Friday Ephemera (730)
I do hope there’s a word for this. || Honest hairdressing. || He didn’t want to taste it. || Niche appetites. || Impossible mission. || I have questions. (h/t, Julia) || And in the world of “queer studies.” || Watering hole. || Calm blue ocean. || Big chest. || Fit birds. || Her baking is more hardcore than yours. || GROW CUBE was a browser game, circa 2005, and still is. || Nottingham’s last wash house, 1977. || More lead-sink excitement here. || Always eat your mushrooms. || Learning environment. || Loud dandelion. || Unsuccessful dine and dash. || Reinvention underway. || Scenes of enrichment. || It’s possible she hasn’t thought it through. || A beginner’s guide to foot massage. || The glamour of flight. || Not unlike a fried egg. || And finally, the world’s first “cold-storage banquet,” Chicago, 1911.
Update, via the comments:
When you livestream your getaway chase following some carjacking and a spot of armed robbery. With your girlfriend and two-month-old baby in the getaway car. But remember, dear reader, the habitually criminal class is just like you in every way, differing in no significant respects. None whatsoever.
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Can’t imagine why not.
‘Incoming’ would also have been appropriate.
But I wasn’t finished!
Is the self-serving condescension built-in or does it need to be instilled?
Well, why not.
And finally, the world’s first “cold-storage banquet,” Chicago, 1911.
From the article:
Some things never change. Sounds like rush hour today.
I’m worried about Wales.
Clearly lacking the dedication necessary for work in advanced diagnostics…though I have to say the sipping-it-up-off-the-floor aspect was pretty daunting.
The guide to foot massage, on the other hand, was great. Wonder what their advanced studies looks like.
It’s like another world.
That’s a lot of videos of animals, David.
‘Scenes of enrichment‘
I would ask ‘where are the police?’ but given the scenes in Leeds last night…
Morning, all.
Heh. As 1970s documentaries about wash houses go, they were more entertaining than I expected.
Also, 1970s polyester underpants.
I do have a fluffy side too, you know. Also, ooh, a bear.
Thank you! Grow cube is the best one he did.
I remember spending an evening in the mid-2000s trying to figure that one out. The eventual payoff resulted in a ridiculous sense of triumph.
For those with no patience, the solution is in the subsequent thread.
Would have been better if he had said 37
That is just fascinating
It’s the visitor at the end. I didn’t see that coming.
I see we’ve been importing the primitive again.
Is diversity being our strength again?
*throws breakfast in bin*
As one Reddit commenter put it, “Forbidden cheese.”
What?
And it has to be said, it’s the biggest one of those I’ve ever seen.
Must have been a immense relief for the bovine when they were gone.
Imagine being stuck with hooves so you can’t take care of that stuff yourself.
Exactly. It’s a feelgood story.
Fried eggs, anyone?
I couldn’t be a driving instructor for all the money in the world.
Stop.
Stop.
Stop.
StopstopstopSTOPSTOPSTOP!!!
I’m guessing the job requires a certain temperament, a certain tolerance of stress.
Climate science!
Because “fossil fuels” are gross, we are going to make butter out of “fossil fuels”.
Coal gas, coal butter. OK, I guess.
The Fischer-Tropsch “…reactions occur in the presence of metal catalysts, typically at temperatures of 150–300 °C (302–572 °F) and pressures of one to several tens of atmospheres.”
That sure sounds environmentally friendly, no mining or energy required for that.
I am not sure this isn’t on a par with throwing lightning and other Indigenous Ways of Knowings™.
Bonus points for worksheet on communism.
Welcome to the party.
When you livestream your getaway chase following an armed robbery.
With your girlfriend and two-month-old baby in the getaway car.
More details here.
But remember, dear reader, the habitually criminal class is just like you in every way, differing in no significant respects. None whatsoever.
Don’t even think it.
I’m sure the problem has innocent (careless) origins, but it is now a convenient vehicle for fraudulent science.
One glance at his face and you know he’s not a good citizen.
And the mother cannot be truly innocent, as she chose to hook up with him (note that the article never mentions “husband” or “wife”.)
