We Seem To Be Experiencing Technical Problems
Via the comments:
I just want to let glit know that thon is valid, that vir pronouns are valid, and that seir identity is valid.
Cody wishes to educate you about what is valid.
And must therefore be respected. Indiscriminately, it seems. When not talking about her mental health issues and visits to psychiatrists – and, of course, talking about herself, or themself, repeatedly and at length – our non-binary being tells us that,
The times I feel most masculine are, like, when I’m wearing heels and in full make-up.
Not entirely unrelated: You will include your pronouns, or your grades will suffer.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
There’s a plague of scorpions in Egypt!
https://www.timesofisrael.com/scorpion-swarms-kill-3-injure-hundreds-in-egyptian-city/
That’s all I have.
And must therefore be respected. Indiscriminately, it seems.
Nope.
Nope.
Well, the word respect is used a little too freely, I think. One could, of course, be polite and avoid pointing out the unhinging that appears to have occurred. One may not wish to cause a scene or become entangled in some lengthy, probably futile exchange. But respect entails more than that, up to and including admiration, affirmation, deference, and deep regard, which, given the above, don’t seem entirely appropriate.
One of my sort-of neighbours is irretrievably neurotic and, given an opportunity, will impose her neurosis on others, via lengthy and repetitive blathering, regardless of relevance and factual replies, and seemingly oblivious to, or at least despite, the visibly tested patience of anyone nearby. I doubt she can help it, but it’s nonetheless tiresome, selfish, and often exasperating. With one notable exception, I’ve generally been polite and fairly accommodating; but respect is out of the question.
And needless to say, my tolerance, such as it is, is largely dependent on the fact I recognise that she’s broken.
That’s all I have.
Good enough for me.
By the way, if anyone has trouble with comments not appearing, email me, top left, and I’ll poke about in the spam filter. Which is being uppity again.
You will include your pronouns, or your grades will suffer.
The professor, who started academic life as an accountant, is the Bhagwan Mallinath Assistant Professor of Jainism and Yoga Studies, in the Yoga Studies department*, and whose “accomplishments” appear to be getting grants and fellowships, so a serious scholar indeed. However, I imagine anyone attracted to such an intellectually rigorous program will in true ovine fashion go along with the pronoun diktat.
However, those so inclined should check out his link to mypronouns.org.
The act of making a correct assumption may or may not send a “harmful message”. Right. Offer not valid in Sector R after curfew.
The pronoun site apparently was founded by this individual.
Apparently has not gotten the memo that Asians are now wipipo. Regardless, it is astounding that someone actually makes his whole life revolve around something as totally inconsequential as a pronoun.
And needless to say, my tolerance, such as it is, is largely dependent on the fact I recognise that she’s broken.
That, to the whole lot of them.
*(Seriously.)
“You will include your pronouns or your grades will suffer.”
Could I suggest something along these lines:
I am male. If you’re familiar with the English language that’s pretty much all you need to know about which pronouns to use when referring to me.
The pronouns I use when referring to myself are “I”, “my”, “mine”, “myself” and especially “ME, ME, ME, ME, ME“. It’s ALL about ME.
That, to the whole lot of them.
Well, it’s an obvious irony. My forbearance isn’t respect or anything like it, but depends on an understanding that the sort-of neighbour isn’t entirely in her right mind. Otherwise, I might just assume she was indulging in some elaborate passive-aggressive spite – and respond accordingly.
There may, of course, be some overlap.
There may, of course, be some overlap.
By some you mean “a great deal” I take it.
…indulging in some elaborate passive-aggressive spite…
As I said, I imagine this lot will willingly go along with the charade, but for any who didn’t, passive[aggression works both ways and the obvious choices would be things such as Latin pronouns and insisting the proper declensions are used, or foreign curse words – “My pronouns are сука (suka)/pendejo.”
Scorpion swarms kill 3, injure hundreds in Egyptian city
It’s like a Hollywood movie.
By the way, Steve, here is how to embed your link:
<a href=”https://www.timesofisrael.com/scorpion-swarms-kill-3-injure-hundreds-in-egyptian-city/”>Yikes!</a>
And by the way, whenever you want to learn how to do something you see here, you can select the text that interests you, right-click, and then choose “View Selection Source”. This will display the actual HTML.
right-click, and then choose “View Selection Source”. This will display the actual HTML.
