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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They’re jumping spider eyes. And yes, they sort of match the drapes.
That’s staying, at least on browser tabs and bookmarks. It’s the blog icon. The spider eyes are a me thing, and they follow me around on other platforms. Substacks, X, whatever. Do keep up.
Big if.
Now if only the West were to find the will to deal properly with the savages themselves.
Holy Schnikes! Just nnoooooooo!!!!
What in the holy hell is that freaking thing!!
Mass deportation is the desirable and required solution.
If you stop giving them free money they will self-deport.
Sounds like a win-win to me.
I see my work here is done.
What in the holy hell is that freaking thing!!
A leech, nasal leeches are not uncommon in infested waters.
Because it can be done, that’s why.
Last week or so there was a link that said one could woo a woman with a piece of cheese.
Fact check: True.
Imagine how many kitchen drawers she must have.
Not all of them, not by any means.
How sharper than a serpents tooth…
It’s esoteric knowledge:
Well, I have known couples who had a “we’re spending our kids’ inheritance because we don’t owe them anything” attitude, which seemed callous. But I wouldn’t necessarily trust the accuracy of what these complaining kids are saying. And it’s not uncommon for couples to scrimp and save all through their working lives and only start spending on nice vacations once they have actually accumulated very solid savings and investments.
Seems to be true.
and:
Those examples will also fascinate a man.
Seems to be true.
Also appears to make them grow extra fingers.
OCD much?
Or clicks. Lots of clicks.
Special anti-gravity fingers that make the cheese hover.
But all that really matters is her smile and the small size of her bikini. 😐
Recent severe storms have resulted in linemen being threatened and assaulted by angry locals.
Hostility towards men who are working hard to help people seems particularly bizarre, but I remember that even in the 60’s fire crews were
sometimesnot infrequently attacked when responding to fires and medical emergencies in black slums. Imagine choosing a career oriented towards saving lives only to get shot at or have bricks thrown from rooftops.Looked everywhere but couldn’t find an ounce of sympathy.
For dicentra.
That mansion got marked down from $24 million to $10 mil? Must be too far from the bus line.
This morning NPR ran a long piece about the dangers of traversing the Darien Gap, on the way to the US border. Focused on women and children, of course.
brief lip service was given to the attractive qualities of U.S.residence as a driver of the traffic, which comes from all over the world.
The absolute core, basic force driving those migrants is the knowledge that, if they can just set foot on U.S. territory, they, and possibly their families, will be set for life.
No solution to the mass illegal immigration problem is possible unless that basic fact is acknowledged out loud.
If it weren’t such a horror show of bad decorating, I’d take that as a measure of the decline of the New York real estate market.
But some of the undesirable immigrants are doing okay financially: What makes them undesirable is that even if they were off all welfare programs they bring “cultural values” that America is better off without. So ending free money is necessary but not sufficient.
Not sure, but I seem to recall that Douglas Murray has visited it and talked about it.
Never expected a dime from my parents. They paid most of my college tuition and books. After I was out on my own I tried to pay for dinners, Thanksgiving turkeys, drinks, football tickets, anything I could unless they insisted otherwise. As far as I was concerned, they did enough. My mother-in-law passed last year and left a similarly modest sum to be split between the four daughters equally. I was moderately surprised that there wasn’t a big fight about it. I did get the sense that all four felt that money was hers.
I truly believe that it is wrong to leave your children, or anyone really, huge sums of money. I will likely have a much bigger estate to leave mostly to my niece and nephew but I wouldn’t leave anyone more money than say to cover half the cost of a modest, middle class house. Now if I had a family business or something like that, I could see leaving that provided the heirs had a vested interest in running it. But not raw, fungible cash.
“… the murder rate … is very strongly affected by medical care … a murder today represents 4-5 times as much crime and disorder as a murder in 1960”.
–Tweet here. Original source here.
This is an important fact that has been pointed out before but is often forgotten.
Recent severe storms have resulted in linemen being threatened and assaulted by angry locals.
Let the angry locals sit in the dark.
