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They are the very flower of civilization.
But when I was just a kid all fast food workers had to wear hair nets or hats to prevent hair from getting into the food. But blacks complained in the 60’s that it was “discriminatory” and it appears that the rule has been largely abandoned.
What pattern?
Meat Lego gnositicism
Laurence Auster tried to popularize the understanding of gnosticism on the basis that a lot of weird fads and movements could be made sense of if you regard them as attempts to immanentize the eschaton. Question from someone there at the back?
… always respect the media
And it might not even be a deliberate falsification. To falsify a graph you need to be numerate enough to use graphs properly in the first place. Graphs are a part of the production design for media organizations that claim cultural ownership of SCIENCE and DATA. They have tools to make nice sciency-looking graphs that can be stretched and squashed to fit the page layout. Whether the graphs contain any information, whether they distort the source data like a funfair mirror, whether they reinforce or undermine the argument of the text – there isn’t necessarily anyone in the publishing process with the mindset to ask those questions.
Something that occurred to me driving through south Georgia the other day is that one …possibly…positive thing about all this normalization of drag and men pretending to be women is it does provide an opening to rehabilitate Jefferson Davis’s image.
Grizzly vid: it appears that a motorcycle is an effective deterent. Be sure and take one with you!! This guy is lucky he is alive. Oh, and bears don’t kill you first, they just start eating.
Have you touched your tapir today?
Oh.
Weaves
Probably not the “Lady in Red” Chris deBurgh sang about.
However I have a certain respect for the self-belief which made her believe she could take on 4 of her fellow-humans using fighting skills best described as wildly inaccurate slapping.
The staff were no better but in such circumstances superior numbers will always prevail. It was a little pathetic towards the end when they were actually the ones throwing stuff at her.
Indeed.
This week in onomastics
Delusional: ”
https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1649181122838908931
Oh you poor deluded fool:
“Africa could be the strongest nation in the world” if all blacks moved back to Africa.
Thank you.
Looks like a grimace rather than pleasure.
Speaking of tapirs and other large land mammals, our friend “May I Call You Tommy” McCombover is even more of a charmer than his previous tik toks reveal.
Just watched that again with the sound on. Didn’t notice before that pizza guy trips the perp. Good job. Hope he got a decent tip.
In that link, he says “this Tranny is packin, LEGALLY”
Threatening to kill people is a good way to lose that right. Seems like he needs to lose a lot of rights, and the sooner the better.
Initial reports of “racist grandpa murders innocent black kid ringing door bell”:
Might turn out to be less than accurate.
And I have seen claims that the grandson (who told news people that grandpa is a hardcore racist) is himself a hardcore Antifa fanatic with a history of telling defamatory lies.
Meanwhile in The Great White North, this one again.
Golly, I wonder why.
From the link:
Ah,that classic euphemism, “self discovery”.
Stefonknee?
Seriously?
Meanwhile, calm, laid-back Moist Critical delivers a lesson in weapons nomenclature and turns into John Wick.
A very confused gentleman.
One wonders what the other contenders looked like.
Some baby
Stefonknee, a 6ft 2ins mechanic and snowplow operator
One of Our Betters™ is freaking out about the Twitters and losing those sweet, sweet, checkmarks..
OTOH, maybe not get your news from Twitter?
I imagine a couple SAS types could have gotten them down in less than 40 hours more or less gently, but at least something finally happened to a couple of these dickweeds.
Of the five years, any time spent in custody prior to sentencing is knocked off and of the remainder they’ll only serve half (if that).
…they’ll only serve half (if that).
Yeah, but still better for the rest of the world than the usual community service suspended sentence or some other wrist slap.
Bridge gridlock: people die when they can’t get to hospital. Not cute.
Not cute.
Not that the authorities were helping…
Why close the bridge – because, really, who gives a flying fuck about their safety? Leave them in place and let them starve / dehydrate / die of hypothermia. No loss to the greater society, and useful lesson to their pals – if they are smart enough to learn from it.
Somewhat related. As Tim says in the tweet, recreational road-blocking does need to be stamped on, quite hard.
And one more time:
It would be foolish to believe that such behaviour is indulged in only reluctantly, in desperation, or under duress. It is a go-to activity, a marker of in-group status – sought out and chosen, regardless of relevance, with great enthusiasm. The self-satisfied obstruction and frustration of countless random commuters is a recreational activity. A form of self-pleasuring.
That.
I concur with dcardno’s thoughtful remarks. The Tarquins should serve their sentences in specially designed cells affixed to the infrastructure of the motorway bridges in question:-
“My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time
To let the punishment fit the crime
The punishment fit the crime;
And make each prisoner pent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment!
Of innocent merriment!”
After all these comments about the Canadian usurper of my name with his ridiculous spelling, let me offer this palate cleanser: a lovely yoga instructor whom I photographed recently that is all-American and all-woman, pro-2A, and wants women sports only played by, well, you know … females. Real ones.
If anyone’s getting aroused by this thread, I’m upping the price of the drinks.
I’m just going to leave this here. You big bigot, you.
Niven and Pournelle’s updating of Dante’s Inferno had more than a bit of that. For instance: A “no nukes” activist who is chained to a bicycle powered electric generator placed at the exhaust outlet of a coal fired power plant. When his pedaling slackens and electrical output falls, the coal fired power plant starts up and chokes him.
The few, the proud, the (squints) hall monitors.
“I’m just going to leave this here. You big bigot, you”.
Bud Lights all round then.
With coasters.
You big bigot, you.
Speaking of bigotry, who are we to judge their lifestyle?
Shades of Young Frankenstein.
I think Billy Wilder already did that.
To those who celebrate, best wishes on Compost Your Girlfriend Day.
One of Mel Brooks’ better films, I think.
I always figured the drinks were as good as the pickled eggs.
We don’t talk about the pickled eggs.
[ Positions bottle of strangely discoloured advocaat prominently on shelf. ]
Strangely discoloured = green.
A question occurs.
We’ve been here before, of course.