Friday Ephemera (664)
Well, it was a big egg. || A visit to the barber. || Enliven your cleaning with the laser of shame. || Nibbles. || Embiggening of note. || Some cooking occurred. || Row brewing. || Steed and Mrs Peel visit The Town Of No Return. || Remember, this never happens. (NSFW) || Now I want patterned ice. || She handled that pretty well, I think. || Maybe, just maybe, the problem is you, madam. || The progressive retail experience, parts 455 and 456. || More joys of public transport. || Bohemian Rhapsody. || Drag moth. || Today’s word is modification. || Today’s other word is incongruity. || The great house cat migration. (h/t, Things) || Next door, honey. || Shift Happens. || From the hood. || Clarkson’s Farm, series two. || And finally, it’s always a pleasure when someone makes it look effortless.
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Now I want patterned ice.
Decadence?
Some cooking occurred.
How could that have occurred? Pressure cookers all have emergency pressure release valves. Even if the main gauge/valve fails (unlikely!) the emergency blowout valve will trip.
Maybe, just maybe, the problem is you, madam. || More joys of public transport.
Some problems should not be tolerated.
Amusing only in retrospect: Someone I knew was cooking pea soup in a pressure cooker, and set the heat too high. The safety valve blew, releasing a high-pressure vertical geyser of steam and pea soup which made a spectacular splash pattern on the ceiling. The greenish stain remained for years, until they had money to remodel the kitchen with a drop ceiling. The pressure cooker continued to give good service for many decades, until it was handed down to one of the children who I hear plans to hand it down again soon. 70 years and still working perfectly.
Turkey earthquake fault-line shift.
I didn’t know white guys could do that. Boy, don’t I feel stupid.
A visit to the barber.
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
I don’t know, they look rubber to me! A stunt?
Nibbles.
Rotisserie rats? Hard pass.
Oh God. Warning: don’t click the link within the link -definitely NSFW.
Morning, all.
[ Passes Kleenex Man-Size tissues. ]
Indeed. I stumbled across a part of Twitter that I didn’t know existed. But did you not feel an urge to affirm his identity? You bigot.
Lifted from yesterday’s comments, a statement of the fairly obvious elicits some interesting reactions.
it’s always a pleasure when someone makes it look effortless.
LOL. That can’t be real…. can it?
Hard to say, but I have witnessed attempts that were every bit as comical and maddening.
Today’s other other word is irony!
Nose ring. I’m shocked.
Barber
I’m not just crying, I’m bawling my eyes out.
Good job I bought in bulk.
Yes, but she has to let us know how immensely radical she is.
L’oeuf est enorme!
Meanwhile, in my town . . . I find your terms acceptable.
Someday, people might understand that no constitutional right is absolute. Sexualized performances should not take place in front of minors.
The leanings of teachers.
https://pjmedia.com/culture/megan-fox/2023/02/09/chatgpt-breaks-free-from-its-leftist-programming-and-an-ai-rebellion-begins-n1669218
This is rather fun. Redditors finding ways to subvert ChatGPT.
Easily accessed using Unpaywall or similar.
You can imagine my surprise.
But hey, I’m sure everything will be fine.
Remember, this never happens.
Let’s see what else the ladies are up to:
Let us hear the judge’s reasoning…
Oh, “dysphoria”, it is OK then, wouldn’t want to cause
himher any more emotional trauma, might get misgendered in the slammer.Why do so many of these degenerate “ladies” look like Penn Jillette?
Nibbles: I have eaten different wildlife (goose, bear, pheasant) but somehow rats on a skewer is…ugh.
Pressure cooker: evidently they can become a bomb even without explosives. Yikes!
Woman who got off on child porn & shoplifters & Jordan Peterson: The point of punishment is NOT to assess the guilt of society. The point is 1) to punish a particular person, 2) to send a message to others that it is too risky to do certain things like robbery and 3) to remove the really bad ones from society to protect the rest of us.
A big part of the problem is welfare. In the US, a single mother can get benefits (a lot) but not if there is a man in the house. It is an incentive to not get married. Boys growing up without a father do not learn discipline and rules. These boys also do not have any support system so they group together in gangs. If anything, this is not due to “oppression” but due to too much misguided kindness.
The second part of the problem is letting them off. How can someone have a “rap sheet” of a dozen convictions and still be on the street? What kind of looney message does that send?
Ignorance is bliss.
We have kitchen cabinet fronts, fridge doors, etc., that are black, which for the most part conceals a great many sins. But when the sunlight catches them at just the right angle, a million grubby fingerprints are revealed.
I’ve decided that the only practical solution is to destroy the Sun.
Why do so many of these degenerate “ladies” look like Penn Jillette?
So what you’re saying is we should imprison Penn Jillette?
We have kitchen cabinet fronts, fridge doors, etc., that are black…
That’s the only acceptable color scheme for a Guild of Evil.
…But when the sunlight catches them at just the right angle, a million grubby fingerprints are revealed.
I’ve decided that the only practical solution is to destroy the Sun.
A simpler solution: Vantablack surfaces. Or ask Severian where to get a fuligin cloak.
But when the sunlight catches them…
You are in the UK, though, so that is once maybe twice a year?
It coincides with my cleaning regime, so yes.
You have heard of spaghetti westerns, how about yakisoba westerns?
You have heard of spaghetti westerns, how about yakisoba westerns?
The original and the best: Tampopo.
Nibbles.
I was looking for C.M.O.T. Dibbler.
Steed and Mrs Peel visit The Town Of No Return.
Mrs Peel’s first outing!
I suppose it’s churlish to not even pretend to believe the current, fashionable fantasies but the evidence presented shows that, whatever that is, woman it is decidedly not.
Poorly realised pornographic anime character is an identity?
Tightly knit families, socially cohesive societies, &c., &c., are traits found around the world among all peoples & cultures. The notion, relentlessly peddled, that these attributes are exclusively the domain of ‘white’ culture & have been unjustly imposed on ‘people of colour’ by ‘white supremacy’ is, in short, bollocks.
That, as they say.
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Well, these solutions would eliminate certain problems.
Forgive me as I believe this has been covered before but my OCD compels me to ask again(?), Julia what is your avatar a picture of? It looks to me like a Xenomorph taking a squat. Either that or a snake head. I like the Xenomorph thing though and I’m hoping/praying that is the answer. Yes, I pray for odd things.
I believe Julia’s avatar is the skull of a smilodon (sabre tooth tiger).
Well, these solutions would eliminate certain problems.
Does Penn Jillette pose a problem that needs elimination?
I confess I haven’t paid any attention to him in years.
https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/thorstein-veblens-theory-of-the-leisure
Sigh. The disappointments. They just keep on coming.