Friday Ephemera (693)
“It doesn’t like my wife.” || AI deepfake translation demo. (h/t, Damian) || Insufficiently adhesive. || How to immobilise bees. || Bees and string. || Acid bassline generator. || It’s a job. || Or you could just brush. || Enrichment opportunity. || Stoopin’. || Nice save. || I can imagine your surprise. || Foodstuff disagreeable. || Stealth defecation. || “The 3D-printed surface is made of a material that repels faeces easily.” || Heimsoeth & Rinke K-model Enigma Cipher machine, circa 1940, £120,000. (h/t, Things) || Romantic night in. || Platform reduction in progress. || The progressive retail experience, parts 500, 501, 502, 503, and 504. || Patience tested. || When your children are props. || Not sure about the daylight gap. || On sorting. || One of these things is not like the other. || Today’s word is fondleworthy. || And finally, tremble, all ye enemies of freedom.
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Peckham England. The shop owner has gone into hiding and taken his children out of school because of the volcanic anger of local blacks who think they have a right to steal. And blacks wonder why so many people distrust them and avoid them. It’s not racism, it’s realism.
Instead of the shopowner going into hiding, it would be better if the thieves and their militant defenders were to live in fear of local retaliation and summary deportation.
Another data point.
Seems like an argument against blind charity: Leave them to sink or swim, either learn civilization or suffer the consequences of their own stupidity.
Legendary British eccentricity. Does he have friends named Coffin Henry, Altogether Andrews, Arnold Sideways, and Foul Ole Ron?
There are entire neighborhoods that should be sheathed with that.
“I can’t breath!”: The battle cry of the criminal class.
I don’t understand. What is this, David?
Oops. Here is the link: https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1702019721707569321
“Orangutan yeets trespassing possum out of nest” was not on my 2023 bingo card.
Insufficiently adhesive.
Fargin’ moron, it was a Formula E race. E, as in sparky cars, not real ones that use proper fuel.
Non sticky toilet. From Wuhan. Yeah, pass.
Meh. He’s sorry about what happened. I’m sorry, he lost me there.
Well, I’m sorry there is not a nation-wide climate of militant intolerance of such savages. No, make that hemisphere-wide.
Likewise maximum intolerance of those who facilitate the immigration of criminals and cultural enemies.
WTP: “Meh. He’s sorry about what happened. I’m sorry, he lost me there.“
He’s probably hoping a sufficient display of reflexive cringing will persuade the useless cops not to charge him. A very faint hope, that…
That’s incredible. Genuinely amazed.
Morning, all.
I believe they’re the glass containers of store-bought desserts, probably Gü, now hoarded for some supposed later usefulness. I suspect the problem is that the glass containers may seem too nice to just throw away, but don’t have much utility. Hence they fill drawers and cupboards.
There are more demonstrations here, a thread of them.
Question asked.
Scaffolders are a special breed.
In my job I deal with them at least once a month.
You point at what seems like an impossible place out in the middle of nowhere and say “I want something to stand on there that will allow access to that thing over there”, then you come back a few hours later and it is all done. Magicians
They are all wiry blokes and they all smoke.
Band name.
And he won’t have been doing it for “clicks” either
This just cracked me up (posted on the Alice Smith account)
Been trying to replace the blurry thumbnail with a clearer image, but for reasons that escape me, the image won’t display. Bugger.
Note to self: Drink more coffee.
What the hell is wrong with people?
Surprisingly, a not-insane perspective.
Another question asked.
Ooh. Another wpDiscuz update is available. Perhaps the comment-edit function will at long last work properly. Unless, of course, this latest update will also reduce the comment section to smouldering ash, as did its immediate predecessor.
I think I’ll poke about on the support forums before installing.
Yes indeed. Either that or he speaks French and German 🤔
And/or he’s hoping to appease the militant black savages. Also a very faint hope.
I believe they’re the glass containers of store-bought desserts, probably Gü, now hoarded for some supposed later usefulness.
A few years ago some clips were posted here of immigrants defecating in doorways. If you cite such incidents to liberals they will insist that such things do not happen. If you show them the videos they will insist that it happens no more often than in the past–even though it never happened before our nations were so enriched by immigration and by failure to enforce normal laws of public behavior.
Not sure I have need of a tea-light holder or an on-plate baked bean containment system. On the other hand, they do make some pretty good desserts.
