Friday Ephemeraren’t
Because I’m just a big-hearted softy, a chance to throw together your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. I’ll set the ball rolling with the cunning of cows; scenes of nocturnal activity; how to sit on a chair; some traffic news; and via Holborn, proof, if more were needed, that the Tribes To The North are hardy folk.
Oh, and remember, kids. Always blame the white devil.
…for aisiaseen…..
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gung-haggis-fat-choy-canadian-celebration-combines-robert-burns-night-and-chinese-new-year-180961845/
It was Tim T.
Thank you, David. And thank you, Tim T. That comic is pure delight.
“inspired by Gary Larson perhaps.”
My first thought was of Harold, “That most dangerous of animals, a clever sheep.”
“[Someone] gets {fired, prosecuted, mob set on him} by {politicians, activists, media} for the crime of doing what previous elected officials told him he had to do.”
With my own minor adjustments, that’s a good three quarters of modern politics right there.
“So people of Caucasian or other non-African ethnic extraction don’t ever have blocked sewers?”
As I’ve mentioned here before, all sorts of people in Australia have ’em. (https://www.youtube.com/c/DrainAddict/videos) As our host reinforced on an earlier Friday. (I couldn’t find a budgerigar puffing up and looking content gif to post on that day.)
OK…help me out here. As this blog i just about my last bastion on sanity and I’ve been having some difficulties getting a straight (heh) answer to this question…and yes, I am 100% comfortable with my own answer but in the interest of being somewhat (classical) liberal minded…
True or False…If you have a natural penis and natural testicles and do not have a natural vagina nor have natural ovaries, you are NOT a woman.
True or False…
True
True or False…
Related, and shamelessly
stolenfortified from Ace.These are dikes
Never heard them called that before.
I call them side cutters
Employed a bloke once who was from England, he called them diags which was short for diagonal pliers – what a weirdo
WTP: “…If you have a natural penis and natural testicles and do not have a natural vagina nor have natural ovaries, you are NOT a woman.”
On the basis of that statement I declare that you meet my standard of a sane man, providing you are [still] naturally ‘equipped’.
Oops.
https://twitter.com/DonNantwich/status/1360496614218031106
Back to the Gorilla Glue hair do and yte devils, she had to do it.
I don’t know if we’ve covered the story of actress Gina Carano, who has apparently been sacked by LucasFilms for comparing the rampant ideological intolerance in US politics to the persecution of Jews that preceded
Silly of her to use such an insensitive comparison – except that we’ve watched 5 years of the Left in the US accusing Trump (& anyone who doesn’t hate him sufficiently) of being a Nazi, with none of the outrage about insensitivity. Pointing this out on twitter, I got a chorus of “but this is different!” replies. It’s always different, isn’t it?
Furthermore, reading about (or debating) this online, you’d think she was comparing the experience of anyone un-PC opinions with the suffering endured by Jews in the holocaust. Reading her actual words it became clear her emphasis was with the intolerant behaviour of the woke people, *not* the experience of non-Democrats.
Hers was a slippery slope argument – “look where this leads”. But she’s right about the intolerance
So the same 3 themes: misrepresentation, ignoring the point, and selective outrage. We’ve seen it all before, over and over
*that preceded the holocaust (1st para)
I don’t know if we’ve covered the story of actress Gina Carano,
I did touch on it here.
I don’t know if we’ve covered the story of actress Gina Carano,
What’s interesting to me isn’t so much the perversity and opportunism of the outrage, or the irony of it all, but the way in which the outrage, or pseudo-outrage, has been regurgitated – with an odd uniformity, as if the “racism” and “anti-Semitism,” its alleged “abhorrence,” were somehow self-evident and inarguable. Beneath explanation. And so, much of the media moved as one, united in its mendacity and contrivance.
But then Ms Corano’s inclusion of Star Wars droid noises in her Twitter bio – specifically, “boop/bop/beep” – was construed by much the same crowd as obvious and punishable “transphobia.” Rather than, as seems more obvious, gentle mockery of the woke bullies who demanded she list her pronouns.
The question I had recently is why has the whole Star Wars franchise been cancelled, what with its light side == good guys, dark side == bad guys blatant racism?
Hasn’t. Why hasn’t the franchise been cancelled. Obviously…double obviously…
I don’t know if we’ve covered the story of actress Gina Carano,
With her departure, and the departure of the little green foundling, a third season of The Mandalorian, should one be made, is, I’d guess, losing its appeal.
Back to the Gorilla Glue hair do and yte devils, she had to do it.
What’s more, she’s a race traitor–sorry, race traitor!!!–because Gorilla Glue is a white company. 🙂
It must be very hard, going through life with a 75 IQ.
but my cattle obviously haven’t been educated at university and have never got through such a gate.
Would that be a cow college? [desperately attempts an expression of innocent inquiry]
The question I had recently is why has the whole Star Wars franchise been cancelled, what with its light side == good guys, dark side == bad guys blatant racism?
Because it can be used to influence young minds, I guess. In what sounds like a quote from the Star Wars series (which should have bowed out gracefully a long time ago) “it’s too valuable to die!”
All kids are fed a daily diet of propaganda – in the films they watch, the assemblies and now their daily Zoom lessons where parents like me get to hear exactly the sort of nonsense their kids are told.
