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?
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I’d prefer that these people spend more time studying where things are in the local neighborhood such that they don’t need GPS, and thus an official address, to find say, the swimming pool in the development in the neighborhood half a mile from their station. I believe I related here a year or two ago about having to call 911 (no, really…I called the non-emergency number during normal business hours and was told to hang up and call 911) regarding fire alarm at our pool cabana that had some bloody problem…I forget what. I watched as they drove past us, going to the country club across the street. When I ate lunch the next day at the CC, I joked with the young waitress there about possibly confused firemen arriving the day before. She laughed and said it happens a lot. She had only worked there about nine months and it had happened about three times, just in the hours she worked there.
I say this having several friends who themselves or their husbands are either firefighters or police. I also say this after the Pompano Beach “fire rescue” nearly killed my sister and her husband after one of their trainees froze while driving an airboat, running over them.
I too support the LGBTQC community.
Do you suppose trees will be doing this come November as well?
The Other Half, by the way, was amused by this.
I’m assuming he was feverish.
Despite popular report, sex was invented prior to 1963.
Will we need a sanctuary for David? Before we need one for ourselves, that is. Or maybe it’s just me…
This ‘education and outreach’ involves a lot of big trucks and sirens at odd hours if the fire station across the street is any indication
I reject your anecdote and substitute my own: this far this year there have been three lights and siren visits by fire trucks to my apartment building – one a two alarm – in response to automatic fire alarms going off. They show up, verify that there’s no fire and the alarm system has accidentally tripped again, and then go home. The building superintendents are forbidden by law and insurance policies from doing this themselves.
Heh. The two instances that I related were clearly non-emergency situations. But they sent the big fire truck anyway. Given that they couldn’t find the address (nor their asses with both hands apparently), even if it had turned into a real emergency…somehow…they likely would have found our pool more quickly and then been able to talk in whatever firemantalk they needed to get the truck into our parking lot, if they first came out in a standard SUV. It took a long time due to the several U-turns that they had to make, two that I comically watched, in the big red firetruck.
Death penalty or life without parole for arsonists.
Arson should be charged as attempted murder.
An auto-da-fé would be . . . fitting.
The smirk on the arsonist’s face justifies that.
WTP: re trees, so, are you intimating that trees are actually smarter (or significantly more normal) that Tim Walz’ fair helpmeet, the First Lady of Minnesota, who sweetly disclosed in a a filmed interview that during the Minneapolis riots which her husband did so little to control she made a point of leaving her windows open, the better to catch the smell of burning tires?
I’ve sort considered myself hardened to the insanities of Leftoid freaks, but that little monologue of hers actually took my breath away. For sheer awfulness it topples effortlessly into Winnie Mandela territory and never leaves it. And there is also the fact that she and Walz apparently spawned, their get being the charming child who produced a series of tweets to warn rioters of the mobilization and location of National Guard units who were supposed to be policing the smoking ruins of the city.
But, remember, JD Vance and Trump are the weird ones, yeah?
pst: we WERE endlessly helpful, weren’t we? But poor David is likely still feeling a bit weakly…that or he’s been a bit busy signing up malpractice counsel. Bit of both, prolly.
I can’t imagine what anyone could object to in our advice.
[ Mixes up more hot toddies for David and his significant other. ]
Toddy? Excellent notion. But do go light on those glow-in-the-dark ingredients, Phossy jaw is not an easy sell these days.
OTOH, I’m told you can substitute luciferin and it works a treat. Not exactly sure about the side effects, though.
…which makes David feel a warm glow in his tummy.
Running a red light at 60mph: On drugs? Naturally reckless? Fleeing a crime?
“Firearm with extended magazine” sounds like “hardened criminal” to me.
Regardless, I’ll save my sympathy for the occupants of the car he hit.
re: idle firemen
On last week’s family Zoom call, we were treated to a shrill chirruping every 30 seconds, because some kind of alarm had a low battery. My aged mother (87) didn’t dare attempt to climb a ladder to attend to it, so she took out her hearing aids until such time she could call my sister and her hubs to take care of it.
Which, they removed the batteries from the smoke alarm, but the chirruping didn’t stop. So my mom called the fire department, because they have an outreach program for the elderly, wherein they service all the alarms for them.
Here comes the big hook-and-ladder with six men, and they quickly identified the CO detector, located just below the smoke alarm, plugged into an outlet near the floor. My mom could have dealt with it, but the chirruping was so shrill you couldn’t tell exactly where it came from. (During the call it sounded like the sound was coming from my own hallway.)
So it’s nice that they’ll help out people like my mom to do stuff they have a hard time taking care of themselves.
You are going to go a bit lighter on the dried frog pills this time?
Eye of newt and toe of frog
Wool of bat and tongue of dog
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing …
Old ways are the best ways.
