Friday Ephemera (671)
Rust of some significance. || The French being French. || The atmosphere of the Sun. || When you want to be at an angle. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. And yes, they survived. || One for the bargain hunters. || Our betters being better than us. || Washing instructions should always be read carefully. || Nesting materials. || At last, a dance music genre quiz. Can you sort the dubstep and glitch hop from the darkstep and post-dubstep? || It’s nice to be appreciated. || The progressive retail experience, parts 460 and 461. The second of which is pleasingly interrupted. || The pulp magazine archive. || A project for the weekend. || I’m guessing it’s not a good sign when the wheel comes off. || Mug retrieval of note. || “Zarkov invents a machine that makes Flash invisible.” || And finally, I think I’ll call him Chompers.
And yes, by all means, follow me on Twitter.
He looks like a psychotic Waldo.
But the lessons we are learning are not the ones he intends.
He’s not a very sporting sporting figure, is he?
No, not really. Quite the opposite, I’d say.
… a fragrant, cuddlesome high-trust society …
I gave up on a Starbucks that used to be a convenient place for meeting a friend, the last straw being a youth loitering without a coffee but with a pitbull. Nice middle class people like me can only have nice third places to go to because rough men are willing to commit not only violence but acts of gross discrimination and prejudice on our behalf, for example the prejudice that a coffeehouse isn’t obliged to accommodate people who don’t know how to behave in a coffeehouse.
And look at that Wikipedia discussion of third places. It’s like Martians or sociologists or former high school outcasts trying to re-imagine a neighborhood bar in a way that preserves the social cohesion but without discrimination, exclusion, or norm-enforcement (unless it’s the norm of not discriminating against different norms). The regulars of the bar re-imagined not as gatekeepers who just might exclude or impose conditions, but as kindergarten teachers making sure that everyone includes the newcomers in their games.
Please ignore what you are perceiving.
Not entirely unrelated.
I’m not sure now. A search turns up a “Part 2” on Vimeo and apparently a stage play so now I’m wondering what exactly I saw and when.
Please ignore what you are perceiving.
From the replies:
That. Also, “No, don’t think I will”, which is a bit more polite than just pointing and laughing.
So this is interesting…my wife just discovered this Apple Photos “for you” thing that pulls together various photos and makes a video collage. I say “discovered” but we had seen it before though the pics were from vacation locations and there were not a lot of photos of us included in them before. At least that we noticed. They were nice/interesting but NBD per se. It was even getting mildly annoying in a mildly creepy sense of noticing when we were on vacation or whatever. Many pics of the dog though. Anyway, I generally don’t take a good posed picture. Yet either by luck or possibly AI(?) the more recent collages were more specific to the two of us and picked all pretty good pictures of me. And her as well but she’s a bit more photogenic than I am.
This.
I used to know a number of trans people–all were emotionally disturbed and dysfunctional to at least some degree–but I never said anything unkind to them: Why be gratuitously mean to people who are having enough trouble as it is?
But if such people are going to make demands then the obligation of civility ends. Also tolerance.
A mostly peaceful throat punch.
As we all know, their violence is speech while our speech is violence.
Forget the zombie apocalypse it’s never going to happen.
Worry about the fucktard apocalypse, it’s already upon us.
I’m surprised some eligible bachelor hasn’t snapped him up yet.
I’m surprised some eligible bachelor hasn’t snapped him up yet.
And that’s the er.. nub of the matter, isn’t it. Just who is he trying to date? Gay men or straight men? He hasn’t tried to become anything a straight guy might even be remotely fooled by for a second – he didn’t even get a boob job or take hormones, just a face lift. I don’t know how many gay men are attracted to overly feminine stereotype caricatures, but I’m sure there’s a niche out there somewhere he’d fit in. Might take longer than 365 days to find it though.
The People’s Exhibit A.
The People’s Exhibit B.
Meanwhile, this guy, who I think may the Waldo looking guy from the other link but without the filters and voice modifiers, “has literally cried himself to sleep“
Or, Gathering of deeply resentful, mentally ill people results in violence.
And by quietly wearing a sign that says children cannot consent to chemical castration, well… apparently you forfeit any right not to be mobbed and assaulted, repeatedly, by deeply resentful, mentally ill people.
While police officers smirk.
But hey, visibility.
The People’s Exhibit B.
It seems that it’s comedy, not a real incident.
But I was completely taken in the first time I saw it yesterday, as I have known SCA/Sealed Knot people with a somewhat tenuous grip on reality.
Did they misspell risibility?
