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.
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A song of note.
That one is a replica that is outdoors in a piazza. The first pic is from the original. All of its naughty bits are fully intact.
Added: I believe the outdoor replica is plaster. There seems to be much confusion between the two such that info on each is all mixed up. I will leave it to a true art historian to ‘splain.
This goes well with any sofa.
Oh well, at least it’s not the rubber chaps and blogging thong.
In addition to IQ, the extremely smart male often spends huge amounts of time learning stuff (related to his job or not). He may know all about circuits or bitcoin or ancient rome (or all of these). Very smart women may be good at their job but they are much less likely to obsess.
Some sort of mix-up.
I’ll be busy today with some unscheduled redecorating and the turfing out of dust-gathering crap. I’m afraid you’ll have to amuse yourselves, unsupervised.
Not that I’m in any way concerned by what you might get up to.
[ Immediately takes up smoking. ]
I believe you are correct, including the “less likely” instead of “all”.
Related: the male tendency to be more interested in things than people vs. the female tendency towards the reverse.
A small difference in the means can mean a large difference at the tails of the bell curve:
I’m rather surprised that as yet none of these famous paintings and sculptures have been destroyed by “vibrant” and “diverse” Muslim immigrants.
For those who missed it, I’ll just leave this here.
the self-checkout stations at my supermarket have made checkout faster
Around here, they take longer because you have to poke through an endless cavalcade or “how many bags did you use today”, “would you like to apply for our store credit card”, “would you like to donate money to our pet pampered and overprivileged minority charity”, “would you like to sign up to receive endless advertising by email”, screens.
I’ve taken to using the cashier aisle and when they ask if I’ve considered using self-checkout I tell them outright “not until you ditch the annoying interruptions”.
I’m rather surprised that as yet none of these famous paintings and sculptures have been destroyed…
Speaking of which,
Created in the spirit of reconciliation, in the spirit of DIE it had to go.
[ Muffled muttering, sounds of endless bags of crap being taken to nearest tip. ]
Say, can we get the henchlesbians’ take on this kerfuffle over in the
Wiemar RepublicGermany?Fortunately, the only interruptions that I get are “donate to this charity”. My sympathies
The left is traditionally uninterested in reconciliation, only conquest and subjugation and extermination. Sort of like Islam, that way.
I suspect their “take” involves whips and clubs.
Are child rapists a bigger political force in Germany than in America?
The same cohort that thinks Israel should be ended and given to Hamas is too afraid to order food in a restaurant.
That mean we can go back to shooting Yankees?
The geniuses at Ofcom over in the UK have come up with an utterly foolproof way of keeping kids off porn sites.
Seriously, there is absolutely no way in hell some kid is going to figure a way past that.
Ofcom – Top. Men.
When I worked on development of fingerprint identity systems about a dozen years or so ago, I was rather amusing how often the proposed capture tools could be fooled with a photo copy of a fingerprint.
While the cohort they are angry on behalf of is not afraid to bomb a restaurant.
This needs an explanation.