Friday Ephemera (828)
Confounding house numbers, 1961. || “Dad, you can carry big rocks.” || Dawn upwardsness. || It’s possible they went too far. || The formidable Miss Whiplash. || Boy Wonder, big pants, Batman in a jam, 1943. || “Photography not permitted.” || Japanese people encounter Marmite. || Mole relocation. || For manly striding. || “White empiricism” oppresses magic black womanliness, claims bint featured here. || At last, Star Wars… in Welsh. || Mauler parses the moral logic of the latest Spider-Man film. || It’s all in the neck. || Look away now. || The Englishwoman and the Horse, 1981. || Visible roots. || A tour of ancient Rome. || You want one and you know it. || I’m not sure what to call this. || For children of all ages. || Blinky. || And finally, the thrill of smoking toad venom. “Relax,” says he. “Feel the love.”
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How about in Pidgin?
Douglas Adams foretold this.
The serious news organs cover burritos:
but why
So, is that our host on the left, or right?
A misanthrope’s joke.
No jury in the world …
*ribbit*
Adolescent swing set.
This is the kind of list where you click one link out of curiosity and somehow lose an hour. The sheer randomness is half the entertainment.
pst314:”CATO: we need 193mil more immigrants to make our burritos”
It’s a simple recipe…
“The Englishwoman and the Horse, 1981.”
Gentler times…
“Chocolate?”
Are they *trying* to drown him in case the poison doesn’t work?
Morning, all.
Stage one, curiosity.
Stage two, the full horror unfolds.
War declared shortly afterwards.
“Do you recognize what this facial expression really is? It’s a psychopath’s mask.”
“I know, let’s give him a dose of massively hallucinogenic convulsion-inducing toad venom and do it on jagged rocks by a river.”
In the replies, people suggest alternative venues, like a cactus farm, or cliff edge, or shark cage.
Just to keep things interesting.
Not sorry.
And in passionate folk music news.
[ Applies Marmite to surface of toast. ]
How to be responsibly racist.
The Marmite video reminds me of a related genre, introducing American people to Vegemite.
For some reason the joke really works best when it’s Americans you’re inflicting the Vegemite on. IDK why.
Never developed a taste for Vegemite. It lacks the industrial by-product quality of Marmite.
[ Sniffs jar, tries to be polite. ]
“Good.”
[ Tastes contents. ]
“This is terrible.”
“Understand statistics… You want your racism to be accurate. You can’t just make stuff up.”
Preferably by a man who’s 6’4″ and full of muscle.
And we mustn’t forget the genre of big, confident American women underestimating the oomph of English mustard.
I am of course contractually obliged as an Australian to love the stuff. Apparently it was originally conceived as the Australian alternative to Marmite – the original name the manufacturers wanted to use (Parwill) even being a reference to this: ‘Marmite, but Parwill’…
Things I was told not to take a picture of but did anyway:
By the way, the trick should some authority demand you delete an image is to do so as few know most high end cameras have dual slots for memory cards.
Now picturing Stephanie fleeing from indignant gypsies, clutching her precious artefact, like a scene from an Indiana Jones film.
I should set my AI agent to read all of David’s posts and comments to generate an image of him.
Keywords: Svelte, alluring, figure of intrigue.
Oh, I adore Coleman’s.
Re: Look Away Now
Yes, the unhappy situation takes on sitcom qualities.
Yes, the unhappy situation takes on sitcom qualities.
Like a Three Stooges short or a Benny Hill skit. I can hear Yakkity Sax playing under the video now.
I wonder if when he got free he told his coworker “C’mere, I’ll murderize ya!” like Moe used to say to Curly.
I was waiting for the windscreen wipers to come on.
Isn’t there also a way to also transmit (copy) photos to an external device as they are taken?
No.
Rap, without the rhythm.
How about in Pidgin?
A tey tey for a galaxy far, far away
Mos eisley spaceport: you go lai lai find a plenti wretched hive for scum and villainy. We must be cautious
Dis aren’t di droids you’re find
I felt a great disturbance for di force, as if millions for voices suddenly cried komot for terror and de suddenly silenced. I fear sontin terrible don happun
Debatable.
I haven’t watched the whole video, but just from the first 10 minutes I get the point.
But I guess it just puts it in the same boat as Hitchcock’s 1959 North by Northwest.
That movie makes almost no sense whatsoever at any point virtually from start to finish. It’s just a jumble of unrelated episodes strung together in a jumble and delivered by an impeccably well-dressed cast.
That was a massive hit, too.
So I guess no one will care, even if Mr Mauler does have a point.
Another madcap and wacky tik tok challenge.
Sounds good to me, and likely to those who would otherwise have found their homes invaded and their belongings stolen, or some other horror. Given the 80% at five years recidivism rate. If only they’d all die, first time, ideally.
Imagine the drop in the rate of burglary.
I do have a soft spot for Mauler’s dissections. There’s a comical relentlessness. If memory serves, he did an eight-hour parsing of Alien: Earth, revealing, in great detail, the assumptions and ineptitude in practically every scene. It’s exhausting to watch, but intermittently hilarious.
How about a TikTok challenge to set fire to arsonists? Would that be wrong?
I mean, 40 minutes is, by Mauler standards, a mere snackette, barely a crumb. And he does have a point about Marvel’s current screenwriters, all excruciatingly progressive, and their weird and rather jarring moral blind spots, all of which seem to follow from their political assumptions.
In the annals of autocorrect:
(the referenced paper.)
Recall Ed Begley, Jr., incessantly bleating ‘peer review’?