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.
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And you take them at their word? The “preacher” too? Interesting.
[ Rolls single, fluff-covered peanut along bar. ]
Dude. Why isn’t there any salt and pepper on the tables? Boy, if you had grown up in our house…
Thieves and muggers can of course be dealt with in other ways.
As can car hijackers.
Too busy retching to fight.
I’d like to hear these guys’ take on that one.
I scored 27401. Which is embarrassingly high. I think they’re making some of them up, to be honest. It was bad enough when I stopped paying attention in the late ’90s, but at this stage, basically every single track is a different “genre”.
Hmm. American Film Fun seems to have been very different to the British version.
(My dad used to tell me it was his favourite comic as a kid, before the Beano and Dandy came along and blew everything else out of the water.)
See also, tea in a microwave.
All good-hearted people know that microwaves are for warming plates.
All good-hearted people know that dance music peaked in 1991/92.
So am I. It’s on the tip of my tongue. But every search for “fireplace tools” comes up with a bunch of results for… fireplace tools.
Stupid internet.
Suggested experiment: See what his rock does to his own head.
there are multiple vids online of thieves using a brick to attack plate glass and having it bounce back and knock them out. Priceless.
The vid of the barricade and they are grilling the driver for why they need to go into that area…a busybody wet dream. You can only go where we give you permission to go. To save the planet!!! And the impracticality of forcing people to walk, take bikes and buses is never acknowledged.
Quite. Imagine the kinds of people to whom it would appeal.
Dude. Why isn’t there any salt and pepper on the tables?
Wypipo don’t season their peanuts.
Making assumptions. I’m part Irish. Bugger off.
Dog with a bell: if you are dumb enough to give your dog a bell, you deserve the ding ding ding.
My grandmother proudly would say we were part scots-irish but I was 50 before I understood that Oliver Cromwell 400 yrs ago brought loyal scots (protestant) in to rule the conquered N. Ireland (Catholic). 400 yrs ago and my grandma in the US was still keen to make the distinction. Not irish. ugh. scots-irish.
I’ll just leave this here, I think.
Speaking of Japan…We’ve run through our Clarkson’s Farm episodes last Monday. Had to explain the “I just became a tripod” to my wife…anyway…Amazon suggested the James May series about Japan, Our Man in Japan IIRC. I haven’t heard any talk about it over here though. Would you recommend it? We have a thing about Sunday/Monday shows like that. Generally construction/building/creating stuff but travel stuff and sometimes history stuff works on those days as well….for some reason…
Er… no. It has its moments, but it’s very low-key, by which I mean, pretty dull. The Hammond and May solo ventures that I’ve seen are less successful.
Thanks. That would have been my guess based on his personality. I greatly enjoyed the few episodes that I saw of the original Top Gear. I found the other two guys a bit dull in comparison, but especially May. He seems like a nice enough guy but that also seems that might be the issue. Or non-issue…whatever Tried to watch the first episode of Grand Tour or whatever but I wasn’t really drawn in by it and it didn’t hold much interest for the wife. She loves Clarkson though. I’m thinking I should hunt around for the original Top Gear but last time I tried that during the pandemic, I either couldn’t find it or it was country restricted or something. I did recently (I think) sign us up for BritBox which I presume is just an outside-UK thing. Some remotely in-laws are fans and post about watching it. I wanted to show the wife those Yes, Minister shows which we found via Amazon. I forgot how few of them there actually were. There was a “free trial” of BritBox that was required that I didn’t cancel but I haven’t gone exploring the BritBox concept yet as we’re still watching Minister via Amazon. Comedies and dramas (well Columbo) are the sort of thing we watch near the end of the week and we have a good backlog of that kind of stuff right now.
If you’re stuck for something to watch, I’d suggest the Top Gear Polar Special, and the Grand Tour Mongolia Special, aka Survival of the Fattest.
There used to be a saying that “An Ulsterman is an Irishman who’ll knock you down if you call him one”. My great-grandfather was from Armagh, and apparently that described him to a “T”.
[ Puts valuables in shoes. ]
Thanks. I do recall we watched something about the three of them taking power boats up the Mekong river that was incredibly cringy. Don’t recall what series that was a part of but…mmm…err…glad I wasn’t on that film crew.
