Friday Ephemera
A good nose. || Dinner and a show. || The spread of dumplings. || He does this better than you do. || And she does this better than you do. || Meme density. || Discussing TV. || Temporal anomaly detected. (h/t, Tim) || Speaking, as we were, of Scientific American. || A point is made. || What CPR does. || Paedophile Pride, you say. || And of course we mustn’t forget the terribly put-upon animal-shaggers. || Incoming. (h/t, Perry) || Inevitable, I suppose. || The thrill of houseplants. || Hiring decision of note. || “Gender–affirming surgery,” you say? || In our brave, progressive tomorrow, white devils will be laid off first. || Not commissioned, just a fan. || From charcoal and water. || And finally, for adventurous motorists, another what-if scenario.
Also, I now have a Twitter account.
This 2-day time lapse shows the so called plants’ nastic movements, mostly due to changes in turgor or changes in growth
My turgor changed just watching that.
“Hiring decision of note.”
I used to think the SNP were harmless cranks who, however wacky, at least couldn’t be any worse than the Lanarkshire Labour mafia. Poor, deluded, fool that I was…
“And finally, for adventurous motorists, another what-if scenario.”
Heheh! I should really get a hold of BeamNG. It looks right up my street. If you’ll pardon the expression.
Another animal-shagger?
I used to think the SNP were harmless cranks
I don’t follow UK politics all that carefully, but for some years I’ve been getting the impression that the SNP has strong fascist tendencies. Maybe the above link should amend that to strong schizo fascist tendencies.
The spread of dumplings.
We were just talking about kreplachs.
“Gender-affirming surgery,” you say?
Every. Damn. Time. And notice the effort the article goes to to avoid using any pronouns, which I suppose is the next step.
another what-if scenario
Burnout Paradise 2 is looking a little rough, if I’m honest.
houseplants
Thank you, David, that was turgor-nastic.
A point is made.
Ouch. Looked like a car crash.
Morning, all.
Ouch. Looked like a car crash.
I suppose some girls haven’t rough-housed with brothers of the same age and so have no idea.
And notice the effort the article goes to to avoid using any pronouns,
It is faintly irritating. Somewhat related.
Every. Damn. Time.
When you know what to look for, it does crop up an awful lot. But remember, we must always affirm and enable, and rush to drug and mutilate.
Incoming.
Holy crap.
“The thrill of houseplants.”
Oooh, I love that purple one! Must look up what it is.
Holy crap.
If nothing else, it’ll have been a tale to tell the wife. “You will not believe what happened to me on the way back from Tesco…”
“Yes, dear, that’s nice. But where’s the bloody shopping?”
Hiring decision of note.
*scrolls down to photo*
*looks at David*
Looks like Marvel’s bed-shitting is continuing much as expected.
Heh.
The WotW illustrations are great.
Looks like Marvel’s bed-shitting is continuing much as expected.
I think this might be an example of what they call ‘‘reaching’..
In other news, surprisingly, The Guardian‘s 4-star review is probably the best thing Lucy Mangan has ever written.
The way she seems to be desperately messaging the reader as to what she actually thinks about it through the overstuffed lines bulking out the surface look like a masterclass in how to communicate in public without attracting the attention of Soviet-like censors.
Covid craziness in China:
https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189358/coronavirus-bizarre-clip-medical-workers-testing?module=AI_Recommended_for_you_In-house&pgtype=homepage
Only accept vaccinated fish ‘n chips
Marvel’s bed-shitting
In a slightly longer clip of the same scene, her diatribe ends with her turning green, then bursting out into She-Hulk form, which suggests that at some point during the production process that monologue was intended to be a set-up for an ironic pay-off.
But it goes on so long that it comes across more as the director had dozed off during the scene, only to be poked with a stick to be reminded it was supposed to be a comedy.
I think this might be an example of what they call “reaching”..
Oh dear.
It’s possible, I suppose, that the series overall won’t be quite as bad as it looks, but the clip above isn’t good writing. And yet it’s clearly presented as if it were. Other clips I’ve seen – also selected by the studio – were likewise underwhelming. I should point out I haven’t watched the thing – because the trailers, interviews, etc., gave me no reason to do so. I think the shift from ‘don’t care’ to ‘firm no’ when was when the writer and director were being asked about the rushed and shoddy CGI – and their response was to complain about sexism and how men objectify women’s bodies, or something to that effect.
