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Perhaps, tho I would suspect the necessary preparation might be too time/money consuming to make it economically viable. I don’t recall seeing gator in any restaurants aside from beach pubs, family see food restaurants, etc. Generally fried. The best, and most tender that I recall was very spicy, like extra hot chicken wing intensity. Yet you say this was a hole-in-the-wall kind of place? Hope they saved the recipe.
‘ I don’t recall seeing gator in any restaurants aside from beach pubs, family see food restaurants, etc.’
I had it when in Orlando on holiday many years ago – I rather liked it!
Every once in a while I have it. It can be good, I’ve never disliked it. In nugget form. Whenever I have tried the “ribs” they’ve been disappointing. If you don’t encounter it frequently, the novelty factor helps. Plus if you live in Florida it feels like you’re helping dispose of a creature who might eat your puppy…so….I think the trend coincided with the (bs imnsho) idea that lean meat is healthier. It’s definitely lean.
Added: FFS, just noticed…”sea food”…obviously. The old joke that I used to tease my sister with comes back to haunt me.
That’s actually shocking. The arrogance is incredible.
Yes, absolutely. And imagine how many years it took to hone that arrogance, that colossal overreach. How many years of getting away with it.
As Geoffrey said in the original thread,
I mean, you see the above, the sheer brass neck of it, in their own words, and it almost seems unreal. Like some twisted fiction. For many, the temptation is to assume that it must be an exaggeration, a lurid conspiracy theory, or just not happening.
Which is precisely why it continues to happen.
And so, we see an unhinged imperviousness, in which the efforts to deceive parents – as if the parents of the children were an obstacle, nothing more – become ever bolder. And when those uppity parents discover your wildly politicised and factually inaccurate lesson plans, the obvious course of action is to double-down, lie, and try to hide the most damning evidence:
Now there’s a comforting thought.
I would add that once this level of ideological capture has taken place, the idea that the enthusiastic participants, the teachers and administrators, might somehow be redeemed, made functional, seems somewhat far-fetched. Once you’re at the stage where lying to parents and their children is the norm, and where hiding your weird, wrong-headed lesson plans is proudly announced, I rather doubt that any meaningful correction is possible.
Short of firing the fuckers.
David:
Nope. They must be punished – the only thing they understand is tit for tat.
The schoolyard rules apply when dealing with bullies.
They must be denounced, ruined personally, made unemployable.
Forbearance belongs to a higher level of morality, which they dismiss as foolishness and use to manipulate/silence the rest of us.
Here in Israel, the coalition of Likudniks, North-African Jews, and religious Zionists was formed as each, in turn, endured Leftist overreach and kulturkampf, and realized that the elite was not committed at all to its fine words about democracy.
The uneven, protracted Israeli response to Oslo’s failure and the October 7th massacre indicates not just how Lefties entrenched in the courts and the army have hamstrung the country – it also shows that Bibi and the center-right coalition still sometimes go wobbly when they must firmly ignore the voice of projected Left-wing authority they have grown up with.
Again – almost exact parallels to this social-cultural awakening in the US.
The year entire before the massacre, the Israeli Left attempted a soft coup to avoid judicial reform. Leftist elites openly threatened to bring down the banks and the economy and to refuse army service. This despite an embarrassing electoral failure.
It is counterproductive to worry about our own purity and “do it by the book”… The only book these people adhere to is Alinsky’s.
Some weeds wither and die when cut down or dried up… this one must be pulled out by the roots.
Again – obvious parallels to what is going on in the US.
There is, I think, among some, a reluctance to admit that responding to such deception and perversity – even when the victims are your own children – might entail being impolite.
But when the attitude towards parents is fundamentally disdainful, and the most passionate goal one of subversion, such that parents and normal moral thinking are regarded as things to thwart and undermine, then there doesn’t seem to be much scope for polite discussion or negotiated course correction.
I mean, when you’re faced with teachers and educational bureaucrats who want to undermine your values, both as a parent and a citizen, and who proudly announce their efforts to deceive you while they warp the minds of your children, then I don’t think you’re dealing with people who possess a better nature to which one might appeal.
They are simply the enemy. And it’s a role they have chosen.
I’m trying to picture how some hypothetical, utterly polite, totally non-confrontational remedy might go:
“Excuse me, would you mind awfully if I asked you to maybe, just possibly, dial back the indoctrination of my children with your sick, pernicious, racist ideology? Could you please not keep telling them quite so loudly that diligence, forethought and punctuality are wicked, or that they should feel ashamed for being white? Or, like, maybe only do it every other week, but not on Tuesdays? If that’s not too much trouble, I mean…”
An excess of upwardsness.
