Friday Ephemera (762)
Mongolian rave scene. || Not sure if it’s the shoes. || What… are you? || Just a few weeks. || “Why does he have no pants on?” || She’s certain that’s what he’s doing. Or, when your opinions are determined by status, not reality. || “Ecolesbianism asks: what if our interspecies relationships are lesbian too?” Related: Situated bodies and a butch dyke Earth. (h/t, Muldoon) || Wiglessness. || When you’re determined to make things worse. || Chadd is a grown man. || Attention, menfolk of pallor – new instructions have been uploaded. || Professor at Stanford, an expert, is mystified. || She’s going to assume you’re racist. || Best not to waste your pity. || What’s up, party people. || He did not wash his hands. || The gods, they mock us. || Escaped dental patient. || And finally, in a jam, helpfulness.
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Regarding which:
Among so many examples we’ve seen over the years.
And of course Mr Ritenbaugh, mentioned upthread.
Extremely well trained horses. Always wonder how other cultures conceptualize rap/hiphop culture.
Funny – but in the original context the blood on the doorposts was a brave mark of independence, not craven conformity.
The time is approaching when the police will be beaten up – or some modern version of tar and feathers – for not doing their job.
First I reconciled to my parents continued manipulative narcissism. I set my boundaries. Now that they require care, they have gotten worse – and I see that some of my siblings did not entirely escape our dysfunctional upbringing… so I must set boundaries there as well.
Yet the inversion, one of so many, seems very on-brand for wokeness.
My deepest sympathies. Family is supposed to be a refuge and comfort.
Family is supposed to be a refuge and comfort.
I’ve bounced across one or two dancefloors in my time, but it never occurred to me that the experience could be upgraded by adding a large number of horses.
Every good citizen must wonder why habitual criminals like him are not permanently removed from society.
Because her reasoning works. It has worked amongst her friends, at every social gathering, in the classes she attends, in everything she reads (and I bet she reads a lot). Every other person who disagrees with her has either backed down or been mocked and shunned by the people around her. It has taken years for her to encounter someone in a one-on-one, with a camera (hence other people will see this, she’s aware of it) on her, who has backbone to challenge her. And another woman no less. The real question is, why this is.
Heh. Sent the Last minute visitor and that to my wife. We shall see how my day goes…
I’d drag a mattress into the neighbour’s garage, just in case.
“said no real woman ever”
Apropos.
That’s making…umm…waves in many of the Florida fishing groups I follow. He touts himself on his business page as a Ranger. In a Ranger/SF group I follow someone tracked him down to an HR regiment that was just attached to the Rangers. He also appears to have had problems with DUI’s in the past. A lot of this special forces touting stuff is getting out of hand. Someone in the defense world needs to address this. The Ranger tab thing especially. While technically legitimate, there needs to be something more readily discernible by the public as to what a real Ranger is.
Go for the kicking – it’s certain to stabilise someone’s mood.
In other matters, the BBC is now declaring Islam as the prime religion with a headline like this ‘Eid celebration can be lonely for Muslim reverts’ rather than the accurate “converts”.
There are times when you just wonder if the hand slipped.
It was my understanding that back in the day, some point pre-Thatcher, when credit cards were less of a thing and travellers either took cash or travelers’ checks (or chequeueues if you will) that it was illegal for UK citizens to take more than a small sum with them. I don’t recall what it was but I couldn’t figure out how anyone from the UK who didn’t have some sort of foreign source of money could travel.
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Overdue.
Read that as ‘Retarded Research’ initially.
I bet she doesn’t. In my experience many of these expensively credentialed women read summaries, précis, outlines, but never the actual text. It’s one of the reasons they’re flummoxed by facts.
Some years back I knew an English teacher who never read beyond the third chapter of any book yet would offer ex cathedra judgments of same (she also insisted satire be funny to be satire).
The equivalent of reading the headline and not the story which contradicts the headline.
