Friday Ephemera (704)
Doctor’s note of note. || The designated drivers of yesteryear. || A discussion ensues. || Today’s word is inadvisable. || “Dimples are highly valued.” || 14,000 volts. || It’s a ChapStick warmer. || How progressives destroy empathy. || A project for the weekend. || Interlopers or ingredients? || Going that extra mile. || But she wanted a pink Mercedes. || Today’s other word is parenting. || For readers overseas, a scone pronunciation map. || Excuse me, madam… || I’m not sure that one of them is quite what she claims. || On self-checkout supermarkets. || The Christmas spirit. || When your new neighbour announces he’s a self-satisfied dick. || Dating complications. || Blockage of note. || She does this better than you do. || For fun, I’m told. || And finally, tactile adventures in green screen.
If inclined, you can follow me on X / Twitter.
To register with the blog and thereby enable extra commenting options – including @username mentions and live notifications – scroll down to the black ‘Meta’ box at the very bottom of the page. It’s free and quite painless.
This blog is powered by the buttons below.
I like self-checkout, even at the places where I have to show a receipt. The issue I have is at the supermarket, where the sign says “Express self checkout”. The express lanes in US supermarkets are typically X number of items or less (14 where I go, although 10 and 12 aren’t uncommon either), and the self-checkout kiosks don’t have the conveyor belts. Yet people still go through with an entire week’s worth of groceries, and shit that needs to be weighed, or worse, stuff like medicines that require age validation.
Leave the express checkout for those of us who only have a few items, please.
And then there’s the Stone of Scone….
And then there’s the Stone of Scone…
…also the cannabis ones or the Scones of Stoners.
Meanwhile, Anna learns what the underside of the bus looks like during a Zoom call of note.
He and she do this better than you do.
“Do not yell at me, sir.” I laughed and I’m not sorry.
Should be something you have to add on the Home Information Pack…
Morning, all.
I’m guessing the bees won that round.
Thing is, the woman in the white shirt is presumably a friend of Maladjusted Shouty Man, and most likely imagines herself as a righteous “ally,” one of The Good People. But her role seems more like one of carer, or enabler, a provider of affirmation for delinquent narcissism, dishing out excuses for his infantile behaviour.
“If you don’t let him shriek at you, and bully you, and call you a Nazi, and if you don’t let him have have tantrums and meltdowns whenever it suits him, he may kill himself and it will be all your fault.”
I paraphrase, though not wildly.
Further to this, more pipe-smoking women.
I don’t object to the existence of self-checkout, as one option, for those who find it convenient. I do, however, dislike the trend for phasing out human cashiers – in some places almost entirely – leaving customers with fewer options. If I’m spending money in a store, and doing it regularly, those few seconds of human interaction don’t seem an outrageous expectation on my part.
Can confirm.
[ Fans Min to avert overheating. ]
That.
Does it come with super powers?
Re self checkout…you should have been there, it was fabulous.
Alas, no. Quite the opposite.
I’ve mentioned before how, at the start of the pandemic drama, a local pharmacy, part of a big chain, installed two self-checkout stations, and closed one of the two conventional tills, having seemingly fired half the staff. As pharmacies tend to have lots of elderly customers, few of whom fancy grappling with an unfamiliar device, the stations weren’t at all popular and I rarely saw them used. Or indeed functional, judging by the beeps that signalled an error of one kind or another, and which went unaddressed due to the sudden shortage of human staff.
Faced with disgruntled customers, many of whom needed items from behind the counter and therefore couldn’t use self-checkout, and with large and growing queues for the one remaining till, the appeals to use the new, improved, high-tech option became increasingly plaintive, almost desperate.
The atmosphere of the store changed quite noticeably. From a place where the elderly or unwell could ask staff for advice easily, or for help finding what they needed, and where they would generally feel acknowledged, the place had been transformed into a big room with a bad mood in it. And lots of tutting.
And then of course there’s the irony of a pharmacy, with signs insisting that customers wear masks and maintain social distancing at all times, simultaneously telling customers to share the same touchscreen as hundreds of other people, despite said items being notorious bacteria farms and an excellent way to spread disease. It was, in hindsight, almost funny.
I don’t shop there anymore.
[ Notes the absence of deformed bodies or personalities. ]
What have you done with the real David Thompson?
Oh, look who’s back. About chuffing time.
Well, sort of back. Time is currently rather limited.
“It’s the material.” LOL
In a not-suitable-for-work way, some scenes of enrichment.
Footnote.
