Friday Ephemera (719)
New, improved lesbian dating scene. || He’s a therapist, obviously. || At all times, dignity. || Seismic calibration. || A clubland encounter. || Catnap of note. || A situation had arisen. || Educational scenes. || The thrill of automatic windscreen wipers. || Expand your vocabulary. || Her name is Dumpy and she’s a big girl. || It’s a job. || Hers is bigger than yours. || Thank goodness, the gurus have arrived. || I’m pretty sure that shouldn’t be there. || The progressive women will save us. || “They put the prices on, but that’s just for, like, if you want to pay. It’s not mandatory.” || South Park Super Panavision 70. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Well, a cushion would be nice. || “The Chinese thought I was doing an elaborate joke.” (h/t, Nate Whilk) || And finally, fade-outs – the hot new innovation in pop music.
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‘Improved’ may not be quite the word.
There’s the kaboom!
Expand your vocabulary.
As Bob Hope would say (sing), thanks for the mammaries.
Was Golden Bozos in the list?
Accurate description of the players.
Part Two…
New, improved lesbian dating scene.
Were any of those people actual women?
If you’re going to take on the ‘most dangerous species in the entire f—ing world’ don’t you think you’re going to need a bit more nous than shown to date?
SAID THE MAN PRETENDING TO BE A LESBIAN.
“Confidently sustainable”
“The thrill of automatic windscreen wipers.”
Ooooh, WANT!
Yeah, it’s racist not to!
Morning, all.
Heh. Man in dress pretends to be a lesbian while being incongruously flirty with women who seek out therapy. It does have an air of wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing.
Still, his head tilt is totally on point.
Or, employee of publicly-funded broadcaster, whose job is to communicate with the British public, deliberately seeks out language that her audience is unlikely to recognise. Because the animal names that the audience, the supposed customer, uses – and would actually recognise – offend her own status-seeking pretensions.
How terribly selfless of her.
Somewhat related:
We’re also expected to believe that would-be botanists and biologists are in some way being psychologically injured by the fact that much of the “flora of New Caledonia” is “named after a man.”
Is twerking a religion now?
It does seem to have acquired the status of an all-purpose, all-situation affirmation of some kind. Though of what, I’m not entirely sure.
And the scene, among many others like it, does rather call into question the claim that all black people live in continual fear of the police. That mere proximity can crush the very breath out of them.
Are they doing ‘Aladdin’?
Fade-outs were so utterly ubiquitous in mid-70s pop music that not fading songs out was one of punk’s signature characteristics.
What’s that from?
It’s an excerpt from Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie. I saw it years ago. Quite watchable, as I recall.
The rediscovery of the fade-out does seem perfectly designed to make some of us feel ancient.
Thanks.
Napping – choice between cheetah or suspension over an abyss on high power lines?
I’ll take the cheetah.
Speaking of dangerous felines, I got my boys a little sister – a kitten. I enjoy watching how she saunters up to the watering hole – their dog dishes – and the two 90+ pound brutes step aside to allow Her Majesty to drink. At her last vet visit she weighed a whopping 1.7 pounds so clearly you can see the power dynamic is to her advantage.
Just… wow.
*feels old*
Yes, the soundtrack to your youth is now someone else’s archaeology, apparently.
On the upside, it does present opportunities to mortify teenagers, as when a nephew was enthusing about some HOT NEW BANGING CHOON – until it was pointed out to him that said HOT NEW BANGING CHOON bore a striking resemblance to an embarrassing piece of crap from the late 1980s. Prehistory, in effect.
[ Passes moisturiser. ]
By the way, regarding the South Park item, via Elephants Gerald, how these things are made.
Murder is bad, m’kay.
Brought to you by the City of Memphis.
…offend her own status-seeking pretensions.
I see, so because there are different names in different African languages, there is no one set of “true indigenous animal names”, but a bunch of “true” names, but her favorites are of course the truest of the “true” names.
OK, then. I wonder if she was “jarred” by the German names while growing up in Austria.
I’m not familiar with the kind of thing I’m seeing.
“Let’s go see the police.“
Cosplaying Stirling Moss or a WW I pilot after a mission?
I know google (spit) translator is an imperfect tool, but out of curiosity I had to look.
