Tidings
Or, He’s Put Tinsel On The Tip Jar.
Konkon’s Yawn, photographed by Tak.
As is the custom here, posting will be intermittent over the holidays and readers are advised to follow me on X, or subscribe to the blog feed at the very bottom of the page, either of which will alert you to anything new as and when it materialises.
Thanks for another 1.5 million or so visits this year and thousands of comments, many of which prompted discussions that are much more interesting than the actual posts. Which is pretty much the idea.
And particular thanks to all those who’ve made PayPal, Ko-Fi, or SubscribeStar donations to keep this rickety barge above water. It’s much appreciated. Should you be gripped by a seasonal urge to express encouragement via currency, by all means use the buttons below this post.
Just think of my little face lighting up.
Curious newcomers and those with nothing better to do are welcome to rummage through the Reheated series in search of entertainment. You may find things you’d missed. And this, needless to say, is an open thread.
To you and yours, a very good one.
Old Dutch Church, “Love Gathers Here”.
A veritable atom bomb of love!
Something tells me that my odds of experiencing the numinous would not be greatly enhanced.
I say put ’em all on a bus headed south from Memphis on US 61.
‘Tis the season! *hits tip jar*
Merry Christmas all!
Adorable dogs are always welcome here.
Normally I wouldn’t do this but…lost my Rocky back in September. Smart dog. He even knew Saturday mornings from Sunday mornings. Saturdays I would walk him around the perimeter of our subdivision, but on Sundays we would cross the street to the park where he could run off the leash since hardly anyone was there. On Saturday he would walk like the good boy I trained him to be. It used to amaze me how few people have put even that little effort into training their dogs to walk properly and behave. On Sundays, as we approached the park he would pull on his leash in that direction. Loyal, brave for a smaller dog, hardly ever barked unless it was important, knew a few tricks, loved to play hide-and-seek and a tag game we invented. Hardly ever did anything wrong but when he did, he showed proper shame. Didn’t like his baths but he still went willingly…sort of…into the shower without me having to pick him up or chase him. About the best dog I could have ever asked for.
Thanks for a year of laughs and madness.
*ping*
Thank you for all the wrongthink. Token of appreciation, etc.
Bless you, madam, and bless you, sirs. May your under-sink cupboard be orderly, with its contents easy to find and extract. Thereby avoiding a protracted, comical struggle to retrieve the goddamn boot waterproofing.
Gresham’s Law applies to more than money.
If you get hysterical over a piece of raw cotton the likelihood of you ever being a functional adult is low.
He’s very serious about neatness.
[ Revises views of life outside London. ]
WTP and politics: I have friends who appear to only watch MSNBC or read Facebook news feeds. They repeat crap verbatim from those sources, like Trump is a rapist. One spews anti-Trump hatred with no idea of why he hates him. Just parroting the approved line. Lovely guy otherwise.
Is that Camberwell?
Heh. We discussed news sources. He was convinced that I got all my news from Fox. The only Fox info I get is what my previously-Democrat wife forwards to me. I asked him what US news sources he thought were good, he actually said MSNBC. I mean…that’s about the furthest left you can get. They’re so far left that they finally figured out that they need to shed a number of their leftists.
I will say this for Facebook feeds, like Twitter/X, they do allow feedback. A lot of BS in the fact checking of course but as I was telling Mr. Canuck, never trust information from sources that don’t permit easy, readily available and accessible feedback. And always read what the other side has to say. Though in the current environment it’s kinda hard to avoid the leftist mantra. One potential blind spot for the right in the future, should the MSM continue to lose their big megaphones, will likely be a failure to pay attention to what the leftists are on about. They will regroup. They always do.
PING!
Have one on me, barkeep.
Bless you, sirs. Should you be tasked with taking to the bins an enormous, quite sturdy cardboard box, almost two metres in length, may you remember to flatten and fold the box before heading outdoors on the Windiest Chuffing Day In Human History.
#TrueStory
FYI for Americans…My wife likes to give our mail carrier $20 cash in a Christmas card every year. Well we just learned:
https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2012/pb22349/html/cover_025.htm
God knows what happens to that 20 bucks.
[ Attends to wind-dishevelled hair. ]
Do you have a side job as a model for romance novels?
The Christmas tidings for this individual, should be life in prison.
“You would be lucky to date a trans woman.”
This may prove useful.
Another illusion shattered.
