Friday Ephemera (798)
“Is that a pile of bird shit?” and other pressing questions. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Yes, but can you do it with bees attacking you? || The bollards of Islington, 1976. || How to clean your marmot. || Two half-hours of Hancock, 1961. || Oddly, I’m not getting a sense of goodwill. || Cloudflare error page generator. E.g., “Host on fire.” || Curious snow formations. || Shoe-related emotional rollercoaster. || Today’s word is ladylike. || That’s exactly how I would’ve done it. || Attention, all amorous ladies, he goes full speed. || I see the parenting is going well. || The progressive retail experience, parts 687, 688, 689, 690, 691, 692, 693 and 694. || Predating the pyramids by 8,000 years. || Touchscreen safety measure. || Tilt-shift farming. || And finally, I’ve been assured this is exactly like the real thing.
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I could joke that I’d be perfectly safe opening a bookstore in a black neighborhood, except that while I wouldn’t have many shoplifters I would still experience armed robbery and arson.
John Derbyshire said nothing wrong.™
The progressive
retailgovernment experience, part one million.You know you’ve strayed when even David Sideris thinks you’re nuts.
The progressive fitness club experience.
From the comments:
There you go with the N-words.
We live in a world where parody and reality converge.
That seems a bit tongue-in-cheek.
H-h-hhhhalf hhhours.
I’m saving that one for the wife…
Morning, all.
Do let us know what she says. As she deposits your belongings on the roadside.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
Progressive economics.
Love the marmot.
The Sharon
And meet Deforestov Kelleysky and William Shatsky.
If anything he underplayed the situation and they still canned him.
Thanks for the Hancock episodes.
Iowa news does the Netflix/Disney meme.
Previously, these.
It seems they just can’t help themselves, these Keepers of the Official Record.
And therefore cannot be redeemed.
Yes, and yet played very close to reality.
The heart-warming benefits of multiculturalism.
First, take off handbrake…
Utterly hypnotic!
Overreact? The cop under-reacted.
It’s one of the best uses of the technique I’ve seen.
Starmer hands Gibraltar border controls to EU in ‘Brexit betrayal’
How about stripping leftists of UK citizenship and flying them all to North Korea?
Hallmark Movie guy speedrunning logical fallacies. Thanks, Dicentra.
A well deserved response.
“It’s like a photo lineup of dweebish incompetence, and the public has to pick the worst offender.”
On the Brown / MIT shooter.
To be fair, university presidents are primary hired to raise money from wealthy donors, not to have a fucking clue.
Enough with the French jokes, let’s say something about the Krauts:
Es ist erstaunlich, wie schnell der Tag beschissen werden kann.
As I believe the Germans say.
I learned something today.
Speaking of enshittening . . .
(Credit where credit’s due.)
Sunset landing of Falcon 9 booster
It should be legal to have a buddy riding shotgun who uses that shotgun.
Just one bullet, well placed, would adjust his attitude…permanently.
Hey, no biggie, it was only shoplifting.
Attempted murder in the first degree. Give him death. Make her watch. In fact, it would have been great if the officers had disarmed him by riddling him with bullets.
Police bodycams show that the police don’t shoot enough perps.
Look away now.
Took ’em long enough. It’s what we should have done to take care of Al Qaeda.
Hard hitting journalism from the (cleans screen) Wall Street Journal…
From the photo, I suppose Eddie Bauer, Land’s End, and LL Bean are in fact separate, but it is a wonder how they bravely soldiered on as they solved their nigh Gordian conundrum.
From the people who brought you Fractured Fairy Tales: Aesop and Son
Goddamn Link-O-Matic…
[ Sirens blare, lights flash ]
Muldooned link to larboard!!!
Thar she blows!
From Hell’s heart I stab at thee…