Friday Ephemera
Salon scenes. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Today’s word is inadvisable. || Try before you buy. || Beneath Birmingham. || Beverage of note. || Bookstore of note. || At last, a TV series binge-viewing commitment calculator. || Nocturnal sights. || Pit stop. || Pattern detected. || Always respect the media. || Tiny township. || Think quickly. || Elephant seals, Antarctica. || Evergreen observation. || Not entirely sure what’s happening here. || One for the CV, I think. || Shadows in the sky. || Fox watching. || The thrill of car park security footage, parts 3 and 4. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || The fish transportation solution you’ve always dreamed of. || And finally, festively, a party project. Do try this at home.
Salon scenes.
Note the first response tweet. Calling people “sub-human” and demanding forcible medical experimentation on them… now where have I heard of that before?
The fish transportation solution you’ve always dreamed of.
Eric? Is that you?
“Beneath Birmingham.”
Secret supervillain base? Portal to the netherworld?
[click] Oh. Right. Birmingham.
“Bookstore of note.”
A bookshop looking like “an immersive M.C. Escher-style illusion” seems oddly appropriate for Communist China.
“Pit stop.”
For the record. (SWIDT?) The quick ones never look hurried.
The quick ones never look hurried.
Smooth is fast.
At last, a TV series binge-viewing commitment calculator.
Hold my calls.
The thrill of car park security footage
Tow truck tinkle timer.
Morning, all.
Tow truck tinkle timer.
It’s an oddly moreish series. You have to marvel at the number of people who park directly in front of the large signs warning that unauthorised vehicles will be towed, and who even stare directly at the signs, often for some time, then park anyway, before returning later, seemingly astonished that their cars are no longer there. I also like the audio enhancements. The squeaking of large ladies in implausibly tiny dresses, for instance, or the Jetsons-style electric scooters.
Bookstore of note
Nocturnal sights
Shadows in the sky
There’s so much ugliness about these days, but these three, not one, but three, were really quite uplifting … not a word to often feature in my vocabulary.
not a word to often feature in my vocabulary.
I’m softening the blow of modern life.
And finally, festively, a party project. Do try this at home.
Oh, you actually want to use the toilet? *Shoves punch bowl their way*
What’s a party without some toilet gargling?
That said, I did once give a party where the bath was full of fluorescein. Quite pretty.
The quick ones never look hurried.
Back in the 1950’s, when F1 had real cars and real drivers, only four pit crew were allowed to change tires, add fuel and/or oil, and do whatever mechanical tinkering needed to be done. With 58 people to change four tires, I am slightly underwhelmed. If they wanted to make it interesting, they would make the drivers get out and change at least one tire by himself.
Larvae of note.
The natural order seems to have been reversed here.
It’s strangely quiet today. I mean, there’s plenty of people here – they’re just being very quiet and lurking in the bushes.
[ Starts thrashing bushes with stick. ]
If they wanted to make it interesting, they would make the drivers get out and change at least one tire by himself.
There’s a George Carlin sketch in there somewhere.
they’re just being very quiet and lurking in the bushes.
Hedgerow.
[ Thrashing intensifies. ]
Ow, Ow. Alright already!
[Coughs]
You would think that someone familiar with aircraft would have known better than to design a house roof so ludicrously high as to guarantee the house would blow away in the first stiff breeze. Especially given that it’s been built on top of a pylon.
Looks damn pretty though.
Ow!
Worst attempt at hiding ever, people.
And I was having a nice hour of after-breakfast laziness.
But you really ought to be careful about what you might stir up in those bushes, David.
[ ponders whether to link to very disturbing post at Women Posting Their L’s ]
D.C. – hijack a car, kill the driver, cut a plea deal never to set foot in prison.
Florida – rig a homecoming queen election face 16 years in the slammer.
Seems fair.
Today in Racism: Mid-Century Modern furniture
OK, so ?
The bastard, he should have known his chairs would be used in girdle ads.
