Friday Ephemera
If Columbo were anime. You’d watch and you know it. (h/t, Script Doctor) || Today’s word is indignity. || London scenes. || Rutherford splits atom, Shanghai. || Have you swallowed your molecular tweezers? || Troublesome minority. || I think it’s fair to say mistakes were made. || A UFO sightings map. || Shrooms. || Cannabis bonsai. || Made of bananas. || He does this better than you do. || “Live your life” with a Bluetooth-enabled animatronic tail. || Love in unlikely places. || Repurposed piano. || Japanese jazz. || Confection of note. || And finally, an obliging bird.
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. Have you been to an airport recently?
“As god as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”
They can, and they are out for revenge.
They can, and they are out for revenge.
Most airplane-bird collisions are heroic suicide attacks. If you look closely you can see the rising sun headbands. [ throws Haldol pills into the trash, dons giant chicken costume, resumes writing 700 page anti-Chick-fil-A manifesto ]
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.
Finally, for less then $400/month, the affordable housing crisis in Portland is solved.
Meanwhile a Scotperson argues why a train conductor should have been fired.
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.
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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.
Finally, for less then $400/month, the affordable housing crisis in Portland is solved.
So, they’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune?
Clever painful deterrence for bicycle thieves
In search of lodgings? A tempting offer.
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 ]
Are you in need of coffee, David? [ voice of concern ]
Mortified.
No doubt she will soon be cancelled, but when you are right, you are right.
Mortified.
I was indeed surprised, as I have long marveled at your ability to quickly retrieve the perfect “Somewhat Related” post from your huge archives.
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.
More on those UFOs, via that Scott Adams link.
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.
Uh … er … [checks time to see if it is too early to start drinking]
From the Department of Unsurprising Data: survey shows that blacks are most racist, whites least racist.
Source here.
“Ladies and Gentlemen”: a formal greeting going back decades which assumes that those of either sex [and a few strange ones in between] hearing the greeting are in fact polite and civilised people. It’s no wonder that the wokels are offended. The notion of being polite to others and generally acting in a civilised, tolerant manner toward others – Do unto others etc. – is beyond such self-centred brats.
Again I say ‘Let the cat out of its bag!’
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.
Again I say ‘Let the cat out of its bag!’
Rig the grating!
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…
More on those UFOs, via that Scott Adams link.
The seated gull is equipped with a ramjet and requires the other gull to get up to the proper speed before the ramjet will function.
What, in the name of all that is holy, is this?
What, in the name of all that is holy, is this?
I have no idea, but I’m willing to bet that the people involved have highly inflated opinions of themselves.
.searching for videos of Monty Python skits “Spot the Looney”
Are you perhaps thinking of “Spot the Brain Cell?”
I also noticed that every group felt free to slag on the ytes.
I’ve changed my mind. The Boy Scouts should go bankrupt and disappear: BSA Officially Supports Black Lives Matter, Adds Diversity Requirement
Another thought about salutations: how about ‘Ladies, Gentlemen and Woke Wankers’?
This little compilation I saw this morning displays Woke Wankery at the highest level: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_/status/1393158144570892290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1393158144570892290%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelsmithnews.com%2F
The Boy Scouts should go bankrupt and disappear:
Is that the boy Boy Scouts, or the girl Boy Scouts ?
For all your best loony epithets, try Monty Pythons ‘Fish license’.
Meanwhile, Harvard faces stiff competition for most overrated university with this strong entry from Oxford.
Who wrote this I don’t know, but I like it:
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02788029f29f200d-pi
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.
In a saner world, these clowns would be told that their behaviour is irrational and neurotic, and that all they’re doing is showing the rest of us that they’ve sold any realism and probity they may once have had.
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.
Perhaps Oxford’s endowment should be “decolonized” and its buildings converted into housing for “migrants” and chavs. No, on second thought better to keep the buildings and “decolonize” the professors, staff, and students–after all, the Gulf States can always use more cheap labor.
Which gulf, Persian or Mexican? We certainly don’t need any more crazy here. We’re full up.
Which gulf, Persian or Mexican? We certainly don’t need any more crazy here. We’re full up.
Heh. The sight of Oxford asshats picking tomatoes in Mexican fields would be very amusing. But we mustn’t forget that poetic justice says they should experience life under the boot heel of the cruel Arabs that they idolize.
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.
I would prefer to see the Oxford intelligentsia on mandatory secondment to the public school system in, say, Baltimore or Philadelphia where they can teach face to face. All day every day.
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?
So yet another video of a teacher behaving badly
Why is it always the people who talk about respect that are the most disrespectful?
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/
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?
Very strange indeed. Most cruise ships are foreign-flagged, and 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.
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.
A prime example of the law of unintended consequences.
Indeed.
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.
OK, got back in…here’s the sentence…
Now I’m guessing, or as I recall, that the law clearly refers to foreign flagged vessels not just any cruise ship as seems to be stated (lost access again). Either way, quality journalism to go along with our quality government. Is it any wonder they get along together so well?