Friday Ephemeraren’t
Because it takes practice, a chance to throw together your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. I’ll kick things off with an answer to the age-old question of whether eyeballs bounce; an obliging doggo; a job that’s perhaps not for everyone; an inn of note; scenes of wartime London; and why a non-lethal knockout is harder than you might think.
Entertain me, I dare you.
The lady at yellowstone: one guy fell in a geyser and was never even found. Very very dangerous. Having lived in the 60s I also resent her cultural appropriation of my youth. And a VW van? Really?
Pretentious speech shows that you are part of the in-crowd and also an “intellectual” hahahahah idiots
God, I can smell her pictures, the nasty hippy.
I’ve known a lot of hippies. Many of them even bathed. They can be superficially pleasant to be around–cheerful, chipper, etc–but nonetheless a waste of one’s time thanks to their shallowness and foolishness.
Now you can watch many of the the slappings in Mexican soap operas collected into 1 video! (with some kneeing and handbagging thrown in). It makes for compelling viewing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClcGyYyDYLs
7:32 is my favourite
Slap ratio slightly better in this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgUjAJgYI-c
Not watching unless there is fish slapping.
Stephen Fry: a dumb person’s idea of a smart person.
But American liberals are working hard to catch up.
Stephen Fry: a dumb person’s idea of a smart person.
Come on man, the XR guys are super cereal deep thinkers.
Stephen Fry, by the way, has a net worth of approximately $40 million and owns multiple very luxurious homes. Never mind all that international jet travel. He does not exactly live the lifestyle that XR demands everyone adopt.
XR boldly fights
global warmingclimatechange, no,disruptionhysteria by harassing a head of broccoli.Switching Gears, a bike champion is born.
Entertain me,
“What? I’m just looking at this fascinating wall.”
super cereal deep thinkers
ACT NOW: BECAUSE IT’S TOO LATE
Stephen Fry, by the way, has a net worth of approximately $40 million and owns multiple very luxurious homes.
They always do.
…a dumb person’s idea of a smart person.
Look at how many people assume Anthony Hopkins is a font of high and refined intellect, because… what? That’s part of the roles he plays?
Everyone who matters knows Brian Cox played the superior Hannibal.
I’m just looking at this fascinating wall.
This, ladies, is how men wind up looking women in the eyes.
That was a boss track.
He’s still got some other stuff up here and there, but sadly 99% of what he uploaded over past ~10 years is now set to “private”. All for “staying employed” reasons.
Band name.
Somehow my girlfriend had never encountered the wonder that is the Rock Band series of video games and has been having quite a fun time of it the last few weekends.
At the beginning of the game you have to name your fledgeling…er, rock band and she got stuck at that screen, at a loss for what to name it.
[ grabs phone ] Hang on, dear. I have a few suggestions…
Hang on, dear. I have a few suggestions…
See, this place even has romantic applications.
Minor observation: why do our American cousins say ‘I will write my senator’ when they do not make it clear what they are writing ‘my senator’ on? Is it written on a wall, or the pavement?
If I had an American cousin, I could write to them and find out.
(PS if anyone has an American cousin spare, could they pass on their details to me for adoption? Ta)
Our American Cousins? If you haven’t seen it, I’ve heard it’s to die for.
“UK and US language differences”
Hey! (It was officially the “Underground” for decades, but nobody paid any attention.)
Our ultra creative elites score again – I thought this was a joke, but it isn’t.
Currently in pre-production, “Casablanca” with Leslie Jones as Rikki, Jackie Chan as her lost lover, Ilya. Box office boffo, baby!
why do our American cousins say ‘I will write my senator’
Que?
Please join the 21st century. We’re supposed to post TikTok vids. With dancing and captioning.
Or FaceTwit if you’re on the oldish side (over 29)
similar to that eyeball one, a sciencey video all about explosive fantasies with a new metric, ‘how many average male adults vaporized’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfXQeP6ESnE&t=287s
Come on man, the XR guys are super cereal deep thinkers.
As are all those Mensa members I’ve known. The smart people who I’ve found to be most worth knowing do not self-segregate in such ways.
There is a bird sitting on my phone as I tweet this. It’s tweeting.
…it was nowhere as painful as the real thing…
I can’t imagine what that might be.
Of the 12 Marines and 1 Navy Medic killed, two are from SoCal.
And one of them, Kareem Nikoui, was a 2019 grad of Norco High School … one year ahead of the grandsons. They were all in the same JROTC program at the school. Please remember them and their grieving families in your prayers.
“We interviewed Kelly at her home, the girls all called her ‘Mom’, they appeared to be very much at home and there was nothing we could see to raise any suspicion”.
Well, that’s good enough for prime time!
Petition to Welsh parliament demands that Welsh dragons be depicted with penises: “Within symbology, an erect penis depicts fertility and strength, when applied to a royal insignia, it’s even more important…”
This was an issue I had never even thought about, but now I’m laughing. On the other hand, millions of women proudly wear pussy hats, so why not?
Twitter is down. Since they’ve been losing $ for years, maybe deceased? One can hope. Though it does rather mess up “ephemera” posts.
I had a beer and snacks at Berggasthaus Ascher.
Its in Inner Appenzell. good place to take you credit card for a 2 week trek
Twitter is down.
That’s funny. It’s been up every time I’ve checked recently.
…Though it does rather mess up “ephemera” posts.
There are good arguments for posting screen shots with the links, although in some cases that detracts from the fun of discovering what David’s cryptic texts really mean–and there are some images that I would not want to actually see here.
For a people so defensive of their liberty – they put us to shame with stuff like this – I can never understand why they keep voting for socialists.
