Friday Ephemera (738)
At last, the ever-changing pronoun pin you’ve always wanted. || Loud chomping, heard from below. || The thrill of personal airbags. || Suboptimal situation. || Still a bear, madam. || Man cave, not bear cave. || He was not entirely cooperative, and then there was the business with the machete. || How to remove those whale skeletons from your ceiling. || Milky loveliness. || From 1963, a laboratory of smells and some educated noses. || She “felt God’s presence,” you know. || Unwell woman, one of many. || When you’re a little too into yourself. || A cunning use of cardboard. || At least the ducks were unharmed. || Odd dog. || Further to last week, more thrills of frog venom. || Big horse fart. The fart, I mean, not the horse. || Moths and butterflies. || And finally, in case you didn’t know, they unfold.
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Sven the Farting Horse is an unusual name for a YouTube channel.
Trans person looks for “love” on Grindr, finds only drug addicts and extreme losers, blames conservatives.
They don’t call the other guy “the deceiver” for nothing.
There’s not nearly enough smiting going on these days.
Should that have been included with the preceding entry?
Oh for a portable lightning generator.
Duck.
Sven the Farting Horse
Well, there is Walter the Farting Dog.
@pst314
https://youtu.be/bSQAmZN6WEY
Trans person looks for “love” on Grindr, finds only drug addicts and extreme losers…
With a user name like “FentEnjoyer54” I am shocked that a person can only find drug addicts and extreme losers. Truly an unfathomable conundrum.
‘A cunning use of cardboard.’
Missed a couple. Could have got the lot with a shotgun!
‘He was not entirely cooperative, and then there was the business with the machete.
You have to wonder at the mentality of someone facing armed cops who thinks ‘It’s OK, I’ve got a machete, I can win this!’
Creamy! 🤢
Morning, all.
Absolutely. But the mindset is not at all uncommon. See pretty much any episode of Cops or Live PD. Counting the examples of bewildering decision-making would make for a hardcore drinking game.
According to devotees,
Which sounds enticing.
I once worked in a place with a communal fridge and someone had bought almond milk sweetened with apple juice. Instead of, you know, milk. I took a cautious sip and assumed it had expired, catastrophically. But apparently that’s just how it tastes.
Twenty-five years later, I still remember the experience.
What goes up…
Just decided we’re having shrimp for tea.
Blaming the rather marginal gentlemen he encounters on being in “a conservative town” was quite the manoeuvre. Very bold. And hey, his quest to find true love, by browsing Grindr, took up the whole day.
Still, at least we now know that it’s possible to be a fentanyl user and to simultaneously look down on cocaine users. Which is not what I’d have expected, to be honest.
They don’t call the other guy “the deceiver” for nothing.
I can’t remember the source, but there was one depiction of Lucifer I recall where he was scrupulously honest. Never told a lie. The trick was that he phrased things such that people assumed or inferred things that were untrue, but he never told an actual lie. The apellation “Prince of Lies” referred to the lies he got people to tell themselves.
[ Passes Daniel glass of almond milk sweetened with apple juice. ]
[ Peers over spectacles. ]
Moron with a death wish.
Again, if you’ve seen the series Cops, or watched even a handful of videos like the one above, the criminals’ decision-making is routinely bewildering. The needless and often alarming escalation does suggest perversity, a determination to pick the worst possible course of action. And so, an enquiry about an assault is turned into… well, that.
As noted before, if you assume the thought process will be much like your own, you’re going to be wrong-footed, perhaps disastrously.
From the video description:
I laughed and I’m not sorry.
On rhetorical tactics and a flash of boob.
It’s good when people you want to avoid self-identify.
Yes, there is that. It could, albeit unwittingly, save a lot of time and needless aggravation. It basically says, “I’m unbelievably tiresome and self-involved, and really not worth the effort.”
Man cave, not bear cave.
Black bears. Hit the alarm button on your key fob, that should do the trick. Here in the Smokies, many a tourist has a sad tale to tell the car rental or their auto insurance rep as to why the interior of the vehicle was trashed due to leaving car doors unlocked and items like greasy bags from McDonalds inside.
[ Faints at thought of greasy, food-smeared detritus anywhere near the car’s upholstery. ]
She “felt God’s presence,” you know.
