Friday Ephemera (689)
You want one and you know it. || Well, this is embarrassing. || The thrill of bread-making. || New rhino emerges. || “What kind of meat you got?” || Polyamory tips: Imagine them embracing you instead of that other sad tramp. || Designer piano. (h/t, Things) || Passing fashion. || Coastal retreat, £25,000,000. || Enrichment scenes. || The uprising begins. || Battle bucket. || She didn’t get the job. || End Times ahoy. || “Somebody help me.” || Peekaboo. || Niche A.I. || Incoming. || Well, I suppose it’s alright, if you like that kind of thing. Or this kind of thing. || “Oh, there’s one there, look.” || I think you’ll find that one is already in use. || Lotion sold separately. || The thrill of moisturiser. || He makes his own. || Manhood attempted. || Tapping machine. || And finally, leopard fucks about, finds out.
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That belongs in the next sequel to this book.
There are numerous gunloops and a square tower with a crenallated parapet in keeping with the castle’s defensive origins.
No, needs more defensive walls and gun emplacements, to keep all that enrichment at a safe distance. Come to think of it, antipersonnel mines might be called for. And what happened to that Metalstorm technology?
See Philadelphia being enriched by large group of scholars.
I must study war so my sons can study business so their sons can study art so their sons can write gay vampire fiction.
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An authentic American Priestess (and Queen) performing the sacred seed oil and sugar ceremony.
Make asylums great again!
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“Coastal Retreat”
Man, this covers the spectrum
Ecologically progressive and medieval regressive all in one package!
Coastal Retreat
I dunno, it would take at least $30K to update the kitchen.
Speaking of useless inventions in search of a problem, from the piano site, smart dumbells.
This. Winning is not about logic and reason.
Yeah, it’s normally about excessive force to convince the others to stop resisting.
The person you quoted doesn’t understand the other possible end result. There is absolutely no chance that humans will become Vulcans, but exterminating non-rational people is always possible.
Exterminating rational people (amongst others) has been possible in the past, after all.
I feel very sorry for the woman who didn’t get the job. She didn’t rail against evil conformists; she just sounded sad as she acknowledged the problem was her appearance. She looked to me as if she was coming to realize that she’d messed up her life to the point where there was no coming back. I hope she’s able to get a job out of public view.
She might be able to get a job telling other people to not follow the path she took to make her appearance unemployable.
“What kind of meat you got?”
Best, surely, not to ask…
You can’t help people until they acknowledge the problem.
He has the special gloves, so should be fine.
And I bet I would still have to build a shed / workshop somewhere to make it liveable
Morning, all.
That, as I believe the kids say.
Yes, feel their love, while they’re out shagging someone else, again, someone they find more interesting. More interesting than you.
That does look good
Regarding the polyamory coping video, the last paragraph or so of this came to mind.
And it occurs to me that if your romantic life, which is framed as an extension of your political identity, requires the making of coping videos, then something may be amiss.
I don’t think this activism has inconvenienced anybody going about their day to day business.
I see what you did there.
That was never going to work. Hard pass.
At the height of the fad, one appeared not far from here. I don’t recall seeing any customers. It lasted maybe six months or so.
It was across the road from a fish and chip shop. Which does a roaring trade.
Pig Racing Woodland Finals.
You heard me.
Thread.
Wendy’s “Where’s the Beef” and “Parts is parts” advertisements.
Those everyday problems.
Those everyday problems
Pretty impressive when you consider woodpeckers don’t have to dodge tree branches on the regular.
“Somebody help me.”
Daniel Penny might’ve helped but he was otherwise engaged, in jail. Probably why no one leapt to her aid I’d imagine.
Meanwhile back at Disney, a heartwarming “coming of age story”.
“Pauline ” is a story about a girl who, from a one night stand, gets knocked up by the Devil hisself. Cast as Pauline is, of course, a WOC, as fashion demands.
I think that quote is broadly true but it should be added that conservatives are absolutely as susceptible to the sort of myths peddled by the likes of Disney. They are not able to step outside of their culture anymore than progressives.
The narratives of films that mostly come to mind – black women can be mermaids too! – Disney princesses don’t need princes! – are superficial, surface stuff. Progressives will shout triumphantly about it, and conservatives will grumble crankily about it. But there’s more to living in a culture than just being susceptible (or not) to these silly surface narratives.
Missing the point. There are many, infinite even, stations on the road between logic/reason and helicopters. Throwing up your hands hoping to hasten the apocalypse is a copout.
This.
Somewhat to the general point, There’s a difference between Jason Aldean’s more confrontational Try That In A Small Town vs. the latest conservative whiny dirge by Oliver Anthony. But don’t try telling conservatives that.
The situation seems so far gone, with such behaviour so routine and so routinely excused, it’s hard to know where to start.
Someone should tell her.
I was just scrolling through when my eye landed on the bewildering array of categories stocked behind the bar:
It’s really quite impressive.
Much more impressive than my local’s collection of rare foreign banknotes and coinage glued to the wall for sure.
It won’t improve until the law punishes these degenerates and the local community also condemns them and rejects those who make excuses for degeneracy.
“Everything is great, and you should aspire to be like me, your obvious better. Because I’m much more radical and sophisticated. It’s just that I spend a lot of time crying and feeling awful.”
Again, where to start? It’s a teetering accumulation of really bad choices.
And it occurs to me that Little Miss Polyamory is a bit like the woman who can see the Invisible Chinese Fighting Fish.
It is frequently pointed out that the vast majority of crimes are committed by a very small fraction of the population: Put them in prison and the crime rate goes down.
But it is rarely pointed out that for every criminal who gets shot by his victim, there are many people who will cry out “Why they have to shoot him?” and “They shoulda let him rob them and called 911 later” and even “He din do nuffin!” Those people are as much of a problem as the criminals themselves.
It’s a work in progress.
Sadly, the video demonstrating towel inadequacy has long ago disappeared.
Perfect for the BBC’s annual April Fools Day news items.
So the Irish don’t know where their towels are? A very un-hoopy nation.
Coastal retreat, £25,000,000.
That’s rather splendid. Pink bedroom aside, I wouldn’t even need to change the decor. Plus, since it’s on the clifftop overlooking the sea, it occurs to me that I can hollow out the cliff and I’d have the perfect place to park the Nautilus.
Thing is, it’s difficult to explain what exactly was happening in the short video. There was quite a lot going on. I’m sure that if you poke through the comments, you’ll get a flavour of the drama, but it’s not an easy thing to summarise.
“So, will your sister be home tonight?”
What? It says ‘can’ not ‘should’.
Not his fault. If the establishment is open for business, it should be open for robbery as well. It’s racist to discriminate like that.
Heh. That actually happened at a friend’s house. His brother’s snake disappeared…until…one morning…when Dad goes to answer nature’s call…
Seems kinda dumb design on the “retaining” wall on that roundabout. Not saying such..accidents…are common but not rare either. Usually happens at night though.
The talent of tomorrow… today.
Note the lack of squealing or flapping of arms.