Reheated (71)
As I expect to be busy over the next few days, some items from the archives.
Urban Studies lecturer bemoans litter inequality, suggests bulldozing homes nicer than his own.
Our postcode class warrior also thinks that “deprived” and “marginalised” communities can be elevated, made less dysfunctional, by “the provision of services… such as… street cleaners.” Meaning more street cleaners, cleaning more frequently. He links to a report fretting about how to “narrow the gap” in litter, how to, “achieve fairer outcomes in street cleanliness.” But neither he nor the authors of said report explore an obvious factor. The words “drop” and “littering” simply don’t appear anywhere in the report, thereby suggesting that the food-smeared detritus and other unsightly objects just fall from the clouds mysteriously when the locals are asleep.
The report that Mr Matthews cites, supposedly as evidence of unfairness, actually states that council cleaning resources are “skewed towards deprived neighbourhoods” – with councils spending up to five times more on those areas than they spend on cleaning more respectable neighbourhoods. And yet even this is insufficient to overcome the locals’ antisocial behaviour. A regular visit by a council cleaning team, even one equipped with military hardware, won’t compensate for a dysfunctional attitude towards littering among both children and their parents. And fretting about inequalities in litter density is a little odd if you don’t consider how the litter gets there in the first place.
The Dunning-Kruger Diaries, Part Two.
Behold the creative outpourings of Ms Angeliki Chiado Tsoli.
Ms Tsoli unleashes a fearless, selfless, and terribly radical “intervention” at a crossing on Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Said intervention, titled Attempting to Reach Equilibrium in Times of Dystopia, is of course crammed with aesthetic value. A particular highlight occurs around 2:30 when a passing police car stops, resulting in a need to explain that what is happening is actually art.
Thinking Like Children (And Expecting Applause).
On nihilism and looting, and when wokeness is antithetical to reciprocation.
Right from the off we’re informed, firmly, that any perceptible reservations about looting and rioting, or reservations about the Black Lives Matter movement – say, regarding its demented far-left agenda, its racial tribalism, and the stated goal of abolishing capitalism, prisons, and the police – must be taken as an indicator of being “kinda (or definitely) racist.” Wokeness is not, it seems, a recipe for cognitive subtlety. “Some people,” we’re told, “appear to be far more worried about the fate of a Nordstrom or Target store than that of the actual human lives of protesters.” Again, one might deduce that only those protesting with, shall we say, physical enthusiasm have “actual human lives,” unlike their victims, whose hopes and livelihoods can be gleefully destroyed as an act of righteous liberation. From local amenities.
There’s more, should you crave it.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
David’s still away…
[ Pours tall drink, reviews security footage. ]
Prepare my galleons!
Are those US galleons or Imperial galleons. An oldie but a goodie.
[ducks]
It gets worser: Featherstonehaugh = Fanshaw
[ Pours tall drink, reviews security footage. ]
[ Runs out the door just as Mandy, Candy, and Brandy arrive with the jello wrestling setup. ]
“Stop! He’s back! I’ll call you later.”
Worchesterershire
It gets worser: Featherstonehaugh = Fanshaw
And in England a batman is useless for crime-fighting.
On the utility bill: sure and don’t you know where Westmeath is?
On names:are those Worcesteshire Chomondeley-Featherstonehaughs or the Leicestershire Chomondeley-Featherstonehaughs?
It gets worser: Featherstonehaugh = Fanshaw
I still regret that nobody pointed out these odd pronunciations until after high school. Sort of like the omission and errors when I was taught the Iliad and Odyssey.
Example: It’s (more or less) “roditos dactylos Eos” not roditos dactylos Aurora”. [ Grumble ]
Leftist’s comparison chart fails to include filth, crowding, crime, and disorder. And I wouldn’t trust the numbers given anyways: I know that my housing cost per square foot went down when I moved from the city to the suburbs. Also: Notable improvement in quality and variety of food at local supermarkets.
I wouldn’t trust the numbers given anyways:
^^^worth repeating.
Leftist’s comparison chart fails to include filth, crowding, crime, and disorder.
