Friday Ephemera
Hardcore cleaning. || All you have to do, they said, is keep very still. || Well, I suppose they’re quite big, yes. || Boat legs. || AntGame. || Gratuitous drama detected. || What are the odds? || “They took what was already there and claimed it as theirs.” || Sprites. || The joys of public transport, parts 4,863 and 4,864. || Add pants, should they be needed. || Sponsor Block, for skipping the ever-lengthening sponsor segments in YouTube videos. || Musical interlude. || The last one. || Discussion point. || Discussion point 2. || Fashion for him, and for her. || Four legs good. || How to fail a drug test. || She’s winning at fatness, so there’s that. || And finally, with some effort, when you really do want your towel back.
“All you have to do, they said, is keep very still.”
Oh, come on… that can’t be good for you.
“Gratuitous drama detected.”
Makes this chap look like an amateur.
“They took what was already there and claimed it as theirs.”
Ah, but it’s only bad when you do it to black and brown people. (And there are none of those in Seattle. Right?)
Anyhoo… This bloke turned his leaf blower into a jet engine. On purpose.
I’d chip in for a deprogrammer team to rescue purple-hair’s kid.
What are the odds?
“I need help…”
You sure do, but it isn’t money you need.
What are the odds?
It’s child abuse.
“…when you really do want your towel back.”
Even Ford Prefect can’t be that fond of a towel!
Sponsor Block, for skipping the ever-lengthening sponsor segments in YouTube videos.
Thank you. 🙂
Morning, all.
I’d chip in for a deprogrammer team to rescue purple-hair’s kid.
Lyric – our “31yo queerdo(he/xe/him/xem) Queer + polyamorous parent” – does seem, shall we say, keen for her son to have the same issues she does. Despite all the rainbows and jolly hair colours, I doubt there’s a happy story there.
Discussion point 2.
MI > Bond.
MI > Bond.
At present, yes. Skyfall was entertaining – I saw it twice, which I almost never do – but the last two Bond outings have been utterly disappointing. As many have quipped, No Time to Die, which I gave up on after an hour, should have been titled No, Time to Die.
Whereas the last three Mission: Impossible films have been great fun.
Sponsor Block, for skipping the ever-lengthening sponsor segments in YouTube videos
“It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe”
It amuses me that we’re apparently going to continue trying to make ad-supported media work despite a couple of decades worth of evidence that consumers hate it.
How to fail a drug test
Mythbusters did this once, and although I wouldn’t take any of their experiments seriously they claimed all it took was two poppy seed bagels in the morning to trip a positive result on an over-the-counter drug test.
when you really do want your towel back
I’m more curious what fooled the snake into thinking the towel was food. Was it heated or something?
It amuses me that we’re apparently going to continue trying to make ad-supported media work despite a couple of decades worth of evidence that consumers hate it.
As I’m sure I’ve said many times, online adverts feel much more intrusive and aggravating than, say, TV ads or newsprint ads. I suspect it’s partly because the interruptions are happening on your laptop or phone or whatever, which just feels rude somehow, and also because internet time runs much faster, as it were, and so any delays feel amplified. A four-minute ‘sponsor segment’ feels like an eternity.
[ Added: ]
Presumably, this place has readers who find the quarterly fundraisers tiresome, and I still feel some trepidation each time I announce one. One doesn’t like to be a bother, as they say. But the alternatives – massive amounts of advertising, of things over which I would have no influence – strike me as worse.
Empowerment detected.
“Don’t be ashamed…”
“Don’t be ashamed…”
Even junkies must feel validated! ?
Even junkies must feel validated! ?
Well, I’m guessing the thinking is that shame – recognising one’s moral squalor and unhappy trajectory – may prompt depression and even more ruinous fentanyl use. But as supposedly uplifting messages go – messages seen by children on public transport – it’s quite a thing: “Just keep on doing whatever is ruining your life and degrading the social environment of those around you. Everything is fine.”
The joys of public transport, parts 4,863 and 4,864.
Jesus wept.
Jesus wept.
Well, quite. The second video is arguably the more disturbing. The woman being menaced and assaulted mouths the words “help me.” And nobody does. Instead, those nearby pretend it isn’t happening.
As I’m sure I’ve said many times, online adverts feel much more intrusive and aggravating than, say, TV ads…
The main reason is that commercial TV TV shows are built around ads – X minutes of show, Y minutes of ads, so the ads are inserted at logical breaks, e.g., scene changes. Much the same is true when non-commercial TV (e.g. BBC shown over here) TV shows or movies are shown on commercial channels.
YouTube ads, OTOH, are seemingly at random and will pop up in the middle of someone speaking or doing something. That coupled with the distracting idiocy of a 30 second ad you can punch out of after 5 seconds (why bother?) is why they are more annoying.
What are the odds?
My son wants to be mentally ill just like me! Help me destroy his life before he changes his mind.
So sad. And infuriating.
Fashion for her, Spongebob Edition
If you skip the ads the person whose content you are enjoying doesn’t get paid anything.
I watch some guitar lessons online and I purposely let the adds run. Otherwise the content will probably disappear after a while. The creator would have no incentive to keep posting new content.
Won’t you help? For just pennies a day you can help with life saving medical care.
If you skip the ads the person whose content you are enjoying doesn’t get paid anything.
