Friday Ephemera
“You’re going to need a bigger boat.” || A guide to how it works, one and two. || A mindset, revealed. || The thrill of hoovering. || Illegal Lego building techniques. || When school discipline is something to “disperse across ethnicities.” || Smaller than is normal. (h/t, Things) || Stealth mode. || A brief history of linoleum. || A brief history of the digital watch. || I’m not entirely sure what’s happening here. || Too much pleasure. || Parenting of note. || Congresswoman, pronouns. || Put-put-put-put-put. || The speed of Martian sounds. || “Scientific” American. || The world of tomorrow. || “We’ve decided to transition.” || It’s wafer-thin. || Forbidden love. || A sci-fi favourite. || And finally, tastily, a tempting offer.
“You’re going to need a bigger boat.”
A sea lion sailboat threeway…large mast attraction
Forbidden love
That’s heartbreaking. That’s a female dog that’s lost her puppies, she’s trying to get the chick to nurse.
I’m not entirely sure what’s happening here.
Whatever it is I like it.
“Stealth mode.”
If a sci-fi author invented cephalopods they’d be considerd ‘too far fetched’…
Morning, all.
Whatever it is I like it.
If anyone’s getting aroused by this thread, I’m summoning a constable.
Make that a lady constable please.
In shorts.
A sci-fi favourite.
*snort*
*snort*
For those who missed it.
A mindset, revealed.
“I respect you more than you respect you”
Jaw-dropping.
Jaw-dropping.
It does have a certain… obliviousness.
Mr Pavlovitz is apparently a “writer, pastor, and activist,” is terribly progressive, and is “committed to equality, diversity, and justice.” Which is why he likes to tell women what opinions they’re allowed to have. Because, you see, whenever they disagree with him, they don’t know their own minds.
And this, we’re told, is respect.
A guide to how it works, one and two.
If even they can’t remember it without a list, why should I give a sh*t?
Too much pleasure.
I need this as a gif.
And this, we’re told, is respect.
It’s just one step away from him beating a woman and claiming it is being done out of love, to teach her that she brought him to that place of violence and if she only understood how much he wants her to be happy, she’ll vote Democrat.
This is NOT why we need feminism. This is why we need firearm training.
“You’re going to need a bigger boat.”
The Terrible Sea Lion, indeed.
And this, we’re told, is respect.
That “Christian pastor” is acting in the spirit of communist Herbert Marcuse’s theory of Repressive Tolerance: Just as true tolerance requires the militant suppression of all who oppose communist tyranny, so under true Progressive Christianity respect means contempt for those who are not leftists.
I’m not entirely sure what’s happening here.
[ Purchases airfare to Netherlands ]
“Scientific” American.
The authors of those crackpot articles are mostly female by a ration of 4 to 2. Coincidence?
Parenting of note.
Note the moment when the toddle squeaks “Shut the fuck up!” at the beleaguered store manager. The mother is teaching her child in many ways to be a barbarian who should be excluded from civilized society.
Roman roads.
I’ll go out on a limb here and say that they are not with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Burglar of the year.
Burglar of the year.
[ Muffled chuckling. ]
An update on Buddy the cat: His condition has been upgraded from “extremely critical” to “stable”.
Did I screw up that hyperlink? Damn.
[ Retreats to Corner of Shame ]
And this, we’re told, is respect.
Not quite the same “respect” as espoused by Aretha F., I think
And finally, tastily, a tempting offer.
So did he take the jello? #NeedClosure
Thank god Lia Thomas doesn’t do short track speed skating…
#NeedClosure
We need a poll. Would you take the tangerine jello being offered by the excited gentleman?
I’m sure that school board will be sure to disperse assaults equitably across ethnicities. The ideology here is that all people are identical and the only reason that some group gets in trouble more is racism. Just like the only reason almost all the store lootings are black is because of racism (or something).
Smaller than normal things: now THAT is what teen boys should be doing instead of posturing on instagram about their pronouns. Don’t “find” yourself, “make” yourself.
We need a poll. Would you take the tangerine jello being offered by the excited gentleman?
No, but I’d give him something painful if he didn’t shut up and remove his arm from my car. No charge.
No,
Yes, but – and I can’t stress this enough – it’s tangerine.
We need a poll. Would you take the tangerine jello being offered by the excited gentleman?
And speaking of hobos and bums, that reminds me, for some mysterious reason, of the closing sentence of Mark Twain’s The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut:
“In conclusion, I wish to state, by way of advertisement, that medical colleges desiring assorted tramps for scientific purposes, either by the gross, by cord measurement, or per ton, will do well to examine the lot in my cellar before purchasing elsewhere, as these were all selected and prepared by myself, and can be had at a low rate, because I wish to clear out my stock and get ready for the spring trade.”