Whereas the Swahili for hyena, giraffe, and elephant matched, “kongoni” was translated as “in the corner”, which is a place many children are told to go stand…
https://slate.com/culture/2014/09/the-fade-out-in-pop-music-why-dont-modern-pop-songs-end-by-slowly-reducing-in-volume.html
“Itchy thumbs” is interesting multisensory language, because fadeouts were part of a multisensory childhood imprinting of listening to popular music on vinyl or radio. The beginning of the end for fadeouts in my opinion was the CD player, and it wasn’t the fast-forward button, it was the ⏯ button, something new where you could skip to the next track without the hand-eye co-ordination required with vinyl or cassette.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13376353/Miriam-Rivera-reality-model-transgender-suicide.html
A heavily promoted 2000’s show where a bunch of bachelors competed for a date with what they weren’t told was an MtF. What public wanted/needed in the minds of the producers, and what the MtF enthusiastically collaborated in, was the sexual deception and humiliation of cocky young heterosexual men. But attitudes have “evolved” since then.
I don’t know if there’s a term for it, but I do remember the ploy of introducing some new melodic or harmonic element during the fade, to keep people listening.
I don’t know if there’s a term for it, but I do remember the ploy of introducing some new melodic or harmonic element during the fade, to keep people listening.
I hadn’t thought of that, but the iconic fade out that came to my mind was the Beatles fade out in ‘Hey Jude’, and they do do that trick. I wonder how they handled it on stage. Fade outs are fine on radio and on CD/radio/whatever, but they inevitably seem somewhat clumsy and contrived on stage.
Done well, it’s quite a pleasing effect. It leaves the listener with a sense of more possibilities, while implying that the writers of the piece had so many ideas they could keep on throwing them into the mix, even as the train was pulling away, so to speak.
It also implied that the musicians had enough channels on the mixing desk to do this and were therefore in a fancy, terribly expensive studio – which, again, possibly dates the thing.
Multicultural scenes.
They’re called sneaky fuckers. No, really, they are.
Well, if I were in search of a sexually dysmorphic or autogynephile therapist who wants everyone to know that he’s polyamorous – which, frankly, seems unlikely – I’m still not sure I’d want one who’s continually trying to look flirtatious.
Gad Saad has talked about this, using that very expression. Mostly with regard to “male feminists”, as I recall.
The progressive women will save us
Never a bear around when you need one.
The posturing is tedious and she knows it:
Perhaps it’s a bit old-fashioned and not quite with the times but it seems likely gibbets got the same message out and at a lower cost.
Animal names in Latin: if you use local names for critters, each critter would have dozens of names which makes communicating about them or studying them impossible. They need standard names. It is Latin because white men invented science . Everyone is free to use common names in everyday speech, and they do.
It’s something to ponder, certainly.
And when a city has to launch an ad campaign to remind inhabitants, or a subset of inhabitants, that casual murder is less than ideal, I think it’s fair to say that a long list of things has already gone horribly wrong.
Regrettably Texas has its share of these horrid people.
It’s when madam stomps towards the, er, fire department tent.
By the time Hey, Jude came out The Beatles had stopped doing stage shows.
Thank you, David, for your efforts in helping educate the public on a very pressing matter – lack of adequate terms for describing female human anatomy.
You’ve done a good deed here, sir.
I, for one, have learned a great deal today.
Yet it’s tolerated, perpetuated, celebrated even. Because no one speaks up, loudly, forcefully, to say STFU. The audience for this crap are your friends, neighbors, especially cow-orkers, relatives, etc. They hold the power but are not confronted for their quite obvious stupidity. Because that would be rude. Better to keep your head down. It will all go away. Sometime. Somehow.
Multicultural scenes.
I wonder how that squares with the whole Net Zero thing.
It squares with the thing the Net Zero thing squares with. The downfall and destruction of Western Civilization. We need to stop pretending that any of this crap is earnest. It is only logical in the destruction sense. Reasoning is only possible when we confront their end-game, not their methods. This past Wednesday was a prime opportunity to do so. Most people, most “conservatives” let yet another opportunity slip away.
She could be charged with sexual assault, grinding her ass into someone’s crotch.
I like the idea of putting a felony sex crime in her record.
Not entirely unrelated:
Illustrative links in the original.
