Friday Ephemera
I’m not entirely sure what’s happening here. || Plaything of note. || Today’s word is ambition. || A searchable archive of old book illustrations. (h/t, Things) || The village of upside-down boat houses. (h/t, PiperPaul) || Premature greeting. || Snout patting of note. || “Something needed to be done.” || Scenes. || No, don’t thank me. || You’d never tire of this. || Continue the research. || The thrill of the circus. || The thrill of Tesco. || The thrill of mould. || Sounds of the forest and a nature sound map. (h/t, Things) || Struggle session detected. || When the circus comes to town. || Self-censoring font. || Found reading the book laborious, but anyway, this is coming. || Flamingos feed. || And finally, in fly-related news.
Robert the Bruce whirls in his grave like a runaway gyroscope.
Commonplace insanity, sadly. The quote attributed to the dean is a rib-tickler, though clearly a joke: there isn’t a dean of that name and the story only appears on 4chan and similar, although as we all know academia is rife with such fools.
would have excelled in any course of study at the University of Edinburgh
Huh. The amazing privilege of bald-faced lying in public to everyone and not getting called on it by the completely honest and not-at-all corrupt main stream media.
Meanwhile, at the KFC there is a dispute at the counter.
And after his original tweet, this: “In China are permit throw hot wok oil this creature violence threat”
I’m not sure if LeBron James and toadies like him realize the contempt many Chinese people hold for people of his ilk. The ones in the US attending university may mouth diversity platitudes in English out of fear, but behind closed doors or in Chinese – there’s no love lost, and no doubt about which is considered the superior race.
Over here, people of pallor get beat about the head with slavery guilt trips, in Europe they might use colonialism more as the guilt cudgel, but either way, nothing gets said about the Chinese Belt and Road exploitation of Africa. Odd that.
University of Edinburgh renames David Hume building after George Floyd
In Los Angeles last night, two Sheriff deputies were ambushed in their car, shot in the head and are at the hospital — where “mostly peaceful” BLM thugs have gathered and tried to break into the hospital.
where “mostly peaceful” BLM thugs have gathered and tried to break into the hospital.
Here’s a question for anyone who cares to answer. Has your estimation of black people in aggregate, as a notional group, been in any way enhanced by the behaviour of BLM?
I am afraid she is occupied at the moment.
It’s in extremely poor taste to put on those fat suits and mock the obese…oh…what?
Never mind.
Has your estimation of . . . .
Not at all affected in my case, but then I regularly encounter too many utter cretins of any variety to note anything other than individuals . . . as I and other individuals with synapses, with all such other individuals also of any variety, are left watching the hipsters and noting that yes, they really are that utterly worthless . . . .
And of utter and absolute cretins, and why actual protests keep occurring—as opposed to mere criminal riots—quite specific instances easily come to mind . . .
Here’s a question for anyone who cares to answer. Has your estimation of black people in aggregate, as a notional group, been in any way enhanced by the behaviour of BLM?
No. Quite the opposite. I was telling a friend the other day that all this rioting, arson, looting, terrorizing the citizenry in the name of career criminals, drug addicts, and thugs is creating racists – by the actual definition of the word, not the watered down thing that’s tossed at anyone of insufficient melanin content. It is getting harder and harder to watch people acting like mindless animals, and to look at the mess that is the continent of Africa, and not wonder if there is something fundamentally wrong with their genetic make-up. But then I also think that every color/culture/race/whatever group has their backwards, peasant, hillbilly types, although not every culture etc glorifies their backwards, etc types. Or gives them loudspeakers and makes them the spokespeople of the group.
“There are certain childhood favourites one reads as an adult and realises with regret what poor taste one had.“
Two words: Tom Swift. He said, shamefacedly. Not even the original pre-war ones, either.
That said, I don’t think I could trust a kid who wasn’t intrigued by titles such as Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster or Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane.
“I kept on out of a general affection for fantasy and appreciation of The Hobbit – there Tolkien actually did write well.”
I’m glad I’m not alone in thinking this.
“Both have their place, but the pity of it is, Tolkien COULD be a good storyteller. He just lost his essential storyline somewhere amidst working out all the other details re: dwarves, orcs, elven languages, etc.”
Yes. My overriding impression of LOTR is that it’s just, to coin a phrase, one damn thing after another. As I say, I appreciate what he did with it and what would now be known as “the wider universe”; I just don’t like it very much.
