Friday Ephemera (724)
Thin blue line. || At last, a third thumb. || Hollywood magic. || Sandals of note. || Just resting his eyes. || Prehistoric Women, 1950. || The progressive retail experience, parts 554, 555, and 556. || A miracle has occurred. || Arachnoid encounter. || Quality credentials. || A life of necessary extravagance, 1968. || Not yet, you bastards. || Niche entertainment. || Go with what works. || Meet the Glaswegians. || A G.I., his wife, and Hitler’s cloak. || Bureaucratic drag. || Long-nosed goblins befuddle Japanese, 1543. || The genre of Christian ska was previously unknown to me. || The thrill of calculation. || The thrill of thrust. || Not sure who’s winning. || Falkirk scenes. || A family night in. || And finally, “The infant should be tested for telekinetic ability at the earliest possible opportunity.”
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Exactly. I grew up among liberals and leftists. The contempt for anything “country” was pervasive, open, and unashamed.
Have you seen those video clips of lions and leopards quietly approaching wildlife photographers, “saying hello”, and settling down next to them?
Truly underrated guitar player.
Meh, the most truly underrated “country” guitarist was Jerry Reed if for no other reason than almost no one knows what he did. Here is a little ditty in E Maj for your aural enjoyment.
More here…
This is when you deploy the walking stick.
Given that it’s a pov video and it was posted on X, looks like there were no appropriate consequences. Funny that, eh?
“[…] beaten to death with a baseball bat at her [Rønning’s] apartment in Porsgrunn, which she had just moved into days before with her partner.
“The suspect [her partner], 19, was known to local law enforcement for having been reported in multiple previous cases of domestic violence against the now-deceased Rønning.”
It’s as if I’m reading something from Theodore Dalrymple.
Take a Tour of Pandora’s Cluster
Sounds a bit ruder than it is.
That, as they say.
Future researchers may look back at the crime statistics of our time and be mystified by the sudden, seemingly inexplicable uptick in violence and violent sexual assault ostensibly committed by women.
Future researchers may look back at…our time and be mystified…
Fact check, true.
It’s also worth noting that if a given demographic claims to live in crippling fear of the police, and simultaneously behaves in ways that are all but designed to attract the attention of the police, then what they say seems unlikely to be true.
And to think I came of age when euphemisms for body parts were mocked or frowned upon.
That is a metaphor for how our politicians fix problems.
There are embarrassing historical parallels: Historian Victor Davis Hanson has said that German scholarly writings published during the Nazi era are useless, as they were thoroughly corrupted by the introduction of mandatory Nazi ideology.
Hanson cited papers about Classical Greece which purported to find “Aryan” features in Sparta. Nothing was really about the real Greece; everything was about Nazism.
From an era when it was not uncommon for TV shows to occasionally have musical guest stars who would play a song or two in the course of the drama.Shades, I suppose, of the old variety shows.
Nothing was really about the real Greece; everything was about Nazism.
Nothing is really about real biology anymore; everything is about Trans.
See Canadian Cancer Society idiocy for a case in point.
Meh, the most truly underrated “country” guitarist was Jerry Reed…
A twofer.
“Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson managed to burn through $30,000 on personal grooming in one year, with most of the money being spent on makeup.”
A twofer
OK, if we are going to go there, a couple more “country” guitarists...
Our institutions are selling out their legacy to appease a tiny minority of crazies. Apologize for calling female anatomy by the correct name? Mislead the public about a suspect in a murder? You will remember that it has been one or two decades since police stopped identifying the race of suspects–as if that were irrelevant to being on the lookout for a rapist who is still raping in your neighborhood. Now they mislead about the sex too.
Scientific American recently had an article “woman the hunter” or something, arguing that women are fit enough to hunt. Even claiming they did hunt. Never mind the vast difference in upper body strength of men vs women. In the real world, modern science has encountered dozens of primitive peoples in the 19th & 20th Centuries who still hunted for subsistence. Some still exist. Not a single one had women hunters.
