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 know several YouTubers (Critical Drinker, Nerdrotic, etc.) who absolutely adore this shitshow because they’ve been making bank off of videos critiquing it.
Nerdrotic, especially, because he’s a Tolkien buff (among other interests) and his dissection of how they’ve destroyed the canon is a beautiful sight.
One of the greatest tank names of all time.
Demanding the exclusion of those who differ with you then calling them insular would be considered hypocritical by any rational being. Lucky for her she doesn’t suffer from that burden.
Cretaceous lot lizards
Yoko Ono turned 92 yesterday.
David’s getting good at the squirrel-whispering business.
Robert Palmer’s back-up singers haven’t aged well.
Wise sound engineer kills Yoko’s mic while performing with Chuck Berry. His expression when she starts caterwauling is hilarious.
Seven weeks is long enough for Cluster B behavior to become manifest, and given her behavior afterwards, she must have manifested some pretty crazy stuff, because he got a restraining order at the same time as the annulment.
He might also be a real piece of work, so who knows.
The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: “God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.” — Luke 18:11-12
I will admit to being boring. I also score extremely high on Trait Openness.
Assumption denied.
Shades of Gillray.
I had to look it up. Quoth Ai: “An ASVAB waiver is a request to serve in the military despite not meeting the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) score requirements.”
Sun dogs.
Not to be confused with rain dogs.
Those little details.
I can’t think of a better motto for Philadelphia.
I like the guy nodding along with the Yass Queen face behind her. Do these idiots hear what she is saying? (assuming she did say it – sound is off on my browser by default).
Oh and Ping! good sir. Happy belated blog birthday.
Bless you. Should you be adding a good cheese to your garlic and rosemary crackers, and should you discover that one of said crackers has an alarming crack, may you avoid complete cracker failure thanks to a generous application of butter.
Heh.
Who are those two people? I read through a few of the comments but literally could not get a clue. I find that I have pretty much stopped absorbing any more pop culture stuff.
That’s transgender doctor “Beth” Upton, who made a complaint about a female who refused to share a changing room with him.
If anyone ever needed a remote control mute switch it was her.
I was thinking about Yoko today after watching a bit of the “Get Back” documentary. Paul and Ringo were pretty chill about her being there, and even if they didn’t like it, they felt it was none of their business. If John wants here there, she stays. Besides, Paul had Linda there, too.
Seeing her there, it occurred to me that she was acting as a mother support to John, who lost his mum while a child. But then, my wife and I like being together often.
92 years old, which means her widowhood’s eligible for social security. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
Wait a minnit, it’s only 45 years ago, not 65. Me can adddd so good no mo. Still, the point holds.
I think you’re on to something. Paul and Ringo were happy to have her there because John was stoned out of his mind for most of the session. I had always thought that Paul was over the top controlling with the band, but after seeing that doc, it was clear someone had to take charge.
The anger that George was carrying was palpable and Paul was extremely condescending towards him. It’s no wonder George came out of the breakup so strong with so much material.
This thread.
One winner.
WowWowWowWow.
I’d seen excerpts of J.D. Vance’s speech in Munich, but now I’ve heard it all, and daaaaayum.
Here’s his line of argumentation:
This security meeting is about “defending democracy.”
That’s great, but y’all are forgetting what “democracy” is.
Back during the cold war, it was democracy vs. tyranny. Which side engaged in censorship and viewpoint suppression? It wasn’t the democracy side.
Here are some examples of y’all acting like Soviets.
Are you defending democracy or are you defending entrenched interests? If you’re “running scared” from your own populace, it’s gotta be the latter.
Whatever your goals are, you won’t achieve them without the people’s support. Because you’re mistreating people, you lose that support.
Get back to democratic principles like free speech. Then maybe you can get stuff done.
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His phrasing is far more diplomatic than mine. It’s remarkable. I have to wonder how that kind of speech lands with those rulers.
If they’re sociopaths and malignant narcissists, they will not be pleased at being called out.
If they’re thick-headed midwits, it will go over their heads.
If they’re functional adults with a conscience, it should shame them into better behavior.
But I have a feeling this speech wasn’t really meant for those present. It was meant for the European population to realize they’re not being well-served by these tyrants and to insist on better treatment.
I’m truly impressed.
Latest Twitter drama: An alleged tradwife account turns out to be run by an obese single woman who has a rap sheet.
If only she’d identified as a tradwife everything would be fine.
From last July, a handy rule of thumb:
RTWT
Chinese sex doll maker sees jump in 2025 sales as AI boosts adult toys’ user experienceWMDoll founder Liu Jiangxia says the integration of generative AI models ‘makes the dolls more responsive and interactive’
AI has its uses?
Personally I feel the same way. But there can be practical considerations, such as
A decaying body is repulsive, and that can’t be avoided, regardless of the particular process.
He also called the trans surgeons “butchers”. I feel the same way, but him saying that can’t’ve helped.
Jesus healed people on Shabbat, sending the Pharisees into apoplexy, and I wondered why He didn’t avoid healing on Shabbat so as to not provoke them.
Then I realized it’s because their rules against healing on Shabbat (or taking up one’s bed, or whatever else they’d come up with) were fake rules — not commandments of God but scholastic impositions that were being used by the ruling class to browbeat the populace.
You can’t serve God without offending the devil. You just need to figure out who’s who before you act.
Rainbow parade in NZ is interrupted by an enthusiastic haka.
Nate: re sky burials, pretty sure that (it being Tibet) those are wound into the unvoiced reasons behind the practice — but if memory serves the Parsee of the subcontinent have the same approach and the usual explanation is that dead bodies contaminate earth, fire and water equally. Which doesn’t leave a lot of options out there.
Or maybe it’s the Jains … been rather a while since I was looking into stuff like that,
The Greeks might be said to resort to the same practice occasionally, though for purely emotional and political reasons. Antigone’s obsessive cause was burying her brothers’ bodies which had been left on the battlefield to the scavenging dogs and carrion birds by their uncle Creon — vengeance was a constant in Greek drama.
Looks like they’re doing the haka all over the place.
I didn’t see that coming. I’m guessing those Most Social Harm calculations must be well underway.
Man with naff nail polish talks about stealthy travelling, cat litter.
So Meghan Markle is the American Yoko Ono?
Sky burials.
Or shallow grave burials. Or car trunk burials. Or hastily thrown tarp covering burials.
But all for the common good.
If this post is continuing for the weekend, I need another bookmark for the comments.
Tremble, all ye Nazis.
Tim Worstall, here.
Meanwhile
on Sproketsat the Left Party Congress……in case you were wondering.
Exactly the kind of chap to be entrusted with power and matters of importance.
Mediocre yte man has an opinion.
“My name is legion”.
I’ve been seeing that claim from numerous liberal acquaintances. They seem to think that blacks who score lower on standardized tests are superior in both intellect and achievement to whites and Asians who score in the top 5 to 10 percent.
There is no reasoning with such people.
“the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons”
–Jordan Peterson
Similarly, last night I learned that Magic Johnson’s son is a drag queen. Not that I was surprised to hear such a thing. I have maintained that Magic himself was gay ever since he and Isiah Thomas kissed each other at center court before the NBA finals way back before. I’m just surprised I hadn’t heard about it. Well, not totally surprised but…