Friday Ephemera
I’m not sure what this is, but I think you should try it. || At last, a self-crumpling ballpoint pen. || Attention, ladies. Alice wants to use your bathroom. || A little scrubbing. || It’s a job. || The unblocking did not go well. || The thrill of wearing women’s knickers. || Thieving large objects, a thread. || Anti-theft device of note, 1961. || Intellectual activity, 2022. || Today’s word is serendipity. (h/t, Darleen) || Well, you would, I suppose. || Dancing at 90 degrees. || Cheese trajectory. || Gamer girl. || Giving it everything. || Ready meals of note. || And how was your day, dear? || How to play the piano. || John Peel roulette. (h/t, Things) || And finally, implausibly, the kamikaze porn-star scandal that rocked Japan.
Also, I now have a Gettr account.
I’m not sure what this is
Kinda looks like a koala’s asshole. Don’t ask me how I know.
A little scrubbing.
Baby mutant ninja turtles. Seriously, looks like a baby snapping turtle. Just wait about 40 years and try that.
It’s a job.
And the Wichita linesman is still on the line…
Thieving large objects, a thread
[ laughs in Timothy Hutton ]
Intellectual activity, 2022
I keep saying this: CO2 fire extinguishers are a marvelous solution to this problem.
Dancing at 90 degrees
Something wrong with the elevator?
“A little scrubbing.”
Someone really needs to overdub that with the Godzilla screech….
Morning, all.
Kinda looks like a koala’s asshole. Don’t ask me how I know.
I’m guessing it’s some kind of stomach, or maybe a bladder. Or some kind of humidifier. I’m out of my depth, frankly.
Attention, ladies. Alice wants to use your bathroom.
‘Alice’ can f*ck off.
‘Alice’ can f*ck off.
You don’t fancy sharing an intimate space, a ladies’ toilet, with a balding middle-aged man with serious mental health problems?
But he feels so pretty.
The thrill of wearing women’s knickers.
That.
That.
Clips of the, er, awareness-raising can be found here. When not being excited by pilfering knickers, and wearing the pilfered knickers, and recalling all of the times he’s been excited by wearing other people’s knickers – and reminding us that he’s on speed-dial at the BBC – Mr Neeves refers to himself as “a page 3 girl at 52.”
Not entirely unrelated.
Ah, seems the clips are no longer available.
But he feels so pretty
He is really asking a lot of us, isn’t he? I mean, to ignore all evidence to the contrary and believe is he both a woman AND pretty.
Intellectual activity
“Fuck you, fascist!”
Clearly, the irony is lost on them.
Clearly, the irony is lost on them.
Lefties project.
John Peel roulette.
That took me back. Thanks. 🙂
Intellectual activity, 2022.
At yesterday’s discussion of this learned event there was a short clip of this intellectual titan posted, but it lacked context, so here you go, a more complete version.
I am a giver.
You don’t fancy sharing an intimate space, a ladies’ toilet, with a balding middle-aged man with serious mental health problems?
I don’t even want to share a country with him. Or with those who make excuses for him.
Clips of the, er, awareness-raising can be found here…pilfering knickers…he’s on speed-dial at the BBC…
It seems as if the way to get on speed-dial at the BBC is to be insane or evil or just a criminal.
Kinda looks like a koala’s asshole. Don’t ask me how I know.
[ Backs away. ]
Kinda looks like a koala’s asshole. Don’t ask me how I know.
Well, don’t leave us hanging. The suspense is unbearable.
And hey, we won’t judge.
[ Activates hidden tape recorder. ]
Mr Neeves refers to himself as “a page 3 girl at 52.”
I mean it’s been a long time since I’ve lived in the UK but has The Scum newspaper fallen that far ?
Sam Fox must be rolling in her grave. If it were physically possible for her to roll over.
Mr Neeves refers to himself as “a page 3 girl at 52.”
This chap wonders why not.
After all, there are no genetic differences.
