Reheated (86)
I’ll be busy for a few days, and so, some items from the archives:
Let’s Do It, But In A Way That’s Less Likely To Work.
In which we turn for wisdom to the Guardian’s parenting pages.
But Can You Not See How Fascinating I Am?
A tale of vomiting, tears, and unrelenting pretension.
I suppose the drama above – all that time on the verge of vomiting – is what happens when you spend your formative years steeped in the Progressive Identity Hierarchy, in which straight white woman is somewhere near the bottom, barely above the universally disdained straight white man. Inventing some modish gender nonsense – and then publicly complaining about other, less sophisticated people failing to defer to it – may boost your social standing a little. And that does seem to be what these things are very often about.
Ferris State University’s Museum of Sexist Objects.
A Guardian contributor finds her home being burgled, cue mental convolutions.
Readers may also wish to ponder the implicit conceit that the burglars – the ones brandishing carving knives – are the real victims and should therefore be spared any meaningful consequence of their own chosen actions, their own sociopathy. Because, apparently, one should sympathise with the people breaking into one’s home and driving off with one’s stuff. In one’s own car. Perhaps these are skills only available to Guardian columnists.
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Maybe it’s just them being shit at it.
Given the stated conditions and complications – and the fact that the ladies not only want a sperm donor, but also want total strangers to split the cost and labour of their childrearing project – I’m inclined to question their comprehension of what parenting is.
As I said in the original thread, it is a bit, “Well, yes, I like the idea of a baby, but without the boring and unpleasant aspects. And I will need every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday off. Oh, and also weekends.”
Again, it doesn’t bode well.
We must acknowledge and celebrate the indigenous peoples of North America by cancelling them.
I am sure that plan will go swimmingly.
Not doomed after all.
Who will likely sell them. Surreptitiously of course.
Of course we are. We have to be. There’s too much money to be made and too much power to be amassed to let the grift collapse.
We need to eat bugs because the environment and nobody needs to eat a steak. These lesbians need to have a baby however. Because the environment is different with them. Shut up asshole.
I’ve known young women who felt they were entitled to total financial support while they lazed around all day–support by government welfare and eventually by any men foolish enough to hook up with them. Also foolish enough to openly declare their sense of entitlement and admit how they were gaming the welfare system.
In case you were running short.
And yet my nephews and nieces, who are all from modest backgrounds, seem to manage, indeed flourish. But then, they don’t write for the Guardian, they aren’t steeped in victimhood, and they have the good sense not to live in London.
It’s amazing, the creative ways crazy people use the word “crazy”.
Who will likely sell them. Surreptitiously of course.
Yep. Here’s a long but interesting story of how Mohawk Six Nations, not so surreptitiously, sold and gave away most of a massive land grant from the Crown.
After which repatriation could be again demanded.
Via Ace, when you have no real argument.
Heh. Fair point.
Stupidity does seem to flourish with cossetting.
My hair has been parted by the point flying quickly over my head.
In other words, I didn’t get it.
Heh. That jacket. Slayer and AC/DC. Heh. I mean…heh.
The 12-year-old boy in the second photo is Jaiden Rodriguez, who was kicked out of class for having a “Don’t tread on me” patch on his schoolbag. After the subsequent, widespread mockery of the staff, the boy was allowed to keep the patch on his bag.
I forget the specific context of the cleancut kid on the right but he was in trouble for saying something rather innocuous. The pic is of him in the principal’s office, I think. I think the woman is the principal.
Added: What David said. Thx.
So if I should decide to visit the UK again, will the authorities provide me with a list of the kinds of songs I am aloud to sing outside of a church or am I expected to look them up myself? Is there an app perhaps? Maybe one linked to one of those square thingys? I mean, I get that praying in public is wrong, wrong, wrong over there but songs could get problematic. Elvis’s and Johnny Cash’s catalogs are all over the place.
Added…my bad. Sounds more like an Irish accent upon second listening but…question still applies…
Added again…Brit flags all over this tweet and an “E*R” on her hat..so…WTF do I know. Except maybe not to sing church songs…anywhere…just to be safe…
Speaking of frauds and pathological delusions: Today is the 3rd anniversary of the Jussie Smollett hoax.
