Friday Ephemera (701)
“I am not a cat.” || Nommy-nommy-nom. || Nude descending. || “Can you give me your phone, please?” || “This weird phenomenon.” || Big fellah. || Mastering a foreign tongue. || Maybe the melting is a bad thing. || Intriguing object. || “It brings them a sense of peace.” || Utopian scenes. Related. || Andromeda is approaching. || New dance sensation. || Novel experience. || Penny drops, but takes a while. || Cooling chair, 1786. || Soho, London, 1956. || Quality time. (NSFW) || I have questions. || Short quiz. || She’s “cute” and she’s “nice,” but she expects you to lie on demand, or she’ll kick you in the teeth. || Jake used to be a trans woman. (NSFW) || Today’s word is gratitude. || And finally, a guide to megalasers, relativistic missiles, and other means of waging interstellar war.
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“This weird phenomenon.”
Is that such massive amounts of face and voice filters are needed to pretend to pass.
That’s not how you spell ‘delusion’.
I don’t know which was more damaging, the meth addiction or the sex change. Pity. It sure seemed like Ronnie Corbett had such a bright future.
Many years ago, like 30 or so, there was a travel show with an Australian (?) guy who bummed around the Pacific rim with his dog and I think on more than one occasion he took the dog scuba diving with him like this. Anyone know who that was? I hadn’t thought about him in all this time until seeing this. It was a kinda cool, quirky show. As I recall…
At the end of the video? The guy walking down the middle of the road, carrying two satchels? I think I saw that in a Tarantino film..
Nude descending.
Rubenesque?
“Can you give me your phone, please?”
So that’s what happened to Linda Hunt.
Intriguing object.
Just a bunch of cocks (cokes) hanging out.
Also try a South African with ” can’t “
Damn it, if you are locked out of Twitter for some reason, you can’t view most of the ephemera entries.
Think I’ll stick with toast.
Morning, all.
Classy establishment.
When you’re fishing for grievance, and you really do want to be a pest.
How did you manage to get locked out of Twitter? Were you hawking photos of your feet again?
I don’t think she’s as nice as she says.
She also says that she’s “not too hard to get along with.” Though I’m guessing that any hint of disagreement on that point – or on pretty much any point – would not be well received.
In other, entirely unrelated news:
His voice is perfect. 😀
‘Tis rather. Sometimes, I think, the gods laugh with us.
Nommy-nommy-nom
We’ve talked about this before. We’ve just never seen it being made. Definitely no artificial flavour there.
Am I detecting a theme in today’s ephemera?
I was reminded of a particular scene in a 2010 movie named Legion.
Jesus, that was upsetting.
It gets a bit heavy, yes, but I am glad I watched it. And Jake’s, shall we say, history is not at all uncommon among the sexually dysmorphic. It’s very common indeed.
That’s why I come to this joint – It’s always an education!
Also, in the subsequent thread, crotchless peace panties.
I thought they were going to find Pennywise down there.
I’m sure I don’t know what you mean.
[ Points to innocent face. ]
…you really do want to be a pest.
Pest? He is “hate crime ambassador” for the Sussex rozzers.
I think calling him a pest is likely to be another non-crime hate crime – best to stay away from Sussex for a spell till this cools down.
If we had better eyes the night sky would be amazing.
Yes, quite:
*It’s also about 2.5 million light years away. So don’t cancel any haircuts or dental appointments.
Andromeda: the Milky Way is huge but we are going around it once every 200 Million yrs (IIRC) so we have done a circuit 22 times or so. Wheeeeee!
Nude descending: such scenes are actually not erotic…ugh. the crazy it burns
Duh. Who wants to travel to New Jersey anyway?
Oh…
Oh, it’s much more complicated than that.
Twenty-odd years ago, we stayed in a farmhouse in a remote part of Wales, miles from anywhere. The nearest ‘village’ was basically twenty houses, a post office, and a pub. The view of the Milky Way – unobscured by city lights – was quite something.
I’m still processing the idea that Gavin Newsom is a real person.
See also.