That sound you hear is a can of worms being opened.
By some you mean “a great deal” I take it.
In the case of the sort-of neighbour, I remarked, just once but quite loudly, that doing a thing that’s bizarre, an imposition on others, a waste of everyone’s time, and faintly insulting to boot – resulting in sighs, eye-rolls and audible grumbling – and then doing it again, and again, as if no-one had made their aggravation clear, isn’t a way to win sympathy for one’s “nervous issues.”
That sound you hear is a can of worms being opened.
😧 How the world ends: Techie tries to be helpful.
David, will you be shoving me into the Correction Booth before or after deleting my comment?
I just want to let glit know that thon is valid, that vir pronouns are valid, and that seir identity is valid.
Now they’re just making stuff up.
You will include your pronouns, or your grades will suffer.
Someone had commented wondering if there would be a wrong answer to the pronouns on the homework or exam. I seem to recall a rather popular actress, or an actress in a popular show, who got cancelled for “beep/bop/boop”, so I’m going to go with yes, absolutely, some of your pronouns will be wrong answers. Although with stuff like gleet, tron, vir, and sear, how can they tell?
Red Letter Media discuss Midnight Mass, which we touched on in recent comments.
“thon is valid”
Yes, it is. It’s the neuter singular impersonal pronoun in some dialects of English, said to be a contraction of “that one”.
So today we learn that the pronoun engineers are quite happy with being called “it” as long as it’s via a word most people have never heard before. Which says a lot about them, I think.
Which says a lot about them, I think.
They’re making ever-smaller hoops, through which you’re expected to jump.
My forbearance isn’t respect or anything like it, but depends on an understanding that the sort-of neighbour isn’t entirely in her right mind.
I just moved away from one of those after 23 years of forbearance. My neighbour would turn the hose on people, threaten small children, and accuse female neighbours of carrying on affairs with her husband. She would blare Wagner into the ravine behind her house when she felt any of the neighbours may have gotten too loud. She passively/aggressively stacked her garbage bins and recycling on our lawn days before scheduled pick-up and would call the police for unexplained reasons.
It all makes for a lovely Tinder profile.
Vir was always my favourite in ‘Babylon 5’…
Am I doing that right?
Our Rulers.
The hilarious part of all the pronoun crap is that the only titles of address remain Mr, Mrs, Ms. You also have gender neutral Governor, Judge, and military honorifics. You almost never use a pronoun when a person is present. So you can still only say “meet Mr. Smith” when introducing them and call on Ms jones in class. You don’t call on “he smith” so you can’t call on Xir smith. Wrong part of speech.
The pronouns would be absurd enough if they agreed on a couple of new ones, but by insisting on dozens and that each person can have his own which can change daily, they make it impossible for anyone to comply.
In addition, most of us do not know anything about the sex lives of our friends or co-workers or students, nor do we want to know. And I don’t want to know about it from these weirdos either.
they make it impossible for anyone to comply
Feature, not bug.
they make it impossible for anyone to comply,
Not entirely unrelated.
Something actually funny from SNL, poking fun at the woke:
https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/1459765930960068611
they make it impossible for anyone to comply.
I think it was Ayn Rand who observed that a dictator is not looking for obedience to a specific, if cruel, set of rules. Rather, he wants to keep his subjects in a constant state of terror by means of the arbitrary, of never knowing what you might be punished for the day after tomorrow.
Rather, he wants to keep his subjects in a constant state of terror by means of the arbitrary
Hence all the innocent people who were arrested by the KGB.
Vir was always my favourite in ‘Babylon 5’…
For me it was always Londo. Dramatic flair and killer fashion choices always make up for deviousness and petty viciousness. Ask Mussolini.
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Hence all the innocent people who were arrested by the KGB.
Most of the heavy lifting had already been done by the Cheka, the OGPU and the NKVD. As a result, the KGB could rely on subtler means to keep most of the population in line. Communist Russia was an authoritarian police state from the outset–just as Marx had called for–and it was taken to new heights by Lenin and perfected by Stalin. The apologists who suggest Soviet Russia was on the right path before Stalin don’t know their history.
