And These Are My Knickers
Yuliah Alma on a suboptimal substitute teacher:
When not conscripting middle-school children into his cross-dressing psychodrama, and presumably being thrilled by the thought of 11-year-olds seeing him in various states of undress, while discussing “kink” and sexual positions, Mr Lamere tells us, “I’m not a predator, I’m just a woman who happens to be super tall and hot.”
Mr Lamere’s employment history includes “environmental educator” and, er, pest control.
Update, via the comments:
We’re told, by Tess Nacelewicz, communications co-ordinator for Portland Schools, that “the process for vetting substitutes includes interviewing candidates and conducting background checks.” Readers may therefore wonder what was made of Mr Lamere’s fairly extensive – and, shall we say, uninhibited – social media presence. A presence only deleted, hurriedly, following parents’ complaints. Readers may also be tempted to imagine the candidate’s job interview. Did someone sit opposite Mr Lamere and decide, “Oh yes, here’s a totally stable and not-at-all concerning person. Let’s put him in charge of small children…”?
It is, I think, interesting that so many psychologically marginal people are being employed to teach small children. To a degree that suggests they’re being actively selected.
As noted following one of the items linked above,
Likewise, their teachers’ favoured, and rather niche, sexual activities.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
And the excuse. I know it is easy to say this not having been there but having been there…when a Covid-hysteria based political comment was raised by our CMA person, a woman not all that bright to begin with but also one I would not have expected to “go there”, I objected firmly such that she later sent me an email apology. I may have lost short term political points in doing so, hard to tell with a bunch of passive-aggressive HOA board panty wastes but I am real tired of the excuses for not confronting such behavior. Some things need to be addressed because the long term consequences far outweigh the short and medium term ones. But other people have to push back. We cannot let the failure of others weaken our resolve.
And that said while on the topic of conservative weaknesses…Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ SOTU response that I see conservatives…”conservatives” juicing their jeans over this morning is just more conservative loserville weakness. I thought Trump’s response was far, far stronger and more to the point. She went on about her personal experiences with cancer and how some soldier praised her but no-no-no, she was far too modest to accept that praise in light of his (whatever his name was) facing real danger. And they tell me Trump is the narcissist. What a bloody clown show. What a bunch of conservative…”conservative” losers.
I’ll just leave this here, I think.
OH MY GOD THEY’RE DANCING!
As He plainly intended them to do
Well. Huh. I’ll be damned.
So, fact 1: until today I was unaware of the Sloopy Girl video.
Fact 2: I have always been under the impression that the lyric was “Hang on Snoopy”, and referred to Charlie Brown’s beagle. In my defense I was about 10 when the original song came out.
Lemme check that video one more time…
Well, you’re not alone there. Since posting that on FB myself this morning I have needed to inform several people, including the wife, of this. Conversation at breakfast this morning:
🎶Hang on Snoopy 🎶
Not Snoopy, SLOOPY
…Snoopy?
NO SLOOPY
…eh?
(wash, rinse, repeat…)
Tangentially I have also recently been tasked…by the Lord Above …apparently…to inform some people, yet again, that Joyce Kilmer (of the “I don’t think I will ever see a poem as lovely as a tree” fame) was a man. And a tough SOB at that. Often when this occurs there’s two distinct reactions. The men get mad and deny it. The women insist on telling me that I must be wrong. Clown world.
There is a book of misheard lyrics titled “Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy”.
Possibly the all time best example was In “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”, which should have been “In the Garden of Eden” except that the musician was so drunk he slurred his words into incomprehensibility.
And the excuse. I know it is easy to say this not having been there…
Not an excuse, just the reality of the situation. I push back when I can, and when appropriate I am willing to tell people they are not just wrong but stupid and evil.
I would like to think the number is accurate for those who STAY in the military if such an order was given. I suspect a good number would desert, if they haven’t left already.
“so racist even the bread is white”. Perhaps this person thinks that businesses should locate upscale restaurants in poor neighborhoods so that…what? So they can go out of business? It is racist to open restaurants that locals can afford? And perhaps he should go into a burger joint in a poor location and see that 100% of the staff is black or hispanic. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Kind of important.
Desertion comes with significant consequences. Often death. I would like to think a lot of things but the past five years or so have proven to me that even I am way too optimistic about what people whom I know and (formerly) trust would do when the chips are down…and not even that “down”. My faith in complete strangers who have been trained and conditioned in group coherence? Not so much.
WTP: Word.
Speaking of mis-heard lyrics 😀
Happy birthday: David’s blog turns 16 years old today.
Happy birthday: David’s blog turns 16 years old today.
