Friday Ephemera
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly. || Gone fishing, with goat. || Bit gusty. || African film posters of note. || When parrots share. || Pizza beyond the pale. || Probably best to just buy a new one. || Paranormal activity. (h/t, Damian) || Children of the night. (h/t, Julia) || The secret lives of snails. || Good day at the office. || When the trashcan brings you coffee. || Small child containment system. || Coming through. || Three amigos. || The thrill of pufferfish neurotoxin. || “I thought there was something wrong with the movie.” || I did not know about these. || Close enough. || Unfriending of yore. || That’s my sister! || Road rage scenes. || And finally, I’m not entirely sure what’s happening here.
That’s the Turkish version of Mary Poppins.
Was perusing the following litany of complaints, from an experienced startup CEO, about bad reviews of his firm written by fired employees:
https://quillette.com/2020/01/16/glassdoor-is-broken/
when I stumbled over this gem:
Today’s leaders are the downstream stevedores of burning rafts launched at the educational headwaters of a new kind of victimization that twists good intentions into malicious exploitation.
Penned by this gent:
Peter L. Levin is a former engineering professor and political appointee.
I don’t quite know what to make of that bio, frankly. Anyway, I went to the gym, instead of trying to think about it.
That road rage scene — it must be awful dusty in here.
Pizza beyond the pale.
Perhaps a Prince Andrew special?
Small child containment system.
Paging Dr. Channard
Unfriending of yore.
The Commissar Vanishes
My father invented a Small Child Containment System when his fifth&last was an infant. It consisted of a sheet of plywood clamped to the top of her crib. Probably get him arrested, today. Later, when she was (even more) mobile, he reversed the doorknob on her bedroom door, allowing her to be locked in when necessary. The man was an engineer, through and through. Oddly enough, she grew up to be the sanest of any of the five sibs.
Bit gusty.
WTF? Is that real?
Morning, all.
Is that real?
It seems so.
Paranormal activity.
*Looks at cat.*
*Buys lock for bedroom door.*
*Looks at cat.*
*Buys lock for bedroom door.*
They harvest the souls of sleeping humans. It’s why they’re so picky about food.
That road rage scene — it must be awful dusty in here.
That. 🙂
Heh.
Via Julia.
I’m not sure that’s supposed to be like that.
Now we know this origin of this old
wive’s talemyth. The cats are actually acting like pussy mouth/neck warmth stealers.What’s the origin of the myth that cats can suck the breath out of babies?
That road rage scene — it must be awful dusty in here.
Faith in humanity gone up two points.
Faith in humanity gone up two points.
I do try to offset the usual bedlam and squalor with something more… affirming.
Paranormal activity
Doctor to patient: It’s not sleep apnea, your cat is trying to smother you.
Secret lives of snails
Look to be Giant African Snails……horrible plant pests. Eat every known plant and fruit. They’ll even rasp the paint off your house. Millions spent to eradicate them in Florida in the 90s.
….like pythons devastating Florida now.. vanity pets
Hope the Ag people find that ahole and kill those snails.
Not amused!
How long before ‘neuro-diversity’ will become the go to excuse for every failing pupil…?
Via Julia.
*Looks at cat.*
*Buys lock for bedroom door.*
[ Stirs, choking on fur. ]
“Wha— Can’t breathe… What’s happ…?”
[ Low hum ensues. SOUL HARVESTING INTENSIFIES. ]
That kid with the sleeve hat is going to have nightmares and therapy about his brain beging sucked out by Aliens later on in life.
Heh.
I don’t know what his complaint is, the link is right there.
Gwasanaethau ar-lein Cyllid a Thollau EM yn y Gymraeg, the extra benefit is it also summons Cthulu if you say it out loud.
I don’t know what his complaint is,
I suppose it’s that in order to pay your taxes you first have to master ancient Klingon.
[ Quietly hopes Tim Newman is busy elsewhere. ]
A Tale of Two Cities, 2020.
London.
San Francisco.
The designers of the San Francisco thing hail from Kansas and I believe they took their inspiration from the many prairie dog holes and warrens in their vast and unpopulated state.
Regardless, the London option is a much better deal, for who among us hasn’t, at some time in life, wished there was a can right next to a bed ?
who among us hasn’t, at some time in life, wished there was a can right next to a bed?
And while bearing down, inches from the bed, you can wave at passers-by, which is nice. And should a disastrous smell ensue, you can lay there and contemplate it, at length.
