Friday Ephemera

TikTok tucking?
I could solve his problem easily: I’ve just come back from the paddock where I ‘marked’ a bull calf born in the last 24 hours. It’s best to get the little blighters early before they learn to run and resist. The process includes driving an electronic ear tag through the right ear which probably wouldn’t bother many of the weirdos seen in their self-promoting clips as they seem to have piercings all over their bodies including where the sun doesn’t shine. However for little bulls the process includes squeezing their balls up into the scrotum and applying a tight elastrator ring [also used on lambs] at the base so, fairly quickly, the sac falls off with the nuts. It doesn’t seem to bother the soon-to-be ex-bulls so it may be no local anaesthetic would be required for this TikTok tucker. I’m sure the rubber elastrator ring would stretch enough to include his totally tucked ‘wedding tackle’. Then he would not need to TikTok tuck.

Is there some law that says honestly believing you’re the opposite sex means you have to act like a freakish parody of that sex?
Likely that both malfunctions are caused by the same wiring defect.

like a freakish parody of that sex?
While reserving the right to coldcock anyone who says something you don’t like. You know, like women do.

I forwarded the Euphonium Guys to several people and my uncle wrote back to say that one day in Hong Kong, he and my aunt were pushing my cousin along in his stroller and along came Michael Jackson with a couple of big, unsmiling guys. Jackson smiled and waggled his fingers at my cousin. So my cousin was lucky—he met Michael Jackson for free—and unlucky—he’ll never remember it—with the same event at the same time.

San Francisco Mayor Breed got a bit peeved the other day saying that the Walgreen closings had nothing to do with shoplifting. Now Target is throwing in the towel.

“This store loses $25,000 a day to shoplifting,” an SFPD officer told the Globe in lengthy, taped interviews conducted this week. “That’s $25,000 that walks out the door on average between 9 and 6 every day.”
(The Globe is redacting the officers’ names because of critical remarks made about Mayor London Breed and District Attorney Chesa Boudin that could potentially endanger their jobs.)
“This store does between $80,000 to $120,000 in sales every day. And they lose 25 of it [meaning $25,000]. Even if they’re making 25% profit, the stealing takes that down to zero.”

@NTSOG, there is an alternative method via so-called “bloodless castrators” (AKA https://myvetsupplies.com/product/bloodless-castrator).
However, if the crushing bits have a slight gap, you might end up with a demi-steer. One testicle functional, the other not.

Today’s word is inadvisable.
#MaximumRussian

Don’t blame me for suddenly punching you in the face.
Toxic masculinity.

It needs to be set on fire, she says.
Bet the ‘non binary’ kid is a boy.

@ RC: “bloodless castrators”. I’ve heard of them, but never used them. Whatever method is used one has to be careful not to leave a ‘nut’ in place and end up with a bull not a steer. Years ago and early in my farming career I did miss a couple of nuts – it was mid-winter, damned cold and my hands were frozen – and I left two little bulls with a single undescended ‘nut’. They were a nuisance until sent to market.

Meanwhile, in the happy-clappy world of Antifa.

The two people shot were crew members and not actors. Why was the weapon pointed towards them in the first place?

A good friend of mine at school only had one ball. He went on the become a bishop.
Just saying

…and then treating the boy in ways one might call overly controlling, or simply abusive.
From that link:
“Jody Allard, a single mother and doctrinaire feminist…humiliates her own teenage sons in a national newspaper… And at no point does Ms Allard consider the possibility that this is something that sane and loving parents do not do.”
Side note: There is a tendency among writers to write about people they know, from journalists writing columns about their adorable daughters to novelists using family and friends as characters in stories. Even the most kindly depictions may be embarrassing and humiliating to people who would like their personal lives to be known only to those they choose as intimate friends, and to be confident that their privacy is secure–and some novelists can be quite callous in the intimate details they reveal. Ex-lovers and ex-spouses get much of the abuse, but anyone may be a target.
Jody Allard writes that one of her sons is now suicidal and is seeing a psychiatrist. It sounds like she picked a psychiatrist who is also a radical feminist:
“As we drove home, my son told me that he hates that psychiatrist. She is too blunt and harsh, he said.
. . .
I am a good enough mother. I know that because my son’s psychiatrist told me so last week, as she explained bell curves and Skinner’s theories, and said that suicidal thoughts are normal.”

