Friday Ephemera (808)
The magic is forever. || Hear her roar. || Unforeseen obstruction. || Scenes of a runaway sled. || Keeper of secrets lets slip. || Some tilting occurred. || I bring cleavage. || Eight thousand voids (and counting). || Frankly, I question his motives. || A great symbolic moment of the twenty-first century. || “Take your meds,” says she. || Significant irritation detected. || Artefacts of enrichment, a possible series. || Simulated tripping, from quite mild to rather intense. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || $200. || That’s exactly how I would’ve done it. || Competitive window cleaning. || Attuned to higher powers. (h/t, Neatorama) || How to eat spaghetti, a beginner’s guide. || Protest training, where mighty warriors are forged. || Hours of fun, for some values of fun. || Foodstuff, loosely. || Cliffhanger.
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Of course the cleavage reeled me in, my eyes now bitter with disappointment and perhaps another day of “wish I could just take a step back in time” yet again… uff.
Yet it works every time.
[ Evil laughter. ]
At last, immortality.
[ Something, something, fine print. ]
Is it time for more Sidney Sweeney cheesecake?
More fine print:
Maffs.
It appears that the regime in Iran has frozen bank accounts so they can steal the money to pay their militia. This is a suicidal move. Just the sort of thing to tip the populace into open rebellion again. We shall see.
Is ‘Greta’ Swedish for ‘fraud’?
Or, Thing That Never Happens… etc, etc.
Yum-Yum.
I think we’re going to need a new collective noun.
keeper of secrets: read an account where a couple went to the wife’s friend’s house where supposedly they had never been before, and the husband’s phone automatically connected to the wifi. oops.
I recall the young lady (cough cough) about to stab another girl and a cop shot her dead and the progs defended her saying knife fights are just a normal part of teen life. Yeah, tots normal
The only hope now is SCOTUS where the Ninth Circuit is usually slapped down.
At risk of sounding like a broken record:
In short, you can’t demand that strangers – all of them, everywhere – perceive you in a certain way, or demand that they pretend not to see reality. And failure to hold this line results in the kinds of grotesque and abusive scenarios we’ve seen here many, many times.
Yet again.
Re Yum-Yum, per grok summary:
And who is most likely to fall into that category, hmm? The otherwise decent and upstanding citizen who misgenders someone or posts “offensive” comments or gets provoked into a verbal or physical confrontation with a thug. The very sort of person who would benefit most from a trial by his or her peers. Seems the more evidence-technical complex crimes like murder or mafia-type crimes would more benefit from the focus of an experienced judiciary. Of course they then grant exception to jury trials in favor of judges to oversee complex fraud cases. The kinds of cases where political connections would benefit the accused. It’s almost as if they want a justice system that is most likely to be corrupted. Not even almost.
And you just know she’s in the BLM list of martyrs to police racism.
Those who think that’s normal should not be living in America.
It cannot be said too often: These bien pensant judges and lawyers are enemies of the people and of our entire civilization.
Tainting the jury, too.
The thing that our rulers guarantee will never happen…happened again.
He’s not entirely sure what he’s attached to.
Katsushika Hokusai has entered the chat.
[ Watches 2012 film Hitchcock starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren. ]
The progressive just walking down the street experience
The shopping cart as a litmus test for ability to self-govern.
This keeps popping up on the internet. Twice right here, I think.
An apt metaphor.
No lie detected:
I think we’re going to need a new collective noun.
GAHHHHHHHH – I have an intense need to shower and shower and stop the creepy crawlies!
Dang you David – I was saved from whatever horror was under the cleavage link because I don’t have twitterx but blithely clicked on that one with no notion of what was to come.
Urban fatigue from 2016: “Objecting to my rude behavior is racist.”
The key link in the above is broken, but can be found here:
What was it Scott Adams said about avoiding hostile savages?
Avoid people who describe themselves as “Your #VeryBlack Neighbor” and bring up BLM whenever anyone objects to their behavior.
Also this item about Tarik, an African who treats his neighbors like dirt.
Segregation continues to exist because people want and need it.
For David’s next post on daring, challenging art:
Slight but agreeable, since you ask. I doubt it’s a film you’d rush to rewatch, but it’s nicely played, sometimes funny, and not without charm.
Jizya by any other name . . .
Governments should stop funding all NGO’s.
Educated into ignorance.
Something to look forward to.
A new Dalrymple book is always something to look forward to.
PSA: any afficionados of photography that happen to be in the Fort Worth area late this year might want to stop by the Kimbell Art Museum.
As are old ones recently reprinted.
As if forgetting what evil is, or pretending not to see it, would make it go away.
You will be assimilated.
Things I learned today: Zelazny’s Damnation Alley was made into a movie.
Ah yes, the classic works of Jan-Michael Vincent.
Weird.
One of the charms of the South Side of Chicago is the likelihood of babbling wandering into a place of business to impart their wisdom
As a former Chicagoland resident this is EXACTLY why if you drive into Chicago from the suburbs you make DAMNED sure your vehicle has a full tank of gas before you leave to ensure you will have enough fuel to get the Hell out of Chicago before you need to refuel.
Sadly people living in Chicago proper have to stop at the local gas stations and deal with this problem.
Speaking of Chicago, and related to the first link David posted from Filthydelphia, when I took the Metra Commuter train into and out of Chicago Union Station when I worked in Da Loop, I often had to step over or around passed out homeless folks sleeping it off in stairwells or hallways. Just another joy of living and working in a Progressive ™ city. Luckily Union Station didn’t have turnstiles to fall asleep or go tripping in.
@mmack: Truth.
A standing joke among commuters were the panhandlers: The man who, for years, would call out “Lost my wallet, need car fare to Gary”. The beggar seen being dropped off from a Mercedes. And so on. More annoying were the ones who would invade restaurants and pester everyone for money. Some of them had short tempers.
And be very careful of where you park, lest your car be broken into or vandalized.
German police at their best.
Rampant racism and islamophobia.
Not up on current slang, I had to look up “bad rizz” – it’s a completely plausible and hilarious teen comment on Romeo and Juliet.