Friday Ephemera (782)
Big beast incoming. || Interspecies battle of wits. || Cheeeldren of the night. || Eight literally dark days in history. || Trajectory detected. || Trajectory detected 2. || Gratuitous gesture. || A gathering of dragons. || Hot and steamy jiggling. || The joy of budgeting, 1957. || Suboptimal driving mindset. || It’s a “joyful noise” of resistance, see, so suck it up, neighbour. || It involves a rug. || “No recognition was given for improving literacy, numeracy, or classroom learning outcomes.” || On history and the tragic vision. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || On medical ethics and body modification. || Over a vape. || For portable storage. || The progressive retail experience, parts 655, 656, 657 and 658. || Experiments in sudden-onset upwardsness. || Finger licking good. || And finally, somewhat flappy at speed.
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To the left, “failure to agree” is a heinous crime.
Wonderful!
Some people just need killing. The sooner it happens, the less others suffer harm.
Probably looking for the bathroom.
British policing, a wonder to behold.
I did see female police when I was a child in the 60’s, but they were in parking enforcement and other jobs that did not require size and strength.
From the comments:
My emphasis. This right here is the problem.
Organized cheating on Commercial Driving License exams.
QC?
Some deserve having their lives ruined.
Most happy.
Why? Aren’t they all? Usually at least once a month or so.
Really?
Queen’s Counsel, a legal honorific.
Dispense with the possessive in this case.
One. More. Time.
Well, it’s generally better to imprint norms of civilised behaviour onto children before they venture out into the world and, as adults, become colossal dicks.
I’m assuming the car has TARDIS-like properties.
While they struggle with the sofa, I struggle to understand how anyone could be so stupid or so unperceptive as to not realize the futility ahead of time.
Is there a term for the inability of intelligent people to occupy the mindset of idiots?
That was the icing on the cake. The doomed optimism.
I have often raised an eyebrow at how readily some people will forget, or choose not to remember, just how unequally cognitive wherewithal is distributed. Presumably because acknowledging this fact, seen every day, would unravel other beliefs to which they have grown attached. Or on which their social status may very much depend.
I’m assuming the car has TARDIS-like properties.
I don’t know about the car, but the people have the first four letters on track.
Right, off to regrooving.
So, Scott, cats are satanic?
tow company operator: 90% of his rollover accident jobs in 2025 are from drivers who speak little to no English
Ribbit.
Not unfair.
“Upon his release, he settled down to a life of fraud…”
Oh, and regarding the aforementioned foodstuff, there is additional footage of its magnificence.
Despite bankruptcy, “Spirit insists free inflight fights will continue.”
Because I can, that’s why.
Looks like he was sucked into the stream drawn into the propeller(s).
If so, very lucky to get away.
Because I can, that’s why.
There’s a second, smaller one in the background but I’m still none the wiser as to what it is.
“[…] burned half a billion dollars to make the biscuits feel inclusive.” — @thebeaconsignal
Write this down.
I’ve seen very little about the Scottish axe girl, but did just run across this
(via Dicentra.)
So basically a culinary demonstration of “gender reassignment” surgery. Do whoever is being served that get CME credit?
Something Ummy um um in your tummy tum tum.
What do you call this?
Elaborate self-harm.
Deleted, alas.
Into it with a feminist who insists that “mansplaining” and its attendant attitudes are seriously disadvantaging women in STEM, and she even gave me a link to a page of citations to support her assertions.
I have neither the time nor the energy to dip into any of that, but I wonder how much bad science I’d find.
One of the people you’re arguing with is a chest-puffing lecturer who insists that “artworks can perform oppressive speech acts.” The other is a “they/them” who boasts of “studying the unique ways gender and sexuality are expressed in the Mushroom Kingdom,” which, I believe, is a setting in the Super Mario Bros games.
I just thought I’d mention that. For no reason whatsoever.
Based on my brief scan of their respective outpourings, I’d suggest that you’re dealing with people who’ve chosen to identify with a prefab worldview, one that’s ready-made and comes with All The Answers, which just happen to be flattering to a certain kind of person. Which makes me wonder how much, or how little, of what they say is likely to be the result of autonomous mental activity.
There may well be something to be said about how men and women tend to differ in their communication. Their habits, assumptions, and so forth. I’m just not sure that these are the people to count on in that regard.
To paraphrase one of the replies,
And lo.
Band name.
Total band name!
There is a death-metal band named Open Flesh Wound, whose recordings include Scent of the Decayed and Vile Putrefaction.
I mention this for no reason whatsoever, obviously.
The important thing is the great Haitian food and rich religious traditions.
The important thing is the great Haitian food and rich religious traditions.
I would come out with a Super Soaker water gun filled with Holy Water. Or just point and laugh.
I would come out with a Super Soaker water gun filled with Holy Water. Or just point and laugh.
Alas, these days either would get you nicked for causing offense to diversity or some such nonsense.
Meanwhile, for your timekeeping needs.
Elsewhere, Hey hey, ho, ho, I forgot what we came here for!
Can you imagine a PhD candidate who cannot handle probing questions when defending her thesis? Or gets upset during the Q&A period after a talk? And engineers disagree all the time.
[ Writes briefly in Suspicious Persons notebook. ]