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Strange goings-on at number 40. || New fashion frontier. || They make more noise than I expected. || An archive of Amazing Stories, 1926-2005. || Third keeper of the TARDIS. || Cheeeldren of the night. || Now do the ceiling. || Incoming. || Not eggs. || How to announce your lack of worth. || “World famous dinosaur poop museum and gift shop.” And yes, they do have fossilised T. rex faeces. || A dog, a cat, and a mouse. || Think good thoughts. || Glamorous assistant. || Beermats and bonding. || Generate polyhedra. || The progressive retail experience, parts 561, 562, 563, 564, and 565. || Reefer buzz. || Suboptimal situation. || A Thomas Sowell playlist. || Today’s word is steep. || A brief history of urology, from 3,200 BC to the present day. || And a small but bothersome detail.
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OK… I’m making crickets chirp again…being the only Florida boy in a discussion today I was met with blank stares on this. I looked it up and saw other, kinda similar versions but nobody here knew anything about this. Something we used to sing in the school yard…
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school,
We have locked up every teacher, we have broken every rule!
We’re gonna lynch the principal tomorrow after school
Why don’t we do it now? (Get the rope!)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Teacher hit me with a ruler,
Hit her in the butt with a rotten coconut, (NYC kid version: Met her at the door with a loaded .44)
And she ain’t my teacher no more!
Cheap cruise lines have their drawbacks.
Cheap cruise lines have their drawbacks.
Love the comment: “Waffle House of the sea.”
I had two cats — TWO — young and healthy, and still a mouse thrived in my house until I had to set a mousetrap to get it.
Oh, we sang that song too, in the intermountain west.
You read my mind.
“Cheeeldren of the night“
Reminiscent of my last trip to France with my late father, coming back along the D940 with lots of ‘asylum seekers’ gathering to see if they could secrete themselves in lorries for the trip across the channel, luckily they didn’t try that tactic back then,
Would watch. It’d be better than the crap they’ve been doing.
Morning, all.
It did seem to be the obvious question.
I’ll just leave that there, shall I?
Well done lads
Probably couldn’t do it, but going down would be harder.
I learned something today.
For the present that says how much I love you.
I’ve always said this place is educational. A nourishing cultural resource.
I should get some kind of grant.
Seems an awful lot of effort just to ruin your own holiday. Though I’m guessing the participants didn’t think that far ahead.
But ‘white flight’ is a bad thing…
The progressive retail experience
People need to stop asking “when is the street justice going to start?”
Never. The answer is never, because anyone who interdicts these thugs will have the full weight of the police and the DA’s office brought to bear on them pour encourager les autres. And they know this.
You will never see street justice, because the populace has to riot against the police and the civic authorities first. And once that happens, a little shoplifting is the least of anyone’s concerns.
If you live in an American city, the Scott Adams Doctrine is really your only option.
Jumping on other people’s cars does seem to be a thing among the worthless. A sort of triumphant destruction.
On X, in reply to one of many such scenes, I saw some tool saying, “It’s just a car.”
As if it weren’t the second most expensive purchase a person is likely to have made. A thing for which they’ve worked and saved for some time. As if destroying someone’s car – because, hey, you can – weren’t robbing the victim of a significant chunk of their efforts, the fruits of a finite life.
Margaret Rutherford would have been way better than Jodi Whittaker.
The prospect is not without possibilities. And if you’re going to make the Doctor regenerate as a woman, it seems a good idea to make him an interesting woman.
A documentary about the strange life of Margaret Rutherford can be found here.
Not unfair.
I know it’s just one screw but I’d be wondering what else they’d missed.
Hey, it’s what university professors do.
Automatic weapons fire would solve that problem very quickly.
Automatic weapons fire would solve that problem very quickly.
“An armed society is a polite society.” — Robert Heinlein
That would also help those progressive retail experiences.
And from the comments, a highly useful girlfriend translator.
BTW, a happy belated Independence Day to all. I spent last night in my bedroom with several fans running to muffle the noises outside whilst a 95-lb Weimaraner cowered beneath my bed. This morning Bronx is much better and happy that the boom-booms went away.
And to amuse myself, I took a shot I did of the guy who plays my Santa Claus and made this as a patriotic gesture. As the Hessians learned, he SEES YOU WHEN YOU’RE SLEEPING.
A plausible band name.
I liked the scene in one of Heinlein’s later novels in which a retail businessman and wife shoot (and then finish off with “mercy” shots) a gang of armed robbers. Per local custom and ordinance, they are awarded honors from the town government and the robbers’ heads are displayed on spikes.
Especially the female ones.
No thinking needed, because it’s just part of their culture.
Thanks, barkeep.
I’m not sure she actually died, you know. I think she may have regenerated into Ian McKellen.
Imagine being scolded by this bobble-headed misfit.
Autotune not needed.
Are today’s words invasive species…?
Legal Insurrection is an extremely useful “information resource”: They have done yeoman’s work documenting in detail various issues, from the Trayvon Martin case to the Oberlin College/Gibson’s Bakery lawsuit.
Ze is right tho. Zim and zam’s zimmy zits need to the f out of our country.
And then she defends the poor veterans for having to be triggered by fireworks, when everyone knows vets are tools of the Hegemon to impose further oppression on Teh Other.
Also, the septum ring.
Has anyone ever encountered such a ring in a sane person? And why do people even wear them? They’re so unflattering!
I love fireworks. They sound like commies and islamofascists being blown to atoms.
It’s symbolic of how commie propagandists lead her around by the nose.
[ Gathers sandbags and canned goods for next five years of national degeneration. ]
[ Starts hoarding candles. ]
[ Hides money in shoe. ]
“I’m just going to leave this here”
“Think good thoughts” hahaha an actual dickhead.
