She’s A Big Girl, But A Looker
Because it’s Monday, that’s why:
“When we dress a cow, it’s not like pulling pants on, on a regular person.”
Dawn Luebbe’s short documentary about the Dress A Cow event at Ohio’s Canfield County Fair.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
It’s possible, but I’m not inclined to. If I extend it, we’ll end up with people already having replied to a comment currently being edited, which opens a can of worms. A 15-minute window to catch typos or whatever seems quite sufficient.
Today’s word is proofreading.
Speaking of big, um, “girls”, I am not sure which is worse, the venue, or the idiots squeeing over him.
Today’s word is proofreading.
“I can eat olive oil and butter, but not butter with olive oil”, another exciting episode in the series “Change The World To Suit Me™“.
Today’s episode, “How To Be An Ass In A Restaurant”.
If he were actually singing, as opposed to miming badly, there might be a basis for applause. But they seem to be applauding him simply for being a drag queen, i.e., a garish and rather ludicrous parody of a woman. As if it were some kind of feat.
Sam Brinton: sorry, but I want my gov official in charge of nuclear waste, or even in charge of processing dog kennel permits, to be boring, traditional, no-nonsense, just-doing-my-job kind of person. These are not serious people. Putting non-serious people, incompetent people, in charge of actual things is why everything is going to shit right now. Janet Yellen claiming they were surprised that printing all that money (though without admitting that is what they did) caused inflation. Huh. Get woke go broke is funny when it is ESPN (who cares) but not when it is real stuff. Even the fiasco of Disney ruining Star Wars impacts people.
Snow: in Chicago, we can easily handle a foot. Two feet is tough. Three feet at once does shut it all down for a few days. People who get to their garage via an alley are out of luck for up to a week.
Today’s episode, “How To Be An Ass In A Restaurant”.
That brings back so many memories of cringing embarrassment while another diner made a nuisance of him-/herself.
Also: I keep seeing claims on the internet that seed oils are terribly unhealthy, and yet none of them actually link to any scientific studies.
See also: “The evidence-free influencer.”
What’s the punishment for that infraction, anyway?
Time to wheel out this old girl I think.
Also: I keep seeing claims on the internet that seed oils are terribly unhealthy, and yet none of them actually link to any scientific studies.
For general woo it ranks up there with those claiming they can only drink gluten free vodka.
Also: I keep seeing claims on the internet that seed oils are terribly unhealthy, and yet none of them actually link to any scientific studies.
For general woo it ranks up there with those claiming they can only drink gluten free vodka.
Heh.
It didn’t take many years to go from studies showing that margarine is less healthy than butter to wild claims about various types of naturally occurring fats and oils.
I do wonder how many of these people are just crackpots broadcasting their delusions and how many are “influencers” being paid by the makers of one product or another.
Speaking of influencers, for some time I have noticed how so many “cute and funny” Twitter accounts would appear and then soon be suspended or canceled. (This was disappointing because I would occasionally forward something sweet to people having a hard time.) I suspect that they were “influencers” of one sort or another, whose strategy was to first get large numbers of followers by posting innocent fun things, and then start adding toxic material of one sort or another.
Heh
On the one hand, there are people buying into this nonsense, OTOH, P.T. Banum is smiling.
“How To Be An Ass In A Restaurant”.
Parody, right?
Not that I don’t know why, but why? We live in a society of nutcases because we defer to their insanity while simultaneously being intimidated against expressing our own rather sane ideas…crazy shit like “a man has a penis and a woman has a vagina”. It’s literally a win/win for the nutcases. Is it any wonder that they are winning?
Parody, right?
No, see the link to his website for selling tortilla chips.
G. K. Chesterton comes to mind.
It didn’t take many years to go from studies showing that margarine is less healthy than butter to wild claims about various types of naturally occurring fats and oils.
The original idea, promulgated by the paleo diet people, was a reasonable hypothesis: Humans evolved over many tens of thousands of years to successfully eat all sorts of naturally occurring forms of foods, but recently created artificial foods (such as margarine and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils) might pose health problems. But the rhetoric quickly escalated from a hypothesis to an assertion of absolute truth.
No, see the link to his website for selling tortilla chips.
Frito-Lay, trembling in fear.
Merry Winter Closure Period.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brighton-university-christmas-winter-closure-period-christian-offensive-tjxrsdrn9
I’m feeling more festive already.
Heh. In a passive-aggressive battle of wills, I noticed that the other members of my HOA board were a bit more adamant/consistent this year in referring to our annual/seasonal party as the “holiday party” whilst I continued to refer to it on emails and in the last meeting as a “Christmas party”. Quite the elephant in the room, though not awkward at all. Or so we all pretended.
Merry Winter Closure Period.
𝅘𝅥𝅮 Have yourself a merry little winter closure period 𝅘𝅥𝅮…practically rolls off the tongue.
Christmas celebration: I refer to those who get offended as “Orthodox athiests”. It is heresy if you celebrate. Though ironically, the holiday is already so far from a religious one (I don’t believe Santa is a recognized saint) that it is unclear what they are upset about. Anti-eggnog and colored lights?
Why so crazy? We have so many of what used to be called neurotics because life is easy. Same reason so many are overweight. When everyone worked 12 hr days on a farm, no time to drift off into neverland. With the current longest lifespan and greatest wealth in human history why are people so afraid of everything? Because they are unaquainted with actual risk, actual hardship.
