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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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.