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?
I see a future of diabetes, motorised chairs, and dangerously stressed polyester.
Only for Republicans.
Steel Chestnut.
Band name?
I thought you insisted on calling that process “aging”…
[ Walks past tin of Quality Street, rummages in cupboard for box of Lindor Salted Caramel Truffles. ]
Vang-couver is where you want to go.
And these guys at Howe and Hastings.
I know, let’s make this as difficult as possible.
And, as usual, she rants that the police officers are racists.
“Just a couple of snakes on my threeeeeeeeee eeeee eeee wheeler!” That will be in my head for days.
And these guys at Howe and Hastings.
How is their Earl Grey tea?
The wife’s favourite is French Earl Grey from T2, but it’s expensive to ship from Australia. So she always keeps Taylor’s Earl Grey and Stash Double Bergamot Earl Grey on the shelf.
I knew this place would eventually host debates as to the merits of Earl Grey teas.
Well, I was paraphrasing, not quoting exactly. I’ll have to dig to see if I can find an exact quote.
Also, I was only citing what JP has said in his podcasts, which I presume are a condensation of what he said when talking with those liberals.
So, I dunno.
But it can’t be the best if it has “French” in the name.
[ Glares across the Channel from the middle of America. ]
Jim Whyte:
We’re joking, I presume.
Anyway, one does see such confused comments from time to time—but “punishment” has nothing to do with the matter. It’s a matter of self-defense, only. It is unhappy, but just, that she was shot, because of the cop’s right to protect himself. There’s nothing else to it.
Under no circumstances are cops actually authorized to punish suspected criminals. Only apprehend them, even if there may be harm to that person. Punishment is a decision of judge and jury. Consider that the stabber would still be prosecuted and punished, had she survived.
Again, 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.
Only 24 years? It should have been death.
One more time. Conscienceless beings. Actual monsters.
Sadly, there are many blacks who believe that non-blacks do not have the right to defend themselves from black violence–or any other criminal act.
I cannot recall any ancient myths and legends in which the hero apprehends the monster and delivers it to a judge or to a psychiatric hospital.
The real racists.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you “experts”.
He was far too patient with a feral creature who was clearly playing games.
@David, who said:
I can’t speak to the situation in the UK regarding teacher training/acquisition, but here in the US? They absolutely do precisely the same thing that they were doing in the seminaries a few years ago… If you were “normal”? You weren’t getting through the system.
I forget where the description of what it was like trying to get through a seminary after the takeover happened, but it was about as you’d find in many of today’s education departments: Purity tests, vocabulary rules, the whole thing.
If you follow the usual programs found in Communist takeovers, you’ll find that the cadre production process was very similar… And, this has been going on out in the open, with nary a protest or a real fight from the incumbents in the professions or the “right-wing zealots” you’d expect to be the ones pushing back.
Goodbye, Good Men?
I knew this place would eventually host debates as to the merits of Earl Grey teas.
There is no suspense in inevitability.
Is this the future of AI?
If Patrick Stewart enters the chat, I’m leaving.
I want to live in this world.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you “experts”.
Sparky cars and everything electonified are our future, or something.
@Jim Whyte, who very foolishly said:
Words from a man who very obviously has never been in a life-or-death situation because someone else chose to put him there, and attacked him.
I had to take some time away from this before commenting, because I initially saw red and had several very obscene things to say to idiots such as yourself.
You are morally and practically entirely wrong in your assertion. The punishment for assault with a weapon damn sure is and should be death. She made the choice to respond the way she did, and she’s the one that created that entire event. It was her choice; she chose to attack with a knife. You don’t respond to that with nuance; you respond to that with whatever level of violence it requires to stop it, up to and including lethal force.
You’ve a childish understanding of what a knife can do; within arms reach like that? A knife is just as lethal as a gun; more so, actually. There’s a reason there are things like the so-called “21 foot rule” and the “Tueller Drill”, and that is that once the knife-wielding attacker is that close, you’re usually very, very dead. There have been cases where one knifeman has killed or maimed multiple officers, and even gotten away to commit more murders on innocents.
Once someone has chosen to introduce a weapon like that into a situation, the only option is to stop them, using whatever force is necessary. The amount of damage that someone can do with a knife is absolutely amazing, and unless you’ve actually been there trying to hold someone’s organs inside their body while they bleed out, waiting for medical aid? Shut the f*ck up with that bullshit “…but if he had let her stab him…” idea. There’s no such thing as a minor knife wound; I could kill you with a razor blade strip taken from a disposable razor, and you’d die within minutes, watching the bright arterial spurting come up from your femoral or brachial arteries.
If you’re a police officer presented with a knife attack at that sort of range, you are entirely irresponsible and immoral if you do not stop your assailant, period. If you let them kill or disable you, they’re going to take your weapon and shoot you with it, or they’re going to attack someone else with that knife and likely kill them, too. Knife wounds are too unpredictable; you can take a slash somewhere that leaves a gaping wound, and still life. Alternatively, if your assailant knows what they’re doing or gets lucky, you can die from a relatively tiny wound.
What’s worse with your sanctimonious and despicable moralizing? You’re demanding that this cop do something I seriously doubt you would, which is put his life on the line for your morals. You do not have that right: Unless you’re willing to go toe-to-toe with Little Miss Ginsu Knife here, and “take that blade” yourself, you’ve absolutely no right to even ask that of someone, let alone demand it. You want to play knivesy-knivesy with the insane? Fine; you do it. Don’t demand a police officer do that for you; you ain’t willing to take the bullet? F*ck you, and all your moralizing twat friends.
