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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Daleks fight dirty.
Those aren’t currants.
NSFW? WTF? Some ‘trans-rhino’ might be offended?
Polyamory tips: Imagine them embracing you instead of that other sad tramp.
Er…doesn’t “polyamory” mean she/it/whatever can go out and shag some other she/it/whatever, no hard feelings, the more the merrier? I thought sitting at home alone imagining the embrace of a wayward lover was a coping mechanism for those old-fashioned, backwards, monogamous types?
The thrill of moisturiser.
That whole thing was the textbook definition of “autogynephilia”.
Winning is not about logic and reason.
Possibly, but it is not about emotional incontinence either.
I reject the premise of the last paragraph from that Brittany person – the so-called “liberal creatives” are not creating compelling stories that move you. Their ham-handed preaching is every bit as cack and cringey as anything the religious right put out, and it’s infected everything – movies, books, tv, webcomics. Many of these “liberal creatives” are on strike right now – has anyone outside the media bubble noticed? Does anyone outside the bubble care?
She might be able to get a job with the help of some concealing makeup.
“last paragraph from that Brittany person”
Funny. That screed has been floating around for over a half century at least. The reply remains the same (to mangle a quote) – you want to send a message, use Western Union…
The claim that conservatives don’t know how to fix anything is simply false. For example: put criminals in jail, enforce freedom of speech, reduce taxes, stop persecuting Catholics, color blind college admissions, reduce gov spending, etc. Those ARE solutions. As to the arts, yes, artists tend to be more liberal but there were plenty of conservative films (all westerns, war movies, spy movies, many romances) before the wokies took over. If anything, the woke are LESS able to tell a good story.
If anything, the woke are LESS able to tell a good story.
Bingo.
If anything, the woke are LESS able to tell a good story.
Because they can’t help putting The Message™ front and center. Plot & characters are in service of the message rather than just letting the story tell itself.
I had had scorpions drop out of my HVAC vents when I lived in Kileen, TX. I belatedly noticed that the carpet the builder chose was scorpion colored.
Well, you didn’t make one so it’s difficult to hit a nonexistent target.
[ Hides breakables. ]
This might help calm things down, David.
[ Holds out New Age music mix tape. ]
“Holds out New Age music mix tape”
What, no Zamfir? (Rage on…)
The must-be-on-drugs Hearts of Space commentary should induce rage in others. Bwa-hah-hah-hah!
You’re thinking in the context of a classical, or something similar, education. It’s cack and cringey to you. In the context of the Narrative, in the context of the TV shows and the movies of the current day, they appeal to the masses. This Barbie movie has, as of what I just checked, $1.8 billion. The left seized control of what people look for in movies, tv, and literature long ago whilst the right was asleep. Again, it’s not the quality. That would imply some degree of logic and reason. It’s the quantity, the volume. The right has what? The Sound of Freedom? And what else? Mission Impossible and Top Gun are about it, yet those are to some extent infused with wokey/PC stuff as well. They had to be or they would have gotten the Sound of Freedom treatment.
Conservatives lose, and lose consistently, because they are so focused on logic and reason and the rule of law that they become immune to the emotional sicknesses that they are living amongst. Only the politically aware youth on the right see this logic and reason and they are still a very small minority. The vast majority of middle of the road types will go along with the crowd. Reject all you want. It does not change the tide of the culture.
And still missing the point. It’s not about logic and reason.
Off topic (can you be off topic for ephemera?)–everyone wants to be a hero because merely surviving and taking care of family are no longer the big challenge they were for the past 200,000 years. Plus Marvel made being heroic look so fun. But being a true hero today would consist of: giving your seat on the bus to a pregnant lady, not stealing, being decent to store clerks, staying married, helping your kids with homework, voting, not pretending to be crazy, etc. Those are the new revolutionary acts.
I note that “Question your life choices and ask yourself if countless generations of your ancestors over the last few million years might have had a point about monogamy” isn’t one of them.
£25,000,000? They do know it’s in Caithness, right?
