Try It Now, They Said
New hosting, fewer bumps. At least, that’s the theory. There may be some minor behind-the-scenes tinkering left to do as the hosting changes propagate, but the bulk of the unpleasantness is now behind us.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
I rather get the impression that Miss Strangio is determined to be “systemically oppressed” by something, anything, regardless of the contrivance required.
The Unspanked at large, part 3,046.
And in case it needs saying again.
Hasn’t improved the quality of the bar snacks. And I still can’t find out how to redeem my – numerous – credit notes
Weren’t those all lost in that mysterious electrical fire?
[ Quietly arranges mysterious electrical fire. ]
Ah, I’d forgotten about the fire. (Probably because it hasn’t yet occured.) But a hench-lesbian informed me tha a number of ‘unimportant’ (!) records went missing during the move from Typepad.
You can’t tell the players without a scorecard, one of which I, unfortunately, do not have.
Bear with me – T4T, or trans for trans dating. This article describes, near as I can reckon, the adventures of “trans” men dating other “trans” men with unexpected results.
Not having an advanced degree in “Gender Studies” or an allied worthless field, to me this translates, getting down to the chromosome and gamete level, that by imagining oneself as a male homosexual, it makes one feel female again. IOW, being lesbians with a lot of extra hormones and/or surgery.
YMMV, the article is, of course, in Men’s Health.
There goes the theory 2025 will be an improvement over last year.
The author of the piece is, he claims, a “they,” and has strong views on lip-liner.
As so often, they aspire to cliché. They’re cartoon people.
I still puzzle over the reluctance of some people to use such services.
The number of toxic fantasists at the ACLU seems to keep increasing.
Any other good targets out there?
Québécois – “flannel French?”
Priorities.
I still puzzle over the reluctance of some people to use such services.
One has to have trust in the service, out here in the relative boondocks, for example, a couple of the local utilities do not have web presences that exactly inspire confidence in their security. Not quite “Hosting By Joe Bob’s Innerwebs, 1417 County Road 2, East Sasquatch”, but close.
We seem to be running out of fresh reasons to hate the French.
Does one really need fresh reasons?
Yes, if the chief purpose is entertaining blog comments.
No, otherwise.
But an ACH auto-pay would only involve the banks’ security and reliability, yes?
Here I am in a big metro area, and about 20% of the association homeowners refuse to use auto-pay, with the result that they incur occasional late fees.
[ Starts compiling Friday’s Ephemera. ]
[ Muffled chuckling. ]
There are three things, young gentlemen, which you are constantly to bear in mind. Firstly, you must always implicitly respect scientific evidence, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting its political propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who claims to be a woman. And thirdly, you must hate a leftist as you do the devil.
Meanwhile in Europe, Time celebrates French “democracy” (there is a reason for you).
Elsewhere, an “historic military move”, which didn’t pan out so well in 1941.
Considering what Russia has been saying lately about the Baltic countries, it seems like a very prudent move.
I’m now wondering how the ladies would fare going back up the steps.
In entirely unrelated news, today’s word is wheezing.
Front-loaded – Looks like they hoped you’d lose interest after the first few.
I still puzzle over the reluctance of some people to use such services.
I don’t. They’re very quick to collect but remarkably unwilling to rectify mistakes.
A telecoms provider over-charged me once by several hundred pounds and it took two months for them to agree that the mistake was theirs and that they’d reimburse me. It took a further six weeks to get my money back.
I’m happy to receive a paper bill that I can check before making a payment. They earned my lack of trust in them.
As I recall, our HOA’s bank required a bit of hassle or an additional fee. At some point a few years ago something got terribly messed up and between our treasurer and the association manager it took a month or two to get worked out. But it has been a few years since I have had anything to do with them.
That said, there is something to be said about sitting down with one’s bills and expenses and such and going over them manually rather than allow automatic payments to just happen. Following our recent storms we had several days of hours long and intermittent internet outages, which coincided not-so-conveniently with the reconstruction here. Our service provider of course failed to credit us for those days of nothingness. If we had automatic payments we would be in a position of having to ask them for the money back. I still balance a physical checkbook once a month. It’s good fiscal discipline.
