Friday Ephemera
Night Monkeys. || An alternative to fly spray. || Pipeline jam. || Explanation of note. || Neighbours of note. || The North of yore. || Inspector Gadget. || Giant squid. || The thrill of globular springtails. || Orderly bear. || Teddy bears on a roller-coaster. || Behold the 1959 Curtiss-Wright Model 2500 Air-Car. || Clearly, it’s a skill, but when am I going to use it? || Life is full of complications. || Somewhat related. (h/t, Darleen) || How to trap a python. (Chicken’s opinion not known.) || When you want to remake Alien, but you don’t have a lot of money. || Indigestible facts: “I’m getting angry. I don’t want to talk anymore.” || His folding chess set is better than yours. || And finally, Love Will Tear Us Apart (again).
The 1959 Curtiss-Wright Model 2500 Air-Car
(Wonders what would happen if they put those engines on a modern plastic car body.)
Night Monkeys.
[ cue music: Wizard of Oz: Flying Monkeys Attack ]
Made me crap my pants the first time I saw it. Those ungodly night monkeys brought back the bad memories.
The North of yore.
Those little ragamuffins and their ice lollies–breaks and warms the heart at the same time. Poor little plaid pants with no lolly. Maybe he ate it quickly or it fell on the ground and he had to finish it fast. More likely he went without.
There’s white privilege on display.
Life is full of complications.
Jerry Nadler, the same putz who, erroneously, closed out the House impeachment hearings
Explanation of note
It was a million to one shot, Doc. A million to one!
Teddy bears on a roller-coaster.
Amusment park staff and such having entirely too much fun . . .
Do be sure to tip the buffet and try the wait staff.
Indigestible facts
“So you don’t care about the data?”
“Your data can go suck the same dick you’re gonna suck”
Morning, all.
“So you don’t care about the data?”
“Your data can go suck the same dick you’re gonna suck”
It does rather capture a dynamic I’ve bumped into once or twice.
Trouble in woke paradise.
Imagine having to listen to this prattle and screeching for hour after hour.
Via Julia.
Our professional pretenders are pretending to be upset.
Our professional pretenders are pretending to be upset.
Nah.
That’s just narcissists being narcissistic, where C-19 has somewhat limited the available camera access and staging areas.
Adults don’t bother, having better things to do than empty hand waving.
The Conglese sapeurs come to mind as having the same sort of posturing mindset, as in Zero, nothing but stupidity, and Man, we could buy a house with the money,
https://cloverchronicle.com/2020/06/10/uc-berkeley-history-professors-open-letter-against-blm-police-brutality-and-cultural-orthodoxy/
O/T but this is a cracking read If rather long. An open letter from a UCB Professor to his colleagues. It has already been memory-holed from various sites and this link might not last. It doesn’t say much that many of us don’t already think but it does say it very well.
this is a cracking read
That.
” I was Bored Dad.”
(Bad language)
via Battle Beagle
Pipeline Jam and Love Will Tear Us Apart (again)
Contrast these to the amazing amounts of refined, weapons-grade stupidity on view, well, almost everywhere these days and it almost, almost, gives me hope for the human race.
Love the orderly bear.
A very good idea, but do Iguanas shit?
Everything poops, Robert of Ottawa. But that’s not an iguana it’s a chameleon.
It does rather capture a dynamic I’ve bumped into once or twice.
Ami Horowitz (approaching protester): So you’re deeply angry and distressed by the murderous racism that is tearing society apart?
Protester: Yes I am. So angry! So distressed!
Ami Horowitz: I can help with that. A large and authoritative data study strongly suggests that the racism that upsets you so much is not nearly as pronouced as you might think. Isn’t that a relief?
Protester: NO! Now I’m even angrier and even more distressed! Go away! Waaaah.
It really is like a kind of mental illness, isn’t it?
It really is like a kind of mental illness, isn’t it?
Well, I think of it as a kind of role-play, which is to say, dishonest, and hence the imperviousness. We should not overlook the fact that, as Thomas Sowell and others have pointed out, ‘activism’ of this kind, with its mouthed idiocies and hair-trigger protesting, and its invulnerability to factual correction, is a way for charmless, mediocre people to become interesting and statusful, if only among similarly underwhelming types.
