Friday Ephemera (810)
Robo-bike. || Place your bets. || Come, see her box and the base of her tongue. || Suboptimal. || Modernity, baby. || On asymmetrical multiculturalism, a short thread. See also. || The machine uprising, day 12. || Getaway car. || A guide to chopstick gaffes. || She’s energising her genitals. || More joys of public transport. || Newcomerliness. || A lively altercation. || But not enormously versatile. || A Night in a Soho Jazz Club, 1959. || Onions on a burger. || Shadow of note. Some climbing required. || Quality control, I’m guessing. || Hey, it’s a collection, like bubble-gum cards or stamps. || The progressive retail experience, parts 711, 712, 713, 714 and 715. || Plenty, you hear. || Plot twist. || Ladies of effortless grace. || When you could use some extra legs. || Phone hell, it turns out, is a real place.
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The Progressive Concert Experience.
Can a woman even listen to “Drip Too Hard” without being objectified? More questions for our white supremacist patriarchy.
Got it. And somehow that seems like a very likely role reversal ploy to generate comedy. Speaking of which, I recall a classicist mentioning that Roman comedies resembled modern sitcoms, with hapless fathers, rebellious kids, and clever domestic slaves.
Forget it, Jake, it’s Frisco.
I’m tempted to picture Ms Colfax, the liberal judge in question, and her peers, being horsewhipped on live television.
Re chopstick gaffes:
Sooo…when I was in Japan our corporate etiquette guides said that this was proper behavior. Improper when using reusable/washable chopsticks but expected behavior when using…waribashi. So who’s lying to me? Not that I really care unless by some accident I find myself back in Japan, but…
Discourse was attempted.
A barbaric culture that needs to be excluded from civilization.
Long video but the raccoon’s stage entrance starts at about 8:30.
Or forced to live around gangbangers who will repeatedly assault and terrorize.
Segregation seems more attractive with every passing day.
Tar and feathers for all the “civil rights” lawyers who make it impossible to evict bad tenants.
Or forced to live around gangbangers who will repeatedly assault and terrorize.
Nah – as we’ve seen here plenty of times, they would still make excuses for the gangbanger behavior and virtue signal that they (the judges) deserved every bit of assault and terror.
So I’m for David’s suggestion, and add to that to make it pay-per-view and I bet they’d make a ton of money.
Lawn care is relaxing.
The robots are coming.
The comic strip was better. Mostly because it was just one panel. Old fart that I am.
I remember it also. Not well, but I do remember it.
Top shelf if you please, with the good stuff in easy reach.
Can we add to the Flog Colfax list?
Flayed. Carefully à la St. Bartholomew.
As with many things, prog lawyers don’t understand that making it hard to evict bad tenants reduces the supply of rental housing. I certainly won’t get into that business. Another scam the Minneapolis Somalis run is to rent houses foreclosed by banks and pay 1 month rent and live there for a year or two until evicted finally.
Two-wheeler.
Something I may have mentioned before:
When visiting friends in the city, I have noticed that many very old apartment buildings have a very wide range of apartment sizes–everything from tiny single-room units with micro bathrooms and tiny kitchen nooks, to large 3- and 4-bedroom units. Clearly, landlords had no fear of renting to people of very limited means–because they knew they could evict tenants who misbehaved or failed to pay the rent.
Nowadays, eviction is next to impossible, so other techniques must be used to screen out potentially problem people. Building only larger apartments priced too high for poor people is fairly effective, although harmful to poor but honest people.
Reminds me of this guy:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=30InBgGhiSo
Is Coyote far behind?
I have personally known people who were harmed in that way: They would have preferred a tiny apartment in a good neighborhood, but were forced to rent a larger apartment in a more dangerous neighborhood. Thanks a lot, liberal do-gooders.
They do seem fond of ‘solutions’ that impose inescapable obligations on others . . . almost as if they don’t object to involuntary servitude nearly as much as they claim.
Free transition.
Landlords: interesting story in Chicago. The public housing was originally built to replace coldwater flats (no hot water or other amenties). At the start, you had to be married and have a job to get in. For years, no problems. Then the reforms that did away with any requirements on the tenants and it went to shit in no time. They finally just had to tear many of them down such as Cabrini Green.
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum is about 80% the original Plautus farces.
I don’t find this especially noteworthy … it was the only way we put on our jeans in the 70s. YMMV
Is that your birdcam setup?
I envy those who live in cardinal range.
Tidal flexing.
Thank you for asking and I am good, thanks.
My mother always taught me to answer this way i.e “good thanks” – regardless – no moaning allowed – but I am good, thanks.
My parents don’t feel ‘comfortable’ about where they live looking more like the third world every day.
It’s strange, just how readily the mission of such ladies – and their most obvious enthusiasm – seems to have altered from one of preserving and protecting the country’s heritage and sites of historic importance, our cultural memory, to one of pandering to foreigners who don’t much care about that heritage and history, and who, not infrequently, may actively resent it.
I wonder if it has ever occurred to Ms Hilary McGrady, our National Trust Director General, that her ever-so-sensitive regurgitations, of which she’s so proud, are in fact contrived, condescending and perverse. To say nothing of insulting to the indigenous population.
See also period dramas, which, we’re told, must be anachronistically corrected.
Oh, and museums, and galleries of landscape paintings. Which are deemed insufficiently “inclusive and representative.” On account of the paintings representing the time in which they were created. As one might imagine.
Yes. Got it for my wife for Christmas. Kinda frustrated with the connectivity issues so I bought another security camera and set it up opposite one of those suet feeders. Much better connectivity but the camera isn’t designed for closeups like this one is. The suet one seems to capture more visits but the cardinals are only showing up at this seed feeder.
My ex used to pull up the zipper with a fork.
Still trying to get my head around the concept of denim.
I looked it up, hoping this was satire. It was not. The doctor who made this is named in several lawsuits by detransistioners.
Yes. They’re on my reading list (also the comedies of Terence.)
Y’know, Terence and Plautus sounds rather like Terrance and Phllip.
Glad to hear it. Hope to see more comments.
Are you more of a bespoke suits and dressing gowns sort of gentleman?
Yet another trans hate crime.
How about sentencing the doctor to natural life in an 8x8x8 cell with no egress possible.
I think David’s more into 70s jumpsuits and turtlenecks.
Think Space: 1999.
[ Looks effortlessly stylish. ]
Remember this medical atrocity?
I blame the electorate.
Double billing?
Is that £62.75 before or after the cost of the book is figured in?
suet bird feeders: suet has lots of fat and pieces fall to the ground, attracting coyotes (seed does not to my knowledge). Just in case you have coyotes around, like I do.
Too many notes.