(Pronunciation tip in case, you know, someone round here wins the lottery: unusually for a -ness placename, the stress is on the first syllable, as if it was the quality or state of posessing “caith”. Dunno why, but that’s how the locals say it.)
Fun, but the cool part is the rotating boom they put the mic on in the room underneath. I remember being mesmerized by it when they renovated the house across the road from me about 30 years ago.
Those are the new revolutionary acts.
Yep – the Squares of yesteryear are the Counterculture of today.
If Sam Smith is cast in the supporting role, I will watch the hell out of that.
It’s the attention to detail I admire.
Did anyone else have “squashed fly biscuits” when they were growing up?
We did.
You could buy them at the shops.
Previously.
What the hell did I just read? These people need professional help.
Lady writes to ‘Guardian’ columnist Sisonke Msimang for advice on the tricky question of whether Captain Cook was ‘a bad man’. So she can explain to her four year old, who has learned about him at childcare.
The advice is…errr…
“Did you know that Capt James Cook was stabbed to death in Hawaii? He was indeed…. some might say that history tells us James Cook was a bad man (bad being a word that describes someone who goes back on his word, breaches trust and disrespects others within the logics of what is acceptable in the time in which he was living) who got his just deserts.”
*blinks*
The Salon piece reads almost as a kind of unhinged erotic opera. It’s quite something. As I said in the original thread, you do have to marvel at the conceit that the purported woes of a subset of neurotic lefties – including Trump-induced erectile dysfunction – are somehow representative of “most Americans” and the nation as a whole.
Oh, I really loused that one up! And the ‘edit’ function doesn’t seem to work…
Being a gracious host, and a gentleman, I quietly fixed the HTML disaster. Let’s never speak of it again.
The edit option expires after 15 minutes.
I see that Ms Msimang, our professional negress, has managed to make her every contribution to the Guardian about racism and the awfulness of white people. Because no-one could possibly get tired of that. “The sooner you start talking to children about history and race, the better,” says she. Though I’m guessing the gore-spattered atrocities of her own, not-too-distant ancestors don’t crop up much.
O, Bravo!
Ibram X. Kendi planning for his future.
A man whose lucrative, high-status career is based almost entirely on tautology and question-begging. And on the credulity and tongue-bathing of the racially neurotic.
Though I’m guessing the gore-spattered atrocities of her own, not-too-distant ancestors don’t crop up much.
As one does.
Professional “help” is the cause, not the solution. In most cases.
Largish bee:
Stray thought: are pronouns in bios aspirational rather than descriptive?
Over 81 million Americans voted for a man well known to be a complete and utter moron, one who whose faculties were on the decline from even that low starting point. A man whose pick for VP was quite obviously herself a bumbling moron pot-head whose main accomplishment, in so far as advancing her career was pleasuring Willie Brown. All the while believing that the other guy and all of his followers were/are complete and utter morons. Americans are dumbasses. Especially the more educated ones. I really don’t think she is far off the mark.
ShoeOnHead has an interesting take on that.
So . . which deserts are just and which are unjust?
Casting no aspersions on our kindly host, the edit option doesn’t work.
It will open the comment but won’t accept any of the edits, presenting the “You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.” message when Save is pressed.
And racism. Don’t forget his racism.
Just edited your comment (and then put everything back where it was). Seems to be working fine, at least for me.
But then I do have the magical amulet.
It used to work fine: I could edit my mistakes immediately after posting a comment. Now I get the “You are posting comments too quickly” error message even more than 10 minutes after posting a comment. And yet I can quickly post new comments; I merely cannot edit my comments. I’ve tried refreshing the page before editing; nothing works.
Alas, despite the mighty amulet, I don’t have control over that function.
Have you tried making fewer mistakes?
Wait, did I say that out loud?
[Looks towards the exit]
Are you sure you didn’t change something? Something that might have affected this? It used to work just fine. And it seems counterintuitive that WordPress would block editing of a comment while allowing frequent new comments.
[ Searches Amazon.com for hamster urine super soaker. ]