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[ Looks pointedly. Decides to keep last packet of chocolate biscuits for self. ]
Most of the heavy lifting had already been done by the Cheka, the OGPU and the NKVD.
True, although I tend to just use one of those names to stand in for all of them.
and it was taken to new heights by Lenin
I did know leftists who tried to put all the blame on Stalin.
In the case of the sort-of neighbour…
The appropriate response is to look her dead in the eye and say, “You need to get laid, woman.”
They’re making ever-smaller hoops…
This is the progress of progressive.
I did know leftists who tried to put all the blame on Stalin.
And the latest trend is to say Stalin was right all along (see also Mao, if you wanna make it with anyone anyhow). Meh. Whatever works. I’m sure it’s gonna be alright.
I did know leftists who tried to put all the blame on Stalin.
Putin and many of today’s leftists in the West would gladly bring back Uncle Joe–Stalin, not Biden. Biden is more like Uncle Joe from Petticoat Junction: slightly retarded, lazy, and easily influenced by whoever seems in charge.
Uh … NOT Babylon Bee
Dear God.
So on a lighter note, in unsolicited movie recommendations…if you’ve ever found yourself lying in bed at night, staring at the ceiling, unable to sleep thinking…If only…if only there was a movie mash-up of Papillon and Casablanca, gee that would be swell! Well have I got the movie for you. Passage to Marseille. Now y’all sleep tight now, ya’ hear?
Dear God.
Triggered
Triggered
The Critical Drinker
I accuse pst314
Why the left always projects.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/11/14/why-the-left-always-projects/
The stupid, it burns.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/11/15/omg-apparently-rittenhouse-trial-ada-thomas-binger-attended-the-alec-baldwin-school-of-firearm-safety-and-usage-photos/?utm_content=bufferf15fe&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR3L3kRvNiz4QNhPLw5iaNY9dUSjbl4jfk-JiuL-Y3rAquD0ntMBySr7Jok
Red Letter Media discuss Midnight Mass,
The end was a bit messy (and you’re right it needed more Father Paul at the end) but I enjoyed it.
The end was a bit messy (and you’re right it needed more Father Paul at the end) but I enjoyed it.
It was worth watching, certainly. It’s just that if I think of the more outstanding bits – the rowboat-at-sunrise scene; the use of Neil Diamond; Hamish Linklater’s performance; the confrontation between the girl and the drunk who crippled her… almost all of them come in the first five episodes, not the final two. Even in terms of the big monologues, mentioned in the RLM video, the first one, halfway through the series, is interesting, but the one at the very end sounds a bit woolly and a needless repetition. I’m sure it’s hard to wrap these things up neatly, but I did notice a drop in my engagement after episode five. I suppose it’s partly an issue of pacing. The first five episodes unfold leisurely and there’s plenty of time for character, atmosphere and odd little details. The slowness and the oddness sort of work together. But when the mayhem begins and everyone’s running about, not so much.
The stupid, it burns.
Multiple stupidities. And there are brightly colored tags or flags that can be placed in the chamber of a firearm to show that it is unloaded. I think I’ve even seen ones with a very long tail like a zip tie that go down the barrel, loop back, and are affixed to the tag–so that they cannot be removed by accident.
The ultimate comedic touch would have been for the court bailiffs to draw on the prosecuting attorney and yell “drop that weapon!”
The stupid, it burns.
Maybe the attorney is angling for a career as an “expert” on CNN.
I accuse pst314
Of what?
[ Assumes pose of innocent indignation ]
These people are not sane.
I caught some of the closing arguments by the prosecutors in the Rittenhouse case. Unreal. The chubby guy claimed that Kyle had other options than shooting. Besides getting killed? I think not. One guy had a gun pointed at him and the other had just hit him in the head with a skateboard and was grabbing his gun.
The one who pointed a gun around the courtroom claimed that by bringing a gun to the riot he lost all rights to self-defense. Wow. That theory would sure wreak havoc with the 2nd amendment.
These guys are evil.
These guys are evil.
You’ll get no argument from me.
I accuse pst314
[ replies with recitation of all the language violations in Demolition Man ]
How to patronise black people.
Pronouns, obviously.