Friday Ephemera (685)
The thrill of Scotland. || Snaking and mortar. || Interspecies teamwork gets results. || Today’s word is suboptimal. || Bus crash-testing. || Fly the skies in comfort. || He’s in a lesbian relationship. || He’s called Knickers, you know. || A machine’s dream of 1920s Star Trek. || “Dissipates heat, conforms to body.” || Feel free to discuss. || Why dogs don’t rule the Earth. || Good to know, I guess. || Today’s other word is gratitude. || Price-checking dispute. || Tap of note. || Parenting. || Please don’t eat my shoes. || Made of pencils. || It could, I dare say, use a woman’s touch. || Neighbourhood scenes. || An interview with Helen Joyce. || And finally, via Julia, the thrill of carrier bags.
Why, yes, I can be followed on Twitter.
And should you be inclined, there are buttons below the fold.
Maybe, but the filthiest car I ever saw belonged to a woman. Almost as bad as this one.
Laundromat advertisement of note.
Just finished watching the Helen Joyce interview. Wow.
Meh. So was former NYC mayor DeBlasio …or Wilhelm..or wtf he decides to call himself. Only a very stupid people could be ruled by such bloody stupid people. Without question.
Someone played a little too much step-on-a-crack-break-your-mother’s-back in their formative years.
It’s a tarted up lawn chair.
Would watch.
Also ping.
Morning, all.
There’s plenty to chew on, not least the final anecdote. (Though I did find Mr Boghossian’s “Okay, so…” bit, early on, a little grating.)
Bless you, sir. May your feet be pleasingly pumiced and lavishly moisturised.
If Dr. Mengele had pink hair …
Danger, Will Robinson.
*rules out flights and rollercoaster rides for the foreseeable future*
Where’s your sense of adventure, madam?
Today’s other, other word is priorities.
“I need some help,” he says.
He’s been fired.
I’m told the fashionable term is teachable moment.
I am, as a rule, a believer in tipping and did once, entirely by accident, give a food delivery chap rather more than I’d planned. His surprise and gratitude made it socially impossible to correct the error, which was, and is, kind of funny. But churlishness is not something I’m inclined to reward. I mean, what did the guy in the video imagine would happen? “If I insult the customer, gratuitously, and swear at her, she’ll rummage in her purse and give me a bigger tip”?
For those of you who don’t yet have strong feelings about self-righteous cyclists.
I’m not seeing a problem. 🙂
Unevenly distributed pepperoni is A REAL AND SERIOUS PROBLEM.
More jolly times on the swings.
The world needs pepperoni equity facilitators.
I am available. For a small percentage.
And in racism news.
Assuming he’s on the level, which would not surprise me, his doctor, and the medical profession in general, needs help more desperately.
Meth milk.
For those of you who don’t yet have strong feelings about self-righteous cyclists.
In most places over here riding on the sidewalks (other than little kids) is generally not legal, as is zipping between cars (even idling), and riding between lanes. It also appears to be a sparky bike, getting back to the sidewalk issue.
I am starting to doubt that he has “reported about a thousand over the last five years” if this is evidence he gives, not that it makes him any less a, well, I cannot top the driver’s characterization.
So, about this Threads malarkey…
The accusation of being a Chelsea supporter seemed a little harsh.
That non-binary haircut you’ve always wanted:
https://twitter.com/JebraFaushay/status/1676980596080275456
So, about this Threads malarkey…
When you have lost Jack Dorsey – it is just another Farcebook Inc. personal data sucking exercise.
“May be collected” is an odd way to spell “Will be collected”, but OK, I guess.
What struck me was the revelation that “there’s no such thing as non-binary” now constitutes “hate speech.” Along with “transitioning children is profound abuse.”
I think we can guess where all the exquisitely uptight Twitter moderators went after being fired by Mr Musk.
“Accidentally built”.
Dr. Mengele had pink hair…
Lawyers are going to have a bonanza in a few years time with a slew of civil and (hopefully) criminal cases for child molestation
“Accidentally built”.
Very appropriate for a girls’ school I would have thought – education through the environment.
Sly dog.
No matter how many pumps he gets, lactation is not ever going to happen for him.
Never can remember if it’s the means of distribution or the means of production that first get taken over by the proletariat.
Best not to mention this if you’re a pedestrian and a cyclist approaches from the other direction:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64824436
Appropriate to the circumstances perhaps?
Heh.
That non-binary haircut you’ve always wanted:
I believe that’s what’s called in the UK a bell-end?
Think they might be trying to pin it on the Veep.
Reviewer sees emanations from penumbras.
Heh.
Maverick is the only movie we went to the theater to see, twice, in 2022. AFAI am concerned, it was the only movie worth any of my time in 2022.
Sexual abuse in the “church” of Scientology.
I have long wondered why so many science fiction writers were and are utterly silent about this evil cult. Indifference? Payola? Or kompromat?
Just because Hubbard was a science fiction writer doesn’t mean all science fiction writers are in on the grift.
Meanwhile, Ireland’s greatest export has released the greatest movie of 2023, if not ever.
Not sure what you mean. I wrote “many”, not “all”.
And I did notice, over decades of contact with writers, that while a few did speak up most were silent.
And I did wonder if the Church of Scientology was in part buying silence with its Writers of the Future enterprise.
Unevenly distributed pepperoni is A REAL AND SERIOUS PROBLEM.
I must confess to redistributing the ingredients on cook-at-home pizzas. My wife taunts me, yet seems to enjoy every perfect bite.
[ Hangs head ]