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.
Actor fails to support creaky leftist narrative on TV.
Laurence Fox is on the Delingpod. https://youtu.be/y82n3Q6xrvU
I don’t understand this comment in that thread:
“It’s like they go to Hogwarts for thier fxxxxxg photoshoot.”
Welcome to the Quidditch World Cup. . . . only attempted with visual imagery, in that case . . .
Laurence Fox is on the Delingpod.
Thanks for that. I wasn’t familiar with him. It’s good to see others being openly sceptical of ostentatious, rather neurotic piety, which is often, very often, a veneer for something unpleasant, a projection, a kind of camouflage. Or as Mr Fox puts it, “The more virtuous someone is, the more woke someone is, the less I trust them.”
Rightly so, I think.
That’s my sister!
Toxic Masculinity at work!
That 10 second clip does more to disprove all the social justice progressive engineering re: xx vs xy/xx = xy than all the comment in the world. I’m sure little brother learned that aggressive protectiveness from years of exposure to the malign patriarchal hierarchy, the gender pay gap fallacy, the inequality of women, the trans movement of shifting biology and fluid gender.
Whaddya mean he’s only three years old?
So are you saying his action was instinctive, that he is not old enough to have had the social construct of masculinity, of male privilege, of feeling the women’s pain of the inequality of the world drilled into him?
He acted out of some hunter/gatherer protect-the-women/family genetic xy compulsion?
Oh I see.
One for fans of The Expanse.
It’s good to see others being openly sceptical of ostentatious, rather neurotic piety…
I’m still amazed at how shocked and unprepared the intersectionalists are when they meet someone from outside their echo chamber. I’m thinking specifically of how Rachel Boyle (the dark haired harridan in the Question Time video) was so shocked when Laurence Fox points out her text book racism for dismissing him because of his skin colour and his sex. I suppose this tactic is effective in the halls of academia where adults are free to brow beat students who may still be or are just out of their teens.
I imagine that, because these leftists lost the argument on merit so long ago, the only option is to end the debate before it begins by dismissing your opponent for some entirely unrelated reason.
I’m still amazed at how shocked and unprepared the intersectionalists are when they meet someone from outside their echo chamber.
I suppose they tend to flourish in fairly insular environments where realism is at best peripheral, or where others require some kind of validation from them, whether in terms of grades or social approval, and are therefore willing to be cowed and dishonest. In my experience, once it’s clear that you don’t require their approval and that you don’t play their game – and won’t pretend – the hostility tends to become much more visible and direct.
They harvest the souls of sleeping humans. It’s why they’re so picky about food.
I showed these soul-harvesting baby-killing felines to the wife hoping to freak her out and deter her from getting another kitten as our 2 aged cats have died in the last couple of years and wishing to be free to travel more don’t need the responsibility.
Of course she promptly reminded me that our black & white had at least on one occasion, saved her life. She is an insulin dependent diabetic and the cat would wake her up before she went into a hypoglycemic coma. Having dealt with her in this condition and having to call paramedics for glucose injections (when you are comatose there is no other way to get sugar into the body) I would concur that without the cat waking her up she would have slipped into a coma and died. I was away.
The cat became as well versed in monitoring her breathing and body temperature as I was, probably more so.
she promptly reminded me that our black & white had at least on one occasion, saved her life.
Wife wins that one, I think.
…insular environments where realism is at best peripheral…
Speaking of which, voting for Trump is probably racist, and therefore unconstitutional, and therefore illegal, and therefore must be prohibited.
Smith, you will be surprised to learn, is a professor of law, and a psychic, apparently.
RTWT.
Surely Fox is committing career suicide by not toeing the line? The bully left doesn’t tolerate dissent.
I don’t as a rule watch Question Time – it’s aggravating by default
I try and catch it if there’s a decent panellist like David Starkey or Douglas Murray on to enliven things. Otherwise I know the feeling. I stopped watching it about three years ago, when it became obvious that every week would be some variation of: “Brexit question, Trump question, local issue/NHS question, and ‘humorous/silly question’ at the end”, the results of which (Indecisive, Orange Man bad, NIMBY or YIMBY/NHS good, and instantly forgettable smart-ass wisecrack) were always predictable. Even before then I found myself occasionally despairing of it. One episode which stands out had an audience question about the merits of teaching children to memorise poetry. In the audience was a teacher so dim you could see everyone’s collective IQ drop as she was speaking. Thankfully one of the panellists (Peter Hitchens) took her to task so beautifully and eloquently, reciting from memory a poem by Housman, before giving a thundering denunciation of educational philistinism, that everyone’s IQ went up again.
…the hostility tends to become much more visible and direct.
It’s not surprising then that their heads explode so often from the dissonance deep within.
Welcome to the Quidditch World Cup. . . . only attempted with visual imagery, in that case . . .
Can someone give me an answer in words, so that I don’t have to watch some video?
The cat became as well versed in monitoring her breathing and body temperature as I was, probably more so.
Since cats tend to be partly nocturnal, that’s pretty useful. I wonder how many cats pay such attention to their owners.
The David-links-to-Twitter problem is fixed! Thank you, Henchlesbians!
Warmest January on record here. Around here, spring all winter means winter all spring. I look for February and March to have apocalyptic blizzards—but I don’t have to go to work!
Not that I’m gloating in front of those still laboring in miserable serfdom.
