Friday Ephemera
Scenes. (h/t, Darleen) || Not without its uses. || When your ‘they-ness’ isn’t noticed. || Amblin’ by. || He does, er, this better than you do. || Assorted bus tickets. (h/t, Things) || Bread bugs. || Restoration of note. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Residential Los Angeles, 1940s. || Ring for service. || For sequencing. || Samantha has conditions. || Snowflake generator. || Little helper. || He loves his 28 head-mates. || Mixed messages. || “Your mind should automatically say father.” || “Whiteness is the overarching disease.” || The joys of public transport, part 4,862. || An archive of paper bags, and a plastic bag museum. (h/t, Things) || How far could you throw a ball on the Moon? || And finally, does yours do this?
Oh, and for those that care about such things, I now have a Gettr account.
Not without its uses.
The male version of Sissy Hankshaw.
Snowflake generator.
oooh that would be awesome for avatars on the blog.
The male version of Sissy Hankshaw.
Heh. I was immediately reminded of that novel but could not remember its title or the name of the main character. Not surprising, perhaps, given how incoherent it was.
“The novel was hopelessly dated, and there is not enough peyote in the entire American Southwest to render this movie comprehensible or endurable.”
—a film review
Scenes. (h/t, Darleen)
I was going to post that here if you didn’t, David. Wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cringe in fear that someone was about to get mauled.
“Your mind should automatically say father.”
Replace “father” with “needs anti-psychotic medication”.
The joys of public transport, part 4,862.
This is the world that the left is forcing on us.
given how incoherent it was.
The only thing that could possibly make it worse was a kd lang soundtrack. Oh, there was a kd lang soundtrack. My bad.
Ohio man shot dead by police was celebrating new year by firing rifle into the air: “James Williams was said to be taking part in local tradition of firing celebratory shots when killed by officer in Canton…the gunfire was an annual tradition in their neighborhood, with many neighbors also firing shots.”
All Cultures Are Equal, and don’t you forget that.
The officer should not have shot him without warning, but nonetheless it is arguably the case that the world is better off without such morons.
Note how the Guardian
What’s Inside the Mind of a Chicago Carjacker. All too rarely it’s a police officer’s bullet.
“Your mind should automatically say father.”
Mind says no.
Darleen: “Wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cringe in fear that someone was about to get mauled.”
Someone will, sooner or later!
“Your mind should automatically say father.”
“He is biologically the mother… and while that is true…”
Morning, all.
“He is biologically the mother… and while that is true…”
Apparently, the mother’s beard is very important as a signifier of sex, but the uterus and cervix, from which a child is emerging, somehow aren’t. And we’re told this, quite emphatically, by a man whose drag-act wig is presumably intended to signal his sex, while his own beard doesn’t.
And remember, any confusion is “disrespect” and entirely your fault.
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly.
Replace “father” with “needs anti-psychotic medication”
I need anti-psychotic medication after seeing that. And I keep the sound muted on these videos.
Mixed messages.
An ages-old phenomenon. I’m sure primitive cave dwellers were asked “Why Ug staring?” by women who’d decided a single rabbit pelt was the look of the day.
In case anyone was wondering: https://twitter.com/BurnsideNotTosh/status/1479084090502656000?s=20
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly.
It repeats my truth with a grin or else it gets canceled again.
Not without its uses.
Is that real?
Is that real?
I’m pretty sure it is. I believe the condition is called macrodactyly, or local gigantism.
Lol. That.
That.
Just stand there silently and nod, while being lectured on reality.
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly.
[ Writes ‘become more intolerant’ in 2022. ]
I need anti-psychotic medication after seeing that.
No, no, that rage you are feeling is entirely sane.
How far could you throw a ball on the Moon?
Finally, Pluto once again gets proper recognition.
Video shows how to prepare sushi
And finally, does yours do this?
Getaway car?
And finally, does yours do this?
2002, 3.0CSi, M1, E30 M3, E34 M5, E36 M3, E39 M5, any 3 series up to and including the E46, and now that POS and a 7 series with a 31 inch TV – they started going downhill with all the “SAV” models, but with this crap BMW have completely lost the plot.
Scenes.
*raises hand* I have a question…
*raises hand* I have a question…
Some context here.
but with this crap BMW have completely lost the plot.
How did this happen?
Some context here.
Thanks! 🙂
How did this happen?
Yuppies.
The real downfall started in the early ’90s when yuppies started buying them as status symbols and BMW North America realized they could sell more to yuppies than to gear heads, and things really took a nosedive with the X5 “Sports Activity Vehicle” in 1999 to compete with all the other SUVs that were flooding the market.
Then, like everyone else, they kept adding electronic crap, making them bigger and heavier and more impossible to work on, the newest ones don’t even have a freeking dipstick, and on this side of the pond finding a new one with a proper manual transmission is high adventure. Now, in part because of the silly EU, they too are pushing the sparky car crap.
The old “Freude am Fahren” and “Ultimate Driving Machine” days that appealed to enthusiasts are long gone, I’m afraid.
