Friday Ephemera
But what, I hear you ask, could possibly go wrong? || “I worship myself.” || You have to rotate the ‘w’. || Today’s word is irony. (h/t, DC) || Racism detected. || Christmas lights of note. || For Kubrick enthusiasts. Parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. || Big cat music. || I was previously unfamiliar with this concept. || The thrill of fondling state-of-the-art sex toys. (NSFW) || Tiddler detected. || Sharks versus the internet. || Assorted slow-motion microbes. || Glassware of note. || The thrill of Geocities. || She doesn’t look the type. See also. And inevitably. || Trade of note. (h/t, Samizdata) || Challenge accepted. || Today’s other word is snugness. A debate ensues. || And finally, “I was the snowflake consultant for the movie Frozen.”
But what, I hear you ask, could possibly go wrong?
Few city kids have ever heard of exploding grain elevators.
“I worship myself.”
A walking, talking reminder that there should be limits to tolerance.
…state-of-the-art sex toys…
Yeah, no, those things look like plastinated prosections – gross anatomy lab and hot sex fit like socks on a rooster.
Today’s word is irony.
Wow. Just…wow.
In order to assist you in shuffling off this mortal coil, they require you to be vaccinated.
If this was really about public health, wouldn’t that be considered a waste of a dose that could go to someone else?
And if vaccines are so great and work so well, however they are claiming they work these days, why are the vaccinated so worried about unvaccinated people? It can’t be because the unvaccinated are clogging up the hospitals – they won’t assist an unvaccinated person in killing themselves!
Yeah, no, those things look like plastinated prosections
And yet I have read that they are very popular in China and Japan. (Granted, not everything in the news and on the net is accurate.)
Today’s word is irony.
I suppose the vaccination requirement is for the benefit of the euthanizers, not the euthanizee.
I suppose the vaccination requirement is for the benefit of the euthanizers, not the euthanizee.
But if vaccines work, why does it matter? If the euthanizers are vaccinated, why are they worried about whether the people they are about to kill are?
But if vaccines work, why does it matter?
There is that. But nearly all the comments I have seen on that news item focus on the silliness of worrying about the vulnerability of unvaccinated candidates for execution.
Racism detected.
Time to start compiling lists?
More irony.
The thrill of fondling
Not a satisfying place for foot-fetishists
They really want a race war, don’t they?
Not a satisfying place for foot-fetishists
I suspect that additional videos of the other displays at that expo would reveal items catering to every kink and perversion, including rubber goats and sheep. (Did you notice the dog?) Can one get true PTSD from the internet, or does it merely feel that way?
Sharks versus the internet
Before the godawful voice-over drove me to distraction, I was intrigued by the idea of the ship’s captain, in the case of bad weather, deciding to “tie off the cable to a boy”.
A new use for cabin boys I guess.
Morning, all.
those things look like plastinated prosections – gross anatomy lab and hot sex fit like socks on a rooster.
It’s not an altogether happy sight, and the expo setting adds to the oddness. Though I was intrigued by the choice of materials. And the all-in-one, bit-of-everything boobs-vagina-arsehole thing is very, um… compact. Easy to store, I should think.
and the expo setting adds to the oddness.
I wonder if this was being served in the cafeteria?
She doesn’t look the type.
Cameras in classrooms. Bet the parents would be interested.
Cameras in classrooms. Bet the parents would be interested.
Well, our assistant professor of animation at Kansas City Art Institute is evidently quite pleased with her own presumption and self-indulgence, her use of other people’s time, and therefore money, and her general disregard for propriety – sufficiently so to boast about it on TikTok, where, presumably, she imagines a sympathetic audience.
But it’s worth noting the patterns among such people. The tone and conceits, the septum piercings, the unattractive tattoos, the dogmatic and self-flattering woke politics, and… oh yes, the serious mental health issues. At this point, it’s practically a signature. Had the fields of sociology and anthropology not been so degraded by other pinhead lefties, one might have expected some interest in the phenomenon. Alas.
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Yes, it’s an art school, and no, we mustn’t expect too much of art students, who aren’t exactly famed for their political realism. But still, if you pay a tidy sum for classes in animation, with the hope of becoming an animator, and you find large chunks of each lesson being wasted with adolescent screeds about politics and the evils of capitalism – screeds that may be related to the instructor’s own mental health problems – then this is, I think, a basis for dissatisfaction. As a rule, one shouldn’t waste other people’s time, even that of art students.
the all-in-one, bit-of-everything boobs-vagina-arsehole thing
*watches video*
*regrets watching video*
*watches video*
*regrets watching video*
No refunds. Credit note only.
No refunds. Credit note only.
Discredit note, shirley?
