Friday Ephemera
A moment of new-parent panic. || De-pouching. || Somehow, I’d never seen a punt gun. || Full points for grip. || Atop a turbine. || Our betters are the clever ones. || Bathing scenes. || Beware of the dog. || All-you-can-eat buffet-discount technology of note. || Come closer, kissy face. || I do quite like this idea. || Chicago clouds. || Effective, yes, but just a tad excessive. || “Even at lightspeed, it would take you 8.7 hours to travel around it once.” || When women do it. || WandaVision. || Now is the time. || Historic newspaper photos, a searchable archive. (h/t, Things) || The thrill of the arts. || Overalls of note. || Entirely unrelated, a refuge for sinners. || Forbidden love. || And finally, gloriously, a thing of beauty.
The punt gun is a marvellous creation that I regret I’ve never seen in action, although I remember reading about their use in my father’s copies of The Field and Shooting Times.
I am surprised that Penny Dreadful still comes out to bat for polyamory, as it doesn’t seem to have done her any good. As I recall, 90% of her sex life thus far has involved exploitation by nasty rapey creeps.
OTOH I remember her once writing about how she’d ended up spending time with some young republican types at some event and found them surprisingly, well, nice. (she got shot down for being honest about this) She should have married one of them.
OTOH I remember her once writing about how she’d ended up spending time with some young republican types at some event and found them surprisingly, well, nice.
It takes a strange kind of contortion to be in the middle of a riot by masked leftists, with windows smashed, by leftists, buildings set ablaze, by leftists, and women being arbitrarily beaten, by leftists, and to have to take cover among the rioters’ victims, i.e., conservative students, and to then claim to be “fucking terrified,” not by the masked leftists who are starting fires and assaulting random women, but by the people with whom you’re huddled for safety – and who are by all accounts, including your own, being perfectly civil, offering you drinks, and in no way threatening.
But such is Laurie’s mind.
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After the riot, Laurie was careful to omit any remotely realistic acknowledgment of what had actually happened, despite her front-row view and hours of damning video footage, and while tying herself in mental knots trying to portray the organised aggressors, the ones who arrived with masks and weapons, as the victims of the drama. The same poseurs and sociopaths who tried to blind a woman for simply being interviewed about the violence she had seen, and who punched another woman for wearing a hat they didn’t like.
As so often, not just wrong, but nakedly dishonest. An inversion of reality.
“Is it just the crosses of Saint George/Andrew/Patrick that are considered “white nationalist” symbols in the UK or is the whole flag now “double plus no good”.”
You’re crediting the Left with logic and consistency. For reference, the current scorecard seems to be…
Cross of St. George: Bad because English.
Cross of St. Andrew: Good because Scottish nationalists are generally Lefties and Europhiles. (We pro-UK Scots aren’t allowed it any more.)
Cross of St. Patrick: Bad because imperialist. (There is, to be fair, some element of truth to this. The cross of St. Patrick was really the flag of British Ireland. The traditional symbol of Ireland, although it was probably never used as a flag, was the gold harp on a blue field. Blue, not green, is the island’s ancient national colour. The actual NI flag, the cross of St George emblazoned with the Red Hand of Ulster: doubleplusungood because cross of St. George.)
Union Jack: Good between 1997 and 2010, now bad again.
Oh, and the Welsh flag: Good because Labour are in power at Cardiff Bay and Wales is therefore a paradise on earth.
Hope this helps.
Cross of St. Patrick: Bad because imperialist.
Quadrupleplusungood to the leftists because it is also the flag of one of the civilized states, Alabama.
Medal for the boomtown rat who detects landmines
boomtown rat
Band name. Sucky band band name, but a band name nonetheless.
TimT,
“I was under the impression from videos that hedgehogs were quite pattable…”
You clearly haven’t patted a hedgehog from North Wales.
“I was under the impression from videos that hedgehogs were quite pattable…”
They are alleged also to be quite palatable, especially baked in clay.
Beware of the dog.
Boris despairs over Horace
The culture today is incentivizing this kind of behavior. It’s almost as if these people are in a competition to see how utterly ridiculous they can be before someone says no.
For those familiar with genetic psychology/PUA culture, what we’re seeing is a kind of mass civilizational shit test, and we’re failing it.
Lol:
via Battle Beagle
what we’re seeing is a kind of mass civilizational shit test, and we’re failing it.
I wouldn’t disagree. But I’m not sure what “PUA culture” is.
…“carpe diem” (fish of the day).
I hope the linked writer was being intentionally funny when he gave that mistranslation.
“nunc est bibendum”
Latin for “Buy Michelin”.
But I’m not sure what “PUA culture” is.
Pickup artist.
Pickup artist.
Ah. See? My innocent face.
[ Blushes like a schoolgirl. ]
No, carpe diem means Fish God. Thus the term Ichthyology. The study of the nature of Fish God. I thought everyone knew this. Jeez.
I freely confess that I too had never seen a punt gun, but back when I was paying more attention to weapons TV (probably need to get back to that, from the looks of things…) I recall one that featured a formidable firearm from Beritish Injah called a Howdah gun, purposed for repelling attackers (presumably especially energetic tigers) while riding an elephant. Usually used only by passengers IN the howdah, not the mahout, since the kick was sufficient to knock you back more than a little. Always rather wanted one, just for the name.
“…(presumably especially energetic tigers)…”
They do exist!
https://youtu.be/T0kzdu_wTM0
(presumably especially energetic tigers)
That would be impressive. Physicists have not yet been able to do that even CERN.