And In Shoe-Related News
This just in:
Yes, I know. It’s a lot to unpack.
How many of those incidents were shoe-related, or involved insulted Barbie dolls, is unclear.
According to the Kleine Zeitung, the unnamed perpetrator, aged sixty and dubbed Franz, attacked his 81-year-old carer, punching him repeatedly and,
When subsequently appearing in court, Franz decided against wearing heels, perhaps wisely, and opted instead for “a chic sweater” and “delicate sandals.”
Franz, since you ask, was diagnosed with “a severe personality disorder” and a tendency towards violence, but was considered “still sane.”
The defendant also claimed that his fit of violent rage had been “provoked” by arguments over expenses, and his elderly carer’s failure to bring him toy cars, or any gifts for his small, plastic girlfriend.
Modernity, dear readers. It’s an acquired taste.
Previously in the world of transgender shoe-related crime.
This blog is kept afloat by the tip jar buttons below.
I want to get off this ride.
Satire would seem to be increasingly redundant. I mean, the scope for comical exaggeration is, well, fairly limited.
Band name.
Don’t Be a Sucker
Very scary how much of this has been forgotten – or was never given over to younger people.
Also, transgender shoe.
Hey, I don’t make the rules.
Not actually sure what the rules are, come to think of it.
Sentencing him to prison for the rest of his life would solve his financial problems.
It would also solve society’s problem.
Better to kick all the “progressives” off the ride.
Plays only songs by the Plastic Ono Band.
This is why I come to this blog: for it’s recognised interest in shoe-related news.
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2024/11/friday-ephemera-747.html#comment-183703
Meanwhile, the BBC has chosen its women of the year.
If memory serves, the BBC’s Women’s Footballer of the Year also had – how shall I put this? – elevated levels of testosterone.
Being modern, all the things must be queer, and as we are in the festive season, it is important we have a Queer Advent Calendar. Do follow along to learn how to make a queer letter to Santa and queer hot chocolate.
However, as Christmas is a system of racist yte oppression (aren’t they all), feel free instead to celebrate KuchuQwanzaa.
There are daily instructions you’ll want to follow, for example, day two you need a red candle (passion, blood, HIV, and struggle.) and must fast, but it doesn’t have to be food (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).
*(since 1966…)
The AI made me do it.
Now there’s a sore to pick at.
Why does this guy have any caregiver at all, let alone an 80yo one?
According to the linked article:
More than that, I couldn’t say.
No mention of cha-cha heels.
And you do have a category button for ‘The Thrill of Women’s Shoes’…
I suspect I’m going to get more use out of that than originally intended.
It’s like how the Parenting category took off, which I didn’t see coming.
That could play either way. Actually plays harder to the left than anything, given the left’s far more insidious and self-deceptive prejudices.
The UK is lost. Nice traditional style tattoo though. I’ll give him that.
Meanwhile, an aged failed “journalist” wants us to know she is better than we “dumbfucks who are raw-dogging the air“.
I think that used to be called “breathing”, but I have no journalism credentials.
Why is an 81-year-old man working as a care-giver to a violent psycho? That seems like a job for a 30-year-old whose hobby is martial arts.
Canada Bill Jones has entered the chat.
I’m guessing he doesn’t see what you’re seeing.
A violent 60-year old male has an 81-year old caregiver???
Even if it were a violent 60-year old XX female, 81 years old seems a bit … ill-equipped to deal with the situation, no matter how fit the octogenarian is.
New snack treat incoming.
The car lives up (down?) to the commercial.
When did the makers of funhouse mirrors enter the retail market?
What is that?
[ Suspicious pause. ]
Hard candies.
[ Compares description to image. ]
Hard pass.
[ Dims lighting, waits. ]
AGP males still want to be recognizable to themselves since the core thrill is seeing themself in women’s clothing.
There’s a scene in “Nightmare before Christmas” where the mad scientist, finally fed up with Sally defying him and running away, decides to create his perfect woman companion. He puts half of his own brain in a creature that looks like him in drag. And he is finally happy.
THAT’s AGP males to a T.
This.
To the tune of “Home on the Range”:
Well, yeah. They’re (they? It’s?) nearly two months past the sell-by date. Seriously. Don’t be stupid.
I really didn’t get much out of that movie. I have a cousin (who used to cut herself) who raves about it. I am hit-or-miss with Tim Burton. Such that sometimes even the hits make me question it.