“banned homosexuality” only in the same sense that removing sexually explicit books from school libraries is “book banning” or “censorship”
The implication is that public sex and nudity are to be legal rights.
words: what do they mean?
Either Mr Newsom is incapable of even the most elementary thinking, in which case he’s unfit for office; or he believes that shagging in public, in front of children, is somehow the very essence of being gay, in which case he’s a moral idiot and unfit for office.
Or he’s just a shameless liar hoping to deceive morons.
And is therefore unfit for office.
His voice is perfect.
That nonplussed stutter, very like Jimmy Stewart.
When you’re fishing for grievance, and you really do want to be a pest.
A male voice rings up a bank and is able to give the security answers for the account of a woman. Bank employee treats this as suspicious and/or ludicrious. Anti-hate training is required to get employees to suppress this “you can observe a lot by just looking” philosophy of security
As one who regularly subjected himself to listening to Newsom’s press conferences during covid (modeled after Cuomo’s I suppose), I have thoughts.
He LOVES the sound of his own voice. He’d start to introduce an expert-du-jour, and then ramble on endlessly, vaguely on the expert’s topic. Invariably getting most things wrong, annoying the expert, and running out the clock.
His political filters are faulty. (There’s an alternate possibility, which is that he’s playing some sort of seven-dimensional psychological manipulation game, but I think hes much too stupid to pull that off.) He’ll chat about some issue, and casually drop in a bomb, like saying “it’s true” when asked about cleaning up SF for Xi and APEC. He moves right along, and if course the “journalists” have neither the ability nor inclination to pursue the Golden news egg just laid.
He’s slick, in a way similar to Obama. No substance, but his (prepared) remarks SOUND good. If you turn your brain off.
So I think he has a great chance of being the Dem nominee. EXCEPT, thank Bog, he’s got three strikes against him right out of the box. He’s a straight (probably) White Male (also probably).
Should be fun watching the Dems infighting over the nomination.
Nah. Dude’s native. My guess is Hekawee or Fukawee.
Either way, great cheekbones.
Would that be when Sussex freezes over?
Yet the media can’t understand why they’re despised.
He’s governor of California, so . . . all of the above.
Woof.
Yet the media can’t understand why they’re despised.
This. And also dovetails well with David’s remarks on Newsom.
It’s like in south Florida years back, when some towns tried to clean up the public parks by either enforcing or creating ordinances against public sex acts and other such lewd behavior. Like the Tennessee town, is was public sex acts they were banning. Goes for all sexually-related activities involving at least one human. The local gay community was up in arms about it. and the usual “banning gays” outrage was ginned up. Except they weren’t banning gays from the parks, they were banning public sex in the park. The local gay cruising community was using the parks as hookup spots, and I guess they weren’t even trying to be discreet about it, so people complained. Nowadays the parks are probably taken over by homeless, drug addicts, and/or gangs, and no one is enforcing anything.
ComputerLabRat, same was happening around then in Orlando and iirc, same or similar objections. I recall a coworker who was unusually (for him) outspoken in his objections to the objections to the law. Pretty sure he was still ITC gay. Either way there were some awkward conversations around the office.
Lord alone knows what they’ll be offering the Obamas for Michelle’s candidacy.
My prediction – Creepy Joe suffers a serious, but sadly not life-threating medical emergency forcing his retirement about a week before the official nomination.
I don’t know who banned homosexuality in this small town but Murfreesboro Tennessee has been enriched by Muslims for many years now. This sounds more like what’s happening in Michigan then white rednecks flexing which is who the media wants it to be
I think Alby Mangels is the guy you’re thinking of.
Back to lurking!
Not sure. Looking that name/face up on wiki, he seems rather normal-ish. The guy I’m remembering seemed a bit more rough-around-the-edges and leathery, iykwim. I’m thinking someone likely born in the 50’s, more weathered-hippie. I could be misremembering though. Thanks.
Ah ok. We had a couple of other types at the time like Malcolm Douglas and Harry Butler. Although they were more professional in approach. Alby always came across as a dimwit with a camera, although that was no doubt part of his act.