Hell is hot.
Also, the ask me option. Because, obviously, they’re so interesting. And no-one has anything better to do.
And you have to wonder what happens when two of these wankers meet each other. Whose fascinating self do they affirm and discuss first?
And so on, until the stars burn through their fuel.
Likely is partly due to knowing that cops are expected to exercise restraint, rather than to do society a favor and just shoot his worthless ass. But the more he acts up, the more the testosterone kicks in and rules his actions and the less able he is to get down off that peak of extreme behavior.
Also: Likely thinks that, regardless of danger, it’s an unacceptable surrender of his masculinity and his authenticity to back down.
This is the sophisticated material that gives this blog its special je ne sais quoi.
Band name.
Heh. I’m beaming with pride.
Ever vigilant.
You’d have to tip the guys at the car wash.
Heh. Quite generously, I suspect.
Still, at least we now know that it’s possible to be a fentanyl user and to simultaneously look down on cocaine users.
TBF, the cocaine guy still had a disco ball up and was wearing a patterned Elvis collar Quiana shirt with bell bottoms and platform shoes which clashed horribly with the de rigueur Derelicte look for his crowd.
She was out of her depth and probably hearing a point of view she’s never heard before.
Coming soon: selected essays by Gerard Vanderleun of American Digest. I miss him.
There do seem to be a lot of women who use sex to get what they want, be it free meals and drinks, favors, good grades, or to persuade and distract.
Girlie, you have nothing between your legs that can change my mind. And you have nothing between your ears period.
I know practically nothing about Charlie Kirk, and little about Vivek Ramaswami, and it’s possible I’m missing some context, but the student’s behaviour and choices are rather telling and very much of a type. The avoidance of substance and specifics, despite repeated invitations; the irrelevant and selective concern with status, age, and possibly with race; the contradictions, feigned ignorance, and the endless, obvious dishonesty.
Almost everything she says is an evasion, a lie, or hostility masked as compassion for some designated victim group. The tone is one of, “I don’t actually care about whether you’re right or whether what I’m saying makes sense. I just want to do damage to you.”
I don’t believe she’s remotely interested in whether anything she says is true, or even coherent, merely in how she seems among her peer group. A peer group in which the same mindset is presumably quite common.
The weird boob flashing is just the icing on the cake.
I remember his rather impassioned urging to leave Typepad. I took it as a compliment.
I often have the same problem when reading about UK events and issues.
Speaking of which: Jordan Peterson has now interviewed Tommy Robinson twice:
Interview #1. Audio only.
Interview #2. Audio only.
I think both interviews can also be found on Jordan Peterson’s YouTube channel.
The satanic stink of leftism.
[ Checks whether Typepad has been seriously upbuggered again this week. Discovers, yes, it has. ]
[ Pokes through Typepad’s X feed, laughs darkly. ]
Each new issue seems to last for days on end, and something important stops working practically every other week. Out of the last two years, only three months have passed without some major failure. Can’t believe how long I put up with it, and it’s only gotten worse, much worse, since leaving.
Separated into what?
Like mints and orange juice.
Band name.
As long as there’s no number 2 follow up.
“Typepad is a premier hosted blogging service…”
Racist scumbag white man.
It’s the line, “We love our bloggers!”
Claims of deep affection, from a hosting company, are inapt, improbable, and beside the point. And any personal warmth might be best expressed in providing a service that actually works. Since moving, almost two years ago, this site’s downtime has been measured in minutes – maybe twenty minutes or so. At Typepad, in the last year alone, it was measured in weeks.
Are you ruling out Neil Young & Farting Horse?
Are you ruling out Neil Young & Farting Horse?
Perhaps I should have said “follow through”
Fox weather person: this is one of many where a Fox weather (man always) rescues someone in water. I remember the coverage of the hurricane that hit Houston. Lots of good-ol-boys in their fishing boats going up and down rescuing thousands, many many of them POC. There was one black guy on a jet ski, and a woman helping, but a female deputy had to be rescued. Yep, those terrible white, conservative men. To make it worse, they were mostly bearded manly men. Oh the humanity!
