Friday Ephemera (729)
It’s all about a heightened awareness of the road. || Welding helmet of note. || Massage, drumming, and fire, together at last. || Skillz. || Not skillz. || I have concerns. || Assisting the encore, or lady not left hanging. || Surprisingly calm, considering. || Some clutter, toilet needs attention, £80,000. || I’m told it can get competitive. || Parenting. || Night vision. || New Doctor Who monster detected. || Scenes of duck up-picking. || And in pub-purchasing news. || The progressive retail experience, parts 566, 567, and 568. || Airbending attempted. || At last, the statistics of simultaneous blinking. || A little kicking required, methinks. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Lost flock of sheep found. || He had four hamsters in his pants, not gerbils, as stated. || And finally, fear not, he has jugs and jugs of it.
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It’s here. Took 3 minutes to cross the Atlantic. Not quite speed-of-light.
Put her in prison for life. Take her children away and give them to childless human beings.
Only a little? How about an emergency-room-level beating followed by 35 years in a prison work farm?
Related.
Also related:
She was beyond gracious.
See Not skillz. above for reference.
The black thief does not care if she harms others.
I have a friend in Minsk
Who has a friend in Pinsk
Whose friend in Omsk
Has friend in Tomsk
With friend in Akmolinsk
His friend in Alexandrovsk
Has friend in Petropavlovsk
Whose friend somehow is solving now
The problem in Dnepropetrovsk
I wonder if they would have blamed the van if the moron rode smack into a Van of Color.
HDR welding helmet – the most inspiring thing is the handyman’s secret weapon holding it together.
I expect this sort of commie claptrap from this guy, but why does he cross his legs like that, and how the hell does he do it?
FAFO
Massage, drumming, and fire, together at last.
Hard to believe it took so long.
Not skillz.
Some sort of glory hole? I kept waiting for the money shot.
Surprisingly calm, considering.
I worked for a company that used a tiger as part of it’s corporate identity and logo. Someone thought it would be a good idea to bring a live, adult tiger into the office for a promotional photo shoot. The tiger was ushered into the main reception area where it promptly lifted it’s leg and pissed all over the company’s signature wall and logo. Before my time, but I’m told it took weeks to get the smell out of the area.
I’m told it can get competitive.
For it to be completely fair, you’d have to pit a righty versus a lefty.
Airbending attempted.
I’ll bet he can throw lightning too!
Incoming 2.
No one wants to get goosed.
He had four hamsters in his pants, not gerbils, as stated.
Richard Gere could not be reached for comment.
but why does he cross his legs like that, and how the hell does he do it?
I’m told he employs a tuck.
Matthew 19:12 tells us:
“For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb; and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men; and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom …”
Trudeau is the latter.
One small sample from a thread on all the wonderful things in Project 2025.
Would watch.
Morning, all.
I’m assuming there’d be some kind of betting.
Yes, it’s definitely not the done thing, even during a fourth encore, and it could have gone horribly wrong. But happily…
It’s hard to construe the behaviour as anything other than reprehensible. Even if the thing is prearranged and the car we see is the only one sprayed, and even if the car has some protective film or whatever, the message being sent – sent by our influencer – is still utterly delinquent:
FUCK YOUR PROPERTY. MY SELF-ABSORPTION TRUMPS ALL ELSE. NOW SUBMIT TO MY CHILDISH EGO. AND EVERYONE APPLAUD ME.
Or,
ISN’T IT FUNNY THAT YOU’RE SCANDALISED BY MY SCANDALOUSLY DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR? I’M SO COOL.
But hey, “San Luvs Ya.”
“Multiple gerbils recovered…” 🤣
“Don’t worry, madam. It’s a relaxing fire.”
Anatomy quiz.
I’m assuming those are belly folds. Though, frankly, I’m guessing.
[ Tilts head, squints. ]
Baby rotation.
Progress:
Too much stubble for a belly.
It looks like a knee at both ends of that Gabe limb. Unless at top-right we have a particularly egregious cankle.
How to edit a video for your boss.
This is not how I imagined I’d be spending my morning.
I wish I could say this was satire, but alas …
and ping!
Bless you, madam. May you always remember birthdays.
And from another thread … is there anything Project 2025 can’t do?
Correia is a treasure.
[ Considers third mug of coffee. ]
zolpidem kicks in
“Requires clearance.”
Hours of fun. Or possibly arguing.
Only Lobachevsky can explain how the sheep got up there?
That’s a rather hyperbolic claim.
Competitive consumption, women’s division.
With or without an ounce of booze?
It’s all about a heightened awareness of the road.
NGL, I had a friend with a growing cycling channel who in private revealed himself to be an anti-Semite (even worse, he is a London Metro cop). Imagining him, this clip made me laugh.
Hope the van’s okay.
OK…again…where is this IQ data coming from? The source article has a certain IFLS quality/narrative to it, though admittedly the BS narrative raised so many questions, I gave up. Apparently it’s a Canadian study though they make reference to American universities as well. Also references a “recently published meta analysis”…yeah….great. But again (again)…the IQ thing.
When the opportunity (rarely) presents itself, I ask people if they have ever been given an IQ test. Not taken out of curiosity or to fulfill some job requirement, but mandated like in school. Some don’t remember taking one or they vaguely recall take ONE test just ONCE. No one seems to know what their score was, or is lying and afraid I might ask. I know I was never told and my wife’s experience was the same. Perhaps the tests are legitimate measuring tools, or as legitimate as we can reasonably expect, but the application and inferences drawn seem extremely BS to me. Now again, my American take on this. Perhaps they are more commonly and professionally applied elsewhere. But when this article (from a publication calling itself “Real Clear Science”) casually mixed references to Canadians and Americans, my BS detector started blaring.
[ Contemplates alternatives for evening feed. Opts for meatballs, pasta, and a spicy arrabbiata sauce. ]
Gift idea.
Lehrer seemed more apt than Zelazny.
Is that a reference to Zelazny’s poem “Lobachevsky’s Eyes”?
Yup.
Though, really, the original association was seeing the incident took place in Omsk. It just sort of pinballed from there.
I didn’t even notice that.
I was making an arch reference to the fact that Lobachevskian geometry is hyperbolic geometry. Can we get any more obscure?
Not without straining something.
Meanwhile, at the Canadian Museum of History.