Friday Ephemera (658)
His, as you can see, is considerably bigger than yours. || And face it, his outfit is better than yours. || Blockage detected, chap comes running. || Narrow bars. || Two illustrations of small effects, amplified rather dramatically. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Plant life. || You shall not pass. || Prosthesis of note. || Puppy drama, with background here. || Breakfast bangers. || “Within 100 light-years, things get bad.” || So how was your day? || Can confirm. || Incoming. || The thrill of Argos catalogues, 1973-1991. || No good deed. || Woke and biased, yes, and also incompetent. || A Japanese museum of mistranslated phrases. || Norwegian snowfall. || Look away now. || I’m sure I’ve seen that face before. || And finally, a tale of curiosity, temptation, and unfriendly natives.
Just another reason we are leaving California in 4 months.
She’s going through the change.
A curious sex difference.
Like no rodeo I’ve ever seen.
Puppy drama,
The stress really woke me up. So thanks for that, David.
Oh, look, consequences!
Morning, all.
“As long as the puppy doesn’t run into the oncoming traf… oh.”
That’s not going to go well, is it? (The attitude on display, I mean, and the indulgence of it. The move sounds eminently sensible.)
I’m still trying to reconcile a “political science, history and social justice department” with a “thriving and intellectual community.”
And finally, a tale of curiosity, temptation, and unfriendly natives.
They’re 50 km from an airport- what do they make of the planes they must see?
Woke and biased, yes, and also incompetent.
Don’t they always go together?
They’re 50 km from an airport- what do they make of the planes they must see?
Shake their spears at them!
Ms Valenti’s ability to mouth contradictory ideas, and to do it quite emphatically, has been noted here before.
In her book Sex Object, Ms Valenti tells us that she lost her virginity at 14, majored in Women’s Studies, flunked, and slept with her boyfriend’s roommate. So, I suspect that decision-making may not be her strong suit.
Men and women do, in aggregate, tend to score differently on tests of spatial reasoning and spatial acuity.
Puppy drama,
I kept looking for the white Ford Bronco and O.J.
Men and women do, in aggregate, tend to score differently on tests of spatial reasoning and spatial acuity.
Insert joke with punchline “All their lives they’ve been told that’s six inches” here.
On wearing trousers.
A “political scientist” speaks.
Similarity of note.
A “political scientist” speaks.
The oppression of being an associate professor of BS Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Pray for her liberation.
Similarity of note.
Had to check that was real…
As I said on Twitter, in another context the obliviousness might be charming. Unless, of course, it’s just practised dishonesty, so common among the type, in which case, charming isn’t the word.
Oh, look, consequences!
She forgot to yell “I can’t breath!” at the top of her lungs.
But anyone who has a fit in class, yelling and screaming, is not emotionally ready for college.
OK, I’m 2 hours and 37 minutes in; does something happen? The suspense is killing me.
I’m still trying to reconcile a “political science, history and social justice department” with a “thriving and intellectual community.”
One department for all three categories is a clear warning of intellectual rigor…mortis. And it’s at a “historically black college”, which means even lower intellectual quality.
The snow is intermittent. So there’s that.
On wearing trousers.
All four legs, obviously.
That was my thinking. I mean, otherwise it would just be silly.
And finally, a tale of curiosity, temptation, and unfriendly natives.
An actual land that time forgot.
Men and women do, in aggregate, tend to score differently on tests of spatial reasoning and spatial acuity.
Yes indeed–although that particular difference is unusually large, which is why Charles Murray took note.
Ms Valenti’s ability to mouth contradictory ideas, and to do it quite emphatically, has been noted here before.
In that thread, a reader finds it charming that you interact with your readers.
I hope you continue to find us charming. [ Smiles ingratiatingly. ]
[ Peers over spectacles. ]
The late Norm Geras – of Normblog – didn’t permit comments and didn’t see much point in them. But as I said in the earlier thread, and to Norm, it seems to me that comments are an important part of blogging. It’s entertaining, for one thing, and it helps create a sense of community. And as a result, we have something akin to a disreputable bar. Which is nice, I think. There’s also the fact that by interacting, you get to bring your own thoughts into focus. Which is why the threads are often more interesting than the posts.
