Friday Ephemera

used the word “tranny” in reference to an auto transmission
Tranny fluid by law must be treated as hazardous waste.

One for the ladies.

Still, they have far more important things to be doing…
I’m about 30 minutes into the latter youtube video “Arrested for a meme” and I had to stop here at the 24:07 mark where Harry Miller, in response to the question “how did we get here?” muses that he thinks the start begins with the oath UK LEOs take changing in 2002 from an oath ” To keep the Queen’s peace and uphold the law” to “keep the Queen’s peace, uphold the law and human rights“. As Miller further says

Hold on a minute. That’s sounds good, but why do we need to have this addition of “and human rights” in the oath? What’s wrong with simply “the law” because if there’s a human right, that if the human right is within the law then we don’t need to say “and human rights” — and if the human rights are outside the law, then, by definition, it’s contested and it’s therefore political.

This is where the UK is and where the US may be headed, that “human rights organizations” have the power to see extrajudicial actions taken against their ideological enemies via state agents.
Hence, police at your door for causing an unknown victim “anxiety”.

I’m not sure if it’s the gyrations or what appears to be a complete lack of body hair that’s more disturbing.
[ Puts down tarpaulin in case of womanly juices. ]

The Other Half has been rummaging, for quite some time, in a small, little-used kitchen cupboard. He was digging deep, apparently in search of hidden treats. At one point I feared he would end up in Narnia. He emerged, eventually, clutching a bag of flour. The expiry date is September 2013.

Speaking, as we often do, of arrogant fucking narcissists.
Too bad some nearby customer didn’t start hosing down those a**hole with gas while loudly calling for a match.

The Critical Drinker from three years ago.
But can it really be him? He didn’t finish by telling us “now go away.”

He emerged, eventually, clutching a bag of flour. The expiry date is September 2013.
Been there. Moved last year and found some interesting things. One cupboard shelf was filled with items expired in 2001. I think it was our Y2K stash.

At one point I feared he would end up in Narnia. He emerged, eventually, clutching a bag of flour
Still better than anything Guy Kay ever wrote.
But can it really be him?
It’s been fun watching him refine the persona and the style over time. There’s a WWII/military history YouTuber named Lazerpig who’s aping the style with enough of his own flair to be amusing.
Now I wonder what Yahtzee’s been up to in the five years since I watched any of the Zero Punctuation videos.

“The primary mission of the university should be ‘social justice’.” I kind of wish that Harlan Ellison were still alive, just so he could get canceled and humiliated by the offspring of the deranged leftist “make education relevant” campaign that he so loudly supported.

“One for the Ladies”
Speedo called, they want their suit back…..dry cleaned

It’s official. The White House has declared me and, at least, 74 million other 2020 voters, per definition,“fascist” and the “enemies of democracy.”

It’s official. The White House has declared me and, at least, 74 million other 2020 voters, per definition,”fascist” and the “enemies of democracy.”
Shrug. Liberal “friends” have been calling me a fascist for decades. I have only myself to blame for openly advocating for smaller, weaker government.

Shrug. Liberal “friends” have been calling me a fascist for decades.
Sure, I live in CA have endured it for years. But those leftwing acquaintances could, at best, do little more than not send me a Christmas card and gossip about me amongst their friends over white wine spritzers.
But as Sam Harris observed, anything extrajudicial by the state is perfectly warranted when one is dealing with an enemy of the state like Trump.
Such as the latest “oh, look, a leak!” done by the IRS.

Yahtzee’s on the U.S. West coast? And he’s been zombified? Damn.

Black pudding pizza? Here I thought those were shots from the Webb telescope…maybe very dense galaxies (or dark matter!) floating in the foreground of a gigantic red star….

I have only myself to blame for openly advocating for smaller, weaker government.
How Ron DeSantis responded to Charlie Crist calling him a dictator. This is how it is done. Push back, push back hard, and take no prisoners.

I’m an Indian woman
Fascinating. I wonder what region of India, because that’s not a typical Indian accent.
Yahtzee’s on the U.S. West coast? And he’s been zombified? Damn.
He’s always been a typical lefty Brit – his hatred for ps3/360 era FPSes is based mostly on the fact that they’re pro-American military – but now he’s just squeezing in random comments about feeling guilty for playing Pressure Washer Simulator because he lives in California. He’s lost his edge, which all edgy comedians eventually do. It’s just sad he went in such a tediously typical way.

and now inserts typical left coast talking points into every single review.
I can think of several YouTubers whose views on books, films, adaptations, etc., used to be interesting or worth the occasional peek, but who’ve since become faintly aggravating, and less insightful, because of a compulsion to signal their supposedly ‘progressive’ politics at every conceivable opportunity. And so, a game of spotting-the-racism/sexism/thing-we-now-disapprove-of often overshadows more pertinent details and seems to inspire the greatest enthusiasm, if only for the one playing the game. Personally, I find it hard to pretend to be indignant about a science-fiction story written in 1957 using the word Eskimo.

Hence, police at your door for causing an unknown victim “anxiety”.
Being of cynical disposition I suspect the unknown victim is in fact another police officer. Cuts out the middle man and saves time.

I wonder what region of India, because that’s not a typical Indian accent
Daniel, judging by her features and some signs from her accent, most probably North India, Punjab or maybe the large state of Uttar Pradesh.
I suspect most second generation Indians converge towards that kind of “softened” accent. Culturally, for immigrants from India, fitting in with the law/culture etc and learning the language is considered positive. Same kind of thinking that drives the ridiculous spelling bee stats. My own daughter has English as her first language, and she has a “propah” Brit accent that my wife can’t follow!

Isn’t it *all* pretending?
Well, the political signalling introduces an air of bad faith and grating contrivance. To take the example above… Among the general public, at least outside of Canada and Alaska, the term Inuit started to replace Eskimo decades after the book in question was written. (And if memory serves, many of the Yupik still prefer Eskimo as a general term.) But it seems that mere anachronism mustn’t inhibit the tutting and wagging of fingers.

♪♫…a pretty girl is like a melody…♪♫

[ Puts down tarpaulin in case of womanly juices. ]
I thought you had the tarpaulins down permanently for the benefit of the henchlesbians.

…the term Inuit started to replace Eskimo decades after the book in question was written. (And if memory serves, many of the Yupik still prefer Eskimo as a general term.)
Kevin Williamson, whose career in journalism began in Bombay, explaining why he resists subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) attempts to correct his usage from calling the city Bombay, to calling it Mumbai instead:

’So it was the Shiv Sena, when they came to power, who insisted on changing the official name of Bombay to Mumbai and insisted the people used it. And the reason they did that was, one, that’s the Marathi word, but two, it’s also a religious name [for Hindus] … So it’s basically a way for this angry, Fascist political party full of right-wing political zealots to raise their middle finger at the national government and religious minorities, and ethnic minorities, and linguistic minorities, and foreigners, and especially to Muslims.
‘And so of course all the enlightened, sensitive, politically correct people in the West now adopt this language [i.e. Mumbai for Bombay] because, you know, we want to be nice.
‘So when you say ‘Mumbai’, in a sense you accept and adopt their agenda whether you know it or not.’