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.
[ From the alleyway, sounds of a brief scuffle. A smell of burning coat. ]
Heh.
We live in a very strange world, where lunatics boast of their lunacy
And we are forced to applaud.
Neil Crosby?
I’m not sure which of the Guild’s
torturecorrection machines I deserve for that.While [Scott Bakula] is rocking the balalaika wearing a balaclava while balancing a baklava:
Fixed your egregious oversight.
[ Reaches for tiny silver bell. ]
[ From the alleyway, sounds of a brief scuffle. A smell of burning coat. ]
David, could you please ask the henchlesbians to, in future, check the pockets before burning a coat? It smells like Steve had some of your bar snacks in his coat. [ rummages in pockets for anti-nausea pills ]
[ rummages in pockets for anti-nausea pills ]
I was hoping the appalling smell from the toilets would obscure the odour of singed foodstuffs and melting polyester.
I give you the next “Superman” movie. Written by Ta-Nehisi Coates… And directed by J.J. Abrams!
Jesus wept.
I was hoping the appalling smell from the toilets would obscure the odour of singed foodstuffs and melting polyester.
Synergy, David, synergy.
As ever, the Bee is closer to an actual news organisation than news organisations. And much funnier.
Even if they do make an inferior beef wellington.
I give you the next “Superman” movie. Written by Ta-Nehisi Coates… And directed by J.J. Abrams! Jesus wept.
Why do I get the feeling that it’s going to make The Quest For Peace look brilliant?
Fixed your egregious oversight.
A pox upon me for a clumsy lout.
the odour of singed foodstuffs and melting polyester.
I’ll have you know that coat was a gentle blend of nylon, neoprene and spandex.
“prices at the bar.”
After the fiasco last year wherein I found evidence that I was the only denizen paying my tab with legit dosh, I decided to reduce my anxiety levels by not attending any longer to such crass considerations as “prices”.
Unless, of course, you’d like to browse through my fine selection of “currencies”, including a variety of equities in Theranos Corp., COMPAQ Computers Inc., and American Motors Corp.
How DO you stay afloat, anyway? I mean, Liability Insurance for the Henchlesbians alone must be eating most of the revenues.
Is this…is this place secretly an Art Project? Modern Performance Art? With attendant Government Funding? Are we all just…Components? Elements in some sort of avant-guard symboliziation / metaphoricalist-fuzzy-logic REPRESENTATION? Objec/x/tificationalizationing?
[distant sound of sirens…muffled explosions from the remoter minefields]
Is this…is this place secretly an Art Project? Modern Performance Art? With attendant Government Funding? Are we all just…Components?…
Is this…is this place secretly an Art Project?
I prefer the term nourishing educational resource.
What?
[Warily eyes “sausage” on bar. Hints of movement.]
But you know, here’s a possible revenue center…
Back in 96 in Tokyo I was treated to a fancy dinner which included fresh shrimp grilled. Very very fresh shrimp, if you know what I mean. Disconcerting.
But, the point is, they were fantastically expensive. Something on the close order of $100 US. Per person.
I’m guessing there was a nice profit in there somewhere.
So you COULD consider taking advantage of some of the natural benefits of the local, uhm, ecosystem.
G. K. Chesterton parodies Tennyson, Whitman, and Yeats.
The bets are that the recipients will vote Democrat or its non-US equivalent forever.
We should not fall into the Left’s assumptions that people will vote based solely on their “intersections”.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a9275845/trans-women-republican-voters/
Who could have foreseen this?
Who could have foreseen this?
Some liberals who have lived or traveled in Germany and a few other Western European nations tell me that mixed-gender toilet facilities are commonplace, universally accepted, and something I should get used to: “Take a stall and do your business and stop whining you over-sensitive, prudish American” was their implication. (If Europeans do something then our American customs are to be despised and jettisoned.) I did not notice such toilets when I spent 2 weeks in Switzerland, France, England, and the Netherlands, but I only visited sites popular with tourists.
So, how common are such facilities, and in which nations? And what is the mix of popular attitudes across Europe?
Silly me, I didn’t know that translating-while-white was just another act of white supremacy.
I’ve been to Europe about six or seven times over the past 25 years or so, most time in tourist areas, yes, but also off the beaten path. While I don’t recall any unisex toilets outside of perhaps a very small business/restaurant (note two of my father’s real estate office locations in south Florida were unisex…I know because I cleaned them), my wife does seem to recall one in a museum in Rome…she thinks…that was unisex. Though consider my usual observation in this regard that I took that woman to Europe half a dozen times, yet I have reason to believe she still ain’t shit there once.
No matter how sophisticated the equation, the answer is always white supremacy.
mixed-gender toilet facilities are commonplace, universally accepted, and something I should get used to
Then I’ll stick to Japan … the public facilities I used – train stations, hotels – were sex-segregated and sparkling clean.
