Friday Ephemera

I don’t think so, Pogo. The Other Half did make one memorable visit to these parts, I seem to recall. I’d link it but it’s lost in the mists of cyberspace.

Woman versus tentacles. What could possibly go wrong? || Cross-cultural scenes. (h/t, Dicentra)
David opens with two of a kind . . .

On everything and nothing.
That’s a great documentary. Two hours well spent.

William Heath Robinson
That’s wonderful.
On everything and nothing
The case against the LCDM universe builds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-CDM_model
I think the woman was trying to eat live octopus on TV.
WTF is wrong with people?

Maths is hard. 🙂
Given that the ladies’ ambition – and the purpose of the chart – is to “educate everyone on the insecurities that height can cause,” the disproportion is quite funny.

WTF is wrong with people?
There are too many people in desperate need of attention and that’s the source of a disproportionate percentage of problems.

The crowds at the Brexit Party’s rallies do not seem especially fearful. Nor do they seem especially enraged. An honest analysis would rather surmise that they seem to be comprised of ordinary people expressing a wholly justifiable concern that for the first time in British democratic history, the vote we cast in 2016 appears not to be accepted by the dominant political class. Worse still, it appears that this political class is intent on stopping that vote coming into effect, claiming – essentially – that although there were indeed two options on the voting slip in 2016, only one of them was actually permissible.

Douglas Murray, here.

In other news, the future of Salon is looking doubtful.
Can’t imagine why.

Honk honk, as the kids say.

The crowds at the Brexit Party’s rallies do not seem especially fearful. Nor do they seem especially enraged. An honest analysis would rather surmise that they seem to be comprised of ordinary people expressing a wholly justifiable concern that for the first time in British democratic history, the vote we cast in 2016 appears not to be accepted by the dominant political class.
See: how the TEA Party participants were covered in media and how the IRS was instructed to treat them.
Also: The further reveal of the attempted coup against Trump.

On a scale of 1-10 how f*cked is this country?
Readers may have seen various YouTube and Twitter videos of small female police officers being easily overpowered and laughed at by burly lawbreakers. The frequency of such interactions and the circulation of such footage seem likely to have unhappy consequences, not least in terms of demoralising both the public and the police, and encouraging more of the same. Hiring police officers who are physically unable to enforce lawfulness, even in pairs, or even in threes, and who are openly mocked by criminal thugs, is, shall we say, suboptimal.
But apparently, it’s more important to have women “in every role,” at “fifty percent,” because people mustn’t “see policing as primarily a male-dominated job.”
Again, honk.

In the previous thread, Daniel said,

“Feminist” entertainment always, always reveals more about the writers – and the fanbase – than either seem to be conscious of.

Dave Cullen spots yet another illustration.

Re Salon headlines:
And that’s just the articles written by Brittney Cooper. 😄
I used to read Salon over lunch because it was one of the few sites our antiquated browsers would pick up. Then they hired Brittney. I went back to bringing a book for lunch.

Dave Cullen spots yet another illustration.
Oof that was rough, and that’s going in with low expectations. Hopefully this female swap gimmick will eventually play out, like spaghetti westerns and blaxploitation films. The genre is producing such utter schlock that I’m beginning to think it’s actually anti-feminists making content to besmirch the movement.
For instance, I assumed as Gurl Power Lesbian Batman she would build her own batcave in a studio apartment or something, program all her own tech, make her suit so it would have no hint of sexuality, etc. But instead, the trailer shows her just fucking taking Batman’s cave, demanding her safe beta token butler do all tailoring work on Batman’s suit, and using frying pans to subdue ONE baddy. This is empowering? Boldly following the trail blazed by a man while spouting pure go-grrrl cringe with basic bitch femrock blasting?

Bloody wireless keyboard.
Alternatively, it’s just that when you write feminist heroines exactly the way feminists say you ought, the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the entire ethos becomes too glaring to ignore.

I don’t get the one about the truck spreading homosexuality. What’s the joke?

“What’s the joke?”
The rainbow.

He was rightly classified as a man.
Not according to reality.

He was rightly classified as a man.
It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
https://youtu.be/PObBA2wH5l0?t=91

https://www.humaverse.com/lifestyle/people-who-have-been-in-an-extremely-long-coma-share-their-story/

Nic Rider, a transgender health specialist and psychologist at the University of Minnesota, said training isn’t enough.
“There are implicit biases that need to be addressed,” Rider said.
I want to throat punch old Nic there (and I note “Nic” identifies as a ‘they’ so the doctor needs his/her own therapist).. this isn’t about bias, it’s about biology. Only females give birth and there is no rational reason why this female’s actual sex wasn’t on her chart.

He was rightly classified as a man.
Not according to reality
Don’t know about that but I’m quite certain he was literally a man. IYKWIM.

Our state broadcaster.

From the ridiculous to the sublime, a love story of 3 species:
https://goodmorningkitten.com/kitten/4068/
They should have posted that one on Mother’s Day. May Poon, Sanshiro, and their owner live happily ever after.

The Preachers of the Great Awokening
I forget where I first saw this link.

Well, I’m stumped.
LOL. I saw in at the cinema and liked it. 🙂

LOL. I saw it at the cinema and liked it. 🙂
Oh, it’s worth watching and is certainly enthusiastic. But it does feature some of the most laughable accents, and some bizarrely variable acting, to say nothing of the tone. Oh, and Keanu Reeves’ randomly changing hair colour. There are some great shots and images, for sure – Dracula turning into a six-foot pile of rats lingers in the mind – but the whole thing’s a wildly uneven shambles. And camper than Christmas.
[ Added: ]
Like Damian, I’m opting for the narrow definition of camp, in that the comical aspects should be (at least largely) unintentional.

it’s worth watching and is certainly enthusiastic.
After seeing it in theater, a friend commented “the moral of this movie is ‘never lose your temper in a church'”.

