Friday Ephemera (667)
Only the carpet was hurt. || The thrill of modern romance. || How to use your arms. || Hair crisis of note. || It’s called My Neighbour’s Car Alarm. || Dinosaur migration. || When you fancy a relaxing stroll. || Cooking utensil of note. || Playdough surgery, an educational series. || When teeth explode. || Sleep well, dear reader. || A pixelated journey to the centre of the Earth. || “Simulates the texture, elasticity and feel of a real nipple.” || Why aren’t you keeping track of my tedious pretensions? || Playing dress-up, the modern way. || Babysitting scenes. || A basis for deportation. || The body snatcher of Los Alamos, a Twentieth Century horror story. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Airbag jeans, $499. || And finally, and because you’re all thinking it, does it throb?
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That’ll work for news about plane crashes and terrorism.
Why would they? It works and they are #winning. The bigger question is why the right fails to learn from its failures and shut down such obvious long-term losers. Though I, and others of course, do have answers to even that question. But conservatives…”conservatives” don’t like those answers. Certainly not as much as they like losing.
Both extremes (using US terminology) won’t learn because of pride. The Left is so proud of its virtue that it does not matter how many they destroy or if there are unintended consequences. Backlash only proves how right they are.
The Right won’t learn because they pride themselves on being honorable and above the fray. To ban strange, disturbed trans persons from flying a commercial airliner due to suicide risk would be….mean. They don’t see that it is a war and they are losing or that there are real risks involved. The fall for the argument that banning trans from women’s locker rooms or sports is phobic. They fall for the argument that cops are racist..
of all the things you said but I truly believe underneath it all is a philosophy based on losing. The most favorable interpretation is a subconscious explanation but even if so it’s not all that deep subconsciously. I don’t say that to be snarky. Within the desire to be “right” all the time is a knowledge that as far as any public perception is concerned, if you are making decisions that will have objective results in the real world the probability of those results being negative outweighs the probability of them being positive. Entropy, if you will. If you lose or as long as you have no effective power, you can sit on the sidelines and throw rocks. Or more likely, hint that rocks should be thrown by those silly enough to get their hands dirty so if said rock throwing leads to any trouble they can point out that the rocks were not thrown properly. It’s how they got through school and held their high place in society without an objective, productive, objective (edited…just realized I said ‘objective’ twice but now I think I’ll leave it) economic contribution.
Not really seeing either a problem or downside here.
Does that include the comments ?
To be near realistic mine would have to be, despite a fairly good education, Tasmanian Bogan. A listen to to David Boon (the cricketer) would give some idea
Anyone can develop endometriosis. However, the rates vary greatly based on a person’s sex assigned at birth.
Women are afflicted with endometriosis more then men? The devil you say!
Yes, 16 is significantly less than 1% of 4 billion or so.
Minor detail, in case you were worried about being one of the 4e-9 cases.
Good to know if you are a woman claiming to be one of the other 576.47 genders.
Not very well, apparently.
And then switch, despite again being well educated, to a broad Kiwi accent. (pronounced “Keewee excint”).
“hard to get good staff.”
I’m not going anywhere near… well…
Black equestrians being barred from sport cuz white supremacist helmets.
She has a masters degree in fat studies, evidently magna cum laude, and therefore knows more than doctors, but if you diet, you are harming her. Or something.
Black equestrians being barred from sport…
Yet somehow football and baseball players manage to get their “natural hair” under their helmets – not that an equestrian helmet is worth a damn anyway.
fat studies, magna cum lard
That someone could believe that your gender identity affects your chances of getting endometriosis…words fail me. Of course, taking hormones might affect it either way, but not if you are asexual or bisexual or the rest. And no, women are not assigned female at birth. They are XX and thus simply ARE women.
Now you’ve hurt my feelings. 😀
Not so much overlooked as warning signs heeded.
I think we’ll give that one a post of its own. Comments that-a-way.
Racism is such an easy accusation for the moral cripples of our society.
Note this passage:
“The two co-founded a Minnesota nonprofit, CREW Urban Youth Equestrians, in 2021 to provide opportunities for Black youth and other children of color to learn about horses while developing tools to manage their emotions.”
“Manage their emotions” is a sad reminder that “urban youth” is a euphemism for feral black kids that should be avoided if not incarcerated.
Forgot to mention: Instead of whining about non-existent “white supremacist oppression”, why not get involved in developing new helmets?
OLIVIA. OLIVIA PRESTEIGN.
Heh. But I don’t think that man is going to show us how to space-jaunte.