And because some of you will be missing our usual Friday collection, here’s a shampoo-related item of note.
I’ll just leave that there, I think.
Right, doing a cover is totally the same as a singer no one has heard of ripping off a speech.
What? No threat of raising the price of drinks to go with that?
The words voluntarily and has chosen seem to doing quite a lot of lifting there.
I was too busy making animated GIFs.
You’re a bad man. Pinged.
This is my innocent face.
Bless you, sir. Should you wear spectacles, may you always have lens wipes.
[ Wipes bar. ]
[ Empties ashtrays. ]
[ Whistles nonchalantly. ]
I dunno, after three repeats, I think you might be getting too aroused by that, though I am sure that will be another reason to raise the price of drinks…
The ladies are being awfully quiet.
[ Ups price of drinks. ]
Leftists do seem to have very flexible morals.
This.
This is my innocent face.
I was wondering why I wasn’t hearing banging noises and insane laughter from the basement.
There was, it has to be said, quite a bit of chortling when I spotted the all-natural shampoo.
I have to say, given the scale, given the malice, ‘firing’ isn’t the first word that comes to mind.
Someone’s taking the piss.
Tidal – they come and go.
Out of a cannon. Into the Sun.
Perhaps I should’ve been clearer.
Or:
Punishment is necessary but not sufficient. There must also be exclusion.
On progressives and fake empathy, a thread.
Well, it seems important to convey quite firmly that such deceptions – and so many of the things being hidden – are not merely wrong or factually incorrect, or contested or controversial or whatever. They’re morally revolting. And they reveal a great deal about those who choose to behave in this way.
As I said here,
Again, this isn’t politics. It’s sociopathy.
The problem is that conservatives, whether in the US or in the UK or any country, are generally nowhere near as passionate about preserving our liberty as the left are about destroying it.
The ladies are being awfully quiet.
well, aside from wondering if the video is for real, there’s the vague feeling that I’m not the er … target audience.
It is quite funny though and the gifs pick up the best parts. I always did like combining science with humorous innuendo and double entendre – made all the memorization in biology-type courses bearable. In my invertebrate zoology tome there’s a photo of a chimney sponge gamete release pencil-labeled as the “money shot”.
There you go again, lowering the tone. Tsk.
Further.
You left out further.
I’m now wondering whether to attach that series of GIFs to the next birthday message I send to Beloved Sister-In-Law.
[ Checks calendar. ]
Nothing we can do–not reasoned argument, not emotional appeals, not punishment–is going to turn these people into good citizens. They will always look for ways to advance their ideology, and therefore they must be strictly excluded.
I’m now wondering whether to attach that series of GIFs to the next birthday message I send to Beloved Sister-In-Law.
Do it!!
(If she has a warped sense of humor, that is.)
On progressives and fake empathy, a thread.
Nobody is naive about the disorderliness of the disorderly, their nihilism, sadism, impulsiveness, racial hatred, misogyny, all of which is not only exposed but celebrated by Hollywood films and popular music. A frequent 80’s movie plot in my memory was a member of the suburban WASP master race taking a wrong turn into a ghetto where his cluelessness was exposed and we could all laugh at the escalation of his being preyed on and humiliated.
It’s not empathy, it’s transparent performative lying, which proves the liar’s ideological zealousness and intellectual agility, and which is deployed against people who just want to exercise a basic right to separate themselves from the disorderly. When somebody says “doesn’t everyone want good schools”, it’s not a naive belief that all groups are as education-focused as Asian tiger moms, it’s to force their opponents out onto a ledge where they have to either shut up or admit that Good Schools = I just don’t want my sons and daughters anywhere near the, shall we say, disorderly.
While I agree that there are fewer people as clueless as profess to be, there are a lot more than you allow. Personal experience may be anecdotal but patterns do emerge & there are a number of educated people of reasonable intelligence who firmly believe inside of every psychopath is a perfect little angel in need of nurturing.
It’s not empathy, agreed – it’s a cultivated, praised, and socially rewarded ignorance (not unmixed with a dollop of incuriosity and a dash of laziness) of human nature.
Invasion update.
Ira Howard not amused.
AI at it’s best?
Experts.
I like the first reply:
“Grok, what are some traditional catholic tortures for heresy”
It’s gotten to the point where it is reasonable to start with a default assumption that any random academic is a liar.