Our author, “Kristina Wilson is a professor of art history at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.” Like you expected something else ?
Our author, “Kristina Wilson is a professor of art history at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.”
Imagine being so degraded, so absurd, that the highest goal, the greatest treasure, is saying bad whitey over and over again.
Our author, “Kristina Wilson is a professor of art history at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.”
Imagine being so degraded, so absurd, that the highest goal, the greatest treasure, is saying bad whitey over and over again.
Do they shout ever louder to drown out the inner voices that tell them they are wasting their lives?
[ ponders whether to link to very disturbing post at Women Posting Their L’s ]
[ Resentfully rubs bruised shoulder. Thinks about posting that disturbing link. Decides to take a walk first. ]
[ Thinks about posting that disturbing link. ]
After this build-up, you pretty much have to now.
[ Starts thrashing bushes with stick. ]
Still thought it was last night so was on my way home, but might as well come back in as the sun’s past the proverbial yardarm.
Does it make me a bad person that I can’t stop gut-laughing at things like this, this, and this not to mention also this?
(I wouldn’t mind, but, to put it mildly, I don’t even like Boris Johnson – I just think it’s absolutely hilarious watching the more pompous and narcissistic Twitterati blame absolutely everyone and everything under the Sun rather than look in the mirror or actually, for once, listen to how they must actually sound to other people.)
What, do you think we all had advanced training in How Not To Be Seen or something?
rather than look in the mirror or actually, for once, listen to how they must actually sound to other people
Early this morning, I saw dozens of tweets by bewildered and peevish middle-class Labour supporters, all basically berating those they clearly regard as their social inferiors. Sort of, “How dare you not vote as we prefer, you filthy, racist animals?”
But then, it’s like this every bloody time.
…bewildered and peevish middle-class Labour supporters, all basically berating those they clearly regard as their social inferiors…
The worst part is they are all registered over here as democrats as well.
[Thinks about posting that disturbing link.]
If it is either 17-27 or the one about the horse, wave off the latter.
What is this “Women Posting Their L’s”? Is it a troll on “Men Posting Their W’s”? Am I correct in thinking the W stands for Wins, so a Twit thing about winning moments, and the L then would stand for…Losses? Women bragging about their loser moments?
I guess I am too old for all of this.
Early this morning …
I would have been face down in the bushes at that time. On the bright side, I did stumble across this from Douglas Murray while I was trying to extricate myself from the foliage:
In the book publishing industry 100% of respondents in the survey identify as being on the left, the sort of echo chamber that even academia can only look at with envy.
bewildered and peevish middle-class Labour supporters, all basically berating those they clearly regard as their social inferiors
Neatly summed up here.
Jets brought in to tackle 300-tonne fatberg
Being of a military aviation background, my first thought was that calls for some clever precision bombing.
What’s a party without some toilet gargling?
Just don’t be surprised when you wake up to the smell of urine emanating from the dark corners of the house. When you gotta go, you gotta go.
[ returns from walk feeling invigorated and cheerful ]
Maybe I shouldn’t post that disturbing link.
Maybe I shouldn’t post that disturbing link.
I guess we’ll just have to get on with our lives somehow.
If it is either 17-27 or the one about the horse, wave off the latter.
Oh my God, you saw it, too? I’d like to think it’s all just trolling, but there really are people like that out there.
But what is 17-27? Surely not a Bible verse.
What is this “Women Posting Their L’s”? Is it a troll on “Men Posting Their W’s”? Am I correct in thinking the W stands for Wins, so a Twit thing about winning moments, and the L then would stand for…Losses? Women bragging about their loser moments?
That’s about it. Lots of proud displays of dysfunctionality–pretty much every mental disorder mentioned in the DSM III.
D.C. – hijack a car, kill the driver, cut a plea deal never to set foot in prison.