@ComputerLabRat: you’ll drive yourself crazy looking for logic and consistency in batflu protocols…
For instance: I’m off to Waitrose to shop, where masks are expected to be worn. Should I decide to pop into a Weatherspoons for a drink, they aren’t.
Just accept there are none.
Steve E, saw that product for sale at my local Publix about 10 years ago for the wonderful price of 69 cents. Inflation ruins everything.
Before the godawful voice-over drove me to distraction, I was intrigued by the idea of the ship’s captain, in the case of bad weather, deciding to “tie off the cable to a boy”.
I think I might have been in my thirties before I found out that “buoy” is pronounced “boy”. This is a recurring problem when one gets knowledge chiefly from books. And has no nautical friends. Moral: Send your children to sea as early as possible. They may get eaten by sharks but at least they’ll be able to pronounce “buoy” and “quay” and will know the difference between a bosun and a boson.
and will know the difference between a bosun and a boson.
Or bosom.
*ducks. Again*
and will know the difference between a bosun and a boson.
“The nucleus absorbs a moron and emits a boson, a proton, pi mesons, mu mesons, photons, and a boson’s mate.”
Moral: Send your children to sea as early as possible.
“Have you ever been to sea Billy?”
“No Captain Highliner. But I’ve been blown ashore.”
[ Heads to the alley to await burning coat ]
if you pay a tidy sum for classes in animation, with the hope of becoming an animator
…then you’re not going to the Kansas City Art Institute.
I have a couple of friends who attended Sheridan College, which at one point was known as the pipeline to Disney for prospective animators. The problem is that there just isn’t a very large market for animators; most of the journeyman work is done by sweatshops in Korea.
What’s happened of late is a generation of kids growing up with AAA video games and anime not being disabused of the notion that you can make a living doing either, and demanding technical training in these fields. Sh!t-tier colleges are happy to comply, and upon graduation the students discover that there are no jobs to be had and what few there are were snapped up by graduates of better schools.
Back when I was briefly involved in voice-over work I saw the same thing; kids who thought they could just walk into a studio and get a job talking into a mic and dubbing Their Favorite Anime. The fact that Matt Mercer and his crew are making vastly more money playing D&D badly on camera than they ever did as actual professional voice actors has at least disabused many otaku of that notion.
I have an old schoolmate who retired from being a firefighter. He was a pretty good artist, well drawing anyway, and somehow he stumbled into working on animation for Disney. Toy Story series was one of his efforts. But yes, this exploitation of young people who want to pursue childish careers is a big problem. See also and especially gaming “programmers”.
“Have you ever been to sea Billy?”
“The cabin boy was Tommy, that dirty little nipper…”
I wonder if this was being served in the cafeteria?
You used to be able to buy those soup packets at Kroger in the US, in the Caribbean section of the International Food aisle. Sadly someone must have complained, because now only chicken flavor packets are for sale. They haven’t removed the jerk seasoning though, thankfully.
then you’re not going to the Kansas City Art Institute.
I’ll take your word for it. But even so, the preening arrogance – about imposing on others and wasting the time that they’re paying for, because she, Miss Thing, wants to bore a captive audience with her delinquent politics – is quite remarkable. After all this time, and examples now in three figures, it still raises an eyebrow.
I wonder if this was being served in the cafeteria?
I vaguely recall that, at one time, many Europeans believed there were significant differences between meat from female and male chickens, and between castrated and uncastrated male chickens–and that some men would only eat male chickens on the belief that anything else was harmful to their manliness. Similar beliefs regarding cows vs bulls vs steers.
“Sh!t-tier colleges are happy to comply, and upon graduation the students discover that there are no jobs to be had”
Hits close, that does – spent time over Thanksgiving w/family who has two chillens wanting to do “production” and such (never could nail down exactly what they wanted to do, which in and of itself is a bit of an indicator…), so they spent their way thru a pair of mid sized east coast kolleges (not know for their school to movie/AV industry pipelines), and they now complain bitterly about their respective lives and the responsibility born by conservatives/republicans/wytepple/etc for their combined nearly quarter of a million dollars in student loan (and other) debt.
OTOH, the daughter did get a gig as a waitress. The son is holding out for management…
Rather than join in the mutual “gee, times sure are bad” groupmush, I mentioned that their state might be the result of their actions. Damper on the levity, that was.
I mentioned that their state might be the result of their actions
I hope you also suggested that colleges should fully inform students of the job prospects of various degrees, and that the widespread failure to do so might hint at the moral state of academia.
This is one of those.
My neighbor ran a small shop (5 or so) doing animation for video games for years but now it is just him and not full-time. Just one data-point, but…
I knew a girl in college who was going to be a singer. She did not take lessons, belong to a choir, or even sing much. It amazed me back then (50 yrs ago) and still does.
