Friday Ephemera
Nommy nommy nom. || New rap sensation. || The rest of the rainbow. || “White people are the reason I can’t lose weight.” || Instant woman. || Karate Girl, 1973. || A rethinking of priorities. || A detailed, two-part analysis of the self-destructing tape recorders in the Mission: Impossible TV series. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || They’re just making sure your children are “porn-literate.” || I can explain everything. || Can I stay here for a while? || Free toy or side? || Team mascot of note. || 100 million degrees Celsius for 30 seconds. || Romantic long shot. || She was digging in her tail. || A dog’s dinner was made of it. || Boat horn detected. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || There may be a lesson of some kind here. (h/t, Dr W) || And finally, and not at all perilously, just think of the savings.
Update:
Thanks to ComputerLabRat, the comments are now enhanced with enormous rubber boobs.
And yes, by all means, follow me on Twitter.
Mr Hanna’s nylon wig and enormous rubber breasts, complete with prominent nipples, don’t appear to be enhancing his classroom competence or his compliance with basic safety procedures – quite the opposite.
This.
It’s almost as if he knows that if the machinery caught that cheap wig it would just pull it off his head, not rip off his scalp, which is the reason actual long hair is supposed to be tied back. Same with the enormous rubber boobs with huge rubber nipples next to that saw blade – accident waiting to happen – but again, just some rubber would be sliced off, not anything actually part of his body.
“Disconnect” is right – his job is to teach students the proper use of machinery, including safety procedures, and he shows up in a clown suit that would not be allowed anywhere near machinery in a non-academic setting.
It seems to me that a person doesn’t behave in this way and impose on others in this way – such that one might assume he must be trolling for a lawsuit – if that person feels oppressed or marginalised or vulnerable. Quite the opposite.
That.
It seems to me that a person doesn’t behave in this way and impose on others in this way – such that one might assume he must be trolling for a lawsuit – if that person feels oppressed or marginalised or vulnerable.
We went from compelled speech (you will use my pronouns) to: you will not only accept that man with the wig and rubber boobs is a man but you will celebrate and “protect” his right to his psychosis and you will let him f**k with your children’s heads, in less than a blink of an eye.
Crazy is always gonna crazy. What’s wrong about this is how it has been accepted and mainstreamed by the authorities.
just another narcissistic opportunist – a creep with a huge sense of entitlement and a serious mental health issue.
Much more worrisome is any parent of a child in the predator’s class (and let’s not make any mistake about this, he is acting like a predator) who doesn’t immediately get that child OUT of that class. Whether they actively support the abuse of their child cuz supporting the “stunning and brave” predator is a higher priority or just a parent browbeaten by prospect of being shunned by all their virtuous neighbors, the result is the same. The child is being abused.
Much more worrisome is any parent… who doesn’t immediately get that child OUT of that class.
And then there’s the conceit that the way to create a “safe” and “welcoming” environment is to leave children in the care of a sexually parodic bedlamite whose psychological condition implies a much higher likelihood of a serious personality disorder, a much higher likelihood of disregarding normal sexual boundaries, as demonstrated above, and a much higher likelihood of paedophilic inclinations. (Among sex offenders in prison, including paedophiles, here and overseas, dysmorphic men are, shall we say, well-represented.)
In light of which, the perversity of the conceit is hard to overstate.
Hatchet-wielding man was angered when woman rejected his advances. “A worker at the eatery said he had never seen the suspect before, but he wasn’t shocked about the violence, which he said is “common in the area.”
I suspect that violence would be less common if more thugs were shot by their victims.
Good advice:
Jonathan Kay on Mr Hanna and his ginormous rubber bazongas:
The term Hentai-Boobed Individuals (HBI) is coined.
“I’ll take ‘Things That Never Happened for $500, Alex.”
bazongas
LOL
LOL
Sounds like a percussion instrument. I suppose they could be, if you ask nicely.
