Friday Ephemera (769)
Hippo expresses displeasure. || For the hungry among you. || So how was your day? || It was, alas, a very long drive. || Logo outrage. || An athletic use of the buttocks. || Obstruction of note. || Today’s word is ambitious. || FBI artefacts. || “It seems like here in Portland there is this super-big need for spiritual care.” || Meet the Bin Men, 1976. || Artful bouncing. || The thrill of martial arts. || She feels that a lot of assumptions are being made about her. || Choices were made. || You may gasp when ready. || We have ignition. || Wanted woman. || What the hell are people doing? A planet-wide statistical extrapolation. || Towing is hard. || A noteworthy indifference. || Incoming. || Niche skills. || New speech rules update issued. || Luminous. || A little steep, I grant you, but on the upside it is organic.
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Pathological empathy.
This thread…
My paternal great-grandparents, Harry and Lizzie Sears, were the gardener and housekeeper for a rich old spinster of their town – one Lizzie Borden. My grandmother, their daughter Anna, told me stories how “Miss Lizzie” would invite her for some tea and cookies when she accompanied her parents; Grandma Martin said she always thought of Lizzie as a “kind old lady.”
That “incident” earlier? Meh . . .
Oddly enough, the screaming didn’t help.
From the thread following this over at Tim Worstall’s place.
British time. The time stamps really should be in UTC, the one true time zone.
A HEATHEN WALKS AMONG US.
[ Fetches kindling, matches. ]
The time stamps really should be in UTC, the one true time zone.
“UTC” is a leftist abomination like “BCE/CE” instead of BC/AD lest the denizens of Kreplachistan be offended by something that is in England because wypipo colonizer, or some such idiocy.
You may choose Greenwich, GMT, or Zulu to refer to the time zone of the prime meridian.
Meanwhile, if you didn’t think flying commercial sucked enough right now.
Let’s hear from the designers:
I am guessing not too bad after everything south of the pubic bone goes numb.
I can’t wait to hear from the Brobdingnagian Acceptance lot.
Speaking of abominations, a reminder that the Cato Institute wants to import millions and millions of unassimilable people until our culture is destroyed and our children are an oppressed minority.
“Who knows” is doing some rather heavy lifting. As in “obvious liar”.
I suppose the simulators we used in high school drivers ed class helped some avoid such screw-ups.
I suppose the simulators we used in high school drivers ed class helped some avoid such screw-ups.
It is why the drivers ed car had a brake pedal on the instructor side…
[ Want some accelerant? ]
Not present, I assume, in the numerous cars used by independent instructors today.
Rootless cosmopolitan globalists. Some are merely fools. Others are callous or even malevolent.
Are you on a relationship escalator?
Try Relationship Anarchy, your manifesto and guide to justify screwing anyone, anywhere, anytime, anyhow.
Thus:
and:
Chicago needs ten thousand Paul Kerseys riding public transit.
“Let me get out the guest china”, porcelain painting of note.
And who here hasn’t been crying out for “a political and philosophical lens through which to view interpersonal relationships”?
Slay, they.
Who knows whether if you sat in it for two hours or three hours how that would feel?
“I’m not man-spreading! It’s the seat, honest”
Feminists hardest hit
I wasn’t aware “androgynous” meant “failed entrance exams for Ringling’s clown college”.
Also, can someone explain why these idiots think tiny random crappy tattoos are a good look?
Not interested in flying cut rate airlines, not interested in flying anywhere actually, but I would be curious to give that a try. It might actually be more comfortable for taller people. I don’t know how people taller than me do it, even in some first class seats. But just looking at that I wonder if it wouldn’t be more comfortable and easier to shift your weight/pressure around on a 1-2 hour flight. But then what becomes of the overhead compartment? Though this being a EU zone thing, the few times I have ridden local airlines in Europe, I seem to recall there being more headroom.
My knees hurt just looking at the picture.
Anting. It’s for the birds.
[ Strongly considers possibility of fish and chips for dinner. ]
Soon they’ll be talking about stacking doped-up passengers like cordwood.
And toxic femininity.
Are others also seeing problems on Twitter/X?
Yes.
Twitter seems to be fixed now. Seems to be.
Added: tho not completely. Posts referencing other posts aren’t working.
Whereas we’d just ride into town on the donkey.
ZULU is the one true time. Just like Julian Date is the one true date.
Afghans are gang rape suspects at a rate about 70 times greater than ethnic Germans. I’m not sure about that number, but I’ll assume “vastly greater” is correct.
a reminder that the Cato Institute wants to import millions and millions of unassimilable people until our culture is destroyed and our children are an oppressed minority.
(1) Socially engineer a morality where ingroup preference of whites is as depraved as child molestation. (2) Whites, with whatever residue of self-respect and prudence remains in their unconscious, use “good school district” evasions to avoid the full genocidal consequences of that morality. (3) Everyone else gets to slam dunk on whites for their hypocrisy and lack of intellectual rigor.
If you people had to compete with the whole world for your jobs, you’d all be unemployed. You’re proposing this as a good reason for immigration? Most of your welfare budget is being spent on your own people. Well, who else should it be spent on? Once we allow the premise that we should be ashamed of our own ingroup preference, every mediocre grifter in the world gets to harass us with this degrading “do you have two tens for a five” rhetoric.
@David, is this you?
Yes. Years ago, Kate, who runs SDA, asked me to contribute. I pointed out that I wouldn’t have the time to write new posts for SDA, so she invited me to post links to my own blog.
SDA is a great blog. First discovered it back in the early 2000’s.
Well, yes.
Caused by the inability to distinguish between ‘effect’ and ‘affect’.
Viewed from Texas, the time stamp displayed is 7:52pm.
More troubling is the notion of ‘judicial immunity’ as dispensation for criminal, non-judicial, actions.
Florence King’s essay on Lizzie Borden is a treat.
There is no UTC. There is only Greenwich Mean Time.
It might actually be more comfortable for taller people.
In a proper seat your weight is mainly distributed between the back, buttocks, and thighs, this thing would be like riding a bike with most of your weight on the pelvis regardless of height. As there appears to be no height adjustment and my 4’11” (0.007 metric centifurlongs 3p) friend would basically be dangling in space. If, OTOH, they are low enough for short people’s feet to rest on the floor, those of us altitudinally enhanced would be in a semi crouch.
C-130 troop seats would be more comfortable, not that I want to give them ideas..
Soon they’ll be talking about stacking doped-up passengers like cordwood.
We were talking about things that make flying worse, not an improvement.
They’re libertarians, i.e. utopians, hence their understanding of human nature is practically non-existent.
I AM FULL OF FISH AND CHIPS.
That is all.
Calamtiyware’s done that.
More & more it seems the problem with anti-trans violence is there’s not enough of it.