Friday Ephemera (742)
Because you chose the Hades Funeral Service. || All-terrain bed. || Hey, it’s a job. || Somewhat bigger than expected. || Slimline solution. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || Down on the farm. (h/t, Mark) || Minimal effort detected. || Close enough. || Ladies, look away now. || Ladies, look away now 2. || Answers on a postcard, please. || The unspanked pass the time. || The progressive retail experience, parts 589 and 590. (h/t, Julia) || The progressive dining experience, part 38. || But his “intention has always been to promote understanding,” obviously. || The path to manhood. || Scrambled maps. || Gameplay. || “What’s wrong with it?” || The thrill of women’s basketball. || Rufus and Harriet. || An excess of flexibility. || She found where he was storing his trauma. || And finally, first-timers find out.
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Note the endlessly repeated “fucking white trash” and “Walmart is racist”.
A billy club upside the head would have quieted her down more quickly…and with less risk of injury to the officer and bystanders.
He has posted other, similar wishes for the killing of Jews. So, apology is bullshit. (Which is the default assumption anyway when it comes to Muslims.)
The progressive retail experience, in Spain.
Where would the West be without unvetted immigrants?
Halloween treats. Nummy-num-num.
Remember National Geographic’s “gender revolution” poster boy?
|| “What’s wrong with it?” ||
i couldn’t make it through that video. [shudders]. i know – credit note only.
i couldn’t tell if they’d been lighting fires in the living room or using it for a lavatory. For once i am glad for my small laptop screen.
what was wrong with it? what was the it? the gas? heat? electricity?
Looks like yet another immigrant, doing his best to culturally enrich Europe.
But his “intention has always been to promote understanding,”
David, the highest authorities assure us that Said Masih Nouri is as much an Englishman as you are. All Englishmen come from somewhere else and bring their tribal beefs with them which they nurture and express in the new land, but never act upon because no matter how strong tribalism is, we’re all betting our lives that civic nationalism is stronger. Like a typical Englishman, Said is held back from murdering his tribal enemies by nothing but a “hypocritical oath” that he’s taken. If that injunction were lifted for one minute, Mr Nouri would stab a Jew in the eye, and Mr Smith next door would stab a Jute in the eye.
Just heat the oil up into the magma range, and you can get your whites to bubble up like that, too.
I wonder how many of them are rent-a-mob actors. I understand that’s big business.
The NOIVE of some people.
“And finally, first-timers find out.“
Pino didn’t appear too impressed…
It’s what he would have wanted.
Morning, all.
But the rest, broadly positive, I’d say. It’s a journey of self-discovery.
Heh.
You want one and you know it.
At last.
Casus belli.
I was hoping for a peek in the fridge.
Mentally ill woman is mentally ill.
Naturally, the assembled progressives cheer, but all I see is a word-salad filibuster, obvious spite, and some performative sitting-like-a-bro.
I mean, if the objective was to persuade the world that dysmorphic women high on testosterone are totally stable, and that their condition never has anything to do with sexual abuse and consequent, dysfunctional coping mechanisms, I wouldn’t consider it entirely successful.
The longer version here, in which the rambling, belligerent mad woman asks, “What is wrong with you, dude?”
Is today’s word overcompensation? Because whatever she’s on, she needs to lower the dose.
It’s perhaps worth noting that the verbal-spew approach, seen above, with seemingly random topic changes, was a common choice at the event.
Also this:
It’s quite a thing.
I’m not convinced the transition has done much for her mental health.
Though the exchange was not entirely uninstructive. While watching, it occurred to me why sexually dysmorphic people are so highly represented in violent, dysfunctional activist groups – Antifa, for instance. The dysmorphic are often, perhaps understandably, walking store-houses of resentment, which is exploitable by such groups, a sort of rage fuel. It’s handy for breaking windows and fits of general thuggery. Or just being needlessly pissy in what is supposed to be a discussion.
Though redirecting anger at “capitalism,” or “white supremacy,” or Mr Shapiro, doesn’t seem much of a long-term solution, or likely to help those mood-swings.
The Force is strong with Eden.
LOL. She overreached. And she makes no sense.
And she’s a bitch.
Well, as an attempt to assert some male dominance, as she imagines it, it’s sort of funny. I mean, Mr Shapiro is hardly an obvious competitor in that kind of game – and so her gesture is unwarranted and rather incongruous. It just screams insecurity and prompts the question “Who is she trying to convince?”
The rest is random word-salad, begged questions, rudeness, and more cartoonish physical posturing.
Not someone it would be easy to spend time with, I think.
