Friday Ephemera (697)
Plot twist. || “She literally rolled her eyes at me.” || I’ll just leave this here, I think. || Clowns and collisions. || Living space. || “I wish you guys didn’t do this.” Or, the progressive retail experience, parts 508, 509, 510, and 511. || Press conference scenes. || Super excited. || Sporting commentary of note. || Your new bedroom companion. || Imagine being this tiresome and needy. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || Not entirely unfair. || “I really like your fur.” || Life-form readings. || Someone at the door, darling. || I do hope you brought your categorisation card. || I know, you have questions. || Man is confused. || Choices were made. See also. || When you’re being made an accessory to their arousal. || Related. || Smack dat ass. || Front-row seat. || And finally, for those of you in search of the latest thing.
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She stole her line.
Man is confused.
Especially the check for testicular cancer and prostate exam.
Front-row seat.
Flashback to my first marriage honeymoon in Paris ca 1985. Show was sold as a cabaret turned out to be two people having sex on a net above (just above) the audience. Made Crazy Horse look like the Rockettes.
Dog training , mid 70’s NZ
Any doctor doing that is seriously negligent.
We’ve seen her not that long ago, but I don’t remember where.
I think you’re supposed to shoot them.
LOL. “The video was altered.”
Morning, all.
Because it’s all about him.
When not squealing with excitement at prompting small children to ask about his sex life, or indoctrinating those children with “equity” and racial favouritism, Mr Kim communicates with the class via the medium of Beyoncé lyrics. Because, says he, ‘I’m a huge Beyoncé fan.”
And again, it’s all about him.
It’s a hair-and-pronouns thing. Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly.
Oh, by the way, last night, I finished watching the latest Mike Flanagan mini-series The Fall of the House of Usher, discussed here. It didn’t get any better. It concluded with a clumsy, incongruous monologue about how if we didn’t have billionaires – if they somehow didn’t exist, or weren’t allowed to exist – “we” could, in ways never specified, fix all of the world’s problems.
It was truly eye-rolling.
Well, I’m trying to imagine how demoralising it must be, to realise that you’re apparently supposed to just stand there and allow ferals and emboldened sociopaths to prey on you, with impunity, and with ever greater boldness, over and over again, until your business, your livelihood, goes bust.
But hey, it’s the progressive retail experience. Another gift from our betters.
Nommy-nommy-nom.
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Link updated. Found a copy.
I foresee complications.
New radical movement detected.
As always, Friday Ephemera brings me my fix of freaks. Their weekly appearances reassure me that I am maintaining a steady course and not threatened by all the vagaries of mental decline
Er… wtf?
My comment about “Clowns and collisions”: Duh!
Competing virtues. Fighting oil is virtuous, but migration is even more virtuous. Everybody knows that.
Speaking of woke educators and their pernicious ideology.
All sounds fluffy and harmless, until you see where it goes.
Watched it last week. God, it was disappointing. I thought Hill House was okay but I won’t bother with any more.
Quite. It’s another example of how the writer’s student-union politics can degrade the creative work.
The grating and incongruous monologue about billionaires – which amounted to a failure to understand basic economics and basic human nature – is the most obvious example. It was jarringly clumsy and inapt, and wildly out of character. It was adolescent toss.
Ditto other attempts to make some kind of political point. For instance, having so many of the characters – at least eight of them – be gay or bisexual just added another layer of clumsy contrivance to get past. It undermined immersion. It was all a bit, SEE? FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER ALMOST EVERYONE IS QUEER! TAKE THAT, YOU UPTIGHT CONSERVATIVES!
It wasn’t daring or subversive, or affirming, as I’m guessing was imagined. It was just pointless and contrived, and vaguely condescending. And for a story about the importance of bloodlines and future generations – the price of the Faustian deal – the contrivance actually worked against the story.
As long as we are on teachers today…
What, they are only substitutes? Well, OK, then, I guess.
“She literally rolled her eyes at me.”
You have to wonder which of her “genders” got pregnant, and which gave birth.
What’s with the huge forearms on that doll?
Oddly enough, given everything else, I hadn’t registered that.
In ‘hot women’ news:
Apparently, readers of Maxim like a gal with, er, spunk.
Sports: I have never shaken hands with a woman who has a strong grip. Never. Most men have a crushing grip. there is a reason women do not want to be roofers or plumbers–besides it being hot and dirty–it is physically hard.
At the AAA (Amer assoc advancement of science) meeting they canceled the panel session on identification of sex from bones because it was “hurtful” to trans or whatever. So forensics (ID of murder victim) cannot proceed? Ancient bones cannot be sexed? It is perverse and nuts. Corruption of science.
Pathetic.
Band name.
Do you see how they have normalized this idiocy? They are the normal ones. You are the messed up people making things complicated. For a lot of people now, younger people in many areas, this is normal. These people are normal. Because the idiocy has gone unchallenged. You let the freaks push you around, thus the general public, especially the young and, by the very nature of being young, vulnerable see them as the strong horse and you as the weak. Because you just roll your eyes and accept it.
Meanwhile, in Yinzer Land.
Greetings.
Like which witnesses were too drunk or whatever to care and which were in on the hit/crime? I’m thinking all are in the latter category.
As I learned from some Brit movie ages ago, never trust a man who keeps pigs. In India, it’s snakes.
