Friday Ephemera (708)
The robot did my lash extensions. || Transgender head-tilt, level nine. || When your local stores start closing because of looting, excusing the looters is the progressive thing to do. || Today’s word is mentor. || Modernity is a helluva thing. || Nostalgic coffee table of note. || Bach’s Coffee Cantata, 1735. || Identify birds and mammals with smart binoculars. || Be careful who you let in. || Canine dispute. || For the disabled, a tongue-operated trackpad. || Sheep relocation. || He is, I’m told, an associate professor of psychiatry. || The perils of dining on squid. || Own a piece of history, they said. || Whatever happened to the Hitlers? || Timing is important. || Probably best not to, I think. || Not unfair. || Fool me once. || And finally, in sports news, she’s the women’s world champion, you know.
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Apropos description of liberal rhetoric:
“the demonic buzzing of the ideologically possessed”
–Jordan Peterson
Laid-Off Journalist Trying To Learn To Code Horrified To Discover The Code Is Binary
Beef Wellington, sort of.
Really brings out the squareness and masculinity of his jawline.
Related, the first thing I thought when I saw the fetish/fandom psychiatrist bloke in pearls and twinset was “Man hands!!”
Further related – who is that Spanish politician guy to get mad at the Spanish soldier bloke for doing exactly what the Spanish law requires, a law I am pretty sure the same politician was all in favor of. I thought we were all supposed to submit to whatever feelings these people had at any given moment – self-identification, right? Doesn’t matter what you actually are, or how badly you come off in your trying to pretend to be something you’re not.
Retractions and corrections sought after errors found in over three dozen papers by top scientists at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
“Top men. Top. Men.”
doing exactly what the Spanish law requires
I’m getting a bit of a whiff of piss-taking from the second bloke.
There was a fellow in Calgary not long ago who changed his gender to female on his driver’s license in accordance with the law solely to save 25% on his car insurance.
Umm…well, kinda…
The situation is sufficiently farcical to invite mischief.
Very possibly it is intended to invite mischief.
I laughed and I’m not sorry.
In the somewhat similar band names department in the 90’s people, usually tourists, usually Germans, were getting shot during robberies at Florida highway rest stops. Like dead shot. So a bunch of idiots friendly with local central Florida radio DJs (so called) formed a band calling themselves Dead German Tourists. Oh, they had great fun tweaking the noses of the state tourism bureau and bitching about how much they hated their maintenance jobs that depend on the tourism business. It was all big laughs. My professional friends at work would all share big laughs about what was said each morning and afternoon. Same professional friends who today are bewildered by what is going on in this country.
Everything one would need to know about the degeneracy direction and general stupidity regarding where this country was inevitably headed one could learn simply by listening to drive-time radio in the early 1990’s, especially as it was gradually pushing out music and celebrating the shock jocks. Speaking of which, haven’t heard from Howard Stern lately. Not that that’s a bad thing.
Were Germans more likely than other tourists to get shot? Shot dead? Was there something about Germans that made them more vulnerable? Or were they just a noticeable segment of the frequent victims? (I do recall how, at that time, criminals were targeting tourists leaving the Miami airport car rental facilities, figuring that they were more vulnerable than most.)
This man has a billion dollars but still underestimates the stupidity of the American public. H.L. Mencken had no idea.
Does it matter? They were dead, they were German, the news reported it, people believed it. While I can think of a number of reasons for this, especially upon observing the often confused behavior of such people in tourist settings in Florida, I don’t think at this point 30 years later a statistical analysis is necessary relevant to the comment.
For some reason, regarding Biden, the word treason popped into my head.
I am curious: Maybe they somehow made themselves more vulnerable. Such matters are always relevant.
But I’m sorry you seem a little peeved at my innocent question.
Also, let me be the first (last?) to say, Vive le France! In keeping with my prejudices though, I won’t be using the diacritics.
It pops into my head ever damned day.
Nowt to be sorry of.
Peeved? No. Just couldn’t see where that was at all relevant. If I misunderstood, I apologize. If I didn’t, well f*** you. Either way, we’re good.
To your specific question, as I alluded, and you kinda needed to see it for yourself to get the full effect, watching Germans order a beer or park a car, or even walk down the street back then, they gave off a vibe of being confused and maybe even afraid that whatever they were doing, they might be doing it wrong. This was bound to attract trouble outside of a safe environment. Additionally I believe, I could be wrong in my recollection, that Florida was pushing their tourism in Germany. I think they were promoting it there in the summertime as well. Summer being the slow-ish season in central and south Florida generally only locals (like us) were doing weekend trips to other towns. I remember upon observing so many Germans at a resort we were staying at in Sarasota area one summer weekend, I thought Germans were somehow susceptible to being suckered into flying all the way over here to broil in the humidity and heat. Even when they weren’t noticeable for their confusion or accented English, they were easy to spot by their lobster complexions.