Remember National Geographic’s “gender revolution” poster boy?
From the thread:
“Societal opposition to letting a boy grow his hair & wear sparkles caused Avery distress. The other toddlers didn’t care about Avery’s non-conformity, it was their parents who did.
Avery’s family went into hiding so Avery could grow his hair & live as an ‘acceptable girl’”
So . . . conversion therapy. He might have been – *gasp*! – gay! We can’t have that!
Halloween treats. Nummy-num-num.
Brilliant.
Mentally ill woman is mentally ill.
I am not convinced that is a transman and is really just some guy trolling.
“Why does the definition of abortion have to include the death of a foetus?”
The best part of that exchange was the idiot being baffled that a Cæsarian or induced labor was not an abortion.
Meanwhile, much to everyone’s surprise, Barbie Kardashian is in the news again.
In Science!™ news, sure there would be pollution as the stuff fell from the skies, but it would be fabulous. Other than that, what could possibly go wrong?
That was random.
I watched a handful of the supposed debates in which one thought simply didn’t follow from another, and even the words were seemingly unmoored from any discernible meaning or logical structure.
It was quite hypnotic.
I did, though, feel some sympathy for Mr Shapiro, confronted with this barrage of regurgitated slogans, non sequitur, and randomly changing topics.
Historical question: Didn’t someone once create spiky anti-rape clothing?
Somewhat like Hitler’s Brown Shirts, I have read. Although once power has been seized they become a liability to be eliminated.
A dime a dozen: Leftists pretending to not understand simple and obvious things.
I think this rather sums up many of the exchanges.
Because I feel you need more bedlam in your life.
The unfathomable mystery that is insurance.
Casus belli.
<grin>
Scrolling down the comments, I see a mention of Hydrox cookies, which reminds me of when Harlan Ellison ranted against Oreos in favor of Hydrox: I’ve tried both and didn’t detect much difference. Are my taste buds defective, or was Harlan once again being indignant just for the sake of being indignant?
Remember the deep thinking philosopher Adam Kotsko?
Frankly, one attraction of rural life is the absence of creatures like him.
For those who missed the reference, this chap here.
Leftists pretending to not understand simple and obvious things.
Leftists pretending
notto understand simple and obvious things.FIFY.
Funny how strongly academia leans towards totalitarianism.
[ Sound of bin liner rustling. ]
[ Slides last dregs of Quality Street to Mr Muldoon. ]
There’s a coconut éclair in there somewhere.
Well, it’s both.
Meanwhile, in the Guardian.
Dedication page.
Meanwhile, in the Guardian.
OK, that would have been 1972, so she would never have known about the McRib either, but she would never have known that she would never know.
Great actress, but a stupid statement. “If a frog had wings, it wouldn’t bump it’s ass as much”, same energy, as the kids say.
One of these days I’ll learn not to click.
But think of all the wonders you’d miss.
Wonders, I say.
Because I feel you need more bedlam in your life.
I guess that is to accommodate a Hedgehog, but I’ll be impressed when zer can get a full term baby through.
No, wait, don’t go. I have more.
Oh, come on.
Oh, come on.
Hey now, I am sure the other patients as well as the staff of whatever foreign hospital he is going to will be thrilled by his concertina renditions of English sea shanties and other traditional folk songs. He is a veritable cultural ambassador, just ask Rudy.
One really weird thing about progressives is that they see themselves as these great social engineers above everyone else, whether they’re in some nonsense academic field or just serving coffee. It takes a massive ego to see yourself as having the right to decide for everyone else what they should do and how they should live.
That’s the end result of the ‘participation trophy culture’ that started when they were children.
Admit it, you’ll treasure that moment for quite some time.
We are but objects in their world.
Yes, but this began long before the participation trophy culture. Not only is the left inherently totalitarian, I am increasingly convinced that this is also true of academia.
Thought the idea was to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
I have no idea what that is.
[ Opens notebook. Writes “Seemingly knows too much to be an Upright Citizen”. ]
Still using lead in the makeup?
Per Wikipedia:
First time I’ve seen a frightened plush toy.
Worthy of Theodore Dalrymple’s accounts of bizarre patient encounters.
I have no idea what that is.
I had no idea what a George R.R. Martin was, but search engines provide answers.
I don’t want to know what that is. No good can come of such knowledge.
No good can come of such knowledge.
No good ever or will come from knowledge of a George R.R. Martin either, so suck it up buttercup.
“harmonica and concertina” … well that’s one way to guarantee a private hospital room.
One more.
Chap With Hat opens with claim “We’re standing on stolen indigenous land,” is promptly asked if he plans to move, then hastily changes subject.
Chap With Hat opens with claim “We’re standing on stolen indigenous land,”
Then goes on with the tired nonsense of the country was built “of the backs of slavery” oblivious to the fact that reason the agricultural South (and the minute percentage of actual slave owners therein) was overmatched in the Civil War because of a lack of the industrial capacity and transportation infrastructure built by Scots, Irish, English, and other predominantly northern Europeans who were also responsible for the westward expansion, although of course “stealing land” and using cheap Chinese labor for railroads out west in the process.
Force fed commie pablum is easier to digest than actual history, I guess, but as long as he feels good and smug in his ignorance, that is what is really important.
“hypocritical oath” indeed.
Unspanked: as some one noted, way too much f-ing around and way too little finding out.
“That’s not my point,” says Chap With Hat, after raising the subject, pointedly. And before struggling to articulate any other point.
Don’t complain about not being taken seriously as an individual when you think and act just like every other drone in your collective.
From the archive, a milestone of human advancement.
Like a housewife from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, but not as funny.
Oct 18: Rapper Lil Durk awarded keys to the City of Chicago and Broadview.
Oct 23: Rapper Lil Durk arrested in connection with murder-for-hire plot.
For some reason, James Watson seems to be trending on X/Twitter. No idea why; they cancelled him good and proper back in 2019, or so.
This is one of those things that make you wonder “Why this; why now?”
Battlespace preparation, perhaps?
Well, that’s one way to deal with art vandals.
I did a little checking, hampered by my lack of foreign language skills, and it seems that this is from a real Argentina TV show, Bellas Artes.
It’s not that she’s a “second class citizen”. It’s that she has a second class mind.
@pst314, who posted thusly:
I would put it that it isn’t so much that Cyndi Lauper has a second-class mind, it’s that anyone seeking her out for political advice or lending her any sort of credence as an authority figure is the one with the sub-par mentation going on.
I do not know why people keep going to these celebrities for opinions on things so far out of their wheelhouses that they’ve no earthly clue what the hell they’re talking about. It’s a form of psychosis, a mania to have someone tell them what to think.
I mean… OK: Greta Thunberg. WT actual F? This is a kid who can’t even keep it together well enough to get through high school in a very liberal Western country, and you’re looking to her for how to handle something like climate change? Uhmmm… I don’t think the problem is with little Greta, folks: It’s all you idiots listening to her.
You take your opinions and ideas from celebrities, it’s pretty much garbage-in, garbage-out. Princess Diana on land mines, for example? Stupid twat played right into the hands of the worst people in the world, making it far easier for them to commit evil, because she disarmed her own people. Who were the only ones stupid enough to listen to her… Ain’t a goddamn thing changed out where the rubber meets the road, in terms of land mines and IEDs. Nothing she advocated had the slightest effect, aside from taking some of the most effective weapons we had against Russian tank assaults off the tables.
Not a fan of this crap. You show me a celebrity-supported anything, and I’m not going near it with a ten-foot pole, whether it’s a breakfast cereal they’re shilling for or a policy position on international affairs. They’re mostly idiots that got lucky, anyway.
Well, yeah, it’s foolish to look to entertainers for enlightenment on anything but entertainment. But she’s still a second-class or third-class mind.
@pst314, who said:
Absolutely not arguing against that. I mean, I liked a lot of her music, back in the day, but… Man, just shut up and bang on the drums, willya?
Death penalty.
In 589, after she smacked him in the face, it must have taken the patience of a saint not to belt her back good. I know I would have.
Very Argentine. Anyone seen Relatos Salvajes?
“I have taken a hypocritical oath”
I bet you have.
I love that right below the video, it showed me an ad for a weight loss product.
With a second-class dye job.
You’d think someone with a net worth of $50M wouldn’t look they wash their hair with Rinso.
aelfheld: “You’d think someone with a net worth of $50M wouldn’t look they wash their hair with Rinso.”
You’d think someone with a net worth of $50M would see how ridiculous it is for her to refer to herself as “a second class citizen.” I should be so second class.
Dave Burge for President!
@Cloudbuster, who said:
It’s all projection and a profound case of imposter syndrome; they know they’re unworthy and mentally defective, deep down under the surface. Which is why they project these things on to others. I mean, I’m a white male; I bought her music (never again…) and I considered her an amusing talent in the realm of pop music. That’s it; she banged the drum, did her little dances, and we were amused. That’s quite enough, or it should be…
But, she still feels inferior, like a freed slave unable to leave the plantation.
I think, too, that a lot of this stems from deeply-seated feelings of unworthiness and inferiority. She’s somehow internalized, somewhere along the way, that a lot of the scumbags in her industry (Weinberg ain’t got nothing on what goes on with the assclowns managing “talent” in the music industry, especially the era when she “made it”…) were the “universal truth” of men, and since they treated her like shit, then every other man would, as well.
It’s this mentality that’s tearing down a lot of the amity and tolerance that we managed to create… The sheer vicious hatred that creatures like Lauper now demonstrate against everyone who even vaguely looks like the people who abused her is of a piece with the race-baiting cretins striving to create a race war. And, it’s all for a lot of the same reasons.
Unfortunately, the real deal is that a lot of the women and other minorities sense, correctly, that they really did nothing to actually earn their positions in the world. It was given to them; because of that, they can’t gracefully accept where they are, and they have to keep attacking after they won the arguments. As with blacks, you’re given freedom…? That just means that someone could take it away, again.
It’s really bizarre, the mentally gyrations a lot of these folks go through. Talk to a Haitian black, and since they freed themselves, they’re really not carrying that baggage, those assumptions. I think that what should have happened after the Civil War would have been for the Federal Government to have taken on the slave question and worked out some means for the majority of them to feel like they’d earned what they got, freed themselves on their own terms. I think I’d have started with saying that the soldiers and others who served the Union cause were freed automatically for their service, and the rest of the slave population should have been made wards of the nation and given means to actually do something that made them feel engaged, like they’d earned it, fought for it themselves.
It’s a psychological point, but an important one: That which is given can be taken away, and there’s rarely any real gratitude for it, either. Note the care given the kid’s bicycles they got for Christmas from Santa, compared to the ones they had to work long hours to earn the money to buy…
Was Ada Lovelace’s mathematical ability exaggerated to make her a feminist hero?
Almost certainly.
Perhaps, to some degree, justified? In that most talented musicians and singers and actors never make it big. That in an international market dominated by big stars there is room for only a few big winners. And so achieving stardom is to a significant degree a matter of luck. Getting noticed by the right producer or booking agent or reviewer. Or even by giving blowjobs to the right executive.
UK police have arrested Tommy Robinson on terrorism charges.
The terrorism? Refusing to give them the password to his phone.
I am unaware of him committing any acts of violence or threats of violence.
91% of convicted rapists in Catalonia are not native-born Spaniards.
@pst314, who pointed out:
Somewhere along the line in the last sixty years, something pithed the majority of British subjects, and they lost whatever they had going for a concept of liberty and free speech. Sad to observe, from here.
This ex-antifa member explains that most of them are severely mentally ill, having been abused terribly and are fully of rage.
The girl speaking is from Spain, tho, or at least she’s speaking like a Spaniard, using the vosotros form instead of ustedes.
He eggs on an AI to keep making her more beautiful. More. Moar. MORE. MORE, DAMMIT.
You’ll never guess what she ends up looking like.
You’ll never guess what she ends up looking like.
So the AI was “trained” on Louis Wain crossed with an acid trip, then?
I’m grateful she explained that it was racist.
I sat and watched the whole thing and while I’ve always enjoyed Ben and how he handles obviously hostile people I was still amazed at his patience in the face of howler monkeys who hooted, mugged for the camera, and stomped their feet in glee whenever one of the chattering horde “owned” Ben by dumping personal attacks on him. Not ONE of those 25 were able to marshal any facts or stats to substantiate claims. Some of them were in “I had this great idea at 1 am after smoking pot in my dorm room for 3 hours of deep thoughts with friends” mode. Not just the weirdness of the gal who thought birth was also abortion, but also the guy who thought using the word “modalities” over and over made him look smart. There was also the guy who sneered and hooted at Ben over 300,000 illegal minors who have disappeared in the country. He completely ignored Ben telling him it wasn’t HIS number but came from the Federal government itself.
And that’s what this whole exercise came down to. Not one of those emo-leftists were interested in anything substantial. They just wanted to flash their teeth and bare bottoms and declare victory.
What struck me, overall, was the reliance on shouting, swearing, and gratuitous rudeness. Much of it applauded by the audience, as if they wanted more of it. As if rudeness constituted winning.
For instance.
I’m sure I’ve said before that Antifa and similar groups only make sense, of a sort, as a psychological phenomenon, an expression of dysfunction. It always struck me as a clumping of personality disorders looking for an excuse to enact the bullying and thuggery they’d already decided on, and which is the whole point of the exercise.
See also.