Reheated (78)
For newcomers and the nostalgic, some items from the archives:
Wherever Possible, Avoid Mad People.
Students “negatively impacted” by insufficiently sensitive buffet.
On the arithmetical shortcomings of the Guardian’s Polly Toynbee.
When not curing inner-city classroom delinquency with the thrill of modern tap, Polly tells her readers that obesity isn’t chiefly a matter of inactivity and overeating, but instead has a more pernicious cause, i.e., a lack of socialism: “It is inequality and disrespect that makes people fat.” To bolster this radical insight Ms Toynbee made a number of further claims regarding economic inequality and expanded waistlines, each of which proved to be either misleading or untrue. And chunkier readers should note that waiting for a socialist revolution probably isn’t the best way to lose those extra pounds.
Chewing The Scenery For Social Justice.
Performative meltdowns and pithy symbolism.
“TRIGGER WARNING: Violent language regarding an extremely dismissive response from a professor. This is an email exchange I had with my professor this evening… We are obviously not preaching to the choir. Professors and administration at Oberlin need to be held accountable for their words and actions and have a responsibility to their students.”
The violent and triggering language used by her professor, for which he and the entire college must be held accountable? One word: “No.”
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Don’t know whether to laugh or despair.
It’s possibly the realisation that there may be no upper limit to the phenomenon. No contrivance or pretence that would be considered too farcical to be taken seriously.
“Our request for exam extensions is not being made from a position of weakness, but rather from one of strength and critical awareness,”
This is a good example of how activist rhetoric has nothing to do with facts, logic, and reasoned argument, but instead is merely the recitation of canned phrases. If the activists’ heads spun and spouted green pea soup while they ranted, it would be entirely in character.
They must flatter themselves. It’s an imperative. The imperative.
And so, the protestors describe themselves, at length, as daring and “courageous,” as radical heroes. Albeit heroes who are exhausted from all that “booming” chanting they’ve been doing. While lying down.
And they have learned that they can get away with even the most outrageous lies.
Well, on the bright side (yeah, I’m always on the silver lining side. So there.), the interwebz allows all to quickly and easily identify the terminally stupid…
Always respect the media!
Oh, that’s but one of many. It’s quite a feat, really – inspiring someone else to write a blog, and subsequently an entire book, dedicated solely to correcting your logical, factual and arithmetical errors.
“A lie will fly around the whole world while the truth is getting its boots on.”
–attributed to Mark Twain
The left suffers no consequences for lying, so they see no reason to stop. It’s not enough to refute their lies; it is necessary to counterattack.
As I said in the original thread:
https://twitter.com/psosroads/status/1650151485638836224?s=46&t=cGznVa6cu3fowLICcwJBRA
“Lamb found in back of car with £10,000 worth of heroin and cocaine”.
Police tweets are not generally my favourites but in this case the story was amusing and the Lamborghini pun was rather good.
I have questions.
Best carried out by not catering to infantile tantrums.
Unfortunately it’s akin to identifying individual cockroaches.
There is good reason to think the attribution faulty.
He did, however, say:
Re Oberlin…note that that was from 2014, two years before the infamous Gibson Bakery incident and related $36 million lawsuit. Gee, what an odd coincidence.
It’s usually actual incitement. Oberlin was merely a more notable and obvious example.
Professors and administration at Oberlin need to be held accountable for their words and actions
Dear Student,
We’ve been trying to get admin and faculty to be held accountable for years, to no avail. Even Oberlin paying a huge lawsuit seems to have had no effect. It might even be good to have students be held accountable. Wait, what is that? You mean accountable to YOU? Oh, nevermind.
For readers unfamiliar with the Oberlin saga, a brief overview can be found here.
Clinical paranoia is characterized by over-interpreting signals from the environment in personal terms. Carrie Fisher described how she thought the TV was talking to her personally. A person might see eyes on a billboard and think they are watching them. These wokies are like that. A banana peel carelessly tossed into a tree becomes a racist symbol (banana=monkey=blacks). The rope to close a garage door becomes a noose. Losing weight to get fit becomes (by a route that I can’t follow) racist. It is mass paranoia, mass psychosis.
There is good reason to think the attribution faulty.
Wasn’t it Lord de Worde?
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret.