For most of history, society has been hierarchical. Some groups were on top and had more rights. If you injured one of the elites or stole from them, your punishment was worse than if they did it to you. The American ideal was equal treatment under the law. Mugging a rich man and a poor man would get you the same penalty. Everyone had to obey the traffic laws. This system was conducive to social harmony and economic progress. Now they are working hard to establish new elites–but their elite groups include murderers, pedos, rapists, arsonists (and clowns). A society does not function well with two sets of laws but when the protected group is criminals…not good. Not good at all.
Jonathan Kay on Mr Hanna and his ginormous rubber bazongas:
Kay also says the students aren’t being harmed, but using post-modern language and radical trans standards, it could be argued that the teacher is committing violence and indeed doing harm by its actions.
Kay also says the students aren’t being harmed,
Again, I’ll just leave this here for no reason whatsoever.
The American ideal was equal treatment under the law
Because, as flawed as was practiced from place to place, as Bible-believers have retreated, the society has degenerated.
Exodus 23:1-6
Leviticus 19:15
Deuteronomy 1:17
8-track players were NOT only in automobiles and they would happily eat a tape much more often than a cassette player given that the mechanism was more complex.
And then there’s the conceit that the way to create a “safe” and “welcoming” environment is to leave children in the care of a sexually parodic bedlamite
What slippery slope? /sarc
Always respect assistant professors of sociology.
Again, I’ll just leave this here for no reason whatsoever.
And I’ll leave this hear for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
Always respect assistant professors of sociology.
Don’t forget the editors at the Atlantic who publish this garbage.
Always respect assistant professors of sociology.
Decades ago, as I prepared to start college, I suggested to my grandmother that I would take sociology.
She said she would disown me if I did.
My grandmother was very wise.
Yes, wise grandmother.
Problem solved.
Why couldn’t these police acted similarly? Deadly assault merits deadly defense.
Fascist baby detected.
Sociology: long ago I used to read sociology books but realized (I was maybe 22) that you could say anything. So I quit. It has only gotten worse thanks in part to literary theory and “studies”.
That recognition of physical sex differences is caused by sports is hilarious–why are there physical diffs in sports? Where did that come from? In basic training when women try out for Rangers (US), the women get severe injuries, including hip fractures that may preclude them carrying a child. Men can take a hit or fall down without getting hurt, can tolerate heat and cold and pain much better. Not by any means saying men are “better” but denying these diffs gets women killed (in combat). Young women who believe they are tough and don’t take precautions are easy prey for muggers and rapists. Women who ignore the diffs my attack their much larger boyfriend, with a bad outcome. Clown world.
Always respect assistant professors of sociology
If you link to the Atlantic article they really start lying from the get go. The story starts with a girl really wanting to play football on her high school team. She is dismayed that because her entire previous experience with football is “flag football” – essentially a variant of football that involves no to limited contact – she will be required to undergo a physical examination to determine athletic level and susceptibility to injury. Apparently she does not feel that a person with testicles would ever be required to take a physical and pass some athletic performance standards if they wanted to suddenly migrate from middle school “flag football” to regular high school football. No siree – everybody can just join up to the high school football team – it’s a well known fact at the Atlantic.
None of this important background information relating to the fundamental differences between these 2 sports is ever covered. So the reader is just entertained with a fable about sex based discrimination.
Always respect assistant professors of sociology.
I’m pretty sure that PE classes are a long way down the list of biological and social influences that make 6-8th grade boys and girls so preoccupied with the differences between boys and girls.
Mixed sports aren’t a shocking innovation that will make boys and girls think differently about sex differences. Sports start off mixed for children. In 6th grade girls are often a foot taller and routinely outplay boys in mixed sports. This was the case even during the evil patriarchy. Sports after that age are unmixed for good reasons and based on experience, for example the experience that 8th grade boys are a danger to each other because they’re clumsy and don’t know their own strength. We were socially clueless at that age too, yet none of us was stupid enough to think that a boy who accidentally elbows a girl in the face when competing for a ball will be praised for his spirit of equality in not holding back because she was a girl.
yet none of us was stupid enough to think that a boy who accidentally elbows a girl in the face when competing for a ball will be praised for his spirit of equality in not holding back because she was a girl.