It is evident that the pro-Hamas protesters are simply parroting the proper words, because all attempts to enquire about what they base it on are deflected. For example, women asked about the rapes Oct 7 just turn away or deny it. Gays/trans asked about rooftops just get angry. When confronted with the meaning of the slogans (ie genocide) they can’t answer. They know nothing of the history of the conflict and can’t answer what Israel should do when rockets come in day after day for 30 yrs. And of course, they have swallowed Hamas propaganda hook-line-and-sinker. They are NPCs following the latest group fad. Unthinking. Tools and not in the useful sense.
Exactly. I’d forgotten to put the /sarc tags in my comment, but I had that post and others like it in mind when I smarted off. Things like the frequent Car-B-Qs in Europe where the climatistas reign, and the open sewers the streets have become in vibrant cities across the West. In California the enviros will come down on you hard if you want to build anything or develop some land, but if you wander across the border and have a tan, you can pollute as much as you want, nobody cares. I’m going with malign perversity – it’s beyond self-satisfied ignorance at this point.
If you think of modern day higher education as a recrudescence of the South Sea Bubble you won’t be far off. The acquisition of knowledge and cultivation of wisdom have been replaced with mulcting the bourgeoisie.
There’s a lot of that on the left, loudly aggressive ignoramuses.
See the first segment of this Jordan Peterson podcast, in which a New Zealand leftist (with Auckland Peace Action) throws lots of wild accusations but gets increasingly upset as the interviewer repeatedly presses for examples to back up his claims, which he cannot do. And here is a YouTube link.
Ooooh look whose using the fancy words now.
It’s fascinating how many of these “peace” organizations aren’t really peaceful.
Never be ashamed of what you are…even if what you are is batshit crazy.
Who’s.
😉
Quick trip to the vet would take care of that.
To be neutered?
The only individual allowed to bark and howl is Detective Mick Belker.
He dindu nuffin! Man steals truck. Man flees police. Man crashes truck into river. Man drowns. Family sues police for “wrongful death”. I’m sure all his neighbors also blame the police.
Twerking is Nazism? I thought it was just one of those things all savages did.
Don’t know, but she was busted under the desecration of war memorials part of the law against denial of Nazi acts, not for “Nazism”.
Medieval scholars believed that the Hebrew names for animals were their true names, because Hebrew was the language that God spoke with Adam in the garden of Eden. [citation needed]
So they could use the numerology of the Hebrew alphabet to derive deeper truths about beings, including Christ and God and what have you.
Against that backdrop we have the modern linguists, who observed that the signifier and signified had no natural connection with one another, that all words for things were arbitrary.
So it looks like we’re returning to Medieval linguistic theory. Just more of the decline of the nation.
The tinier the cat the sharper the claws. Cats instinctively rake dogs across the nose. One time usually does it.
Today from The Free Press, “The ‘Micro-Intifada’: How American Protesters Are Being Trained in ‘Militancy’” [subscriber link]
They’re not protesting; they’re dismantling.
It’s not a difference of opinion about a war; it’s enemy action against the West.
spit
The manuals advise how to cut apart Rubbermaid garbage cans to make shields.
Thus.
After seeing many examples of this kind of thing, I’m still taken aback by the chutzpah, the brass neck. The utter refusal to reflect on the law-breaker’s own aberrant behaviour and how it, more than anything else, brought about the events that they bemoan. And so, a stolen truck and fleeing the police, with passengers throwing themselves out of a moving vehicle, is somehow framed as a mere “traffic violation,” no biggie.
I’m guessing the family and their mouthpiece want us to believe that a man should be allowed to steal a truck and ignore police instructions and endanger people’s lives, and by extension break any law of his choosing, provided he is black. It’s hard to see how assumptions of this kind, which among some are an entrenched default, can be corrected. It’s a moral wasteland.
By the way, regarding the South Park item, via Elephants Gerald, how these things are made.
As if I don;t have enough technology to play with – that was fascinating. I am most surprised how easily it is done with AI. I am going to take one of my own stills and run it through Pika to see what happens.
Not to get too pedantic, but an angle grinder is a grinder, (or when fitted with a cutoff disc, a cutter), generally used to cut metal, not a saw. A Sawsall, OTOH…
However, as we are speaking of construction tools, Ottawa is getting a new memorial!
Who among us can forget the Canadian LGBTIOU% Gulag?