Gospel songs are illegal?
What could be more unjust and filthy than the fascist ruling class?
(I marvel at Johnny Cash’s brilliant interpretations.)
Truth.
William the Conqueror would like a word with whoever made this map.
“…her life story…”, lived experience, truth, etc., etc.
From the link:
Victor Davis Hanson, who lives with one foot in academia and the other in farming, has remarked that neurotics are common in academia but rare in farming and the trades.
Si vis bellum, para pacem.
I’ve been wondering.
Is it not true that someone living in the Guatemalan highlands or the Kenyan savannah has a smaller carbon footprint than the average American?
And is it not true that people who come here from lower-carbon-footprint places necessarily increase their carbon footprint, because now they’re consuming more stuff?
Does it not stand to reason that mass immigration to the U.S. (and Europe) increases atmospheric CO2?
So what’s the deal, Joe? We’re reducing CO2 or ain’t we?
Surely everyone made it to where they are on their ‘specific journey’?
I note that the Daily Mail, like many allegedly right-wing newspapers, refuses to describe a man as ‘he’ or ‘Mr’.
“You’ll own nothing and be happy.”
I’ll say here that the last two refrigerators I owned, one lasted 19 years and the other was still going strong at 23 years and we left it with the house we sold. Ditto the 15 y/o washer and dryer. There is NO way leasing those appliances for that length of time would be cheaper than ownership.
It does rather obfuscate the issue that they’re supposedly reporting.
See also.
The professor’s areas of research appeared to include “aging,” “children,” “youth,” and “cognitive processes” among others.
Well of course they did.
I’ve been hearing that today’s appliances do not generally last that long.
But regardless, the WEF’s “rent everything” model is evil totalitarian B.S.
I believe some “population bomb” activists and theorists have been saying that since the sixties: Third World immigration is bad for the reason you stated. Likewise economic development. And foreign aid is bad because fewer people (especially children) will die.
Ah, the WEF. But when compiling a list of totalitarian enemies who should be forced to live in pods and eat bugs, don’t forget the Club of Rome.
sperm doner
Is that with special sauce?
Aarrgh.
[ Hastily corrects typo. Acts casual, says nothing. ]
A 56-year-old man who is accused of leaking large amounts of Te Whatu Ora vaccination data has pleaded not guilty in the Wellington District Court
How fucking dare some ignorant private rando access information the government holds on it’s citizens?
But I’m sure they’ll find something to convict him on if they look hard enough.
And if you were wondering what the hell was Te Whatu Ora – its website’s own meta description tag helpfully informs you that:
After all, who doesn’t want their secretive, dystopian, nightmare authoritarian government “supporting” you to live better?
There is NO way leasing those appliances for that length of time would be cheaper than ownership.
I rather like the way the silly bint leads off with phones oblivious to how, at least on this side of the pond, we already went through the nonsense of having to pay Ma Bell for the privilege of renting their phones and the large lack, contrary to her claims, of any innovation or improvement.
She is truly living in Wolkenkuckucksheim if she thinks companies will do anything other than the bare minimum to improve their products, all one has to do, again at least on this side of the pond, look at the cable companies where if you have TV you are stuck with their cable boxes, and if they also provide internet, sometimes their absolute trash modems. They simply are not going to give you a top of the line Netgear instead of a cheap Chinese no-name.
Same with cars, have fun with your latter day Trabi. You want an ice maker in your fridge? Enjoy.”You’ll own nothing and take what we give you, be happy we give you that”.
I get it is about control with these idiots, but is also about fear of being anything resembling being independent, sheer laziness, and wanting everything done for them. .
I remember how AT&T banned competitors’ phones and other devices, on the transparently false grounds that they would “damage the network”.
Remember modems? Grossly overpriced AT&T modems vs. competitors’ modems which cost one tenth as much.
By God, those Indians – oops, Native Americans – are clever. Even their artifacts can breed.
“It’s policy to get permission from the artifacts’ descendants. I think it’s appropriate,” they said.
[ Puts revolver back in drawer. ]
Just checking.
Therefore, happiness is eating a bacon sandwich.
That people presume The Daily Mail is ‘right-wing’ seems odd – they’re muckrakers & quite happy to be such.