Friday Ephemera (741)
How the pyramids were constructed. || Overstepping. || Incoming. Or down-going. || Because it can be done. || Big woman, six-five. || Oh delicate Rose. || I’m guessing the dog is the brains of the outfit. || “A week after the boys’ detention, their families vanished.” || Sea view of note. || About this high. || Smoke, some shouting. || Sharp look, 1983. || Roadside baby parking, 1973. || It’s a miracle substance. || All-male semi-final in women’s pool tournament. || Problem solved. || Parenting scenes. || Parenting scenes 2. || Hiring based on competence? Can’t have that. || The progressive retail experience, parts 586, 587, and 588. || Pedro is trusted with children. || Docteur Qui. || Marital woes. || Fire helmet, safe word not included. || And finally, the return of the Ogmios School of Zen Motoring.
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Excessive deference shown.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson enlightens us.
I believe this is still commonplace in Japan, where street crime is so rare.
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From the previous thread:
It drives me crazy that he uses the present verb tense. It sounds like he’s asking for current things that are too far. Of course they don’t answer. It needs to be a hypothetical:
“At what point would you say that the Left has gone too far?”
“What would you consider to be ‘too far Left’?”
“What extreme thing could the Left do to make you abandon it?”
Stuff like that.
Those goats look like sheep to me
Looks like it was going to burn out by itself, but good on the bloke who got there with the fire extinguisher. More effective than the people on phones filming it, or were they waiting on their fire extinguisher apps to kick in ?
Saw BB live for the first time last year. Sort of wish I hadn’t. But this is a common occurrence in my experience, so may be just me. Over a lot of years of going to see comedians, Jimeoin, John Cleese and Pam Ayres are the only ones that delivered as expected or even more. (and Kevin Bloody Wilson)
Back to Bill, he never did anything with any substance, flitted from this to that, but it never got going, however I am sure snippets of the same would look fantastic on Utube. We also got a bit of, admittedly very mildly, Climate bs. Is this in their contract ?
“The progressive retail experience, parts 586, 587, and 588.“
Japan says ‘Well, that’s enough of that. I’m out!’
That’s what I needed today. Long drive ahead.
Morning, all.
An erotic device.
Still marvelling at how driving around London can be transformed into a gentle, slightly agreeable experience.
Road warrior and companion:
One of many low-key wonders.
Previously.
Suboptimal scenario.
Best reply to the suboptimal scenario.
Suspected cause of the suboptimal scenario.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
I think I saw one televised show many years ago, but other than that, all I know of him are the musical pastiches, via YouTube, and his appearances on QI, again from many years ago.
His Jamaican dub reggae version of the theme from Downton Abbey may amuse.
I’m not saying it was giant Chads, but it was giant Chads.
The truth is out there.
The percentage of teachers who need to be fired immediately keeps going up. This should be an instant sacking.
We do seem to have an infestation of the morally unfit. What catches the eye, I think, is the seemingly casual, routine nature of the transgression. The practised overreach, the air of entitlement. As if no-one could possibly object or find it reprehensible. A teacher who apparently sees nothing inapt about manipulating children in this way.
And you do have to wonder at the emotional incontinence of a teacher who feels a need to inflict his own political preferences on small children. On other people’s small children. And who then sounds puzzled by why any parent might object to his weird delinquency.
And the connotations of arrested development seem fitting. A functional adult would not, I think, feel a need to behave in this way.
Can totally relate. I never eat the last one though.
Peaches and nectarines, I discovered, can be an emotional and political minefield. The fairly narrow window of optimal ripeness makes things even more fraught.
Parenting scenes
I’d have more sympathy for the mother if she spent more time parenting and less time filming her kid. You made that monster, you live with her.
Apparently, some people want to live as if they were the stars of their own low-budget and really shit reality TV show.
Sounds like hell to me, but there we are.
Weren’t bodycams supposed to show us how racist the police are? Because that’s not what’s happening.
Given the number of interactions, it would be statistically implausible for the cameras not to reveal some level of misbehaviour and bad decisions, and it’s likely that the wearing of cameras has modified some officers’ behaviour to some extent. But the overwhelming effect, by far, has been to show the public just how many dangerous morons and murderous bedlamites the police have to deal with.