I mute the ad and do something else until it ends. That way the creator gets paid, and I don’t get annoyed.
Some of those ads use images that seem designed to disgust you (the foot fungus ones). I don’t know why anyone would do that.
The joys of public transport, part 4,865
The joys of public transport, parts 4,863 and 4,864.
The moment when a bystander should have hit the assailant in the face as hard as possible. May I use the left’s favorite slogan, “by any means necessary”?
And finally, with some effort, when you really do want your towel back.
“Bill Rogan’s snake was feeling fine, ate three red shirts from off the line…”
Won’t you help? For just pennies a day you can help with life saving medical care.
“You can mutilate this sick puppy, or you can turn the page.”
May I use the left’s favorite slogan, “by any means necessary”?
Needless to say, being menaced by a lunatic is not a pleasant experience. The victim’s realisation that her fellow passengers will not help will most likely have compounded the distress considerably and may have been more upsetting than the assault itself.
Well, quite. The second video is arguably the more disturbing. The woman being menaced and assaulted mouths the words “help me.” And nobody does. Instead, those nearby pretend it isn’t happening.
Part of the problem is that most people are not physically fit and do not know how to fight. The larger problem is that there is no shortage of “human rights” lawyers and “progressive” district attorneys who will sue or prosecute the hero who gives that thug what he deserves. And this ties into my contention that leftists should be treated as existential enemies.
The victim’s realisation that her fellow passengers will not help will most likely have compounded the distress considerably and may have been more upsetting than the assault itself.
Yes indeed. The realization that liberals will protect those who harm me while depriving me of the legal right to defend myself was part of what radicalized me.
Heroin addiction — it’s empowering!
The larger problem is that there is no shortage of “human rights” lawyers and “progressive” district attorneys who will sue or prosecute the hero who gives that thug what he deserves. And this ties into my contention that leftists should be treated as existential enemies.
This is the first thing that pops into my mind whenever something like this happens and then people ask the ‘Why did no one do anything?’ question. It is valid, and people with intact morals should and would be outraged, but I’ve seen too many cases where it goes wrong for the person trying to do the right thing.
There’s also a small part of me, that I’m not very proud of, which thinks that the people affected most likely support and vote for the politicians that allow this stuff to go unpunished. Maybe negative reinforcement will wake them up, nothing else ever seems to.
Fashion for her
Haute Couture meets the Outer Gods
but I’ve seen too many cases where it goes wrong for the person trying to do the right thing.
Do you mean “goes wrong at the scene” or “goes wrong in the courts”?
The second video is arguably the more disturbing.
As disturbing as it is, it’s equally disturbing that people film it in a detached manner as if it were some form of street theatre put on for their benefit. This is the very real performance art offered in big cities that puts in perspective the hollowness of the work of people like Sandrine Schaefer who David has highlighted many times in this space.
Fashion for her
They usually travel in pairs.
Do you mean “goes wrong at the scene” or “goes wrong in the courts”?
I’m not sure that’s an ‘or’ question.
it’s equally disturbing that people film it in a detached manner as if it were some form of street theatre put on for their benefit.
And frequently laughing as they film it. My personal ideal would be for a few people to film the attack while others prepare to engage and neutralize the attacker.
May I use the left’s favorite slogan, “by any means necessary”?
Watching the thing for a second time, I imagined something analogous happening in, say, a 1950s cowboy film, and what we, the audience, would be expected to make of it. What lessons we might draw.
Drama detected in context:
Couple leaves house to drive to an event. Starts to cross bridge:
She: I don’t have my hand creme! We have to go back!
He: Can’t you pick some up at a store on the way?
She: It’s the only brand I like. Anyway, it’s just back at the house.
He: Well, okay (negotiates death-defying u-turn)
She: Never mind! It was in my handbag the whole time!
If you skip the ads the person whose content you are enjoying doesn’t get paid anything.
I pay for YouTube Premium (no auto-inserted ads) since I use it a lot and of course now the channel owners are inserting *their own* ads into the content.
Re: What are the odds:
Whatever happened to making kids work to earn money for themselves?
If you spoil a kid by giving him money for his gender transition, she’s never going to learn to stand on her own two feet and protest until government provides whatever she demands. She’s going to expect a politician to always be there to promise to meet every need, not realizing that politicians don’t grow on trees. They needs lots of tending and lots of money.
Descartes doubted the testimony of his senses because of the likelihood of illusion. He realized that in the act of thinking and awareness, he had discovered a source of truth: ‘Cogito, ergo sum.”
Skip forward three centuries and we see his error.
“Who gave this White Man the right to tell womxn, POC and LBGTQ+ how to be? Now, We tell You! An’ you ain’t all that! No more!”
Just pointing out that according to her own chart, she is not winning at fatness, she is coming in second place at a mere 5x.
Ramming speed!
Don’t you dare call it grooming.
.
Speaking of Libs of TikTok, Mercedes Lackey says that this either does not happen or happens but is a good thing.
When your pilot and copilot are both affirmative action hires.
Name That CRT Burn-In, fun for all the family. Providing the family is entirley comprised of middle-aged videogame nerds.
(Pretty sure #3 is fake, because it’s an urban legend. Or used to be, at least.)
CRT Burn-In? Is that where neural implants are used to permanently alter our thinking to conform to the State’s wishes?