The audience member Fox fell out with on question time was one Rachel Boyle, who various media outlets, including she herself – on twitter – describe as ‘a woman of colour’, ‘mixed race’, ‘black’. Could anyone explain to me just how this is so? The same media sources are somewhat lacking on detail…. and while I’m loath to play the identity politics game here, it seems to be treated by the left as a winning argument, proof positive of Fox’s ‘racism’.
A charming man.
I don’t as a rule watch Question Time – it’s aggravating by default.
I haven’t watched it this century. I bade farewell to Radio 4 almost as long ago. I can’t recall if I ever actually had a tether to reach the end of. I’m beginning to suspect not.
…Rachel Boyle, who various media outlets, including she herself – on twitter – describe as ‘a woman of colour’, ‘mixed race’, ‘black’.
She describes herself not just as black, but as capital-B ‘Black’. I’m given to understand that this sort of thing is terribly significant. On matters of orthography one must always defer to the opinions of people ultimately descended from a part of the world that developed precisely zero written languages, obviously.
it seems to be treated by the left as a winning argument, proof positive of Fox’s ‘racism’.
Sargon trawls the sewer.
And a reminder that leftwing actors are famed for their keen moral instincts.
[ Added: ]
For those who missed it, the gist of Mr Fox’s position is that, (a) maybe we should reserve the term ‘racism’ for actual racism, not self-serving made-up stuff; (b) the concept of “white privilege” is question-begging and itself quite racist; and (c) identity politics is tiresome and divisive, a license for bigotry.
This is deemed scandalous and a basis for “unequivocally” denouncing the holder of such views as a “disgrace.”
A charming man.
TBF, if not for him she wouldn’t be$24,000 (before tax) richer…
She describes herself not just as black, but as capital-B ‘Black’.
Perhaps that is because she is just capitalizing on being “black”.
Meanwhile, Dino notes she has seen fit to delete the fact she works for the BBC from her twit bio. Gee, I wonder why.
The Observer’s Barbara Ellen finds it “disturbing” that some people, occasionally, are daring to publicly contradict the intersectionalist narrative.
Drug dealers tend to be seen as evildoers who prey on people’s addictions. That’s not the reality.
They are just misunderstood alternative People’s Pharmacists helping the underprivileged without access to conventional drug stores. From the article…
Racist. Of course it is.
Honest, I’m not making this up, this is a guy running for DA, but I guess it does make the job easier if you don’t actually have to prosecute anyone, especially when they are already engaged in “entrepreneurial opportunities”.
I applaud these forward thinking candidates for Manhattan DA. It is high time someone thought of the plight of the pushers.
Racist. Of course it is.
Most people I’ve known who sold were working or middle class kids who didn’t deal in anything harder than coke. Most got out of it either because they found something better to do, or because they found themselves selling mostly to support their own habits, or because in the process of expanding they got busted, did some time, and realized they really did not want to do any more.
The latter two sort were the only sort who began to skirt the edges of predatory dealing, i.e having customers who were handing over their paychecks, or finding even younger and more foolish individuals to act as underlings.
Both the outright predatory dealers I’ve personally come across and those who’ve dealt to people of my acquaintance were, universally, of one specific melanin content and from one specific sort of neighborhood.
But then we aren’t supposed to deal in realities, the simple truth being tres gauche.
Progressive parenting of note.
White supremacyParasitic WhitenessParasitic Whiteness
Let’s play a fill-in-the-letters game.
_ E F T I _ S
P R _ J E C T
And to think that all this time we’ve been missing the opportunity to use Pee Wee Herman’s “I know you are but what am I?” against these morons…
Parasitic Whiteness
Did Dr. Donald Moss become a psychoanalyst because of his own severe personality problems?
The best thing about leftists is their rationality and eloquence. (language alert)
Farnsworth: She seems nice and I would like to subscribe to her newsletter.
Uma Thurmond’s Feet: I wonder what she is upset about.
Uma Thurmond’s Feet: I wonder what she is upset about.
Existence itself? The constraints of living in the real physical world that actually exists? To steal a phrase from someone whose name I forget, On Strike Against God?
Progressive parenting of note.
They’re proud of this too.
They’re proud of this too.
Involving small children in your own political psychodrama – to the point where they’re shrieking profanities at random passers-by – seems both negligent and pathologically self-absorbed. To say nothing of trashy.
pst314: Maybe she said to her hairdresser, “Make me like Christina Hendricks.”
Hold my beer!
Nobody ever had to make me like Christina Hendricks. I was pretty much smitten from the moment she appeared on that episode of Firefly.
tlhIngan Hol vIyaj
“No refunds. Credit note only.”
tlhIngan Hol vIyaj
Well, according to the .eu translator that I used (yes, I know…) it translates back as:
Because as I was saying, reversing the comzatta doesn’t reliably reproduce the gazinta. Seems Klingon is a rather weak language. I mean I understand there being no word for ‘refund’, because what self-respecting Klingon would ever offer one? But surely the should have a word for ‘note’. Or are they all like Socrates? I mean they had/have/will have a written script, so…? But I’m not really into Star Wars so I’m kinda out of my pond here.
Seems Klingon is a rather weak language.
And their hair is, frankly, terrible.
I’m sure there is one, we tera’nganpu’ just don’t know what it is. 😉
I would use Huch tatlh (literally ‘return money’) for ‘refund.’ And probably DeQ nav (credit paper) for credit.