Friday Ephemera
“Equitable Vaseline.” || Lost and found (or, Your Mother Must Never Hear Of This). || She’s explaining who she is, you see. || Nipping of note. || Oddly, it didn’t catch on. || And this beast from the 80s also failed to find a market. || Hell’s kitchen. || Conflict resolution. || I laughed and I’m not sorry. || Hers is bigger than yours. || Getting rid of the body is always the tricky part. || I’ll need a keyboard and some mashed potato. || A project for the weekend. || Shopping mall scenes. || The jeans of Joan Collins, 1981. || Jupiter rotating in real time. || And it ain’t a reward either. || How to tie a scarf. || Question asked. || Neighbours not welcome. || What ‘activists’ do. || Crime-fighting crisis. || And finally, how to impress your friends with interacting vortices.
And yes, by all means follow me on Twitter.
How to tie a scarf.
I am going to have to try that! I either get a horrid gigantic knot or something that keeps coming undone. That way looks so neat and precise.
Taking a goose for a walk.
Hers is bigger than yours
Kinda looks like the love child of Big Bird and a Golden Eagle.
The jeans of Joan Collins, 1981.
Damn, Joan Collins was hot. What? Don’t judge me.
Watching that Sea Eagle, I couldn’t get images of Supermarine Seafire out of my head
Fun with vortices…
Bored scuba divers play similar games with air bubbles. A skill I am, alas, not very skilled at.
That weekend cloud chamber project is actually a very easy thing to make (except for the plutonium? There are plenty of less-fraught radioactive materials lying around)
All you need is a pan or wide can, some dry ice, and transparent plastic film, and maybe a sheet of black paper for contrast. Super easy. Standard junior high school fare in the 60s.
Brits, my condolences on the loss of your queen. I always had great respect for her. She did everything she could to lead her people through WW II and keep their morale up. May your new king follow in his mother’s footsteps.
Does the wolf lady get Covid points for that mask when she wears it?
Most people are wankers.
the wolf lady
I remember back in the 1990s when the whole Otherkin thing got started entirely as a result of an extremely unethical psychiatrist encouraging the delusion in one of her clients.
Hell’s kitchen.
Fake. Although during the Depression in Canada there was a common recipe for making a mock apple pie out of Ritz crackers and cream of tartar.
And this beast from the 80s also failed to find a market
Aside from Zoom/Teams meetings for work, does anyone actually use real-time two-way video calling on their phone? My impression is that it’s largely an Apple only thing because of the dedicated network.
Lost and found (or, Your Mother Must Never Hear Of This).
Eduardo’s never going to hear the end of this. 🙂
The jeans of Joan Collins, 1981.
Absolutely fabulous, darling.
“The jeans of Joan Collins, 1981.”
She can probably still get into them too!
“Brits, my condolences on the loss of your queen. “
Thank you, Princess Cutekitten. The tributes to her from around the world have been so very moving.
Morning, all.
Absolutely fabulous, darling.
“Names, names, names!”
May your new king follow in his mother’s footsteps.
I don’t anticipate Charles being met with anything like the same approval or being remembered for anything positive. Indeed, I suspect the age of British monarchy may be, shall we say, winding down. Anne would, I think, have been a happier prospect.
Hi Daniel,
Do you remember the name of the psychiatrist who started the otherkin fad? I’m curious.
Anne would, I think, have been a happier prospect.
That.
That.
It seems to me that the institution, and the public’s approval of it, depends to a large extent on the quality of the people who make it up at any given time. Whatever her shortcomings, the late Queen had a kind of stoicism and an obvious sense of duty. Not particularly fashionable traits, but important ones, nonetheless. (Or rather, all the more important because they aren’t particularly fashionable.) As Ben Sixsmith puts it, “She never embarrassed herself and she never embarrassed us.” And it seems likely that her perseverance, into her nineties, was in part a reflection of how little confidence she had in her successor.
British Queen dies, dysmorphic men hardest hit.
In happier news:
It’s all about the “healing of our community,” they say. But no apology was forthcoming.
Some background here.
I’m currently on holiday in the US and was touched yesterday afternoon and evening when several complete strangers, on hearing my accent, came up to me and expressed their condolences.
