Friday Ephemera
The price of happiness. || Postmodern Pong. || Paragliding DJ. || The ideal male body. || Logo of note. || Have you licked your eyes today? || Clearly, his are way stretchier than yours. || The thrill of waxing (or, One Man’s Woes). || Nook-dweller detected. || When autogynephile men get off in ladies’ bathrooms. (Not, needless to say, suitable for work). || And nobody helps. || I’m not entirely sure what’s happening here. || Posh pad. Hit ‘walkthrough’ and turn left. (h/t, Julia) || The joys of public transport, part 4,868. || “It’s time to talk about my pronouns.” Because she’s just so damn fascinating. || The progressive retail experience, parts 440, 441, 442, and 443. || Only recruiting the cream. (h/t, pst314) || A cat’s conscience is at best intermittent. || First contact. || And finally, how Marvel shat the bed – one woman’s point of view.
Also, I now have a Twitter account.
I do believe that individual did not seek out a Muslim owned petrol station. Odd that.
You reminded me of this 2020 rant from a black woman enraged that store owners were protecting their property from looters. A common attitude among “African Americans” and white liberal shites.
Took me a minute to realize that was to be read as “…
I blame hoarders at Oxford for the ongoing shortage of commas.
I thought you had the tarpaulins down permanently for the benefit of the henchlesbians.
No, for the benefit of the janitor who must clean up the blood after the henchlesbians are finished.
‘So when you say ‘Mumbai’, in a sense you accept and adopt their agenda whether you know it or not.’ –there are lots of things like that. Take BLM (please): the simplistic black lives matter phrase that whites can’t not agree with, hides organizing riots, unaccounted for millions in donations, communist goals including eliminating the family, complete alignment with the Democrats, etc. Even organized cop killing a few years back.
“inuit”: do all eskimos agree with the phrase? No. It is like the removal of indian names from sports teams–many indians oppose removal, recognizing that they are being erased. The indian maiden on the butter box (“Land ‘o Lakes?”) wasn’t even derogatory. To oppose things that used the old word from before the word change is…nuts.
Too bad some nearby customer didn’t start hosing down those a**hole with gas while loudly calling for a match.
There is a clip out there on the interwebs of someone doing just that to three sc*mbags attempting to car jack him while he’s filling up. It’s amazing because it seems like an automatic action. He’s pumping gas, three dirtballs walk up to him, he knows immediately what’s up and pulls the hose out of the car and starts soaking. When they cop to what’s happened they immediately run away. It’s quite the enjoyable few seconds of video.
To oppose things that used the old word from before the word change is…nuts.
Not at all unrelated…
One for the ladies.
Also not entirely unrelated to either topic, Queue up, gentlemen.
I blame hoarders at Oxford for the ongoing shortage of commas.
They were stolen and flipped upside down by the teachers union.
Queue up, gentlemen.
His placard reads “Transphobia kills.” A more honest placard might read, “Dysmorphia like mine is very often a consequence of some horrific childhood experience, typically molestation, that makes me want to kill myself. The dysmorphia also makes me tragically unhappy – just look at the state of me – and I therefore still struggle with suicidal thoughts. This is somehow your fault.”
Though admittedly, you’d need quite a big placard.
I smell a rat in this wiki description… I have not been able to find what the exact requirements are for a degree in “nuclear engineering, technology and policy”. The “technology and policy” thing seems like a stretch and I was not able to find the requirements/courses for that specific degree at MIT. Repeated searches with modified terms brought up degrees without the “policy” context along with numerous links to two specific individuals. Might anyone here know what that degree entails?
Cream of the crop recruits: Wait until you see who is recruited to join the 87,000 armed IRS agents.
“A little out of my comfort zone” – Funny, but it doesn’t look like it’s out of its comfort zone. Not by a whisker’s width.
Also not entirely unrelated to either topic, Queue up, gentlemen.
Never miss an opportunity to look at such people with open expressions of incredulity and disdain.
Wait until you see who is recruited to join the 87,000 armed IRS agents.
When you are living in a Cargo Cult, such trivial matters are simply not contemplated.
Wait until you see who is recruited to join the 87,000 armed IRS agents.
Joe Swanson and the Flying Karen Squad.
The expiry date is September 2013.
Well matured then and suitable for baking baguette a l’ancienne
I blame hoarders at Oxford for the ongoing shortage of commas.
They were stolen and flipped upside down by the teachers union.
