Friday Ephemera (673)
The mystery of his uneven bangs. || An interactive map of Mars. || Dad despairs, Mom remembers. || Done with mirrors. || “Toilet air could be smelly, but the concentrations of noxious gasses are pretty low.” || Super-light, non-fade structural colour. || Hotel California. || Kidney stones. || I’m seeing a lot of thongs. || The thrill of tree surgery. || A struggle with scenery. || The progressive retail experience, parts 465, 466, and 467. || Today’s word is perseverance. || Today’s other word is throughput. || Spot the tiny excavator. || A reminder that some people are just trash. || His day took a turn. || You know, I’m not entirely sure what’s happening here. || You want one and you know it. || Erotic washing. || And finally, in practical news, how to repel women.
Also, three bonus buttons below the fold.
A hell of a barbeque
Texas dairy farm explosion kills 18,000 cows
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65258108
The irony of the hanging poster in retail experience 466 as the robber leaves:
Over-spending is out
Sure is!
Mom. Is/was a babe.
Throughput…
Do I want to see…
NO.
For a second it looked like the tree was going to start walking.
“A reminder that some people are just trash.“
What did I just see?!?
Morning, all.
A little background here. Apparently, the artist had to be flown back in to repair the sand sculpture. Hopefully, the bill was sent to the girls’ parents.
Another individual unaccustomed to consequences.
Masculine vibes.
Okay, that was funny.
Those so inclined can follow me on Twitter.
I think this is what’s called a fundamental misunderstanding.
When Walmart puts more stuff behind security glass or closes more stores they’re going to cry racism, aren’t they?
It is, I believe, the custom, the standard trajectory. Rinse and repeat.
What struck me was that the ladies – I use the term loosely – clearly imagine that their behaviour is something to boast about, to record and advertise, and in which to involve children. Which suggests a level of practised degeneracy that can’t be corrected. Assuming one were even inclined to make any such attempt.
Friday Ephemera: Showing you things coming out of frog butts.
Hey, I don’t make the rules.
ISWYDT
Always look forward to these on Friday. Tip jar hit.
Bless you, sir. May your notifications be relevant and intriguing.
!8, 000 cows are alleged to have died. But…
When law enforcement officials arrived at the dairy farm, they determined only a woman was trapped in the dairy building. Fox News
The adverb sub must be unaware of the wrath that the sisterhood can summon when triggered.
Something about these is strangely compelling:
How to pick up a duck…
‘Always respect the media’
The difference between F and SH….
Now trying to think if there’s a word for something that’s revolting and adorable at the same time.
80,000 cows alleged to have died But…
When law enforcement officials arrived at the dairy farm, they determined only a woman was trapped in the dairy building. Fox News
The adverb sub must be unaware of the fury to which the sisterhood can be roused when triggered.
Texas dairy farm explosion kills 18,000 cows
Alternate headline: “Descendant of Mrs O’Leary’s cow killed in bovine terror bomb making accident”
Teen girl vandalizes sand sculpture in lobby of Royal Hawaiian Hotel
(Unpleasant memories of faded jars of hump fat and pork rectums make an entirely unwelcome re-appearance).
“Happy Mardi Gras.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/12j2at9/guy_spends_2_years_destroying_disabled_neighbours/
Woo hoo! Got any more of those videos?
“We’re not asking for special treatment…” just two or three free seats to accommodate our Hindenburgian enormity – for the inclusivity, of course.
I’m looking – so far, vainly – for a more recent update to the story, beyond mid-2022. After years of menacing a disabled neighbour, and menacing his carers, and repeatedly vandalising said neighbour’s property, all seemingly without cause, and after trapping said neighbour in an alleyway, apparently for amusement… after all that, you might think that this particular Birmingham City Council tenant would have been evicted.
Or found dead among garbage bags.
I get the sense from Theodore Dalrymple’s accounts of life in council housing that the courts and councils do not care about the welfare of the people they are charged with protecting.
I suspect that such thoughts occur to increasing numbers of citizens as government agencies refuse to perform their duties. At one time the authorities would have dealt very promptly with such a thug. Now they seem to spring into action only when citizens take the law into their own hands.
“A reminder that some people are just trash.“
I’m not sure what lower than trash, or even raw sewage, is, but this is it.
A reminder that some disabled people are trash, too.
A reminder that some “singers” are trash too.
Not that anyone really needed a reminder…
Must be a Canadian bicycle.
I was in a doc office waiting while a guy in back had a kidney stone. He was screaming. You can see why.
Tree surgery: flat out the most dangerous job.
Airline seats: sat next to a 6 ft 10in guy. He folded his arms in, leaned his head against the seat in front, and fell asleep. Totally did not bother me. Also have had a stocky but not huge guy with his elbows out playing a gameboy (yea, a grown man) so his elbow was in my space for 2 hrs. The fatsos are asking the airlines to give up $400 to $800 (extra seat) for their benefit. Every flight. huh
Attempt to rob dental practice doesn’t quite go to plan.
Details here.
You can see why.
Kidney stones come in many forms, the one in the picture is probably calcium oxalate, urate stones, OTOH, can be quite smooth. The pain from kidney stones is from ureteral obstruction, spasm, and the dilation of the ureter north of the stone.
In extreme cases, the back pressure from the obstruction can be severe enough to damage the kidney.
Jagged or roughness of the surface of a stone will contribute to hematuria, however, even if it is small enough (generally 5mm or less) to pass spontaneously.
We now return you to the regularly scheduled inanity of the world.
Tree surgery…
A relative’s neighbor went missing. Turned out their head had been neatly popped off their body by the split trunk of a tree they were felling.
The combination of all that potential energy, leverage, and chainsaws, is deadly.
The fatsos are asking the airlines to give up $400 to $800 (extra seat) for their benefit.
The other issue is that people Brobdingnagian enough to require two or three seats can barely waddle down the aisle and probably can’t fit through an emergency exit, so yeah, let’s accommodate them at the expense of everyone else on the plane.
Perhaps a thing like at carnival rides – “No Admittance If You Can’t Fit Through This Hatch”.
OTOH I see a market for Balenoptera Airways – a fleet of C-130s, palletized giant seats for these people, and in an emergency out the ramp they go. Problem sorted.
Can’t decide between ‘slags’ and ‘skanks.’
Did she escape from the earlier thong video?
*ping*
Bless you, sir. May your oven gloves remain free of comically incriminating scorch marks.
Farnsworth: airlines pose a problem. Not just the obese but the disabled and very elderly cannot properly respond to an emergency. I landed in a small town in a medium sized plane and there was no walkway. There was a crippled man onboard and they had a heck of a time getting him down the stairs. How about hustling down the isle and sliding down the emergency slide? Nope. cannot. It is not discrimination to say if you cannot respond to an emergency you can’t fly. You are endangering everyone else. But these days, better dead than rude I guess.