Concurring
There’s no way @7NewsAustralia thought they could post this with the comments off and not have anyone say something.
Is this clip farming? pic.twitter.com/ADp8nx9jfV
— What’s News!? (@Whats_Newsss) April 21, 2025
I have to say, I didn’t see that coming.
Via Rod Dreher.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
For instance:
If you read the post above, you’ll see just how brazen the inversion of reality can be. Such that, if you’re walking to the local shops and you’d rather not have your children exposed to sad old queens flapping their genitalia at you, then you’re “selfish,” “childish,” and a “control freak.” The sad old queens who impose themselves on random passers-by, including small children, somehow aren’t selfish, childish, or controlling, of course.
Quite the feat.
Well, I learned this morning never to say newspapers can no longer surprise me, as the ‘Guardian’ fearlessly covers the international trade in ant smuggling.
Who knew being a goth has so many rules?
I’d assumed it was just about eye-liner and dismal dress sense.
Make way for wildly evolved wisdom keepers.
“Authentic embodiment”
Yes, we do seem to be experiencing a basic definitional problem. Unless Mr Campolieto, for instance, is demonstrating his “authentic embodiment,” complete with authentic wig.
I Eat Cannibals reference.
How often this comes back to haunt my computer screen . . .
Most people don’t know what ‘ersatz” means.
Make way for wildly evolved wisdom keepers.
As I said before, no organism “evolves” to be unable to reproduce, and Potemkin penises and brummagem boobs do not strike me as “authentic”.
Meanwhile, also in the world of make believe…
“Yeah, last night I had a three way with a pizza and a half gallon of ice cream.”
Thanks, I’d forgotten her name.
While you are having your pizza and ice cream threesome, why not spice it up and make it a foursome and wash it down with a case of Biden Beer “Inoffensive and Not Bitter”*
*(Now there is a misnomer for the ages)
She’s studying astrophysics to become a police officer. And she’s really tight with the head of the police department.
This video now has a Community Note that it is digitally altered, with link to original.
Authenticity, baby.
See? Now that is some awful art. Likely unintentionally awful but even if not it has a certain professional wrestling, just-believable-enough fakeness to it. Though at 11+ minutes, it lacks a beat you can dance to. Bravo. The trick is to get us to believe they are actually trying. Kinda like old school Mad Dog 2020.
Lest we forget another of my favorites that I’m pretty sure I discovered here prolly 15 years or so ago.
Yes, well, this is the “Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?” woman mentioned previously. Stopped clock & all that.
A blast from the past. Though musically, I lean towards the Brigitte Bardot number.
Because I am switched-on and fabulous.
Darts.
Small, rapid fire darts.
Frogs optional.
Heh. U of Florida. Outside what we used to call General Purpose Building A (which might have a new name now). Between there and the Plaza of the Americas (which I’m surprised still has that name) just across the street, that was where the crazies, street preachers, communists, other radicals, would get on their soap boxes. “Underground” newspapers were distributed there as well. Not entirely clear which side of that bible she references that she is on.
I was going to suggest flicking lit matches, but whatever one has to hand, I guess.
Things that never happened for $100, Alex.
Holy . . .
Madman loose in the butcher’s.
In decades to come, all this affirmation may take a bit of explaining.
She has hay fever, which is a disability.
band name
The only disability is her attitude.
I think that’s much nearer to the truth.
And since you ask, I’m allergic to cat hair, or cat saliva, or dander, or whatever it is. And yet, heroically, I manage to neck an antihistamine and still go about my day.
Medals, chocolates and letters of congratulation can be sent to the usual address.
In decades to come, all this affirmation may take a bit of explaining.
That and a mangled forearm is a small price to pay for affirmation, only a rabid transphobe would say otherwise.
Palate cleanser:
There is a US women’s clothing store “Forever Eve”–because what Eve is known for is her clothing sense.
Picture a romance novel cover. Woman says “undress me with your words” and the hunky guy says “a spider just crawled down your dress”
Currently at a professional meeting and I stupidly clicked on the link for a fake willy. Good thing I’m at the back of the room. sheesh (I should have known better)
Given the appalling degradation of the arts over the past few decades, it seems a bit naff to shift the onus to supposedly favoured minorities.
No refunds. Credit note only.
Hey, I’m bringing you the wonders of the world.
For instance.
“wonders of the world” as in “I wonder why people so crazy”
Pytor Putin and the Potemkin Penises. Children’s book. Soon to be required reading in Canadian and left coast classrooms during Drag Queen Story Hour.
What women want.
I’ve seen a number of online items about liberal women surprised and even distressed to find themselves attracted to conservative men.
Why is authenticity such an elevated value? From a Christian perspective it can’t be. Jesus never said “be yourself”; He said “be like Me.”
Sometimes I wonder whether “authenticity” as the ultimate value comes from sociopaths who want to toss off the chains of social demands for civilized and moral behavior.
“Self-actualization” likewise sounds suspect to me. Maybe it’s OK insofar as it means detaching yourself from unhealthy external expectations, such as you’d have if you were married to or raised by a bully.
But otherwise it sounds solipsistic and uninspiring. My “authentic self” (aka lizard brain) wants to nap all day and eat sugary things.
Aim high, sistah.
See: Jean Jacques Rousseau theories about natural primitive man.
A significant part of civilization involves suppressing our “authentic” animal impulses.
Heh.
Not entirely unrelated.
Seems fair.
‘Wondering WTF is wrong with the world’ ≠ ‘wonders of the world’.
Because it absolves the ‘authentic’ from considering others.
It’s a license to indulge one’s inner psychopath.
The bartender looks up at them and says “what is this, some kind of joke?”
Lego sex preferences study again. Men want to be like the protagonist. Women want the protagonist to be like them.
Jean Jacques Rousseau might qualify.
[Recalls how Rousseau abandoned each of his five children to a foundling hospital.]
Patrick O’Brian mentioned this in The Wine-Dark Sea:
I bought a summer sausage at a Mennonite market that looked remarkably similar to that.
Also, I’m guessing the chosen sexual partners of those in the photos have never actually seen a real one and have no point of comparison.
and manly meat hooks.
Empire of Dust
The full documentary.
Hoping for
concussionfatal brain injury.