Friday Ephemera (691)
Convenient chicken. || Yes, but it was classroom wine. || Contains cloves, ginger, nutmeg. || The thrill of extruded meat product. || I think it may be the lighting. || Personal space negotiation. || Travel by bus, they said. || Scenes of collective biscuit relocation. || Marbling of note. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || I’ll take the lot. || Life forms in water. || World of opera deemed insufficiently gay. || Golfing scenes. || Doorstep scenes. || School principal of note. || Transformers, 1942. || Unboxing video. || From above. || Free web tools, for those who like that kind of thing. || Choose your champion. || Moment of glory. || Smoker’s rug. || Sore throats can result. || And finally, I’m assuming it was a matter of some urgency.
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Unfortunately, you’ll want to make sure you don’t live in a Soros-DA area or you will be getting life for removing a potential doctor or scientist from circulation. Or anywhere in Europe as far as I can recall,
What about piracy? Asking for Californians.
It’s known as the Barbary Coast for a reason.
It’s known as the Barbary Coast for a reason.
True, cutlasses for all my friends, then.
I can imagine a reservation for criminals and progressives, where they can enjoy each others’ company to their heart’s content. All walled off from the civilized world which irrationally continues to prefer civilization to barbarism.
Crikey!
“True, cutlasses for all my friends, then.”
Oldsmobiles for all?
Oldsmobiles for all?
They were land yachts…
Today is the 40th anniversary of the Soviet shootdown of airliner KAL 007.
Remember all the progressive thinkers who wanted us to “understand’ the Soviets?
I remember leftists that I personally knew who angrily defended the Soviets.
On the other hand, sometimes it is useful to make a more dramatic example of particularly nasty individuals. A public beating, for instance prior to incarceration.
See…here’s the thing. It’s not just that she’s drunk. That’s a further-down-the-road manifestation of a broader problem. She’s a grown, mature even, woman wearing a T-shirt not just to “work” in a professional job but to teach school. What the living f*** do you expect when you don’t even expect grown people, teachers no less, to dress appropriately to work in a profession capacity…teaching children! This really, truly would not be so bloody hard if one had any recollection, any recollection at all of life in a society that once had functioned. Where adults, especially…teachers…were expected to set an example, an above the Mendoza line example, for…children. I would guess most people here are of an age to remember such a time. Yet I’m guessing a few of those same people even here in a conservative…”conservative” space lack an understanding as to what the bloody hell my point is. THAT is at the root of many of our problems.
Maybe they’re building a pyramid.
The…logic and…reasoning…of some of the responses on that thread are more concerning and even more responsible for the event than the perps themselves.
What happened to professionalism? She looks like she’s ready for bed.
Ah, but for the modern, woke educator, dress codes and expectations of even basic professionalism are something to be denounced as “inherently racist” and “rooted in white supremacy.” Or denounced as “homophobic, transphobic, fat-phobic and racist.” It’s the latest in-group status marker. And behaving like, you know, an adult is terribly unfashionable.
On TikTok, “Teacher Robi” basks in continual, if inarticulate, affirmation from her followers, including other teachers, with lots of yas-qweening and slaayyy, and lots of rhetorical finger-clicking. Apparently, “tattoo tours” and relentless self-involvement are where it’s at.
Readers who are parents may wish to imagine any other scenario in which a scruffily-dressed stranger starts talking to your 8-year-old about their sexuality, and expecting your 8-year-old to actively participate in their mental health problems.
And how inapt that might seem.
Some will happily announce that rejecting the “archaic idea of professionalism” is “part of being a role model.” Because they’re so selfless and heroic, you see.
And yet they’re forever the stars of their own little psychodrama.
More nommy-nommy-nom.
Hands up, who’s feeling pretty phobic right now?
Diversity is our strength.
The ACLU is on the case for Autumn.
All kinds of cultural appropriation.
*puts up both hands*
It must be exhausting to have to dance around the fact that the actual reason people don’t like you is because you’re an insufferable travesty of a human being.
…who’s feeling pretty phobic…
Not phobic, kourasmenic – weary, tired, fed up.
“More nommy…”
Nibbling on spongecake…
Watching the sun bake…
It must be exhausting…
Speaking of which, although it seems it at times, not everything sucks, but if anyone thinks this cultural appropriation does, you need to take a nap on a train track.
“Do what ya gonna do” says the young feral creature.
Okay. The possible “do’s” should include terminal response the moment he lifts a finger against anyone. The only cure for some people is permanent removal. Likewise for some cultures. And it’s not just the street criminal cultures but also the leftist and black racist cultures that protect criminals while criminalizing good behavior.
Marvelous, wonderful, delightful.
…and I agree about the train track.
My high school physics teacher always had a can of Diet Coke. Spoiler alert: there was a bit of somethin’-somethin’ in that Diet Coke.
Not sure how many years ago I figured out that the ACLU had become an enemy of our civilization.
I had a high school English teacher who was rumored to have a bottle of liquor in her desk. Don’t know if it was true, but that does seem to be a traditional coping mechanism.
I think that’s the woman who makes those videos telling you how to use frog/frogself pronouns correctly. In a way, it’s refreshing to see her having some other emotion than manic delight in forcing other people into her whimsical, wonderful world.
While I had suspicions much earlier, July 1980 confirmed it for me.
