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).
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They want to tear down the world and they forgot to bring body lotion. And personal fans.
I hope you’ll donate generously
Opens bottle of industrial strength laxative and loads syringe……..
The Weald school wishes to dissociate themselves from the horrifying implications of the word “Rowling”
We have therefore taken the decision to remove the name Rowling from our new house and it will be called Blackman instead.
“Blackman”. Phew, sure dodged THAT bullet!
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[ Looks down list]
[ Raises eyebrow ]
Why is it they want to dismantle capitalism again?
[ Raises eyebrow ]
As my dear grey-haired gran used to say, “We need more chlorine in the gene pool.”
#DefundTheUniversity
What I don’t understand is how can they not anticipate how this behaviour appears to people who aren’t mental? I mean, they have the cognisance to try and hide their totalitarianism afterwards.
Don’t they know we can see them?
Don’t they know we can see them?
Based on psychopaths that I grew up around, and more of ’em that I’ve had to work around, while being seen is an issue, the issue is that being seen is the point . . . How else are you to be instructed, by whichever hipsters, on what is required for you to follow and go along with, and declare your approval of?!?
Don’t they know we can see them?
Spiteful narcissists emboldened by a lack of normal consequences. They can, it seems, act with something like impunity.
As we’ve seen many times.
“Shut off the water…”
Shut off the electricity, gas, telephone, internet, everything. Disable any cell towers.
Sunglasses? In Seattle? Now is that a ‘want’ or a ‘need’? Or is that too much of a grownup question for these revolutionaries?
“Shut off the electricity, gas, telephone, internet, everything. Disable any cell towers.”
If they knew anything about anything, this would be an “Uh-oh” moment.
A few years back, in a protest against rising fuel taxes, British truck drivers brought the country to a WuFlu-lockdown-esque standstill in less than a week. Never piss off the truckers.
Via Julia
La-dee-da, look who’s demanding their high-fallutin’, good luxury ice. I guess once you’ve gone to clown school the old-fashioned regular cold kind the rest of us make do with just isn’t good enough to chill neither brow nor palate.
I hope you’ll donate generously….
Zip ties? Zip ties.
I hope you’ll donate generously….
No food? No Rizlas?
Zip ties.
You can have a proletarian revolution without any actual proletarians – in fact, that seems the preferred kind; but you can’t have a proletarian revolution without body lotion and a dash of bondage.
They’re farmers now:
via Matt Walsh
La-dee-da, look who’s demanding their high-fallutin’, good luxury ice.
Oh, quite, but actually that would be a reference to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement . . .
Personally I’ve been quite fond of Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics, but that’s my taste in reading . . .
Thug cows.
Jonathan,
Remember the homeless people who stole all the food from CHAZ? Looks like one of them has decided to “occupy the farm”.
[leaves room to check on popcorn supplies]
They’re farmers now…
Between that image, and this one:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaXHhq0XQAAE2O6?format=jpg&name=large
…one thing is made clear. These lazy shits couldn’t even scalp off the turf or run a roto-tiller. That is store-bought soil sitting on cardboard in order to keep the grass from showing through. It is literally facade gardening, outdoing the “concept agriculture” of Occupy.
…one of them has decided to “occupy the farm”.
[leaves room to check on popcorn supplies]
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They’re farmers now…
Between that image, and this one:
. . . . ‘K, so just what is the dirt version of astroturfing???
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Between that image, and this one:
Can you say condescending?
It reminds me of the Ami Horowitz video about voter registration. He goes to Berkeley where they tell him Blacks don’t have ID, don’t know how the internet works and don’t know how to get ID. Then he heads to Harlem and asks Black people if they have ID or if they know where the DMV is and how to get there and if they know how the internet works.
These are the so-called allies of the POC. With friends like that…
It reminds me of the Ami Horowitz video about voter registration.
It’s a wonderfully revealing video.
See also this.
One of the highlights of which is the interview with a young white woman attending the “white privilege” conference, presumably a student, who insists that “white privilege” is both real and ubiquitous, and that she’s “hyper-aware” its effect “every day,” and feels “super guilty all the time.” But when asked, she struggles to think of any example, any example at all, of how she benefits from it. She then says, “Sorry, I’m not good at thinking.”
Well, at least she’s honest!
It’s a wonderfully revealing video.
The two Horowitz videos were from 2016 and 2017 and people seemed to at least feel the cognitive dissonance if they didn’t, in fact, recognize it. Whereas, in the recently posted video where they tell Ami to go find oral succor, these same lefties have let go of the dissonance by completely shutting down what Horowitz has to say. They’ve come to love Big Brother and they’re getting their Two Minutes Hate on.
So I have a potential employer who seems interested in me. They sent me the benefits package, etc. Gave me a “logic” test that I’m fairly certain I passed…heh…but who knows? It was basic Computer Science 101 and high school Algebra type questions. Anyway, not the point. The thing was upon reviewing the benefits package something started to bother me. It’s a contracting company that for whatever reason has only told me that the client is in the health care field. Which is fine, whatever. But it got to bothering me how so many consumer facing companies are expressing financial support for BLM and such, so I just asked what for me was the most awkward question that I’ve ever felt I have had to ask in such a situation. I Googled the contracting company’s name and didn’t find any support for such racist/fascist/terrorist idiocy but since I don’t know the end client company’s name I had to ask if they support such things. Will be interesting to see where this goes. The people that I’m talking with are out of South Carolina and the job is 100% remote so I’m hoping it’s not an issue. It just bugged me in the middle of the night last night and took a while to get back to sleep until I committed myself to asking.
