Friday Ephemera (783)
Well, at least her phone was okay. || Hers may be the biggest I’ve ever seen. || Hoovering of note. || I vote for the magic bucket. || “Over 80% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.” || Oh look, bubbles. || Bristol’s bonfire kids, 1962. || Not unfair. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || A use of other people’s time and money. || The rapid sorting of tomatoes. Also, potatoes. || At last, toilet-paper mushrooms. || More peer-reviewed scholarship. || Inapt fap. || Space reserved. || The progressive retail experience, parts 659, 660, 661, 662, 663, 664, 665 and 666. || Parking scenes. || Unlikely leaf propellant. || Thing that never happens happens again. || The right tool. || Sights of London. || Newcomers. || And finally, on making The Wizard of Oz – a tale of fires, amphetamines and asbestos snow.
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Wow, the Cluster B on that one — the smirk, the extended online smear campaign, the multiple lawsuits.
We’d be much better off if we recognized such dysfunctional people early and then summarily disregard all their complaints and lawsuits.
Andy Griffith’s (my 4th cousin once removed) character actually was a bum. A drifter. And a sociopath.
I don’t want to invite any weirdos to our house‘
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Well, yes. Again,
And so, what’s at risk is not only one’s own position and in-group standing, but the social game itself. The pantomime of piety and sophistication, the worldview. All that time and effort. For many, that’s a strong incentive to continue being dishonest. And absurd.
Some years ago, I was told – with a note of surprise and what I took to be sincerity – that I had arguments for why I thought such-and-such. That, while my views on such-and-such were by implication scandalous, at least to the person speaking, I could nonetheless explain why my views were what they were.
Apparently, this was regarded as noteworthy – having reasons to think something as opposed to something else, whatever other people were thinking, or claiming to think. Rather than, presumably, picking a set of opinions off the rack, ready-made, as if one were choosing a fashionable outfit. Something to be seen in.
I remember the exchange quite vividly. There was an air of genuine surprise.