The year of St. Floyd did more to turn people off from being tolerant than any KKK rally. The huge crowds of looters was…a negative for racial harmony. A huge self-own.
Although not as offensive as “congratulations on buying our product”.
I’d prefer a simple “thank you”.
Best assumption: Typepad is now an orphan which they intend to eventually kill, and so they spend minimally on support while encouraging customers to switch to their newer service Bluehost.
Likewise being tolerant of the “be kind to criminals” left.
Lawyers. The word you’re looking for there is ‘lawyers’.
Yeah…I have some issues with that scene. Which I believe stem from the DEI hire cops themselves. Obviously the guy is uncooperative and responsible for the situation he was in. He obviously has problems. That said, having a female cop, one who stays in the background no less, is less than useless. Additionally, even in the context of female cop, she doesn’t come across as sufficiently assertive. Then we have black cop taking the lead. Probably not as messed up in the head as machete guy but resorting to shooting a guy that quickly seemed a bit over the top given the tight space and such but especially assuming he had a taser option. Now I could be very wrong on that assumption but if so, that should raise considerable issues. There’s obviously no guarantees and no way to “prove” this but had the cops been two white, male, physically intimidating police officers, ones with a taser option available, machete guy just goes to prison and our time spent on this would have been more wisely used watching another cat video.
Or high-velocity turds landing on cars. Could go either way.
Hey, I like to offer something for everyone.
[ Peers at clientele. ]
I kinda saw that one as a metaphor. Or a prophecy. I’m not really sure which.
Against my better judgment, and all decency, I’m now picturing the nearest hand car wash being inundated with customers, dozens of them, their vehicles all heavily encrusted with excrement.
What?
OK, my bad on some of that. Watched it again a couple more times, finally at 1/4 speed and I do see where female cop did deploy the taser, and a pretty good shot too considering she had to shoot around the lead/black cop. Which also explains why he went down like a sack of potatoes. Also, from the text:
For a second there, I did wonder which video you were scrutinising.
From the link “The two animals ate in harmony with one another without a single fight breaking out among them.”
Um, what happens when the cat decides it’s time for the meat course isn’t exactly what you’d call “a fight.”
That’s not a Christian pastor or a Christian church.
Sorry, kids, he doesn’t have a fast charger. We have to wait here at least another two hours before we can take his car for a spin.
The Dead Zoo (the one removing the Whale skeletons). Virtue signaling cannot be avoided:
Thank goodness they were spared the horror of being led around by men, like the ones who amassed the collection.
I’m a fan of Steve Inman, which led me to various X channels showing security cam footage of thieves getting their just desserts.
What always struck me as unusual is the number of intoxicated small men who think they could approach a policeman or bouncer and mouth off and, I guess, expecting to walk away unscathed.
This is the kind of footage, in a just world, you’d show to high school boys as examples of how drinking makes you dumb.
Are you ruling out Neil Young & Farting Horse?
You beat me to it. 😉
Occurred naturally when the band members hit their mid-sixties.
@WTP, who said:
I’ll second the “DEI cops” point you make here. Time was, you weren’t being a cop or an MP in the military unless you were a minimum of six feet and 180lbs in most jurisdictions here in the US. That was felt to be the bare minimum, and it wasn’t until the idjit class decided that the little girls of the world, male and female both, needed “career opportunities” that that policy changed. Unforeseen consequence? More shootings, more claims of “police brutality” and misconduct.
Same with regards to issues like “race”, for which see Justine Damond in Minneapolis. What nobody ever stops to consider is that most of the claims of “police brutality” come out of jurisdictions that have been Democrat for generations, now… Gee, I wonder why?
Most female cops are useless when it comes to physical confrontations. They are also a lot better at peaceful resolutions of some situations, although not all. I think it’s a mixed bag, with regards to results: You don’t know what’s going to work until you’re in the middle of things. One skel might respond well to a five-foot-nothing chicklet telling him what to do, ‘cos he loves his momma, and would never do anything to disobey her. The next one in line may be ‘effed in the head due to parental abuse and neglect, and he’s gonna take “momma” as someone he needs to beat to death in retribution for something that happened thirty years ago… Luck of the draw.