It’s not a promising trajectory. Or a stroke of bad luck that could happen to anyone.
In fact, it’s one of those scenarios – livestreaming your getaway following a carjacking and a spot of armed robbery, with your two-month-old baby in the car – in which you really do have to marvel at the thought process, such as it is. I mean, exactly how many bewilderingly bad choices led to that particular situation?
And then, another obvious question: Does that series of bewilderingly bad decisions – the habit of making bewilderingly bad decisions – bode well?
We should also (always) ask about the bewildering history of bad decisions on the part of liberals that have brought us to this situation.
When I was a teen, my high school offered drivers ed classes in which we practiced on simulator machines. Very good for developing those “reflexes”. I doubt that even 1 in 1000 adult “learners” see such a simulator.
The cultural enrichment just spills out across the pavement.
Not the face, the neck. Specifically, the tattoos.
We are a civilization of bloody idiots. Not those ferals doing the physical damage. They’re just feral animals relative to a functioning post-enlightenment civilization. No, the bloody idiots are every single person, left, right, center, who looks at this idiocy and resigns themselves to “nothing can be done”. No reason to make a fuss or get angry or speak up in any meaningful way. Sigh.
I’m just going to leave this here, for no reason whatsoever.
In more positive feral news, our fugitive guy has been caught. Fortunately I live in a part of America that still respects the rights of citizens to bear arms and actually even use them. For now. Unless/until this story gets legs and the howler monkeys start their howling. Good thing fugitive guy was white.
https://www.389country.com/post/escapee-subdued-by-hero-citizen
Can’t believe I spent several minutes looking for an image of a suitably undercooked egg.
[ Peers over spectacles, raises eyebrow ]
I mean, I grant you, egg cooking is not necessarily a simple matter and we have discussed the complexities of egg-boiling before, at some length.
But this thing is indecent:
Poached eggs are of course the real challenge.
[ Tries to think of more excuses to post photos of undercooked eggs. ]
Can’t believe I spent several minutes looking for an image of a suitably undercooked egg.
Thankful that my well-honed spidey senses, developed after years of reading this blog, had me noping out of that video as soon as the vet’s (farmer’s?) hand reached for the stopped-up nostril. My morning coffee was delicious this morning, and nothing was gonna ruin it. The first lady in Ephemera today who was lifting her skirt preparatory to squatting – or sitting – could have been wholly innocent, but I didn’t stick around to see. I have too many click regrets, and some things cannot be unseen.
Well, you’re no fun at all. Where, oh where, has all the trust gone in this world?
[ Turns to mirror, practises innocent face. ]
…including the two-leg sort
Ooh. Haircut in 90 minutes.
[ Tension mounts. ]
Yes, well, no bovines available to test that assertion.
The liveliest and most vibrant part of Leeds explodes in fury…
For me, it was the moment I clicked on the link to goatsec, and I realized that some doors were never meant to be opened.
[ Quietly enjoys new haircut. ]
Sec or se?
There is an ongoing prank where someone posts a fake news item which closes with “to verify search for [phrase]” and the phrase yields very disgusting porn.
Teaching my older daughter to drive long ago. And this is an exact quote as she blows through a stop sign:
Stop.
Stop.
Stop.
StopstopstopSTOPSTOPSTOP!!!
“Dad, don’t yell at me”
Weather stations: Watts found that some decades ago when the US weather service put in automated stations, many of them were moved from a grassy field to be next to a building….so the electricity would reach them. FFS
Instead of yelling “stop!” you could have quietly chanted “We’re all going to die. We’re all going to die.” But she probably wouldn’t have liked that any better. 🙂
And nobody lost their jobs for doing that. Guaranteed.
Got a commendation more likely.
Postal carrier shot to death. Far south side of Chicago. Not Highland Park. Of course. But don’t ever dare say there is a toxic culture behind this.
Meet Sarco™, “The Tesla of Euthanasia!”
When you livestream your getaway chase following an armed robbery.
It’s a sad thing when the most mature individual in the car is the literal infant.
Probably cheaper than using the Tesla Autopilot feature.
