Friday Ephemera (731)
Memorable watermelon. || Maybe it’s a meat thing. || Monster competition, 1967. || Mirror for sale. || Two men with placards, an exchange of ideas ensues. || The thrill of watching dough. || Card game. || How to earn a doctorate in psychology. || She’s got a big one. || Bouncy. || Just one job. || One of these things is not like the others. || You want one and you know it. || Oh glorious enrichment. || We revolve around him, you know. || Cinema snacks. || Fancy a little chicken? || Not unfair. || No, I insist, ladies first. || It’s “gender affirming,” see. || A compendium of profanities, sorted by subject and rudeness. From cobblers and cack to putain de merde and cona da tua mãe. || Stiff competition for food. || “Unfortunately, the cost of this mistake is quite high.” || And finally, funereal scenes.
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Belongs on a neighborhood watch list.
So…in the department of tiresome US politics I have a good-ish news to report. Following the Olympic coverage this evening the channel 11 news, that I usually kick myself for not paying attention and turning off immediately, had coverage of Trump’s later today rally in the Atlanta area and it was not negative in the least. There was almost a positive, uplifting feel to the coverage. It was fair and presented the anti-Trump protesters as well. Followed by coverage of the (apparently) upcoming Harris rally. Which was so downbeat and depressing that IMNSHO the news presenters must have understood the contrast they were presenting yet presented it anyway. Not that there isn’t huge rat potential in that but I found it rather encouraging. Especially on a day in which the bloody idiocy of the “conservatives” that I know personally was on display.
“They never realized they could look so realistic.”
You know, I really ought to lose my moral compass or at least stash it away in the kitchen junk drawer, along with the menu from the local Chinese takeout and a half-empty box of birthday cake candles. I see things like this and think, “I could be very, very wealthy by taking advantage of the mental issues of others.” Like convincing large, lumbering men that no, sweetie, you look just like a woman, no one will know . . .
As seen recently, it’s a growing market.
[ Gargles Lemsip. ]
I’ve got just the thing for you.
[ Fills tall mug halfway with fresh lemon juice. Tops off with whiskey. Microwaves. ]
There is a reason people from New York are called Yanks.
If you didn’t swoon of Dollar Store Freak Show Leonardo at the Olympics, you are “grossophobic”.
That poor cat in Stephanie’s link looked terrified when that guy came clomping by, good reason, but still, the ASPCA is never around when you need them. “I am a woman, there fore I must be taught how to walk like a woman” is a weird flex.
Not sure which is worse, the cold or the mentally dulling effects of the medication.
Today’s word is bleh.
Up 51 percent since one year ago.
But how much is it up since before George Floyd, the pandemic, and the left’s war against police on behalf of criminality? Far far more, I’m sure.
[ Presents David with a second large mug: chicken broth with four tablespoons of hot pepper. ]
[ Waits for avalanche of sympathy, flowers, chocolates. ]
Specifically.
[Slides jar of pickled eggs back to David.]
Of course it does. What doesn’t?
Madame Tussauds would melt them down.
TIL drunk driving field tests are sexist. Men should sue.
Lost another friend over this. Actually ex-coworker. Conservative guy. Muy, muy conservative. Like 100% pro-life and Trumpuncomfortable and whatever. But my saying that the (real) woman boxer herself was to blame, along with others but primarily her personal responsibility, for her being pinched in the faces was…asinine. This days after he finally conceded that I(and others) had been right and he had been gaslighted regarding the extremes that the government(s) took during the scamdemic. Sigh.
Men, avert your eyes.
Could it have been the way you said it? You’re not exactly the most tactful of people.
Example: One of the people on our board is not on speaking terms with a number of owners because of how she says things.
There is a reason people from New York are called Yanks.
The cutline on one of the photos:
[Boxes of tissues]
I suppose I could have more kindly stated that she was the person most responsible for her stepping into a ring with a man who consequently punched her in the face. Though I doubt it. See he didn’t single me out per se, referring to “other men like” me being asinine as well, so I’m guessing it’s the general concept that he objected to.
