Friday Ephemera
The timeless smell of Hopkins. || Scenes. (h/t, Julia) || Construction site scenes. || The thrill of kidney stones. || In the Ningaloo Canyons. || Attention, housewives. Do not clean clothes with gasoline. (h/t, Things) || Acting in trying circumstances. || Assorted BBC sound effects. || “The masses will rally behind us.” Behind meaning beneath, of course. || Rebuttals of note. || Place your bets. (h/t, Perry) || Giant, slow-motion balloon-pose-off of note. || “Plastic hottie… professional thot.” || Feel his pain. || Poor Jenn. || How to make a zig-zag pattern. (h/t, Damian) || A map of the internet, circa 1973. || Sexy aircraft. || Today’s word is. || What she said. || And finally, obviously, it’s harder without the heels.
|| Assorted BBC sound effects. || “The masses will rally behind us.” Behind meaning beneath, of course. || Rebuttals of note. || Place your bets. (h/t, Perry) ||
Heh.
“Plastic hottie… professional thot.”
Eh, been done.
Know The Good News, Or Else.
Where that and this is one of these . . . .
“Acting in trying circumstances.”
Related : Mr Bean on a rollercoaster
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qkAvyxZNOvo
Several kinds of watching the media.
A play in three acts.
The White Donkey.
The Gremlin-Troll truce of 1992.
The hazards of working in sports media . . . .
Plastic hottie… professional thot.
To quote a famous man: “Not a pretty sight!”
Hopkins: it smells like fava beans, with undertones of a nice Chianti.
Scenes.
The little boats made it even more fabulous. 🙂
Morning, all.
The little boats made it even more fabulous. 🙂
I’m not entirely sure that the overall effect is quite the one intended.
Douglas Murray spends a couple of evenings with Antifa.
Acting in trying circumstances.
I thought he was going to pass out.
A map of the internet, circa 1973.
And every machine connected had to be rebooted whenever a new system joined.
I thought he was going to pass out.
It did look touch-and-go for a moment. But points for effort, definitely.
The thrill of kidney stones
That made my cock hurt 🙁
That made my cock hurt 🙁
OVERSHARING ALERT! OVERSHARING ALERT! OVERSHARING ALER
[ Rummages for keys to deactivate oversharing klaxon. ]
LOL
[ Restores normal, non-emergency lighting. Wafts away clouds of choking refrigerant. ]
I managed to turn the cooling unit back on.
That made my cock hurt 🙁
Did the hens report any objections?
‘Always respect the media’
https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1319314180462161920
Douglas Murray spends a couple of evenings with Antifa.
It’s time to stop pussyfooting around and simply terminate these animals. That may sound harsh but there’s no redemption for them, they need to go. If you’ve a mad dog, you shoot it, put it out of its misery. Let us pray that Trump prevails and brings on the day of reckoning.
You thrilled at Sharknado!, no be prepared for more excitement as Samuel L. Bronkowitz productions brings you Dolphicane!.
The thrill of kidney stones.
The jaggedness of a calcium oxalate stone (as typical of the one in the picture) contribute to hematuria (haematuria metric) but not pain. Urate stones are smooth, but cause as much pain, the pain comes from distension of the ureter either because of the size of the stone, back pressure as urine builds up between the renal pelvis and where a stone is causing obstruction, or both. A stone 5mm or less generally will pass spontaneously but can cause intermittent distension. There is rarely johnsonalgia from a stone making its way into the world as a stone too large to pass generally won’t make it past the internal urethral sphincter. /pedant
Our betters.
The person kicking off that mess is a lawyer and member of the Georgia (US) legislature.
…the pain comes from distension of the ureter…
Yeah, you’re not helping.
Our betters.
And being our betters, not one of them thought to look up the secondary definition of the word.
And being our betters, not one of them thought to look up the secondary definition of the word.
They have no need to worry. Their buddies at
the Ministry of TruthMerriam-Webster will “correct” things by removing that secondary definition.Hank Johnson (U.S. Congressman, Atlanta area): “Guam might tip over!” There! Can’t get dumber than that!
Dar’shun Kendrick: Hold my beer…
Our betters.
I was going to post that as “Today’s word is”.
BTW, you know they’re feigning ignorance – they all know how to spell coyote correctly when they’re pretending they’ve never heard the word before.
What she said.
Who is she? That was awesome!
Let’s focus our minds on the most important issues of the day. Today I was told by someone who works in day care that they were having trouble learning the new ‘ABC’ song tune. I did not know what the hell she was referring to, so she showed me this you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I7v0HqejXE. Apparently the little flowers struggle with the ‘lmnop’ bit. Thank God someone has addressed this.
The other pressing issue is the racism and transphobia of The Wiggles, an Australian children’s band https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/the-wiggles-have-responded-to-backlash-over-their-pappadum-song/news-story/88ed23ce324e1f6d7188995d20e5e4d9
Just btb they were a favourite of my children when they were little and we saw them play live 3 times, the most I have ever seen one band play. Of course back then they were sexist as well, coz there were no girls in the band.
The comment “wait until they hear about the drug mules” made me smile (and wish I’d thought of it first).
