Friday Ephemera (761)
Street food. || Lumpfish. || Crab versus grape. || Woman versus sofa-bed. || Boneless. || Just like blogging. || A collection of cartographic objects from the thirteenth century onwards. (h/t, Things) || It’s a lot to unpack. || Aspiring to cliché. || She, not he, was deemed a “risk to the public.” || The Unspanked walk among us. || He wasn’t sure what they wanted him to do with it. || “Do not comment on my shit,” says she. || Today’s word is dupe. || Airport scenes. || Question asked. || It’s seasonal. || Just a touch more. || She teaches small children. || I’ll bet the ladies feel reassured. || That’s exactly how I would’ve done it. || What he said, and then some. || There was smoke, some shouting. || Hiking scenes. || “They needa give y’all refund.” || And finally, the joys of parenting.
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If only she had been Susan Sto-Helit, wielding her poker.
The truth about Linux
While jokes about my cooking are not unheard of, none of them have involved earth-moving equipment.
Also, my spellchecker has drawn a squiggly red line under the word aluminum, which it regards, quite rightly, as some heathen atrocity.
[ Glares across the Atlantic at Neanderthals clinging to obsolete spelling. ]
*Cough*
[ Muffled laughter. ]
She’s not a Republican so she can get away with it.
Is that just for Muldoon?
I could have sworn the word was sinecure.
Reminiscent of one of the first attempts at animating the tale. Not the Bakshi mess, the other one.
I have thought a drone dropping a gallon of motor oil right in the middle of one of those exhibitions might provide some jollity.
I believe this is called a course correction.
OOORAH!
Finally.
Well, until the next Democrat takes over and we go back to neutered namby pamby BS.
I hope your your sake the Royal Navy figures it out before it’s too late for y’all over there across the pond.
It’s perfection in the sense that it’s exactly what Ghibli would have done with LOTR. I’m judging it as an example of Ghiblification, not as an example of LOTR.
Someone is lying here.
He’s right.
The effect of ever-widening, ever-increasing taxation also would seem a factor in the collapse of birthrates.
Holiday woes.
Or, possibly telling the world more than she realises.
I was distracted by the decision to eat a banana with a spoon.
You know…watching that…it seemed to be building up to something and building up to something and I was anticipating a happy ending. I feel somewhat frustrated and dissatisfied. Sigh.
As for the guy saying violence is their most effective political tactic and that they should be embracing it more…the Trotsky haircut…perhaps we can arrange a nice vacation for him in Mexico…
The DFW airport scene…shame there was no pole available. At first it was my usual eye roll about such behavior, thinking if my parents had foreseen the bizarro world their children would grow up in, would they have bothered? Then about 53 seconds in…I just could not stop laughing. That was hilarious. I’m sorry that this woman has had whatever problems led her and her poor child to this situation but…omg. And now my wife is mad at me…
No refunds. Credit note only.
Dicentra, wow, thanks much for that LOTR link, also the Princess Mononoke trailer at the site. I’m seriously impressed.
Fine, so Europe isn’t her bag. Different strokes and all that. Maybe the Caribbean or SE Asia or Brazil is more her speed.
But that’s not an indictment of Austria, her not liking it. It’s just one of those things.
“Trying to film content in the local gym.“
I’m trying to imagine travelling halfway across the world – to, say, Nigeria, South Korea or Cameroon – and then complaining about there being an insufficient visibility of pale Europeans.
“You’re not paying attention,” he said.
Good for him, and good for her that she just sat there and laughed instead of Cluster B screaming at him.
Pst314, regarding the U Michigan DEI team, if you scroll down that thread you can see how they were not let go, simply rebranded.
Or cat-trap as the case may be. My in-laws were staying with us while their place was being renovated. My wife and I had a queen-sized pull-out sofa bed where they slept. On the day they were leaving, they folded up the sofa, packed and left. Strangely, the cat went missing. My wife was beside herself. We thought the cat had snuck out of the house (he was an indoor cat) when the in-laws left. We spent hours wandering the streets looking for him to no avail. Later in the evening, my grief stricken wife and I settled in to watch television, when we heard this sad, quiet mewling. The cat was folded up in the sofa bed.
[ Slides large one down bar. ]
[ Quaffs large one. Stops shaking. ]
Lumpfish: extended cut.
Defending liberal arts and gender degrees: If you want college to just broaden your mind, don’t complain about the lack of jobs and low pay. You can, in fact, broaden your mind in your spare time while employed after getting a useful degree–there are these library thingees you see, full of what we call “books”.
airport scene: have to say, she did break the usual rule that people naked in public are not the ones you want to see naked…however, whatever she is on I don’t recommend.
Trans in military: the judges who want to stop the ban think this is just “discrimination” but in reality, trans are high maintenance, are taking meds that are incompatible with deployment, and have high rate of suicide and violence. The issue is always elided by the Left.
Prince Vultan. Clearly.
People do like to film themselves working out so they can check their form, but that’s what the mirrors are for. Gyms need to start enacting blanket “no phone” bans. You want to listen to music, get a iPod Nano.
As I’ve said before, you’d think that excluding from security and military roles a demographic defined by mental illness and prone to Cluster B personality disorders, and suicidal inclinations, might be self-evidently wise.
Not that it stopped our police force from being fashionably inclusive – with predictable results.
Because, as so often, there are glaringly obvious aspects of reality that we’re not supposed to notice.
Heh. We got there eventually.
I’m still pondering how it’s even possible to not notice Brian Blessed.
Some join only to get free gender mutilation surgery.
I remember being taken to see Flash Gordon as a wee seedling. In many respects, it’s a terrible film, but I do remember enjoying it. Not unlike The Fifth Element, I think. In that, it should stink to high heaven, yet over the years I must’ve seen it three times.
On the NPR “not biased” saga.
I’m glad to hear that it was “later in the evening” and not three months later, or that instead of hearing mewling you smelled decomp.
[ Everyone looks at Dicentra like she’s loudly belched during the wedding vows. ]
Burn this bitch’s shit.
I tend to think that people who expect to be exempt from the normal restraints of civilisation should consequently expect to be denied the corresponding privileges and protections.
Or, “Oh, you want a world in which people don’t have boundaries and don’t observe the law? Okay, but you may want to bite down on something. There will be tears. Or did you assume that you’d be the only one allowed to play?”
[ Looks askance at England. ]
But we should not make fun of David. He deserves our sympathy.
[ Digs fish pie out of freezer, fondles it suggestively. ]
[…] the Subsidize-Me-Elmo doll.
Thankfully, you left out the finger pie.