Site to show political leanings before buying a house: real estate agents are mostly forbidden from saying anything about your potential neighbors. I saw a graphic that helps them get around it. It was a map of San Fran showing Whole Foods and Walmart stores. The two brands are distinctly separate and show working class vs elite neighborhoods. Would not work in my town because the two stores are across the street from each other. Nevertheless, the clientele in the two stores are distinctly different.
Trans “woman” and dating: Sex is not a social construct. Everything about a woman that a man responds to is distinct compared to men–hair, skin, voice, curves, smell. There are pheromones involved as well. More than one transvestite or “trans” has been beat up or killed after the male partner discovered the deception (see “Lola” by the Kinks). It is also interesting the high % of XY trans involved in the sex trade (as far as I can tell). This would not be the case if they were otherwise normal.
It is insisted that taking hormones completely converts the sex to the opposite, so “trans women” no longer have a sports advantage. If so, then why are not more (ie more than zero) XX trans getting into male sports and winning?
I seem to recall reading about an American realtors association making it a code-of-ethics violation to tell buyers about crime levels. Political culture would be just one more step down that twisted road.
Realtors and codes of ethics:
Many years ago, when I worked with a realtor to find a suitable home, she was always unable to answer any questions about matters that might detract from the value of a particular home. My favorite example was the house 50 feet from a river which regularly flooded, but she knew nothing about such matters although she’d lived and worked in that area for many years.
I guarantee you that such “ethics” are not the individual realtor’s ideas. It’s the lawyers and political hacks working through the Realtor association threatening loss of licenses, accreditation, and lawsuits. None of it answerable to the people.
It would truly make Christmas bright to unload a full can of that into his gullet.
Diabolically funny Bill Murray
It would truly make Christmas bright to unload a full can of that into his gullet.
At least the shitheel got arrested.
I’m not sure what crimes he can be charged with for poisoning food, but I’d like to see him put away until he’s got arthritis and dementia.
Never understood the popularity of his films.
What could go wrong? This. (FYI: I haven’t found any other reports online.)
I’m not sure what crimes he can be charged with…
The Federal Anti-Tampering Act of 1982, passed in the wake of the Tylenol poisonings, provides for up to 20 years in prison.
Never understood the popularity of his films.
I didn’t know who the hell he is, and, having found out, the only thing I ever heard of is that Hairspray abomination, which probably explains why the best he can do is stand up at The First Church of The Presumptuous Assumption of The Blinding Light.
My tentative assessment, based on a small number of acquaintances long ago, is that there are people who have a fascination with ugliness and degeneracy, and that this fascination is due to a cluster of personality disorders which tend to manifest in various forms of depraved behavior. But that was a very small sample size.
Of course, that hypothesis, even if true, is far from an actual understanding. Perhaps some minds are just too alien to truly understand–hence the popular characterization of certain personality types as “reptilian”, a characterization which goes back at least to Emperor Caligula.
Lava Lamps for internet security.
That’s kinda cool, actually. Better than a pseudo-random number generator.
Further to some of the comments above regarding Canadian anti-Americanism. It is an unfortunate feature of Canadian politics, and perhaps of Canadian identity. I have also noticed the same thing in Kiwis vis-a-vis Aussies, so maybe it’s just (or at least in part) a ‘big neghbour’ syndrome. It is unfortunate when (some) Canadian refuse to acknowledge the undoubted virtues of our southern cousins – sure, they have problems (and who doesn’t?), but over their almost 250 year history as a country they have been an unequalled force for good in the world. As far as any particular election result or outcome – the proper response from Canadians in public life is “their country, their choice; we will deal with the government Americans choose for themselves.”
OMG. Legend.
A little classic levity.
I think the plunging neckline speaks for itself.
[ Activates wind machine. ]
When not attempting to poison random shoppers, chappie likes doing things of this sort.
The news reports I’ve seen blame social media, which has connotations of victimhood, or being led astray. Though I think this antisocial dance requires some fundamentally shitty people. I mean, so far as I can tell, the fact that TikTok exists has not made me feel an overwhelming urge to start poisoning random strangers.
And in educational news.
He put… bacon and eggs in to the dryer.
So…
Did it turn out all right? Did it taste good?
That has a tinge of parody to it.
“Do you like your new genders?”
“NOOO!”
“Well, that’s too bad!. All the guys now have to listen to Nickelback and Joe Rogan.”
TikToxic. Still deserves a kicking though.