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.
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A singularly depressing selection of barely human scumbags of all nationalities, colours, shapes and sizes today. They make whatever the frog was shitting out look bearable by comparison.
I saw this, now you can too.
Do you mean this month’s shitting frog or last month’s shitting frog?
I hear it’s going to be a regular feature.
[ Fetches notepad, jots down shitting frog. ]
[ Underlines. ]
Not just the obese but the disabled and very elderly cannot properly respond to an emergency.
Medical and other attendants regularly assist ill/disabled/elderly on flights, but there is no way someone as big as that, ahem, lady in the video is going to be able to get through an emergency exit even with a dedicated shover armed with a gallon of axle grease.
However, you are right, better people burn or die of smoke inhalation rather than upset her feelings. Of course these days the bum fight to get to the exits will be live streamed, so there is that.
Well this guy certainly has an interesting take, utterly deranged, but interesting.
Even with the sound off, it is immediately clear that he is a person to avoid.
He’d stop acting up if they turned a hose on him.
Rabies?
Some things are best unshared.
Except for the whole ‘puberty blockers just pause puberty’ bit being bollocks on stilts
Shock collar.
“There goes the neighborhood.” Laughs in American.
But more seriously, there was a time when immigrants tried to fit in more.
I like the way you think.
“He’d stop acting up”
According to the comments he gives normal furries a bad name.
Heh. I was mildly surprised that that song had made its way across the Atlantic, but apparently the Pacific as well. The things you don’t know.
Happy shopper.
Wadda ya know, all this time I thought it was just an expression.
BBC News headline:
Ramadan: Cathedrals, museums and stadiums host iftar meals
Seriously – CATHEDRALS?
What went wrong with the Crusades?
And I thought the expression was “screw the pooch”.
The progressive retail experience…
“We wonder why our communities look the way they look…”
A mystery for the ages.
Meanwhile, two Egyptians are booted from Change.org for starting a petition against Netflix’s latest mess for daring to claim Cleopatra was – get this- Egyptian.
“We wonder why our communities look the way they look…”
And they’ll keep on wondering as long as they refuse to see the truth.
This Twitter thread discusses a 2010 New York Times article about black on Asian violence. That article glosses over, or denies, hard truths, and yet today the reporting is even more dishonest when it isn’t simply nonexistent.
The Times article is here.
“By the time he was 15, Mr. Emenike said, he and his brother, Armani Bolmer, would get up at 5 a.m. to rob Mexican day laborers who got off the 23 Monterey bus from the Mission district. They began to single out Chinese, he said, because they had more money.”
Note that what he didn’t do: Get up at 5 a.m. to prepare for school or work a part-time job.
Also from that New York Times article:
The truth is out there, kiddo. Those Asians work their asses off. They study hard in school, they work hard in their jobs. They save their money and they progress.
I have read personal accounts by Asians living and working in American ghetto neighborhoods in which they observed that the black kids were lazy in school: They did not learn the academic subjects and did not develop the habits needed for success. Then, when they left school, they could not think abstractly and systematically, could not do the basic arithmetic needed in some jobs, and did not even have the social skillsneeded by employers. (The Asians were living in those ghetto neighborhoods because they came to America with nothing and could not afford to live in nicer neighborhoods.)
Also from that New York Times article:
That sparked some memories: Black kids would ask to borrow pencils and things, and never return them. Sometimes they would make it immediately clear that they would not return them–just one more way to humiliate and harass innocent white kids.
Also in that Twitter thread: A link to a 2010 article in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Ooops!
“Black FSU professor resigns in disgrace amid allegations he faked data on commonality of racism”
The disgrace is that he got caught. After all, his lies were what academia wants to hear.
Or, as Glenn Reynolds says, the demand for racism exceeds the supply so somebody had to step up and increase the supply.
By the time he was 15, Mr. Emenike said, he and his brother, Armani Bolmer, would get up at 5 a.m. to rob Mexican day laborers
Who says ghetto kids don’t have a work ethic?
The cherry on the sundae of this scandal:
(Justin Pickett was a former co-author who began to question Stewart’s work.)
How’s a blackman supposed to get ahead if wypipo won’t let him lie and cheat and steal?
This guy has thoughts, deranged ones, but thoughts none the less.
Culinary barbarism in America
Culinary barbarism in America
You misspelled “excellence” as “barbarism”.
Meanwhile, seems legit.
The rest of the story…
[ Gives Farnsworth’s address to Cardinal Fang. ]
[ Gives Farnsworth’s address to Cardinal Fang. ]
Wherein the world learns PST is culturally deprived never having had a fried Oreo. Probably never had proper biscuits and gravy, gator on a stick, or grits either, poor thing.
You misspelled “excellence” as “barbarism”.
The only thing that could possibly make a fried oreo better is to put it on a stick. Everything, everything tastes better on a stick.
Wherein the world learns PST is culturally deprived…
A previous thread comes to mind when PST talked about Kraft Dinner (Kraft Macaroni & Cheese for you muricans) as if it was a bad thing.
And yes, I’m piling on. ;-p
[ Checks restraints on comfy chair. Orders more soft cushions. ]
The rest of the story
Looks to be a high-quality, solidly-constructed property. /s
The business model of entire departments rests on them.
Everything, everything tastes better on a stick.
The jury is out on pizza-on-a-stick which in some places is just a stromboli on a stick, and funnel cake on a stick would only work if you left off toppings.
We’ll brook no talk of barbaric foodstuffs from the inventors of baked beans on toast, TYVM.
The Woke Taliban come after Bertie and Jeeves.
Meanwhile, I guess it is to distract from the fact that their new car looks like every other new car.
Baked beans on toast? I was going to save my comments about that heathen abomination for another thread.
Did they intentionally try to only hire ugly dancers? I mean, yes there are much uglier people in the world but combine that with … well the whole thing is a train wreck. A mediocre train wreck. Maybe that was the goal. Perhaps we’ve reached a peak for passing off absolute crap as “art” and the new thing is finding a sweet spot of mediocrity.
Maybe this music would have been more fitting. Modern Shakers.
Or, “There has never been a time in which other sensibilities existed. Everything is now, and always has been.”
Why is it that bloggers can find genuinely deserving cases of refugees and yet the ‘Guardian’ and its ilk never can?
You can point out to these “woke” Taliban various historical cases* of censorship which they, as Good Progressives, condemn, but they will not be moved. This time it’s different (TM).
* Destruction of Hindu statues and icons, as being “pagan” or “obscene”. Ditto Classical Greek and Roman statues and art and literature. And so on.
For ideological reasons, the left refuses to distinguish between deserving and undeserving:
They’re welcome to keep it. It’s a terrible song.