Friday Ephemera (714)
Lifestyle choice. || Where would we be without great art? || Got skillz. || His grandpa “thinks I am his grandson’s girlfriend.” Allegedly. || The German tongue. || Common interest. || Incoming. || “Strong women,” but no fitness test. || Fallen snow versus car. || Maximum fussing. || Meaty goodness. || White ghost apple. || Escape pod. || Pointing out hypocrisy is “white supremacy,” says educator. || Price paid. || Our betters opine. || Uppity hairdresser. I wonder what happens if her salon gets robbed. || Remaining calm in trying circumstances. || The Trautonium, circa 1930s. || Must be that “trans joy” we keep hearing about. || Ladies, he just wants to listen to you pee. || A database of 13,000 specimens. || And finally, it’s the “most transphobic” situation he’s ever had to deal with.
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I am comfortable with police taking a long time to response if she is robbed.
I’ve been arguing about this with liberal women for many years.
If such liberal women are trapped in a burning building, it would be fair to only send female firefighters too weak to carry them out.
Not sure which is worse – the ‘art’, the ‘artist’, or the gallery owner.
“[…] and there were less diseases.”
No wonder antibiotic resistance is a growing problem.
His grandpa “thinks I am his grandson’s girlfriend.” Allegedly.
Sure, Alzheimer’s is adorable. Even Narcissus would turn away from this image.
When buying ground beef keep in mind everything from the nose to the tail that isn’t bone or horn is beef.
Not the argumentative wankery I was expecting.
Somewhere in Los Angeles some lowriders are laughing.
Perhaps just my observation or maybe just my imagination but there seems to be a correlation between the amount of art per square foot in galleries such as this and the quality of said art. I mean, yes the “minimalism” thing but…And shouldn’t they be concerned about what the waste of heating/cooling all that wasted space is doing to the climate?
It’s The Parting Glass in amazing sibling harmonics. Is that the link you meant to paste?
“Most transphobic” wtf is with the comical voice he is putting on? Does he think that is how women sound? Has he ever met one?
Some people should be kept out of the medical profession.
Where we are now?
“White ghost apple.“
Didn’t look very appetising. I cannot eat those golden raspberries either, they just look so wrong.
Looks like ‘trans’ just means ‘pervert in a wig’.
Morning, all.
Heh. Well, quite.
Very often, yes. For instance.
[ Slurps coffee, tries to focus. ]
Question asked.
She’s not half as clever as she thinks she is.
Well, as I hope this place has demonstrated over the years, wokeness is stupefying.
And so, Skye Tooley – the “trans demiboy” and “anti-bias educator” who likes to wave her arms about while being patronising and telling others to “do better” – somehow ignores the point being made about hypocrisy – about someone correcting others in a patronising way, while expecting never to be corrected themselves, on account of being black.
Instead, we get a statement of the fairly obvious – that correcting an adult’s grammar while they’re speaking is generally impolite – conflated with accusations of racist intent and “white supremacy.” And the implication that people “of colour” are entitled to unilateral excuses and deference. As if being black, and especially a black woman, were some kind of credential. A basis for applause.
And as is the custom among such creatures, there’s no discernible interest in fairness and reciprocation – none whatsoever. Merely an appeal to authority – specifically, status within the Progressive Pecking Order. And we’re told this, in a patronising way, by a testosterone-addled woman who seems to think that failures of consistency and basic logic can be compensated for with an abundance of ‘Pride’ flags.
She’s not just an educator, you know. She’s an “equity consultant.”
That’s great. Thanks.
More on the Trautonium here.
Sometimes I think that old “what’s yours is mine and what’s mine is mine” stereotrope may be more correct than commonly thought. Oh and that misplaced empathy thing.
Heh:
As noted in the previous thread, Councillor Knox evidently didn’t expect to be asked about the particulars of her own, rather dubious assertion. Which, given the boldness of the assertion, and the implied insult, is a little odd. Perhaps she imagined that simply invoking “institutional racism” would shut down any further enquiry or testing of her assumptions. As if those within earshot should automatically defer.
Like some magical incantation.
Re the above…
It’s the extraordinary conceit that you can insult hundreds of firefighters and support staff – by suggesting they’re racists or complicit in racism – while having no examples to hand to support the accusation. None at all. As if serious and insulting accusations of racism can just be tossed about with impunity.
An “inclusionary correction” of note.