While we are on the subject, I guess one grudgingly has to admire the ability to swim with his junk tucked, but that is about it.
If “katie” got that much of a thrill from wearing his sister’s knickers he’s not transgender he’s a fetishist. This can be treated – and should be. This pervert should not be imposed upon regular business people during office hours.
I think it is a Haggis. Or something similar to a Haggis.
I think it is a Haggis. Or something similar to a Haggis.
So, close cousin to a koala’s asshole.
So, close cousin to a koala’s asshole
Unless koala is a euphemism that, while I can imagine but was not aware of being generally understood…when I saw that all I could think of was Baby Got Back
And hey, we won’t judge.
A gentleman never tells. Just doing my part to liven the place up a little.
[ Fetches bunting, glitter. ]
While we are on the subject…
Ctrl-F just, to find out how modest the claims of our attention-shunning hero are. All that’s being asked for is…
They’ve clunkily copied a template here from FtM sports entryism. The tomboy/daddy’s girl who grows up playing football with the boys, and takes a court case to play on the high school team, technically on the basis that there’s no girls’ team to fulfil the school’s equal opportunity sports obligation. I just want to play football. I just want to be seen as a football player. Dumb jock teammates and conservative parents who bring up problems about disruption to male camaraderie, sexual distraction, double binds of competitive aggression vs “never hit a girl”, their problem is that they’re seeing the girl as a girl. They should maybe go to therapy to stop seeing the girl as a girl, because what is she? She’s a football player, just like all the rest. Now, she might be in a Nike ad as the famous girl football player who’s an inspiration to girls everywhere, her stories about making boys cry retweeted by the millions, but that’s inadmissible evidence when it comes to her modest claim that she just wants to play football, just wants to be one of the team.
But for MtF sports entryism, it makes no sense at all. Nobody questions the man’s qualifications as a swimmer. Penn State has a men’s swimming team, and he was on it.
Such a modest claim. I’m a girl, I just want to be one of the girls.
Less modestly put: I get to decide unilaterally that I’m one of the girls, and the girls who think otherwise are bigots.
Goodwhite parents, good school districts, tens of thousands of miles of chauffeuring their high investement kids to sports camps, Facebook bragging about their STEMgirl college athlete daughters. I don’t feel sorry for them at all. They think they should get the nice part of the deal, where they’re the ones who wave flags on Facebook for the freakish entryists, but that the nasty part of the deal, where somebody has the freak in their locker room, should be imposed on some conservative school in Iowa.
Indeed, there’s no such thing as half support. Is that parent going to re-evaluate her premises now and come to the conclusion that “transphobia” isn’t an argument terminator, that there can be good reasons for shunning transgenders? I doubt it.
They’ve clunkily copied a template here from FtM sports entryism. The tomboy/daddy’s girl who grows up playing football with the boys, and takes a court case to play on the high school team…
I remember those controversies, and I remember the liberal/feminist friends who insisted that only a hateful hating sexist could object.
Intellectual activity, 2022.
More intellectual activity from the veep’s alma mater.
“The thrill of wearing women’s knickers.”
Totally not a racket, then.
alice wants to use your bathroom: amazing how fast half the population got thrown under the bus. Amazing that they (actual women) aren’t complaining more. I wager that lack of complaining is due to the virulence of the ideology plus the fewness of trans imposing on their spaces.
stealing large things: my wife ordered a custom sheet cake for a party. I went to pick it up assuming she had paid (since it was decorated special). They gave me the large cake and I asked an employee to help me put it in my car. Did not pay. Totally oblivious. hahaha. Not a cannon or steel tracks of course.
But he feels so pretty.
He’s wrong.
He’s wrong.
Well, yes. But note that our friend’s idea of womanhood manifests as a saloon-bar whore, complete with fishnet stockings and bustled frock. Which all modern women choose to wear, of course, whether at home or at work, or while wafting down the aisles of the local supermarket. Again, as so often, it seems that what’s desired, and most evidently enjoyed, is not so much womanhood as a cartoonish parody of being female – a pantomime distortion.
