Friday Ephemera
Best to watch the leash, madam. || Beverage of note. || Ah, Blighty. || They do, er, this better than you do. || Their difficulties were a mystery. (h/t, Fay) || On the matter of mincemeat. || Strange times. || Ancient ruins, reconstructed. || Pete Drake and his talking guitar, 1964. || At last, vegan Christmas dinner, for gamers, in a can. || Get a load of this guy. || These origami cicadas are better than yours. || Itsy bitsy. || The Maginot Line. (h/t, Things) || Visualising Moore’s Law in action, 1971 – 2019. || Close enough. || What could possibly go wrong? || “You can’t have Christmas without Star Trek, right?” || Unpriced goods on aisle four. (h/t, Damian) || And finally, the humans have some kind of force field.
Oh, and via the comments:
But please, spare a thought for all those leftwing poets.
Beverage of note.
Soooo, in a restaurant, will there be a cockage fee?
Ancient ruins, reconstructed.
OTOH, they could have just gone to Nashville.
Peter Sellers: A Hard Day’s Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLEMncv140s
Satire or reality?
https://babylonbee.com/news/narwhal-tusk-surrender-bins-installed-throughout-UK
Pete Drake and his talking guitar, 1964.
Alvino Rey and his talking guitar way before Drake. Along with the talk box, one of his “talking” techniques of rolling the volume on and off was later used by the late great Roy Buchanan, usually in conjunction with a bend, to make a unique cry/wail you can’t get with a bend alone – around 3:09 in this video
Oopsies.
Putin, it had to have been Putin, any other explanation is just unpossible.
Twitter is a cesspool at the best of times, but the meltdown on the losers in the British election is spectacular to see. Anyone to blame but themselves, it seems.
Watches final British election returns. Retires to bed happy.
How much I wish I could have had the same sentiments after the Canadian election, sigh.
Morning, all.
Watches final British election returns. Retires to bed happy.
Alas, I can think of one woman who won’t be thrilled:
Make that two.
A Guardian perspective.
Anyone to blame but themselves, it seems.
Apparently, it’s all down to “right wing white supremacy.”
Apparently, it’s all down to “right wing white supremacy.”
Alas, I can think of one woman who won’t be thrilled: . . . . A Guardian perspective.
I’m reading of the Conservatives collecting 364 seats.
Back in 2015, the final count was only 330 or so . . . .
A Guardian perspective.
Denial. Not just a river in Egypt.
Apparently, it’s all down to “right wing white supremacy.”
Labour: Spends the last 20 years demonising the English as racist, xenophobic, homophobic, fascistic Little Englanders.
Also Labour: ” Why won’t they vote for us?”
” This is some f**kin National Geographic s**t….”
Denial. Not just a river in Egypt.
As noted here many times, from pretty much the start, you have to marvel at just how readily socialists, professed egalitarians, will display naked disdain for actual working-class people, whose values and priorities often deviate from those of their self-imagined betters. What we might call The Islington Sensibility. Such that readers of the Sun newspaper can be framed by Guardian columnists as “Middle England,” “Little England,” an enemy of the left, and therefore contemptible.
From crime and policing to mass immigration, there is, I think, a pattern, a shift in allegiance. One that’s apparently been noticed by quite a few voters. A point demonstrated, at times vividly, in this documentary by Martin Durkin.
What could possibly go wrong?
Can you say “Attractive Nuisance” children? I knew you could!
Perfect for pubs where the owner is looking to be sued into destitution, with shades of WKRP in Cincinnati – “As God is my witness, I did not know glass could cut you!”
Unpriced goods on aisle four.
It’s fresh but it won’t feed four people.
A Guardian perspective.
Another Guardian perspective*.
Apparently, it’s all down to “right wing white supremacy.”
Of course; along with the Russkis and also an “establishment media that is a mouthpiece for the right” – amazing that your nitwits say the same thing as ours when they lose.
*(“Our Washington-based research firm, Fusion GPS, conducted much of the early investigations into Russia’s support of the Trump campaign, aided by our colleague Christopher Steele…) The Guardian, always with the sources they think are unimpeachable…
I may be wrong, but didn’t this already happen around the 5th & 6th centuries ?
“Never mind the dog’s bollox, we’re the Brexit Pistols.”
I may be wrong, but didn’t this already happen around the 5th & 6th centuries?
I’ll attempt to translate.
Something along those lines.
Dog’s bollox from here:
https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1205265229233500224
Re Make that two…
So curious…is it the case that if one lives in some Godfersaken place like Pakistan or Canada, or even (WTF?) Ireland, if one makes their way to the UK they can vote in a UK election? I’m not following the ‘logic’ on this. Surely I (or Miss Elenaor) have something wrong here?
Further to Laurie’s bewilderment, this seems apposite.
Also, this.
Your British robins are adorable little birds. The North American robin is a ravenous thrush that would have been ripping those flowers asunder seeking fat earthworms to devour.
