Friday Ephemera
Ring of Fire. || In post-civilisation San Francisco, the relocation of handbags by fashion enthusiasts. (h/t, Darleen) || For the woman who has everything. (h/t, Things) || Also, layers of London. || Another accident in the lab. || Cats in microgravity. || Attention, amorous ladies. || “How dare you not desire me?” said the green-haired bedlamite. || “I kind of view myself as a doll.” || At last, paper drill bits. || Parental pushback. || Meanwhile, in the Independent. || Meanwhile, in the Guardian. || Hush now, our betters are speaking. || Something error happen. || Yes, there will be a test. || Dull truth. || “Does anything radioactive actually glow bright green?” || And finally, persuasively, some aggressive rattling.
Cats in microgravity
Why didn’t they strap buttered toast to their backs?
Cats in microgravity
Found the source: AIRBOYD: Summary: Coverage of research at the Aerospace Medical Division HQ 657Oth Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories including scenes of F-104 seat ejection; drop tests from C-130 and ejection from F-106; effects of weightlessness on cats and pigeons in a C-131; test subjects in water tank, on centrifuge, in heat chamber and on complex coordinator. Also shows scenes of vertical deceleration tower, incline impact test facility, vertical accelerator, equilibrium chair and vibration platform.
National Archives and Records Administration – ARC Identifier 68700 / Local Identifier 342-USAF-33692 – BIOASTRONAUTICS RESEARCH – Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force.
Why didn’t they strap buttered toast to their backs?
Would need another $100M in funding.
Something error happen.
Error cannot be resolved with a reboot.
Found a hobbit prison.
In post-civilisation San Francisco,
Looking forward to Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong and the Rat Things.
Why didn’t they strap buttered toast to their backs?
The cats or the men?
And now for something completely different…
Mr. Savage: She flies across the room and lands in a bucket of water.
RIP Host: By herself?
Mr. Savage: Uh, no, I fling her!
In the Laurie Penny Guide to Manners, children staring is Wrong and Bad, but weirdos exposing themselves to children in public toilets is absolutely fine and can be passed without comment.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SpiritedSparr0w/status/1409952610757464064
New circle added to hell.
Maybe someone should tweet to Laurie Penny how she would react if someone were to expose their male bits to her while she is on stage somewhere.
In post-civilisation San Francisco, the relocation of handbags by fashion enthusiasts.
Handbag reparations NOW!
New circle added to hell.
I like to pretend that the bendy arrows are meat hooks.
And finally, persuasively, some aggressive rattling.
His earrings convinced me.
Ring of Fire
While we’re talking about ‘cover versions’….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs
There seems to be a bit of a theme to many of today’s entries. Having looked at all of them, it looks like the process of evolution via natural selection is, if not breaking down, going in some very odd directions. Hopefully, the widespread failure of these people to breed will sort us out in the longer term.
Morning, all.
Handbag reparations NOW!
Setting aside the seemingly routine audacity (or regression to feral behaviour, depending how you look at it), what’s interesting are some of the excuses in newspaper comment sections.
Apparently, local residents shouldn’t be concerned by the increasing boldness of criminal gangs, or a rise in car crime of 750%. Instead, law-abiding locals should be fretting about “conspicuous consumption,” “our materialistic consumer mindset,” and “the countless women who feel the dire need to superficially express themselves by flashing expensive, designer label handbags when out in public.” Others suggest, rather optimistically, “Remove the designer label allure and these types of crimes will subside.”
Or, If you’d just stop owning things, people wouldn’t steal them.
Attention, amorous ladies.
“a happily radical left life…”
Contradiction in terms.
Contradiction in terms.
Well, quite. Also, are large numbers of heterosexual women looking for “the perfect housewife,” albeit a bearded one?
There seems to be a bit of a theme to many of today’s entries.
A couple of weeks ago, a brother-in-law asked me what my blog is about. He doesn’t read it, I think, but was vaguely aware that it exists. I was unsure how to reply. Then I remembered that one of you had described it as something along the lines of documenting the downfall of Western civilisation.
Parental pushback
A Response – notable for its audacity.
Report on audacious response also notable; includes some details that may surprise.
Where do they find such confidence?
Where do they find such confidence?
Part two.
Meanwhile, in the Guardian.
Lol. I had to check that was real. (It is.)
Hopefully, the widespread failure of these people to breed will sort us out in the longer term.
In glittering generalities, that’s not how it’s working to date; at least in the USA.
@Nikw211, I will not view a website that tells me that it values my privacy but doesn’t allow me to opt out of any goddamned thing but rather demands that I accept whatever it is that they want to with my data.
Uh, no, I fling her!
Also don’t forget Cat Juggling.
A tub of mayonnaise.
I could stomach that better if she wasn’t pushing her greasy, acne-riddled face so closely to the camera.
Is that mean to say? Too bad.
I could stomach that better if she wasn’t pushing her greasy, acne-riddled face so closely to the camera.
I suspect our mistress of woke racism needs more than a good face scrub.
But again, note the absence of any reciprocal principle. Evidently, she doesn’t think it’s unfair to denounce an entire demographic solely because of their skin colour, and as if all such individuals were somehow interchangeable. She just wants to disdain people for being white. And thanks to being woke, she has a license to do so, openly and at volume.
In the Laurie Penny Guide to Manners…
There was a time, in historical memory, when someone like Laurie Penny would be dealt with by the villagers in a very definite way.
Another accident in the lab.
