Friday Ephemera
They’re not sure what it is. || She loves her little figurines. (h/t, Holborn) || Effort-saving measure of note. || 1940s New York. Click a dot, any dot. || They do this better than you. || Bonus points for the dog. || Remember, kids. Antifa are just like normal people. || “The Chinese language, with its 70,000-plus characters, couldn’t fit on a keyboard.” || Cherry-blossom chillfest. || Ventilation malfunction results in chocolate snow. || Charming house with charming basement jail. || Shops for mice. || Highlights from Australia’s Mulletfest 2020. || “The glass allegedly becomes opaque after you lock the door.” || Venn diagram of note. || Vortex detected. || And finally, their décor crisis is probably worse than yours.
“The Chinese language, with its 70,000-plus characters, couldn’t fit on a keyboard.”
Hmmmm. That approach should also simplify learning to read Chinese . . . .
Venn diagram of note.
I’ve worked at a place like that . . . . those frantically making lists to claim how wonderful they are could just never figure out how those of us getting the actual work done kept being so much more competent than the list makers and have so many happy clients . . .
And finally, their décor crisis is probably worse than yours.
—See instead:
A handful of cows found their way into a newly built home and lived in it for a month before being noticed. Shows it can always be worse!
She loves her little figurines. Part two.
“I got two things for you, Tanya Tucker and Conway Twitty.”
LOL
The Rodney one has to be fake. Too perfect.
Morning, all.
See instead
Thanks, Hal. Link updated.
Venn diagram of note.
If nobody spotted it, it’s probably true.
If nobody spotted it, it’s probably true.
Well, it’s not entirely encouraging. I mean, you’d hope that the multi-billion-dollar Thomson Reuters Corporation, with its divisions of news, finance, law, and accounting, might display a certain… punctiliousness.
1940s New York. Click a dot, any dot.
There goes the rest of today.
That lazy frog is taking the tube today.
“The glass allegedly becomes opaque after you lock the door.”
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
It is, I think, a comedy sketch waiting to happen.
David Bowie, playing the part of Weimar Germany.
And finally, their décor crisis is probably worse than yours.
I really like the mooving leather couch. Where do you get furniture like that?
Depends how big a keyboard you have
That lazy frog is taking the tube today
At least he’s riding on the roof
Today’s word is camouflage:
https://twitter.com/cyclonewatson/status/1296383642239819777
“The glass allegedly becomes opaque after you lock the door.”
That would never work in the UK.
We already have public phone boxes for that.
Bonus points for the dog. || Remember, kids. Antifa are just like normal people.
Juxtaposition truly is an art form.
Juxtaposition truly is an art form.
You’d think they’d give out medals, but no.
And finally, their décor crisis is probably worse than yours.
Looks like a student house when they ask for their bond back.
Looks like a student house when they ask for their bond back.
Heh. I vaguely recall, as a yoot in a shared house, having to explain to our long-suffering landlord why the living-room door was no longer anywhere in the house. Happily, we weren’t ankle-deep in faeces at the time.
Looks like a student house when they ask for their bond back
Amazingly, I meet people even as old as 40 or 50 or 60 who still cannot understand or sympathize with landlords.
Re: Roomba Class, whoever polishes the floor for them does that better, too.
. . . having to explain to our long-suffering landlord why the living-room door was no longer anywhere in the house.
I once had a realtor explain to me that the clause about No Holes In The Walls did not refer to putting nails in the wall, say, for the hanging of pictures. What it referred to was No Removing The Walls.
We then found out that the previous tenant had gone and totally combobulated the electrical wiring.
The owners quite agreed with me that running the refrigerator off of an extension cord reaching all the way from the bedroom was prolly a really bad idea . . . .
Roomba Class
Band name.
Roomba class reminded me of an old girlfriend who did something like that…
Cherry Chillfest – Of course, it HAD to be in Japan! In the US such a scene would be regarded as target practice.
My neighbor out here in the country told me he shot two deer in his front yard earlier in the year. Country Life: No cable, no sewer, no city water, no cell service, but your food walks up to your front door.
Cherry Chillfest – Of course, it HAD to be in Japan! In the US such a scene would be regarded as target practice.
