Please Ignore The Sirens And The Flashing Red Light
In other news:
Grown men in children’s clothes hanging around schools is not acceptable.
The lady quoted above is referring to this ongoing adventure in sensitivity and tolerance:
A man in Essex county, England, is causing concern amongst locals, especially parents, after being spotted loitering near children’s schools while wearing a schoolgirl uniform. In response to complaints, Essex Police is insisting the man “does not pose a risk,” and has warned the public against sharing photos of him on social media.
Quite how the lack of risk was determined has not been made clear by the police. And as one might imagine, many parents, and schoolgirls, aren’t entirely thrilled to find said gentleman on the bus used by the girls to get to and from school, and loitering near their school, repeatedly, while wearing their school’s uniform, complete with stockings, a pleated skirt, and what appears to be a wig.
Consider this an open thread.
How do we keep ’em stink-free and un-rashed?
With Freedom Wands™! as recommended at her site.
OK, I can see the point, (except for one tool for both washing and wiping one’s nether region), for actual infirmities that limit range of motion, but not just because one’s chubby arms can no longer reach a Brobdingnagian bum.
That aside, even if these things were made of the finest silk, and given that the chance of their being washed and replaced frequently is nigh nil, they are going to cause chafing and further risk of maceration, infection, and so on.
If someone wants to be so big they need a harbor tug to get out of bed, fine, but, not that anyone asked me, encouraging others to follow suit borders on criminal.
Not the Balkans but rather Lebanon.
@aelfheld
Thanks for bringing this to my attention – I almost certainly wouldn’t have seen it otherwise.
Dalyrymple is on good form in this one (italics added).
And this, too:
It does, however, fit with a fashionable ethos, seen on many fronts, in which one isn’t supposed to acknowledge the obvious root of the problem, but merely accommodate its consequences as they multiply.
It occurs to me that it must be quite surreal to be in court and hear supposedly serious and clever people referring to the man who raped you as if he were a woman. As if no objections – quite vehement objections – could conceivably be raised. As if it couldn’t possibly be taken as a grotesque insult.
But hey, thank goodness it never, ever happens.
https://youtu.be/bEWO1_-2iRU
Hygiene advice for tubbies.
“Be wary of lone policemen, warns London head teacher”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64344935
Just imagine the uproar if a senior policeman was to suggest that parents should be concerned about certain teachers having easily manipulated children in their care.
berry filled beaver bladders
Band name. Obviously.
Sure you can rent my uterus but under the EULA, if I want it back or if you fail to pay, I get it back
Repo: A Genetic Opera was a warning, not an instruction manual.
(I know nothing about it.)
I do. Media companies are increasingly trying to move everything to a subscription-based service where you don’t own independent copies of anything. It’s worked for television, movies and video games and they’re moving on to books.
What’s increasingly happening is everyone is moving to digital piracy. Fed up with localizers inserting their own agenda into subtitles, anime consumers are going back to pirated fansubs (for reasons, this is a massive cultural shift in the anime community). Comic book readers are turning to torrents of scans of old comics rather than read the new stuff. Fans of nerd media are hate-watching by grabbing pirate rips so as to deny the streaming companies money or metrics.
In the case of Comixology, it’s really just corporate cost-cutting. Comixology isn’t where manga fans get their manga, and the average inner-city bodega makes more money than the entire Western comics industry right now. Amazon knows they’re trashing the company, they just don’t care because it’s costing them money anyway.
Well, that was pretty much the extent of my ‘digital comics’ interest, such as it was. Not piracy, just installing an official Marvel app to revisit things I remembered reading as a small child. But the app was pretty awful and I uninstalled it after a few days. The inconvenience of the digital format soon overwhelmed any residual nostalgia.
Reading comics online always struck me as unappealing, even when I read comics.
You do, however, know vastly more than I do.
I own a few old Mobius volumes that I bought in the 80’s. And two comics in ebook form–those Mister Invincible comics that I found about here. Those two ebooks look pretty good on my computer monitor.
That. As the cool kids say.
The inconvenience of the digital format soon overwhelmed any residual nostalgia
You pretty much need a 10″ tablet, and those are heavy to hold for any length of time.
What I enjoy about the pirate scans is that they’re scans of the originals and so have the ad pages and the letter columns. For copyright reasons Marvel & DC can’t reprint those so they leave them out of the colour-corrected hi-res re-issues. It’s charming to see a young E. Nelson Bridwell, or Forrest J. Ackerman[1] writing in to the editors to talk about superheroes.
[1] Or a fifteen year old George R. R. Martin, who of course complained about the lack of realistic violence
Well, should winning the pub quiz ever hinge on knowing who illustrated the last issue of the 1970s Mister Miracle series, I could be of some use.
So I guess there’s that.
The Other Half is amused that I have a Gaming Cushion™ to support my tablet while I’m looting artefacts from alien planets.
Dude is an altruistic inspiration to us all.
It occurs to me that it must be quite surreal to be in court and hear supposedly serious and clever people referring to the man who raped you as if he were a woman.
Thanks for the nightmares. I’ve drawn jury duty for the first time in 63 years starting the second week of February.
“The fart of the dog is CO2, carbon dioxide”, an intersectional climate scientist* has thoughts.
*([cough]bullshit[cough])
In the jury selection process, don’t be afraid to speak up. They hate when you ask reasonable questions. Especially if it might get the others in the jury pool to thinking. Also helps if you have ever been an engineer or in other similar logic/reason based profession, to emphasize that.
In the jury selection process, don’t be afraid to speak up. They hate when you ask reasonable questions.
Or you could keep quiet, lull the lawyers’ suspicions, and become the juror that lawyers hate.
Dude is an altruistic inspiration to us all.
Inspires me to be more intolerant.
I recently heard from a friend that The Society for Creative Anachronism (the American equivalent of the British Sealed Knot) is starting to have trouble with fanatics demanding DEI officers to enforce “greater openness” for “previously excluded” persons. I have no personal knowledge which is less than 30 years old, but my impression was always that all sorts of misfits and socially damaged people managed to find a place there (and in science fiction fandom) so I wonder just what sorts of “excluded” people they are talking about.