Friday Ephemera (835)
Vertical filing solution, 1937. || You want one and you know it. || Hosing is hard. || Hello, children. || Shakespeare’s horror story. || Hitachi K-88 portable television, 1978. || Place in food chain negotiation. || A minimum of 30 seconds. Because keeping one eye on your watch is just what you want. || Bach in the rain. || In a bun. || Vibrancy and enrichment. || Value added. || The thrill of having kidneys. || Question asked. || Coquettish stance adopted. || A stroll around Castleton, not too far from here. || It’s all in the hips. Though I’m not sure about the colour. || On choosing a TV set, 1964. || His is bigger. || Keyboard configuration. || For those so inclined, only $13,000. || It says “Portland sports bra riot.” || This tale of a puppy’s encounters with human beings starts in a dark place, but it does get better.
And as this is fundraising week, which keeps this place here, do feel free to make use of the tip jar.
Sufficient altitude takes care of both.
[ Directs raised eyebrow at David. ]
“Progressive” people are our greatest enemy:
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2026/09/friday-ephemera-835.html#comment-219507
I don’t doubt that Washington’s performance is excellent, but it’s time to draw the line. White races are specifically excluded from any black-originated content, and the reverse must therefore apply. Let them write their own masterpieces (no-one’s holding their breath on that one). Shall we biopic the life of Rosa Parks starring Sydney Sweeney? We can’t be far away from the story of Elizabeth I, starring Lizzo. Historically, Macbeth is a reference to Scottish history and there were no black folks in Scotland, nor any evidence for them, in the year 1057. Wokery is societal cancer. It must be expunged by all and any means.
When the law protects criminals while punishing citizens.
Is there a government in the world not at odds with the public it purports to serve?
Welcome to the party.
Hope for Paws is a wonderful, amazing team (and the reason I unfortunately have no money left over to ping our fine publican’s tip jar).
New band name just dropped:
“moderately ridiculous lefty infighting”
Why do they call it a “humiliation ritual”? Dudes are just doing their native dance, not requiring the Brazilians to do anything, and there’s a didgeridoo playing!
After watching the film, I browsed reviews and articles from the time of its release to see if anyone had mentioned the conceit of eleventh century Scotland teeming with people of African descent.
Literally every reference I found to the racial aspect of the casting was predictable and gushingly affirmative. Several pieces asserted, emphatically if not convincingly, that the only possible reason for not gushing with approval is bigotry.
The lack of imagination in this matter, the narrowness of permissible reactions, was quite remarkable.
Again, the film is good. If you’re in the mood for a Shakespearean horror story, I’d happily recommend it. But the implication that you’re not allowed to notice any racial anachronism, the greasy fingerprints of modernity, not allowed to find it even slightly distracting, is dishonest and stupefying.
“Well-meaning people,” says she. Oh, how we laughed.
Witches.
Bookmark.
My latest couple for a marriage proposal in the Smokies had their dogs with them.
From the tweet: “Andy Burnham has branded a ban on fans being allowed to drink alcohol in the stands during men’s football matches as “discrimination”
Meanwhile, today the University of Tennessee’s Neyland Stadium is offering alcoholic drinks at half-price to encourage people to get to today’s noon game early. You know, due to increased security because the President is coming to watch the game. So drink early, drink often.
GO VOLS!
And this is the game today.
I gotta follow this guy, Rabbi MG, His video work is excellent.
Once more . . . GO VOLS!
Too long for a band, just right for an album.
Pivoting Lesbians, OTOH…
Harmless playful nonsense, OK, ideological bullying nonsense, not so much.
Oh, and because it’s been almost a week since the last one, another of those Things That Never Happen.
[ Snatches bag of random used screws from Dicentra, passes it to Muldoon. ]
Well, quite. Says our Guardian columnist, “The world would be a lot better if it had more people like Jackie Matellian in it.”
I have to say, actively enabling neuroticism, narcissism and spite – and kowtowing to a list of insane, vindictive demands that will never end – doesn’t strike me as a way to make the world better. Quite the opposite, I’d suggest.
