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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I assume that the chief reason for the price difference is that the cost of fish has increased due to declining fish stocks.
What did I miss? I don’t understand what that is referring to.
pst
Brits are fussy about their fish and chips. Cod in the south and haddock in the north probably account for over 75% of sales.
Nearly 50 years ago the Icelandic cod wars led to an attempt to persuade people to step outside their comfort zones. From memory it was a resounding failure as sales of fishcakes, pies, saveloys and the infamous jumbo battered sausages went through the roof.
@pst314: It’s a quote from that Yaniv article.
Yes. This was a fairly standard thing until, as I indicated to David, obama’s political handlers must have run across that Dirty Harry line. I know it sounds like cwazy, cwazy conthpirathy theory but by using little quasi-viral gotcha games like this they turn the culture.
[ Dramatic pause. ]
Band name.
Well, Colonel Sanders never did shy away from competition.
They also established the link between smoking and lung cancer.
That sums up the 21st Century to date.
There are people who find the whole matter of personhood to be terribly inconvenient.
I fully expect the Star Trek continuum, or wtf it’s called, to fully recast The Borg as the good guys. Maybe they already have. I haven’t been paying attention since they were introduced.
Speaking of long running characters, movie franchises, etc…. I haven’t seen the new Indiana Jones movie, nor do I have any desire to see it. For those similarly inclined, this movie review will save you the trouble.
Violent Amish youth.
What fetish?
Deploy Ninja Skills.
And in happening beat-combo news.
We haven’t been to a movie in like a year or more until last week when we went to see Sound of Freedom. Sunday matinee. I was a tad surprised to be asked to select our seats. It being a matinee, I just randomly picked two seats somewhere in the middle but sat anywhere that felt right. I really didn’t think it was a thing. Even though the theater was about 20%-25% full, which was kind of surprising it being a Sunday matinee, we noticed people showing up and demanding that other people, who like us just sat wherever, move out of their seats. Sure enough someone showed up and asked us move. We moved a few seats over and that was that but at the time I thought this was a stupid idea that was only going to cause these sort of conflicts. As I said, we don’t go often but even the last movie we saw, Top Gun Maverick…or whatever…the theater was only about 10% full. Are theaters actually packed these days that they need to enforce assigned seating?
Beat Combo
Imagine Transvision Vamp on a really bad day without the looks, talent or …… balls……and dick.
This is much worse.
Here’s what he might have heard while still a toddler.
https://youtu.be/XpEmHajlCt4
The attacker, who appears to be black, […]
Curious how . . . conditional . . . the prescribed capitalisation is.
We live in a golden age in which psychologists and psychiatrists of various stripes are more numerous per capita than ever before, yet we seem to have ever so many more crazy people. Odd that.
Perhaps he’s oppressed in some way.
I don’t know. I haven’t been in a theater since around 2016. But I suppose that some people like the idea of assigned seating because they can choose seats for optimum viewing according to their preferences.
But if everyone must choose their seats, those who park themselves in other seats have no cause for complaint when they are asked to move. I suspect that in this case the black punks were late to the game and were only able to purchase less-than-optimal seats and so, like so many blacks, they just arbitrarily took other peoples’ seats because, hey, they’re black and are entitled to do whatever they want.
Oppressed by his own moral and intellectual inferiority.
Lodge meetings have really gone downhill fast.
We live in a golden age in which psychologists and psychiatrists of various stripes are more numerous per capita than ever before, yet we seem to have ever so many more crazy people. Odd that.
Much like it was the job of the “firemen” in fahrenheit 451 to burn books, psychologists and psychiatrists today seem duty bound to encourage mental illness. It does create jobs and ensure employment. So there’s that.
They are indoctrinated into leftist victimhood ideology during their years in university, and victimhood ideation is likely to prevent people from getting better or even make them worse. What’s worse, conservatives are discouraged or even banned from psychology and social work degree programs.
But the fields were already pretty corrupt half a century ago–as witnessed by my Jordan Peterson quote earlier in this comment thread.
Speaking of intellectual corruption, what would you think of a psychotherapist who used horoscopes when counseling/treating patients? I met one once, and regret that I did not challenge her on the lunacy of using bullsh*t crackpottery on vulnerable people.
and social work degree programs.
