Friday Ephemera
Bad dog. (h/t, Holborn) || Inadvisable cat handling. || Scenes. || More scenes. (h/t, Damian) || Yet more scenes. (h/t, Holborn) || Restoration. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Style points. || Today’s word is gripping. || How to be glamorous. || London pad, only £9,950,000. || She seems nice. || Headline of note. || Somewhat related. || Gyro-X, the two-wheeled transport module you’ve always dreamed of. (h/t, DRB) || Deadheads. || Bra donations of note. || His is bigger than yours, and louder. || “Earth music for plants.” || The vampire of Cinkota. || Russian eruption. || Luftraum. || Skillz. || It’s what Sibelius would have wanted. || It’s not a Ferrari. || Friend. || And finally, that was closer than one might like.
She seems nice
She has apparently been identified, and faces up to 20 years in prison. So it looks like she’ll get her just desserts.
London pad
When I clicked the link, I expected something a little well, um, groovier. That’s quite tastefully done.
Restoration
Superb in every way.
Luftraum.
Warum? Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum????
Disaster has struck. I have lost my collection of hints, I only have the first chapter that I’d typed. There will be a slight delay.
20 years for licking the ice cream? Let that be a warning to all you scofflaws out there!
20 years for licking the ice cream?
What’s the statute of limitations on these sorts of things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E2oirmkjOk
Seems like being famous buys you a certain amount of leeway.
20 years for licking the ice cream?
She was trying to spread disease:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/07/justice-police-believe-theyve-identified-viral-blue-bell-licker-say-charges-will-be-filed/
“As it turns out, the miscreant woman was also identified bragging about what she did on social media (of course). She posted that she had the flu at the time and she added that others who are also sick should lick ice cream in stores as well in order to ‘start an epidemic’. She’s calling it the ‘#tinroofchallenge’ since the ice cream she licked was the ‘Tin Roof Sundae’ option. Here’s some links, and yeah, that is, in fact, [biological] terrorism, buddy….
https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/asia-blue-bell-ice-cream-licker/
Yuck. Off with her head!
Morning, all.
She was trying to spread disease
I wonder how that all-important fame is tasting now.
Heh.
Via Ben.
Joss Whedon is unwell.
And finally, that was closer than one might like.
Must go faster.
Joss Whedon is unwell.
Being woke should come with a health warning.
Re Josh Whedon:
Dude be whack.
Es loco.
Being woke should come with a health warning.
It’s a kind of breathless rhetorical self-pleasuring for people who get high on pretentious outrage.
See also Mr Whedon’s latest protégé, Laurie Penny. For whom, hyperbolical breathlessness is a way of life.
Andrew Neil eats another one alive.
http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/9849/
Andrew Neil eats another one alive.
Our betters, behold them.
“It’s not a Ferrari.”
Name the car after Arte Johnson, who kept falling off a tricycle in Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.
It’s oddly quiet today, comment-wise. Is everyone hiding in the bushes?
[ Starts thrashing bushes with stick. ]
Is that juxtaposition deliberate?
Can’t talk. Thrashing bushes.
[ Bush-thrashing intensifies. ]
[ Starts thrashing bushes with stick. ]
Arrrgh! What the? Trying to sleep off last night’s celebrations thankyouverymuch
[ grumbles ] …salty Brits…
Man found dead in garden appears to have fallen out of an airplane (via Headline of Note)
Top comment:
Funny cuz it’s true, huh?
salty Brits
[ Taps watch. ]
And finally, that was closer than one might like.
Thing is, after an encounter like that not only is the rest of that trip filled with existential paranoia but every time they travel that road they have to muster the confidence to say, “This route to my destination is worth the not-insignificant chance I will be tackled and eaten by an enormous predator.”
I mean, as a species we’ve been doing that for thousands of years but you sort of assume we’re past that phase.
Then again, I’ve gone swimming in lakes after spotting gators and swam around a boat after catching several small sharks in said boat. But that was Florida, which doesn’t quite share the same plane of existence with the rest of the world.