It does rather illustrate how, in order to conform with progressive fashion, people are expected to become impotent, absurd, and fundamentally demoralised.
And for a story about the importance of bloodlines and future generations – the price of the Faustian deal – the contrivance actually worked against the story.
This.
For all their hoo-rah-ing about Teh Science! (TM) the Left has less understanding about basic biology than a medieval peasant. Regardless what goes on in your head, who you think you are, or who you want to have sex with, you’re still a human being and came into the world the same way as everybody else, as a result of the same thing as everyone else.
Well, it was irritating to watch and after episode five – a particular stinker – I was actually grumbling out loud. Not least because Flanagan can do some things well. There are plenty of very good scenes in his earlier series, and a conjured mood. He usually just struggles to nail the landings. But despite gushing coverage and a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score, House of Usher never comes close to matching those high points. In terms of engagement and suspense, it’s all rather flat.
And what doesn’t work, and what is objectively bad, is often clearly a result of political, or pseudo-political choices. The naff and incongruous monologue in the final episode, the distracting choice to make half of the characters gay – for no discernible dramatic or narrative purpose. The woke posturing undermines any suspension of disbelief and undoes the art.
But apparently, the political posturing was deemed more important.
It probably doesn’t speak well of me that I sincerely hope that hurt.
[…] and the idea for OnlyFans was born.
Only just spotted that. 🙂
Oof. And I thought my new place was small. That rent, though. Works out at just over £200. I’d almost be tempted. Almost.
And are those bus stairs?
Contrast. (Hat tip to Tim Worstall.)
They’re creepy and they’re kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They’re altogether ooky…
“It’s kind of hard to explain.” Okay. Don’t bother. I’ll survive.
KLR just get better and better at this stuff.
Maybe they could make it more convenient by sewing them on to people’s clothing.
Haven’t you heard? LGBTQwhatever makes up 51% of the population now.
Well at least we have a new
BoschThe Maddie Show.[ Muffled chuckling. ]
Also, His Bra is a pretty good band name.
political posturing: and yet if you include Christian themes and a speech about salvation, this is horrific. Of course, totally ok if the priest is the bad guy.
Those pesky standards.
Inability to prove mastery of reading, writing, or math is proof of harm done to those students of colour.
PiperPaul,
“2sLGBTQIA+” ……
(Putting on mathematician hat..)
Most folks are not mathematically educated. Not all infinite series converge to 1.0
Standards: in the modern world, one needs a higher level of literacy/math competence than in the past, not less. The idea that we are rich now so we can slack off is insane and hurts those who slide by with the low standards. Do you want a pilot or surgeon who slid by with a D in class? Even a dumb plumber can mess up your house (ask how I know).
Those pesky standards.
If it weren’t for low standards, progressives would have no standards at all.
Speaking oppressed people who suffer from oppressive oppression, the real problem is their marginalization lack of visibility.
Re those pesky standards, in the replies a wise man enlightens us dumb, dumb people with our pesky…umm…standards…
I mean…there’s nothing left to say.
Not like they were going to be continuing their academic education anyways.
Imagine my surprise.
Hey kids, free fentanyl.
Not entirely unfair.
And furthermore, Derick Chauvin should be released.
How to make a diploma a negative indicator 101.
Narcissistic-bubble boy, #36,004.
Kinda wild to watch this here is Israel where my gay coworkers have reported for army service. I guess the silver lining to our troubles is that this type simply does not seem to develop here. Even in the most chi-chi progressive areas of Tel Aviv.
The Intergalactic Zionist Conspiracy strikes again, “McChicken sandwiches are in support of killing Palestinian children…“
I guess the silver lining to our troubles is that this type simply does not seem to develop here.
Your youts grew up with Hamas and Hezbollah trying to kill random among them at random times and places, ours with existential crises like these.
Narcissistic bubble boy…
I watched that with sound off. All I could think of was how tempted I was to reach through the screen and snap those annoying fingers.
Well that didn’t go to plan.
Well that didn’t go to plan.
Ha-ha! Idiots. It is to laugh.
gay or bisexual just added another layer of clumsy contrivance to get past
Hill House had a (slightly) less clumsy banger along these lines. Every child ended up with self-destructive behaviour after the mother’s death; one became a drug addict, one became a delusional psychotic, one neutered himself and one…became a lesbian?
What did Netflix mean by this?
Do you see how they have normalized this idiocy?
There will come a time when men go mad, and when they find a sane man they will attack him, saying “you are mad; you are not like us.”
Heh.
Speaking of dysfunctional, narcissistic people.
Never mind the ‘f*ggot’ necklace, the bullring might as well say MASSIVE LIABILITY, DO NOT EMPLOY.
It does seem to be another variation of, “I’ve chosen to send a round-the-clock provocative, anti-social message. Why are people noticing my round-the-clock provocative anti-social message?”
But when someone, an adult, goes out of their way to announce that they have the mindset of a resentful, unhappy teenager, it seems wise to register that message and respond accordingly. Say, by hiring someone else.
Somewhat related.
I think we’ll give that one a post of its own.
Comments that-a-way.
ooooh – how do they wrap the bacon cheeseburgers?
ccscientist @ October 20, 2023 2:10 pm:0
I have. She was a blacksmith. Otherwise, perfectly normal, AFAICT. (This was over 40 years ago.)