“We’ve decided to transition.”
Internalised misogyny?
I would like to see the text of the Freedom to Move Act.
“Freedom to move about their communities without fear.”
Fear of what? Being arrested for evading fares.
Solution: Buy a fare token!
Problem solved.
Thank you.
Adam: see that is what is wrong with ypeepo, just going around dealing with perfectly good grievances with simple, cheap solutions. How far toward the bottom of the barrel do you need to scrape to claim that enforcing train fares is oppression? Like the guy who told his local Target last year that if they didn’t stop arresting his people for shoplifting they would burn the store down. Hey, why is my Target closing?
The Hunger Games™, Mudbug Edition.
The mother is teaching her child in many ways to be a barbarian…
People don’t need to be taught to be barbarians. A child is a natural-born tyrant — selfish, impatient, demanding, brutish. To turn a man into a gentled-man requires a dozen years or more of unrelenting training and discipline by parents, teachers, family members, neighbors — in this sense, it really does take a village. Failure to provide such guidance and discipline allows the little barbarians to continue as they are, until an actual grownup (usually an agent of the State, unfortunately) is summoned to take care of the problem.
It’s a similar dynamic as we see when Big Thinkers write pieces about the Causes of Poverty. There are none! Sit on your arse all day doing nothing and — voilà! — poverty!
(Sorry. It’s a pet peeve of mine that people will pretend that certain conditions require action and effort, when in fact they are more properly understood as starting conditions. “Ground states,” as it were.)
[ Muffled chuckling. ]
Oh, I disturbed the neighbours
Interesting thread about famous self-identifying Latinx Beta O’Rourke
People don’t need to be taught to be barbarians. A child is a natural-born tyrant — selfish, impatient, demanding, brutish…
True, true. Although most children do also have natural inclinations to kindness and affection.
It’s a similar dynamic as we see when Big Thinkers write pieces about the Causes of Poverty.
They seem Strangely Uninterested in pondering the causes of prosperity, much less encouraging behavior likely to result in same.
When worlds collide.
When school discipline is something to “disperse across ethnicities.”
Infuriating, but still somehow not as bad as what Supt. Valeria Silva implemented in St. Paul ten years ago. Today’s linked article just talks about lighter punishments for darker skin tones. Plenty bad, and almost comical in the way it formalizes “diminished expectations,” but still falls short of the pinnacle we achieved here in the Saintly City.
Back in the day, we implemented a system whereby a teacher could not discipline black students unless he or she disciplined an equal number of white students. So your average white kid would get nailed to the wall for something like chewing gum in class, simply so that the teacher would have leeway to send a disruptive black student to the principal’s office. As I ranted later, “They essentially took a group of kids who were ill-behaved and resentful and gave them free rein to terrorize students and staff alike. At the same time, they took another group of kids who were more-or-less functional and turned them into resentful little shits.”
Honestly, I would not piss on that woman if she were on fire.
When worlds collide.
What did that, er, individual, say to the gentlemen videoing him?
When worlds collide.
Not unrelated…
Yes, but – and I can’t stress this enough – it’s tangerine.
“Hey Mister Tangerine Man…”
Not unrelated…
Tim Curry did it much, much better. It’s just a jump to the left…
Congresswoman, pronouns.
How do these defenders of barbarism get elected? /rhetorical question
Causes of poverty/prosperity: black activists seem to truly believe that white people are just handed out plum jobs for no reason. Yes it is true that a few seem to be incapable of doing their job and were perhaps hired because they are likeable or handsome/pretty or perhaps due to a rich uncle BUT most are not. Most whites have to actually do their jobs and work hard. If you look around my neighborhood, the men (of multiple races) are never found hanging on the corner or at da club. They are busy working, cutting grass, walking the dog, playing with the kids. They never get in a fight at work (like will smith), quit a job without a new one lined up, blow all their money on nonsense. It is hard being successful.
What did that, er, individual, say to the gentlemen videoing him?
I believe that the onlooker said “Please tell me you’re having a laugh,” and the subject responded in kind.
Which reminds me of a question that my wife and I came up with the other day: How do the producers of The Repair Shop determine when to include/not include subtitles? We’ll watch an episode where some lovely elderly Scotsman hands over a trinket and they subtitle his speech as though he were speaking Korean, and then a few episodes later they’ll have some Scouser or Geordie walk in and deliver a monologue that I can’t make heads nor tails of, with nary a hint from the producers as to what’s being said.
What gives?