‘Underlying Psychological Co-Morbidities’
Many of those institutions are run by those crazies.
Toleration of the left was a mistake.
Again…it only happens because we tolerate it. Because we are too bloody polite to say the words “bull shit” or even “bull f******g shit” in public. We even put more effort into dressing down the ones who call out the bullshit than we do in dressing down the actual bullshitters. This is only hard because we make it hard.
Again…it only happens because we tolerate it.
Meanwhile…
OK, if we are going to go there, a couple more “country” guitarists...
And another
and one, maybe not so country
and one, maybe not so country
OK, two nowhere near country…
And speaking of things we tolerate…I have looked into this a bit and it seems legit yet I still cannot believe what I just saw is real. Supposedly the Texas Democrat convention. It looks like a cross between a Miss Piggy muppet and something from Spitting Image. It’s so bloody surreal that I am not entirely certain that I haven’t been surreptitiously drugged with LSD…or whatever the kids use these days. It’s late. The wife is asleep. Can I get a witness?
I don’t know how many people will understand this, but maybe you don’t need to know much about software security. Maybe the fun is in the telling.
Just FYI, “fuzzing” is a technique that involves generating random inputs to test security settings. And a 0day (zero-day exploit) is a flaw that was previously unknown to the developers, so they’ve had zero days to build a patch.
Brits: Is this true?
“It wasn’t bad but needed a crunch element.”
Baker Tuba Geçkil and her hyper-realistic cakes.
Random signage.
As many have quipped, don’t paint your religious symbols on the road.
That looks like something from James Lileks’ Gallery of Regrettable Food.
The only acceptable jello dishes I recall from my childhood were mandarin orange slices in lime jello (tasty) and shredded carrots in ditto (palatable but nothing you would ever seek out), both served regularly in our grade school cafeteria.
Sandals of note
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Thankfully
“You have to accept yourself,” says man who doesn’t accept himself.
“You have to accept yourself,” says man who doesn’t accept himself.
Related, a date doesn’t go to plan. (Language)
https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1799545880581709940
Mecca of the Ants
That happened to me. I was squadron duty officer on deck of HMS Eagle and got bowled over by the jet blast of a Sea Vixen taxying out. Fortunately the number 1 arrestor wire did its job and saved me from an 80ft dive.
Fame, power, status, all will corrupt.
FIFY
Well, some people do seem to remain uncorrupted. Bear in mind that some personality types are less likely to be corrupted, and that fame-and-power-enhancing professions attract toxic personalities. Those who achieve fame without having sought it out are less likely to be corrupted. It seems there are even people in Hollywood who are normal, sane, decent human beings.
The challenges of a sound engineer.
Scientific American isn’t.
Doesn’t seem illegitimate. What? You don’t think Texas has it’s share of crazies?
If it makes you feel better, that ‘product of the Texas Public School system’ is an advertisement for school choice.
Define ‘bad’.
That could make even Yoko Ono cringe.
No. I have no illusions about Texas. I’ve suspected pretty much the whole state is all hat and no cattle. Just don’t tell the wrong Texan that. They’re kinda sensitive that way. It’s how bizarre and plastic that thing looks. Like some sort of bad CGI/AI creation. This morning I accused the wife of putting LSD in my coffee. She just laughed. She has yet to deny it.
Don’t confuse the major cities with the whole state.
What would Bert Parks think of the goings on in Maryland and Alabama?
Hesheit is a manifestation of liberals’ “keep Austin weird” battlecry.I prefer the formulation ‘
sheheit’ – if you say it rapidly it conveys an additional meaning.We find our amusements where we may.
“I love killing babies!”
There are a lot of critters running around who deserve to be called “it”. They were born human, but voluntarily chose to become monsters.
Sometimes a clean execution is not enough punishment.
Elon on Starship test 4: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1798745841836110239
It would appear that the epidemic of shopping tantrums and out of the blue street violence is no longer confined to the original demographic….
Could it be that what is tolerated we see more of?
Thanks for the shoutout, DT.
Happy to.