Friday Ephemera (722)
Sex scene. || Soccer rethought. || An “activity book” for six-year-olds. || Our betters discuss crime. Alternative positions here, here, and here. || Keep ’em coming. || Cultural commentary. || Job candidate. || Don is a spankologist. || Downdraught detected. || If you don’t date trans people, you’re a “transphobe,” but if you do, you’re a “fetishist.” || Today’s word is tarsorrhaphy. || She has a wand. || He was approached by a Venusian while he was washing the dishes. || Low-meat diets and mental illness. || Décor. || Sweet dreams. || One for devotees of cheesy, low-budget trash. || Chloe wants you to relax. || “What is going on, New York?” || Nick of time. || A game about underpants. || Family fun times. || Young love, first kiss. || And finally, in good-fortune news, finders keepers.
Update, via the comments: A musical interlude, on the word dildo.
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Repeat after me: All cultures are the same.
Dammit, David, you’re stealing all my links!
Elon Musk weighs in.
Okay, the one on the left is Neil deGrasse Tyson. But who are the other two asswipes?
That was gone quickly.
I hope you realize the “Gorilla Sofas” video is AI-generated clickbait.
It would be . . . instructive . . . to see how that lot would react to the loss of their ‘unearned’ status and privilege.
Cultural commentary.
That car’s going to need new springs and shocks when they finish filming the video.
Low-meat diets and mental illness.
How many people who claim to be vegetarians or vegans are really just hiding a broader eating disorder. I’m almost certain my sister-in-law is doing just that.
Found it on YouTube: Neil deGrasse Tyson, comedian Chuck Nice, and biologist Robert Sapolsky.
Sweet dreams.
Ben, the two of us need look no more…
“What is going on, New York?”
The downside of a high fiber diet.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, comedian Chuck Nice, and biologist Robert Sapolsky.
So a panel of experts.
I thought the homeless guy might actually be closest to the subject.
Simple and practical . . . and unlikely to be implemented.
in good-fortune news, finders keepers.
In fairness, I’ve read there’s a correlation between low meat diets and mental illness.
[ And I’m outa here ]
Ah, the recently departed Roger Corman. If you enjoy seeing his films roasted, you can’t do better than MST3K.
(If you see me in chat over there, act like you don’t know me, plzkthx.)
They went there.
Brung over from the previous thread: Related thoughts.
One commenter correctly points out:
So yes, let’s take people from disadvantaged backgrounds and saddle them with onerous debt, in full knowledge that they likely won’t get a job that will pay off the debt. Because of the equity.
The woman at the root of this, Jennifer Lucero, wears Cluster B glasses to mark her as exactly the kind of person who should never, ever be anywhere near the levers of power. Who the hell put her in that position and who the hell is protecting her?
She is cut from exactly the same cloth as this piece of work, also referenced in the previous thread, whose moral idiocy may exceed Lucero’s only because of the immediacy of the consequences.
These Cluster B harridans are everywhere something is going sideways at supersonic speeds. The Censorship Industrial Complex has similar women at all the inflection points. These women are mentioned as key players in Shellenberger’s Twitter Files — CIA, out today:
Nina Jankowicz (definite borderline)Cindy OtisLisa Kaplan
Patriarchy is looking better and better.
I don’t think it’s doing it for her.
Morning, all.
It’s still there, but I think you have to log into X to see it. Which is sort of ironic.
Still, the cameraman got his thighs rubbed. So there’s that.
Two approaches to the testing of ideas.
Not entirely unrelated.
I’m just going to leave this here, for no reason whatsoever.
*applauds*
Science marches on.
One for devotees of cheesy, low-budget trash
It was never intended to be released. Like the terrible Spider-Man-adjacent movies Sony produces, it was produced solely so Fox could retain the film rights to the Fantastic Four (it’s common in those licenses to stipulate the licensee has to make a film based on the license every so often. It doesn’t say the film needs to be good, or even released) and then chucked in a vault never to see the light of day.
[ Slurps coffee, monitors lawn for squirrels. ]
You can’t please some people.
It does rather suggest a demographic, or subset of a demographic, bent on creating its own misery. With the urge to problematise overriding all else.
Taken with other, similar videos, it’s not unlike when you do someone a favour, accommodate some quirk, and this results not in gratitude but in more demands, both odder and more elaborate, until it tests your patience. Which is presumably the object.
By the way, readers who found the recent interview with Mia Hughes of interest may also find much to chew on in this longer interview.
After watching it, if the words that come to mind are jaw-dropping medical scandal, then you’re probably not alone.
Thanks for springing that big one. Looks like the field to input comments supports bullets but they don’t render after you post.
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Do the terms illiterate or spastics jump to mind?
Don’t worry. I know the way.
[ faint sounds of ropes tightening over coarse leather… ]
Is it too much to ask that they all get mugged on the way home?
If anyone’s getting aroused by this thread, I’m turning off the heating.
Skillset.
There’s heating?!
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One of my early memories is of visiting my grandad, sitting on the floor by the fire, and pondering miser rate.
Sounds like fun!
I don’t know if the kids can take that much fun.
I recall spending weekends with my grandparents and wondering if it was even possible to have less porridge in porridge.
Can’t remember any underwhelming porridge, except the Ready Brek I got at home, but I do recall he did a hearty fry-up, conjured into being while whistling badly. He also introduced me to the concept of rabbit as a foodstuff. After making a point of showing said foodstuff being skinned.
[ Drifts into reverie. ]
All this is interesting and stuff but we need to have details on WTP’s new car.
The suspense is unbearable.
Chloe makes these videos because he wants you to relax.
You are feeling relaxed, aren’t you?
[ Post updated. ]
Chloe, by the way, has an Instagram account, where the filters are working overtime.
He also wants us to know that women have no reason to be wary of, er, beings such as himself.
It’s possible he’s not being entirely honest.
They know what they are doing is objectively evil.
Good thing that’s not my intent then.
On the word dildo. A musical interlude.