Ladies, Avert Your Eyes
From 1849, a tale of terror and suspense:
The first jet of urine was followed by an explosive sound and flash of fire, and quick as thought the penis was drawn into the bottle with a force and tenacity which held it as firmly as if in a vice.
What followed, unsurprisingly, was quite stressful. Among the words used are enormous size.
What was I saying? Oh yes. Consider this an open thread.
“I seized a large knife lying on the table…”
Accompanied by a wince
I think the lesson here is always check your pee bottle for traces of potassium.
What?
Strike!
The presence of naphtha likely had something to do with it. Otherwise there would be reports of the dangers inherent in Gatorade bottles.
And to think, there are people who say chemistry is boring.
For those who missed it – how to make toilet-paper moonshine.
So…in the sense of open thread and my penis jokes being a bit too obvious to be proud of…on a more genteel subject… I’ve been exposing the wife to a lot of BBC stuff lately, some of it older that I was not aware she hadn’t seen. Anyway, we have been watching some Penelope Kieth stuff, most specifically right now her series on English villages. While we have enjoyed it we have been rather puzzled by the sound mix. The background…”background” music seems to drown out the audio. I thought the trouble understanding the audio was due to the high ceilings in our Florida home which our Georgia home does not have. Got up here, same problem and clearly has to do with the mix. Which seems odd. Has anyone else watched this series and noticed this? Maybe it’s the version Amazon offers in the US? Seems like a rather odd QC problem to have been in the original product.
Via Ace, speaking of dicks.
Pro-child abuse propaganda that appeared in the Guardian.
Sickening cruel abuse described as “beneficial and enjoyable”. (Via Dicentra)
On a lighter (YMMV) note, here’s a self-decapitating fly:
https://twitter.com/HowThingsWork_/status/1683230728220229634
False advertising: They never explain how a decapitated fly works. 🙄
How did I miss this one?
WTP, we saw what you did there.
“…and my penis jokes being a bit too obvious to be proud of… I’ve been exposing the wife to a lot of BBC stuff lately…”
Good skills.
“Mātauranga Māori could compliment quantum physics”
It seems as if every year there is a new claim about how aboriginal “ways of knowing” can improve physics.
Bartender, pour me a shot, please. And leave the bottle.
I refrained from making that comment, knowing that someone else would. Behold my excruciatingly sophisticated taste and discretion.
A 19th century variant on the classic “Armageddon” news story.
https://youtu.be/cTrOb8zyrZk
I’m sure most on here will already be aware of it. Any others are recommended to spend 3 minutes or so listening.
It. Does. Indeed.
But then, the phenomenon is driven by the pretentious guilt and racial neuroticism of middle-class lefties. Of which, there is a seemingly inexhaustible supply.
See also.
And it appears that “Doctor” Ngaree Blow is still at the University of Melbourne.
“Ah, Melbourne!”
–serial killer in Arsenic and Old Lace
Pub game.
That feeling of relief when you remember that Italy does not have its own nuclear weapons.
Pub game.
Fantastic. We could use one round here…
Aboriginal knowledge: there was a documentary on how the polynesians navigate(d) the open ocean. It is quite impressive what they achieved. However, no doubt many sailors vanished without a trace trying to navigate AND it contributes nothing to navigation today or to science.
There has always been knowledge by primitive people on plants useful for healing and other purposes (pest control for example). None of it contradicts modern science, most of it has already been absorbed, and much of it is wrong.
It is good to keep an open mind….but not so open that your brains fall out.
That warning comes too late for many.
How does public transit work on London buses?
In most American cities you pay when you board a bus and that’s it. But not on interurban trains: Instead the conductor comes around and checks everyone’s tickets. If you don’t have a ticket you can buy one (with a hefty surcharge) or get thrown off or arrested at the next stop. And I have heard that in the Netherlands tickets are checked only randomly (and the fine for not having a ticket is high.)
Again via Ace, we are introduced to a lady frustrated by a doctor.