But to your point…Here’s the thing…four years ago, maybe more but for me the gloves came off. Before that I could be much more diplomatic, much more understanding, much more…”hey, look over there? See that? Eh? Gee that’s interesting isn’t it?” Hoping people would get a bloody clue. As I had…again…done most of my life. But here’s the thing…people don’t give a f*** about logic and reason and certainly not politeness. Not deep down. Not really. Not in the general public. Unless of course they can use politeness as a passive-aggressive tool to push their own BS. As observed, people cannot be reasoned out of positions that they did not reason themselves into in the first place. They definitely can be intimidated out of those positions. But it takes a lot of effort. Shock value. I have witnessed too many avoidable disasters, money poured down the drain, project failures (or in government contracts, more taxpayer-raping), company failures, etc. Little boys are getting their dicks chopped off and women are…stupidly…allowing themselves to get punched in the face by men. The latter of which would be NBD to me personally but I now see JK Rowling blaming men in general for this BS. And of course most women being pathetic sheep will latch onto that if/when they ever wake up from how bloody stupid they’ve been…so…f*** her.
As for “is not on speaking terms with a number of owners because of how she says things”, not knowing this person’s specific issue but…in the interest of kindness and understanding, have you considered the possibility that this person may have just reached her limit? Being on a board such as that requires a degree, a sense, of responsibility. With responsibility comes a need to stick to reality. Truth and facts. As one is in a volunteer mode giving up one’s personal time, effort, and sometimes even money, certainly risk as well, having one’s time consumed dancing around obvious issues, especially those that may need to be addressed after being kicked down the road for years because people don’t like the uncomfortable solutions* can get very tiresome and patience-sapping. Sometimes things need to change and change now, fast, or some much more serious s**t is going to hit the fan. People often hate those sorts of people. Others are more willing to accept “bad luck”.
*totally imaginary abstract scenario such that I have no idea what made me think of it.
/Ranty rant rant rant
Daniel Ream, if you really can get your hands on a few helicopters…
Daniel Ream, if you really can get your hands on a few helicopters…
Go big or go home.
Yanks up 51% and yet in alternate universe land, it is claimed that crime is NOT up. A favorite way to show that is to pick 2022 as the start, when crime was already up, or to ignore the failure to record crime or to count only those jailed and ignore DAs letting them all go.
Olympic boxing: anyone notice it took only seconds for trans XY to clobber the female boxers? Because trans are real women and there are no differences.
Dude. Much like skateboarding, masturbation is not a crime. Sheesh. Boomers. SMDH…
Daniel Ream, if you really can get your hands on a few helicopters
The RCAF had an air show recently with tours of their larger aircraft, including a dual rotor cargo helicopter. I paid very close attention to the cockpit instrumentation, I assure you.
And I’m with WTP on the boxing thing. Combatives have weight classes for a reason, and the difference in height and size between Carini and Khelif are undeniable (which makes me wonder what kind of chicanery might have been going on there as well). All of this men-in-womens-sport thing would stop in a heartbeat if women just refused to compete aganst men, period. And before anyone tries to tell me “that’s already happening” let me add the codicil “when there are actual consequences for doing so”.
Sports is entertainment, and no one wants to watch womens sport. Not even women want to watch womens sport, and yet mens sporting organizations have been forced by lawfare to fund womens sport for decades. So this is a problem women can solve by themselves.
[ Playfully tongues a Lindor salted caramel truffle. ]
…including a dual rotor cargo helicopter…
That would be a CH-47 Shithook, max takeoff weight around 50,00 lbs. Mi-26, over twice that. Choose accordingly.
[ Playfully tongues a Lindor salted caramel truffle. ]
[and not so playfully opens a new box of tissues]
[ Playful tonguing intensifies. ]
They have healing properties.
A couple decades ago I was persuaded to do a short consulting gig for a startup that was having serious problems with their early product releases.
