Friday Ephemera
Bubbling detected. || An abundance of ladybirds. || Singled out. || Monkey see, monkey do. || Mahi-mahi. || “It’s mango, don’t you like it?” (h/t, Ben) || The shadow of the Moon. || Magic show of note. (h/t, Desert Rat) || Signage. (h/t, Perry) || Summon the worms. || Today’s word is uncrossable. || Kiss of life. || I foresee accessibility issues. || Steals car, kidnaps child, when caught invokes victimhood. || As cabin views go, it’s pretty decent, actually. || Treasuring the good times. || Hardcore teacher. || Two types of home security, exchanging looks. || Stealth tech in action. || He was sent to buy curtains. || That’s exactly how I would’ve done it. || How to enhance your viewing of vampire-romance movies. || And finally, via Paul Johnson, when the Space Age met the Stone Age, in 1964.
Oh, and a reminder that I now have a Twitter account.
Apparently, you can “queer” and “trans” historical figures and erase their sex and such – and then wait to be applauded.
GKC
You are correct. As wiki details between 1958 and 1963 either 6 or 7 Sarsen stones were re-erected with the benefit of concrete bases to keep them upright.
In either 1966 or 1967 I visited Stonehenge on a school field trip. I still have the photos of myself and my classmates clambering over and balancing on the fallen stones. They are pretty dammed big and our determined efforts to push one of the uprights over were completely ineffective.
Theatre: a theatre (in US?) put on Shakespear’s Richard II (a hunchback IRL and that crucial to the play) with Richard played by a black woman, no attempt at a hunchback. It made no sense at all. But I guess “making sense” is just so patriarchal and racist.
Another suggestion for a Globe Theatre production.
Poe’s law. You’ve obviously never been to the Stratford Festival.
Theatre: a theatre (in US?) put on Shakespear[e]’s Richard II[I] (a hunchback IRL and that crucial to the play) with Richard played by a black woman, no attempt at a hunchback.
Stratford Festival says hold my beer.
Summon the worms
If you rub without rhythm, you won’t attract the worm.
Heh, first thing I thought, too.
Joan of Arc: The true story is pretty interesting, inspiring, and tragic, but to the Left history is not real and is merely a vehicle for propaganda. Propaganda is not art, is not fun, is not interesting. It has no humor and cannot encompass the true human condition, including tragedy.
Bodacious: meaning bold and brave. The actual queen Bodacia (sp?) led a successful rebellion against Rome in England but eventually the Roman’s trapped and slaughtered her and her army. History is not conducive to one word summaries.
*De-lurks*
This is about the only place I can think of where the denizens might know what I’m looking for. There was a quote, a “law” (sort of a sociological theory) that went something like this:
“The more comfortable societies become, the more humans amplify trivial concerns to maintain a sense of belonging.”
I’m sure that’s a hack job, but that’s the gist of it. All of my searches for ______’s Law have yielded nothing. Help?
There was a quote, a “law” (sort of a sociological theory) that went something like this:
https://youtu.be/p7hE2Aa9lGY
“Somewhat related.”
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.
The beauty of a mahi can only be truly seen in the water when it is lit up in pursuit mode and is really almost fluorescent (and then only briefly). Simulations only give an approximation, but here is one.
I don’t think people complain to enhance belonging. I think it is simply from lack of context in their lives. For example, if you have never slept on the ground (camping) or on the floor (where you passed out or from lack of a bed) then you can easily find fault with the bed you have. Our urban lives are so comfy that we have lost all tolerance for delay, lack of gratification, discomfort, and hardship. In college I rode my bike in all weather, slept on the floor (well, a couple of blankets under me), and could not afford movies or a car. This has been very good for me over the years, because I have a baseline that is not instant gratification and ease.
As I said, I’m sure I butchered the quote.
Ah well.
*re-lurk*
Summon the worms
A crowbar stuck in the ground and connected to the mains works exceedingly well.
It must be the hertz…
In college I rode my bike in all weather, slept on the floor (well, a couple of blankets under me), and could not afford movies or a car. This has been very good for me over the years, because I have a baseline that is not instant gratification and ease.
