Friday Ephemera (793)
He has a beer coat. || Bond medley. || Blocks of ice versus very hot shapes. || Air conditioner crisis. || Car dealership scenes. || I’ll catch the next one, thanks. || Incoming, two views. || Livestreaming drama. || Dating drama. || Treadmill with wheels. || Loo location of note. || Feeling the rug. || Gun-range related mishap. || Discourse was attempted. || He’s just like Jesus, you hear. || Two and a half minutes of Hitchcock. || Related stills. || His is impressive. || Unfortunate van proximity. || He’s not sure about the pedals. || “Why he locked the doors on me?” || Random Shatner. || On the returning (and non-returning) of shopping trollies. || A thing I didn’t know about the Flatiron Building. (h/t, Things) || It’s a mummified foot thing, you wouldn’t understand. || And finally, a taste of foreign cinema.
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I don’t much care about rehabilitation. It’s rarely possible and rarely worth the effort and expense. It’s more a matter of suppression – of fear – of reminding obnoxious monsters that should they persist in their behaviour they risk a broken jaw.
As noted here,
And if the creatures in question spend the rest of their lives in fear of a corrective beating should they act out their fantasies of domination, so be it. Their wellbeing scarcely matters, and for the rest of us any consequent inhibition on their part sounds like an improvement.
The subject has to be very young. Past age 7 or so the personality is largely unfixable. Of course, such rehabilitation will require permanent removal from the toxic environment in which it was raised. And thus the problem factors pile up.
A libertarian wakes up. At least when it comes to the terribly important issue of smart TVs. Which do, of course, suck.
And the punching should happen immediately. None of this deranged liberal bullshit about “minimal use of force”. Thugs should, by the time the arresting officers arrive, be in serious need of medical attention.
“[I]ntent on downplaying that any problems exist.”
A libertarian wakes up.
Polyester pants with chain mail grounding underwear to the rescue!
Ooh! Good point! Excellent, excellent point!
Please tell me this is AI.
just like jesus: too many people cannot distinguish fantasy from reality. They want free stuff. They demand rent control and then complain about housing costs. In surveys I’ve seen all the young ladies require the boy to be over 6 ft tall, good looking, making over $100,000 (by age 30) which means 98% of boys don’t measure up. They parade around with Gays for Palestine signs when in Gaza gays are not exactly welcome. On and on. They all watched too many cartoons and have never had a physically demanding job. I am so glad that when young I worked in a factory and painted houses. A paint job does not care about your politics.
I’m just going to leave this here.