Tidings
From the archives, one of my favourites. Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet’s short film about the Moon – and what can sometimes happen when people stop to look at it. Seemed oddly appropriate. If you haven’t seen it before, enjoy.
As is the custom here, posting will be intermittent over the holidays and readers are advised to subscribe to the blog feed, which will alert you to anything new as and when it materialises. Thanks for another 1.5 million or so visits this year and thousands of comments, many of which prompted discussions that are much more interesting than the actual posts. Which is pretty much the idea. And particular thanks to all those who’ve made PayPal donations to keep this rickety barge above water. It’s much appreciated. Curious newcomers and those with nothing better to do are welcome to rummage through the reheated series in search of entertainment.
To you and yours, this year more than most, a very good one.
A very nice video, David. Thanks for re-posting it. Hope you have a very fine Christmas.
Curious newcomers and those with nothing better to do are welcome to rummage through the reheated series in search of entertainment.
[fiddles with lock on heavy door behind bar] May we also rummage through the wine cell–OW! I thought the henchlesbians had gone home too. [fumbles in pocket for first aid kit purchased after last infraction]
Merry Christmas to all! 🌲
Thanks for posting the video. Merry Christmas!
Awesome video, reminded me of this inspiring video, “Celebrate What’s Right With The World” from Dewitt Jones, a National Geographic photographer. Worth watching to the end if you’ve got the time.
I wish you the merriest, the merriest, the merriest, yes the merriest!
The moon is magic, with or without a telescope.
Pst,
Remember all the mysterious construction noises last spring? And the slabs of travertine stacked out back behind the emergency loo? Well, my mole in the upstairs hot-tub maintenance crew tells me that there’s a new door up there, and odd noises have been heard from behind the wall. Add in the Known Fact that the henching staff commute reimbursements have shrunk drastically, and I think we can deduce what happened. And, probably, all to blame on Those Responsible for last year’s B&E job which resulted in the total loss of the reserve Hump Fat supply, along with the last case of the Chateau Tarentino.
*feels good*
Thanks, David. Merry Christmas to you and all your commenters. I’ve left a little something in your stocking. 🙂
Morning, all.
I’ve left a little something in your stocking. 🙂
Bless you, sir. May your enemies find that their colanders drain with surprising inefficiency.
In other news, male feminist detected.
Oh, and I think you’ll want sound on for this.
Merry Christmas, and here’s to a much better 2021.
If you haven’t seen it before, enjoy.
Still gets me. 🙂
Merry Christmas to our host and his rabble.
In other news, male feminist detected.
And yet, in the world outside the classroom, teams of largely male engineers design and construct elaborate bridges every day
and if we are to conclude from the good teacher’s tale that men and women are different, who knows where we might end up?
And if voluntary association along male and female lines is the choice for women in certain circumstances, can it not be so for men as well?
And are we really to believe that on a the vast majority of occasions, the events unfurled as described?
And are we really to believe that on the vast majority of occasions, the events unfurled as described?
It does sound a little, um, embellished. Romanticised and contrived. And Tim’s quip isn’t entirely unwarranted.
Fantasy.
Reality.
Via Rafi.
Merry Christmas to my fellow travellers here, I have many laughs coming here which has to be a good thing. For those who obsess about weather like me, it reached 40 C here today, still 36 at 6.30 pm. We are expecting 40 again tomorrow and a cooler 37 for Christmas.
Also true story, I had a weird dream the other night about this site. I had posted a comment but it was OT and you weren’t allowed to do that until David had given permission. I seriously think it is ptsd related to the time I had to spend in the alley with only a burnt coat to keep me warm because I had missed a close italic thing.
I had a weird dream the other night about this site. I had posted a comment but it was OT and you weren’t allowed to do that until David had given permission.
Heh.
I hope I haven’t given you any ideas!
I hope I haven’t given you any ideas!
There’ll be forms and everything.
Sorry everyone
Ace ponders Die Hard.
Critical Drinker ponders The Mandalorian.
Our betters are thinking again, do not buy milk from these people.
male feminist detected
So why doesn’t Dr Boyce have mixed sex teams?
Just like normal people.
“Jen Silverman: All I have ever wanted from a yogurt is to know who the cows are.”
Douglas Adams: You’re late. “Good evening, Madam and Gentlemen. I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body?”
Do you want to be a great ally to
fat peoplePeople of Enhanced Mass ? Just remake the entire world to accommodate them.Just remake the entire world to accommodate them.
Because the world should revolve around them.
Because the world should revolve around them.
Given their mass and gravitational pull, I suspect that’s quite likely.