My own glass jar collection of shame.
(I’ve eaten a LOT of Doritos)
[ Calls social services. ]
This guy again, “Why will nobody kiss me?”
Only a heartless bastard would suggest “tiresome obnoxious narcissistic goofball” as a cause.
“We’re gonna need a bigger bar”. Dove Soap hires a partner.
I miss the concept of shame.
From the ‘On sorting’ piece:
I haven’t gotten any men with vaginal discharges yet
Don’t worry, it will come, it will come…
“Trans”gender vs. transracial, a short discussion. Does makes sense, though.
Not many years ago, I read an account of an aid worker’s experiences providing medicines needy people in Africa: Most of the Africans devalued pills, thinking that medicines had to be injected to be effective. And thus it was largely useless to give them a bottle of pills to be taken once a day until gone. Nor did they understand the concept of effective doses whereby one pill a day for two weeks could cure a disease while fourteen pills in one day would be largely useless or even harmful. No amount of explaining could help, as their thinking was entirely magical. Nor did they understand the concept of sterilization, leading to the spread of disease through reuse of unsterilized hypodermic needles.
Also, this:
If any readers have visited Haiti, do feel free to correct or confirm.
Time lapse tilt shift Amsterdam.
Expect to eventually see more and more declarations that not just pets but most human beings are useless and should be disposed of, much as such progressives as George Bernard Shaw did a century ago.
Oh, they might not be able to fly. If they have it in for you, they can crawl all over you and sting you though. One time we made a mistake with one of our beehives – the angry beehive, too – and we had to go back to work on it at night. Oh, that’s all right, we told ourselves, not to worry, they won’t be able to see us in the dark.
They bloody well could.
Yes. It would cause bedtime chaos.
Of course not. Why on earth would a couple have specific sides of the bed that each sleeps on? My God, the rules! Behold the fascism so deeply ingrained into the culture!
Bees: people discovered that smoke makes them docile 2000 years ago. They have found dozens of smoker pot types in ancient egypt digs.
Hanging pants: more than one thief has been caught because he couldn’t run away.
Fabulous military: the military is supposed to do a deadly serious job, not be a place for camp and farting around. Sure, combat ready.
Heh. It – having a side – does strike me as being slightly more efficient, avoiding any last-minute debates, and thereby saving valuable seconds. Also, it avoids having to relocate all of the oddments from one bedside drawer to the other.
But wasn’t that clip from China or HK or some other far more homogeneous/disciplined country? That’s what struck me about it.
For those who are really, really keen, a link to scenes of doorstep defecation can be found here. The location is Shoreditch.
No, don’t thank me.
Okay, I won’t thank you. 😉 But that is indeed one of the videos I saw.
“Our aim is to permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere,” one Apple exec says in the ad.
Thus ending all life on the planet.
Five minutes and seventeen seconds of bullshit. “Mother Nature” is, as Woke™ dictates,
a sassy fat black womanan empowered plus-sized female presenting POC.It was one of several circulating at around the same time. Most of the videos have since been removed, possibly on grounds that they reflected poorly on the kinds of people who shit on other people’s doorsteps.
Indeed. For example, remember the black woman in Chicago who recorded herself in her car ranting against Middle Eastern shopkeepers who dared to carry firearms to protect their stores from looters? “A-rabs with their A-K’s” as she said. She explicitly said that black people had a right to loot stores and that it was immoral and illegal for anyone to take steps to protect their property. People would post the unedited video and then YouTube would take it down for violating unspecified community standards.
😱
Cosmetics have their limits.
Quite.
As a rule I abhor vandalism but exceptions can be made.
Band name.
Another data point in the chronicles of social decay.
Prudent.
No reports of problems so far, but after the faffing about uninstalling the previous update, I’ll let others be the guinea pigs. I’ll keep an eye on the forums.
Those everyday woes.
Present . . . handbags!
Should be interesting to see how this turns out.
@Karl –
The best part is Tim Cook is planting forests while Bill Gates wants to cut them down and bury them – both to get rid of Evil Devil Carbon.
The Science!™ our elite betters know is beyond the ken of we mere mortals.
It worked on his competitors.
Yeah, the dinosaurs tried that – and look how it worked out!
Maybe we could fire the trees into space?