“Cannibalistic children trannies are far enough”
I did not know this, the people who
settledcolonized North America did not know how to bathe, farm, or hunt before they got here.Among the neurotically woke, there is a self-ratcheting tendency. And seemingly no point at which the unrealism and farce inhibit further ratcheting.
As seen, for instance, here.
It’s so tiresome.
A metaphor for our time.
So TDS goes up to 11…?
I thought we already were at level 11 last time.
Package thieves: if they stole my packages they would get furnace filters and eye drops, maybe diapers for grandkids. Does that sound valuable or useful to a thief? Just creating waste.
I hear that a lot of stolen goods are sold on eBay and other such sites.
Re A metaphor for our time, “I hope somebody’s called 911”. Does she call 911? Apparently not.
Ah, those “Artful Dodgers of the Amazon age.” Those charming rascals.
Not to mention demonstrating he’s not nearly as clever as he thinks he is.
Not to mention demonstrating he’s not nearly as clever as he thinks he is.
Precisely!
While the Community Context note was awesome, they didn’t go far enough. What everyone is ignoring, especially after Oct 7, is that those “brown-skinned Middle Easterners” were freakin Jewish! And the census was called by the Occupiers, the Romans. Ye flipping gods – Mohammed wasn’t even born yet, wouldn’t be for almost 700 years. There were no such people as Muslims during the time of the Christian Gospels. There were Syrians, Jordanians, Lebanese, Egyptians, Israelites, Romans, and Greeks, but no Muslims. Not a one.
Not to mention the Scone of Stone.
Which he will promptly ignore.
What Fagin got in the end seems increasingly attractive. Especially because Progressive Minded People seem so determined to tolerate crime.
This chap describes the horrors of avoidant transphobia.
No, really.
I also suspect there is a reason for wearing a ball cap in the swimming pool.
You must participate in their delusions without surcease & do so with apparent enjoyment.
Or else.
So he’s being oppressed by people not oppressing him.
Why, it’s almost as if he just likes whining and scolding people.
You must participate in their delusions without surcease & do so with apparent enjoyment.
Indeed, I think the requirement will be to carry several Christmas crackers or confetti cannons and whenever you meet one, you pop a couple.
Indeed. He reminds me a bit of the black racists who complain about whites who make eye contact (“who you lookin at?”) and those who do not (“they’re erasing our existence!”)
Re cannibalistic trannies…that. OMG, that. For decades now. And from that, this:
The “conservatives” spiking the football on the 40 yard line. It’s so bloody painful to watch, not to mention the hell one catches for noticing.
Aw, man. He jus livin his bes life, bruh. Ya feel me? Why you gotta be ‘pressin on the 247?
Again, this doesn’t end well. As the end of the year approaches I am noticing more and more people waking up to this reality. Maybe Oct. 7 really focused a lot of people’s minds, especially Jews, on what they have been looking past for decades. I notice some usually non-political friends and relatives responding or interacting on news issues. Again, especially the few Jewish ones. I have a very secular Jewish former colleague whom I have designated as my coal mine canary. He’s quite the hipster for his advanced age and likely considers himself MotR or even “conservative”. He certainly owns more/bigger guns than me but that’s not too big of a hurdle. While he has fallen for a number of hoaxes or dismissed them as being below his exalted hipness, he seems to be dipping his toe in the alligator pond a lot more lately.
As we are traveling and I am having to get used to a different TV/cable/streaming/whatevs, I noticed that there sure seem to be a rather significantly greater number news channels/apps/whatevers than I was aware. There’s not just CBS’s news but there’s the CBS News channel, app, ABC, NBC, etc. all have far more manifestations of themselves than I realized. My first thought was who is watching all this crap? Judging from some of the interactions about otherwise mundane stuff apparently nearly everyone now. I suppose the pandemic drove much of it into the average Joe’s head. While I was well aware of the significant TDS of people on the left, and especially the media moving society in general further and further to the left, judging from this TDS video things are worse than even I thought probable. I understood that the average idiot was reliably left but if they really are consuming this TDS insanity to the degree that the hard/”intellectual” left has been doing, there is no way out of absolute chaos unless some very significant effort is made by the right to get some perspective through these people’s heads. And judging from what I see in the nominally GOP US congress, there is no desire to truly fight for this. To take the necessary decisive actions most likely to head this thing off before the primaries. Even on the D side they have no idea what direction to take. Things are fixing to get real this time. Per the Briggs article/link regarding the wavy decline to the left singularity, I don’t see any remaining upward swing of sanity.
Well, she is certainly aptly named.
I, for one, cannot wait to not see this movie.
Apparently, this man is real.
