Friday Ephemera (807)
Little Daphnis making waves. || Like he’s doing it with his mind. || Look away now. || On the near-continual laying of eggs. || The thrill of testicles. || Big piles of enrichment. || Hairdressing… for Men? || Mixed messages. || Symbolism. || The ice king of Boston. || You know, I’m beginning to think it should be a slur once again. || Gentleman caller, a possible series. || He has a jingle. || Oh gender heaven. || Hides of note. || Hours of fun. || Water, water, and milk. || Within six months. Oh, and womanliness is all about “make-up, fashion and clothes.” || Assorted Star Trek merchandise, including the Star Trek metal detector and the vocal stylings of Janice Rand. || Smooth operator. || Personal space. || Apollo 11, in real time. || Tool of note. || Room enlargement. || Quality employee. || Skills were deployed.
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The unsavoury implication that the area is insufficiently diverse?
How “restorative justice” improves the lives of senior citizens.
Former Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass weighs in.
The implication, presumably, that someone feels we’ve had quite enough diversity, thank you very much.
On the left side of the country, a security guard and brave mayor.
Vestigial gender intuitions make it look a bit contemptible for a man to sidle away like that, but Western men haven’t been trained for street fights since Victorian times. The 20th century Western feminist expectation that men will be gentle goes along with an expectation that civilized life can be separated from slums and that people can expect to go about their day without being confronted by slum characters.
But here we are in the 21st century living by the principle that separating civilized life from slums is intolerable intolerance, and that importing third world slums is justice and vibrancy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-accused-of-attacking-mayor-lurie-s-bodyguard-avoided-charges-in-2019-killing/ar-AA1XFQPc
Sophisticated living, tolerant co-existence, in the highest-tech city of the 21st century. How zestful our lives are that we have wild animals at our intersections who, depending on whether they’re having a good or bad day, may or may not smash your big tough bodyguard’s head into the pavement. Or your own head, if you’re not a “philanthropist” with a police detail like Mayor Lurie.
I have been to probably a dozen or two countries tho I have never travelled in a truly hostile country. Whenever I have seen the flag of Jamaica or Czech Whateverwecallitnow or the UK flying in those places it has always brought a slight smile to my face and a comfort to know that the people, at least those in the immediate vicinity, have a sense of pride in themselves. If they have pride in themselves they are far more likely to behave honorably than otherwise. At least for the sake of commerce or plain common decency. This utter BS that a flag causes people to feel unsafe says far, far more to me about them than whatever country it is. Hell, if for some reason I found myself in a shithole like even say Pakistan, the presence of the Paki flag would at least bring a glimmer of hope relative to the rest of the denizens that miserable country.
Wrong island, this one.
Too close to a continent. The idea is to minimise the chance of successful escape along with minimising expenses.
Close, yes, but Pitcairn’s Island has a vestigial civilization so why inflict them with wokeies, and the number of credible escapes from Devil’s Island is essentially zero, not that this lot would have the skills or wherewithal even to try to swim against the sharks and currents, let alone make a boat.
Indeed. Islamists on horseback chasing people they don’t like.
Equating weakness with virtue: a popular delusion among feminists, hippies, liberals, etc.
Yes, but it was a prison colony, with guards & such. Why waste money on that when you can dump the lot in a wilderness, far from anywhere else?
It doesn’t have to be the Pitcairn islands – that was just the most remote place that came to mind.
Heh.
[ Sounds of Goldeneye burbling and rumbling from next room. ]
Man has burger.
Though this perspective is, it seems, likely to induce fainting or hissing among some. The kind of people who take umbrage at the idea there could even be a we to have such a perspective.
Hello, police? I need to report a murder.
The last word on exile islands. We were headed there eventually.
There are probably laws against this sort of thing, you know.
Are you implying that it needs a pride flag?
And speaking of pride flags…
“Prove to me from first principles that my perversion is not harmless.”
Nah, same issue, why wish these clots on the natives, imagine the distress if they were eaten or something. There is bugger all on Devil’s Island anymore, no need for guards and that stuff so they will be left to their own pitiful devices, leave them a couple of shovels and some seeds, we are not inhumane, after all.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is 50 years away. Just sayin.
“British fighter jets flying over Cyprus, by far the most outstanding camera work I have ever seen.”
Why, just why?
There’s no “mystery” here. This is rubbish. “Period poverty”??? WTF is that? I want to be shown these coed students who agonize between choosing to buy food or a box of tampons. I want names and their financials because this isn’t just bovine excrement, it is dangerous bovine excrement.
A girl is going to spend $10-12 to cover her needs ONCE A MONTH. $12 (or about 40 cents/day over the month) is the difference between starving/nakedness or “free bleeding”?
Follow the money, I suspect a huge amount of graft in this program.
Strongly agree. Graft plus an opportunity to exercise arbitrary power over others.
How DID women survive 50 years ago? /sarcasm
We’re much wealthier now than 50 or 60 years ago, much less 100 years ago, and yet the left insists we are wracked by poverty.
Our nation’s maps. Are they gay enough?
Apparently so if we’re out there queering up other people’s maps.
You’d expect a communist to know something about camps.
MSGA
Regime change.
Fashion week from the maw of hell.
Holy crap, that wasn’t Comic Con?
Well, not a RAPID unscheduled disassembly, at least.
Another victim of chatbot-induced psychosis.
It does have the properties, the general contours, of a flex, a needless contrivance.
And frankly, if “students of colour” are unable to perform the most elementary tasks of living, of basic self-management, then perhaps there’s something wrong with the students in question. These supposed intellectuals. At universities.
Demonic.
Being outre in lieu of personality, ability, or accomplishment. Tedious and trite at this point.
As Sally Struthers would say, that’s less than a cup of coffee a day.
“All cultures are equally the same morally.”
Not according to Amazon.
Somehow, the link failed to appear.
I am an idiot.
They are not mutually exclusive.
Illinois politicians: Won’t somebody think of the poor felons!
We call him the Michelin Man, but the Froggies call him Bib.
A well-done Pepsi commercial.
Period poverty: saw a girl at a private college who walked around for a long time with her glasses taped together…because could not afford new glasses…at a private college. yeah.
“the intellectual depth of a gender studies major at Oberlin”
[ Returns from Beloved Sister-In-Law #2’s, heavily fed. ]