Meanwhile, in the happy-clappy world of Antifa.
When you’re a useful idiot who’s no longer useful.

…you can’t say you feel like a woman since you have no idea what it feels like to be a woman.
I’m afraid that even some “conservatives” buy into the lie that trans people really are whatever sex gender they say they are. The pretense is that the brain abnormality that makes a man think he is a woman means that he really does have a woman’s brain. It may take a long time to eradicate this and other lies from our culture.

Too far? Perhaps a touch.
Via Holborn.

There is a genuine chance that anyone attacking me for “misgendering” them will have my thumbs driven into their eye sockets. Don’t blame ME, my thumbs, like an AR-15, have a wheel of their own.

WILL of their own. My iPhone, like my thumbs, has a will if its own. Another theory being the text to speech is typing on the fly by ESL students in the Peoples’ Republic. 🙂

Also regarding movies…does anyone know if movie people are required to go through the sometimes unnecessarily long and often unnecessarily dull safety training that people in regular jobs do? I have had safety training for fuels that I never came within 100 yards of, tools that I would not be using but were in the same shop area as I was, etc. Just yesterday trying to find information on mounting a router (woodworking) I ran across a long safety instruction form for some university engineering class.

Journalists, is there anything they don’t know?

an individual describes difficulties in ADL.
It occurs to me that if you’re so obese that you can’t find clothing sufficiently vast, and can’t use even a disabled toilet without a farce ensuing, then… well, maybe you shouldn’t have allowed yourself to become so monstrously fat.
The problem, I’d suggest, is not size of the toilet.

Now Target is throwing in the towel.
Well I won’t be crying for them. They’ve enabled and even encouraged this problem. For years now. Bastards the lot of them.

This is the third such incident that I know of of a weapon firing blanks
I’m familiar with the Brandon Lee and Jon-Erik Hexum shootings. What’s on your list?
why the need for such dangerous props?
They aren’t dangerous if handled properly. In the Brandon Lee shooting, the prop master who was responsible for the safe firing of the prop firearms had left for the day and the director decided to go overtime and shoot the scene without him. Jon-Erik Hexum didn’t understand how blanks work, put the gun to his temple, and pulled the trigger.
Having worked in both very dangerous engineering sites and the film/TV industry, I can say that the latter is not filled with terribly bright or responsible people.
crew members and not actors. Why was the weapon pointed towards them in the first place
Because they weren’t actors. With some isolated exceptions, when you see an actor firing a gun on screen the scene is always blocked so that the gun isn’t actually pointing at anyone in the scene. The problem is that when there are bright lights shining in an actor’s eyes he can’t always see whether the gun is pointing at someone off set in the dark.
movie people are required to go through the sometimes unnecessarily long and often unnecessarily dull safety training
I wasn’t but that was twenty years ago before the explosion of elfin saffey.
I am a good enough mother. I know that because my son’s psychiatrist told me so last week
Remind me who’s paying the psychiatrist?
The pretense is that the brain abnormality that makes a man think he is a woman means that he really does have a woman’s brain
Not a single scrap of actual science-based evidence for this, of course. The most likely explanation for the superficially similar brain scans is that both women and people with PTSD tend to have more active amygdala.
Men have complained forever that they cannot grasp what the women in their life are thinking
Don’t try to understand women, Bud. Women understand women, and they hate each other.
(Women buy shoes because men evolved to be hunters and women evolved to be gatherers in the neolithic steppes. Having more luxury goods is a sign of status within the herd. Buying expensive shoes is a way of satisfying the instinct to collect valuable things. Plus, shoes are largely insensitive to weight gain.)

Will Smith is paying attention.