And in foamingly racist bedlamite news.
does anyone actually use real-time two-way video calling on their phone?
I tried it once, to see how well it worked, but I never found a need for it. It seems to me it just complicates the exchange. I imagine teenagers pausing to check their hair and trying to hold their phones so as not to look fat or have double chins, or faffing about with filters.
And in foamingly racist bedlamite news
So, do I qualify for a handicapped sticker for my car? Christmas shopping will be here before you know it and parking at the mall gets tight. Don’t judge, I was born this way.
And the passing of Her Majesty is monumental. I am no monarchist and an Irish republican is in my DNA, but I hope that the saints greet her in Paradise. Elizabeth II stood for duty, loyalty, and service during her lifetime, assuming a role she was not born for but one she shouldered and all for the good of her subjects. She faced tough times, both as a monarch and as a mother, and handled them all with utter grace and dignity.
Eternal rest grant her, oh Lord. Let perpetual light shine upon her. May she rest in peace through the mercy of God. Amen. (+)
Racist bedlamite news:-
The document is authored by
“Donald Moss J Am Psychoanal”.
Just needs to change the J to an I.
does anyone actually use real-time two-way video calling on their phone?
I find it useful for husbandly duties relating to shopping or tech support. “Is this precisely the one you want?” or “What exactly is the error message on the screen?” are no longer interminable tortures.
British Queen dies, dysmorphic men hardest hit.
JFFC on toast points, I know “fascist” has lost all real meaning, but the Queen resembled a fascist even less than he resembles a woman. If these booger eating morons didn’t have talking points they could recite they’d just wander around bumbling into walls all day.
A nice little story about the Queen.
British Queen dies, dysmorphic men hardest hit.
Pull the string in the middle of his back and listen to the canned gibberish.
EU Obersthauptmann demonstrates energy and water saving tips.
Remember kids, always use an electric soap dispenser and leave the water running while drying your hands.
“Equitable Vaseline.”
There’s a sucker born every minute.
JFFC on toast points,
Pull the string in the middle of his back and listen to the canned gibberish.
If you’d like more of his searing insights, knock yourselves out.
And in foamingly racist bedlamite news
It is not his only rodeo, pull the string in the middle of his back and read to the predictable gibberish.
Our author (who appears to be a person of pallor) is also “co-founder of Green Gang, a four person collective working with climate change denial”, so clearly a “Thought Leader™ to be taken quite seriously.
Strict.
Do you know what this thing is, Bob?
Not all the loonies are on Facebook.
What ‘activists’ do.
I’ve been seeing a lot of fake screenshots on Twitter. Slander masquerading as humor.
I find it useful for husbandly duties…
[ Raises eyebrow. ]
…relating to shopping or tech support.
Ah.
“Is this precisely the one you want?” or “What exactly is the error message on the screen?” are no longer interminable tortures.
Yes, I can imagine. The Other Half’s attempts to decipher his dad’s computer woes over the phone are a thing to behold. Many looks are exchanged this end. Generally, some variation of “Oh, Lord, must you test me so?”
I did not know this about rules of royal succession.
Is it Hell’s Kitchen because of the vapid fare, or because of the vocal fry?
two way video: we use it for our grandkids and some other family.
crime: While murder stats are probably accurate, I would bet that minor crime stats in black US areas are much worse than reported, in spite of efforts by gov to “adjust” them. If there is robbery, assault, shoplifting in my area, it gets reported. But in areas where people don’t trust the cops and thieves are violent, I bet hardly any gets reported.
eagle: what is noteworthy is that this eagle could fly away, but returns for an easy meal. We have seen eagles (bald and golden) in my neighborhood in US several times, including a juvenile. Very cool up close.
Gibson’s bakery: Oberlin claimed they were just innocent bystanders of student protests (based on false accusations of racism) but they canceled the contract with Gibson’s, supplied printing, food, water to the protesters, and emailed support to the protesters. glad they lost.
Oberlin claimed they were just innocent bystanders of student protests
The audacity of the lie is hard to overstate. The university and its staff were very much participants and enablers, as noted here. And as demonstrated in court, repeatedly, such that the jurors were often left astonished at what passed for adult behaviour. Many Oberlin employees were all too happy to encourage the vindictive, performative hysteria that was being inflicted on innocent people. It was the very same mindset that they were trying to cultivate, and which they continue to cultivate, and an inevitable consequence of their own perverse, delinquent teaching. Their own woke psychodrama.
