Friday Ephemera (734)
Wax and other objects. || Bodes well. || The science of bunnetics. || A little buffing should do it. || She doesn’t give two shits. || She didn’t like the look of it. || It’s not cold, Mom. || Comets, catastrophes, and the oldest solar calendar. || Neater than yours. || On animating Akira. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Upper West-side mansion, now only $10 million. || Pride, baby. || On piercings, tattoos and mental health. || Cold plasma. || This doesn’t happen in Waitrose. || Explanation underway. || Your toilet paper is shrinking. || The progressive retail experience, parts 575, 576, and 577. || “That’s alright, it happens all the time.” || Spa day takes a turn. || Suboptimal situation. || I’ll just leave this here. || The thrill of phone mites. || And finally, something to think about before you go to sleep tonight.
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I don’t want to know what their “pride” flag’s colors are.
Billy clubs are a fairly good explanatory technique. But measures which terrify potential “migrants” into changing their minds are preferable.
Not one word about inflation and its true causes in government policy. How unsurprising.
You know what doesn’t happen all the time? Criminals getting shot dead. 🙁
See my previous comment. Because nothing will reform these animals.
The progressive flying experience, part 192.
Restitution is necessary. But so is prison and a beating.
Her fridge is neater than yours. Her mind, on the other hand…
“Kelly was last seen in June 2013 after leaving on a spiritual quest. Her friend reported she went into the woods naked with only a compass and knife in a fanny pack.”
“clearly designed to break up her shape against the background, thus making it difficult for German U-Boats to calculate her range, speed, and direction.”
If we banned every harmful habit, all the progressives would be in prison.
No wonder. What an eclectic mix of tacky, bland, and especially uncomfortable. Reminiscent of bad porn. What?
think you Muldooned the link.
For whom?
Metamucil® might help.
Robby Starbuck mounts another head on the wall.
Blast, I wanted to see those.
Also, posting a link on Twitter looks better. No more metallic bug-eyes. Thank you.
From now on I’m sleeping with my head in a box.
Morning, all.
Glad to hear it. But madam, you will never know how much faffing that entailed.
For some reason, this came to mind.
Daddy-daughter playtime.
You have to repeat it eight times.
Look, those are the rules.
Woooow. The Cluster B is strong in this one.
And in entirely unrelated news:
[ Slurps coffee. ]
You have to repeat it eight times.
[ Waits for Beetlejuice to appear ]
Ms Cronk is an activist, an “advocate,” and “an aspiring philosopher.”
Pronouns “they/she.”
An intellectual for our times.
*burns phone*
They’re still there.
Aging British actresses turn on each other.
I was watching the 1982 film of Evil Under the Sun a few days ago. Camp as Christmas, but good fun.
I think I actually prefer it to Death on the Nile, which came out a few years earlier.
A new term has been coined. Everyone write it down.
LOL. That one took me a while.
Yes, squinting helps.
Upper West-side mansion, now only $10 million.
Can’t say I like that “24 designers, each with their own flavor concept.” That first parlor off the foyer is hideous.
And 120 years old? At that price . . . I want a ghost. I need a certificate of guarantee of a haunting.
I suppose that if ectoplasm started manifesting and the walls began to bleed, that might obscure some of the décor. Or at least take your mind off it.
The progressive retail experience, parts 575, 576, and 577. || “That’s alright, it happens all the time.”
“An armed society is a polite society.” — Robert Heinlein
I understand people’s arguments that preventing theft with bodily harm is disproportionate, but . . . it would only happen a few times. After that, I would think the deterrence is established with the occasional reminder needed.
It was called British understatement, never American understatement. 😉
I actually thought there’d be a happy ending…
Ironically, my link introduces a new term, fridgescaping.
Her fridge is neater than yours. Does she do it for clicks or does she have terminal OCD? (That link, by the way, is a useful source of Chicago crime news.)
No refunds. Credit note only.
Because who wouldn’t want to fight their way past ornaments and portraiture, and risk knocking over several vases, just to find the leftover cheesecake?
A new term has been coined.
Fair enough.
Muldoon: (v.) To forget to act as if you are as mindless as a Gen Z WordPress code monkey while using the Link-O-Matic™ 9000 or other hieroglyphic “shortcuts” designed for other mindless Gen Z nitwits.
“Wow, I almost Muldooned that link! I only checked it twice!”
Speak of the devil.
Yes, but have you tried using the thing without wearing oven gloves?
Speak of the devil.
Hey, I am not The Devil, just a Deputy Assistant Undersecretary Adjunct Devil.
[ Adds cheesecake to shopping list. ]
Yes, but have you tried using the thing without wearing oven gloves?
They are not oven mitts, they are OSHA approved asbestos fireman gloves. It is hot down here, you know, and at least I am not psting the thread.
pst: (v) To post three or more posts with links one after the other, probably in an attempt not to have a single post with multiple links.
“Not again, my post was banjaxed by the Spam-No-Mor (Ausf. G)™. Damn Gen Z code monkeys suck so hard they could start a deuce and a half by sucking the exhaust”
On the upside, very little spam gets through, despite dozens of attempts on any given day.
I did notice how the the shallow, counter-depth refrigerators in the Upper West Side mansion link eliminates that problem. A very handy thing for those of us with wheelbarrows of extra cash to spend.
Space Bimbos.
Olympic sport that needs to be brought back.
On the upside, very little spam gets through…
Perhaps, but what is the ratio between spam and innocuous, like what just got stuck? Is there a list of secret words like b i m b o (in case that was what did it) or is it just a crap shoot?
Separate topics generally belong in separate comments. So there.
