And In Thong-Related News
A project is undertaken:
Years of “working through” one’s state of heftiness obviously being preferable to actual, you know, weight loss. Which, one suspects, might have taken less time. But hey, we mustn’t reach for the stars.
Fearlessly, heroically, said garment was duly rocked. The result, needless to say, is “cool-girl style vibes” – a “body-baring sheer look,” complete with what I’m assured are a corset and “strappy, rhinestone heels.”
Other perspectives are available.
When not “pushing boundaries” and invoking the feminism of taking up space “unapologetically,” the author, Ms Margie Plus, is a “confidence activist” and a musician. Those with a taste for pitch correction and overstretched PVC can behold her creativity here.
Via Mr Worstall.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
For instance, the accusations of “audism,” mentioned here some time ago, in which activists displace the aggravations of deafness onto people with functional hearing, such that we, not deafness itself, are construed as the sole cause of disadvantage and isolation. And so, the rest of us are denounced as oppressive and “violent,” not because of any actual violence, you understand, but simply because we can hear.
It’s easier to direct long-term resentment at other people rather than abstractions or impersonal things – a disability, for instance. I mean, you can only rail against the universe, or circumstance or whatever, for so long. People, on the other hand, you can resent for a lifetime. And so, a preference for not being disabled is construed, ludicrously, as “oppression” and “violence,” and a basis for intersectional chastisement.
I have a niece who was born with a hearing problem, successfully corrected with an implant. My late father-in-law relied on various hearing aids. So far as I can recall, I haven’t ever felt “superior” to either of them, or been eager to “dominate” them, on grounds that my hearing works better than theirs. And both have been immensely grateful for the devices that allow them to enjoy music, and family gossip, and questionable gameshows.
asiaseen: “WTF is wrong with pencil and paper?“
I thought the ‘throat cutting’ gesture was pretty universal, as universal as any sign language, no?
Sweep gets the message across in this stirring version of Bohemian Rhapsody:-
https://sweepfanpage.wordpress.com/sweep-sings/
I’m just going to leave this here for no reason whatsoever.
‘I’m just going to leave this here for no reason whatsoever.’
Ah, but David, can we be sure that ‘Obesity’ and ‘Diabetes’ aren’t ghetto names for other black performers, and maybe this was a murder?
Diabetes has a… certain ring to it. Sort of, Diabetes Jones: Private Detective.
Some wise observations on engineering by Tim Newman for those who believed that STEM would be a firewall for the idiocy. Much of STEM is the idiocy.
Nah. She’s just a fat ass. And if someone wants to reply “It takes one to know one,” okay, I’m one, too. But that makes me qualified to know a fat ass when I see one.
The post reminds me of this comedy routine.
Utterly tragic (follow the thread).
No, Modern Scholar was a now-defunct competitor of The Teaching Company. The latest name for The Teaching Company is Wondrium, which sounds like the horrible invention of some MBA marketing dweebs.
Ghetto name actually seen: Latrina. It’s only a matter of time before someone names her daughter Chlamydia.
Thoughts so stupid only an “activist” could have them.
Chas Moore is given the Key to the City of Austin (of course) and wants all police and prisons abolished, which I am sure has nothing to do with his being a convicted felon.
a) No police, so who apprehends the alleged perpetrator, and who makes him show up to clean your dump let alone do other than a half-assed job of it?
b) Having the guy who robbed your house in to clean your house is pure genius, what could possibly go wrong?
He also wants no jail time for murder.
No retribution? Not even the Lubyanka treatment?
Just spitballing here, but unless he decides to identify as a woman and is transferred to a women’s prison and shanks someone’s grandma who is also in the slammer, I’m guessing what you gain is he won’t kill someone else’s grandma.
I am firmly convinced the main method of any leftist idea is never to think things through.
“Sometimes our children lead the way.”
Among the many, shall we say, problems that occur to me is the suspicion that the kind of person who will happily break into your home and steal your belongings, having almost certainly done such things before, probably won’t have the most diligent approach to cleaning up afterwards. Or indeed to much of anything.
But hey, let’s listen to the fatuous, self-serving ramblings of a moral degenerate.
And as we’ve seen many times, some people will perform almost any contortion to avoid being realistic, and thus become statusful. If only among other moral idiots.
…fatuous, self-serving ramblings…
Speaking of which, the “trans” “activists” are at it again in France.
Just blueskying here, but ersatz women shutting down women trying to support actually oppressed women isn’t exactly helping their argument that they are not ersatz women, because that is what the actual men oppressing women are doing in the first place.
Who would’ve guessed that a demographic prone to Cluster B personality disorders would engage in obnoxious and threatening behaviour?
Dead at 25
At least no amputations & blindness occurred.
That’s a blessing
Instead say:
I’m not infected;
I am disease free;
I am devoid of genital pathology;
Yeah, no, you didn’t get that from me.
Or, riddled with slag pox.
What?
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Many of the recent campaigns to destigmatise certain kinds of behaviour, or the consequences of such behaviour – opiate addiction, fentanyl use, whoring about, etc – seem geared to suppressing the kind of information that the rest of us might conceivably find useful if we wished to minimise contact with shitty people.
As if shame should be banished from the moral universe, even as a concept.
As I said when the link immediately above first appeared,
Or, “Just keep on doing whatever is ruining your life and degrading the social environment of those around you. Everything is fine.”
Not an entirely happy development.
It’s only a matter of time before someone names her daughter Chlamydia.
