Friday Ephemera
Back yard scenes. (h/t, Holborn) || Synchronised boobies. || Hey, baby. || Being proud, they filmed it. || “Grandma always wanted a pig.” || Twitter indignation. || Twitter done well. || Dental nerves. || He does this better than you do. || Documentary idea of note. (h/t, Damian) || Unmix your music. Not there, but not bad. || Always respect the media. || Teachable moment. || Teachable moment 2. || The longest sight-line? || Unexpectedly. || New shoes, I see. || On Soviet cannibalism. || “I heard about McDonald’s never decaying so I wanted to find out whether this was true.” || Underclass scenes. || Everything wrong with The Shining. || And finally, if you laugh at this, you’re a terrible, terrible person.
It is. Colin Flaherty has a whole twitter feed full of black on white violence in the US. I’m sure someone could do the same for the UK.
I know this doesn’t quite fit here but the comment thread is rather funny.
https://www.boredpanda.com/man-provider-vs-loser-women-partner-choice/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=BPFacebook&fbclid=IwAR3tlFbdXY4nKF30WKybh3jtJhcKHICDHBfSxXCfbl0feN4SLPP2FflFMJk
Diversity is just another word for Love
“That you read and post on this blog is an admission of depravity.”
I admit nothing.
This was inevitable, but got tired of waiting. Could been done better tho
Attention you lot over in the UK, please to correct your speech and history books, a scholar has spoken.
I am not an active member of the Medievalists of Color, but, just blue skying here, “Anglecynn” sounds rather like a slurred version of Anglo-Saxon, or maybe how it was pronounced back in the Medieval days, sort of like that Englelond thing, not that Englelond evidently meant “Land of the Angles”.
Thank all the Druid gods we have scholars to save us from the white supremacy of all the wypipo who settled over there.
“Eco-conscious city”; St. Greta The Puppet will watch over you in your homeless camp as you shoot up and crap in the street.
Mary Rambaran-Olm
Her work and interests all sound fascinating, especially Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Post-Colonial Caribbean. That one really has me salivating.
Thank all the Druid gods we have scholars
I know you know this but it needs to be said repeatedly until it gets through people’s thick heads…No, thank the taxpaying suckers for funding this idiocy for decades now. I’m finding it harder and harder to blame Calvera when the sheep refuse to fight being sheared.
Purple hair, crazy eyes; yep.
Ban clapping for jazz hands in theatres, because people going to theatres aren’t expecting clapping or other sights or sounds, just stillness and dead silence for an entire performance.
Woke piety, part 3,026.
A self hate crime. Heh.
St. Greta The Puppet will watch over you
If the Addams Family’s Wednesday were a Stalinist tyrant.
Colin Flaherty has a whole twitter feed full of black on white violence in the US. I’m sure someone could do the same for the UK.
Someone apologist for barbarism will probably tell you that blacks are much more frequently victims of white mob violence, but that is obviously a lie because such incidents would get national news coverage.
One law for thee.
St. Greta The Puppet will watch over you
Good enough for the streets. But you really need to up your Greta-shaming with Grouch on the Couch. (shameless plug)
Someone apologist for barbarism will probably tell you that blacks are much more frequently victims of white mob violence…
Fortunately there are no guns in schools ’cause there could be violence ‘n stuff.
Diversity is just another word for Love
“That you read and post on this blog is an admission of depravity.”
Grouch on the Couch
Apparently they just installed a big one in San Francisco:
Sorry, didn’t see Muldoon’s post up thread. For some reason, when he posts images they don’t appear in my browser.
Fortunately there are no guns in schools ’cause there could be violence ‘n stuff.
Here is a video of that incident, in case the link gives trouble:
https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1192956064594939910
I’d like to see that teacher in prison until she’s too old and feeble to hurt anybody.
Democracy means you and I get to vote to eat the guy next door.
Customer service.
Democracy means you and I get to vote to eat the guy next door.
Mr Maza seems to aspire to stereotype status.
Democracy means you and I get to vote to eat the guy next door.
Americans through democratically elected representatives: “Cut welfare and buy more F-22s and build the damn border wall”.
Maza and his fellow commies, “We need a socialist dictatorship because these Americans through democratically elected representatives don’t vote in their own interests”.
Democracy means you and I get to vote to eat the guy next door.
The smugness of the ever so smart people. Because they’ve been “educated”. With the money taken from the kind of people they pretend to speak for. Because, shut up boomer.
As long as you don’t imagine there might be some kind of a pattern, everything will be alright.
Remain calm. All is well.
Mr Maza seems to aspire to stereotype status.
Seeing his loftiness’s comment on those who oppose his received views being “bootlickers”, I by habit tapped tapped to enlarge his profile picture. Sure enough, the visage that presented reminded me once again of something once said by a dear old friend: “I yearn for enemies whose flapjack asses wouldn’t be defeated by throwing them down one flight of stairs.”
The term ‘Anglo-Saxon’ should be DROPPED from modern speech
Quite. Those in the know prefer the ungendered form, Anglx-Sxxxn.
“I yearn for enemies whose flapjack asses wouldn’t be defeated by throwing them down one flight of stairs.”
Heh, yeah. Like this 5′ 5″ waif?
Another episode of Woke Critics v Audience.
Darleen: there’s a lot bigger imbalances than that one: Playing with Fire and Maleficent.