🙂
But not really, as those deer are in a park and even us Amurricans don’t shoot deer in the parks…usually…except when they’re not supposed to be in urban parks…and only wildlife control officers do it…and they don’t enjoy it…really.
you’d hope that the multi-billion-dollar Thomson Reuters Corporation
I once interviewed with, and was offered a quite lucrative job with, said corporation. The offer was rescinded before my first day because a VP on the other side of the continent had decided the department was going to be politically important and forced a reorg to bring it under his authority, which entailed moving the entire department to the other coast. Relocation expenses were not provided.
Effort-saving measure of note.
SHAI-HULUD
Gad Saad visits an item from upthread.
In solidarity I would like to share with you the dissertation outline for my degree in media grievance studies. I would be glad of any feedback:
1) I go to see the movie “Alien”, whose protagonist is an inexplicably violent, lethally powerful, terrifying alien life-form constructed mostly from rubber and teeth which sets about senselessly murdering the rest of the cast.
2) I identify with the alien.
3) I am black, and therefore all black people identify with the alien from “Alien”.
4) Since it is a fact that black people have no agency and cannot be held responsible for their own mentation it must be the fault of some other that all black people are now identified with the alien from “Alien”.
5) White people were involved in the making of “Alien”. Therefore all white people are responsible for identifying all black people with the alien from “Alien”.
7) Therefore all white people are racist. QED.
Having scrutinised these syllogisms with the rigour of any professor of sociology (Brock “University”) I am confident that this logic is unassailable.
In solidarity I would like to share with you…
You had me at “In solidarity”.
Sadly, since that photo essay, most of them have been vandalized or completely destroyed by mostly peaceful Rat Lives Matter protesters.
completely destroyed by mostly peaceful Rat Lives Matter protesters
*snort*
Looks like the usual suspects have their knickers in a twist over a throwaway comment Mike Milbury made last night during the hockey game. Commenting on his co-host’s observation about the bubble being a good place to focus on hockey and hanging out with your teammates, he replied, “Not even any women here to disrupt your concentration.”
Evidently, this is beyond the pale, and now Milbury Must Be Cancelled! Never mind that it’s a hard-hitting violent sport preferred by shaggy northern men who happily pretend to go fishing on frozen lakes because it means quality hours away from the wife and kids. Never mind the ten thousand articles women have written about how hard it is to work from home with the distractions of children and spouses and pets and neighbors and whatnot.
I don’t even like the guy much, but this is just silly. At any rate, it’ll be interesting to see if NHL or NBC decide to punish Milbury in some way, figuring it’s worth trading 10^6 long-time hockey die-hards in exchange for the 10^2 young wokelings who sorta pay attention to the sport when their knuckle-dragging friends drag them to the sports bar for wings and beer.
the usual suspects
Why am I not surprised to learn that Deadspin is one of the Spawn of Gawker?
Now that federal troops have been withdrawn, it’s back to normal in Portland:
https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1296672316382826496
it’s back to normal in Portland
As my dear, grey-haired gran used to say, “We need more chlorine in the gene pool.”
Very true –
https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1296756431417417729
On the subjectof peaceful protest, a civics lesson for elected official.
it’s back to normal in Portland
I have some leftover fireworks in the garage, but I’m woefully short on Molotov ingredients. Plenty of rags and kerosene, but all the bottles around the house are full of stuff I would much rather drink than throw into the street. I may have to comb the alley for glass before the next recycling pickup. Or maybe just work on emptying my collection of bottles more quickly.
It’s way past time these austere scholars find out what “abolish the police” really means.
I’m reading an interview with “Gentleman Prefer Blondes” author Anita Loos in the NYT and she had this to say about Sigmund Freud:
“The influence of Freud is disappearing, thank heaven,” Miss Loos said. “He’s a pernicious enemy to the human race, turning everyone into self-pitying and evasive characters. Today, if you want to be fat, all you have to do is blame it on Freud and say you’re sick.”
The article’s date: April 26, 1973.
Eldritch monument detected: furnished with all mod cons.
https://mobile.twitter.com/liamosaur/status/1296305262144364544
” Eldritch monument detected…”
This is funnier if you know Melbourne. Fawkner isn’t exactly obscure but it’s sufficiently humdrum and out of the way to make the presence of a 212 storey monument very surprising indeed.
“Eldritch monument detected: furnished with all mod cons.”
