The Bollocks Is Bolted On
Further to this, and also via Charlotte Gill, let’s visit the world of politically radical tableware. Specifically,
Because this is what you need to know when taking a class in ceramics:
We funded this.
But remember, universities need more money 😉 pic.twitter.com/gKEbweQsVG
— Charlotte Gill (@CharlotteCGill) July 29, 2024
For those deeply intrigued:
Well, obviously, you can’t just learn how to make plates.
And hey, who wouldn’t want some of that lovely racial awareness? Or, less coyly, practised question-begging and pretentious racial guilt. Or unearned racial resentment, depending on how brown you happen to be. I mean, you can’t just go through life interacting with people as individuals. You have to cultivate a neurotic habit of seeing people as avatars of some supposedly put-upon racial group. Or conversely, as oppressors, as proven by their pallor, their deplorable whiteness.
And a fragrant utopia will surely follow.
The creative titan behind the project – named, inevitably, Working With Whiteness – is Victoria Burgher, a self-styled “artist from a colonising country,” for whom pretentious, and rather invidious, racial agonising has been a path to many grants and awards. Ms Burgher, we’re told,
You see,
And,
Strained metaphors are very in, it seems. Along with teetering piles of assumptions. Also, Bad Whitey. It’s all terribly original. Very daring. Not at all conformist.
It occurs to me, however, that Ms Burgher’s contrived, modish waffle may make a kind of sense if you think of it as an attempt to add social heft to the otherwise pedestrian art that she actually produces.
For instance:
“From The River To The Sea… #2 (2023). Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze, 27cm.”
And,
“White But Working On It (2022). Glazed porcelain ceramic badges, 5-6 cm.”
And,
“Whiteness (2018). Ink on bagasse (sugar cane fibre), fabric, pins, 14 x 14 cm.”
It would, I think, explain a few things. As it often does.
Update, via the comments:
Regarding the unattractive objects shown above, and others very much like them, Martin D adds,
A fair question. One worth pondering.
Ms Burgher approvingly cites Ms Robin DiAngelo, the peddler of neurosis mentioned here, the L Ron Hubbard of wokeness, and whose devotees, as we’ve seen, are often wildly unhinged and nakedly malevolent. Which probably tells us much of what we need to know about Ms Burgher and her racial affectations. The mindset she wishes to inflict on others. And by extension, those who succumb.
And so, Ms Burgher makes her unattractive tat, and calls it art, and treads on ceramic eggshells, and calls it performance art, while listing the hallucinatory evils of having pale skin. And while telling those sufficiently credulous that “whiteness is oppression,” the source of all that is wrong, a basis for eternal shame, and that white people should “not behave white.”
You see, we will purge the world of bigotry by embracing wholesale the mental habits of the bigot.
So, yes. Someone quite fucked up.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Allowing XY boxers to compete is a good way to get XX boxers killed.
My bet’s on congenital deformity.
Absent the baseball bat, you would win – could be anything such as a craniofacial cleft disorder, hemifacial microsomia, von Recklinghausen disease, or other of a myriad of congenital abnormalities, to name a few.
could be anything such as a craniofacial cleft disorder, hemifacial microsomia, von Recklinghausen disease, or other of a myriad of congenital abnormalities, to name a few.
OB f*cked up with the forceps?
OB f*cked up with the forceps?
That would have to be a hell of a fuckup, generally the earliest a skull suture – the one between the two sides of what will become the frontal bone – doesn’t close until after 3 months (and the others not fully until one’s 20s or later).
The skulls have some flex, and not that fractures don’t occur, but even a normal birth can cause head molding (becomes oblong), but the skull usually goes back to a normal round shape in a day or so.
They “know” they are entitled to get endless free stuff while sitting on their asses.
It’s the ideal contemporary scam. Buy the work and you’re a collector of exquisite taste and erudition, who deeply appreciates the artist’s talent as an individual. Don’t buy it and you’re a knuckle dragging troglodyte, unenlightened and suffused with awful whiteness. Heads I win, tails you lose.
Kamala: “I single handedly elevated the Biden administration into unimaginable heights of sheer, radiant brilliance.”
Rando: “I contest that assertion.”
Kamala: “Misogynoir!!!”
We have reached the point where the person wearing the “Kamala was the border czar” t-shirt on camera, can look at said camera with a straight face and say, “Kamala was not the border czar.”. And you will believe, because you have up till now, and you are forbidden from not doing so on pain of forever remaining white. Oh, the humanity… Fortunately, I had my collective guilt gland surgically removed. Prescient of me, eh? You have to say yes here, lest I hit you with my big whiteness stick…
She’s a violent drunk, you know.