I no longer ever go to Rotten Tomatoes to see if a film is worth seeing. It seems to be completely out of sync with its audiences — not understanding that in an age of niche markets a film can hit the spot for its target audience without needing to appeal to everyone.
Another episode of Woke Critics v Audience.
Speaking of remakes. With the incredible miscasting of Woody Harrelson as Nimitz and Dennis Quaid as Halsey, the critics may be right this time.
I no longer ever go to Rotten Tomatoes to see if a film is worth seeing.
I drop in to see the imbalance – with it is that much out-of-whack, including the reverse, I know to go with the audience ranking. It’s been pretty reliable.
I go to see a movie maybe once a year. Either because I am fairly sure it will be historically correct or because Mark Steyn gave it an interesting (if not entirely) favourable review.
Saw “Judy” last weekend based on Steyn’s review . I wasn’t disappointed. Zellweger was amazing.
@Darleen: “Deriance Ra”Shaiel Hughes”…? Does the US have a #chavname equivalent?
A modest hero for these complex times.
I was listening to a podcast this week, I’ve forgotten which one, where they said this theory seems to work back to 2013. That’s the year, per host and guest, where it all seemed to go badly wrong, woke criticism-wise.
Isn’t it Ironic?
Whatever you do, don’t notice anything…..
via Steve Sailer
From TimT’s modest hero link:
“it’s always nice to pull one over on someone smarter than yourself”
Isn’t that the leftist motto or something?
Does the US have a #chavname equivalent?
I had to look up “chav name”. Actually we don’t have a name for it, but the concept is readily bandied about. You’ll hear joking about names of criminals saying “what did their parents expect when they named him/her?” Related conversations are girls having “stripper” names.
As I worked at a DA office, this was a regular point of humor. You name your baby girl (true name) Diamonique Monet don’t be surprised if she takes up shoplifting for a career.
I really believe that the teachers who support this nonsense actually hate children.
The adults in charge want a “calm” lunchtime? Let them go teach yoga to adults. Playgrounds should be as close to anarchy as possible with adults only at the periphery to take care of accidents or break up any physical intimidation. Otherwise, LEAVE KIDS ALONE … to blow off steam, create their own games, to learn to negotiate with their peers.
No wonder kids get to college and can’t emotionally cope with anyone that says ‘I disagree’.
LYou name your baby girl (true name) Diamonique Monet don’t be surprised if she takes up shoplifting for a career.
One of my “favorite” stupid names is Latrina. I’m waiting to hear that somebody named their daughter Chlamydia.
“With the incredible casting of Woody Harrelson as Nimitz and Dennis Quaid as Halsey, the critics may be right this time.”
Yah, I haven’t seen it yet either.
Those are both good actors, among the best we have, and they must be the right age for the roles now — can’t go on playing young goofs forever: in fact, they haven’t. Harrelson especially has been lucky with not only good roles, but with good directors and pictures — The Walker and Rampart come to mind.
Not to quibble about Midway though, as I said I haven’t seen it yet. And the critics may be right this time.
From Darleen’s link:
“ In a letter to parents, Mrs Smith said: “To clarify, ‘gentle hands’ does not mean ‘no touching’. The children are, of course, allowed to hold hands or play clapping games with a friend should they wish to”
I cannot for the life of me remember any boys playing ‘clapping games’ at my old school. Sounds a bit like Miss Smith doesn’t like boys.
“Granted lying to your doctor isn’t going to make you any better, but it’s always nice to pull one over on someone smarter than yourself.”
I knew a guy who was proud that he lied to his physical therapist about not exercising, even though a) he suffered lung problems serious enough to walk about breathing from a tank and b) he wasn’t going to get any better unless he exercised.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
#chavname
Not sure this is a chavname – it probably belongs in a different category – but I once had dealings with a ‘Whonikqua’.
I can’t even.
Playgrounds should be as close to anarchy as possible with adults only at the periphery to take care of accidents or break up any physical intimidation.
As a child of the 80s/teen of the 90s I recall by high school my (male) friends and I seeing the changes that were being made to playgrounds we grew up on and all thinking no good would come of it. Much of what was not being torn down and replaced with smooth, soft plastic was being made off limits; even more unsettling was that kids seemed to be meekly obeying orders not to play on or around the older contraptions we had happily (and often) bruised and scraped ourselves on when we were just little bastards.
Then shortly after most of us were graduated came the rise of “zero tolerance” policies right up to the high school level.
If one’s goal were to incrementally condition the young to be completely unequipped to defy bullying and coercion, these steps would have made fine early progress.
I cannot for the life of me remember any boys playing ‘clapping games’ at my old school.
I do, circa 1975.
You would come up behind the intended victim and clap your hands hard on his ears.
Spectacularly painful (from experience of being the victim).
Dangerous to the victim’s eardrums, as informed by Head Teacher about to administer corporal punishment (from experience as perpetrator reported to the Authorities).
Hard Core, I was!
“With the incredible casting…”
With the incredible MIScasting, I said, I did.
These two in these roles are as believable as that buffoon Alec Baldwin playing Jimmy Doolittle in that Pearl Harbor bomb (NPI) from a few years back, though I imagine to the average millennial and/or Hollywood type one guy in a uniform is the same as the next.
one guy in a uniform is the same as the next
Can’t tell em apart if they aren’t wearing superhero spandex? 😉
” You would come up behind the intended victim and clap your hands hard on his ears.”
A classic earboxing! Not recommended…. but kids can be, well, shits.