And yet, every year, for decades, interracial crime statistics have begged to differ:
The film linked above is presented as a magical fantasy, of course. But progressives’ conceits regarding crime and danger, so pointedly affirmed in the film’s trailer, seem to be magical fantasies too.
And then there’s the irony that if The White Devils were anywhere near as dangerous and oppressive as we’re expected to believe – an omnipresent physical threat, forever to be appeased – then a film of this kind would be unlikely to be released by a division of Universal Pictures. Let alone released with an expectation of nodding and widespread applause from the expensively educated. It seems to me that the unspoken assumption is that The White Devils are actually quite harmless, no threat at all. So we can insult them.
But apparently we’re expected to go on pretending anyway.
“On this sad day and devastating day it would perhaps be comforting for us all as well as the immediate family to take a moment and notice how stunning and brave I am. Also, check out my awesome ass in this skirt.”
Is that for real or a parody?
Apparently, this man is real.
Only in that he exists in the physical world, other than that he is a figment of his own imagination.
Meanwhile…
Shot;
Chaser.
Heh. Yes, quite. He is rather like some prattling cartoon.
Sorry, minor point of irritation: African-American vernacular English is rooted in English dialects brought to North America.
Not that the rest of ‘his’ word salad isn’t equally egregious.
One frequently hears of various non-‘Merkans make fun – often rightly so – of our supposed lack of geographical knowledge.
Let’s see if all you Old Worlders can do better…
He is rather like some prattling cartoon.
The whole lot of his ilk are nothing more than latter day Chatty Cathy’s, pull the string and another programmed boilerplate phrase comes out.
“learn about gender from black people” ahahahahhaa right. You mean the culture where men sing about “hoes”, have the highest rate of domestic assault, and father children and then abandon them? Those?
And the culture where women are safest from crime, assault, rape, and murder (white culture) is the one that needs to learn? right
crime stats: US nationally figs I saw were black on white rapes: 19,000 vs white on black rapes 0 (yes zero). Even if black women are less likely to report rape, it is stunning.
Saw similar stat from probably about a dozen years ago. It sticks in my head because it was put in the context that it indicated how racist wypipo are that they would not even rape a black woman. I am 99% positive that they weren’t joking but it has been a while. Parody and reality have been on a collision course for quite some time. Thank you, academia and a special shout out to the taxpayers who funded this idiocy while pretending it wasn’t happening. Hence our prattling cartoon. Yes, you created ‘him’ with your tax dollars.
Farnsworth: to be fair, while I can name all the European countries, I only know a couple of provinces (Bavaria, Provence…uh uh) and not even sure where they are. What is the most hilarious is when New Yorkers don’t know US geography (they seem to be the most lost in an urban world of their own).
Yes. And I, too, have seen deadly serious assertions that this proves whites are racist. (Assertions made by black racists and white leftists.) I am confident that the purpose of such assertions are manifold: First, to explain away the black-white difference in crime rates. Second, to perpetuate and increase hatred of whites. Third, to end Western civilization and replace it with a communist and racist totalitarianism.
Also: The only person who, to my face, expressed admiration for pimps, was a young black male.
Farnsworth: FYI, some of your tinyurl’s are expiring very quickly.
For someone who evidently likes to see himself as One Of The Clever Ones, there’s no thinking there. Mr Legwarmers does the usual glib regurgitation, but I’m not seeing evidence of autonomous mental activity.
It’s all borrowed. Pre-recorded.
See: It’s demonic possession, but the demon is an ideology.
I, for one, cannot wait to not see this movie.
Is that for real? I’m so old I remember the huge flap over Rush Limbaugh and the parody song he played called Barak the Magic Negro, which was based off a comment by one of the black race hustlers – Al Sharpton or the like. Come full circle, they have.
Sadly, yes.
White liberals and black racists find their purpose in life by fomenting racial resentment and paranoia.
Speaking of black racism, how about this charming citizen?
Found via here.
ytes got a $25 trillion head start? Not so fast. Most people hardly get any inheritance. The money gets spent just living. Actual rich people have kids who often squander the money. A few very rich manage to pass riches down, but few. Most whites live paycheck to paycheck.
AND all the robbery is often of minority owned stores or stores that employ minorities. That’s the way to stick it to the man!! Just tell your granma in her 80s that there are no pharmacies near her because you personally robbed them. I’m sure she will be proud.
Yes. I like being able to say ‘thank you’ at the local fresh market. On the other hand, the self-checkout stations at my supermarket have made checkout faster, and as an added plus I don’t have the retarded bagger boys inspecting my purchases and offering strange comments. On the other other hand, I should be happy that retarded kids can have jobs. On the other other hand…and so on.
I, for one, cannot wait to not see this movie.
