Bucket, Spade, Sunblock
Sensitive readers may wish to brace themselves. Consider this a trigger warning.
Next week, for the whole week, and for the first time in a long time, I will be away on holiday. A proper holiday, elsewhere, doing other things. I realise that for some of you this may be crushing news. Be brave. Dry those tears.
To prevent you from roaming the streets in a daze, consider this an open thread, in which to share links and bicker. To kick things off, here’s an interview with Thomas Sowell, now a mere 93, in which he discusses his latest book, Social Justice Fallacies. Copies of which can be bought via your host’s Amazon portals, here for the US, and here for the UK.
In addition, you could always pass the time by browsing the Reheated series.
Oh, and the edit-comment option should now be working properly.
Play nicely. Use coasters.
Have a good holiday.
I’m just here to test the
edictedit function.Yay.
Have a nice trip. Call when you get there. Like, just let it ring three times and hang up. We’ll know it’s you. No reason to incur those long distance telephone charges.
I now want an edict function. I rather like the sound of that.
[ Eyes full bottle of 16 year-old Lagavullin behind padlock and chains on the top shelf ]
Have a good time!
I’ll make sure the heathens use coasters at all times.
Safe travels!
Have a wonderful holiday, David.
That brought back memories of college, when I lived in a dorm with one public phone down the hall: My parents instructed me to do just what you said, whereupon they would immediately call back. That was a very common practice at the time.
That could keep us busy through 2024. 2027 if we posted new comments.
Will there be vacation photos?
What did they think all this unchecked immigration would bring?
One must have a heart of stone to read of these dismayed liberals without laughing.
Don’t encourage him. Up till now he has not posted photos of us patrons.
Don’t be this guy.
“Yep, that is him, I’d recognize that balaclava anywhere…”
Have fun on your holiday, David!
[pokes through archives]
[gets another drink]
Enjoy your time away.
Mayhap this isn’t the cultural enrichment they were looking for.
That smile.
[Drives up in large van loaded with fine wines and liquors.]
You’rewe’re going to need more than one or two drinks.OK…maybe because I’m sober right now…loathe to admit this but…? Surrogate mother? Plural marriage? The pink balloon so baby is a girl? The woman popping out of the box doesn’t look pregnant at all though the other woman likely is? But why is she…? Not a big win for the human race on the attractiveness scale either way?
Or…the “girl” that pops out of the box is his (former) son? The ages and low quality video are throwing me off.
Or…the “girl” that pops out of the box is his (former) son?
Yep, and why the “smile” on pop’s face.
That’s kinda dumb in even more ways than the obvious. Nothing is being “revealed”. Surely everyone knows the story. Plus the mom(?) is wearing what could reasonably be described as light maternity wear. She still looks young enough to be currently pregnant. I thought maybe it was a lesbo thing as the women…”women”…”woman” and woman…hug each other and the dad stays on the other side of the box.
JFC…like the stupid stuff isn’t stupid enough on its own, we gotta be even stupider by doing stupid versions of stupid things about stuff that is…stupid.
Social contagion. Lefties constantly promote this stuff and socially reward those who join in. Conservatives fail to push back nearly as much as lefties push.
Further in the stupid of stupidly stupid department. We are a nation of pathetic slobs. Of course this is just a troll to trigger stupid, stupid, stoooopid conservatives like myself, refuse that label as I may, to expose how shallow and superficial we are because what’s on the outside doesn’t matter. It’s 100% what’s on the inside that counts. Only stupid people, those lacking self-awareness, would care about such a thing. And conservatives, the conservativey of conservatives, will cheer along because they don’t want to lose street cred by not being cool with it.
Meanwhile in The Great White North, inclusivity by exclusion.
Meanwhile in Denver, a BFO,
Lots of Maoist librarians out there, so of course they make war upon the Four Olds.
Meanwhile my fake moderate librarian friends insist that there is nothing rotten in the ALA.
Have you ever browsed the shelves of an Afrocentric bookstore?
Meanwhile in The Great White North, inclusivity by exclusion.
And I’m sure she has the same principled stance on subjects like the Bataan Death March.
People on all sides of the controversy seem to agree that while dusty old books about dusty old white people need to go to make room for Becky Touched My Hair Part XXVII, the exceptions that prove the rule are old books like The Diary of Anne Frank that show whites in a bad light.
Trans hostage videos will be the next big thing.
Erm, isn’t there supposed to be some sort of pinging thingie on these planes?
They have black boxes specialized for their more extreme capabilities but I don’t think those boxes have the ping thing. I vaguely remember a discussion about this but no telling to what degree my coworker was bloviating. I see this aircraft was the VTOL F35-B configuration with the fancy-schmancy lift fan. Heh…surprise, surprise. Seems it would have made a noise…
Maybe it kept flying longer than they assumed.
Erm, isn’t there supposed to be some sort of pinging thingie on these planes?
It is a stealth fighter…
The last reported location apparently was somewhere around Lakes Marion and Moultrie, lot of swamp around there and if it was a lawn dart it will be a bit of an adventure to find it.
OTOH, just because the pilot punched out doesn’t mean the plane is going to crash.
It apparently went down during daylight. Even in a swamp there would likely be some noticeable disturbance for a little while. Though I now see in the AW story that bad weather hampered initial search efforts. Curious where exactly the pilot landed. They said in a residential area in North Charleston. Seems they could be more specific if they are really wanting help.
Even stealth fighters have radar transponders, which I assume would not be turned off during training exercises.
The mystery deepens: The pilot put the F-35 on autopilot before he ejected. So it could have flown hundreds of miles.
Again, if they really want help they could provide a lot more information. What direction was it going? Approximately how fast/in what mode? How much fuel/range was left? I’m thinking…maybe…if they named these two lakes it likely didn’t have much range left but who knows? Generally speaking, what was the training mission designed to accomplish? Where exactly did the pilot eject and/or land? I would think losing the canopy would impact the stealthiness to some degree…? It must
ofhave (edit: I never do that…or never used to…) come down in water/swamp somewhere otherwise there would be a….stain somewhere.Given the plane continued flying absent the pilot a more pertinent question might be why exactly did the pilot eject.
And the F-35 was reportedly fully fueled.
Has anyone done a statistical analysis of criminality in the NFL? Say, for the last 60 years? I occasionally see assertions that flootball players have always tended to be thugs, but find it hard to believe that murders were being covered up in the 1960’s.
Vibrant diversity: The 6-year-old boy who shot his first-grade teacher in Virginia (January 2023) said, “I shot that b**** dead”
You get one guess where he learned to think and speak and act like that.
Confusticated link.
For David upon his return: **Right eye twitching uncomfortably now**
Abject apologies!
Here’s a good link.
This is the guy calling you a nazi on the internet.
All the more reason to pay she/he/it no never mind.
Found it.