The green’grocers were there first
Lesbians removed from Pride parade.
[goes to kitchen to fix popcorn]
Kevin Williamson is a pompous ass. And like many of his ilk, clueless about the definition of “fascism”.
Whatever you feel about Shiv Sena (essentially similar to SNP, and share the same traits), arguably the main Congress party was closer to being a “fascist” party (incestuos links to media /corporates, practically one party state for a long time)
Multiple Indian cities were renamed, not just Mumbai, and the reasons are not as complicated as he puts it. Various political parties replaced colonial era Anglicised names with original India names. That was it.
Some Indians like me were opposed just because it was pointless and diverted attention from the govt’s performance (or lack of it, which was the idea).
And he is very, very wrong about words. Action matters. Laws matter. Actual violence matters. Much more so than words. And that’s the problem with the West’s academia, press etc – that order has been reversed.
The West was happy supplying massive arms aid, diplomatic support (in the middle of the Bdesh genocide) or set up terror camps for the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC of Pakistan – where minorities were exterminated and the few (1%) remaining treated as subhuman. By law.
And you are worried about evil Yindoos apparently upsetting Muslim feelings by renaming Bombay Mumbai…a city with flourishing minorities such as Parsi, Jains, etc…
What the hell is wrong with you?
The green’grocers were there first
[ Pratchett reader detected. ]
And he is very, very wrong about words. Action matters. Laws matter. Actual violence matters. Much more so than words. And that’s the problem with the West’s academia, press etc – that order has been reversed.
This. In spades.
Kevin Williamson is…like many of his ilk, clueless about the definition of “fascism”.
Please explain: How does he define it, and how is he wrong? And who else do you feel are his ilk?
Shiv Sena (essentially similar to SNP
I think most of David’s readers do not hold the SNP in high regard, and regard it as at least somewhat fascistic.
replaced colonial era Anglicised names with original India names.
My understanding is that “Bombay” derives from a Portuguese name, and was then adopted and mutated by various Indian ethnic groups, much as Italian names have been Anglicized in the past.
And he is very, very wrong about words. Action matters…
Where does he say that actions do not matter? Or that words matter more than actions? Did I give up too soon on that very long talk?
The West was happy supplying massive arms aid…
Not sure why you are ranting to us about events of 50 years ago, and policies that were enacted by people who are now nearly all dead. I was mere child at the time and little awareness and less understanding of world events, especially those in cultures so different from my own. As for condemning a monolithic “the West”, are you sure Western opinion was so uniform?
And you are worried about evil Yindoos…
I’m not as worried and upset as you imply, and I think you are reading far too much into what has been said in this thread.
However, I have on rare occasion read about fascistic anti-Christian incitement and mob violence, anti-Muslim ditto, anti-Hindu ditto, and so on, so it would seem that a perfect multiculturalism has not been achieved. (And in fact that is not surprising, since multiculturalism means differing traditions and mores, and differing means conflicting.)
What the hell is wrong with you?
Calm down.
Hosing thugs down with gas…
Unfortunately, here in California this is difficult or impossible, due to the vapor recovery nozzle design. It cuts off gas flow if the nozzle is not well-seated in the fill pipe.
Another downside of the California nanny culture.
And he is very, very wrong about words. Action matters. Laws matter. Actual violence matters.
Words are no more divorced from the circumstances in which they are produced and the consequent influence or impact they have on all who hear or read them than a fist launched directly into someone’s face is divorced from the circumstances that takes place in.
Also, Wikipedia, not the best source I know, but still, they have this in their page on Shiv Sena:
In January 2016, the Shiv Sena demanded that the words “secular” and “socialist” be “permanently removed” from the Constitution’s Preamble which were added in the 42nd amendment during the emergency
You can offer a correction if you like, obviously, but assuming that Wikipedia is correct here – is that a case of words, or actions, or laws?
Surely it’s all three, which was pretty much the point I made at the start of this reply.
Besides …
Kevin Williamson is a pompous ass … What the hell is wrong with you?
I could rest my case right here to be frank.
The passionate indignation Williams’s comments have provoked in you quite clearly demonstrate that words are not somehow separated off from action.
But there’s one more thing I’d like to point out:
And you are worried about evil Yindoos apparently upsetting Muslim feelings …
The extract from the speech lists six groups that he suggests Shiv Sena wanted to give the finger to: (1) “the national government”, (2) “religious minorities”, (3) “ethnic minorities”, (4) “linguistic minorities”, (5) “foreigners” and then finally (6) “Muslims”.
