Friday Ephemera (665)
Artificial eye contact. || I fear suspension may be tested. || A job that calls for teamwork. || Face time. || Ah, yes, the old face-in-scrotum thing. Wait, what? || Mind the wires. || What the magician sees. || Feel the power of Mac OS 9. (h/t, Things) || Assorted starship corridors. Previously and related: The chairs of Blake’s 7, and an impressively thorough study of the chairs of Doctor Who. || The lost episodes of Doctor Who. || The thrill of trimming asparagus. || More joys of public transport. || The progressive retail experience, parts 457, 458, and 459. || More things that never, ever happen. || More than is strictly necessary. || In other news. || “No-one has asked what my pronouns are. What the fuck?” || Injury of note. || Chopper casualty. || And finally, think good thoughts.
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Soon: The Chairs of Star Trek?
I should have known:
Commercially Available Chairs From Star Trek
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Anyone here enjoy the Narnia books? How about LOTR? Oh, maybe you just enjoyed an evening or three watching the Great British Railway Journeys.
UNCLEAN!!
Chopper casualty
Ducking hell!
Underboob? Or was there something else?
Well that’s not creepy at all.
Chairs of Blake’s Seven.
An ultra-rare (understandably) example of the Terraza sofa, which also featured on Doctor Who, was brought back to life in the enjoyable show “Salvage Hunters – The Restorers”
The lost episodes of Doctor Who.
Actual LOL.
““No-one has asked what my pronouns are. What the fuck?”“
Someone needs to have a word with the HR department about hiring smarter in future…
Morning, all.
It’s hard to know where to start, really.
It does rather prompt the imagination.
Somewhat related: It’s a totally bewildering mystery.
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Unhappy camper.
Feel the power of Mac OS 9.
Thanks for making me feel ancient.
I had a CompuServe flashback. I was trying to remember my first email address, which was just a series of numbers and seemingly random punctuation.
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What do you have against choristers?
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For some reason, I’m now picturing Father Jack Hackett as the Doctor. I haven’t worked out the story details yet, but it’s in black and white and there are random, profane outbursts.
Underboob? Or was there something else?
Well, that was the only important thing, but if you watch carefully you can see the magician flip the first coin from under the glass into his lap.
I had a CompuServe flashback.
Now I am having flashbacks of dial-up modems, slow connections, and being unable to receive phone calls while online.
Fear suspension may be tested…
Camp’s Bay in Cape Town, ZA, where Mrs. Oik and I often used to seek winter sunshine not all that long ago. One suspects that the ladies are returning to one of the nearby townships in the ubiquitous Toyota HiAce minibus, so worry not. Those things are near indestructible.
I do recall spending the better part of an hour downloading a two-minute film trailer, which finally materialised, roughly the size of a postcard, in glorious 480p high definition. And being impressed.
flashbacks of dial-up modems, slow connections
And 4 whatevers per second
Welcome to the Columbus, Ohio Arts District!
I’d expect nothing less from Massachusetts.
Ephemeral Indeed.
Ah I remember back in the heady early days of the internet it was full of boundless promises to connect us with all of human knowledge. These days it mainly seems to exist as a mechanism for preventing us from accessing things.
I look forward to the day when every single Friday ephemera has been scrubbed before I even get out of bed 🙁
Also
Where Wales is going – they won’t need roads.
He fucked around and found out. Now his family is suing.
There seem to be far more of these dindu nuffin lawsuits than in the past, which presumably means there are more dindu nuffin shyster lawyers.
So now hysterical, self-centered idiot females trump people with legitimate disabilities I guess.
That sightless bastard should be forced to wear a blindfold in public so that narcissists don’t think he’s staring at them.
That sightless bastard should be forced to wear a blindfold in public so that narcissists don’t think he’s staring at them.
Ear plugs too, he was no doubt drooling while listening to her set up her selfie tripod and the rustle of her skin tight leggings.
So now hysterical, self-centered idiot females trump people with legitimate disabilities I guess.
And far too many business people are willing to cater to the hysterical idiots.
Meganargs. Four whole ones per second.
Dog rescue: a thing guys do. Check videos of rescues from car wrecks–it is guys. Catching falling babies or dogs: guys. I think part of the reason women lack appreciation for guys is that life is too comfortable, with few opportunities for guys to show what they can do.
flashbacks of dial-up modems, slow connections
But the faster the connections got, the more useless crap people put on their webpages. Every time a video auto-plays when I load a page–especially the advertisements–I want to reach out and slap someone senseless.
In order to detect the loss to humanity, I’m going to need a much more powerful lens.
No one asked blue-hair lady her pronouns? I would ask her species. It looks like the red around her eyes is tatoos–OMG. My question is how did she get hired? Plenty of warning signs that she would be disruptive.