An explanation of why it is problematic to call this
womanguy a mother.I shudder to think of the problems, physical and psychological, that child is going to face having a bearded lady as a parent.
Thought you were joking… then read the email. F*cking hell.
Well, at one time, not too long ago, claims were made that a spell at university was a chance to develop one’s character, to become a better, more thoughtful, more noble person. And yet character – probity, self-possession, etc – are precisely the things that the modern progressive campus seems determined to corrode and actively subvert.
Instead, we’re to make do with incorrigible narcissists who whine about how terribly fatiguing it is to be so radical and heroic, while not doing any actual work, and while being flattered and indulged, seemingly without end, and being told that their inadequacies are always and invariably someone else’s fault. Weepy, whining narcissists for whom the word ‘no’ results in spluttering indignation. As if even the idea of their demands being refused were inconceivable.
[ Scatters flour on bar, fetches dough, rolling pin. ]
The great British police farce.
In the replies:
That.
This is why there are growing number of videos of members of the public standing by watching while men and women (short dumpy ones usually) of the constabulary are getting thumped. Once upon a time everyone would rush in to help (the police not the thumpers) now we no longer give a shit. They’re not on our side, they’re actively intervening against us.
Golly’s get removed from pubs with vigour by no less than 6 officers. Upper middle-class criminals, for that is what they are, are allowed to disrupt without fear.
Maybe a Muslim driver wanting to get to prayers on time might have received a bit more help?
Seriously? Emotional labor is real work, bigot. ♥ is ♥.
That.
Well, the unstable monomaniacs and assorted preening shit stains, the ones harassing and dominating random members of the public, are the ones who should be afraid. And their fears should be justified.
Surprisingly, I’m not seeing a man.
There’s really never a cop around when you need one.
There’s never a cop around when you really need one.
There’s never a real cop around when you need one.
Well, something like that.
If it’s any consolation, I’ve come to the general realization that our cops over here are essentially useless as well. It’s all just a matter of framing. The cops will cave to whatever peer pressure they feel is carrying the day. The laws are so numerous as to become meaningless, thus we live under a form anarchy. Which is never really, truly ‘anarchy’ but rule by a mob. The cops will utilize whichever rule favors the social/political environment they find themselves in. Enforce that rule, ignore the others.
Fragile people: Reality does not care about your feelings but in the modern West one can avoid reality almost completely. Let us say you were a farmer in 1880. If you did not take advantage of sunny days in fall to harvest the hay (“make hay while the sun shines”) the hay would get wet and rot, your cows/horses would have no food in winter, and you would starve. Reality was forced on you. Not everyone responded to that of course but they got severely punished by reality. You can drift off into complete fantasy these days and no pushback ensues. You can insist that Cleopatra was black, or that Monkeypox is a racist term, or that masks will protect you from covid, or that blocking bridges or slashing tires is totally justified by your concerns, or that a man can declare himself a woman, etc etc. And because institutions (looking at you public health agencies) have joined in the unreality business, no point of reliable authority remains. There are no adults in the room.
By design.
Bring “our” people “home”.
Rwanda is just over 1,000 miles from the Sudanese border.
The concept of men and women is based on white supremacy and capitalism. Even the Neanderthal knew this.
As an aside, why are all these idiots hand holding lavalier mics?
Farnsworth: didn’t you know? Before social media there were no “men” or “women” and there aren’t any in primitive societies today. Sheesh. Do better.
Mx. Pfarraquarre’s (zer/zem/xose) 5th grade class is out of control again.
“Please now, if you don’t mind, would all you people who produce sperm, and people who produce eggs, take your seats.”
Mx. Pfarquarre, the entire staff, and school board were sent to reeducation camp for failure to be inclusive enough because little Johnny Shastokovich Jr. (he/him) had a rare childhood case of testicular cancer and didn’t fit either category.
Johnny’s father was confused because his chicken farm was a prize winning egg producer.
Unless I’ve misunderstood it the crazy letter from the Vermont teacher is a massive own goal as it clearly defines people in accordance with basic biology. You either produce (or have the capacity to produce unless subjected to “bottom surgery”) eggs or sperm.
Dylan Mulvaney can call himself whatever he likes but he will never produce a single egg, likewise Elliot Page will never produce sperm.
