Friday Ephemera
Secret entrance of note. || We are not related. || I was previously unaware of white strawberries. || This is bigger than yours. || Box of human heads stolen. || That’s close enough, pussycat. || Almost Pong, a game, of sorts. || Those Monday morning blues. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Not entirely ideal. || “Non-binary” baby shower. || A brief history of cardboard. || She does this better than you would. || Heardle, like Wordle, but with pop music. || Know your place, peasant. || Where pretentious grievance gets you. || The progressive retail experience, parts 417, 418, 419, and 420. || Know your place, part 2: “Men, don’t speak.” || A situation has arisen. || And finally, futuristically, the world of tomorrow.
Richard Cranium: I was a big Scalzi fan back in the day, before he published his first book…
Old Man’s War was when I first heard of him, I think, although I can’t be sure. That novel was fairly enjoyable. I sampled one or two later on (local library) and found them to be meh, so there was no temptation to spend money on him. I’m not sure how I found his blog–maybe via Glenn Reyolds? If so, Scalzi would be just one more blogger who got a boost from Glenn but then turned way to the left. (Remember Jeff Jarvis’ Buzz Machine blog? He wrote chiefly about bad/dishonest news reporting, but now seems to be all in favor of leftist disinformation.)
Over time, his nastiness started getting to me…
He initially posed as a libertarian, but soon switched to a leftist persona. (That switch alone got me wondering how honest and sincere he is about anything. Amoral opportunist with no actual convictions? Or typical lying leftist?) His nastiness repelled me, too, and I ended up deciding that even if I liked his stories it would be silly to put money in the pocket of someone who chooses to define me as an enemy. (This put me in sharp disagreement with my fake conservative/fake libertarian friends, who are very good at finding rationalizations for defending bad ideas and bad people.)
Shoplifted clothes were sold very cheap- most thieves wanted rid of them by end of day.
I believe it has always been the case that fences typically pay thieves a tiny fraction of the retail price of the goods they stole. Pennies on the dollar, even.
…futuristically, the world of tomorrow.
More from the futuristic Glorious World of Next Tuesday.
WBF Aeronautics, “Tomorrow’s Stupidity, Today”
More from the futuristic Glorious World of Next Tuesday.
Broken link. Try this. Via here. Via here.
God, what a bunch of silly bints.
Thanks pst, for some reason the http stuff got chopped from my link, but it still worked in preview.
Anyway, silly bints indeed – my last name may not be von Braun, but I am pretty sure that greater surface from and all the, ahem, anatomical accuracy means more form drag, not less.
I am constantly amazed, though, about the hordes of people whose whole being and purpose in life revolves around their naughty bits.
Anyway, silly bints indeed…
I’d like to suggest that everyone read Gtoss and Levitt’s book Higher Superstition for some eye-opening examples of lunatic feminist attacks on science. (Also black radical attacks, Marxist attacks, etc.)
We are not related.
Some kids in my ‘naughty’ class were very pleased with themselves when they found this. I wear a similar shirt and have a similar red bag. I showed my family without comment and they asked where and when? And that is totally the way I would go down.
https://twitter.com/Felix59250582/status/1502578257861873666?s=20&t=3HgaLsTd1Mzf8u88QhXnzQ
The uncanny part is that I have always worn my hair a lot longer, and it is longer now. In 2018 I had chemo and it fell out. When the boys found the clip in 2020, that was the exact length my hair was at that point in time.
A situation has arisen
Coulda been naked. Just a suggestion.
In today’s exciting episode of “Modern Problematic Problems”, Colonized Gas Pumps.
And that is totally the way I would go down
Presumably, you’d stay sprawled on the floor, feigning injury, waiting for a handsome doctor to pass by.
Hey, I’m not judging you.
I am constantly amazed, though, about the hordes of people whose whole being and purpose in life revolves around their naughty bits.
What those girls need is some rod from God.
I should dump most of his books as well . . . .
I ended up deciding that even if I liked his stories it would be silly to put money in the pocket of someone who chooses to define me as an enemy.
Well, you’re entitled to read whatever you like, but surely you are aware that imposing an ideological litmus test on your reading list is exactly what the woke lunatics running the Hugo Awards were (and are) doing? They decided that no works by insufficiently “diverse” authors with “racist” or “problematic” opinions should be allowed to be submitted for an award. This is largely what inspired the “Sad Puppies” movement.