Florida – rig a homecoming queen election face 16 years in the slammer
Let’s all play our favourite game, Actually Bothering to Read Up on the Issue:
1) She didn’t just “rig an election”, she and her mother conspired to use her mother’s administrative access to the district’s computer system to unlawfully access students’ accounts and change their votes. That’s unlawful use of a two-way communications device and criminal use of personally identifiable information – of minors, no less.
2) Their combined bail is a whopping $8,000, which is a good indication of how not seriously the DA is taking this.
3) “OMG They face a maximum sentence of 16 years!!1!lim{x->0}(x/x)!” is pure clickbait for the purpose of driving outrage and it’s the sum of the maximum penalty for all of the grab bag of charges DAs like to load up any defendant with.
4) Under D.C. law, the 13 year old cannot be charged as an adult, period, so that’s a non-starter; and DAs rarely charge minors as adults for anything short of severe premeditated violence because they know juries are a lot more likely to acquit if adult prison time is on the table.
5) The plea deal, which took me entire agonizing seconds to Google for, is for 2nd degree murder while armed. The girls won’t spend any time in an adult prison, but they are going to max security juvie until they’re 21. It’s easy to be outraged when you don’t bother to learn any details about the case, but this is probably the best result the DA could hope for. The George Floyd case has brought jury nullification back into the spotlight.
What, do you think we all had advanced training in How Not To Be Seen or something?
You stood up, didn’t you.
my first thought was that calls for some clever precision bombing
My first thought was ” ‘fatberg’ can’t possibly be a real word, can it?”
Maybe I shouldn’t post that disturbing link.
I considered myself able to take anything back before the Internet. I was into underground comix with disturbing themes. I read true crime books. Depravity and I were best buds.
Then I saw Goatse and I realized that some doors should never, ever be opened.
Then I saw Goatse and I realized that some doors should never, ever be opened.
It was the number and degree of warnings that intrigued me to click it. I mean, how bad could it be? Fortunately it learned me good before hearing about two girls and a cup.
Sort of, “How dare you not vote as we prefer, you filthy, racist animals?”
https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1390691641485402112
Let’s all play our favourite game, Actually Bothering to Read Up on the Issue:
Do let’s.
So much for “max security juvie” or any real punishment for murder.
It’s easy to be outraged when you don’t think anybody should be in prison.
Remember the horrific Grenfell Tower fire? There was a fire this morning at a building in New Providence Wharf in East London which has the same sort of flammable exterior cladding (ACM). It never ceases to amaze me that flammable cladding could ever have been approved for such buildings.
Sort of, “How dare you not vote as we prefer, you filthy, racist animals?”
There’s been some advancement, they’ve not claimed to have won the argument this time
“A 10-story, 23-ton piece of a Chinese rocket will crash into Earth sometime over the weekend — but no one knows where.”
Anybody want to place bets? Ocean? Desert? A French vaccine plant? I don’t know where it will land but I’m hoping for downtown Portland.
Dude — think bigger. I’m voting for DC.
It would be terrible if it were to hit China someplace special…What?
I’m hoping for downtown Portland…Dude — think bigger. I’m voting for DC…It would be terrible if it were to hit China someplace special…What?
Time to re-read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? (Video by space artist Don Davis.)
Great stuff. But too much Twitter
House of Mouse goes fully woke.
House of Mouse goes fully woke.
I’ll have to tear up my childhood photos of Annette Funicello in the Mouseketeers. M.I.C.K.E.Y M.O.U.S.E, etc.
I’ll have to tear up my childhood photos of Annette Funicello in the Mouseketeers. M.I.C.K.E.Y M.O.U.S.E, etc.
Many years ago I saw a drawing of Mickey Mouse as a menacing Big Brother.
Maybe the Disney Corporatino will end up running Mouschwitz.
https://youtu.be/uq5XdiVZFQg
This sets a standard for Disney which is unlikely to be broken.
Titania is not happy with the ‘Commission for Race and Ethnic Disparagement’.
“While it is crucial that we amplify the opinions of people of colour, can we please ensure in advance that said people of colour hold the opinions we want to be amplified?”