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.
Laurie and Fry “worried” about privatizing the police, but look what a mess the UK now has with government police: Criminals going free while good citizens are threatened and harassed and arrested.
Take a lesson from Oddjob and sharpen the edges.
[ Returns from hairdresser, a radiant being, a vision of loveliness. ]
I believe this is called making your own fun.
female cops: there was a famous case in Atlanta where a murder suspect (male, 6ft4, 200lbs, black) easily overpowered the 5ft 2in female guard left to watch him in the courthouse, took her gun, undid his handcuffs, fled, carjacked someone and went and held a woman hostage. No one died but only by chance. We also remember the famous video of a male suspect repeatedly shrugging off 3 female cops in Sweden until a male cop came and arrested him.
Cops who can intimidate suspects are less likely to need to pull their gun.
In the case of firefighters, they need to manhandle firehoses and carry people out of a fire as well as break down doors. Sure, “ability” not strength.
In college dorms, it was common fun to pick up other guys and sling them over our shoulder and run around with them, even guys 40 lbs heavier. “fireman’s carry”–for fun. Women can’t do that.
Think you’re confusing the name of the person who re-posted the video with the name of the person in the video.
That it doesn’t require age verification is good.
It’s almost… sweet.
I’m now trying to think what the girly equivalent might be.
Frying pan and fire.
OH NO, GAY PANIC SETS IN
Phew, that was close.
I remember, as a child, not being interested in children’s dramas that featured children, even uncommonly competent ones.
You must be too young to have enjoyed the radio dramatisations of M Pardoe’s Bunkle books on BBC Home Service Children’s Hour in the 1940s and early 50s. That programme was a treasure-filled 55 mins before the Shipping Forecast and 6o’clock news.
This is good enough to want to steal.
[ Faints with indignation. ]
I’ll save you!
[ Pours tot of Dibbler’s Gin between his lips. ]
I believe this is called making your own fun.
Watching the meniscus grow with each round, I was reminded of the early seasons of The Big Bang Theory when every episode contained a fairly cheap and interesting science activity you could do at home.
I’m now trying to think what the girly equivalent might be.
“A lot of you have been asking about my morning routine…”
I remember, as a child, not being interested in children’s dramas that featured children
Here in Canada we got a lot of Enid Blyton, but even then the child protagonists acted like children and were treated like children by those around them. One of the things I’ll give Veronica Mars some credit for is that when the show’s popularity extended beyond the “high school noir” premise, the protagonist gets told on-screen that since she’s no longer a child and no longer dealing with other high school students, her crime-solving technique of annoying the suspects with pointed questions until they slip up is very likely to get her killed or worse.
You never even see them try. My, my, isn’t that odd?
That’s a trip to A&E then.
Nonsense! After he’s drunk that he’ll never want another.
It’s as if they’re advertising their uselessness.
And the BBC is advertising its uselessness.
This is kinda funny. Kinda. The (white adult sounding) woman shouting at the end “Who is that girl? Get that girl!” and all the comments to the effect of not understanding why no one intervened. Like all these idiots just woke up to the stupid world that has been going on around them for…decades and that they themselves have helped create. I feel bad for the girl but the women of our society have brought this situation upon their daughters and granddaughters. Of course the stupid men were p****s enough to go along with it. While I despise them as well, they were simply doing what their PW masters told them to do. I’m talking about many physically strong men, well respected men, well educated men who raised the last couple generations of boys and filled their stupid heads with conflicting information instead of having a strong *moral* backbone of leadership as to what is right and wrong. Who undermined standing for anything if it might possibly involve violence. Because ultimately they wanted to look good to the women who were their true masters and who (claim to) abhor violence.
This is some funny shit – “Gibs me da money“: Descendant of slave-owning Nigerian nobility Reverend Yemi Adedeji demands reparations for his ongoing suffering of racism. In Cambridge. Britain. As the director of an Evangelical Alliance’s Commission.
Watch to the end where he explains how his ancestral slave-ownership should be forgotten because it was a normal thing “in those days”, and was completely unlike whitey’s de-humanising form of slavery because his people would often “feed them” and “send them on errands”.
It’s quite the treat!
I suggest that reparations take this form.
Here in Canada we got a lot of Enid Blyton,
Ah, but you’re forgetting about The Forest Rangers and Adventures in Rainbow Country featuring Lois Maxwell, otherwise known as Miss Moneypenny in the bond flicks.
OK, that is funny. And I second your proposal.
David, is this an oblique reference to this?