Woke “scholarship” never have I seen language tortured so much as by these people. Gobble-de-gook does not even cover it. Made up words, irrelevant terms, garbage concepts.
“My generation grew to immaturity in the sixties.”
–Roger Scruton
I used to think of the BBC as a paragon of honest and disinterested reporting. I now laugh at my naivety.
What a tiny bubble they must live in.
Well, I meant/should have said “reads a lot of fiction”. Though to your point as well. I won’t re-relate my experiences discussing Anna Karenina with over educated women.
Given that I read a lot of fiction yet maintain the level of skepticism requisite for modern life I would say it doesn’t necessarily follow.
I have noticed among younger women a disdain for the printed word – much of what they know, or ‘know’, seems to reach them via videos. Couple unthinking acceptance of whatever fashionable nonsense comes within their sight with the attention span of a mayfly on crack and you get that sort of invincibly smug ignorance.
You may be the exception. May be. You probably don’t read the kind of fiction she reads, or “reads” either. Not that much of even the non-fiction these days isn’t a lot of fiction. I could be wrong tho. A few ways.
As others note in reply, it’s our lofty academic’s struggle to conceive of a distinction between the people of Europe and their leadership, the political classes. As if no mismatch of significance could possibly exist.
Academics tend to dismiss (often with contempt) any facts and opinions which do not originate in academia.
This is hubris, and in the long run it’s fatal.
“They’re his 31st and 32nd felony convictions.”
At some point a criminal must be either put down or put away forever.
Those who demand that he always “get another chance” do not argue from good motives or innocent naivety. They are our enemies.
And once again, I suggest the implementation of a three-strikes-and-we-put-you-out-to-sea-on-a-fucking-raft policy.
This came to mind:
The post includes links to some eye-widening statistics.
Bio-degradable, right?
A one-way ticket to Sentinel island should do it.
[ Rustling of bin liner, passes handful of Nestlé Shreddies to Dicentra. ]
There are a number of Sentinel Islands. Which one did you mean? Was it by any chance North Sentinel Island?
Reality: too many today live a life insulated from reality. Few in college get life threatening injuries due to study or playing frisbee. They are cushioned from economic hardship until in their mid-twenties, and even then may get parental support. They have never been kicked by a mule or lost a finger in a combine. So, what do they care about the “reality” you talk about. Sex and gender can just be matters of opinion. They simply ignore the millions killed by Mao and wear his shirt.
Seems very true-to-life.
Remember we had milder but nearly as effective forms those policies but then the OMG OMG OMG PEOPLE ARE GETTING LIFE IN PRISON FOR STEALING CANDY bs and the OMG OMG OMG PRISONS ARE OVERCROWDED bs and the ever popular libertarian OMG OMG OMG THE US HAS MORE PEOPLE IN PRISON THAN NORTH KOREA bs hit the fan and all the goody good good conservatives…conservatives…the ones for whom being held in high esteem by their fwiends…got the sads and, well, here we are. Again.
beasts of the sea pics: the inside of a turtle’s mouth is because they eat jellyfish–the barbs are to keep it going down the gullet
You don’t want to be part of the clean up crew.
Good lord they can’t even get crime right. If your going to do something be good at it. 32 convictions says your not a very good criminal.
“said no real woman ever”
At the risk of TMI . . . Yeah, I was happy when THAT was over.
And once again, I suggest the implementation of a three-strikes-and-we-put-you-out-to-sea-on-a-fucking-raft policy.
Helicopter ride. So many helicopter rides.
Why yes. Yes it was.
But any of the others would do nicely, too. Make them live like Tom Hanks. Hell, let ’em have a volley ball.
Pretty good hour with the Triggernometry guys revisiting what they’ve learned from being in America for a couple weeks.
Not much is nowadays.
Another reminder of why you cannot hate the BBC too much.
Well, they all certainly seem like nice, normal people that I’d like to have in my life….