Unhappy camper: she is actually realizing that she will have to work. It isn’t capitalism. Hunter gatherers had to “work” or starve. If you were a slacker they threw you out and you died. Communists have to work. Socialists have to work. Well, in the latter two you did not have to work if you were in the elite.
dial-up modems were what we had when my kids started high school. The schools would assign homework that required internet but too bad if ours did not work at 9pm school night when the kids informed me of the need.
dial-up modems were what we had when my kids started high school. The schools would assign homework that required internet but too bad if ours did not work at 9pm school night when the kids informed me of the need.
None of that when I was in high school, only mainframes and punched cards. Minicomputers (thank you, DEC!) were a revelation when I started college.
And once again it becomes clear that I need a younger, more happening crowd in here.
[ Rummages under bar for skateboard. ]
And once again it becomes clear that I need a younger, more happening crowd in here.
You got something against Lawrence Welk and shuffleboard?
I’d throw my rocking chair at you, sonny, but I’m sitting in it.
No one asked blue-hair lady her pronouns? I would ask her species. It looks like the red around her eyes is tatoos–OMG…
Looks like razor wire tattoos. A large red flag.
[ Starts breakdancing. ]
[ Starts breakdancing. ]
[ Frowns. Orders large boombox from Amazon, along with complete works of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, and Gene Krupa. ]
I’m now picturing Father Jack Hackett as the Doctor.
Works for me.
[ Plays Doctor Who theme music. ]
Well, that’s one way to get to work in the morning.
The days of dial-up modems, you say? Ah, yes. I remember it well…
Um. Sure sounds hard. Could you be doing it wrong?
Somewhat related. Did you not see his pronoun earrings?
Computers in high school? Hahahahahaha
WTP, you shoulda put a NSFW now you got me all excited.
Also,
Going up.
Going down.
None of that when I was in high school, only mainframes and punched cards.
You kids keep off my lawn.
You kids keep off my lawn.
I still have my slide rule…somewhere.
[ Breakdancing intensifies. ]
Going up.
Going up, Take 2.
The civilisational shit test continues, I see.
I still have my slide rule…somewhere.
Me too, but I got one of these used from a guy who needed an 80 as he was a business major.
“I still have my slide rule around somewhere.”
This girl is cheesed because people can’t guess her imaginary “gender” even though it is clear from her (checks notes) “Them” pronoun pin.
By the way, I’m being entertained by series two of Clarkson’s Farm. The struggles with West Oxfordshire District Council are a thing to behold.
He fucked around and found out. Now his family is suing.
Well, to be fair, she was hired less than a year ago. Dollars to donuts she’s a “diversity hire”.
Dog rescue: a thing guys do. Check videos of rescues from car wrecks–it is guys. Catching falling babies or dogs: guys
With all due respect, a lot of moms have no problem with rising to the occasion.
Going up (take 1)
I knew I’d seen him/her before:-
https://youtu.be/YdRCB701NVA
Meganargs
Would that be Megan-args or Mega-nards?
With all due respect, a lot of moms have no problem with rising to the occasion.
Good for her. And if she had shot both of the perps I would have no problem with that.
He fucked around and found out. Now his family is suing.
Well, to be fair, she was hired less than a year ago. Dollars to donuts she’s a “diversity hire”.
I saw two security cam videos of the attack: It looked like a fully justified shooting.
And I was amused when the perp said “I’m sorry” after being shot.
I believe you can find multiple videos on this Twitter account.
…she wants to be. There. FIFY.
The thing about all this nonsense, this absolute idiocy, what I truly believe is at the root of most of it is that social animals, dogs, wolves, cattle, sheep, seals, dolphins, whathaveyou, have within their individual members a subconscious urge to push against whatever the leader of the pack, and by extension the pack in general, wants to do. It does not matter what is going on. Be things good or bad for the group, there is some thing that drives individual members of the pack to pull in another direction. To some degree, especially when things in the environment are bad or heading in a bad direction, this is good. It enables parts of the pack that are different to be ready to adapt to a changing environment and potentially challenge the leadership.
But underneath even that is a fear that the current state is uncertain. That something about the current order is wrong, or from perhaps an evolutionary standpoint, could be wrong. In a normal functional pack/society strong leadership smacks these individuals around and they conform. The weak ones become comfortable conforming because the very act of smacking them around, in whatever the context is for that animal group, focuses their fear on fearing the leader, and by extension the rest of the pack. The weak fall in line partly because of that fear but also because that fear suppresses and/or overrides the fear of uncertainty. At the very least they have been forced to accept something certain. The reason we see this wokeness and related BS, which overwhelmingly comes from the weakest members of the pack, is because they WANT someone to tell them what to do, how to behave, what decisions to make.
As has been noted before, much of this idiocy comes from families with an absent or weak father figure. Much, but not all, since there are other social factors as well. One being that the leadership of our open society has become so milquetoast, so weak, so pathetic and accepting of every damn stupid thought that passes through the herd’s weakminded heads, they thus have no strong horse to manage their weakminded foolishness. These weaklings truly are not the problem. We are. We tolerate them and we tolerate our weak leaders because we fail to push back on them. Partly because now WE are the ones fearing the pack. We let this happen.
What was I just saying about people who just need to get shot?
So, is Florida overrated as a retirement destination?
And now for some serious news…
” ‘How could Jimmy Savile get away with it in plain sight?’ asks society that sends gaudily dressed men in wigs in to schools to touch kids.”
So, is Florida overrated as a retirement destination?
Anything south of Apalachicola or between the ocean and I-75 yes.
Avoid for any reason the Homestead-Jupiter (soon to be Homestead-Orlando) megalopolis at all costs. The panhandle should be ceded to Georgia and Alabama anyway.
So, is Florida overrated as a retirement destination?
Anything south of Apalachicola or between the ocean and I-75 yes.
By “ocean” do you mean “Atlantic”? In other words, “between the Gulf and I-75” is okay?
“between the Gulf and I-75” is okay?
By avoiding the area between the Atlantic and I-75 you avoid Jacksonville, which is always a good thing. It is permitted to visit St. Augustine or Cape Canaveral, but only briefly to avoid contamination.
There’s always someone who’s having a worse day than you.
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Stumbled across a quote I believe worth repeating:
I can dis Florida in a whole lotta ways but hearing such shit from anywhere else is a bit much. First off, Altamonte Springs is basically north Orlando. Hasn’t been decent since about 1990 when I first worked in that area. But to hear such BS from places like Chicago and Tennessee is it? My second home, soon hopefully to be my first home for other reasons, is in north GA. GA, like NC, SC, and TN have their own pathetic issues. Especially with meth and other white (“wigger” IYKWIM) criminal scum. And yes even a few Klansmen though they’re kinda hard to find. AIUI some of them are still hard core Democrats or at the least highly, highly suspicious of the Republicans who supposedly represent them. Florida is a highly diverse state. Second largest in area east of the Mississippi, after Georgia. Were it a sovereign nation its economy would rank 16th in the world. And much of it’s blue areas went red in the last election.
What is going on right now, if you’re too bloody stupid as conservatives…”conservatives” to see it is a full, hard-on media campaign to try to destroy DeSantis, the only governor in this country (oh, and I do have some issues with him in this regard) to stand up to the absolute BS of the pandemic nonsense. Maybe even the most prominent politician in the world to do so but I haven’t surveyed everyone else’s misery to fairly judge. The MSM is in a full court press to over emphasize every little slight issue down here and portray him as some sort of fascist dictator, which for any rational person living here is obviously an absurdity. But hey, you go ahead and play your sooooper conservative credentials by playing right into the hands of the leftist scum. By all means. Just keep your masks over your ugly little faces and don’t come running to the last bastion of freedom when the shit flows out of Chicago and East St. Louis and Memphis and Nashville and Raleigh and Charleston and Columbia and Knoxville as your great leaders like Bill Lee and Mark Sanford (heh, I went to school with that POS) and Linsey-girl Graham and (heh D) Roy Cooper wet their pants when the media clowns challenge them.
Ooh, this.
Er, wut?
I expect that Florida Man stories will continue to be an item for some time to come. Beyond that…oh why bother?
The civilisational shit test continues, I see.
Well, you can see “her” point. No, you can literally see “her” point.
Once you’ve been forced to accept that some women have penises, well, then…
Er, wut?
I think what he said is that I am not allowed to comment on Florida despite my having had the misfortune of having lived in the Tampa Bay megalopolis and having had frequent doings in the Homestead-Jupiter megalopolis*. Also, Florida, despite having the 15th lowest GDP per capita, is so great he is moving to Georgia.
Of course what, let alone why, that has anything to do with masks, Lindsay Graham, or East St. Louis is anyone’s guess.
*(Never order biscuits and gravy here)
nah. Like the losers that conservatives are they don’t see the 2×4 until it hits them square in the forehead. Then they get amnesia, forget it ever happened, and go back to being just as bloody stupid as they’ve always been. After decades of watching such idiocy happen over and over and over again, it starts to become rather painful. Especially if that stupidity starts to affect one directly. There is a significant movement in the media along with their allies on the left (yes, it’s backwards from what you believe…the media controls the politicians not the other way around) to go after DeSantis and Florida in general.
See, being dumb, dumb conservatives with no memory you have been led to believe that “Florida man” is either a real phenomenon (the most stupid conclusion) or some function of some obscure sunshine law or whatever. No. That’s the lie the media sold you dumb, dumb conservatives so they could bend political opinion against what is probably the largest and most significant swing state by highlighting those bizarre stories out of Florida and using that lie as cover. As if such stories, in similar volume and far, far more ridiculous could not be found in most of the much bluer states. Accounting for a few other differentiating factors as well.
As for “is so great he is moving to Georgia” without going into detail there are infinite reasons why people make decisions. Only a politically obsessed idiot would come to that conclusion. Especially as I explicitly indicated otherwise. Twice now. And “Florida, despite having the 15th lowest GDP per capita”, like a typical dumb doctor who cannot grasp economics you simultaneously play into leftist hands by not understanding the numerous factors that play into what that means, just one of which being cost of living but myriad others, and by reciting it like a good little npc. Like I said, Florida is a huge state with all kinds of problems and all kinds of advantages. It is growing way too fast right now because especially since the Scamdemic (which you doctor scum played along with) everyplace else sucks. And yes, Florida sucks too in some ways mostly because of the locusts leaving the rest of the country and bringing those same problems here.
Great show – and a PR disaster for the council.
I realise we’re seeing events chiefly from Clarkson’s point of view, and doubtless there are concerns that need to be balanced; but the council’s behaviour did seem gratuitously obstructive, indeed bewildering, at times openly spiteful.
We’re trying to pace ourselves by spreading the episodes out as much as we can. It’s a shame that we’ve had to wait so long and God knows if there will ever be more seasons. This counsel meeting one is next up for us to watch, probably on Monday. I am greatly looking forward to it. He may be a lout and a pain for at least some of his neighbors but at least the man says wtf is on his mind. And he engages with them himself. I presume that a man with his considerable resources could easily have sent some more polished representative to do his bidding there but he (apparently) goes himself knowing full well he’s ruffled some feathers. Ooh, this.
And like I said on the other thread, after the last episode that we watched I will never view the Japanese flag the same way again.
JFC.
Oh, imagine my surprise.
A third is apparently underway.
A third is apparently underway.
Yes, and either two or four more (depending on what you read) “Grand Tour”.
The question is whether Amazon will follow through with dumping Clarkson given the short memories and fatigue with Megan and her husband that has set in (though never underestimate the ability of woke companies to shoot themselves in the foot), or whether some other company will pick up rebranded versions.
…but the council’s behaviour did seem gratuitously obstructive, indeed bewildering, at times openly spiteful.
Indeed, as I had mentioned earlier, to include screwing over the locals who would have benefited from his projects, and screwing up the roadways for everyone just so it would be harder to get to the farm shop.
Yes, but what are the odds? This one took years to materialize and it was a big hit. Clarkson is bound to upset more people and while I didn’t follow the latest kerfluffel closely I believe he bent the knee a bit regarding something he said about Harry, IIRC. We only got what? Eight new episodes this time? Pray that they do continue.
Yes, but what are the odds?
It is already in production, so pretty damn good.
“I still have my slide rule around somewhere.”
RNB: I remember those giant slide rules, used in lecture halls to teach students how to use them.
Meanwhile, the tribulations of selecting fashion accessories.
I’m going to keep that in mind when I start watching the series. Clarkson does have a history of provocative obnoxiousness, but in general government is worse even when it hides behind a veil of public blandness and mild language.
I think what he said is that I am not allowed to comment on Florida despite my having had the misfortune of having lived in the Tampa Bay megalopolis and having had frequent doings in the Homestead-Jupiter megalopolis*.
My personal, knowledge of those two areas is very limited, but I have been personally warned about high crime levels in the Miami area, and to a lesser extent northward in the Atlantic coast tourist strip that includes Fort Lauderdale. All my friends who live in Florida chose the southern half of the Gulf coast.
[ Breakdancing intensifies. ]
[ Subscribes David to a monthly delivery of Doctor C.M.O.T. Dibbler’s Patent Rheumatism Cure. ]
[ Breakdancing now at Olympic levels. Crowd go wild. ]
Clarkson does have a history of provocative obnoxiousness…
His outrageousness and even obnoxiousness were part of what made Top Gear so popular, bringing in viewers who would ignored a bland, Consumer-Reports-style review of cars. I assume that he crafts Clarkson’s Farm with this in mind.
Thing is, he’s not particularly obnoxious in the farming series. If anything, he’s almost endearing. There are cloddish mishaps at times, and some salty jokes, but I don’t think you could watch it and accuse him of being needlessly difficult or provocative. It’s more that the situation is inherently frustrating, at times to a degree that borders on the surreal. The situation with the badgers comes to mind, or the efforts to help neighbouring farmers who are teetering on the brink of going under, or the doomed attempt to lay a simple gravel pathway on his own land.