“Protagonist Aren is recruited into a magical society of African-Americans to follow their lifelong cause: to make the lives of White people easier.” where “easier” means “less nervous around black people”.
Possibly relevant: He’s a good boy. He’s not a monster. Maybe it was self defense.
.” where “easier” means “less nervous around black people”.
About 20 years ago I found myself doing this as well. At some point the idea that the business should appreciate the customer switched to the customer thanking the business. Mostly because the surly checkout person barely acknowledged the customer, the customer (in my case, me) had a pavlovian expectation to hear the words “thank you” being spoken and the customer (in my case, me) started saying “thank you” himself. Even though it was the customer who chose the business. And thus the growing appreciation of self-checkout.
Most frequently I say something like “Have a nice day” or “Merry Christmas”.
David Ehrenstein wrote a column in 2007 titled “Obama the Magic Negro” for the LA Times.
https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2009/01/magic-negro-columnist-on-saltsman-smartass-015760
The first I heard the term “magic negro” was from Spike Lee shortly after the movie The Legend of Bagger Vance came out in 2000. He gave the impression that it was his observation, or at least the observation of him and his contemporary cronies.
[ Waits for someone to say band name. ]
Uncle Joe and the Neurologically Diverse Baggers.
Bagger Krew.
This is of course going to come off as “mean” to some/most but I basically DGAF anymore…Off topic but about 30 years ago our Publix actually tried this. I am definitely in favor of hiring the mentally slow. A friend has a daughter with (real, not the hipster kind of) autism and she has done incredibly well having a job helping in a restaurant etc. But she works mostly in the kitchen/back area. They don’t “hide” her and I believe she helps out in the dining area as well but the key is the patrons are not pressured to have their patience tried or caught off guard. The people who work there know and understand her specific limitations and are prepared and understand how to work with her. It works. With Publix, hiring mentally slow baggers, customers doing their grocery shopping, especially on a weekday after work as we did back then, are not primed/prepared to deal with such a situation. I was of course an asshole for even delicately pointing this out, yet truly mentally challenged people working as baggers did not last long at that location.
Some states have programs subsidizing the employment of “mentally challenged” people who would otherwise be unemployable. (That is, people who are trainable for some types of jobs but who cannot be profitably employed due to their low efficiency.) However, I have read that there have been some attempts to abolish these programs.
They are now going to be given degrees in engineering and medecine in order to improve the perception of diversity hires in those professions.
Most of the retarded people I have seen have been male. This has led me to wonder if there is a sex-based difference*, or if my sample size is too small or if retarded girls are just less likely to be seen in public.
* There have been a few studies indicating that while median IQ is the same for males and females, the male IQ curve is wider–and thus there are more male than female geniuses and morons, and more females than males of average intelligence. There have not, however, been enough studies to establish this with real certainty.
Wise people will take this into account when looking for a good physician.
Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas ! Santa is dead.*
John Snow would be whirling in his grave like a runaway gyroscope to know these clowns have hijacked his name.
*(ad block recommended)
Baggers can’t be choosers
For the severely autistic, there have been day centers where they do some work for a small wage. Progs want to shut them down (and have in some cases) because the autistics are not getting min wage. Freaking idiots. Of course, in their minds, jobs are just handed out like candy and don’t require real skills or effort…just look at their president!
But of course. Because they care.
Although I also wonder if unions sometimes get involved.
Attention, peasants. I bring you art.
yet truly mentally challenged people working as baggers did not last long at that location.
Most of the mentally challenged employed near me collect the carts from the parking lot and don’t have to interact with the customers.
Most of the retarded people I have seen have been male.
My experience has been that it depends on the nature of the condition. Most of the autistic I’ve encountered have been male, but people with Downs syndrome seem to have a significant number of females.
“Ack!”
–BIll the Cat
Palate cleanser here.
UPDATE: Maybe there really are enough studies to settle the matter: I was just listening to Jordan Peterson interviewing evolutionary social psychologist Dr. Sarah Hill who says that there have been a very large number of studies showing this to be true: The male IQ distribution has fatter tails, so that there are more male than females who are cognitively challenged but also that are more exceptionally intelligent. But of course nobody gets upset if you publicly notice the ‘excess’ male dummies while it can be a career killer to notice the ‘excess’ male geniuses. (Alternate, home page link.)
Attention, peasants. I bring you art.
Never, never let Technicolor Juggalos near your white walls.
Band name.
[ Readies bassoon, leather trousers. ]
Doesn’t go with the sofa.
If you manage to look past his little marble goolies . . .
If you manage to look past his little marble goolies . . .
It shrinks?