Tidings
A fox’s first snow, photographed by Tak:
As is the custom here, posting will be intermittent over the holidays and readers are advised to follow me on X / Twitter, or subscribe to the blog feed at the very bottom of the page, either of which will alert you to anything new as and when it materialises.
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Curious newcomers and those with nothing better to do are welcome to rummage through the reheated series in search of entertainment. You may, and probably will, find things you’d missed. And this, needless to say, is an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
To you and yours, a very good one.
Note that David did not caution us to play nicely, use coasters. A significant omission?
Not feeling any urge to bicker. Sorry.
Well share links, then!
*Ostentatiously refrains from using coaster.*
A couple of comedy classics for the season.
Merry Christmas, Doctor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYkN3M31jWM
Good King Eccleslas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUZZQuskOnM
Merry Christmas, barkeep and regulars.
*ping*
Christmas themed, of a sort:
https://youtu.be/4KH3Qou2omY?feature=shared
Bless you, sir. May you not, while still half-asleep, accidentally delete your list of prepared blessings, resulting in much muttering and last-minute improvisation.
Encouragement expressed. 🙂
Merry Christmas, barkeep and regulars.
Merry Xmas to our esteemed host!
Bless you, sir. May you not find yourself in a lengthy debate about exactly when water can be said to have started boiling. Especially when you’re waiting to have eggs for lunch.
When you see bubbles.
Ah, but… are we talking about the very first sighting of bubbles, or the point at which there is bubbling of sufficient vigour to rock the eggs about in the pan? That’s a good 30-seconds difference, maybe more.
And if you’re hoping for a four-minute egg but the start of boiling – from which to set the timer for four minutes – is a bit fuzzy and hard to pin down precisely… well, you can see the problem. Utter chaos.
BOILING EGGS IS HARD.
I think we may need Karl’s input on this whole egg-boiling problem.
A shocking discovery.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours, and to all the commenters here too!
Merry Christmas to our gracious host and the rest of the heathen riff raff.
Relevant
[ Digs out hefty textbook on thermodynamics, looks for chapter on boiling eggs. ]
Eggs boil rapidissimo in a microwave. Remember to set to HGH.
You savage.
Left something in your stocking. Merry Christmas everyone.
Bless you, sir. May your domestic chores not be complicated to a farcical degree by a tangled and weirdly inflexible steam-iron power cord.
Answer only works for spherical eggs in a vacuum. Damned physicists.
I got nuttin.
It’s a pity his investors did not require him to test fly his own folly.
For some people, nothing is real without academic studies.
Don’t do this at home, kids.
Some not quite classics.
Christmassy
Deck Us All
Sugar Rum Cherry
As it’s the season of mistletoe and such, I thought I’d share this:
What?
At least not with your mother’s La Creuset.
Perseverance.
“The American Society of Magical Negroes”, a comedy.
https://youtu.be/gizIbhk5Eu4?si=MR2e4JP4y1PeXSuR
The trailer and its conceits were discussed here.
Well, I say discussed. I mean, I banged on about it for a bit.
Mark Steyn noted earlier today, “Western nations are sewers of hateful racist prejudice and white supremacy, yet they’re the only countries black and brown people want to move to.”
Nommy-nommy-nom.
I wouldn’t want to be within 500 meters of those goofs.
[ Feels momentary urge to bicker. But not about anything in particular. ]
Ah the ‘ell with that. Merry Christmas, everybody. Hope your preparations are going smoothly.
A Messy Kweznez to every one. And Kai-ching!
Hey now, whether you are a moddie, a wawa, a zaza, a pal from another birth canal, or even a crotch goblin, you can’t go wrong with the DIctionary of Gender Neutral Language!
Via Ace from here.
[…] you can’t go any further wrong than with the DIctionary of Gender Neutral Language!
FTFY
A Christmas Carol
I was surprised to see the pot go more or less straight up every time. Or did they leave out the errant tests?
As it’s Christmas I’ve stuffed a few quid in the tip jar. .
Best to all.
Bless you, sirs. Should you have a hankering for a peanut butter sandwich, may you open the cupboard to find white bread, as God Himself intended, not a rye boule.
#ModernHardships
Money and crime – the relationship that wasn’t.
Something well outside his purview are those near black lumps as dense as lead, baked in some Teutonic fire pit, and brought to market as ‘loaves’ by the likes of Helga, Dagmar and Frida after the angle grinders have done their handiwork.
To be clear, I like rye bread. Just not with peanut butter.
Speaking of peanut butter, can recommend.
[ Rummages in cupboard. ]
This place is turning into a lifestyle influencer blog.
Talking of which here has been another nativity. Kourtney and Travis are currently in the manger. They await the return of the wee infant from the tattoo parlour.
New crisis at the Guardian:
No laughing at the back.
A staff revolt is looming at the Guardian over the newspaper’s return to the office amid concerns the new policy will give some workers less time to spend with their
petscats.Have they blamed Brexit yet?
Also ping.
Merry Christmas!
Bless you, sir. May you have muffins.
Are you referring to German “health bread”, whole grain and often with lots of nuts or seeds? The few I’ve tried were tasty enough, although suitable for all needs.
I do wonder if they factored into Terry Pratchett’s descriptions of dwarf bread.
From the closing paragraphs:
My “progressive” acquaintances angrily deny that this is even possible. It’s
turtlesBlank Slate all the way down.I saw an article (some time in the last 2 years) analyzing crime statistics in America by race and income. Very depressing: Not only do middle class and upper class blacks commit far more crimes than whites of the same and lower income cohorts, the children of those blacks also offend at much higher rates.
See also here and here.
Just like us, you know.
“She”.
