Friday Ephemera (688)
On the subject of impatience. || The sound of flanging. || Fashion statement. || Today’s word is influencer. || Cliffhanger. || We will catch you. || How to clean your particle accelerator with a ferret. || Not his first rodeo. || Requires more rubbing. || Just think of it as recycling. || Truck driver of note. || That come-hither look. || An I, Claudius reunion. Related. || But lady, you are not “Augustus” with “he/him pronouns.” || It had spring-loaded hammers and “clicky action.” || “A flawless cubic centimetre of glass can withstand 10 tons of pressure.” || Journalism professor wants children to see lots of adult “trans dick.” || The genteel glamour of air-travel. || She doesn’t trust you. || Seventeen something. || See, gender was affirmed. (NSFW) || There are 10,000 foxes living in London. || And finally, today’s other word is comeuppance.
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The unpublicized cuddly side of Jeremy Clarkson
There was a story just the other day of an anorexic “influencer” who died of malnutrition.
Bad, but not as shocking as how needles are reused over and over.
Note how she resorts to gratuitous racism:
Also how she spins a personal objection to this violation of privacy as a “career”.
She (it?) rails against “anti-trans activism”. There should be more, and it should be strongly intolerant of people like her.
Some journalism professors may be good people, but most are far-left ideologues.
That is indeed now a thing on the left: Insanity must be tolerated and affirmed.
We’re going to need more helicopters and more asylums.
To borrow a leftist slogan, stop the thieves by any means necessary.
“Wisconsin man”
Story here.
There was a story just the other day of an anorexic “influencer” who died of malnutrition.
Vegan influencer, not that there is a lot of functional difference…
Looked horrifyingly anorexic in the photos. But yeah, not much difference.
Satire that is too close to reality: Little Tikes My First Ankle Monitor
A monument to a crack dealer who became famous by making recordings about being a crack dealer will be unveiled in Downtown Brooklyn.
Shhh! Do not talk about how some cultures are markedly inferior.
But lady, you are not “Augustus” with “he/him pronouns.”
I actually feel sorry for this sad 16 year old girl, because it is obvious she really feels hurt that her excuses to her mom “THIS IS WHO I AM! ACCEPT ME!” aren’t working.
I’ve heard some variation on this *but this is who I am, why don’t you love me enough to accept me as I am* theme from drug addicts and even my ex (now passed) husband who became a raging alcoholic. In the midst of their mental illness, they wish to use every tool at their disposal to not just continue in their self-destructive behavior but to get everyone around them to pretend it’s all so wonderful, stunning and brave. This girl is trying to USE her mother’s love against her mother. And, if I hear it right, this girl was going to try and start in on her younger brother with this cult mental illness and mom was not going to have it.
She’s sick, so wrapped up in her sickness she can’t see any differently.
Tragic.
Jeremy Clarkson with Paddington Bear:
DEI kills.
units FFS
tons is a force, not a pressure
pressure is force per unit area (psi might be the most familiar here, i.e pounds per square inch, pounds is the force, square inch is the area that the force is acting on)
I assume this means that perfect glass can withstand a pressure of 10 tons per square centimetre ( but is this in both compression and tension ? ie, squeeze and pull)
The music *still* gives me the chills.
Alas, the gender affirmed link is already dead.
Morning, all.
It is rather evocative. I remember, as a wee seedling, being sent to bed as soon as the title music began.
It’s still there, but NSFW, so I assume you’ll have to login to Twitter / X to see it. I should point out, it’s not pretty.
Said 16 year old claimed that she was “trans” at 12 year of age.
It would appear to be easy to me, but none of my children lived, so I cannot claim knowledge of dealing with pre-pubescent (google doesn’t think “pre-pubescent” is a word) or post-pubescent teenagers.
Did no one ask her “Why do you think you are male?” and follow the logic chain to the point of contradiction?
Jesu. If you say it isn’t pretty (given some of the other images I’ve seen around here), I won’t dig more. (I would have expected twitter/X to provide a “yo, you need to login to see this ‘goodness'” prompt.)
I was unable to determine how many children said professor had. I suspect it to be 0, but you never know.
Maybe it’s just me, but Ms Kiki-Ojo Thompson, our Canadian “diversity trainer,” sounds rather unpleasant, and obviously so. “Your job… as white people, is to believe,” says she. By which, she evidently means, ‘Don’t use facts or even rudimentary logic. Don’t question my laughable assertions. Just sit there, cowering, while I slander you, repeatedly and at length, based solely on your skin colour.’
But as we’ve seen many times, more than I can count now, the grift attracts awful people with terrible, abusive ideas and unsavoury motivations. It’s a license for resentful, racist mediocrities.
When people, especially parents, hear the words “equity,” “whiteness,” and “white supremacy,” alarm bells should ring, quite loudly.
Well, I’m not a big fan of what is effectively gore and body horror. Not really my thing. But given the subject’s current prominence, its near ubiquity, the images seem relevant to any honest discussion – to know what is often involved, and what that might say about those who seek it out, and those who inflict it.
Skillz!