At our first main session, I was booked for all day meetings with the top team. They spent the whole morning explaining the features and market, in optimistic terms, only briefly touching on the issues at customer sites.
After lunch I opened by saying that they “had not invited me here to hear how wonderful everything is. Tell me about the problems.” Cue nervous glances.
Later, my inside contact told me that the founders had been “put off” by my “attitude”. By that time I was thinking I should have quoted triple my usual rate.
I learned my lesson. They went out of business.
Heh. 90% there. I have enjoyed women’s boxing even though I don’t really approve of the idea. Mostly because of the few fights that I have seen, due to the lessened upper body strength, they tend to be more aggressive /offensive than even the lighter weight men. There are limited other women’s sports that I will watch. Gymnastics for one. Swimming, but that’s likely more because I was a competitive swimmer, diving, some track (though again I kinda disapprove), etc. Anything remotely graceful. That said, I absolutely cannot sit through women’s soccer, field hockey, softball, etc., or (and God help me for having in-laws in Connecticut) basketball. Anything that I can relate to having played it and/or that men do so much better. It’s just so painful and anxiety inducing to watch. Get…to…the…bloody…ball…it’s…right..there…
Today’s satire, tomorrow’s ruthlessly enforced orthodoxy.
Professionally? Agreed to a degree.. People will pay to watch women skaters (ice shows), acrobats (Cirque du Soleil) some basketball (which I personally find boring AF regardless of sex-based team) and pay to get into championship competitions for skating or gymnastics.
There are some “sports” that are not brute physical contests like shooting or car racing where the sex of the participants has no real importance.
Other than that, sport is about the participants and the families of the participants. My daughters were in soccer, swimming, track and field, and I was enthusiastic about attending those games the same way I was all their band performances.
IMHO having your kids play a musical instrument, do a sport AND achieve academically makes for a more well-rounded individual. This is why I find the destruction of women’s/girls’ sports alarming. They shouldn’t be a consolation prize for a mediocre male.
Was thinking about the Trump shooting and I remember a female secret service agent on the stage….ducking. Not part of her job.
Choose accordingly
It’s Canada. I’m working with what I’ve got.
Field hockey just came on, men’s field hockey, on whatever this app/channel/wtf these things are (this streaming crap has gotten so counter intuitive, glad there’s nothing on “TV” that I want to find). My wife asks, “Is this Cricket?” Sigh…
The odd moment of sanity.
It’s only racist when European-Americans notice.
Interesting take.
I will say drafting women into the military makes more sense than the military paying men to pretend they’re women.
The odd moment of sanity.
I wish it were so. OHIP, the Province of Ontario’s public health plan, represents the biggest cost in the Provincial budget. It is very strict about what does and doesn’t qualify under its coverage schedules. I believe this is more about keeping the floodgates closed than any moment of clarity.
A ruling the other way would also open up a substantial number of other procedures that could be ruled psychologically necessary, despite the fact that the procedures are cosmetic and elective in nature. Boob jobs, face lifts and botox could all qualify under the argument put before the courts and that would swamp an already swamped health care system.
It’s only racist when European-Americans notice.
The careful looks on the faces of the two white guys in the center was priceless. They also knew their place and kept their mouths shut, at least in the clip.
She habitually talks down to people–not just other owners but to people on the board. This is a habit guaranteed to not Win Friends and Influence People.
She speaks abruptly–even confrontationally–to people who have not yet spoken impolitely to her. On the other hand, I have found it very productive to express sympathy rather than to lead with antipathy when explaining why something is necessary. This tactic can change if people become “difficult” but it’s a losing tactic when employed from the outset.
[ Places age-appropriate warning on website. ]
So, the flip side of the problem. She’s a bully. Nothing is going to change until someone firmly, in no uncertain terms, stands up to her. You cannot sympathize with a bully. The leader should be the one to do so. That’s what leaders are there for. If others try you’re likely going to have a different mess. Though I suppose she may have sensed, consciously or not, a leadership vacuum. If so it’s possible that some more assertive leadership from the elected leader might shut her up without the need for a confrontation. Maybe. Either way, you need a firm leader for this and many other reasons.
