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”