Don’t Forget The Gift Wrap
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Also, open thread.
It took me a while.
This mother-in-law. Didn’t go by Eva by any chance? Say, Brown? Eva Brown?
Heh. Imagine my surprise. Sitting there without my cellphone at the time, trying to focus on something else…
No. Heh…quite the opposite. Polish/Ukrainian. She and the wife liked to go bargain shopping at places like TJ Maxx, Tuesday Morning, etc. i used to tell them that those places are fine so long as you find the flaw. There’s always a flaw somewhere in those products. A slightly off pattern (we have bedding where the stripes on the fitted sheet go opposite from the cover sheet), a care tag on the sleeve of the shirt, maybe it’s just out of fashion but the product did not sell at Macy’s or Neiman-Marcus for some reason. Once you find the flaw you can decide if it matters to you before you buy.
It was a Ralph Lauren towel. Good quality. Given the shade of blue I wondered if it was done intentionally. In fact I highly suspect it was. R-L was under some sort of PC scrutiny back around that time (late 90’s?), but I forget what it was. Hopefully the specific designer was fired. I mean, when you have one job…
…do any of you complete strangers notice anything?
It was made by these guys?
No. It was made by these guys. Nice try tho.
It was made by these guys.
No, as Ralph Lauren is not exactly known for their extensive textile mills, it was sold by them having slapped their name on something made in India, Pakistan, or China.
The labyrinth pattern, around forever, results in what is called a meander swastika (or swastika meander depending on who you ask).
If it had a border of SS lightning bolts I could buy it being deliberate, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Good god man, you can be such a bore. Let’s get all hyper technical now…the pattern was chosen by people working for Ralph Lauren, presumably in NYC, or wherever. “Made” includes designed. It was likely “manufactured” elsewhere, though where that actually was is ??? If you can produce solid evidence to the contrary, about this specific towel, please present it. Otherwise bugger off. Bugger.
See also/somewhat similar…
https://pjmedia.com/tyler-o-neil/2021/03/03/left-leaning-design-firm-takes-responsibility-for-nazi-cpac-stage-n1429831
If you can produce solid evidence…
..that it was a secret plot by Ralph Lauren’s buyers and intended to be anything other than a pattern they picked out, with similar designs easily found on all kinds of things, pony up.
A bore? On this site??
But how could I, I mean they, have passed the rigourous vetting procedures?
See also/somewhat similar…
See also the symbol is in the eye of the beholder.
[ Peers over spectacles, says nothing. ]
Seriously? You don’t know what Ralph Lauren does? Or at least did back in the 90’s? You think they scour the world for towels, laundry, whathaveyou made up entirely by other entities? Like how DeWalt and Ryobi keep their fingers on the pulse of what Vietnam and Indonesian manufacturers are pushing out so they can rebrand them here in the US?
Speaking of Germany . . .
(via Mark Steyn)
I see that the Chicago City Council is discovering that truly effective democratic decision-making is best done in secret. To better represent the public interest.
Not protocols which might accord more with the desires of the electorate, you understand. Protocols which better hide the council’s deliberations from their scrutiny.
Yep. Nothing gets in the way of keeping order like that pesky public accountability.
Hmm. “Rodriguez-Sanchez”
Rings a bell, that…
Ah yes. The Marching Morons. “Senator Hull-Mendoza (Synd., N. Cal.)”
There is a misunderstanding of what mental illness is. Yes, there are certain illnesses like schizophrenia or autism that are medical. Many many other deficits can arise that are purely social. For example, it can seem perfectly normal and proper to engage in blood feuds, or honor killings. Entire societies can be gripped by manias (the first named one being the tulip mania of the 1700s). Those engaged in pograms assure themselves that they are protecting their society and family. What is documented so well on this blog is an epidemic of classic neuroses, largely narcissism. The epidemic of looting and shoplifting is also a social phenomenon. One can be quiite able to pass a sanity test and be well accepted by peers and yet be very malfunctional and be making the world a much worse place.
True. But the more I see of this world, especially the last three or more years, the more I wonder if maybe the schizophrenics are onto something. I am starting to develop considerably sympathy for them.
