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.
Sex-swapped Bond…
There are several properties with women protagonists that could be used instead of Bond.
E.g Sue Grafton’s “Alphabet” series, with “Kinsey Millhone”,
Janet Evanovich’s “Stephanie Plum” series,
Paretsky’s “V.I. Warshawski”,
or Ann McCaffrey’s “Pern” series.
A Warshawski film was made in 1991 but only had modest success.
Sex-swapped Bond, in the same spirit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesty_Blaise_(1966_film)
“Critical reception continues to be mixed decades after release but the film has gained a cult flowing”.
The hysterical insistence that others deny reality does it for me.
Unless, of course, the motivation has more to do with being lazy (i.e., piggy-backing on someone else’s creation and someone else’s work), and delusions of subversion, aka woke spite (i.e., giving the finger to men, and to white men in particular, by effectively erasing an iconic character).
There are several properties with women protagonists that could be used instead of Bond
Renee Ballard
Less silly than much of today’s theorising.
Won’t shop at a store that demonstrates such a lack of concern for its customers.
Won’t shop at a store that demonstrates such a lack of concern for its customers
This issue may not be the store but the state/local government that demands no employee response.
Then when the owners decide to close down and leave that location, the government will threaten to “investigate” them for discrimination.
I wouldn’t run a retail store in any urban, or suburban setting even if paid to do so.
Canadian puberty.
Fair point. I’d have gone with “miss”.
Nice. I’ve always said a Moulton is the only bike I’d be seen dead on, but they’re a bit pricey.
Actually… The novel of The Spy Who Loved Me does have a female lead: Viv Michel (the “me” of the title). Bond only turns up more than halfway through. Fleming didn’t like the way it turned out and more or less disowned it. Although Cubby Broccoli was notorious for altering the plots of the movie versions, it’s the only one where Fleming explicitly told him to use the title and re-write everything else.
But if they must take a “view of James Bond through the wrong end of the telescope so to speak”, as Fleming himself put it, making a faithful movie of that would be the way to go, not a bloody sex-change Bond.
For Yaniv, yes.
Hells, all he had to do was read Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals to figure that out.
Perhaps, but he knew systematic study was required to establish it with scientific rigor.
When people tell the narcissistic bullies to fuck off
From the link:
I was going to say say that’s unlikely but then thought of just how insane some jurisdictions have become.
The amazing list of demands that fall under “queer liberation”.
Give the respondents a prize:
‘Pointing out I’m mentally ill makes me even more mentally ill.’
I’m afraid that any message around “Can’t quite put my finger on it.” and “Got pork for lunch on Sunday?” flew over my head.
The toenail clipping thing is in a world of its own. That appears to be a nail from someone so obese that he/she/its feet are rotting away.
Bond: the pure physicality of the Daniel Craig’s Bond is way beyond anything a woman could plausibly do. There have been plenty of great female central characters in movies but the lazy left just wants to hijack male stories. Also, they are salty that there ARE male stories. How dare men love to watch fast cars, hot women, and explosions?
That is key.
America’s insidious war upon the beloved traditional fish and chips.
Is it time to provision and launch the galleons?
Were they sentenced to transportation?
The Crimson Permanent Assurance?
America’s insidious war upon the beloved traditional fish and chips.
The Curse of The Link-O-Matic 9000™ strikes again…fish and chips war here.
No, that’s the curse of the pst314 clumsy-o-Matic.
No, that’s the curse of the pst314 clumsy-o-Matic.
Ixnay, kimosabe, I have it on good authority the Link-O-Matic 9000™ was designed deliberately by a neon haired, nose ringed, bad tatted, polybiasexual in order to disrupt cis-heteronomativity, yte supremacy, climate change, structural racism, and good HTML practices.
I vaguely remember a film or film series called La Femme Nikita. What happened with that?
You may not know, but Obama…or more realistically Obama’s political operatives, seized upon that line to own the cons, bro!
Maybe it’s my mis(?)perception but it seems like women in women’s prisons are more willing to speak up about these absurd indignities. Women living in “freedom” not so much. Odd that.
What we have here is not a failure to communicate but a failure to amplify.
In the cartoon character’s defense, given the heaping piles of utter and complete bull shit we have been fed by the medical profession, from the idiotic food pyramid to the oh, we don’t need to check your prostate anymore to the well we once said you can’t stop a virus with a silly mask to WEAR THE GOD DAMNED MASK YOU BLOODY GOD DAMNED IDIOT AND THIS EXPERIMENTAL SHOT THAT’S NOT EXPERIMENTAL except it is…well, I’ve started to question this whole theory on where babies come from myself. Always did smell like bullshit to me. Granted funny bullshit, but bullshit none the less. Imagine my mother…
Who was it that said, ever so confidently, that STEM would be the firewall for this idiocy? The people who did the Lysenkoism thing also put Sputnik in orbit first.
The people who did the Lysenkoism thing also put Sputnik in orbit first.
Not really, their Germans beat our Germans.
The original French film la Femme Nikita was good. The U.S. remake, Point of No Return (?), was OK-ish. Then there was an initially promising TV series, but it devolved pretty quickly, and then jumped a lot of sharks.
One scene, which i did not actually see (just read about it) apparently had the Agency’s internal AI trap the female lead in an elevator, then raised the heat, eventually forcing her to partially disrobe. All the while her conflicted love interest / rival agent was monitoring by video. This was supposed to be the AI’s ruse to alter internal Agency politics in some way favorable to it.
A fine example of what my engineering colleagues use to call “drug-aided design”.
