Friday Ephemera (756)
Incoming. || Please update your X-Files. || Feeling all girly. Previously. Related. || The Atom Men and the Highlanders, 1958. || So, anyone for cake? || Carpathia. || Sprinklers of note. || The thrill of British place-name pronunciation. And yes, by God, it will be on the test. || From 1977: Is punk rock a threat to British society? || Scenes of definite pregnancy. || Writing with powder. || Posh frock of yore. || Frozen for freshness. || Just checking what it is. || He’s wearing his dead baby dress, as one does. || Chess board of note. || The crocodilian phallus. || Not in fact a legend. || Rates of violent crime among Somali immigrants only “fifteen times higher than the among ethnic Norwegians.” || Fortifying beverage. || And finally, I’m not at all sure what this is, so answers on a postcard, please.
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A hero for our time?
Curb-side service.
Ladies and gentleman, Johnny Cash Patel.
Lee Marvin stories
Was expecting RMS.
“Help me.”
Okay, Gad, I’ll make a deal: Whichever one of us is the first to reach a net worth of 10 million subsidizes both our moves to a more balmy climate.
Why, oh why would two colleges warn students about an on-the-loose serial rapist but omit key details from the description? Truly a mystery. /sarcasm
Another Hunter S. Thompson biography?
Diversity is our strength.
Here’s the thing: if you were a girl all along, you’d have been observing and imitating girl behavior since before puberty. Because your inner girl would have been drawn to it all, and you’d have been absorbing it over the years. YOU WOULDN’T NEED LESSONS!
Until the cold air overpowers the warmth of the water, and now it’s a skating rink. Or Detroit.
It’s just one Christmas after another these days.
Numbers over size.
From the previous thread:
Ask and ye shall receive.
Powerful magnet?
But it’s not a fetish, right?
Morning, all.
Runaway retrieval. Or knight helps maiden.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
Surely every burly girl with big calves spends her weekends practising the Duchess Slant, and perfecting her ladylike posture with some sadomasochistic broom handle apparatus?
The honking worked.
And for those who missed it, from the previous thread:
It’s quite something when a study asserting one thing cites as evidence papers that suggest precisely the opposite of what is being asserted. As someone comments in reply, it’s interesting how this issue – migrants and crime – is one over which entire institutions will merrily set fire to any credibility they may once have had.
A detailed parsing of the various errors and sleights-of-hand can be found here.
One of the lesbian L.A. fire chiefs was murdered. Naturally, the media blamed MAGA rhetoric, but the only suspect is her wife, Yolanda Marodi.
Who in 2000 murdered her husband but served only 2 years of her sentence.
Yeah. Definitely MAGA rhetoric.
One of the commenters says:
Stereotypes are not without some basis.
The last 20 seconds made the rest of it worthwhile.
“The figures come after an order from the Progress Party’s parliamentary group, and are not figures Statistics Norway has wanted to publish on its own initiative.”
Looks like a funny channel.
I’m just saying . . .
They do have their moments.
Nice catch, madam.
Stoned stoner and a protest.
The thrill of multiculturalism.
I have questions.
Not sure so…test if these links to questions work…Regarding rhinos, I had to prompt Grok to remember a more recent and relevant reference.
Re The Legend from Margate…that’s a lot funnier if you watch it with the sound off and you’re from south Florida.
Thread locked. Video removed by moderators.
But of course. It was a Muhammadan gentleman expressing his outrage, and a spluttering disbelief, at European laws that prohibit wife-beating.
Ridley Scott’s Alien walkthrough, part five.
At 8 fifteen-minute parts, possibly longer than the film itself. But that’s nothing compared to the 200-page critical analysis of a 20-page short story that I once encountered.
[ Scraping, metallic iris noise. ]
Headlines we have known and loved.
To paraphrase Heinlein, “the blog dilated”.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus smiles.
Meanwhile, among the Germans. Formerly a civilisation of some note.
As Warren says, observe the glee.
Jeremiah 5:21
Note the acronym for his little group.
The institutional incomprehension hasn’t lessened with the passage of time. In fact, it’s spread.
60 Minutes seems on board.
A hero for our time?
Inconceivable!
Sanctuary for whom?
Obviously. The childhood vaccines work.
“We didn’t explain that COVID vaccines were nothing like childhood vaccines.”
Her “didn’t explain” is doing a lot of work.
I was curious when I found out it was a San Bernardino case … it was pled out of the Fontana Court (I was working at Rancho Cucamonga office) and looking at what is currently available online, she took a plea deal for voluntary manslaughter. She did spend all the time between arrest and sentencing in custody, so she was credited 595 days + 88 conduct. CA laws about ‘good time credits’ once in prison have been very lax for some time.
My liberal “friends” are not interested in that question, and are very offended.
Especially since he’s claimed publicly that Israel is worse than the Nazis. Definitely no hero.
If they’re not dead from indignation they’re not sufficiently offended.
Jeremy Clarkson discovers donkey rogering in Colombia.
But only with female donkeys because it would be weird with male donkeys.
So Thomas Nast was on target?
I feel in my very bones that I am a real bear.