Reheated (96)
I’ll be taking a break for a few days, and so, to soften this terrible blow, here are some items from the archives:
On the weirdly woke marketing of retailer John Lewis.
Well, quite. I was in John Lewis recently, buying towels, and at no point did I feel a need to know about the cross-dressing bondage activities of the sales staff. Whether the person bagging my towels likes to dress up as a pantomime dame while brandishing instruments of torture was not, it has to be said, foremost in my mind…
Whether female customers, the backbone of John Lewis’ customer base, will be inspired to shop harder and more often by the thought of employees bringing their autogynephilia to work remains to be seen. Ditto bondage fantasies and wearing rubber dog costumes. Perhaps well-off ladies in search of posh frocks and upscale furnishings will be dazzled and enchanted by the thought of sad, cross-dressing men in thigh-high boots who like to share photos of themselves smeared with unspecified white substances.
Four women fondle straw, tongue moss.
Bravely, I Cope With Rejection.
Royal Air Force sidelines fitness tests, prioritises brownness, womb-having.
The paragraph immediately above was posted as a comment on the Personnel Today website. It was held for moderation, then disappeared.
Why Don’t You Welcome Further Degradation?
Observer columnist excuses habitual, organised shoplifting. Dystopian surrealism ensues.
We will lock up the product, but not the thief. And utopia will surely follow.
Ms Gill is not alone, of course. According to her Guardian colleague Owen Jones, expecting persistent shoplifters to face consequences for their actions is now among “the worst instincts of the electorate.” Because shoplifters are “traumatised,” apparently. The real victims of the drama.
At which point, a thought occurs. If repeated thieving is so high-minded and so easily excused, perhaps Ms Gill and Mr Jones would be good enough to publish their home addresses, the whereabouts of any valuables, and the times at which they’re likely to be out, or at least preoccupied or unconscious.
Or do our betters only disdain other people’s property?
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Oh shiny tomorrow.
I think we’ve all seen Wall-e.
ccscientist: “we do not tolerate women being subject to rape and torture (unless of course they are captives of Hamas, then whatevs).”
What do you mean “we?” Israel clearly doesn’t tolerate it, as is their prerogative. But I am a US citizen and Israel, last I checked, is not the 51st state. The tolerating of it, or not, has nothing to do with us.
cloudbuster: to clarify
“we (United States) do not tolerate women being subject to rape and torture (unless of course they are (US) captives of Hamas, then whatevs).”
please go back and review what happened when some US service women were captured in the Gulf War and note that there have been US hostages of Hamas and still are (4 left I think)
Arsonist freed without bail.
When the government refuses to protect its citizens, what should citizens conclude?
That public order is an afterthought to bureaucratic featherbedding.
Commenting on the Olympics, someone asked:
Q: Why are women from Norway so gorgeous?
A: It’s the fermented shark and the lye preserved herring. Beauty isn’t cheap.
Or that they prefer criminals over good citizens.
Birds of a feather . . .
They shouldn’t conclude anything. They have a moral obligation to their children and the ensuing generations to lynch the bastards. But they won’t. They wouldn’t want to be seen as overreacting.
That they’re no longer citizens, but serfs. Or maybe even less.
Our betters have opinions.
Scenes of Olympic breakdancing.
Breakdancer’s, um, philosophy here.
That’s…”interesting”. To gain respect in any “white” field of endeavor all you need to do is show competence.
Intrigue.
To wit:
U.S. Secret Service Breaks into Massachusetts Hair Salon and Tapes Over Security Camera, Allegedly to Let People Use the Bathroom During Kamala Harris Fundraiser.
“The salon’s owner, Alicia Powers, had already complied with the Secret Service’s requests by closing her business for the day to accommodate the security needs of the event, which was being held at the nearby Colonial Theatre.
…
Security footage obtained by Business Insider showed a female Secret Service agent taping over the lens of a Ring security camera located at the salon’s entrance.
The agents then proceeded to break into the salon, triggering the security alarm and using the facilities for nearly two hours before leaving the building completely unsecured.”
Ms Gunn finds problematic the “privilege” of being uncommonly good at something, specifically, via effort and conscientiousness. Those “standardised, institutionalised rubrics” of discernible competence.
What’s worth noting, I think, is not so much Ms Gunn and her attempts to rationalise her own inadequacy and childishness, but the fact that her inadequacy and childishness are being publicly indulged in an Olympic event. By grown-ups.
Breakdancer’s, um, philosophy here.
There is some “research” sure to advance the entire human race.
I missed that part of the routine, I guess. My first thought was some Tegretol was in order.
Meanwhile in Vancouver the Muslims get lectured by someone who, unsurprisingly, is unfamiliar with the religion or culture.
[ Rolls shelled, hard-boiled egg to PiperPaul. As it travels, fluff accumulates. ]
So…WTF with your nazi/Stasi/gestapo po-po over yonder threatening American citizens with arrest and deportation? Back when the Ayatollah threatened Salmon Rushdie, I predicted that the Muzzies would eventually be running the UK if that blatant power move wasn’t directly and unequivocally addressed. But even my “conservative” friends told me that I was being ridiculous. Not a single person that I knew took my point seriously. Now the UK is threatening US citizens? I never, ever would have predicted that one. And yet again conservatives…”conservatives” won’t open their stupid pie holes about it. F*** people. F*** “conservatives”. You deserve this, US and UK “conservatives”, not me.