It’s a pity no one asks the one question everyone wants to know about Martin “Katie” Neeves and his allies is: “Did you cut off your junk?”
Because, if not, why are we pretending he’s a woman?
After all, if his job is to show us what it’s like being trans, well, it’s a valid question, innit?
Lia is a human being who deserves to be treated with respect
Once again, respect is earned. Lia can have civility until then.
Lia can have civility until then.
When “Lia” Thomas is still flaunting his John Thomas in the women’s locker rooms despite their protestations, his lack of civility means he doesn’t deserve any in return.
Behold his towering intellect.
Penn State has a men’s swimming team, and he was on it.
The swimmer swims for the Ivy League school in Philadelphia, not the Big Ten school in State College. If Thomas were swimming for the PSU team, (s)he could simply have said “I pretended to be a girl because I didn’t want Sandusky molesting me” and everyone would have let it go at that.
…his lack of civility means he doesn’t deserve any in return.
Works for me!
Lia: not only unfair to the women because none of them will ever have his build and musculature, but he gets to be in their locker rooms. Remember: the Left were all about extreme punishment for college men who “assaulted” women, even if just with a dirty joke or pat on the bottom, even a prolonged gaze, even telling them how good they look. Joining women in their locker room and getting naked with them would be for sure grounds for criminal charges, but suddenly it isn’t for this guy.
There is an athlete from south africa, Casper Semenya (sp?) who had been winning 800m (I think) races for years all over the world. First time I saw her I said “male” and when they finally did a test she is XY with a syndrome of lack of response to testosterone–not trans but a biological oddity. An XY person without response to testosterone grows up looking female…but not quite. Turns out the 3 top female runners in the world have this same oddity–ie are men. Not trans. But no biological difference hahaha wrong. Sorry I can’t remember all the details here about who the runners are.
Alice want to use your bathroom…Easy solution, go use the men`s room. Alice isn`t in there.
I remember those controversies, and I remember the liberal/feminist friends who insisted that only a hateful hating sexist could object
Which is why I have no sympathy at all for the poor dears. Completely aside from the argument that sportsing really hard doesn’t have anything to do with an advanced education, women’s sports has been wielding the Herculean club of Title IX lawsuits for decades against colleges.
If the ladies don’t like men invading their sports, perhaps they could quit the team and spend their newfound free time in the library earning a scholarship the old-fashioned way.
ccscientist-
In Africa, male babies born with relative androgen insensitivity syndrome are raised as girls because their external genitalia most resemble a female’s. (I should specify Sub-Saharan Africa.) I would note for you that it is only a relative insensitivity. As you observed, Caster Semenya has obvious male traits–broad shoulders, narrow hips, no waist or breasts. He also has the male traits of more muscle and more fast-twitch muscle fibers. I do feel sad for these men-women: They did not choose to be treated as females; it is all they have known.
As for Mr. Knickers-in-a-Twist pervert and “Lia” Thomas–part of the thrill seems to be knowing they are the naked emperor and forcing everyone to look at their nakedness and say nothing. In other words, the emperor doesn’t think he’s naked, really.
Although much of the bullying and assholery from many trannies (men) comes because they desperately NEED to be women to fulfill their paraphilia, and when they perceive that others aren’t really buying it, it makes the delusion hard to maintain.
And yes, the fact that many women aren’t fighting back–hard, infuriates me. These are men acting like stereotypical bullying, abusive males. And some women shut up and take it. But then I guess that is what some women have always done.
I have fantasies of a sniper rifle.
While we are on the subject, “…a controversial move by Ukrainian authorities…
I have fantasies of a sniper rifle.
You’re going to have to get in line behind Jeff Younger.
@Daniel Ream,
Nah. We can work in tandem. It is a target-rich environment. Heh.
Such a modest claim. I’m a girl, I just want to be one of the girls. Less modestly put: I get to decide unilaterally that I’m one of the girls, and the girls who think otherwise are bigots.
