Friday Ephemera (779)
Dexterity detected. || Dog relocation device. || Heck yeah. || Recording studio clients. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Actual Cardassian TV/VCR combo, only $495. || Mr Pelzer’s book list. || Look away now. || Being a belligerent moron, she couldn’t help herself. || Maximum womanhood. || Big stick. || Droppings. || Using the wrong holes. || She’s waiting for “waves of uprising,” and he “wants to perform abortions in a church.” They have a fanbase. || Empowered-female journalism. || The progressive retail experience, parts 644, 645, 646, 647, and 648. || Medieval medical recipes. From dove faeces and fox lungs to salted owl and weasel testicles. || Gyrating water. || You want one and you know it. || Not unfair. || Fashion police. || And finally, menfolk, reclaim your glide and coverage.
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What if he had instead put up a photo captioned “Ceci n’est pas un gode”?
How about “waves of helicopters”?
For him, too.
There is a three-part solution, proven to work: Beatings administered by victims and bystanders, followed by beatings administered by arresting officers, followed by brief helicopter rides.
Not limited enough.
New line of healthy bar snacks?
“Droppings.“
Great! I’ve only just started going back to the cinema, thanks to the expensive ‘Everyman’ chain keeping outy the riff-raff. and now this!
Now I know how to leave a tip for the cleaning crew.
Is he solar powered? Maybe he’s charging…
Little trooper!
Morning, all.
Musical interlude.
Heh.
Blowback.
Spooning.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
I’m now trying to remember the last time we felt remotely enthused by the prospect of a trip to the cinema. For Dune: Part Two, I think. And before that, Dead Reckoning, which was also rather disappointing. We’ve sort of got out of the habit. Too many underwhelming films.
The last time I left a cinema feeling I’d had a completely satisfying experience, well worth the time and effort, was… back in 2018, I think.
As I think I’ve said before, in use-of-leisure-time terms, it’s not unlike repeatedly going out for a meal to a very hit-and-miss restaurant at the opposite end of town. At some point, you start to question the value. The Other Half is, as he puts it, more or less done with cinema.
That’s so hideous.
I want it.
Yes, it’s quite a thing. The word tat scarcely covers it.
But where to put it?
You don’t say.
Rockin’ knockers.
No, don’t thank me.
What do you expect from British “food”?
What if he had instead put up a photo captioned “Ceci n’est pas un gode”?
I saw a headline somewhere that suggested these dildos were part of a cryptocurrency scam. I didn’t read it because in the next nanosecond my brain said, “Or . . . it’s just a joke because the WNBA sucks.”
I had a similar reaction.
Also thought to myself: “These are inferior athletes, but they are all far better than I could be and I admire anyone with greater athletic skills.” So in that regard any harassment with green dildos or anything else seems cheap and uncivilized, except for the fact that they are making obnoxiously delusional demands.
You knew some twit* would write this, it was only a matter of when.
#thingsthatdidnthappen
“My virtue signalling is more important than my daughter’s safety”, the article, shortened and slightly paraphrased.
David: You might need the hamster urine at the ready and Sharpie for raising the drink prices.(Short video warning)
*(vowel substitution allowed)
Again, progressive empathy. It’s exquisitely selective, one might say contrived.
See also.
Today’s word is coquettish.
Scenes.
Oh, and incoming 3.
Is it a date?
Teacher says the child sacrifices of the Incan Empire were “voluntary” and “kind,” and claims that viewing them as evil means you had a “White education.”
Please donate your pets as food for our zoo animals.
Compare and contrast.
Via Tacky Raccoons, an artistic DIY project. As your minds are doubtless in the gutter, go back one page.
I’m assuming Little Miss Twitchy Pinch-Hands is not a parent. And I suppose it’s a useful reminder that large swathes of our self-imagined elite assert status via perversity and contrivance. And badmouthing whitey, obviously.
And hey, just look at the fucking state of them.
No worries on that score.
Somewhat related.
Otto’s second career?
Today’s other word is clientele.
[ Titivates store-bought pizza. ]
Cook, cook, cook.
Coming soon to a theatre near you.
The exquisite art of juxtaposition:
The obvious questions raised by the former, find a more than plausible answer in the latter.
I’m looking forward to the sequel where he’s not just beaten but maimed.
If the situation ever gets better, which is far from clear, it will first get worse.
That was pretty much how Alan Hayling, featured in Vanessa Engle’s superlative series Lefties, both of which came up at the bar recently, ended up working in the car industry for 8 years.
I admit to a certain horrid of fascination with people such as Hayling.
What seems at first like common-or-garden hubris or narcissism soon gives way to a sensation that I can only compare to encountering a lifeform from another planet.
Oh, and that striker’s song.
I confess with some embarrassment to enjoying the ‘tap dancing’ sequence.
There seemed to be a delay in it getting under way, but it certainly made the show worthwhile.
Libs of tiktok says child sacrifice, but she seemed to be talking about sacrifice in general.
White, black, and Asian education systems, if they get around to Incas and Mexicas/Aztecs, at all, are likely to leave most students a vague idea of say pyramids, coca leaves, rubber, foot messengers, human sacrifice. We know there’s more than human sacrifice, and we’re not in the habit of bringing that up except to counter ludicrous Latinx claims that their ancestors had a peaceful Utopia before the Europeans showed up.
She makes a point, leaning into the camera, that Inca/Aztec, LIKE MOST OTHER CIVILIZATIONS, practiced human sacrifice. Indeed, those people weren’t uniquely depraved and their current day descendants have no need to be ashamed compared to other races. Now apply that principle to colonization and slavery.
She says the Aztecs did rip out beating hearts and that was not good, but recommends the Inca system as a model of human rights – only in a national emergency, only volunteers, only from the upper classes, and Swiss euthanasia clinic standards of dignified death. That all might be true, but if she was told that European practices of colonization and slavery were more reluctant and less brutal than in other civilizations, I think she’d apply a more cynical debunking approach to that claim.
One could take it as a sign that all is not yet lost.
Doubtless there will be much high-status squealing about the ugliness required to correct a dystopian situation that was never asked for and was loudly rejected by those on whom it’s been inflicted, and which was brought about and enabled by those doing the squealing and others very much like them.
Speaking of corrections.
Bath time.
You’d think they were water soluble.
Incas: it is unclear how far back in history one must go to find human sacrifice in Europe, China, Greece or India (even Egypt) but it is before writing, before the Romans, so at least 2500 years. There is evidence of sacrifice in Britain 3000 yrs ago (bodies in bogs). So once again, fact free assertions. Of course just asserting things is so much easier.
So awful that the Critical Drinker won’t bother to even mention it?
LOL