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.”
The above is on top of the common tendency for people’s circle of friends to shrink as they age. Many elderly people become increasingly lonely as their lifelong close friends die off.
Family estrangement increasingly caused by Woke children
The atomization of society will continue until collectivism achieves utopia.
The atomization of society will continue until collectivism achieves utopia.
Going at least as far back as Karl Marx, who declared the family to be an enemy standing in the way of socialist utopia.
…who declared the family to be an enemy standing in the way of socialist utopia.
For all to be one, all must be no one.
pst314: a friend of ours, a Ukrainian, several times mentioned in a somewhat negative fashion, what he called “Slav humor” … challenged for an example he shrugged and described a farmer who somehow liberates a genie from magical captivity. The genie, to repay the obligation, tells him he’ll give him anything he wishes for (one time), but that there is (of course) a catch: whatever he asks for, his neighbor down the road will get it double. The farmer, unhesitating, tells the genie, “I want to go blind in one eye.”
Is it time to bring up such English delicacies as spotted dick?
That’s another item I haven’t seen lately on the International Food aisle shelves.
CMOT Amazon to the rescue
a friend of ours, a Ukrainian, several times mentioned in a somewhat negative fashion, what he called “Slav humor”
Heh. I’ve heard a few variations on that joke. The longest was told by Dave Allen. Speaking of which, some of his comedy routines can be found on YouTube, but no collections on Amazon. Too bad.
Jobs not on my shortlist: testing hippos for WuFlu
Belgian zoo hippos test positive for Covid
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59516896
My political journey:
…except that I would change “2008” to “1980”.
Damn, that Geocities one creeped me out. Not because it reminded me of university, in the early days of the interwebs, but because I thought it was somehow finding my name when it came up with Dr Dale’s Cyber Clinic.
“CMOT Amazon to the rescue”
Perused linkage… Hmm. Amazon adds “Auntie’s Steamed Puds” – also available in Chocolate.
*walks away*
Perused linkage… Hmm. Amazon adds “Auntie’s Steamed Puds”
My God, I thought you were being silly but you weren’t lying.
But the BBC blindly accepts a BLM supporter as a reliable reporter of his parents’ “white supremacy”.
Related…
I hope the recipients of the grandkid strike respond to any such text with the highly effective “Off to the solicitors tomorrow to talk about my will”.
My God, I thought you were being silly
From the recommendations on the same page: Poop Like a Champion Ultra Fiber Cereal. Reminds me of this vintage cereal ad from SNL.
From the recommendations on the same page: Poop Like a Champion Ultra Fiber Cereal. Reminds me of this vintage cereal ad from SNL.
Who could ever forget Colon Blow? And Quarry?
Also from the recommendations on that page: Eat a Bag of Dicks gummi candy. If there’s one thing I appreciate about the internet, it’s the subtlety and refinement. (As you can tell from some of my comments.)
Also: Puppy Uppers and Doggie Downers.
Chickens roosting except for those who demand we not see the chickens.
Chickens roosting
” ‘The fact that this has happened, her being shot and killed in her own home, after giving, sharing, and caring for 81 years has shaken the laws of the Universe,’ declared Oprah Winfrey”
Silly bint.
actual laws of the universe
Chickens roosting
The killer has a long criminal record and is into rap, gangs, and Rastafarianism. And that reminds me of another example of the moral blindness of liberals: A key component of Rastafarianism is racial identity politics. This should be a red flag, but liberals refuse to see anything problematic, although they can immediately see the problem with any white racial identity religion.
David, is this now the recommended “stay safe” attire?
Insufficient Christmas spirit.
A key component of Rastafarianism is racial identity politics.
When you believe that Haile Selassie was the second coming of Christ all other tenets of your belief pale by comparison.
David, is this now the recommended “stay safe” attire?
It’s been a hard day’s knight…
[ Hides behind pillar ]
Normally I’m opposed to surly negativism, but this is directed at influencers, instagram and tik-tok, so I’m sort of fine with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iik6btbRXsw
see also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHKZLZfaTE
and probably the rest of the videos on that channel. Embrace the
Poop Like a Champion
Well, you’re gonna need the Squatty Potty to do that properly of course…
[ Fixes up-bargled link. ]
Umm?
It’s been a hard day’s knight…
And you’ll be sleeping like a log.
[ Pulls out cosh. ]
[ David pulls out comprehensive list of my sins. ]
[ Puts away cosh. Slinks out door. ]
“How do you comprehend a wokeist?”
‘Think of a normal person, and take away reason and accountability.’
I may not have gotten the quotes exactly correct.
How to stop a carjacking, part 1
That does, by the way, remind me of Niven’s “The Deadlier Weapon”.
Think of a normal person, and take away reason and accountability.’
ISWYDT. Heh.
‘Think of a normal person, and take away reason and accountability.’
Also take away prudence, temperance, kindness, humility,…
‘Think of a normal person, and take away reason and accountability.’
Thank god it’s Sunday night and the wife goes to bed early because of work on Monday, but isn’t that the definition of a woman. At least that’s what they said at the last meeting of the patriarchy.