Pregnant “woman” with a beard: she is doing hormone experiments on the fetus because to have a beard she is dosing hard on testosterone and suppressing female hormones. If you proposed to do that as a doctor (such an experiment) the ethics committee would scream no. It cannot be good for the child.
The lion is obviously not full grown, but it does look like a toddler objecting to being taken out of the store, as some were joking.
Shooting guns in the air: yeah, the bullets come down somewhere and can kill.
The bear: that was a grizzly which can eat people…or just amble by and ignore you. heh.
How to make a tasty mixed drink.
Pregnant “woman” with a beard…
Very much related, a sad tale of a one night stand, “Ash feared his mental health may take a turn for the worse when he discovered the pregnancy…”
The real downfall started in the early ’90s when yuppies started buying them as status symbols and BMW North America realized they could sell more to yuppies than to gear heads…
That makes sense. I do see a lot of young guys driving BMW’s where I used to see far fewer BMW’s at all.
Some of my colleagues in the auto industry refer to the 3 series as ‘BMWs for people who cannot afford a BMW’.
a sad tale of a one night stand
This is my shocked face.
That word is doing a lot of heavy lifting
She’s as deluded about seahorse biology as she is her’s.
I fear for the little girl.
How to make a tasty mixed drink.
She’s doing it all wrong.
[ Gathers crumbs, used teabags, potato masher. ]
She’s doing it all wrong.
So is the narrator. Granted it looks like no bitters came out of that bottle but to say the bitters are irrelevant pretty much crushes your oh-I’m-such-a-hip-mixologist street cred. Well, any cred actually. Though does fit with his “drinking bourbon since he was eight” story.
She’s doing it all wrong.
So is the narrator.
I cringed several times during that *how do we make sure no one ever orders an Old Fashioned again?* demonstration. I mean, would we ever accept that sloshing the drink all over the table stuff from a grizzled 60 y/o male in front of the camera?
And Jim Beam? :::shudder:::
one night stand: When the “man” becomes pregnant, there is obviously a lack of commitment to the delusion of being a man. ie lack of surgery. I notice that the newspaper went along with the “seahorse” BS. Poor kid.
…the 3 series as ‘BMWs for people who cannot afford a BMW’.
On this side of the pond the difference between a fairly vanilla 3 and a 5 is only about $10K, the difference between an “equipped” 3 and a vanilla 5 is about $3K. A 2 in any color other than black or white is pushing $43K.
After that in current models you are in land yacht territory with the 7s that nobody other than dictators of small countries would want to be driven in, or “SAVs” that soccer moms and other assorted yuppie riffraff want.
Now a 3 series as a “BMW for people who can’t afford anything other than a base F-150” – that is getting to be accurate.
Colo(u)r-changing paint has been around for years. A local custom shop called “The Twanky Shop” will paint your vehicle to appear lime green head-on, orange from the side, and blue from behind. It’s a niche market.
or “SAVs” that soccer moms and other assorted yuppie riffraff want.
The sensible thing to do if you wanted more space was to buy the 540i Touring. The wife refused to drive a mini van so we bought the 2000 beast wagon. What a joy to drive. The only downside is we couldn’t get one with a stick like the sedan.
Alas she couldn’t resist the siren call of the SUV and replaced the wagaon with an X5. She soon came to regret it though. It was a piece of crap.
And Jim Beam? :::shudder:::
Heh. More of a Tennessee Whiskey guy myself but yeah. JB seems a bit downscale given how wide the bourbon market is now. Though I make the wife’s Manhattans with Southern Comfort. More out of tradition than taste.
As for bitters, I’ve been using black walnut bitters. Maybe it’s just because it’s a different taste but wife likes it better.
More of a Tennessee Whiskey guy myself but yeah. JB seems a bit downscale given how wide the bourbon market is now.
No point in going to the top shelf if you’re going to mix it with sweet vermouth.
The sensible thing to do if you wanted more space was to buy the 540i Touring.
Absolutely, particularly the E34s. The problem in the US&A getting any Touring model is, and always has been, a bit of an adventure with the exception of the E34s (basically 92-95) and E39s (98-2005), unless you could get a gray market one from Europe.
BMWUSA has been busy pushing the loaded “SAVs”, which is a shame because there are many EU versions without all the crap.
getting any Touring model is, and always has been, a bit of an adventure
We were lucky. The guy who owned the dealership had one as his everyday drive so was motivated to know how to get them. Still we had to order ours. It was manufactured in Germany and shipped. Coincidentally, my wife and I were in Germany and toured the plant where it was manufactured around the time it would have been assembled.
I bought a 2002 325Ci Cabriolet new and still have it. It’s just shy of 100,000 miles on the odometer. I like it because I can do most of the work on it myself.
No point in going to the top shelf if you’re going to mix it with sweet vermouth.
While still in my thirties I finally had an epiphany and realized that life is too short to drink cheap booze. Even if you are going to {shudder} mix it.
My everyday (ahem) bourbon is usually Woodford and my everyday (ahem) rum is El Dorado 12.
Yes, brown spirits matter.