Friday Ephemera
Hardcore rocker. || Careful now. || Fashion statement detected. || Innards. || Nice touch. || Snow scenes. (h/t, Julia) || Beach scenes. || And speaking of beaches. || Job candidate of note. || Because you’ve always wondered. || Bodes well. || We must flee. || How stickers are applied to lemons. || How to cut a baby’s hair. || Educating children. || Unemployed dogs. (h/t, Damian) || Golden mole at large. || Virtual ancient Rome (minus Romans, filth, etc.) || Free very soon. || And finally, fragrantly, it’s entirely possible that the grilled chicken may have been detected.
snow scenes
I prefer the T-Rex.
Educating children.
I’ll see your teacher and raise you this gent.
Careful now
If you watch carefully (and at the correct aspect ratio) you can see that he’s never got more than one wheel off the road at a time. Off-roading 101. Dude has some skills. Plus the worst that could happen is both rear wheels slip off and the car just bottoms out. It’s a hatchback, the centre of gravity is so far forward it’ll never translate past the edge.
I’ll see your teacher and raise you this gent.
Don’t make me tap the sign.
Careful now.
What? You were never taught the 1,000 point turn?
And speaking of beaches.
I’m embarrassed to say those signs are now necessary in Canada too. Some members from new-to-Canada enriching=cultures have been polluting some of the Great Lakes’ beaches and burying the evidence.
Heh.
Also Heh.
Innards
OK…considering aaaalllllllll the animal classes on earth, aaallll the amphibians….frogs have at least ONE MOTHER F****ING species that is F****ING transparent and yet THAT is the species that we kill and dissect to teach children anatomy. Look…I’m no PETA guy. I eat tasty animals without having a meltdown over the moral consequences etc. I have very little concern…though admittedly a tiny little…over animal lab testing. And still, it doesn’t really upset me that we do kill frogs to teach children anatomy. What seems absolutely bloody absurd is that frogs are so bloody far removed from our species yet they have a frikken transparent species and we still have to kill FROGS to teach biology? Is it the vodka & gin cocktail or am I missing something here?
Update your Newspeak dictionary.
Re Job candidate….It’s not like there are such significant hurdles, language or cultural barriers such that…it…cannot move there.
Because you’ve always wondered.
Pretty close to what I expected. Am I a genius or something? Because I’ve always wondered. Just kidding… I think I knew what you meant by that and I’m more than a little toasted right now. But I’m having an increasingly hard time dealing with this world in a sober state, so…not that I like excuses but…Christ I hate peoples.
Bodes well
Granted, I’m not well. So sue me if I go too fast, but… I recently attended a wedding and as traditional as I somewhat am and as formal, as these things go, as this wedding was, there was no throwing of the bouquet…but neither of the garter…but especially no f’n Electric Slide. The bouquet thing kinda disappointed me but I didn’t miss it until yesterday.
From the link:
It’s time to cancel the word ‘rigor’.
I agree.
It’s ‘rigour’.
None of this newfangled Webster Dictionary nonsense.
In other colonial dialect news, I learned today that what we Aussies call a ‘pot plant’ is not the word the rest of the world uses. The rest of the world is weird!
“We must flee.”
Pretty sure they aren’t the only chaps in the world to experience such, errr, deflation… 😉
Has Twitter just killed its own platform?
Discuss.
Hardcore rocker.
MORE POWER!
Morning, all.
I’ll see your teacher and raise you this gent.
Ah, but we’re not supposed to notice the mental health issues, or act accordingly. That would be bad.
If, for instance, parents were to notice that transgender individuals report much higher rates of childhood abuse, including sexual molestation, and then notice that many victims of such abuse develop serious personality disorders, and in addition notice that some will, as adults, exhibit disturbing attitudes towards children and sexual boundaries… well, I doubt that such concerns would be welcomed.
Pretty sure they aren’t the only chaps in the world to experience such, errr, deflation… 😉
From an earlier batch, this is still my favourite.
And speaking of beaches
*Crosses Ghana off “must visit beaches” list.*
Maybe Canada would be kind enough to fund similar street signs for San Francisco?
Job candidate of note.
I watched carefully and it was with growing disgust that I realized no filter was in play.
hardcore rocker actual lols. Thought the kid was going over the back
Is it the vodka & gin cocktail or am I missing something here?
Embrace the power of and.
Unemployed dogs.
Please, mine are my Official Sycophants. It matters not what I say, they gladly whore themselves for kibble, kisses, and cookies, always agreeing with my opinion. It’s a dirty job but as the Husband won’t do it, I am glad I have them.
The cat, on the other hand . . .
Is it the vodka & gin cocktail or am I missing something here?
For myself, I have declared the Vesper my Saturday Night Cocktail of 2022. Gin. Vodka. Lillet Blanc.
But stirred, not shaken. Bond was wrong in that instruction.
I’ll see your teacher and raise you this gent.
Questions for our Murican friends.
Do these characters and the miscellaneous neon-haired characters that we see on Twitter/ TikTok comprise a significant proportion of elementary school teachers?
Do these types exist in a cross-section of schools or just in cities where this behaviour is particularly encouraged?
Do these types exist in schools where most of the kids would be black or Latin American? Or is it mostly in white suburbia?
Is there any similar phenomenon among High School teachers and, if not, why?
hardcore rocker actual lols.
+1
Watching her as a parent I was thinking that she would give you a dozen frights every day. Imagine trying to child-proof a house with her in it
Great googly moogly, the damn actual Nazis were worse than we thought.
Meanwhile also from Germany…
Has Twitter just killed its own platform?
Is there some very recent incident you have in mind? Or are you simply thinking of their ever-growing policy of silencing dissent from leftism?