That said? I’d plump down on the “Big Guy” solution for most of this stuff, because while it’s nice to be able to defuse and deescalate, the final decision on doing that is in the hands of the idjit you’re dealing with as a cop, and when I factor that in, I’m going for the traditional solution of “might makes right”.
Somehow, though… Whenever you go to point out to the numpty-numps that the automatic included implication of creating career paths for the chicklets (male and female…) of the world means that they’re going to be shooting a lot more people than the big guys you’re replacing…? They don’t like it. You get accused of all sorts of ugliness, when you point out the raw facts of physics, and you’re also going up against people that think the Marvel movies are real things, and that a 90-lb girl using waif-fu is capable of going toe-to-toe with your average “Big Guy” troublemaker.
Tain’t so, McGee.
I knew a guy during my early years in the military; massive, massive sort of gentleman. Anglo, six-four, 250lbs. Spent a lot of time in the gym; natural athlete, pretty good in a fight.
I mention this so as to show what cops can run up against.
He started his career as an MP in the military. Got stationed in Hawaii. Loved it, there. Got out. Went to the Honolulu PD as an officer. Wound up assigned to whatever they call a precinct there. Got called out, late one evening, for a “domestic disturbance”.
In a neighborhood, as he put it, “infested” with Samoans.
They get there, six Honolulu PD cops, all men of stature. They’re dealing with everything, and while they were doing so, my informant noticed that he was the smallest man on the scene in height, musculature, and mass. To include the Samoan women involved and on the periphery. Everything is at first going well; they show up, discuss things with the involved male, he goes “Oh, cops… I have gone over the line, I must make amends…” and cooperates.
Things trend very, very southwards when the handcuffs go on him, and they start walking him out to the police cruiser for his trip to the jail. First, his girlfriend loses her sh*t and starts pulling at him, then his wife shows up with his mother in tow, and the entire situation turns into a massive street brawl-cum-race riot. Poor guy at the center of the whole thing just ducks and covers, while the girlfriend/wife families battle and the cops try to attain control over the “situation”.
By the time it was all over, they’d sucked in a considerable fraction of the Honolulu PD, most of his peers at the precinct he worked at were on their way to the hospital, and he’d had the living snot beaten out of him by about three-four enraged Samoan women. He was too small, you see, to deserve the attention of an actual Samoan male, ‘cos that just wouldn’t be fair… Or, something. That was the way he told it, anyway. On his way to the ER for a dislocated shoulder, he asked his equally beaten-down sergeant if that sort of thing happened often, and said sergeant said “Oh, yeah… Every couple of months… Samoans, ya know?”
Shortly after he was declared fit for duty, the Honolulu PD chose to go the way of all things Equal Opportunity, and recruited/replaced a bunch of cops at his station with what he described as “chicklets and manlets”, whereupon he looked at the entirety of things in his life and decided that even the very generous Honolulu PD pension program wasn’t worth it, because he was probably going to wind up with lifelong debilitating injuries resulting from not having any real physical backup for like situations. He rejoined the Army not long after, specifically leaving the Military Police career field due to all of this. The way he put it, he was tired of playing the chump for peanuts in real-life WWF fights…
My immediate concern would be the fresh (?) air inlets.
Machete guy. I really do support the police, but in several asian countries they have these U-shaped end things on poles to restrain nutters with machetes and enable cops to put cuffs on. You can find dozens of vids of it. Cops here, with the only option to shoot, are dangerous if someone is just too nuts or drunk to put the knife down. Also a problem when someone is having a seizure or stroke.
Art college students ignore call to publicly state their pronouns.
Yeah, my immediate reaction was that the cars and trucks would never be clean again.
@ccscientist, who said:
I’d raise a paw in caution, here: You have to be very, very careful with cross-cultural extrapolations in these regards.
What works in a country in Asia might not translate well into a Western context, because of the built-in cultural assumptions and dynamics. The sasumata used by Japanese cops to subdue “violent” criminal types in Japan work mostly because there’s an underlying “thing” in society there that once something like that is deployed, you’re supposed to play your part in the playacting, and acquiesce to it all. That’s a case where there are underlying cultural “hooks” that allow for all of it to work.
