Friday Ephemeraren’t

you know it could happen.
Where’s My Cow?
Bugrit!

Yeah kids are great but have you ever had an apple?
also via Julia.

Via my wife, this delightful story about the friendship between a lion and a daschund.
The video itself is five years old but I did find stories about the pair from a year ago, so I guess they’re still going strong.

a chap doing this better than you do
LOL. I had to watch it twice to see it was reversed.

It’s a Work of Art bigots!
via Battle Beagle

Heh.

A driver’s nightmare.
Again, demonstrating what assholes ducks are. They all got wings. They could fly over the road if they wanted too. The bastards.

From Jimmy Buffett’s classic “My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don’t Love Jesus“:
Tryin’ to tell myself that my condition is improvin’
And if I don’t die by Thursday I’ll be roarin’ Friday night

More than a few pointed out that white people in the South are also great admirers of watermelon and fried chicken.
I’ve never grasped what the point of that nonsense is. Who doesn’t like watermelon and fried chicken? If you want to be silly about it, in the manner of most SJW’s, I think it’s a much more logical (yeah, I know) argument to say the W&FC thing is a racist means of scaring (and yes, that’s problematically racist as well) white people away from enjoying such things.
Yeah, I know. Over analyzing and silly but it’s so glaringly stupid. Now basketball, OTOH…

white people in the South are also great admirers of watermelon and fried chicken.
There was a racist thing in the sixties about watermelon and fried chicken–especially watermelon.
I vaguely remember there being jokes about how much black people loved their watermelon.
But at the same time I remember that white people in the North too loved watermelon, a popular summer treat.

Woke virtue signalling always reveals more than the authors intend.
As I mentioned, RTWT, in this case it also revels manifest ignorance, along with a whopping dose of hysteria.

Medical journals wrote in scientific earnestness of the black patients — always black patients — whose intestines were clogged by watermelon seeds. An 1888 report by Dr. D.Z. Holliday of Harlem, Georgia, described how he broke down a bowel obstruction using rectal manipulation, a tobacco enema, and castor oil. Once the mass was “released,” he claimed to have counted 820 seeds, ingested during one man’s night of watermelon bacchanalia. Such intemperate men could not be trusted. Neither could such patently ridiculous stories, repeated until they masqueraded as truth.

Meet the new bezoar, same as the old bezoar…

During the study period (January 1996 to December 2005), 55 patients were hospitalized at the Western Galilee Hospital, in northern Israel, with the diagnosis of fecal impaction. Phytobezoars were found in 30 patients (55 percent). The seed bezoars were composed of prickly pear seeds in 12 patients, watermelon seeds in 10 patients, sunflower seeds in 4 patients, popcorn kernels in 1 patient, and pomegranate seeds in 1 patient.

Patently ridiculous.
I guess her only course of action not to be afraid to look like what she, interestingly enough, considers to be a “stereotypical PoC” whilst eating in front of ytes is to eat nothing but hummus and Peking duck.

I’m sorry to report that people are making art again.

And then there are the scenes of pornographic shock, including one where the director’s 25-year-old daughter, Romy Louise Lauwers, playing a somewhat younger version of herself, films the inside of her vagina with her Israeli boyfriend’s spy camera. She shows her father a film still and proudly calls it “the image that contains all images.”

There’s also something about European democracy as a racist construct. I hope they serve alcohol by the bucket at the Ruhrtrienniale.

By “underbelly” he means hamster butt crack.

… a new champion ascends the throne,…
It can’t match the pooping power of Colon Blow.
“You’d have to eat 10 bowls a day for 8 1/2 yrs to match the fiber content in one bowl of colon blow.”
I can’t find a link to the original parody that works outside the US. But it’s hilarious.

I’m more reminded of someone’s note here a few years back of someone getting a drink at some UK or so local pub . . . .
Ah yes, this one . . . .

Off topic : Anyone know where Tim Newman’s ‘White Sun of the Desert’ blog migrated to ?

So Close….

Tim Newman’s blog is coming back slowly: it is now showing error pages. If his new host is doing the migration for him he’s probably buggered, as this just shouldn’t happen. However most things are recoverable.

