless, this guy sums it all up:
People, stop fighting over the racist chocolate ducklings and just hand it over to me. I will safely dispose of them.
Aside from the fact that it was a Hans Christian Andersen tale, not “50s” (well maybe 1850s…), translated to Normals English that means “I will now try to cover for the fact that I am so illiterate I never heard of a classic fairy tale”.
Well, obviously. As some shining Twitter Godling recently announced, reading is racist. Report to ThoughtCrime Central this instant!
Her thesis, apparently, is that the Sumerians, Egyptians and Indus Valley natives were white.
Practically every second utterance is dubious, question-begging or bizarrely stupid, all aired with the impervious self-satisfaction of those who think themselves woke. And this mistress of supposedly corrective pedagogy – the one who smugly tells others to “try critical thinking” – appears to rely quite heavily on doctrinaire slogans and racial conspiracy theories.
I’m sure it’s entirely coincidental that Angry Studies and Education courses attract students with some of the lowest SAT scores, while indulging those students with by far the most generous grading.
Elsewhere in the Clown Quarter:
Any takers? No tongues, mind.
Tim Newman on the complications of no-strings sex.
Her thesis, apparently, is that the Sumerians, Egyptians and Indus Valley natives were white.
So she won’t be offended if I start a joke with “Three Hittites walk into a bar…”
Leftist love and tolerance, part 4,052. “Let me get your address.”
However, they do note that participants may become aroused during cuddling and that if that occurs, it should be treated as a normal thing…
…and several Spermanator 9000 units will be available to those so afflicted.
From Tim’s…
Wrong aisle for the Betadine or Hibiclens total body pre-
shagop products.Wrong aisle for the Betadine or Hibiclens
As I get older, I seem to spend more time marvelling at how complicated other people’s lives and relationships are.
…marvelling at how complicated other people’s lives and relationships are.
Couples therapists, is there anything they don’t know ?
Meanwhile, though it may explain the man-bun, Gentlemen, man your razors and Wahl clippers !
Gentlemen, man your razors and Wahl clippers !
[ Strokes smooth jawline. ]
Still are, if we counting (tobacco) smoking as one.
Pretty sure tobacco (and the smoking thereof) were pre-Columbian vices exclusive to the Americas. Can’t blame Whitey for that one!
Regarding the couples-therapy article.
Marriage is a “people-growing machine.
Disagree. Marriage is a social institution which exists to ensure that men have equal parental status with women. Without marriage, the paternity of any given sprog is an open question (unlike *maternity*, which comes with some unmistakable physiological clues). And few men are eager to work themselves into early graves building, maintaining, and defending their communities and societies for the benefit of *other peoples* children. So much easier to sit around the campfire eating fermented fruits and banging whichever female strikes one’s interest.
Any “personal growth” attendant upon marriage is purely incidental.
Still are, if we counting (tobacco) smoking as one.
But a Native American with a pack of cigarettes is being Deeply Spiritual. 😀
@jabrwok:
Ah, but, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2373851/One-tradition-wont-missed-Home-Secretary-longer-required-witness-birth-royal-child-ensure-isnt-imposter.html
@Xas7wcrg9e: that’s an interesting tradition, but while it would serve to ensure that no other mother’s child was substituted for the royal sprog, it doesn’t do anything to confirm the *paternity* of the child. The exclusive sexual rights of the husband to his wife were supposed to do that.
Not a perfect solution, granted, but given enough societal buy-in, and sufficient penalties for infidelity, it worked well enough, long enough, to get men to build the modern world.
it doesn’t do anything to confirm the *paternity* of the child
Well quite. Hence the suspicions around the Ginger Prince…
However, they do note that participants may become aroused during cuddling and that if that occurs, it should be treated as a normal thing.
https://www.meetup.com/N-W-Philly-Mens-Only-Cuddle-Group/ – Some guys may want to cuddle with a man who may carry the energy of a loving father, a brother, or the jock who may not have affirmed them in high school.
There are different kinds of love being mixed up here – friendship, brotherly love, hero worship, etc. Men do lack opportunities to practice those kinds of love. Fraternal organizations that used to provide spaces for male intimacy have been denigrated and legally harassed into shutting down or going co-ed. And it’s still thought to be “intriguingly perceptive” to see repressed homosexuality wherever male bonding is successfully going on.
A men-only dinner club or hiking club or book group could have provided a space for men to share their emotions. But men can’t be trusted in such groups – it might lead to Locker Room Talk.
What men are allowed to have is a Not Gay Cuddling Club, supervised, I suspect, by people who are titillated by using their therapeutic authority to double-bind men into overstepping their boundaries of comfortable touch. It’s not gay and if you think it’s gay, you must be homophobic, and if you’re homophobic you must be gay.