Now, true enough, he does say “especially to Muslims”, but then again, he was talking about the early 1990s. Since Williamson was born in 1972 he probably arrived in Bombay around 1993 or 1994 at a guess which means he arrived there very shortly after quite serious sectarian violence in which around 1,000 people were killed.
Not only that, but he says absolutely nothing whatsoever about “Yindoos”, evil or otherwise.
And you are worried about evil Yindoos apparently upsetting Muslim feelings …
Could our commenter be upset due to misunderstanding earlier comments about Dindoos?
I notice that one of the snack mixes that I enjoy is still called “Bombay mix”.
Bombay Gin has not changed names, either. Not that I’m a gin-drinker. At least not yet, although a sufficient increase in political chaos could change that….
Unfortunately, here in California this is difficult or impossible
Would a full-auto bb gun be legal? 😀
People who live in the nation-state of India may name their cities as they wish. Citizens of other nation-states may have their own names for those cities.
Don’t know much about Bombay. Don’t know much about Hindu nationalism. Don’t know much about Shiv Sena.
I do know some about Kevin Williamson and neither he nor his magazine impress me much. And I do know NR puts way, way too much emphasis on words and very little on actions. Except that those actions should be taken by somebody else. This is a big reason for Western civilization’s fall. They think other civilizations put the same degree of emphasis on words over actions that they do. Words are a means to an end. Simple fact of life. I don’t like saying it, and up until fairly recently, at least within the legal context of Western civilization, I could accept the importance of words. But in a world where the word ‘literally’ does not literally mean ‘literally’ (yes that is flippant…it is also simultaneously very relevant) only a fool continues to play by his enemies’ rules. At least when engaging with his enemies. And now the West, for various reasons, has many enemies within.
Citizens of other nation-states may have their own names for those cities.
Where my Munich/Munchen German folk at? Japan/Nippon? Artists formerly known as Prince? United States of Amerigo? Great Albion?
Citizens of other nation-states may have their own names for those cities.
Take me back to Constantinople
No, you can’t go back to Constantinople
Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks’
Words: There is a tendency today in the US (only place I can speak for) to think words are reality. You can just say no to fossil fuels and this “no” will magically save the planet–no tough problems to solve of wind that stops blowing or lack of batteries. We can just put a BLM sign on our lawn and the achievement gap will vanish. We can change the names of sports teams and native americans will do better.
Words are a means to an end. Simple fact of life. … But in a world where the word ‘literally’ does not literally mean ‘literally’ …
I don’t know much about Williamson either and for the record know even less about the National Review and I also appreciate that what you were getting at is something other than what I’m about to pick up on, but …
If it’s a fact of life that words are means to an end, then why would you take exception to people using “the word ‘literally'” when it “does not literally mean ‘literally'”?
Surely if words are a means to an end, then anything that gets the job done – whatever that job happens to be at the time – should do, shouldn’t it?
If my friend wants to let me know that she is looking forward to dinner and on the way to the restaurant says “I’m literally starving right now!”, hasn’t she used words as the means to an end (the end being to impress on me that she is hungry and really, really looking forward to dinner)?
Words. Because people read and are otherwise exposed to too much fiction. There’s a point at which it became very creepy to me how the number of people I know would spout movie lines or make similar pop culture style references, most of which are based on fiction, to a point where their own personalities start to disappear. Not just teenagers, adults who never grew up do this. In some instances, some even insist that movies loosely based on fact, which have become so infused with fiction “for the betterment of the story”, the story is to them having superior fact to the actual facts. Never in history have so many people had so much of their free time consumed with fiction. Many people never actually do anything real. And I don’t mean just Hollywood types or writers. The schools are thick with histories that someone got from someone else who said they saw…whatever. The law at this point is becoming consumed with a reality that ultimately will collapse, but until then, it’s the law. And it’s fiction.
then why would you take exception to people using “the word ‘literally'” when it “does not literally mean ‘literally'”?
Yes. That’s my point. If words such as ‘literally’ are meaningless, even internally what is the point of sticking to them? Amongst friends they have meaning. Amongst enemies, no. And the enemies are accumulating internally. Maybe talking past each other here. Possibly my bad as chaos going on around here…
Take me back to Judenstrasse
No, you can’t go back to Judenstrasse
Now it’s Berlinstrasse, not Judenstrasse
Why is Judenstrasse on the outs?