This came to mind.
This just in.
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly.
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly.
“Experts say”
Definite signal that rational adults should ignore – with prejudice – any demand that follows.
In college we put together a mixed volleyball team. After a few weeks, all the women quit because the boys were too rough. We had even promised to be careful.
Pronouns: I do NOT want to know about the internal sex lives (how feminine they feel etc) of all my co-workers. Work requires a degree of anonymity to be able to function together.
Some old guy (Richard Feynman) said: Science is the belief in the fallibility of experts.
But I mean what did he know, huh? Dead white male.
This just in.
Compelled speech? What compelled speech? You’re free to say or not say what you like. But if you don’t we’ll call you bigot, transphobe, rascist, etc. What? They’re only words, until you use them against us, then they’re violence.
Am I getting the hang of this yet?
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly.
Helicopter file updated.
This just in.
This just out.
Damn – that was fast. What was it, so I may update my files and lifestyle accordingly?
What was it, so I may update my files and lifestyle accordingly?
The usual “once what was permitted is now required” — e.g. if you do NOT put your pronouns in your profiles, email signatures you are an EVIL EVIL person who wants to kills trans people or something.
Am I getting the hang of this yet?
No. You are still appealing to the concepts of logic and reason. If any of the idiocy of the last decade or more was in any way relevant to logic and reason, people who cut the breasts off of girls to sew them onto boys, if they did exist, would be the subjects of monster movies not medical practices funded partially or otherwise through tax payer dollars. Forget any semblance of reason and logic. All that is valued these days is power. The power to compel you to submit to them. And with every attempt to use logic and reason you at some level are submitting.
Anybody here familiar with the opinions of Arthur C. Clarke?
Clarke hated tobacco, but did he truly think it would be a Good Thing to censor tobacco from vintage movies and art?
A character in one of his sf novels got wealthy doing that, with no hint in the story that this censorship was a bad thing, but I’ve never run across any interviews or essays which make his views unambiguous.
(My question, long dormant, was prompted by this article about HBO removing cigarettes and cigars from movie posters.)
Young women who believe they are tough and don’t take precautions are easy prey for muggers and rapists. Women who ignore the diffs my attack their much larger boyfriend, with a bad outcome
I often wonder how much the recent depiction of 5’2″, 100-lb Action Girls roundhouse kicking men twice their size in popular media contributes to this. I think in domestic violence women have always known that they’re protected by social and legal conventions that strongly disinhibit their men from hitting back.
In the more general “men vs. women in a street fight” category, I don’t know how to evaluate whether that’s gotten worse. My impression from WorldStarHipHop is that when brawls break out the women largely brawl with each other.
I often wonder how much the recent depiction of 5’2″, 100-lb Action Girls roundhouse kicking men twice their size in popular media contributes to this.
I have wondered too, although in regard to the “anyone can be in the infantry” feminists. Okay, girl, here’s your fully loaded pack…and your rifle…and your helmet and body armor. Try carrying that around for a few hours. And then we’ll ask you to unload a truckload of ammo and supplies.
Questions nobody is asking: Are Mass Machete Brawls Being Unfairly Stigmatised?
Daniel, I recently saw a video clip of an (ostensible) woman Italian Spec Ops being accosted by a mugger on the street. They were roughly the same height, so the guy was probably a bit heavier. She defeats him, as one would hope, but it took an astonishingly long time. Something like 20-30 blows were exchanged, with repeated grapples.
The average fit woman would not stand a chance.
Hmm. In my last, I should make it clear that the “ostensible” refers to the woman’s Spec Ops status, not her sex. Given the current culture, I thought I should avoid ambiguity.
Always respect assistant professors of sociology.
Good comment thread here:
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2022/09/and-though-sex-differences-in-sports.html
Questions nobody is asking: Are Mass Machete Brawls Being Unfairly Stigmatised?
Well past time for a long knife registry.
Well past time for a long knife registry.
Should have provided some context. It’s a Canadian reference.