Re: idle firemen etc.
Fair warning: this will be boring AF for most since it’s really just explaining stuff — disregard if organizational details aren’t of interest.
I used to run w/ local Fire/EMS so maybe not applicable in some specifics elsewhere but I’ll go for general relevance. Fire crews have a Lot of downtime when they’re not actually dealing with fires, and the crew of a tanker might be dispatched to a fire leaving the ladder truck crew in station because their equipment isn’t necessary or the fire is small enough not to need all hands. So, they have other duties like checking hydrants, elevators, Opticoms, alarm systems etc. to be done on a regular schedule. When out and about doing Stuff they have to take all their firecall gear and their assigned emergency vehicle with them so if a fire call comes up they’re sent to it direct from the work location, don’t have to straggle back to the station first. (Crews are always in contact with Dispatch and if they happen to be closer to a scene in some other crew’s First-Do area Dispatch will send them, absent any confounding circumstances.)
Fire crews tend to do cooked meals in the crew hall, but on grocery runs the same rule applies: take the truck, all your gear and radios and be ready to sprint off on a few seconds’ notice.
Just as EMS is customarily dispatched to fire scenes, fire crews back up EMS on their calls. See an ambulance running hot followed by a fire truck? Probably a chest pain or difficulty-breathing call. Those often call for a lot more hands than those normally staffed on an ambulance: lifting, oxygen, CPR, etc. Especially if the patient is known or reported to present unusual demands due to, say, obesity, disability, psych issues, site structure problems and so on.
Fire/EMS is also jointly dispatched to vehicle wrecks; fire crews handle extrications, EMS does patient care. Should note that quite a lot of firemen are themselves EMTs and medics, so there’s a lot of crossover on scene.
And both handle what are called community service items (falls w/o injury, wellness checks, standbys at events, and so on.) The setup hopes that way the community gets other matters handled when crews aren’t actually working a fire.
Sorry, got a tad carried away.
Not at all. That’s good information.
Good Lady, my thanks.
I see that a lot.
Yes, that’s right.
In my city, the fire crews are supplemented by a staff of engineers as there aren’t enough fire crews to inspect everything each year. And they’d need even more engineers if it weren’t for the fact that they allow trusted vendors to do some kinds of tests and inspections.
That’s how it works whenever there’s a call to my building, which I assume is because it’s a multi-story building. In contrast, it was always just an ambulance when we called 911 for Mom who lived in a single family house.
I second that.
What are you thinking? David’s sick, not crazy.
“They are punishing that he is Black…”
Behind every criminal are pro-criminal family and friends.
Behind every black criminal is an army of black racist excuse-makers.
The Rise of Neotoddlerism.
Getaway.
“Estonian retards”? It would help to know the context, but news orgs seem to have no interest in giving us context.
On the other hand, this response to assault seems laudable not deplorable:
And isn’t cleaning desks one of the things cleaners are supposed to do? Or are they contractually and morally limited to vacuuming and emptying wastebaskets?
While they were focused on moving the safe would have been an ideal time for a bystander to intervene: “On the ground. One wrong move and I will shoot you dead.”
I fervently wish that people like Gavin would suffer the consequences of their evil policies.
Perhaps it is a spellcheck thing and she meant Etonian retards in which case, who could fault her?
a) Dont be such a slob that you slosh coffee all over, b) if you are going to be such a slob, use a coaster. Problem solved.
“I know where there is a safe we can’t lift or carry, let’s use a car too small for it and then be inconspicuous by taking the tags off”. I’d be willing to bet their trying to open it was high comedy.
Of course. Frankly he is lucky they didn’t see him and get a cap busted on his ass.
“The total eradication of Western civilization.”
What about us Oxbridge retards?
He hosts us doesn’t he?
Just this week there was a discussion about this and it was discovered that the desktop has to be clear of paper and other things in order for the cleaning to happen.
That’s just one of his charming eccentricities.
Another one for the brochure.
Fire crews: I happened to be waiting at the paint store with a fire captain and struck up a conversation. He agreed that the TV show 9-1-1 was over the top. He thought the emergency episodes in Chicago Fire were pretty good except that in a fire inside a building it may be almost pitch black with smoke, which obviously the TV show is not.
That was the expectation at the places where I worked. Not just because it’s an important courtesy to the cleaning staff, but also because you don’t want the cleaning staff disturbing any papers.
Sovereign citizen lunacy meets black racism:
and:
and Booked on Phonics:
Oh, you’d never tire of that.
Nothing to see here. Just a punk dryhumping a cop and getting away with it.
But this is what the ruling class worked hard to enable.
New fear unlocked.
They should keep farther away: The tentacles can be dozens of feet long.
Oh shiny tomorrow.
Don’t think you can polish that.