Every day…ok, I lie…not EVERY day…I thank the Lord above that I no longer need to shove all my laundry into a not-enough-ply bag to be delicately balanced on the back of my bike for a ride to the laundromat. Though my senior year there was a Cue-and-Brew next to the laundromat that made it somewhat more rewarding. Except for the ride home.
uncrossable
The consternation, ongoing intense discussion plus obvious fretting about dipping one’s feet in a 1/2 inch of water is . . . too funny? Too sad? I can’t decide. I feel sorry for those kids/adults (I can’t tell).
Stratford Festival says hold my beer.
Really? A black woman. Wow. Daring. Is she a lesbian? Trans? Disabled? Polyamorous?
They checked like, two boxes out of a possible twenty.
This is 2022, my friend, you’ve got a put a lot more effort into it than that.
Joan…
I strongly recommend Mark Twain’s “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc” if you want to get a feeling for who this girl was.
…Mark Twain’s “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc”…
At Archive.org for anyone interested.
Farnsworth, Fred — nice find, reading it now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE comes to mind.
Even though I do have stories of sucking it down a bit while in the military, I am loath to trot them out since I’ve never been shot at to my knowledge. I just imagine the sucky bits that I went though with the added layer of people trying very hard to kill me in ways that I couldn’t ignore to realize, once again, that the ocean of suck has no bottom.
Mr Smoth, the female-wannabe…I am not sure this is a shit test. I think these creatures really embrace themselves–they are so profoundly deluded that they see themselves differently than we see them. The opposite of the anorexic who looks in the mirror and sees a fat girl. This man looks at his selfie and sees the woman he has to see himself as in order to achieve sexual gratification.
A shit test would mean that he KNOWS he isn’t a credible female. But the whole impetus behind these men is their absolute need to see themselves–and be seen by others–as women. They can’t get their rocks off otherwise.
Mockery is the best antidote. But only if one is armed. These men are truly dangerous.
So it’s okay to misgender people now?
That.
That.
Perhaps we’re supposed to pretend that Joan of Arc, a woman who referred to herself as “Joan the maiden,” wasn’t a woman at all, and is somehow interchangeable with, say, Eddie Izzard, who is also not a woman. It’s a little confusing. Though the idea of Eddie Izzard playing Joan of Arc is not entirely without comedic potential.
I wonder if Eddie ever reflects on the high political offices held by the likes of Rear Admiral Rachel Levine and “drag queen and LGBTQ+ activist Sam Brinton – hired to a top level position at the DOE” and considers crossing the pond before he loses his good looks.
After all if labour took him seriously he’d be on an all-woman shortlist for a safe seat quicker than you could say Jack Dromey.
Bodacious: meaning bold and brave. The actual queen Bodacia (sp?) led a successful rebellion against Rome in England
ccscientist: I think the word “bodacious”, being an Americanism, came from a portmanteau of “bold” and “audacious”, not the rebel leader Boudica.
considers crossing the pond
Yeah…don’t be pushing crazy over here. We’re full up.
I am not sure this is a shit test. I think these creatures really embrace themselves–they are so profoundly deluded that they see themselves differently than we see them.
This. There is, and has been for quite some time, a real danger in not taking these people seriously. Not that they ARE serious people, that they are a very serious threat. Most of the people in western civilization these days are stupid enough to go along with this crap. You or I on an individual basis may not be threatened by these people individually, but we are most certainly in danger, our children are in danger, our wives and female relatives are in danger by what the stupid people in large groups are willing to submit to. Calling this stuff a shit test is whistling past the graveyard.
In other news, I’m just going to leave this here.
“So it’s okay to misgender people now?”
It seems to be actively required if they’re historically significant and no longer around to tell you not to be so f****n’ stupid. It’s the 21st Century version of saying that Shakespeare was too dumb to write his plays and sonnets. It attracts attention and annoys people, which appears to be all that some folk live for.
@gmmay70: try asking that question as an OT at Tim Worstall’s blog.
I have a feeling it’s likely that someone there will know.
It’s the 21st Century version of saying that Shakespeare was too dumb to write his plays and sonnets.
It seems to me that the grafting on of modish transgender ideology – effectively, a de-sexing – is rather at odds with the common resonance of the story, i.e., of a young woman who defied the gender norms of her time, at a pivotal moment, and was punished for it, quite dramatically. Framing her actions as a product of not actually being a woman at all seems a little opportunistic. Tin-eared. One might say perverse.
