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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Best wishes, Stephanie.
[ Smiles wickedly. ]
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