@pst314: “And it’s at a “historically black college…”
I can only assume that to be a misprint, and it should read ‘hysterically black college’…
coal miners: as I have said before, when people worked jobs like that (or in parts of the world where they still do) there is not much time or energy for woo. You also encounter lots of “cause and effect”
ducks and peas: I think the expression “like a duck on a junebug” refers to how ducks eat, as in this vid
Valenti: it is sad when feminists discover that the sex drive is actually related to reproduction…too late.
sex differences: the horizontal line test is one. Navigation is another. Men navigate with a mental map that has north at the top and they try to keep straight where they are on that mental map. This has been shown even in underground navigation in the tunnels under the U of MN campus. Women tend to use landmarks. Not helpful when you run out of landmarks. Another is history. In an admittedly non perfect sample, someone interviewed college students about major wars (amer rev, civil war, WWII). Most women had no idea. Most of the men knew all about the wars, dates, who fought, why, what happened. Men have more affinity for machinery.
The five laws of human stupidity.
And as a result, we have something akin to a disreputable bar.
Have one yourself, barkeep. 🙂
I can only assume that to be a misprint, and it should read ‘hysterically black college’
Reading Thomas Sowell and Walter E. Williams, it was disheartening to learn just how bad historically black colleges have tended to be.
Bless you, sir. May you never find yourself embroiled in a lengthy debate about exactly how firm, or indeed sloppy, scrambled eggs should be.
[ Wheels new range of bar snacks into view. ]
Perhaps those unfriendly natives know enough about us to want to keep us out.
One of the things that “political scientist” may be ignoring, is that cis white men have to work hard, likely start off poor and work their way up, and don’t spend their time complaining. It simply isn’t true that white men are just handed a job with no expectation of performance (well except for Megan and Harry, and Hunter, etc).
Don’t forget thongs!
Over the years, I tended to ignore the incomprehensible stylings of Ms. Valenti. However, sometimes her commitment to cloistered wokeness is so strident, I can’t help but look.
sex differences: the horizontal line test is one. Navigation is another.
Generally, true, though there is some overlap. I know my inner sense of NSEW is wholly unreliable. I taught myself to be diligent about maps (prior to GPS on phones, I looked forward to every new addition of Thomas Bros. maps). On the other hand, I’m much more history/date savvy than my husband.
As Jordan Peterson has pointed out several times, women are generally people-oriented, and men are thing-oriented. Hence the dominate presence of women in social services and men in engineering.
That’s exactly what I thought black pudding would sound like.
“Argos is a UK company that was formed in 1973.”
Not strictly true. Argos is the old Green Shield Stamps business. As inflation began to hit in the ’70s, the model of giving stamps away for later redemption broke down so they started cash sales, initially as “Green Shield Gift Houses”, rebranded as Argos in 1973.
On a similar note, last-minute Christmas shopping proves unexpectedly effective.
I suspect “Crap your hands” is deliberate. The Japanese have quite a self-deprecating sense of humour about their L/R confusion.
I’m cold just looking at it.
No… wait… it’s 2022 and gas costs a bloody fortune. I’m just cold.
Pity. They seem like my kind of people.
On a similar note, last-minute Christmas shopping proves unexpectedly effective.
And yet first on the sound track is what I believe is the Dreidel Song.
I find it interesting how many realities the woke simply deny. just to take feminists, they do not want to admit that much of female anatomy results from the demands of pregnancy and delivering a baby with a huge head. That men and women are attracted to each other and need each other. That it is easiest to get pregnant and the baby is healthiest in a woman’s early twenties. That female attractiveness to men is highest when they are young, healthy, and fertile, and not when they make more money or when they get tenure at the uni. That making men be more like women makes no one happy IRL.
Yeah. IRL it’s no longer just feminists who do not want to admit that. Just try pointing it out amongst a group of random people, coworkers, friends, etc. Especially amongst the more highly educated of such groups. Go ahead. I dare you.
edited/added: Rereading that I notice you did include “the woke”, but somewhat still to my point, it’s not just the woke either. A good number of conservatives… “conservatives” would take issue with pointing that out. Though I suppose it depends on where one draws the ‘woke’ line.
“Gay Norwegian filmmaker faces three years in prison after she said male-to-female transgender women cannot be lesbians“
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11545859/Gay-Norwegian-filmmaker-faces-three-years-prison.html
I’ve been entranced with walking videos as well as animated videos of cozy cabins, beach houses, winter car camping in a blizzard. I prefer Watched Walker, but have glommed onto London Walk by London Socialite, who favors nightlife walks through Soho, Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus. The number of young ladies wearing clubwear that barely covers them is both astonishing and pleasing.
Pondering whether to click or maybe it’s one of those David-style “check out the breasts on this gal!” type links that brings up a 450lb pig or something…