“This incident is being weaponized to discredit and suppress the work of everyone committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
A by all accounts thoroughly decent mans suicide, quite possibly brought about by her abhorrent behaviour, is viewed as an attack with her as the victim.
Evil, evil b1tch.
Still not seen it but people have told me it’s good. Thumbs up?
It’s a BBC production from 1976, so don’t expect vast sets or big-budget spectacle. It’s a little stagey, leisurely paced by modern standards, and at times darkly camp; but it’s well-written, atmospheric, and definitely worth watching. Siân Phillips as Livia is entertainingly wicked and has some memorable lines.
I first saw it properly, in full, in the ‘90s when we watched all 12 episodes over a weekend. We dug it out again a decade later and I’m glad we did.
So, yes.
Thanks.
This is wonderful.
Most of whom seem to live in my street …
In case I need to say it… They are not good people. They do not mean well.
It’s a pleasing combination of high- and low-tech.
You’re not “non-binary,” madam. You’re just fat and unattractive.
And those glasses ain’t helping.
Because it just wasn’t complicated enough.
New friend.
He’s not kidding either.
Watch that video to the end and look at the state of those offices – it’s the most corporate thing you’ll see today.
I doubt this will be the triumph she seems to think it is.
That pathological narcissism. Again.
The Spanish Inquisition cared more about evidence that do our DEI witch-finders. Or so it seems.
https://viz.fandom.com/wiki/Millie_Tant
Greenpeace.
I wonder what the carbon footprint of that extremely lush set of offices is?
I wonder what the footprint of all those self-satisfied grifters getting in to work is? Are they all some of the only non/productive people in this country incapable of working from home?
Also Dan missed an open goal by not asking what their large presence in China has actually achieved?
Climate grift – how is it that clowns show up at the PM’s house and weren’t taken out by Special Branch, the SAS, or whomever is charged with protecting the PM?
You’re not “non-binary,” madam.
Not her.
Meanwhile, and related, sort of, we have again this moron who brings us xenopronouns which are “unsayable, and that’s the point.”
At least the feeling’s mutual.
Substantial, I imagine: but even if the MSM were to interest themselves in it (unthinkable now, I agree), Greenpeace would get the kid-glove treatment.
Seriously how dare they refer to a 400 12-20 year old armed “children” as a mob, only Italians can be mobs, or something.
I’m not sure if Mayor Brandon Johnson is displaying his stupidity or his dishonesty.
Perhaps I should wait and see if he publicly worries about Guam tipping over.
The only one I want is Samantha.
Don’t you mean I, Clavdivs?
Again, the unspanked. But I’m the violent bad guy suggesting a swat on the fanny when young does no harm. The good guys/gals suggest carving out the child’s sexual organs and poisoning them with chemicals. See? Non-violence. What bloody idiocy.
Real “Wisconsin Man” stories involve copious amounts of drinking, and preferably the Packers.
*orders six feet of tubing*
My mother’s best friend, essentially my closest “aunt”, won one of those TV’s, along with gobs of other stuff, on The Price Is Right game show back in the 60’s. I thought it was the coolest thing until I discovered how crappy it was. Granted I didn’t get to use it until we stayed with them several years after. It became their secondary tv for their basement where basically I just watched baseball on it. Rather disappointing. The volume clicker was broken and the channel changer worked maybe 60% of the time. While as a kid in the 70’s it was fun to see the remote work sometimes, I remember it being less frustrating manually.
Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd want to know if these are American foxes.
My parents could barely afford a small black and white TV at the time, but I did hear about those remote controls. I’m sure that they were a boon to anyone with limited mobility, regardless of balky functionality.
Was that Boris?
As I’ve muttered regarding more recent cutting-edge technology, “If it doesn’t work reliably – at least 99 times out of a hundred – then it doesn’t work. It’s merely a prototype, not an actual product.”
Again, the projection. This…professor…is the one making a career out of trans activism. But you’re not supposed to notice because that’s why projection works.
Re Wisconsin man…
Yes. Yes because it was the libraries that caused this behavior. The rest of the world is now safe from this pervert. Though given the pathetic state of our libraries today, I am hesitant to say that they have no responsibility at all here. This is not a serious society.
Mental illness: while full on psychosis is not made up, lighter mental illness is strongly influenced by the environment and personal choices. People can overcome OCD, phobias with cognitive behavioral therapy. A UN study (if one can believe it) found that schizophrenia was less common, less severe, and less likely to recur in primitive rural settings than in modern nations. This makes sense because life is simpler, pressures on people are less, and you can still do your simple job (watch the sheep) even if mentally ill. You clearly belong to your extended family and tribe. Conversely, in a modern urban setting where people do not necessarily have to work hard, it is easier to slip mentally, develop weird beliefs and behaviors. Add to this media and social contagion and all sorts of clownworld stuff becomes acceptable and engaged in.
About 1960 my grandparents bought one of those huge Zenith console tvs with a “clicker”. About twice a month, little sis and I got to stay overnight on the weekends and parents would pick us up on Sunday and we’d stay for Sunday dinner.
