Tokens Of Gratitude And Esteem
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Something like this.
I’m tempted to ask how you’re so expertly acquainted with these things.
Ah, but do you bring, or bring out, a pad and pen on a job interview?
Nah, bro. She gonna need something more like this.
Carefully.
One would think.
And hope.
We have entered Friday Ephemera territory.
[ Checks tomorrow’s links one last time, wipes brow. ]
Bugger. I’ve misaligned my Elastoplast eyebrows. I look like a quizzical Mr Spock.
When watching sci-fi series, especially TOS, singular characters of other non-human species used to amuse me. Until I saw an episode with other Vulcans I wondered if maybe Spok might have been a freak in his own culture who hung out with humans because they wouldn’t realize how abnormal he truly was, or might have been. Like I was fairly certain they would have pointy ears, that was kinda baked into some of the dialogue or mythology. But those eyebrows and his general physical appearance…? I’m often a poor judge of what makes at least some men look attractive but that guy hit the lottery with that role.
Marine biology consult for land whales.
@pst314, something in your vicinity?
I wonder how many protesters there will be. Lots of leftists, especially in Evanston, and no shortage of “unassimilated” Muslims all over the Chicago area.
@David, should we be making up the guest room? Between the impending Ministry of Truth and the rounding up of ‘hooligans’ it’s looking a bit dodgy in Merrie Olde.
TRUST THE GOVERNMENT IN ALL THINGS, CITIZEN.
“You’re nobody until you’ve been booed.” — Bob Dylan
That means people are paying attention to what you said.
I’ve seen this repeatedly. I had a blog back in the day. Published and liked to a lot of stuff like Instapundit. Got tired of the silence and quit, and a major blogger wrote it was unfortunate I quit.
Like, dude, it would have been nice to know that before I did it.
But you can see the difficulty for them. Having created an absurd, unsustainable, socially degrading situation, one whose effects and trajectory we’re supposed to pretend away, some people are choosing not to pretend. But only those refusing to pretend are referred to as extremists.
Not the people whose perversity created the absurd, unsustainable, socially degrading situation.
I wonder, will Angela Merkel be denounced as an extremist? Will our governments and their bizarre determination to ignore the most basic economics and the loudly stated preferences of the electorate? And what about the state broadcasters so keen to deceive?
Laughed, not sorry.
When in reality, the true dilemma is on the flip side of that. Fortunately…well for the purposes of perpetuating the species…God put an insanely high relative sex drive into men such that usually at some point in their lives, the little head does the thinking for the big head. Fortunately. For the purposes of the perpetuation of the species.
Our lives are controlled by the behavior of the bottom ten percent.
The irony of those big lip plates is they deliberately tried to uglify themselves so the slavers would pass them by.
They were saying, “I’m of no use to you.”
There seems to be some uncertainty about that. When I read about it many years ago, it was presented as settled fact and I accepted it as such. Now I’m reading that it is only one of a number of theories.
That’s what our “nonconformists” are saying to the world.
The CPUSA weighs in on that Massachusetts lesbian bar story.
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