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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And I’ll just leave this here.
Meh, this simulacrum did it better.
UK readers who care about such things will be aware of the absolute clusterfuck the venerable MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club for the benefit of our US friends, it’s a very big deal in the sport) has become since the members inexplicably chose Mr Fry* to be the club President.
What on earth did they expect to happen?
a prime example of the “a stupid persons idea of an intelligent person” phenomenon,
Not being a cricketing enthusiast, what did happen?
About 10 years ago I ran across a tiny news item reporting that the global temperature on Mars was increasing. Caused by Martian SUV’s and Martian white supremacist corporations?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2022/07/07/utmost-respect-stephen-fry-helping-turn-cricket-totalitarian/
Some, including Mr Fry, would say he is rattling a few cages and trying to drag an ancient institution into the 21st century.
I, and many others, would say F off. If you didn’t like it you shouldn’t have accepted the presidency.
Given that they should be banned from all decent neighborhoods, I wonder where Stephen Fry would have to relocate to.
Oh my, what an arrogant ass.
Tell us more, if you have more links.
Ah, thanks.
Stephen Fry, in his capacity as MCC president, spoke in support of the changes and said they would help challenge a “turgid image of snobbery and elitism”
Cheers Stephen. Nice way to speak about the club. I can think of another example of snobbery and elitism you sanctimonious git.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/mar/15/eton-v-harrow-and-oxford-v-cambridge-games-to-remain-at-lords-until-2027
Having said that the man is clearly talented. As a comedic actor, particularly when partnered by Hugh Laurie, he is excellent. In addition his reading of my favourite children’s story, The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde, is close to perfection.
https://youtu.be/t33NWgOzjK8
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Re the Telegraph Stephen Fry link of which due to paywall I only see this much:
FFS, how cloyingly earnest, how begging, how weak. This right here is why conservatives…”conservatives” all across Western civilization are such bloody losers. Pathetic.
Added: Perhaps the helicopters would be more efficiently and effectively employed disposing of the dead weight. You probably wouldn’t have to make more than a couple of runs as these people are so easily intimidated into conforming to what is being demanded of them.
Paste the URL into this and you can read it in full, or pretty much any other page.
Thank you
“How to announce your worthlessness.”
*sigh*
And some wonder how, by the 6th century, some were unable to rebuild aqueducts…
I’m sure that, with enough whips to encourage them, such kids could make a contribution to all sorts of construction projects.
Paste the URL into this …
Also 12ft.io the advantage of which is that any links on the paywall bypassed page will also open, for example, this from the first Fry link, and no, it is not “politeness” to force your linguistic whims down normal people’s throats.
When Stephen Fry spoke of “those who are finding the evolution of language difficult” he was deliberately confusing natural evolution with change imposed by arrogant pricks with punchable faces.
Douglas Murray, in a recent interview, praised the bottom-up nature of British Common Law. I think it’s fair to suggest that Stephen Fry would like everything to be top-down.
Law. I think it’s fair to suggest that Stephen Fry would like everything to be top-down.
“Change”, as with all this crap, it boils down to replace what works well and tradition with whatever garbage is in vogue right now driven by our self proclaimed betters like Fry.
Britain for the win: A unique driving record.
Oh no.
The latest wrinkle in the Reedley CA Chinese Lab affair.
Wait, you haven’t heard of that? Well, I’m shocked, shocked to know that.
I regret to inform you that annoying cyclists are getting more annoying.
Scott Adams and John Derbyshire have some advice for us.
White farmers getting killed is funny: in Rhodesia, they took all land away from white farmers….and discovered that it was not the land producing the food, but the farmers. Starvation then ensued. Will S africa learn this lesson? No.
I regret to inform you that annoying cyclists are getting more annoying.
Could be worse…
I’ll just leave this here.
Anyone want to place bets on the timetable of collapse of the electrical grid? Water systems? Sewer systems? Transportation?
I knew many young leftists in college who fervently supported the ANC. Ditto the Rhodesian revolutionaries.
The former is already happening, to the best of my knowledge. That should provide a cascading effect upon the other systems.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5956/south-africa-death-colonialism
Well, one might see similarities between South Africa back then with Russia now.
Given that almost nobody manufactures anything other than China may wonder how that would work in the “West”‘s favor if China decided to grab something.
A unique driving record.
My late father, born in 1924, had not taken a driving test when called up in 1943 but still drove various vehicles in North Africa before being captured and spending the rest of the war as a POW in Italy. He emerged intact albeit several stone lighter and returned to civilian life without the means to purchase a vehicle for several years at which time he finally got round to passing his test. He remained a highly capable if unconventional driver until his late 80s when one too many clipped wing mirrors finally persuaded him to give it up with the same stoicism he had displayed throughout an eventful and well-lived life.
Yes. I have seen reports that sections of the electrical grid have failed due to lack of maintenance and/or theft of copper wire. Whether they ever get repaired has not been reported, but my bets are on “no”.
What I really meant was “when will the collapse of the grid be essentially complete?”
Indeed.
This will be known as “bad luck”.
Tip of the hat.
Thank you.
Science!™
Yeah, no. 5 ounces is 150 ml, or about 700 average short for a boy. Odd definition of “success”. But wait, that’s not all!
Ignore the kid, as long as the guy feels “validated” or some other nonsense. There is way more at the link.
