Friday Ephemera (817)
Misstep to remember. || A Trip to the Planets, 1963. || Trial and error. || Cleaving scenes. || Question asked. || Camouflage insufficient. || You must listen without questioning. || Not-so-small small intestines. || Teens. || Yes, it will be on the test. || Bra testing of note. || Briefly airborne. || A binary was detected. || Hungry bear encounters pigs. || Spray thoroughly. || Specialised sauce mop. || Not exactly helping his case, I fear. || The progressive retail experience, parts 728 and 729. || Why pigeons don’t rule the Earth. || A project was undertaken. || Do you want to see her nipples? || “Homer Simpson arse shoes.” || The science-fiction cover art of Richard M Powers. (h/t, Things) || Outdoor fun for all the family. || For oldies who miss dials. || And finally, on the ease of using international email, 1986.
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One more time:
The cross-dressing founder of Belfast Pride was a convicted child predator.
The sort of education once relegated to sporting houses.
We used to understand that the most fundamental right anyone has, before free speech or religion or association or any other right, is the right to defend oneself from aggressors. Bodily autonomy. We took it away from children and now from adults. What did people think was going to happen?
That link calls them “Gypsy travellers”, and not that gypsies are not a separate problem but these caravans in the UK are usually Irish, correct?
Irish or Romani, for the most part.
Well, what little information is available at the actual news article, mostly pictures with faces blurred and references to dogs and rabbit hunting, the pictures of rather white looking hands and arms, I highly suspect these guys are Irish. Would be interested to know if I’m wrong. Though at the very end there is this reference:
Just real curious about the context. Over here the Irish travelers are generally called that or just travelers. True Gypsies are far less prevalent here so, generally speaking, the distinction is clearer.
I AM FULL OF FRENCH ONION SOUP. AND RYE BREAD. AND CHEESE.
That is all.
With Marmite, I hope. A fine old tradition in a cuisine remarked upon all over the world. (Yay boo sucks to you, Muldoon!)
The circle of life.
I looked it up. Johnny Carson’s last appearance on “The Tonight Show” had 55 million viewers. Stephen Colbert’s finale had 6.7 million viewers.
Of course. We’re not heathens in this house.
Criminal tolerance.
Thank you for warning us of your impending flatulence.
All is calm and still and fragrant.
So far.
You’re heretics.
[ Places call to Cardinal Fang. ]
I was in central London six months or so ago, in a crowded area near Parliament, when a couple dozen speeding horse-drawn carts roared through the intersection, making a hard left turn. My first thought was, oh, cool, I’ve stumbled on a contest of some sort. But then I noticed that about half of them had small children aboard, often standing unrestrained on the bench seat. Very unsafe. Then I overheard someone remarking about “travelers”. So, yeah. And I learned later that this kind of behavior was intended to reinforce their ” right to move freely” anywhere in the UK. I saw them in a few other places in the city that week, always completely ignoring other traffic, pedestrians, and lights. I saw zero effort made to restrain them. A plain and simple show of dominance.
Make me King and it will be used to deprive them of any “right to move freely”. . . except to prison or Pakistan.
I have heard that radical leftists do something similar but in rural settings in order to create “historical rights” to trespass on farmers’ lands.
Activist: real women and girls “have the luxury of XX chromosomes and ovaries”.
David, come to the Midwest for exciting adventures.
My understanding is that there’s some kind of ancient law in the UK that does in fact grant randos the right to stroll across farmer’s fields. David?
Cernovich has just realized that immigrants hate and despise America.
My understanding is that the law pertains to existing ancient walking paths. But these leftists systematically trespass over and over to create new paths which they then claim are ancient.
The sort of deportee that liberals support.
When I was just a kid, you could easily find “progressive minded people” who said it was a great injustice that immigration from enemy nations was banned.
Stand back. Wait. Then arrest the survivors.
The question that never gets answered.
I do not. Emphatically.
Keeping parts of yourself in a bottle of formaldehyde as some sort of trophy . . . is pretty next level.
“You’re freaking me out,” she says.
Methinks that boat sailed some time ago.
Fake anger, fake fear. It’s all fake.
Madam Righteous is not entirely convincing.
To recap: Madam Righteous agrees, quite emphatically, that sexual violence is largely a male phenomenon, but denies that cross-dressing men are men, and so, by her thinking, cross-dressing men can pose no threat to women, even when those men are violating women’s normal boundaries and intimate spaces. Women, it seems, can have no reason to fear cross-dressing men.
Madam Righteous then starts losing the debate and her interviewer – a man who used to cross-dress and who underwent surgical mutilation and now regrets it – mentions the statistics regarding male-female strength. At which point, Madam Righteous claims to feel “threatened.” By the kind of man she claims women cannot feel threatened by.
And so, as she starts losing the debate, she simultaneously, one might say conveniently, starts “feeling really threatened,” albeit in ways that aren’t at all convincing, and leaves. In order, one assumes, not to hear any more information that she doesn’t want to process.
Our Betters, you know. These higher beings.
Question asked, answered.
Yes, however, things such as, “what the hell is this abomination”, and, “I can’t believe people actually eat this”, are remarks.
In an attempt to avoid near-riotous disorder in the comments, and because I can’t be arsed to cook today, I have decided that we’re having pizza for lunch.
I will not be adding Marmite to it.
Just so we’re clear.
And I’m just going to leave this here.
[ Sound of store-bought pizza being titivated with chillies, grated cheese. ]
As I understand it – and that’s not terribly well – there are specific public rights of way, i.e., designated footpaths, that are generally signposted and marked on maps, and which the public may use. These are typically at the edges of farmers’ fields. Whether this differs in Scotland, Ireland or Wales, I couldn’t say.
Meanwhile, this being Sunday, let us see how the faithful are being faithful.
South Asians making themselves unloved wherever they go.
I can think of ways for ordinary Japanese to encourage these foreigners to self-deport.
Faithful to what?
Is Moloch in the house?
Specific, posted walker’s rights of way…
I was also in the Cotswolds and on the Dorset coast. Access routes across fields were well posted, by some official-sounding organization. There were polite admonitions to leave gates in the positions you found them, and to stay on the marked pathways. Very civilized.
There were also occasional warnings about artillery fire exercises, which we respected.
It’s hardcore farming.
Artillery fire…
Presents a possible solution to the “traveler encampment” problem.
What a shame. What an absolute shame. Where oh where will we find someone to fill his shoes…which are probably somewhere back there on the tracks?
Public service announcement of note.
Another PSA of note.
Judging from the comments, and my initial guess, it’s a Methodist church. Though whatever offshoot perhaps…? I tried to warn my Methodist pastor decades ago that the church must acknowledge scientific reality or it will become irrelevant. My fear was that religion would completely be forgotten about. I didn’t see this absurdity coming but I understand how we got here. As the church became increasingly irrelevant, like the stock of a well known brand company that has ignored quality control, it became a buying opportunity for the more sulfuric opposition.
Presents a possible solution to the “traveler encampment” problem.
Was it here or at Insty someone linked a story about a farmer fed up with gypsy traveller arseholes trashing his field, so he hooked up a sprayer tank of liquid manure to his tractor and took it for a spin in the encampment.
Not sure if it was in the story, or in a comment to the story, but someone said the farmer was afraid he’d get arrested for spreading manure on his own field, because the travelers were protected.
Seemed like a good time for a bit of that.
Churches: The problem is that church-goers and clergy have decided that anything they view as “good” is “good” and they must support it. Rather than, say, sticking to what your holy book admonishes you to do. Thus they jump on the compassionate suicide bandwagon and start breaking the law by helping criminals avoid ICE.