…Speaking of governments refusing to protect their citizens. No word from our feckless government that I have seen.
Reminds me of an old joke. How do you know that the Secret Service has broken into your business? The toilet seat is up and the cat is pregnant. May not have originally been about the Secret Service though. And come to think of it, the likelihood of a Secret Service agent of and gender needing to put the seat up is a bit suspect…OK, maybe their women would. But the cat thing…
Now all we need are Truth, Justice, Freedom, and Reasonably Priced Love.
It’s the ignorant certitude that makes them superior.
Facebook has deleted Richard Dawkins’ account for gender wrongthink.
She forgot ‘clumsy’.
And ‘inept’.
Richard!
Welcome to the party, pal!
Think I see part of the problem.
It really should be more surprising that the Metropolitan Police Commissioner doesn’t grasp the concept of jurisdictions.
It’s cultural movement. Actually.
I used to know many liberals (many of them atheists who adored Dawkins) who laughed about conservatives being silenced on Facebook and other social media–and even about ISP’s shutting down their personal web pages and banks de-banking them. I wonder if this will cause them to reevaluate their opinions and principles. Extremely unlikely but conceivable.
Dawkins has reservations about the newly-eternal verity of trans existence so he’s conservative by default and fully deserving of the opprobrium and consequences coming his way. Thus progressivism progresses.
BTW, principles?
As I type, bank robber is winning.
OK, but Tegretol would still fix it. However, if that is Aussie Olympic level, I’d hate to see the ones who didn’t make the cut.
A recurring pattern.
Charles Johnson of the Little Green Footballs blog was branded a far right extremist for writing about Islam.
K C Johnson of the Durham In Wonderland blog was likewise condemned as a sexist and racist for exposing the Duke University Lacrosse scandal.
And so on.
Yes. Depraved principles, but principles nonetheless.
Link. Read to be provoked into dreaming of tar and feathers. Boiling tar.
Right now, we’re a month away from spending two weeks in London and Cornwall, so you can imagine how much I’m thrilled to experience the diverse cultures and their quaint native traditions in Blighty.
I’ll let you know how it goes if we get back.
I’m told Cornwall is very nice.
Shouldn’t principles have a bit more staying power than a mayfly?
Hmmm. I thought he was targeted for helping sink Dan Rather’s career.
Well, both. But I most frequently saw him condemned as “islamophobic” and “racist”. At least that’s how I remember it.
Stalin’s principles seem to have great staying power. Just look in any university.
@pst314
@aelfheld
Re: Dalrymple quote
I also recognize that quote. I think it was from the diary of someone in Romania (Bucharest), not Hungary. But I can’t say I’m 100% certain.
I’m told Cornwall is very nice.
It has to be nicer than Cornwall, Ontario. I remember being greeted by the lovely smell of rotting vegetation that a pulp mill emits while driving through. Though I’m told the plant closed some years ago.
The ‘cultural movement’ clown “was swept out of the round-robin stage without earning a single point, and her unconventional moves landed flat while failing to match the skill level of her foes.”
A ludicrous cap to a ludicrous event.
doesn’t grasp the concept of jurisdictions
That’s why they love social media so much. Someone read it on UK soil, ergo they have jurisdiction.
Who gave them the monopoly on such absurd BS*? I am reading their unconstitutional (US sense) threats on US soil. Ergo the US has jurisdiction on them just the same. But of course…again…the feckless US administration and their cucked butt-sniffing GOP clowns. F*** them. Where’s the push back on this from the US government, or anyone of significance in the US? Right or left? The word ‘liberal’ used to mean something. Though I suppose it always was a rather liberal definition.
*I’ll tell you who. The worthless cowards who call themselves “conservatives” and especially “Americans” and “American patriots”. What clowns. What blowhards. If you do not push back on this sort of thing, hard, early on, you are just surrendering. Slowly perhaps, like we have for decades. See again, Salmon Rushdie. Pathetic.
I’m confused — is it just that I wasn’t paying attention to things when the Olympics decided to go to an Anyone-Can-Participate model, or is it just Australia? I mean, that’s all well and good, but isn’t the next step going to be Everybody-Gets-A-Medal?Because if so, my dudes, this is Great!! I’m gonna kill them in Gymnastics and Track and Field. ALL the events.
Childhood dream coming true.
Uma,
Wife and I will be in London, Cotswolds, and the Jurassic coast next month. The last time I was in the UK was 1986. I’m expecting things to be different. We’ll see.
I don’t really NEED to be there. My last UK-related goal, to stand on Newton’s grave, has already been achieved.
my new goal, to sneak into the Tower at night to dig for treasure, was inspired by Sam Pepys. He and his friends say they didn’t find any. I’ll let all y’all know how It goes.
This is the second time in as many days that LGF has come up. What the hell?