I think this might be an example of what they call “reaching”..
It sounds like a million other feminist memes. Like they just transcribed a meme library instead of actually writing the script.
Like they just transcribed a meme library instead of actually writing the script.
It is rather like a regurgitated ideological furball. I’m guessing it’s supposed to come across as pointed and powerful, but it’s just hackneyed and grating. Cringeworthy. It makes you dislike the lead character, which isn’t ideal.
Looks like Marvel’s bed-shitting is continuing much as expected.
Someone should tell IMDB they’ve accidentally uploaded a video of a Feminist Studies lecture rather than something entertaining.
A point is made. || What CPR does.
I see what you did there.
It’s possible, I suppose, that the series overall won’t be quite as bad as it looks
It really isn’t…
Cats and dogs.
Nothing in this man’s facial tattoos and body mutilations suggests that he might be insane.
Looks like Marvel’s bed-shitting is continuing much as expected.
“I can control my anger”, 30 minute diatribe ensues. OK. Seriously, this is nothing other than a repackaging of Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, but it looks like with worse acting.
Only accept vaccinated fish ‘n chips
Wouldn’t have to if we could get those little bastards to keep their damn masks on.
Cats and dogs.
Stupid dog, cat knew the thing had the coof and was isolating from the the one in the bowl and trying to get its mask on, now they are both infected.
It really isn’t…
It’s remarkably how quickly and widely Marvel has managed to sour its own brand and repel a huge chunk of its audience. The incompetence and bizarre misjudgements are quite something.
Wouldn’t have to if we could get those little bastards to keep their damn masks on.
Which would also apply to Scottish choirs, apparently.
Presumably the Philadelphia Orchestra’s brass and woodwind sections will be performing in a different building, well away from the strings. Or do they insist on masking the *ahem* “bell ends” of said blown instruments?
“Philadelphia Orchestra”, explains a lot right there.
Or do they insist on masking the *ahem* “bell ends” of said blown instruments?
Coronet Condoms…
It is rather like a regurgitated ideological furball.
As we like to say round these here parts, that.
Having left two comments on She Hulk already, a certain kind of person might be forgiven for assuming I’m exactly the kind of man-child incel type currently being blamed for it’s less than smooth reaction.
But I couldn’t care less about that – I’ve seen, maybe just 5 or 6 of what must be 50-odd movies and TV series Marvel has been pumping out and what have seen has left me cold.
Product placement, Starbucks in You’ve Got Mail or Pepsi in Back to the Future and many other examples that can be no doubt cited, is deeply cringeworthy, and draws attention to the fact that you’re seeing a film rather than experiencing a story.
Even when it’s done ironically, it’s still annoying because you know it’s only there because it has to be there and it’s still throwing you back into the world you’re trying to escape from by watching the bloody thing in the first place (I think it’s one reason why historical dramas of the recent past are often able to pull it off successfully – they can legitimately be showing you what a Cola bottle or a Hershey bar used to look like as part of the setting or story while actually shilling for the brand).
That scene is product placement except with politics in place of Pepsi.
“Philadelphia Orchestra”, explains a lot right there.
Ah- an oxymoron perhaps? Along with Oldham Athletic, Vauxhall Frontera Sport, Microsoft Works and (my favourite, this) “elegant combover”.
Ah- an oxymoron perhaps?
Not that so much as a hotbed of “progressive” pandemic paranoids.
it’s still throwing you back into the world you’re trying to escape from by watching the bloody thing in the first place… That scene is product placement except with politics in place of Pepsi.
Heh. That. I used to enjoy watching Marvel movies, most of them, for two hours of expensive-looking escapist confection. Sometimes they faded from memory on the way back to the car, but they were generally entertaining while they happened. And some were very good.
But we’ve gone from forgiving an occasional misfire to an expectation that whatever comes next will also be poorly written, misjudged, and littered with the tiresome preoccupations of its leftist writers – preoccupations that alienate half the audience and disrupt any suspension of disbelief – and will therefore be aggravating shite, just like the last three things.
Thing is, Marvel will have quite detailed feedback on, say, its streaming projects and will know exactly when, and therefore why, viewers tuned out. (The clunky sermonising and gratuitous race-baiting in Falcon and the Winter Soldier comes to mind.) And yet, they’ve persisted in making the same mistakes. As if the problem must be the audience, not the writers and their assumptions.
