Friday Ephemera (815)
“They can strip a man to the bone in 30 seconds.” || She just wants to get in her room and eat and put this behind her. || Big fellah. || Facilities. || The word holding caught my eye. || Igor Sikorsky, 1945. || Captures something, I think. || A night at the opera. || Wrenches and ratchets. || New racism detected. || The cow-like reflexes kicked in. || Waardenburg syndrome – striking eyes but often accompanied by deafness. || Death Valley in bloom. || From above and below. || Bitesize. || Someone’s knocking at the door. || Discourse was attempted. || The alternative press, 1971. || Apocalypse early warning system. || For enthusiasts of quadraphonic vinyl. || Immortality, £1000. || The thrill of, er, moon clams. || Unladylike driving. || And it turns out ants make more noise than you’d imagine.
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Long way from shore.
A little hantavirus with your fries?
The inspiration for the Barack Obama Presidential Library?
Some day the Guardian will publish an item containing no lies, which will be a highly newsworthy event.
Art.
Seen somewhere on the internet:
It’s not hate speech; it’s tough love.
Aah! I just now remember seeing such things as a child. The horror. The stench. The….I guess I can wait until we get home…
Something to relish.
“They can strip a man to the bone in 30 seconds.”
Thought this was an early look inside Labour Party HQ…
“The Guardian. Wrong about everything. All the time.”
Morning, all.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
Not just wrong. Actively deceptive.
Oh, and on the subject of Guardian errors:
One of the greats.
The madness?
Pretty much. I sometimes wonder if Shouty Chap – and all of the other, eerily similar Shouty People – will ever reflect on their behaviour, their eerily similar assumptions. Or will they go through life seething and screeching and denouncing being white as if it were some instantly invalidating condition.
Except in their case. What with them being so enlightened.
I suppose you could think of them as people in search of an excuse for not listening, or thinking. And for just generally being obnoxious. A license for spite.
It would, I think, explain much of what we’ve seen.
We don’t pander to anorexics but gluttony is ‘body positivity’.
Having fun over there?
Haven’t followed the results closely, or much at all, but it would seem to have been a lively night.
[ Muffled laughter. ]
Though I did happen to catch Keir Starmer saying, entirely without irony, “I’m not going to walk away and plunge the country into chaos.”
Having already done so, one assumes.
Lawn update. Three squirrels. No deer.
If I see that outside my door, future arrests are not going to be an issue.
Illustrating why it has long been called the Grauniad.
IIRC, the ancient meaning of gluttony traditionally included anorexia as well, as it too was an over-concern with food.
She just wants to get in her room and eat and put this behind her.
No, she doesn’t. Some people watching that might think, “Oh, that is so sad . . .” But they also forget that there is a film crew capturing it all which is she is allowing voluntarily to happen.
Big fellah
I wonder if the European tradition of allowing dogs in restaurants, many of whom are smaller dogs of the terrier class, make this a rare occurrence there. I could not help but think a handy Jack Russell would be delighted to assist.
Apocalypse early warning system.
Y’know, one thought anytime I see a movie or series based in a post-apocalyptic world, or read a book with the same setting, I think, “Man, I hope I am one of the ones killed, I don’t want to have to deal with that.”
It’s the clothes. The clothes are terrible. And in these post-apocalyptic wastelands, you never see a functional dry cleaner’s. It’d be a nightmare.
Rage bait staged incident? But when it happens in real life the perp needs to be removed from society until he’s too old and feeble to harm anyone.
And because it’s Friday and because I like the style of editing with which I have been playing, I am posting a happy old lady in Havana, Cuba. I photographed her and her dog during a 2024 visit. The vacation where the Husband turned to me on the flight home and asked, “We’re done visiting Third World countries, right?”
The man has no spirit of adventure . . .
Simon Webb was talking about this just the other day.
All the 10mm will be missing in a week, it is a law of nature.
Probably, but at least the opera house has a legitimate purpose.
Minor league baseball is the best baseball.
A Serious Journalist™ weighs in on another important topic of the day.
You don’t hate liberals enough. You think you do, but you don’t.
Tongue action.
[ Watches video.]
I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to burn them. In a pit.
New racism detected
Can’t wait to see the indiginous, non-racist solution…
“It is one of the great medical scandals of our time […]”
Matthew 5:29 comes to mind.
Happy wife?
Trap doors in the subway cars seem indicated.
I wouldn’t bet it was staged – it seems more & more the thing to present the worst of yourself to the world.
That. Speaking of which, if someone would kindly let this guy know the jig is up, it would be greatly appreciated. Though seems he would…never mind.
There’s a pretty obvious reason for that.
Alternately, he understands that 80% of Cuba’s economy is tourism and that every dollar you spend there is propping up a murderous totalitarian regime.
You know that if they don’t smile for the tourists they get disappeared, right?
DoJ Tells France to pound sand regarding Elon Musk
The last three words were superfluous.
“[T]he cherry on the shit sundae […]”
Moron doesn’t know how to buy glasses that fit.
Minor league baseball is the best baseball.
Going to a Smokies game on June 2nd to see the new stadium in Knoxville (thank you, Randy Boyd). $10 seats! Get me a beer and a hot dog, and sit back to watch America’s pastime. Given the prices of MLB games (like the Dodgers selling a $75 souvenir Ohtani cup that only gets you one free refill during that game), the AAA leagues are getting more and more popular with local hometowns.
That would seem to be the more likely explanation. That, and a determination to complain on camera for the approval of like-minded morons.
From what I can see, the specs she’s wearing are adjustable and any reputable optician will check that they fit as part of the service. The frames and nose pads of modern glasses are designed to be adjusted to accommodate pretty much any kind of nose. Even the noses of grievance-seeking idiots.
Tongue action.
His wife’s nickname is “Smiley.”
You know that if they don’t smile for the tourists they get disappeared, right?
Oh, have you been?