Friday Ephemera (744)
Dublin man. || Oh dear. || Best not to dawdle, I think. || Your bedroom buddy. || His is bigger. || Theirs is bigger, too. || Houseguest. || A game about making wigs (and buying hair, and drones, and a war against hats). Previously. || It was a day of ups and downs. || Alas, I don’t know the name for this. || Well, that escalated quickly. || Luckily, he had a sandal. || At last, a guide to vomiting. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || No, I have no idea. || Ideal teacher material. || Satellite made of wood. || How to move the Moon (while melting quite a bit of it). || “I’m pressure. I’m pressurelicious.” || Project Sundial. || The progressive retail experience, parts 591, 592, 593, and 594. || He says fortune smiled upon him. || Bigfoot. || Fun for all the family. || And finally, oh don’t pull that face, you want one and you know it.
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Hardly anyone today even knows what that word means.
He is when he is harmed by someone who is not a mascot minority. Otherwise, not much.
Your comment is the first I’ve heard of the mob violence against Israeli soccer fans, but I’ve been too busy since yesterday lunchtime to do more than quick casual hops on the internet.
This is nothing surprisingly new: Bruce Bawer wrote about Muslim violence in the Netherlands in his 2006 book While Europe Slept. And I had random encounters with smart educated Europeans who laughed contemptuously at his book.
From what I can make out, it’s some kind of flocking powder that’s meant to imitate the feel of fur or velvet or whatever. Hence the stickiness, I suppose.
So, not asbestos. Or cocaine.
Today’s word is impervious.
Other words are available.
…in terms of aretḗ. George Clooney?
Speaking of whom, he is now one of the reasons Harris lost.
The utter flailing of these bozos is a wonder to behold, always something other than “we sucked so hard we could air start a deuce and a half by sucking the exhaust, maybe we should see where we went wrong”..
Meanwhile, never having picked up a real history book, one nitwit is suggesting anyone who voted for Trump should be made to wear a red hat, another says she is going to “get a Glock” (apparently the only shooting irons in the world are Glocks and AR-15s) and shoot yte men (only hwites, only at night, only in the street, though), and in a unique twist on the concept fellow anti-Trump types should get a tattoo – all this stuff to identify the “fascists” of course.
However, to liven the mood,
Shot:
Chaser:
Stay with the last one…
[ Muffled laughter. ]
I don’t know who he is, but I think I know what he is.
A handy identification chart for her and her friends:
You’re in luck. They’re still warm.
A handy identification chart for her and her friends:
Pretty much.
…another says she is going to “get a Glock”…
Here is that fetching lass, BTW.
Gents (hwite only, thank you very much, the verdict is apparently still out on yte Hispanics, Asians, and light skinned mix-race Trump suppoeters) if you are out at night anywhere near this loon and the ground starts shaking, seek cover even though I reckon the only safe place would be the target.
Related, from the late great Jeff MacNelly:
“I’m a political analyst, I’m telling you right now, the numbers are there, she’s taking this election.”
Shot:
Chaser:
“It was absolutely magnificent, I’ve never seen anything like it in my entire life, impressive on a level…she has the campaign playbook, if you’re gonna win, that’s the playbook that you use,”.
“I’m not deluded, you all are deluded”, she added.
Good news everyone!
George Clooney is off the hook, Carrot Top says Taylor Swift is to blame! (For the love of all that is holy and your sanity, skip to about 3:30)
“Political analyst” is usually a euphemism for “professional liar”.
The ignorance is stunning. The wokies (and so many TV ads for candidates) claiming the Supreme Court and Trump took away abortion rights is so insane. All that happened was that the court (without Trump) said it goes back to the states for legislation. That IS democracy, but they don’t like being denied their demands. And of course in places they demand abortion right up to the day of birth.
Oh, this. There even ought to be a word for that problem itself. Kidding only slightly. For many years I struggled to explain certain things about how haywire things were getting but would get lost in trying to describe the concept, thus distracting from the point I was trying to make about the concept. “Cancel culture” being a big one. Amongst friends I was calling it “Litmus test culture” but even that didn’t catch on such that I had to explain it every time the subject came up. “The narrative” was another one. I tried to put it in terms of that stupid Matrix movie, but my disdain for the movie was its own distraction. What has been interesting to me is that in the last few years, as the terms ‘narrative’ and ‘cancel culture’ have caught on, there has finally been some pushback on those fronts.
Castros got there first.
Dude, spare the real Carrot Top the slander. As far as I know, he’s a conservative or conservative-leaning guy. We have a few mutual friends (I know, right? I’m just two phone calls away). Kinda, sorta met him once.
Trump around, Trump around!
Heh. Do help yourself to the inverted, boneless rectums.
It’s easier (& cheaper) to repeat the same pabulum as everyone else than it is to be original in any fashion. And by repeating the same pabulum in every venue, the populace at large assumes everything is normal because, well, everyone says so. Think of it as the triumph of mediocrity.
The kids are alright.
