Friday Ephemera (743)
Suboptimal scenario. || Evolved for smartphones. || How to make a simple thing needlessly complicated, parts 1, 2, and 3. || Bedtime snacks. || Large objects. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || For recreational purposes. || Pyramid building redux. Previously. || Mortal remains. || Hallucinate in mud, 1969. || There was smoke, some shouting. || Meanwhile, in Japan. || Autoerotic scenes. || Fly repellent? || At last, toe shoes. || Paranormal furniture and uncanny bangings, 1983. || Parking is hard. || For the children, you say? || How to stretch your daughter. || I’d say bullet dodged. || Gloopiness. Previously. || Malayan leaf frog. || Questions from 1964: “Is Wales rife with witchcraft?” || Furniture for “even the most delicate female.” || Flesh-eating bees make meat honey. || It’s good to polish those language skills.
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Never tolerate leftists. Never, never, never.
Would have guessed way more than ten percent.
There is nothing these people won’t sully.
@aelfheld,
I’m sure you’ve probably heard the joke about the city-boy bear hunter that goes into the woods bear hunting every year, only to experience humiliation after humiliation as the bear rapes him?
The punch line is the bear putting a paw on his shoulder and saying “You’re not here for the hunting, are you, son…?”
They’re not here for the acceptance, either. That was the excuse; the real goal is for them to be transgressively waving their wing-wangs in your face for eternity, and making you take it because you’ve no other choice.
At least, in their imagination. They think that once they’ve won, they’ll be able to do as they like forever, without anyone calling them on it, or criticizing them.
The reality? The “rest of us” are growing tired of it, and at some point, when the saturation point is reached, there’s going to be moment of crystalline clarity wherein the solution slips past the point, and the whole thing turns solid on them.
There are reasons that you won’t find a single society in the history of the race wherein they allowed the unlimited license and deviancy the LGBTWTFBBQ types want to reign supreme. Any society that has done so no longer exists, because they don’t have the ability to resist more moral outsiders curb-stomping them. The sensitive effete “civilized” types have always gone down before barbarians, who generally know exactly what is “moral” and what isn’t. It’s been that way forever.
So, we’ll either go down before the “barbarians”, from within or without, one way or another. I suspect that there will be a great reckoning, as people realize just how dysfunctional all this crap we see on display really is.
The Queer Theory adherents were. Others were just trying to be fair to people who had historically been persecuted.
@dicentra, who said:
“Others” being defined as rubes, marks, and fools.
I went along with the whole charade, thinking that there was no way I could be right about what I thought would happen… I mean, surely nobody could be that blind to consequence, the folks “running” the LGBTWTFBBQ program behind the scenes would surely have to recognize a victory and then take the win…? Right? Right?
Turns out, not so much. They’ve done precisely what the black activists have done: They’ve converted people who mostly agreed with them and sympathized with the cause into actual racists and bigots. Because of their own conduct, nothing else.
Trust me on this one… The next century is going to see all the “weird” stuffed back into the closet, and any of them resisting said stuffing are going to wind up suffering very unpleasant fates.
Ironic thing about it? The worst offenders for persecuting them are gonna be the same sort that are their “allies” now. Why? Because, that’s what those psychos do, my friends… The mob is not your friend, no matter what it tells you.
So the biggest kerfuffle on this side of the pond, at least on twiXer, is what happened to Peanut the rescued squirrel and a raccoon named Fred when a sadistic bureaucracy behaved like absolute thugs.
Everyone in favor of moar of the same? Watch your vote.
Turns out the animals were murdered by an actual Karen.
Or Stasi?
It appears that most of the decision-makers in this misadventure were women.
Or Stasi?
Or frustrated not to be trans…
Recently David posted a pic of some wieners on this blog… well now they have made it to the big time – a Donald Trump rally:
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/11/02/watch-trump-brings-womens-swim-team-that-stood-up-to-trans-athlete-on-rally-stage/
Note the team’s T-shirts which say “No ((wieners)) in women’s sports”
Another brilliant move by the Republicans, which undercuts Leftie messaging about looking out for women’s welfare.
Understood, but I tend to suspect that most of the actual activists were queer pervs and leftists bent on subversion. (Granted, there’s a great deal of overlap between those two groups.)
I am being taken out for lunch.
More as the story develops.