Scalzi’s personality and politics may be a loathsome, but he’s a pretty good writer. No one is forcing you to read his blog, after all. Would you refuse to watch a movie featuring Alec Baldwin because he is such a despicable person? He’s still a hell of an actor.
What those girls need is some rod from God.
Only if they are virgins.
The Holy Ghost will boycott all others (should that be personcott?) including chicks with dicks.
She laughs, and laughs, and looks like a hostage in all the photos.
For a long time the feminists complained about “phallic” skyscrapers. In a downtown area to increase density you can only go up.
Forever, men have strived to make the lives of their wives and children better. These efforts never appear to be enough to satisfy.
Learning environment.
According to the Education Data Initiative, the USA is the fifth highest spender on K-12 public education amongst the OECD countries, which comes to a national average of $12,624 per pupil, or $640 billion dollars annually.
That’s money well spent then.
“Well, you’re entitled to read whatever you like, but surely you are aware that imposing an ideological litmus test on your reading list is exactly what the woke lunatics running the Hugo Awards were (and are) doing?”
Agreed, but it’s not so much a litmus test in my case, as a visceral reaction to Scalzi’s personality.
Just like I can’t read John Birmingham’s books after reading his Trump diatribe in his self-published time travel novel, and stopped listening to Kevin Smith’s “Hollywood Babble-On” after the Trump jokes started. And Marc Maron after he called Trump voters — all Trump voters — evil.
OTOH, I loved Sean Penn’s work in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” despite his loud support for Venezuela. Same for “Sherlock” with the woke actress playing the coroner.
Also, I would never call for Scalzi to lose his Tor contract and be run out of the genre, and if he was threatened with censorship I would defend him, if only to say, “Scazi’s an obnoxious asshole, but he should be allowed to speak.”
“Well, you’re entitled to read whatever you like, but surely you are aware that imposing an ideological litmus test on your reading list is exactly what the woke lunatics running the Hugo Awards were (and are) doing?”
That is a bit like saying “Executing murderers makes you a murderer”: Scalzi, like the left in general, seems to be fine with excluding those he disagrees with from publishing and, well, everything else perhaps.
There is an old saying that “conservatives think liberals are mistaken, while liberals think conservatives are evil”. We conservatives, after suffering decades of warfare from the left, are reassessing our belief that liberals are merely mistaken.
Scalzi’s personality and politics may be a loathsome, but he’s a pretty good writer.
I read an excerpt that he thought was so great that he wanted people to read it without having to buy his book. I guess he thought it would draw people in.
It involved a superior forcing a man under her command into sex. It was so revolting (and so poorly written, at that) that I swore off ever buying anything with his name on it.
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By the way, further to the previous post, the weather was good today, so the Other Half and I went for a drive around the Peak District National Park. Saw people of all colours, shapes and ages wandering about and enjoying the scenery. So far as I could make out, none of them were rendered tearful by the “whiteness” or “heteronormativity” of the activity in question. In fact, they seemed quite jolly.
Had an ice cream, obviously.
In fact, they seemed quite jolly.
Operative word is “seemed”, probably seething on the inside…
In fact, they seemed quite jolly.
That’s what makes it so insidious.
The heteronomativity will continue until morale improves. And by improves, I mean gets worse.
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Those images are so far from “normal” today as to be pornographic.
Quick get the hamster urine.
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Also: “Feminism leaving the body when the WWIII draft starts”:
Operative word is “seemed”, probably seething on the inside…
And oddly, the chap selling the ice cream didn’t ask whether I was “pansexual” or “genderqueer,” or indeed middle-class. He just apologised for forgetting the napkins.
…the chap selling the ice cream didn’t ask whether I was “pansexual” or “genderqueer.”
Well of course not, being filled with raging cis-heteronormativity and patriarchal white privilege he would just assume your race and gender identities.
WWIII draft: won’t actually be time to draft anyone for this war…
I think many of those who go on about being oppressed and seeing phallic symbols and “whiteness” everywhere aspire to be intellectuals but lack the IQ to pull it off. At least with a brilliant mind you can be crazy without it being so obvious (e.g., Chomsky, Bertrand Russell).
