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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But when you are your own airbag, is the seatbelt all that necessary?
Doesn’t protect her head. But on the other hand she’s not using it.
A glimpse of cleavage.
Need a bigger scorecard.
Looks like they need to cut down on the dumplings a bit.
And people wonder why birthrates in the developed world have plunged.
One in particular looks a little on the chunky side. But they’re all such good boys. Hard to resist the urge to treat them, I should think.
She sounds like she’s counting. Anyone recognize the language?
Quite. Still, a bit more stick chasing is in order.
Mandarin, I think. I’m guessing she’s calling out the dogs’ names.
Sadly, it was not Tiffany Aching’s frying pan.
As lairs of evil go, this one is pretty damn sinister looking.
Sadly, he didn’t get near the beating he deserved.
Given his criminal record, a terminal one.
Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings
A glimpse of cleavage.
Dude has the whole feminine thing down pat, said no one ever.
I’d suggest that the continued existence of a 12-time felon, one repeatedly released after serving only fractions of his sentences, simply ain’t worth the trouble. Again, I lean towards a three-strikes-and-we-put-you-out-to-sea-on-a-fucking-raft policy.
As lairs of evil go, this one is pretty damn sinister looking.
Why do these places always have extreme, dream kitchens when you know damn well the dude is ordering Skip-the-dishes.
A glimpse of cleavage.
Is that guy wearing a mask or somebody’s head? It’s like from the neck up he’s a mannequin. The hands and legs are his, but the weird unmoving head is creepy as all heck. More creepy than the Ephemera link to the bloke inna frock and heels walking like he was trying to not crap his pants.
The delusions are strong in these ones.
The Flash Gordon heating arrangement has… something.
Not sure what, exactly. But something.
True enouhj, OTOH, this one has the airport terminal aesthetic nailed.
Not sure what, exactly. But something.
One wonders what kind of sick f*ck lives in place like this. It looks like the crypt in a Vincent Price movie only the cobwebs have been removed..
A damn shame, given that it’s just as easy to design beautiful homes that give panoramic views.
Funny how often “celebrated architect” appears in conjunction with “ugly”. You don’t get celebrated by making anything beautiful, much less timelessly beautiful.
I agree. Nightmarishly ugly architecture is a red flag.
One wonders what kind of sick f*ck lives in place like this.
One obsessed with Fritz Lang and/or Lewis Hine.
When crime became unbearable for the citizens of California, Gov Pete Wilson (squish GOP) signed in 3-strikes law in 1994. After 2 serious/violent felonies, a 3rd felony meant 25 to life in state prison. The Left has chiseled away at it ever since even as crime started dropping (just a coincidence! nothing to see! move on!). It has effectively been benched after Gov Moonbeam got AB109 (Prison realignment) on the books in 2011. And after the disaster of CA citizens voting in Props 47 and 57, Soros’ puppet DAs like Boudin and Gascon, now the state is golden only for criminals.
Nightmarishly ugly architecture is a red flag.
A typical evening for shits and giggles.
Obvious lesson: Removal of street thus is not enough. Must also remove leftists.
Water-wings.
Cost a lot less than a raft.
It seems to me entirely fair for a society of the law-abiding to say to habitual criminals, “You choose to prey on us, and violate us, repeatedly and without remorse, despite warnings and despite chances to choose differently. You are therefore no longer welcome among us. Survive outside – if you can. We no longer care.”
Or something along those lines.
So. Choppy sea. Flimsy raft.
What sort of lunatic wants to live in a house that looks like a place of work?
Some of my autistic geek friends can’t tell the difference. If it’s shiny they like it. Waiting to see if the younger ones grow out of this.
The Acolyte: the most brutal comment to date.
Norse outlawry is a model we should emulate.
Groot.
Wait–are we talking here about street thugs or progressives?
In Viking culture, if you did a crime too severe for a beating to be suitable punishment, you were declared an “outlaw” which meant outside the law. Anyone could steal your stuff, assault you, kill you with no punishment. They obviously did not have prisons.
Call me Ishmael.
Call me Ishmael.
OK, this time I think the plural pronoun fits, but why does this ilk always have the random crappy tattoos?
If they (the lot of them them, not just this one) think they (the tattoos) either look good or enhance their (the lot of them, not just this one) looks they (ibid) are beyond delusional.
