Friday Ephemera (660)
“Can it be done?” || A dispute over parking, in two parts. || Telesnaps of TARDIS interiors. || Tough stuff. || A feminist’s view of autogynephilia and transgender ideology. (NSFW) || Workplace woes. || Twerking woo. || What “equity” involves. || Spot the dots. || Steady, boys. (h/t, Darleen) || His – and I say this with some confidence – is bigger than yours. || The bloody cheek of it. || Suboptimal visualization. (h/t, Asiaseen) || Our betters talk about borders. || How it began. || Today’s word is moshpitting. || The progressive retail experience, parts 450 and 451. || “Critical race scholar” can’t get a date. || If he has to deal with it. || He seems very happy about what sounds like an infection. || First, you have to tilt them. || And finally, with some agitation, a domestic drama unfolds.
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A dispute over parking, in two parts.
I need to know how it ends.
I like the TARDIS interiors.
Morning, all.
They are quite… evocative.
Deer get high, apparently.
First day on the job.
If he has to deal with it.
” I just really, really hope that I’m sick”
Achievement unlocked!
To be honest I was really hoping for a poo.
[ Peers over spectacles, slides complimentary nibbles to far end of bar. ]
The passenger was prepared.
[ eyes complimentary nibbles warily ]
I think I might rather have poo. Thanks.
For a second, my brain was convinced that the black chair was Patrick Troughton washing his hands in some unseen basin.
[D]omestic drama unfolds
Reminded me of this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9lXfu6jLDw
“500 megapascals square root meters”? Really?
Latest weather forecast…
Twerking woo.
Does gluteal size correspond to the amount of “generational trauma”, and why, if twerking releases it, are they not getting smaller?
In a similar psudoscientific vein, 60 pieces of “esoteric health knowledge” . Well, 59, I think he got #31 right.
Lysenko was born too early.
Does gluteal size correspond to the amount of “generational trauma”, and why, if twerking releases it, are they not getting smaller?
*snort*
The return of the carrier pigeon.
Do not bring us that figgy pudding.
For the archaeologist in your family.
Feminist genetics.
Black nationalist genetics.
A feminist’s view of autogynephilia and transgender ideology. (NSFW)
Mic drop.
Between that and the danger it does to the climate maybe we need to cut down all the trees. There’s never a Lorax around when you need one.
Along those lines I have argued for some time, often facetiously, often not, that men are superior chromosomally because we possess BOTH and X AND a Y. We’re heterochromosomal, women are homochromosomal. Diversity. Deal with it.
And you’re only telling me about this now??
Feminist genetics.
I see, therefore those with Down, Kleinfelter, Jacob syndromes, or other trisomy are superior to women.
Black nationalist genetics.
“Black make every color” – Magic Prism says “My reply is no.”
That point in particular is made quite well. One might say vividly.
Parking dispute: such women imagine that no one could possibly hit them.
Toughest material on earth: but have they compared it to the impenetrable mental bubble of the Woke?
Can’t get a date: men are not attracted by a woman’s income. Except grifters. Also being bossy and opinionated are not attractive on anyone.
Did not know there was an actual machine for cow-tipping…
Screaming: humans hunted the biggest animals on earth to extinction but now we are terrified of mice? Shame.
Parking dispute: such women imagine that no one could possibly hit them.
Such women also get their boyfriends into unwanted fights.
I am intrigued.
That could go either way. The woman is obviously whack…or in need of one. I’m reminded of a video from a gaming even several years ago where some female annoyed the winner such that he started calling out “Who bitch dis is?” OTOH, while I’m not one to GAF if someone temporarily uses a handicap spot, as one of the comments on that twitter thread says there’s damn too many of them, I have a feeling there was more to it than just that. Too many drivers these days act as if they own the road. Not just driving insanely fast in slower traffic but blocking roads, especially in congested areas, while they are distracted by their phones or whatever. Though it also seems from the video that she and her…man?…are blocking traffic themselves.
And the response of “Equity without Excellence is Emptiness”. Yeah…yeah…uh…
Another dindu?
The facts are not out yet, but I have gotten cynical after decades of “he was a good boy” laments over dead criminals.
Just took the time to sit through half of that. Women wanted to be just like men, they wanted this “equality” so-called and have been mostly silent as things have gotten more and more absurd. When men have spoken out and raised questions about where this philosophically unsound idiocy was (obviously to some) headed they were shouted down, mocked, called misogynists, etc.
Personally, I am tired of making any effort to care. Aside from a very small handful of women whom I have known, when these monsters attack it concerns me less and less. The Penn swimmer was pretty much the last straw for me. The utter cowardice of so many people, men and women, that I spent considerable time with, people I grew up with, people I was good friends with…chickenshits…oh well.
A few emergency road flares, delivered alongside the loot as it’s piled into the vehicles, would seem proportionate.
Looks like Fido saved the day.
Bit tough on the chipmunk though.
How it began.
How it’s going.
First, you have to tilt them.
