Friday Ephemera

Made of bananas
Don’t tell Hanuman.

Awwww.

You will put £1000 in David’s tip jar. You will put £1000 in David’s tip jar. You will put £1000 in David’s tip jar…

London scenes.
Now what do you suppose would have happened if someone had done that back in 1941, 1951, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001, or even maaaaybe, 2011? What is different? What has changed? Not society’s scumbags. Nope. Always had scumbags. It’s something else…hmmm…

Another act of anti-Asian white supremacy.

Morning, all.
Headline of note.
Now what do you suppose would have happened if someone had done that back in 1941…
It’s a little baffling, not least as the chap in question has apparently been shopping in M&S, which has customer toilets. Is it some kind of protest? An artistic performance? Mental illness? Or just more evidence of a decline into squalor?
Still, at least he didn’t drop his bread in it.

I think it’s fair to say mistakes were made.
“Account suspended”

If Columbo were anime.
You shouldn’t really need Columbo for this: a lingering mystery solved Part 1, Part 2.

You will put £1000 in David’s tip jar. You will put £1000 in David’s tip jar. You will put £1000 in David’s tip jar…
It has to be said, I do appreciate bold gestures.

Confection of note.
Surely that’s an April Fool that got released late..?

“Love in unlikely places.”
From the same account. Well played, sir. Well played.
“Confection of note.”
Pity you can’t get those raspberry-flavoured crisps they had in the ’80s any more. Pairing those up would really mess with people’s heads.

…2001, or even maaaaybe, 2011?
As a matter of fact, I recall seeing a video taken in the early 2000’s of someone doing that in somebody’s doorway, except that the perpetrator was Middle Eastern or South Asian and there seemed to be nobody else on the street.

I think it’s fair to say mistakes were made.
The photo was pretty horrifying–definitely in the “neuralize me now” class of traumas.

“The guns are out of control. Whoever is responsible for this nearly killed an entire family”
No, it’s not the guns that are out of control; it’s the savages.

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim
O_o Well, that was fast.
Imagine the Columbo anime, except it’s young Perry Mason, and it’s not a parody.
Also sometimes the defendant is a killer whale.

Love in unlikely places.
Nothing says romance like a massive bag of toilet rolls.

“Looking good”
Hm. Perhaps it’s a work in progress.

animatronic tail.
Please tell me there’s a blooper reel where that dude’s tail gets caught in the bicycle spokes.

It does seem painfully over the top
Well, when I said “not a parody” I meant not an intentional parody.

Four-legged thugs.

And in science news.

I say we put out the word that Science Says you can float face-down in a lake for ten minutes, breathing through your hind end. Get somebody to make a Fauci deepfake, and our electoral problems could be mitigated for a generation!

Feral pigs are a serious problem in many countries. They’re very dangerous, spread disease as well as damage crops and pasture. A farmer whose property is about 3 miles from mine killed 16 a couple of months ago. A friend of my wife had to call in professional pest controllers a year ago as her small farm was over-run by a mob which dug up her newly sown pasture. They trapped one or two and then killed them. The rest got the message and departed.

Solution.
I’m astonished to learn that the founder and CEO is not named Pinochet.

not throwing them out…
“As god as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”

TBF, they are shooting the hogs, not throwing them out…
I confess that I cannot resist a bad joke.

“As god as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”
They can, and they are out for revenge.

Most airplane-bird collisions are heroic suicide attacks.
Reminds me of the old joke about the C-23 – only airplane that has bird strikes on the trailing edges.
Meanwhile, finally, a gentleman with a cogent argument for vaccination.

Meanwhile a Scotperson argues why a train conductor should have been fired.
It may be telling, which party was first in with the personal insults.
[ Added: ]
And of course, if you’re appearing on TV to explain why a train conductor should be corrected or reprimanded, perhaps even fired, simply for greeting passengers and making them feel welcome in a way that’s both customary and generally appreciated, instead of using ungendered, impersonal language or modish terms that are unfamiliar to almost everyone, that isn’t an ideal basis for smug moral posturing.

Clever painful deterrence for bicycle thieves

Duplicate posts:
Finally, for less then $400/month, the affordable housing crisis in Portland is solved.
In search of lodgings? A tempting offer.
Are you in need of coffee, David? [ voice of concern ]

No doubt she will soon be cancelled, but when you are right, you are right.

The UFO is now an identified flying object:
BREAKING: U.S. military takes video of a UFO zooming above the ocean for minutes before splashing down and then emerging with a smaller UFO in its beak.

