Friday Ephemera (768)
Scenic toilet. || Hot cube. || Camera-manning. || Less complicated methods may be available. || Somewhat lacking in elbow room. || Lippy fish. || News flash. || Easily done, I guess. || A tribute to the barf bag. || Unwelcome wobble. || Are you bringing the vulva energy to worldwide contentions? || Liveliness incoming. || “Where are my nunchucks?” || On waffle-stomping as an environmentalist’s solemn duty. || On “diversity” and migration, a short thread. || They call it “equity.” Previously. || On stereotypes. || Scenes from T.J. Maxx. || Spaghetti Junction, 1972. || “Pregnancy is not to be defined by biological phenomena… A transsexual theory of reproduction.” Horseshit ensues. || Employee of note. || In surgery. || Close. || “You need to come real fast.” || Oh, and finally, no, it turns out they can’t.
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Don’t care to have your waffles stomped?
Shouldn’t worry about it too much. The notion of showers in the mid-1700s is ludicrous on its face.
Not sure what prompted that, but I have seen “interesting” statistics on the frequency of showering and underwear-changing in various countries.
And that reminds me of a passage in one of the Aubrey-Maturin novels:
“sale comme un peigne” means “as dirty as a comb”.
Is the poster unaware of just how many local accents there are in the UK?
Needed: Policies that make
citizenshoodrats afraid to assault cops. Or better, policies that make them terrified of the consequences of assaulting any good folks.Why in the name of all that’s holy (and all that’s not) do you think that you or anyone else needs to promote or discourage migration AT ALL?
Humanity is not your personal ant farm!
Do they answer that somewhere? Do they say, “We are entitled to resettle people from all corners of the earth because of this Noble Reason?”
Or do they just assume that they’re entitled to engage in whichever project suits their fancy?
So this Mexican ship (ARM Cuauhtémoc) attempted to pass under the Brooklyn Bridge and utterly failed. Grok says that even at very low tide there was not enough clearance for the masts.
Two people are in critical condition. It apparently was participating in some kind of training maneuvers.
So who was the bright light who couldn’t be arsed to compare the mast height with the bridge clearance? Was it a metric-to-imperial conversion problem?
Saving a bebe Canada goose.
Though the shot at the end shows domestic geese for no apparent reason.
…repent at leisure…
Because, miss, had anyone tried to stop you, you’d have fought them tooth and nail.
Glamorising the primitive is all well and good until you get toothache or some swamp-related infection.
Now we see the violence inherent in the system!
Cross-dressing man needs Pride flag in classroom in order to teach maths.
Supposedly, it’s about making the children feel “comfortable.” Though one might think that the flag’s connotations of coerced pretending, fetishistic mutilation and life-shortening hormone abuse – and generally being subordinate to a cross-dressing man with mental health issues – might have other effects.
Re Mexican Navy ship (who knew?), this from the comments:
But of course. In the two news stories I read there seemed to be a curious lack of curiosity as to why the ship was, or at least certainly appears to have been, moving backwards.
It lost power and the current pulled it into the bridge, stern first. In one video you can see an anxious tug boat nearby. It was up here for some kind of festival, and there were men on the masts at the time it struck the bridge.
So it wasn’t intending to get under the bridge — it just got swept into it.
So who was the bright light who couldn’t be arsed to compare the mast height with the bridge clearance? Was it a metric-to-imperial conversion problem?
Eh, it can wait for mañana.
It lost power and the current pulled it into the bridge, stern first. In one video you can see an anxious tug boat nearby. It was up here for some kind of festival, and there were men on the masts at the time it struck the bridge.
My understanding is that after its appearance in NYC, it was meant to head to Iceland. Which makes me now think the survivors dodged a bullet, since losing power mid-Atlantic seems more risky.
…you can see an anxious tug boat nearby.
Why the tug wasn’t doing tug stuff is a bit of a mystery.
Meanwhile in Caledonia, men take off their shirts. Powerful.
In the US&A, purple hair, glasses, tats, nose ring, the trouble with stereotypes…
Those weren’t the shirtless men I was promised.
If our host is getting aroused I’m lowering the price of the drinks.
Exactly what I assumed when I saw the video last night.
Indeed. It was as if the tugboat crew were unaware of what was happening.
Another curiosity about that…and I know I know I know buuuut….it is a sail boat. So…buuuut….the pretty lights are on the mast. Though I did also see in one story it was attributed to a mechanical failure. Which would make more sense.
Per Muldoon’s post, I thought I saw a tug boat just outside the frame in one video. Maybe it was the tug that lost power? But looking at the video at that link it seems to be chugging along fine. .
Whatever the actual problem, I am sure more info will come out. I don’t question the incident itself so much. Shit happens and it is what it is. But given the available video, the journalism on this is rather incurious and sucky.
Men without shirts..band name. Yes, I had to.
California: a deranged “anti-natalist” who hated being alive bombed a fertility clinic.
The 72 hour rule applies to all early reports, of course. Investigators have not even confirmed whether the person who died in the car bombing was the bomber.
So that implies that the boat had already successfully passed under the bridge.
They are known as “crazy lady glasses“.
The Safety Flounce?
(They used to be Men Without Hats; now, they’re men without jobs!)
We can prance if we want to
We can leave good sense behind
Cause your friends don’t prance
And if they don’t prance
Well they’re no friends of mine.
…
And you can act real rude
And totally removed
And I can act like an imbecile…
Ship movements leading up to the bridge collision.
And more from another naval blogger. (Via Cdr Salamander.)
Richard Fernandez aka Wretchard’s musings about the fertility clinic bomber:
All things considered, it might be an improvement over current arrangements.
And, Heaven knows, we’ve a bumper crop of strange women about. Likely more than we have ponds for. Maybe they could take shifts.
He’s not yet learned to be a man.
He has, however, learned how to lie.
So that implies that the boat had already successfully passed under the bridge.
Unpossible, the deck of the Brooklyn Bridge at its highest is 20 feet (0.465 metric hogsheds) lower than the top of the masts.
What island should Milo be banished to?
I suppose it’s possible that the topmasts are hinged, but I’ve only heard of that on smaller boats.
BUT: A quick look at a map shows that the ship had been docked downstream of the bridge, supporting the supposition that it sailed up the East River from the ocean to that dock, and only ran into the bridge when it lost power after undocking and was carried upriver by the tide.
Topmasts are generally removable, but that is quite an exercise, usually done dockside.
A quick look at a map shows that the ship had been docked downstream of the bridge, supporting the supposition that it sailed up the East River from the ocean to that dock,
That is not a supposition, that is the only way it could get there, under the Verrazzano (plenty of clearance there) into the bay, hang a starboard past Governor’s Island into the East River.
It is not as it it was going to sail up the Hudson, through the Harlem, and down the East. Where it was docked is where the South Street Seaport and other attractions are, which is why tall ships park there.
Meanwhile in Wales, a whale speaks in what one hopes is a piss take, but the clapping seals are eating it up.
It’s been said by others that libertarianism boils down to drug legalisation and sex with children so the choice of islands may come down to whether he’s a libertarian or no.
Speaking of watercraft, not exactly dazzle camouflage.
Yes. I saw a later X post had a marked-up map showing that it was backing out of mooring and got caught in the tide.