My uni had a large social work program. My program shared a lot of overlapping elective courses and instructors. This was around the time of punk. It was always easy to identify a social work student. They had the piercings, shavings, tats, hairdos, etc of the day. I often thought that the program had been sold to them as a DIY course to solve their own problems.
It’s been said so often, but it really is hard to tell if you’re reading the Babylon Bee or actual news. I mean, that screenshot of Jen Psakahjfbdasc
Sorry. Dozed off for a moment there just at the thought of her. Yeah, that screenshot, “GOP RECRUITING MUSLIMS AGAINST TRANS PEOPLE” (and underneath it the MSNBC original “BEHIND THE RIGHTWING (sic) STRATEGY TO DIVIDE MINORITY GROUPS”; Lefties never could do snappy headlines)… I have to keep telling myself, yes, that is a real thing. That actually happened. She said that. She did a whole bit about it. It’s not satire.
What a time to be alive.
And they originated from human scientists when something went wrong, possibly while trying to develop a superweapon.
Ohhh. Wendy James. I’ll be in my quarters.
Hard to miss, with Google asking that I stream the games every time I go to their home page (they’ve since stopped).
The Critical Drinker weighs in on the Barbie movie: The Greatest Lie Ever Told
Britain finds a solution.
@wtp
In Chicago there are two schools of thought regarding ketchup on hot dogs. Obama belongs to the right one 🙂 and I’m sure they got it from him.
An excerpt from Cecil Adams’ classic take.
https://www.straightdope.com/21341854/why-is-there-no-ketchup-on-a-properly-made-hot-dog
Just needs a murder to make it complete.
Meh. In the sense of letting an octopus pick World Cup winners (the real WC) horrorscope counseling cannot do much worse. Might even be better off, provided the therapist keeps the methodology to herself and doesn’t tell the patient. The vast majority of them, even many of the good ones, are so thick in the Narrative they are more likely to be wrong than some unthinking random chance taker.
I think I see the problem…
I recall concession stands at baseball parks back in the day had a dual half mustard on one side, half ketchup on the other dispenser that laid down a nice neat line. Personally when ordering a hotdog or any similar, I just ask for the works. Whatever you got, throw it on there. In the absence of anything more than relish, and if the mustard is your standard French’s bland yellow, I do both ketchup and mustard. I do leave the ketchup off if there’s some quality mustard but the big OMGOMGOMG ketchup on a hotdog!!! thing smacks of putting on airs. It’s just a bloody hotdog.
Barbarians walk among us.
[ Fetches white cotton hotdog gloves. ]
In Chicago there are two schools of thought regarding ketchup on hot dogs.
I’ve heard it said, albeit by New Yorkers, that a New York hot dog is “coffee, black,” while a Chicago hot dog is “half-caff macchiato with two pumps of low-sugar hazelnut syrup and a small spoon to gently agitate the raw sugar.”
I like the New York brown mustard and onions but the Chicago dog, dragged through the garden, as they say, served on a poppy seed bun is my preference.
In Toronto, at the ball park or when buying street meat, the hot dog is more sausage-like and weighs in at a hefty quarter-pound. I went to a ball game in Detroit and the hot dog vendor came by, I said, “I’ll have one.” He looked at me and said, “just one?” I said, “first time in Detroit. How many should I have?” He said, “start with six.” I said ok and he handed me six foil-wrapped hot dogs with a dozen mustard packages and half-a-dozen relish packages. Damn things were the size of cocktail weiners!
Oh, and they were serving crappy Canadian beer (Labatt Blue) as if it was some kind of exotic, premium brand.
Dragged through the garden is okay, but I often get just grilled onions or sauerkraut. Good on bratwurst and polish, too. Verstehen sie?
Georgious floydius, a new species of fish discovered by a 5 year old in the UK.
With a little more practice she can sound like those sleazy ASPCA doggie rescue advertisements.
Carjackers stabs driver, flees, jumps off bridge, breaks both legs.
I like a happy ending, but I wish he had landed on his head.
At moments like this I can sympathize with the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
Good on bratwurst and polish, too. Verstehen sie?
