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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Re Somewhat related…Imagine trying to kill the Japanese while the Japanese are trying to kill you, then that thing crawls up your leg.
Heh. I never had much of a problem with my boy. He was of course reluctant but he would go willingly, under his own power into the shower. Tho it was clearly understood between us that there were peanut rewards for being cooperative during the event and after it was all done, he would get a Greenie. He would never let me forget his Greenie.
Recent archaeological evidence supports at least some of the Bible’s accounts of human sacrifice.
Classical Greece: human sacrifice treated as problematic.
Agamemnon told that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to appease Artemis.
Idomeneus incurring the wrath of the gods after sacrificing his son to fulfill his promise that if Poseidon would save his ship he would sacrifice the first living thing he saw after safely returning home.
So awful that the Critical Drinker won’t bother to even mention it?
Maybe just hasn’t gotten around to it, or is recovering from it. Other reviewers on the Yootoobs say it is basically one long Amazon ad.
Ooh. Perfectly ripe nectarines.
Score.
We can’t negotiate with these terrorists.
I wasn’t even aware it existed.
#FingerOnCulturalPulseYetAgain
Other things of which I was previously unaware.
Meanwhile.
The post-progressive retail experience?
Contra Mr. Kay, the supply seems to be increasing rapidly.
War of the Worlds pitch meeting.
Doors
About the new neighbour . . .
As if on cue.
Things the British police have time for.
Due to scumbags dressed as police officers, please ask your neighbors for assistance in removing them.
From the kitchen at David’s Lair of Evil.
I note not one GSD in the compilation. Mine loves water, adores snow.
Late one night, during a snowstorm, my parents’ husky started whining to go outside. So they took her out in the back yard, but she didn’t “do her business”, instead just standing facing into the wind with a blissful expression.
‘What’s the point of having it?’
Education is important.
giant centipede: some have a sting/bite similar to a wasp sting. Not letting one crawl on me.
pst314: “Classical Greece: human sacrifice treated as problematic.”
so, 2500+ years ago, as I said.
Yes, indeed. And yet even so human sacrifice was not so normalized as in certain other cultures.
Like Liberace, but with less taste.
Ouch.
As I recall, Harlan Ellison was married 5 or 6 times, and was in the habit of publicly blaming each woman in his writings.
The CCR soundtrack is just the chef’s kiss here.
From the comments, “This is just an American tradition called Tuesday I have off from work”. True.
WTP: My mutt also loves a Greenie. Or, as they are known in my house, doggie crack.
Yet another British crime against cuisine.
If birds had arms.
Going to the Dr’s office without your wife.
Related.
This is a good argument in favor of the death penalty — so that future midwits won’t let obviously dangerous people loose for whatever insane justification they devise.
[ Slurps coffee, surveys kingdom. ]
He was aggressively asserting how vulnerable he is.
I’m trying to imagine some wider context, something that might make the interaction less random and unhinged. But the chap handing out food is, it seems, as bewildered as you probably are.
Telegraph exclusive.
“The Telegraph can reveal…”
However much you hate them, you don’t hate them enough.
A bunch of racists refuse to honor diverse cultural traditions.
As an aside what the hell is “age restricted” about British Cuisine or Bird Arms, not that anyone can see it without an account?
It happens more often than you might think. It happened to me, back in my freelancer days. As an innocent – no laughing – it had never occurred to me that journalists and editors might behave in this way.
I said no laughing.
It was a wry, sympathetic, smile.
The hell with the diverse shopping experience, she should be arrested for going out in public like that.
I think you’re supposed to roll it into the sea.
I was not always the worldly sophisticate you see before you now.
[ Fetches fainting cushion. ]
“Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday”
Advertising campaign irreparably ruined: Every time people hear that ad, their first thoughts will be about out-of-control crime.
Heh.
@David, here’s another candidate for your “may you never” list of blessings.