Friday Ephemera (668)
The dimensions of various things, from the Japanese Badger to Mr Auric Goldfinger. || Soyuz “Globus” mechanical navigation computer. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Today’s word is self-perception. || At last, a database of silhouettes. || Snack dispute of note. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Best not to, really. || Being all-woman, he wants to share his breasts with you. || Bagged one. || Blue Monday do-over. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. (h/t, Julia) || For when you’re cooking penguin eggs. || Routine irony #37. || News from Wales. || “You’ll wonder how you lived without it!” || Ditto this. || The hat was slowing him down. || Yes, do take notes, because it will be on the test. || “The length and rigidity of the arm is adjustable.” || An amphibious feat. || And finally, it’s the biggest one of those I’ve ever seen.
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[ Looks it up ] So, fanboy or fangirl with strong derogatory implications. Well, I’ve known people in their thirties and forties and fifties for whom “squee!” was a fair description of their obsessiveness.
Leftist grift never ends.
I was relieved to read further and discover that you weren’t talking about the pooping frog.
Some years ago, a nuthatch slammed into one of the windows, stunning itself, and fell to the ground outside. The Other Half ventured out and picked it up, hoping it would regain consciousness. After a couple of minutes in the palm of his hand, the bird came to. It sprang to its feet, looked around, took a shit, then flew away.
A mystery for the ages, this woman is confused why there are no issues when she uses the women’s latrine, but there are when the ersatz woman does.
“I went to a party last night.”
Sounds like it was a blast.
“I went to a party last night.”
I thought this had to be a parody account but the lady appears to be for real:-
https://www.uoguelph.ca/ib/jacobs
Predictably there is a slight problem in that she is actually a marine biologist qualified to comment on seals and sea-birds but nothing else.
Cringe: ‘BOMBADIL’, a musical set in Middle-Earth, is in the works at Warner Bros
After a couple of minutes in the palm of his hand, the bird came to. It sprang to its feet, looked around, took a shit, then flew away.
Not uncommon. My sons’ primary school ran a bird banding program in the early morning before school started. They set up nets because the school location was uniquely postitioned in line with the west end of lake Ontario on a heavily travelled bird migration route. Each morning they would set the nets, capture birds, weigh them, enter data about them, then band them and set them free. Well over half of the birds did a dump during the process. I know, because I volunteered for the program with my sons. During peak season they would handle 30 to 40 birds a day on days when they set the nets.
So, fanboy or fangirl with strong derogatory implications
An otaku is the worst imaginable stereotype of the nigh-autistic obsessed fan. The Japanese TV show Densha Otako (“Train Man”) is a good example of the original meaning – there are baseball otaku, subway train otaku, ASCII art otaku, etc.
The current sense of the word, though, means specifically a horny anime/manga otaku whose fandom involves a lot of sexual titillation (“fanservice”). Which is why it was so hilarious watching the article pussyfoot around that definition.
Now, if I go to the Stratford Festival in Canada, not only will I have to listen to the unceded land bullshit before the play, but I’ll have to hear the inserted “Shakespeare was racist” crap too. It’s much easier just not to go.
The email I got from the Festival’s “Editorial Director” (??), telling me that if I objected to the constant woke pandering then the Festival did not want my $1200 worth of season tickets, is a prized possession. As is the playbill from the following season, in which both the Editorial Director and his position were eliminated.
Modern dating – a twist followed swiftly by a turn, neither of which seem to entirely make sense.
Speaking of modern dating – “Irish lads trying to flirt”
If one refers to the ladies working in the “Maid Cafe” as “sex workers” then no leftist can object, right? I do have that right, don’t i?
I have been familiar with the term “otaku” for a couple decades. I have never personally heard it used to refer to an anime fan.
Yet more modern dating issues – Part 1, Part 2.
There is also a Part 3, which betrays a decidedly odd priority.
But this comes with a warning so click at your peril.
tart residue
Band name.
Given that madam can’t keep track of what it is she thinks she is during one 40-second video – is she “non-binary” or “an openly trans man”? – I’d imagine that her confusion extends quite far, over many things. And the conceit that dysmorphic women aren’t ever perceived as a potential threat or something best avoided is a bit of a stretch.
