Friday Ephemera
Hog toys. || Big Bob ahoy. || Witches’ brew. || Build your own engines. || Dog versus leaf blower, metamorphosis begins. || At all times, dignity. || Godzilla versus Mito Komon. || A gift for the mother-in-law. || Good idea. (h/t, Perry) || Day 14. (h/t, Damian) || Moon whales detected. || The sounds of cake. || Customer service. || Cat chatter. || Leader of the pack. || A project for the weekend. (h/t, Dicentra) || Her missing shoes. || I think they may be wombles. (h/t, Julia) || Today’s word is intervention. || Lively scenes. (h/t, Neontaster) || Minus 7 Celsius. || Paranormal car crashes. || The transparent jigsaw puzzle you’ve always wanted. || And finally, quite instructively, on the proprieties of video conferencing.
Happy Easter 🐇 everybody!
Big Bob ahoy.
Witches’ brew.
Oh, Well Done, whomever . . . .
A project for the weekend.
Calling Captain Future.
Dog versus leaf blower, metamorphosis begins
Deleted by moderator for violating some sort of standard.
I wouldn’t turn my back on some of those chattering cats! Yipe! 😳
“…on the proprieties of video conferencing”
I’m amazed they could get her on something that wasn’t widescreen…
Here’s another version link to dog versus leafblower: https://www.reddit.com/comments/ff632l
Good idea.
That’s really sweet.
Morning, all.
I’m amazed they could get her on something that wasn’t widescreen…
“Belgian health minister.”
A stern warning.
Via Damian.
Moon whales detected.
https://youtu.be/U8V2U7vTys0
Sports commentary of note.
Godzilla versus Mito Komon (who he?) will undoubtedly be the best film I watch over Easter.
Unsatisfactory co-worker.
https://www.popsugar.com/pets/man-funny-written-hr-complaint-about-his-cat-47374736?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=post&utm_campaign=frontdoor
Chart of note.
We’re whalers on the moon
!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y6miuzFzonU
Those ghost car crashes give new life to the old insurance claim form report:
“An invisible car came out of nowhere, hit me then disappeared.”
Terpischore lives.
Terpsichore lives.
That’s a lot to take in.
You know, I’m not convinced that’s their natural hair colour.
Nobody’s gettin’ MY toilet paper!
(or my Phil Collins CD)
via Battle Beagle
Lockdown sports commentary of Note.
[ Clears throat, points upthread. ]
“Build your own engines.”
Nice. Who hasn’t longed for a little wankel on their mantelpiece?
What?
“A gift for the mother-in-law.”
I can’t really find anything that reminds me of this guy particularly terrifying.
“Day 14”, “Sports commentary of note”
I’m convinced this whole thing is a plot by the Red Chinese to drive us all insane.
Who hasn’t longed for a little wankel on their mantelpiece?
[ Summons henchlesbians. ]
[ Clears throat, points upthread. ]
I’ll clear out my desk and report to the correction booth…..
A stern warning.
And another thing about this nonsense, why do people insist on pointing to fiction to prove their ‘facts’? Speaking of movies and such, I’m trying to think of a movie or other popular source of fiction where everyone goes crazy and overreacts but the hero keeps a calm, clear head and thus rules the day. Best I can come up with is Kipling’s “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you”. But who reads that crap anymore? Obviously such a thing must never, ever happen.
Lively scenes.
All it needs is an explosion to take it to 11.
That lard-ass Belgium health minister is exhibit A in my argument to shoot all of the politicians and start over.
Florida Woman offers alternative Easter egg hunt.
Moon whales… Swamp gas, obv.
Making the best of it.
https://twitter.com/FINALLEVEL/status/1248030471767932928?s=20
Making the best of it.
Also, Gleeful Mom With Hairdryer And Detergent Bottle.
Terpsichore lives.
So now the wokelings are ruining the kaiju genre as well.
Scenes.
Scenes.
Major mentalist.
Major mentalist.