It really is like a kind of mental illness, isn’t it?
Are they mental or simply a bunch of cunts? Seem pointless to decide. Just like communism and fascism amount to the same thing in practice, so malice and lunacy are equally valid explanations for their behaviour.
Trouble in woke paradise If it wasn’t for the crimes the Seattle police chief mentioned, I’d say leave ’em to it for a few months. Just to see how feral it gets.
BTW Seattle police boss lady is foxy!!! Hot blue lives matter.
A few entries down from the Manchester photos on Mick Hartley’s blog is this: https://mickhartley.typepad.com/blog/2020/06/no-longer-felt-to-be-an-appropriate-role-model.html
The Weald School in Billingshurst, West Sussex, wrote to parents announcing that it was abandoning plans to use Rowling’s name because she was “no longer felt to be an appropriate role model”. The school has an exisiting house system but is renaming them to give a better representation of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and gender identity. […]
In its letter to parents, the school said it had recently chosen the names DaVinci, Seacole, Mercury, Attenborough, Rowling and Thompson for its new houses.
Is it too late to sign up for that Caliphate we keep hearing about?
Iguana, chameleon. What difference, at this point, does it make?
On a walk in a woods the other day, my grandson exclaimed “Whoa! Is that a snake with legs?”
He pointed to a clump of leaves and sure enough there was a snake with legs! That is, a skink. He’d seen them many times at home running across our patio, but somehow in the woods he didn’t recognize it.
This has nothing to do with systemic racism and for that I take responsibility and vow to be more self-monitoring going forward.
Invulnerability to factual correction, is a way for charmless, mediocre people to become interesting and statusful, if only among similarly underwhelming types.
Are they mental or simply a bunch of cunts?
Fair points. The reason I say that this is like a mental is because, well, it is like a mental illness.
Now I don’t know whether the stats that Ami Horowitz is peddling in that clip are valid, and what exactly their detailed implications are. I haven’t looked further into them at this stage. But my reaction on first hearing him mention them is one of some relief. Quite simply, I hope they are true. I hope that western society isn’t the racist cesspit that the mainstream media would like us to think it is.
That is to say, my response is sensible and grown-up.
The response of the protesters is so peculiar – given that they’re adults – that they give the impression of being mentally ill.
But, as David says, it’s more likely that they’re just guarding this new-found status (that is to say that they are obnoxious, selfish and narcissistic).
So probably you’re right MC. They’re simply a bunch of cunts.
They’re simply a bunch of cunts.
Unmitigated cuntishness, for want of a better term, i.e., cuntishness that’s excused and given license, does explain an awful lot.
A very good idea, but do Iguanas shit?
That’s the problem with animals that cannot be house trained running (or flying) free.
But why did you capitalize Iguana? Was that inadvertent or does a capital I mean a different sort of iguana, such as, maybe, Ralph the six-foot 300 pound…person, who identifies as a green-skinned lizardkin but who has not yet had surgery to get a big dewlap under his chin? 😀
do Iguanas shit?
Band name.
do Iguanas shit?
Band name.
Album name.
First album from the punk rock kazoo band Iguana shit.
British Airways to sell art collection to raise cash
British Airways Art Collection
Band name.
Or, for that matter, Night Monkeys.
Band name.
Complete discography—itself another band name:
An alternative to fly spray.
Pipeline jam.
Explanation of note.
Neighbours of note.—A concert album, that.
The North of yore.
Behold the 1959 Curtiss-Wright Model 2500 Air-Car
Ralph MacQuarrie’s inspiration for the landspeeder.
#DefundTheUniversity
#DefundTheUniversity
Why, it’s almost as if they just can’t help having really creepy inclinations.
“The North of yore”
When they said it was grim up north, they weren’t kidding. I’m from Glasgow, and that looks more like the 1930s than the ’70s I remember. Mind you, I have a book of Thomas Annan’s photographs of the 19th Century Glasgow slums and, no exaggeration, it’s more reminiscent of a medieval market town than the industrial powerhouse of the British Empire.