A few years ago, I received an Amazon US or CA payment by cheque, which struck me as rather quaint, and had to nip into town to my bank. When I turned the corner to where I expected the branch of my bank to be, I discovered that it had been demolished and replaced with flats. Several years ago.
Happily, a quick search revealed a new branch two streets away.
Try getting an automated payment back when the electronic invoice was wrong.
Ye gods, lady – man up and grow a set.
Further proof that you can carve up your arm to sew on as a frankensausage, mainline testosterone, and sprout hair all over, and yet still act and sound like the pathetic whiny little bitch that you are.
Sad.
Mark your 2026 calendar.
…it seems like a very prudent move.
Russia, having been repeatedly invaded from all four points of the compass since the days of Ruric and hence has some deserved national paranoia, the prudent move would have been would have been not to keep pushing NATO and PiP up to spitting distance of St. Petersburg. That, and not violating Minsk I and II.
Cakes.
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Probably not what Walt meant, but it is 2025.
I wonder the context of this parade considering who is in the background … Are these more “Rubenesque” ladies aware they are being used as objects for others’ virtue signaling rather than any genuine celebration?
Renoir liked his models chubby, but maybe not that chubby.
Not entirely unrelated.
The celebration of fat is so perverse. Being fat causes so many health problems. It is a major cause of blindness and limb loss, stroke, etc. Most of the people I see using mobility scooters in shops are not on crutches but rather are obese. Sure, don’t be mean to them, but come on. It is deadly. It is “everyone gets a participation trophy” in daily life.
It can also lead to some remarkable mental contortions:
See also this episode, in which a polite man holds open a door for a woman, a Guardian contributor, and said Guardian contributor immediately starts screaming.
As I say in one of the posts linked above, I don’t generally care about how big someone is. But, for some, there are psychological consequences that are more difficult to ignore.
If it was Amazon US, it would have been a check.
Not entirely unrelated.
An M1070 and the flatbed that goes with it.
Is there a point where “plus size” becomes “multiplication size”?
Don’t forget the fuel depot.
It’s amazing how many people don’t know that such flatbeds exist.
Sigh. Nothing ever happens. There’s a 54% chance right now that nothing will happen. You can make book on it.
Systemic Misogyny: A Theorem Disproved. What my feminist professors lied about.“
“Turns out, the oppressors were just guys. And the cage I thought they built? Feminism handed me the blueprints — and I helped weld the bars.”
(from Instapundit)
There is less to this piece than meets the eye.
She’s absolutely right about “mansplaining.” I work with engineering types all the time, and they luuuurrrrv explaining the stuff they’re working on, because they delight in it.
I’ve never witnessed “mansplaining.” I have to suspect the women who report it are either Cluster Bs who are lying or they are women with a ditsy presentation (Valley Girl diction), so men assume they don’t know anything.
Sad that such basic truths are presented as the book of revelations.
Do women not understand that men who know more about a subject explain it similarly to other men? And sometimes even men find it annoying. On both the giving and receiving sides. And women do it a hell of a lot as well, especially when explaining what mansplaining is. They’re even worse when they get frustrated when men fail to read their bloody minds.
Like raaaaaycism, I’m really tired of this crap. I thank God I will (hopefully) never have to work with another woman. I never had any problems (heh…that I know of) and generally got along well with women in the workplace. But attitudes have changed considerably in the last 10-15 years. And don’t even get me started on the ma’am thing.
Impulse control. Or, you know, adulthood.
Also “HE/HIM.”
Not unrelated, parenting.
Because setting an example is so important, you know.
“Administrative leave” should be followed by firing.
Mr Alvergue – our “HE/HIM” department chair – says of himself,
He talks quite a bit about empathy and sensitivity.
Hence physically intimidating polite young women whose voting preferences depart from his own while vandalising their property.