Which touches on what is for many, myself included, an obvious cause of friction. As noted recently,
And so, the dynamic often feels like that of a dating shit test.
a dating shit test.
That sounds like a procedure for checking if your colonic bacteria are compatible.
That sounds like a procedure for checking if your colonic bacteria are compatible.
“Shit test.” Basically, a test of how much bullshit someone (usually a potential mate) is willing to put up with.
He Just Wouldn’t Stop Banging On
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I bring cake.
Bless you sir and happy birthday to the establishment you run.
Which is why I have no sympathy at all for the poor dears…women’s sports has been wielding the Herculean club of Title IX lawsuits for decades against colleges.
And feminists are still doing so. And then there is their loud demand that female professional athletes (basketball, soccer, whatever) should be paid as much as the men–even though the women’s teams attract far fewer fans and far less TV viewers.
When I point out the vast difference in audience size the feminists just whine that it isn’t fair, men should be watching, and the women should be paid the same regardless. It’s like I’m talking to a bunch of junior high commies.
Which is why I have no sympathy at all for the poor dears…
That also reminds me of something I haven’t thought of in years: the feminists I used to know who would say nasty things about men and then smile and say “can’t you take a joke?” As best I know most of them are currently single and living in tiny apartments subsidized by government welfare checks.
even though the women’s teams attract far fewer fans and far less TV viewers.
And some of which are terribly painful to watch. Looking at you women’s soccer and basketball. The irony being, for me anyway, that back in the day when women’s basketball was a different sport, a kind of half-court thing as I recall, it was at least interesting to watch as there was a lot of passing and other strategies that were not so prevalent in the men’s games. Watching women struggling to get to the (soccer) ball or their lame (basketball) skying attempts gives me angst. It’s like watching young boys except they are “boys” who will never grow into the proper higher ambitions of the sport. It’s kinda hopeless.
From over at Powerline, some Latinxs* folks have an issue.
*(it really says that…)
“men should be watching” ha. consider women’s basketball. Virtually no dunking because they can’t dunk. It looks more lame than a high school game. And slow. Sports is closely related to the male urge to hunt which gets the guys more riled up. It is no coincidence that most sports involve putting a ball into a net, a sexual symbol if ever there was one. Boxing and wrestling and american football are pure combat.
As to women on a men’s team: several girls have gotten onto boy’s high school wrestling teams. Many of the boys won’t wrestle them–not just because it is unfair, but because it is way too sexual. The standard on-the-mat position is one person on hands and knees and the other kneeling next to them with their hand around their chest basicly in the spot where a breast is. Sure, grab her breast, you won’t get in trouble. Oh, and you can get in a position on the mat where you are face-to-crotch (theirs, not your own if you don’t have a good imagination). It is not a co-ed sport but feminists want to elide all that and say “what?” like it is just boys being unreasonable or squeemish.
The things police are expected to do: 11-time felon smeared himself with poop and then fought cops“:
‘Where is the help?’ Walker asked Judge Kelly McCarthy during his bail hearing this week. ‘All they doing is throwing me in jail and the penitentiary, but where’s the help?’ … ‘I was on drugs,’ Walker countered at the end of his bail hearing. And he suggested the cops were faking their injuries. ‘It’s always people wanna put in extra paperwork to get days off and sh*t like that,’ he said, against the advice of Assistant Public Defender Suzin Farber.”
Instead of wrestling to subdue him, why not just tase him? My liberal former friends would undoubtedly say that even this monster deserves endless second chances.
And some of which are terribly painful to watch.
As a person of very limited athletic ability, I can admire those mediocre female athletes. But that doesn’t mean I should be required to subsidize them.
“men should be watching” ha. consider women’s basketball…
I’d rather consider women’s volleyball. ?
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Bless you, sir. May an allegedly fun night in never include a question about which of the 1970s Planet of the Apes sequels you’d most like to watch.
