Friday Ephemera (696)

Is it just me? Can’t see any of the reddit links. I’ve tried three different browsers, Firefox, Brave and Edge.

12 am EDT and all the reddit links are working.

and table-tipping

Coincidentally I’m three quarters of the way through Agatha Christie’s The Sittaford Mystery in which one of the key plot points centres around table-tipping.

Squishing avoided, narrowly

Should have been followed by

Blind date, ditto.

The progressive retail experience, parts 506 and 507.

Those must be the edible big-screen TVs I’ve heard about.

LOL. Where did you find those?

Question asked, answered.

I vividly remember an incident from my time at Leeds University in the early 1980s when I was reading law. I had made friends with guy in our tutorial group who was a secular Jew from Oxford, and we bonded over our liking for football and our mutual tastes when it came to music. One day he asked me to come to the weekly lunchtime Student Union meeting to vote. When I asked why, because I along with about 99% of my fellow undergraduates utterly disdained all student politicking, he said “Because the lefties who dominate the S.U. want to ban the Jewish Society from campus”.

“Why?”

“Because of Israel”.

At the time I knew little of the realities of the situation in that part of the Middle East, but I knew that my mate, secular though he was, had spent a year on a kibbutz prior to coming up to university and I had a vague idea that Israel was actually a functioning Westernised democracy albeit one with maybe a few flaws whereas the countries which surrounded it were, er, “not so” and that the likes of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain were pretty austere places.

My mate thus explained that, as far as the hard left would-be revolutionaries who ran the Union were concerned, being a member of the Jewish Society meant that you were automatically a Zionist and thus deserving of banishment. I was aghast, but then twigged that it was the same middle class pillocks who also championed the cause of the IRA who at the time were actively trying to bomb us into acquiescence, and that it was those same middle class leftie keffiyeh-wearing pricks behind this particular outrage.

So when I went along to vote, word had got around as to what the lefties were up to and such was the turnout (in the hundreds) they had to move the usually sparsely attended meeting into the adjacent theatre. The motion was defeated by a thumping majority and as far as I know they never tried that one on again. From that day forward I was always, always sceptical when I heard one of the apologists for the terrorists avowing that it was Zionism that they abhorred, not Jewish people.

I’ve never worn a keffiyeh, either, because I don’t want people to assume I am that particular kind of arse-hat.

You know, there may, just may, be a party upstairs.

Relevant.

My BiL is a drummer and the one he told me was, “What do you call someone who hangs out with musicians?”

I would have been at Leeds Uni at around the same time as Mr Oik (1981-1984) and if I remember correctly the Student Union leftists managed to pass a motion to ban the Conservative Society, though they were quickly made to backtrack on that.

Relevant.

Also relevant – and this was a tea dance, not some sort of rave.

Anna 1, Anna 2 – I thought that Lawrence Welk’s daughters.

And finally, a theft is detected.

Daleks!

He’s called Urethra.  

Hmmm – page gone. I’m guessing from the comment about ruining a song that this was an Aretha Franklin drag queen? Maybe someone from the race-obsessed crowd complained. No yasss queening for poor Urethra.

He’s called Urethra.  

Last name Franklin or did I steal a joke since I can’t see X comments?

That’s pretty sad, actually.