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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Heh. It doesn’t exactly enhance a feeling of luxury, a forbidden treat.
I realise I’m grumbling about a thankyou gift, which is not a good look, and I have reminded myself it’s the thought that counts. But I’m also aware that for the same price, they could have handed him an enormous bar of Dairy Milk, or a box of Lindor Salted Caramel Truffles.
It’s no use, I’m going to have to find out where they live and then travel across town to complain in person.
[ Continues fuming about being given unfashionable chocolates. ]
Serpentine, Shel, serpentine.
A movie whose 2003 remake sucked and which never should have been touched, and those responsible for the remake must earn eternal damnation. Pure comedy gold by Falk and Arkin. To their dying days, my parents loved quoting lines from it.
“Beaks? TSTSE FLIES HAVE BEAKS?!”
@Kirk
I was only half complaining. Personally, I don’t consider free speech to be election interference. If people are stupid enough to believe something stupid when mouthed by an American and become even more likely to believe that stupid thing because it is now being mouthed by people from another country instead of say…really seriously questioning that thing? Well that’s more on them than the foreigners. But especially after Russia Russia Russia seeing that really pisses me off. The American politicians who let foreigners stump for them are treasonous. If anyone otta be shot…
Heh. We were at Trump’s winery in Charlottesville yesterday and I picked up a few of his $5 chocolate bars from the gift shop. Trying to decide who to gift them to this Christmas. Friend or foe…friend or foe…
Some people need to come installed with a TL;DR …
[ Ponders lunch possibilities. ]
Image was apparently too large. Was supposed to go with my earlier post. So this might tide you over..
See, that would at least be novel and foreign, and therefore exotic.
Your memory is better than mine.
Advice seen long ago: Never waste your calorie limits on mediocre sweets.
Exactly. THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HERE.
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Speaking of which, I have read that the amount of sugar in soft drinks varies from one European country to another, although the only news items I saw cited an anti-sugar organization as the source so the data is somewhat suspect. I wonder if there are any where I would find such drinks palatable.
It is unhappy, but just, that she was shot, because of the cop’s right to protect himself.
In much the same vein, won’t someone think of the alleged perpetrator’s family?
The family of the alleged perpetrator is “dealing with a crisis”, you see. The family of the guy killed, not so much, apparently.
Coming soon: the killer was “known to the police”.
Also soon: the family knew he was a dangerously violent creature.
Speaking of thugs, I am sorry that this football fan was not shot by his victim.
His grieving family would protest, “But he was drunk!” to which I would reply “He knew he was a violent drunk. No excuse. Good riddance. Go cry to someone else.”
Along with The Producers, The Out of Towners, Get Carter, any Pink Panther without Peter Sellers, in fact, I really can’t think of any remake that was as good as, let alone better, than the original.
Like Top Gear without Clarkson, May, and Hammond, some chemistry just isn’t there.
Thug shot dead as he draws and aims at cop. Howler monkey start howling.
Chicago Police Board recommends the officer be terminated because the Board is dominated by defund-the-police leftists and friends of gangsters.
“Regression to the mean” can explain why remakes usually suck.
But also: The desire to remake a classic is often a sign of a mediocre mind.
Thug shot dead as he draws and aims at cop.
Despite the lack of context other than a body cam screenshot from 2023, this is remarkable:
Right, I can’t think of all the times I have had to whip out a pistol because a policeman near me had one, but indeed, lets call for backup, all of whom would have had guns because the alleged perp was wielding one.
Top tier MENSA candidate here.
Check the full Twitter thread and you will find a full bodycam video of the pursuit, from arrival in squad car to after the shooting.
While the Chicago Police Board members are more like SPECTRE members.
[ Eye twitches. ]
Check the full Twitter thread and you will find a full bodycam video of the pursuit, from arrival in squad car to after the shooting.
I may be deranged, but not deranged enough to have a twitter, or any “social” media account for that matter.
Speaking of deranged, check out this show on the BBC.
Here are direct links:
Full bodycam plus more links.
Family outraged of killing of thug.
Meanwhile, from the Glorious People’s Democratic Republic of Canada…
Ricardo Cortez was the ultimate Sam Spade.
Here are direct links:
Спасибо; the guy pulled a gun and the cop gets canned because the response “wasn’t justified” because the usual crowd goes off the rails. It is all too predictable, and the Floyd and Ferguson Effect will kick in, and things get worse.
There are good arguments for building walls around some neighborhoods.
Ricardo Cortez was the ultimate Sam Spade.
Thanks. I keep forgetting to track down that earlier version.
[ Forced to resort to online translator. ]
Ничего.
I suspect most victim’s families would be happy to do it gratis.
I understand he was identified and lost his job.
This is worse than radio and TV newsreaders omitting verbs because, you know, paper headlines do it because of limited space for words.
“Can confirm.“
I believe that grammatical abomination was very common 60 years ago.
Steve E,
Double bergamot, you say? F**k, man, that’s powerful. I haven’t tried Murchie’s Earl Grey, although they make one…perhaps I will imbibe some from his Lordship’s cup next time the Ticats hoist it. Murchie’s Assam and Ceylon are both very good, and the blends of the two, 1894 and Balmoral, better still.
