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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I laughed and I’m not sorry:
While over here it’s Saturday afternoon and I’m doing various dull but necessary tasks. [ Sounds of automobile traffic, actuator motor, water pump. ]
What?
[ Dreams of Rio: warm sunny beaches, cold tropical drinks, samba music… ]
Some Saturday night energy.
Alternate energy take.
And something more sophisticated and restrained.
My preferred Rio.
And something more sophisticated and restrained.
I almost didn’t stick with it but I did and it was fabulous and hilarious. I had no idea cellos could do that
My preferred Rio.
An elevator?
A little relaxing bedtime music for David.
All 17-year-old boys test positive for psychopathy,
Also, most of them have the sense not to do that.
I wonder how many bows they go through. Look at the horsehairs hanging off the ends.
Shocking twist.
That’s the Classical Music version of smashing your guitar like Pete Townsend or setting it on fire like Jimmy Hendrix.
Hilarious. But GFY!
The rather ample lady defining virginity is wrong.
The parish church in Ashford-in-the Water (ah what an evocative name) Derbyshire has, or at least had in the late 1950s, “virgin crowns, dating I think from the 15/16th century, hanging on the chancel walls (and source of much schoolboy sniggering). These were funerary items that were displayed at the funeral of an unmarried woman – which is the original definition of virgin. Over the centuries the original word for an un-fucked woman, maiden, has changed places with virgin, except, curiously in the horse racing world, vide “maiden filly”
The reporters could, maybe, have chosen a more felicitous wording.
Asiaseen,
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It is quite the culinary atrocity, isn’t it?
The left has a long tradition of playing word games to confuse and mislead the naive.
Case in point: The term “Anti-Semite” was invented by a German racist specifically to mean “Jew-hater”, but 20th Century leftists attempt to confuse the issue by saying that all Middle Easterners are Semites and therefore they cannot be anti-Semites even as they defame and murder Jews.
Brits know a lot about culinary atrocities, don’t they?
It is quite the culinary atrocity, isn’t it?
The beef wellington, yes, the corn dog, only because of the ketchup which only a nekulturny barbarian would use with one.
“Elite” Overproduction.
“Everyone should go to college” was an article of faith among the “smart” people when I was young. For various “reasons”. Strangely, the actual results did not justify any of those reasons. “Strangely.”
It is about time that this marginalized community we never hear about gets some needed visibility and that now the train station will be a safe, welcoming, and inclusive space for people other than cis hwite males.
Ah yes, the capital’s poor downtrodden homosexuals. Almost as downtrodden as those in Toronto, like this chap here.
On the upside, albeit a small one, I have seen several gay people, the supposed beneficiaries, pointing out how cringeworthy and alienating such things are.
Let me get this straight, blacks colonized the British isles, somehow became yte overnight, and then “colonized” Africa which is where they came from originally?
Well if that isn’t definitive proof, I don’t know what is.
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Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
The Vestal Virgins disagree.
A State Fair of Texas staple.
Ah, but they didn’t speak English
“Pride Pillar”
Not quite the shape one would expect.
It doesn’t appear they would have needed to.
[ Puts revolver back in drawer. ]
James Lindsay has a qoute (I cannot find it) that goes something like, “Most people use language to communicate but progs use it to obfuscate their intentions”.
Not quite the shape one would expect.
TBF, no one shape would represent all 3,826 “gender identities”, after all, the “agender” and “nullos” would just get a spot on the floor, I guess.
A slight conundrum.
It’s funny because it’s so often true. See, for instance, the second item here, on the charming Ms Annaliese Nielsen.
…the charming Ms Annaliese Nielsen.
Yikes, that voice could be used for enhanced interrogation but would be a war crime. “Hawaiian continent”. OK.
Meanwhile, dickweeds visit the Louvre.
conundrum: I had, I swear to god, a roofing crew do my house who spoke spanish but were straight up Japanese. And yes, I can tell the difference.
virgin: the state of not having had sex has historically been very relevant. Men do not want to raise someone else’s children. They also want a wife who will be faithful. Their own fooling around was of course “different” but whatever. Value was seen in the virgin condition.
Black Britons: it has been speculated that the earliest “white” people were somewhat darker than today. The stoneage peoples of Europe (possibly rather tan) were displaced by waves of migrants about 8000 yrs ago and again 5000/4000 yrs ago because these migrants had farming/livestock invented in Turkey or thereabouts. So all us white people are Turkish (or something). The last invasion 5000 yrs ago into N europe by the Yamnaya was a group with horses, the wagon, and gave us the Vikings.
Employing extreme violence against these petty barbarians is long overdue.
yes, the corn dog,
Usually served on a stick. Everything’s better on a stick.
“The man imposes no bastards upon his wife.” — Samuel Johnson
The “Everyone should go to college” link and it’s IQ implications, both here and elsewhere where I had seen it, sent me down a rabbit hole that (so far) landed me here (hopefully big dummy me didn’t screw up the link…how Quora is organized makes no sense to me). This guy (supposedly) has a 170 IQ. I don’t think you have to have an IQ nearly that high to sense this:
Progressives, certainly.
Jihad invaders, always.
Good point, sir.
Japanese immigration to South America goes back a ways.
Heh. A college roommate, ethnically Japanese as I believe I related earlier here, his mother taught Spanish. While she had been born in a small town not too near Nagasaki shortly after the war her parents/family move to the west coast and she picked it up there. Anyway, we come back from Christmas break and my roommate relates this somewhat hilarious story. Seems she was Christmas shopping there in the Tampa area and she was at a store counter in Macy’s or Burdine’s or whatever. The two female Hispanic clerks were conversing in Spanish and too wrapped up in themselves to help her out. Eventually one made reference to needing to help the ‘gook’ (or whatever spanish slang term would be for oriental persons. The girl was shocked when his mom replied to her in perfect Spanish.
An unfortunate restaurant name.
An unfortunate restaurant name.
Meanwhile in Elizabethtown, KY…
An unfortunate restaurant name.
Not a restaurant, but still my favourite.
Logo of note
WTP genius post: I am just smart enough that I always picked up when the prof made a mistake (some were happy, some pissed). I had two friends in my high school who were IQ 160+. Both big screw ups. Could not decide what to do. One wanted to be a record company executive but was working retail at a record store after college, last I heard. The other was a math wiz (won the state math olympiad) but decided to major in art but then had art version of writer’s block (could not think of what to paint). I’m also smart enough that when I have met a few true genius types I could tell (I.J. Good for example).
The classic Terman genius study in CA turned out to be full of BS. Terman made a big effort to help his genius kids–wrote letters of rec for them for college for . example.
As my boss (our usual negotiating lead) has been known to say: “everything before ‘but’ is bullshit.” I don’t think the observation is original to him.
Just like the predator who drives down the street offering free candy.
On a lighter but louder note, these high school kids are impressively good.
Fine, let’s go with the actual German word: Judenhasser. Now it’s accurate.
A former co-worker was ethnically Japanese but raised in São Paulo. A large population of Japanese settled in Brazil awhile back (just before WWII?), and there are others who went to other parts of LATAM. The former president of Peru was named Fujimori.
Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946):