“cis people…adopting the word cis would be a great show of allyship for the trans community”
He might as well get in a time machine and “explain” to coastal villagers in England why they should demonstrate allyship for the Viking community.
Well, a “day of visibility” is a questionable strategy if what’s being made visible is screeching, infantilism, and serious personality disorders.
It’s worth noting the number of trans activists and pronoun stipulators, both at the gathering and subsequently on Twitter, who insisted that Mr Elston initiated the aggression and struck the first blow, which is untrue, an outright lie. Some were keen to repeat this lie directly to Mr Elston, despite the footage, filmed from several angles, and despite him, you know, being there.
If you’ve watched the other videos from the event, all in Mr Elston’s feed, it’s also worth noting the overlap of trans activists and Antifa.
A clustering of the Cluster Bs.
Mr Elston has managed to elicit one or two surprisingly coherent discussions on campuses, where some tissue of restraint might be expected, but those are vanishingly rare. It’s not clear to me what he hoped to achieve by visiting bedlam, where psychologically marginal people are keen to collectively amplify their delusions, and their emotional instabilities, and where many were itching for a spot of shovey-kicky-lie-about-it.
https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/chicago-carjackers-dumb-mistake-he-drove-will-co-glasgow
Just when you think every police force in the Anglosphere has switched sides a glimmer of hope from Joliet Illinois.
P.s. re the events surrounding the mostly peaceful throat punch I suspect Vancouver Officer 3081 will not have the same self-satisfied smirk on her chubby face when she wakes up this morning.
Literally crying himself to sleep.
So easy to fix. Replace the word “cis-man” with “normal man” or better still just “man”.
Everybody happy.
asiaseen: ‘Maybe being a judge at a pokemon tournament is good grounds for going home and re-thinking your life.’
Hey! Some of us aspire to be the best there ever was like no one was before!
[ Hides breakables. ]
Just when you think every police force in the Anglosphere has switched sides a glimmer of hope from Joliet Illinois.
Meanwhile in other carjacking news, the alleged perpetrator should have been in DC where the rozzers aren’t allowed to chase you, or even try to stop you, it appears.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-myles-gray-vancouver-police-officers-investigation-update-1.5843968
A few years ago Vancouver police were not quite so reticent about getting involved. Had Mr Gray been a different ethnicity we might have occasionally heard his name mentioned in the years since.
If the police become any more farcical and effete, the public they claim to serve may, out of necessity, begin to remember some unfashionable moral realities.
…the public they claim to serve may, out of necessity, begin to remember some unfashionable moral realities.
Meanwhile in San Antonio…
David,
In the dim and distant pre-pandemic days I recall a couple of incidents here in the UK when onlookers simply stood by watching rather than piling in to assist police officers who were doing rather badly in various scuffles. The boys in blue, judging by their official Twitter accounts, were not at all happy about this.
While drawing a line at allowing WPC’s, even five foot nothings who should never be on the streets, get thumped I concur with the inescapable conclusion that the police are no longer on our side so that the term “lifting a finger” becomes applicable.
Being well into my sixties with nothing more serious than a couple of speeding tickets on my record I often wonder at how far my faith in the law has diminished.
During Covid Antifa took their rioting to a colorado suburb. A group of conservative dads –did I mention conservative?–came out in mass to chase them away and beat them. It was glorious. These guys were big, bearded, and defending their families.
I think Tim Newman wrote about the phenomenon on his blog.
From further down his blog page;-
“Today’s incident (two middle-class tossers getting unceremoniously hauled off the roof of a tube train in Canning Town), coming off the back of the authorities’ decision to ban any more unauthorised Extinction Rebellion protests in London, might be a sign things are starting to turn”
Tim’s cautious optimism was misplaced.
Thanks for that.
Being same here mine has effectively evaporated. Aside from the sheriff in my north Georgia home county, I think they have become like every other institution that gets unconditional praise, like the teachers, the doctors, (formerly) the priesthood. Our current military is likely thick with it as well. The defense contractors, including the space programs, that I worked for show this sort of rot. I literally saw it very clearly in a proposal meeting regarding a small project for the FBI. They arrogantly acknowledge that some information that they would be showing us was illegal for them to have. We had to pinky-swear or some sort of agreement to not discuss it. Though I’m quite positive I didn’t sign anything. The funny thing was that that information was so insignificant and by that date so effectively irrelevant that I to this day do not understand why they hadn’t just destroyed it rather than bother us with it. The bloody institutional arrogance exhibited by people, some of whom have little basis for their arrogance were it not for the institution that pays for their kibble.