Both color tv AND a remote were just the keenest thing for us! And to be able to watch “Mutual of Ohmaha’s Wild Kingdom” and “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color” in color was a treat.
We didn’t get a color tv in our house until about 1967 and “channel changer”? That’s what us kids were for. 🙂
Beginning to see the rationale for lobotomies.
Parent > broom handle > child > television.
Not fancy, but it worked.
Good grief – man up, “Augustus” and grow a set. Sheesh. You sit there with your phone and cry and bitch and moan like the little girl you really are. Is this what men are supposed to be these days? Whiny crybabies? I guess so, with plenty of victim identifies to choose from in order to bully everyone else into submission.
I think it’s the incessant bullying, cancel mob tactics, and just in-your-face shoving this down the throats of the rest of humanity that’s killed my compassion. All these mentally ill people trying to drag me into their delusions and perform like trained seals for their benefit – this idea of mandatory “affirmation” – I’ve got no sympathy for these people anymore.
Monty Python had a somewhat different suggestion.
Channel Changer,
Puts me in mind of the thoroughly enjoyable film “Pleasantville”.
Second that.
The sound of flanging.
Flanging, for when you can’t play clean.
Her honorific is “asshole”.
Yet another progressive shopping experience.
Ah, so that’s what flanging is.
You know, flanging.
So the broom handle is used for prodding the child to change the channel and not to push the button on the actual TV?
Two birds, one stone.
“push the button on the actual TV?”
Button? Wire pliers.
Satire, the best indicator of where things are going.
Just now realised I was reading that as Jerermy Corbyn.
“Don’t touch the figs.” 😀
Jeremy Corbyn would have a Xi Jinping plush toy, not a bourgeois Paddington Bear.
If anyone compiles a list of great villainous-yet-charming female characters, Siân Phillips’ Livia would have to be near the top.
Head of New York anti-violence program busted in massive upstate gun, drug sweep
These “anti-violence” programs seem to be full of gang members, grifters, and random criminals. As if these programs were scams to enrich cronies while deceiving the public into thinking that politicians were doing something useful.
Heh. But nowadays they can involve other characteristics.
Seems unlikely a ‘better society for everyone’ can be built on a tissue of lies.
Decades ago in my company’s break room there was a diversity poster promoting the idea that the Golden Rule, variations of it sourced from multiple disparate ( thus imbued with diversity itself) cultures, “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you” was outdated. We should now move on to the Platinum Rule which they gave us as “Do unto others as others wish to be treated”. I was kinda stunned by this. It was just so obviously stupid and certainly no improvement. To me anyway. I mentioned it to my boss and he kinda laughed and agreed…after I explained why I thought it was so stupid. This is what you get when you don’t deal with these things before they fester and grow.
Could be built on a fleet of helicopters, though. 😐
He’s a Chicago Teachers Union functionary so both?
Girl decided at 12 she was male: at 12 you cannot know anything about it. Your ideas as a 12 yr old girl of what men are like is a cartoon, a vague impression. And wrong. Do you grasp why men are the ones who run into burning buildings to save people or jump onto burning cars to same them or stand in front of their wife when a crazy approaches? Do you grasp why men have the ambition they do or why they are so reckless? Do you know why men prefer the small of new car interiors or grilling steak more than the smell of perfumes? Why teen boys want a hotrod? No, no you don’t. And never will.
Ditto boys’ ideas of what women are.
Ditto, for both boys and girls: What marriage is. What dating is for. Work and a career. Citizenship. Pretty much anything in the adult world. Even what it means to be educated, even though they’ve spent most of their lives in school.
Indeed! That’s the reply I was hoping to provoke. 🙂
pst314: Ditto boys’ ideas of what women are.
Ditto, for both boys and girls: What marriage is. What dating is for. Work and a career. Citizenship. Pretty much anything in the adult world. Even what it means to be educated, even though they’ve spent most of their lives in school.
yes, of course. Exactly.
Back in the ’90s, we all thought Viz was just an “adult” comic. Little did we know that it was, in fact, a warning from the 21st Century.Exhibit B, who would be considered relatively normal these days:
https://viz.fandom.com/wiki/Fru_T._Bunn
From Ace’s, pregnancy is not a womanly thing, so she is her own surrogate.
The horror, the horror! AI Johnny Cash sings Barbie song
Begin the Butlerian Jihad!
Came across a BBC article on the restoration of the signal from Voyager 2. Interesting, but disappointing from the BBC. There was no mention of a ‘beep, beep,’ indicating man-made Climate Change out there. This manic obsession never rests regardless of the context. When the temperature goes from -270C to -268C we will be told, that the end of the universe is at hand.
“madam” ends with, “you might want to reconsider the script in your head.”
Right back at ya, ma’am.
I got confused by the juxtaposition of these items and thought for a minute that the latter would be a remake with modern sensibilities.
Or mentally ill woman is mentally ill.
But hey, Pride!
How to announce your worthlessness.
Perhaps they should be Stephen Fry’s new neighbours.
And I’ll just leave this here.