Friday Ephemera (682)
She does this better than you do. || Birds and sheep. || Today’s words are bee cartridges. || Larger forces were at work. || Incongruous Dalek. || Daylight. || Those load-bearing arguments. || Compression test. || The robbery attempt did not go entirely to plan. || Plot twist. || Plot twist 2. || Today’s other word is stealth. || It’s not a sex toy, it’s a prayer robot. || “Am I gonna be in, like, a jail with, like, a lot of, like, ghetto people?” || In this case, far away is probably a good thing. || “I’m just gonna see what happens,” he said. || For those of you wondering what an Antifa admin-moderator looks like. || Cake and a shower. || Incoming. || When you hear a bothersome rattling noise. || Safe and reliable. || Some serious toe. || And finally, furtively, there’s quite a lot going on between the ladies’ legs.
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Not to be outdone by the Space Force, over in the UK…
Curious Take Of The Day™: “LGB people are more likely to experience mental health or substance abuse issues…”
Along come the TQVO5s – “You left us out us you Nazis!“
As noted here recently,
And then there’s the assumption that the armed forces, firefighting, police, etc., are just like any other job, with no practical imperatives that might trump sparkles and fluffiness and “diversity” bean-counting.
Someone needs to get out more.
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I don’t explicitly recall when I logged in but above the comment box I do see:
Though it just occurred to me that something latent might have been goosed out when I changed my avatar for (Charley) Pride Month. A common thing that happens in software, especially with user settings. A new features goes in but it doesn’t automatically get perpetuated to the live, already instantiated user profiles. IYKWIM. Hell, no work for three years and it seems I’ve forgotten the SW lingo entirely. Not that that’s a bad thing…necessarily…
As they are clearly not fit for purpose having failed dismally against a bunch of primitive goat botherers (a.k.a. Ahmeds Military Surplus – over $80bn of nearly new stock. Everything must go. Cash only) I wonder if western military’s will instead recruit young children (no sniggering in the back there) to fight future wars for them “Enders Game” style.
Autophagy or auto-eroticism?
Unlikely. Andrew Wiggin won & that’s something Western militaries have no truck with.
As an aside, what is it about authors taking a wonderfully crafted short story or novella and turning it into a bloated, lumbering, novel? Few authors can pull it off (Flynn’s Eifelheim being a rare success).
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Heh. “Take your balls out of your fukkin pocket pussy and say something”. Pocket pussy. Heh.
Seems a bit sticky on the iPad. I had to hold the arrow down until the “select” highlighting appeared. But it did eventually work. Probably just an iPad or Chrome on iPad thing. Either way, it worked for me. Kinda “First!” for that too it appears. Yay me.
Can it wait ’til I’ve got the shopping done?
the ACLU is upset this guy didn’t get “gender-affirming care” because people who rape corpses should have “human dignity”, or something.
It should be mentioned that the said corpse(s) being raped were created by the prisoner who was executed. One in particular being a child the recently-executed stabbed 18 times, before raping (with his ladypenis I presume). The violent murder (more than one?) was likely what got him the death sentence.
I’m confused by the ACLU though – why do they want to claim this violent murderer/corpsef***er as one of their Preciousssss Trans and us to feel sorry for this person? Talk about rubbing the normals’ noses in it. And why are they not upset at the deadnaming and misgendering of the Nashville shooter? I mean – it was only evil white Christians she shot – you’d think she could be a Trans Hero. Why do we have to care about the Corpsef***er but not the Nashville Shooter?
My inclination is to not have up/down voting: My gut feeling is that it detracts from the climate at other blogs.
Mass shootings are déclassé, even when committed by a trans-whatever, whereas necrophiliac trans-whatevers are certain to épater le bourgeois.
Maybe we can keep it but just make it incredibly hard to figure out, like those terrible UI volume control examples we saw here a few weeks ago.
I would prefer not to have up/down votes.
I would prefer not to have up/down votes.
Roger, insanely childish concept, though it is entertaining on lesser sites to see idiots bitching when they get down voted, or dismissing a rational argument out of hand because the commenter’s profile had few collective up votes.
Heh. Just what we need to calm things down: A rage-inducing comment feature.
I have noticed comments at Legal Insurrection get down-voted even though the comments were purely explications of what the law is rather than arguments about what is right/wrong. Often there would be no attempt to refute what was said in the comments.
Seems nowhere is immune from idiocy these days, Zagreb Drift, not sure about the scoring.
Meanwhile, not to worry, euphoria boners are not a fetish.
Also……
On other blogs I frequent there are certain clear political and sociological differences of opinion which are usually handled with respect (or else I wouldn’t hang around there) but still leave a certain tension. Up and down votes can and eventually will exacerbate this tension strengthening the conviction of both parties that they are either being vindicated or persecuted. It’s hard to step back from that.
This is remarkably friendly place despite the ever-present threat of the 3 H’s: hamster urine, henchlesbians and hump fat, and the more I think about it the more I believe it’s best to leave things as they are.
It is possible to add a ‘private comment’ plugin, which enables some commenters to have a second layer, as it were, of discussion, on top of the main thread, but invisible to the lower orders. Basically, bitching to a clique. But I decided the evil laughter it might generate wasn’t worth an extra £30 a year.
[ Awaits medal and sundry jewels for being Blog Host Of The Year. ]
David always smiles when he says “No refunds. Credit note only.”
If we’re voting, I’m cool with the upvote button. And/or a downvote button. Either way, I don’t see the big deal. I never understood why people get so bloody butthurt over them. Personally, on sites like Insty, if I get more than 10 upvotes (an extreme rarity) without a single downvote, it kinda cheapens all those upvotes. Like I was shooting fish in a barrel or something. It’s kind of a Daylight Savings Time thing to me. I could argue it either way.
So while futzing around with my WordPress account, because I’m on my laptop and wasn’t logged in here, I notice WP had some sort of a biography section where you could say wonderful things about yourself. I put some verbiage in there but I have no idea how anyone else sees such things. I’m guessing either no one else here has filled that out or it’s not published, per se.
Also, what’s this bloody noise I can’t upvote my own comment! By God, it’s an outrage! Though I could see a revenue stream if doing so came with the price of a Premium Membership. Hint-hint ….jk…
Ooh…another idea…how about we upvote and downvote, not specific comments but the commenter in general. Now that would be exciting! OK, like maybe just for a month or two? Heh.
I did wonder how long it would be until someone tried.
Yeah. I knda hadta. Not knowing would have kept me up all night. What was cute was, for some reason Chrome on Windoze the red “Stop That!” or whatever message was disappeard below the black banner, so I had to try it on the iPad where it displayed properly. Having worked in the early days of graphical user interfaces, the changes in customs and such has been both amusing and irritating. Some obscure platform things I understand but often completely internal proprietary stuff or even non-platform specific custom failures just leave me SMDH. The one that really gets me is putting the cancel button to the right of the submit/ok/commit button. It’s almost like driving on the wrong side of the road…but…
Oh, speaking of which, are you people over yonder responsible for this “Speed Table” thing? Our main feeder street was just repaved and Tuesday driving to the grocery store the wife asks me what a Speed Table is. I had no idea. She said she saw it on a sign (that I apparently missed). I assumed it was some for-sale sign and didn’t think much of it. Then a couple days later, I’m driving along and I see it. The sign, that is. The “Speed Table” which had not been there before, not so much. But it had now been installed…without any striping or caution or anything. Aside from the stupid sign. So fresh blacktop “Speed Table” on top of fresh blacktop, beneath some trees. Yeah. If it weren’t for these safety people…
“I’s gots ta know.”
–failed bank robber in Dirty Harry
Ah ha! So you’re that spammer over at Instapundit who always upvotes his own comments!
Voting to be done on virtual ostracons?
Oh dear.
Would a 5% off coupon do? It’s only recently expired.
Nah. I’m the other guy. I downvote my own comments. Adds to their legitimacy. See above.
But it’s much more fun to make unfounded accusations…
…as long as they are obviously done in fun.
Well, this is likely to be appealed.
This thread is getting too overheated so a soothing tune from one of today’s most celebrated and colossal stars.
Not that it matters. The process is the punishment.
Judge Indira Talwani was appointed by Barack Obama.
Would that she some day experiences what she allows to be done to others.
Who had Canada down on their Nazi Bingo card?
I think it’s worth knowing who honors and reveres Michel Foucault. Kind of a red flag.
Ancient Classical myth continues to find contemporary application.
Great, another 4th grade teacher just “has” to come out to her class.
Women,and especially teachers, really need to stop using that word ‘amazing’. Something, anything else. Awesome, prodigious, fascinating, incredible, marvelous. I really like ‘marvelous’. But y’all do y’all. Except for the ‘amazing’ thing. Just stop. My niece teaches early elementary school. She is not at all like these fruitcakes. Quite the opposite. Yet when she uses that word, always in context of describing her students, I…I just cringe. If someone in the female/teaching community would pass this thought on it would be greatly appreciated. Amazing even.
Works for me, too.
Amaze.