Friday Ephemera (686)
Toenail clipping of note. || Are your pants chainsaw-retardant? || Can’t quite put my finger on it. || The thieving did not go to plan. || “Got pork for lunch on Sunday?” || A brief history of the British police box. || I’m told all ladies do this. || “What about this says ma’am to you?” || Model minority. || Modern manners. || Incoming. || Mystery object. || He keeps them in a jar, next to his Star Wars action figures. || “Hope that makes sense for you.” || “Homicide hotspots in Medieval London.” (h/t, Things) || We are enriched. || It’s what she would have wanted. || You want one and you know it. || The theory of tooth worms. || She had suspicious breasts. || Definitely-a-lady whips off shirt before starting fight. || I believe the expression is, “Fuck about, find out.” || And finally, I have questions.
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Bless you, sir.
On future visits to Ace, may you remain unbothered by endless repetitions of the same tacky ads, usually for unsightly afflictions – often vividly depicted – that, happily, you don’t have.
*sweet home Alabama…*
Oh. Wrong thread.
*hits Amazon linkage as penance *
Aka, a weekend in Chicago.
Ç’est domage. It doesn’t meet the mips safety standard. It is very cool, though, like a lot of other inflatable stuff, you have to take the air out of it when you’re done and good luck getting it to fit back into that little carrying case.
“Pants”
My father came within a gnat’s eyelash of crippling himself while using a chainsaw high in a tree (c. 1968). For years after, he called the jeans (which had a four inch slice right behind his left knee) his “lucky jeans”. I, too, have been careless while indulging in what my children are prone to call “light pruning”, but never came that close to disaster.
Serial killer vibes. If they made him dysphoric, why does he want to keep them on display?
Morning, all.
Fair question. But we’re talking about a man who refers to himself as a “Non-Binary, Genderfluid, Trans, Bi lesbian, ASpec, Cryptid, Leftist, ND, Sex Witch.” Someone who thinks that this is both womanly and “super cute,” and who likes to share photographs of himself with a dummy in his mouth.
I think we can assume that one or two things are broken.
No.
I occasionally ride a 1965 Mouton Deluxe (with the 4 speed Sturmey Archer)
Sniggers from passerby has been heard, adding this probably wouldn’t help.
(Though I see Steve E thinks it is cool – so what do I know)
“Homicide hotspots in Medieval London.” (h/t, Things)
At least no postcode wars, because, no postcodes!
We are enriched.
Have you noticed, the US always goes one bigger and, errr, better.
Random Friday thought:
Niche travel marketing opportunity, a reincarnation of Trans World Airlines.
Bound to be a Hit amongst the Its.
Excellent pile-on. More of that please.
That’s not going to end well, is it?
It is rather pleasing to see the criminals, the predators, being the ones to experience fear.
Seems right that they should.
Question asked, answered.
Hard pass. Here’s an idea – make a good film with a good female character and start your own franchise. Or would that be too much work?
Ah, but then you couldn’t piggy-back your Current Year politics, and Current Year hang-ups, onto someone else’s work, established over many decades. Plus, there’s all that self-congratulatory subverting to be done. All that signalling about how awful it is to have a white, male hero being heroic. Because hey, nobody wants that.
The Screen Rant article, by Shaurya Thapa, is feeble even by the standards of woke clickbait culture prattle. There’s the inevitable wittering about things being “problematic” – in this case, the fact that a film series about an iconic male character has always featured said male character. No, really.
We’re told, “A gendered spin on the character can open up more potential for exploring Bond’s individuality.” And this exploration of the character’s individuality will apparently be achieved by erasing a rather fundamental aspect of the character – his maleness – and replacing him with an entirely different person of a different sex.
At which point, the recent iteration of Doctor Who is invoked as a “positive example” on that front, as if Jodie Whittaker’s brief, unloved manifestation had been a rip-roaring success – despite the terrible writing, widely denounced by fans, despite the ensemble of identity-niche non-characters, and despite the subsequent, rapid death-spiral of viewing figures.
There have been a few times when I wanted one after accepting a ride in someone’s car.
The full spectrum of derangement. Criptid, even. [ Rolls eyes. ]
Definitely violence in his future. Needs watching…from a distance.
For one thrilling moment, at the 22 second mark, I thought a bystander was going after them with a long handled axe.
Bears repeating: These feral creatures are our deadly enemies.
