The Lockdown Diaries (6)
An open thread, in which to share links and bicker.
I’ll set the ball rolling with some lunchtime blues and a memorable encounter.
Oh, and added via the comments, some weird scenes.
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Chester Draws: True, I forgot the crocs. But crocs are limtied to certain parts of Aus (northern NT, northern QLD) – where most people live you would never see a croc in the wild. Same goes for box jellyfish. there have only been a handful of deaths by funnel web despite multiple bites every year as they can be easily treated. All in all, its not something that you think about much (though if I do see one I give it a bloody good stamp). Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying our creepy crawlies are not dangerous, but I think out reputation as a death island is disproprotionate!
JLM: Yep, brownies are more aggressive than blackies, but you still need to harrass them/accidently disturb them to be attacked. I have walked within a metre or two meters of a brown snake countless times while out hiking and we leave each other alone (or they flee). I can’t imagine having the same piece of mind coming across a bear! (or a croc)
TimT: That cartoon is adorable!
Always respect the media.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/05/26/passerbys-own-footage-of-no-mask-shaming-msnbc-reporter-cal-perry-makes-msnbcs-faceplant-even-more-spectacular-video/
And speaking of our impartial media.
I wonder if it’s just a happy coincidence that Russell Crowe’s new movie could be interpreted as a salutary lesson to the Karens of the world?
*crosses fingers as she presses ‘post’*
*crosses fingers as she presses ‘post’*
Something seems to have gotten through . . .
Something seems to have gotten through…
I had to use magnets and a broom handle.
#EmotionalLabour
And speaking of our impartial media.
Twitter’s ‘head of site integrity’…
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/375943/
Twitter’s ‘head of site integrity’…
Because he couldn’t just be a bit leftist. He had to be dementedly so.
I have never known anyone to get injured by a wild animal and the worst thing I have come across (and I have done a fair bit of camping/hiking etc) are brown snakes
Hmm, no magpies in your part of the country? I am terrified of the damn things – get swooped every year, and I have lost skin.
I am terrified of the damn things
One of the joys of living near woodland – the eternal turf war between the magpies and the crows. It’s like West Side Story, but with feathers and shrieking.
“And speaking of our impartial media.”
I don’t think my jaw has ever actually dropped before. That would be contemptible from a commercial broadcaster without our idiotic impartiality laws, but from the BBC it’s simply inexcusable.
End the licence fee, Boris. Shut it down. They’re practically daring you not to.
Trash media is trash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK3p5Ij4gEE
End the licence fee, Boris. Shut it down. They’re practically daring you not to.
From the BBC’s charter, a condition of its access to coerced public subsidy:
I think this is where the sounds of dark laughter go.
I had to use magnets and a broom handle.
Yes, but how did you get the post to appear?
[ ba dum tsh ]
I’ll be here all week. Make sure to tip your server.
I’ll be here all week.
You’ll find your coat in the usual alley. On fire, obviously.
Well that didn’t take long. The second Karen isn’t sure how he feels about it.
I find it strange that no one thought it was odd that a man without a dog in Central Park was walking around with a pocketful of dog treats. Oh and in case you were worried about him he’s fine. He wasn’t going to let her intimidate him. You know, because like Emmett Till and stuff. Karen’s are so frail.
I wonder if it’s just a happy coincidence that Russell Crowe’s new movie could be interpreted as a salutary lesson to the Karens of the world?
Hmmmm… this year’s Falling Down?
David, if you check your Amazon Associates Reports and see an order for a Mambiwasa back scratcher, 130 gel refills, and Apple USB Charging Cable, that’s from me. Hopefully it’ll show up sometime in the next month.
that’s from me.
Bless you, sir. May your Marmite spread evenly.
Amy Cooper, a native of Canada, meanwhile, studied at the University of Waterloo in Ontario from 1998 to 2003
Holy ****. I thought she looked vaguely familiar.
“[…] as she grabs the harness by the neck without attaching a leash. It led to calls from social media for the dog to be removed from her care due to concerns she was choking it.
Oh, for the love of…I’ve owned three spaniels. It’s impossible to choke them. One of them had a choke chain collar he simply ignored, he would literally drag my sister around at the other end of the leash.
Everyone in this sordid debacle is acting like a shrieking….well, Karen.
Everyone in this sordid debacle is acting like a shrieking….well, Karen.
It’s not a testament to the gloriousness of the human species, no.
In one of my three close-up bear encounters, my mother chased the bear away with a broom.
Mrs. Oik and I went to Zimbabwe in 1992, our first “adventure holiday” (unless you count staying in a distinctly insalubrious dump at precisely the wrong end of Collins Ave. in Miami Beach). We were staying at the Safari Lodge Motel in Hwange, just outside the National Park’s main gate.
I woke from an afternoon nap to witness her indoors shouting “Shoo! Shoo!” at a fully grown male baboon which had infiltrated our room via the open French windows. The thing bared its teeth in defiance before urinating copiously over our suitcases* prior to departing. Thing is, the bastards can tear your arm or your face off without even blinking. I still occasionally wake up in a cold sweat after a very vivid re-enactment which regularly occurs in a dream.
*We had to burn the luggage when we got home.
before urinating copiously over our suitcases prior to departing.
Bet this place looks pretty classy right now.
Why do you think I prefer to hang around here?
Some *ahem* aromas facilitate reminiscence.
