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.
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In honor of the Queen, I am brewing tea daily in my Sadler teapot. Twinings, not Lipton.
It’s sad to see how much vitriol the Clown Quarter is directing toward the Queen.
An appropriate response.
Queen E.: If the Woke and Left could not hate people for things their ancestors did, they would have nothing else to do. Of course we don’t get to blame POC for murders THEIR ancestors did. As Thomas Sowell pointed out, if you personally could not have prevented a crime or injustice, you can’t be blamed for it (like slavery).
Potential employee of note.
In honor of the Queen, I am brewing tea daily in my Sadler teapot. Twinings, not Lipton.
Making my daily cuppa (or two, or three) Yorkshire Tea ordered using this here fine establishment’s US purchasing button.
Hell’s kitchen
Well, I watched that, and didn’t say ohferfucksake until she brought out the spray-on butter. Anyone here beat my record?
Anyone here beat my record?
I was disgusted from the first moment when she made Pringle soup.
I was disgusted from the first moment when she made Pringle soup.
I miss the days when cooking shows were about real cooking, rather than low entertainment.
I miss the days when cooking shows were about real cooking
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCLGNeElk4sNgzUrZr0c9krA
Amazing! Man loves his butter and Ohhn-yohhns
I was disgusted from the first moment when she made Pringle soup
? When she lifted the soft floppies in a slotted spoon! Think nature documentary — Jacques Cousteau lifts a rock and out ooze a thousand thousand slimy things…
Potential employee of note.
Permanently disfiguring your face indicates mental instability to me. And at such a young age, too. Unfortunate.
Amazing! Man loves his butter and Ohhn-yohhns
Lightweight!
I give you
https://www.jamesmartinchef.co.uk/books/butter/
“Her Majesty loved the Commonwealth, and the Commonwealth loved her.”
“What has become of our vibrant multiethnic city?”
? When she lifted the soft floppies in a slotted spoon!
They seemed pretty firm to me. Might’ve been the bra.
The Pringle stuff is a different story. ;-p
Amazing! Man loves his butter and Ohhn-yohhns
[ Becomes wistful ]
I’m having flashbacks to PBS Saturday morning TV where I learned how to cook. This guy is so far ahead of what people are capable of today. I use his technique when dicing shallots but use a slightly more foolproof method when dicing ohhn-yohhns.
His knife moves are beyond 97 percent of people for the simple reason that most people have extremely dull kitchen knives. But I love watching him. I love pure cooking porn.
Oh no! Where will I now get my lesbian vegan doughnuts?
How about that store near Oberlin College? ?
Potential employee of note.
Unemployment benefit is the correct recompense.
Man loves his butter
James Martin shares number one billing with Rick Stein on my list of favourite TV chefs. In fact, the two of them are almost my complete list…
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.
Akshully, it originated with pioneers crossing the plains where apples were few to come by. Or such was the “real” story when I looked it up a dozen years ago or so. See, they were having some sort of a “diversity” “ethnic” pot luck at work as part of Diversity week. While I have significant German and Irish background, mock apple pie was something my mother and grandmother had made. When I once mentioned it to a coworker at a different job he mocked the…uh…mock apple pie as being whitey-white-white for some reason. The main reason being he was a commie Canadian white boy who liked to score “cool” points by mocking anything normal American…but I digress…so anyway based on that I decided to adopt the most generic yet mostly unheard of, supposedly white peoples food as coming from my heritage…though it did kinda did. If you’ve never had it, it does taste remarkably like apple pie. I think they still publish the recipe around the holidays on the backs of Ritz cracker boxes.
But in areas where people don’t trust the cops and thieves are violent,
and especially where snitches get stitches…or worse.
And as demonstrated in court, repeatedly, such that the jurors were often left astonished at what passed for adult behaviour.
Leftism is arrested adolescence.
Leftism is arrested adolescence.
The deranged political posturing, of both students and staff, does seem incompatible with any expectation of professionalism or reciprocal decency.
If you follow the links, you’ll see that plenty of senior staff – including Oberlin’s Dean of Students, the Vice President of Communications, and the Associate Director of the college’s Multi-Resource Centre – were not only happy to behave like delinquent adolescents, but also seemed accustomed to behaving in this way. With their juvenile political dogma frequently extinguishing any hope of probity or even basic conscience. And so, senior members of staff were not only enabling the students’ lies and aggressive, intimidating behaviour, but were repeating those lies themselves and actively taking part.
The jurors found themselves hearing so much obvious dishonesty – and so much evidence of childish behaviour and tantrums, including threats by staff to key the cars of anyone who photographed them behaving like monstrous infants – that their head-shaking and looks of astonishment are noted on a regular basis. As when the lies about staff’s supposed non-involvement became unsupportable and were replaced with new lies about how Oberlin administrators, while admittedly present, were merely trying to “de-escalate” the tensions that they themselves had exacerbated. Say, by standing on the bakery’s doorstep, armed with a megaphone and a mind full of spite.
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One of the more telling aspects of the case – and notably, the detailed coverage by Legal Insurrection – is the impression you get of the jurors, i.e., normal people, being given a peephole into a supposedly intellectual and statusful world, but which, in reality, is corrosive, stupefying, and utterly dysfunctional.
