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.
That does not follow from the restrictions of the act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_Vessel_Services_Act_of_1886).
FFS. We are no where near peak stupidity, it seems..
It’s my understanding – and I haven’t worked with hearing impaired people, only visually impaired – that the hearing impaired community includes a group of [obviously] militant people who want to limit interventions/alternative forms of communication and stick only to signing and thus define themselves in terms their own exclusive ‘Deaf culture’. Good luck to them if that’s what they want and it works for them, but to denigrate a long dead man trying to help over 149 years ago is pathetic. Maybe his methods were not perfect, but he had to start somewhere. Again he is being selectively judged by modern standards of the unforgiving woke.
We are no where near peak stupidity, it seems
Non-Canadians won’t see it, but the rhetoric in that article exactly mirrors the histrionics used by Indian activists in Canada to guilt-trip the rest of us over the residential schools. I’m guessing it worked so well for the Indian extortionists that the tactic is now being adopted by other marginalized groups.
On the subject of ships and flags and regulations (and pirates…) permit me to recommend John McPhee’s book Looking For A Ship.
“”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.”
On the day the USSR fell, Boris Yeltsin addressed the Russian State Duma, beginning his speech, “Gospoda…”, “Gentlemen…” (rather than, of course, “Tovarishi“, “Comrades”). It may be the only example in history of a standing ovation for a single word.
Maybe his methods were not perfect, but he had to start somewhere.
I think the truth is probably more complicated than the link tries to portray it. Bell’s approach was to ban a perfectly good method of communication with its own long provenance – sign language – and try to teach all deaf folks a skill which some were simply not capable of – lip reading and talking. The article simply acknowledges this part of his legacy. This is portrayed as CBC ‘cancelling’ Bell but it’s not really the case.
And from the ‘Religion of Peace’ – a ‘parade’ in London. I wonder if these are the constituents of that famous Englishman Sadiq Khan?
https://twitter.com/gunnerpunner/status/1393920559243829248
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/05/16/football-has-tied-knots-row-pro-palestine-protests/
FAO NTSOG.
The FA Cup Final, which took place on Saturday, is one of the country’s major sporting events. One of the two players from the winning team shown in the photo is a Frenchman born in Marseilles, the other is English and comes from Loughborough.
On the day the USSR fell, Boris Yeltsin addressed the Russian State Duma, beginning his speech, “Gospoda…”, “Gentlemen…” (rather than, of course, “Tovarishi“, “Comrades”). It may be the only example in history of a standing ovation for a single word.
Thank you for that, Sam.
Metric? Invented by the famous imperialist French? Surely you jest!
Clearly, we must all go back to our ancestral measures, which ought to be entertaining as so many countries — and so many people — are so mixed now. How is a mutt like me supposed to decide which ancestors’ measures to use? Maybe we could all go back to whatever measures were used by our mitochondrial ancestor in her homeland. Or just pick our favorite ancestor and go with that.
At least it will provide full employment (and enjoyment) for scholars who must figure out what measures were used where when, and for computer programmers who must provide programs to convert between measures.
and for computer programmers who must provide programs to convert between measures.
And therein lies the folly of these assholes who want to “decolonize” everything and learn and build with “different ways of knowing” – all of them use computers, smartphones and other technology that is built by and running on electricity generated by industry and institutions based on the same mathematics principles and measurement standards they want to destroy.
And therein lies the folly of these assholes who want to “decolonize” everything and learn and build with “different ways of knowing” – all of them use computers, smartphones and other technology that is built by and running on electricity generated by industry and institutions based on the same mathematics principles and measurement standards they want to destroy.
These assholes at Oxford…Oxford. That’s kinda like y’all’s version of Harvard or Yale isn’t it? Ah, now I understand.
These assholes at Oxford…Oxford. That’s kinda like y’all’s version of Harvard or Yale isn’t it? Ah, now I understand.
Come to think of it, I should probably have written Oxbridge instead of Oxford. Gotta be inclusive. 🙂
And they say there’s no good news…a bill that says you cannot castrate little boys nor carve out the sex organs of little girls has passed the senate in Texas. Controversial as it is…being that it’s opposed to “gender affirming”…
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/05/17/texas-senate-tries-again-ban-gender-affirming-care-transgender-youths/5130573001/
“Looking Good”.
A Failure on both counts.