Our betters, behold them.
[regarding failed German defense minister]
True, I am sure her mother and dog like her. Where do they dig these people up ?
Feel the love: http://archive.vn/2cRrM#selection-1095.55-1095.255
[ Taps watch. ]
Some of us live waaaay over on the other side of North America. In which case, from your time stamp, it would barely be 7am here. 🙂
Cheers
it would barely be 7am here
Here I am, at all hours, slaving away at the cruel rockface of blogging…
Unlurking to say that Tin Roof flavoured ice cream (sans spittle) sounds very tasty.
Unlurking to say that Tin Roof flavoured ice cream (sans spittle) sounds very tasty.
I should thrash the bushes more often.
I should thrash the bushes more often.
You and Donald Trump — two of a kind.
David, I would also speculation that since July 4 is on a Thursday, that my fellow lazy-ass Amuricans took Friday off to game themselves a four-day weekend.
my fellow lazy-ass Amuricans took Friday off to game themselves a four-day weekend.
That’s the kind of cunning that cost us the colonies.
[ Shakes fist, glares across Atlantic. ]
Ha! ALL my weekends are 7-day weekends now. 🍺
Read it and weep: Frederick Douglass’s 4th of July speech
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/
For those who are unfamiliar with him, Douglass was himself a slave for many years. Consider the eloquence and beauty of his language, and compare it to today’s eddicated Americans.
That’s the kind of cunning that cost us the colonies.
Ha-ha, David thrashing the bushes — pah! I’m up in a tree.
“How did you get up in the tree?”
I sat on it when it was an acorn.
“We must destroy western civilization, because I can’t be bothered to eat less and exercise more”. OK that is not the exact words but…
Ignoring the Grand Canyon leap of logic linking enslavement with “fatphobia”, she is an “Instagram therapist”, so we know we are dealing with a super cereal person to whom we should all listen.
*(Yes, that same one featured herein before)
Not at all dystopian, and if it was half as expensive, it would be twice as cheap.
OTOH, you can start at about $1700/month, get a double room* (after the first 8-13 weeks), free food, free health care, vocational training, and money for college. See your recruiter today.
*(Offer does not apply to temporary accomodations on ships, in tents, or SEA, B huts, or containerized accomodations)
If western civilization is destroyed, we all, including Sonilee, will be eating a lot less.
Hi Bacesaras,
TOURIST: How do I get to Carnegie Hall?
NEW YORKER: Practice, dude, practice!
“Restoration” fabulously fantastic. Please thank the elephant man.
[delurks]
I must say, David, you are in fine form in this thread. =^D
[lurks]
I’m just dropping in to say that Spiny is not exactly a lurker and I see Pogonip behind that cardboard cat. The disguise is not working.
Busted! Darn!
I changed pseudonyms because of Steve E. pointing out something I hadn’t noticed about “Pogonip.” The new one was bestowed on me over at the Archdruid’s blog.
“We must destroy western civilization, because I can’t be bothered to eat less and exercise more”
I think we’ll give that one a post of its own.
[regarding failed German defense minister]
Reviewing her history, it appears that she did not have any actual defense-related qualifications when she was appointed. So…typical EU bureaucrat?
I changed pseudonyms because of Steve E. pointing out something I hadn’t noticed about “Pogonip.”
I liked it, because ‘pogonip’ is a rarely used interesting word, and because it reminded me of Pogo Possum.
Thanks, PST! Just for you, I’ll go back to Pogonip here.
So there, Steve. Harrumph.
Are women more emotional than men?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sexual-personalities/201504/are-women-more-emotional-men
The comments would seem to answer the question in the affirmative:-D.
So there, Steve. Harrumph.
As my wife has told me on many occassions, I am often oblivious. I don’t recall having commented on your pseudonym. I had always thught it was related to the cartoon strip Pogo. If I offended you in any way, I’m sorry.