Friday Ephemera (787)
Intimate moment detected. || Danger zone. || So how was your day? || Shower scenes. || We’ll never know if he escaped. || Almost ripe. || The mist would help no end. || An average of 29. || Crunchy ant cheese. You heard me. || Modernity, baby. || Our betters smile. || He “took some weed pills.” Also, he was “bored” and he “hates cops.” || Plot twist. Related. || Autumnal recording project. || “When a troubled teen’s crimes spiral into murder, a desperate plastic surgery scheme unleashes chaos.” || I’m not quite sure they’ve captured her. || Hard to tell who’s winning. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || Australia’s uranium rush, 1964. || Rubby the robot. || Rage. || Today’s word is pre-emptive. || The progressive trajectory. || Progressive policing. || Funereal cones. || And finally, for fans of the fiddlesome.
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Not related but just took a taxi. Driver was in 40s, Morroccan. He said “I love this country. My wife loves pizza. I would not spill blood for any other country, but I would for America”. This is the kind of person we should welcome.
This.
Who is that guy, and where/when was that exchange?
Pier One Imports used to sell chocolate covered insects.
But I’m sure she is.
Strongly approve.
The most German man in the world.
Do you mean look this bad or look this good?
“which do you think is more likely: that the violence came first and white people fled that violence, or that people fled for no reason and then this somehow caused the violence we see today?”
I still marvel at the random libtards who deny the history of urban crime–still more the supposedly educated and intelligent professors.
I personally knew more than a few white families which moved to escape black criminality. And more who bought their first homes in areas which they assumed would always be safely far away from black crime areas but who were eventually dismayed to find the blacks expanding into their areas and bringing lots of crime.
Chelonian sex toys is a thing?
Yet still not enough.
If you persist in leaving it out on the counter-top . . .
Just pair it with this.
Who’s winning: well, clearly, we are for watching it.
A sensible practice.
Think it’s the moss that gives it that je ne sais quoi.
“The turtle moves!”
Is aelfheld … French?
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Fun fact: in Germany, as early as 1983, you didn’t have to wait at red lights at three in the morning, you just had to flash your high beams and the light would turn green. At least that’s the way it worked around small towns.
I think it may be a tie. It certainly calls for overtime.
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I had to watch it three times. Still laughing.
Morning, all.
This guy.
The madam boasting of using “a bigger lens”? No idea. But creatures eerily like her, all gushing with compassion for predators and habitual brutes, are legion.
It’s a feigned compassion, typically, utterly pretentious, but that doesn’t exactly bolster their imagined moral standing.
It’s quite a thing to watch associate professors, supposed intellectuals, being so smugly impervious to contrary argument – and often getting quite pissy – despite the obvious logic and historical evidence. And so, in the linked thread, chappie asserts his own imagined righteousness, and cleverness, while simply ignoring comments that include relevant information and statistics.
The mismatch of their pieties with observable reality seems to make them quite tetchy. As it would, I suppose.
I want to vote for him and I live in the UK.
Oh wait. Little Miss Big Lens is Sandra Feist, an immigration lawyer, much to everyone’s surprise, I’m sure. She championed George Floyd, calls lots of things racist, and thinks that boys’ bathrooms should be stocked with menstrual products.
There’s a refreshing realism, a moral clarity. Set against which, Ms Feist seems frivolous and vain.
Again, it’s the assumption – the clearly smug assumption – that the imposition of long overdue consequences that will offer respite for the law-abiding is somehow unimportant, less urgent, and morally inferior to pretensions of caring. That’s caring for the wellbeing of monsters who do not care at all for the wellbeing of others, on whom they prey, violently, mercilessly, and as often as they can, until someone stops them.
I mean, you say it out loud, stripped of pretension – that self-flattering waffle about “bigger lenses” – and it does sound contrived and perverse. One might say immoral.
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Just trying to live our lives 101.
Eugenics bad, dysgenics good. Or, Cousin Marriage Hot New Thing.
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly.
Somewhat misleading information.
I want to vote for him and I live in the UK.
In many places over here actual residence or citizenship seems not to be a major hindrance.
Meanwhile, speaking of elections, in The City of Angels, this chap would like your vote. If you would like to learn more, educate yourself, and donate to “keep fascism out of California” and support more bad tattoos, klicken Sie hier.
Amazing this needs saying. Good on him.
Apparently, it’s a modern sin to say you were “born and bred here,” especially if it’s true, a statement of fact, and a meaningful consideration. We’re told, with some enthusiasm, by our super-impartial media, that such ideas are an annoyance to newcomers, people of whom that cannot be said. And goodness, we can’t have that.
Note the unwarranted display of shame, and the eagerness of the interviewer.
A rare bird: A Minnesota politician who is not barking mad.
Needs saying every day. Possibly through a bullhorn. I’ve tried to crowbar this idea into the heads of numerous libtards and libertardians to no avail.
So, without the aid of the big, strong guy, the two women who were trying to subdue the suspect would have had to escalate the situation, resulting in tasing or shooting the suspect. But, we can’t admit that or we’d be sexist.
this chap would like your vote.
Maebe he was born with it, maebe it’s Maybelline.
Probably a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning but who cares so long as the donations roll in.
Intergenerational fatigue.
[ Slides chipped ashtray containing four grey peanuts to Stephanie. ]
Fashion! Turn to the left . . .
Probably a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning…
I don’t know, CA Senate 26, the incumbent is just as hard left and a Latina, but not a Person of the Alphabet so behind on The Wheel of Oppression™ and it is LA…
And so, we see another new taboo, or something very close. Another area of thought being pre-emptively shut down. Though how it came about, how it came to be understood as taboo, isn’t entirely clear to me.
It’s a weird self-chiding reflex that implies many things. It implies, for instance, that being indigenous – if you’re white and working-class – is no longer a valid category. That if you’ve seen your neighbourhood, your home, rapidly and utterly transformed – or degraded – against your will, then this is inadmissible. Because even to acknowledge the perspective of such a person – someone “born and bred here” – highlights a consideration that newcomers from overseas would not often comprehend or see of value.
And we can’t have that, citizen.
And so, the feelings of alienation and anger, of betrayal, that the councillor’s constituents have expressed are by implication invalid, unworthy of acknowledgement. Because the perspective that makes them possible – being “born and bred here” – is no longer accepted as a thing that can be expressed.
Orwellian scarcely covers it.
Bookmark.
I have always wanted to photograph a litter of Weimaraner puppies and the breeder from whom I got my Bronx has a litter about to go to new owners, and graciously allowed me to come down to his facility. These little ones happen to be my dog’s half-siblings (same sire).
And so, we see another new taboo, or something very close
Does that make Bruce Spingsteen singing Born in the USA a fascist, then?
Tant pis for elle, as they say.
The BBC never fails to amaze.
Wonder if they’ll mention the response.
Liberals hate the fact that someone born and bred in England likely will have understanding of and love of England in their bones, while a foreigner won’t.