Many of the boys won’t wrestle them–not just because it is unfair, but because it is way too sexual.
Ooooh, THIS. About 25-30 years ago I mentored a young man, high school freshman, small but wiry build. A good wrestler for his weight division. Consequently, this being the early days of this BS, he had to wrestle a number of girls. The situation was so messed up. This kid had minor problems that go with being that age, a small kid, a car-salesman dad who (reading between the lines on what the kid told me) was a bit of a minor head case himself but nothing extreme. The kid expressed being uncomfortable with the idea. He was torn by the natural and socially driven instincts to treat girls with some degree of physical distance/respect. He was by his nature full of what gets dismissed today as “toxic” masculinity. Yet he knew he needed to pull back. Yet what young man at his age is going to be comfortable losing a physical match to a girl? It was completely fucked up. Yet every woman I mentioned this situation to, with the exception of my wife, was either supportive of the idea that girls should be allowed or even encouraged in this direction or crickets-chirping silent.
So similar but totally different, wife and I watched Night Moves last night. 1975 pic starring Gene Hackman and featuring a barely 17 year old Melanie Griffith. In the movie there’s a scene where Griffith removes all her clothes and dives into the sea. There are several quick glimpses of …well nearly everything. Watching it was quite uncomfortable because the whole time I’m thinking how many male film crew members were there, how many takes were done, a scene where Hackman has to…simply has to dive into the water to grab and “save” the naked girl. I don’t remember this movie coming out though I would definitely have been too young to see it. I don’t recall any serious concerns or such. The movie IMNSHO is rather lame but I see where Roger Ebert and most other “critics” of the day gave it 4-star reviews. I’m sure it was quite “liberating” for young Ms. Griffith however.
I see this in wiki:
So likely “liberating” for a young Tatum O’Neal as well. Wonder if/what her father knew.
Yet every woman I mentioned this situation to, with the exception of my wife, was either supportive of the idea that girls should be allowed or even encouraged in this direction or crickets-chirping silent.
In a lot of other physical sports, I would encourage girls practicing with boys (no official games or competitions) to sharpen the girls’ skills. Especially pre-pubscent when there isn’t as wide a gap of physical skills. But wrestling is a sport with such close physical contact that I would never want to see boys and girls competing against each other even voluntary practices. It is really rather cruel to boys.
it isn’t fair, men should be watching
Advocates of the moral superiority of women tend to roll their eyes at male sports status hierarchies (I don’t know why those silly men are so obsessed with shirts with numbers on them and names in record books). But it’s something that men have for themselves and that they don’t seem to need women for, and women’s advocates can’t let that continue, so eventually women get shirts with numbers on them and their names in record books too.
Then they’re shocked, or pretend to be shocked, to find out that paper status is no guarantee of peer status. For men’s sports, the record books were invented to settle spontaneous arguments about which sportsball player sportsed the ball better. Women’s names have been in the record books for decades, and yet the arguments about which woman sportsed the ball better just don’t happen, or don’t happen organically enough, or don’t seem to matter as much.
Which leads to the second stage of the campaign, which is aimed not at women but at men. We understand that you men attribute status to wearing numbered shirts. Well here’s a woman wearing a numbered shirt, who isn’t asking for special treatment, just the same attention and status you give to her male “counterpart” with a numbered shirt. But you don’t even give her that, which is why we need condescending schoolmarmish micromanagement of male sports spaces, and socially engineered enthusiasm for women’s sports.
“…a controversial move by Ukrainian authorities…”
Corporal Max Klinger hardest hit.
And then there is their loud demand that female professional athletes (basketball, soccer, whatever) should be paid as much as the men…
My usual reply: The men’s league is down the hall, second door on the right.
And then there is their loud demand that female professional athletes (basketball, soccer, whatever) should be paid as much as the men…
The idea that people’s pay should bear some relation to their output seems to deeply offend some people.