Ah, but watch how the conservativey conservatives…”conservatives” (looking at you Patterico along with your legionous ilk) will jump to accuse Governor Abbot (who somehow is conveeeeniently in India right now) of “treason” by “defying the Supreme Court”! Which of course he isn’t but the conservatives…”conservatives” will play it out that way.
Regrettably it seems the same could be said of Sunak.
It seems a bit odd, given how well the whole ‘outsource our energy production’ has worked for Europe, that the various national governments would be so determined to outsource their food production.
I would say nothing of importance.
It’s an environment in which one would not reasonably expect much thinking to be going on. Odd that. Not that much of my SW experience was done in a much better environment but at least we had some sort of cube walls to keep the noise down a little. Still, looking back from a few years of privacy, quiet, and sanityI am amazed that we got as much done as we did.
David, have you considered playing P.D.Q. Bach’s Pervertimento in the correction booth? It’s like sandpaper on the soul.
Very possibly it is intended to invite mischief.
I tend to agree, but not sure whose mischief was invited. At first glance it seems it would be mischief against the “norms” (and to gain access to females or accolades unattainable as men) – like Mr. Girls Tennis Coach in Breezy Frock and Bad Wig, Mr. Middle Aged Bloke who Identifies as 15 year old Girl Swimmer, every male sex offender trying to get into a woman’s prison, and all those beefy blokes beating women in the female sports categories.
I can see a [possibly] unintended invitation for the guys who seem to be doing piss-takes on this fad and exploiting it – Mr. Giant Rubber Boobs, Mr. Soldier Bloke in today’s Ephemera, Mr. I Want to Save Money on my Car Insurance but not with GEICO. I still say 50% of male CEOs should just start ticking the female box on forms, and in countries with ridiculous self-identify laws, get a legal document, and viola – the gender gap in management goes away.
Heh. A woman with NFTG gets her own show and blows The View out of the water. Or so they say.
Also, regarding treason…
“[…] more than 13 points ahead of ABC’s totals for The View on April 6th of last year.”
So, 20 points higher than the author’s IQ.
Yeah, that part should have tripped my warning lite but it was a bit too-good-to-check. It came from what looked like a reliable source but now upon re-verification, the source seems to be all over the place on posts, mostly legitimate pro-Trumpish pieces but I just noticed a more definitive rainbow-y piece so…also, the dunning-kruger url should have been a give away. Anyhow…can’t find any other reference to a show called “Barr None” but damn, that’s a pretty good name for a Roseanne show. When I read the lineup mentioned in the piece to my wife I said that I wondered who she would get for more than a week or two after using those guys up. My bad.
‘Will Call You Racist For Food’–LA Times reporter on street corner
He’s a n00b in the red-pilled space, so cut the man slack. He seems bright enough, overall. Full credit to him for finally noticing the stench. He was prolly too busy Being Productive to notice until now.
At last, after all these years “virginity” is defined.
Presionas dos para español.
I remember the cop lip sync challenge from when it came out a few years ago. It had some quality entries.
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Another progressive educational triumph.
Over a quarter of Gen Z now identify as ovine.
I may have rephrased the headline a bit.
Two young scholars shot dead while leaving high school for “troubled youth”.
It is a certainty that both they and their killers had gang affiliations.
This is the heart of the Chicago Loop downtown, in the middle of the day. It used to be that violence was only to be feared at night when walking alone. Now, thanks to “progressive” politicians and activists and lawyers, risk of deadly violence is 24/7/365.
Your guest’s idea of hell: people like this walking the streets.
Pairs nicely with
But it’s diverse, equitable, and inclusive deadly violence.
I am reminded that Dante put traitors in the Ninth Circle of Hell.
Encased in ice.
Except for the three that were in Satan’s mouths, being chewed for eternity.
Yet were it not for the actions of one of those “traitors”, all the world would not be saved.
[ Returns from lengthy volunteer service task. ]
Your guest’s idea of purgatory: nobody has commented in 3 hours.
A bit of wartime correspondence to relieve your tedium.
Well, my excuse is that it’s Saturday night and I’m at a super-glamorous celebrity party. On a yacht, obviously.
[ Sounds of music, laughter, upscale sexiness. ]