No, she’s not “plus-size” or even “fat”. She is morbidly obese. This isn’t the chubby kid who will shed the baby fat when puberty strikes or the gal who finds herself being a ‘fluffy’ grandma at age 60 with 20-30 lbs extra that has settled in for the long haul. This isn’t even someone who struggles with weight as a consequence of powerful drugs for autoimmune disease (I know a couple of those women). This gal has knifed/forked her way to 100+ lbs over normal range.
I’m all for people not obsessing their way into eating disorders to look like runway models, but this “fat culture” thing is as much a danger to personal health as anorexia is at the other end of the spectrum. Dear lord.
And when physical appearance is an important job qualification?
What a reversal of roles we see: Now it is the whale that is obsessed.
A good prank: Dress up as an 19th century harpooner (Queequeg?) and follow an obnoxious fat activist around, eyeing him or her in a speculative and assessing manor.
Wax my ‘nads or pay up, sucker.
Well we see where the Muslims fall in the progressive lottery, I guess
My guess, too. The greedy one is always Domita/Tomita.
Not another word about Florida Man from you lot in The Land of Hope and Glory.
Meanwhile in The Great White North, Ottawa tackles the important problems.
Call me Ishmael.
She’s got more tats than Queequeg.
Meanwhile in The Great White North, Ottawa tackles the important problems.
As I’ve said many times, we’re no longer a serious country.
If Ottawa weren’t the Capital of Canada it would be a backwoods. Nobody would build a city of 1-million people there. For the longest time, the Eddy Match Company was the largest industry in Ottawa. Ironically, it relied on logs cut from trees far upstream for manufacturing. Not sure how those trees scored on the whacko scale.
I call it Ozzawa. “All the streets are paved with gold, and no one ever grows old, in that funny place lives the Wizard of Oz.”
I’m ever so much more compassionate than thou.
Desolation Islands.
-49.354133023038486, 69.36478730961674
They can convert the research station to a dorm, then turn the prisoners loose to live however they can. Penguins and seals, lichens and grasses, plus introduced trout and cats.
Might be a touch chilly.
If the French won’t give up that archipelago, Australia owns the nearby Heard Island and McDonald Islands, which are likely colder and more blustery.,
Both the obesity and the tats are manifestations of self-harm. They’re evidently trauma-eating as a way to build up layers of physical protection around themselves. They look awful and they know it. Anyone who “fat shames” is threatening their security blanket, so they lash out.
Some manage to work through the trauma and get a handle on their weight, but others languish in the delusion that “fatphobia” is the problem, not their trauma, and they don’t live long enough to enter recovery.
In the meantime, too many normies become enablers by buying into the fat-phobia narrative. It’s a terrible cycle.
Once, some doctors helped a group of morbidly obese people get down to a normal weight. A lot of them reported feeling exposed, unprotected, and unsafe.
If you don’t understand why someone would uglify themselves like that, it’s probably self-harm.
a podcaster in war torn Ontario
I’ve become deaf from the constant shelling.
Mr Carruthers as part of his appeal should demand a DNA test from the trannie to prove that it is a male and therefore could not be misgendered.
Or she could just, you know, lose some weight. Instead of all of the dishonest, self-destructive horseshit that fools applaud as ‘activism’.
Works for me.
Why would we care?
Or, put another way, why would we care?
She’s got more tats than Queequeg.
More displacement than the Pequod…
Meanwhile in Idaho…
I totally believe some rando took a swing in a public place at a guy that size. Also next to the picture my browser is showing an Ozempic™ ad. a total coincidence, I am sure…
And this being the AP, almost every paragraph contains an attempt to deceive:
The “book about gender identity” linked in the article is, of course, the item discussed at some length here, along with its unhinged and shamelessly dishonest author, Maia Kobabe. And hey, using dysmorphic cartoon pornography to teach other people’s 11-year-old children about the joys of “vagina slime,” “strap-on hotness,” and masturbating while driving… without their parents knowledge or consent… well, what possible basis for objection could there be?
…well, what possible basis for objection could there be?
The world is filled with hateful haters committing hateful hate crimes just because of hate – all the justification they need for objection.
We really don’t disdain the media class anywhere near enough.
I totally believe some rando took a swing in a public place at a guy that size
It did actually happen. There’s a link in the article to the details. Apparently the attacker also tried to run over people in the library parking lot.
That said, it’s a valid point that so many of these reports are at best exaggerated and at worst totally fictional that the default reaction has become “oh, bullshit”.
Given the details of the library in question let slip in the article, this sounds like it deserves the Jamestown treatment: just shut the whole damn thing down.
That cannot be said too often.