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20210510/canada-s-dead-long-gun-registry-still-used-by-police
A reminder on how these things should be done:
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Recruiter:Hey W! I hope all is well.
We sent your resume over to XYZ Big Defense Contractor You Definitely Have Heard Of (XYZBDCYDHHO) a few weeks ago and they were really impressed with your experience. I wanted to apologize for the delay in getting back to you.
Are you still interested in this opportunity? I called and left you a VM. I can be reached at xxx-xxx-xxxx.
Thank you, W!
K
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Me: Sorry, hadn’t heard back so I presumed nothing was happening with this. Not sure what happened with the VM but it has been a while. I don’t check LinkedIn very often any more and many messages are getting lost in the spam. Which specific position was this about?
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Recruiter K:
Hi W! No worries. Sorry for not communicating very well. I’m sorry to hear the phone call didn’t go through, maybe your phone blocked my office line? I called you at (xxx)xxx-xxxx.
This is for a Software Engineer position working with XYZBDCYDHHO. We received your application in July and my VP sent your resume to XYZBDCYDHHO and they were impressed. Before proceeding, I can set you up on a call with our VP of Programs, Joe Blow, to discuss the opportunity further. He can share details on the project and answer any questions you have! Are you available sometime this week?
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Me: Thanks. Yes but it has been a while. Just to be clear as I don’t recall specifically what we may have discussed and as I’m seeing more and more information regarding big corporations with government dependency every day…In this job will I potentially be required to participate in what they call “DEI” types of exercises? Does XYZBDCYDHHO support left wing anti-American organizations such as Black Lives Matter?
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Tune in tomorrow for another episode of F*** You Traitor Bastards.
“ I can’t get past the idea that Rings of Power is going to be Marvel Middle-earth.”
http://assistantvillageidiot.blogspot.com/2022/09/rings-of-power.html
I know this is probably trodden ground, but how is that ludicrous teacher’s get up not, if nothing else, considered horrendously offensive? I have a large bust and have done since very young. Despite what stereotypes suggest, this has been, on net, very much a negative, A LOT of teasing, inappropriate sexual attention (including, as a 10 year old from peers AND adults), back pain, inability to wear standard fit clothing (try fitting into any dress, shirt or jacket that has any form of structure), and being told that clothing is ‘inappropriate’ when the same outfit on others is perfectly ok… I could go on, but you get it.
Seeing this absolute gaper wearing these ridiculous prosthetics to me is just as offensive as wearing blackface or pulling ones eyes to a more ‘asian’ shape – its a grotesque, mocking representation of women’s bodies. He is not trying to just pass as a woman – he is trying to cosplay as a ridiculous, hypersexualised caricature. Even if we put aside the very very very obvious sexual fetish that has no place in schools or around children. how is this sort of ‘gender appropriation acceptable?’ once again, womens rights get stomped on under the (6 inch, glittery) trans heel.
I started to write, then I gave up. How do I describe the infinite gap between reality and what is believed by progressives in this country (the US–the NON-beans on toast people)–as I just experienced it on NextDoor? Then I came back here, because I want to here the erudite commentary here.
NextDoor in Oakland, CA: (I no longer live there, thank Heavens, but still eavesdrop on ND). Oh gracious, will DeSantis send migrants here? (HERE being the land of IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE idiocy…) Of course, much consternation.
I pointed out that these illegal aliens are heavily burdening border towns and by sending the illegals elsewhere, DeSantis and Abbott are letting others experience the …. blessing. Pointed out the night flights by Biden of hundreds of thousands of illegals.
In short order: You RACIST calling these poor souls illegal. (In THIS house, no human is illegal, you know.)
Next: What night flights? We demand a link or it didn’t happen. (Me: try Duck Duck Go; Google censors. Them: What is Duck Duck Go? I provide link.)
Next: You bigoted Christian; racist.
Me: I have a black partner and black child; how about you?
Her: You liar. You bigoted Christian bigot liar.
Next: You Trump-worshipper, you believe he is your KING!
Along the way, I replied with facts. The legal term of art is Illegal Alien. Englishmen who overstay their visas are also Illegal Aliens.