That’s nobody’s business but the Krauts.
One could make a similar parody singing about “disappeared” Jewish neighborhoods in numerous Arab countries.
We can just put a BLM sign on our lawn and the achievement gap will vanish.
It is virtually impossible to have a sane, honest conversation about this with liberals. Not just with leftists. Endless denial of well established facts.
A nicely done political statement:
Who remembers Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schiltter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumeraber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?
Who remembers
John-Jacob Jinglehiemer-Schmidt? Because his name is my name too. Of course, you can call meRay, or you an call me Jay…
John-Jacob Jinglehiemer-Schmidt
Cripes, I must’ve heard that 5 billion times since my son was a Barney fan.
Some more follow-up to the thesis that masturbating to Japanese porn constitutes research.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/masturbation-journal-paper-exposes-deeper-problems-research
Cripes, I must’ve heard that 5 billion times since my son was a Barney fan.
Dunno about Barney, but it was very popular when I was a young Scout.
and white liberal shites.
I read that as “shiites” and was going to ask if there were any white liberal sunnis. ;-p
In January 2016, the Shiv Sena demanded that the words “secular” and “socialist” be “permanently removed” from the Constitution’s Preamble
I like these guys more with each passing post.
misunderstanding earlier comments about Dindoos?
He Yindoo Nuffin.
Citizens of other nation-states may have their own names for those cities.
Leningrad was once St. Piotrsburg
No, you can’t go back to old St. Piotrsburg
Now it’s Leningrad not old St. Piotrsburg
How come all the priests are dead?
That’s no one’s business but the Reds
why would you take exception to people using “the word ‘literally'” when it “does not literally mean ‘literally'”?
Blah blah Humpty Dumpty blah blah whatever I choose it to mean. Don’t be disingenuous.
If my friend wants to let me know that she is looking forward to dinner and on the way to the restaurant says “I’m literally starving right now!”
Then she’s eating by herself because I’m not subjecting myself to any more airheaded milleniallettes, thank you. And take those stupid glasses off, girl, they’re not even prescription.
the number of people I know would spout movie lines […] to a point where their own personalities start to disappear
Increasingly “F/SF fan” means “watches a lot of movies”. Even Harry Potter, which despite being weapons-grade bad writing got an entire generation of kids to read books that make Dune look like a trifold pamphlet, has increasingly become about the movies. The majority of people under 25 I know who call themselves “huge HP fans” have never read the books.
I have a friend I game with who seems to be incapable of communicating except through TV/movie quotes. As a lark I bet him $20 once he couldn’t go an entire game night without uttering a single quote. He won, but he barely said three words all evening.
London was once English
No, you can’t go back to old London
Not ever
Yes. That’s my point. If words such as ‘literally’ are meaningless, even internally what is the point of sticking to them?
I assure you I’m not trying to provoke you, but you seem to me at least to be contradicting yourself.
Either you hold that words are a means to an end and nothing more (“Words are a means to an end. Simple fact of life.”) or you hold that each word has a precise and particular meaning and usage that is immediately noticeable when misused (“If words such as ‘literally’ are meaningless, even internally what is the point of sticking to them?”).
I don’t see how you can hold that both of these are true at the same time as they are saying quite different things from one another.
If I need to get a nail into a piece of wood, but don’t have a hammer, I can maybe make do with another heavy metal object, a skillet say.
That’s equivalent to words being a means to an end – whatever I have to hand that does the job will do and the only judgment worth having is the end result, not how you got there.
If on the other hand I insist that only a hammer will do, and that it has to be a very particular type of hammer has to be used to get that nail into the piece of wood, then I am very clearly someone who does not believe that the hammer is just a means to an end – the hammer is as much a part of the end as getting that nail into that piece of wood.
That’s why it looks like there’s a contradiction in what you’re saying.
Excuse me, all, I’m between my first and second sleep. Just posting this to find out what time it is as Greenwich.
7:59, got it. Thanks, g’night.
*at
Just posting this to find out what time it is at Greenwich.
I’d wondered whether the time displayed under comments was local to me, i.e., God’s Own Time, or local to you, i.e., heathen rabble time.
I’m glad that’s cleared up.
How to deal with pronoun police:
https://twitter.com/Random_Terrain/status/1557589053532413952?t=ksP46qKYq2WaDdHhfhwUxA&s=19