But with a smile, always.
why are they working with white clay?
White clay is white because it’s the finest grain and therefore makes the best, smoothest pottery. It’s why Chinese blue-figure pottery and talavera are so highly prized; clay beds with that quality of clay are very rare. This makes white pottery much more expensive.
And that’s why. Remember, these are AWFLs. The message is just this week’s fashion. They’re status signaling and jockeying for position in the herd. “Look at me – not only do I have only the most fashionable opinions, but I am wealthy enough that I can choose to dabble in these menial chores for entertainment, rather than be forced to by economic circumstance.”
I felt vaguely uneasy about Takei even many years ago
F/SF fans seem to have real difficulty separating actors from their characters in general. People are melting down right now because Mark Hamill said some things. Also, there are things I know about some of the TNG cast that would involve woodchippers if they were to get out.
I’m bitter and childless (no wine), but the difference is
The average height for women is 5’4″.
I’m not sure whether fans have more trouble than any random collection of people: I recall fans who could not internalize the fact that Lorne Greene was not Ben Cartwright from Bonanza.
I promise not to melt down; just engage in cruel mockery of the stars and their worshipful fans.
[Raises eyebrows]
You mean things that have never before been publicly revealed?
Oh well, the entertainment industry has always been a petri dish.
It’s well past midnight and the Ephemera has not materialized.
Yes, well, getting anything as useful as penicillin out of it seems unlikely.
It’s well past midnight and the Ephemera has not materialized.
Well it is only Wednesday, Thursday over ‘ome.
They told me that upon retirement I would start to lose track of time.
[ Stumbles off to table in dim corner, pours drink. ]
They told me that upon retirement I would start to lose track of time.
I feel you. I don’t know what I’d do without my phone.
Here have a drink. A very nice 2016 Bordeaux.
Is our host going upscale or did you sneak it in?
I’m afraid the madness won’t stop until blood is shed. On TV. In front of a global audience.
And probably not just one woman will have to die or be forever maimed before sanity is restored. It might take several.
There have already been serious injuries (scroll up).
Hmm. Here’s that last bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 but it’s…empty.
Pertinent, of late.
Til the landslide brought me down…
What kind of f*cked up people would think these were cool? Or even well made?
Ms Burgher approvingly cites Robin DiAngelo, the peddler of neurosis mentioned here, the L Ron Hubbard of wokeness, and whose devotees, as we’ve seen, are often wildly unhinged and nakedly malevolent. Which probably tells us much of what we need to know about Ms Burgher and her racial affectations. The mindset she wishes to inflict on others. And by extension, those who succumb.
And so, Ms Burgher makes her unattractive tat, and calls it art, and treads on ceramic eggshells, and calls it performance art, while listing the hallucinatory evils of having pale skin. And while telling those sufficiently credulous that “whiteness is oppression,” the source of all that is wrong, a basis for eternal shame, and that white people should “not behave white.”
You see, we will purge the world of bigotry by embracing wholesale the mental habits of the bigot.
So, yes. Someone quite fucked up.
[ Post updated. ]
On average, men can muster more than double the punching force of women.
But hey, pride.
*chef’s kiss*
If you follow the links above, you’ll see the description is by no means unfair. If you can stomach exposure to Ms DiAngelo’s outpourings, and her struggles with basic logic, you may find yourself wondering, “What weird psychological urge is this horseshit supposed to satisfy?”
[ Opens coat to reveal pockets holding two more bottles. ]
[ Summons drone. ]
(David’s Significant Other pauses in weary task of labelling bottles of cheap red plonk syphoned from the tanker parked at the back. Picks up roll of Burgundy labels.)
Drone.
Drone
No, it is one of these.
Not sure if I am unmutual for provoking David, or exceptionally mutual for sharing fine wine with the patrons of this fine establishment, or excruciatingly unmutual for bringing French wine.
Shot
Chaser
Two simple links showing the wonders of the free market and the Spam-No-Mor (Ausf G) decides to be as we say, a глупая сука.
If you’ve a moment, Unser guter Gastgeber, could you poke it and zotz one? The Spam-no-More (Ausf G) has become sentient and recognizes when one is trying to fool it by using TinyUrl…
[ Frees aberrant comment, mutters. ]
Touché.
[ golf clap ]
That’s not funny!
