Friday Ephemera (710)
Incoming. || The gathering of mussels. || “The marshmallow you never thought possible.” || New Scientist bemoans “our negative views about cannibalism,” blames racism, colonialism. || Related: human bodies are, it turns out, of “comparatively low nutritional value.” || Ask her about her nipples. || Not entirely sure what’s happening, or not happening, here. || A big dollop of Round The Horne. || Hot and cold. || Details. || Last three weeks, a thread. || The thrill of polyester. || Answers on a postcard, please. || How to pack a suitcase in a manly way. || Creepy Peepies, 1967. || Garden scenes. || I think it’s safe to say he does this better than you do. || Baby ferals. || More fetishistic role-play for the kids. || And finally, why that laser umbrella you’ve been waiting for isn’t a thing yet.
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Maybe, if grandpa is Mister Limpet.
I’m all for food kabuki, but really?
I do have questions about the clientele, but then I’m a “just cook it skillfully and put it in a plate” sort of guy.
What, you’re not a “AND NOW WE ADD THE DOG VOMIT” sort of guy?
A Dutch TV show aired where transgender adults stripped naked in front of children, then held a Q&A.
I don’t want to live in this timeline anymore.
Something that should have resulted in the arrest of every adult involved … but we aren’t a normal culture anymore. Sexual exploitation of kids is making an aggressive return.
Italian TV, doing the job our TV won’t do.
Done the same thing. It’s clown world.
Well, it’s an odd experience, and not an entirely happy one. I mean, the realisation that you’re entrusting your wellbeing, perhaps even your life, to an institution that can’t organise a practical system for the returning of crutches.
An institution that repeatedly announces via posters that doing Simple Thing X is really important, and indeed a moral duty, but then makes doing Simple Thing X about as impractical, as maddening, and as farcically complicated as seems humanly possible.
And apparently we’re resigned to this. This is good enough for the likes of us.
And only £170 billion a year!
Better: I don’t want them in this timeline anymore.
The maintenance and day-to-day operation of complex systems is not glamorous: No politician or administrator ever boasted about or posed for a photo op regarding this. Combine this with growing bureaucracies staffed with un-fire-able drones and corrupt executives and the result is deteriorating infrastructure and poorly functioning systems. Did someone die? Hold a press conference expressing sorrow and concern, appoint a committee to do nothing useful, enact a few more regulations which do nothing useful, and get on with the business of staying on the gravy train.
It’s a fundamental problem with monopolies. You can’t vote with your feet, so problems are never solved.
This video clip shows up now and then.
It’s a fundamental problem with monopolies.
Speaking of which…
Of course these titans of academia have Deep Thoughts™ about “discrimination” caused by “microaggressions”.
Oh dear.
Dear, dear me.
[ Sees link is now working, wraps damp towel around klaxon. ]
[ Muffled klaxon noises. ]
Surprised to see the University of East Anglia isn’t included. Insufficiently intellectually bankrupt?
How many minutes in the correction booth for false alarms?
My working theory is that Muldoon generates some kind of link-up-buggering field.
It could be those polyester slacks.
I am…skeptical.
My working theory is that Muldoon generates some kind of link-up-buggering field.
My working theory is that WordPress code monkeys only know how to code for Commodore 64s and the Link-O-Matic 9000™ runs on one of these.
As far as the false up-buggering goes, I haven’t be so defamed since Thursday.
The way I see it, the choice is between archive.ph being temporarily down, or the polyester slacks.
[ Puts down rubber sheeting. ]
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/florida-man-games-tank-topped-teams-compete-evading-107511790
Regarding which.
Well TBF to Hal, Dave did have difficulty getting with the program. White peoples have a tendency to be that way.
You were due then.
The AI was confused by the currently trending meaning of “young scholars”.
And the “fact”, revealed by brave afrocentric professors, that the Greek philosophers were either black or stole everything from black Egyptians.
[ Puts down rubber sheeting. ]
Good choice, your velour leopard print blogging thong on your mohair blogging chaise will generate more electrostatic voltage than a Van de Graff generator on steroids.
[ Orders talcum powder. ]
All that static electricity and all that powder? Not advisable.
If this isn’t just the fix for google’s FUBAR AI, nothing is.
re vamping teachers: imagine if a female straight teacher showed up in revealing and sexy clothing. That would be distracting and inappropriate, right? Or a male straight teacher in a muscle shirt and bragging about his biceps. But somehow it is ok if the teacher is gay and is vamping around? Why?
I had a french teacher in high school who wore too-tight clothing and too much lipstick–but not quite over the line. It truly was distracting. It is a job. Dress like you have a job to do.
Das ist nicht richtig.
Heh. I had a middle aged HS Spanish teacher who wore too-tight clothing. It was a distraction in the sense that she was…well…too fat. One day she taught the entire class period from her desk, never bothering to get up to write on the board. Which seemed odd until later in the day when we learned from one of her morning classes that she had split her pants reaching to write on the chalk board. You would think that humiliation in front of teenagers would prompt a new, looser fitting wardrobe. You would think. Made the rest of the semester rather suspenseful.
I had a grade school teacher who wore tight blouses and miniskirts. It was distracting, although there was something off-putting about her–maybe those evil Ed School vibes.
Should I misgender Caitlyn Jenner to avert a nuclear apocalypse?
Out: he and she. In: babyself and toddlerself.
Update your dictionaries immediately, comrades.
While we’re on the subject of white liberal women…
Meanwhile in the Great White North, Trudeau is planning on giving Ukraine 4 million Maplebucks for “…gender-transformative mine action…”
I think the surgical option might be a bit better than just using a mine to blow off ones naughty bits, but I guess it is cheaper, or something.
“…gender-transformative mine action…”
We stopped being a serious country a long time ago.
I think we’ll give that one a post of its own. Comments that-a-way.
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