Chicken: shows that the genetic code for egg care is only as detailed as necessary for the general case.
Mouse: my cat brought mice in to show us but didn’t finish them off. A bloody (not in the English sense) bird, also.
ccscientist, pass me your shoe.
[ Hides £20 in ccscientist’s shoe. ]
[ Buries shoe in back garden. ]
At the link, they ask “What’s the solution to this?”
AR-15 and multiple 30-round magazines. That’s the solution. From my perspective, I see an attempted carjacking. Defending my life warranted.
Curious…I understand that the gun laws over there are something that I don’t understand, but can a regular person just purchase ammunition without whatever is involved in owning a gun? Fireworks perhaps? Also, would recommend Twinkies if they’re available. They keep forever. I suspect Moonpies would do as well but haven’t really looked into it.
WTP, pass me your shoe.
Can’t fix stupid . . . but sometimes it fixes itself.
[ Looks at aelfheld’s shoes. ]
Air guitar.
[ Gathers sandbags and canned goods for next five years of national degeneration. ]
I was going to thank you for the happy 4th of July wishes you expressed to us yesterday, but I guess I need to send 4th of July condolences your way instead. Holy heck – Der Starmer is your new PM? And you’re stuck with him and the Labor Lefties for 5 years? I’m not so sanguine about our chances in the upcoming US election either. I don’t understand why the modern West is so hell bent on self destruction.
No.
Today’s word is no.
That, in sky-writing.
There’s also the question of whose store is involved. If it’s owned by a multinational corporation, nothing will happen. The employees don’t care to risk their lives, and they’re not allowed to be armed. Call the police and report the losses.
But from watching videos from overseas on X sites like Bob Inman and Thieves Getting Fucked, if it’s a local store, they care very much when some dirtbag comes in looking for a quick cash infusion. If they’re lucky, they get shot. Sometimes, the whole family participates in the beatdown
Time Enough For Love; restaurant; single robber. In another part of the book, his wife shoots one of a pair of robbers.
The easier to lead them about, my dear.
Precious metals might be in order.
David’s been watching the squirrels for too long.
Cow-catchers and a good head of steam.
“By the way, I’m proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first Black woman, to serve with a Black president.” — Joe Biden, 3 July, 2024
This trans- shiite is getting out of hand.
A friend recently asked whether we – she and I – are just getting old and set in our ways, or whether our civilisation really is heading into quite peculiar territory. The former is always worth bearing in mind, of course, but I’m fairly sure we’re heading, at some speed, into to a part of the forest probably best avoided.
More important is the question of where. This sort of crap is almost exclusive to big cities run by democrats (BIRM). Outside of those shitholes in Flyoverlandia, it is nigh unheard of because the weepy DA dynamic is absent.
A friend recently asked whether we – she and I – are just getting old and set in our ways, or whether our civilisation really is heading into quite peculiar territory.
Today’s youts have little historical perspective and mistakenly believe the now is normal.
As a matter of fact, there was recently another incident just like that on twitter, except that the young gangsta did indeed off himself.
Some of those corporations even punish employees for calling the police.
Another twitter account that was reinstated after Elon Musk took over.
Speaking of dinosaurs:
Starting bid 3,000,000 USD.
Steep steps: in China I took my kids to climb up on the Great Wall. Kids in Jr. High. Pretty steep. A Japanese tourist was changing his telephoto lens (yes, it was a while ago) and it got away from him and went ding, ding ding down the steps, almost comical, but expensive.
He does seem far more thrilled than I would be.
Hey, I’m betting it’s the oldest one of those you’ve ever seen, matey.
And, I hope, the largest.
Today’s word is steep.
is that Huang Shan? Beautiful p!ace, with some bizarre and/or terrifying “features”. Not on my Lets Go Back list.
Via Elephants Gerald, some true facts about the giraffe.
The tail is up at a jaunty angle. Probably because the Thagomizer needed to be at the ready to mete out thwappings on fairly short notice.
A summation of how we got here:
The road to hell is paved with human rights lawyers.
In terms of its clinical rigour, the DSM definition of Gender Dysphoria is analogous to a description for an item being sold in the Screwfix Catalogue, or a used car description in Auto Trader Magazine!
That seems an exaggeration of the reliability of the DSM.
She explains why this one is different:
Or to drop one of David’s gargantuan but educational poops.
Paint job of note:
A Japanese tourist was changing his telephoto lens (yes, it was a while ago) and it got away from him and went ding, ding ding down the steps, almost comical, but expensive.
[Clutches pearls, feels the vapors coming on]
Paint job of note:
Cut out a section of drywall, frame it, make up a pretentious screed to go with (yte supremacy covering the natural world and such), sell for a bundle as art. Pay off landlord for cutting up wall, buy own place.
Simple as.
Meanwhile – fact check, true.
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Simple solution when the pull tab breaks off.
Nonsense, impact forces are unpredictable, but in the back seat wrapped in a bed sheet, blanket, futon-style mattress, a tarp, and stabbed in the neck is a common cause of vehicular death.
Best part being the t-shirt. “Sorry girls, I’m gay”. Brilliant.
Yes, there’s the question of where he was headed with a dead body in the car. But on the upside, his politics are “BLM. Anti-fascism, Anti-white supremacy.”
So, when you think about it, it sort of balances out.
I dare say the real crime for which there is clear evidence is the booking photo.
Having a cookout this weekend, better head to the grocery to pick up some steaks, burgers, hotdogs, buns, beer, and a couple boxes of .45 ACP.
Exactly how bad is your cooking?
Do not forget to tip the bagboy.
Nobody complains.
Anymore.
Might need a hysterectomy.
Unexpectedly.
The neighbour of your dreams.
And in overseas mannequin news.
For girls who want to know how much a garment will reveal.