Beats me that with tens of thousands of years’ to make observations, our primitive astronomers failed to notice that at least 6 objects move across the sky in relation to the fixed background behind them; which includes Jupiter one of the brightest objects in the night heavens. The impact on astrological voodoo would have been boundless.
“astrological voodoo”
See them open for wall of voodoo in ’84….
FYI, I’m currently reading Helen Joyce’s “Trans” and I want to quote something because it really really is the perfect rebuttal to the TRAs who sniff about how the “binary” of sex is a Western colonial/racist/white supremacist invention because indigenous cultures consider “2-Spirit, el al” as a 3rd sex … THIS:
There is no perfect rebuttal because this is not a rational/ideological battle. Words, reason, whathaveyou, are used by them to take up space, amplified by their emotions. The only way to fight these people is with volume, be it loud or broad, or violence. If logic and reason held any sway we would not be drowning in these absurdities. They would have died out before getting much attention.
“Mātauranga Māori could compliment quantum physics”
Perhaps… Or perhaps compl*E*ment quantum physics, but I remain skeptical.
It’s more interesting to take it as written.
‘Charmed, I’m sure.’
Inasmuch as that could be misinterpreted and misquoted, I recommend spelling out British Broadcasting Corporation in such a sentence.
I expect my persona here to be sprayed with hamster urine and chased out of the establishment for a hopefully short period.
@pst314: “The police statement issued later (which I will also post) makes clear that the woman had paid her fare.“
So, maybe waiting quietly until this fact was uncovered and then going on one’s way with a cheery wave might have been the best option, no..?
Or, mentally ill woman is mentally ill.
Maybe Cain, maybe Leaf.
She worries that, being white, she’ll be seen as “mansplaining.” It’s one of her “deepest fears,” apparently.
Having internalised the whole ultra-woke identity-politics lifestyle package, every ideological tic, it doesn’t seem to be helping her mental health issues. Quite the opposite. And so, for instance, she insists that a day-care worker who doesn’t like using the word “queer,” loudly, in front of other people’s young children, is therefore some kind of danger to her.
If you poke through Cain / Leaf’s TikTok videos, it’s like playing a game of Which Combination Of Personality Disorders Am I Looking At Today?
It’s not a great game, but it does pass the time.
Julia
Cynical old me suspects that even if the lady’s illogical (alleged) refusal to show her ticket to the inspector legally doing his job was not laying the foundations for a chunky damages claim now that the media-led optics have out-sprinted the facts that is precisely what she will be getting.
TfL will “learn lessons”, the inspector if he’s lucky will be given sensitivity training rather than a P45 while the police officer will be sternly reminded who can and who can’t be detained in todays London.
https://campusreform.org/article?id=23666
OT and lifted from Ace, as is so much good stuff. I have a suspicion that at least one of the ladies responsible for this event might have featured on here.
The bewilderingly wrong-headed Ms Rashatwar has indeed.
Ms Rashatwar, an “Instagram therapist” and woman of surreal girth, denounces “intentional weight loss” and claims that dieting is a form of “sexual violence” based on “Nazi science.” Her own numerous health problems are, we’re told, the result of “weight stigma” and “white supremacy,” and nothing whatsoever to do with her enthusiasm for doughnuts and junk food, consumed in wholesale quantities.
She’s an influencer, you know. An inspiration to us all.
That.
Well, it’s worth noting just how closely these things seem tailored to the behaviour of the psychologically marginal. As if designed to affirm and exacerbate whatever neuroses and unhappy compulsions a person might have. And so, anything short of round-the-clock full-throated affirmation – say, someone not wishing to use inapt language in front of small children – becomes proof of some hostile intent. And thereby confirmation of one’s own persecution and eternal, sainted victimhood.
See also this emphatic yet fairly typical example.
OFFS. TWYPWGA? YAA? IGIATIMM. TSIGOOH.
