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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That’s the thing. When Our Betters posture on this subject, when they say we should be lenient and compassionate towards habitual, violent criminals – who, by definition, would not return the favour – it’s rarely about reality or what the criminals themselves say their motives are. It’s more typically about the speaker’s own social positioning, an airing of their imagined superiority, relative to thee and me. It’s therefore not particularly amenable to argument.
They know what the High-Status Opinions are.
Contrary information is unlikely to have much effect. The pious noises – and consequent peer-group approval – matter more. Factual refutation may simply be ignored, and the same pious noises will most likely resume, as if no such refutation had ever happened. (See, for instance, how Ms Spargo-Ryan, mentioned here, merrily blocked anyone who dared to point out her factual and moral errors. Note, too, her disdain for fellow residents, people living nearby, who would rather not be burgled a few months down the line by the same ferals that she, our Guardian columnist, was pretending to care about.)
The only thing that may have an effect is first-hand experience of criminal psychology and criminal predation. Repeated as often as is necessary, with escalating vividness. Until their vanities break.
Happy “We’ll Boink Anything That Moves” Awareness and Visibility Day!
Scenes at a
protesttantrum:The rozzers stop a food delivery.
Stopping food deliveries is a “mechanism of torture”.
Clearly, some people haven’t been slapped anywhere near enough.
Clearly, some people haven’t been slapped anywhere near enough.
That, or in this case at least sentenced to speech therapy to learn how to speak normally.
However, in all this nonsense we should embrace Juche Spirit and look on the bright side.
Weird men assemble, say weird things.
I laughed and I’m not sorry.
Where are the counter-protesters with the “Admit it, you have a mental illness” signs?
Maybe they need yoga? I’m not a fan, especially of the “we need you to see us doing yoga ” crowd. But at what point do the idiots start getting a clue? Is yoga the last straw? Probably not. The scamdemic didn’t wake them up. Nothing will.
@WTP
My newish car has a rear camera, rear sensors, and an automatic braking functionality when you drive in reverse and are about to run over little Johnny. Strong, sudden brake, with no warning.
Guess what happens when you load a couple of bicycles behind your car, and try to reverse out of your parking place? That’s right. It saves little Johnny.
The result is that all reverse maneouvers with loaded bikes are done at double speed, because there’s a maximum speed above which the brake won’t trigger. But it’s all good. Thanks to this deadly trap, some marketing idiot’s excel spreadsheet had a green box instead of a yellow one. And that’s what’s important.
[ Fetches foldable chairs, starts erecting Car Lamentation Tent. ]
Band name.
I just bought a non-lesbian Acura for $2000. It doesn’t have auto-engine-off or a Johnny-saver. And it’s going to have lots of surgery.
@David
“Funny. She doesn’t look newish.”
For those who know the classics…
And in sporting news.
@David
As a Zionist Overlord, I must say this seems eerily familiar…
From below the fold in the sporting news. Some of them want to be abused by you…
Still very popular here in Israel. For more than a decade they were the only Japanese marque that defied the Arab boycott and sold here.
Tyson is also a comedian. And totally unaware of it.
Sexagenarian Scrotum Inflaters.
I mean seriously, no one’s going to say it?
Weird men assemble, say weird things.
Well it does come in handy if you’re a fan of the soup.
Funny how I never seem to have to fear the word ‘decorum’ will be used against me…
Of course. Racism otoh…
It’s an odd thing. A supposed civil rights movement whose problem isn’t a lack of visibility, but quite the opposite.
I think we’ll give Gentle, Whispering Chloe a post of his own.
Funny how the Guardian manages to go on for eleven paragraphs about a supposed “ugly incident” without actually telling us exactly what happened. A telling failure.
In my experience, liberals weaponize “decorum” and “collegiality” and “politeness” to silence disagreement and especially to silence push-back against their own indecorous, uncollegial, impolite treatment of those they disagree with.
A polite conservative, you see, would never notice those creepy trans people invading women’s and children’s spaces. A polite conservative would never point out the racial and ethnic demographics of crime statistics and academic achievement. And so on.
Yes, a curious oversight. There does seem to be quite a lot of ideological chest-puffing teetering unsteadily on a mote. But it’s the Guardian, where indignation is presupposed, always ready to roll, and seemingly inexhaustible.
Vagueness can be a prudent tactic for dishonest people: The more specific the allegations, the more risk of being sued for slander–or exposed as incontrovertibly dishonest. Better to make fuzzy allusions to facts which remain conveniently offstage.
As if The Guardian is concerned about the latter.
A safe driving PSA.
A safe driving PSA.
I live off of a four lane street with a turning lane in the middle and this is a constant problem. I’ve taken to simply never turning left for any reason.
sporting news
I’ve just come back from a day at the local
outdoor anime conventionmedieval faire where the Knights of Valour were performing. Although the horses never get above a canter, that’s still enough kinetic energy to send 500 pounds of man and armour abruptly off the ass end of his horse on a solid hit. Two double unhorsings and seven broken lances.Ironically, despite most of the league being from Canada, it’s impossible to get Full Metal Jousting or Tilt TV here.
I’ve come to believe that many adults could use a drivers ed refresher course.