Friday Ephemera (818)
I think it looks pretty good, actually. || Love machine, ladies. || Bling thing. || Contraband detected. || On transgender Reddit, euphoria abounds. || Balls and blocking. || On atomic weapons and bomb-like objects. || For lovers of glamour, those Hollywood vibes. || From 1981: Does Woking Want a Sex Shop? || On tiny tessellations and apian secretions. || Rooftop scenes. || Rooftop scenes 2. || Gentleman caller. || Congestion of note. || Gym juddering, Chile. || China, 1917. || Attention, fat chaps. || Incoming. || On the mend, I see. || Make your own Star Trek title cards. (h/t, Neatorama) || Today’s word is metaphor. || Meet the Rag and Bone Men, 1966. || Regarding fur. || Today’s other word is farming. || You can run your fingers through it. || And finally, fire from the Earth, fire from the sky.
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Harambe was murdered ten years ago today.
Should there be fiery but mostly peaceful protests? Gorilla Lives Matter!
From 1973: No Sex Please, We’re British
History
Not usually a fan of our 8-legged chums, but that little chap is kinda cool.
Usagi Electric (on YouTube) is currently restoring a 1960s computer that turns out to have been used at Sandia during its heyday.
Or The Thrill of Thermal Underwear
Regarding fur.
What did he or she think they were covered in?
We should let him in the UK and pay his rent for 50 years.
Well, dolphins are sea mammals without fur, so maybe like that?
But is he a doctor or an engineer?
Morning, all.
Mr Nimoy and parents, 1967.
Massively multiplayer online rave.
I’m now picturing a future fashion trend echoing the powdered wigs of seventeenth century France, in which men, hoping to impress, wear customised plastic hair. Like best hair.
The womenfolk would be wooed in no time.
That would seem to be current government policy.
Are graduation brawls a new trend?
I suppose today’s other other word could be irony:
Though several alternatives come to mind.
Why, it’s almost as though women by and large would rather not share an intimate space with a mentally ill man who violates normal boundaries and who’s trying to deceive them about what he is.
An astonishing turn of events. I may need to sit down.
[ INTENSE SITTING DOWN COMMENCES ]
Nah, I’m with Julia on this. Even at the zoo, you could see it was fur.
I suspect he really doesn’t know how pussy smells.
Toss Across.
Oh, I definitely need to sit down now.
[ Starts sitting down competition with Ted S. ]
Up-buggered link detected.
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After being lured-in by a piece of cheese, of course.
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OMG, the kerning… just look at the kerning.
Pull up a chair. We can have a three-way sitting-down competition.
[ Sitting down intensifies. ]
Hard to tell who’s winning, frankly.
It’s possible, just possible, I haven’t thought this through.
Un-up-buggered link
Secretly, Hollywood celebrities are playing in an elaborate game of Bingo.
[ Guides two hefty wedges of homity pie in general direction of oven. ]
Perhaps if some of that whole, authentic, self were left, say, at home?
‘Care’.
(via)
Bling thing.
I clapped
Standards are racist.
Ah, but now the cognitively inadequate can also take on enormous, life-ruining debt – hundreds of thousands of dollars – in order to pay for an education of near-zero value, in the hope of getting hired for a job they cannot do.
They will, however, accumulate resentment. So there’s that.
It’s the progressive way.
Via Insty: Physicists Have Measured “Negative Time” in Bizarre Quantum Experiment
I’m hoping this might inspire Domino’s to bring back its 30-minutes-or-free guarantee. I can afford all the pizzas I want now. I’m just running out of time.
And Teh Patriarchy wins again! They even get the dog to misogynize. Good doggy!
I am getting a brand-new double oven today. But now I must consider what shall be its very first dish. Their very first dishes.
That kerning sucks. Also, that typeface. Signed, ex-Adobe Font Rendering Designer.
Entitled British drivers experience rural parking woes.
Contemptuous lying.
Side-by-side or over-under (oven)?
Over-under. One is convection/air-fryer capable.
Dang. I’m starting to drool already, and the truck isn’t due for FOUR HOURS.
Since you ask, yes, the homity pie was very good, as usual.
The proprietrix of the local deli does good work.
I had to look up “homity pie”. My English ancestors are disappointed in me. Again.
Leeks, potatoes, cheese, garlic… Good comfort food.
The recipe I looked at included “mature cheese”. It’s comforting to know there’s some maturity around here.
[ Points to deluxe fur-effect toilet ad in post above. ]
If that’s not grown-up and classy, I don’t know what is, matey.