Second-guessing this officer is an act of moral degeneracy; society asked him to take the risk, he took it, and there’s absolutely nothing saying he has to further accept someone killing him. The “benefit of the doubt” went out the window that stupid bitch got within arm’s reach of him with a knife she tried using on him, and that’s a fact. The officer in this video did exactly what he should have, and ended her rampage before she could get to anyone else, like a totally innocent person that happened to wander into her maddened path.
People like you are a blight upon civilization. I wish there was a way to exclude you from its benefits, because you manifestly do not deserve anyone like this police officer you dare question laying their lives on the line for your selfish judgmental benefit.
Moron.
14 armed agents of the government to [checks notes] move a small log from a downed tree in what appears to be a fairly unscathed neighborhood.
Not one dime can be cut from the budget.
@Kirk,
Perhaps you should have read the subsequent comments.
This one perhaps.
Looking at the number of Customs and Border Patrol agents it seems best to assume the tree was in the country illegally.
That or it was the director’s house.
Political discourse second only to the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
@aelfheld, who said:
Don’t want the abuse? Don’t mouth the words and fail to make it clear you’re quoting someone else with sarcasm. I’m unfamiliar with that particular reference, so I missed it.
Frankly, if you want to make the statement as though you believe it? Too bad. I did not catch that on my first read-through of the post, and I still don’t see it absent someone else providing the reference.
I once witnessed a friend of mine trigger a massive ass-whipping from someone through being unclear on the sarcasm thing. I felt not one bit sorry for him, because the only person who thought he was being funny was himself, and not a one of his friends who were present lifted a finger to defend him. Something he didn’t appreciate at the time, but which he understood later.
The internet could benefit from a “sarcasm” tag, and people with the wit and wisdom to use it.
[ Smirks. Then remembers his own failures to read links or subsequent comments. Sidles quietly out the door. ]
[ Also remembers prior failures to include quotes or links or /sarc tags. ]
Because Republicans are too courteous to object. Would not be prudent at this juncture. Because they are losers who are afraid of winning.
@Kirk
This. Again, Mom asks…
Nature instructs us to stop saying “summer” and “winter” in the name of “inclusivity”.
Instead I will stop saying that Nature is a serious science journal.
Don’t want the abuse? Don’t mouth the words and fail to make it clear you’re quoting someone else with sarcasm. I’m unfamiliar with that particular reference, so I missed it.
What an awesome apology. That must be the best apology I’ve ever read.
In case you’re not sure, that’s sarcasm.
Try to keep up with the thread. Oh, and maybe read the room.
When I first read Jim Whyte’s comment I immediately noticed that the passage I questioned was not congruent with the rest of his comment, which was why I requested clarification.
When I first read Jim Whyte’s comment I immediately noticed that the passage I questioned was not congruent with the kinds of things Jim Whyte usually says. But, out of context, I first thought he might have been sockpuppeted. For someone not knowing the name Jim Whyte from Jack Ford it would be very understandable how such a thing could be misunderstood. However such a sockpuppeting would be highly, highly unusual for this forum. Just apply Kirk’s overreaction to that original Jack Ford d-bag and it is a valid point. Especially as the comment was very typical of the sort of monday-morning QBing that I have even seen some “conservatives” partake in. In the heat of battle and all that…
I’ve heard him use that actual phrasing, and more than once I’ve shouted at the screen for him to be more precise.
If y’all would stop interfering in our elections, that would be great.
@WTP,
I feel your pain. I really, really do.
However, I fear I must point out that the US has “intervened” in so many elections overseas over these last few decades that we can hardly complain as American citizens when other nations come here and do the same…
My personal take? I think that all the assholes in our State Department and associated “Non-Government Organizations” ought rightly to be rounded up and extradited/exiled/deported to the nations they “involved” themselves with, and never, ever allowed to return to these United States as anything other than prisoners for further prosecution as warranted.
As well, I would henceforth initiate a new policy of applying automatic summary capital punishment to any foreign citizen found on US soil or anywhere else who thought they should involve themselves in our elections in any way, shape, or form. To include spending money on advertising or financial support of any kind to any political organization or person. And, if that means a declaration of war on someone, too bad.
And, I do understand that this policy, if applied retroactively, would likely leave the UK minus a whole lot of civil servants and politicians in the intelligence/counterintelligence realm. Going forward, I’d pay specific and particular attention to their past malfeasance when and if they offended again, then making certain to deliver a point on the matter, even if that meant cratering much of downtown London to get at them.
Assuming, of course, that the UK chose to protect them by not extraditing for trial here in the US.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. The US should not interfere or “assist” any other elections anywhere in the world, other than to provide internationally agreed-upon election monitors where appropriate, nor should the US tolerate anyone else doing the same within its own borders.
Frankly, I think we ought to start this process by hanging all of our own “Political Consultants” from the neck until dead, dead, dead. Just to set an example… They’re a cancer, and deserve a cancer cell’s treatment.
It occurs to me that the stabby woman’s neighbours, and anyone who would have soon been attempting to deliver a package to her door, one requiring a signature, might have views on her demise.
I couldn’t finish the first parenting scene.
As soon as the mother said that the shoes were cute I was out.
There was so much wrong with just the first 20 seconds.
The 10 year old used her credit card, not just maxed it, flapped her hands at mom in that ‘blah, blah, blah’ manner, couldn’t and wouldn’t understand mom’s problem and mom allowed/tacitly encouraged it all.
Was that Honey Boo Boo?
Yes, I’m embarrassed I know that name.
[ Chuckles into coffee. ]
I think we can all agree that Jim must never, ever again deploy unlabelled sarcasm.
“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.“
And the new eco-friendly paper wrapping helps that feeling. It’s just wrong.