Friday Ephemera (726)
So how was your day at work, dear? || Some difficulty with heels. || Some difficulty with language. || “Decolonisation” dilemma: “A University of Oxford museum will not display an African mask because the culture which created it forbids women from seeing it.” || How the Dutch will take over the world. || My, how you’ve grown. || Sound on for title sequence. || Customer service. || Hazard sign. || Incoming. || This is London, 1981. || Scenes of enrichment. || Tricky manoeuvre. || Compressed towels. || Solving the three-stroller problem. || Today’s word is parenting. || The progressive retail experience, parts 557, 558, 559, and 560. || Always roller your squirrel. || The wheezing motor noise is particularly erotic. || And finally, in a friendly way, your French teacher says hi.
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Just how short is the average Scotsman?
The queer history of tanks.
And then there’s the British Navy: Rum, sodomy, the lash…and hermaphrodite brigs.
And don’t you put no pancake on my head neither, human!
So how was your day at work, dear?
Well this is the hooman version, well, sort of. NSFW
Some difficulty with heels.
I begged my dad to stay off the socials.
Tricky manoeuvre.
Reminds of my first joke book as a child which asked, “How do porcupines hug and kiss. Answer: “Very carefully.” This is just the adult version.
And finally, in a friendly way, your French teacher says hi.
A friendly reminder written on many a bathroom stall in my High School years:
“Beware, gay limbo dancers.”
Well this is the hooman version,
Never start a land war in Asia, never tattoo nethers if they might be loaded. He knew the job was dangerous when he took it.
Solving the three-stroller problem.
I Know this one professor, don’t take three squalling brats shopping to begin with.
The subtitles to the 1981 London are hilarious. The Bank of England, the old lady of Fred needle street… is merely one amongst thousands. Worth watching just for the words.
Also known as a prick
That article really needs to include a photo of the mask, so I, a male, can decide for myself. Women, avert your eyes.
With that hairstyle, you know there’s no innocent explanation.
*applauds*
Didn’t see that coming. 😀
“So how was your day at work, dear?“
Hey, at least it’s not figuratively!
Morning, all.
I laughed and I’m not sorry.
Heh. Well, the school’s changing explanations don’t exactly help on that front.
Though I’m still processing the idea that someone wearing a Covid mask in 2024 – a mask with “They/Them” pronouns printed on it, obviously – is happy to slither about on the floor of a school toilet stall. Where no bacteria or disagreeable material is ever, ever found.
Don’t lick your hands, madam.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
A choice was made.
Is it a Pokemon?
In case you missed them, a couple of items from the previous thread:
Inclusivity, baby.
And,
A thread on academia’s Clown Quarter and its claims.
See also this.
Long-form analysis, with stats, here.
Or you could just, you know, lose some weight.
Seems less trouble, frankly.
I think he may be manifesting his womanliness.
But. Why. Is. It. A. Dog?
Oh, I think we should leave that one for the ladies to answer.
[ Wipes bar, whistles nonchalantly. ]
I’m just going to leave this here, for no reason whatsoever.
She doesn’t think that she cares.
Someone should steal her car so she’ll understand. #teachablemoment
But we’ve been assured – by, among others, Nora the Socialist – that habitual car theft is a “victimless” crime.
Solving the three-stroller problem
Notable is the women gushing about how amazing this is, while the men are thinking “So rack and pinion steering. And?”
and 560
Those women are desi, which was not what I expected.
I do try to find a racial mix.
If they truly want to decolonize or whatever, why don’t they just return the mask to wherever they got it? Why is this so hard (for them)? Given their stated objective I don’t understand why they made it so complicated. Which makes me suspect a woman or women are involved in mucking this up, perhaps? Also, the obvious follow on question, so long as they keep the (probably hideous) thing, do they allow women who identify as men to see it? Prohibit men who identify as women from seeing it? What about the non-binaries?
When he was eight years old he was already over six feet tall.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1803592693844709847/
Well, quite, esp the gender-fluid ones. I’m sure the eternal spirits of whatever-the-hell won’t take offense because it’s Tuesday, and you’re not wearing heels.
Also, can’t imagine it’ll be helpful for DEI recruitment scores to have a section of their storage labelled ‘testicle-bearers only’, or whatever they choose to project.
As clear a case as any of theory not surviving the encounter with practice.
If only there were some deep thinkers in some nearby institution who could be counted on to draw suitable conclusions from this failure.
From Tim Worstall in CapX yesterday.
Who said existential despair can’t be amusing now and again?
Wow.
Just wow.
Yes, but what happens to Mars?
[ Starts constructing interdimensional portal generator. ]
I’m more worried about the land bridge with France.
A choice was made.
Good enough for ships, good enough for a staircase.
Long-form analysis, with stats, here.
Exactly, I am guessing the “students” didn’t bother looking at the drivers (as that could be raciss), and have no clue whether the Mercedes, Lexus, Bimmer, or whatever is borrowed, used, or the owners in hock up to their eyeballs. The guy in the McLaren is just as likely to be a “rapper” as a hedge fund manager. The guy in the F-150, if it didn’t have a company name on the side, could be anydamnbody.
How the Dutch will take over the world.
They have been at it quite a while.
Speaking of cars and class, I am conflicted.
I thought Juneteenth was supposed to be the happiest time of the year.
I am guessing the “students” didn’t bother to do the actual legwork and just made up those statistics. Who verifies this stuff? Has this “experiment” been reproduced? Where? What were those results?
What about female curators, researchers?
Heh.
By the way, chappie also says that billionaires “don’t have a right to exist.”
@ Daniel Ream
If you adopt a very broad definition of ‘Desi’ that includes Roma, sure. Otherwise not.
Heh. So…my ignorance but ‘Desi’ being a new term to me, I looked it up (yes, on Wiki) and:
Now my initial reading of that, gypsy/Roma was the first thing that came to mind. But that’s as far as I read. After George questioned it, I went back and wasa bit surprised that neither of those words appeared in the (current version of) Wiki article. So in the etymology section I read:
Again, the gypsy/Roma sign is flashing in my head but still…?
Revenge served warm.
How long before there are suttee pyres in the forecourt?
Equity at the BBC: Hiring preferences for dead people.
Well, yes, that was a typo and it should have been deaf people. But still. . .
And “neurodivergent” people? People who cannot get along with others?