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.
“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”
Third time’s a charm.
What @ccscientist said. Goes double for “conservatives”.
Exactly. This is precisely how people were taught to deal with bullies until about half a century ago when someones decided, for all of us, that indulging them, coddling them, treating them as the real victim became not just the thing but the mandated thing. This is not to say that many bullies haven’t been victims of something somewhere in their past, nor that some of them suffer from low self-esteem…while most of them have undeservedly high self esteem. The simple fact of the matter is that that is not everyone else’s (aka society’s) problem. Everyone else has the right, I would say the responsibility, to correct these people by whatever means they think will work.
That is what it amounted to. A kind of bullying, in which supposed helplessness was exploited to screw over others. Say, by monopolising a limited window of opportunity, in ways that were clearly self-indulgent, in order to shake the wasps out of her head. And generally expecting to behave in selfish, antisocial ways while being spared any of the normal pushback, thanks to a practised deployment of the victimhood card.
“I have nervous issues,” said she, implying an inability to moderate her own mad and maddening behaviour.
And yet, when challenged directly, lo and behold. Some moderation, some degree of consideration, turns out to be possible after all.
Bookmark. Norene celebrated her first birthday at my studio.
By the way, I have discovered a new mixer for cocktails that I love. Red Rock’s Golden Ginger Ale – more gingery, more spicy. Love the burn it gives.
Amazon humor.
Choose your health minister.
And he keeps it cold how?
It belongs in the next edition of Kenji Kawakami’s 101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions.
[ Notices a few Twitter posts by John Cleese. ]
Was John Cleese always a contemptible douchebag, or has the internet only made it easier for him to show us this?
Hmmm. Has David gone to bed? One way to make sure:
A-loo-min-um.
I’ve seen the video in India in a few forms. Is it actually connected to those shortbread cookies, or are people just posting slop again?
“So is it basically a law in the West now that every public service announcement about an obnoxious, anti social behavior must have the demographics reversed?”
See also here.
Following this.
Heh.
The thrill of driving in London.
Also, newcomerliness.
Was he trying to get a lift to the hospital where he works as a surgeon?
[ Slides bowl of Nestlé Shreddies to Chow Bag, along with a pipette of milk. ]
London is turning into a horror film.
And yet what caught my eye was Mr Hoodie-Pully’s toothy smile. I wonder just how quickly that smile would turn into some other expression. Given the chance.
And yet what caught my eye was Mr Hoodie-Pully’s toothy smile. I wonder just how quickly that smile would turn into some other expression. Given the chance.
Worse, he goes on to commit unspeakable horrors . . . and continues to remain mute, just smiling.
What’s more pathetic – that trans on Reddit users have circumstances like this or that these men only pretend to have circumstances like this? Posts like this remind me of those letters sent to Penthouse . . . never happened. But I suppose there is the thrill of seeing your thoughts printed for others to read.
Euphoria Boner – band name.
“Substitute teacher.”
Well, quite.
It’s as if our defining achievement as a society is the ability, now held in high status and widely practised, to ignore the usual warning signs.
We even applaud each other for it.
I say we.
It is pronounced Bahners, Euphoria is one of the Boner family cousin and friend of Eulalia Bon (Bahn) and Clytemnestra Sutpen in Faulkner’s lesser known Oktibbeha County cycle of novels.
Meanwhile, a very serious protest of note.
For every problem, there is a solution.
Can confirm.
Wanker found.
Two wankers, the wanker, and the wanker filming – actually many wankers if you consider the enablers who “like” his tiktaks or wherever he posts his dreck.
I can’t believe people give all their personal information and money to google instead of just using an adblocker.
The life of Karl Marx is a prime example . . . and might well explain the attraction of communism for bourgeois mid-wits.
Some people should be either executed or enslaved for life.
That most of the male-to-female ‘transitions’ are the acting out of sexual perversion it seems *ahem* premature to dismiss the posts as outright fabrications
Strongly agree. Despite the amount of fraudulent content on Reddit.
Mr. Webb has thoughts.
Three in the film if you count the older white man on the down escalator giving the photographer a thumbs-up.
Gentlemen, are your political beliefs making you undatable?