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.
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?