Friday Ephemera

“It’s art!”
Why is it wearing a leather flight helmet?
(I notice it’s in Riga. Did they just chuck some Hammerite on an old Soviet monument to the pilots of the Great Patriotic War, or what?)

Meanwhile back in Cleveland, we learn that the wimpy name “Guardians” for their baseball team was chosen because of the eight “Guardians of Traffic” art deco statues on a bridge near the stadium.
We also learn that all eight are male wypipo and six are holding Gaia raping cars and trucks. Some improvement over Indians.
I am literally shaking.

According to Leszek Kolakowski, the Short course history of the CPSU played a crucial role…
Quoted from his mammoth Main Currents of Marxism, which is a valuable resource. He was exiled from Poland in the 1960’s for his criticisms of socialism and Marxism, eventually settling at the University of Chicago. His wittily titled My Correct Views on Everything is in print and well worth reading and includes a long essay eviscerating a Communist who tried to discredit his writings.

Meanwhile over in the UK, will you have to pay a license fee* for your physical jerks telescreens ?

Boris Johnson is to launch a government-backed rewards programme for families switching to healthier food and exercising under radical plans to tackle Britain’s obesity crisis.
The scheme will monitor family supermarket spending, rewarding those who reduce their calorie intake and buy more fruit and vegetables. People increasing their exercise by taking part in organised events or walking to school will also accumulate extra “points” in a new app…
Officials are considering going still further, with rewards linked to compliance with NHS checks, such as undergoing a smear, mammogram or health MOT.

Work camps for non compliant, that’s the ticket.
*(Serious question for youse over there – what happens if you watch TV on a computer, tablet, or phone ? Do the TV SWAT rozzers come after you, or is that viewing just jake ?)

Humo(u)rless scolds explains comedy.
All the black comedians making black jokes and Jews making Jewish jokes are all displaying internalized whiteness, no doubt.

At the moment you theoretically require a TV licence in the UK for watching any “live” TV transmission. Whether over the internet, or cable, or radio waves. You also theoretically require a licence to watch any time-shifted or on-demand BBC content. But not for any other time-shifted TV or on-demand service. Though you aren’t allowed to time-shift your own TV programmes to avoid the licence. Go figure.
The BBC takes the position that they should be paid generously for producing their dire Goebbels-esque propaganda. Whether their audience likes it or not. And they aren’t fussy about how that should be brought about. I’ve even heard them suggest raising a tax on internet provision or computer sales to fund their expensive bloodsucking.
Our political representatives are generally prepared to trade any amount of other people’s money, however raised, in exchange for BBC favours. So reports of the imminent death of the TV Licence are greatly exaggerated.
The rest of us wish they’d all just fuck off and die.

OK – the Wolffian duct turns into parts of male reproductive bits, and the Mullerian duct into female, so if you are “wolffian” you are already male so how the hell can you be “transmasc”, same-same concept for “mullerian” and “transfem”.
Does anyone know what the hell this random collection of words is actually supposed to mean ?
(Spasiba for Beeb license info, so much for my theory of just using a DVR…)

Can someone from California explain how they know that what is being taken is less than $950? Also, is it $950 per day, per visit, per store? Asking for a friend.
Late to the party — 4 days unplugged from social media to travel for family wedding and other activities.
It is $950 per incident. It doesn’t matter how many incidents in a day, as long as each is at a different store, it can never be more than a misdemeanor. You can be at a mall and just walk from store to store and end up with thousands of dollars of merchandise and … yep… misdemeanor. (two DDAs in my office tried to find some way around the law be hoping since a mall itself is one business … but alas, each leasee is one business so that rules)
And what prop 47 did besides just the $950/incident is that it got rid of PC666 – petty theft with priors – a felony aimed directly at career/repeat criminals that included state prison time. As you can see, the career criminals have now free license to steal.
And yes, a lot of these kind of thieves use the calculator on their cell phones to make sure each person is walking out with under $950 in loot.