Biology 101.
Wonderful, Gospodin Amorphous McCombover is
backstill on his couch with Deep Thoughts™ about what constitutes “self defense”.O/T
Does anyone remember the Alabama “Sweet 16” shooting less than 2 weeks ago? A few clues have since emerged as to why it has been largely memory holed:-
https://www.al.com/news/2023/04/aniahs-law-hearing-set-for-dadeville-shooting-suspects-this-morning.html
“Special Agent Jess Thornton, the lead investigator in the case, testified there were 50 to 60 people inside the hall, which is 38-feet-long and 26-feet-wide.
At one point in the evening, a DJ’s speaker fell over, making a sound similar to a gunshot, Thornton said. When that happened, several of the young people there lifted their shirts to show they had guns.”
When it was all over 7 different guns had been fired, 89 shell casings were recovered, four people were dead and 32 injured. One of the subsequently arrested suspects was wearing an ankle monitor from an unrelated shooting (which at least pinpointed him as being in the vicinity of the party). One of the victims had an unfired gun in his waistband. Another, who was allegedly was wearing a ski mask for reasons unknown, was found with a recently fired gun on his chest.
”And now you know the rest of the story”.
Wedding day tensions.
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2023/04/reheated-78.html#comment-153404
natural selection
Created it? these two need to get with the program, hwites stole it all.
I am guessing Pete here forgot about over 134 of the last 186 years.
Methinks the word allowed is doing some heavy lifting.
Methinks the word allowed is doing some heavy lifting.
The first Charles might have thoughts on that, if his head was still attached, but I get your point.
Meanwhile…heh.
Alas that thing is real, and her occupation is “certified bad bitch“.
It’s a lifestyle and a mindset. So there’s that.
Hospitals. Huh. What are they good for? Via Tim Newman. Some of the responses are quite stunning. We’re gonna need another wall.
[ Scatters flour on bar, fetches dough, rolling pin. ]
So – what were you making? A savory meat pie? A fruit pie? Cookies – er – biscuits?
Or was it a new addition to the line of semi-ambulatory furry bar snacks?
I was wondering how long it would take someone to ask.
[ Resumes dough-rolling, exudes air of mystery. ]
“certified bad bitch”: these people have embraced being a loser, as if that were an accomplishment. It is one thing to accept that one is short or not good at sports or something. To embrace being Jabba…words fail me. Likewise embracing being a whiny, helpless dweeb. Laziness as the highest virtue I guess.
Hilarious that he talks about blacks not being allowed to be descendants of white royals.
Big Gay Baby and others speak out at a Louisiana hearing. Having spent more than a little time in Louisiana, I am guessing by the voices these are imported specimens.
Lawmakers debating changing a law. Stunning…
What the bloody hell? Yes. Let’s let the lawyers make the laws. Because of course. The best scenario would be to let them just makeup the laws as they go along. Save everyone a lot of trouble. Idiots.
Over-the-top narcissism. Grounds for “behave like an adult or be ostracized”.
Ostracized with extra ostracon.
I would say the term public office is being abused.
How many layers of pretending is somebody at to be able to say that trans women don’t owe anyone “feminine” features, so you’re a transphobe if you have a problem with your MtF brother showing up to your wedding bearded but in a dress.
It’s the well-tested path of minorities which had previously been liberally accommodated with “let them in, they just want to be left alone to do their own thing in private”, and later on spit that generosity back in their hosts’ faces: you only approve of us on condition that we hide who we are, you’re a hater and a -phobe, but this territory is as much ours to mark as yours. Unless minarets are as prominent as church towers you’re all Islamophobic, unless your bridesmaids have beards you’re all transphobic.
Or is it appropriating the feminine indignation of a woman who’s been told that she’d be quite pretty if she made more of an effort. I’m sure MtFs get told that all the time, probably by the same people who can’t resist touching the hair of black women.
I’m probably going to look stupid for asking this and I’m certainly not watching any more of it to find out but is that Jabba creature a man or a woman?
The totalitarians aren’t even trying to hide anymore.
Minnesota liberals are almost as fascistic as California liberals.
Well at least it was the brother. I was afraid to check thinking it was the groom.
Considering current trends, it could be both.