Would the Brits in this thread please verify how UK buses work? Inspectors check all the passengers on a randomly selected bus to verify they have tickets?
Haven’t been on a bus in well over a decade, but it was the custom that you paid as you got on. Though I dimly remember bus conductors, back when I was a wee seedling. They wandered the bus, collecting fares and issuing receipts while the thing was moving.
It’s largely an honours system. Most people pay when getting in and receive a ticket. Others walk straight past and will often not be challenged by the driver. Ticket checks do occur but again the inspectors are only human and will not press their case if they perceive the fare fidget as being unwise to challenge.
The story in question is just odd. If, as reported, she had a valid ticket then why not present it to the inspector?
Thank you! I really wanted to reality check on my supposition regarding that.
I’ll go out on a limb and suggest it’s because she’s black, and black people are entitled to do whatever they want whenever they want to whoever they want.
Does anybody here speak jive?
And the feral population has grown, and grown bolder, since my wee seedling years.
Living on the south coast I frequently take the train into London. Ticket inspectors are a common sight and it appears a thankless job as on many smaller stations it is possible to board trains without a ticket.
Anything up to 25% of passengers won’t have tickets. Most simply present a payment card while lying that they just got on at the last stop. However others refuse to make eye contact and invariably get away without paying. I certainly wouldn’t challenge most of them.
Somewhat related: how to create a low-trust society.
Fare enforcement is a bad thing, you see, being insufficiently progressive. Oh, and noticing shameless, habitual thievery is apparently much worse than indulging in it.
These are the new rules, it seems, among our betters.
Guardian correction of note:
And yes, I checked, it’s real.
LOL. The Groan was never good with numbers.
There couldn’t possibly be any downsides to this.
Indeed. The paper’s star columnist Polly Toynbee is famed for her struggles with basic arithmetic, and her tendency to misreport figures by many orders of magnitude.
But the above tops even her best, I think.
Grauniad.
A culling is in order.
When the culling occurs, they should be included.
On a somewhat positive note, a 68 year old Lowes employee was rehired after being fired for confronting three thug thieves who beat her. Unfortunately this attitude persists:
And most people, most conservative…”conservative” people will regard me as some sort of self-awareness lacking idiot for even questioning it.
Well, it’s curious how so many of our self-imagined betters had the same, oddly uniform attitude. The same glib and resentful tone at someone noticing. As if the obvious, quite rapid erosion of social trust – and their own practised hostility to anyone who registers the phenomenon – couldn’t possibly have consequences of an unhappy kind.
Burying the lede…
Not unheard of.
Oh. Pregnant boyfriend. Nevermind.
There couldn’t possibly be any downsides to this.
800,000 human and mouse brain cells
Cats not welcome
The Mark of Leaf?
The Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate and Return method has proven viable.
Meanwhile in Today In Entitlement™, woman is upset and appalled.
Having looked it up, Lazy River is basically a really long pool and the whole park was actually shut down in 2018 because some kid contaminated the place with Cryptosporidium, but hey, “My Boobs, My Choice”, I guess.
“Cut off their goolies”
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit: Our society’s ‘top brains’ have gone mad — and dysfunctional politics is the result.
Once you insist that all that matters is conceptual gender, then you can be mad at a doc for asking your sex. You can insist (as I heard the NHS does) that a doc give a trans woman a pap test and not check his prostate. When in reality, so many medical things differ between the sexes. Women far more likely to get lupus and MS for example. Even cancers differ. Same with race for genetic diseases. Clownworld, but not the funny clowns.
Somewhat off topic, an article in today’s The Wall Street Journal about the difficulties of cleaning up ChatGPT had this interesting bit of information about halfway through:
Given the vast, and increasing, amounts spent on education in the U.S. with inversely proportional results, it does raise the question of societal viability.
Even cancers differ. Same with race for genetic diseases. Clownworld, but not the funny clowns.