I guess that explains the giant central disco ball.
Yes, but I loved the provocative headline.
And it’s hard to imagine someone honesty thinking that twerking on a grave or memorial could be respectful to the dead, but I have actually seen a couple video examples of that at ghetto thug funerals.
Also amusing: the article adopts Soviet language, referring only to “the Great Patriotic War” rather than to World War II. A explanation might be found in the author’s name.
Every time I see this comment I’m reminded of Brush Up Your Shakespeare.
Reminiscent of the ghetto punk Roosevelt Rappley who was shot dead while robbing a Dollar General convenience store. His sister and other relatives were outraged–not at their lowlife relative but at the clerk who shot him.
Impossible to correct. Past early childhood, their personalities are largely fixed and they can only be controlled, not educated and reformed.
Is that the collective noun for Canada’s hair salons, clothing boutiques, restaurants, and art galleries?
When a moron thug with an extensive criminal history is shot while robbing people at gunpoint and his moron sister objects to the victims defending themselves – saying, “Yes, he’s robbin’ y’all. Oh well” – there’s really no common ground.
And yet, we’re told, such creatures are just like us.
Which feels a tad insulting.
A permanent separation from such people is necessary and just.
Another observation.
And my recurring conclusion: Permanent separation is necessary and just.
The Allies less the USSR were fighting on most every continent, the USSR against Germany and Axis powers (less Japan not counting the Battle of Khalkhin Gol in 1939) on their own turf.
It wasn’t until 9 August 1945 when the USSR invaded Japanese occupied Manchuria, so for the USSR it wasn’t a “World War” hence the “Great Patriotic War” to defeat the invaders of the Rodina.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/judge-denies-request-to-lift-ban-on-asu-students-suspended-for-anti-israel-protests-report
Help me parse this…So students were being suspended by ASU (bad students) but there was a ban on suspending them (thus they are good). A request was made to lift that ban (students bad again). The judge denied that request (students good now). Do I have that right?
“A judge in Arizona has denied a motion that would have lifted the suspension of twenty students arrested last week amid anti-Israel protests.”
Grew up in a council house and now in my fifties and still managed not to rob anyone at gunpoint.
Yes, it’s one of the more obvious things about repeatedly robbing people at gunpoint, or carjacking, or burglary, or the recreational sucker-punching of random strangers. It’s remarkably easy not to do.
Race horse name.
Top men.
Maybe we should be talking about eliminating much more than 3 percent:
The approximate rate of sociopathy.
The rest of Cluster B.
For quite awhile I’ve been ruminating on the role of sociopaths and malignant narcissists in shaping society and even the whole of human history. When they talk about the “great man” theory, many of the men they’re talking about were psychopaths.
On a different scale, banking regulations, tons of them, and nearly all of them necessary because of sociopaths.
The U.S. Constitution: written to prevent any one sociopath or group of sociopaths from getting enough power to create tyranny.
Most of the laws on the books — sociopath protection — locks on my house, security systems, law enforcement, photo ID, the works.
Drug rings — all psychopaths — completely wrecking most of Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, and wide swaths of Mexico. Ditto Afghanistan and surrounds.
If it were possible to detect and remove such people in such a way that there would be no false positives… brain scans? (not all of them have cerebral lesions)… society would be free of so much hassle.
As we’ve seen many times, not least in the links above, progressives tend to repeat hopelessly unrealistic assumptions about crime and criminals. To an extent one might call perverse. For the most part, these assumptions do not seem amenable to factual correction, even when expressed by the criminals themselves.
See also, rioting – and our progressive media:
And this attempt at gaslighting went on for days, while the first-hand accounts of actual victims – and widely available video footage – told an entirely different story. The mismatch, the dissonance, was positively surreal.
Let’s see if this one has legs.
What?
Nobody hates the media as much as they deserve.
And yet they wonder, seemingly in earnest, and in the most self-flattering terms, how it can be that they – our self-imagined betters – are widely disdained. As if no-one that they supposedly serve could possibly think that the political ideology on show, day after day, is absurd, pernicious, and reprehensible.
Right, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and I am being taken out into the Peak District for a pub lunch.
Are YOU being taken out for a pub lunch?
I thought not.
Kept biting the horses next to him, so they changed his name to chav.