Modern vetinary medicine seems a lot safer than what I read about in All Creatures Great and Small. Fewer “opportunities” to get kicked, stepped on, bitten, etc.
[ Approaches bull with nail clippers, emery board, and a reassuring smile. ]
Here is a baboon driving a tank:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXmb1YkWBgs&ab_channel=Birk
Here is a baboon driving a tank
And here’s the classic monkey with an AK-47.
People have taught dogs to drive a car (not in traffic) and rats to drive tiny cars. A vid exists of an orang driving (for real) a golf cart on a golf course path. The orang was a little sloppy.
We are not as special as we think.
Heh.
“Reading time 1 minute” !!
I just fried my encabulator trying to get through all that in 1 minute. I expect reimbursement for damages suffered!
Black activist cares deeply about the street bums who are ruining San Francisco:
“You need ta ‘pologize to everybody in San Francisco. Y’all need to have me in the form too, ’cause I represent San Francisco!”
Tilt…
It never occurred to me to unload surplus tools, like that angle grinder, on the local large animal vet. You live and learn.
This is tempting.
Okay, just don’t tell us anything more tomorrow.
The main course sounds fine, but I think I’ll skip dessert.
I was in the “south of market” SOMA region of SF a few days ago, home of much apartment and business growth in the last 20 years. Encountered one guy having a psychotic break or meth crisis, yelling and pounding on a bus shelter. Half a block away, two gents lying on the sidewalk just out of the rain. An hour earlier, drove through the “tenderloin”, a low area adjacent to the hilly financial district. Tents, tarps, trash covering the sidewalks for a 3 block radius.
This stuff is tolerated in specific areas of SF, deliberately. They are the contemporary “red light districts” of the bay area cities. Silly Valley is the same, with the addition of RVs and huge “vacant lots” in use in addition to sidewalks and highway roadsides.
Can’t a brother take cocaine, commit felony hit-and-run, and try to steal a car, without getting arrested and tased while fighting the police, and die hours later in the hospital? No justice no peace!
I particularly like how, while resisting, he claimed that he was not resisting and that the police were trying to George Floyd him.
The main course sounds fine, but I think I’ll skip dessert.
Agreed. And for the Starter I’d replace the gravy with lots of butter, because it’s very tasty that way too.
Not enough restaurants around here serve Yorkshire pudding.
Not enough restaurants around here serve Yorkshire pudding.
But the British slang “Yorkie pud” just sounds nasty.
One for the pub quiz.
Re above, bonus question.
Surplus tools. What’s that then?
From the comments:
“This young English teacher was in a car accident and had an anxiety attack and somehow he ended up tased to death by LAPD”
Somehow 😀
Moshpitting….Looks like a hillbilly ass scratching contest, and you are not allowed to use your hands
Somehow
“Driving that train, high on cocaine. Casey Jones you’d better watch your speed.”
Karl, Surplus tools is when you run out of space on top of the two tablesaws to store your belt sanders, routers, jigs, and drill indexes that your dad willed to you in addition to the “necessary” and “just in case” and “You never know” tools occupying the cabinets and shelves. Plus whatever’s in the basement. I’m afraid to look.
Bonus question…
Current calculated value is 70. Hubble’s first calculations yielded 500. (Km/sec/megaparsec).
Science!
My favorite part of that whole story is that the Mr Wilson 100 inch telescope mirror, cast in France by St Gobain, was annealed/cooled by being buried in manure for about 9 months. Because, apparently, TRADITION! But, it worked, so…
Not unfair.
Cult ideological pseudo-reality by James Lindsay.
I just noticed this is 2 years old but he’s talking about something I’ve called Reality Theatre.
………he has nothing. What’s he going to do?
The 2014 competitive dating show(sic) “I Wanna Marry Harry” is presumably overdue a reboot.
In the intervening years the requirement for competitors in such programmes have changed somewhat but we now have his assurance in writing that thanks to the good people at Elisabeth Arden the royal hampton will stand up to scrutiny.
…ideological pseudo-reality…
Speaking of which, what would we do without judges?
The “discrimination” being that a Catholic hospital refused to perform a hysterectomy on an otherwise physically healthy female.
Undisputed Science!™
Poking about on Twitter a few days ago, I watched a self-styled trans activist railing against J.K. Rowling, his Demon Queen, insisting that her supposedly malevolent “transphobia” was “literally killing” people. Someone politely asked for evidence of this alleged malevolence, an actual quote of Rowling’s own words, anything. The activist became angry, or angrier, as if evidence were unnecessary, and any request for it, however polite, were not only uncool, but an act of unspeakable hostility. Blocking ensued, followed by boasts of blocking, as if the act of blocking polite enquiries for evidence were somehow a validation of the recreational umbrage.
…ideological pseudo-reality…
Without which academia would actually have to think. Meanwhile, at the University of Bergen, we find NorWhite™, the titanium dioxide project.
Go on…
Damn those racist…Norwegians? Go on…
RTWT, evidently all the ills of the world are because a couple of Norwegian chemists made titanium dioxide paint around 1910. To find this out, the study, and I use the term loosley, was a bargain at 1.2 million frogskins.