Wow that looks simply amazi… oh.
The unenhanced reality is slightly more underwhelming. Still, pretty cool I guess. Though I expected tentacles.
Though I expected tentacles.
[ Opens Karl’s file. Adds suspected deviant. ]
It’s right there: https://twitter.com/jfruh/status/1413335597079425024
She just wants to disdain people for being white.
The racism charge bandied about by people like her is a moral inversion along the lines of “property is theft”, where uninvited guests and their children are depicted as the ones who are hard done by, and the people whose hospitality is being imposed on are depicted as the guilty ones.
The inversion has been so hammered into our culture that evidence proving that people like her don’t belong, for example the lack of people who look like her in the historical literature of the host country, evidence which should cause her to be unsure in her conscience, is blatantly presented as something that whites should have on their conscience, a moral debt that whites owe to her people.
The condemnations of whites aren’t random spite or bullying, they have to be continual and intense and escalating because if they let up, the moral inversion might become evident again.
if they let up, the moral inversion might become evident again.
The incoherence and perversity are hard to miss, and quite possibly the appeal. I mean, wokeness may gain the traction it does, at least in part, because reciprocal principles tend to set limits and conditions. There’s an obligation to be self-consistent and to avoid double standards, at least ideally. This isn’t always easy, or convenient, or flattering.
But wokeness, as we’ve seen countless times, isn’t grounded in reciprocation. Indeed, it’s all but defined by a disdain for reciprocation. It’s tribal, unilateral, and premised on exemptions, special favours, and blatant double standards, depending on which supposed victim group a person can be construed as belonging to, however fatuously. To be woke, you’re practically expected to make sweeping and obnoxious judgments about strangers.
Not entirely unrelated.
“I kind of view myself as a doll.”
Mummy, make the scary woman stop.
Is that mean to say? Too bad.
Her malignant attitude invites it, I’d say.
Note how it took just one generation for “only white people can be racist” to evolve into “it’s okay to dehumanize white people because they deserve it.”
It’s not an insignificant shift, and it won’t end well if it continues.
Midnight’s Edge ponders Black Widow and the ongoing souring of the Marvel brand.
New circle added to hell.
However, screws up communicating to more than one person all to hell, but that is not really important.
Meanwhile, the screed from whence that came.
Long story short, it appears to be about “radical” anti-fatphobia, though you can learn exciting things, buy their merch, and fund their educational content. If you don’t you are probably a racist.
A couple of weeks ago, a brother-in-law asked me what my blog is about. He doesn’t read it…
Nekulturny durak.
Nekulturny durak.
Heh. I’m actually thankful for this shocking and inexcusable failure of taste. I spend enough time banging on with you heathens. I don’t want to spend family gatherings having similar discussions. I’d rather catch up on gossip while being fed to excess and handed oversized glasses of wine.
Where do they find such confidence?
Who is going to tell them they are wrong? They’ve been bloody wrong, obviously wrong for decades, generations but no one spoke up. The few who did where castigated by their own allies. I am very surprised to find any one of them willing to consider, to think critically, about their own opinions. They, along with so many intimidated souls on the right, are fine with redefining/denying the meaning of words, telling baldfaced lies, engaging in all forms of gaslighting and STILL maintain that THEY are the victims of an Orwellian Trump or Brexit or what have you. They have the universities (the “smart” people), the lawyers, the judges, and even most of the churches/synagogues/temples (the “good” people) on their side. Why wouldn’t they be confident?
I spend enough time banging on with you heathens. I don’t want to spend family gatherings having similar discussions. I’d rather catch up on gossip while being fed to excess and handed oversized glasses of wine.
Case in point: I had many warm and delightful conversations over the years with a world famous writer of immense intelligence and learning. We rarely talked about his field but rather about all sorts of things–more or less everything, I suppose.
I see your cat juggling and raise you a possum drop.
I am very surprised to find any one of them willing to consider, to think critically, about their own opinions.
One of the bitter lessons that I learned was that leftist almost never respond honestly to evidence that refutes their claims. The bloody history of socialism is of course the pinnacle example, but consider also the Science Wars of the 1990’s: The left’s claims were systematically refuted but the leftist professors did not stop telling lies, they just kept telling the same lies in their journals and conferences and classrooms as if there were no evidence that they were wrong.
Conclusions about what to do about leftists in education are left as an exercise for the reader.
It appears from the comments people think fear collars are a dandy idea.
Someone didn’t do well in Latin.
It’s right there
Reminiscent of Missing Missy.
It appears from the comments people think fear collars are a dandy idea.
Coming soon: collars of obedience.
One of the bitter lessons that I learned was that leftist almost never respond honestly to evidence that refutes their claims.
One of the far more bitter lessons that I have learned is that most people in general almost never respond honestly to evidence that refutes the Narrative.
“In defense of higher ed diversity policies, we’re sometimes told that we can’t expect people to attend — or taxpayers to support — institutions made up of people who ‘don’t look like them.’ But politically, higher education doesn’t look like America.”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/460641/
Another accident in the lab.
It turns out only the vapid and crappy predictions of Back To The Future 2 are coming true; namely the ugly cars, shameless movie sequels, hyper-inflation, and unshakeable political dynasties. Though to be fair weather prediction is also very good these days, but that hardly makes up for the lack of hoverboards and self-drying Nike’s.
Attention, amorous ladies.
Height: 5’11”
That’s too bad, Mr House Wife – you had the ladies all lathered up until they read that.