You might think that’s so much bullshit, but consider: Why do so many “innocent” parties get shot by the cops, here in the US?
A very large component of all that happening is because the average person really has no idea of how to behave when confronted by an armed police officer with a gun pointed at them. Average person is not a member of the criminal element, and they’ve no earthly idea how to behave in that circumstance. So, they go off-script from what the cop is expecting, which also screws up their behavioral patterns because they’re used to dealing with the criminal element that’s usually on-script with how to behave when at gunpoint… Couple two sides to an encounter whose scripts for “how to behave” are randomized, and tragedy happens.
Cops aren’t used to dealing with non-criminal normal citizens in dynamic, armed situations. Non-criminal normal citizens are entirely unfamiliar with how to behave under those same conditions, and will do really, really stupid things that the cops will interpret as “threat”. Lotta police brutality on unsuspecting “normal every-day citizens” ensues because of this syndrome: Neither party really knows what scripts they’re acting out.
Criminals know how to get arrested and survive; normies don’t. Of course, a lot of times, the criminals just don’t want to cooperate, and then they get roughed-up and/or shot, but that’s a different deal than what I’m getting at. Cops very often do not understand that how they’re behaving and what they are doing is entirely alien to the average “normal” citizen, and they expect those people to “know the script”, which they manifestly do not. Tragedy then ensues; as well, the average citizen has no real way of knowing what’s going on with the cops, either; they’re framing things as “Well, Officer Friendly here has no reason to think I’m dangerous, ‘cos I’m not…”, and completely blow past the fact that they’re not acting friendly and safe in police “Imma gonna hafta arrest someone…” context.
This syndrome and a lot of piss-poor screening/training is why Justine Damond got herself shot. Present as a threat, get treated as one…
Cops do the same thing; they really don’t grasp that someone looking like a dirtbag, not in a police uniform, running across someone’s backyard in pursuit of a suspect that the homeowner never saw, but whose dog had the temerity to bark at both suspect and plainclothes officer, who then shot at the dog…? They don’t quite grasp that they’re not presenting as anything other than “Justifiable homicide” waiting to happen. To a cop, even a veteran plainclothes officer, they think they’re a cop, so everyone else should just know they are… Somehow.
Lots of stupidity on display, all the way around.
I’ll just leave this right here…
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/hawaii-homeowner-arrested-after-stopping-violent-neighbor-released-after-self-defense-ruling/
Ya wonder why these things happen? Observe the aftermath of this clearly justified shooting…
Off-script, out-of-context coppery:
https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/lapd-cannabis-mri-raid-19789448.php
I learned about unfolding my love (unfolding my heart) from George Harrison … https://youtu.be/YEMEAxlYL04?si=iBLl5YzZsB_eTomF
This looks like fun: DEI 4 White Guys
Oh well.
Is it churlish to hope they’re given trans-women for cell-mates?
Remember the Brit politicians and the Gen Z slang from the other day?
I think it is becoming a competition, first Michigan, now Connecticut weighs in.
My mind went instantly to a local animal rescue group that frequently goes to capture critters that are frightened and/or hostile. One of the tools they use is the ‘gentle snare’ which is basically a long pole with a length of soft rope attached. A loop can be made in the rope, which can then be tightened from the handle end. Often they’ll lay the loop on the ground and put chunks of cheeseburger inside it, then flip it up over their quarry’s head when it comes to chow down. No doubt because I’m a terrible person, I can’t help picturing the applications for law enforcement.
I rewatched the video and there’s quite a lot in there, none of it flattering to the young lady fiddling with her boobs. Or by extension her peers.
The student claims that she doesn’t know who Kirk is, implying that he’s a nobody and unworthy of engagement – “Who are you?” and “Actually, I thought this was an improv comedy thing. It looked so ridiculous.” But seconds later, it becomes apparent that she does know who he is, has seen his videos, has opinions on his editing, and she even knows his age – which she then tries to use as a reason to invalidate him. On grounds that older people – people as old as thirty – shouldn’t be asking students to justify their pronouncements.
“Don’t you think that’s a little bit silly?” says she, triumphantly.
To which, Kirk replies, “Are you a voter?” Adding, “How is it any different to a professor talking to you?”