Always respect the media.
Pretty sure you can kiss that job prospect goodbye @WTP.
Pretty sure you can kiss that job prospect goodbye @WTP.
Seems likely: companies don’t like applicants who raise political questions–much like they don’t like applicants whose questions revolve around vacation, benefits, etc.
But I can very much understand your concern, WTP.
I suppose we will see. I’m not in a position where I absolutely have to have a job for financial reasons, though I do have a somewhat significant short-term cash-flow problem that will very, very likely be resolved by end of July. And the idiocy of US healthcare systems…though looking today it seems prices have come down a good bit. I certainly could use the mental challenges mostly to keep my mind occupied and off of this world-wide insanity. Either way, I would just as soon find physical type work, what there may be available for a moderately healthy man in his late 50’s. Not that physical work does not itself present a good degree of mental challenge, it’s just that I’ve always felt pressed to do the most intellectually challenging thing that I can. Attribute it to poor parenting I suppose /sarc. Well that and the gotta-go-to-college bullshit culture of post-war US.
This!
https://twitter.com/DanPariah/status/1271978858397433856?s=20
Heh.
They’re farmers now
And again, they seem oblivious to the symbolism.
Following yesterday’s events in London, which saw far-right racist thugs use their pallid bodies to assault the knives, fists and boots of peaceful protesters, it was only natural to turn to Channel 4 News for enlightenment. We were fortunate Cathy Newman was able to secure an interview with one Lorraine Jones, a pastor, mother of seven, Daily Mail ‘Inspirational Woman of the Year 2019’, Chair of Lambeth Police Advisory Group – and expert on oppressive statuary. Her profound thoughts can be heard here (apologies for not being able to link directly to the relevant time). Her contribution begins about five minutes in. The exchange starting at about 6:06 is quite something to behold.
So what she’s saying is, “I haven’t personally met him.”
Asking from the colonies, how come there are no “right” groups in Europe and the UK, only “far-right” groups?
…how come there are no “right” groups in Europe and the UK, only “far-right” groups?
Simple: because the acceptable, ‘Establishment’, view is now so far left that anyone who holds the same political and cultural views as the average Briton of forty years ago is classified as a Nazi.
Asking from the colonies, how come there are no “right” groups in Europe and the UK, only “far-right” groups?
Wellll . . . I believe a variety of logic would be that Duh Left is the repository of all that is utterly admired and to be worshipped and being all The Best People. And of that Being Of The Left, all such is all about one’s Identity, but don’t you dare notice Victimhood Poker.
Now, at the same time, as Whyte is clearly An Identity—and therefore is, by definition, [the repository . . . about one’s Identity]—then merely by extension, that means that for any cries of White Power!!!, and Europeans Rule!!!, and such, being a very dedicated recitation of Identity Uber Alles, all such, by such definition, is Left Wing . . . . . errr, no, wait we’re not playing Victimhood Poker here, “Whyte Power” can not be left wing!!! . . . so . . . .
What about claiming that Being Whyte is Duh Right Wing, that’s the ticket . . . . except that Duh Right keeps being about Having The Correct Faith, and never mind which faith of all variations found of the right wing . . .
So at such a point, for the unfortunate devotee of Duh Left, as “Whyte” makes for the wrong identity and requires being other than left, and as there’s no room off in Duh Right, then, therefore, such must be . . . ah . . Yes, Duh Far Right . . .
Good luck, WTP.
They’re farmers now
And again, they seem oblivious to the symbolism.
And any who have a clue about gardening, and who would actually manage to grow some vegetables, would instantly become Kulaks.
…how come there are no “right” groups in Europe and the UK, only “far-right” groups?
As I recall, the British Conservative Party largely ceased to be conservative when its upper class members realized that they could keep their wealth and privileges by embracing a socialism in which they are part of the nomenklatura. Have I got that right, David? And if true, precisely how true–how limited an explanation is that?
As I recall, the British Conservative Party largely ceased to be conservative…
Well, I wouldn’t argue to the contrary. The Conservative Party doesn’t seem very conservative, certainly not coherently so, and it doesn’t seem clear on what, if anything, it wishes to conserve. At best, on a good day, it’s slightly less unhinged than the alternatives.
Well, I wouldn’t argue to the contrary.
But you wouldn’t go so far as to say I am right. I will take that as a reason to be cautious and not be too confident that what I read years ago is entirely accurate. 🙁
But you wouldn’t go so far as to say I am right.
I don’t know enough about the party’s history to argue the point, basically. As to the historical causes and motives, I mean. The state of the thing now, however, is pretty obvious.
I don’t know enough about the party’s history to argue the point, basically.
And here I was counting on your oracular voice. Oh well, got any more dusty sausages? Suspicious biscuits?
Suspicious biscuits?
Band name.
oracular voice
Band name: All hipster/thus very pretentious “a capella” group with all members claiming to be wannabe pagan and claiming to all be female and therefore, between the three(1) claims, All Others Must Admire And Kowtow.
Are particularly irked that they haven’t been given their own extremely lucrative futility show so they can wave money around because of how obviously irresistibly wonderful they are.
(1)—1) ”A capella” because not only can they not play any instruments, they also can’t sing. 2) When O.V. is encountered by any who are _actual_ religious practitioners and devotees of old European pantheons, and 3) those who’ve genuinely switched from male to female and vice versa, all such adults take one look and then back away at increasing speed . . .
dusty sausages
Opening act band name. On stage they wear cowboy hats that are carefully decorated with wheat flour, _only_ sing about being in the middle of a cattle drive/being a big rig driver on the road.