So the biggest kerfuffle on this side of the pond, at least on twiXer, is what happened to Peanut the rescued squirrel and a raccoon named Fred
The memes are wonderful.
I live for memes.
And then truth emerges . . .
Evergreen:
I’ve known plenty of good, decent, sensible women. But most of the really nasty leftists I’ve known were women.
Friday I was helping someone move and jokingly wrote “squirrels” on a packed box. Later that same day I get a text saying that a squirrel had chewed through a window screen and challenged my son to a fight.
Now, this Peanut tragedy.
David, you seem to be a squirrel whisperer, what is going on?
Can’t talk. Ordering lunch.
Turkey roast with pigs in blankets, since you ask.
So the biggest kerfuffle on this side of the pond…
None of which were shown by the obviously domesticated (seven years FFS) squirrel* or trash panda.
Of course they do.
Wouldn’t want to have any of you riff raff cutting in on the action.
The goal of which was clearly not the case either for the owner or the animal.
I’d be careful David, I would be surprised if there isn’t someone over there taking notes and you might be accused of baiting squirrels by the Flying Rodent Squad.
*(which are low risk animals anyway)
Dunno.
Pull the hairline a bit farther back, turn the hair white, and you’re looking at Tim Walz.
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If true, the lady is nuttier than squirrel poop.
The progressive dining experience.
Pull the hairline a bit farther back, turn the hair white…
The ‘tragedy of the commons’, updated for the 21st Century.
It was a good lunch, by the way. The pub was still decorated for Hallowe’en, which made the scene a tad surreal. Giant spiders overhead, and bloody handprints on the windows, next to the words save us, scrawled in blood. The quality of the lunch, and its sheer size, more than made up for any questions about the décor.
An added pleasure was the neighbouring couple’s friendly dog, which wandered off for a sniff about and returned covered in fake cobwebs.
Yet another example…
I recommend reading the whole thread. Pay particular attention to the framing, here: The innocent picture in graduation robes, as opposed to what he looked like as “intruder”.
It’s also hilarious how the usual suspects that spring to the defense of pit bulls on the internet are strangely baffled as to whose side they should take…
The modern media. There is no possible way you can hate it enough.
I really lost my respect for them when we were in the run-up for deployment to Iraq, the first time. Local station came by, did a piece on the training we were doing, and then selectively edited what I said as instructor to make it seem as if I were telling people how to get away with war crimes. If I hadn’t been able to get the original full and unedited video from the cameraman I’d made friends with, I’d have probably been charged with an actual crime by my bosses… They were that pissed, although they were about the only people who picked up on that interpretation.
The same pair of cameraman and anchor deployed with us. I let the two of them know they probably oughtn’t be reliant on me or mine for much of anything past basic life-support, because at that point? If it were up to me, I’d have happily turned them over to al Qaeda for whatever sport they had in mind.
The media lies to you, incessantly and without real need. They just want attention, so they can sell advertising; truth and honesty aren’t in it, anywhere.
Just thought I’d toss out that today is my mom’s 93rd birthday. She’s moves a bit slower but still kicking *** and taking names. Here’s a pic of her from 1960 …
I’ve been reading a lot of ancient history and watching vids. Buildings/towns/temples have been documented in Britain, E. Europe, China, Peru, india, Turkey going back 4000 (Peru) to 11,000 yrs ago. Large structures. Evidence for bronze making 6000 yrs ago in the Pontic region.
Africa S of Sahara? Almost nothing documented older than 1000 yrs ago except in Ethiopia and Sudan. Ethiopia may have been one of the first to make iron and domesticated coffee (IIRC). I tried a search and the lit is very flakey and does not show much of anything ancient. It is not all rainforest. Cannot blame it on the jungle (which only grows over stone monuments anyway). Much of the technology they did have such as Iron in recent times (say 1500) was brought in by Arabs. It has disturbing implications.
@ccscientist, who said:
OK, let’s say for the sake of argument that what you’re looking at with this data works out to “Africans incapable of civilization”. I disagree; the reality is that blacks are quite capable of civilization, when the environment is appropriate.
You mention Ethiopia, which had a civilization that was in contact with Israel of King David’s era. You don’t mention Mansa Musa, and his supporting civilization, or what was there in Ghana and around the western edge of the Sahara, which included Timbuktu, whose libraries rivaled Alexandria.
