Friday Ephemera (781)
You want one and you know it. || They watched the wheels leave without them. || Meet the cosmologists, 1963. || At last, humanoid robot kickboxing. || Bearing gifts. || He was hiding in the girls’ toilets. Previously. || Apparently, the hormones widened his eyes and made his glasses grow. || Neighbour of note. || The joys of social interaction. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || Switched-on and swinging in Caracas, 1969. || Hair crisis, 2025. || Clearly, bold choices were made. || Low impulse control. || On personality and pet preference. || Feedback loop. Also, inevitably, pronouns in bio. || More joys of public transport. || The progressive retail experience, parts 649, 650, 651, 652, 653, and 654. || Poison in the social bloodstream. || Something error happen. || Paint job. || Pleats. || Trolley problem.
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Import unvetted third world people, get unvetted third world crime.
Betcha the arsonists are illegal immigrants.
“If I was to go to the job centre tomorrow and say I’ve got nowhere to live can you put me in a hotel & I want 3 meals a day & £70 a week, they wouldn’t give me it, I would have to fend for myself but if I came on a boat I would get it all & it’s not fair”
A lady with 2 children has got evicted and the Council won’t help her until she is actually homeless with her children. She is fuming as would be housed, fed and watered if an illegal. As soon as she said the word ‘illegals’ at the Council she got called racist.
Almost a dozen Travellers turned up with caravans on our nearby playing fields Wednesday night,as someone said on our local website “If we did the same thing we’d be carted off and arrested in no time at all”.
The ruling class is working very hard to be hated by normal decent people.
More about Jill’s post-crime mentality can be seen here.
Please try not to laugh…harder.
Never mind France and Belgium. It’s been a while since we’ve hated the Germans
Not just the Germans. Their customers also.
Shhhh. Art is being created.
So, David, what do Brits call this?
Not every European language uses Latinate words.
what do Brits call this?
It’s a crust, but then I’m from the wrong side of Offa’s Dyke.
I don’t know what the English call it but I’ll bet that the American name is even crazier…
May be called something different in other parts of America but I’ve always called it the heel.
You do know that’s a more Beemer-specific joke. Anyway…
Don’t know if anyone recalls the stink that was raised regarding the Conservative Political Action Conference stage in Orlando back in 2021. It was supposedly based on a Nazi rune. I specifically recall it coming out that the specific guy who designed it couldn’t keep his mouth shut and admitted that he wanted to embarrass the conservatives with this nazi rune association. Anyway as I went digging via Grok trying to find that now buried information, Grok informed me of this absurdity:
Same here. I’ve honestly never heard it called anything else.
[ Scowls. ]
Don’t use facts to undermine my ethnic slurs.
Curious. Do you also use that term for the exterior of the other slices?
In ‘Murica the heel is the end of the loaf and the crust is the exterior of other slices.
Anybody else watch that with the sound off and hear Thomas the Tank Engine music instead?
“hate the germans” check out “Robwords” videos on youtube on origins of English. About 1/3 of English is from Germanic roots (via several invasions) and it is thanks to the vikings that we don’t have gendered nouns (la and le etc). He is both annoying and fascinating (just to clarify). Note the “natur” part of the german word for science.
Happening scene: trying to prove once again that white people can’t dance, esp the guy in the skirt–at the end one young lady does know how to dance. Stoned white people even worse dancers.
No lie detected.
More here.
Don’t mention the war. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right.
Re: Harjinder Singh, the illegal immigrant truck driver who murdered three people:
Over 1.6M Sign ‘Punjabi Youth’ Petition to Free Illegal U-Turn Trucker
The “Collective Punjabi Youth” petition is here.
A second petition, by Ravi inder Singh, has over 33,000 signatures.
The Times of India and the Hindustan Times are covering this.
This chap shares his views on “equity”. Don’t embiggen the profile photo lest David forced to raise prices again.
One of our betters offers us an astute observation based on her vastly superior ways of knowings and education:
Well, 658 locations in 44 states is a region, I guess, and NYC, Boston, Princeton, Ithaca (OK, the ‘burbs), Philadelphia, New Haven (‘burbs), and somewhere in Rhode Island, no matter how overrated they are the Ivies are covered.
How could she be so confidently ignorant? Easy: She’s an icon of academic lit’rachaw.
I am under the impression that no Cracker Barrels are located in city centers–except for small cities. Someone commented that he lives in downtown Chicago and he’d have to drive a good ways to get to a Cracker Barrel in the outer suburbs.
