Friday Ephemera
“A lacquer fixative sees that it doesn’t sag.” || He does this at least as well as you would. || I struggle to understand modern music. || At last, amplified squirrels. (h/t, Damian) || Meanwhile, in Essex. || Practically flirtatious with a criminal mastermind. || Merry old London town. (h/t, Holborn) || London’s alleys and passages. (h/t, Things) || The dance they do. || Nicely done, but good question. || Aqueduct of note. || The thrill of Icelandic quiz shows. || Um. || Things you’ll find on a lesbian dating app. || For big earrings. || A little build-up. || Place your bets. || His beef wellingtons are fancier than yours. || Coffee foam. || Fifteen seconds of art. || And finally, festively, it seemed such a good idea at the time.
Fifteen seconds of art.
We’ve seen her…art…before, haven’t we. With her arse in the air and sometimes with shrubbery on display?
A lacquer fixative sees that it doesn’t sag
Piker.
And yet she built her career on attracting attention through vulgar exhibitionism.
“Educator”
Honk !
Sandrine Schaefer – Fifteen Seconds of Art: Is she the solidly built sheila who wobbled around on a stage naked with talcum powder? If it is, at least she’s dressed this time.
Fifteen seconds of art.
Did our tax dollars pay for that?
Piker.
Yippee ki yay, tovarish?
Yippee ki yay, tovarish?
Da, ty ponimayesch.
And so many medals on their chests. The hair must make them very brave.
Things you’ll find on a lesbian dating app.
‘Harley’ didn’t put a lot of effort into ‘her’ profile.
” His beef wellingtons are fancier than yours.”
Strangely offputting, like golden raspberries. They just look…wrong!
Morning, all.
‘Harley’ didn’t put a lot of effort into ‘her’ profile.
I’m still not entirely sure that Harley isn’t a wind-up. It’s the combination of the mugshot, the badly-painted toenails, and the words “fun gamer girl.” But I’m told, by people who know about such things, that this, um, phenomenon is now quite commonplace.
Strangely offputting, like golden raspberries. They just look…wrong!
I thought they looked rather impressive. Though I’m someone who still sniggers at the words beef wellingtons.
Is she the solidly built sheila who wobbled around on a stage naked with talcum powder?
No, that was Doris Uhlich, whose talcy buttocks thrilled us no end.
Philistines, the lot of you.
Philistines, the lot of you.
As the famous Maxwell Smart often retorted “And loving it!”
“Educator”
Can’t quite work out whether what’s more alarming in that video.
Is it the signs of a deranged mind behind the blank almost unblinking eyes?
Or the lyrics?
Or is it in wondering just how ample she almost certainly must be?
Can’t quite work out what’s more alarming in that video.
It’s worth bearing in mind that grand and fashionable causes – say, “social justice,” or feminism, or “critical race” woo – often attract people who aren’t happy with themselves – who, shall we say, have issues. It seems to be a kind of diversion, a displacement. Which is to say, their actual problems are not necessarily the ones they want to talk about. And which, in turn, may explain why these things so often have an odd, vaguely creepy, atmosphere.
[ Added: ]
Jordan Peterson made a similar point. I forget the wording, but the gist was that if you can’t win peer approval by the usual means – if you’re too fat, or too thin, or plain, or just psychologically obnoxious, you can still announce your piety and importance by banging on, rather zealously, about climate change or “whiteness.” And there’s a chance to build a clique and browbeat people – to, as it were, make them pay – via some variation of “social justice.” All that lovely scolding, those endless games of Gotcha!…
And hence the very common, pretty much defining, Mean Girls dynamic.
Hi- the Icelandic Quiz Show has been removed due to a copyright claim. I assume it’s this story: https://au.news.yahoo.com/contestants-astonishing-tantrum-on-tv-game-show-105335549.html
I assume it’s this story
It is. I’ve updated the link twice. The current one seems to work.
You’ll be thrilled to hear I’ve forked out for some quality upgrades to our amenities. Including Satellite TV.
These luxuries may have to be reflected in the prices at the bar.
His beef wellingtons are fancier than mine.
Well, sure.
Bet he didn’t make his on a fucking sailing boat though!
https://youtu.be/Jrg0X9H6FGU
On what has thankfully become a Leningrad Cowboys themed thread here are the boys with their mates – the Red Army Choir.
…Leningrad Cowboys themed thread…
Beat me to it, for some reason a decent full version of that video has become nigh impossible to find. From the song, “…Muscle Shoals has the Swampers”…, for anyone interested there is a good documentary about Fame studios, along with Muscle Shoals Sound after the Swampers broke off from Fame, and the astounding number of musicians who recorded at both places.
Good news, everyone ! Existential crisis averted.
quality upgrades
Looks like Carry On Screaming.
Muscle Shoals has the Swampers
I like the dig at Neil Crosby in that song.
Looks like Carry On Screaming.
But with lower production values. Here, let me change the channel. Ah, that’s better.
I got the dish at a substantial discount.
Though I’m someone who still sniggers at the words beef wellingtons.
Because in the plural they sound like rain gear?
Because in the plural they sound like rain gear?
Exactly. Meat boots.
No socks, obviously. For the full effect.
Honk !
We live in a very strange world, where lunatics boast of their lunacy.
Jeff wants to show you something.
for anyone interested there is a good documentary about Fame studios
which left unsaid that “the Swampers” were.. .wait for it… a bunch of white guys.
Twas funny, that.
Well, if you say so…
Every day I wake up and thank Gaia mean tweets are gone, and we have class back.
All that money to send a probe to mars and they can’t even put a poffle on the microphone!?
A Quiz:
a) Current Democrat economic theory and plan;
b) Current “climate change” theory and plan;
c) How to end the covid farrago;
d) Japanese myth.
e) All of the above.
Chose the best answer.
“Existential crisis averted.”
And incalculable publicity gained. Well played, Hasbro, well played.
“Well, if you say so…”
There was a promo for one of the digital TV channels here in Britain (I think it may have been Sony Christmas Movies, because that’s a thing) which began, “In a year that’s been all about coming together…”. It was on for about four months and I ran out of things to throw at the telly.
London’s alleys and passages.
You can’t imagine my astonishment at recognizing the first entry on that list. I’ve been to London exactly twice, but the second time I visited I stayed at a cute little B&B on Pelham Street just a little east of the tube station. It was fun to wander around the neighborhood, though I wish I’d realized at the time that I was exploring a noteworthy alley!
(The Lovely Bride loves nothing quite so much as the V&A, so the number of husband points I received for finding a B&B less than 400 meters from the entrance was sufficient to keep me out of the doghouse for nigh on two years.)
We live in a very strange world, where lunatics boast of their lunacy.
“Is’s wha’ I do fer me kibble”. Loonies gotta looney. It has always been thus. What’s truly looney is we schmucks pay them for it. Because we are too wealthy and thus too lazy to tell them to sod off. It’s “easier” to subsidize it. Thus we get more and more of it.
Deap Thots
1. Alexander Augustine makes entirely too much sense on immigration. He must be deplatformed immediately and cancelled as to employment.
2 Senator Paul says there are no long-term studies of the effects of puberty blockers. He says don’t know what effects they will have.
The bets are that the recipients will vote Democrat or its non-US equivalent forever.
Well, if you say so…
Broader, more in tune with the modern thinking version, “Being stupid makes us smart”.
Loonies gotta looney. It has always been thus.
Yes, but at one time our intellectuals did not coddle them.
I used to unthinkingly accept the prevailing liberal attitude that, when dealing with crazy people, one should let their odd behavior pass without remark or objection. Not anymore.
You mean I’ve been hearing that right all this time? I’d just sort of figured they were saying something that made sense, just with the lack of enunciation so tragically common among vocalists.
I like the dig at Neil Crosby in that song.
Neil Crosby? Didn’t he play with Stephen Nash, Graham Stills, and David Young?
I used to unthinkingly accept the prevailing liberal attitude that, when dealing with crazy people, one should let their odd behavior pass without remark or objection. Not anymore.
Yes. Not to sound like a jerk but I came to that conclusion about 20 years or so ago. Regardless I do appreciate hearing about other people speaking up about these things. It’s about the only thing that gives me any hope.
They certainly don’t look like food.
The Leningrad Cowboys singing “Sweet Home Alabama” clip is amusing on so many levels. I particularly grooved on imagining the balaclava player thinking “I finally get to rock out on this thing.”
I particularly grooved on imagining the balaclava player
Now this guy is rocking the balaclava:
While this guy is rocking the balalaika wearing a balaclava while balancing a baklava:
Well played, Hasbro, well played
I know a handful of people who work for WotC, and the general consensus is that Hasbro corporate is utterly clueless when it comes to marketing their products. They’re so large, and their income stream so massive, that even thunderous mistakes won’t affect things much. So there’s no incentive not to make them.
TL;DR: I think this one’s on stupid marketing people rather than clever marketing people.
While this guy is rocking the balalaika wearing a balaclava while balancing a baklava
[ Reaches under bar, rings tiny silver bell. Henchlesbians loom. ]
Henchlesbians loom.
I’m a bad boy.