It’s interesting how those who wish to be seen as caring and egalitarian, and not at all discriminatory, are often quite happy to use a person’s age and supposedly low status, compared to their own, as reasons for not listening. As a basis for abuse.
And this exchange, all within the first minute, is a measure of what follows. The student’s efforts aren’t directed to the issues being discussed, or to establishing what the facts of the matter might be. Some common ground. She doesn’t know and clearly doesn’t much care. Every invitation to discuss specifics is rejected. Likewise, there’s no concession of error, even when the mistake, the false assumption, is obvious and fundamental.
What she wants, and what many of her peers want, is to shut down people who challenge their status-bestowing assumptions. That’s the level on which her part of the exchange is operating. And so, in a sense, it is “an improv comedy thing.” And she’s the joke.
Again, I know practically nothing about Charlie Kirk, but over the years we’ve seen progressive students, self-styled intellectuals, using much the same manoeuvres when debating – or rather, not debating – Ben Shapiro, Charles Murray, Heather Mac Donald, Jordan Peterson and Peter Boghossian, among others.
It’s pretty much a default.
It seems to me that, broadly speaking, and to a not insignificant extent, political tendencies reflect differences in personality. As Peterson has noted, on ‘big five’ personality tests, progressives and liberals tend to score higher in openness – an interest in novelty – and in neuroticism – say, anxieties about in-group status – and to score lower in conscientiousness – one aspect of which being a reluctance to lie.
In light of which, the videos linked above, the weird approach to debate, may start making a kind of sense.
Progressive woman seeks offence, finds it:
What’s amusing about these displays of woke piety is the eerie uniformity, the same weird psychology.
Not only is Ms Jeffery, the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, ostentatiously vexed by an unremarkable expression of politeness and good will, such that she feels a need to alert her 134,000 likeminded followers, but we’re also expected to believe that her account of events is entirely true. That her peculiar disapproval was shared, audibly, by many other passengers, which, frankly, seems unlikely.
Oh, and she’s also revealed, in the subsequent thread, to be a hypocrite. Which is to say, a liar.
@Kirk: “the average person really has no idea of how to behave when confronted by an armed police officer with a gun pointed at them.“
By doing exactly and only what they tell you to do, surely? If you feel your rights have been infringed in some way, a lawyer can sort that out afterward. The coroner usually can’t.
They’re so used to bullshitting they don’t even notice how bad they are it.
It does suggest being accustomed to getting away with it. An in-group culture of mutual dishonesty, in which no-one pulls at the obvious threads, lest the favour be repaid and their own lies exposed.
I suppose we could see the dubious story above – in which an innocuous expression of politeness is proof of “creeping Christian nationalism” – as a variation of the woke eight-year-old weirdness from 2016, in which countless progressive women – including MSNBC “analysts” and editors of leftist magazines – and including Ms Jeffery herself – started tweeting, competitively, about their small children supposedly saying Oddly Precocious And Terribly Progressive Things:
As I said at the time,
The phenomenon was contagious and bizarre, a collective fit of transparent dishonesty, and soon became a mocking meme. But I think we’re seeing much the same psychology. The same telling of tall tales in order to assert status.
For grown adults, our supposed moral betters, this is somewhat odd behaviour.
Can’t find it right now but the best one of those wise children stories went something like…
Also:
Weirdly, I am seeing a lot of people saying exactly that lately. Which is pretty much all that I know about Charlie Kirk.
I think we’ll give that one a post of its own. Comments that-a-way.
Remember when Jordan Peterson first publicly opposed mandatory pronoun laws and became a target of student protesters? Did you see his attempts to dialog with those protesters? Those students manifested the same malicious mindset.
Mother Jones has always presented itself as caring deeply about people and wanting all people to be free. And yet sees as enemies those who deviate from leftist dogmas and rituals.
Noticing this pathology in the leftists I knew back in 80’s was one of my steps towards recognizing that leftism’s benevolence is a sham and it is inherently evil.
That, too. My leftist friends were remarkably selective in their memories of events and people. And some of them told lies more obviously false than anything Snidely Whiplash said.
Those who are honest get punished and expelled.
And honesty gets rebranded as uncollegiality in academia, other less fancy words elsewhere.