Friday Ephemeraren’t
As I’m still sniffling and wheezing, you’re getting a chance to throw together your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. I’ll set the ball rolling with something that cats don’t do; a bacon-fat ratio of note; news from Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week; via Fnord, a chap doing this better than you do; some hatchlings of note; and a film about Nepal’s psychotropic honey hunters.
Oh, and a miracle breakthrough in grease-avoidance technology.
(The original tweet is fine. It’s the comments that are disturbing.)
Nothing so effectively persuades decent people that communists are scum than what communists actually say and do.
“Comments on this piece are premoderated.”
“Comment is Free” but right-wing deviationism is not comment, comrade.
Nothing so effectively persuades decent people that communists are scum than what communists actually say and do.
Quite.
The Owl and the Pussycat…..
Never get between a man and his Burger.
Never get between a man and his Burger.
Heh. More of that.
Heh. More of that.
Indeed. Although I’m not sure what the law in the UK and the USA say about one’s right to use force to proceed when a mob blocks one’s way.
now is the time to disrupt the colonialist model of healthcare
Where did she get the disrupting models jargon? Did she have The Structure of Scientific Revolutions on a reading list, or has it filtered into her domain from business gurus? Disrupt, like subvert, is an edgy who-whom word, flattering to the would-be disrupters, and suggesting that the disruptees have it coming. And it raises the obvious question – surely the aboriginal model of healthcare got well and truly disrupted by the colonialist models of Joseph Lister and Louis Pasteur?
If you take away the spice of authentic ethnic remedies, which should be good for a few grants and conference gigs, what she’s advocating is public health and preventative medicine. Which we already have, and didn’t need any help from aborigines to invent. Give us some credit, lady – we might be stale and pale but we have our own indigenous, holistic wisdom. We never thought that a pill could be invented to replace country doctors and district nurses dispensing the traditional shamanic remedy of a cup of tea and a chat, applying holistic techniques like making sure old people stay warm in winter, and being culturally sensitive in the way they ask husbands to stop beating their wives. And our culture is already on the job of seeking syntheses between mechanistic and humanistic models of medicine – we’ve been making Hollywood movies on that theme for a century.
David, I too have caught a cold. This seems highly suspicious.
***mumble grumble grumble Jenkins’s ear grumble grumble grumble***
Of course you know THIS means WAR!
We never thought that a pill could be invented to replace country doctors and district nurses dispensing the traditional shamanic remedy of a cup of tea and a chat, applying holistic techniques like making sure old people stay warm in winter…
These leftists and indigenous activists tend to be appallingly racist. Funny, that.
…what she’s advocating is public health and preventative medicine.
It only seems that way.
A little more on these Ngangkari chaps (or chapettes, as the case may be).
In other words a touch of voodoo mixed with shamanism, and I think by “left feeling clueless”, the author meant “gobsmacked by the flummery”.
Getting back to the public health/preventive medicine aspect…
That is some restaurant grade conceit right there.
If anyone really believes that some
witch doctormedicine manIndigenous Healthcare Provider, right before pounding down a snootfull of peyote or other substance to get in touch with the Great Spirits before taking a sharp flint to trepan some poor sods skull or chant and wave smoke to let the evil spirits out took the time to take a family and social history, and see if maybe the tribe upstream was burning elephant dung at the wrong phase of the moon was a factor, I have a bridge over the Torres Straight to sell.David, I too have caught a cold. This seems highly suspicious.
Indeed:
https://youtu.be/i_299Zvsu2A?t=3
Virtue Signal: The Game of Social Justice.
Backed.
If anyone really believes that some witch doctor medicine man Indigenous Healthcare Provider…I have a bridge over the Torres Straight to sell.
Does that mean that you also don’t believe that homeopathic cures can be delivered via Ethernet packets? 🙂
First Peoples’ unique worldview and practice of health for the last 40-plus years (or 60,000-plus years if we’re acknowledging the traditional healthcare provided long before this)..
and it worked so well against measles and small pox …
what?
First Peoples’ unique worldview…
We should not tolerate that smarmy language: When it is used we should challenge it, pointing out the archaeological evidence that these were not the first to inhabit the continent, that the previous inhabitants “mysteriously” disappeared, and that these aboriginal peoples have histories are near constant war, conquest and genocide. And, while we’re at it, the creation myths are silly.
Backed.
Ditto.
I’m still pissed I never picked up a copy of Credo when I had the chance.
Marketing genius, how to get millennials to buy whisky – It’s a single malt, no it’s a laundry detergent – it’s both, it’s Glenlivet !
Marketing genius, how to get millennials to buy whisky – It’s a single malt, no it’s a laundry detergent – it’s both, it’s Glenlivet !
Nonsense! It is nonsense right? Somebody has got to be taking the piss. Right?
Some idiot is having a lark….Please.
Stuff like this is why the aliens never visit.
Somebody has got to be taking the piss. Right?
Alas, no, and to add insult to injury, they come in citrus, wood, and spice.
Fortunately they are not on the street yet, so maybe they will die on the vine, however, “If you happen to be in England, you can give these wild capsules a try by dropping by Tayēr where they are being served as “an amuse-bouche on arrival”.
“Amuse-bouche” – at least they are not pretentious, nosiree.
If ever anything justified the epithet (Used to be) Great Britain this is it.
Apparently a gangster’s girlfriend had a collection of Queen’s Honor recipients turn up on her doorstep one day, being thus a moll and the knight visitors.
It’s people like you what cause unrest.
Speaking of unrest…
Supporting St. Greta is evidence of yte supremacy !
All they have to do is not be insane, but they can’t do that for one lousy minute. The left just needs to have a rumble among themselves, leave the rest of us normal people out, and when they are done beating each other up, maybe we can get back to normal.
BTW, if all y’all ain’t from South of the Line of Mason and Dixon, cease and desist with the cultural appropriation of “y’all” or someone will be offended. Oh wait, that would just be some wypipo South of the Line of Mason and Dixon, meh, nevermind.
BTW, if all y’all ain’t from South of the Line of Mason and Dixon, cease and desist with the cultural appropriation of “y’all”
What about my shameless habit of serving roast ham with spoon bread?
BTW, if all y’all ain’t from South of the Line of Mason and Dixon, cease and desist with the cultural appropriation of “y’all”
If I may quote the great Hank Williams (Jr, not his even-greater father), “We say grace, and we say ‘ma’am.’ If ya ain’t from the South, we don’t give a damn.”
“Amuse-bouche” – at least they are not pretentious, nosiree.
I bet they serve them on a shovel.