Yet another unique shopping experience.
The YT channel “Call Me Chatto” defends She-Hulk as fulfilling its job of being a sit-com. But despite the title, he’s still pretty tepid about it.
The show reminds me of Rita Mae Brown’s observation: “Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.”
That scene is product placement except with politics in place of Pepsi.
That. 🙂
a hotbed of “progressive” pandemic paranoids.
Oh dear, I read that as “pandemic hemorrhoids”.
Oh dear, I read that as “pandemic hemorrhoids”.
Probably equally apt.
Well.
New For ’22!
The Holocaust was inspired by the Canadian Constitution, the British Columbia government’s take on colonectomy training.
the British Columbia government’s take on colonectomy training
“The horror, the horror.”
Men in women’s sports: advocates for trans in sports ignore how big the strength difference is. Men’s upper body strength is way more. For hand grip strength, I saw data showing that the curves with age for men and women do not even overlap–that is a 65 yr old has less grip strength than when younger but still more than any woman of any age. For punching and throwing, also no overlap. Men have stronger bones and can take a hit. I have tripped and fallen my share of times but never got hurt. Not once. Women slip on the stairs and break their ankle. It is “unfair” but reality is unfair.
The car crashes were intresting in that the supercars are designed for downforce and so start nosediving when there’s no road to stop them going down, good modelling technique in that game, I’ve had my eye on it for a while, might get it now.
Surely the She Hulk clip is actually funny because she complains about someone “mansplaining” her area of expertise when in fact that’s exactly what she’s doing to Hulk?
What do the following have in common: fat pride, pedo pride, trans pride, eliminating valedictorians, removing derogatory terms for criminals? It is that because a priority is that no one feel bad about themselves or their choices, we must remove all standards and the very concept of shame (oh, except that whites and men should feel shame).
pst314: “I don’t follow UK politics all that carefully, but for some years I’ve been getting the impression that the SNP has strong fascist tendencies.”
Well, it was founded in 1936. As I always say, who might have thought a nationalist party would be a good idea in 1936? And, indeed, one of their founders was interred during the war for sympathising with the enemy. Oh, they try to distance themselves from their history now – how much they really mean it is debatable, but Sturgeon’s on record as saying that if she was starting from scratch, she wouldn’t even have “National” in the name of the party – and it convinces many (myself, as I said, included at one time), but it’s hard to excise the soul of any political organisation. Just look at the Democrats: their racism may take a different form today (and they may, honestly, be genuine in their abhorrence of the form it used to take), but it hasn’t gone away.
I should have listened to my gran. She always said they reminded her of the Nazis.
“Marvel’s bed-shitting”
In other news…
Looks like Marvel’s bed-shitting is continuing much as expected
For those not following the other news, Warner and Discovery have merged, the new CEO fired the female CEO of Warner and did not replace her, and pretty much everything DC is getting cancelled. The CW is getting sold, DC comics is getting sold, every movie except The Flash and Black Adam are gone (and those two are iffy). This is not unsurprising given the new CEO’s ruthless focus on cost-cutting and profitability. I think the “he hates woke” reaction is overblown; even the “good” DC properties have failed commercially.
As if the problem must be the audience, not the writers and their assumptions
Disney’s stock price is half what it was a year ago. Anything that can’t go on forever, won’t.
ignore how big the strength difference is
Steven Crowder once set up an arm-wrestling match between one of his female co-hosts, Courtney, who did cross-fit and strength training, and his weedy, noodle-armed producer Not Gay Jared[1] who looked like a typical endomorphic millennial.
Wasn’t even close. Jared wasn’t even trying. The only way Courtney got anywhere was bracing her leg against the table and using both arms, which surprised Jared enough he lost ground, but he put actual effort in and forced her back upright.
[1] Who is not gay; I have fulfilled my legal obligations, draw your own conclusions
Marvel: take the greatest money-making machine in world history, and sacrifice it on the alter of woke. Sounds like a sound business decision. Blame Disney. They started this before they acquired Marvel by screwing up the other biggest money maker: Star Wars. For example, the female jedi does not need to learn her craft, or struggle, or make mistakes, like Luke did. She just is suddenly powerful and skilled. FFS. The black guy who escapes the clone is supposed to be a clone of that bounty hunter–so the bad guys in white armor are all black? How….uplifting.