Speaking of which, here is a question for all of you across the Atlantic: I recall hearing, back in the 70’s when I entered the workforce, that computer programmers in England were unionized. I assume that meant that their pay was based on seniority and not on quality and quantity of work. Was that indeed the case? (My union “friends” here in America were all gung-ho for strictly seniority-based pay scales.)
My union “friends” here in America were all gung-ho for strictly seniority-based pay scales.
My first professional work on the Space Shuttle program, following the Challenger accident, they did layoffs according to seniority. We had tons of dead weight and there was no work. It was not like those with seniority were contributing anything based on that as many were useless even in the simplest tasks. Some even drunks. But they unloaded the younger ones they had recently hired. I was there just long enough to be “safe” but as it dragged on it created significant unnecessary stress in those “on the bubble”. How professional people, people of any substance at all could approve of such a thing shocked me. Hell, if a company doesn’t want you and you are a good employee, they are kind of doing you a favor by letting you go. But letting people go strictly based on seniority eliminates even that information from the system. But hey, smart people. Smaaaaart.
My first professional work on the Space Shuttle program, following the Challenger accident, they did layoffs according to seniority.
Government job rules, right?
How professional people, people of any substance at all could approve of such a thing shocked me.
At one time that sort of thing shocked me, too. It still bothers me, but it no longer surprises me.
pay vs performance: the whole left is offended by this idea. Unions are why the most recent subway tunnel in NYC just opened (??not sure) after 75 years of construction. The tenure system acts the same. Initially you are supposed to prove you can deliver the goods but it is also a popularity contest. Once in, you stay in. Some profs overtly declare that since they got tenure they quit trying to publish. other profs just put their name on as a co-author with all of their students.
pay vs performance: the whole left is offended by this idea.
Over time disagreements over such matters made it increasingly difficult to get along with liberals friends, as I got tired being told I was a font of evil opinions. With one the end came not long after she made a point of wearing a gigantic Teamsters button when I visited her. [ Rolled eyes. ] (For those in the UK: Possibly the most criminal union in America. It’s amazing and instructive how liberals can reconcile their love of union corruption and thuggery with the ideals that they profess to hold most dear.)
Theological hot take.
back in the day when women’s basketball was a different sport
I’ve been mocked in the past for watching women’s hockey, because lacking the strength and mass for beating the crap out of each other to be a valid tactic, the women actually have to play hockey.
It’s like I’m talking to a bunch of junior high commies.
Like?
Watching [ Night Moves ] was quite uncomfortable
Don’t Google the two Coreys.
In a lot of other physical sports, I would encourage girls practicing with boys […] to sharpen the girls’ skills
In a related actresses-who-were-molested-by-Hollywood-pedos story, the Amanda Bynes movie She’s The Man involves a young girl who thinks herself quite the soccer superstar but isn’t allowed to try out for the boys’ team after the girls team is cut due to budget cuts. She disguises herself as her twin brother (it’s a Twelfth Night hack) and tries out for the boys soccer team at a different school, so as to Smash the Patriarchy.
She doesn’t make the team. At all. She has to train every day after class with the team’s star forward for weeks just to barely get on the team’s second string. In the climactic soccer game, she gets subbed in due to an injury and…sets up an assist that lets the star forward score the winning come-from-behind goal.
For a Bynes vehicle the movie is surprisingly hardheaded about the physical limits of teenage girls.
Over time disagreements over such matters made it increasingly difficult to get along with liberals friends
I have been having no end of fun over the last couple of weeks pointing out to my more nastily hypochondriac friends that isn’t it awesome that COVID is completely over now that the US Democrats desperately need a distraction from their terrible policies what with the midterms coming up. (Here in our local state-level political jurisdiction, eight-and-counting provincial cabinet MPs have announced they will not seek re-election in the summer. Including the provincial Health Minister.)
Theological hot take
Have you noticed how all the wokeristos and wokeristas flick their eyes, usually but not always, to their left as if to get assurance from the director that they are performing OK and on-script?