You really do have to wonder what the mood was in the editing suite.
Oh, that one is quite definitely far more stylized than anything at all stylish . . . .
Quite in parallel my uniform reaction of hipsters is Why utterly contrived!!??!?!. With style one gets to be elegant—No, not dayglo reflective or frantically disheveled and covered in labels and showing off overpriced suckerware tchotchkes, elegant.

This looks entertaining
The Other Half enjoys those.

“assigning labels and making assumptions”
“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”
– Tyler Durden

Re Yassmin wondering about the people she passes on the street: I can guarantee they aren’t thinking about her. 99% of us fill our heads with our own doings.

And if new NA cats to collect doesn’t make Yasmeen feel better, I don’t know what could.

In Oldham, some people show us who they are:
https://twitter.com/FacePalmReality/status/1129844418398363649

The Preachers of the Great Awokening
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2017/12/petting-zoo.html

It has been noted before the similarities between the current SJW project and religious orthodoxy. It seems for Ms. Byerley, only Caucasians suffer from “total depravity” in the form of melanin deficiency. It is for her (and others like her) the Original Sin. Query, does she believe her “salvation” is a result of the “irresistible grace” afforded the “elect” like her, or is such grace “prevenient” and available to all of us if we can just see the light?

The “elect”, like these Nice White Lady educational bureaucrats – “These decisions are being made because DOE leadership believes that skin color plays a role in how to get equity — that white people can’t convey the message”. The message is an anti-white message, and its measure of sincere implementation is that there be more Black Bodies and fewer White Bodies in positions of influence, yet these ladies thought they could carry on “conveying the message” without it circling around on them.

hence it must take the Greek plural form.
Well who made that rule? I’m gonna continue to call them “octopi” and there’s literally nothing you can do to stop me.

This will end well.

Under Carranza’s leadership, sources said, whites, in some cases, are being told they must give up power or lose responsibilities no matter how well they have performed.
More than a dozen high-ranking superintendents and deputies who had served under ex-Chancellor Carmen Fariña have been demoted — some with large pay cuts — or pushed into retirement, sources said. Others have lesser duties and new bosses.
[snip]
“White supremacy is characterized by perfectionism, a belief in meritocracy, and the Protestant work ethic,” the exec said, adding that whites who object when accused of deep-rooted bias are called “fragile” and “defensive.”

This will end well.

“White supremacy is characterized by perfectionism, a belief in meritocracy, and the Protestant work ethic,” the exec said, adding that whites who object when accused of deep-rooted bias are called “fragile” and “defensive.”

As noted before, it’s funny until it’s sinister.

This will end well.
A common observation is “it’s as if they want a race war.”
But in fact they are already waging a race war, albeit with very limited use of firearms. It’s just that one side has been mostly passive.
This also raises the perennial question: if American liberals are so moderate and reasonable–not crazed radical leftists at all–then why do they keep supporting and electing such extremists? The answer is left as an exercise for the reader.™ 😉

^ From the comments to that tortured self-adulation upon faux enlightenment:

I’m so sick of this pseudo-scientific crap, these social analyses pulled so easily from the ass of the Neo-Marxist. Pretentious fabrications like “heteronormativity.” This is why I pull away from socialism. Marx and Engels have nothing to offer our age.

More or less, trailer park rube that s/he undoubtedly is.

I’m so sick of this pseudo-scientific crap, these social analyses pulled so easily from the ass of the Neo-Marxist. Pretentious fabrications like “heteronormativity.” This is why I pull away from socialism. Marx and Engels have nothing to offer our age.

So it wasn’t the 100 million or whatever murdered, the economic failures, the Orwellian societies, North Korea, Cambodia, China, USSR, Venezuela, etc. etc. etc. it was simply the pretentiousness of it all? Interesting.
Not to be rude to a new (maybe?) ally but it kinda jumped out at me.

So it wasn’t the 100 million or whatever murdered…
Very possibly because it was written in heat and haste, and because a more extensive list of socialism’s failures would be less rhetorically punchy…at least I hope that’s why.

I think our moral and intellectual betters would love a full-out shooting race war. The problem is the rest of the population isn’t interested, especially now that interracial relationships are common among the peasantry. Go into Nordstrom sometime and count the white women with white children in tow and the white women with brown children in tow. Then go into Walmart and do the same thing. And it’s the Walmart class that fights the Nordstrom class’s wars.
I think in another 30 years America will look much like Brazil does now. A small upper class, a miniscule middle class, and a huge number of desperately poor people. (This is already happening in Silicon Valley.). And there will be a fair number of black people, a small number of white people, and a big bunch of brown people. (This is already happening at your local Walmart.)

“No one has a problem with the word ‘polyamory’, despite its unholy fusion of Greek and Latin roots. And don’t even get me started on the word ‘buccaneer’.”
I learnt recently that one of our Australian ravens is named officially ‘Corvus coronoides perplexus’. Literally ‘strange crow shaped crow’. Cute! Only, ‘coronoides’ is Greek, while the rest is Latin – infuriating!

Non sunt curarum, amicus. Erit recta.
“There are worries, friend. Is straight.”?

Walk softly, carry big stick.