Ladylike Behaviour
And in transgender-sex-offender-urine-hurling news:
The chap in question – known, by himself, as “Sophie Koko” – originates from Kazakhstan and boasts an extensive history of sexual offences, numbering over fifty. His leisure activities – outside of bottling his own urine and then spraying it on children – include searching out articles about his crimes and then threatening any commenters who dare to “misgender” him.
Despite his prodigious criminal activity, often repeated in the same locations, Mr Koko – complete with bicycle and polka-dot dress – proved difficult to apprehend. Possibly due to the public being told by both the police and the media that the person engaging in such activities, and for whom they should be alert, was somehow a woman.
During Mr Koko’s trial, the prosecution demanded “a prison sentence of one year and eight months without parole.” Which, for a man with a catalogue of fifty offences – largely against children, at whom he flashed his genitals and threw his own bodily waste – may strike readers as a tad lenient. Judge Sonja Robe proved even more forgiving, opting for probation, 100 hours of community service, and “a requirement to visit a counselling centre for transgender individuals.”
Perhaps sensing the atmosphere of weird indulgence, Mr Koko took to social media, where he blamed his habitually criminal behaviour on those who dared to register the actual sex of the person threatening violence against women, including murder, and spraying children with his own piss:
Because of you.
And that whole piss-bottling thing, already underway, was in no way a sign of impending derailment or a pre-existing urge. So live in fear, ladies, lest you say the wrong thing. Or notice the wrong facts.
Consider this an open thread.
@aelfheld
We can’t forget that traditional Chinese medicine relies on the slaughter of rhinos for their horns and bears for their gallbladders. There’s big money there. The poachers don’t care how stupid it is. They get a fat wad of cash.
Noticed X and a couple of other sites were slow or timing out over the last hour, including, briefly, this place. Wonder if there’s another big DDoS attack on X.
Who’d Elon irritate today?
Pettishness is a vast understatement.
Maybe what Africa needs is 1000 years of colonialism.
John Derbyshire has said that the Chinese are the least religious and the most superstitious.
Well, yes, but it substitutes nicely for the original.
How did we? We got all scientific and stuff. Started prizing empiricism and research and the scientific method.
Which, you could argue that led to a different type of superstition, but that hasn’t all played out yet.
China’s up for it. They also hold Africans in contempt, so there’s that.
Theodoric of York enters the conversation.
As long as you don’t do Marmite or beans on toast.
[ Checks to see how many hours ahead the UK currently is. ]
I suspect he was forgetting about Africa.
I suspect he hasn’t lived there.
Brits always wait three weeks to see how Daylight Savings Time is working in America before they switch. Sad. Be bold, Britain!
I’ll just leave this here, with the reminder of the adage that it is better to remain silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
With what we’ve been discussing, and the who knows how many billions already spent, the money from a few billionaires with fix everything. Pure. Genius.
https://twitter.com/LangmanVince/status/1904853308767957476
@Steve across the Pond,
There have always been those who find a way to profit from the folly of others. That is a universal across all cultures, no matter how primitive or sophisticated the prevalent superstitions.
It seems a safe bet that mathematics and joined-up thinking aren’t her strong suit.
One of my once closest friends, a man with whom I spent many hours discussing the absurdities of political correctness, George Orwell, etc. when last I spoke with him regarding covid, lockdowns, politics, etc. told me he got his news mainly from NPR because he felt that they told “both sides”.
The greatest misunderstanding, the one thing that if you could get through the average person’s thick, stupid head that would have the greatest effect on the nation’s, western civilization’s, and the world in general’s problems is that the sum total of wealth in the world is not a constant. That wealth can and has been created since civilization began. Very, very few people understand this. And from what I have seen, there is little effort, in spite of the jillions spent on “education” the world over, to help people understand this. I don’t believe even most conservatives understand this. I have known and read quite a few that don’t. I had history teachers, even an AP American History teacher who certainly didn’t seem to. With the very light exception of a couple of conservative economists, Thomas Sowell affiliates, Prager University, a few other not very well exposed others, there isn’t much effort to expose this misconception. Some I suspect want to keep it as secret knowledge due to their own insecurities.
Prior to television news, it was common to describe a smart or successful man as one who read several newspapers every day. People today take that as “he read a large volume of news and was therefore well-informed”
Prior to television news, it was well-known that city newspapers were biased as hell. The editors made it very clear where their political biases were. You knew exactly what the stance of the Tribune was compared to the Post-Recorder, say, without having to read a word.
One who “read several newspapers” was smart and successful because they were consciously seeking out different sides of the same news to see how they compared.
It was the rise of radio and television news that created the myth of “journalistic impartiality” when they’ve always been just as biased as the newspapers were.
@TedS. Like me,and every other good Brit, David generally butters the toast before spreading Marmite on it and pouring baked beans on top.
@David et al: Just don’t admit online that you spread the butter with a knife or we’ll never see you again.
John Pertwee Sings Songs for Vulgar Boatmen:
https://x.com/PulpLibrarian/status/1905354280032489588
Apols if someone already posted this, but I was curious what https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2025/02/what-these-knockers-here.html would actually result in.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/asexual-people-face-ignorance-and-intolerance-in-uk-study-suggests
It doesn’t really need a close read, given the footnote. Behold, such science: