Friday Ephemera (678)
Not ideal, really. || Niche dissonance detected. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Oh no, not the inevitable, again. || Shadow lag. || How to repel women, part 2. Previously. || Some pleasing trash removal. || Sexual display. || The progressive retail experience, parts 475, 476, 477, 478, and 479. || Quick test, no prep, no phoning a friend. || Leo lives in Portland. || On those vertical lines seen in nuclear explosion test footage. || Three of these are wrong, clearly. || Clackety-clack. || How to clean windows. || “Walking into random houses” for shits and giggles. What could possibly go wrong? And what has already gone wrong? || Today’s word is gaming. || Today’s other word is shenis. || She was affirmed. || And finally, further to this, another thread of adventures in UI design.
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For those who get impatient with plodding videos.
Dindu savages need to be taught to fear ordinary citizens.
“It better be water, or you’re one dead son of a batch”: Dindu internet “pranksters” working hard to get shot (which would only be justice.)
Oh no, not the inevitable, again
Related:
This huge change will strike a telling blow against racism.
She got in, how the hell long was she sitting there eating?
Live-streamer harasses people on a Japanese train.
A dindu live-streamer.
Social media scumbags come in all colors, but blacks seem to account for more than their demographic share. And Somalia is full of savages who should not be allowed in civilized countries. I hope the Japanese police have a way to make him deeply regret his choices.
Live-streamer harasses people on a Japanese train.
I suppose it did bear repeating…
Another culturally enriched moment in New York: A 35yo man was attacked and called “cracker” by three black teens–they beat him and kicked him in the head while yelling anti-white racial slurs. One 14-year-old has been arrested. 14. I have read of 12- and 10-year old black boys arrested for carjackings and shootings.
Sorry. I must have clicked the link and not read it until later at which time I’d forgotten how I found it,. It’s been a very very busy day.
Not sure if anyone has linked to these dindu savages.
How “underserved communities” become underserved.
A clue how yet another “underserved community” became underserved.
Could be?
“Gender affirming” piercings of note.
Well look at that. Has Pastis found his balls again? Or has he done tge requisite number of Trump and Trumpsters and right-wing nut jobs are all big dumb, dumb dummies strips that he feels safe sneaking in a little real biting political humor? Of course he’s not a political humorist. Of course not. But bully for him for at least making the effort.
Surely that would be what one would expect to happen.
“Some pleasing trash removal.“
The most pleasing thing is the way he piles them on top of each other as if they were rubbish sacks.
And perhaps they are…
Watched it three times… still not sure.
I pretty much understood the bloke, but then he didn’t get to say much.
(The “skills” I have in this come from watching Still Game)
I dunno the answer to this, my not at all smart Nokia flip phone goes in the left breast pocket of the work shirt.
Morning, all.
Bit radical. For those who use their trouser pockets, anything but option two is terribly, terribly wrong.
Thanks, for the link and also the confirmation that I am not alone in thinking videos are often a hellishly inefficient way to impart info.
I once had dinner with Beloved Sister-In-Law #3 and her boyfriend, who, like a savage, kept keys and coins in the same pocket as his phone. He looked over at my phone, two years old, and, with genuine puzzlement, asked why it looked brand new, not scuffed to buggery like his.
It was an actual peer-over-the-spectacles moment.
In my culture we have the egg & spoon, three legged, and sack race.
That’s so sad.
Well, it’s a mentally ill young woman who felt it was a “no brainer” to have her nipples surgically removed, because the idea of nipples bothered her, and who had this fixation affirmed, and who now spends her free time showing her mutilated chest to random strangers on the internet. Because it’s all such fun, you see.
Perhaps not an ideal place to be.
I have questions.
A promising applicant.
Also, Barry Tomorrow.
Hi, I’m Troy McClure. You may remember me from such educational videos as 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘶𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦?
[ Considers changing name to Barry Tomorrow. ]
Band name.
I put my between my butt cheeks. oddly no one tries to steal it.
I have questions.
Holy crap. That could’ve been a lot worse.
LOLed at ‘unsubscribe’.
I also quite like the idea of using a fan to move the cursor.
Slightly O/T but as rubbish anarchists seem to be in vogue I wondered if anyone else had read G K Chesterton’s excellent novel “The Man who was Thursday” which covered this subject albeit in a distinctly metaphysical fashion.
A decade or two ago there was a charitable effort to collect slightly obsolete laptops and send them to deepest darkest Africa for the benefit of the locals.
This let to inconvenient footage of young men breaking apart said laptops in order to access, remove and resell a few pence worth of copper wiring and circuitry.