I thought it slightly odd until I learned he was a bird-watcher. It clearly wasn’t the first time he’d had to deal with jackwagon dog owners letting their pets run around loose spooking said birds and his solution was a lot better than kicking the pup.
I have a dog and am not particularly fond of leash laws, but they exist for good reasons. Amy Cooper just figured she was speshul and they didn’t apply to her. The appropriate response to being (politely, even) reminded that her dog should be on a leash in that part of the park would be to simply put the dog back on the leash. An apology to the guy would have been nice, too (not to mention practically mandatory for a Canadian).
An apology to the guy would have been nice, too (not to mention practically mandatory for a Canadian)
When they move to the US they go native.
a pocketful of dog treats
I had to dig to find it, but he explains elsewhere it’s a calculated tactic: he tosses the treats to the dog, and the only way for the owner to keep the dog from eating the treats is to put the dog on the leash.
It’s a borderline-autistic dick move.
It’s a borderline-autistic dick move.
Agreed, and it’s miles away from “politely” asking for the dog to be leashed. I’d like to see what happened before the camera started rolling. I don’t necessarily believe she was acting. She behaved badly but he’s no angel in all this.
Camille had been raised on Marxism since she was a baby.
She explained that her polyamory was based upon the detachment of sexuality and commitment. It was a more ethical philosophy than monogamy because it didn’t conceive of people as possessions and it did not moralize about sexuality.
Unlike me, she enjoyed stealing [ … ] The world would be much better if everyone stole, Camille explained to me one day in the dining hall, eating food she had just stolen.
This may not be for everyone, but I found this Quillette piece, “When I Was in Love with a Comparative Literature Student”, a surprisingly worthwhile read.
It certainly goes a long way to explaining the more likely underlying causes of campus radicalism.
This may not be for everyone,
I felt like I was bleeding out.
It certainly goes a long way to explaining the more likely underlying causes of campus radicalism.
Fathoming leftism requires parsing the psychology of it.
I felt like I was bleeding out.
I probably should have led with that, not the other.
Still, I did enjoy the the hierarchy of ‘John’, ‘Camille’, and the narrator: John the firebrand and leading Marxist on campus, who turns out to have been a narcissist, Machiavellian, and psychopath; Camille who tries to rationalise her obvious sexual exploitation by John using rationalisations given to her by him (which is really appallingly cruel if you think about it); and finally the narrator, someone who’s clearly what I believe all the kids are nowadays calling a “Beta orbiter” to Camille.
At no point are any of them even remotely interested in what they profess to be in a struggle against. Terrible, needy, grasping people – that such as these we’re supposed to believe are virtuous, often an hourly let alone daily basis, is just extraordinarily perverse.
Terrible, needy, grasping people – that such as these we’re supposed to believe are virtuous,
Sounds like a recurring theme of this blog. Glorious thing that it is.
I think out reputation as a death island is disproprotionate!
When I worked with an Aussie I greatly enjoyed explaining to him the peculiarities of various North American fauna, such as black bears, brown bears, mountain lions, moose, alligators, snapping turtles, alligator snapping turtles, and, my personal favorite, the shrike.
…the peculiarities of various North American fauna…
Don’t forget our friend the nine banded armadillo and their Mycobacterium leprae Pathology Power Paws™.
bears, brown bears, mountain lions, moose, alligators, snapping turtles, alligator snapping turtles,
We do get foxes in the garden. And the occasional badger.
#BraveFace
Ooh, a tit.
We do get foxes in the garden. And the occasional badger.
#BraveFace
And, don’t forget that every few years you also get a cluster of marauding Parliamentary candidates . . .
every few years you also get a cluster of marauding Parliamentary candidates
Like all good-hearted people, we put down traps for those.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger…
Sorry.
I was once smiled at by a badger on the north rim of Yellowstone Canyon. Scared the piss out of me.
This may not be for everyone, but I found this Quillette piece
Jesus H Christ, did testosterone levels drop sharply while I was away? What a load of soy-addled whimpering tedium. Quillette really needs to impose a word limit on its writers.
TLDR version: “He didn’t fuck her.”
A bunch of third rate intellects trying to get one over on each other by quoting postmodern word salad which none of them understand.
Max Diamond… is currently working on a documentary film about education in New York’s Hasidic Jewish Community. Of course he is.
Ooh, a tit.
I see what you did there.
I felt like I was bleeding out.
Best comment there compared it, unfavorably, to Woody Allen.
Left unsaid: the size of these children’s trust funds. (Also, John’s was probably bigger than Max’s.)
Terrible, needy, grasping people
As I’ve said before, it’s not a coincidence that so much radical leftism resembles Complex PTSD.
The world would be much better if everyone stole, Camille explained to me
Sure would. All peaceful and stuff.
A bunch of third rate intellects trying to get one over on each other by quoting postmodern word salad which none of them understand.
And today Camille is busily misspelling names at Starbucks.
The world would be much better if everyone stole, Camille explained to me.
“If only people violated each other more often, generating fear and distrust, and degrading life in general. Then I’d be happy,” she cooed, caringly.
I’m paraphrasing, of course. But not by much.
“If only people violated each other more often, generating fear and distrust, and degrading life in general.”
So, I see you’ve watched Fleabag.
peaceful
Nothing puts it to The Man like… er… burning down an affordable housing development.
So, I see you’ve watched Fleabag.
[ Googles Fleabag. ]
The episode summaries sound dismal. Is it as bad as it sounds?