Jawohl! Also excellent on a grilled knackwurst which I tend to think of as a giant german hot dog (because the germans make some awesome weiners).
[ Shit, you got me to say weiners ]
One of my favourite places to watch baseball and eat is Buffalo, NY. A lot of the vendors have onions and peppers going on the grill. Awesome on the fried bologna sandwich, sausage, or if you can convince them on a Sahlen’s all-beef hot dog. Wash it all down with an awesome local craft beer. And that’s all before you have the local favourite, beef on weck (roast beef on a bun (kummelweck) that’s topped with kosher salt and caraway seeds.
Not too long ago, I could take my family of 4 to a Bisons game (Blue Jay AAA), park the car and feed them for the cost of two Blue Jay’s tickets.
It’s just a bloody hotdog
and don’t even think about what goes into it.
Fish and chips
Who remembers the prime offering – rock salmon? More commonly known as dogfish…
Facial tattoos are not a red flag. Facial tattoos are not a red flag.
One of my favourite places to watch baseball and eat is Buffalo, NY.
You voluntarily went to Buffalo?
(because the germans make some awesome weiners)
At the moment my freezer is stocked with hot dogs, bratwurst, and salami from Usinger’s, a Milwaukee firm that was founded in the mid 1800’s by German immigrants.
[ Carefully steps back from between Farnsworth and Steve. ]
I am sure Madam Governor will be the first in line, after all, what could possibly go wrong?
I was not expecting Mr. Dibbler to add white gloves to his restaurant supply catalog.
Carefully steps back from between Farnsworth and Steve.
TBF, as I have never heard of anyone having done it before, I don’t know whether to be in awe, or to fetch a canvas camisole with wraparound sleeves.
You voluntarily went to Buffalo?
The north-eastern terminus of the rust-belt has it’s charms. As does the whole rust-belt. If you love baseball, it’s a great trip through middle america. The people are salt-of-the-earth. The food is awesome and these places aren’t San Francisco, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, etc, etc, etc.
New tourism slogan: “The food is awesome and we’re not Portland!”
Using mathematics to explain why nonconformists all end up looking the same.
If you love baseball, it’s a great trip through middle america.
If you love baseball, go to the smaller places with farms teams, there is actually action on the field, the regional foods are better and you’ll be in places that aren’t depressing.
That MIT article about conformist hipsters, based on math models, shows how clusters of conformity appear among the non-conformists. The analysis reminded me, in detail, of a technical report from about 1985.
The problem was that the clocks of computers on the internet tended to form islands of slightly different time. (This was before time servers.) Once formed, they were persistent, and tended to drift separately, but rarely merged into larger islands.
What do I conclude from this? That social non-conformists function at the mental level of a mid-80s office computer.
I should apply for a grant…
How curious. I never heard about that.
Facial tattoos are not a red flag. Facial tattoos are not a red flag.
Dental implants and a smile would transform this chap into an Adonis.
I found the AA games/leagues to be the sweet spot. Orlando had a very nice, small stadium that was very well run. I’ve been to the Greenville, SC stadium a couple of times but have yet to see a game there. It looks great though. I found A games, at least back in the 70’s, but also a few in the last 20 years or so, to be a bit disorganized. Depending on the specific city the enthusiasm level varies considerably but not as exciting as AA.
It’s just a bloody hotdog
and don’t even think about what goes into it
” we have to answer to a higher authority“
If you love baseball, go to the smaller places with farms teams, there is actually action on the field, the regional foods are better and you’ll be in places that aren’t depressing.
Ah yes, no true scotsman…so thank you for the lecture. Buffalo is a farm team. Do you know what a farm team is? I’ve been to every city/town where the Blue Jays have affiliations at all levels of minor league ball including ones that no longer exist. How many road trips have you taken to watch baseball at any level? I’ll bet it doesn’t match mine. So f**k off
It seems you’ve never been to Buffalo so your opinion is based on stereotypes. There’s plenty in these towns that you hate so much that isn’t depressing. These people are my neighbours. I grew up watching local television from these cities and I’ve spent a fair amount of time there including watching my kids playing in rep league baseball tournaments. I have nothing but respect for the city of Buffalo and the people of Western New York.