It’s farcical, of course. But the shameless, shitty grifters don’t have to be realistic or coherent. Presumably, the intent is to exploit the racial neuroticism of equally incoherent lefties, liberals, and progressives. The kind of people who can be swayed to participate in almost any kind of farce. Borderless societies, bewigged men in ladies toilets… That kind of thing.
@Cloudbuster: ‘Less diseases? Really? REALLY? Good lord I have a bone to pick with the American educational system’
Well, quite. It should, of course, be ‘fewer’ diseases.
Tesco versus Waitrose. For Julia.
Heathen.
Anime fan here, there still is plenty that’s not set in high schools but it is primarily catering to a male audience and their interests have a strong influence.
I’ve seen a few ‘gender-bending’ shows in my time, what the trannies using the aesthetic ignore or are ignorant of are:
1) it’s usually a comic situation (a la Kenneth Cope being taken for real nurse by a randy doctor in a Carry On film),
2) Due to the art style males can be passed off as female fairly easily, hence the ‘trap’ jokes.
Finally, I’ll observe that Japanese media is very unwoke, and this is a big part of its appeal for a lot of people in the West.
As an example, in the Netflix live-action version of One Piece, I was flabbergasted by the scene where the sword fighter girl said ‘Girls can beat boys, but women can’t beat men’. Apparently, the author had considerable control of the production.
We’re surrounded by savages. SAVAGES, I SAY.
Another addition to the garage in David’s Lair of Evil.
To heck with the warnings, officer, just shoot them.
Band name.
Pheasants are queer.
Also, though we don’t know the sexuality of this iguanodon, it is important that it was found by an 11 year old who grew up to be gay.
“…Christopher and Greg still cruise for fossils…” Wording, people, wording.
It should, of course, be ‘fewer’ diseases.
I had a teacher in high school who was also a stickler for accuracy. The Toronto Star’s price was printed beside the masthead and said “10 cents Higher in outside areas.” The teacher would say that meant you had to get on your tippy-toes to reach the newspaper outside the city. He taught Latin, of course.
Inflation causing higher prices must have driven him crazy. Not the inflation itself. Curious was said Latiner a lefty? My college roommate had a statistics professor who sparked an endless debate on the finer differences between highly possible and highly probable. My point was once you assign a numerical percentage to the matter in question the distinction no longer mattered. This resulted in a side debate about where between the numbers 50 and 99.999999999999999 something became highly probable.
For those unfamiliar with the mind-bending rigour of queered history.
Cross-dressing man tries to scare police horse.
Readers may be inclined to infer something from people who abuse animals.
Whatever they are paying that horse, it’s not enough
Note that the horse has its left back leg primed in case the idiot goes behind.
Inevitably, several progressives – including this “Upcycler/writer/artist” – are feigning puzzlement at why anyone might find the scene above obnoxious or telling.
Being a gentleman, I won’t draw attention to our writer’s misspelling of cymbal.
Readers may be inclined to infer something from people who abuse animals.
Note the horse is fitted with a clear visor shield to protect his eyes.
The police know full well what kind of scumbags they’re up against here.
Conundrum.
Florida Man, step aside for California Man.
[insert a wall of profanity here] What kind of steaming equine excrement is being foisted on museum visitors with that flyer? No, pheasants do NOT change sex regardless of a change of plumage in an infertile female. Would that mean post-menopausal women who wear a suit have changed into a man?
Then there’s the “queering” of Japanese history. “Wakashu” isn’t a third sex anymore than the word “teenager” is. It is a description of adolescence where a boy can now take on formal education or apprenticeship. It isn’t exclusive to the training of Samurai. And pederasty of that era resembles ancient Greece in that adolescent boys were considered acceptable sex partners of older men (as long as the boy was the receiver). But to point out Greece in this instance might undermine the “Evil Western Influences stamped out this 3rd *gender*” schtick.
In Japan, as was in Greece, no adolescent boy had the agency to say ‘no’. This was about the eroticism of power hierarchies, not 3rd sexes.
This kind of ‘to a hammer everything is a nail’ Queer Lens has as much a connection to reality as finding the face of Jesus on a tortilla does to the 2nd coming.
Nor was such pederasty as widely accepted as modern
researchersgroomers pretend.[ Hurriedly fetches large, calming beverage. ]
Heh. But Dar, have you no respect for the world of Queer Theory…?
Ah yes. I remember those bits of nonsense parading about in the Emperor’s New Clothes of ::cough:::academic enlightenment.
In a word to your question? None.