The global warming one was great. I wonder if it’s been memory-holed.
Teen booted from Pokemon tournament.
Pronouns are serious stuff indeed.
Meanwhile a gentleman with a medical mystery.
Sure, why not? Evil people can love their friends and relatives too.
For anyone suffering from Top Gear/Grand Tour withdrawal. Less buggering about (although there is a proper Hammond Moment), and no May or Clarkson, but it’s rather good nonetheless.
Pokemon tournament stuff
If you think doxing people over judge calls is the right play, go home and rethink your life
Maybe being a judge at a pokemon tournament is good grounds for going home and re-thinking your life.
Hope I’m not the only one who recalls Penelope Keith in To the Manor Born.
See, this is one of those academic why-nots. Sure. Sounds reasonable. And it’s all a matter of degree of evil, of course, of course. People who are evil, raised in evil, who use what little good they allow into their lives as just another weapon for evil, not much love there, if any. But that’s just MNSHO. I do have tremendous sympathy for those who by whatever circumstances beyond their control,must live amongst such people, who fight against such evil. But evil people like that, nope.
But remember all those Nazi killers who by all accounts loved their families and friends?
Maybe being an ideologue at any tournament…
Buy physical media.
Even they were not this kind of evil. Even the leaders, as awful as they were, had principles. Grossly misguided principles, ego driven principles. But sufficient principles to hold together a functional civilization. A fascism way out of its time but not significantly different from that of the earlier race-based empires of most of human history.
This other sort of evil is far, far more feral. Much closer to animal type behavior. Our only saving grace being that such a vacuum of morals and honor cannot generally function to support itself. A hate for everyone and everything that differs from them. Hate even for their own kind on the other side of the street. This sort of hate is hampered by its own inability to organize itself. That’s some concentrated evil right there.
It is, I think, extraordinary how widely and rapidly the pronoun game has spread and been seemingly accepted by so many, or at least has been imposed on them with little pushback. As if the problems it necessarily entails, not least the erosion of probity and the general air of farce, were unobvious or difficult to fathom. You’d think people might at least intuit some vague sense of dodginess.
On the subject of schoolchildren’s homework.
That would be a grossly inappropriate intrusion into someone’s private thoughts and feelings even if the students were 20 years old. But for young children? Concrete overshoes come to mind.
The school is, I think, a high school and the children teenagers, but as you say, the age of the children is a pinhead to dance on. It’s still a matter of coercing minors to reveal or invent their sexual fantasies, presumably for reasons that need not be elaborated. Which sounds very much like a basis for firing, possibly prosecution, and certainly a good kicking in a darkened alleyway.
Oh, there’s more:
The teacher in question has been “placed on leave” following parents’ concerns.
Auto racing, the Australian Grand Prix F1 also has Drag.
Meanwhile, good parenting means being supportive.
As I said, and it bears repeating: It is a gross violation of the dignity and privacy of any individual to demand these sorts of personal revelations.
But “progressives” have trouble recognizing the concept of the personal, the private, and the dignity and autonomy of the individual: All must be slaves of the Collective.
A “drag race” of men in drag was a joke when I was a kid. I never expected it to become reality.
A fat queen in hotpants vogueing badly doesn’t really cut it. As I’ve said before, It might at least be entertaining to see enormous hair, fake boobs and yards of billowing chiffon all thundering along at 200 kph.
This sort of hate is hampered by its own inability to organize itself.
To WTP’s point, when Antifa in Seattle (or portland?) captured a neighborhood and declared CHAZ they could not even govern 1/8 sq mile and they had rapes and murders happen.
Oh, there’s even more than that (my emphasis)…
https://www.christianpost.com/news/health-teacher-placed-on-leave-over-sexual-fantasies-assignment.html
Children’s whole lives are not supposed to be the business of school teachers–but their totalitarian ambitions become clearer with each passing day.
Unitarians? Figures. I remember, from many years ago (60’s or 70’s) a Unitarian church which had a sex education class for kids in which the reading list was mostly pornography.
Was it also the one about the badgers? That touched on some environmental stuff that I found refreshing in the current context. Was also amusing in the context of Clarkson’s having to deal with them.
He’s educating us, you know.
Mr Riley Dennis, mentioned here recently, is now a sporting figure.