I’m not sure what’s worse about some Americans, the great political divide which has always existed or the self-loathing based on stereotypical views of people who live where “I” don’t live.
From my perspective and that of millions who are trying to get in, you’ve got a great country; take your head out of your asshole and enjoy what’s around you.
I thought you were joking.
Oh, in the world of woke journalism, it would be difficult to invent something more clownish than what’s actually happening.
The author of the piece, by the way, is a regular contributor, having written over a thousand articles for Screen Rant. He claims many areas of “expertise,” and many “domains of knowledge,” including “fact-checking.” He also boasts of his “academic background.”
I was curious to check out the “Register” options but I’m not seeing the link. Perhaps because I’m on an iPad or tablet? Will check out on my laptop later if I manage to dig it out of whatever moving box I stuck it in.
If that’s what you’re seeing, I’d guess you already are registered. Hence the “log out” option. And the customised avatar.
Ah. I confused logging into WordPress as being separate from registering. Which maybe it is and I misremembered….or something. As Emily Latella would say, nevermind…
My memory of the specifics has grown quite vague, but at one time German butchers could be hanged if they adulterated their sausages or used unapproved parts of the animal.
I would not mourn for such an Adonis.
[ Eyebrows rise. Checks for clear path to door. Looks around for spray bottle. ]
@pst314 @WTP
This is a test. Did you receive an email notification?
Yes. At almost the same moment as the onscreen notification.
Oh, and as regards Buffalo, Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. It’s true. I read it in a book.
I don’t see one. Checked the spam filter too. You wouldn’t be trying to…buffalo me, would you?
Though I notice my @ thingy doesn’t show as a link like pst’s.
Thanks for the reminder. [ Adds “spam” to shopping list. ]
Yes. I don’t know why that is.
Fortunately for him, though not the general populace, he’s in Alvin Bragg’s jurisdiction. He should be out & stabbing other drivers in record time.
Theodore Dalrymple related a conversation with a prisoner:
Prisoner: “Prison doesn’t do me any good.”
Dalrymple: “Well, it does me good.”
Prisoner: “What do you mean?”
Dalrymple: “When you are in prison, you are not burgling my home.”
Prisoner: Laughs in recognition of the truth and that he cannot bamboozle this man.
It seems you’ve never been to Buffalo so your opinion is based on stereotypes.
Swing and a miss, having done the undergraduate thing not far from there I have been there and not just for a ball game. We also used to go to Niagara Falls (your side which was a wonderland of weirdness, ours, boring) and Toronto (we were young and gas was cheap), though I would not claim to be an expert on either just based on having been there a few times.
Western New York, defined as any part west of Albany, is indeed quite nice except for Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, all of which have been ruined by the leftist policies driven by Albany via the hordes in NYC (where, as I have mentioned, I also lived and worked), not that the small towns have escaped unscathed. So my opinion is based on having lived up there and seen (having had to back occasionally) the deterioration between the early 70’s and now, not just having been to a ball park.
How many road trips have you taken to watch baseball at any level? I’ll bet it doesn’t match mine.
Weird flex, as the kids say, but OK. How many times have you taken the subway to see Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle at Yankee Stadium? I’ll bet it doesn’t match mine. However, as I now live close to the middle of nowhere (alhamdulillah), any of the AA teams I have seen in the past few years qualifies as a road trip.
I’m not sure what’s worse about some Americans, the great political divide which has always existed or the self-loathing based on stereotypical views of people who live where “I” don’t live.
Aside from the fact you are the only one who has mentioned people, having stereotyped Americans now do Montreal and Edmonton.
Regards hotdogs and ketchup, I just saw this which is without a doubt is a solid argument against my position. Still…being Pittsburgh born I reserve the right to put ketchup, so long as it is Heinz ketchup, on anything I damn well please. Including macaroni & cheese.
If Adonis had facial tattoos and preyed on children.
” we have to answer to a higher authority“
I loved their commercials! Probably why I only buy their kosher all-beef dogs when I am craving a hot dog. I made the mistake of buying el-cheapo mystery meat hot dogs once. No flavor. Bleh.
Map of murder shows 142 deaths. 9 of them were women. In the patriarchy it seems like women suffered a lot less violent death than men.