In Spain they removed hundreds of dams for “the environment” and over 200 died in floods. Many things exist for a reason, such as dams. Dams don’t care about your ideology.
‘Joined-up thinking’ not among them.
“Sophron” pop culture rants about “getting in touch with your feelings” for men, and “don’t be afraid to cry” crap. No respect for the stoic, boring, steady man
Every time I see her she looks more and more like Herman Munster.
*plays it again*
Replace the “y” in the job title with an “i,” and you get a better description.
A 70 year old snark, updated:
Well, it’s worth keeping in mind that the people having these juvenile, theatrical meltdowns – and the women setting up cameras, cutting off their hair, badly, and then screaming into pillows – are the ones who assume that they should be in charge.
Of pretty much everything.
Two thumbs up from Quasimodo.
Randy Newman warned us.
Recommender algorithm is broken.
Ok, that made me laugh out loud for several minutes.
Seriously now, if you’re running into people who wonder why Trump won, quote from this paragraph. It’s a nice summation of the last four years from Curt Anderson.
https://thespectator.com/politics/finally-democrat-autopsy-republican-consultant/
I’m sure it won’t change their minds, but it’s a nice receipt.
@WTP, who said:
Repeat after me the following mantra: Language is a tool for thought. Language is a tool for thought…
If the word doesn’t exist for a concept, it can’t really be discussed.
If you capture the meaning of a word, you can warp the discussion of it.
Note the leftoid Marxist creation/capture of the term “Capitalism” to discuss what ought rightly be termed “traditional human market activity”, rather than this horrible thing they turned it into with their jargon; they won that battle, we should not cede the field to them in this or any other endeavor.
Language is a tool for thought. Perhaps, the tool…
Won’t somebody think of the taxi drivers?
@ccscientist, who said:
I don’t know that there’s anything in modern pop culture you could even remotely tag as possessing any sort of anything close to the sense of the word I have. “Sophron” is the diametric opposite of everything there, these days.
David Niven? Sophron, with style. Clooney? Yeah, I’d want my money back, on that one… Same with the rest of the waily-waily-woe crowd in public life. The repudiated VP candidate Walz being an excellent example.
“I can’t be the only person who, watching this video, became absolutely certain that her house smells powerfully of cat piss and box wine.”
To the Left, you are either a believer or a heathen. There is no concept that other people might have different values, goals, needs. Such as not getting mugged or buying butter for less than $7. Or wanting things that are good for their kids. Or going to church. No concept that such things are possible. Their certainty is their armor. Take it away and they fall to pieces. hahahaha
The most delicious thing to me is Dems discovering that hispanics are not a reliable voting bloc after they scuppered this election bringing in millions of them illegally to be loyal voters. I saw that in some place (or nationally?) they went 45% for orange man. I saw interviews with black men who gave very clear reasons for voting trump. It was also funny as hell to see the denial that Trump rallies had POC there, as if someone was just making that up. Trump increased his % vs 2016 in every demographic, even white women (probably married ones).
When Trump promised to deport millions, the claim was made by the MSM that it would cost too much, as if flying them in, giving them housing, giving them food cards, was all free.
Theirs is bigger, too
Elon Musk’s election celebration rocket
Heh. Speaking of taxi drivers, anyone heard from Thomas Friedman lately?
Believe me, I’m no fan of Noam Chomsky but that SOB knows his stuff. Another big thing the right generally doesn’t get. Some do, but not enough.
Furry convention in 2018.
Something you rarely see at gatherings of golfers, decorators or accountants.
I can’t fathom why her media team failed.
Sign of the times…
I’ve posted incessantly on this here and elsewhere, for the last twenty-thirty years.
The minorities are at about the end of the time when they could turn this crap around; from here on out, there’s a definite risk that enough of the marks are going to cop to the grift, and then it will be game on.
The real problem here for the blacks and others is that “Hispanic” and “Asian” can very easily morph over into “white”, which makes it probable that they’ll be able to pass right on in with the majority. Blacks, however, have a literal mark of Cain they have to overcome for that to happen, and it likely won’t.
Did it to themselves, though… I’ve got zero pity and even fewer f*cks to give about it all. For the group, that is… As individuals, I find it tragic. I worked with and for a bunch of outstanding black Americans while I was in the Army, had no problems with them as individuals. As a group? With all the leveraging of the race card that many used? Nope; not even on a bet. They’re toxic to any good organization, once above a certain percentage. Much like Muslims.
And yet I’m told in no uncertain terms that furry is not a kink.
Sometimes stereotypes are accurate.
Devon Eriksen nails it on the door… Again.
I’d like to submit Mr. Eriksen as a candidate for X/Twitter poster laureate, being as the man is a genius.
I know he is, because he agrees with me so much, but is so much more articulate than I am. He somehow does these long-form pieces without reducing himself to gibbering rage as he writes…
“In Spain they removed hundreds of dams for “the environment” and over 200 died in floods. Many things exist for a reason, such as dams. Dams don’t care about your ideology.”
Well, frankly, they don’t give a…
I’ll get me coat.