South of the Sahara, conditions did not obtain for civilization; tsetse fly and other things militated against that. Because of these factors, there wasn’t a civilization there for blacks to adapt to… So, is it a shock when you don’t see civilized behavior from them? They’re not adapted to the environment.
IQ testing and all that other bullshit we’re so enamored of don’t really measure what we think it does: An IQ test, as we mostly do them, actually measures something that ought to be labeled “Adaptation to Civilization Quotient”, because about all it really measures is the ability to do exceedingly fine abstract reasoning. Something that’d likely get you killed were you to be transposed to the ancient plains of North America or the savannahs of Africa. It does not do to be distracted by the implications of a butterfly wing while stalking the wily buffalo…
The surprise should not be that sub-Saharan Africans are ill-adapted to civilization, the surprise ought rightly be that anyone would expect anything different. They’re very good at being sub-Saharan Africans; the root problem is that they’re not very good at being anything else, much as most of us aren’t very good at being anything other than participants in a modern Western civilization. The majority of the people you’re so proud of being part of would likely die with a shocking rapidity, were you to dump them anywhere else, other than the here-and-now; the high plains of Mongolia, during Ghengis Khan’s era…?
IQ isn’t anything to be proud of, nor is your ability to subsist inside a civilization that everyone takes for granted. Rightly, everyone with a high IQ ought to be terrified of things falling down, and doing their level best to support it all. That they don’t is a measure of their maladaptation to general survival; when their nurturing environment goes away because they deliberately broke it, most if not all of them are going to die before they adapt to the new conditions that their cretinous activities brought on.
Meanwhile, sub-Saharan Africa will be doing just fine, doing sub-Saharan African things. Right up until the next asteroid hits…
Here’s a pic of her from 1960 …
[ Wolf whistles… ]
Questions that I don’t want to hear the answers to, I don’t ask either.
Stampeding them off cliffs really doesn’t count as ‘stalking’.
Harassment, maybe.
[…] while stalking the wily
buffalo… coyote.Super genius.
aelfheld posted:
Perfect example of what we’re talking about: Wile E. Coyote is the high-IQ sooper-genious type, while Bugs is the more lowbrow practical sort who likely didn’t do so well on the tests that Wile E. aced.
Ever wonder why the average person empathizes more with Bugs and the Road Runner? Why they laugh so hard at the ever-present comeuppances that the coyote runs into?
It ain’t because they love smart people.
I’m going to have to partly disagree. Wile E Coyote (and any number of villains from Bond’s Dr. No to The Incredibles’ Syndrome) were not hated because they were smart, but because they were amoral, power-hungry busybodies. Bugs just wants to live his life unmolested and is roused to [hilarious] reaction when bothered by someone who crosses personal boundaries.
@Darleen, who said:
What’s the key enabler for them being outsmarted, though? Look at just about ever single one of the stories: It’s always, always the soooper-genious type over reaching himself, outsmarting himself, and then getting his ass handed to him by the “common-sense common man” who’s actually smarter in practical terms. This is not an unusual trope in fairy tales and folk tales, either. Brer Fox, anyone…?
Believe me, growing up? I recognized early what the lessons were that were being taught, which I’ve heard many rail against as “anti-intellectual”. There’s actually a fairly in-depth analysis of this that I’ve seen, which of course I can’t find on the internet right now… Anyway, someone found it within themselves to produce a dissertation-level analysis of the issue that I found I had to agree with. Not sure how to find it, these days, but…
Exactly. Or my three favorites, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Boy Who Cried ‘Wolf’, and Chicken Little. The middle one not specific to your point but all three are stories that sometimes I feel like no one else had heard. On a couple of occasions in college I heard professors, etc. casually toss these stories aside as forms of establishment brain washing. They showed a similar disdain for common sense.
I now wonder how many of those gay marriage activists were already planning to normalize child sexual abuse and all the other lunacies we see today
The gay marriage activism was solely about going after the Catholic church. Most states and the US government offered civil unions, which were legally identical to marriage but a separate contract. The activists rejected it because, like the Palestinians, it was never about getting what they wanted. It was about destroying the enemy.
Here in Canada, the first legally married gay couple immediately turned around and sued the Catholic church for refusing to marry them. And then divorced a couple of years later.
the reality is that blacks are quite capable of civilization, when the environment is appropriate
Yes, yes; you’ve been reading the largely discredited Guns, Germs and Steel. We know.