After the shoplifting incident that sparked the boycott, Oberlin administrators demanded that Gibson’s Bakery drop the charges against the thieves, and in the future never call the police when they caught students stealing but instead to contact Oberlin. (There was, in fact, a “culture of theft” among Oberlin students.) And, of course, it was not just shoplifting: the thief assaulted a Gibson’s employee.
My favorite headline about that case: “Not everyone at Oberlin is a lunatic”.
Two-way video:
It’s commonly used in our house for overseas conversations on the distaff side, and periodically on my own across provincial boundaries (child to grandparents, mostly). From anecdotal observation, it’s insanely popular in my wife’s culture, and I have occasionally run into people amidst video chats locally. The context/location presumes they are not work-related, unless such folk are personal shoppers.
Eagle: Was it just me, or was anyone else waiting to see if the bird would go “full Roadhouse” on that poor girl?
Reward: Well, yes, yes it is.
Scarf is cool…I’ve seen a different way elsewhere, but it’s similar to this one.
Vortices: much more cool. I totally didn’t expect the second ring to come back.
Jupiter: this may turn out to be my background for the day….
Weekend project: the comments were gold, but then I saw it in the theatre first run…
they’d just wander around bumbling into walls all day
Daikatana.
[ laughs ]
I did not know this about rules of royal succession.
When Kate Middleton was pregnant, there was a great deal of consternation among the Commonwealth nations because not all of them had updated their Constitutions to provide for the eldest child in the line of succession being female – with the awkward implication that rulership of the various Commonwealth nation could have ended up split between various branches of the royal family. This was a particular problem in Canada, as by design the Canadian Constitution is impossible to modify.
This was ultimately resolved by someone looking into it and realizing that there are absolutely no legal documents in Canada that define who the monarch is. We all just kind of agree informally that whoever’s running the show in the UK is also our monarch.
And thus a bloody, but probably very entertaining Game of Thrones style civil war between the Commonwealth nations was averted.
And thus a bloody, but probably very entertaining Game of Thrones style civil war between the Commonwealth nations was averted.
The proper weapon with which to wage such a war would be the rubber chicken.
Frothing-at-the-mouth (and grossly dishonest) hatred of the Queen and constitutional monarchy in Instapundit comment threads. This illustrates once again why I like David’s fine establishment so much.
(In spite of David’s bar snacks.)
It’s sad to see how much vitriol the Clown Quarter is directing toward the Queen.
‘I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.’
Followed later by
‘If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star.
‘That wretched woman and her bloodthirsty throne have f***** generations of my ancestors on both sides of the family, and she supervised a government that sponsored the genocide my parents and siblings survived. May she die in agony.’
But we need to recognise our betters:
“Dr. Uju Anya is a university professor and researcher in applied linguistics, critical sociolinguistics, and critical discourse studies primarily examining race, gender, sexual, and social class identities in new language learning through the experiences of African American students. Her other areas of inquiry include applied linguistics as a practice of social justice and translanguaging in world language pedagogy. She currently teaches and conducts research as associate professor of second language acquisition at the Carnegie Mellon University Department of Modern Languages.”
Twitter has removed that Tweet, and Carnegie Mellon has disowned it:
https://twitter.com/CarnegieMellon/status/1567975991330615297?s=20&t=s8kYnC1OQcoJj1HFePyVjQ
As Le Brandon Sinistre commented “Today is like if Obama died and everyone blamed him for Vietnam. And you get called a My Lai apologist for pointing out he was a kid in the 60s.”
JeffBezos called her out on it, and @LindsayBoylan said “He had to put her in her place. It’s so gross. It’s so basic. And it’s so basic that it’s gross.”
To which @francesweetman pointed out “Can’t even wish someone a painful death for things they aren’t guilty of without people tone policing you smh pc gone mad”.
As time rolled on, it became clear that it’s not just the odd outlier, it’s a widely-held point of view:
” #BlackTwitter: While some choose to mourn her death, many folks decided to address the history of the British monarchy, which included colonialism and slavery.”
#BeKind