For marvel, the rot started with Captain Marvel, who is suddenly the most powerful superhero but seems unable to confront Thanos. ugh. Her back-story is lame. I’ve quit watching either.
“I had my choice of 67 full ride medical scholarships and I chose yours but I didn’t pass the exams so now I’m suing“.
For example, the female jedi does not need to learn her craft, or struggle, or make mistakes, like Luke did. She just is suddenly powerful and skilled.
Sort of like a black college student.
Find the duck!
She just is suddenly powerful and skilled
Entertainment aimed at men is the Hero’s Journey; entertainment aimed at women is Cinderella.
This is why citizens need rifles…with large magazines.
I think this might be an example of what they call ”reaching’..
Oh, for pity’s sake — no male born after the 70s has ever escaped that “conversation”.
I think it would be easier not to interact at all, madam.
I think it would be easier not to interact at all, madam.
I would demand non-interaction and back up that demand with warnings.
Oh, for pity’s sake — no male born after the 70s has ever escaped that “conversation”.
Indeed. Although after a while I started using such “conversations” as guidelines in deciding which relationships to terminate. Although ironically the most annoying such conversation was not with a feminist “explaining” politics but rather an English major feminist attempting to instruct me regarding the current state of theoretical physics after she took one “physics for poets” class (in spite of me reminding her that I have a degree in the field.) Simultaneously annoying and comical.
I think it would be easier not to interact at all, madam.
Golf Foxtrot Yankee, lady.
I’m more of a Foxtrot Oscar Alpha Delta sort of guy.
JuliaM: it’s oxalis. Your local nursery should be able to find a suitable variety; mine was sold as “oxblood” due to the color.
It is quite lovely and, although Wiki says it grows from corms, I had a lovely pot of the stuff on my back deck for a few years and I found them cropping up around the back yard.
Looks like Marvel’s bed-shitting is continuing much as expected
It looks awful. Who the hell is it made for?
Who the hell is it made for?
Apparently, Fleabag was cited as an inspiration.
it’s oxalis. Your local nursery should be able to find a suitable variety; mine was sold as “oxblood” due to the color.
Sounds like it must be a cultivated version of the weed that grows Bonkers McGoo here in Oz: little yellow flowers, we used to call them ‘sourflowers’ as kids. Very pretty weed.
Devilbunny: ‘it’s oxalis. Your local nursery should be able to find a suitable variety’
Ooh, thanks!
Who the hell is it made for?
The Critical Drinker has thots, sorry, thoughts.
Find the duck!
Marketing opportunity. Proper footwear could improve that sport tremendously.
Find the Duck
Like a really low budget Hunger Games.
I think it would be easier not to interact at all, madam.
What really gets under my skin with these tranny-types and their nasty attitudes is how much it reminds me of the kinds of teachers and administrators from back in my school days whom I, a generally above average student with very few discipline problems, found particularly annoying and disturbing. Almost exclusively women. Seems like the same people found an even more influential angle.
The Critical Drinker has thots, sorry, thoughts.
So she’s a lawyer who specializes in cleaning up after superhero mayhem.
The earliest hint of that sort of idea that I am aware of is in The Incredibles. Is that indeed the first or have there been others?
The earliest hint of that sort of idea that I am aware of is in The Incredibles.
I was never a fan of the comic, but I’m fairly sure She-Hulk was doing it in the 1980s.
I was never a fan of the comic, but I’m fairly sure She-Hulk was doing it in the 1980s.
Thanks, appreciated. I know virtually nothing about any of these comics, having never been a comics reader. My only knowledge of The Incredibles is from the movie, and my only knowledge of Marvel etc is from the few movies I saw some years ago and second-hand from occasional comments by friends, bloggers, etc.
having never been a comics reader.
It was a childhood vice.
Given that Marvel all started as comics, I loved most of the movies: Thor, Xmen, avengers series. It was all held together by Stan Lee who had a wonderful sense of story and humor. When Stan died, it was all downhill for the franchise. It was made worse by the woke fanatics at Disney. The insistence by radical fems that we still live in The Handmaids tale is so nuts. 60% of US college students are female. They dominate med school and all the medical fields. Single young women in cities make more than single men. 98% of workplace fatalities are men. But we are going to tell small boys in school that they are oppressors?
It was a childhood vice.
Related:
“When was the Golden Age of science fiction? The 1940’s? 50’s?”