Watermelon Abuse
via Second City Bureaucrat

Damned ducks again…

Tim’s blog is still having problems, but his commentariat is back in force.

re. Newman’s blog : Thanks David, Fatmatt & Fred IV – I’ll just have to spend some more time in this joint in the meantime.

Damn those white women
If the left will continue to insist that all white people are culpable for everything bad that any white person has done, anywhere and anytime, then dark-skinned people must be held accountable in the same manner–which means slavery and cannibalism even today.
And abandoning the snark and with absolute seriousness, all leftists should be held responsible for every atrocity committed by commies; every murder, every act of terrorism, every person reduced to poverty and even starvation.

[ Reaches under bar. Produces tray of unappetising, well-thumbed pastries. ]
I’m on a diet.
*slides tray to Darleen*

[ Blows dust off pastries. Quietly removes foreign object. ]
Hmmm. Who’d you throw out, as you were also unearthing the pastries?

Nailing down the details . . .

Damn those white women.
A couple of years ago, Ruby Hamad, the author of that article, accused her former friend and colleague, Clementine Ford, of plagiarising a work of hers. She even quit her job over it. I think it’s clear she’s never forgiven Ford.

These people are idiots.
No, they’re not idiots; they’re ruthless enemies who will use any lie to tear down America and replace it with a communist tyranny.
Or maybe you mean they are moral idiots, in which case I will agree.

No, they’re not idiots; they’re ruthless enemies who will use any lie to tear down America and replace it with a communist tyranny.
No. They’re idiots. The problem is that we are even bigger idiots because we know better and yet bend over and ask for it harder. Years ago, I predicted stupidity nowhere near this level. I was laughed at, mocked, kept after diversity training class, and suggested I needed mental health counseling. Things going on today, if I someone else had predicted these things back then, I would have laughed at, mocked, and suggested that such a person may have needed mental health counseling. At what point do we get some backbone and say, in no uncertain terms, this must stop. Look at the comments on that tweet. “Conservatives” try to use reason to address this idiocy. Always gotta be the “adults in the room”. Crazy world don’t give a shit about your reasoning. Crazy only responds to fine adjustments with sledgehammers.

“The weirdest thing about the electoral college is the fact that if it wasn’t specifically in the Constitution for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional.”
If it weren’t for half the people in the United States, the other half would be all of them

Another”professor” finds another problematic thing that traumatizes students.

You’d think they might at least have the decency to be disgusted by themselves.
It is a given that this prof is so far to the left she makes Lenin his own bad self look like Barry Goldwater, so the $64 question is how many of her no doubt equally leftist students actually go to primitive cis-hetero testosterone displays like sportsball games and actually see the damn mascot, let alone come sniveling to her about how they are “hurt” by it.
The $64,000 question is why ninnies like her constantly feel compelled to have to MSU all the time, other than their delusions of adequacy, of course.
Personally, I am offended because I think the mascot looks like Olivier Gendebien’s Ferrari, which is much more offensive because of reasons.

“You’d think they might at least have the decency to be disgusted by themselves.”
“They are made to feel that they are not their real selves but actors playing a role, and their doings a ‘performance,’ rather than as the real thing.”
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951

Related: a very interesting Thread on leaving the SJW cult.
via Damian Counsell

if sometime in the future you were thinking of buying a Holden, you might want to reconsider.
From the linked article: “Agarwal told the Herald that the lower bar for women was expected to increase female participation in the programs by 10%. She also emphasized that even though the entry bar was lowered, women would still have to complete the programs just as men do.”
That is, of course, a lie: Lowered entry standards inevitably are a precursor to lowered standards across the board.

That is, of course, a lie: Lowered entry standards inevitably are a precursor to lowered standards across the board
let’s make an equation:
Lowered entry standards + time —> lowered exit standards + time —> deaths.
Whether that’s a bug or a feature depends on your politics.

Lowered entry standards inevitably are a precursor to lowered standards across the board
You’d think that female engineers who’d coped perfectly well without lowered entry standards or any other ham-fisted condescension might take exception. Or demand a 10% refund on their tuition, given the potential damage to their professional reputations.