At the moment you theoretically require a TV licence in the UK for watching any “live” TV transmission.
May be hard to believe given some of my posts but I generally don’t care for the across-the-pond superiority game we tend to play twixt US and UK (and by extension with other Anglo countries) unless done so explicitly for edgy humor. Never seriously. So still, forgive me if this hurts….This is one thing (though recent Canada and NZ much more rapidly caving to commie style authority aside) that really shocked me and still continues to amuse me about the UK. Generally in the US, you only need a license to do complex jobs or operate things that may very well caused harm to other human beings should you do or operate those things without knowing how/what the right, safe way of doing so is. The idea that a person needs a license simply to look at something is absolutely absurd to me. Creepy. When I first learned of it in college I was incredulous. When I heard it again from a Brit ex-pat I was certain he was pulling my leg. I mean, come on. You’re civilized people not prisoners in East Berlin. I don’t think I believed it until I heard it directly from a friend who had just spent a semester at the London School of Economics. Maybe there is something similar in the US but off the top of my head I can’t think of an example. I mean come on. A license. Just so you can look at something. And as I understood it at the time, this technically applied to you even if you didn’t own a TV but were watching at a friend’s house or (hypothetically) watched one in a store window or pub. I remember even after having accepted this, running across a picture of one of those vans that BBC nazis would drive around to listen for evidence of people watching TV’s without a license. While I knew it was true and had heard about such vans, actually seeing one felt similar to seeing a stuff jackalope. Absurd…..Well that and the fact that you even spell the word ‘license’ all funny like.

A license. Just so you can look at something.
I believe the reason for the license derives directly from the history of TV in England: From its introduction in the early 1930’s until the mid 1950’s the BBC was the only broadcast TV service. It could have been funded from general tax revenues, but I suspect that some felt it would be more fair to require payment only from those who wished to pay for this luxury.
Why there would have been a government monopoly in the first place is a separate question, which relates to the disastrous socialist policies of that era in which various industries were nationalized.
David and other Brits: Please correct me as needed.

Generally in the US, you only need a license to do complex jobs … The idea that a person needs a license simply to look at something is absolutely absurd to me.
Just to look at something, you can get a learners permit. For the full license you need to log 10000 hours of viewing and pass a test in Kardashian recognition.
It’s a terminological quirk – maybe it should have been called a TV toll or a TV excise duty or something. Actually, a more apt term is a TV tithe – something which has to be paid to the state church even if you’re Catholic or non-conformist.

The insidious menace of CERN. Wake up sheeple!

I’m a mine of information, me.
Albeit a mine that the Labour Party would like to close.

I don’t know why “wireless” would be more proper than “radio”, but the terminology was ubiquitous. “I heard it on wireless” etc. Rural areas benefited from numerous educational programs disseminating information useful to farmers.

The insidious menace of CERN. Wake up sheeple!

MK Ultra is in there twice. Coincidence? I think not.

Georgia Guidestones twice also
I’d never heard of them. Checking Wikipedia, I suppose that #3, “Unite humanity with a living new language” would fit the several Esperanto kooks that I have known. Amazingly, I have only ever knwon one person who believed in the “fake Moon landings” theory. But what would still bother conspiracy theorists about CERN? After all, it hasn’t caused the end of the universe like some claimed it would…

After all, it hasn’t caused the end of the universe like some claimed it would…
Yet…
If we are lucky we will all die of global warming climate discombobulation or the Rho Rho Rho covid variant before we are all turned inside out blasted into ether by CERN.

It actually dates back to 1904…
As late as the 1970’s the GPO (British Post Office) controlled all telecommunications, which meant that it took a very long time simply to get an additional phone line and modem for data exchange between computers in different cities. And we Americans complained about AT&T which was near perfect in comparison.

“As late as the 1970’s the GPO (British Post Office) controlled all telecommunications, which meant that it took a very long time simply to get an additional phone line and modem for data exchange between computers in different cities.”
Oh, yes. I remember my gran being on a six-month waiting list for a replacement phone back in the late ’70s. It was considered perfectly normal, just what happens when you’re dealing with highly complicated things like a telephone system.

Remember those Monty Python sketches having to do with absurd bureaucracy?
? What did the Monty Python crew think of Margaret Thatcher back then? She deserves a lot of credit for reversing the UK’s decline, but it as I recall most Smart People opposed her and hated her at the time. So what do you remember, David?

I don’t recall what the joke was and didn’t understand it the first time I saw it because St. Maggie was an unknown to this US high school student…
I, too, was too young to understand British politics at that time.
…But when I saw the brief reference to her on that episode again a couple years later when I was in college (1980?) it was obviously disdainful.
Which episode? Surely you’re not thinking of a Python episode, since it ran late 1969 through 1974, whereas Thatcher became PM in 1980? And the New Gas Cooker sketch was, I think, from 1970.
TDR style
?

Thanks, WTP.
These comedians, the good ones that is, have been absolutely blindsided by the woke culture that they had a hand in ushering in.
Indeed. They are living evidence that there is no correlation between cleverness and education on the one hand and wisdom on the other.