Amazing! Man loves his butter and Ohhn-yohhns
Being on the eastern side of the pond I was unaware of this fellow until I discovered him on Youtube during lockdown. You could lose a day just watching him.
James Martin shares number one billing with Rick Stein on my list of favourite TV chefs.
Likewise.
Neither apologises for recipes that could be 50% butter or duck fat
Rick Stein’s trips around France and Spain are just a perfect combination of cookery and scenery.
I had high hopes for Stanley Tucci’s series. Clearly a very expensive production. But after a few episodes I just had enough of his stuffing his politics into each programme.
Jordan Peterson is asked about the death of the Queen.
how to impress your friends with interacting vortices
Absolutely fabulous!
The jeans of Joan Collins, 1981.
Absolutely French and Saunders!
What ‘activists’ do.
It’s absolute something that’s for sure, but whatever it is it ain’t fabulous.
Actually, I was struck this morning by just how often over the last decade or more the people who have been most derided turn out also to be the people who have been right more often.
And it’s alarming just how often they have been right largely by employing the similarly derided concept of ‘common sense’.
(Yes, ‘common sense’ is a highly flexible concept, and can vary between people, places, and times. But that’s almost certainly a strength not a weakness. ‘Common sense’ is usually the kind of thing that’s immediately recognisable when you see it – not altogether different from being able to answer the question ‘What is a woman?’ without difficulty, even while acknowledging not all women are alike.)
This came to mind earlier when I saw this video clip here, asking ‘Why are men in crisis?’.
Christina Hoff Sommers, Janice Fiamengo, Karen Straughan and many others not only raised this question years ago, but also pointed out what some of the likely consequences were going to be if the question were not taken seriously.
Yet, naturally, all three have been variously jeered at, vilified, even threatened with violence, for expressing what, to be quite frank, are not especially radical opinions for the most part.
Likewise, at the turn of the last decade, many attempted to point out to certain feminist ‘activists’ that closing down debate, cancelling speakers, trying to get people fired from their jobs etc. was likely to be the kind of strategy that would sooner or later blow up in their own faces.
As it turns out, it was sooner, with so-called ‘TERFs’ such as J. K. Rowling, Meghan Murphy, Germaine Greer, Posey Parker (Kelly Jay-Kean), Julie Bindel, Graham Linehan and many others all being subjected to exactly that kind of ‘activist’ strategy (the kind that at least two of those on that list had previously thought to be completely justifiable, and in Linehan’s case even enthusiastically cheered on).
It’s all very depressing really, knowing how avoidable it is and yet watching people demand the right to walk straight into a disaster of their own making.
The deranged political posturing, of both students and staff, does seem incompatible with any expectation of professionalism or reciprocal decency.
And in spite of all this a (likely formerly now) good friend of mine from high school, whose mother I still correspond with on FB about the good ole days, top 10 in our graduating class, sent her son to college there. She never struck me as a stereotypical “smart” person. It’s bizarre how normal people…”normal” don’t see anything wrong with this sort of behavior by our institutions.
Also, in a similar vein, what Nikw211 said.
Though to this…
Likewise, at the turn of the last decade, many attempted to point out to certain feminist ‘activists’ that closing down debate, cancelling speakers, trying to get people fired from their jobs etc. was likely to be the kind of strategy that would sooner or later blow up in their own faces.
Broken record but some of us tried to tell people, maybe not Summers nor Fiamengo etc. specifically but people very much like them in a less famous capacity, that if the precursors to all of this were not addressed back decades ago when it was obvious the direction things were taking that the day would soon dawn where they would be closing down debate, cancelling speakers, trying to get people fired from their jobs etc.. What we got was similar ridicule from those very sorts of people.
It’s all very depressing really, knowing how avoidable it is and yet watching people demand the right to walk straight into a disaster of their own making.
Depressing doesn’t begin to describe it… ok, it begins to but it gets worse from there. But we’re not “watching” this as some sort of abstract observer. We’re a part of it and shit is fixing to blow up and get real come November in the US.
Worth every ha’penny of your license fee, a BBC presenter’s tribute to the Queen.
Any organization without a real mission will lack feedback and can easily think that activism is a job. Businesses that try this go broke or risk it (eg. Disney, ESPN) and the risk of it often causes them to straighten up (eg netflix, CNN). Colleges always had the requirement that the degrees they produced were worth something in the real world (a teaching, dental, pharmacy, agric, law degrees). With the lowering of standards and proliferation of “studies” this is no longer the case, and they are free to ignore their putative jobs.
The side that wants to win will always beat the side that just wants to be left alone.
This.
https://www.newsmax.com/reagan/constitution-law-rule/2022/09/09/id/1086805/
Remember what I said about Penny The Red. It happens. It’s all a pose. One way. The other. Both.
It’s all a pose
Or: he was a very angry young man in the 70’s, raging against the death of England, and he used the Queen and that song as a metonym for the entire corrupt system (where the left was determined to destroy England while the right was resigned to merely managing that decline and slightly delaying the final fall.)