Labour: Spends the last 20 years demonising the English as racist, xenophobic, homophobic, fascistic Little Englanders.
Also Labour: “Why won’t they vote for us?”
More samples of a trend:
According to unfunny far-left comedian and self-styled “decent person” Mark Steel, if you’re pleased at the election result, or just relieved to have dodged the bullet of Jeremy Corbyn being in power and having dinosaur Marxists in charge of the economy, then you’re a “nasty, selfish, racist, foul fuckwit.” No other possibilities being conceivable, you see.
See also the ludicrous Paul Mason.
It’s as if they just can’t help themselves. Apparently, we now have “a vicious right-wing regime.”
This rather explains a lot, never go full Bernie.
Mincemeat is both meat and minced. So there.
Mincemeat is both meat and minced.
And it’s made out of mouses. Can’t prove it right now but I’m sure there’s a video somewhere…
This Russia thing has gone beyond funny into dangerous delusion. Perhaps it’s the steady diet of Disney movies adults now consume, with their competent but maniacal villains and protagonists beyond reproach. It was standard practice to blame America/Britain first but I guess after several generations of lefty rule that particular dissonance is now a net electoral liability.
Given the rules of Oppression Olympics I guess Russia drew the short straw, what with being white, traditional, and no longer full communist. At least anti-commie scaremongers of yore could use actual instances of ideology based oppression to support an overall villain narrative. Now? We’re supposed to believe a 2nd world frozen backwater is chock full of bored internet wizards intent on thwarting progressive election aims worldwide? Fucking WHY?!?
And it’s made out of mouses.
You may be thinking of another Christmas treat?
You may be thinking of another Christmas treat?
Nah. I’m thinking of a more elusive, and yet at the same time ironically ubiquitous, French Canadian delicacy.
French Canadian delicacy.
Oooh la la, very niche!
Hmmm, I believe Jo Swinson is demanding a second “People’s Election”?
and yet at the same time ironically ubiquitous
Yes, Savoir Faire is everywhere!
… I believe Jo Swinson is demanding a second “People’s Election”
A question for youse in Blighty – I have seen similar noise about a “People’s Vote” having been denied – if this wasn’t a “people’s vote”, what the hell was it, or is this just more yammering about there not having been another Brexit specific referendum, which again, this really was at least in part, what the hell do they want ? Another do-over where just the commies get to vote ?
Apparently, the Conservatives won because they “promised to persecute immigrants.”
It says so here.
Remember, we begin hunting the poor at 9pm.
A question for youse in Blighty…
Well, a “People’s Vote” is a bit like a referendum, but one where the people vote the way they’ve been fucking told.
Theodore Dalrymple’s take on a Journal of Medical Ethics paper exploring the moral hazards of transwomen (that’s bloke-to-bird for the uninitiated) in sport.
The paper’s conclusion was breathtaking in it’s baldfaced double-think:
I like bullet point lists, and translate this serious paper in a serious journal as follows:
– We believe treating women and transwomen fairly is a laudable goal.
– But we also believe that goal should no longer be pursued because we have a super smart plan to achieve fairness, which, again, is the goal.
– The plan is this: ciswomen in sports can go f*ck themselves.
The malicious stupidity burns bright with this one. “Deciding between competing interests is hard, so y’all should just pretend there’s no competing interests and BOOM, Bob’s your Aunt – problem solved.” I mean, are lefty women really going to buy this forever? (Yes)
we begin hunting the poor at 9pm
Who here was also surprised by the success of The Purge movie(s)? The premise is too stupid to be anything more than a sketch or short story. I thought maybe it was the “kill the rich” fantasy aspect that appealed to the masses, but then someone told me the rich benefited the most and therefore propagated the “Purge”. Ugh, oh well, still better than The Last Jedi.
The paper’s conclusion was breathtaking in its baldfaced double-think
A less contorted perspective can be found here.
baldfaced double-think
It’s so hard to keep up with these intersectional agonies.
I rather thought that feminists were completely dedicated to the concept that there could be no possible differences between men and women, to the extent that when Harvard President Lawrence Summers suggested distributional IQ differences might explain the paucity of women in science it so outraged biology professor Nancy Hopkins that she “felt I was going to be sick”. Resulting in the inevitable hounding of Summers from his position.
That being so, it’s difficult now to summon much sympathy when they complain of being beaten at their own game.
Karl – careful to not confuse “feminists” with “women”, despite the former claiming they speak for ALL of the latter. Having said that…yes, the solution to this particular problem is wholly up to women to discover and implement.
Theodore Dalrymple’s take…
From the article:
That.
careful to not confuse “feminists” with “women”
Fair point. And these “women” of which ye speak. How many of them rushed to Larry Summers defence exactly?
And these “women” of which ye speak.
And immediately on posting that I can think of three – right off the top of my head! But it’s not yet close enough to Christmas for me to charitably withdraw my remark 🙂