Friday Ephemera (820)
He’s having his creases attended to. || Incoming. || Mop-related drama. || Secret snail business. || Let’s just say choices were made. || A bathtime temptation. || Today’s word is parenting. || More joys of public transport. || Like professional wrestling, but in libraries. || I think we need clarification, ladies. || Today’s other word is logistics. || Question asked. || The totally radical tedium of “queered” Tolkien. || If We Lived On The Moon, 1930s. || On Night People, 1966. || The progressive retail experience, parts 733, 734 and 735. || Un-parking is also hard. || Horse yoga. You heard me. || How women dress, 1961. || Yet what caught my eye were the boots. || What’s In Modern Food?, 1975. || Surface tension. || And finally, scenes from the World Yogasana Sports back-bending competition.
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Most leftists aren’t this open about their beliefs and intentions.
At least The Very Secret Diaries was funny.
David never finds things that would tempt me.
As if the House of Orange was not enough. Now we must have a Bus of Orange, too.
Imagine how much easier it would be to keep the snails in frame if you turned your phone 90° counterclockwise.
I have thoughts on people to take vertical videos, but, well, they aren’t very nice.
*who
And I typed that on a computer keyboard. FML.
While I would like to be snarky, the guy has gone to the great beyond. If he was still alive, though, anything goes.
Okay, just one. The Three Stooges when they go, “Hello, Hello, Hello!’
https://www.livescience.com/health/anatomy/diagnostic-dilemma-man-who-donated-his-body-after-death-had-rare-triple-penis
Serendipitous…yes…on a cadaver…because the medical profession doesn’t give me the creeps often enough as it is….That said I gotta…well… pictures or it didn’t happen.
Collateral damage?
The surface tension shots are brilliant.
Morning, all.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
A partially controlled explosion.
Modernity, baby.
It’s the pliers and the spray. 😆
Yes, the choice of tools is… puzzling. But then, I’ve never attempted to do that particular job.
Laughed, not sorry.
And the stairs are a death trap.
That’s the hair you claim is luxurious?
Haters gonna hate. As I believe the kids say.
Actually, I have very little idea what the switched-on youth are saying. I recently had to look up mogging. Which is apparently a thing.
Before anyone asks – I suspect someone will – it means to outshine or outclass, to out-do, in appearance or performance. Inevitably, with various subcategories – say, jawmogging – having a more pleasing jawline. Or hairmogging, etc.
[ Flicks through latest issue of Fab Sounds. ]
Oh, and a reminder, were one necessary, that you don’t despise the media anywhere near enough:
In this case, it’s Flemish public television. Though one can of course extrapolate.
They were more anxiety-producing. All I could think was, “Those suckers must be slick as hell after she mopped them.”
Band name? Or cartoon superhero?
It’s the activity associated witrh looksmaxxing. Get with it, Boomer.
[ Flicking through Fab Sounds intensifies. ]
The new response.
Very much related:
Who among us doesn’t arm our pre-teens?.
Writer laments teens being banned from places, dots not connected.
For readers in the US, test your political typology.
Still waiting for the ladies to clarify this matter.
‘Nothing to see here.’
The vile mendacity persists across language barriers.
No one ever talks about the subheroes.
The full context is even more on the money imnsho.
Not particularly accurate.
Surface tension: water is weird. Thank god or we could not exist. Every other substance when it freezes (solidifies) is denser than the liquid form, except water. It is sticky which allows plants to pull it up their vessels and become trees.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Next you’ll also tell me CO2 is the source of life on Earth and not a civilization-ending evil gas I suppose.
The state of politics in Europe is dire. Starmer lost the election and IIRC he should immediately dissolve his government to form a new one but he is stalling for months. He may be trying to find a way to stay in power. Now they are trying to make opposition to immigration a crime. In France, in one election a few years ago, Macron lost but found a way to invalidate his loss and stay in power. Then he arrested the next opposition leader. In Germany they have declared the AfD party invalid.
More on parenting:
A professor informs us Metcalf’s parents failed him because they didn’t teach him “…black boys have boundaries…”.
So afraid that he walked into a pop-up full of Yte Devils. The denial and projection are off the charts in the whole of the screed – not racist, of course, because Only Ytes Can Be Racist™.
Weren’t those local elections?
Race is one of those subjects that seems to have driven some people quite mad.
From a brief perusal of the site that describes her entire ouvre.
She seems likely to feature in body-cam footage.
I’m trying to understand the shrieking woman’s head movements. I don’t understand what they’re supposed to mean. Beyond an attempt at physical intimidation.
That, and/or secures them a well paying sinecure.
Meanwhile, in the Spirit of Ephemera:
Scottish-American dictionary.
Speaking of sinecures, Health and Diet Ambassador.
“Journalism” at ABC – footage shows aftermath of alleged attack (by an alleged Sudanese alleged perp that was allegedly videoed showing the alleged victim who was allegedly taken to a hospital with alleged wounds. Allegedly)
The seemingly routine attempt to deceive does rather invalidate the ostensible core function of the organisation. It throws everything they do into question. How could one possibly trust them? It quite literally wipes out their credibility as a broadcaster. And by extension, any claim to public funding or favoured status.
In a saner world, it would be the end of them.
Not sure where I found this but if it was here I don’t see it now. Worth repeating though. Amelia sings Gods of the Copybook Headings.
Ostensible being the key
“When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.” — Theodore Dalrymple
Academia’s finest.
Absolutely. It’s, shall we say, not clear to me how one could reconcile some supposed mission to convey the facts, and to bring into being an informed citizenry, with doing everything possible to prevent precisely that.