Obligatory Monty Python reference.
Silent Running with Gates as Bruce Dern?
Might be better off firing Gates, Cook, et al into space . . . sans protective gear.
Worked fine until we started digging them up. 😉
As I understand it, that carboniferous carbon sequestration worked because at that time there were no bacteria evolved to digest woody fiber.
“the angry beehive”–band name
sorting: In China the problem is that pictograms do not have any logical order. It is not the Chinese who lack a sorting concept. When we were there we asked if Dr. Li had arrived. The hotel staff had to search through the entire list to find a pictogram that sounded like “Li”. It is amazing they can function.
In Japan I noticed that they use Chinese characters (top to bottom, then next col to the right), Kanji characters (r to L I believe) and english (like for the word Toyota). A single poster on the train will have all three. It is no wonder that grown men on the train are reading comic books.
“Our aim is to permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere,” one Apple exec says in the ad.
During the last ice age, CO2 in the atmosphere got very low, around 220ppm. 200ppm causes plant death. It appears that higher elevations such as the Tibetan plateau did not have enough CO2 for plant life. In greenhouses, they jack up the CO2 to 2000 ppm (vs current 400) to increase plant growth. The past 100 years have seen documented increases in plant growth.
A different kind of dysfunction than we usually talk about here:
Just another day in Russia: Drunk Russian in uniform tosses live grenade past two mothers and two children.
Well seeing as at my trip to the VFW Friday fish fry here in North Georgia I was served Natural Light beer…a Budweiser product, Dove really should not be terribly concerned.
7 people for three months, so fewer could survive longer…
The cop and the doc obviously, the drifter for manual labor and bum wine making skills. The lawyer is right out. The women –
This lady has a problem with men’s latrines.
Dove Soap hires a partner.
Since when has Dove made blocks of soap big enough to service the acreage seen here and making sure all the nooks and crannies come up smelling of roses?
Perhaps their body wash comes in economy size.
The last three words are superfluous.
Aloom-i-num.
Having watched quite a few of https://www.youtube.com/@LifeofBoris/videos I was able to catch a few of the insults in the audio. (The video game Rage used similar phrases that https://learntherussianlanguage.com/cyka-blyat/ will clear up for you.)
I’ll just note that the collateral damage from the grenade wasn’t aimed at the kids.
How to impress your social circle. Caution is advised.
But remember, they’re just like you. Only more oppressed.
Related.
It was blurry?
I must be spending way too much time propping up this bar, like I was saying to your twin the other day.
Golden moment from that thread:
Though the writer of that post should be very careful once they get back on US soil.
What the actual Focke?
What the actual Focke?
My guess: AI-generated book with AI-generated cover, by ignorant and unprincipled idiot.
My memory is rusty, but those Fockers might be Messerschmitts.
Forget it. He’s rolling.
…or more likely, trolling. It’s a publicity stunt, most likely. Wait for the denial.
I’m sure a few counseling sessions will turn them into model citizens.
From that link:
Sir Robin’s Day’s inability to see the truth until it brutally hit him in the head reveals a morally defective personality: A blindness to reality combined with a callous indifference to the suffering of others.
Also from that link:
I was being very cautious in what I wrote, as I did not clearly remember the details of what I read and heard, but I believe the psychologist gave an age sometime before the teens. So, ten? eight? What I would give for a better memory. And one psychologist also said that age four is a critical point for socialization: children which are not sufficiently socialized by then to play amicably with other children in kindergarten are extremely likely to have such problems all their lives.
Or they could be mechanically compressed, and the resulting slurry fed to livestock. That way, some small benefit would have resulted from their existence.
My first thought was this.
The driver seems to be pretty white. Being a feral piece of shit isn’t a black-only phenomenon.
Yet one more quote from that link:
And many of those activists are schoolteachers and university professors.
As I have said so many times, such people should not be tolerated, but instead should be treated as enemies whose presence is a deadly danger to all.
Very true, although the statistics “favor” an assumption of dark skin. White or black, they all compress just as easily into blocks of cattle feed. Or just as easily spend the rest of their lives on prison labor farms.
What’s cute is how that cyclist was just some old 64 year old guy meandering along on a wide, open road, obviously not a spandex-clad a-hole but of course the spandex-clad a-holes gotta claim him for themselves. Because all-about-them.