Because the rest of us, understandably, don’t want to.
I mean, the video linked above is like some AI fever dream. It’s nightmare fuel.
And thus there are some on the left who now oppose bodycams.
Related: Remember when the left was chanting “Stop Asian Hate”? They suddenly became silent when bodycams and security cams showed that the overwhelming majority of the people attacking Asians were…wait for it…black.
There is, needless to say, much umbrage from avowed communists and “police abolitionists,” all insisting that the demented stabby monster should not have been shot at all. Or should only have been shot in the hands. Because clearly the situation wasn’t difficult enough.
It’s a song we’ve heard before.
The about-face might almost be funny. Reality doesn’t enable their predetermined fantasy, so reality has to go.
See also progressives’ dislike of the shows Cops and Live PD, discussed here.
In the comments you will see multiple people dismissing the communist’s tweets as merely “engagement baiting”, as if such opinions are not real. And yet these sorts of extremists can be found in government doing their evil work. For instance:
Of course, it’s not just communists. It’s also criminals and friends of criminals.
Note decades-long connections between gangs and Chicago politicians.
“A week after the boys’ detention, their families vanished.”
Extreme, but NGL, listening to K-pop should have some sort of punishment.
Japan says ‘Well, that’s enough of that. I’m out!’
“Not letting us rob you blind at will is Jim Crow” is rather an Olympian leap of logic.
How the pyramids were constructed.
Soon the Olympian leapers above will be touting this as real.
Political zealots aside, there’s also, I suspect, a widespread reluctance to be reminded of the reality of the situation. I.e., that a not insignificant percentage of the population is dangerously stupid and incorrigibly criminal.
Conscienceless beings. Actual monsters.
At 7 her mother’s got no choice, but what is that kid going to be like when she’s 17 or 27 and inflicted on the rest of the world? I see a future of domestic violence and mug shots waiting for her.
“The officer was transported to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.”
The punishment for assault with a weapon is not death, though. Of course I don’t think she should have had a knife, either, but if he had let her stab him, both likely would have survived.
It’s the praise for his marksmanship that bothers me.
Remember?
I mean, from the perspective of the guy stuck in the hallway, “It was really inconvenient – but emotional impact? None.”
Good old Clive.
“evan loves worf” and our perpetual chew-toy Clive both labour under the fallacy that crime, when coincident with mental illness, has to be the result of that mental illness – it being impossible that evil can coexist with it. As Det. Dietrich said in a memorable episode of Barney Miller, there’s no reason you can’t be both.
Only a little more draconian than what they do to you in the West if you refuse to affirm your child’s gender identity.
[ Rummages in bin, retrieves unloved leftovers from a tin of Quality Street – the underwhelming toffees and coconut eclairs – slides them down bar to Jim. ]
Is that sarcasm, or a quote I missed?
Surely there are simpler methods of tenderising.
Jim Whyte: “The punishment for assault with a weapon is not death, though. Of course I don’t think she should have had a knife, either, but if he had let her stab him, both likely would have survived.”
Get back to me when you’re willing to volunteer to be stabbed by a psycho with a knife. Knife wounds are at least as deadly, on average, as gunshot wounds.
Jim is paraphrasing the lovely Zack Ford. Our “proud SJW” and defender of habitual armed muggers who menace lone women on their way to work.
So sarcasm, yes.
Those are my favourites. Any orange creams left? I like those too.
To be precise…I believe the axiom is “step toward the pistol, run away from the knife”.
Ah, I see. Didn’t realize it was a quote from the link–which I didn’t have time to read.
Zack will become more truly lovely when he moves to an abode six feet under. Along with all the other commies at ThinkProgress.
A few weeks ago, The Other Half was given a large tin of Quality Street as a thankyou gift. Alas, we soon remembered just how disappointing a large tin of Quality Street can be. They just taste sickly and cheap, like some retro-ironic hangover from the Seventies.
The bloody thing’s still there, slowly gathering dust.
But they still won’t answer.
Feed them to the squirrels?
To be precise…I believe the axiom is “step toward the pistol, run away from the knife”.
Serpentine, Shel, serpentine.
Hands across the water.
Isn’t that illegal?