On the other hand, I have seen more than one while driving interstate highways.
La Trahison des Clercs
Racist black female hates even seeing white people and wants segregation.
Maybe she has a point. But not quite the point she thinks.
Bets on the number of retakes?
Yeah, I got a couple locations wrong as I was whipping through, but the overweening assurance of one’s intellectual superiority combined with an absolute lack of curiosity even to bother to look up something on Wikipedia is still astounding.
Typical and unsurprising, but still astounding.
Liberia was formed in 1820.
“Hey Africa, could you accept these Americans who want to live only among blacks?”
“No way in Hell. Things are tough enough without those frothing lunatics.”
Hereabouts, we call it a crust.
Before locking down her X account, Ms Ciminillo’s messages to the world were, shall we say, not entirely coherent. Most striking, as noted above, accounts of the lingering psychological distress caused by being carjacked and violently assaulted, while urging others to vote for the Party Of Immoral Leniency To Criminal Savages.
Because while the violation was vividly traumatising, one mustn’t actually do anything about it. So that it happens again, either to oneself or to someone else.
The convolution and dissonance does sound rather familiar. Why, it’s almost as if there were a pattern. A type.
Again, the psychology of the AWFULs – their inversions and weird dishonesties – deserves to be a subject of academic and clinical scrutiny. There should be books in the dozens.
And for children, grim fairy tales.
If only ‘AWFULs’ would keep their death wish to themselves.
Well, it’s certainly a curious posture to assume. I mean, if someone were carjacked and had their arm broken by the carjackers, and was left traumatised, and the victim subsequently felt an urge to do whatever was necessary to make their assailants pay – say, by having them burned in the nearest town square – this may be impractical or unseemly or whatever, but it would at least be comprehensible. One could understand the urge.
But for the victim of such a violation, or of some other vivid nightmare, to publicly announce the horror and lingering distress, and then to behave in such a way as to likely spare their assailants, and the assailants of countless others, from any meaningful moral consequences, and to loudly denounce efforts to correct escalating lawlessness, is… peculiar. It doesn’t sound like politics as it’s generally understood. It sounds like something else.
They want to force the rest of us to join them in Stockholm.
Tribes gonna tribe.
Preparing for fun.
More jolly preparations.
Fun incoming!
“Diversity boards”
Fun incoming!
Some may think it a a near riot and not a “festival” whereas it is really the oppressed fighting back against gentrification
Meanwhile, it being Sunday, lets go to church!
Be sure scroll down and meet the Dr.Rev. You will be surprised to learn she is also a
“professor”lecturer.While we are on the subject of Brobdingnagianism,
Why, you might ask.
Another chimes in “…It just creates more work for fat activists.” The oppression is palpable. RTWT, the state of denial in which the “activists” live is a wonder to behold.
I’d assumed – clearly, in error – that church attendance, an attempt to touch the numinous, was supposed to be a transformative experience. Not an affirmation of the very earthly status quo.
The Spam-No-Mor 9000 (Ausf. G)™ is fat phobic. I have grounded my polyester pants and Qiana Elvis collar shirt, so it may be your leopard print velour thong making the static electricity shorting it out again.
Meanwhile in higher education…
[ Clears spam filter, adds talc to shopping list. ]
Good choice, talc is a much better insulator than the powdered steel I had been using though the salesman had assured me it was just the thing for Qiana static.
I mean, one would think that a perception of the numinous – of the transcendent, the divine – might, among other things, render everyday hang-ups and vanities trivial and absurd. One would think that such a perspective would invalidate a great deal of human woe.
Yet we see a proliferation of these churches, or pseudo-churches, in which everyday hang-ups and vanities are positioned centre stage, to be exalted and affirmed, as if they, not the numinous, were the purpose of the gathering.
Or am I missing something? Theology isn’t my strong suit.
One sees that quite a bit in popular culture–TV, movies, novels.
One of the traditional reasons for requiring that immigrants wait many years before they can become citizens is to have that long period during which any criminality or display of incompatible values can be used to deport them. The left likes to fast-track citizenship in order to short-circuit that vetting period, because they don’t give a damn about the well-being of existing citizens
The injunction is to go, and sin no more.
That last seems more honoured in the breach than the observance.
Or just AWFL, since these critters can be found outside cities, too.
They want to transform gluttony from a sin into a virtue.