This is why I find the destruction of women’s/girls’ sports alarming
It’s only the professional, win-prizes-and-earn-scholarships part that’s being destroyed, and as I said that part wouldn’t exist in the first place without the lawfare funding it.
If it were truly about the sport and only the sport, none of this would matter. The women and their parents could easily set up their own amateur XX-only leagues and compete to their hearts’ content. Very few womens’ sports require much in the way of equipment and none of them require unique venues.
But it’s not about the sport. It’s about the money.
Maybe.
But it occurs to me that she was threatened by sociopaths that if she didn’t fight him she would be destroyed — she would lose everything. Supporting my thesis is the apology she was forced to make. IOW, she was made several offers that she couldn’t refuse.
These MFs who are pushing men into women’s spaces are dark tetrad nightmares, as in mafioso levels of evil. Most people aren’t equipped to stand up to that level of threat. Unless you’ve got a fortified home and firearms and attack dogs, you might not be willing to be The One To Stand.
They’re not claiming to be trans. It’s likely they were born with a disorder of sexual development wherein they have XY chromosomes but their genitalia didn’t form properly, such as testes not descending into a scrotum.
Everyone assumed they were girls, and that’s how they were raised, but at puberty their testes, still nestled in the abdomen, pumped out massive amounts of T, so they went through male puberty.
So legally they’re women, but in fact they’re not.
Also, I wanted to know how Wayne Burkett had so much time to tweet, and it turns out he’s homebound for some reason.
New baby.
“Also: Ladies, avert your eyes.”
No need – content disabled… to protect us, I expect,
Any NWA, Kamala..?
https://x.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1820164513783828963
High school?
People keep saying this as if it’s not more than a bit overwrought. Nobody was threatening to…kill her. By stepping into the ring at all she was putting herself, her very life in danger. To lose “everything”? No.
Some convoluted/conflicting info on this but here’s the (current) wiki summary:
The IBA had been the recognized governing body for boxing by the IOC until this gender crap came up. Either way, there are things in life much more important than medals. Women have to fight this stuff themselves by refusing to participate.
This right here is the problem that gets lost (somewhat) on the right. And the left, and their d-bag media allies, are being very coy with the information. They use the “assigned female at birth” mantra without explicitly explaining the details. They let the confusion fester so they can spring a Gotcha! later. AIUI…now…or so the unreliable parties say…he visibly, externally in his genital region does appear as female. He does have a very unusual and specific defect. Supposedly. Of course it is impossible to show this because that would of course be wrong. Convenient as that is, it should be irrelevant. The relevant matter here is that his body, his frame, his muscular physique, etc is male because, as genetic testing indicated, he fundamentally has xy chromosomes.
All of this points to, as Daniel Ream frequently indicates, the more fundamental quasi-absurdity of women’s sports. Much of it, especially the sports in which men clearly dominate, only exists as a pandering to women. That said , if women sports are to survive, the classifications would technically be better defined as non-y-chromosome division and an open division. Which should not be a problem but of course, what fun would that be?
Hell… rewrote/reworded that so many times…hope it makes some sense.
Rocky VII
Muddy Waters? Howlin’ Wolf? Big Mama Thornton? Sonny Boy Williamson?
Wonder if she knows Porgy and Bess was written by a Jew?
Wonder if she knows Porgy and Bess was written by a Jew?
I’m willing to bet no, and also willing to bet those records will stay in their protective sleeves and never see the light of day again once the cameras turn off. I also suspect she’s never listened to more than one of those artists. Her selections looked curated for “authenticity” – getting Lightbringer flashbacks here. We’ve already been through this once with the Sainted Obama, PBUH.
High school?
Yes, high school is where children compete for university athletic scholarships.
And? Sometimes that is the only way some kids are going to get to college. So just let the mediocre males push out the girls?