David and other Brits: please feel free to correct and clarify my comment from 3000 miles and 40 years away.
After all, legislative and executive political power resides in parliament and the prime minister: The Queen (or King) can only influence politicians and public opinion by expressing opinions, and that influence depends on the prestige and respect in which the office and monarch are held—which can decline or vanish if used excessively or imprudently. Yes?
Or: he was a very angry young man in the 70’s, raging against the death of England, and he used the Queen and that song as a metonym for the entire corrupt system
Yeah. To quote Johnny Cash, I doubt that. The whole Sex Pistol/Public Image, Ltd. thing was a pose. They said as much at the time. Whatever would grift them a buck while posing as being above it all. It was transparent 40+ years ago, yet everyone pretended otherwise. Or were dumb enough to believe it. Mostly the latter.
Well, I never paid much attention to punk rock at the time, as I found it musically unappealing, but given the horrible state of England at the time I can easily believe that the song was a genuine expression of rage—and I have seen such assessments.
Anyone else have memories/observations/analyses to offer?
FWIW: Lydon quoted in “The Filth and the Fury:” “You don’t write ‘God Save The Queen’ because you hate the English race, you write a song like that because you love them; and you’re fed up with them being mistreated.”
Akshully, it originated with pioneers crossing the plains where apples were few to come by
Lot of “pioneers” crossing the plains in 1934, were there?
I’m having flashbacks to PBS Saturday morning TV where I learned how to cook
There used to be a ton of shows on the various food TV networks that would teach basic, simple recipes. A lot of YT channels seem to be either completely fake, like Yummly, or else food porn where you watch professionals make absurdly complex recipes using ingredients you’re not likely to find down the local.
Anyone know of any good, basic YT cooking instruction channels?
Anyone know of any good, basic YT cooking instruction channels?
A few of my favourite channels – which are not fake or really complex…
https://www.youtube.com/user/Maangchi – Korean recipes – usually pretty straightforward. I’ve followed quite a number and they have always turned out well.
Delicious and often bake free deserts can found on The Cooking Tree – https://www.youtube.com/c/CookingbyYein%EC%BF%A0%ED%82%B9%EB%B0%94%EC%9D%B4%EC%98%88%EC%9D%B8
No nonsense and mostly simple American recipes – https://www.youtube.com/c/Cooknsharepage
He has a 30 minute dinners – I love the Mediterranean Chicken.
The Wolfepit is another similar channel – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheWolfePit
Cookingguide is another fairly simple channel. I cook their Baked Sea Bass recipe at least once a week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rUAGhU_SWE&ab_channel=cookingguide
Chinese Cooking Demystified is another useful channel. I love this scrambled egg recipe –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONYflj0I2QI&ab_channel=ChineseCookingDemystified
I try to experiment a little – following the basic recipe but modifying it to suit our taste…so I try to view the recipe as a starting point.
I cook their Baked Sea Bass recipe at least once a week
I can vouch for the baked sea bass.
Lot of “pioneers” crossing the plains in 1934, were there?
Well, if you count the Oakies…
I believe the recipe Ritz co-opted goes back to around the Civil War when, it was made with hardtack, soda crackers, or whatever was around so like hellfire stew the crap would be edible.
“You don’t write ‘God Save The Queen’ because you hate the English race, you write a song like that because you love them; and you’re fed up with them being mistreated.”
One of the song’s lines was “no future for you…for me”, as I recall.
Lot of “pioneers” crossing the plains in 1934, were there?
No. The point was that the recipe existed long before ritz crackers themselves. Must I explain every little detail?
Though I see Farnsworth beat me to it. Thx.
you write a song like that because you love them; and you’re fed up with them being mistreated.
As my high school teacher Mrs. Taxis would say, and mistreated by whom?
As my high school teacher Mrs. Taxis would say, and mistreated by whom?
Partly the class structure, which if I recall correctly only opened up in the Thatcher era, with (for example) previously-excluded working class boys getting into financial jobs including trading. (They were hated because they weren’t upper class “chaps”, lacking the proper education at the proper schools, lacking the proper speech and manners, and so on. Cockneys? My memory is uncertain.)
But most especially the continuing economic decline, which was largely caused by the “nationalization” of industries and the corrosive damage caused by powerful unions and overbearing government regulation.
In the early 1970’s the outlook for Britain was “continuing decline which will eventually reduce it to virtual Third World status”.
Jordan Peterson is asked about the death of the Queen.
Thank you for that. I was particularly fascinated by his talking about UK’s monarchy as the 4th check/balance as the ‘symbolic leadership’. He was spot on about how the American Presidency has taken on (from at least the JFK era) the tendency to look at the chief executive of the Fed government as a quasi-monarchial celebrity … but with the power to actually *make law* that the UK royalty does not.
Illuminating.
Thank you for that.
I liked the bit about having someone who can politely intimidate whichever transient Prime Minister currently has the job. Which did happen, I gather.
She seems nice.
We may have seen this academic powerhouse before, “Brittney Cooper is a tenured professor of Women and Gender Studies…areas of research and work include black women organizations, black women intellectuals, and hip-hop feminism.”
We may have seen this academic powerhouse before,
We have indeed.