OpenStreetMap is better than it has any right to be, but it’s had the name of my local church wrong for 15 years. Honestly, I can’t be arsed to open an account just to change that one detail (which some smartarse would probably revert anyway because it’s been like that since 2005 so if there’s any discrepancy it must be reality that’s wrong), but you’d think somebody would notice. It’s written on the front of the bloody place.
Brock “University”
If you can walk and talk, you can go to Brock.
(It’s about half an hour from Steve E and I)
(It’s about half an hour from Steve E and I)
I was trying not to pile on. 😉
But…Brock is the safest campus in Canada should the Zombie apocalypse occur…Zombies eat brains.
it’s back to normal in Portland
This is what happens when malevolent narcissists don’t get slapped and thrown to the ground. The kind of psychology we’re seeing, over and over again, overwhelmingly from the left, is an exercise in bad faith, a fundamental dishonesty. It therefore isn’t amenable to correction with facts or debate, or appeals to reciprocity or some higher purpose. Tolerating such behaviour – and worse, deferring to it – will only encourage an escalation of malice and sociopathy. It may, however, be discouraged with reminders of physical consequences. Ideally, physical humiliation. A reminder that nasty little egos can be publicly broken.
The fairer sex.
Via Ace.
The old joke can be modified…
“The pilot responded ‘I knew right then that I had to be in Microsoft Flight Simulator, because they told me they were in a 200 storey-tall building in Fawker’.”
This is what happens when …
Pretty much all of that.
via Lisa
Pretty much all of that.
As we’ve seen more times than I can count, these are people who will lie as readily as breathing – baldly, shamelessly, even on camera when proof of their dishonesty is hard to miss – in order to excuse their sociopathic urges. They aren’t being obnoxious reluctantly, in desperation, or under duress. They harass and provoke and abuse and destroy because it gives them pleasure. It makes them feel important and powerful. Power being conceived solely as power over others. It’s a focus for their spite. Anything else is a fig leaf. Some will all but admit this. You can’t, and shouldn’t, engage with such creatures on their own ostensible terms.
Because that’s not what it’s ultimately about.
via Lisa
Heh.
Antifa are just like normal people.
Indeed, and The Babylon Bee is supposed to be parody.
The Babylon Bee is supposed to be parody.
I don’t get it. Is the joke/parody that some parents would actually object?
The upside to online school is parents are getting an eyeful of what goes on in the classroom.
Diesel-flavoured sharksfin
https://postimg.cc/CZzTx5r3
Oops something wrong there, sorry
Diesel-flavoured sharks’ fin
“They aren’t being obnoxious reluctantly, in desperation, or under duress. They harass and provoke and abuse and destroy because it gives them pleasure. It makes them feel important and powerful.”
Yep.
I saw that with my own eyes when out campaigning for the “No” side in the 2014 referendum. I ended up being surrounded by a gang of “Yes” people. We had an argument of sorts – one or two were engaging and reasonable – but the joy that spread across their faces when, once it was clear they were losing the argument, they descended into simply chanting in unison, preventing me from speaking at all, was unmistakable.
Yep.
I think we’ll give that one a little post of its own.
Because I can, that’s why.
Mario Cuomo converts to Southern Baptist…
https://www.newsbreak.com/new-york/syracuse/news/2044306196188/cuomos-coronavirus-rules-no-dancing-no-cornhole-no-karaoke-no-kidding
Mario Cuomo converts to Southern Baptist…no cornhole…
Except for the cornholing that Cuomo will continue to give everyone in New York.
Mario Cuomo converts to Southern Baptist.
He bans alcohol, the shit get real. 😉
Of course it’s Andrew Cuomo, the sort of fourth-generation imbecile Oliver Wendell Holmes warned us about.
Seriously, he claimed the reason New York’s coronavirus numbers looked so bad is because the feds said the virus was coming from China, not Europe.
Truly, the ‘Napoleon of Crime’:
via Battle Beagle
Didn’t quite work out as he Expected.
Yes, that is a gun.
Didn’t quite work out as he Expected.
As the camera appears to be hand-held and it follows the action, I have a sneaking suspicion there’s a back story here. That perhaps these guys have a history…a “business relationship” perhaps. If this gies viral, and depending on the backstory, cue the leftists to say the apparent intended victim here is the actual perp and is no different than ‘Keese’ Love…in 3..2..1…