For Buoyancy, Perhaps
Lifted from the comments, a tale of self-satisfied inclusiveness from Edmonton, Alberta:
The mother and her 14-year-old daughter had visited the Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre for an afternoon in the pool. However, their plans were derailed by an encounter with the incongruous:
For the innocent and unworldly, that’s fake rubber boobs. Generally of ample proportions, as worn by drag queens. And a penis sling, obviously. I’ll let you Google that one.
The mother promptly backed away from the scene of the psychodrama:
A not unreasonable response. At least until about five minutes ago.
You see, when you’re about to get undressed in a women’s changing room and you realise you’re being watched by a balding pervert in an overtly sexual micro-thong, and with fake rubber knockers attached to his person, this is just part and parcel of being sensitive and inclusive. Apparently, we must learn to embrace modernity and its many sophistications. Especially the ladies.
A female member of staff joined the discussion, which the mother recorded. Sisterhood, however, was not forthcoming:
In response, the staff member explains that “It is the city of Edmonton’s policy that you can use whatever changing room you are most comfortable using.” She goes on to defend the man’s attire, saying, “They can wear whatever they are comfortable wearing.”
Again, penis sling, rubber boobs. Lest we forget.
A subsequent exchange with an officer of the Edmonton Police Service proved equally frustrating, and the mother was told that she was free to “stop using the pool.” Because retreating from intrusion and perversity, ceding space to it, is very in right now.
However, a report was filed:
It was a person’s penis, you see. In the ladies’ changing room.
Fond memories or watching Red Skelton and also Jackie Gleason as a kid. Being very young and not exactly clear on what was a seagull vs what was a pelican, I imagined Gertrude and Heathcliff as pelicans. Which made those skits much funnier in my mind.
Gleason did his show from Miami Beach and lived in south Florida. Whenever we (rarely) went to Miami or that area I would check every fat guy to see if it was him.
Also, time for a pic…ok, not a dog pic…not even an animal pic, per se. Just ran across this from eight years ago and too good to pass up as it’s even more true today.
I loved Gleason too and Art Carney. I still say homina homina in stressful situations. And I do the fastidious preparation bit from Carney. My kids think I’m crazy.
Also: The snobbish hatred and contempt displayed by urbanites and intellectuals. See the canceling around that time of various shows that were popular but were hated by Hollywood executives.
Helloooooo, ball!
old shows: my wife has started calling my 3 little grand-daughters “the 3 stooges”. I said how about 3 musketeers.
The reason Trump won is that the Left got greedy and reckless. It wasn’t enough to stifle lightbulbs and take away straws–they had to start removing the term “mother” and insisting on men in women’s locker rooms. They had to rub it in that they were in charge and we were dirt. Marching FBI agents around and insisting that we had to believe these were dangerous “domestic terrorists”. Having billions in federal slush funds gave them too much confidence.
People think laws and police are designed to protect citizens from criminals.
That’s wrong.
Laws and police are part of a bargain citizens make to forego vigilantism in exchange for protection. They protect criminals from citizens.
To paraphrase a certain intergalactic supervillain with a fondness for telepathic choking, “Pray we don’t alter that bargain…”
Canada is a largely misogynistic country despite all their “progressive” ideals.
According to our Prime Minister, we’re not misogynistic, we just experience things differently.
How to say you’re owned by China without saying you’re owned by China.
Point of order – we can thank the Republican Fred Upton for that particular bit of idiocy.
Despite? It’s those ‘progressive ideals’ that has Canada touting the importation of the historically & culturally misogynistic.
“Arbeit Macht Frei”
I get that I don’t get a vote but my vote is for stooges. Was teasing my 2 yo great-nephew the Curly finger snap thing. Can’t find Curly doing it but this thing that this guy takes way too long to demonstrate.
Old wine in new bottles.
I just emailed a copy of the initial photograph link to the rec centre as a “comment” on my experience. I used to live in Edmonton, long before this insanity.
“For a typical cartoon, I would supply the animators with perhaps 300 key drawings, but I made almost 500 for ‘[this one]‘ as well as a further 1,500 unused roughs,” – Chuck Jones
You’re thinking of this fragrant fellow
Is this an Instalanche? Glenn links to an Ann Althouse post, and he excerpts something familiar from the comments.
