Friday Ephemeraren’t

I liked the twist at the end: the skateboarder did not rack his nuts on the handrail. And then was not run over by a car. Win!

an inopportune twang
Amateur, BB King just puts on a new string.
Mr. Vaughn did the axe swap better.

the thrill of an educator’s pretty nails
How the hell do this people get hired?

How the hell do this people get hired?
Well, you have wonder if the parents are equally entertained by Mr Morris encouraging second-grade boys to paint their nails, or by the entire class having to write stories about Mr Morris and his nail-painting adventures. He and his nails being so fabulous, you see, and in no way narcissistic.
As noted before, many times, the hashtags #tiktokteacher and #teachersoftiktok are quite revealing, though perhaps not in ways one might wish.

Yep, starting week three now.
Very sorry to hear that, David.

Very sorry to hear that, David.
It’s just annoying. It, and the medications to suppress the symptoms, make you feel a bit distant and thick-headed. So an enthusiasm for parsing woke idiocy is hard to muster.
[ Attempts to scintillate. Emits feeble glow. ]

P.S. Feel better, David! Nothing more annoying than a drag-out cold/flu/crud of any kind.

I’m not at death’s door, you understand…
Good to hear. I’ve been dragging around with seasonal allergies for a few weeks, so I truly empathize.

Durham University

Students at Durham University are calling out the unacceptable behaviour shown by some male students against female students and the need for everyone to challenge it where they ‘see it and hear it’ [ … ] “We are really pleased that the students have taken this step to shout out the toxic behaviour that supports sexual violence against women.”

Also Durham University:

Durham University offers students training lessons via Zoom on how to be prostitutes [ … ] ‘an interactive course that explores the challenges student sex workers can face’

Uh … wut?

Please update your calendars.

“Gay Uncle Day”?
I’m still wondering why January is left out – maybe a month of rest.
Meanwhile, this guy is back wanting to talk to the kids.
“Sometimes human beings are more than a boy or a girl”, like a boy with overdone makeup and a five-o-clock shadow.

Not entirely unrelated.

Please update your calendars.
Ah, Harvey Milk day, celebrated by dalliances with underaged boys, “outing” of one’s competitors, and the patronage of Marxist death cults. As is tradition.

It’s just as well you’ve been so assiduous in cultivating minimal expectations…
[ Looks indignant, emits pathetic cough. ]

Seems an apt time to dig this out of the archives.
As sk60 said in the comments to that, “I denounce your paedophobia.”
I am sure it was sarcastic, but you know it is coming.

I’m not at death’s door, you understand, but being sniffly and thick-headed gets boring quite quickly.
Ugh. I’m sorry, David. I once suffered a similar low-grade illness, and remember the frustration of being too sick to have any fun, but not sick enough to warrant a day on the sofa watching bad television. ‘Twas just day after day of going through the routine without feeling like I was really there.
In many ways, it’s like winter in Pennsylvania. The temperature is plus or minus a few degrees of freezing for months on end, so it’s too cold to enjoy any regular outdoor activities, but not cold enough to enjoy any winter activities like skating or skiing or snowball fights. Just ten or twelve weeks of cold muddy slush punctuated with a few wet snowfalls.
Get well soon!

Seems an apt time to dig this out of the archives.

In my studies of the Paedophile Information Exchange in the 1980s, many members admitted sexual feelings for children which they had been able to contain or turn to social good. Some gravitated toward occupations such as schoolteacher or social worker, where they could enjoy the company of children without plotting abuse.

It conjures up a scene of Victorian public school masters sublimating their erotic feelings into intense physicality on the playing field, heartfelt recitations of certain passages of Greek poetry, and cold baths after administering corporal punishment.
The conventional morality of the past century (among those with intellectual pretensions) and the past half century (in popular culture) is that sexual feelings that aren’t acted out create repressions and complexes which lead to worse things than the acting out of the original urges. The culture has cued us to know the Victorian schoolmaster better than he knows himself – all this muscular Christianity and Higher Purpose, but in reality we all know that he was molesting the boys, wasn’t he?
Sixty years into the sexual revolution they now propose that putting pedophiles next to children without touching them releases a sublimated energy that’s a societal good. This is at pitch of Higher Purpose that even our cartoon Victorians wouldn’t have attempted. And all done in the open with no judgement, and therefore no pressure on the pedophile to assimilate to norms or to sublimate anything.
Indeed, the hypocrisy might be a feature and not a bug: a truce that can be denounced later once they’ve marched through the institutions.
It’s a bit like how in the domain of immigration, expecting outsiders to assimilate to majority norms is too much to ask – a denial of their selfhood. So the historic majority population is expected to live alongside immigrants who express their intention to keep their identity and traditions and their hostility to the traditions of the host country. And all of it under a managerialist regime that pretends that it doesn’t matter how the minority expresses its bad intentions to the majority as long as they don’t act it out, that it matters a lot how the majority expresses their bad intentions because the minority is vulnerable, and that any acting out (that might surprisingly take place) must be dealt with without being seen to take sides between the majority and minority views.

The Los Angeles Police Department would like your cooperation and compliance …

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) tweeted a release Tuesday advising city residents to “cooperate and comply” when being robbed.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) tweeted a release Tuesday advising city residents to “cooperate and comply” when being robbed.
The LAPD tweet did go on to ask that victims be “good witnesses”. But that ignores the fact that in LA criminals often serve little or no prison time.
It’s time to recognize that “progressives” are not human beings. T are enemies of humanity.

Why do I have to cooperate and comply with the criminals?
That might be prudent advice (“don’t do something that might get yourself killed”) but I would prefer “cooperate and comply when prudent, but shoot when you can”. But I don’t think the police are allowed to say that nowadays.

“I can’t.”
Oh. Bugger. I tried it in different browsers that don’t know about my account and it seemed to work. Never mind. Just a daft pun. Not to worry.

That might be prudent advice
I understand that aspect of it, that idea having been drummed into me by various adults while growing up. I’m just thinking about it on a more, um, societal level.

update your calendars
‘Gay Uncle Day” is quite the niche.

[ Fixes overflow of italics. Points to enormous, illuminated sign. ]

[ Resumes wiping bar. ]

Blackadder is back from his banning?