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.
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’..?