Higher education at its finest, a professor who is “a queer, bisexual, femme, white, formerly working-class, Jewish, anti-Zionist scholar and activist” informs us stopping sex trafficking is anti-immigrant, racist, and transphobic.
The carbon footprint, however, is not mentioned. More here.
The Chinese military must be
quaking in their bootslaughing their asses off.Academia, where the art of breathing methane is perfected.
Aside from being a bunch of people in Army t-shirts, I am curious what exactly is going on there. Not that anything would surprise me.
An active SRY gene.
That’s it. That’s the on/off switch.
Follow-up on the brine shrimp caper, Colin Wright remarks that “this peer-reviewed paper sets a new standard for academic ridiculousness.”
I said “Way too many young women with nothing constr[u]ctive to do.”
And a woman from Cymru asked, “What would you like them to do????”
So I told her. And she passed out from an attack of the vapors.
I’m still laughing.
I am curious what exactly is going on there.
The shirt and shorts are the current standard PT uniform, though the reflective belts in broad daylight is weird, and not all of them have the uniform on, but just black. Best guess would be some JROTC goat rope, no way a real unit wouldn’t all be in the proper uniform.
So I told her.
For those of us in the cheap seats, fill us in…
That would make sense. They looked rather young. But still, very poor supervision. Probably outsourced to the local YMCA.
Oh that’s right. TwiXer isn’t universally accessible.
Note the multiple question marks of incredulity.
Shocked beyond belief: “Dear God! Blocked!!”
We’ve often talked about the ongoing degradation of high-trust societies.
This seems not entirely unrelated:
“Quality of inputs.”
The ongoing demise of queueing at many Greater London bus stops comes to mind as an illustration. It’s hard to see how any likely additional system or set of social rules, on top of the social rules that you already have – and which worked pretty well before the demographic transformation – could repair the degradation on display.
If, say, you import large numbers of people for whom queueing is an alien concept, along with any regard for the unrelated elderly or physically unimposing, such that the social norms of queueing and politeness simply don’t apply in their minds… then it’s not obvious that another set of social rules can fix the problem.
If newcomers don’t feel obliged to observe the existing customs and proprieties, to defer to indigenous norms, in part because they’ve arrived in such overwhelming numbers, then why would additional social norms work any better, assuming you could even conjure them into being?
You’ve basically imported low-grade material. An incompatibility.
Today’s words are mental health professional.
Of course. As I have said here many times before, and many, many times elsewhere, the MHP is rife with nutcases and morons. It is and has been quite obvious to anyone who wanted to see it. Much of our woke culture and the other civilization-off-the rails issues discussed here stem from the insanity of the MHP. This has been clear for decades, and even before that it was clear how the USSR and other communist countries have used it to control their citizens. Attempts to bring attention to this reality, as if additional efforts were needed, were not well received. Risky in fact. Don’t ask how I know, it would take way too long and really is unnecessary. It should be bloody obvious to anyone with eyes.
A good number of mental health professionals are educated at O&C. You would think someone would notice this problem. Especially the MHP who teach there. Smart people. Smaaaaaart.
“Dear God! Blocked!!”
Not only blocked, blocked with a shocked emoji – that is true horror.
Spasiba!
Meanwhile, an ACLU lawyer renders a medical opinion about 2 year olds.
Or, mentally ill woman and habitual deceiver, angry at the world, wishes to see children being drugged, mutilated, and permanently harmed.
Why don’t you listen to members of the mainstream medical community? That young man does. Are you anti-medical #Science?
I see why the Jaguar CEO threw a fit at the response to the advert now. He knew that this was coming and realised that they had messed up, badly.
I’m not even sure what their target market is for their new car? Rich, ‘campy’ gay, sci-fi geeks?
I’m not even sure what their target market is for their new car?
Who knows what they were thinking, but you know Kardashianoid types and rappers would be scarfing them up even though it copies nothing except putting a highly aerodynamic barn door on the front of a Chrysler Crossfire. “It’s not pink, it’s magenta!”. Henry Mancini was unavailable for comment.
Betcha that “interesting facts” about Chase Strangio will eventually be revealed.
The ACLU always had a lot of communists but today I wonder if more than a tiny minority of its staff are not pursuing one evil purpose or another.
From Wikipedia:
Never say never, but I do believe the “liberals” of my generation are incapable of self-reform.