Aelfheld: at least, somewhat less risky for bystanders,
Probably cheaper than using the Tesla Autopilot feature.
True, but with the Tesla you get free cremation.
Heh. If I ever told my father not to yell at me…well, suffice to say it would be the last time. For one reason or another.
Larry Correia posts a long rant about the evil that is cancel culture liberalism.
Correia has been on a helluva tear since the Incident. I had been unhappy with the cancelations initiated by the right against random lefties, but Correia’s rants have shifted me to rooting for mutually assured destruction, leading to detente.
Also, Iowahawk has a point.
How to tell a naughty joke without telling one.
A feel-good video.
If you know, you know.
Oh, well played.
As noted many times, the typical violent criminal has a very low IQ, is pathologically selfish, has a shocking lack of foresight, and has extremely poor impulse control.
In terms of sentencing, these should not be considered mitigating factors, but aggravating factors. A person who not only breaks the law and violates others repeatedly, but who does so in ways that are irrational and shockingly impulsive, is likely to reoffend, and to go on reoffending, undeterred by any moral consideration, any notion of reciprocation, or even by the prospect of further incarceration.
He is therefore a greater danger. Not less of one.
Heh:
High-maintenance hotel guest.
A struggle with basic concepts.
My opinion shifted long before that, thanks to the near universal approval of cancellations among the liberals and leftists that I knew: These malevolent pseudo-humanitarians will never learn except through pain. Being tolerant and gentlemanly will never persuade them, only using their own rules against them will dissuade them. So let them reap their whirlwind.
Which he delivers with his customary wit. Let’s get Detective Mike “Loads” on the case!
I have no idea. I do have a craving for bacon, tho.
Time for music.
“We Will Rock You”.
“In The Hall Of The Mountain King”
Garden gnomes.
Meh. Wikipedia. You can put anything in Wikipedia. For about two weeks I had a number (10**83, iirc) named after myself in Wikipedia. But speaking of shortages, I understand there’s a world wide shortage of cottage cheese. (Updated, wrong article)
How about just enjoying the humor of it? It certainly made me smile.
“Children belong to the State, not their parents” is an idea that is far from rare on the left. And yet conservatives are the fascists.
The cats are likely better guests that whatever that is
Don’t fash yourself, hope springs in Kelowna.
Can’t take seriously someone who wears tampons as earrings.
I suspect that any cause of her no longer being welcome, there or anywhere else, is largely her own doing. And if you feel any flickering of sympathy, I’d steer you to her Antifa activities, or her TikTok videos, in which pretty much everyone who isn’t her is badmouthed and denounced, over and over and over again. For being white, for being male, for being female, for… well, the list is quite extensive.
She’s an influencer, you know. This self-mutilating mad woman.
[ Added: ]
Some years ago, I noted the remarkable concentration of trans or supposedly “non-binary” people in Antifa, seemingly at home among all those Cluster Bs. It sort of explains Antifa, which is not so much a political entity as a psychological one. The demented ideology is basically a fig leaf, a convenience, an outlet and excuse for its participants’ hatred of the world and just about everyone in it. It’s not a movement with which one could ever hope to reason or negotiate, or dissuade with facts. It’s just a vehicle for the inflicting of indiscriminate harm.
Which is why we’ve seen so many videos of Antifa assaulting random onlookers and menacing little old ladies who are just trying to cross a road.
What makes you think I didn’t enjoy the (limited) humor of it? I appreciate the cheap joke. One of my favorite wiki edits…
Added: TBC, that wasn’t an edit by me, I just happened to catch it at the time.
I bring to your attention again “Intellectuals” by Paul Johnson who shows that the thought leaders of the Left are uniformly awful people.
Strongly recommend. The chapter on Marx is very good.
Because you didn’t indicate such. Just “Meh. . .”
Meh/Heh, Tomato/Apple Of Love…
Don’t fash yourself, hope springs in Kelowna.
Kelowna is in British Columbia. It’s the Napa Valley of Canada.
‘Canadian viniculture’ elicits a cautious interest.
Convertibles.