Someone politely asked for evidence of this alleged malevolence, an actual quote of Rowling’s own words, anything.
In all the time they’ve been smearing her I’ve still not seen anything she’s actually said that could be ‘transphobic’.
As an onlooker to the spectacle, the performance, it seemed that a desire to be indignant, chronically indignant, overrode all other considerations. As if the role of Upset And Vengeful were the goal, the prize, the comfiest chair.
And so, we arrive at a bizarre fantasy world in which J.K. Rowling is “closely aligned with white supremacists.”
That’s because you don’t understand that transphobic means refuses to submit to our demands.
the Mr Wilson 100 inch telescope
Still operational only because Dennis the Menace is banned from coming within one mile of the facility.
Someone politely asked for evidence of this alleged malevolence, an actual quote of Rowling’s own words, anything.
Defamation has been a capital crime, in some times and places. Just saying.
The “discrimination” being that a Catholic hospital refused to perform a hysterectomy on an otherwise physically healthy female.
…the transgender patient was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union…”
The ACLU is returning to its roots as a Communist front organization.
I’ll bet you the transgender loonie and the ACLU chose a Catholic hospital in order to bring a lawsuit. Just like the “bake a queer cake” lawsuits.
The “discrimination” being that a Catholic hospital refused to perform a hysterectomy on an otherwise physically healthy female.
Goodbye to the Hippocratic Oath.
Not unfair.
“The thing with Harry is that once he stops talking about his family, he has nothing…Complaining is his only marketable talent.”
He could have stayed in the military. Didn’t that used to be one of the traditional career choices for spare heirs? Ditto the clergy? Ditto charitable endeavors?
The progressive retail experience, parts 450 and 451.
The shoe at the end is the perfect touch – progressive retail experiences, a proper response.
White Context: Uncovering new histories of whiteness in art and architecture history.
Don’t ask those cunts about the “brown and black” societies which have favored white buildings, white clothing, etc. since time immemorial.
Catholic Hospital thing
undisputed facts establish that, as a matter of law, Defendants discriminated against Plaintiff on the basis of his sex
The judge didn’t think that one through. If the undisputed fact is his sex, then the hospital could not physically perform a hysterectomy. Case dismissed.
The Trouble with Harry.
Every faith needs a Saint Thomas.
I’ll bet you the transgender loonie
What’s the exchange rate between the Canadian loonie and the transgender loonie? Who even knew they had their own currency.
“spare heirs” another great turn of phrase. Innumerable civil wars and coups were started by princes unlikely to become king. In places with harems, this could number in the dozens. Just writing a whiny book and talking to Oprah is small potatoes.
“spare heirs” another great turn of phrase. Innumerable civil wars and coups were started by princes unlikely to become king. In places with harems, this could number in the dozens.
I have read that it was common for someone, upon ascending the throne, to order the killing of every male child of the women in the harem.
If the police later shoot these two animals, we will get another chorus of “he dindu nuffin!, po-lice brutality!, George Floyd!”.
And one that should be the norm.
That is THE key point. They’ve redefined “transphobic”, “woman”, “white supremacy”, etc.
As if the role of Upset And Vengeful were the goal, the prize, the comfiest chair.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-war-on-jk-rowling/
I’ve got questions, too.
Not unfair.
Harry should talk with Hunter about the easy money to be had by blowing bubbles with paint.
Every faith needs a Saint Thomas.
And a Martin Luther.
What happened to the floating comment box?
This one?
What happened to the floating comment box?
Works okay for me. The colour change when new comments have been posted is handy too.
Good. The comment bubble update – the notification of new comments – works fine on my laptop’s browser and on my phone, though it hasn’t taken effect on my tablet’s browser. I have no idea why. There doesn’t seem to be any relevant setting I can fiddle with.
This one?
Yes. It has completely disappeared on my laptop. Windows 10, Firefox browser.
Good. The comment bubble update – the notification of new comments – works fine on my laptop’s browser and on my phone
Still does not work on my laptop and phone. Firefox on laptop. Safari on phone.
I haven’t changed anything this end since the wpDiscuz update two weeks ago.
I haven’t changed anything this end
It’s on my end. I had just enabled an in-page pop-up blocker on my AdBlocker software. Apparently it sees the comment thingy as an in-page pop-up. Just disabled it and viola the comment thingy appeared.
Time for a new program. It’s been causing a number of problems lately along with McAfee.
Sorry for any distress that may have been caused.
Heh. YOU BASTARD.
The comment bubble update – the notification of new comments – works fine on my laptop’s browser and on my phone
Does that feature only work if you are logged in?
I have never clicked “Login” above the comment box, much less created an profile. What happens if I do create a profile? Will I lose the ability to temporarily change my name to “CMOT Dibbler” and other silly things?
Does that feature only work if you are logged in?
I’m not logged in and I can see it (plus colour change when there are new comments).
Clam: thanks.