[ Salutes Britain ]
Great. I’ve had that one reserved in my back pocket for 30 years to get away from all this BS. Might I suggest a more entertaining alternative? We could use drones to make a reality show out of it. We could use the revenues from the show to pay reparations to the victims. Surely I’m not the only one who has thought about this.
Would watch.
Ladies, are you ready to be re-educated?
The caring, compassionate, Left.
I consulted a Chinese woman. She says the dumpling-lady is saying each dog’s name + “one for you” colloquially shortened to one word. But it’s not Mandarin and possibly not Chinese at all, except for a few phrases.
Good man. We expect an annotated transcript by the end of the day.
[ Starts countdown. ]
We know what the left ends up doing when it starts talking about “re-education”.
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There’s the drink prices up again.
I like the way you think, sir.
For the first time this year, I have made use of ice cubes.
#TensionMounts
The original owner is bricked up in the cellar.
For the first time this year, I have made use of ice cubes.
[ Wonders what they were used for. Chases thought away ]
The original owner is bricked up in the cellar.
Definitely a Cask of Amontillado vibe. The creepy facial expression gives the game away. The wedding dress is a cheap diversion.
Had you misplaced the recipe?
[ Steps carefully back several meters ]
The original owner is bricked up in the cellar.
I don’t know what y’all are on about, I thought for a minute there I was watching this.
Sounds like a great idea, I wonder what is in it…
Nothing says “healthy communities” quite like free crack kits and meth pipes, too bad the naloxone doesn’t work on either of those.
Things you like to see…I am guessing from the crowd comments they are not exactly winning supporters.
Your terms are acceptable.
Meh. Who’s in the crowd? Maybe a few thousand people. Their allies in the media and academia, who have already done so much to praise this kind of behavior from the 1960’s onward, will ultimately carry the day. Unless the conservatives…”conservatives”…are willing to open their pie holes, not just now but for at least a few weeks by condemning, mocking, and being belligerent in the faces of any such people. But that won’t happen. Because decorum. If we don’t surrender to this idiocy, by pushing back “we’re just giving them the attention that they seek”. Heads they win, tails we lose. Unless we start playing the game the Chicago way. But of course, this case isn’t the hill to die on. None of them are, really.
“Always be the Brit the Russians imagine you to be.”
Ever run into this mindset?
Father of teen criminal is outraged:
So his son is a career criminal. Getting shot by the police was going to happen sooner or later. But the father seems unconcerned about the boy’s criminality. Welcome to Milwaukee, where being a criminal is a way of life for many blacks, and liking criminals even more so.
Nothing says “healthy communities” quite like free crack kits and meth pipes,
Thank god there’s no soda, candy or salty snacks. Those things will kill you. We’re Canadians, we care too much.
They will just dismiss that argument. They’ve redefined gender so it has no relation to biology and is more real than biology.
Well, you’d think that the repeated arrests, the armed carjackings, etc., might prompt some fatherly reflection and, oh, I don’t know, parenting. But apparently all of the mental effort goes into displacing responsibility. As is the custom.
I like how you think.
Not a flattering picture, but one that needs to be seen and discussed rather than denied.
All too typical ghetto mentality:
We can be certain that the father does not really disapprove of his son’s criminality.
And it is likely that the father is himself a criminal.
Related: Dad dies after being trapped under car for hours — and bystanders robbed him instead of helping
Robbing helpless victims of accidents is a recurring “feature” of ghetto life.
John Derbyshire’s “The Talk” comes to mind.
One more time. It’s easy to forget just how degenerate the degenerate can be.
One of the purposes of a university education is to build a toolkit of ways to explain away the degeneracy.
Of note:
“Progressives view children as sexual beings and independent from their parents.”
I seem to recall libertarians share that view.
Just another day in Australia.
It does appear that the sexual exploitation of children is widely accepted in “the gay community”. But just how widely?
David, do you have insights based on the people you have known, met, worked with?
I was never meaningfully part of “the gay community,” the notion of which I disliked, even as a hormonal youth. I merely brushed against it, as it were, while visiting a few clubs. Though my limited interactions with people who would regard themselves as members of said “community” do suggest a disregard for normal proprieties. Say, regarding age.
I can’t vouch for everything in Chad Felix Greene’s post – I simply don’t know enough to comment in any detail. But based on the little I did see, and hear about, I wouldn’t be enormously surprised.
Thank you, David. Much appreciated.
I wonder if this disregard may be a common feature of many marginal “communities”. I certainly noticed various forms of this in the “fan” communities I encountered. Far from universal but also far from rare.