“the left built ever higher towers of delusional ideas to explain those failures”
This is the Theory Jack built.
This is the Flaw
That lay in the Theory Jack built.
This is the Mummery
Hiding the Flaw
That lay in the Theory that Jack built.
This is the Summary
Based on the Mummery
Hiding the Flaw
That lay in the Theory that Jack built.
This is the Constant K
That saved the Summary
Based on the Mummery
Hiding the Flaw
That lay in the Theory that Jack built.
This is the Erudite Verbal Haze
Cloaking Constant K
That saved the Summary
Based on the Mummery
Hiding the Flaw
That lay in the Theory that Jack built.
. . .
–From “The Space Child’s Mother Goose” by Frederick Winsor and Marian Parry (illustrator)
Published by Purple House Inc. (purplehousepress.com)
http://www.amazon.com/Space-Childs-Mother-Goose/dp/1930900465/

so OK, trolling, which means half the population of the UK, if not the world, should be charged, then.
As police and courts fail to deal with serious crime, I suspect we’ll see ever greater fuss about unserious ones – ‘crimes of manners,’ as it were – as if that were some kind of compensation for the abundance of uninhibited muggers and machete gangs.

…I am reminded of this study…
For those who are interested, but don’t want to drop 35.95 frogskins, you can RTWT here.

When controlled for educational attainment, American adults’ vocabulary (a key indicator of verbal ability) declined between the mid-1970s and the mid-2010s. The vocabulary of American college graduates declined more than a half a standard deviation over this time period, and vocabulary also declined among those without a four-year college degree.

What is interesting is that the largest decline is among those with bachelor and graduate degrees. Although the authors list some factors, less time spent reading, cultural factors, demographic changes, for instance, that could explain this, at least in part, there is no evidence that they tried to tease out any differences among degree majors.
When you have entire departments that have comparatively recently sprung up like fairy circles after a rain and either make words up, snatch them out of the ether, or pervert the otherwise established meanings that have been perfectly cromulent for centuries, it is small wonder that hordes of these graduates aren’t wording so gooder, innit.

A disturbing account/rant about an extended visit to Sweden:
https://twitter.com/moldbugman/status/1167485529040007168
How accurate is it? Can anyone on this blog confirm it?
Link found via one of the Ace of Spades contributors:
https://twitter.com/Weirddave0
I have heard of Mencius Moldbug and the Dark Enlightenment, some of it rather, um, disturbing, but have no idea whether this blogger is a generally reliable reporter.

Women in STEM, sorted.

A five o’clock shadow on a woman does add a certain je ne sais quoi.
It’s a bold look. Not everyone could pull it off.

Women in STEM, sorted.
Deleted. I wonder why.

Deleted. I wonder why.
I’d imagine the university’s media bods discovered that a transgender faculty member demanding to be referred to as “she” on account of being “a woman” – while bearing a striking resemblance to the actor Mark Strong, bestubbled, and in a rather, shall we say, voluminous lady wig – wasn’t entirely persuasive.

Didn’t Calgary use to be in Alberta or one of the other sane parts of Canada? I’m usually pretty good with geography.

…shall we say, voluminous lady wig – wasn’t entirely persuasive.
I know you have said you don’t have much experience in these matters, but the tennis balls in a training bra aren’t helping either. If, OTOH, that is some plastic surgery, someone needs to be, as you say on the far side of the pond, struck off, because those ain’t fooling Stevie Wonder at midnight at 1000 yards.

“…I was living an exhausting performance and eventually my brain broke down,” says Macnab.
“…Even though living my natural female self is effortless for me…”

I can buy the broken brain bit, but one can find blow up dolls that are more “natural female”. Fortunately, being an academic, no one will actually have to rely on anything designed by zer.

…so “feeling” that as natural is as effortless as the schizophrenic who finds The Voices “natural”.
You are just not woke. Just because there is no way in hell, being phenotypically and genotypically male, that he could ever have done more than imagine what it like to be female (or an aardvark, a shoe tree, or anything else than what he is), is no reason to deny his lived experience, which, as we all know, is more important than facts or other annoying bits of reality like having to shave as often as Richard Nixon on a bad day.

One must remember those important anniversaries . . . .

Dave. My mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m…afraid.