Defending Maidens

I don’t think she’s a maiden. 🙂

That’s a look that won’t age well.

Not entirely unrelated:

And so we’re expected to believe that Mr Clark, who chose to make a bold statement by deliberately stretching and deforming his earlobes – to the extent that a jar of instant coffee could almost fit through the holes – is somehow being wronged, indeed oppressed, when, during job interviews, potential employers notice – and find inappropriate – the bold statement that he’s chosen to make. Having decided at university to scandalise the less daring whenever in public, he now seems surprised when those same less-daring people make choices of their own, i.e., not to hire him. But aren’t their raised eyebrows and looks of disgust what he wanted all along?

And in the comments there, bonus Minnow. Whose charms I’d forgotten.

Racist professor recorded teaching anti-white curriculum:
Your forcefulness in the claim that ‘I’m not anti-black’ will come off as anti-blackness….
Franz Kafka would like a word.
Full video Here.
via Battle Beagle

Do you recommend taking the keycaps off?

Had to google “Angus Champion de Crespigny”. Interesting LinkedIn profile:

I am the Managing Director of C|T Reputational Technologies, a new business within C|T Group overseeing the Group’s digital, technology and cybersecurity services. We assist our clients in identifying and communicating behaviour changing messages to achieve their goals, with insights into the highest levels of politics, business, capital markets and the media.
I’ve worked across multiple domains including innovation, strategy, cybersecurity, compliance and operations improvement. In 2015 I started EY’s Financial Services Blockchain practice, and led the group until my departure in 2018.
I’ve worked with the C-suite of numerous major corporations and at the highest levels of White House and Australian policymakers and regulators.

I can’t wait to get out of the business world. It’s becoming harder and harder to have a conversation with people, even about just business, and especially hiring decisions, without feeling like I’m constantly walking on egg shells. Too much freak love at some of the highest levels. Leave the fire behind/Swim out past the breakers/Watch the world die. I’ll be doing it in the mountains though. Or so I tell myself.

Garby Jooman must be a pseudonym, I’m thinking…hoping.

Garby Jooman must be a pseudonym, I’m thinking…hoping.
I’m thinking it might be ‘garbage human’ spelled phonetically.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And in the comments there, bonus Minnow. Whose charms I’d forgotten.

To be honest, Steve 2: Steveageddon was an absolute riot in that batch of comments.

I assumed he attained the next stage of his metamorphosis and now walks these parts in a different form.

For the first time in months, my keyboard crevices are shockingly clean.
Buy a 1986 era IBM AT keyboard. Remove key caps. Place keyboard in dishwasher key face down. Place the key caps in the cutlery cage, and run it through a standard rinse cycle. Give it 2-3 hours to dry, and you’re set.
Works for keyboards up to about the year 2000.
For those without dishwashers, fill your bathtub with warm water to a depth of six inches. Remove the key caps, and immerse the keyboard entirely for 3-4 hours. You can put the key caps in a sealed Tupperware container with hot water and a shot of dishwashing detergent. Seal the tupperware, shake for 30 seconds, then rinse the key caps off.
Good for removing years of keyboard plaque.

Back to the original topic, I do find it odd that responding to obvious social signals is frowned on. Why would you choose to make such a signal if not to elicit the obvious response? It’s like wasps complaining when they’re not invited to parties.

I do find it odd that responding to obvious social signals is frowned on.
Reminds me of the first time I saw Jimmy Saville on television. I moved to the UK from the US in the mid-90s, and have to say that I honestly could not believe that anyone took him seriously let alone put him on TV, although he was mostly on a downward trajectory by then.
My wife, then girlfriend, explained the ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ past and the charity work, etc… and I said something like, “So, does no one mind he’s obviously a paedophile then?” I mean, I’m not Sherlock Holmes, or Sigmund Freud, but you only had to look at the man to know something was up and perhaps unfettered access to children might not be advisable.

And yet it’s a fairly common tactic among many psychologists.
Psychology, especially social psychology, is a very left-leaning activity. Which is a little ironic, insofar as it suggests that quite a few psychologists and psychology lecturers must spend a lot of time tiptoeing around the kind of facts that psychologists ought to know about – the heritability and distribution of IQ, assortative mating, etc. – and which rather dent many root assumptions of leftism.

especially social psychology

Numerous surveys have found that professors, especially those in some disciplines, are to the left of the general public. But those same — and other — surveys have rarely found evidence that left-leaning academics discriminate on the basis of politics. So to many academics, the question of ideological bias is not a big deal. Investment bankers may lean to the right, but that doesn’t mean they don’t provide good service (or as best the economy will permit) to clients of all political stripes, the argument goes.
And professors should be assumed to have the same professionalism.

Assumed to have the same professionalism? That’s quite the leap right there. And that’s putting aside the quite obviously suspect (to me) level of honesty in those previously stated self-reporting surveys “rarely” finding evidence that left-leaning academics discriminate on the basis of politics. It’s like asking priests (Catholic or otherwise, or psychologists for that matter) if their profession has a problem with sexual exploitation. Us? Why no. Of course there are some outliers but…do you not see how insulting your question is?

Above,the question of Steve came up.
I think the only place he presently comments is at Tim Worstall. I guess work and family are taking up his time.
Another joint he supported was Vox Day’s. Gone quiet there too.
I am sure he is still reading, and we will hear from him again.

…you only had to look at [Jimmy Savile] to know something was up …
Jimmy Savile was guilty of the most egregious crimes against fashion and taste. And that’s the entire extent of his wrongdoing. Being a bit odd, even creepy, is thankfully not yet punishable by imprisonment. During the recent abuse hysteria the police spent two years investigating him and came up with nothing. That his family was deprived of his estate that was instead squandered on lawyers and a few compensation hunters is a disgrace.

Uma, anyone can make an allegation. We’ve recently seen one fantasist belatedly jailed for 18 years for concocting vile stories about a number of public figures, but not before he inflicted a great deal of distress on his victims. His stories were transparently ridiculous and it’s to the police’s eternal shame that they took him seriously. They seemed childishly gullible and eager to believe anything. That they were unable to bring charges against Savile speaks volumes. The cowards waited until he died to traduce his reputation. I’m not sure if you ever read Anna Racoon’s blog but she had personal knowledge of one of Jimmy’s alleged ‘victims’ who was a provable liar.

Blame Canada…
He was fine until Mississippi State University got their hooves on him.

’ We ought to try summoning him.’
Well, it is the time of year when the veil between the worlds grows thin…

Has anyone, in the last 50 years or so, seen a maiden? If so can they be found ‘in nature’ or are they only to be found in captivity?
In 40 years have known one adult female who both claimed to maintain her maidenhead and who never gave reason to doubt it. She was a pretty little blonde punk chick saving the full monty for marriage while working towards becoming a constitutional lawyer.
As far as I gather she is now a pretty blonde wife and successful constitutional lawyer.

Another delightful young lady sending signals. Just not the ones she thinks she’s sending.