Friday Ephemera

Two women, one bed.
Of course it came with an electro-massager.
Meanwhile, a political opinion.

Frasier takes a dark turn
It’s canon that Frasier was seduced by his female piano teacher at the age of seventeen.

The thrill of British cuisine. (h/t, Perry)
David, didn’t you say you had one of those torch devices? You could fix dinner for the other half.

Even as we speak, some politician is cooking up (ha!) a frying-pan-control law.

…some politician is cooking up (ha!) a frying-pan-control law.
At the same time, peta is suing on behalf of the alligator.

notable use of a frying pan
That’s how Tiffany Aching got started.

Morning, all.
Are they mother and daughter or sisters? I can’t tell what they’re arguing about.
No, it’s not altogether clear to me what the relationship is, or exactly why they’re so miffed. But on the upside, they are quite loud and unrelenting.

“Pride”…
Well, exactly. I suppose that if the events were instead called “Dignity” or “Self-Respect,” the mismatch with what’s usually on show would become a little too obvious.

Speaking of gasping.
Also gaspworthy.

We live in Clown World.
“Social worker, human rights advocate,” and incorrigible paedophile.

We live in Clown World.
As noted recently,

I’m still not sure why proximity to drag queens – i.e., men performing grotesque parodies of women – is supposed to be both imperative and affirming for toddlers. But apparently these things are somehow aspirational and representative, a role model for later adulthood. As if cartoonish transvestism were an unassailable, and not-at-all-insulting, shorthand for being gay. As if “story time drag queens,” a remarkable number of whom turn out to be registered sex offenders – three in Texas alone – were natural objects of kinship. As if being lurid and grotesque, or mentally ill, would be an obvious ambition. A way to feel good about oneself.

And yet, here we are.

but wouldn’t he have been better off using a crock pot ?
[ Peers over spectacles. ]

That looks like a Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder.

Inside a Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie.
I’ll pass.

Pepi Longsocks would never forget. Remember the potato joke?
Very puzzling. Was that an accurate parody of Pippi Longstocking?? (I don’t remember the stories at all, as I was very young when I read them.)

They’re doing it for the wee ones
Scroll down for the holy water eye bleach

Of course it came with an electro-massager.
Obi Wan to Luke: “It belonged to your mother.”

the Chatsworth House Farm Shop
Pineapples in England?

Climate change/crisis/emergency dontcha’kno
So can we now hope to see happy English farm girls wearing grass skirts and flowers in their hair?

So can we now hope to see happy English farm girls wearing grass skirts and flowers in their hair?
If you travel to Cornwall perhaps.
Don’t know if I ran across it here yesterday but I have a tab open on a web page that claims to give a swear word a day, in various languages. Hit reload this morning and the damn thing is still stuck on Da te eba v ushite!. Who’s responsible for this &$#$&*@%% $&*#+=.

As the subject of the gravitationally privileged is a bit of a theme here (or is it a plot? Never could get that right in 10th grade English class), ran across this from James Gregory. Which also reminded me of this bit concerning the honesty of small children.

If David means the pies made by Meadowfresh of Chesterfield,
I do indeed.
[ Hankers for pie. ]

I did once refer to drag queens in schools as being not unlike The Black & White Minstrel Show, but for gay kids.
That.

That.
As I said at the time, it’s remarkable that it should now be necessary to explain that the endless parade of bedlamites, narcissists, and howling Nancies with Pride flags and personality disorders does not in fact leave one feeling represented or affirmed. Just vaguely insulted. For an earlier generation, homosexuality often conjured images of, say, John Inman, Larry Grayson, and Dick Emery – farcical, effeminate creatures who were there to be laughed at. The modern spectacle of cross-dressing teachers and fat, grotesque drag queens reading to small children in between fits of twerking doesn’t exactly strike me as a massive improvement.

Meanwhile down under, “What is a woman” is answered

“The frameworks adopted to define a person’s gender include chromosomal makeup, the gender assigned at birth, and the gender with which a person identifies. The Department of Health does not adopt a single definition. Health policies and access to health programs are based on clinical evidence and clinical need for all Australians, regardless of gender identity, biological characteristics, or genetic variations. Our programs are designed to be inclusive and to provide better health and wellbeing for all Australians.”

Glad we got that cleared up.