[ Searches internet for “Bloom County” plus “raspberry”. Finds dismaying number of ads for cannibis and no cartoon characters sticking their tongues out. ]
I’m glad it’s only dozens.
In my experience this is nearly always the result of a failed copy/paste caused by hasty typing. If nothing actually gets pasted, the original body text remains.
For every genuine comment that gets held in limbo, there are hundreds of spam comments. I think we’ve had a couple of dozen false positives in, what, two years.
I can set verboten words, though I haven’t seen a need to. I’m not sure what other, behind-the-scenes criteria Akismet, the anti-spam software, uses.
It’s quite an eye-opener, seeing just how many attempts are made to post spam, and malicious login attempts – currently close to 3,000. It’s an ongoing barrage in the background.
[ Adds double cream to shopping list. ]
There’s also the equivalent of a cinema rating for salty language – 18, 15, PG – though again, I tend to give commenters a certain leeway.
It’s a pity there is no practical way to track down all the malicious actors and, er, deal with them.
Speaking of which, for how many of us is “Jane you ignorant slut” one of the most memorable lines from the original Saturday Night Live? A sketch which presumably could not be done today.
Absolutely. There have been days when I’d happily have bought the gasoline.
It tends to come in waves. Some of them quite big.
This.
“More than a feeling.“🎵
Let’s call these creatures “Blofelds”.
A new term has been coined. I keeeeed, I keeeed. Band name tho? Cheesy band like The New Seekers or Strawberry Alarm Clock or The Knack.
In my experience this is nearly always the result of a failed copy/paste caused by hasty typing.
No, what it does is revert back,as I noticed yesterday, to the highlighted text to make the banjaxed link. For example if the highlighted text was “to make the banjaxed link” the banjaxed link would be:
which in no way would be the result of hasty typing (unless a psychopath or Gen Z) or failure to save particularly as the link works until posted, whereupon the banjaxed link won’t be seen unless the third check before the edit button goes away.
I don’t expect anything to change, but as I am old enough to be officially licensed to yell at clouds and sufficiently nerdish to have been a Windows 3.0 beta tester, this is all part of the trend by people who can’t even tell time on a non-digital clock to try to make things look and work like phones whether it is an OS interface, the new idiotic flatscreen instrument panels in cars, or “smart” refrigerators.
Get off my lawn.
Ummm…eewww?
Oven gloves.
Whenever I see the term 20% now I think of Muldoon. Hey, I don’t like it either but it is what it is.
Heh. Ooh, that’ll leave a mark.
And in “who are we to judge” news from the world of marine mammals…
Whenever I see the term 20% now I think of Muldoon.
I am tantalizing that way, but am not into man crushes, sorry.
a failed copy/paste
A demonstration: I type some text, click the link icon, and then click save.
The result: When I go back to edit the link I see “http://” prepended to my text.
I think it’s down to his love of viscose and polyester. All that static build-up.
On topic?
It sounds like you’re referencing a specific situation or context involving “David,” “Muldoon,” and a “comment creation box.” Without more context, this statement is quite abstract and could mean various things depending on the scenario.
Here are a few interpretations:
Could you provide more context or clarify the situation? That way, I can give you a more accurate explanation.
I have no idea why this disturbs me more than ordinary shrimp preparation, but it does.
Douglas Adams was right! He warned us!
pst314: “But measures which terrify potential “migrants” into changing their minds are preferable.”
Mass deportation is the desirable and required solution.
Recipes are getting so complicated.
Noting a certain . . . symmetry . . . is probably inadvisable.
When you have more paper pushers you need more paper.
Upbuggered link?
Any indication she covered herself in A.1. before she set off?
Be told
Sandford Police
@Sandford_Police
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Aug 29
We deal with lots of people every single day. A lot of them make very, very poor lifestyle choices
We cannot leave the decision making process up to them
This is for #TheGreaterGood
Muldooned. The term is Muldooned.
Use diesel – takes longer to ignite.
The British Museum, saving things from savages.
I think it’s down to his love of viscose and polyester. All that static build-up.
Says the man in the leopard skin velour blogging thong sitting on a velvet chair surrounded by squirrels.
I think it is static at your end coupled with acorn crumbs gumming up the Link-o-Matic 9000™.
Yes, well, the memo was farther down in the stack.
See, it works when you focus. And are relatively sober.
Hang on a minute. Just going to try something.
Never mind.
“Muldoon” might feel “oppressed” by these constraints, which were set up by “David.”
That is it exactly, they are all Muldoonophobes, I am going to report the lot to the Ministry of Non-Offensiveness, and you’ll all be laughing out the other side of your faces when the Metropolitan Internet Listening Flying Squad bashes your door in at 3 AM.
That, and Muldoonation as in “What in the Muldoonation have these Gen Z soy sauce dick dippers wrought now?!”
For some f’n bloody reason, perhaps my own Muldoonery, I cannot just copy the text so here’s a screen shot. Sandford Po-po ain’t real po-po.
Doh! More muldoonery…hit post instead of the picture thingy.
If we only post on Sunday mornings before brunch, it’s gonna get mighty dull around here. Peaceful. But dull.
I thought I could give auto-generated avatars to those wretched souls without them. The poor. But it only applies to those who’ve registered with the blog. And those lazy buggers can sort themselves out. Making the place look untidy.
I also discovered there’s an “even more mature” setting. Which for some reason made me laugh.
Anything which deflects attention from my own very rare and entirely excusable errors is a Good Thing.
Heh. And I see the owl eyes are back. If I get a vote I say keep them. That “N, blog” thing was getting lost in my sea of open tabs. But if not, anything non-textual has my vote. If we’re voting. This pretending to have democratic processes seems to be sweeping the world’s other Guilds Of Evil.