“Age 12.”
It was a childhood vice.
Well that sent me down a rabbit hole of OT memories, ending in an argument with (* insert Code 9000 reference here*). How someone supposedly intelligent and conservative…”conservative” would equate tax breaks for the entertainment industry with charitable contributions to churches and such….smdh. That was five years ago. Little did even I realize things were fixing to get much, much stupider.
It was all held together by Stan Lee who had a wonderful sense of story and humor.
I have heard that Stan Lee was responsible for significant elevations of the medium, that before him it was horribly formulaic and that he brought better characters and some new ideas. (Emphasis on “have heard”, of course.)
Well that sent me down a rabbit hole of OT memories…
David’s rabbit holes are the best rabbit holes.
Time for Art™, Twerking on Tiptoes.
This, of course, is multiculturalism, and not at all cultural appropriation because wypipo have no culture.
A classic that never gets old.
True?
Time for Art™, Twerking on Tiptoes.
Let those who like such s**t form their own dance companies. I’m tired of demands that existing organizations be radically altered to cater to such people.
Hiring decision of note.
That was her backup plan after her She-Hulk audition failed.
Looks like Marvel’s bed-shitting is continuing much as expected.
Diversity!
https://twitter.com/WeaponizedRage/status/1561050505232764930
So here we are, roughly 48 hours later, 83+ comments in, and nobody has anything to say about Dinner and a show. Needless to say I am quite disappointed with you people.
twerking on tiptoes: is it just me or does it look like she is doing the chicken dance?
Dinner and a show: perfectly normal for 2022. Better than the typical progressive retail experience. Don’t ever tell me that wipeepo can’t do entertainment.
Re: why citizens need rifles.
I would like some kind of “bait” type situation like they do with the bait cars. I can see the doors lock (bullet proof, as are the windows) and a shower of sewage descends from the ceiling for several minutes, followed by a shower of the purple dye that banks use to mark bank robbers.
A special door would allow them to exit one by one, photographed, DNA sampled, and handed a summons.
twerking on tiptoes: is it just me or does it look like she is doing the chicken dance?
Is that how Swan Lake becomes Chicken Lake?
Diversity!*
Empowerment!
*(Among all the other stupidity in that one, why the hell a backwards baseball hat, and why does she look like Laurie Penny?)
nobody has anything to say about Dinner and a show.
Alright.
Like a boss.
Alright.
I got 20 bucks that says that house is in the Atlanta greater metropolitan area, if not actually inside the Fence.
I got 20 bucks that says that house is in the Atlanta greater metropolitan area, if not actually inside the Fence.
My sincerest apologies: I thought I was linking only to the post of the dog saying “Good Lord”.
Yet another dangerous white supremacist with very dark skin.
“It was a childhood vice.”
Quite an unusual one in Blighty, I’d venture to say. Most of us read the Beano. My only exposure to superheroes as a kid was the Adam West Batman, the late ’60s Spider-Man cartoons, and the Christopher Reeve Superman. I’m fairly sure I didn’t even realise that Spider-Man was a comic-book character at the time.
Good God, how could I forget Wonder Woman with Lynda Carter, the standard against whom all women must be judged? I blame the lateness of the hour.
Well, I didn’t see any twerking. I don’t particularly care about ballet, but I’ll opine that those women weren’t doing classical ballet moves. They were, however, doing something that required a bit of training. I’ve never even attempted to stand on my toes as they (or any ballet dancer) have, so I’m loath to throw shit at someone who is able to do something that I would find extremely difficult to do.
Should what they are doing be considered as classical ballet? Probably not.
Should what they are doing be considered as a new potential art form? Probably. You make new shit by combining bits of old shit together.
Would I watch that new art form? It’s even less likely that I would watch that since I have negative interest in watching classical ballet.
YMMV.
Twerking on Tiptoes
Their bums aren’t big enough for proper twerking.
Twerking on Tiptoes.
I know nothing about ballet, but I kind of like it. I mean, I’m not falling out of the chair in amazement or anything, but it’s a twist.
You must become unrealistic.
Regarding which, this seems apposite.
pst314: ’The earliest hint of that sort of idea that I am aware of is in The Incredibles. Is that indeed the first or have there been others?’
Didn’t Marvel have a series called ‘Damage Control’ (a version of which showed up in the recent ‘Ms. Marvel’..?