Friday Ephemera (822)
The diamond knuckle dusters you’ve always wanted. || Always carry a spare. || Behind those high-tech specs. || Sales pattern detected. || Street panto. || Not a good place to lose forward momentum. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Decorum at customs. || A brief guide to vocal fry. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Barbecue scenes. || The thrill of early bathyspheres. || Learning is happening. || World’s loudest man. He’s Australian. || In stationery news. || Question asked. || A newcomer and a window licker. || Wall crawling. || Peeing down her leg in her friend’s shower makes her feel like a man. || “How is a moment in time stored in squishy meat?” || Thirty tonnes of antimatter dust per day. || Meet the man who collects food wrappers, 1981. || Influencer, you say. || And remember, photography is hard.
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To feed the Greta Garbo in you.
I was shocked when I learned, long ago, just how quickly they go Winchester.
How about “oh fuck off”? The TED Talk style is very annoying.
Just for that, a dog picture. Titan here is an AKC champion grade Akita, so I used the Asian section at the University of Tennessee gardens as a nod to his provenance.
One more time: “not guilty by reason of insanity” means “lock him up forever”.
The reason for this was anticipated long ago by “A Clockwork Orange”. It’s to make room for political prisoners.
Someone’s taking the piss:
“A Spanish travel influencer recently shared his experience at one of the most unique “hotels” that can be found in the Pacific Ocean between Florida and Cuba.”
One more time: “not guilty by reason of insanity” should mean “lock him up forever”. FIFY.
In reality it means if institutionalized at all (a big if) until the alleged perp convinces enough people that she is “normal” and/or complying with therapy (pharmacological or otherwise).
In other news of the deranged, just another normal kindergarten day.
[ Picks up phone to take photo, accidentally buys shoes, starts washing machine. ]
An updated Death Wish?
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‘So if you give ’em a quick short, sharp, shock, they won’t do it again. Dig it?’
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Exactly. You cannot appeal to a sociopath’s better nature because he has none. All you can do is administer punishment severe enough to terrify him into compliance.
Also posted by Elon Musk. And by Gad Saad.
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A secretary at a previous workplace had those long stabby nails, and I was curious how she typed with them. No word of a lie, the first joint of each of her fingers bent backwards by about 15-20 degrees. I don’t know if she was some kind of mutant or if typing around the fingernails for twenty years resulted in a kind of Lamarckian evolution.
Do you not appreciate thought leaders?
Tell me you don’t understand the difference between greywater and sewage without telling me you don’t understand the difference between greywater and sewage.
In this update, I hear, the vigilante assassinates not only the criminals but their Western liberal enablers.
I appreciate them when they fall off the stage and break a collarbone.
Thanks for linking to that classic. Fun to see it again after all these years.
One wonders about the myriad of alleged perps.
I no longer wonder about the perps. Only about the best ways to eliminate them.
Should be 15 seconds in a wood chipper.
For Star Trek enthusiasts.
Only £3,050 including postage.
There is a moment of comedy during a sex scene. I watched it last night.
Every European movie is required to have a sex scene?
Speaking of comedy…
To be fair, given the merchandise, I think he picked the right choice.
Stürmer’s revenge.
What would be an appropriate punishment?
The heat wave is even worse than I thought!
As I’ve mentioned repeatedly, There Are Only Twelve Actors in Canada, which is why Mr. Kelly began his career as a hyperkinetic children’s show host.
His co-star in that clip is Jennifer Racicot, who moved to the US and started dating neo-Naz*s.
(Which is, incidentally, one of the reasons I believe none of the accusations against Platner. I recognize this CFL playbook.)
Missed the edit window: that should be “tell me she doesn’t understand…”
From the replies,
Not an unfair summary.
And then quickly off the boat when suitably distant.
Where the sharks are.
UK Muslim rape gangs:
That’s hanged.
But don’t forget the mullahs, imams, etc.
Don’t forget the Western NGO’s who finance and facilitate the invasion.
With monies mulcted from the taxpayer.
Adam Carolla on white privilege
There was a time when I would have laughed derisively if you had suggested that someday I would want to denaturalize and deport everyone at Catholic Charities and numerous other NGO’s.
What the actual fuck? Even the hospitals have no air conditioning?
Scumbag identified. Needs removal.
One of the hazards of hiking with unleashed dogs in grizzly country is that the dogs will start chasing the bear, the bear flees, then soon it realizes it’s being chased by mere dogs.
So it wheels around and starts charging the dogs.
Who turn tail and return to their owners, bear in pursuit.
Some municipalities collect and process them separately and others don’t.
Even so…
Yes
I’m still processing the idea of a society in which people behave badly and make needlessly poor choices – and film themselves while doing so – with a view to uploading their behaviour to social media and being applauded for it by other people with similar inclinations.
I mean, I would guess that most of us have at some point been needlessly obnoxious, while having a bad day or whatever. But to choose to record that moment and then share it with the world, while awaiting applause and affirmation, a weird kudos, does rather compound the obnoxiousness. And does make it much harder to excuse or forgive.
Narcissists can’t always tell how their behavior looks to normies. This dude seemed to think he was justified in defying an old woman who jostled him prior to his turning on the camera.
She was the aggressor, see? That’s why he indignantly told her not to touch him. He was also obviously within his rights to use those stairs, and telling her to go around him was perfectly reasonable.
The idea that she was the weaker party and therefore the one who should be shown deference couldn’t penetrate his enormous self-regard.
Also, this is the worst thing I’ve read today, and that’s after the X algorithm directed plenty of “I’m afraid our beloved sister was found dead in the ruins of her apartment building in La Guaira (Venezuela)” posts my way, and also watching the evening news report how my entire state is one giant brush fire.
I guess family annihilators can also be women.
It does rather suggest a worldview in which there’s no space for reflection or regret, or shame. Again, I’m sure we’ve all had interactions that reflect on us in unflattering ways. I can think of a couple offhand, both of which were, moments later, mortifying. But the filming and sharing of these moments, and the expectation of approval, does seem to preclude – or strongly act against – any of the normal corrections.
Jesus, this response to that link.
Fuck you and your need for a “full background.” Four CHILDREN are dead at the hands of thier mother. NOTHING justifies that. I am quite capable of having an opinion on that fact alone.
If the commenter, who might be incapable of breathing without a coach, bothered to read the article at the link, all would have been revealed.
I guess performative misandry is easier, though.
Question asked.