Friday Ephemeraren’t

I’d like to see the geese’s version of that last one.

how to fight geese, an illustrated guide
Real geese are dangerous. Here in Canada, you’re not allowed to so much as touch one since they’re a protected species. I think that’s more for our benefit than theirs; they can do serious damage if so inclined.
The swans in Stratford, Ontario have been getting so aggressive that the tourism office is warning people off of feeding them; a mature swan can beat a man to death with its wings.

The People Speak, once given a little clarifying inspiration . . .

Morning, all.
Thread.
In short, it does matter, quite a bit, who gets to educate your children.

a bold hypothetical;
As if anyone in Hollywood would have the nerve.

Further commentary from The Times:

Welcoming his new fellow primate in York, the Archbishop of Canterbury said that he was “deeply intimidated” by Stephen Cottrell’s talent for speaking. This is a good thing. As Justin Welby explained: “The definition of an archbishop is someone who can speak while working out what he has to say.”

Further commentary from . . . .

“Gentlemen! Gentlemen!” The Patrician raised his hands in a conciliatory fashion. “It seems to me,” he went on, taking advantage of the brief pause, “that what we have here is a strictly magical phenomenon. I would like to hear from our learned friend on this point. Hmm?”
Someone nudged the Archchancellor of Unseen University, who had nodded off.
“Eh? What?” said the wizard, startled into wakefulness.
“We were wondering,” said the Patrician loudly, “what you were intending to do about this dragon of yours?”
The Archchancellor was old, but a lifetime of survival in the world of competitive wizardry and the byzantine politics of Unseen University meant that he could whip up a defensive argument in a split second. You didn’t remain Archchancellor for long if you let that sort of ingenuous remark whizz past your ear.
“My dragon?” he said.
“It’s well known that the great dragons are extinct,” said the Patrician brusquely. “And, besides, their natural habitat was definitely rural. So it seems to me that this one must be mag—”
“With respect, Lord Vetinari,” said the Archchancellor, “it has often been claimed that dragons are extinct, but the current evidence, if I may make so bold, tends to cast a certain doubt on the theory. As to habitat, what we are seeing here is simply a change of behavior pattern, occasioned by the spread of urban areas into the countryside which has led many hitherto rural creatures to adopt, nay in many cases to positively embrace, a more municipal mode of existence, and many of them thrive on the new opportunities thereby opened to them. For example, foxes are always knocking over my dustbins.”
He beamed. He’d managed to get all the way through it without actually needing to engage his brain.
—Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

Attention, parents. A role model for teenagers who are gay.

F*cking hell.
For those of us who recall a world of Larry Grayson, Mr Humphries, and endless lisping nancies, this does not look much like progress. But apparently, being a gay teenager means you should identify with lurid, cartoonish cross-dressers. It’s like The Black & White Minstrel Show, but for gay kids.
And oh yes, your license fee at work.

A role model for teenagers who are gay.
A great Thread on why Drag Queens are being forced into children’s lives.
(both via Colin Wright)

Baceseras 2020: What, you want some of my juice?
https://mobile.twitter.com/KassyDillon/status/1281417336818290688

Notdivulgingmtlastnamenotthatitsthatbigofadeal 2020: Up, up!

Gary Larsen is back
Thank you, Hal. Seriously that’s a much needed development and you bringing it to my attention is appreciated.

Meanwhile, in woke academia.

The Church has found a way to get people interested in scripture in the 21st Century:
“Sorry, we’ve acquired a friend this morning.”

Done.

@ Sam Duncan
If Ballantine’s distillery outside Dumbarton really does use Drag Queens as guards I salute them. There is a remake of “Charlie’s Angels” right there.

Gary Larsen is back
Thank you, Hal.
Yer welcome!—One should have a peer at everything a good deal, being monofocused is for insects.
I don’t ever watch the news, I can read far faster than some git can recite from a teleprompter, and even in that I just skim headlines, usually, and generally keep going that way all around . . .

My comment at 16:37 no longer makes sense, but it’s a great thread anyway, regarding This piece of cowardice.

And cowardice is often functionally indistinguishable from corruption
It certainly bears more than a passing resemblance to a protection racket.

…on why Drag Queens are being forced into children’s lives.
Short version: The enwokened see something they do not control and have an urge to destroy it, as not being under their control it does not flatter what they see in their reflection. Their way of destroying it is to hollow it out until it echoes their minds.

Is it odd that I tried to control the man in the goose-fighting video as though it were a classic Flash game?

Muldoon 2020 – Shut The Fuck Up !

From reddit, group r/BlockedAndReported” (for discussing a podcast by that name, from leftists who recognize some of the insanity): “2020 cancel culture absolutely called by the Freak Brothers in 1973”
https://old.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/hk2lop/2020_cancel_culture_absolutely_called_by_the/

If the Church of England names a black person as primate, will that be more or less racist?

Insofar as drag queens are funny, or meant to be funny, to adults, it’s because they’re lurid and grotesque. That a grotesquely cartoonish figure – a male parody of a woman – has become a go-to shorthand aimed at gay youngsters, supposedly to make them feel good, feel normal, is… a little odd.
That.