Possibly malicious link. Redirects from through multiple dubious URL’s. If you go here to expand the URL and then click “show details” you will see what I mean. (Very different from what you see if you expand the other link in that comment.)
Goddammit. First of August and I’ve caught a cold.
It’s a fairly feeble cold, so far, but still. Bloody annoyance.
I expect a vigil of some sort.
I recommend editing that comment to replace the original link with either this or this.
Done.
Here I am, at death’s door, editing links…
[ Mutters. ]
I’ve got what you need…some…French wine.
Looks like the Spam-no-More was functioning properly as it caught a bad link.
Someone hand me my blowpipe. And the curare.
[ Everyone turns to glare at Muldoon. ]
[ Lights candle. Pauses. Snuffs candle. ]
All done.
MY THROAT IS STILL TICKLY.
Whisky.
Drink enough and you won’t mind.
[ Everyone turns to glare at Muldoon. ]
I see.
So the because the Spam-No-Mor (Ausf G) is more crapware of WordPress Gen Z code monkeys, even though the second set of TinyUrl links work fine on my phone – because when crapware of WordPress Gen Z code monkeys pukes one has to test it on something other than the computer one is using – they worked fine.
I would hazard a guess, because someone gave the original an upvote meaning that person could see the links, that either pst is drunk off his ass (again or still) on cheap French (spit) wine*, and/or the browser/OS/firewall he was using is crapware made by WordPress Gen Z code monkeys.
*(Actually Welch’s grape juice cut with shoe polish strained through three day old bread then run through an old Renault radiator with a touch of iodine to give it age)
Vivaldi had a similar issue with the link so the code monkeys look to be blameless. pst on the other hand . . .
The second of those appears to also have issues.
Use that link I gave to expand your URL and see all the extraneous and dubious links in the chain between tinyurl to etsy.
Testy, testy.
Here, try this mood-enhancing glass of fine Bordeaux laced with psilocybin.
It was the best shoe polish.
[ Eyebrows rise precipitously. ]
That is very interesting. Those issues were not shown when I expanded that URL immediately after creating it. Could there be something dubious happening on the tinyurl servers?
Vivaldi had a similar issue with the link so the code monkeys look to be blameless.
No doubt WordPress Gen Z code monkeys have infiltrated – they are like a fungus.
Could there be something dubious happening on the tinyurl servers?
More likely your machine…the problem probably occurs when you are changing your 5 1/4 floppies.
Allowing XY boxers to compete is a good way to get XX boxers killed.
The bout goes about as expected.
Shows how much you know. They’re 8″.
Boxing: it is not clear enough from “men have on average twice the punching power” because 1) athletes have probably much more than that and 2) men have thicker facial/forehead bones. Getting twice or more the punch in the face is much worse than twice as bad. It exceeds the bone strength in the face.
I have been punched in the chest and shoulders by 3 different women annoyed at some joke (white women by the way) and it was only mildly uncomfortable, no bruise. Of course this also reflects the remnants of chivalry, that women think it ok to hit a guy and not get hit back. I can also say I have never met a women who had even a firm handshake, never mind a crushing one.
What was the joke? The woman was limping around. She said she tripped on the walkway to the plane. I said “so you’re the reason for the signs to watch your step?”
punch A guy would have said “yep, it was me”
Shows how much you know. They’re 8″.
I stand corrected, mine uses neutron transfer.
Neutronium – great for writes, not so much for reads.
[ Begins flipping through Aubrey-Maturin novels for ancient cures. ]
Phlogiston, humours, bleeding, purging. . .
I have been punched in the chest and shoulders by 3 different women annoyed at some joke
I find a good slap upside the head puts a stop to that pretty quickly.
Warren Smith watches woke-lings in action.
One more time. They are not good people. They do not mean well.
True. Which is also why they cannot be reasoned out of a position that they were not reasoned into in the first place. They can be intimidated out of that position but people on the right are afraid to use intimidation. Even the non-violent, power-in-numbers game that these people are playing in the video.
Events do keep reminding me that those fans tend to be nuts.
I forget how many people I have steered away from the “fan community”.
Is there anything singers no one has ever heard of don’t know?
“Free Palestine. Free Congo. Free Sudan. Free Yemen. Free Hawai’i. Free Guam.”
I get “Palestine” is The Current Thing, but I am pretty sure the British and Italians are out of Sudan, the Belgians out of Congo, and is Yemen supposed to freed of the Houthis or vice versa?