In this (NSFW) clip from a German documentary, the leader of a group therapy session for men who struggle with toxic/fragile masculinity tells the participants that they’re going to be paired up as “shower buddies” to soap each other down in a gentle brotherly way in a one-person shower, and whatever discomfort they feel (perhaps about Homosexualitaet, smirk, snigger), they should examine and interrogate. No, sane healthy men should recognize their discomfort and walk away from such creepy situations. If you weren’t sure about the therapist’s predispositions, or you want more titillation, you can watch the rest of the documentary where he gathers the therapy group outdoors to strip to their underwear and wrestle in the mud.
Fraternal organizations that used to provide spaces for male intimacy have been denigrated and legally harassed into shutting down or going co-ed.
As noted here a while ago, even male singing groups have been targeted – by ladies who expect corresponding all-female singing groups, and female groups of all kinds, to remain, as it were, unmolested. I doubt we need speculate long as to what kind of ladies they are, or what their motives might be.
What men are allowed to have is a Not Gay Cuddling Club, supervised, I suspect, by people who are titillated by using their therapeutic authority to double-bind men into overstepping their boundaries of comfortable touch.
To assume otherwise would, I think, be rather naïve. These projects and initiatives tend to be the work of unpleasant, psychologically damaged people who almost certainly wish to damage others. Woke piety should always trip an alarm.
Not Gay Cuddling Club
Band name.
Some guys may want to cuddle with a man…
Let me stop you right there.
It was once customary for the Home Secretary, as a senior member of the Cabinet, to attend royal births to ensure the new arrival was a genuine descendant of the monarch and had not an imposter smuggled in.
I suspect that the Royal Family would be better served in the long run with a few impostors.
Chaz and Sons would hardly be put to stud if they were horses.
These projects and initiatives tend to be the work of unpleasant, psychologically damaged people who almost certainly wish to damage others.
Woke “journalist”.
RTHT for some hyperbolic woke piety and handwaving over evil people who are evil because they don’t think* as he does.
*(“Think” – lol)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6883233/Indian-cashew-processors-2-day-left-burns-shells-superfood-loved-vegans.html
You think YOUR job’s awful…
I see nothing we can do to help these ladies—if we stop buying cashews, they’re out of work & even worse off.
Carp – clickez vous ici for the story above.
Bill Kristol’s salmon? Gimme a chance to down a couple dozen three beers…
Gimme a chance to down a couple dozen three beers…
Yeah, Kristol, but not for his BS reasons, and he’d try to do it to yours too which is the real issue with this idiots mentality.
I’d pay to see him try with either one of us for opposite reasons.
Meant to add, not knowing who exactly the guy is but knowing who exactly BK is, I’d likely have more respect for the leftist. He may be an idiot but BK is the lowest form of traitor scum. Not that I found him very reliable in the first place. There’s a somewhat famous article by Dontknowwho about being at a party and picking out who would go nazi. I coulda done the same with the NeverTrump crowd. Phonies the lot of them.
(((livia a. aliberti)))
Every damn time.
…not knowing who exactly the guy is…I’d likely have more respect for the leftist.
RTWT and you will, and you won’t…
There are different kinds of love being mixed up here – friendship, brotherly love, hero worship, etc.
Remember when obnoxious gay writers started to label all expressions of male friendship as “homoerotic”?
clickez vous ici for the story above.
So the Boston Globe is a willing disseminator of incitement to criminal acts. What, then, should be the attitude of actual Americans toward the Globe and its management?
Bill Kristol is the political equivalent of a Kardashian, famous for being famous. He’s a fixture on talking-head shows although he’s a complete fool and has been wrong about every topic on which he has expounded for at least 25 years. If you want to know who’s going to win an election, watch Kristol; whoever he says will win, will lose.
Luke O’Neil also appears to be a fool. Maybe he can take over the always-wrong slot when Kristol finally gives up.
Remember when obnoxious gay writers started to label all expressions of male friendship as “homoerotic”?
It’s part of an agenda of poisoning the bonds between men as friends – indeed, any close relationship that doesn’t include The State is suspect.
You didn’t think destroying the family unit was their only target?
Men do lack opportunities to practice those kinds of love.
And some men aren’t “joiners”, so that makes it more important for the women in their lives to help nurture what male friendships their husband, fiance, boyfriend has.
Close male friendships are vital regardless of what a close friendship he may have with wife/girlfriend. It is not the same.
Remember when obnoxious gay writers started to label all expressions of male friendship as “homoerotic”?
It’s not just the literary gaystapo, it’s the whole progressive Zeitgeist. Sexualise everything. Nothing exists outside of the Sexual Revolution!
The footage from that German documentary is hilarious, by the way. ‘Shower buddies’ in German is ‘Duschbuddies’. He says something like ‘Jeder von euch bekommt einen Duschbuddy’. Only, that sounds uncomfortably close to the English ‘Douche buddy’…