I believe the Wiggles hold the enviable distinction of being the first overseas musical act to perform in New York post 9/11. A hearty Good on yer Mates was and still is due for what at the time was a pretty brave step to take.
Every country has to have its gay pride parade, I guess.
When you’ve got too much time on your hands under lockdown:
via Paul Newman
Woke segregation:
https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1319638865620160512/photo/1
via @TitaniaMcgrath on Twitter.
Your taxes at work.
https://order-order.com/2020/10/22/arts-council-defends-handing-215305-to-one-drag-performer/
Who is she? That was awesome!
The lady is Conservative MP for Saffron Walden, Kemi Badenoch. Needless to say, the Guardian and Independent aren’t big fans.
Needless to say, the Guardian and Independent aren’t big fans.
Look who else isn’t: https://twitter.com/PriyamvadaGopal/status/1318843003503546368
Apparently the little flowers struggle with the ‘lmnop’ bit
Heh. That stuck with me. I have a fairly good memory of my younger years and I do recall at first thinking ‘elemeno’ was one letter. Like ‘double u’. But some how, some way, I figured it out. So here’s another dangerous thing that I have been thinking…WTF do we spend so much money and waste so much time on the education of children when 95% of what we try to cram into their heads is either useless or something they would/could/should figure out anyway? I have worked with, and also am friends with, a great number of people who either 1) slagged their way through high school and/or 2) never went to college. These people somehow figured out life and got jobs (eventually) paying very good wages. One is a multimillionaire who builds luxury homes and has raise five kids (his choices of spouses however…well, TMI). I myself was (am?) not exactly a stellar student, though I do tend to test well, and I certainly am not hurting. Additionally, my professional successes improved tremendously once I realized most of the crap I was taught was basically crap. Once I jettisoned most of what I had been taught, the world made much, much more sense and my career took off. Think of the wasted potential, the wasted years we put young people through when most of what they need to know could be (and used to be) taught in just 10 years. Hell, I have an aunt who never even went to high school. Granted, she didn’t become tremendously wealthy but she and her hubs raised six kids who all do fairly well. Bah. I’m the ignorant one.
I’m disappointed that they didn’t use the extra beats at the end to reintroduce “and per se and”.
if “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”, then why bother with education after that?
WTF do we spend so much money and waste so much time on the education of children when 95% of what we try to cram into their heads is either useless or something they would/could/should figure out anyway?
Well, I don’t think it’s the concept as much as the content. I used to math tutor adults who wanted to finish their interrupted high school education, and I assure you many of them needed math skills that they absolutely had not been able to figure out on their own. On the other end of the spectrum, I used to know an elementary school teacher with two degrees who could not do sixth grade math – she used to text me from the store asking how to calculate 60% off of $24.99 because she couldn’t find the calculator on her phone.
You won’t get an argument from me that a one-size-fits-all education isn’t optimal, but I think there does exist a basic corpus of knowledge everyone should be provided through at least elementary school. And we’re not.
I think there does exist a basic corpus of knowledge everyone should be provided through at least elementary school. And we’re not.
WRONG: wypipo bad (except the person saying wypipo bad) and stop killing the planet with your happiness. Everyone knows that, see? Good, now give the kid a degree so zher can burn a black neighborhood down.
And being our betters, not one of them thought to look up the secondary definition of the word.
I know this has been a huge laugh and I, too, contributed a few guffaws and snickers.
But it also pisses me off. It reveals how these “open border” people have paid absolutely NO attention to what has been going on at our southern border. Indeed, they are militantly incurious to the human trafficking, murders of American ranchers, cartel murders, and the crimes that are committed by illegals – most of those criminal illegals having been deported numerous times.
Why let actual facts on the ground harsh their “we are all global citizens” mellow?
[ Writes down militantly incurious. ]
but I think there does exist a basic corpus of knowledge everyone should be provided through at least elementary school. And we’re not.
Definitely agree…per my Aunt who done been educated through the eighth grade. The kicker is the history/civics. That does require some maturity in thinking. But ultimately, you cannot force people to learn such things. Yet most people today don’t know what they need to know about such anyway and, as near as I can tell, have been ill educated anyway. But one thing I do believe we really, really need to cut down on is the fiction. A good chunk that I had constantly shoved in my face/down my throat was worthless BS. Most of the great works that I got much out of were works I read/discovered on my own. On the Road, Moby Dick, Anna Karenina, 1984, Animal Farm, The Iliad, Kafka, Kipling, Konrad, Camus, most of Twain, etc.
“Scenes.”
It looks like the Action Man collection I dreamed of when I was six. (That’s GI Joe to our colonial friends.)
“What she said.”
There was a time when hearing that in our sovereign Parliament would have been a weight off my mind. However the schools round here now come under the purview of a crowd of Leftist chancers in Edinburgh in whom I have no confidence whatsoever to run a whelk stall, let alone the education of an entire generation.
Yes, there are, and you just proved it.
Say, if any of all y’all over in Blighty want some breathing room, real estate in the US&A is real cheap, there are only about 100 million of us left.