Friday Ephemera (764)
Any port in a storm. || Hot pursuit. || Not quite the intended optics. || Nicotine and oestrogen. || When brave knights battled snails. || You want one and you know it. || She’s not happy. || Helping hands required. || House-trained. || He likes to lick them. || Close enough. || You may need to move the seat back a tad. || A brief history of bubble gum. || Bit tight. || The bikini, I’m assuming, is purely for aerodynamic purposes. || The progressive retail experience, parts 623, and 624. Or, cause and effect. || Mystery unresolved. || It’s a San Francisco vibe. || Some overheating issues. || Insufficiently secured. || First, you need your own sand. || That Disney magic. || Can your toilet flush a rotisserie chicken? || Much effort, but minimal effect. || And finally, establishing fault before Dad hears about it.
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“Downtown is for drug users” is quite an, er, “interesting” battle cry.
You can help this poor deportee or you can
turn the pageclick “skip ad”.Yet another community leader murdered by the police.
Monty Python’s How Not To Be Seen, Lexington-Concord edition.
Airplane hijacker fatally shot by passenger in Belize. It would be an ideal ending, except that three passengers were slashed by the hijacker.
“Oh shut up and go and change your armor.”
Nose ring’s too tight.
Don’t think that would work with a rear-wheel drive.
They/them pronouns?
For some reason I absolutely love this. The narration. The project. The outcome. It occurs to me you could get a kiln-level fire going, reduce all the food particles to pure carbon, and clear them off with a fan. No water needed!
Every man who knows women should give them a concrete demonstration of how much stronger men are than women. As a kid, my dad easily grabbed both my wrists in one hand and pinned me to the wall (not in anger, just messing around). There might even have been some arm-wrestling attempted, wherein I was easily defeated.
We’re at the point where too many females don’t realize what they’re up against, because they watched Xena and Buffy and Summer Glau beat up on burly dudes without realizing it was just entertainment.
Buuuuuuurn.
Train your ear.
In case you were wondering…
But she identified as a sprinter.
I think ours does that already. 😂
So I looked at PlumberJohn’s YouTube channel to see what other tomfoolery he’s got going, and it turns out that save for the latest 3 videos of the innovative dishwasher, it’s all conventional plumbing demonstrations.
Morning, all.
As so often, there’s a… symbolic resonance.
As I think I’ve mentioned before, I find washing the dishes oddly relaxing, and we have a pretty good view from the kitchen window, which probably helps. So although we own a perfectly functional dishwasher, so far as I can recall it’s never been used. Except to store wine, takeaway menus, and bewildering blender attachments, the purposes of which remain a mystery.
So it’s a gloried cupboard-cum-wine-rack.
Lizard versus ants.
Chart of note.
Map of note.
Demons are real.
We in the West are going to miss living in nations with functioning infrastructures after enough vibrants like these have moved here and made our countries like theirs.
That whole situation reeks of “Fire codes? What are those?”
It’s a San Francisco vibe.
I visited about 20 years ago now, and it was a beautiful city, I walked around and never once felt threatened. What a crying shame.
This is why loading all the doorbell sanitizers into a starship and sending them off to some godforsaken planet in the middle of nowhere was a mistake.
Surprise Twist: That’s actually a cruise ship!
(j/k)
Ferals stealing Maybelline. Didn’t see that coming.
It’s like some weird moral amnesia, in which people have forgotten the basics of preserving their own civilisation. The things one has to do to.
Very much related.
Sergio Aragones in the 14th Century.
I was reminded of a video, seen years ago on X, and which I now can’t find, showing teenage schoolgirls cheering on another girl to tackle one of the boys of similar age in a rugby / American football manner. The results of the attempt were quite alarming and the cheering soon stopped.
The cheering, goading girls had some ‘girl power’ illusions shattered; one foolish girl got an inkling of what it’s like to be hit by a bus; and the equally foolish boy who, I assume, had been goaded into the exercise, was presumably left feeling pretty shit too.
Ai plundering established artwork again.
“Get a life”
There’s not enough irony in the world.
It’s almost too on-the-nose.
Yet here we are.
Cute but can anyone confirm these?
“The thin blue line.”
And some crap on fire. 9/10 for effort?
I was rather impressed by the fact she had sand and some (sort of) burning crosses to hand. As one does.
That Disney magic
I laughed way too hard at this.
Hat-related dining crisis.
Do scroll down for the cherry on the cake.
Nicotine and estrogen.
“Mental Health Professionals”, AKA “How we got in this sorry state”, treating a problem in much the same manner as an orthopedic surgeon will keep hitting your broken ankle with a nine pound hammer, or an interventional cardiologist will inject silicone into your coronary arteries to make sure they stay obstructed.
House-trained.
Dogs will still crap on the floor, cats can be taught to flush.
Congratulations to the UK for finally figuring out what a woman is!
Given the gimlet eye this blog casts on our current situation, we should celebrate the victories for common sense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfvKlRDK3BE&t=19s
Bonus: Scottish and Irish accents.
She wants a pinata.
Yes, I noticed that. Peaceful coexistence with such monsters is impossible.
Back in the 80’s(?) a comedian did a hilarious bit by breaking down how Japanese sounded like an angry, forgetful, constipated man.
For all your problems.
And yet, a person with sexual dysmorphia – someone vehemently alienated from the physical reality of their sex – would presumably still feel that way, even if stranded on a desert island. Just as they do now, when alone, with the curtains drawn, or when making tiresome TikTok videos, or in the shower or whatever.
T’aint the world that’s causing the problem.
The thick beige doormat.
Still use #7, #14 came with a burn out barrel & those are still in use in many such cases. Other than that, got ’em all.
The Luigi Mangione t-shirt?
Yup.