I loved the opening, the shot from a helicopter rushing over the ocean towards the coast. My favorite bit was Joe the Bartender and Crazy Guggenheim.
[ Slurps coffee, compiles tomorrow’s Ephemera. ]
dcardno: Yah, that’s the fella.
Dicentra: Know why they bury lawyers in hundred-foot shafts? Because deep down we’re actually good people.
I’ll be seeing myself out, OK?
AND I DIDN’T BRING A COAT WITH ME, DAVID.
Which might, I think, explain why people who prioritise niceness and ostentatious caring can get quite annoyed if they see that you’re unlikely to play along. People who are being dishonest rarely appreciate reminders of reality and how far and how routinely they depart from it.
A few weeks ago, I accidentally made an ostentatiously nice person splutter with indignation when I mentioned in reply to them that my compassion is a finite resource and not something that can accommodate an endless, ever shifting menu of niche issues. The person in question reacted as if I’d loudly belched during a funeral.
[ Slurps coffee, compiles tomorrow’s Ephemera. ]
Came here to check on that.
She decided not to be marginalised anymore.
Rest in peace, Gene Hackman.
Man, when I think of the NYC of my childhood, it is through the lens of The French Connection, which I think is THE all-time “cop” movie. I mean, surviving a an upside down cruise ship and Shelley Winters is one thing, but the character of Det. Popeye Doyle will always have a place in my heart, especially when picking my feet in Poughkeepsie (that line kept my siblings and I in stitches for years, expanding it to include singing “she picks her nose in Spanish Haaaaaaarlem . . .”
Can’t decide whether to rewatch The Conversation or Superman: The Movie.
Could go either way.
Rest in peace, Gene Hackman.
Him, his wife, AND dog all found dead. Nothing to see here, folks, move on.
Meanwhile over in Blighty, an interesting legal standard:
Well if a Moslem drag queen “who is a trans woman” says so, it must be true, asylum granted.
However, as Mr. Worstall observes:
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza confirmed the news on Thursday, saying no foul play is suspected.
Natural gas leak? We’ll have to wait for further details.
From a comment on that thread….sick society. At the elementary school and even early middle school age, the only girls I liked being around were tomboys.
Heh. I knew I had previously read that somewhere…
ccsientist:
It was never about the straws, dearie.
It was never about compassion, liberation, justice, or progress – only power.
Only ever power.
Everything else was either a sop or a goad to useful thugs, or flattering misdirection of the chattering classes to get them to abandon (Western moral) principles.
Including the light bulbs and the straws.
Natural gas leak? We’ll have to wait for further details.
Him, his wife, and dog – one thing is certain, it is not natural causes.
Always respect the media.
Woman! Wo-man. Whooooa man!
Gee, look what the Wuhan Institute of Virology ‘discovered’.
And every time this happens, and it happens all but weekly, they burn more of any residual credibility. While simultaneously insulting their viewers and readers. For whom, an obvious question is, “If they’ll lie about something so glaringly obvious, so transparently untrue, what the hell else will they lie about?”
And while imagining themselves the victims of a cruel, unfeeling public.
Trump telling people to drink bleach? Or any of the other items (not a comprehensive list) addressed here:
https://americandebunk.com/
Supposititious pronouns losing their cachet?
Not that I didn’t recognise his talent, but I never liked him as an actor.
And while imagining themselves the victims of a cruel, unfeeling public.
Speaking of “journalists”, meet the recent head of the White House Correspondents Association, recently hired by MSNBC, because of course.
Training mission for Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B is proceeding on schedule.
Great flick. Great scene. And if it isn’t Scottish, it’s crap!
That looks like Jordan Peele.
That looks like Jordan Peele.
I can’t imagine why...
Though it is an observation shared by others…
Heh. Grok.
You might try Enemy of the State
No, Young Frankenstein!
That works too.
Hackman: he is a pretty good actor in the sense of “acting” but my all time favorite is Gary Oldman who disappears into roles so thoroughly that you don’t realize it is him. He is both the bad guy in The Fifth Element and Churchill and Darkest Hour. Amazing. Dwayne Johnson I like but he is always just himself.
Also Oldman in Léon: The Professional.