“However, for those of you who can’t break the comic book habit, a new Wonder Wxmyn DC comic.”
They should just have killed her off when Lynda Carter packed it in. How can you follow that?
[… ]but then I regularly encounter too many utter cretins of any variety to note anything other than individuals […]
I have noticed that your pattern matching subsystem appears to be faulty.
Oh FFS.
Why are modern cars so dull (literally)? An investigation.
It’s true. Of the 60-70 I can see from my window, I counted 8 red and 5-10 blue (a few were so pale or dark they might as well be grey). There were no other colours. No wonder everyone’s so miserable.
I have noticed that your pattern matching subsystem appears to be faulty.
Heh.
Of course, if you were asked for details, as you have no pattern, no match, you’d be left spluttering, as usual.
I don’t think I could trust a kid who wasn’t intrigued by titles such as Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster or Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane.
The series peaked with Tom Swift and His Touring Turing Machine.
…you’d be left spluttering, as usual.
Speaking of failures in pattern recognition…
Oh FFS.
Can there be a single institution in the UK – in the Anglosphere, more broadly – that hasn’t been infested, and isn’t being destroyed, by these cultural termites?
Speaking of failures in pattern recognition…
Pattern recognition is a survival trait.
“I even enjoyed the low-level pulp of the Doc Savage books.”
*cough* … the Gor books by John Norman. 🙂
“I even enjoyed the low-level pulp of the Doc Savage books.”
*cough* … the Gor books by John Norman. 🙂
David, does your Correction Booth have a setting for such errors?
pst314: “…the quality [of science fiction] improved greatly with the arrival of more talented writers.” Many of them cultivated and published by a better grade of editor, notably John W. Campbell, jr. (Who was publicly denounced as a fascist and racist by a regrettably ‘woke’ SF writer last year.)
RNB: That’s right. As did other editors. As with every human activity, the improvement was gradual and was accomplished by many people–not miraculously sudden.
David, does your Correction Booth have a setting for such errors?
I was thinking this may be a job for the hamster urine.
I was thinking this may be a job for the hamster urine.
That’s a bit harsh. I was thinking twenty minutes listening to a pompous critic read from the New York Review of Books.
But in all seriousness, I confess that I never read Doc Savage so I shouldn’t comment. I loved Edgar Rice Burroughs when I was about 12 and went through the entire Tarzan and Marx and Earths Core series, but when I returned a couple decades later I didn’t so much. To some extent that was true of Lord of the Rings (which i read at age 10 or 11) but LotR remains more enjoyable that Burroughs.
*cough* … the Gor books by John Norman. 🙂
Hello-o-o-o down there! Can you hear-r-r-r-r me?
If I could find my Infinity Gauntlet (*rummages wildly*, where DID I put the damn thing?) and could Thanos snap and prevent any Africans being brought to America what, other than certain styles of music, would we lack?
Hal,
Interesting Mil site. Thanks.
what, other than certain styles of music, would we lack?
Interesting crime statistics?
Two words: Tom Swift.
I’ll admit that I have read almost all of the Tom Swift, Jr., series as a child. I believe that I owned all of the volumes up to and including Tom Swift and His Dyna-4 Capsule (judging from a 40+ year old memory of the book covers).
“I’ll admit that I have read almost all of the Tom Swift, Jr., series as a child.”
I think that’s the ones I’m talking about (to me at the time, they were all I knew, so it was just “Tom Swift”). I don’t think I ever owned any, but my school library had a fairly complete set in hardback.
I remember my teacher rolling her eyes whenever I checked them out. Or maybe that was Biggles…
Oh FFS
It seems that the most obvious recipient of properties funded by the slave trade is the National Trust itself.
I look forward to their self-denunciation and immediate disbandment.
Has your estimation of black people in aggregate, as a notional group, been in any way enhanced by the behaviour of BLM?
No, but as a follower of Colin Flaherty over the last few years it’s merely provided confirmatory evidence to what I already knew.
I was telling a friend the other day that all this rioting, arson, looting, terrorizing the citizenry in the name of career criminals, drug addicts, and thugs is creating racists – by the actual definition of the word, not the watered down thing that’s tossed at anyone of insufficient melanin content.
Indeed; it’s opening many people’s eyes to the reality of black dysfunction and the efforts of the leftist media to conceal it from the public.
Some amusing wildlife photos for your delectation
Somewhat off topic but, how on earth do Puffins get more than one fish in their beak?