Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One

Can we have 2020 back ?
First, this slackwit wants to cancel a cartoon skunk claiming it promotes rape, and now this obligate mouth breather has his knickers in a twist over his own cartoon rabbit.

“Lola [Bunny] was very sexualized, like Betty Boop mixed with Jessica Rabbit,” he said. “Lola was not politically correct…This is 2021. It’s important to reflect the authenticity of strong, capable female characters…So we reworked a lot of things, not only her look, like making sure she had an appropriate length on her shorts and was feminine without being objectified, but gave her a real voice. For us, it was, let’s ground her athletic prowess, her leadership skills…

Yes, because in Woketopia, female athletes must never be easy on the eyes or wear revealing outfits.
Oh, wait.

also Columbia, separate but equal
Equal? Graduation for most groups starts at 4pm or pm. However they have to start the Asians at 10am.

What if ‘Prof’ Zenkus earns more than me? Can I ‘f*cking take’ his stuff
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‘Earns’?
I’ll go as far as ‘receives’.
‘Extorts’ is probably most accurate.

If you create a Designated Victim Group and exempt its members from normal proprieties, even basic reciprocation, the result will not be gratitude. A contemptuous sense of entitlement, expressed with increasing boldness, seems much more likely. Lord Acton, but it is immunity that corrupts.

Whichever Pontins employee wrote that list was unusually careless to put it on paper. … The writer assumed that the staff would accept what he or she saw as the obvious need to keep Travellers out. … I assume that there was an implied “after what happened last time” there.

Careless, and old economy. It should have been contrived as computer-says-no. The call centre manager lacks the procedural obfuscation skills to flourish in the new economy and get his children into good schools.
This sentence from the Deep Throat scoop reads like a Gestalt puzzle – is it supposed to be the case for the prosecution or for the defence? What conclusions would a reasonable person draw from this, or what follow-up questions would a truth-seeking journalist ask?

In the midst of Britain’s hugely competitive vacation market, Pontins was in a cut-throat battle for every client it could get – except, it is now clear, when it came to bookings from members of the Irish Traveller community. For Pontins, this was business it did not want and it was prepared to breach racial equality laws to do so. To use the company’s own terminology, Gypsies and Travellers were “undesirable guests”.

Professor Adjunct Lecturer Zenkus. I know, you are as surprised as I was.
Anyone who holds himself out as “Professor” or “Doctor,” isn’t one. Not of a serious subject, at least.
This is known.

“Gypsies and Travellers were “undesirable guests””
I do believe the Kiwis had unpleasant experiences with some Irish scum last year [and it was nothing to do with sheep]:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8196290/british-traveller-family-deported-new-zealand-chaos/
We in Australia are ‘blessed’ most summers with a bunch of similar [Irish] travelling scum conning elderly folks out of large sums of money by offering to paint and seal their rooftops or lay asphalt on their driveways. The work, if done at all, is always of inferior quality.

pst314: we need to work on accelerating global warming, then. Antarctica awaits!

pst314: we need to work on accelerating global warming, then. Antarctica awaits!

Antarctica awaits!
I’ve been rereading portions of Heather MacDonald’s The War on Cops. It would probably be easier to sell Antarctica than the increased application of the death penalty that I was contemplating.

To use the company’s own terminology, Gypsies and Travellers were “undesirable guests”.
Unscarequoted:
To use the English language, Gypsies and Travellers were (putting it mildly) undesirable guests.

However the Warner Brothers cartoons were not created for children. They were shorts before the main feature at adult cinema. Therefore it was perfectly obvious to the audience that Pepe le Pew was a caricature of a French lothario. That was obvious to me even as a seven year old. Other racist tropes were less apparent to me as a child, e.g. Speedy Gonzales as an “amusing” counter-example of the “lazy Mexican” stereotype.
“First they came for Pepe, and I said nothing, as I was not a skunk that spoke French…”
God, I love those cartoons.

cartoon rabbit
How long until we are shown in explicit detail that Bugs Bunny is trans, Elmer Fudd is gay, and Daffy Duck identifies as a sexy skunk?

I think we could probably do with A bit less constant sexualisation in children’s media
Or questioning of sexuality. Why can’t they just leave it alone? They’re kids. And maybe just accepting Ernie and Bert at face value is what it’s about.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17879916/bert-ernie-gay-sesame-street-mark-saltzman-controversy

I don’t know what these cartoon scolds are on about. Growing up Slowpoke Rodriguez was my idol and I turned out just fine.
What?

Growing up Slowpoke Rodriguez was my idol and I turned out just fine.
When Speedy was in the crosshairs a few years back I distinctly remember the commentary from (non-woke) Americans of Mexican descent being that the character was a hero to them growing up. In other words, they viewed him the same damned way every non-Mexican kid did.
Regarding scenes of exaggerated sexuality in classic cartoons, I believe they served three important purposes:
1) They clued girls into the power of femininity.
2) They clued boys into the dangers of giving into that power – i.e. making themselves into the fool.
3) They were funny.

I distinctly remember the commentary from (non-woke) Americans of Mexican descent being that the character was a hero to them growing up
Fluffy joins the conversation.

I think we could probably do with a bit less constant sexualization in children’s media.
On the other hand I do wonder a little how we got from Pogo and Loony Tunes to porn-y furries.

People pimping things like this to kids not cartoon rabbits with bewbs.
Well yes, and I suppose there is some sociological connection between that and the furry phenomenon, but I was first confronted with furry paraphilia many years before the current radical LGBTQ* invasion of very young children’s education and I did wonder where these people came from since it seemed like a very improbable fetish.

…A world without war will not happen overnight. Nexus will maintain a sizeable military presence all over the world to ensure all sides lay down their arms…
I had more thoughts about this part. The most important part of the Declaration of Independence is

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Note that under Nexus, you will have no right to abolish the form of government to which it subjects you. That’s why it has armies, and nobody else will be allowed to.
Of course, this is just some lone crank, but I think his general ideas are held by many.

First, this slackwit wants to cancel a cartoon skunk claiming it promotes rape…
Good news: you can still buy Private Snafu.

So long as we’re talking about furries, here’s Jimi Hendrix’s opinion

here’s Jimi Hendrix’s opinion

Speaking of which, a Frenchman weighs in.
That.
As with the doltish and perverse annual posturing about Baby, It’s Cold Outside, the woke-scolds seem remarkably tin-eared and untroubled by mental subtlety.

But Markle and Harry? There’s some trainwrecks so spectacular even I can’t look away.