Friday Ephemera (755)
Boobs in a jam, an obliging nudge. || Rice grain Gojira. || I’m no expert, but I don’t think that’s a guitar. || Feel the deep wisdom of her third eye. || Driving with intuition. || How to shrink your lungs. || Laughing while pregnant. || Little helpers. || The progressive retail experience, parts 609, 610, 611, 612, and 613. || Beef pottage and other thrills of the Medieval tavern. || You know, I question the physics. || Big and clicky, the way you like ’em. || On the problems of a billion-story building. || Tibetan sky burial. || Bottled for freshness. || Espionage essentials. || Question asked. || Taking out the trash. || More adventures in trash management. || His “first ever lesson” is to make small children memorise his own fabulist pronouns. || And finally, one to be filed under poolside etiquette.
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Avon calling.
No wonder they kick.
A drink or an introduction?
Delusional.
Motive?
Because Nineveh is going to be destroyed again.
Education about this phenomenon is part of any Scuba training course, because when you’re scuba diving, the air you are breathing compresses to match the depth. Do you can literally explode your lungs if you swim up quickly with a lungful of air — the air expands as the depth decreases.
The two methods to avoid this are
That will kill you faster than the bends (another depth-related phenomenon).
Somebody doesn’t like British cookies.
Free diving. Why?
All that time wasted making something you’ll step on or the mice will eat. Why?
He could have picked it up and taken it to a utility sink for cleaning, but instead he left it in the open. Why?
One of my Twitter mutuals, @random_snakes (Random Snake Facts), says that they are inclined to crawl into bottles because they resemble rodent burrows. Also, you shouldn’t try catching a cobra like that unless you have lots of experience. That guy seemed to. (She also posts photo ensembles of matching sneks with cakes and coffee. )
Why?
Why not?
If Elon’s a mediocrity, I’m the Queen of England.
“Little helpers.“
A woman would have picked it up to take away and cleaned it in a sink….
Dicentra: “Because Nineveh is going to be destroyed again.”
A humpback, being a baleen whale, has a throat too small to swallow a human. It just rolled him around it’s mouth and spit him out….
The doppler shift did it for me.
[ Grunting, stretching. ]
Morning, all.
That would seem to be the more sensible option, yes. But then we wouldn’t have been charmed by the unrelenting tortoises.
It has a pleasing absurdity.
I am disappoint. This could have been a much better story.
Also,
For King and country.
It occurs to me that weight might be an issue.
To say nothing of comfort.
She doesn’t even thank the good Samaritan who saved her kid.
Trash is the word.
Yes. One, among others, that should be used entirely without inhibition. It strikes me as important to name the phenomenon. And again, as so often, note the eye-widening selfishness. The utter lack of any customary reciprocation.
But hey, they had the window down. So there’s that.
One might, I think, contrast the chap who stopped to rescue the small boy from the middle of the road, and who then stayed with him until help arrived, with the boy’s own mother, who seems to regard the whole episode as some bewildering irritation, fuss about nothing.
And yet egalitarians exist.
You see, they’re terrified because he’s so pretty.
The situation did not improve.
I’m almost tempted to watch. Could be a guilty pleasure.
Also, from the comments, “DEI Hard.”
dicentra:
How many people under 40-50 would understand this reference?
So much of Western culture has been effaced.
His “first ever lesson” is to make small children memorise his own fabulist pronouns
Is it by chance he chose a Jimmy Savile sort of style?
You see, they’re terrified because he’s so pretty.
There might indeed have been “two dozen or so” women telling him he’s beautiful just as he might indeed be incapable of detecting sarcasm.
To the barricades, Tovariches!
Alternative explanation: He looks like an escaped mental patient.
Fake scrotum with radio transmitter wasn’t what I was expecting.
Selflessly, I bring you a world of wonder.
unrelenting tortoises
J.K. Rowling:
A sentiment most likely familiar to regulars here, but still. Worth repeating.
I have spent the last six hours waiting for someone to say band name.
Ridley Scott’s Alien walkthrough, part four.
And yet dopers assured me that driving while high was perfectly safe.
What would Big Balls do?
And we all know that failure to acquiesce will be followed by less polite “requests”, not to mention punishments.
For instance.
And with a chosen name of Karla Marx, that’s two reasons to regard him as somebody to be shunned and cast out of society.
Why not? Not everything we do in life must, or should, be utilitarian.
It’s likely a bit much to expect an evident lunatic to understand others’ reactions.
Most tend to look away from the grotesque and repugnant.
Not sure about the ‘pleasure’.
Any notion as to whom she was responding to?
Why not? Not everything we do in life must, or should, be utilitarian.
Exactly, besides, unlike the other alleged art to which we have been “favored” within these pages, the Gojira actually took ability and talent.
Further, as it had been lacquered, it will last longer and be less appealing to rodents and rogue billionaires (BIRM) than a banana duct taped to a wall.
So many lines to read between.
Dan Hodges.
Skimming through his highlighted tweets (not sure how they’re selected) he seems a bit, well, thick.
I only skimmed the exchange, which sprawls across multiple threads. But Mr Hodges at one point says, “You don’t have a right to dictate how someone views themselves,” as if not rushing to affirm a man’s delusion of womanhood is somehow dictatorial and inherently “abusive.”
Yet he would have mentally unwell men dictate to women how those women see mentally unwell men.
Pronouns: failure to obey got Jordan Peterson banned from practicing as a psychologist–they wanted him to undergo corrective training. Lucky for him he has made a ton of money touring giving talks. He also fled Canada to the US, as I understand it. Oh but it is merely polite to use the pronounds, donchaknow
How fortuitous.
No one would accept the position of Grand Inquisitor.