I’d forgotten (or never knew) that the ACLU was involved in that.
The ACLU took a similar position in the Elian Gonzalez case.
Curiously, the ACLU spoke of “parental rights” in the above two cases of kids fleeing communist tyranny, but denigrates parental rights in cases involving “gender reassignment” surgery and drugs for children.
With such creatures, the only plausible corrective is public, physical humiliation – repeated as often, and vigorously, as necessary. You can’t hope for them to somehow become nicer people. That’s unlikely to happen. You can, however, with effort, make them inhibited.
Which is good enough. And would, frankly, be a massive improvement.
Good enough only for some. There are others for whom permanent removal from society is the only practical solution.
I couldn’t bear to watch the entire video of the drunk schoolteacher, but did anyone think to point out that, by saying she’d been drinking in the morning before she came to the school and that’s why she was still drunk, she was confessing to DUI?
Also, the drag queen principal is in Stillwater. That used to be such a nice place. Boring, but nice. Things change, I guess.
Just like you could ask, if one were trying to set blacks back what would you do differently than the Dems have done?
Was it the Right that destroyed black businesses and neighborhoods or the 2020 riots?
You can also ask, if you wanted to undo all the tolerance of gays, what would you do besides what the LBTQ and trans lawsuits (bake me a cake) and in-your-face protests (“we’re coming for your children”) have done?
They are their own worst enemy.
Can’t speak for anyone else, but bored works better.
The replacement of liberty with libertinism has not been an improvement.
I have to admit to expecting to see a Packard Clipper turn into a fighting robot.
This is a follow-up to the woman who “didn’t get the job” in this Friday Ephemera. I thought the woman sounded sad about the mess she’d made of her life due to her tattoos, but in fact the situation was much worse than that.
Re un-gay opera: I note the ignorance of the BBC’s caption writer: Nanki-Poo “falls in love with a woman
whowhose guardian and fiancé is set to bepunishedexecuted for flirting.”Two of Moliere’s plays involved that sort of relationship: School for Wives and School for Husbands. Grooming girls from childhood to become the guardians’ wives. Am tempted to say “Forget it Jake, it’s France.”
Curious…Daniel Ream is likely the only other person whom I might remotely even know who might have been watching the Army/ULM game…were you watching that?
After being fucked over by two soldiers with whom she had a relationship, she’s going to be a caretaker of a third (presumably different) disabled soldier? I find that disturbing but not definitive; her dad or mother may been a veteran. I’m prone to guessing revenge but people can and do rise above the horrors of their past; I sincerely hope that she is one of those people.
Well it used to be BMW, but Audi appears to be stealing that crown in recent years…
In my own observations on aggressive and entitled drivers, I seem to see a lot of Teslas as well.
I do believe that I’ve mentioned that I’m a West Point graduate. OTOH, I don’t give a flying fuck about football in general and care even less about what the Alma Mater’s team is up to today. We (the Corps of Cadets) acted rather crazy in the 1978 Army-Navy game in the 4th quarter. Time magazine (IIRC) had a photo of us cheering and acting as if we weren’t getting our football asses handed to us.
Needless to say, but since it’s you I will, I didn’t watch that game.
Well, regarding the Starbucks chappie, it seems to me that the attempts at reasoning and appeasement – the appeals to reciprocation and manners – are wildly misplaced, at best a formality. That isn’t the level the interaction is working on – or, I suspect, is ever going to work on.
Now there’s your hit reality-TV series.
For variations on a theme, we could have Adam Kotsko waking up one morning to find that he has new, more vibrant neighbours, whose interests include carjacking and the brandishing of machetes. Ditto Simon Schama, whose own upscale and genteel neighbourhood could doubtless be enlivened in all kinds of ways. And then of course there’s Zack Ford…
Oh, come on. You’d watch and you know it.
Better suggestion. Re-boot of Prisoner in Cell Block H except it has to be set in a real prison populated entirely by blokes who made the mistake of claiming to be women at their trials.
The henchlesbians can supplement their meagre incomes (you can only extort so many tips from impecunious punters whose wits have been dulled by over-exposure to hump fat) by moonlighting as wardens.
I’ve just been reading something about Northern Ireland in the early 1970s which might be relevant here.
Under the watch of Merlyn Rees, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 1974-1976, the number of sectarian killings ran at 294 in 1974, 260 in 1975, and 295 in 1976.
Under the watch of his successor, Roy Mason, the number of sectarian killings fell to 111 in 1977 and then to 82 in 1978.
So what happened?
While Rees, a thoughtful graduate of Goldsmith’s and the London School of Economics and former school master, aimed for conciliation and appeasement during the most volatile early years of the ‘Troubles’, Mason, a no-nonsense former South Yorkshire coal miner, came down hard, immediately throwing his support behind a new style of extremely aggressive policing strategies.
I’m not suggesting that Mason resolve the issue – that wasn’t to come for another 20 years yet – or that this made everyone happ y.
But the contrast in the results of each approach does seem to be not only quite stark, but also rather telling.
Who knew that robust policing could slash the murder rate by as much as 60% or more?
Had to look that one up.
Didn’t Jonah Goldberg keep mentioning women’s prison movies? Haven’t read him in years but seem to recall frequent references to that and Star Trek.