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Cleanliness is next to Union Station.
At least he kept his pants on. Unlike that woman a couple of weeks back “bathing” in the fire hydrant.
The sky is pocked with stars, What eyes the wise men must have had to spot a new one in so many. — Henry Plantagenet, The Lion in Winter
In case anyone is wondering, the animal in the sewer is a capybara.
Or so says Google Image Search, and it sure looks like other images of the creatures.
“Your breasts are gonna get super-tender…”
“Oh, I like that.”
Also, the “phallus stew” is geoduck.
Ssshh. Let them dream.
She needs to get a divorce – quickly.
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That was really quite something – as thought-provoking as it was mesmerising.
I mean, the waiters’ race alone is something else, not to mention John Geilguid swanning down the road with a cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth.
Peter King, the young artist with a beret who appears in Gallery One near the end of the film, died just a year later in 1957 which just adds to the pathos.
But it’s also quite striking how many of the themes in the film are still being played out in today’s conversations.
There’s the emphasis on cuisine as a major benefit of ‘cosmopolitan’ (read ‘multicultural’ in more recent years) SoHo – which is still something often mentioned in this context.
There’s also the rather condescending notion that black people are somehow there as decoration and to make everything more exciting for the young and affluent (“Nights in SoHo are exciting and colourful” as the camera presents black jazz musicians and a young white girl dancing with a young black man).
Brilliant find that in any event.
[ Turns to mirror, admires self. ]
I can’t decide whether to use the slider animation that usually goes at the top of the home page, and which I’ve now deactivated to see how I feel about it. Feel free to opine, assuming you care one way or the other.
FFFFFS, maybe bin Laden did have a point.
Feel free to opine, assuming you care one way or the other.
It is cleaner without. I would suggest, however, changing the “Thompson, Blog” on the home masthead to a lighter color as, depending on the monitor/screen, it can be nigh invisible.
If I have an opinion one way or the other…it was cool-ish and served a purpose when you fist switch platforms but it’s kinda superfluous now.
[ Sounds of your host being distracted by prospect of fish and chips for lunch. ]
This has just been reported in the BBC – and it may be significant that it’s the BBC, not Spiked, The Spectator, The Daily Mail etc:
OK, well, that could be seen as an unfortunate mishap, but clearly something anyone sane and rational can just move on from.
After all, no child was actually poisoned in the incident even though I appreciate it’s a sensitive issue.
But there’s more (my emphasis):
That school is in Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Meanwhile, another Yorkshire school, Batley Grammar, still has a former teacher in hiding with his family for fear of violent reprisals two years after teaching a lesson on religious controversy that was a part of the course syllabus.
At yet another Yorkshire school, this time in Wakefield, a copy of the Koran was dropped, resulting in minor damage to its cover, leading to a national incident, four suspensions, and death threats aimed at one of the pupil’s involved and his family.
With no small irony, but very little in the way of self-awareness, November is Islamophobia Awareness Month in the UK.
This is not a good situation for a country to be in.
Considering the war in Ukraine is very likely to end within the next 6 months or less, and not to the benefit of Ukraine, this is potentially an even worse situation.
Ukraine is awash with every type of small arms and lots of ammunition.
It is fairly high on the corruption index and it will not take long for someone to realise that those weapons can be exchanged for more stable currencies and they will likely not be too fussy about the credentials of those who they sell them to.
Unless in the unlikely event something quite unexpected happens, by which I mean a government actually growing a pair of balls and addressing the situation before it’s too late, the trajectory we seem to be on is not a happy one.
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It’s somewhat remarkable that this obnoxious young woman hasn’t had the stupid slapped out of her head.
As often as is needed.
Seems like they’re having an argument but it isn’t. An argument isn’t just contradiction. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition. It isn’t just contradiction. It isn’t just saying ‘no it isn’t’. I learned that when I was in school. OK, not actually in school, but back in the day, the time period when I was in school. Turns out much of what I learned in school was pretty useless. Hopefully this obnoxious young woman will learn the same. Hopefully soon. But that’s as unlikely to happen as it is that someone will slap the stupid out of her head. Literally or figuratively. And by ‘literally’…oh, never mind.