They even run a “women’s only” subway cars on most train lines.
WTP and Darleen: Thank you for your observations. I welcome anyone else who can weigh in.
I have been suspecting that the people I talked to were more “woke” (and less honest) than they tried to let on.
They even run a “women’s only” subway cars on most train lines.
As I understand it, that is due to men who rub sexually against women (and do worse) in crowded trains. I have heard that this also happens in Italy, but presumably much less often or there would be sex-segregated trains there too?
They even run a “women’s only” subway cars on most train lines.
Yes, well. There are reasons for that.
I give you the next “Superman” movie
Ehhh. I wouldn’t count your Kryptonians just yet. Warner is banking on the release of Snyder’s extended cut of Justice League somehow reviving their failed franchise, which is not going to happen. Ta-Nehisi Coates has proven singularly unable to write comics anyone wants to read. Abrams is only producing, no director has been announced, which means absolutely nothing has been committed to this project.
The various DC movies have been falling like dominoes. Pattinson’s Batman has been delayed until 2022, the third Wonder Woman movie likely will not get made at all after WW84 tanked so badly, Ezra Miller’s Flash hasn’t even begun shooting yet (it’s not coincidental that shooting is supposed to begin in April – after Warner has had a chance to gauge reaction to the Justice League re-release) and Aquaman 2 is vaporware.
Also DC Comics (which is very distinct from DC Films) is on the chopping block. There have been two major bloodbath-level staffing cuts, nearly all the senior talent is gone, and insiders say Warner is shopping for licensees to buy exclusive publishing rights to the characters.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/oh-the-places-the-woke-will-go-dr-seuss-canceled-for-racial-undertones?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter
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Then I’ll stick to Japan … the public facilities I used – train stations, hotels – were sex-segregated and sparkling clean.
Heh, funny you mention Japan. That was the only other place my wife remembered such, but as that wasn’t Europe I didn’t bother to mention. As for clean…in most proper facilities in cities and such, yes. But public toilets in a couple of parks may have been sex-segregated but consisted of simply a hole in the ground. And not very clean. But this was early 1990’s.
Also, as for the subways in Japan…they used to pack people in like sardines. During rush hour they had employees there that would help push the last few people in so they could shut the doors. Rode that a couple of times before deciding working late was the better option.
I took that woman to Europe half a dozen times, yet I have reason to believe she still ain’t shit there once.
Heh. I now see how you wooed the good lady.
You did woo her, I hope. I mean, she’s not just officially “missing,” is she…?
Who could have foreseen this?
I have to say even as a man I find gender neutral bathrooms deeply uncomfortable and avoid using them whenever possible.
Silly me, I didn’t know that translating-while-white was just another act of white supremacy.
Who are the racists again?
It’s all so confusing …
It’s all so confusing …
Clarity appears:
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.
[ Reaches for tiny silver bell. ]
David’s making angels!
she’s not just officially “missing,” is she…?
Missing? Well no…not really. Not missing much anyway.
Also, as for the subways in Japan…they used to pack people in like sardines.
I’ve seem photos. 😀 I was fortunate and only road the subways in the evening.
Missing? Well no…not really.
Just wanted to check it wasn’t one of those Silence of the Lambs courtships.
A lacquer fixative – tonsorial distinction
Quite by chance I saw a Chinese man in Hong Kong this afternoon with a slightly modified elephants’s trunk hairstyle. The trunk was smaller than the ones illustrated above BUT it had a subsidiary peak just below it. A double header indeed and tonsorial stupidity is plainly not dead.
Oh, hell no. What sort of a philistine drinks Chianti with liver? A bold Cabernet Sauvignon or at the very least a Syrah…perhaps. And fava beans? Don’t get me started…
If it’s racist to translate while white, wouldn’t it be equally racist to read while white? Would running POC’s words through a white brain alter the words and degrade them? Perhaps we should segregate all bookstores into whyte and POC. That would eliminate hate crimes for sure.
Over in Blighty, another existential crisis narrowly averted. What would we do without government ?
If it’s racist to translate while white, wouldn’t it be equally racist to read while white?
Heh.
How about the act of writing? How many sub-Saharan black tribes had written languages before the Europeans arrived?
Quite by chance I saw a Chinese man in Hong Kong this afternoon with a slightly modified elephant’s trunk hairstyle.
Until I saw the video, I had no idea there was a, um, prosthesis inside.
Ta-Nehisi Coates has proven singularly unable to write comics anyone wants to read.
“Coates hasn’t written a word of the script yet, so I’m willing to give him a chance. Maybe it’ll be good. And if not, he won’t need to worry about anybody saying so, because any criticism of his work will be racist”
https://pjmedia.com/uncategorized/jim-treacher/2021/02/26/next-superman-movie-to-be-written-by-ta-nehisi-coates-n1428565
“I stand for Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Racial Equity, and the Chinese Communist way of life!”