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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Is the order of events really relevant?
The U.S. numbers are dubious. The introduction of ‘markets’ (bureaucratic fire ant mounds in truth) has obscured the actual cost to consumer.
I learn so much here. Especially insults. Can someone fill me in though on what “tosser” means?
Jerk, asshole. A stupid, obnoxious, contemptible person. Generally, a male one.
A masturbator, a wanker.
See also, tosspot.
Though I believe tosspot was originally a Middle English term for a drunkard.
Fell or pushed?
As I recall, that was the meaning given in my annotated Shakespeare editions.
See Wiktionary here and here. Merriam-Webster is useless, Cambridge is minimally informative, and the OED is behind a paywall. My printed edition of the OED makes no mention of any “naughty” meanings.
Instead of ankle monitors, how about surgically implanted remote control bombs?
Oh, I don’t know. Perhaps if they were bolted in place . . .
Buuuurn.
Don’t know if your media reported it but several of these guys asked not to be released… They are afraid of old scores being settled, or their godfathers are dead.
David, I’m not seeing that red icon that indicates new comments have been posted.
Me neither. I’m using Chrome for Mac.
Of course they didn’t – it’s relevant.
Responding to Elon’s “what did you get done this week?”
How to break the left.
We have already seen the Left’s ability to trash conservative faggots or use insinuations of homosexuality against straight conservatives.
Intelligent gay people understand that the only people being “empowered” are the Marxists themselves – when necessary the gays will be thrown under the bus like all the other groups.
Not seen any new bug reports on the wpDiscuz message board. I’ve disabled and then re-enabled the comment bubble live update. Basically, turning it off and on again. Beyond that, no idea. I think there’s an update due, hopefully that will address the issue.
Your confidence in my technical ability is, by the way, both touching and wholly misplaced.
In other news, the fire service employs people who want to do the job, and who are physically able to do the job, and somehow this is a problem.
See also, the Royal Air Force.
If not a solution, I’m at least hoping for sounds of banging and cursing.
It seems to be working now. At least it did for me, just now, with your latest comment.
Not for me. I’ll try logging out and back in. Or better yet, rebooting.
Somebody comment please.
Still working for me.
I’ve set the live update to refresh every 30 seconds, instead of every 60.
Speculation: a glitch caused by hibernating my PC overnight.
But, curiously, when I try logging in on MS Edge, I keep seeing “captcha verification failed”.
Also German ministers and bureaucrats.
Pity the poor bureaucrat.
Victor Davis Hanson spoke eloquently about California farmers who were wiped out by government policies, and about the callous indifference of the government officials and spokesmen.
See Wiktionary here and here. Merriam-Webster is useless,
Grok is my new best friend. Here is its answer:
“The slang term “tosser” is a British insult that essentially means someone is an idiot or a jerk. It’s often used to describe a person who’s seen as annoying, incompetent, or just generally unlikeable. Think of it as a casual, slightly crude way to call someone out for being a bit of a fool. The word comes from a more literal, uh, physical meaning tied to self-pleasure, but in everyday use, it’s more about attitude than anatomy. You might hear it tossed around (pun intended) in a pub or on a show like The Inbetweeners. ”
I had a discussion with it the other day regarding a Facebook ad. I was amazed how it asked pertinent questions and eventually developed a very workable template, as well as the reasoning behind why it should work, e.g., the suggested demographic targeting.
I am already using AI as a tool with my work. The boys, dock, and backdrop are real, the rest is AI. I am enjoying incorporating it more into other aspects of my life.
But then . . . maybe I am just a simulation sent here.
How does a bit of cognisant dissonance break people who believe in the perfectibility of mankind?
The market for unhinged outrage appears to be slumping.
Home-schooling looks better & better.
Alas, there is no Joy in Mudville.
In a way it seems fitting.
Survey: How should bystanders deal with him? (A) Beat him with clubs. (B) Shoot him. (C) Throw him off a high roof.
Haven’t you any ropes? Haven’t you any lampposts? Not for this guy tho. He belongs in an insane asylum. Fail to address the real problem and he will simply be replaced by the many other similar examples on that thread along with others that we have been seeing quite regularly for about a dozen years now.
For Umar Farooq, on the other hand, it should be a beating followed by scalding water, followed by garotte, and his body fed to pigs.
Could put him in the asylum he claims to be seeking.
Easier to do a fly-by repatriation though.
Without a parachute: Pour encorager les autres.
There is a great deal to be said for terror as a deterrent.
Women & girls need politicians to take decisive action & start sending sick perverts back to their own country. What they’ll get is 5 to 10 years in prison for hurting the feelings of rapists.
And in the ‘mentally ill man upset’ category: ‘Sadie’ Schreiner.
Let me stop you there, sir.
I was wondering if Elon knew that “DOGE” was an old meme of a cute dog (Japanese? There’s a story behind the dog in the pic but don’t remember) and then he used the dog in a meme–of course he knew.
Protests (linked above)–I am so much enjoying the tiny protests since the Left has been using paid protesters for so long. I was at an anti-climate change conf and there were protesters outside. A couple tried to break in so we asked them what they thought our conf was about and what they were protesting–they had no clue. hahahaha
Shiba Inu. And I had to have the meme explained to me because I wasn’t getting all the AI created DOGE logos featuring that cute dog.
But what’s to stop them from returning again and again? Not enough.
I am obviously misunderstanding “backdrop” since I don’t see what is left after I mentally take the boys, dock, and backdrop, out of the picture. What is actually AI?
Note to our host – WordPress logged me out (I normally ask it to “remember” me), and as someone else mentioned up-thread, I get a ‘captcha failed’ message when I try to log in again – although that could be a forgotten password. Unfortunately, there seems to be no password re-set option, although I might’ve glared at it withoiut seeing it.
For the record…I don’t think I have seen that new comment dot lately myself. not that I found it to be very useful. I do find the pictures useful though. In leu of a dog pic, which I’m sure you will get tired of seeing my dog over and over, here’s one of a shark. OK, a baby shark. Without the song…
The “remember me” option is only good for a few days; then you get logged out.
What browser are you using? So far I have had this problem only in MS Edge, not Firefox. And I’m confident that I did not forget my password.