Fun fact of the day: “The F16 will lay on its back and “play dead” when it feels under threat…”
Isn’t natural history fascinating?
“It’s not dead, it’s just resting.”
“The F16 will lay on its back and “play dead” when it feels under threat…”
There’s a joke about God playing lawn jarts in there somewhere but damned if I can flush it out.
There’s a joke about God playing lawn jarts in there somewhere but damned if I can flush it out.
Search far enough back in that Twitter account and you may find it.
A mother U2 Stealth planes leads her young from the hangar for its first flight. Aww, isn’t that sweet?
Except that’s not a U2. It’s an SR-71, I believe. Likely not an A12 but maybe. I’m not an expert but I pretend with my friends. They’re clueless on these matters. But I digress…
F16… U2
Is it somehow part of the joke that both planes are misidentified?
Is it somehow part of the joke that both planes are misidentified?
Could be. There are a lot of clearly intentional misidentifications in that account.
Fun fact of the day:
One would think a guy billing himself as “RAF Luton” would have gone for a perfidious French joke with an upside down Jaguar.
Brianna is unhappy. Via Julia.
Our betters gather.
Delusion not indulged – by everyone, everywhere, all the time – weeping ensues.
Could be
Good God.
You mean none of you could tell “RAF Luton” was a parody account from…I don’t know, literally any of its tweets?
imposing an ideological litmus test on your reading list
I impose an “I’m not reading shit by mediocre authors who can’t resist injecting their smug politics into everything they write” test. This has the knock-on effect of excluding most leftist authors. And Pratchett.
Well…
So, a) your concern has been noted and b) I’m not going to turn all 4 cheeks to my enemies.
I’m not going to turn all 4 cheeks to my enemies.
I’m writing that one down.
Delusion not indulged – by everyone, everywhere, all the time – weeping ensues.
She looks like she fell in a cutlery drawer. Who’s *hiring* these people?
By the way, further to the previous post, the weather was good today, so the Other Half and I went for a drive around the Peak District National Park.
We got three inches of snow yesterday. Just when the last of the previous snow melted. Same happened two weeks ago.
There’s a joke about God playing lawn jarts in there somewhere but damned if I can flush it out.
Relevant
You mean none of you could tell “RAF Luton” was a parody account from…I don’t know, literally any of its tweets?
Especially as it described itself as a “parody/satire? account
And Pratchett
That’s where you blew your credibility
You mean none of you could tell “RAF Luton” was a parody account…
Yes, everyone could obviously from “Luton” which was in nigh half of Monty Python jokes, real though it is. The point is the jokes were bad (actually most of his), but could have funny without (hopefully) deliberately mis-identifying things, there is no humor added by calling an SR-71 a U-2, a French plane, particularly named after a cat, showing its belly is more on point, and so on.
OTOH, it can be done right.
Could be
Good God.
You mean none of you could tell “RAF Luton” was a parody account from…I don’t know, literally any of its tweets?
Oh, I could tell immediately. I just didn’t know if “U-2” was a mistake or an attempt at added humor: Mistakenly calling an SR-71 a U-2 doesn’t really add usefully to the humor, but any comedian will tell you that “U-2” sounds better than “SR-71”: It falls more easily off the tongue and the sounds of words do affect their comedic value.
It falls more easily off the tongue and the sounds of words do affect their comedic value.
Except it is not being spoken, but if it was, “…rarely seen in the wild Blackbird…”, “Skunk Works spawning ground”, etc. etc.
As we both said, mis-identifying adds nothing, e.g., his one good joke about the AWACS being sprayed for covid is not improved by calling an E-3 an A380.
Except it is not being spoken…
True, but still relevant because most people do hear the sounds of words when they read.
…”…rarely seen in the wild Blackbird…”, “Skunk Works spawning ground”, etc. etc.
I like your formulations. So: “A mother Blackbird leads her young from the nest/hanger for its first flight…”
Side note: …only one in seventy baby U2s will survive:
That “seventy” (although not the “one in” does bear a superficial relation to the actual airplane: About 100 were built of which about 30 remain operational, which means that 70 were shot down, lost in accidents, cannibalized for parts, etc. I have no idea how many really were shot down because that is not the sort of thing the gov’mt willingly talks about.