To you and yours, this year more than most, a very good one.
Thank you and likewise, David. All the best to you, your Other Half, and your respective families. And indeed, a good one to all my fellow commenters.
Just remake the entire world to accommodate them.
Because the obvious and more practical alternative – dial down the carbs and take a walk now and then – is apparently unthinkable.
Given their mass and gravitational pull, I suspect that’s quite likely.
Exactly what I was implying. 😀 Also their density: “He’s so dense, light bends around him.”
Re: Male feminist detected.
Reminds me of the old joke about the guy interviewing applicants for an office assistant job. After carefully considering their qualifications and experience, he hired the blonde girl with big breasts…
…because she was the best qualified, OF COURSE! You bigot!
Just remake the entire world to accommodate them.
Fat activism is a particularly revealing form of wokeness – steeped in denial, dishonesty and grandiose entitlement. Psychologically, it’s often akin to a kind of self-harm, insofar as its adherents seem to aspire to disability, and with it, exemptions and a kind of deference. It’s all rather manipulative. And so, having made themselves ill-suited to any number of routine activities, they then bitch about their self-inflicted shortcomings as being somehow unfair, a form of supposed oppression that is always and forever someone else’s fault. Presumably, the scolding and manipulation are some kind of compensation for all the aching and wheezing and shortened lifespan.
I don’t generally concern myself with other people’s weight issues, but I do find the psychology of fat activists absurd and repulsive. It’s also perhaps worth noting how fat activism is very much a female-dominated demographic.
It does sound a little, um, embellished. Romanticised and contrived.
He relives his high school social defeats every single working day of his life. And replays his high school fantasies of female attention and revenge on the popular boys.
Ad meliora.
Merry Christmas all and here’s hoping for a better 2021!
It does sound a little, um, embellished. Romanticised and contrived.
Yes. He also leaves out the part–after the project is completed and the victory won–where leader-girl and her minions attack the looks and self-esteem of idea-girl, directly to her face and on social media, until she curls up in the fetal position and starts cutting herself.
It does sound a little, um, embellished. Romanticised and contrived.
My experience also suggests this is contrived: I have worked on many project teams over the years, and the female supervisors were more likely to be very difficult to work for. Not by any means always, but more likely.
Also from Tim Newman, this unsurprising news:
NHS Diversity Coordinators ‘given Covid vaccine before doctors’
This actually makes sense, as Diversity Coordinators are constantly getting in people’s faces.
It does sound a little, um, embellished. Romanticised and contrived.
Clearly only a patriarchal misogynist might think that.
At last, the gaming massage chair.
At last, the gaming massage chair.
Irony: the video is in effect a product advertisement, but one must watch another ad before seeing this ad. It could be worse, though: I’ve seen videos where one must watch two ads before the video starts. [closes without watching]
Irony: the video is in effect a product advertisement, but one must watch another ad before seeing this ad.
YouTube are now pushing the ads to aggravating levels. And so, in order to tempt users to pay for their ‘premium’ service, they’re making their default service much worse than it was.
Merry Christmas and looking forward to a better 2021 — and it can start with people finally fighting back.
they’re making their default service much worse than it was.
In many ways. For instance, I can no longer start a podcast, lock the screen, and put the phone in my pocket while I am out walking. If I do so, the video immediately stops playing.
and it can start with people finally fighting back.
One more time. They are not good people. They do not mean well.
YouTube are now pushing the ads to aggravating levels.
It’s particularly intrusive and offensive when an advert comes on in the middle of a movement of, say, a Beethoven symphony or a Mozart piano concerto. If they were to happen between the movements it would still be aggravating, but not nearly as much.
It’s particularly intrusive and offensive when an advert comes on in the middle of a movement of, say, a Beethoven symphony…
If Google could make its ads follow you wherever you went, like something out of Pohl and Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants, it would do so. Oh wait, that’s what Google Nest and all “smart home” devices are really for….
Merry Christmas to all.
And thanks for the Hades’ Star recommendation. All things considered, probably the most useful “gift” this year. A Merry Christmas ping shortly…
thanks for the Hades’ Star recommendation.
Heh. You say this now…
A Merry Christmas ping shortly…
Bless you, sir. After quietly stashing wine in the hallway closet so as to ensure an adequate supply over the Christmas holidays, may you never discover that said stash has been detected – and reduced in size – by someone who will remain nameless.
[ Glares across room. ]
Oh wait, that’s what Google Nest and all “smart home” devices are really for….
It’s why I refuse to have them in my house. The one thing Orwell didn’t foresee in “1984” was that people would actually want to own the very device that spies on them.