And then there’s Ms Mahdawi’s conceit that acknowledging these examples of vividly demented and spiteful behaviour is merely finding “opportunities to attack progressives.” As if the demented and spiteful behaviour were a piffling detail, not a recurring theme.
A signature of the type.
I see the poor downtrodden just looking for a better life are at it again.
“Passengers”, just like on a cruise ship. I guess “asylum seekers” was getting old and a new euphemism needed.
TBF, except for the hypothermia that could have been a cruise ship featured in recent videos.
Are there people in western civilization that are not at odds with themselves? The people are responsible for these governments. They could end this idiocy at any time, but they have allowed their children to be brainwashed, themselves to be brainwashed, some have even gone so far as to allow their god to be brainwashed into hating themselves.
Back, way, way back when this film was made, production started just before covid so all the pre-production decisions were made in 2019, the inclusion of a talented black actor in a historical European period piece, such a fly-in-the-buttermilk, was insurance against a financial flop. While somewhat expensive to make relative to the financial risk, such a decision was a somewhat honest insurance hedge. With films being produced today, post-GeorgeFloyd, it’s pretty much all Jewish lightning, as the saying goes.
Presumably the blogger sees it as humiliating for the players to be forced to watch a performance they find silly but must show respect for.
I was once semi-coerced into watching a risibly bad modern improv dance performance (for the sake of good relations in the workplace) and it felt very awkward being expected to say nice things afterwards to the young women who obviously had no talent whatsoever. I didn’t think of it at the time as humiliation, but it was a coercion of a sort and thus bore some relation to humiliation.
Or an instrumental track by certain…well, looking at you King Crimson.
Seemed like the darker the skin on the Brazilian, the easier it was for them to express incredulity.
Perhaps it’s the performers being humiliated, not the observers.
Trump’s attending so …
[ ducks ]
… three shades of orange?
{ heads for exit ]
Another for the Things That Never Happen file:
Always the ones you least expect …
Further details.
Succinct.
(via)
More of that would not go amiss.
And in man bites dog news, PETA says something not insane.
We don’t get detailed news about UK politics, but didn’t you guys just get a new PM (Burnam) without a general election, after some fimble famble negotiations? Like the way the Dems here ousted Biden during the last election cycle? So, a coup? And isn’t Burnham about to institute draconian censorship? Bad juju going on.
Why, it’s almost as if these were the kind of irretrievably obnoxious, broken people that it’s best to avoid.
At times, seeing things like this, the notion of a ‘trans-genocide’ acquires a certain lustre.
I’m still processing the fact that there’s a chap complaining – in public, on social media – that he subscribed to an OnlyFans account and didn’t get the erotic fart video that he was hoping for, seemingly with some urgency.
And publicly demanding a refund of his $3 subscription.
What a time to be alive.
I oscillate around the two theories, 1) that people are actually that stupid, and 2) no, people are not that stupid, it’s just a stab at potential viral advertising. Both can be true though. Like a binary star system. Kinda.
😂
This is my non-judgemental face.
…drop off on an uninhabited island far away from shore.
The general vicinity should suffice.
Wasn’t that what Australia was supposed to be for? And (US) Georgia before that? At some point, at some time these people need to be addressed. At least until Musk can build a Golgafrinchan Ark B. Ah…but if man’s reach does not exceed his grasp…
[ Flicks through Chinese takeaway menu, strokes chin thoughtfully. ]
Sex Pistols tribute band.
They do a decent hot and sour soup. And the chili chicken ain’t bad. Ooh, salt and pepper chips.
[ Chin stroking intensifies. ]
Random ad break 3.
A priest opines:
Because neither are, I am guessing he has neither the Bible nor Koran.
Damn those bigoted women and their sexual preferences!
Come on, England, are you going to let yourselves be outdone by the Dutch?
Feasting on the lynched, dismembered remains of our elected officials shouldn’t be ruled out too hastily.