Sweet Fanny Adams

A nautical term for tinned meat or stew.
Heh. I didn’t know that one.

For some reason, I’m reminded of a script W.C. Fields wrote that included a character named “San Quentin Quail.”
Which referred to underage woman who convorting with could send you to San Quentin Prison.
Which also reminds me of a line from Jimmy Buffett’s “Livingston Saturday Night” : “15 will get you 20, but that’s all right,” a line whose meaning I didn’t grok until many years later.

Bloody Brits.
‘Rambo: Last Blood Falls to Downton Abbey in Opening Weekend at the Box Office’
https://comicbook.com/movies/2019/09/22/rambo-last-blood-downton-abbey-box-office/

Bloody Brits.
Heh. No spoilers. I shall watch when it’s on TV.
What?
Oh, come on. It’s hard to be entirely unintrigued by a TV series that can wring high drama from smudges, improper spoons and Mrs Patmore’s collapsing pastry.

Heh. W.C. Fields. “Water? Never touch the stuff. Fish f*k in it”.
Well, you said open thread…

Likewise: “Water? I said I was thirsty, not dirty.”

The bad kerning of the ‘A’.
Actually the typesetter’s done something more bizarre than that – they’ve flipped the letter A, and then done lousy kerning. The hairline stem of the letter should be on the right, as it is with the U. Some damned fool has been mucking around in InDesign, methinks.

Young Greta strikes me as a typical high IQ obsessive autistic having an intense focus on her favourite subject about which she knows factual information in minute detail, but with little understanding and interest [being an autistic adolescent and having little life experience] in secondary social issues and effects. One of the consequences of being autistic is that we – I and my brother are autistic – is that we are socially naïve, gullible and easy to manipulate. For those interested Dr Temple Grandin made a video about obsessional behaviour in autistics some years ago. In it she noted that, as her social skills improved and her behaviour amongst people became more adaptive she lost the intense obsessional interest in the specific subjects in which she had immersed herself previously and, through and by which she defined her sense of being in the world in the absence [being autistic] of the ability to empathise, i.e. relate spontaneously on the basis of feelings/emotions. [An interesting book is ”Autism and the Development of Mind” by R. Peter Hobson. I should also note that I spent over 40 years working with autistic children and adults without knowing I was autistic: understanding autism and thus myself was a decades long obsession from undergraduate years until diagnosis.]

H.L. Mencken on his fellow journalists:
“There are managing editors in the United States, and scores of them, who have never heard of Kant or Johannes Muller and never read the Constitution of the United States; there are city editors who do not know what a symphony is, or a streptococcus, or the Statute of Frauds; there are reporters by the thousands who could not pass the entrance exam for Harvard, or Tuskegee, or even Yale. It is this vast and militant ignorance, this widespread and fathomless prejudice against intelligence, that makes American journalism so pathetically feeble and vulgar and so generally disreputable.”
What I love most about this quote is that FDR said this, without attribution, at a Press Club gathering with Mencken in the audience. As you can imagine, the audience took umbridge at this, until FDR said it wasn’t his opinion, he was only quoting an essay by his old friend Mencken.
“I’ll get that son of a bitch,” Mencken said sotto voce.

On an entirely different note, I stumble across a site that had this running journal of all the Trans-cult-bullying-harassment of WrongThink people. VERY informative.

Bromley scenes.
Via Holborn.

Also via Holborn,
Chappie demands “respect,” or rather “fucking respect,” while grappling with police officers and having caused sufficient alarm for the police to be summoned in the first place. And then, like breathing, he cries racism. And again, it’s hard to miss the less than full-throated effectiveness of the police.

I hope the car’s okay.

Darwin was right.
It has the makings of a comedy sketch.
Antifa pinhead #1: “Anarchist communism will be the ideology of the future!”
[ Antifa pinhead #2 runs into oncoming traffic, flies through air. ]

Well, I suppose it is one way of looking at it.
If we had proper communism there would be no global warming climate change disruption hysteria. Of course knowing when the food is properly done might be a bit of a gamble, but a small price to pay.