Guardian writer pays six-figure settlement for false rape accusations. Makes excuses. Feels no remorse.
I remember reading about the list when it first came out, and was not a surprised as I already knew that spreading malicious rumors was a common female activity.
Um, David, about that “tart residue”…
No modern dating, but click at your peril anyway.
Local student surprised to learn college is expensive.
BTW, I should like to point out that she is from Vonore, which is close enough to commute to U of T.
The cherry on the cake: The letter is signed “Yours in Solidarity”.
“Genetic women are becoming quite obsolete…” – mansplaining from 1977.
“We stopped in a sundown town”. The horror, the horror.
“She’s majestic!” The Rating Game™!
And when she is unable to refute the boy, she reflexively falls back on anti-white racist epithets. American whites are taught from an early age to not be racist, but that is not true of black and brown Americans who tend to be very comfortable with open and vicious racism.
They learn to lie so young.
Wikipedia claims without citation that the letter is satirical, but why should we believe that?
A lesson for young men: Pay attention. If they lie shamelessly and obviously about this, what else will they lie about? Avoid them for the psychologically and socially toxic creatures they are. And for God’s sake do not marry them.
Local student surprised to learn college is expensive.
$13K in state is pretty cheap these days.
Have to hoist the BS flag – TN minimum wage is $7.25, one half time job covers over half the tuition, and not like there isn’t financial aid, though I guess it is easier to kvetch and play the martyr.
Wikipedia claims without citation that the letter is satirical…
Even if it is, he’s a veritable transnostradamus as it is pretty much what they are spouting now.
Three paragraphs and then the picture was enough. Assuming that is true, a prime example of why smart people are stupid.
Time to update the vexillology files again. Soon they will need to use UV and colors only bees can see.
I was puzzled by Achillean, thinking it meant people who were attracted to heels, but the Alphabet People Wiki defines it.
I could have sworn there used to be a word for that.
I guarantee you she came out ahead on all that. She has made far, far more money pushing leftist BS in general. She only incurred a six figure business expense. Yet I see conservatives…”conservatives” high-fiving this as some sort of victory. It’s definitely a push back but a long way from turning the tide.
The question of the age, I’d say.
LOL. Brilliant! I am stealing that locution.
Shamelessly lying.
Not so much lying as straightforward racism. Does anyone believe the land whales would have been described as gorgeous or majestic if they were white?
Equally if the ripped-body males had been black would they still only have been rated 5 or even 3?
I think of them more as wasps–Ichneumon wasps.
…what else will they lie about?
The question is what won’t they ?
A reply to this, a girl who was, as the scars attest, already into self harm and needed help, not “affirmation”.
College isn’t expensive. College edifices and College administrations are expensive.
My uni, UC Berkeley, a state school, is several times more costly to attend (in state resident tuition, inflation adjusted) now than when I was there in the 70s. A cursory look at their budget shows where the money is going, and it ain’t undergraduate classes.
Anything. Even those obvious lies are permitted under extreme circumstances/definition of the word ‘lie’. Those are still subjective observations, beauty-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder stuff. The clearest test about any of this, at least in an American, possibly Anglosphere context is my standard go-to. My trust in people, institutions, damn near everything…oh, hell everything…is completely broken.
When I was in high school a coach/teacher liked to test us, well me mostly, with logic questions. One that he posed to me is the now fairly well know Fork in the Road riddle. It was a time when TV evangelists and other false prophet types were a going thing and I used to wonder how would one know that God is really God. Could one formulate a similar question to ask an entity presented to you as God… if you only got to ask (H/h)im one question…what would that question possibly be?
Deans, DEI administrators, and such frills and spas and luxury-level fitness centers?
I seem to recall that even in my youth it was widely expected that one should “affirm” dysfunctionalities and delusions in order to “be nice”. Low-key disagreement or suggestions on how to change were frowned upon.
College costs: some site documented that a school such as Stanford (can’t remember or find it now) has essentially 1 staff/faculty for every student. Mark Perry documented a few years ago that U. Mich at one time had 1 admin for every 10 faculty, and now it is 1:1 (or such).