George Takei on non-consensual sex.
Salman Rushdie stabbing: I’m seeing lots of false-equivalence rhetoric on the internet: We mustn’t judge “all Muslims”. There are bad Christians too. Muslims share a lot of our values. Watch out or “we’ll become like them”. And so on.
Salman Rushdie stabbing
The West surrendered back in 1989. When Islam announced openly that they were projecting their rule of law into western civilization and the West effectively accepted it. The intervening years have just been procrastination.
“Trans ” hot take.
IOW, the only difference between an ersatz woman and a real one is all the sexual characteristics that make men and women different, but other than that and the whole chromosome thing…
Good Lord. What is the average IQ of the residents of this Bedford-Stuyvesant welfare housing complex?
The West surrendered back in 1989.
Muslims learned that it was very easy to manipulate Western liberals and leftists: Just complain about “Islamophobia”.
the common resonance of the story, i.e., of a young woman who defied the gender norms of her time, at a pivotal moment, and was punished for it, quite dramatically
Framing it that way already cedes the narrative: that Joan’s story is about gender norms. It isn’t. It’s about the clash of faith with politics, and how as long as she was politically useful as a way to get the peasantry behind le Dauphin she was indulged, and as soon as she became a political liability she had to be destroyed. The “burned at the stake for wearing pants” thing was just an excuse; they needed a religious charge to destroy her popularity as a prophet. If they could have got her on picking her nose in church, they would have.
A decolonized transport system.
What if it is a queer, trans, disabled yte?
“Trans ” hot take.
This link goes back to David’s main page.
This link goes back to David’s main page.
WTF – OK, Take 2 “Trans” hot take.
Elizabeth I, we hardly knew ye, the “academics” at the Globe theatre are at it again.
The “burned at the stake for wearing pants” thing was just an excuse; they needed a religious charge to destroy her popularity as a prophet.
Yes.
Elizabeth I, we hardly knew ye, the “academics” at the Globe theatre are at it again.
A few years ago, I saw a documentary based on this conceit. It had a lot of padding due to the lack of evidence. And again, the titillating idea – the one that some would very much like to believe – seems to be that if a female historical figure was in some way bold or at odds with custom and authority, then she can’t have been a woman at all.
I don’t often find myself in alignment with feminists, but with this kind of thing, the irritation is easy to grasp.
Good Lord. What is the average IQ of the residents of this Bedford-Stuyvesant welfare housing complex?
Listening to the audio they weren’t speaking in a dialect I immediately associate with born and bred New Yorkers. There may be an “origin story” factor at work here.
I subsequently recalled the lyrics of the rather likeable 1970’s disco ballad by Odyssey:-
“You should know the score by now.
You’re a native New Yorker”
I’m just going to leave this here.
What is the average IQ of …?
Not entirely unrelated: Homicide Suspect Ends Up Arrested After Calling Cops About Cold McDonald’s French Fries.
It’s not that long and definitely worth watching to the end.
likeable 1970’s disco ballad
Words not often uttered round these parts.
Homicide Suspect Ends Up Arrested After Calling Cops About Cold McDonald’s French Fries.
I think it may be the fact that he taps his head and announces his own smartness, all evidence to the contrary. Or maybe it’s the squealing at the end.
And again, as mentioned upthread, the narcissistic audacity.
It had a lot of padding due to the lack of evidence
One of the reasons I stopped at a history minor was the realization that the vast majority of 20th century scholarship was just plain making sh*t up. The race and gender nonsense is particularly pernicious, but back in the 1990s I read multiple academic texts that supposed – in the “hey, what if…” sense – something, and then proceeded to fill hundreds of pages with conclusions based on a complete ass-pull of a hypothesis. It’s the consequence of “publish or perish” and the fact that adding to the corpus of pre-late modern history is extremely expensive and time-consuming. So silly papers about Queen Elizabob with no actual documentary support are sadly par for the course.
the “academics” at the Globe theatre are at it again
The sad thing is that they used to do great work. In 2013 or so they decided to perform some Shakespeare in Elizabethan English for historical authenticity and discovered that even the serious historical plays are absolutely riddled with filthy puns. Like, every stanza.