Friday Ephemera (794)
Regarding wrinkles. || He speaks Russian. || Not quite grasping the convention. || No, I don’t think that’s something I’d care to normalise, thank you. || She’s trying out her new labels and has self-diagnosed as an amputee. || She won’t be elaborating on that statement. || About your bottom. || The sounds of suburbia. || His shot is better than yours. || Minutes from the border. (h/t, Stephanie) || It’s what he would’ve wanted. || He doesn’t identify as white, because that’s a thing you can do now. || Simulator of note. || Think of it as a challenge. || Her thirst detected. || A passion for pebbles. || The unspanked commute. || “Apply and lie,” says she. || Perfect slices every time. || The progressive retail experience, parts 684, 685 and 686. || Child rotation. || Tourists, 1864. || It fits two to four people.
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Become a corvid or a penguin or a swan or a Canada goose. Those species are not sexually dimorphic.
Or, and here’s a radical idea… accept the fact that you belong to a sexually dimorphic species and that following a social fad that tries to obscure that fact is not going to lead you to a good place.
Paging Captain Hazelwood.
But, but, but . . . if she does that how will anyone know she’s special?
And yet she films her little cri du coeur wearing makeup, a snug sweater, and her gamine haircut all moussed to perfection.
Look, sweetie. I’m a woman who’s actually tall (about an inch shy of 6′, while you’re maybe 5’8″ at best), and wears her hair short, her clothes loose, and her makeup nonexistent. Think Brienne of Tarth’s little sister. I’ve been mistaken for a guy plenty of times, but 99% of the time people get it right — just as they’re doing with you.
You’re a woman and you’re not fooling anyone otherwise. Grow up.
I’m guessing that’s her actual problem.
Hey, this
secondthird gin and tonic is pretty good.[ Squeezes lime wedge in a suggestive manner. ]
I dunno…maybe stop competing in Liza Minelli look alike contests?
Having finished watching Maigret, both the 2016 Rowan Atkinson series, which was excellent, and the Nineties Michael Gambon series, which was decent comfort TV, does anyone have any recommendations for something similar?
Is the mini-series Zen, a detective series set in Italy, any good? Or Wallander, set in Sweden, with Kenneth Branagh?
The swedish version of Wallander is way better than Branagh’s. For an italian series try Montalbano.
Coping with subnormal IQ: “When I say logic is anti-black, I mean the very rules of logic were written from an imperialistic point of view. So to think freely, we need to rebuild reason itself from the ground up.”
How far afield do you want to go? Shetland or Mystery Road, if you’ve not seen them.
This is your brain on Entitlement.
Took that for real reading the subtitles. Sent it to wife who played the audio. Audio sounds kinda fake. There’s so much fake stuff out there from every angle it’s ridiculous. Could fake fake be a category soon?
I agree with both of these recommendations.
The Swedish Wallander is haunting. Branagh is good, but nobody projects sophisticated ennui and despair like a Swede.
Montalbano is less depressing, if for no other reason than it takes place in sunny Sicily. The bit characters are all locals, and Luca Zingaretti is an enjoyable watch. The stories are also quite compelling.
She says that the epistemologies that arose in Europe defined themselves against what they were not, which was “black” and irrational and uncivilized.
Well, OK. Let’s say that’s true.
You go on to say that the European characterization of “blackness” was wrong. Mistaken. Erroneous. Immoral. Malicious, even.
If that’s the case, then European logic is not actually an attack on the “ways of knowing” in Africa, because Africa isn’t the inversion of logic that the Europeans imagined it to be.
Africa is something else. Ok, maybe there’s a concept of cyclical time rather than linear progression. So what? Two paradigms for the perception of time. Let’s analyze them both! Maybe both are right in their way.
IOW, yawn. If you want to bring non-European modes of thought to the fore, then go right on ahead. It’s just really tiring to make it a Big Political Statement about “decolonizing” things when it could just be a lively discussion on the varied ways human societies have thought about reality.
Danegeld for the anti-social.
On tone in modern film.
Related.
True, Giles Corey was pressed to death, but for refusing to submit to the court’s authority and enter a plea:
Poor man. But because there was no conviction, his lands weren’t forfeited to the government and still passed to his family.
Oh, and thanks for the viewing tips, by the way.
I should add that part of the appeal of the Maigret viewing was the escape from, er, modern sensibilities – the gratingly contemporary and its political assumptions. The kinds of things that make suspension of disbelief rather difficult, if not entirely impossible.
Regarding which.
Recommended soundtrack here.
…escape from, er, modern sensibilities…
Foyle’s War or Endeavour. Rather grittier Ripper Street (not about Jack The, but Whitechapel in general in the day), all three, not a single crime solved through DNA and CCTV which seems to be the only way they are solved these days.
Meanwhile, won’t you join her in bringing down the Trumphitler reign of terror?
Yte women, Pay Attention!
Some people aren’t being slapped anywhere near enough.
Oh, that is so true. It’s the scriptwriters version of putting a wig and glasses on your cat and taking photos of it. Cute, but… you know it’s wrong. It’s very wrong. And demeaning for everyone concerned. I love snarky middle manager animals as well, it can be hilarious, but… leave room for other styles, geeze! You don’t always want a film like that!
Not entirely unrelated:
Wait for it.
But of course.
Apparently, data should be used “rhetorically,” a word heaving with implications, and daring to doubt a cross-dressing person’s claims is “testimonial injustice.”
“Why are the fat women dressing up as sex slaves?”
Scroll up.
He had no conception of tone
White-devil nefariousness strikes again.
I want this water bottle.
Modernity, baby.
When even the tantrums are phoned in.
Can’t . . . and I suspect this is to my advantage.
Toxic blackness: “White people crying was the goal”
Logic is anti-black: there is actually a solution to this. In the past, many of life’s problems were sort of figured out and embodied as traditions, customs. You didn’t have to figure things out, you just copied what everyone else did. But now, every custom is to be overthrown, demolished. In addition, with no fathers in the house kids don’t learn the basics of behaving.
Wicked: from what I can tell, the goal is to not only make the main characters non-white but to make the wicked witch the hero (I refuse to look into it further). A perfect summation of wokeness.
Exactly. That’s leftism for you.
Trust her judgement.
From the behaviours we’ve seen from so-called adult males, having one in the house might only exacerbate the problem. These guys aren’t exactly Ward Cleaver.
Stop French assassins with this one weird trick.
Lest we forget, not too many years ago, Ariana Grande was licking donuts on display in a coffee shop. You never know where you might find that moral high ground.
I love this guy. As soon as the video started I said “nice pearl necklace” and he immediately shuts down the pearl necklace talk.
licking donuts
I knew that scene in Pluribus reminded me of something…
I got the opposite impression … it has the kind of tinny timbre and resonance I associate with someone recording themselves on a laptop using the built-in microphone.
As much as you trust her eyesight.
But were those dysfunctional males married with kids? Yes, there are many dads who are worse for their kids than no father at all, but it should also be pointed out there are many men who, when faced with the responsibility of raising a tiny human that they made, grow-up and step up to it.
PS these, too, are the dads who have daughters who complain how strict dad is when they reach dating age. Heh.
Guest of note.
Trust her judgement.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/023010.html
“AI will take over the world.”
Not if Yorkshire gets there first.
****. I did it again.
All right, I’ll register, after I report for regrooving.
I swear, my brain’ll be as smooth as a baby’s bottom after this. Oh well, no great loss.
Please delete, David?