Friday Ephemera (835)

Corey Hawkins isn’t sufficiently compelling as Macduff to compensate

That’s the nub of it, really. In general, lesser talents are being cast to check off boxes, resulting in a poorer production for it. There simply aren’t enough Washingtons and Freemans out there. It’s not a deep bench. It’s worse in Canada.

I’ve opined before about Canada’s Stratford Festival going ridiculously woke and the resulting decline in quality, from an Asian actor whose accent was so strong it was difficult to understand his lines, to a black actor who stood and delivered his lines as if he were completely stoned. All in the same production of Romeo and Juliet.

She tried it with me and ended up on the floor crying

I’ve mentioned before a five-foot, 100lb brown belt who insisted that she could take me in a ring fight. That didn’t end well.

she doesn’t strike me as the learning type

She gets up and wants to get right into it again, and has to be restrained by her friend. She’s done this before and gotten away with it. She’s never been injured as a result.

the circumstances were quite unusual

The mugger was a strung-out junkie and smaller and lighter than the MMA fighter in question.

The International Journal of Confirmational Observations

Peer-review, whatever value it may once have had, is just soggy biscuit with citations

You don’t need peer review for this. Tattoos on a woman say “I like pain, and I’m so desperate for attention I’ll do permanently disfiguring things to get it with no concern for the long-term consequences”. Tramp stamps say “The only time you’re going to see this is when I’m shaking my ass in your face, or when you’re railing me from behind. Which means these are things I regularly do”.

Unfortunately, a fair number of the “rescued dog” videos online are staged to promote the rescue operation fund raising

As Kate over at SDA repeatedly points out, pet rescue operations are a scam. They scoop up street dogs from all over the third world, smuggle them in with little or no quarantine or vetting for medical issues. The pet rescue business is propped up entirely by AWFUL virtue-signaling.

Why do they call it a “humiliation ritual”?

Because you have to stand there and not point and laugh at the stone age savages trying to scare you by making loud noises.

it felt very awkward being expected to say nice things afterwards to the young women who obviously had no talent whatsoever

“I lack the cultural sophistication to appreciate modern interpretive dance.” Works a treat. The AWFULs get to feel superior to the uncultured rube, and everyone else knows you’ve just taken the piss.

My anxiety about easy travel in the UK

Canadian version: you can drive for 17 hours and still be in the same tax jurisdiction.

Weimar vibes.

You know, when the left’s antics have you thinking “okay, maybe the NSDAP did have a bit of a point…”

But then, that’s the whole point. Division, dissension, and revolution.

rates of sexual offending

Do keep in mind that Ms. Rowling was as woke as woke could be before the leopards showed up to eat her face, and has a habit of repeating easily debunked statistics. She’s Naomi Wolf with a posh accent.

Men are not 98% of sexual offenders by sex; that statistic ignores the large number of female offenders who routinely avoid formal classification as such due to an unwillingness by the justice system in Western nations to punish female offenders as severely as it does male offenders.

Factor in prison rape and women aren’t 88% of rape victims either.

Rowling’s activism begins and ends with “men bad, women good”. Her position on this topic is not “men in dresses are nuts, and therefore dangerous”; it’s “men in dresses are men, and therefore dangerous”.

Figure it out yourselves, ladies.