Friday Ephemera (698)
It prevents chafing. || Child relocation device. || At last, the chairs of Star Trek. Previously, the chairs of Doctor Who, and the chairs of Blake’s 7. || Seasonal, yes, but possibly a bit much. || The bouncy guy must have a job title. || Agreeable rubbing. || Girly girl, with parenting skills, and all the usual girl problems. || The thrill of spider anatomy. || Our betters opine. || Puppet show. || Prototype. || More display shelves of note. Previously and related. || Trimming with lasers. || When your customers are classy. || Hipster conkers. || Hatchlings. || He kinda likes it. || Not, I suspect, from Krypton. || Tiresome kink detected. || You want one and you know it. || When you want the full-face experience. || And finally, a short film about low-gravity living – One Revolution Per Minute.
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The degree to which so many of Our Betters have become absurd – have chosen to become absurd – is difficult to overstate.
My God it’s even more absurd. I looked him up elsewhere and saw references as to him being a Masters swimmer (for older people with real lives… I used to be one). I presumed that he had just slipped into this one event. Everyone on that link was born in this century except for him (1973). All those people in that picture, and especially their parents, put up with this farce? For years now? And that Otters team is a swim club? Not something tied specifically to a geographical area or school? Are we there yet? I mean, how much further beyond Fucking Stupid is there to go before we finally reach Absolute Fucking Stupid?
BTW, as I know a good number of swimmers I posted this on FB and referred to “Idiot Canadians”. FB gave me a sharp warning about “community standards”. I then out of curiosity posted George Carlin’s Seven Deadly Words. Not the video, literally the seven words. Still no warning about that. Several of my friends enjoyed a good laugh about my George Carlin quote yet I don’t think any of them saw my original post about this situation. The post is still there, at least I can see it. I keep hinting about it but there’s so much stupid going on people think I’m referencing other posts and commenting on them instead.
Thrill-seeking.
And no helmet. Tsk-tsk.
Oh, well now, the wokesters are going to find this a tad awkward.
And no helmet. Tsk-tsk.
No danger, the thong was reinforced.
sex not a binary? ahahahahah idiots. The existence of a tiny tiny fraction of intersex humans (who are sterile) or hermaphrodite snails does not invalidate the sexual binary in almost all animals, especially all vertebrates. The entire reproductive system of vertebrates is based on a male and a female. Do a few males watch the young? Yes, sea horses, a few fish, a duck, a frog. Meaningless drivel.
primitive females were the hunters? again hahahahah idiots. In primitive societies, women are continuously either pregnant or nursing for 15 to 20 years because they lose so many children to disease. Sure, take your toddler or pregnant self along to hunt wildebeest.
6 bedroom detached house for sale in Cattleya, Orchid Way, Rawdon, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS19 (rightmove.co.uk)
So you’re saying they have some redeeming values?
Entrance hall, bedroom, bedroom, Millennium Falcon, bathroom…
Except for the billiards room and a couple minor things, it looks pretty nice as long as being built on ancient burial ground an exorcism is included in the closing costs, though if not, I guess you could recoup the price with the movie rights.
https://www.insider.com/woman-sues-ritz-carlton-california-allegedly-drank-semen-contaminated-water-2023-10
So many holes (pardon the expression) in this story, it has to be a scam. Ritz-Carlton should, as a priority, demand a DNA sample from the husband and ask how the woman knew she was tasting semen…
Heh. My college core biology instructor related a story about how in a class he was teaching he was relating all of what semen was composed of and when he mentioned fructose as being an element some co-ed supposedly asked, “then why does it taste so salty?” Now I didn’t really believe this but damn, I so want it to be true.
That.
Well, it seems to me that progressivism – wokeness – is very much about signalling social status, displaying one’s imagined elevation, those “luxury beliefs.” It’s a kind of social jewellery, a positional good, and therefore gets rather competitive. This competitive posturing is, inevitably, self-ratcheting. It tends towards unrealism, extremism, and absurdity because it must.
That’s the nature of the chosen game.
See also this. And this.
An example of the consequent pathology, one of many.
And another.
Words of wisdom, from InspiroBot.
luxury goods, social signaling: in a tiny village of 200 people, you can directly signal your status, though it is still competitive. In a world that has at the same time become fragmented so you don’t even have a “tribe” or “village” where you know everyone AND we have the internet, you have to shout to be heard, so to speak. Only the most absurd and extreme things get noticed.
Hallowe’en door.
He shook his hand after. So hey, what’s the big deal?
What the hell is wrong with people?
The sheer degree of dysfunction, the jaw-dropping moral retardation, will get you every time.
The sheer degree of dysfunction, the jaw-dropping moral retardation
Speaking of which, a lesbian teacher is having a spot of bother in Japan. For some reason the word “deport” comes to mind.
“inevitably, self-ratcheting”
https://youtu.be/9OPHlKN2yzw?si=tSp7v_fM2EecXuQ3
They won’t even acknowledge it.
What’s up with Dan’s link?
Fixed.
Socialism in kinky boots.
Fixed
Thanks. I was having technical difficulties.
At Cornell University. In the United States of America. Way to go smart people. Yet another reason why you cannot be trusted.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/cornell-hillel-posts-warning-after-threats-to-jewish-students-kosher-dining-hall/
“We await The Carpets And Curtains Of Babylon 5.” So long as they match.