Sorry, David has brought back all the “good” dishes. I’ve got boxes of Corelle everyday dishes in the trunk/boot of my car. Extra income in my retirement and all that.
…because leftists are so intolerant.
Meanwhile, in Inglewood, California, wypipo look at books in a “black space” with predictable results.
The difficulty appears to be the ytes looked at books, but didn’t take any from the “black space”, well, that and daring to be in a “black space”.
I guess the writer is a fan of George “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” Wallace.
Inglewood is predominantly Hispanic, BTW, and this histrionic should be denounced both for colonizing an Hispanic space AND culturally appropriating the wypipo’s little libraries.
What I resented was not this specific couple. It was their whiteness,
When someone is fixated by race, and makes it their go-to topic of conversation, the thing around which their world is built, it’s generally a good idea to back away slowly and fumble for your car keys. Given that such people tend to be quite unpleasant. However, our betters appear bent on encouraging these preoccupations, and seem to imagine, all evidence to the contrary, that the phenomenon will be different, and somehow must be different, depending on the skin colour of the individuals in question.
But such is wokeness.
The infantilization of college students continues apace
The infantilization of college students continues apace
For some reason, this came to mind.
Seems legit, what could possibly go wrong?
What a racist a**hole that somehow thinks her racism is special and unique. She sneers at the “white flight” that allowed Inglewood to be predominantly black/Hispanic but also hates “white return”. How dare young people look for housing bargains in “her” neighborhood if they are the wrong color.
She has met the KKK and it is her.
The infantilization of college students continues apace
Darleen, what you quoted came from someone at Penn State University, AKA (well, long ago) “Linebacker-U”, not some backwoods community college or lefty-girly Brynn-Mawr (or however TF it’s spelled). You really should point such a thing out. You see, out there in the world, somewhere “in the cloud” likely/even there are pictures of me as a young boy wearing a Penn State t-shirt, a sweater, and likely a football pillow so labeled in the background. I need to know this information so that I can Yezhov those pics. These things are important.
Meanwhile, 38 people in my immediate community found this story funny:
Not one question or hmmm or anything. So it must mean something…right? Like maybe one of those coded messages that Nazi spies used to put in personal ads in Allied newspapers during the war?
However, our betters appear bent on encouraging these preoccupations, and seem to imagine, all evidence to the contrary, that the phenomenon will be different, and somehow must be different, depending on the skin colour of the individuals in question.
I’m sure you are right that some of these Smart People think it will be Different This Time, but I am also certain that as you move up the hierarchies of money and power you see that illusion replaced by a knowing, cynical use of such people as tools–catspaws–in a play for absolute power: They cultivate Antifa and BLM as their own equivalent of Hitler’s Brownshirts and Mussolini’s Blackshirts.
Speaking of which, has anyone done a thorough investigation of George Soros’ background, to trace the likely roots of his malevolence?
begged students not to major in wildlife because there were no jobs–their honesty was refreshing.
Back in 2006, “Zed” Shaw (a famous Ruby-on-Rails programmer) penned an essay called “Rails is a Ghetto” in which he said that if all you know is programming, you’ll be stuck in low-wage trivial coding jobs your whole life. If you know something else and a little bit of programming, you can write your own ticket for the rest of your life because there are tons of fields out there that could desperately benefit from automation and software engineering.
I tend to be very skeptical of all these Learn to Code/Teach Kids to Code initiatives, because they always focus on coding to the exclusion of anything else rather than teaching kids how to use coding to improve other things they know.
A former colleague of mine has a tidy side income from an app he helped develop that uses AI to help you learn how to play guitar better – he’s a competent guitarist as well as a competent programmer.
By comparison, my current job is programming the web portal and analysis engine for sensors on industrial tanks of high-pressure gases. They’ve been having a terrible time getting the pressure => how much gas is left in the tank calculations correct and at one point I point-blank asked “what is the damn problem – it’s just Ideal Gas Law with the CRC handbook constants for the specific gas mix and pressure ranges” and the devs all looked at me blankly. “Wait a minute – is there anyone here with even basic first year physical chemistry??” and the devs all looked at me blankly. I don’t know how the hell a company that only does this ended up with no developers that know anything at all about the topic, but it’s extremely common.
So whole there may not be a lot of jobs in the forestry or wildlife space, spend two years getting a programming diploma on top of those and a wide array of lucrative options become available.
A former colleague of mine has a tidy side income from an app he helped develop that uses AI to help you learn how to play guitar better – he’s a competent guitarist as well as a competent programmer.
The husband with a background in music, electronics and a smattering of programming (as well as years as a systems admin) is doing this from the ground up. Just getting ready for the coding of the voice cards stage.
The husband with a…
I’m tempted to ask exactly how many husbands Darleen has.
Tempted, yes, but not foolhardy.
[ Decides to check something or other in the cellar. ]
Tempted, yes, but not foolhardy.
Frankly, I was picturing your domestic arrangements as a scene from She.
“You, Tuesday. Attend to my gloriousness.”