“The cabin boy was Tommy, that dirty little nipper…”
♫♪The queen she waved her scarf good bye, Columbo waved his…♫♪
Rather than join in the mutual “gee, times sure are bad” groupmush, I mentioned that their state might be the result of their actions. Damper on the levity, that was.
Good on you. It needed to be said and you did far more good by saying what certainly other people were thinking but lacked the nerve to say, even to their own children. We do people no favors by entertaining their delusions, especially when, as I’m sure, you didn’t raise the subject in the first place.
So there’s a new little game I’m playing on FB. Tired of the feel-good BS memes that (mostly) women post, I’ve found some of the verbiage in those memes is actually useful it’s just the goody-goody picture that ruins the point. For example, a recent post stating “Note to self: One thought at a time, day at a time, one task at a time.” The underlying picture was a woman in her big flouncy sun hat walking out onto a dock over a lake. I took that same quote and made a meme replacing that picture with the classic photo taken from inside an infantry landing boat on D-Day. Much more effective.
https://youtu.be/MPaJueG2NPc
From the excellent Theodore Dalrymple on Takimag I present the director of the Tate Gallery.
I confess to not having watched the entire video but the first 2 minutes left a lasting impression – probably not unlike the naked female artist taking 4 hours to fall down a staircase so admired by the learned Dr Balshaw.
many Europeans believed there were significant differences between meat from female and male chickens
I think it’s important to note that this particular soup base is cock flavoured. It’s not made from actual cock. I’m sure that today not everyone knows what real cock tastes like. 😉
[ Please help me. I can’t stop. ]
From the excellent Theodore Dalrymple on Takimag I present the director of the Tate Gallery.
Related: Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels) has thoughts on this year’s Turner Prize:
“By contrast, all the other exhibits display the pitfalls of intellection without intellect: the unsuccessful straining after significance, depth, and political virtue without any attachment whatever to beauty.”
” colleges should fully inform students of the job prospects of various degrees”
Where’s the fun (and profit) in that?
I hope you also suggested that colleges should fully inform students of the job prospects of various degrees
They’ve always been reluctant to do so, not wanting to be held responsible for what they’re churning out and all. Of course, when one of their graduates, probably on his own merits, lands a plum position, suddenly, they start positioning themselves as a pipeline.
I went to the aforementioned Sheridan College (not for animation) and did a work term in second semester. The company was so happy with what I did that they hired me immediately. I didn’t finish the semester or the program. When the semester ended I had three other people hired from the program to the same company and within 18 months I got another 15 people hired by sister companies.
Pipelines are generally driven by people and not institutions. When the people go the pipelines dry up.
Sh!t-tier colleges are happy to comply, and upon graduation the students discover that there are no jobs to be had and what few there are were snapped up by graduates of better schools.
Except for the “better schools,” I was told this by two animation instructors at a New York school that offered a degree in it.
My son and I had visited a dozen schools, and all of them were eager to talk about their high graduating into jobs / moving on to other studies percentage. Of course, I didn’t realize that students moved up because the alternative was unemployment.
The nadir of our experience was attending the graduation of a relative at a Delaware college. He was getting his Ph.D. in a highly scientific field (not Woke Studies). It was sobering that, out of the 20 or so students, so few of them moved into actual jobs. The majority of them were on to getting another degree or “considering their options.”
” colleges should fully inform students of the job prospects of various degrees”
Let me add that they claim to do just that. As I mentioned above, they hide the pea by combining those who get employment in their field with those going back to school. The fact that they don’t separate the two should have been a sign that we’re being played.
There’s a great book by a Washington Post reporter about his time getting his son into school. One of the more telling anecdotes was getting the admissions director from Yale to tell him that a third of each new class is made up of legacies, a third of overseas students who pay full freight, and the rest.
These supposedly top-tier schools also brag about their selectivity. What they don’t tell you is that a) there’s software online that helps students apply to multiple schools for free. If we had to fill out forms for each school like I did in the ’80s, and pay even $20 for each one, the number of applications would drop dramatically; and b) schools like Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, and Princeton send their admission officials on tour to gin up applications. Encouraging a flood of applicants is a great way to “massage” those U.S. News rankings.
“and the rest”
I should have added “from the pool of applicants.” Sorry.
More inmates running the asylum —
and
Speaking of chickens……..
The chicken and the egg were lying in bed together after sex.
The chicken lit up a cigarette and the eggs says
“well, I guess that answers that age old question”
Under pressure from students, administrators had to decide whether Earnest should be disciplined for violating those emerging norms.
“I’m not sure how I can defend myself, when I don’t even know what I’m accused of doing”
Seems to me that the “toxic people” that should be removed are those student leftists themselves.