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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I should add that it’s possible to have a perfectly civil discussion with someone who imagines themselves to be the opposite sex, or to be some kind of “non-binary” being or whatever. I’ve done it a few times, including in person. I don’t as a rule go out of my way to be provocative or rude. But there’s generally been a tacit understanding that attempts to make me mouth dishonesties will not be welcomed.
Because that would be provocative and rude.
Nice, Chocolate Bourbon, Custard Cream, in that order.
We called Chocolate Bourbons, Bourbon Creams.
I recall Malted Milk biscuits could be had with a chocolate coating on one side.
Just sayin’.
The one that was missing, and maybe they didn’t have it in England, was the Fruit Cream (butter cream sandwiched between two vanilla biscuits with a dab of strawberry jam coated with sugar in the centre). It would move to number one and push out the custard cream. All these cookies were sold in Canada under the brand Peak Freans. The more crude among us called them Freak Peens.
[ Makes Innocent Face ]
Begun the fancy biscuit wars have.
Begun the fancy biscuit wars have.
I don’t care where in the world you are, genuine Aussie Tim Tams, everything else is second tier at best.
[ Realises that last night The Other Half scarfed the last of the chewy caramel Tim Tams. ]
[ Mutters, writes shopping list. ]
[ Realises that last night The Other Half scarfed the last of the chewy caramel Tim Tams. ]
Sukin syn. If you can get the dark chocolate ones over there get some and hide them as sweet tasty revenge.
[ Shouting, a vase shatters. ]
Bookmark . . . and my Bronx wants to wish each and every one of you a Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Yes indeed.
Is it called that because your remains get crapped out at altitude by the vultures? Seriously, what sort of culture thinks ‘lets leave grandma out to be carrion?;
With some of them you wonder if they actually think they are coming across as radiant, and everyone reacts accordingly.
But with this one I’m gonna say he knows he’s a wretch and is spouting pure bullsplat, because malignant narcissist.
I know virtually nothing about British cookies, but I’m getting the impression that many of them are significantly less sugary than American ones.
Oh, the revolution is already here, Sunshine. You’re just not on the vanguard.
“Now go apologize to your crazy ancap friend who was trying to warn you about this shit for decades.”
Last video I saw he mentioned being in Flagstaff AZ. I think. Somewhere in northern AZ. I don’t know if that’s his permanent hidey-hole. But northern AZ is nice. Flagstaff is high altitude, so it misses the brutal AZ summers.
OMG, I love the graphic that Devon posted at the end of his screed. It’s so effing TRUE.
Does a british website download biscuits to your computer?
I’ve had a couple of products from here that I quite enjoyed.
Ezra Levant did just that to an
inquisitorinvestigator with the Alberta Human Rights Commission.Peterson mentions getting in trouble for his views on climate change. I have suffered at work for this issue also. The irony is that climate change is a complex matter based on complex models. It is a matter of probabilities and degrees (heh). There are certain things the models cannot do at all, such as tornados. The radicals want to turn this into a matter of “belief” but belief in what? As Peterson said, the IPCC forecasts that the world will be much richer in 2100 but not as rich as it might be without climate change. That is not quite “the world is ending”.
The world I was born into: Avon calling. and only a half century later we got 2 girls and a cup. I hear my old man saying, “You’re generation, son”.
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.
After going to the effort to get scuba certified, I found that since the light quality deteriorates significantly below sixty feet or so, especially in south Florida where I had the majority of my opportunities, I really didn’t see a reason for scuba. In Florida the water isn’t quite as crystal clear as in the Caribbean so 15-30 feet is as deep as needed. Especially as I mostly go to a reef maybe 30 yards off shore. When I was still in decent shape and swimming a couple miles a day, with a decent pair of fins and barring any significant current, I was much better off snorkeling. Got a better workout in as well. That’s not especially exceptional for anyone who has been a high school level competitive swimmer. I did try again last year when I was down there and found since I don’t swim that hard anymore it’s not quite as much fun. Still doable but the current was a bother. In a lagoon or something similar in the Caribbean I still wouldn’t bother with scuba. Just a thought for anyone with similar capabilities. Of course that’s just a sightseeing perspective. If you’re looking to spearfish, scuba.
Today I learned that ‘civil war’ in German is ‘Bürgerkrieg’.
Damn, I hope the tree is okay.
Furries are a pure expression of ancient Indo-European Germanic culture.
All cultures are equal and deserve equal respect.
Heh. The part about “Can I call my wife…”. I’m picturing him getting home and relating why he was late. I’m sure it went well. Mostly sure.
I can understand wanting to cosplay as a critter for whatever reason, but as a CARTOON critter?
bleh
Ever read Theodore Cogswell’s Wolfie?
No, but I’ve seen MST3K 822: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank multiple times, where people can “doppel” into an animal’s body for short stints.
I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! That wascally Elon Musk is writing himself big ugly checks while he’s messing with Treasury payments.
Think I read the story – the title definitely rings a bell. Never seen the film.
For those who don’t know, “Overdrawn” was written by John Varley, and it is rumored to be pretty good.
The movie adaptation I linked, you may suspect, is of lesser quality.
I did not know this about Bill Nye, the Science Guy. He married a woman in 2006 but it didn’t exactly work out.
Jordan Peterson interviews Matthew Godwin about the rot in Britain and elsewhere.
I’ve had a couple of products from here that I quite enjoyed.
I’d guess that is an understatement “I quite enjoyed”. Mouthwatering.
He’s not wrong.
This part where they talk about what led to universities and society to get so weird is here.
To me it’s the most important part of their convo.
Proof, perhaps, that the inmates really have been running the asylums?
Temu zebras
I did not know this about Bill Nye, the Science Guy. He married a woman in 2006 but it didn’t exactly work out.
Former California Family Law attorney here. That wording in the Wikipedia entry is misleading. The State does not on its own declare a marriage “invalid”. It is Bill’s filing of a petition for annulment that the State, i.e., a justice in a county courtroom, would be asked to find the marriage void and issue a judgment. Parties can agree to it but must explain to the judge why their marriage should be annulled – there is no “no fault” annulment.
Valid reasons? Could be the marriage was void at the start because it was bigamous or incestuous. Most annulments have fraud as a basis but even then, the fraud has to be intrinisc to the marital relationship, such as one party hiding the fact that they are infertile or they are a philanderer who had no intention to end such behavior even though they represented to the other person they were true to them.
California has no fault divorce. You want a Dissolution of Marriage, you got a Dissolution of Marriage, regardless of how the other party feels. Getting an annulment is an effort and requires an evidentiary hearing.
What the Wikipedia article doesn’t say is whether the parties litigated it or whether they agreed to the annulment and approved it. Bill was the petitioner, it seems. Something I found going down a rabbit hole re: the annulment when Bill said this:
Aahhhh … likely the “letter” was notice that their marriage had not been registered in a timely fashion. It’s a three-step process: license, solemnization; registration. Usually, the officiant handles that paperwork and sends it off to the county records office. So, I think is Bill and Blair got the warning letter saying Pastor Rick Warren didn’t send in the paperwork – but they still had time to remedy it and BE married – saw it as an easy way out, and got their annulment that way. I know that can be done because I actually did such a thing on a case.
Remember Progressive Dining Bint?
Well, good news.
She has more.
Because the assumptions and self-flattery must never, ever end.
Yes, it is.
From here via AoSHQ’s Darth Aggie.
Arnold of the Rings
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
The movie’s 2.3 at IMDB and it has a Canadian vibe…
[Looks further down the page] Oh yeah, it’s at least partially Canadian, so probably a tax credit movie.
I can’t think of a better motto for Philadelphia.