Have you noticed how all the wokeristos and wokeristas flick their eyes, usually but not always, to their left
Isn’t that a tell for lying?
The idea that people’s pay should bear some relation to their output seems to deeply offend some people.
To be perfectly honest, while not at all offended by such a proposal, I am deeply suspicious of performance related pay in general for the simple reason that employees do not have a say in how that performance is measured.
And my feeling is that it’s the metrics used that almost always lead to a corrupting influence in an organisation, even a whole industry, whatever differences accounted for, and all other things being equal.
As I hope everyone recognises, there is always a trade-off between Quality, Time, and Budget.
And since most managers across a very wide range of industries have their performance measured by the latter two (Time, Budget), but many employees by the former two (Quality, Time).
Not only does this set up a natural antagonism for people ostensibly on the same team and working towards the same goal, but it corrupts in the incentives it produces.
Employees who deliver more and more quickly tend to find themselves rewarded in the short term despite the fact that the inevitable skimping on quality very often results in a long, slow decline in standards, reputation, and success of whatever organisation they are working for.
The more conscientious, careful, and often more skilled employees – the ones you would think an organisation would want to keep around – end up devoting more and more of their own time (coming in early, working late, taking work home at weekends)to ensure the quality of their work.
The first of these kinds of employee tend to be promoted upwards into management posts where they continue more of the same. The second kind become demoralised, burn out, and leave the profession altogether wondering what on Earth went wrong.
Government job rules, right? [ … ] It still bothers me, but it no longer surprises me.
None of what I’ve just said is to deny the inefficiencies and often counterproductive systems of incentives that exist in government jobs as pst314 suggests here.
But rather that the more a corporation increases in size or importance, the more it comes to resemble the government departments they inevitably begin to develop a close relationship with and, hence, come to adopt the same kind of inefficiencies and often counterproductive systems of incentives the private sector is alleged to be free of.
Theological hot take.
And these adamantly professed numinous attributes, these claimed qualities of God, just happen to flatter the people making the claim. Oh, serendipity.
I’m not entirely sure why, but this one made me laugh. It has a portal-into-woke-hell kind of vibe.
And since most managers across a very wide range of industries have their performance measured by the latter two (Time, Budget), but many employees by the former two (Quality, Time)…
Sensible managers recognize that there are advantages in having some employees who excel most in speed and others who excel most in quality, and properly reward them all. In my career I tended to produce fewer lines of code per week than some of my coworkers, but also fewer bugs. But those other coworkers could throw together a basic subsystem more quickly than me, which had its advantages too (get something running, that can be used to further work on other subsystems, or just to have version one working sooner so the client project can be started sooner, even if those using it have to accept some inconvenient bugs for awhile.)
… the more a corporation increases in size or importance, the more it comes to resemble the government departments…
I was fortunate (chose to) to work for a small company where even the owner knew every employee and thus policy stayed realistic.
I have been having no end of fun over the last couple of weeks pointing out to my more nastily hypochondriac friends that isn’t it awesome that COVID is completely over now that the US Democrats desperately need a distraction from their terrible policies
It’s sort of amusing: Many of them had Obama campaign logos in their Facebook avatars from 2008 to 2016, which became anti-Trump from 2016 to 2020. Then they all started to display BLM logos, followed by vaccination slogans, and now they all have Ukrainian flags. Silly twats are a bunch of lemmings.
…these claimed qualities of God, just happen to flatter the people making the claim…
One has to wonder what scripture version these clowns are reading. Most of us members of The Universal Church Triumphant of the Apathetic Agnostic (“We don’t know, and we don’t care”) reached our enlightened plane by reading various versions, and they all say God created man in his image, first Adam, then Eve, who proceeded to go at it like rabbits and bring forth Cain, Able, and all the others which would indicate that the big guy is neither queer, gay, non-binary, or any of that other silliness.
As he “breathed life” into the lungs of Adam, I suppose we could give him credit for CPR, though.
