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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Hitler’s cloak – now on display in the 45th ID museum.
Oddly enough the pre-war 45th ID patch was changed to a thunderbird…
Clearly in need of some education.
I assumed that was going to be about Rachel Levine or a kindred spirit.
How do you suppose it will fare in the market against the prehensile robotic tail?
Without seeing it I can easily picture the scenario so . . . now I don’t need to see it.
Was Britain’s ban on guns implemented to smooth the path of chaps like this?
Freezer burn?
When did YouTube – where the words ‘rape’, ‘death’, and who knows what else invite swift penalties – become Psychopathia Sexualis with adverts?
Now, we do it to ourselves – no king needed.
True. “We” vote for these cunts.
But there is also the problem of the unelected and un-fire-able bureaucratic state, which endlessly seeks to enlarge itself and its powers. This is partly the fault of elected official who will not even attempt to curb the bureaucracy’s power, but it is also the fault of citizens who do take the problem seriously, in addition to the power of the bureaucracy which is very hard to challenge. We are taxed and regulated–even tried and convicted–by unelected mandarins who ought to be cleaning toilets.
Forgive me for spelling this out…
Well, yes, sadly I do know they do the tomato sauce thing. Was more addressing the idea that somehow a real, biological 67 year old woman would have a period in the first place. At that age, if a woman is bleeding there, cancer is a suspect.
But I guess if you can believe that a ladypenis is real, then you can also believe that menopause isn’t. There are just so many lies involved in propping up this mental contagion that I lose track of them all.
And apropos of nothing, or maybe everything, I logged in to my email this morning and there was one from AGU (the American Geophysical Union) blasting the headlines of their monthly magazine: Empowering Genderqueer [Somethings] in the Geosciences. WTF does your sex life have to do with anything at work?
Thank you for that. Much better than watching those talent shows where the spotlight seems more focused on the virtuous and dramatic emotional reactions of the judges and audiences.
You can’t even rely on the Castle Doctrine when you find a bear in your living room. Lawfare. Learn what it means for the rest of us. It’s been happening to regular people much longer than to certain politicians.
A human toilet? That sounds like a shit job.
*ducks, pre-emptively sets coat on fire*
State enforcement of ‘trans’ ideology doesn’t seem particularly unifying but maybe it’s just me.
Don’t think that’s the same kid.
Think this is a longer version of the x/Twitter video. Have no Japanese so haven’t a clue as to his name.
As do I.
LOL
*waits for cloaks to make a comeback*
I KNOW, RIGHT?
Though you’d have to find the right situation for a fashion statement of that magnitude. I mean, you couldn’t just waft around the local Lidl or Tesco wearing one.
Waitrose, maybe.
Thanks for that. I couldn’t sit through more than 30 seconds of the talent show link. I didn’t think that looked right but wth. Either way, I’ve become aware of and enjoyed two new artists who actually do stuff that’s really art.
Damn…again…added: Here’s a link to the talent show kid who goes by Crow.
Doh again…I think Crow might be the title of the piece. His name is maybe JinsanKim. But wtf do I know?
This is so wrong, and yet… 😀
The dark streets of dark cities. Which means…everywhere.
I know.
Twist-off caps are a blight, I agree.
DEI hire?
Steve Inman comments.
But what if Jewish dinosaurs faked the moon landing? I’m only asking questions.
They didn’t?
Yesterday was National Fish and Chips Day.
It’s not just English majors get themselves in risible trouble when they try to opine about scientific matters. Journalists, education school graduates, etc., too. And then there is the problem of fame tempting people to voice strong opinions about matters that they know less and less about. Everyone who lives in the public eye would benefit from an aide who whispers to them, “Remember you are mortal” or better “Remember you know nothing”.
If Sic transit gloria mundi is good enough for the Pope . . .
A good number of people in the tech and medical fields could stand to hear this as well.
Sovereign Shitizen, newly evolved hood rat subspecies.
Celebrityhood is poison. Fame, power, status, all can corrupt.
Great googly moogly – we didn’t fight a war of independence for this sort of nonsense!
I’ll bet they also drink tea.
Is this true? 🙂
Even better for these times – it sounds plausible.
Another holy icon desecrated – what is the world coming to?
Least we forget.
Physics is the best teacher. Instead of having eggheads run endless calculations, trying to make it perfect before testing, they build their best guess, then let reality have its way with it.
It’s probably something Elon learned from software development: build something fast, compile it, run it, deal with the bugs that show up, rinse, repeat.
Least we forget.
Truly underrated guitar player. I think his comedy may have made people take him less seriously.
If it had strings, he could play it. And, unfortunately, the non-musician Ruling Class saw/see “country” as beneath their refined sensibilities.
You’ll never unsee it, either.
A pride I could celebrate.
And I remember the reactions in England with the release of the American movie about a killer whale: Free Willy. [muffled giggle]
Heh 1.
Heh 2:
Room for curiosity is a useful phrase.
Domination game.
How to fix a hole in the wall.
Fuzzy object.
Something that once I got out in the world and working in STEM that really ticked me off was how dismissive the lib arts types in college had been regarding engineering, math, etc majors being especially prone to philistinism. And the faculty in STEM majors actually went along with it. It was like it was a given requiring some form of self flagellation so as to make us tolerable at dinner parties or something. Yet those lib arts types had absolutely zero understanding of statistics and what the numbers that they (occasionally) use really mean.
Scorecard! Getcya Scorecard! Can’t tell the players without a scorecard!