These illegal entrants burden poor towns. El Paso’s sidewalks are a running sewer now. These impact poor citizen minorities the most–and don’t we care about the poor who are here by birth? Overrun ERs in black neighborhoods. School systems that can no longer afford services for the poor black/hispanic children because of illegal aliens, etc.
In response to data, I got ad hominem. Then I got called a snob. I made them feel insecure, because I use big words, facts, and accepted rhetorical practices; and all they got is vitriol and spit.
I gave up. There is no reaching these people. They are unwilling even to entertain the idea that there are facts with which they are not acquainted. Everything is as they hear on mainstream media.
And they are just not very bright.
I think the US either needs to split, or we needs helicopters. Lots and lots of helicopters.
LadyTheo: I’m sorry you were called names and your reasonable comments went unheard. That’s the way it is on sites like NextDoor: good-hearted, open-minded people gave up on those sites long ago, at least for remarking about loaded topics. The rude, the unmannerly, — the axe-grinders — have it all their way.
I’m glad you tried anyway to say what needs to be said. You can’t expect to see the results of your good action. It’s enough; helicopters can’t do as much as patience and goodwill.
I suppose that NextDoor became a cesspool for the same reasons that Facebook did.
Seeing this absolute gaper wearing these ridiculous prosthetics to me is just as offensive as wearing blackface
Well said.
My favorite NextDoor lunacy (so far): Within an hour or two of the Independence Day mass shooting in Highland Park IL, there were angry demands that everyone in the greater Chicago area should cancel all July 4th activities. Those who did not do so were “disrespectful”.
I suppose that NextDoor became a cesspool for the same reasons that Facebook did
Next Door is far worse. You can choose your friends. You neighbors, not so easily. I regard it as the app for Karens and lost cats. As soon as I am done with being on my HOA board, I’m dumping it. It was marginally useful for finding out about issues in the area regarding crime or accidents or utility outages, etc. But those useful things were about 5% of the posts. The majority were about rescuing dead squirrels, phone numbers for snake rescuers, and why opossums are a gift from God. Understanding how insane so many women in my community are has been a secondary but huge factor in my seriously considering moving elsewhere and further away from even quasi-city people.
why opossums are a gift from God.
At least this one.
disrespectful
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11227833/Trudeau-slammed-embarrassment-singing-Bohemian-Rhapsody-days-Queens-funeral.html
… this article about HBO removing cigarettes and cigars from movie posters…
Some years back i picked up a CD compilation of Rat Pack songs. A couple of the members looked like they had hand cramps. Yup, their cigarettes had been airbrushed out.
You all are right about NextDoor. I knew better. I need to delete the app. For Oakland, anyway, 95% of it is crime reporting. As though, at this point, having your catalytic converter stolen, or your car broken into, or someone shooting up the neighborhood, etc., is newsworthy. I do notice that slowly by slowly (a phrase my youngest son invented), some people are waking up. They even talk about guns –in a positive way– every now and again.
Cheers, everyone!
These bottom-feeding Commie shite ETR (https://www.etr.org/) are being disingenuous. Children are and have been “porn-literate” for many years now, thanks to the gross abundance of free online porn, to say nothing of the online video games that have openly linked kids to such sites just in case their natural curiosity wasn’t enough.
The results are plain to see. If you’ve ever wondered what has happened to streaming social media like Vichatter, Omegle, or Periscope, the answer might shock you: it’s because such services are immediately adopted by pedophiles and the kids who willingly expose themselves to them. The pedos record the stream and upload it to the dark net for their fellow perverts to enjoy. This is a fact, law enforcement knows it, and when the uproar over the use of the service for this purpose becomes well enough known, the various owners just shut it down and create a new one with a new name.
This is NOT a bug; here in the latter days of Western civilization, it’s a feature. I guess ETR and the school boards who adopt their ideas just want to make sure no child is left behind so to speak, since not all kids – just most – know how to find porn or meet pedos.
Everyone wake the hell up please and fight these bastards.