Ooh, this. One thing that struck me about the somewhat recent WWI documentary (1915?) was that as horrible as that war was or perhaps as horrible as I was told it was, so many of the men interviewed seemed to have fond-ish memories. At least far more so than nearly any other war that I’ve heard personal accounts from.
Hope this helps…more…..
@Chris – it does! I like second one that seems to be good for planets and such but also for galaxies. And it leaves budget room to get a good tripod for it. I already have a good spot on campus to play with it (my backyard is under an enormous tree, so home is out), and when I go home for the holidays the backyard there is tree free and away from city lights. Still keeping the other one in mind – but I like that Meade one for learning and getting started in the hobby.
[goes off to do some research at Amazon (US)]
Merry Winter Closure Period.
“Guidance suggests that in the interests of inclusivity staff may wish to avoid the word Christmas because it is too ‘Christian-centric’. Another phrase that could cause offence, according to the nine-page Inclusive Language Guidance document sent to lecturers, is ‘millennial snowflakes’.”
How about the phrase “obnoxious, happiness-killing leftist douchebags”?
whilst I continued to refer to it on emails and in the last meeting as a “Christmas party”.
As did I until I retired. And I continue to send Christmas cards that reproducing the great Christian art of the last thousand years.
Frito-Lay, trembling in fear.
I do see claims that McDonald’s french fries tasted much better back in the day when they were cooked in lard rather than vegetable oil. Such claims seem plausible, but I cannot venture an opinion because fast food was not in the family budget when I was a child.
pst314: I think the rule is that one may not offend even one person (ie, inclusivity), though we all know this only goes one way. So jews have put up with christmas forever, and do not get special treatment, but moslems and athiests do. No one cares what Hindus think.
I had a policy of sending the most Jesus-y and Mary-y Christmas cards to my most fanatically secular friends. A couple of the more religious relatives would get a more secular Santa type card, though I tended to avoid the “Season’s Greetings” thing unless it was a real nice looking card. I doubt my more religious relatives noticed or cared about the secular thing. The more secular ones…well, they mostly have asked me not to send them cards because they don’t do so. Some because of laziness but another couple of them because Gaia…or wtf she’s called. But after 2020, I decided to just drop those people. No great loss if I never hear from them again. The ball is in their court.
Oh they definitely did. I noticed a clear difference. I hadn’t eaten burger/fries at McD’s in ages but was in a bind one day back about 10-15 years ago shortly after they made the change. In the context of being a bit nostalgic it was very noticeable. They were very bland. Which was something that was starting to happen at most other restaurants as well.
I hadn’t eaten burger/fries at McD’s in ages but was in a bind one day back about 10-15 years ago shortly after they made the change.
I have had that experience with various kinds of food, but cannot be confident that the change is always in the food: All sorts of foods do not taste as good as when I was a child, and I am inclined to believe that the sensitivity of taste buds both decrease and change as we age.
I do see claims that McDonald’s french fries tasted much better back in the day when they were cooked in lard rather than vegetable oil.
Although anyone old enough (25 cents for a burger and fries, been there done that) has probably lost the ability to tell the difference between then and now, it makes sense, something cooked in peanut oil tastes different than butter, than bacon fat.
Regarding seed oils, I would imagine most of the bad press about them is because they are not “processed naturally” (as opposed to a fresh squeezed olive), however the true wisdom is that anything that is touted to cause all the symptoms known to man and beast, probably causes none.
Thin made me laugh. .
So essentially, not being a foooking moron means that you must be a white supremacist.
Oh they definitely did. I noticed a clear difference.
On the other hand, David’s bar snacks taste the same today as fifty years ago.
It was a producer, not a gofer
What do you think “producer” means in reality show land? Are we seriously defending the notion that rich and famous people can commit assault and battery, as long as the target is less famous and/or wealthy? I could have sworn the US fought an entire war to get rid of that notion.
has ordered him to stop selling anything in the farm’s souvenier shop which is not made locally, which I suppose is a pretext for dealing with the traffic problems caused by the shop
Several of the Hallmark Channel’s television productions (series and movies) were filmed in the nearby town of Dundas, Ontario. So many that the town passed a moratorium on filming for five years, because the productions caused so much disruption they destroyed the downtown core businesses.
I had a policy of sending the most Jesus-y and Mary-y Christmas cards to my most fanatically secular friends
I find that fascinating because it’s essentially impossible to find such anywhere around here. I suppose there’s probably some kind of Christian specialty bookstore somewhere around, probably on the back side of a dilapidated strip mall.
The chief problem with liberalism is that liberals do not suffer the consequences of their ideas.
Thin made me laugh. .
I see what you did there.
Ah, but you’re in Canada, right? The nice country full of nice people? My wife gets them at Publix (mainstream, almost woke Florida grocery store) and TJ Max, HomeGoods, etc. stores that sell excess inventory from other higher end stores. They aren’t overwhelmingly plentiful but definitely not hard to find.
I suppose there’s probably some kind of Christian specialty bookstore somewhere…
There used to be a number of greeting card companies that specialized in cards reproducing great Renaissance paintings and images. Lots of Madonnas, holy families, and the occasional golden angel weather vane. Every Christmas the department stores would have a large selection. Such cards have become very hard to find, which I take as a depressing measure of one of the ways in which our culture has declined.
Salvation Army Xmas cards are my go-to and have the added bonus of snarking those who deserve it.
Merry Winter Closure Period.
What’s wrong with Yule?
or Saturnalia…
Because only Spring itself will give me closure.