Friday Ephemera (806)
Winter scenes. || Smooth walking. || At last, self-sorting chairs. || Laughed, not sorry. || Nail job. || The Bank of England gold vaults. || But she still had to film herself, obviously. || Bigger than yours. || Are you edible? || 32 times a day. || 21 minutes of morons being tased. || Blessed are the tea ladies, 1987. || I did not know these were a thing. || A gentleman caller. || He has gender-affirming migraine auras. || Motoring decision of note. || Hardcore menopause. || Low-commitment pets. || Improper sitting. || The progressive retail experience, parts 704, 705, 706 and 707. || When you think you’re the good guy. || Move that rear end, she says. || Firefighter. || I was previously unaware of intimate fitness classes. || Today’s words are fossilised anus. || And finally, made for sharing.
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I was reminded of this, from deep in the mists of time.
Ah the days when Blair’s blog was accessible to all. Twas there – or maybe here, linked over there – I first heard of the giant sky cow art thing they launched Down Under. I don’t remember what it was called, but it was a giant balloon – maybe manatee-shaped, but it had all these saggy boobs hanging off it. And they flew it up over the countryside. I swear I am not making this up – although I am pretty sure I have the details wrong. But like all the government-funded “art” David
inflicts on usenriches us with, it was grotesque, hideous, and of course needed paragraphs of “meaning” to justify it because the average person would just find it amusing (boobs!) and vaguely horrifying (so very many of them).Skywhale, a $300,000 (A$) floating excrescence. More details here.
Ah, simpler times.
[ Drifts into reverie. ]
Fröhlichen Ramadan wünscht McDonald’s!
And here it is Friday during Lent and McDonald’s is showing me, a devout Catholic, a hamburger.
DON’T THEY CARE?!
Fröhlichen Ramadan wünscht McDonald’s!
It’s like the rainbow ads for Pride but with a whiff of jizya.
Skywhale, a $300,000 (A$) floating excrescence
If that were posted, someone would start screaming “That’s AI!”
Is AI the misericorde of the high-trust society?
Paywalls do tend to dramatically reduce readership.
[ Slides tip jar to prominent position. ]
The Wayback Machine does have archives of all 3 sites.
Hint taken. 😉
Bless you, sir. May your fridge be free of odours.
Meanwhile in Wales…
Must have been a high government official or some other equally prominent person.
A tad harsh, perhaps, but not entirely untrue.
Heh™.
Happy Black History Month.
An unexpected gesture.
Previously.
Tissues are available at the bar. Big, manly tissues.
A tad hyperbolic but not nearly as harsh as the subject matter warrants.
“[…] the country as a whole is now far more diversely stupid than it was in the 1990s […]”
A condition not limited to Old Blighty.
30+ prior arrests.
Some of those would almost certainly have occurred during the (racist, fascist, phobic, mix and match) tenure of the Republican Governor Youngkin.
Why is the warning about princes not applied to politicians?
But, but, he was just turning his life around!
Puts the lie to the “we’re not anti-Jewish, we’re just anti-Zionist”.
Critical Drinker has some cultural sea-change news.
I’ll cross my fingers, but I won’t hold my breath.
Paramount owns Star Trek so, yeah, I’m with Darleen on this.
“You know that Gladiator movie that I got you for Christmas…?”
“The chances of being attacked by a mattress are low but never zero.”
About that climate activist who defaced the London Churchill statue….
How it got into a bikini I don’t know.
More Black History Month.
Wants to die, wants somebody to do it for him. Seem about par.
I should have posted that comment as Groucho Marx.
Do not notice the pattern. Do not notice the pattern.
Olde English.
Bring it on.
About that climate activist who defaced the London Churchill statue….
If you’re truly a suicidal nihilist, defacing the shrines of religions or racial/national myths is an expeditious way to die in a futile and ignoble and unmourned way that’s consistent with your principles. You can do your ethnography and pick from hundreds of short-fuse ethnic groups or religions in the world, but we already know it’s as easy as saying the word “***” in front of a ***, or painting a *** on the wall of a ***. The newspapers, when they report the unfortunate but understandable kicking to death of a reprehensible repugnant etc etc, will be too delicate/respectful of sensibilities to report exactly what you said, and will blur out the photos of the defaced shrine in order not to offend the taboos of people who mustn’t be offended. After all, they wouldn’t want to damage community relations or amplify your message or turn you into a hero/martyr.
But how strangely selective and tendentious and goal-oriented and goal-achieving this nihilism turned out to be. Of all the nations in the world, he picks one where pissing on the unifying myths aligns you socially with the better sort of people and defending those myths gives you the social status of a loser and a hater. With one low-tech overnight operation, a nobody becomes a somebody and the mass media publishes his message uncensored. It’s as if the nihilism is a tactical weapon to use on targeted peoples, and not really a philosophical principle to live or die by.
Real Olde English.
“ICE is so tricky the way they catch people now.
“That’s a very sly trick.”
@dicentra, that link might need a bit of editing.
[ Quietly fixes Dicentra’s shockingly up-buggered HTML. ]
The use of AI in this account’s reels is heartwarming. Man, I sincerely hope the afterlife can be like this.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVG2vOmEfhK/
“When you stare into the boob window, the boob window also stares back.”
Do catgirls compulsively chase red dots?
Automatic tip goes ching!
On the way home from work last night, I decided to drop in to my local Tesco Express (a kind of 7/11 chain store) only to find the lights extinguished and the doors locked.
A yellow sticker on the window explained: Temporarily close due to security incident.
In the last year, two years, I have personally been a witness to at least half a dozen such ‘secuity incidents’.
All such Tesco Expresses installed protective plastic barriers around their tills of the kind not even my bank has any more.
Once, in a Sainsbury’s Local (another kind of 7/11) buying coffee before taking a train, the staff brought down the automatic shutters, locking everyone inside until the police came to apprehend a repeat offender.
(As an aside, it has also been noticeable that the incidents are always being managed by the regular staff, while the man in the hi-vis vest marked SECURITY stands by basically watching.
I am genuinely baffled as to what it is they are being paid to do other than struggle with English or else flirt outrageously with the younger and prettier members of regular staff, following them around the store asking them what they are doing at the weekend etc.)
But note most of these so-called ‘low level’ incidents never get anywhere near a court.
As a consequence, I have to suffer Fraser Nelson pompously declaring that crime has actually been going down, not up.
I. am. so. f***ing. sick. of. this. s**t.
With apologies to Dave Burge, apparently the cleaning process of a respected institution is going on while it’s still alive, as in some kind of horror movie, so it can watch itself being slowly turned into a skin suit for others to wear after its gone.
The best kind. Bless you, sir. May your anticipated deliveries arrive on time.
The decay of civilisation can be a little wearying.
[ Passes used inhaler of unknown origin. ]
On the house.
Have just read that someone placing a fake stick of dynamite (unlit) by an MI5 building triggered ‘a serious security incident’ and rolled my eyes so hard they nearly fell out of my head!
from the link:
Liberals frequently condemned that as “accepting bribes”. They were uninterested in my rejoinder that this deterred crime. They were saying that at least as far back as the 60’s.
A solution: legalizing the use of truncheons even before thieves offer violence.
A solution: buckshot without warning.
Double-tap is one of the right approaches.
Shipping Gill and Jones et al to Somalia would have no downside.
I made a fatal mistake. I went to Miami.
NPR voice explained.