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.,