As for the Dawkins account, Meta claims that his account had been hacked, so they shut it down to secure it. And that the hacky activity had taken place before the boxing issue had even come up. Which, they never notified him of such, so it’s all very sus.
I’ve retweeted this thread about the judges who are sentencing alleged instigators of the riots within days of being arrested. Every single one of them has gone extremely easy on pedos and pervs. The rot goes awfully deep, lads. And apparently the original poster has been reported to the UK authorities.
It would appear that the authorities actually believe that online incitement is the real problem, that absent the posts, the riots would never occur. All of the concerns such as two-tier policing and the immigration policies themselves are not real — they’re being ginned up by far-right radicals, so they have a moral imperative to shut it down hard.
But then that tracks, doesn’t it? Bad leaders are never to blame, their policies can’t possibly have negative results, and so it’s all the work of wreckers and saboteurs.
“I’m just going to leave this here.“
My, since the Wizard departed, the Cowardly Lion has let himself go….
Heroin addict IMNSHO would be the most honorable of the four. Yet it’s currently running last. Go figure.
Were you not inspired to shop harder than ever by the sad perv panto? Did you not feel a warm affinity with these glorious and heroic “identities”?
Tsk. What about all those “similarities” you’re supposed to be recognising?
What was the other instance? I don’t recall. Here? Elsewhere?
Heh. Excellent. Anyone want to have a go at rewriting “If I Were King of the Forest”?
Actual incitement should of course be dealt with, but there is, I think, more than a whiff of displacement. Ostentatious secondary activity to avoid, or at least defer, addressing the root discontent. The vast, unwanted experiment in demographic transfusion, and all of the dishonesties that follow from it.
An old story, easier to go after the guy who doesn’t have a machete or not lock up the one who will come after you after he gets out of the slammer.
Meanwhile in the US&A, scenes from a rally:
A “transman” and friend offer political insights.
Someone suggested the crowd might be vampires. Also interesting depth of field where only the middle is totally out of focus.
That’s also why they love the idea of World Government. No one should be safe anywhere from their…tentacles.
Dare I suggest that “being myself” is very much the problem.
Note that such people see themselves as defined by their quirks and eccentricities.
Not entirely unrelated:
No, really.
I am still marveling at the “guy” who is worried “he” might get pregnant again, you just can’t get more authentic than that.
From the link:
Managers are supposed to be managers because they have superior skills in managing people. And yet many of them are blind to the inherent problems with the “bring your whole self to work” fad. Or else they see those problems are proof of the need for further politicization of the workplace.
Exactly. As opposed to skills, abilities and accomplishments.
Last week, while doing some grocery shopping, the checkout assistant suddenly launched into an unprompted, rather incongruous discussion about the riots. As if customers would obviously want to hear the political views of a twenty-something cashier. I managed to deflect any further outpouring, but it did rather jar with an otherwise agreeable excursion.
Jurisdiction: In Thailand it is a crime to insult the king. I am told they would really like to apply that to the internet, if they could.
Yep, wreckers and saboteurs, that is the root cause.
Interesting election strategy Kamala has going–no interviews, put on a happy face. They are the party of enthusiasm, of smiles. No mention of policy. It might work because people are idiots.
Discussion or diatribe? I assume his views were ignorantly “progressive”?
I would be tempted to respond with something aggressively rude.
“Normandy was a mistake you traitorous ingrates at least France put up a fight”
WTF? Has this cartoonist never heard of the Battle of Britain? Is he unaware that Britain stood against Nazi Germany for over two years before America entered the war?
I shut it down, politely, before many details could be aired. But it was going pretty much where you’d expect.
In person, I’m a sweetheart.
[ Holds up painting of cherubic infant. ]
Sneaky little hobbitses.
Well they would wouldn’t they.
Of course it’s suspect but Zuckerberg & Co have gotten away with lying for so long it’s become their default response.
Peter Whittle ponders a recent, very rapid transformation.
Surely the White House Press Secretary and The New York Times will get right on these ‘cheapfakes’.
Can’t recall who said abortion is the sacrament of the Left but it does have a certain resonance.
They are silent clowns, mimes, and in dire need of a spell in the scorpion pit.
False smiles. Hiding malevolent intentions.
Girl is upset because her boss won’t accommodate her “time blindness”
Proclaims that expecting punctuality is a culture that “needs to be dismantled”.
I’m just going to quietly leave this here.
[ Glares. Pouts. ]
Some tell me this is parody. Please?
If it is, it’s a little too plausible for easy laughter. Certainly, the motivation exists.
I’m just scandalised that some of you haven’t yet committed to memory every single paragraph of every single post.
It’s an outrage.
Eh? Speak up, sonny!
You just might want to stock up on salt of hartshorn.
Huffing sal volatile for the vapors? Truly, old ways are the best ways.
If you start citing Herodotus, know that I’m sticking to wine thank you very much.
Historical side note: Until relatively recently, Herodotus’ account of that practice was taken by many as evidence of his unreliability until archaeological evidence was found. Similarly what he wrote about gold-digging giant ants.
And flying snakes.