Silly twats are a bunch of lemmings.
The best are the ones who also have “My thoughts are my own”.
Let’s play Bond Court Bingo: “his children will suffer if he goes back to prison“:
“Private defense attorney Edward Austin said Cortes has three children and is expecting his fourth in two weeks.”
Okay, three children. But by how many different mothers? The mainstream news media never tell us that. Nor do they notice that other mothers’ children will suffer if this vicious thug is not put away.
Outrageous behavior from MPs in The House of Commons.
Savages.
Nor do they notice that other mothers’ children will suffer if this vicious thug is not put
awaydown.FTFY
Adam and Eve: the story in English has eve made from adam’s rib, but if anyone is missing a rib, it is women, who sometimes lack the lowest set. What bone is it then? As I understand it, in the hebrew the word for that bone refers to the penis bone. Humans lack a bone in their penis which most other mammals have and the ancient hebrews knew this (of course) and worked it into the story.
If that guy is an actual rabbi, they need to tighten up their standards.
If you are not a believer in god, no problem, but I think trying to make him lbgqrts+ is simply bonkers. HE has a book (or several depending) and HE certainly gives no indication of any of that crap. In the old testament HE actually seems to have some rather toxic masculinity (turning people to salt and such).
In more positive news, I’m surprised to see this. From cnn no less.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/05/us/fort-lauderdale-police-chief/index.html
the old testament HE
is actually an unpleasantly bloodthirsty and retributive SoB. Pillars of salt are benign compared to a lot of the OT content.
Outrageous behavior from MPs in The House of Commons. Savages.
Hah! What TV show was that?
When I was a very young child, that was part of the standards of proper behavior we were taught: Affectations of casualness conveyed disrespect (for those we were speaking to or for the institutions we were visiting.) As I entered adolescence the sixties counterculture was attacking all such norms as mere bourgeois hypocrisies, empty formalities that stifled the natural man.
savages
“Norman Atkinson, Labour MP for Tottenham”
I have the impression that Tottenham is still a Labour stronghold. Correct?
If that guy is an actual rabbi, they need to tighten up their standards.
I have read about seminaries which have largely dispensed with the Bible in favor of Marxism, so it seems likely that there are rabbinical schools with the same problem.
FTFY
No one would mourn for him. Likewise for this model citizen. Unfortunately the people who work so hard to free these thugs are almost never their next victims.
In the old testament HE actually seems to have some rather toxic masculinity (turning people to salt and such).
Doesn’t do anything that a feminist would be incapable of doing.
Isn’t that a tell for lying?
I seem to recall that types of eye movement like this are also mnemonics for memory. I can’t remember where I saw it (oh the irony) but they were doing experiments with babies where they would show them an object and then get the babies to move their eyes up and left or up and right to remember. It’s like programming memory which also defines what might be happening with young ideologues.
I couldn’t find the baby stuff but there is this.
Likewise for this model citizen.
“Kalliantasis said Sipes became upset when the bank told him that there was no money in his account and that he should contact Social Security to resolve the issue.”
Sipes is 28 years old. He has two sources of income: theft via the state a/k/a social security and robbery.
Sipes is 28 years old. He has two sources of income: theft via the state a/k/a social security and robbery.
Assault and battery, aggravated battery, armed robbery, home invasion: Yes, that’s him!
But, but, he’s a victim who deserves our sympathy! “Assistant Public Defender Suzin Farber said Sipes suffers from mental health conditions.”
If true, then he should be, one way or another, permanently removed from civil society.
If true, then he should be, one way or another, permanently removed from civil society.
Exactly. There is a reason we either put wild animals down or in cages. They are not open to reason. They simply act as they do.
There might however be one mitigating circumstance in his favor: his name is Tomatae Sipes.
There might however be one mitigating circumstance in his favor: his name is Tomatae Sipes.
“Urban” equivalent of “A Boy Named Sue”?
They are not open to reason. They simply act as they do.
The same can be said of their liberal protectors.