Headline of note…
We’re uncomfortable in our own locker room
I am really sick of ‘woke’ heterosexuals who insist that there is something wrong with objecting to this sort of invasion of private spaces. And they don’t all describe themselves as ‘woke’: Some of them call themselves libertarians.
We’re uncomfortable in our own locker room
I’m sure he enjoys not only humiliating those young women in the sport for which they’ve worked so hard for so long, but also exposing himself to them, as a special sort of rubbing salt into their wounds.
Beach scenes.
I can never become aroused again.
[ flings credit note behind bar and resumes 1000 mile stare ]
Do these characters and the miscellaneous neon-haired characters that we see on Twitter/ TikTok comprise a significant proportion of elementary school teachers?
No, they do not. Being social media in current year, the biggest freaks get the most attention, for example on lovely blogs run by a British gent.
Do these types exist in a cross-section of schools or just in cities where this behaviour is particularly encouraged?
Being herd animals at core you will still get more of what you encourage, less of what you discourage.
While these examples are disturbing, the problem with American public schools is so wide-ranging and systemic that scant few people wish to look upon it honestly and soberly. There are perverse incentives all the way down, and the sort of mushy-brained hippy dippy leftwinger that is, at best, an eager and well-meaning but clueless idiot absolutely dominates the rank and file. The admin are often the more cynical, lazier, and politically attuned who ejected from actual teaching in order to accrue the many benefits of the taxpayer funded monstrosity without the icky work of corralling children.
IE, the insane showcased on Libsoftiktok are but the rainbow-hued (dangerous) distractions from the hordes of group-think addled teachers who are either new – and therefore the exploitable naïve – or long-serving bitter cynics who are riding out the increasing insanity in order to earn retirement.
I will beat this horse dead, resurrect it’s corpse, and pummel it again and again. Happy Friday.
We’re uncomfortable in our own locker room
What, haven’t they seen a woman’s penis before?
Her Male Genitals
Band name.
Is there any similar phenomenon among High School teachers and, if not, why?
The psychiatrist I consulted with after my ex-wife ran off told me that it was very common for people with BPD/CPTSD to seek out professions where they were in a position of authority with low potential for conflict, as it helps them feel safe. Such as caring for young children and the elderly.
High school students can be rather more fractious, I am told.
We’re uncomfortable in our own locker room
What you have in Thomas is an autogynephile and guy who gets a kick out of exposing himself to women who, he knows, will be punished if they object.
One of the early cases of such a male suing a high school because the school wanted him to use a separate locker room and leave the girls alone, court documents showed he went out of his way to get naked around the girls. When they started going to a restroom in another part of the school to change without him, he found out and followed them there to change.
guy who gets a kick out of exposing himself to women who, he knows, will be punished if they object.
Like that creature up in Canada, who got his kicks out of forcing women — usually immigrant women — to suffer exposure to his genitals because they catered to women who wanted bikini waxes. And then sued them if they didn’t obey.
And then sued them if they didn’t obey.
Oh yes.
One detail I’d forgotten is that Mr Yaniv was at the time offering his services in “reputation management.”
When they started going to a restroom in another part of the school to change without him, he found out and followed them there to change.
Two kinds of minority behavior can be distinguished by who’s demanding access to what.
The classic minority complaint is why can’t the majority just leave us alone, when all we want is a space to be ourselves, where we’re not monitored or judged by majority standards. At its best, it’s self determination, live and let live, good fences make good neighbors. At its worst, it can amount to quota seeking from the majority’s resources, the carving out of enclaves in the majority’s space, and an attitude of the minority space being a bridgehead or safe house in enemy territory.
The other kind of minority complaint is we demand access to the majority’s private spaces, we demand intimacy with the majority, we demand to be trusted in the high trust spaces of the majority.
The second type motte-and-bailey’s into the first type. If they’re called out on not wanting to leave the majority alone, they’ll claim that all they want is for the majority to leave them alone.
The first minority complaint is given moral artillery support by stock phrases like “what consenting adults do is none of your business” and “why are you so obsessed with what some sexual minority does?”. But the second kind of minority demand isn’t in the spirit of “this is none of your business”. That can be made clear by pointing out in a given case who exactly is trying to get into whose business.
Unemployed dogs
Our recently found German Shepherd made her occupation to help me take the trash out to the bin every Thursday evening. Her compensation for her assistance is riding in the front seat of the truck around the block.
We had another mutt years ago who quietly dedicated himself to keeping the rabbits down. We didn’t know this until he died and the population of rabbits skyrocketed the next year.
Beach scenes
Question 1: Are those fish eating an eel, or is it a fish-eating eel?
Question 2: WTF is going on there?
As of last night, you must be registered to *read* Twitter at all. I can’t imagine I’m the only one who would rather give up my Twit browsing than join the blob.
As of last night, you must be registered to *read* Twitter at all. I can’t imagine I’m the only one who would rather give up my Twit browsing than join the blob.
That will just further motivate me away from Twitter and to Gab, GETTR, etc.
I think you can still read until you scroll down to “More Tweets”. So you can read the exact tweet you came to, plus responses to it, but nothing else.
I like to think that their appeal is becoming more selective.
“reputation management”
Isn’t that the totally honest, not-at-all-a-scam where lies are told about companies and websites unless they pony up some extortion money?
Question 2: WTF is going on there?
A fake. There’s a ton of these kinds of videos out there.
A fake. There’s a ton of these kinds of videos out there.
That’s reassuring, because the video made no sense.
Hardcore rocker.
Wonderful. But I kept stressing about the phone on the floor. 🙂
job applicant: holy cow. She (?) sure went to lengths to look strange, even elf ears. Probably wants a job dealing with the public to annoy the most people possible. What is this obsession with being neither male nor female? WTF?
What is this obsession with being neither male nor female?
The final step in the evolution of leftist self loathing. Personal nihilism.