And if a person will lie about that, in public, what else might they be willing to lie about? The question doesn’t seem unfair.
How to clear snow from trees.
Small child discovers fourth dimension.
The heritability of criminal tendencies should lead us to consider the merits of sterilization.
Obligatory Monty Python reference.
“I can’t believe these native savages don’t like my thot gym vibe”.
I’m suspicious that genetics could explain “crime” in the abstract. It might be useful to compare the crime rates among African immigrants and American-born black people with similar incomes and ages. Maybe, just maybe, marinating for your whole life in a stew of constant propaganda that you’re oppressed, that anyone wealthier than you is an oppressor, that anyone paler than you (plus South Asians) is an oppressor, that you have a right to harm oppressors, and that the law is a tool of oppression which you should “resist’ might have some effect on your willingness to commit crimes.
At which point, it’s worth recalling the deep, woke wisdom of Scott Eric Kaufman, a pale and self-satisfied Salon editor, who encouraged black suspects to resist arrest and attempts at questioning, however civil, on grounds that young black males “shouldn’t have to” comply with lawful instructions from the police. And because resisting arrest physically and aggressively, resulting in a scuffle and possibly the use of weapons, will improve the situation no end.
Mr Kaufman being at a safe distance, of course, and far removed from obvious consequences.
And one might note just how often pale progressives give perverse, potentially life-ruining advice.
Madam seems to have mistaken the gym for a nightclub. The kind with poles and minimum drinks policies.
Didn’t think you’d hear that. Sorry.
The heritability of criminal tendencies should lead us to consider the merits of sterilization.
It does rather raise the question: what do we do if the racists are right? Do we do anything? Equal treatment under the law is constitutionally guaranteed, but do we go back to signs saying No Irish Need Apply?
“issues around work-life balance”
Wouldn’t that be work-undead balance?
It’s fairly well established that all sorts of personality traits have a heritable component. Not just intelligence but various other aspects of personality including psychopathy. David’s earlier link (“Money and crime – the relationship that wasn’t.”) discusses this.
It is usually the case that both nature and nurture play a role.
I entertained a wish that Kaufman would one day be brutally mugged by one of those young black thugs he cared so deeply about, which would lead him to an epiphany. But it was not to be: He died about six years ago of an unspecified disease.
No, of course not: First of all, there are plenty of white psychopaths too, and I had them just as much in mind when I wrote my comments.
Second, most black people are not criminals
So we return to equal treatment under the law: In crime: Impose effective punishments on the actual criminals. In business and society: Allow employers and landlords and others to exclude psychopaths without incurring punishment as “racists”.
David, I had a feeling you had mentioned Kaufman more than once, so I did a Google search of your site. Searching the new URL returned zero hits. Searching the old site returned two hits, one in 2016 and one in 2018.
I’m guessing that Google’s spiders have not walked the full contents of your new URL and wonder if there is a way to nudge them to do so.
Christmas for the animal loves
It’s usually done by setting up a file called robots.txt . It can take a month or two before results come through.
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro
Oh, and: PING!
Bless you, sir. May the new sofa you ordered be ready for delivery earlier than expected.
And yet it’s been over a year since the migration to this new site.
Caption this.
Charles Murray on “affirmative action” hires in academia.
Merry Christmas from sunny south Florida. I have named him Sarge.
Here’s a radical thought. Perhaps we just treat all people with basic respect like any other person until they themselves, as individuals, demonstrate behaviors that give reason to treat them, as individuals, differently. How people carry themselves is a much, much greater indicator of their potential behavior than their skin color. Not that there can’t be a high correlation otherwise, but correlation is not causation.
Not children. Pets.
Merry Christmas to the regulars and of course our gracious host.
P.S. tip jar hit.
Heh.
Bless you, madam. May your bathroom floor mat dry with pleasing rapidity.
[ Checks Year Reheated for gaffes and typos one last time. ]
Not exactly in the Christmas spirit but I’m wondering how I missed this three week old story? Moms for Liberty or Libertine? I didn’t see this on Ace or Insty or any other conservative…”conservative” sites. Except if you count Patterico where I just ran across it in the comments.
That system has a solid track record. It’s funny how eager some people are to replace it with radically identitarian systems that destroy social cohesion.
Counter-argument: There is some evidence that these criminal tendencies are often merely cases of too much of various normal characteristics. If we were to attempt to breed them out of the human population we might merely make the general population more passive and, in some important ways, less functional.
Hadn’t heard of it either but I’m not nearly as surprised about it as I wish I was. Every group attracts its share of frauds and grifters. No one wants to call them out.
*yawn*
Oh no. It’s Christmas eve?
*starts banging away at amazon.com link*
Merry Christmas, y’all!
Here’s an interesting concept that someone on Insty replied to me with. Something that I had thought about in a slightly different context. I often thought that the concept of too many chiefs and not enough indians needed to be further flushed out, at least in an organizational/corporate sense. An offshoot of the idea of keeping your mission-dedicated organizational structures to a limit of 200 or so people. The first I have seen someone seriously studying this. Looks like from a fairly recent publication.
The double surprise to me is that being from Florida, this didn’t pop up somehow. Granted we left in July but we have been vacationing back here for a week or so and do follow much of the news from down here as the so-called smart systems that Google has are still giving us the occasional mundane local news stories. Granted most of them are from central Florida but MfL has ruffled quite a few feathers there as well.
Back to Christmas…Perhaps fried in some camel hump fat?
Model transitions. Career tanks. Lawsuit ensues.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/frances-coombe-says-muse-nyc-killed-his-modeling-career-after-coming-out-as-trans
Perhaps “his” photo holds a clue.
Quite the week. First we learn how morbidly obese go-go dancers are oppressed, and now this.