We are a profoundly sick civilization. I don’t know about anyone else but as pessimistic as I was 30+ years ago about where we were headed, I never thought we would reach a level of sickness where people, professional, educated, and even self-righteous people would be complicit in poisoning an innocent little infant in such a manner. People who are not profoundly disturbed by this, who are silent in the face of such a thing are complicit as well.
As asked in the update to this, successful for whom?
Today is the 78th anniversary of the nuking of Hiroshima, which with the nuking 3 days later of Nagasaki probably saved millions of lives. Expect to see many “America bad” pieces in newspapers.
In summary, lactation induction is likely beneficial for gender identity, irrespective of milk production outcomes.
Use of formula took off during the early 20th century, in the 1970s there was a huge push to return to exclusively use breast feeding for at least the first 6 months. The focus was the health of the baby. “Cow milk for calves, mother’s milk for human babies”. Obviously, hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, females are suited to feed infants by their mere biological being. We rarely need anything else than our newborn learning to latch on to produce the food they’ll need.
Heck, moms who have breast fed their children can tell stories of standing in line at the grocery store, hearing an infant cry somewhere in the store, and having their milk immediately “let down.” (BTDT) That’s how strong the instinct.
Not all women can successfully breast feed – in times past that meant engaging a ‘wet nurse’. Even as formula came into being, many maternity hospitals/wards would ask their more “copious” producers to donate milk for others. Even today, many women donate excess breast milk to be used in NICUs.
Shifting the focus of breast feeding, not just a chemically manipulated male, but to his MENTAL health while the infant is regulated to supporting actor is alarming, disgusting and any medical personnel participating should be summarily suspended pending investigation.
Suspended from what?
Suspended from what?
From whatever institution or licensing they have to practice medicine.
I’d say a rope, but I think she meant “practice”.
Darn, I forgot to close my comment with a sarcasm indicator. I was indeed playing on the double meaning of “suspended” to imply that it was not completely unreasonable to contemplate suspending such monsters by means of ropes.
Entertainingly, I was bottle fed and quite sickly as an infant. It turned out that I am allergic to some components of cow’s milk. I’m not allergic to components of goat’s milk.
Canned goat’s milk (which was practically the only way to get it in the 1960’s/1970’s) is quite disgusting. I would eat my morning cereal dry and then steel myself to chug down the glass of milk that would otherwise have covered it. One night, my mother brought in glasses of milk for myself and my sister (who didn’t have that problem with cow’s milk, so that’s what she drank) and she took my glass by mistake. She took a mouthful and immediately spat it out. She was astonished that I was able to drink it.
I can and do drink cow’s milk as an adult, albeit not often. My wife is lactose intolerant and doesn’t care for the taste and I grew up with the taste of cow’s milk as a luxury; so we don’t keep milk in the house as a general rule. I suspect that if I were to drink the amount of cow’s milk relative to my body mass as would have been the case when I was an infant, that I would become as sickly as I have been told I was then.
And I should learn to detect sarcasm. My apologies.
There is no guaranteed way to distinguish sarcasm from sincerity. Not in these crazy times, at least.
I forgot to close my comment with a sarcasm indicator.
Oops. My apologies for not catching that. Must go hunt down more coffee.
She means hard liquor.
This came to mind.
It is, I think, Mr Whittle’s finest hour.
Bill Whittle is great.
Bill Whittle’s first blog:
Or Irish Coffee? 😃
Just don’t disturb her while she’s drinking her “coffee.”
She’ll cut you.
Seen via Darleen Click: “Neil deGrasse Tyson suggests that in a hundreds years men and women will be competing against each other in sports.” Because the current, traditional practice of separate men’s and women’s competitions is “weird” and “is in need of modification”.
Was Tyson always this much of a ignorant douche-bag? Or has celebrity driven him insane?
Good advice when “interacting” with any coffee drinker.
[ Smiles ingratiatingly at Darleen. ]
I’ll just leave this here for no reason whatsoever.
When she was banged up in ADX Florence, she was known as The Shiv.
[ Ingratiating smile becomes positively smarmy. ]
That coffee smells very nice.
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Bill Whittle’s first blog can be found on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
That’s seriously good. I can’t believe I haven’t seen that before.
Update in previous thread about those Sikhs who beat an aggressive shoplifter: They are being investigated for assault. Because you must not use violence to stop criminals–especially if the criminals are more “diverse” than you are.
Jordan Peterson asks, “When does the left go too far?” and gets only bullshit from Eric Michael Dyson. [Munk Debate on Political Correctness, May 24, 2019.]
Stephen Fry acquits himself well in this debate. Dyson, on the other hand, comes across as a sleazy snake oil huckster to quote Stephen Fry.
He says that he frequently asks this, and fails to get serious answers from the left.
Those evil Brits are subverting our culture.
Those Brits are our heroic benefactors.
I didn’t realize there were any such statues that hadn’t already been transformed.
When she was banged up in ADX Florence, she was known as The Shiv.
There was that time I decided to give up sugar in my coffee and used my allotment to make a syrup … which I used to harden surreptitiously gathered, then braided threads from frayed sheets as I worked the laundry detail.
Amazing how sharp and easily concealed those little babies were …
I loved the Addams Family show–and the Charles Addams cartoons.
Wouldn’t that be green supremacist corporations?
From what I’ve read, each of those is currently in collapse. The only reason there’s not much coverage is the lack of convenient scapegoats.
On Barsoom there were green, red, yellow, white, and black Martians.
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