So the people who did the Holocaust thing put the first man on the moon. Or some shit. Let’s play sophistry games. They’re so relevant to the original point.
It’s funny how I don’t remember which one I saw. I do recall there was a series of some kind. A coworker kinda got wrapped up in it and would talk about it quite a bit. I recall liking the premise, the (whichever) original. But I lost track of it or maybe did see later ones that may have been more meh to me than my coworker. Still, it seems like if there must be retreads, this would be a good one to revive and hopefully fix. But of course they would just make it worse with the woke crap. It’s like a law or something.
Not your misperception. The fact is that, unlike free women, they are in more immediate danger and they can’t even run away from it. Thanks, ACLU! It’s beginning to look like we’re heading for trans supremacy, not (as the left fantasizes) white supremacy. What will actually happen?
Actual LOL.
Fish and Chips wars.
Although ethnic replacement in cities, where most fast food is purchased, is a significant factor along with the plethora of newly opened “cash only” fried chicken outlets alongside myriad nail bars and incomprehensible (LOL) numbers of Turkish barbers* the actual reason is more prosaic:-
KFC meal circa £6 or under a fiver from the generic competition.
Large cod and chips circa £9-10.
Even the ubiquitous OAP deal, small fish and half portion of chips, is over £7 here on the south coast which is far from an affluent area.
Cost – it’s as simple as that.
* For our overseas readers the recent phenomenon of 4, 5 or more of these barbers opening up even in the smallest towns has been impossible to ignore. They are characterised by at least one extremely expensive car parked outside, often on the pavement (but never bothered by traffic wardens who as a breed have a strong sense of self preservation) while inside you will see 3 or 4 tanned youngish men of a kind you wouldn’t choose to argue with sitting around most of the day. Very little actual hair cutting takes place.
Boring and alienating the majority of your audience, shrinking it to about a third of what it was, with figures still plunging, is apparently a political triumph, a marker of progress. Yes, I know, it’s Screen Rant, home to shills and woke hackery, but still, the readiness to misinform readers, to invert reality, is quite something.
Which reminds me, yesterday I glanced at the trailer for The Marvels, a team-up film featuring three female superheroes that pretty much no-one, other than the female writers, cares about, and whose comics have been repeatedly cancelled due to lack of public interest. 8 hours after being unleashed on the public, the UK trailer had been watched, or partially watched, a mere 8,000 times. 8,000 views. For a Marvel film.
For anyone who hasn’t noticed there is a ladies football tournament in progress.
“Hasn’t noticed” means not switching on tv, reading a newspaper or glancing at billboards for the past few weeks. I’m sure the bbc, who have decided to show 2 live matches a day and as is their wont shipped a cast of hundreds halfway round the world to provide their unique brand of more talk than actual sport coverage, will be rewarded for this stunning and brave decision with some epic viewing figures.
Little Madam’s other TikTok videos are pretty much what you’d expect – utterly neurotic self-preoccupation, and the rote regurgitation of ‘progressive’ political noises – such that anyone who interacts with her is expected to profess support for Black Lives Matter and must agree that “all cops are bastards.” These are stipulated conditions.
Throughout, there’s a mixture of exhibitionist self-pity and simultaneous confessions of “privilege,” with rapid alternation between inapt smiling and tearfulness. She seems to be an unstable young woman whose incoherent politics, and particularly her incoherent identity politics, are making her more unhinged, and unhappy.
On a more key issue I have been a regular visitor to the US for well over 30 years during which time I have consumed many hot dogs with twin lines of ketchup and yellow mustard.
Perhaps this has been noticed and explains why my projected green card approval date is now over 15 years after initially applying.
Look at any poll of favourite Doctors and she’s near the bottom. (Just above Colin Baker!)
Heh.
It’s possible I’m being slightly unfair, in that some of the decline will be down to franchise exhaustion. The longevity of a series brings problems, not least the burning through of ideas. At some point, decades on, there’s just nothing much new to do, or nothing new that’s worth doing. All the half-decent stories have already been told and the premise, the format, becomes spent. And so we get casting gimmicks.
But the Doctor, as a character, is supposed to be an outsider, an alien, and somewhat removed from whatever fashions prevail at any given time on planet Earth. And what we’re seeing is a character whose appearance and particulars very much depend on the preoccupations of a minority in the Current Year. In many respects, our time-travelling alien seems remarkably parochial and politically conformist.
I’ve often thought that the Doctor’s periodic regeneration was a bit of a mixed blessing too. Yes, it means the character, and the series, can outlive the interest or popularity of any particular actor. But it also risks the evaporation of any sense of the lead character having… well, a character.
If the star of the series can be a crochety old man, or a horribly miscast woman, or a young black man with a transgender companion, then where’s the continuity of who this person is? It seems to me that if your lead character can be anyone, any age, any sex, then you’re undermining any sense of him – or rather, them – being a particular person.
@pst314: “Just so you’re all aware, I’ll be suing the township for libel and other things.”’
Is he going to be employing Lionel Hutz, attorney at law?
@ccscientist: ‘How dare men love to watch fast cars, hot women, and explosions?’
Since in these sort of films the hot women are usually accompanied by hot men, I can assure you the distaff side likes them just fine as well!
American Thinker answers my question as to whether Oppenheimer has ever been given the all-clear. In a less than enthusiastic review of the film, his Communist connections are given a good airing. In the film, not so much.
I have actually been told that businesses and organizations cannot survive without trans people: That they are a growing market segment and without them businesses will be unable to make money and organizations will shrink and disappear. That’s a powerful drug, to induce such long lasting hallucinations.