Friday Ephemera (746)
Incoming. || I don’t know if you want one, but they’re out there somewhere. || Suboptimal situation. || Hazards of cooking. || Failure to comprehend. || Hard to refuse. || A five-year pregnancy. || Singaporean punishment, a poll ensues. || The thrill of ballpoint pen alignment. || Publicly funded healthcare. || “Vaginally presenting” persons. || Are your contemplations situated? || “Mentally stable clients contradict the social justice worldview.” || Swift response. || Strategic withdrawal. || Simulated shrooming. Hilarity not included. || For when you’re transporting fluids at close to the speed of light. || Dissatisfied customer. || Maximum sparkle, only £11,095. || Meet Sissy the minx. || In case you missed it. || Good haul, methinks. || Dog-sitting, but with extras. || And finally, good as new.
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Sentencing enhancement needed.
Indigenous woman yells ‘I hate white people’ before punching white woman, but it’s not a hate crime judge rules
Oh well, at least the judge ordered her to stay away from the firewater.
Sex offender “Tiffany Scott” – Scotland’s “most violent prisoner” – is on the list of 350 people being honoured today on “Transgender Day of Remembrance”.
Play stupid games, wear Cluster B glasses, win stupid prizes.
I tend to think that there must have been a better way to accommodate the pens facing the wrong way, and this is just bad assembly-line design.
Or maybe they just wanted something mesmerizing.
That’s it? A bit of visual distortion that doesn’t block the view of reality?
Booooorrring!
Play stupid games, wear Cluster B glasses, win stupid prizes.
These are the same people who were saying you must: “bake the cake,” “take the picture,” “make the flower arrangement.”
I didn’t make the new rules, but those are the new rules
How to test for phony women without disrobing.
“I don’t know if you want one, but they’re out there somewhere.“
Just in time for Christmas, too!
Dicentra: “How to test for phony women without disrobing.“
I don’t understand that – don’t men have greater upper body strength? Or is it a question of balance?
That was pretty good. He got the ‘melting’ thing right.
Julia: Women have a lower center of gravity, making it much easier to do that.
It’s not about strength. It’s about one’s center of gravity. Apparently ours is lower down on our bodies, so holding the torso in that position is done through a cantilever effect: more mass below the waist than above.
I’m not sure why men can’t just hold that position through pure strength, but they apparently can’t.
Sweat on the wheel and crap in your underpants.
This is why we get stupid warning stickers on everything.
Morning, all.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
As I type, I’m balancing on my hair.
I question the “high dose” title, but from what I remember – and this is going back a few decades – the visual squirming effect is quite accurate, and the peaking, around four minutes in, made me chuckle. I suppose the problem is that the visual distortions are only part of the experience. The psychological effects are difficult to convey.
I remember being reduced to helpless laughter by a slice of toast.
Concerning the Bluesky block…
The ultimate proof of committment to a political cause is to knowingly deny reality. Some cults insist on it.
Well, once you’ve mouthed the lie, publicly, your probity is compromised. And that’s exploitable. Leverage, baby.
BlueSky as the Wuhan lab, doing gain-of-function research (whole thread).
In the developed world, the conceit is utterly dishonest, as one might expect.
We’re talking about maybe two dozen deaths in the US, going back decades, and a handful in the UK, again going back decades, and of those deaths, “anti-trans violence” is at best a very marginal explanation and, more typically, totally misleading.
Take out the self-harm, the drug deals gone wrong, the murders by pimps and deceived customers of prostitution – and the attacks on dysmorphic people by other dysmorphic people – and what’s left?
As noted here:
Again, if we subtract the self-inflicted miseries, the very bad decisions made repeatedly, there’s not a great deal left. And note that activists like Mr Dennis are striving to make such situations more dangerous, not less.
How did she not notice for 20 seconds?
He’s a good boy.
A nice thick head of hair, or maybe a wig.
Will this be on the test?
Hey, I’m just sharing some practical advice. You never know when you may need it.
[ Dashes across room clutching carton of juice. ]
Nothing yet.
Is it a sexual thing?
Swift response.
GOOD doggie!
Skill set of note.
When did “standing up for what you believe” morph from “speaking your mind” to “shunning those who disagree”?
I am now willing to embrace those rules, shunning leftists and refraining from giving aid when they are in need or in danger. Quite a change from how I used to feel, but leftists have persuaded me that this is the way to go.
But if you look more carefully, you will see that the womens’ knees are much more bent, so that their center of mass is closer to those knees.
You’ll be thrilled to hear there’s a new item on the menu.
I’m taking lunchtime orders. Don’t be shy.
This cannot be said too often.
Musical accompaniment of note.
Reminds me of my own teenage flirtation with the clarinet. I tried to make the results less disagreeable by bunging it through a Watkins Copicat.
The project wasn’t entirely successful.
I ate earlier, thanks.
I’m making club sandwiches with extra bacon. Only $7 more than whatever David is charging.
[ Sound of sizzling testicles. ]
[ From kitchen, singing, smell of testicles. ]
Equality of the sexes: These women should also get the death penalty.
[ Sound of sizzling testicles. ]
First, you lot over there eat all sorts of offal in various forms so why why turkey nads would be offputting is a bit of a mystery, second, having been served “turkey fries” at a party and deliberately being given the impression that they were like chicken nuggets*, you would need a feeler gauge to tell the difference between them and a fried oyster – and I don’t mean a fried Rocky Mountain oyster.