They’ll either all grow up completely brainwashed, or they’ll react against it big-time
With her departure, and the departure of the little green foundling, a third season of The Mandalorian, should one be made, is, I’d guess, losing its appeal.
They’re adamant there’s going to be a third season, and the ratings probably justify it, but creatively it’ll be vacant. The story arc begun in S01E01 has been closed. There’s nowhere to go unless they turn the Mandalorian into a kind of Mad Max figure, a framing device for stories in a particular setting, but with no agency or ambition of his own. That’s enough of an inversion of the character concept that it’ll turn off any fans that are left.
What happened to Carano is repugnant, but I’m going to be the iconoclast and point out that she isn’t a very good actress and she was always an SJW mascot hire. “Cara Dune” isn’t a female character. She’s the bog standard Big Dumb Fighter sidekick, a stock trope in men’s adventure fiction. She’s the Jet Black, the Doubar, the Renny, the Chewbacca. She was cast solely as a sop to the SJWs inside Lucasfilm who wanted big strong action girl built like a brick shithouse.
She did a good job in the role because it didn’t require very much from her. Disney’s alleged plans were spinning her off to headline her own Cara-Dune-as-Sheriff-of-Tatooine show, which would have been a disaster.
What happened to Carano is repugnant, but I’m going to be the iconoclast and point out that she isn’t a very good actress
Fair enough. I wouldn’t argue with that. But she did the job she was given, was apparently popular among fans, and it made a change to see a kick-ass woman played by an actress who looked like she might actually be capable of kicking ass.
who looked like she might actually be capable of kicking ass
It depends on how far you’re willing to suspend disbelief, I suppose. I was waiting for some kind of reference to a heavy-gravity origin world, or some kind of genetic engineering program for shock troopers. It would have tied in nicely with the darker tone, and it’s commonly part of the trope that the Big Dumb Fighter sidekick doesn’t do anything else because they can’t – breaking heads is all they’re good at. The main character gives them a purpose and a reason to believe they can be more than a blunt instrument.
The simple truth is that the Roundhouse Kicking Cop Chick trope is one nobody wants to see. Men don’t want to watch a woman getting beaten up by a man. Women don’t want to watch a woman getting beaten up by a man. Neither men nor women want to watch women with the height, reach and musculature of men. That leaves your only option to have your willowy, sassy waif be untouchable in combat, at levels that look juvenile and farcical.
Men don’t want to watch a woman getting beaten up by a man. Women don’t want to watch a woman getting beaten up by a man. Neither men nor women want to watch women with the height, reach and musculature of men.
Heh. Just thought that was worth repeating.
Disney’s alleged plans were spinning her off to headline her own Cara-Dune-as-Sheriff-of-Tatooine show, which would have been a disaster.
I would not have been rushing home to watch. She was fine as a supporting character, but not, I think, a charismatic lead. Again, I suspect The Mandalorian is pretty much done now, for me, anyway. As you say, the main story and theme to date have been concluded. It was a fun way to pass 45 minutes once a week, but I’m not sufficiently invested in Star Wars mythos to care about Boba Fett and his lady assassin sidekick, or the lady Mandalorian and her claim to the… whatever it was.
I’m not sufficiently invested in Star Wars mythos to care about […]
Probably the show’s biggest misstep in S02 was shoehorning in a bunch of EU stuff that nobody outside of hardcore Star Wars nerds remembers or understands. The brilliance of S01 was that the show was recognizably Star Wars but did not require you to know anything at all beyond the original trilogy, and probably not even that. As was mentioned elsewhere, good genre shows do not require you to digest an encyclopedia or unrelated information just to get on board.
“Cara Dune” isn’t a female character.
I’m just revisiting the series now and I don’t think there are any female characters in S01 except the village headwoman in the
SevenTwo Samurai knockoff episode. Every other character played by an actress could have been easily swapped for an actor without even changing the script. Cara Dune, the spaceport operator, the lady assassin, the armorer, etc.Although it is apparently Word of God that Nick Nolte’s gnome farmer alien is female.
your willowy, sassy waif be untouchable in combat, at levels that look juvenile and farcical
Since Whedon’s in the news again, there’s something about Buffy-as-feminist-icon that’s always amused me. The “teenager vampire hunter” genre predates Buffy by a fair bit – Lost Boys, Fright Night, Once Bitten, etc. In all of those films, the protagonist is just an average teenaged boy. In order to be believable, Buffy needed superpowers and a superpowered backup squad. And the Frog Brothers still had a higher vampire kill/screen time count.
Nick Nolte’s gnome farmer alien
It took me quite a while, several episodes, to recognise him. Almost funny. Possibly because his character was quite short.
It took me quite a while, several episodes, to recognise him
Unless you’re very good with voices, it’s hardly surprising when the actor’s face is completely covered in heavy prostheses. Daniel Craig was in The Force Awakens. And that was SNL’s Jason Sudeikis as one of the scout troopers.
Star Wars seems to have become the Muppet Show of our time, every celeb wants to be on it.
Star Wars seems to have become the Muppet Show of our time
I volunteer to be Statler Who wants to be Waldorf?