Tim’s has an Earl Grey, which I also haven’t tried. There’ll be a pile of it at your local, right under the poster of Tim on opening day, with Angelo Mosca and Garney Henley.
Patrick Stewart could not be reached for comment…saints be praised.
Hippogryph,
Agreed. Zack’s immortal tweet makes precisely that mistake. It’s as if these people live in a world where the reality on the ground corresponds exactly with the due process that can happen at leisure once a deadly situation has been placed under control. Or maybe they do live in that world – how nice for them – but someone confronting a murderous woman with a knife does not.
I’ll concur with “unhappy but just”. Although watching the bodycam file, I find I have to work very hard at the “unhappy” part.
Kirk,
We’re good. I get how you didn’t realize I was indulging in a little mockery of Zack and Clive, who generally don’t show up here in propria persona. I could have used those little quoty-things in the formatting line.
As WTP says, your lecture is the one Zack deserved then, and what the Usual Suspects deserve now, particularly the mental giant that imagined the cop could have hit her two hands with a handgun. Consider that the cop fired five rounds and hit with three, and that’s aiming like you’re trained to do, at the centre of mass.
Very steady man, in fact. I counted seven “back up” warnings. That’s about five more than I can imagine myself giving her before an aimed shot. but I’m a wuss that way.
WTP,
Every so often my predictability is an advantage.
The sockpuppeteers usually misspell my name (that’s if they find me worth bothering with at all). Spelling was not my family’s long suit. A cousin got two-less-a-day for knocking over a store while wearing a baklava on his head.
Remember 2004, when the Grauniad poked its readers to adopt a voter in Clark County, Ohio, and persuade that voter to pull the Kerry lever? It prompted someone in Dayton to respond, “Please remember, too, that I am merely an American. That means I am not very bright. It means I have no culture or sense of history. It also means that I am barely literate, so please don’t use big, fancy words.” (Note to Kirk: he was being ironical.)
David,
Duly noted, to be enforced by the henchlesbians.
I thought he wasn’t joining us.
Farnsworth,
I’m of two minds. Maybe that kind of stupid is exactly what you’d expect from the Mensa types.
David, if I happen to offend, could I instead be sent to Castle Anthrax?
That’s cruel. But fair.
Yes indeed. Much mockery ensued.
Remember when the Grauniad actually scolded Vaclav Havel for not appreciating the good side of communism?
from @dicentra: the handwriting of famous authors, beginning with J R R Tolkien.
Again, I would guess that Slashy Lassie’s neighbours, and anyone else who might have had cause to knock at her door – and who might easily have received a similar welcome – may find any sadness tinged with relief.
Heh. Wouldn’t say band name but..uh…sweet.
Do not point out to liberals that in the “Bad Old Days” Slashy Lassie would have already been committed to the violent ward of an asylum.
He seems quite pleased with himself.
After the lawyers, the ‘mental health community’ is high on my list.
In the meantime, is crate training an option?
Can we poke with sticks through the bars?
@aelfheld, who said:
I’ve long held that lawyers ought to have nothing to do with making law, and that anyone attracted to the “mental health professions” should probably be taken up and consigned to the asylum right along with the people they’re so fascinated with.
The “professionalization” of things is where we’ve gone wrong. Lawyers should not make law, nor should they be judges. Why? Because they’re lawyers; they’re naturally more concerned with their own quibbling self-interest. No lawyer or judge today is really interested in putting an end to the depredations of the criminal classes, because just like the “homeless advocates”, were they to do so, they’d be out of jobs. Which explains the fundamental dysfunction of our legal system, and the byzantine nature of our laws. You let lawyers write and adjudicate on them, you’ve only got yourself to blame when they turn the entire system into a permanent lawyer-enrichment scheme.
Only laypeople should write and vote on laws. Lawyers have zero business in the legislatures of the world, and should in fact be treated as some sort of parasite class that gives up its right to have any say over the laws they seek to administer.
Similarly, if you’re a person who wants to “help the mentally ill”? Fine; help them. But, you’re obviously not fit to determine if they’re sane: You’re too close to the problem. Someone with some common sense needs to be the one determining sanity; if you can’t convince the average sort of person that you’re sane, wellllll… You shouldn’t be on the streets or sidewalks of the nation.
The real problem we have with much of our civilization is that we’ve allowed specialization to become far too pervasive. If you’re a “normal person” looking at some situation, like the national debt? You see a problem? There probably is a problem there, and someone with a bit of sense ought to do something about it.
I have really lost all faith in “the experts”. If someone professing to that status says something about a subject, I investigate it, and what I’ve almost always found of late is that said “expert” has a vested interest in what they’re saying, and that they’re usually absolutely wrong about whatever it is. Do note the failures of the expert class with regards to COVID and the climate.
Remains to be seen, but I suspect that the major thing coming out of these next few decades is going to be a widespread repudiation of “the experts”, and anyone who claims to be one. Or, so I hope. Fervently.
“Experts Ought To Be On Tap and Not On Top”
Original source here.
Tolerant, welcoming, inclusive.
Another Lycra garbed shitwit: “You’re breaking the rules of the park”.
The vid with cheese and crying babies left me wondering if it might work on spouses…hypothetically.