*(the host was sore chagrined no one was grossed out)
[ Slides testicle platter to Mr Muldoon. ]
Band name.
[ Slides testicle platter to Mr Muldoon. ]
Only if they are served on toast with beans like every other English dish including beef Wellington, steak tartare, lobster thermidor, Porterhouse steaks, and plum pudding.
I see someone’s fishing for a second helping.
I see someone’s fishing for a second helping.
Damn skippy, I know fine dining when I see it. When I do, I’ll let you know.
With vigorous mashing, and a hint of garlic, I could make a coarse pâté.
[ Starts mashing testicles. ]
Somewhere there is a hissy fit being thrown:
I’m surprised they didn’t do this joke sooner.
The sound of evil.
Happily, the attacker did not survive.
I do so like a happy ending.
He’s going to need good lighting.
His cries of pain as he dies are music to my ears.
Another “migrant”?
Look away now.
Details are sketchy.
During his interrogation for multiple counts of rape and murder?
I want to see how she cleans the toaster.
Are your contemplations situated?
Well.
As I was sitting here enjoying a heaping helping of Testicules de dinde frits sur le pain grillé avec haricots a la Thompson™ I looked up the paper referenced in the link and I have to say, of all the academic arglebargle to which David has pointed us over the years this has to be near the, if not the actual, acme in both the literal and Warner Brothers sense.
Bear with me, I can be concise, “academics”, perhaps they are paid by the word, not so much…
No, seriously, I didn’t make that up. Ghosts. In “sense making systems” whatever they are but appear to be absent.
Like racism, it will be found regardless of whether it is actually there.
Vulnerableized. Right. That aside, I am having a bit of trouble seeing as how increased surveillance among
hookerssex workers for antimicrobial resistant STDs is a bad thing, or the simple fact that there are more female than male “sex workers” is an “entrenched gender disparity”.I could go on forever, the whole thing is nothing but words, not a single real scientific concept, idea, proposal, or fact relating to antimicrobial resistance. Of course I am not a sociologist, so how would I know that “…the goal of improved health “for all”. In a queer feminist posthuman framework, “all” should include more-than-human stakeholders…” I guess that is the ghosts again.
RTWT at your own risk.
[ Starts mashing testicles. ]
The turkey testicles. Right?
I don’t understand that – don’t men have greater upper body strength?
There’s also the chair challenge.
Already have a headache just from the snippets.
I have been reading to my grandkids. There are lots of books for bedtime featuring a mom or dad (human, bear, rabbit, cartoon) trying to get the small child sleepy. Ok. But there are some where the adult, who is saying how much he (always he) loves the little one, is clearly not related. Not a dad or brother or uncle. Just an adult. Creepy. Grooming.
I remember this was done on “All In The Family” TV show back in 1971.
Thank God YouTube remembers.
Already have a headache just from the snippets.
You have a headache?
After wading through that I am seriously considering getting into David’s Special Radiator Distilled No.12 Pruno Blend™, artisinally crafted with the finest alcohol derived from liquid shoe polish strained through a loaf of three day old bread.
Welcome to my world.
Exactly this.
Dude, she was merely suggesting a lacuna for further AMR research. That’s all you really needed to know.
Academia trains people to write opaquely rather than clearly:
Think of it as chaff being released to foil the pursuit of reality.
Or squid ink.
See: This is the Theory that Jack Built:
I have questions.
Florida man.
Or The Rattlin’ Bog
Florida man Harun Abdul-Malik Yener. Go ‘Noles!
It’s always those damned Lutherans, isn’t it?
But if the one on the left is a furry then they will demand that we say he’s a real elephant.
Is it time we ditched the word gardening?
How about ditching the idea that leftists should be tolerated?
Who’s filming that? The camera looks hand-held.
It might be fake.
I very nearly posted that myself. Good thing I read through the thread first.
Mr. Wong, the Grauniad horticulturalist, is A) confused, 2) bad at logic, and c) way way over paid. Mercifully, it was brief.
You owe me a refund, and no, fried testicles are not acceptable.
Bets on our host finding another use for his microwave?
Would your country be a good axe?
Who the hell does this?
Again, who does this?
Effing psychopaths.
Singaporean punishment using the rattan is always demonised by the luvvies and never properly covered by the media. Repeat offending rates in Western countries for crimes of violence and sex crimes, are between 47% and 63%. In Singapore, it’s 1.45%. Wonder why that difference exists? No matter how sociopathic or dumb the criminal is, they never, ever forget the pain of the rattan. It massively reduces crimes.
Hard sell:
Sadly, the full outpouring is behind a paywall.
Physical, and very public, humiliation – doing real damage to their nasty little egos – is a moral language that they are more likely to understand. It has a needed immediacy.
Best retort:
Indeed. But the above does illustrate how for some – say, self-styled liberals who demand “open borders now!” – contrivance and perversity are measures of status.
“Dog-sitting, but with extras.“
Hey, at least the dogs weren’t involved!
“You’ll be thrilled to hear there’s a new item on the menu.“
Bit of a conflict there between the packaging and the content label – but with nothing to provide scale….
I have a question about the turkey testicles – are they cheap? My dog enjoys a raw treat now and then. I already know he likes to tuck in to a turkey neck or chicken leg.
They seem inexpensive.
And my search history takes another beating.