Via sf writer Brad R Torgerson:, some thoughts about the Bluegeoisie:
And this reply:
“The Bluegeoisie”. Excellent, although it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
The Left is trapped in abstractions. From “the proletariat” to “POC” everything is categories, not people. They cannot admit that a young black man and a young white man might have lots in common and even cheer together watching football. That individuals have different needs, wants, and fears, is not something they can grasp. Once someone is in a disfavored group, they are no longer human (Trumpers, Catholics, men).
They love abstractions like higher min wage without any concern about a policy working. Climate change is their ultimate abstraction. If they read the actual reports, even the IPCC worst case scenario posits a richer world in 2100, just not as rich as it would be without climate change. Forecasts of ice sheets sliding into the ocean and raising sea levels occur 1000 years from now. But instead of reading publicly available documents they go straight to “end of the world” crap.
Going by the image, she’s young enough to never have run into toothpaste without fluoride, indicating the source of her dental issues doesn’t lie with the water supply so much as poor dental hygiene. Her mental hygiene is likely no better.
Given the current state of it, yes.
Who says you need good intentions for paving material? Bad ones do just as well.
You’re not supposed to think like that. #HateLogic
Just the other day a highly educated liberal I know ranted against laws that allow paying below minimum wage to “cognitively impaired” individuals. She thought she was “standing up for exploited workers” without realizing (or admitting?) that without such laws these people would be effectively unemployable.
Her intentions being pure, there can be no bad consequences from imposing notions.
Well, quite. As the anecdote in the post about bus stop queueing – regarding the Radio 4 programme – makes clear. Noticing certain things is very much frowned upon. And yet, in terms of immigration, the question “what’s in it for us?” is very much the kind of thing one ought to be asking.
Why don’t you listen to members of the mainstream medical community? That young man* does.
That’s not a man, baby. And not even young, either. Far as I know that’s a drugged-up, mutilated, confused 40-something woman. Seeing what the mainstream medical community did to her, after she demanded it too, most likely, I’m not listening to a word they say.
*When I saw that pic of Chase, my first thought was “What a weenie!”. Then I remembered who that person was, and it all made sense.
Min wage: for mentally handicapped, a job below min wage gives them dignity, gets them out of the house, gives them some income, gives caregivers a break, and gives them some social life. Many autistic and downs (among others) love their jobs. Do gooders think they are being exploited but no one forces them to work.
My local grocer used to hire some seriously retarded people (mostly men). One day one of them dropped a gallon of milk, which broke, and he just started sobbing. A 40 yr old man. Without a subsidy or the ability to pay below min wage, the store could not have hired him at all.
Heh. My bad for not paying closer attention. And perhaps for not listening to the audio. But aside from that…well, our society is horribly messed up in a lot of ways. Not that it was ever pure. This is what happens when people surrender their thoughts and opinions to whatever everyone else says. Don’t speak up. Keep your head down. The nail that sticks up and stuff.
Nor can dissent be treated as anything less than evil.
Indeed. The do-gooder I mentioned thinks wages should be based on “equity” rather than value of work. She publicly longs for the abolition of “capitalism”.
Ten to one she couldn’t define ‘capitalism’ to save her cloistered life.
Indeed. If your kid borrows $10 to open a lemonade stand, that is capitalism. They openly love Apple and Ben and Jerry’s and Celestial Seasonings tea, as if those were not capitalism. The same people who imagine that gov ownership would solve all problems bitch if they have to go to DMV or deal with any gov office. Just try to get the IRS on the phone.
So just who does she think is going to make her next iPhone?
Oh, and by-the-way… Chase Strangio? That has to be a stage name, right? I could believe something like “Jenny Strange” as a birth-name, but Strangio? come on, she’s taking the piss, right?
I could believe something like “Jenny Strange” as a birth-name, but Strangio? come on, she’s taking the piss, right?
All the way to the bank, sadly.
I tried taking that to the bank but I was shown the door. Unceremoniously.
Lovely call-out (via Not the Bee).
Construction history via Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris
JK Rowling: wow she has a way with words. AND she is quite clear about 1) reality 2) cause and effect and 3) justice. I hope her words are prophetic.
A further note on “ending capitalism”. The reason that capitalism works is that idiotic ventures (or those that stagnate or lack imagination) fail and successful ventures (that meet human needs, reduce costs etc) succeed. If you want to see what communism does, a grand experiment was E & W Germany. In the East, life was drab, gray, and poorly functioning. People risked their lives to escape. When the wall fell, E. Germans just abandoned their Trabants in the street —they were that crappy. I read a western (maybe scandinavian? Brit?) defending E. Germany–“they may have been poor but they were more equal, which is what matters”. dipshit
Oh the irony!
