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.