The blog may now legally drink beer, cider, and wine with a meal in a restaurant (time to expand your food offerings, David!), get a license to drive a small motorcycle (uh-oh!), etc.
WTP, I’m afraid you’ve avoided the story. To wit, what your wife thought of the video. Fess up.
There is a book of misheard lyrics titled “Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
Heh. I’m pretty sure she saw that I posted it on FB. She definitely was singing the song today. Which has given me a respite from Pennsylvania Polka (courtesy of last week’s viewing of Groundhog Day). Now that you mention it, aside from the singing things have been rather quiet. Eerily quiet…
The singing is coming from inside the house!
Musicological digression: it’s a long time since I heard “Hang on Sloopy”. Would others agree its rhythmic pattern fits neatly in the interstice between ska and rocksteady, or am I losin’ it?
[ Hangs up grubby bunting, raises prices. ]
Another seemingly related phenomenon is when ‘progressive’ film directors pre-emptively blame the audience for their film’s impending failure, accusing their own potential customers of sexism, racism, or whatever. A manoeuvre we’ve seen several times in the last few years. (Tim Miller’s claim in 2019 that only “misogynists” would find his then-forthcoming Terminator sequel underwhelming comes to mind as typically perverse. As if no previous Terminator film had featured a woman being feisty and resourceful in rather trying circumstances.)
Or Marvel’s trajectory from the biggest film franchise in history and a license to print money, to… whatever the hell it’s become. If a combination of ‘progressive’ politics and terrible writing results in losing a huge chunk of your audience, with films falling short by hundreds of millions of dollars, over and over again… if that doesn’t cause immediate and quite drastic rethinking, I’m not sure what will.
[ Hangs up grubby bunting, raises prices. ]
[ Unboxes suspiciously fluff-covered cake. ]
Enjoy!
[ Pulls bottle of MD 20/20 from brown paper bag. ]
Cheers! It’s imported!
LOL. It can’t be a bad film. THEY JUST HATE WOMEN.
It’s becoming something of a norm. More recently, Gina Prince-Blythewood, director of the history-inverting The Woman King, and its star Viola Davis, were trying to guilt cinema-goers into buying multiple tickets, and implying that a failure to see the film, repeatedly, amounted to complicity in the racial oppression of black actors and directors. This was despite the inevitable, near-unanimous gushing from on-message critics and the remarkable hesitation to point out the film’s flaws and historical liberties.
Ms Prince-Blythewood went on to invoke unspecified but allegedly “systemic” forces as the only explanation for her film’s failure to attract a larger audience or to result in an armful of awards.
It’s quite shameless.
directors blaming audience: a great example is the female ghostbusters. The original was a miraculous accident of brilliant casting. There is only one bill murray and the rest, including Sigourney Weaver, were simply great. What kind of incompetent demon picks nerdy accountant as his agent? Rick Moranis running around disheveled and sniffing things ahahaha so many goofy things. The casting in the remake was…meh.
Ironically, that black director Tyler Perry doesn’t do that, he just makes so much money he built his own studio. Real talent doesn’t need excuses.
And I suppose it’s hardly a surprise that wokeness, and the excuses of wokeness, should have found such rich soil in an industry famed for its neuroticism, and woo, and colossal self-involvement.
Australia’s new Ambassador for Gender Equality, a hostage video.
I’m scared.
Australia’s new Ambassador for Gender Equality
Let’s see, 60% college students women, 80% of drug overdoses and murders men, women live longer, if they want they can stay home for years with the kids (or even without kids), 95% of workplace fatalities men, most hazardous jobs and overtime men, young single urban women make more than their male counterparts. Yep, an ambassador desperately needed.
I would bet the scary eyes were part of why they chose her.
Hamlin’s defense attorney said he has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and gender and women’s studies from UIC. He’s unhoused and unemployed.
“all I did was push him.”
I’m scared.
With good reason, normal blink rate is at around 15/minute or more, I counted two, if not a hostage, she may be a robot.
Jordan Peterson on criminals and antisocial personalities:
“I studied the development of antisocial behavior in children, criminal behavior, for a long time. And so, one of the things we found–so antisocial behavior is extremely stable, and once it’s manifest it’s very very difficult to do anything about it, to ameliorate it. There’s virtually no evidence on the psychological front of any successful programs in relationship to the amelioration of antisocial personality….”
–The Downfall of the Ivy League, Jordan Peterson interviews Victor Davis Hanson | EP 325
Hm. Looks like YouTube is down.
We’ve got to teach children to think critically, look past the lies and dispel the illusions around us. But you will refer to that man in a dress as she/her though.
Statement of the fairly obvious elicits some interesting reactions.