It’s those little touches.
Oh wait. It looks like there’s an extractor fan. Right above the bed.
[ Quietly hopes Tim Newman is busy elsewhere. ]
I hope he doesn’t start blogging in Klingon.
I hope he doesn’t start blogging in Klingon.
Ssshh. He’ll hear.
[ Looks around furtively. ]
Small child containment system.
Paging Dr. Channard
Or Buffy
Someone didn’t think through the optics on this.
*Looks at cat.*
*Buys lock for bedroom door.*
Got a German Shepherd puppy, Misty, a few months after #2 was born. Misty and the succession of kittens/cats got along like Loony Toons’ Mark Anthony and Pussyfoot.
However, when #3 and #4 were born, Misty wouldn’t allow any of the cats into the baby’s room. Every night after putting the kids to bed, she’d lay down in the hallway just outside the bedroom doors.
Misty wouldn’t allow any of the cats into the baby’s room.
In entirely unrelated news, while dogs seem able to approximate guilt, or something like it, cats strike me as quite remorseless.
Someone didn’t think through the optics on this.
For some reason, it looks oddly familiar.
pagh refunds. DeQ note neH.
pagh refunds. DeQ note neH.
Nodule.
Indelible.
Faff.
Chinstrap.
Sorry, I thought we were playing the word game again.
Sorry, I thought we were playing the word game again.
Ask Tim. Maybe he can help. Maybe. Though TBF, reversing the comzatta doesn’t reliably reproduce the gazinta.
Ask Tim.
Ah. Got it, belatedly. As you’ve probably gathered by now, I’m barely paying attention at the best of times.
Damn those wypipol.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/01/17/the-roots-world-renowned-wypipologist-writes-piece-trashing-nro-contributor-peter-kirsanow-for-criticizing-the-1619-project-whitely-theres-just-one-problem/
Oops.
Semi-decent example of woke white person lecturing a black person about how she is a victim of racism “every day”, whether she knows it or not!
https://twitter.com/tejtheartist/status/1217961376003567618?s=19
And while bearing down, inches from the bed, you can wave at passers-by, which is nice. And should a disastrous smell ensue, you can lay there and contemplate it, at length.
Ew. LOL.
Ew. LOL.
Though perhaps less fun if houseguests stay over and need to use the amenities. “Can you keep it down? I’m trying to kip.”
you can wave at passers-by
Heh. My mother-in-law’s house had a toilet similarly situated on the second floor of a house, while not on top of a hill, sufficiently above the surrounding ‘hood. This being the bathroom we would use when we visited. Of course there were blinds such that you could survey the neighborhood like a god whilst you did your thing yet maintain dignity/decorum or whatever the gods call it when they are similarly engaged. It’s really quite the ego boost if one is so inclined. Especially if having a bad day. Not crazy about the rest of the arrangement at the location in question but perhaps a tip to the agent if s/he happens by. Well, a suggestion anyway.
…perhaps less fun if houseguests stay over…
Bad enough if they were staying on the solitary piece of furniture that fits in the livingkitchen room, but think of the romance when you or the new date you have finagled into the sack has found that the burritos and beer have transited too quickly.
. . . you can wave at passers-by, which is nice . .
Wayside Chapel
2020 is off to a bad start.
The power of Photoshop compels thee…
A new and actual twist on being soy boys.
Actor fails to support creaky leftist narrative on TV.
Said actor promptly denounced as a “disgrace” by fellow luvvies.
[ Added: ]
I don’t as a rule watch Question Time – it’s aggravating by default – but I caught several clips of this episode on YouTube. Shami Chakrabarti, our egalitarian baroness, spends quite a lot of time looking sour and exasperated, especially when her identity-hustling reflex fails to achieve her intended goal and indeed backfires.
And it’s quite funny that the Narrative Luvvies resort, inevitably, to accusations of “white privilege,” despite the fact that one of Mr Fox’s best moments – one that resonated with the audience – was his rejection and exposure as opportunist tossery of the very same identitarian tactics. Again, it’s as if they can’t help themselves. The programming cannot be changed.
I laughed and I’m not sorry.
Via Instapundit.
The power of Photoshop compels thee…
I don’t understand this comment in that thread:
“It’s like they go to Hogwarts for thier fxxxxxg photoshoot.”
(I’ve only seen one of the Harry Potter movies.)