I’m guessing these gentlemen – there’s another further down the thread – are high on ‘flakka’ or ‘gravel,’ a cheap, synthetic stimulant, an amped-up variation of ‘bath salts’, known to induce hallucinations, paranoia and violence, along with a very high body temperature – hence, presumably, the desire to be naked.
Should you encounter a naked man acting oddly in the street, it’s probably best to head in the general direction of away. Assuming you wouldn’t anyway, of course.
You can only save three.
You can only save three.
What’s Greggs?
I’m trying to think of a movie or other popular source of fiction where everyone goes crazy and overreacts but the hero keeps a calm, clear head and thus rules the day.
Tommy Lee Jones in Volcano?
What’s Greggs?
A popular bakery chain, known chiefly for its sausage rolls, I think.
I don’t think I’ve ever been inside a Nando’s, Subway, or Wetherspoon’s. I haven’t eaten KFC in several decades. Pizza Hut pizza is a little too sweet for my taste, sometimes almost sickly. Domino’s pizza is fairly bland.
Wagamama is good, though. The steamed buns with pork belly and apple are a favourite. They also do some very tasty desserts.
The more our political betters keep issuing shut-in regulations that start defying all common sense, the more I realize they look at the Wuhan virus as a way to indulge their inner sadist.
Part 2 ^^^
And another thing about this nonsense, why do people insist on pointing to fiction to prove their ‘facts’? Speaking of movies and such, I’m trying to think of a movie or other popular source of fiction where everyone goes crazy and overreacts but the hero keeps a calm, clear head and thus rules the day. Best I can come up with is Kipling’s “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you”. But who reads that crap anymore?
There’s that meme going round the woke lefty pages about how ‘in every disaster movie, there’s always a scientist being ignored’. True! And Hollywood disaster movies are always noted for their accuracy and objectivity, after all – like ‘Sharknado’ . I can’t tell you how many times that’s happened to me.
As for Kipling, excellent example, though the lefties are doing their best to make him persona non grata. It’s a damned shame; he’s a fine poet with a subtle insight into human nature.
” Part 2 ^^^
Ugh.
In Victoria, Australia they’ve banned fishing, and closed gun stores. Amazing that in a time when we see shortages in stores they don’t want people to source their own food.
There’s that meme going round the woke lefty pages about how ‘in every disaster movie, there’s always a scientist being ignored’.
A lot of the 1950s monster flicks had scientists fascinated by the monster to the point of protecting it.
And Hollywood disaster movies are always noted for their accuracy and objectivity…
I was amused to note a little while back that Netflix had added the environmental apocalypse prophecy 2012. Given the political slant Netflix is known for, you would think they might have left that one stuck down the memory hole.
And now for something completely different:
An 18 wheel tanker hauling peanut butter.
Seen on I-22 this afternoon.
There’s that meme going round the woke lefty pages about how ‘in every disaster movie, there’s always a scientist being ignored’. True!
Well true, if you ignore the other scientists in the movie who made the epic stuff-up in the first place that is the premise for the movie.
Jeff Goldblum is the hero in Jurassic Park, but the other scientists don’t come out of it covered in glory. And the “science” the Goldblum character spouts is utter nonsense anyway — a theory applied completely out of context. Actually, so that’s quite realistic then.
You’ll note that in all the discussions about “trust the scientists” that the scientists are much more modest. It’s politicians and alarmists, etc who insist on this. Actual scientists know enough other scientists to not think that they know everything and are always right.
The bit that really pisses me off though is that we aren’t to trust scientists if they say nuclear energy is safe, GMOs are worth the risk, that Glycophosphate is safe, etc. In those cases we are to apply a completely different rationale, and err 100% on the side of precaution.
as a way to indulge their inner sadist.
It has to be said, the police have of late not exactly been enhancing their reputation.
It’s hard to avoid the impression that, for many officers, threatening to police shopping basket content – in violation of the very guidelines they’re supposedly enforcing – is both a license to prodnose like never before, and considerably less dangerous than apprehending burglars, car thieves and feral stabby types.
Newsreader greeting of note.