I think you’re supposed to punch them in the face, just once, but quite hard.
He cuts his own bangs.
The internet does seem to facilitate all sorts of “non optimal” behaviors.
If the video bears some resemblance to an elaborate, socially sanctioned form of self-harm, maybe hold that thought.
I think other members of the public should have gotten out of their cars and busses and helped that poor man. Punching is not (quite) yet necessary.
It’s become an excellent Early Warning Device (or DEW Line, for us ol’folks)
The internet doesn’t make people stupid. People make people stupid. The schools, the arts, the movies, the novels, the video games, the universities, and the bloody individuals themselves. And closing down the insane asylums, as insane as that was, is only a small part of the problem. It’s the people who decided to close them down that are what really needs fixed.
“Cleopatra was culturally black,” apparently.
I didn’t say the internet makes people stupid. I said that it facilitates bad behavior. Disturbed people get lost in niche communities of other disturbed people who encourage dysfunction and discourage sanity. Evil people make money live-streaming evil behavior and get online attention including praise.
intentionally so.
discussed at length here.
This “We was kangs an sheet” obsession is very revealing. So many toxic dysfunctions.
Seems perfectly clear to me. What’s the problem? When he slept wi’ someone else he telt her. Bit noo he’s gonnie say, when he has the baws tae admit it, it wiz jist wan or two lassies. An’ in a couple o’ days, when he’s no oan ra telly, he’s gonnie come greetin’ tae her. He’s a scumbag. Bit he disnae wannie talk tae her.
(Honestly, I do struggle to understand some of my compatriots, and I didn’t catch all of it. But that’s actually pretty mild. I’ve heard much worse.)
And it could be even worse.
The bloke who cleaned our windows when I was a kid used to do that. But we were on the first floor (that’s the second to you colonials) with 18-inch windowsills. Still freaked me out, though.
Leo: just what attracts every man–hairy tits. urgle barf
Truth.
Not nearly far enough away.
clackety clack: how everyone used to walk before shoes were invented…needs to be an olympic sport
Jeebus, did no one tell him to expect recoil or were those unexpected magnums?
I took someone to the range once and he scared the shit out of me putting the King Cobra up too his eye to aim (like a kid might do).
Yes. Everyone’s an informer!
Well it definitely increases the visibility of stupids and allows them to gather and coordinate (not to mention be manipulated).
The time to stop such nonsense is at the outset, so punching is strongly advised pour encourager les autres.
Today’s satire is tomorrow’s received wisdom.
I believe I have pointed out before that this statement was made by Dr Shelley Haley, the presumably self-proclaimed “Cleopatra expert”, who inconveniently is not actually an Egyptologist.
She is however an earnest proponent of assisting in the rehabilitation and enhanced self-respect of black criminals by convincing them that they are all (you know what’s coming) the descendants of Kangz.
“Cleopatra was culturally black,” apparently.
I see, so also black are Jews, Celts, Indians (both types), anyone in land overrun by Genghis Khan, Poles, the Red Army at Stalingrad, and damn near every other group on the planet at one time or another.
Yes, Everyone’s an informer.
IMHO the only genuine anarchist is in many ways the most sympathetic character, certainly the most honest.
In short, “culturally black” = “loser”.
The authors of the New York Times piece, both of whom are of course scrupulously ‘liberal’ white women, repeatedly invoke “black culture” while failing to define in any remotely meaningful way what that might be, and while implying that this (undefined) “black culture” is some uniform constant across continents and throughout all of human history.
It calls to mind a certain woke and gleefully racist librarian, and her emphatic disdain for “white men ideas,” which, in her mind, have been entirely interchangeable with no local variation.
Good News Everyone!
San Francisco having solved all it’s numerous problems has appointed it’s first drag laureate!
Don Rickles raided Mitzi Gaynor’s wardrobe.
Back to the spirit of ephemera…
Mrs. Doubtfire, and other African movie posters.
My God, that’s horrible in multiple ways.
Which reminds me of someone who spent many years in Africa and proudly filled her house with African art, art which ranged from mediocre to bad.
“Cleopatra was culturally black,” apparently.
From the comments … this is my shocked face.
White liberal women. Again.
I should have been more clear: NOT traditional tribal art, but rather crap for tourists. “Ooh, look at this elephant carved by an actual person of color!” It’s interesting how people who supposedly know about art and literature will abandon all standards for the sake of ideology.
“Walking into random houses” for shits and giggles. What could possibly go wrong?
The “don’t do this in Texas” comments on Twitter are already working within the framing that the white backlash (or anticipated white backlash) is more concerning and more real than the black aggression it’s responding to. Indeed, that’s the pretext for the youths to invade the white people’s space – that it’s a provocative social commentary on white hatred and paranoia.
Normal streetwise prudence tells us that strangers who flout social norms and overstep boundaries are testing you to see if you can be imposed upon in escalated ways. Racially aware streetwise prudence tells whites that even if they engage race-neutrally with blacks, that blacks don’t engage race-neutrally with them. What’s a white to do here? Override your prudence: get taken advantage of. Take reasonable precautions, assert your boundaries, and no physical violence takes place: this proves that your fears were racist paranoia and you’re the Karen in this week’s shitstorm. And if physical violence takes place, if it’s reported at all it will be as an “altercation” with an insinuation that you provoked it by using the n-word.
Over the years, the weird racial hang-ups of white, middle-class progressives, very often women, have provided so much material for this blog.
No refunds. Credit note only.
Now you tell us.
Here I am, at all hours, bringing you the wonders of the world…
Because decades ago, before the internet was a regular person thing, we had television and radio and movies and all those other tools to perpetuate ideas. But the idea that “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” was a new, distinctly stupid idea. For decades before that we had all that media as well. We just didn’t accept bad publicity as a “good” thing.
who, like a savage, kept keys and coins in the same pocket as his phone.
See, this is why cargo pants were invented–large side pockets, one for your phone, one for your wallet. No danger of sitting on either. Easy access unless you have T-rex arms. Cargo pants, short on form, long on function. Make Cargo Pants Great Again.
This message brought to you by the Society to Rehabilitate Cargo Pants.
Now you’re just screaming.
I must admit I’m oft left wondering.
I do so like Theodore Dalrymple:
Underserved: In Somalia, the warlords took down power lines for the copper, so now entire regions have no power. dindu nothin
Close enough.
Remember, you’re the racist.
It strikes me that an objective test for “delusional” is that some guy can look in the mirror, see these faces from the vids, and say he is “cute”.
Cleopatra culturally black: Except for the blacks in the upper nile area (who only ruled Egypt for a brief period–look it up), who were culturally egyptian (they built tons of pyramids for example), Egypt was totally cut off from sub-saharan Africa except for the rare caravan. Culturally black my ass.
Not the time for shaky legs, madam.
It strikes me that an objective test for “delusional” is that some guy can look in the mirror, see these faces from the vids, and say he is “cute”.
Likewise clowns like this who think they won.
Was at the U of Montana 3 yrs ago for a workshop. There was a display up about their “diversity” goals. They wanted to recruit X black people as students to “represent’. Looked up the racial makeup of the state–they would have to enroll every black man, woman, and child of any age and still come up short. That is how white Montana is. No recognition of their absurdity.
What about those Wakandan maglev monorails cross-crossing Africa… you racist?
‘Culturally black.’
As if black culture around the world is of a piece.
If you think of the ever-growing “diversity” and “equity” apparatus as a kind of coping strategy – a way to avoid thinking about certain unmentionable factors – then the irrationality, the neuroticism, the imperviousness to evidence, become easier to understand.
What’s a white to do here?
As witness. Short version: white woman pays for a CitiBike (and has the receipts to prove it), gets accosted by ferals who demand the bike, attempts to assert her rights, gets smeared as a “suspected white supremacist” and mobbed and fired from her job.
Was just doing a search around some university science department web sites. Every single black faculty in an actual science role I saw had an african name (and I don’t mean those fake african names). I have heard but cannot verify that African immigrants look down on US blacks. I think the inner city culture causes actual stupidity. Something about embracing loserdom.
More the public school system. Living in a rural/suburban area the ignorance of the victims of the local school district is a source of constant amazement.
A loserdom that is actively cultivated by ‘progressive’ educators.
Thing is, if you cultivate the conceit of a Designated Victim Group and exempt its members from normal proprieties, including expectations of competence, civility, and reciprocation, and tell its members that almost any kind of difficulty or failure, and almost any personal shortcoming, can only be damning evidence of enemy action, of racism or some nebulous “white supremacy,” then the result will not be gratitude. A contemptuous sense of entitlement and resentment, expressed with increasing boldness, seems more likely.
And the effects of this cultivated dishonesty on those outside the Designated Victim Group will be no less monstrous.
An escalation has occurred.
Related.
Also related. Just jolly larks!
Looks like Trigglypuff got herself elected. An oration second only to Cicero.