She thinks being rude and racist and talking too quickly makes her clever.
Well it makes her sound clever. To most people. People that matter. In her life anyway. And that’s all that really matters when you think about it. Now who’s the clever one?
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There wouldn’t be anything left if it was.
Always respect the media.
Yes it is.
(You knew this was going to happen, didn’t you?)
Remember, all human beings are equally precious and special.
The official multikulti justification for school canteens to serve Halal is that it creates an inclusive environment for Muslim students, and that we unclean infidels should if anything be grateful that our Muslim friends are so much more careful about the sourcing of the meat they eat. The serving of pork products is another level: are they made available to non-Muslims, or are excuses (limited kitchen resources, encouraging a healthy diet) made for phasing them out?
But putting Halal meat into a Christian school is also (1) territory marking in the ordinary lives of Christian children, (2) compels Christian schools to fund Muslim business and religious practice, and (3) as we’ve seen here, compels Christian schools to grovel to Muslim leaders if some non-Halal gets into the Halal pot. Does that all look like dhimmitude yet?
By the way, and since you ask, the fish-and-chips lunch was very good. Our chip-shop proprietrix does good work.
The dessert that I picked up yesterday, however, was bewilderingly awful. The unhappy aftertaste is vaguely suggestive of some industrial solvent. Or stamp adhesive.
#DaveDoesDiningTips
Lawyers also tend to believe that everything is about words. They have an absolute, dare say Biblical faith in the law and seem dumbfounded when you try to get across to them that words without actions, without backbone behind those words make the words powerless and effectively meaningless. I have a theory that many journalists are just failed lawyers…
Additionally…no it isn’t.
You know, I’d heard the expression, “eat a big bowl of dicks”, but I’d always assumed it was a figure of speech of some kind.
Like our gracious host says, when you hear progressive excuses for criminals, look for video. “Just like us”…
Well, when you actually see what is often being excused, the dissonance, the perversity, is pretty hard to miss.
This incident, from the same thread, comes to mind.
Being told that creatures who are defined by their pathological selfishness – and for whom the rest of us are merely prey from whom things can be taken – to be told that such creatures are the real victims of the drama and deserving of our compassion and indulgence, does rather chafe the arse.
Note, too, the arse-backwards thinking. The coyly buried assumption that if the perpetrators of the crimes in question are largely black, then any objections to their criminal activity must be questioned or trivialised, or framed as something suspect.
As if concerns about a marked increase in organised and emboldened looting – recorded in 24 cities – were somehow unwarranted or déclassé. As if not wanting your local shops to be wrecked and raided by ferals, over and over again, and consequently closing, were just some “panic” among the prim and faint-hearted. A “panic” supposedly being “exploited to oppose criminal justice policy reforms” – i.e., grotesque progressive leniency – and thereby to “hit Black and brown communities hardest.” The insinuation being of some racial motivation.
And so we’re steered towards the conceit that if people find the rise in looting and brazen thievery a worry, a sign of social decay, or a threat to their livelihoods, then their dismay at lawlessness is a mistake, or some kind of pretext, rather than a normal, quite sane reaction to a glaringly obvious problem. A problem caused in very large part by the kinds of progressive policies that the author of the CNN piece, Mr Meyersohn, endorses.
Inevitably, we’re told that “tougher criminal policies may not deter crime,” and that punishing habitual criminals is “ineffective.”
We’ve been here before, of course. And doubtless will again.
“the world is just words”–this is so true. It comes from never having to do anything physical like building a house. All their jobs are abstract (education, government, journalism) where all you do is process words. There are no incentives to check your words against the real world. The claim that punishing crime doesn’t work is so easily falsified. The huge uptick in crime is due to NOT punishing crime. People respond to incentives.
Speaking of journalists…A constipated fictional victorian era detective comes to mind…
People aren’t hating the media half as much as they should.
There are only so many hours in a day.