But their white liberal protectors are our deadliest enemies.
But you know what really bothers me? What really makes me sick to my stomach?
Except that Medieval London did not have a ruling class that protected vicious thugs.
He does have a point. Ketchup on a hot dog.
He does have a point. Ketchup on a hot dog.
Which, for those who can’t or haven’t seen it, should disqualify this guy from any office in the known or unknown universe, and we haven’t even gotten to that alleged bun.
To look dominant? Conquered territory?
(Also unhygienic.)
“Homicide hotspots in Medieval London.
And all those real estate hotspots to both the east and west crying out for developers.
That sports bra isn’t fooling anyone.
Also,
It’s not clear from the videos, but it seems entirely possible that any ‘misgendering’ of Knuckles was unintentional. Maybe someone assumed that Knuckles was a butch woman hoping to be seen as a man, not a butch man hoping to be seen as a woman. Which might explain the subsequent display of the sports bra.
I use the word explain in the loosest possible sense.
Not at all surprising: Abusive trans grifter Jessica Yaniv is back in the news: Frivolous 911 calls and harassing emergency first responders with lewd conduct.
Butch or bitch? Or maybe bodge?
David, did you recently implement a “you have been mentioned in a comment” email notification feature?
Yes, I think so. I do fiddle with the settings from time to time, just to see what happens. But there are quite a lot of menus and sub-menus, and sub-sub menus. If memory serves, it should work for registered users, provided the mention is @username.
I haven’t used it myself. As it only works with registered users, and as many commenters aren’t registered, it would be a bit of a faff to keep checking whether or not there was any point in including @username. Also, I’m not sure whether commenters want to be emailed every time someone mentions them in another comment. It could seem a little like spam.
Likewise, when someone posts a comment with five or more links, this will be intercepted as potential spam and held for moderation – i.e., by me, assuming I’m around. I enabled the auto-notification which emails the commenter when said comment is approved. But again, obviously, this only works if the commenter is registered.
Can we expect to see a “you have been mentioned to the henchlesbians” notification?
That would cost extra. Besides, the element of surprise.
The endless proliferation of software features can induce headaches.
Thanks. I’ll keep that in mind, for when I really want someone to see my comment.
I suppose having options is a good thing, but poking through the wpDiscuz settings menus is not my idea of a rollicking good time. I have to be in a certain mood to do it, and then with some trepidation.
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How’s that “trans women ARE women” thing going?
Today’s lesson in communications.
How long can it be before a female prisoner is violently attacked, raped or killed by one of these freaks? Always assuming it hasn’t already happened although a killing might be a bit hard to cover up unless you wipe the tapes and call it suicide.
How long can it be before a female prisoner is violently attacked, raped or killed by one of these freaks?
It’s already happened, and it makes no difference to the Left. Their hierarchy is set, men pretending to be women outrank mere women.
You know what I hear from TRAs when I bring up prison rape? If I get an answer at all, it’s along the lines of “well, prisoners get assaulted all the time, why are you obsessed with trans women, bigot?”
Jordan Peterson comments:
“For 70 years psychologists denied the existence of left wing authoritarianism, and I’m going to lay that denial at the feet of social psychologists because I believe that they turned a blind eye to left wing authoritarianism 100 percent for political reasons, although it might also be because some of them were left wing authoritarians. But there’s been a new line of research developed and there’s probably only about 10 studies in total, we did one in 2016 before my research career came to an abrupt end. First of all, establishing that left wing authoritarianism was identifiable on statistical grounds but then second looking at the predictors. We found low verbal intelligence and being female and having a feminine temperament were solid predictors of left–radical left wing beliefs combined with the willingness to use compulsion and force to enforce them. But more recently people have been examining the role played by Dark Tetrad traits–so machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, and sadism which is a late addition to that horrible triad let’s say, showing–I read one study last week showing that the relationship between the Dark [Triad]–malignant narcissism and left wing authoritarianism was so strong that they’re almost indistinguishable on the measurement front….”
A possible use:
The thieving did not go to plan.
That twitter feed was a long rabbit hole to fall down, but emotionally satisfying.
It does have its moments. And there is something to be said for a more, er, direct approach.
“…we see ourselves as a lifestyle brand…” so “Enjoy 6.1″ Tonight”.
How’s that “trans women ARE women” thing going?
A bit problematically up in the New Hampshire statehouse.