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.
Why yes. It’s exactly that.
“the gang’s gathering over here at this position”
And sure enough, they all show up.
What color is the sky in their world?
The tone was what lingers, a sort of surprise, as if it were an odd or unconventional thing to do. Something needlessly difficult. As if I’d chosen to count the number of leaves on a tree.
But it did, I think, reveal more than was intended.
And not about me.
Not sure why people think NZ is one of those places where criminals get a free ride. Maybe it relates to the mistaken impression given by some Australian bint who was over here on holiday while posting on X about something that happened to her – in Australia. Although no doubt things are less than ideal, but we do have the advantage of rather fewer unacceptable immigrants than the UK or Australia so the problem is less evident. We’re not quite yet the softest of touches, though I do fear we may be slowly headed that way unless corrective action is taken.
The flipside, I suppose, is when it’s assumed I’ll want to air an opinion on some news item or some fashionable topic, about which I know nothing, or far too little to have anything meaningful to say. As if one should just have opinions, regardless, to suit every social interaction.
And always in the same direction.
Another fine day in The City of Light.
Help, help, I’m being
oppressederased!“Hot Girls for Zohan”. OK, then.
Not exactly Angela’s Ashes, is it?
Needs musical soundtrack. Might I suggest.
Long, long….loooong time ago I had a similar sort of discussion with a psychiatrist who seemed intrigued that accuracy was important to me. That I held getting the information correct about actual events in higher value than the perceptions of those events. I was told. “Perception is reality.” I believe he was earnestly trying to help me. A psychiatrist. A trained medical professional. An MD.
Certain professions require accuracy so that people don’t die and large structures don’t fail.
Reminder that you don’t hate the media enough.
All the vines in my neighborhood are immediately next to lawns.
Yes, although I forget plot details as it’s been many years since I last watched it.
Yes. I tried to make that same point. You don’t want to drive across a bridge built by people who think perception is reality. Which somehow was an irrelevant point. Somehow. Exactly somehow, well…I was doing it again.
Help, help, I’m being
oppressederased!The correct bathroom is one in an insane asylum.
That’s Zohran. The Zohan is someone else.
If you scroll down in the link, you’ll see that the attacker has already been identified. He describes himself as “unpretentious, colorful & kind”. Riight.
Well, they were asked not to discuss it. So of course…
She’s thinking about safety. See? They’re the Thinkers. Unlike you miserable cretins.
Another fine day in the City of Brotherly Love.
In broad daylight. Fortunately, the killer has already been arrested. Black and homeless–mustn’t call him “savage” or “bum”.
And noted here. The left deserves to be hated.
Apropos:
He left out the word ‘more’.
And Boy George just gets creepier and creepier.
@David: Americans will use anything but the metric system. (via CoderDyne.)
It should be legal here to open fire, without warning, with rifles and shotguns.
No wasting even a second on “stop!”
Looks as though Dalrymple’s Filosofa’s Republic has been republished.
Palate cleanser: Guys being guys.
ESR screed:
On the internetIn California nobody knows you’re a dog.@David.
I have a young daughter, and I loathe the “trans” stuff and the risks it imposed on my girl.
But I don’t agree with Mrs. Rowling.
Because if you read, she keeps implying women are the victims, and men as the villains.
Women like Rowling simply refuse to accept that it was women, upper class, college educated, liberal women, who pushed trans, supported it, made it impossible for men like me to openly oppose it.
Just like she and her ilk will refuse to accept that men and women are different, that men are physically superior, while screeching on about men entering women’s spaces ( but for some strange reason, the other way round isn’t a big issue).
I hope there’s more of this lady around. Please.
The apologist in the ecclesiastical collar does much to explain the moribund CoE.
Do ice floes perpetuate white supremacy?
Is that true? I haven’t paid careful enough attention to her to be sure. Is it that she has never said this, or is it that she has said so only infrequently?
I noticed his smarmy and cowardly “Choose love” t-shirt before I noticed his collar. It’s a strange sort of love that minimizes and excuses evil.
What the hell? Oh, Canada.
I wonder what Dan Miles might have said to incur the wrath of the City of Hamilton, given that his neighbors also have cameras. Or maybe it was a complaint from a Karen neighbor–it’s not uncommon for all sorts of violations to go unnoticed and unenforced until a neighbor complains.
BBC Radio 4: par for the course?
from the link:
That wouldn’t be quite as bad if Canada were to punish criminals severely–incarcerating them for long periods–but unfortunately that is not the case.
Outlawing effective self defense is a violation of a fundamental human right.
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Unfortunately it doesn’t take anymore than existing to incur such wrath. The mayor of Hamilton is Andrea Horwath former leader of the Ontario NDP Party, Canada’s far left party. The NDP is always looking for ways to screw over Normies, especially white “cis” male Normies.
The most recent example at the Federal level, where they’ve set the rules for selecting the next national leader, include getting 500 signatures from party members and over 50% of them cannot identify as “cis” men. This is from a party that was reduced to 7 seats in a 343 seat parliament in the last election.
As far as the cameras go, Dan Miles, on several occasions, has shared video with local police to help solve other neighbourhood crimes. This municipal by-law shouldn’t survive a Charter challenge, but the process is the punishment and senior Canadian courts have made some real whack-a-doodle decisions recently.
Re: Canada and security cams, Colin asks: Why do so many laws side with/benefit criminals?
Why? Professional courtesy.
As has been pointed out many times, evil people are attracted to “places” that offer more opportunities for crime of every sort. And as the power and scope of government has increased, its attractiveness to has similarly grown. And these malicious actors naturally do all they can to exclude honest and well-meaning people. Likewise “education”, “journalism”, etc.
BBC Radio 4: par for the course?
What else would you expect from the Big, Black C…
Oh.