Land whales: sure, blubber is beautiful….if you are making oil lamps. We have an inherent attraction to beauty because it signals both good genes and health. These twits want PC to override that. Lazy is not beautiful IRL.
Speaking of dating, when the criterion for a mate was they went to your same church and were reasonably attractive, marriage was not so hard. When you must check all the woke boxes, which constantly change and are even incoherent, it is almost impossible. Add to that the rising expectations of male income and female beauty and it is easy to see why no one gets married.
I saw that as a meme “WTF dude?” was the question posed, referring to our current situation..
I remember state college back in the 70s was very minimal. Dorms, student union, landscaping all bare-bones.
Mine, too, and I went to a fairly selective private university: Dorm rooms were painted cinder block (breeze block in the UK) walls, poured concrete floors. No elevator. One public telephone down the hall–rooms not wired for telephone or TV.
Speaking of dysfunction and social decay: I am seeing ads for a forthcoming cable TV show glorifying street racers, touting them as courageous nonconformists who are “taking back the streets”. Presumably taking them back from “the man” who has been “keeping them down” by not allowing them to do things that infringe upon others’ rights and safety. No mention of the innnocents killed and injured by these savages.
“feMiNisT”
Hard to say which was more irritating – the verbal bintery, or the endless fiddling with her, um, décolletage.
“Notice my tits, not my sub-normal intelligence!”
why do women still want men to pay for the date? They may rationalize it in all sorts of ways, but deep down women still (and always will be) looking for a good provider. This is rational because a pregnant woman or one with small children DOES need financial and other support, in spite of the rhetoric, in spite of the claims by young women that they don’t need a man or want children. The DNA is strong. Most women when they turn 30 suddenly DO want children even if they claimed otherwise for 10 yrs..
“feMiNisT”
A good use for the Brit term “bint” (I learn so much useful here).
I think of it as the female version of dolt.
“As God is my witness, I thought beavers could fly.”
Per my comment about dating and paying: the divorce rate goes down as his income goes up (outside of Hollywood and politics of course). It is only 7% for engineers, who both have a good steady income AND can fix things. Do not tell me that engineers are great lovers or romantics–I know a bunch of them.
why do women still want men to pay for the date?
IMHO you have way too many women who want the traditional perks but to ignore the totality of the tradition.
My grandma and mom taught me that the inviter pays for the date BUT the invitee is under obligation to NOT take advantage of inviter’s willingness to pay and to reciprocate in a timely manner. Too many “I can do anything I want” feminists feel that means they can use dating as a way for a free meal with no manners to reciprocate. Indeed, there’s a kind of “well, he should be grateful for my mere existence at the table” attitude.
I want to slap the snot out of these little girls (of all ages) for such ugly self-centeredness. They do not make society a better place.
Didn’t this blog link recently to a young woman’s boast that she used dating apps to get free meals with zero interest in any of the men who invited her?
I already knew that spreading malicious rumors was a common female activity
And when she is unable to refute the boy, she reflexively falls back on anti-white racist epithets
And for God’s sake do not marry them
deep down women still (and always will be) looking for a good provider
you have way too many women who want the traditional perks but to ignore the totality of the tradition
Sooner or later, everyone comes around to patriarchy.
I have known (to my sorrow) many feminists who seem to have seen feminism mainly as a way to get privileges without responsibility.
Who decides all this? Is there like a College of Arms, or something?
College? More like an Asylum.
“As God is my witness, I thought beavers could fly.”
Nice WKRP in Cincinnati reference. One of the top ten TV moments ever.
A good use for the Brit term “bint”
A good use for the Brit term “bint”
Cultural appropriation and adulteration – is Arabic for “daughter” – but what would one expect from egregious colonizers.
Interesting. Note the linguistic similarity to the Hebrew “bat”.
I think I have heard of that locution popping up around the world. Do you recall how, in the TV series MASH, a moose was what soldiers would call to a young Korean girl who provided domestic labor or sexual services? I was told that “moose” derived from the Japanese “musume” which means “daughter” or “girl”.
Interesting. Note the linguistic similarity to the Hebrew “bat”.
And even more so to its plural, banot.