Friday Ephemera
Frankly, I question his conviction. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || For all your online autopsy needs. || Ah yes, the clever ones. || London scenes. || More joys of public transport. || Apparently, Dungeon Synth is a genre. (h/t, Things) || They’re gaining on us. || Global bling. || Blackboards of note. || Burly chap. || His cakes are better camouflaged than yours. || Because you would and you know it. (h/t, Dicentra) || On photographing the Milky Way. || That’s exactly how I would’ve done it. || Will an iron anvil float in mercury? || 10 minutes of moral squalor. Not for the faint-hearted or easily depressed. || Augmentation of note. || How to steam eggs. || Fussy customer. || And finally, ten billion tons and moving fast.
Gay test.
I saw dancing people, my wife saw boobs.
Here’s another one:
https://www.facebook.com/2033917566664252/posts/2639427379446598?sfns=mo
Via Orwell & Goode, we are presented with a bold plan, indeed, not well thought out, but bold.
Other than those damn wypipo who are the majority of both countries, but that is a minor detail.
I guess that explains the twitching & gyrating of the Exhibitionist Rebellion dolts.
@TimT, that requires a Facebook login to see.
…that requires a Facebook login to see.
That is the test…
Well you mostly won’t be understanding each other either then.
BTW: I speak twice as many languages as most black African-Americans.
… that requires a Facebook login to see.
I tried but couldn’t find the equivalent on a google search, sorry.
Well you mostly won’t be understanding each other either then.
Saw a meme yesterday frowning on non-Latinos speaking Spanish. Apparently multilingualism isn’t woke, now.
That is no 110 pound anvil.
Tim: this sort of thing? https://www.mic.com/articles/69067/speaking-spanish-is-great-but-only-if-you-re-not-latino
It has the gem “So fewer Latinos will speak Spanish, while more non-Latinos learn it.” Except a person who doesn’t speak Spanish isn’t a Latino, but either a white or amerindian person with South American heritage. The essence of being Latino is speaking Spanish. There are third generation immigrants to the US of Mexican heritage who are simply white — both to themselves and everyone else. I wouldn’t call JFK an Irishman, nor Sylvia Plath a German.
I really despise the whole “one drop” thing so many USians insist on. (Unless they are Republicans, of course, in which case they are deemed white no matter their actual origins.)
This.
This.
See also:
http://www.timworstall.com/2019/10/12/a-prize-about-the-civilised-arts-goes-to-europeans/
Clerk shoots armed robber in self defense. Media is shitting itself over whether Dollar General employee violated corporate policy by having a gun.
https://www.whio.com/news/crime–law/dollar-general-shooting-store-surveillance-video-will-not-released-police-say/H0WwJwFmqafDIGgcwJxXKO/
Can’t finf this outside of FB, but dead theif’s family outraged that the clerk had a gun.
https://www.facebook.com/100000370497535/posts/2637967256225598?sfns=mo
Note the prominent display of large cross on brother of “victim”.
Stupid, stupid world
but dead thief’s family outraged that the clerk had a gun.
Yes, well. I suspect the staff and customers weren’t too thrilled to find themselves being preyed upon, for the fourth time this year, by armed criminal vermin. The words projection and displacement come to mind. Though I suppose it’s easier on the ego if you can pretend that the problem is that people may defend themselves when your own vile moron brother, a product of failed moron parenting, and “known to police” for other armed robberies, threatens their lives while trying to rob them.
If only they were capable of shame.
but dead thief’s family outraged that the clerk had a gun.
In a saner world, these creatures would be prostrating themselves, begging for the forgiveness of the people whose lives had been threatened by their predatory and degenerate sibling. Instead, they dare to be rageful and indignant, as if it were moral to spare armed predators, endanger innocents, and simply acquiesce to repeated violation. And my impression is that these displays are becoming more common.
We’ve been here before, of course.
Chester, yep.
This kind of woke ‘cultural appropriation’ argument *really* shits me in cases like this (though it’s always insidious and perverse and bad) because multilingualism is exactly the sort of skill all children should be encouraged to have. It brings with it so many benefits. And the idea that kids from non-Latino backgrounds are wrong for speaking Spanish/Portuguese could only result in the further ghettoisation of a language.
As to what consists a white American, I agree with you – it seems to me the term ‘white’ applies only to those Americans that vote for the Republican Party. If a person of Polish background votes for the Republicans, they’re white. If they vote for the Democrats, they’re ‘Eastern European’. ‘White’ is to me a bullshit racial term favoured only by idiot extremists.
dead thief’s family outraged that the clerk had a gun.
I’ll go out on a limb here (sarcasm) and venture that the dead thief’s entire family are criminals.
It’s funny how we are supposed to “embrace diversity” but are not allowed to “culturally appropriate”.
but dead thief’s family outraged that the clerk had a gun.
We’ll give that one a post of its own, I think.
London scenes.
I wish I’d filmed my street last night (mind you, the lights have been out for months, so it would probably have been a waste of time). Gang of kids rampaging up and down, smashing car windows. Police dawdle up behind them, calmly inspect the cars, jump back into their own, switch the siren on, then hare off… in the wrong direction. Kids come back, grow bored of cars and start smashing house windows instead, then disappear. Police return, with great fanfare and urgency, find nothing, and bugger off again.
(I may have slightly exaggerated the amount of window-smashing, but smashing there undoubtedly was.)
“They’re gaining on us.”
Yeah, but who made the matches?
“isn’t this pretty much a moot point already ?”
UK 2011 census: 87% white, 7% Asian, 3% black, 2% mixed. (Also 60% Christian, 25% irreligious, 4% Muslim. Not that you’d ever guess from the media.)
United States 2018 census: 76% white, 13% black, 6% Asian, 3% mixed.
Importing American identity politics to the UK is absurd and dangerous. The only ethnic minority here that comes even close to the scale of the black American population is Asians (overwhelmingly Indians and Pakistanis), and it’s still barely more than half the size. Of course that doesn’t mean they should just be ignored, but if people really want minorities to be represented strictly proportionately in Britain, they’re going to end up sorely disappointed with the results.
I rather think people hereabouts may appreciate the ratio and comments that this BBC video has attracted.
“this BBC video”
Oh, God yes. It’s like a cultural version of strange new respect.
(That said, in school, D&D was too nerdy even for me. And I was in both the Computer Club and the Chess Club. A chap has to have standards.)