…I’m certainly not watching any more of it to find out but is that Jabba creature a man or a woman?
I got your back, ese.
I waded into the cesspool, skipped around and those are moobs on that self professed “fat ‘f’ing 10”. TBF, though, passes for any the non-ersatz types like the “gimme three seats” gal featured here recently.
Well, you would.
Odd…On the home page, Reheated (78) says there are 70 comments, but when you click Continue Reading, it says there are 52 comments, and the comment bubble says 52 as well.
As to the Alabama Sweet 16 shooting, it’s getting memory-holed for the much same reason the Nashville Christian School shooting is getting memory-holed: inconvenient shooter identities, who-cares victim identities (non-cop black lives don’t matter if they are taken by other non-cop black lives), and Christians are evil that must be exterminated). We’ll never see that trans shooter’s manifesto either, as it does not serve the poor vulnerable oppressed trans narrative.
They all read correctly for me. Are you travelling backwards in time?
Or wearing a lot of nylon. That sometimes does it.
The usual clues:
Mugshots can be found elsewhere, if the names are not enough.
We don’t have a gun problem, we have a culture problem.
Change name to Billy Pilgrim?
They read correctly for me, too.
Using the Vivaldi browser I see 75 COMMENTS on the main page and 75 COMMENTS as well as 75 over the comment bubble on the Reheated (78) page. Ditto with the Iron browser.
By the way, pst314, does the comment bubble live notification work for you now? I vaguely recall you had trouble with it a while ago. When new comments have been posted, the maroon bubble, bottom left, should change colour and a smaller, secondary bubble should show the number of new comments since you last refreshed the page. (It updates every 60 seconds. It won’t work, however, if you’re browsing in private/incognito mode. And it doesn’t include your own comments.)
76 and 76 using Silk on a Kindle
Wait! Now it’s 78 and 78! Oh no!
Anyway…
If people will post some comments, I will watch and see.
Like this?
I’m just going to leave this here, I think.
No, doesn’t work. If people will keep posting comments, I will watch on all three portals (Firefox + NoScript on desktop, MS Edge on desktop, and Safari on iPhone.)
Wow. So close…
It’s a look that not just any man could pull off.
No, doesn’t work. If people will keep posting comments, I will watch on all three portals (Firefox + NoScript on desktop, MS Edge on desktop, and Safari on iPhone.)
Still nothing.
And I configured NoScript to whitelist all the URL’s used by David’s blog.
And I configured both Firefox and Edge to whitelist David’s blog with regard to popups.
Sigh.
Have you tried not wearing viscose trousers?
#DaveDoesTechSupport
100% cotton with an Hawaiian shirt. #DavidDoesSpyware
Just for the record, I see no such feature functionality with the comment bubble thingy. But then I’m nearly 100% using Chrome on an iPad. I’ve kinda made my peace with it but any attempts at tweeking would be appreciated.
What I haven’t made peace with is the Browser wars in general. Glad I am out of the business as it was getting more and more absurd. Especially knowing a little about those wars from the battlefield, what little time I spent in it. A part of the reason I stopping being interested in UI development/design. But lots of smart people, smaaaaart, knew just how to address the problem. 75 different ways. With ever more browsers. And platforms. Written in Python. Curious what version of Java the world is up to now. OK, not. Or Eclipse. Or not. Or linux. Or not. If any of that’s still a thing. But damn the browsers. I’m sure this artificial intelligence thingy will get right on those problems. But which one?
I can see it now: I type David’s URL into my browser, but it tells me that it cannot do that because David is “toxic” and a “transphobic white supremacist”, and that it will take me to the Guardian instead.
I don’t have a religious subscription, but this discussion was not uninteresting.
This poor fellow is a lesbian, attractive, and smart*, but being killed because other lesbians don’t want his shenis.
Somewhere else, this chap informs us of being trigender, the three most common genders of which are male, female, and (checks notes) genderless which leaves two, but I have no degrees in gender studies.
As a palate cleanser, a new supermodel.
OK, that was off base, my apologies.
*(Evidence of these assertions not apparent)
The Spanish Inquisition ate the comfy chair.
Ostracism
Beware the cutting edge…
Here is a genuine palate cleanser.
And another to make up for David’s “apology”.
[ Directs challenging stare at Our Host. ]