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.
“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.