One thing is for sure, she doesn’t like to be upstaged…
Money quote/post: “I see this girls face every day in my mashed potatoes.”
I laughed. I’m going to hell. Meh. As someone said elsewhere, from their own reckoning, by the time these little hellions get any power over us to do anything, we’ll all be dead anyway. Someone hasn’t factored demographic transition into their doomsday cult strategizing.
What would be fun, not that I’d live long enough to see it, but imagining a scenario where these deluded children do gain power, live long enough to destroy the greatest prosperity in the history of man, and then THEIR children learn how their parents destroyed their childhood and destroyed prosperity with a doomsday cult. Fortunately for Greta & Co., all the lampposts should be gone by that point.

… you’d think, among the adults, some rethinking might be in order.
Yes, but the trick is finding the adults, apparently something to which St. Greta has not been exposed.

It’s not just the enviroloons who are trying to pass off their policies as the inarguable wisdom of children.

WTP
Or perhaps journalists have always been dribbling hypocritical little cretins with no judgment or standards, and the internet is just exposing them.
That. Though personally I can only vouch for the last 20-30 years of always. But that.
Posted by: WTP | September 23, 2019 at 23:09
It’s not a new observation:
If you don’t read the papers you’re uninformed, if you do you’re misinformed.
-Mark Twain

It’s not just the enviroloons who are trying to pass off their policies as the inarguable wisdom of children.
I had a friend in grade school who replied “Firetruck”, when out teacher asked what he wanted to be when he grew up.
Not a fireman driving a firetruck, a giant red firetruck; hoses, ladders, axes, the works. He wasn’t disabled mentally or otherwise, he just really loved firetrucks.
There is no such thing as inarguable wisdom, especially when coming from children, the left just knows that conservatives will hesitate to pick on a kid and anybody who does will get called out for being mean.

Thanks for the information on autism – I apologise if I sounded callous in referring to it.
I have more experience with anxiety, which I think Thunberg and certainly other paraded kiddies have been cited as suffering from.
One of the features of anxiety is often catastrophising; part of the treatment is to begin recognising your own behaviour and its patterns. A good therapist will respect your fears, but not to the extent of regarding you as an accurate prognosticator of the future.
The Khmer Vert and their useful idiots make no distinction between feeling sympathy for those who suffer and thinking that their feelings are wholly justified.

learning why not to touch a cop’s weapon.
I would not have objected if the cop had shot him.

the Royal Navy enjoy a dish they call “Babies’ Heads”.
With Drowned Baby for pudding?

don’t draw too many conclusions from her facial expressions
My conclusion is that she doesn’t have Asperger’s. That’s a very trendy diagnosis. I think she’s just a typical spoiled brat teenage girl enjoying playing queen bee.

“Train Smash” was a scran regular in another Royal Navy.
– And I’m led to believe that a USN staple, creamed chipped beef on toast, is referred-to by sailors sick of its frequency as “$hit on a shingle”.

My conclusion is that she doesn’t have Asperger’s. That’s a very trendy diagnosis. I think she’s just a typical spoiled brat teenage girl enjoying playing queen bee.
My suspicion as well. I get the sense that she’s adopted a personality of being odd. Especially after seeing some video of/from her parents. Such an odd coincidence that her mother is supposedly an opera singer and her father (and his father as well) an actor.

My conclusion is that she doesn’t have Asperger’s. That’s a very trendy diagnosis.
This is one disability where a social constructionist approach could do a lot more good than a born-that-way attitude.
Social skills really are socially constructed by access to mentors and peer groups and thousands of hours of eye contact and learning when to take your turn or shut up.
And social norms really can determine whether somebody who’s a slow learner of social skills is able to integrate or not. For example, formal conventions of politeness, which are out of fashion now for being undiverse and unspontaneous and ungenuine, used to provide the awkward squad with icebreakers and means of faking it until they make it.

In the Mother of Parliaments today a member of the government referred to the phrase “When did you last beat your wife?” Some female opposition MP with the IQ of lichen rose to berate him for making light of domestic violence. He wept, you know, did Jesus.