That’ll be the white privilege, I expect.
“Inspector Gadget.”
Tetris.
“Orderly bear.”
There you are, that’s what we need to deal with these protesters: bears. What could possibly go wrong?
“Teddy bears on a roller-coaster.”
TIL the Dutch for teddy bear is “knuffelber”. Which is rather lovely. Also, entirely incidentally, that the Swedish for illness is “sjukdom”, which also amused me.
“Somewhat related”, “Indigestible facts”
Or, “Our Betters are Morons”. Peggy Noonan’s observation that we are patronized by our inferiors still holds.
“Chicken’s opinion not known.”
I like to think it was the chicken’s idea. Foghorn Leghorn used to do basically the same thing to Barnyard Dawg all the time.
“Love Will Tear Us Apart”
I denounce their cultural appropriation. (Seriously though, that’s awesome. As Tom says, between them, the cello woman, and the 8-Bit Big Band, it’s a reminder that the human race hasn’t gone totally insane quite yet.)
As our host often likes to remind us, always respect the media.
that’s what we need to deal with these protesters: bears.
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I’m from Glasgow,
[ Slides several sheets of newspaper under Sam’s bar stool. ]
I’m only thinking of the furnishings.
What could possibly go wrong?
Wrong, for whom?
…always respect the media.
Once again, “believe all women”, like all their supposed values, applies only when convenient.
It does rather capture a dynamic I’ve bumped into once or twice.
Friend of a friend on FB and I had a disagreement a while back in regard to lockdowns and such. Because #Science. I mentioned and provided a link to the Diamond Princess study. He told me to shove the Diamond Princess study up my ass. Oddly, a moment of Zen followed. Well, for me anyway.
Do be sure to tip the buffet and try the wait staff.
That is so terribly wrong. When Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy did similar, no charges were ever filed. White privilege. SMDH.
“You kids just haven’t been to college yet.”
“You kids just haven’t been to college yet.”
Ah, the classics.
Ah, the classics.
Annnd … this from Jan 2015.
” Pipeline jam.”
Whoa! You mean they have pipelines in Germany? The exemplar Of “renewable energy”? Held up as the gold standard here in Canada? You would never know it from our media. We are not allowed to have pipelines.
As for the saxophonist making use of a natural echo chamber, it is wonderful. Just rather hard to bring on stage hence the tape loop echo and now digital echo.
“All stats matter”
I’ve spent half the week trying to explain how the stats work to young, white woke people on twitter. How they’ve been fed selective stats, how you can’t trust stats in general (watch how they’re counted, watch the sample, correlation not causation etcetc) and how different variables could skew the results, but that even so they so far show the opposite of what the “protesters” think they say.
Guess what they called me? No, go on, guess what word beginning with “r”…
..as well as telling me I was a “Katie Hopkins follower” (actually no) and I didn’t understand anything (worked in an Oxford Uni department doing stats for a decade, but still, what do I know?)
And the thing is I KNEW this was a waste of time, that nobody would be thinking carefully this week of all weeks..
Rod Dreher wrote about the situation in Seattle and a number of readers who said they lived in Seattle commented, saying no one much minded because the area was off the fashionably beaten paths. (I wonder how they’ll feel when the epidemics start and spread.). Anyway, if that’s correct, why not treat it as a country? Shut off the water till whichever tent has been designated the embassy switches the account from the cop shop to the People’s Republic of Chaz. Remove and resettle ordinary people living in this mess and send the PRCh the bill. Impose sanctions against the PRCh. Refuse to issue visas. Hilarity will ensue.
The government would do all the above, and worse, to me if I commandeered the local cop shop and took over our tiny downtown. So why do these people get consideration I don’t?
This kind of flagrant “some are more equal than others “ has enraged Americans for the last 40 years.
Morning, all.
Morning, all.
A) Oh, well done!
B) Granting, of course, once the thought occurs to do that, that is a quite prosaic clarification . . . .
CHAZ needs:
I hope you’ll donate generously….
“But we took the knee!”
both via Battle Beagle