Hm. Looks like YouTube is down.
I’m getting intermittent “not available on this device” and I saw reports earlier today of widespread issues.
Here is an alternate link, just in case.
Looks like the coding for that link got messed up somehow. Delete the start of it up to and including the “?”, and the link works.
https://youtu.be/SUC2Xk2YW9M?t=4204s
Thanks. I’ll have to watch it later. Heading out shortly.
Looks like the coding for that link got messed up somehow.
Thanks for catching that. Sorry about screwing it up.
Just stop right there. Everything else is just gravy. Well, not the good kind but ITYKWIM.
Got same, yet “oddly” I was able to click on the Seinfeld snippet that was presented to me in the side bar and it played. It kinda bugged me a bit as my wifi went down overnight for some unknown reason, reboot “fixed” it, and I get most of my TV programming via YouTubeTV so getting a “device” error set off oh-f***-there-goes-my-afternoon alarms in my head. Well for a second anyway. I’m sure it’s just a technological hiccup and not anything more nefarious. Hanlon’s Razor and all that jazz.
Ah, just now seeing Nate’s catch of the url problem. Yet this again is still a technological WTF moment. If the url is messed, wtf give that error message? Returning proper error messages for proper errors to the end user is not bloody rocket science. Or at least it didn’t used to be. But hey…gotta install the latest bright shiny middleware (or whatever) objects because…better. Or something.
Don’t know if anyone follows Scott Adams on Twitter but he had a meltdown over a paperjam in his printer, went all Office Space scene on it (added…hopefully link works), bought a new one, and then couldn’t get it to connect. This is a highly tech-savvy guy. Not top echelon or anything but certainly not your average person just trying to get through the day using technology to GET OTHER SHIT DONE…ahem…But hey, bright shiny new technology gotta have it. Because better. Because just is.
Don’t get on any carts!
Speaking of suboptimal people, “…I’m just about done with her shit…”, get a load of the balls of this
guylady.[ Returns from glamorous party. Shakes cocaine out of hair. ]
[ Quietly unpacks potatoes and toilet paper. ]
A case can be made for just driving over this…clown.
Exactly. Notice the discomfort of the others there. The squirming and the rolling of eyes. Obviously much of it is exaggerated but by doing this at the same time they elicit a group disapproval without being “rude”, at least in the technical lefty sense, by talking over him…well not too much. The rolling of eyes, the grin-but-not-quite-laugh, the head shaking. You can see him get nervous, his voice cracks just a little. Conservatives need to learn from this. Not that conservatives should behave this way but to understand the power being exhibited here. God bless this young man for speaking up. But I can see the conservative…”conservative” argument that he voluntarily got himself into a situation where he was outnumbered. He likely was lied to about what the environment would be and I definitely do not fault him either way. But the questions need to be asked why this occurred. More than likely if conservatives…”conservatives” address such a situation at all, they will fault him for “letting” this happen. The shame here should NEVER be applied to someone as bold as “that guy”. The shame is on the lack of support for such people from those who want to “win” without engaging in changing the culture. I now see from another clip that a Taiwanese(?) woman speaks up as well. God bless her too.
Though it has occurred to me that neither of these two people are necessarily conservatives. I also see further down in the twitter feed that the well dressed guy is gay. Go figure. Of course not that there’s anything not conservative about that but…maybe that’s how he ended up on a Vice thing. He’s just a normal sane person who didn’t understand the toxicity of the environment around him. I’ve heard of such creatures.
…ok, that’s one of these posts that I had to go back and re-edit about six times now…if there’s some inconsistency there….well…I’ll shut up now…
I also see further down in the twitter feed that the well dressed guy is gay.
I believe that is Andy Ngo.
so antisocial behavior is extremely stable, and once it’s manifest it’s very very difficult to do anything about it, to ameliorate it.
Contrary to the leftwing sobsisters saying criminals just need jobs (& houses & food & clothes & cell phones — for “free”) is that our prisons are NOT filled with schmoes who got caught for their first ever boosting of diapers for baby momma.
I’ve processed tens of thousands of police reports and 95+% are people with multi-page rap sheets. AND first offenses go back to age 18 (in serious felonies, juvie records can be accessed and, UEXPECTEDLY, these guys start their careers 15-17 years old).
These are true sociopaths who look upon normal people as suckers and prey.
and, UEXPECTEDLY, these guys start their careers 15-17 years old).
And we are now seeing frequent reports of carjackers and armed robbers who are 14 and younger.
These are true sociopaths who look upon normal people as suckers and prey.
Wait–are you still talking about the criminals? Or is that about their “progressive” friends?