You don’t know what Ralph Lauren does?
Indeed I know what Ralph Lauren does, though it is a little known fact that he was going to be one of The Pentaverate after Colonel Sanders died until the Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys and the Rothchilds found out that he was putting secret Nazi messages on his textiles that were designed by his Argentinian design team and made in the secret underground textile and paint factory and submarine base in Antarctica.
Never too late to get one of these, I understand the Northwest Tree Octopus is now an invasive species in the lower Appalachians.
Seriously dude. Get a life.
A rose by any other name would still get some twit in a lather.
The mad idea that diversity is a strength, rather than a weakness.
The mad idea that diversity is a strength, rather than a weakness.
Even God wielded diversity as a weapon as told in the Tower of Babel story.
I’m not entirely sure how we arrived at this ludicrous fiction that “diversity” is some unalloyed good, a thing to “celebrate.” On practically every measure, “diverse” communities have much lower levels of social trust, and much higher levels of friction, resentment, and alienation. And that’s before we get to the industry of race-grifting prattlers, for whom the words white and male are by default pejorative.
Seems more a cost than a benefit.
Though to say even that is, as illustrated in the second link, to risk being called names. To acknowledge that “diversity” is often and in many ways the very opposite of cultural and civilisational strength is, in the minds of some, an admission of racism or “white supremacy,” or some other bollocks. As if an ability to register the obvious must mean that you want to push the nearest random Pakistani off the cliffs of Dover.
But such are our twitchy, unhinging times.
The spirit of Muhammad Umar is alive and well in South Australia.
I have questions – does anyone here have any suggestions?
The reporting of the Grenfell Tower fire shone an indirect light on the facts that (1) if the victims were representative, something around only 10% of the residents housed at public expense in this building were white British, and (2) that in that building there were who knows how many unwholesome unhealthy exploitative arrangements where legal immigrants were renting spare rooms or couches to illegal immigrants. If the media tone wasn’t softpedaling and offhand, it made this out to be a problem with the racist British system. They seemed pretty confident that nobody important was going to say “we must be mad, literally mad”.
unwholesome unhealthy exploitative arrangements where legal immigrants were renting spare rooms or couches to illegal immigrants.
I think you’re being kind. I walked through houses* where the basement was sub-divided into 10 or 12 “living” spaces that were separated by shower curtains and big enough for a single mattress plus 3 ft around, two shared bathrooms with a shower and a toilet. This was in wealthy areas in 4,000 sq. ft. homes..
*This was the 80s and I was a real estate agent. I can only imagine what some places look like now.
Feel free to shop excitedly and without restraint.
Amazon button tickled, gifts on their way, one tick at least off list.
Jollity
Is that a word?
I never know if “open thread” is the same as “share ye links and bicker.”
Oh, absolutely. Get on with it, madam.
[ Taps watch. ]
Babble, burble, banter, bicker, brouhaha, balderdash, ballyhoo. It’s only talk. Elephant talk, that is.
I felt an urge to give. *ping*
Bless you, sir. May a neighbour narrowly pre-empt your pre-snowfall gritting plans, thereby sparing you a chore, and resulting in the two of you standing several feet apart and holding rival grit buckets, as if about to begin some kind of gritting duel.
I suppose it’s something to twang.
David.
I. Am. Trying. To. Eat. Breakfast. Thankyouverymuch.
There’s no need to thank me. All part of the service.
That’s why I stick to coffee. Less unpleasantness when the reaction sets in.
I’m more of a Thela Hun Ginjeet fan myself, but ET is definitely one of the best opening tracks on any album.
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He-he. I wish I had your glamorous life.
P.S. *ping!*
I KNOW, RIGHT?
Bless you, sir. May you come to know the merits of cold, leftover sausages.
Worst rave ever.
Worst rave ever.
Have some pity, it is rare to see a spontaneous epidemic of St. Vitus’ dance.
A situation had arisen.
Not unrelated, NYC subway scenes.
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Way-o Way-o, Way-o Way-o
Walk like an Zionist…♪♫
Always read beyond the headline: