A Shoebox Under The Bed
Lifted from the comments, a revealing choice of words:
Also, while there is nothing wrong… Again, a revealing tone, I think.
Mr Yglesias, since you ask, is currently said to earn around $1.4 million a year, chiefly from his 18,000 Substack subscribers. It therefore seems quite likely that he has savings and investments of some sort. I wonder what it is that he thinks happens to that money while he’s terribly busy complaining about the rich.
This may sound funny, but next time she’ll be boiling bunnies.
Performance artist of note.
https://twitter.com/i/status/2047941558968766650
Make the case that “stormtroopers are bad shots”, referring only to what is shown on screen in the original trilogy. Provide time codes for the scenes you use to support your argument.
Since the Victorian era, literary vampires have been rape fantasy allegories aimed at frustrated housewives. This isn’t even remotely controversial.
During the GWB presidency, a lefty friend of mine started peddling the “Bush is stupid” shibboleth at me. I sent him a picture of the cockpit of a TANG F-102 with the comment “He has more degrees than either of us, and he flew one of these at the age of 22. Any questions?” That put a stop to that.
Looks like a decent sized audience. At least he’s not lonely. I understand that’s a problem these days.
The ‘caring’ people don’t care.
Well, setting aside the unconvincing claims of empathy, sensitivity, cleverness and so forth, it does suggest a remarkable lack of imagination. A parochialism, a small mental world.
And it scarcely needs saying that the inability to empathise with those concerns, to regard them as real, something to address, or even to conceive of them as possibilities, is very much a part of why those concerns exist and have grown. To the extent that we get the election results that so bewilder our supposedly educated and empathetic betters.
As seen, for instance, with the obliviousness – or dishonesty – of BBC broadcaster Dan Snow. Who, despite rioting in several cities, struggled to comprehend, or at least admit, that there might be something to think about. Some assumptions to revisit. And who thinks that the solution to an obvious problem, a social fracture of some size, is to pretend it isn’t there while calling people racist.
As if that might work. And all would be well.
Speaking of our caring betters and their endless sensitivity.
Not “suicidal empathy”, more like sociopathic narcissism.
Yes. For a certain kind of person, at least. I was reminded of the garden-trashing I saw on my walks home from school, recounted here:
The seeming inability of so many left-leaning commentators to grasp spite as a motive, a fairly common one, is, I think, noteworthy. It seems implausible that they could all have wafted through life without seeing it, vividly, as I did, many times. Unless, of course, they’re just pretending not to understand.
I made that very point, to no avail, to a number of libs I used to know.
If you’re a postmodern Marxist, evidence matters even less than to an old school Marxist and words may be creatively deployed to affirm or deny anything.
And in nipple-related news.
The sociologists and other academics didn’t just ignore it; they denied it existed.
Because, as you note, they mean to do us harm.
As my eye scanned rapidly down the page, it misread Guardian as Mordor.
And in nipple-related news.
The jacket will be issued. A) Have they no tailors in the UK or can not the ladies sew on buttons and move them inboard? B) In the US&A officers get $400 once (certain circumstances an extra $200) to cover uniforms. As that doesn’t begin to cover, the rest is out of pocket, are the UK squids so destitute they can’t buy their own?
200K Imperial Dollars. Aside from the above, here is the real problem: it is neither sexist nor misogynistic to acknowledge the fact that for the more enhanced female sailors time and gravity will be a factor, so will they keep having to get new jackets?
Who knew Princess Anne was an Atlanta fan?
The inability is feigned. They grasp spite as a motive because it is what motivates them.
It’s the lack of tassels isn’t it?
I have to say, the whole nipples thing hadn’t occurred to me. I’m looking at the photo now and the nipples still aren’t jumping out.
As it were.
I suppose it’s possible I’m not sufficiently, um, sensitised regarding ladies’ nipples.
I fear we may be teetering on the brink of some untoward humour.
Empathy: the empathy of the Left is fake. They do not feel the feelings of criminals, they just take their side against the “evil white system”. If they could actually feel empathy, they would feel the anguish of parents whose children were groomed and raped in England or the fear of the elderly trying to take the subway in NY. They would feel the lack of remorse in carjackers. It is a ploy to hit you with.
If it moves, salute it, if it doesn’t move, paint it.
TBF, the tassels would be distracting in heavy seas, but as usual, the bean counters seem to have come up with a solution that is “…a positive step for women in the navy while balancing operational and financial factors.:
Only a cynical and sarcastic SOB would read that positive step solution as, “get rid of the wymnxn swabbies and the button problem is sorted”.
It is good the Royal Navy has no other issues.
In a properly designed uniform they would.
So to speak.
Your OEM target acquisition and tracking radar needs recalibration.
There’s more nipples in that photo than ther are operational ships.
You should put that in the banner.
I fear we may be teetering on the brink of some untoward humour.
There is a bit of tittering at the back…
Tittering in the back is very uncommon, supernumerary nipples are almost always an anterior finding.
Daniel Ream,
And the Century series fighter/interceptors were notoriously stressful and dangerous to fly. Except for the 104, my father detested them.
Buried lede, of course. Why does the RN need 950 female officers? Assuming a 50:50 split, that’s 1900 RN officers, supporting 60-80 ships, depending on how you count.
Well I was hoping for some tittering. I pray I shan’t be disappointed.
Added:
Note to self, read the whole thread…
“Where heaven touches the earth … it’s not that bad.”
Fine dining scenes. Needless to say, the situation escalates.
“Shut yo’ ass up,” she said, classily.
I’m sure more progressivism will help.
The progressive dining experience?
As with George Clooney, I think Idris Elba is fine . . . but as with George Clooney, he ruins it by speaking.
If they could just learn to shut up and be pretty.
Attempting to engage Matthew Yglesias with anything resembling common sense is the equivalent of arguing with a chicken.
And a bookmark for myself.
Dog training requires more discipline on the part of the owner.
That was an astonishing thing for him to say. I make use of the point on the kitchen knife many times each week.
Instead of banning knives, let’s ban savages.
And a bookmark for myself.
Now I have Elvis singing “Ain’t Nothin’ but a Hound Dog” stuck in my head.
Love the dog photos!
And it isn’t even about blunting the tip of a kitchen knife … ANYthing sufficiently pokey/narrow and on hand will do. It’s amazing the number of things perps bent on violence will use. Heck, I remember a case of an old lady who sent her old man husband to the hospital after beaning him with a can of peaches.
Work on removing perps from civil society. Harshly.
“nearly half of the released inmates
reoffendedwere caught“How to deal with aggressive eco-loons
Shhh! You’ll give them ideas about banning cans
Oddly satisfying.
Is that his rapper name?
And stands right up, not the least bit embarrassed. I think we could all learn a little something about self-respect from that horse.
A brief critique of the dishonestly propagandistic movie Hidden Figures.
And, via Charles Murray, a far longer and detailed critique.