Already been done pst, in Hong Kong, together with a whole host of risible names “because they sound nice”
OK, that video was annoying AF. It was obviously sped up, for wtf reason I do not get. I could not find any way to slow it down. WTF was the point?
Cute. Still thinking it’s about the argument. The logic & reason thing. Again, the respect for L&R sailed long, long ago. Somewhat related to:
You’re just supposed to accept that rationalization. You L&R as to the consequences of living in such a society are just tiresome BS that they will ignore. Because they can. The fact that they can is the whole point of why they do what they do.
Re my previous comment, not entirely unrelated.
Again, note the attempt to flatten values, to erase any distinction between the deserving and the not.
Instead say:
“Cupid’s eczema”?
That it’s a buyer’s market for clowns might have some bearing.
From Planned Parenthood’s bullet points at the link:
They were not common when I was a kid. Herpes used to be very rare, until the “sexual revolution” of the sixties.
A science fiction writer, known for picking up strangers for casual one-night stands, boasted that he was sleeping his way across the continent. He eventually got herpes and I always wondered how many women he gave it to.
Very insightful.
Some years ago in New Orleans, during an outbreak, there were a number of girls born at Charity Hospital given, at the suggestion of puckish interns, the name Roseola.
“We will never reach Peak Clown World, because there is always more peaks.”
Indeed. For those of us who are… old “ish”, the past is instructive. One might recall the “satanic everything” of the 60’s and 70’s, or the “child abuse” idiocy of the late 80’s and early 90’s.
What we see here is simply another peak. And just as stupid.
Chas Moore: punishing a murderer is not supposed to make you feel better (though it may) but to prevent that person from killing again. Same with other crimes. Most crimes are committed by thugs with dozens or hundreds of crimes under their belts. A rapist with 20 rapes for example. A thug who shoots people rather often. Removal from society is the goal. Secondarily, prison informs the other thugs that it may not be worth being a criminal. For this to work, prison needs to be likely.
Nah, bro. Yes, another peak to be followed by another and another. The big difference, the accelerant added to the current fire, is that those stupid things back then were nowhere near as widely accepted. Once openly exposed there was pushback from the community. People, most of whom are now likely dead or in nursing homes too old to matter, pushed back on the idiocy, openly, and unafraid of being called names and laughed at. They were of course called names and laughed at by the younger culture who wrote them off as obtuse, prudish, and “not getting it”. Movies were made, comedians did sets, tv shows were produced on a weekly basis mocking those older people. But they had a moral backbone and they were not afraid to speak up. Critical mass or no critical mass. Deep down, they knew that they were right. For all their faults, some of us knew as well.
Banishing shame: If you declare that there is no morality and there should be no judgement on you, you must banish shame because shame is the result of someone judging you. Logically, then, we must normalize everything. Nothing can be said to be an outcome to be avoided, such as incurable STIs or permanent amputations of body parts by teens or playing around with lethal drugs or hooking up with strangers or illnesses caused by obesity. No no no. We must not inform our youth or selves of dangers. We may not ask if a romantic partner has herpes. During a pandemic of covid we must delicately say “preexisting conditions” without mentioning that obesity/diabetes is one of those conditions lets we shame the obese. We also must logically put manuals for every sexual option into elementary schools because it is now normalized. The logic is valid once you accept the premise.
Or curable STI’s, since increased drug use leads to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which in turn leads to suffering for people who contracted infections though no fault of their own.
I wonder if anyone has ever asked John Cleese and other famous comedians if they now have doubts about the wisdom of mocking prudence, not to mention sacred things.
punishing a murderer is not supposed to make you feel better
Ironic, given how everything today is based on one’s feelings
“the wisdom of mocking prudence”
Some wish to upset the proverbial apple cart…
Then complain on the lack of apples.
Like jolly escaped asses (band name):
—
If you make a revolution, make it for fun,
don’t make it in ghastly seriousness,
don’t do it in deadly earnest,
do it for fun.
Don’t do it because you hate people,
do it just to spit in their eye.
Don’t do it for the money,
do it and be damned to the money.
Don’t do it for equality,
do it because we’ve got too much equality
and it would be fun to upset the apple—cart
and see which way the apples would go a—rolling.
Don’t do it for the working classes.
Do it so that we can all of us be little aristocracies on our own
and kick our heels like jolly escaped asses.
Don’t do it, anyhow, for international Labour.
Labour is the one thing a man has had too much of.
Let’s abolish labour, let’s have done with labouring!
Work can be fun, and men can enjoy it; then it’s not labour.
Let’s have it so! Let’s make a revolution for fun!
Well, it makes me feel better about going on a walk down the street, answering knocks on my door, letting my kids play with their friends outside, etc.
Obesity: Chris Farley (died age 33) and John Candy (d age 44) were both rather…round. I predicted that they would both perish early, and they both did. Age 33 is pretty young to die I think. But hey, fat is healthy donchaknow.
[ Does last-minute check of links for tomorrow’s Ephemera. ]
Third time I’ve had to do this today, by the way.
[ Shakes fist at Reddit moderators. ]
Psst! Want to borrow a trebuchet?
trebuchet not restricted under gun control laws…
This lady want to relieve himself on the steps of No. 10 Downing Street, most likely not squatting, if you catch my meaning, if you get my drift.
There’s a reason thongs went out of style. They are uncomfortable and don’t provide any protection where a woman needs it.
She’s late to the party. And holy shit, is bad taste a prerequisite for these “look at me!” types?