They aren’t defensive of liberty for liberty’s sake. Their liberty comes with equality and brotherhood, which can be more of a drag on personal liberty when the modern twisted view of those two things is applied. That goes a long way to explain their claim to love liberty while supporting socialism.
The French tradition still sees governing structures as positive things that prevent tyranny, while the American tradition assumes all governing structures lead to tyranny and power must be spread across many institutions to keep tyranny to a minimum. So the French are more truly anti-tyranny than pro-liberty. They legitimately get pissed when governments act tyrannically, putting on yellow vests and taking to the streets. Americans are less surprised when governments act this way and are fare less likely to get pissed enough over it to pick up a pitch fork. My two cents anyway.
There are good arguments for posting screen shots with the links…
If you use PostImage, as I do, the images are stored on the PostImage site and do not incur data storage costs upon David’s hosting service–although they do, of course, increase bandwidth costs.
Have I got that entirely right, David? Costs must be a continuing concern for this rickety barge.
…Their liberty comes with equality and brotherhood…
“Liberté, egalité, fraternité”. Possibly even sororité, although Google Translate insists on translating “sisterhood” as “fraternité”, possibly out of some perverse obsession with trans advocacy. 😉
Send this bitch to Kabul. Please: Teacher hates American flag and removed it from classroom. Has children pledge allegience to pride flag instead.
Similar thoughts to Steve E. Well stated.
Well, here a very angry letter is implied. I would like to beat those who write and try and within a centimeter of their life (that’s less than an inch!) to write to try to instead.
I’m really on the fence about the destructive effects of the 16th and 17th amendments of our Constitution; it’s certainly enough to make me want to boil any progressives in their own rendered fat. (To put it another way; if I had a time machine, I’d leave Hitler alone and kill everyone who thought those two amendments were good ideas.)
I wouldn’t waste a time machine trip around the “and try and” versus “and try to” bit.
Breaking news from the Indo this week on the Irish Divisions being deployed in World War Hair.
The Curly Air Force, with its proud history of intersectionality with black hair issues, will be hitting the enemy’s hair straightener production facilities, also known as the Arsenal of Conformity.
And Traveller women are in on the hair thing as well …
This really is like the black hair mania crossing into a new ecosystem, the idea that any outsider has devoted one second of consciousness to the hair on the heads of Travellers. For one thing, Traveller women tend to have so many domestic burdens that they’re not often accessible to the public gaze. For another thing, they have hard lives that age them prematurely, so there isn’t much glory in their hair or in any other aspect of their appearance. This is of course the fault, not of Traveller women or men or society or choices, but of the legacy of Irish racism.
Presumably all this hair mobilization is under the generalship of black women. Otherwise taking over the megaphone to celebrate how the golden sunshine is reflected in the natural red tresses of free and self-determined Irish women might come across not only as a grievance usurpation but as a blatant female attention grab.
For a people so defensive of their liberty – they put us to shame with stuff like this – I can never understand why they keep voting for socialists.
I’m not sure “keep” is helpful there.
Since 1996 they have only spent five years under a Socialist President (the execrable Hollande). He won because Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was clearly going to win, got arrested. And even then he got a lot of votes from non-Socialists simply to keep Le Pen out. He is the French equivalent of Biden, being a “not Le Pen” of no great worth rather than a decent candidate in his own right. (Hollande left power with a 4% approval rating!)
Before him was Francois Mitterand, not the world’s most Socialist of Socialists. And before him it was all the way back to Auriol at the end of WWII, when everyone was voting in Socialists.
They do well enough in the national assembly, but only because there is no organised, stable, united right wing party. If a decent centre-right party could be built and hold together it would utterly dominate. But the right in France is unbelievably fractious, torn between too many competing visions and unable to forge an umbrella party.
The French are not particularly left wing, although their left wing is particularly mental.
And one of them, Kareem Nikoui, was a 2019 grad of Norco High School … one year ahead of the grandsons. They were all in the same JROTC program at the school. Please remember them and their grieving families in your prayers.
SSgt. Ryan Knauss of Knoxville, my town. I am looking to see if they publicize his return and funeral, as I suspect there will be a huge outpouring. Oh, and we don’t tolerate any Westboro Baptist showing up – they got run off the last time a fallen warrior came home.
Radical scenes.
Swan Woke.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ballet-leotards-ditched-to-help-transgender-dancers-pn2mbbrsf
Radical scenes
The scenic radicalism continues
(Watching the full two minutes or so of the ‘performance’ is quite eye-opening in terms of the wider agenda they have in mind).
Radical scenes
Curious what a Venn diagram of XR and Greenham Common protestors might look like.
Swan Woke.
Karl: I hear that she really bombed.
Swan Woke
But don’t male ballet dancers also wear leotards? And probably some type of supportive undergarment to keep things in place while twisting and jumping. And don’t the female ones wear some kind of sports bra support thing to keep things in place while twisting and jumping? Although I always thought dancers tended to be on the small side up top, but I guess there may have been some busty ballerinas.
I thought ballet was about the movement and positioning of the human form – thus the historically tight clothing. Burka ballet kinda misses the point.
Why does the whole world have to change in order to appear to appease to this small minority of mentally ill people? Why do we have to become their lunatic asylum?
my town. I am looking to see if they publicize his return and funeral, as I suspect there will be a huge outpouring.
Norco is a small town, I’m right on the border in Corona. It is “Horsetown USA” and fiercely defends its designation by keeping it rural (zoned horse properties, no apartments, no mall, a rodeo arena and has fought off some on the Riverside County supervising board who drool over yanking some of these multi-acre horse farms for dense development). They are also patriotic and the JROTC program at the high school is popular and well-supported.
This happened yesterday.
Swan Woke — “Loose-fitting clothing will instead be promoted to accommodate transgender dancers who may be self-conscious about their bodies.”