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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Sometimes they’re quite explicit about it.
Today In Stupidity™:
Bud, Jag, these idiots, where these marketing geniuses come from, and why they don’t know a damned thing about the companies for which they work, is a mystery. Maxwell House was a hotel, not a house.
Tod Browning would be appalled.
Nah, he’s still a commie.
She’s not wrong.
Also, her commentary on bad screenwriting is often very good.
Four plus years and a quarter of a million or more dollars to make a compleat idiot. You’d think it wouldn’t take so long or cost so much but this kind of result doesn’t happen overnight.
He is being harassed and is going to fight for his survival.
I find myself considering the cut-off point for what constitutes human. As in, something more than just a beast that can talk.
Sometimes death by torture is fully justified.
Won’t someone think of the would be assassins?
Anarcho-tyranny. By design.
You’re not the first:
Oh no, they’ve twigged it.
I assume Maxwell House is desperate for publicity, given that it has a reputation for mediocre coffee.
Heinlein was never much for nuanced speech. Always went for the extreme position.
If I were tyrant, that right there would lead me to lock up her family, too.
[ Sound of Other Half cancelling Netflix. ]
Two tier policing?