…it’s the “most transphobic” situation he’s ever had to deal with.
I’ve never heard anyone call a gall bladder a baby or a gall stone a stillbirth before, but there is a first time for everything, I guess.
The report to which the councillor gave her affirmation actually only mentions racism twice, in passing. In neither instance are any particulars offered, thereby preventing readers from judging for themselves how bad, or not, the situation is. There’s no evidence I can see of any “institutional racism.” We’re simply told that someone, somewhere, made an unspecified but allegedly “inappropriate” comment to someone else, who then chose not to make an issue of it. Which, in an organisation with 1,344 staff, is less than gasp-worthy.
However, there’s lots of grumbling about how some arbitrary level of “diversity” has yet to be achieved, as if that arbitrary ratio should somehow be a default, and has only not materialised due to some unspecified wickedness. As if more women should be wanting to haul heavy equipment about and leap into burning buildings, even though it seems women by and large would rather not. Yet the preferences of women, as expressed by the number of job applications received from women, are breezily construed as the fault of men.
Oh, and then there’s the claim that “staff understanding of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) is still ‘poor’.” As if the problem could only be other, less enlightened people, the ones fighting fires, but not the assumptions of those insisting on the need for more “diversity” and more arbitrary ratios of women and brown people. Because having a firefighting service that’s 80% male is somehow, mysteriously, in need of correction.
“Much work must be done,” we’re told.
Yes. Not being familiar with tune or title I assumed the video was one of those exercises where banality & error are treated as revelation.
Some things should not be asked or answered.
Translation: You need to pay us to write more reports.
“A work like this is incredibly unique because it is a tri-color work”
OMFG this artist has discovered a WHOLE THIRD COLOUR. Is there no end to her genius?
When the vast alien battleships hover overhead, and we’re scratching for reasons not to be rendered into a nutrient paste, it’s going to be a tough day.
Perhaps Grandpa knows you’re a multi-personality-disordered self-indulging psycho loser, and is just suggesting that you adopt the one of your convenient “alternates” who used to be his grandson, to come and pick up your fucking plants?
And note, once again, the choice of manga or anime featuring, not grown women, but adolescent girls.
Where would we be without great art?
Canada: decades ahead of its time, paying $4M for a stripe.
Meaty goodness
I’ve explained the provenance of rawhide chews to many female dog owners, much to their horror.
it’s the “most transphobic” situation he’s ever had to deal with
[ cracks knuckles ] Challenge accepted.
As if serious and insulting accusations of racism can just be tossed about with impunity
“Institutional racism” is just this year’s hemlines. If you put a woman in charge, you get a woman in charge.
I think I’d be concerned if they expressed disturbing levels of interest or delight. Though it does suggest exciting potential enhancements to David’s squirrel training.
[ Fetches fur coat and goggles, gestures dramatically towards trees. ]
[ Ominous humming noise. ]
Squirrel fur?
Ooh. Haircut soon.
[ Prepares to look stunning. ]
Oh My God – they’re going for his nuts!
the choice of manga or anime featuring, not grown women, but adolescent girls.
Counterpoint: there’s barely any (recent) anime/manga that features grown women. Anime and manga used to be more widely targeted, but it’s shrunk to an almost exclusively high school audience now.
Not unrelated: in the West, adventure cartoons/films aimed at children used to feature adult protagonists (there might be a child in the cast, but they’re usually there as a sidekick). Now the adults are presented as absent or incompetent and the protagonists are children.
I remember, as a child, not being interested in children’s dramas that featured children, even uncommonly competent ones.
[ Heads out for haircut. ]
Play nicely. Use coasters.
For what?
Squirrel frisbees
If true, I kind of feel bad for the grandpa, that he has this grandson he loves and has no idea of the utter mental trainwreck he has become. Maybe it is a blessing that he doesn’t know.
I laughed and I’m not sorry.
Oh, also the guy with the grandpa who is blessedly unaware of his grandkids major delusion, did you catch the transbeast’s name? “Tess T. Eccles-Brown, PhD”
It’s not an accident that they so often choose deliberately awful, sexual innuendo-laden names. This scourge upon our civilization needs to go.
“They didn’t use to wash ’em like back in the way back in the day when they didn’t have and you would go to the bathroom out in the outhouse. Nobody washed their hands then and there was less diseases.”
Less diseases? Really? REALLY? Good lord I have a bone to pick with the American educational system.