More here.
Anorexic men make the best female fashion models.
Anorexic women hardest hit.
Heh.
It’s astounding how many people are unaware of psychopathy and how intractable it is. The desire to “see the good in everyone” must feel virtuous — really virtuous — given how often people indulge in it.
But if you’re actually a reasonably virtuous person, you should have the ability to recognize the absence of virtue in others. I guess it’s hard for anyone to confront the fact that some people — even if there’s some “good” in them — are predatory, exploitative, heartless, cruel, sadistic, and operate without a conscience.
And that you can’t fix them, because they don’t want to be fixed. They genuinely love what they are.
Karen Mitchell has apparently done some essential, in-depth research on “dark personalities: narcissists, psychopaths, coercive controllers.” Her feed is chock full of ways to identify these awful people:
And
Are these idealists genuinely stupid? Lacking the cognitive ability to grasp incurable evil? Or are they living in La-La land in general?
Acorn falling close to the tree or far away?
Who says it fell?
It makes sense when you think about it.
I find attempts to excuse thuggery and antisocial behaviour deeply suspicious, almost like a tell. And the more ostentatious those attempts are, the more rapidly the little red light flashes.
The kinds of people who would see something like this, for instance, and their first impulse, at least in public, would be to contrive some excuse for what they’re seeing, while implying their own superiority for having managed the contrivance. Or this unconvincing bint. Or any of the other, remarkably similar creatures featured here over the years.
These are not, I think, people you would want as a neighbour.
That seems to be caused by sociopathy or malignant narcissism in the excuser. They see a crime, they don’t give a rip for the victims, including the damage it does to the social fabric. Their ability to see crime is impaired because they themselves have no moral compass.
This “Learning Together” program, OTOH, seems to be a project for do-gooders who actually believe they are doing good, but are also so naive that they’re easily played by the psychopaths they’re ostensibly reforming:
Brick stupidity, is what. No idea how effortlessly a psychopath can lie and pretend to be a good guy, utterly gulling the do-gooders while waiting for his moment to strike.
Well, it’s often the case that the message being sent is, “I am infinitely forgiving and therefore elevated, and if you or your loved ones are victims of criminal predation or some fit of sociopathy, I may very well contrive to defend the aggressor. I cannot be counted on. I am morally unreliable and will sell you out in a heartbeat, should it suit me, and when it matters most.”
This phenomenon is something I’ve experienced first-hand. It was, as you’d imagine, a memorable experience. Quite revealing of the type.
For some reason, this piece of work came to mind. The virtue-signaling via moral inversion is off the charts. She’s not naive; she’s Cluster B.
She’s doing her damndest to get rid of one’s right to self-defense and the defense of others. Absolutely AWFL.
We need more words to describe female pathologies. It’s a phenomenon that seems ascendant and deserves more attention.
And so, we have a statusful progressive woman who complains that “no-one was held accountable” for the wrongs done to her own ancestors, and who therefore – yes, therefore – tries to make sure that other monsters are not held accountable for their monstrous behaviour, their appalling choices. Depending, it seems, on how black the aggressor happens to be. Say, by contriving excuses for sociopathic vermin whose robbing of the elderly and frail results in death.
A robber who supposedly “had no choice” but to rob and terrorise the elderly, and for whom she “felt sorry.”
The word disgust barely covers it.
OMG, she said the thing: “so much more interesting.” In what sense is she serious?
Again, female pathology. The vice of our time.
Gad Saad calls it “suicidal empathy,” which is denotationally correct but doesn’t have the proper connotational impact.
The term needs to communicate twisted morality, inversion, perversity, sociopathy, sadism. Yes, “Cluster B,” but that’s something you have to already know. It’s not a self-evident descriptor.
Must noodle…
There’s the rub. Most people don’t encounter the most extreme types. Their only personal experiences are with the kind of people who are salvageable. Since the most extreme psychopaths, etc. are (traditionally) hidden away from them they assume that the only reason that they exist is they aren’t exposed to enough virtuous people like themselves. Only when the problem is brought to their doorstep do some of them begin to get a clue. For most of them, by then it’s too late and their own egos prevent them from admitting that they were ever wrong. It takes a new generation to see it and actually grasp how real it is and deal with the problem.