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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Such beautiful country, both the land and the ancient human presence.
I think I’d love to live there in a smallish town, taking daily walks in the country, except that the numerous little cultural differences would mean I would never quite fit in perfectly.
Hmmm.
I hope you’re being brought back, too.
Can’t talk. Stuffing face.
I can think of worse places to be “abandoned” in.
It does have certain… restorative properties.
Oh, look, another mediocre male using women’s sports as a consolation prize.
From the piece:
It occurs to me that referring to a man as she isn’t helping matters. It merely adds to the dishonesty and the air of farce.
No debate, you hear. No noticing of the obvious.
Just defer to his magnificence. And lie, lie, lie.
In other news, I’m pretty confident I can beat my sisters-in-law at arm-wrestling and lifting heavy objects.
You may now applaud my gloriousness. I’ll tell you when to stop.
It does have certain… restorative properties.
YMMV...
Many such cases…
Don’t blame me, they popped up when I was looking to see if one was a white supremacist for even going to the Peak District.
Heh. (For readers unfamiliar with the reference.)
In recent years, we have actually rescued two groups of people very near there. I say rescue, I mean we gave a much-needed lift to a sixty-something couple who were close to exhaustion and could barely walk – and likewise, a similarly aged dad out for a hike with his sons. They’d all underestimated the hike, half of which is about as uphill as a thing can be, and were a couple of miles or so from their respective cars.
Lucky, I had water and a bag of Sour Patch Kids.
They were very appreciative.
‘Dignity’
Looked to me like the lapdance version of a squeegeewoman.
It’s not a lie if you intimidate enough people into saying it isn’t. Perception is reality, after all.
Up until the alligator’s jaws close.
In ’92 during the Rodney King riots I remember watching a tv ‘journalist’ ‘interviewing’ some poor beleaguered hospital spokesman about ER admissions. It went something like this:
Media Tool: “Have they been shot by the police?”
Hospital Guy: “Normally the paramedics bring patients in so we have some idea what happened, but these are being brought by private citizens, who dump them and leave. So we don’t know how they got hurt.”
MT: “So the police are shooting them.”
HG: “As I said, we don’t know what happened.”
MT: “But it could be the police shooting them.”
HG: “We. Don’t. Know. Who. Shot. Them. If. They. Were. Even. Shot.”
MT: “So, the police are shooting people.”
At the time of the 2011 London riots, the bias of the mainstream media coverage – the relentlessness of the attempts to propagate a false narrative – was quite extraordinary. A real eye-opening few days.
I was working in the UK in late ’99 when riots were occurring in London and Seattle over some WTO meeting. The bias in the media was incredible then. I specifically recall picking up a tabloid with a picture of a UK rioter standing on an overturned police car, middle finger extended and the media narrative on that story was about how awful the Seattle police were for not letting the riots get as far out of hand as they had gotten in London.
Re campus protests: just learned that in some cities (NYC, Philly I think) the schools have asked police to disperse the encampments and the police refused because the mayor supports the protesters. Of course, if conservatives had an encampment for any cause at all, it would be dispersed PDQ.
In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential 20th c. Spanish-language writers, told William F. Buckley (whose first language was Spanish) his reasons for feeling, age 78, that English was ‘far finer’ than his native tongue.
The full interview, on Buckley’s “Firing Line”, 01-February-1977, is here.
$90,000 / year for daycare.
…English was ‘far finer’ than his native tongue.
¡Es verdad, Inglés es lo mejor de todos!
(Ahora yo voy a la cabina de corrección)
Borges es un tesoro. Me alegra saber que apreció tanto el idioma más grande de todos. (Tenemos el diccionario más grande.)
“Police have refused because the mayor supports the protesters.”
It’s at George Washington University in D.C.
Shame that the unspanked won’t get to learn that the police are not there to protect the public. They’re there to protect the criminals from the public.
I see conservatives saying this all the time. I don’t see conservatives actually doing much of anything in this regard though. Sure, the occasional Daniel Penney or George Zimmerman or Kyle Rittenhouse but when they (inevitably) are treated like criminals themselves, conservatives start distancing themselves from them.
about as uphill as a thing can be
Back in my yoof I was at school in the Peak District for a couple of years. I have never been an enthusiastic runner but I found myself conscripted into the school cross-country team. We didn’t run marathons but it seemed like it with the memorable amount of UP involved.