Re: seabirds v. aircraft…
Sometime in the 70s a NASA pilot was doing currency training in a Convair 340 (think DC3) at Oakland Airport (California).
This involved many touch-and-go landings.
Now, OAK is located on sort-of-ex salt marsh, so is plagued with birds.
The pilot claims that a group of gulls were hanging out among the approach lights, and were deliberately flying up into the wake turbulence left by his plane, where they were enjoying the resulting roller coaster ride.
I never discovered what the airport’s bird abatement crew thought about that.

From the Department of Unsurprising Data: survey shows that blacks are most racist, whites least racist.

Source here.

From the Department of Unsurprising Data: survey shows that blacks are most racist, whites least racist.
That graph just tells me that white respondents know how they’re supposed to answer and are too afraid to not answer that way. That narrow range of ratings is artificial as all heck. Everybody else is allowed to answer honestly with no repercussions, and they know it. I have noticed in my time at university that students who are Chinese or Iranian have no qualms about being quite racist about black people, or at least the American-born version.

Apropos of nothing…searching for videos of Monty Python skits “Spot the Looney”. I seem to recall it, and I do find 3 or 4 second clips of the introduction. But no full skits. There’s Cheese Shop and Funny Walks and Spanish Inquisition, and even some forgotten skit about putting things on top of other things…Hmmm…odd…

What, in the name of all that is holy, is this?

.searching for videos of Monty Python skits “Spot the Looney”
Are you perhaps thinking of “Spot the Brain Cell?”

I’ve changed my mind. The Boy Scouts should go bankrupt and disappear: BSA Officially Supports Black Lives Matter, Adds Diversity Requirement

The Boy Scouts should go bankrupt and disappear:
Is that the boy Boy Scouts, or the girl Boy Scouts ?

Meanwhile, Harvard faces stiff competition for most overrated university with this strong entry from Oxford.

Oxford University has suggested imperial measurements should be “decolonised” over links to the British Empire.
It’s called ‘metric’.

Oxford University has suggested imperial measurements should be “decolonised” over links to the British Empire.
We don’t need to decolonise anything. We do need to decretinise several things, and urgently.

Which gulf, Persian or Mexican? We certainly don’t need any more crazy here. We’re full up.

The reason I ask is here in central Florida there are a significant number of help wanted signs but businesses are managing to get by. Heading up to north Georgia next week and seeing that a good number of businesses, especially restaurants, have significantly shortened their hours because they can’t find workers. This may change shortly as governor Kemp is cutting the covid unemployment supplement.
Last week we went to dinner here at a restaurant that has had trouble staffing. Our young waitress was quite good and engaging and as it was a little slow due to a private party ending and thus only a few tables for others, we got to talking with her. She had come down to FL from Virginia because her father who was living here told her how open everything was. At first she didn’t believe it and early on due to a bronchial problem she had she was in terrible fear of the virus. She said that moving to FL was quite the eye-opening experience and some of her friends back home still fear for her safety here regardless of what she has told them.

Teachers, as a group, have been particularly caught up in the irrational covid theater – some because greed (hey why not get full salary while doing a 2 or 3 hours of Zoom a day?) and others who believe the lung rot is everywhere, even in vaxxed people.
So yet another video of a teacher behaving badly, this time attacking a vaxxed student who won’t wear a mask, is inevitable. What bothers me as much as her berating the kid is her manner of dress. When did bag-lady casual become appropriate in-classroom attire for teachers?

Nowhere in this story is there an explanation as to WHY the United States of America has a law requiring cruise ships to either stop or originate in CANADA if they are bound for Alaska. WTF? How/what justification might that be and especially WTH does an article that goes on for some 20 or more paragraphs fail to explain this?
https://www.adn.com/politics/2021/05/13/us-senate-allows-alaska-bound-cruise-ships-to-bypass-canada-house-action-could-allow-summer-cruises-this-year/

American law prohibits foreign flagged ships from taking passengers directly from one American port to another American port.
True, which drove American companies to flag their ships outside the U.S. A prime example of the law of unintended consequences.

American law prohibits foreign flagged ships from taking passengers directly from one American port to another American port. Thus, these cruise ships add a stop at a Canadian port.
Ah…had forgotten about that. Yes, “protectionism” that results in exporting economic activity. Of course the article could have clarified it that way. Maybe it did and I misread it but I can’t get back to the article to verify. As I recall it sounded like there was a specific law written to require this directly.