As I’ve heard elsewhere, what we’re dealing with now is not the use of language to describe reality but the use of language to create reality. If a child announces to his teacher one day, I’m really a girl, then he really is and everything must adjust to the new reality dictated by his ‘inner truth’. And anyone, especially his parents, who object or even just have questions are oppressors and haters of “truth”.
An upside down world of chaos.
Degendering.
Sweet: Just Stop Oil gets a taste of their own medicine: Pranksters release balloons with rape alarms at a Just Stop Oil meeting.
One might say that the ruling class has lost the Mandate of Heaven…and deserves the traditional fate. Unfortunately, such events tend to be catastrophic for ordinary people.
Recreational mutilation. Just another kind of lifestyle shopping.
“Like, fuck you,” says she.
“Products can be replaced; people cannot. “
Oh really? Hmmmmm.
The current madness is enough to get one thinking about demonic possession.
“You should have seen the AI’s decision chain when it figured out the amount of carbon credits it could realize by stopping you producing carbon dioxide in the future.”
Is there a tip jar?
Regrettably, it looks as though we might well be headed for such events.
“such events tend to be catastrophic for ordinary people”
Thank goodness I’m not one of those…
Recreational mutilation. Just another kind of lifestyle shopping.
Yeah, no, a temple, the Temple of Doom.
The injustice of it all.
Odin, he calls himself. No, not narcissistic at all. [ Rolls eyes. ]
Will he eventually pluck out his own eyes?
Only one is required.
Well perception is reality according to the people in charge of crazy. Has been for decades now.
Question asked.
The answer to the question is: “They are not clueless; they know they are lying.”
They also know that they will not be the ones eating the bugs.
You will.
OT the bbc is getting excited about this person.
https://www.newschainonline.com/news/its-not-just-about-the-rainbows-canadas-transgender-soccer-star-quinn-on-the-battle-to-increase-visibility-of-lgbtq-community-in-sport-and-beyond-37883
As far as I can make out she’s a biological woman who has had no life affirming surgery or hormonal treatments to become her true self. She apparently thinks she isn’t a woman but isn’t saying what she actually is. She hasn’t actually done anything about it anyway other than dispensing with half her name (which suggests she may sub-consciously identify as Brazilian). She sees nothing wrong with playing football alongside other women despite claiming she isn’t one. All of this is apparently praiseworthy.
p.s. I lost count of the number of times that lengthy article got its pronouns mixed up including direct quotes from Quinn (or Quinnaldo as I prefer to think of her).
12 of the cities are in Wisconsin.
Tourists: Adjust your after-sunset driving plans accordingly.
There is nothing evil and depraved about ghetto culture.
There is nothing evil and depraved about ghetto culture.
Group of “scholars” abuse a white teen boy.
Any good citizen would be morally entitled to shoot one of the “scholars” dead.
Rochelle has a visceral reaction and makes a gigantic leap that is astounding in it’s stupidity.
Stupidity? Or dishonesty?
They’re not mutually exclusive. Certainly not in this case.
I like how the officer struck the burglar without warning. Several dozen blows would have been even better.
They’re not mutually exclusive. Certainly not in this case.
The $64,000 question is who the hell pulled up the Zeppelin Corps for her, there is no way she dredged up that exceedingly obscure Nazi reference by herself. Maybe the SPLC reference book for the terminally offended and aggrieved.
AND it contributes nothing to navigation today or to science
I think there’s value in preserving the primitive ways of doing things; there are more chances than you might think that you’ll be far from the comfort of civilization and a smartphone.
If you don’t have a ticket you can buy one (with a hefty surcharge) or get thrown off or arrested at the next stop. And I have heard that in the Netherlands tickets are checked only randomly
That’s how it works in Canada for interurban commuter trains.
The only way to fight these people is with volume
Hel-i-cop-ters.
Twitter’s new logo is the X Windows System logo from the 1980s.
Why have a house with an open upstairs window over the door if you’re not going to keep a pot of boiling oil handy? I mean, what’s the point?