The problem with that solution is that there are plenty of locals who do not commit crimes. This is one of the reasons I favor “permanent removal” of the criminals. We could have much safer cities if we were to permanently remove the criminals–and, while we’re at it, make life in America too unpleasant for the leftists to remain.
You may have success wooing a woman with cheese, but I would respond positively to this.
Awww. I’ve never attempted to grow a hoya. Maybe it’s time.
i suspected that someone who likes bleeding hearts would like Hoyas.
dicentra: re techniques of allure, per Dorothy Parker (slightly abridged)
One perfect rose he sent me since we met;
All tenderly his messenger he chose:
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet —
One Perfect Rose.
…
Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One Perfect Limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it’s always just my luck to get
One Perfect Rose.
Do I see cheese?
How about fresh hot fajitas? I got ’em, right now.
If anyone scores a date on these premises, there will be a handling fee.
The Associated Press decries “disparities,” champions “racial reckoning,” and implies lots of things:
“Subjective reasons.”
But some rather obvious variables are, it seems, not to be considered.
As noted here, “Disparities are a really bad method for determining whether bias and discrimination exist.”
Very much related.
If anyone scores a date on these premises, there will be a handling fee
Living off immoral earnings, eh?
[ Descends saloon-bar staircase in vampish outfit. ]
For some reason, this came to mind.
Clearly, I need more coffee.
Suddenly recalled: There is a Spanish poetry competition in which the third prize is a silver rose, the second prize is a golden rose, and the first prize is a real rose.
Or:
Somehow never ran across that one before. link.
Habits acquired when that establishment was next door.
I’m still trying to fathom the thought process:
Still coming up blank.
Mental illness? Or moral illness? There do seem to be a lot of clergy whose moral thinking is somewhat…defective.
Do read to the end.
There’s some familiar territory, namely:
Rinse and repeat.
I’m still trying to fathom the thought process:
The blank eyes of a clueless soul, as one friend described it.
There is, as often stated, no thought process, only the ovine repetition of The Message™ for positive feels from the rest of the herd in the hope of approbation from a group who doesn’t give a tinker’s dam about their opinion.
Relevant
I’ll just leave this here for no reason:
And yes, they sort of match the drapes.
Remember when female journalists demanded access to professional sports team locker rooms?
This has lead many to speculate that Holstein specifically targeted the female-only space rather than go to a gym where he was welcome.
Next thing you know the LGBSTASI+/^ will single out the only Christian baker in town. It is almost as if there is an agenda.
Ahem.
Try “Bill the cat Bloom County”
IYKYK…
Nor I. They started with practically nothing (in the 1st word sense) and they didn’t off me after my personality manifested. They gave me a good start and that’s the most I think you should expect from your parents. They are both gone now, but I didn’t think about arguing about how they distributed their money and property.
Go, Hu, go?
September 6 is right around the corner, get yer tickets now!
“Kill the others before me.”
She (or her sect) doesn’t believe in the teachings of Christ. If she’s CoE, to the best of my knowledge, the Episcopal Church in the US is acting the same way. I’m at best an agnostic, despite what’s written on my dog tags.
How many seminaries have been subverted by the left? More than a few, it seems.
Go, Hu, go?
Kids these days…
There’s no thought involved, just feelings untrammeled by rationality or reality.
Remember how male athletes who expressed the slightest discomfort with the situation were ridiculed?
My first thought was to ask What’s on second but…Did Hu always wear the number 60? Once a huge baseball fan, I haven’t followed MLB since my father died in ’07 as about that time they became increasingly woke and stupidly expensive. And the way they exploited the spring training cities in FL. But I digress…Hu-GO is kinda funny.
If you’re traveling to San Diego, don’t blow bubbles in their parks, mmm k?
Heh. And from what I’ve seen, not unfair.
But wait. Does that qualify as hyper-conservative bigotry?
Follow this account to go to prison.
:Hey kids, let’s protest Israel!”
“Great idea! shall we have a sit in?”
“The hell with that, I know just the thing that will stop the Intergalatic Zionist Conspiracy!”