And Along Came A Lady

*feels*
Well done Judy.

That’s sweet. 🙂

He was putting a brave face on it. 🙂

Those who have not upon occasion depended on the kindness of strangers are few & far between.

Is Judy the anti-Karen?

And the notion of paying it forward is, I think, one of the better ideas had by a human being

*peers over spectacles*
Okay, some gittishness, occasionally, or so I’m told.
I can get this shabby treatment at home, you know.

Quick update the brochure!
I should refresh my testimonials.

Speaking of “gits” who then go on to double-down.
Not sure if she is Snivelling Little Rat-faced Git or Dirty Lying Little Two-faced Git.

They appear to have overlooked the fact that bleeder is long-standing British slang for an aggravating or pitiable person.
And in America bleeder is long-standing slang for a hemophiliac.

this thread is reminding me of why I just quit my software engineering job.
Carry on.

Lovely Bride and I just returned from a much-needed escape to sunny Key West, where I was able to recall what “warmth” and “humidity” feel like. I wasn’t thinking much about the timing of our trip, and so was a bit surprised to find the place crawling with 22-year-olds on Spring Break.
There’s an interesting rhythm on the island, which we took to calling the “changing of the tide.” During the day, the waterfront is packed with tourists from the cruise ships docked at the pier. At night, the college kids run riot. We quickly learned to love “slack tide,” the period from around 4:00 when the day-trippers scurried back to their ships, until 8 or 9 when the college kids swarmed in. Perfect for a cocktail, a bite of dinner, a stroll to the square to watch the sun sink into the sea, and then perhaps another cocktail in whichever watering hole had the most appealing live music (or in one case, karaoke).
We’d head back to the hotel pool when the drunken youth became too obnoxious. Which was usually pretty quickly, since many of them were obviously “pre-gaming” before they came down to Duval Street and started paying retail for their drinks.
Had a wonderful time, right up until we were checking out of our hotel. We got a call from our cat-sitter who found our old friend unresponsive on the floor. Fortunately our sitter is a vet tech, so she scooped him up and headed straight to the office. Vet said it was kidney failure. The usual treatment is to push fluids, but the cat already had a heart condition and probably wouldn’t tolerate it. So we thanked the staff and asked them to put the poor old boy to sleep, feeling it unfair to make him wait for us to return and say farewell in person. Not a good option, but I don’t regret the decision.
Made for a long and unhappy drive back to Miami and flight home. Coming home to an empty house was not the exclamation mark we wanted for our getaway, but such is the way of things. Had we known, we might have tried to sneak one of the Hemingway cats home in our luggage.

… Then Carter sticks his head round the door: “’Ere, guv… there’s a bloke out here says he’s a bird.”
“Oh, bloody Nora…”
“No, says his name’s Harriet.”

” We also understand there are many women who don’t have periods and some people who menstruate who are not women. ”
Words, how do they work? Apparently this person needs an explanation…

So sorry for your loss, Gov & Mrs. Squid. Had a similar decision to make about 2 years ago when vacationing about 1K miles from home and one of the elderly kitties decided that was the time to cross the rainbow bridge.
Even when expected, it’s never easy.

Vet said it was kidney failure.
Condolences. Kidney failure comes on so suddenly with cats. We had a cat die under similar circumstances. We left him at the kennel while we headed on vacation. Got a call three days later and he was gone in another two days. There was nothing we could do.

To which, one might ask, why?
How can he feel SPECIAL if he doesn’t?

Sorry to hear that news, Governor Squid. Never an easy decision, but you absolutely made the right one.

But these clowns… want to act all heroic, world-changing. Discussing sex with 10 yr olds is just so brave you see.
And the idea that doing so might be seen by parents as inappropriate or contentious is either disregarded entirely or treated as a challenge, something to override, and thereby proof of further personal heroism.
As noted in the previous post,

“Good morning, class. Today, I’d like you to entertain thoughts about my private life and sexual activity.”

I paraphrase a little, but not, I think, wildly.

“Coming home to an empty house”
So sorry.
“We say hello. We say goodbye.” ?

Governor Squid, my condolences.

Via Ace, and if I might point out we NEVER get this much snow in Florida so…

the man tackled his mother, “knocking her to the hardwood floor pretty hard. Lily, my dog, was in her hands as she was going nuts with the flashing lights and emergency vehicles outside.”
…
The mother was taken away on a stretcher and observed in hospital for just over 24 hours, the son saying that she suffered “a minor concussion it seems along with muscle injuries to her legs and arm. Overall she will be okay and is on bed rest for the next while. She can’t walk on her own at the moment, but we have an amazing physio and massage therapist coming in daily.”

All of which could have been avoid by some earlier entirely justifiable actions by the police or even bystanders present. But that of course would have been wrong, wrong, wrong and likely put into legal trouble and thus been more damaging to lives of those normal people who took action than any likely consequences to the perpetrator’s life that are likely to come from this.

but any student who finds the drama inapt or gratuitous, and says so in class, may fare less well.
Which is why they do it. People with CPTSD seek out positions like elder care and teaching small children because they don’t have to deal with people on an equal power level: they’re in control. Whether this freak has CPTSD or not – I’m kind of guessing not – the same dynamic is in play: he can force the children to accept his trans exhibitionism because he’s in a position of power and control.