And that says a lot. One of the more realist people out there. Just about the time that I started reading his blog regularly, he stopped writing it. Not the first time I’ve had such experiences. For a while there I felt somewhat cosmically response for the deaths of Keith Moon and John Bonham. Anyway… I didn’t realize, or maybe forgot, that he’s on twitter, of which I read but don’t partake. I’ll have to keep him in sight that way. Also, Tim’s Cautious Optimism…band name.
Let’s just change the status of universities to “mental institutions” overnight and then they have to provide their sanity in order to get out.
…they have to provide their sanity in order to get out.
What makes you think they want to get out?
Don’t see a borderline anywhere on the horizon.
In TN or KY USA, the rioters that invaded the state capitol (rather violently) were upset the state enacted a law forbidding gender surgery/drugs for minors. Not off the deep end or anything. Oh, and they call passing such a law “genocide”.
Good thing David’s place is not a Facebook page, or it would long ago have devolved into Bob’s Country Bunker.
Indeed. And thanks for mentioning the term “third places”.
Oh, FFS. Mind you, it does put the sh*tshow that was the end of the race into some kind of context.
Note the conservatives…”conservatives” putting the emphasis on the point that the thief shot first. Not that the thief pulled a gun but that the thief, the person who created the life threatening situation in the first place, not by stealing the truck but by brandishing a weapon and threatening the life of…well anyone let alone the proper owner of the truck, shot first. Because by all rights, he had that prerogative. Fucking pathetic.
Which reminds me of something a bit personal but…whatever…bear with me this is rather funny…maybe just to me and yes, I have been drinking but still rather funny…maybe just to me…As my father was suffering from the last stages of a melanoma that had metastasized to his brain…my WWII infantry combat Pacific theater veteran father…in the last week or so before he died, before going home I would stop by the assisted living facility every day where we had him, which was just up the road from my work. He was still somewhat coherent, he was still himself but slowly fading away. Anyway, one day I stopped in and he had some old western on the tv. The sound blaring loudly. I don’t know if it was a tv show or a movie. I didn’t specifically recognize what it was but it was somewhat obvious that the good guy was chasing a bad guy across the top of the cars on a train. A rather common situation in westerns as you probably well know. I was much more focused on him than the show. Anyway as I was about to leave I stooped down to kiss him goodbye for what for all I knew might have been the last time (it wasn’t) and he blurts out, “Shoot him in the back!” Meaning of course watching the tv scene that the good guy had his opportunity to end the situation. Dad’s instincts were kicking in and he was rather frustrated that the good guy was being…well…stupid.
Not sure what your point is:
The law does not allow you to track down a thief and shoot him out of hand. Much as one might want to, for expediency and for cleansing the population.
But the law does allow you to shoot when shot at, and that presumably made it legal for the truck owner to shoot back.
However, that second point depends on how the truck owner confronted the thief.
Not sure what your point is. He did not shoot the thief (God help me, I cannot spell ‘thief’ on the first try anymore for some reason) “out of hand” but, according to the facts presented, only after said thief produced his own gun. At that point he had every right, law or no stupid law, to protect his own life by shooting first. Some might argue not just a right to do so but as an obligation to the rest of civilized society as well.
Meanwhile in NYC…hopefully the NY Post got this one right…
https://nypost.com/2023/04/01/nyc-garage-worker-charged-with-attempted-murder-for-shooting-thief/
Fireplace tools are collectively, (in the UK at least. No idea what they’re called in forn parts), Companion Sets. Individually, tongs, poker, dustpan, brush.
My point was that I was puzzled that you objected to that emphasis.
The old Hollywood code, in which the good guy may never shoot first, may never shoot a villain in the back, and so on.
Unclear whether you can get an oil change or tires rotated while you get your pipes cleaned.
Unless someone drove from the UK – checkmate – unless they will be required to back in, which is a whole other set of jokes.
The Hollywood code requires the good guy to be shot in the arm 99% of the time.
On the rare occasions when he takes a bullet to a leg he will quickly improvise a splint and limp to victory. Similarly a shot hand will be miraculously cured by wrapping a handkerchief round it.
it’s true. I’ve seen it.
Except when Han shot first. And then he didn’t.
Han Solo was post-code, of course. George Lucas, on the other hand, may be post-menopause.
Doris: Yes, “companion sets”. That’s what I was thinking of. Thank-you. That’s a weight off my mind. (The little tiny 1oz. one that always gets lost from the set.)
And in art news.
Beginning to have doubts. Beginning. Doubts.
Edit: Doh! Wrong thread? Or maybe a better fit on the thread for tomorrow’s ephemera?