Ever wonder why leftists want you to live in cities in tiny stacked boxes?
Oh boy, an opportunity for a favorite of mine, coordinated orthography limericks featuring some of those odd English names:
There was a young curate of Salisbury
Whose manners were quite halisbury-scalisbury.
He would wander ’round Hampshire
Without any pampshire
Till the vicar compelled him to walisbury.
(Salisbury = Sarum; Hampshire = Hants.)
and
A youth named Cholmondeley Colquhoun*
Kept as a pet a babolquhoun.
Said his mother, “Cholmondeley,
Do you really think it colmondeley
To feed your babolquhoun with a spolquhoun?”
* Chumley Kehoon.
and, please indulge me, one more:
She frowned, and called me “Mr.”
Because for sport I kr.
And so, for spite,
That very night,
I, Mr., kr. sr.
Oh boy, an opportunity for a favorite of mine,
Okay Eliza Doolittle me here, by jove, have I got it?
There was a young curate of Scarum
Whose manners were quite harum-scarum.
He would wander ’round Hants
Without any pants
Till the vicar compelled him to wear-em (warum).
A youth named Chumley Kehoon
Kept as a pet a baboon.
Said his mother, “Chumley,
Do you really think it chumly
To feed your baboon with a spoon.
She frowned, and called me “Mister”
Because for sport I kissed her.
And so, for spite,
That very night,
I, Mister, kissed her sister.
Sorry, I’m a little slow tonight.
Ok, if you’re from the (American) Boston area, how do you pronounce “Worcester” ?
sometimes I miss Massachusetts.
I’ll wait a moment . . .
Woostah! as in, “Get in the cah, we’re goin ta Woostah.”
Not often, though.
Steve E: yep, nailed ’em.
Leftist’s comparison chart fails to include filth, crowding, crime, and disorder
Leftist’s comparison chart refers to Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is not exactly representative of anything.
Don’t even think about Worcestershire sauce or place in England. Why have all those letters if you aren’t going to use them?
WTP
The bloke prancing around in his tighty whiteys must have discovered a time machine as he is now the Hand of the King in Westeros (not to be confused with the little short one).
The film was Notting Hill by the way. A rather wet paean to a London that no longer is and in all honestly probably never was. My late mother used to enjoy watching it in her 80s.
Leftist’s comparison chart
You will note that those are costs to the city, the government, not the cost of living. Which begs the question, then why are city taxes so bloody high?
Notting Hill
Ah, so it was. Much ado about that film yet all I remember is the guy in the undies (I don’t think eye bleach had been invented yet back then) and some annoying woman actress. That and I think the main actor got publicity (there’s no such thing as it being bad, you know) for getting caught picking up a hooker who also got some publicity.
Why have all those letters if you aren’t going to use them?
One might as well ask why have France? Though lately the US has become even stupider.
Ever wonder why leftists want you to live in cities in tiny stacked boxes?
Oh, I stopped wondering many years ago.
They are going to “fix” all of those videos to show Trump actually told people to drink bleach. And the stupid, stupid, stupid Republican…”Republican” conservatives…”conservatives” yet again will have let a significant opportunity slip away. Though I suppose when you are, deep down, a loser at heart, a pathetic fear-of-winning tool, was it ever really an opportunity that you honestly would have tried to exploit?
And in England a batman is useless for crime-fighting.
But one’s shoes are immaculately shined.
Why have all those letters if you aren’t going to use them?
Alphabet job creation
One might as well ask why have France?
France as a geographical entity is fine, it’s the inhabitants that are the problem.
There is an old joke: God created France and saw that it was a paradise. So to balance things out he created the French.
it’s the inhabitants that are the problem.
Heh. I just saw some conspiracy theory type article claiming that no one lives in some triangular region of France extending diagonally across the country from like Belgium to Spain…or some such. Pictures of old, empty buildings, etc. Didn’t read further to see what the point was because I figured let’s just wait and see if that area gets any bigger. Could be a good thing.
BermudaGallic Triangle?