People with CPTSD seek out positions like elder care and teaching small children because they don’t have to deal with people on an equal power level: they’re in control.
So another crazy theory of mine…we have always had such people in our society. However in the past there were, shall we say ‘useful’ places for them to function. Actually now that I think of it not too much different than the institutions now. The problem may be that the social rules that while sometimes annoying were acceptable/useful to enforce but now have, for some reason, become unacceptable and thus been replaced by a more woke set. Then laissez les bons temps rouler.

“Sex ed camp”–even when kids are old enough for sex ed, let’s say 8th grade and up, there is no way you should be teaching them to masturbate, BDSM, sex work. They are minors. College maybe ok if the young people want to attend such a class. Kids? Absolutely not. In most states sex with minors is still a crime.

Milton Friedman famously said if you put gov in charge of the sahara there would soon be a sand shortage–a very good reason to not let them be in charge of sex ed.

“Eph… ephemera… compiled…”
[ Slumps across desk, demands glass of wine. ]

For all you scifi fans, a new Star Trek episode has dropped, as the kids say.

a new Star Trek episode has dropped
I didn’t think it was possible for Star Trek to beclown itself any farther, but here we are.

Such damaged people were forced by societal or legal pressure to keep their dysfunctions private.
The specific dysfunctions to which I refer regard the desire/need to have power, morally derived, over people. The sexual dysfunctions and such I agree were kept private. The manifestation of the busy-bodying were more useful in the past. Prudishness, temperance, etc. We seem to have done away with those moral values and replaced them with wokeism. The busybodies just adopted the new ‘morality’ and fulfill their desires to be bossy using those reasons.

I’m sorry to hear about your cat, Governor Squid. They really do become part of the family, don’t they?

Why, since we’ve done away with most such things, does our ‘creative’ class seem stuck on remakes, parodies, and transfers of such from one media to another?
Because it’s cheap and easy and passes for deep and clever thought among the au courant and wokerati. None of these people have read a classic in their lives–even in high school where they read Cole’s Notes and not the actual text. These members of the Moronati have never read Shakespeare, Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Twain, Dumas etc etc. Hell, they’d show more imagination if they read the pulps and stole from them.
Today, they boldly go where most people have been at least two or three times and they get pissed when they don’t receive praise and palm leaves laid before their entrance on an ass.

Why, since we’ve done away with most such things, does our ‘creative’ class seem stuck on remakes, parodies, and transfers of such from one media to another?
Budget. For any large blockbuster more than 50% of the budget is marketing, and you can’t recoup that (after spending a film’s production budget, you at least have a film, and you can always sell that to Netflix/Prime if it’s a stinker).
Since the rise of the DVD, Hollywood studios have been dealing with a calamitous collapse in their profits. Since Hollywood really doesn’t know how to make profitable movies – their business model was based on making ten movies and hoping one of them appealed enough to the market to pay for the other nine, which would get memory holed – they’ve been panicking ever since.
In the trade, the term is “pre-awareness”. The audience already knows what you’re selling, so you don’t need to spend hundreds of millions on marketing and buzz. There’s a joke that your entire marketing campaign for a superhero movie can literally be a blank poster with the chest logo on it and the words “Coming Summer [year]” and the nerds will do the work for you.

None of these people have read a classic in their lives–even in high school where they read Cole’s Notes and not the actual text. These members of the Moronati have never read Shakespeare, Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Twain, Dumas etc etc.
I did an “experiment” in high school. Of course it wasn’t very scientific as the data set was quite small. But it was a dataset I could trust. We had two books to read. One was James’s (whichever one…too lazy to care to look it up) Turn of the Screw, forget the other one but it might come to me. I read the other one and just paid close attention in class and read the Cliff’s Notes (actually not that product but the one whose name I forget that had a red cover motif) for Turn of the Screw. I got a B on the test for the book I read. A B+ on the test for TotS. Call it confirmation bias for a 16 year old but I think it was at that point that I became heavily suspicious that there was some sort of Narrative (though that concept wasn’t a thing back then) that ran through the literature, not just what we were being taught but in the movies and even current events and history, that was much further away from the objectivity they were trying to sell. But to your point… I don’t entirely doubt that at least some of these people have read, to some effort, these books. But even that subset that did read them, did so under the tutelage and selective praise of a conformist ‘leterati’. Gee, did I misspell that?…Pity…Which also explains why when I tell women whom have read Anna Karenina that Tolstoy regarded her as a fallen woman, they either get mad at me or a light bulb goes off and they realize tharpt they were not alone in understanding the book as the author intended.
Budget
Bullshit. That’s an excuse. By them, not by you. Our current society is enormously more wealthy than those of the past that produced much more useful fiction. Even the more pulpy stuff. Try try. Leave out the ‘again’, they’ll just f it up.

Ricardo Cortez was the ultimate Sam Spade.

Thanks for the kind words, gang.
When you’re ready, maybe a new kitten from a shelter?