Friday Ephemera
Secret entrance of note. || We are not related. || I was previously unaware of white strawberries. || This is bigger than yours. || Box of human heads stolen. || That’s close enough, pussycat. || Almost Pong, a game, of sorts. || Those Monday morning blues. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Not entirely ideal. || “Non-binary” baby shower. || A brief history of cardboard. || She does this better than you would. || Heardle, like Wordle, but with pop music. || Know your place, peasant. || Where pretentious grievance gets you. || The progressive retail experience, parts 417, 418, 419, and 420. || Know your place, part 2: “Men, don’t speak.” || A situation has arisen. || And finally, futuristically, the world of tomorrow.
Know your place, peasant.
Distorting and disfiguring, eh?
Previously in Binghampton.
A situation has arisen
I guess she doesn’t suffer from claustrophobia…yet.
Incoming.
Firefighting is just cool.
In unrelated geek news, I asked the local firehouse if they had any old copies of the IFSTA manuals they might want to part with. When they asked why, I told them I was working on updating the Fight Fire RPG.
They gave me a bunch of stuff, but they want to see the finished game. Which rather means I have to write the damn thing now.
“I was previously unaware of white strawberries.”
Like golden raspberries and kiwi fruit, they just look….wrong, somehow! Like Luke Skywalker sitting down to breakfast with that blue ‘milk’ or whatever it was.
She does this better than you would.
Skills.
Know your place, peasant.
“Over 900 people have signed a petition in support of a Binghamton University sociology professor who considered a student’s race and gender before calling on them in classroom discussions”
Not just the odd bad apple then.
Morning, all.
I guess she doesn’t suffer from claustrophobia…yet.
If you search for ‘woman stuck in washing machine,’ you’ll see it’s not an isolated incident.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
A situation has arisen
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On at least one occasion, a game of hide-and-seek.
the world of tomorrow.
Virtual reality looks a bit intense. 🙂
Virtual reality looks a bit intense. 🙂
I think that was more of a plain old reality experience. As someone quips in the Reddit thread, “If you die in the
Matrixmall VR kiosk, you die in real life.”She does this better than you would.
This video should be shown to the ‘queer hikers’ from the previous entry, to show them what overcoming real problems looks like.
This video should be shown to the ‘queer hikers’ from the previous entry, to show them what overcoming real problems looks like.
Some time ago, after posting something in which yet another middle-class lefty was whining about some sub-microscopic agony, thereby signalling their own status as an elevated being, I went for a walk to a nearby café. On arrival, I saw that a new employee was quite startlingly disfigured – to an extent that I had to make an effort not to stare. There were lots of small children milling about and I was hoping none of them would make some inapt remark. The gulf between, on the one hand, the alleged oppressions of spellcheck software, or barbecues, or having one’s unusual name mispronounced, and on the other, the person taking the order for my lunch, was hard to miss.
She does this better than you would.
Why did she buy a long-sleeved shirt?
Oh, and as usual for your fine selections of Friday Ephemera, there is the calming base of nice things that make you go “Sweet! Neat!” and the spiciness of other things that are not so nice and make you think things that I’m not gonna post here. (You are a kindly person who would not tolerate such things here.)
Not just the odd bad apple then
Well, “900 people” and “900 professors” aren’t quite the same thing. But any number of professors greater than zero is still cause for concern.
Although the Japanese model is a good start, increasingly I think even the STEM programs are unsalvageable. Eliminating all public funding, subsidies and loan guarantees, permanently, is the only solution. Academies that produce useful graduates will attract more admissions.
The progressive retail experience
I keep waiting to see anyone but a Black person involved. I mean, I know no one wants to say it, but . . .
Oh, and a follow up to the word touron from the last post, a delightful compilation of tourons in action can be found at this Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/touronsofyellowstone/
Learning environment.
If you search for ‘woman stuck in washing machine,’ you’ll see it’s not an isolated incident.
If you can get sent to prison for putting a cat in a washing machine, shouldn’t they be prosecuted for cruelty to dumb animals, that is, themselves?
[The sun is well below the yardarm, slurps vodka]
“Men, don’t speak.”
Just watch these bitches on mute and how cookie-cutter mentally disfigured they all are becomes too obvious. They are mass produced fuckups and nothing more.
“If you die in the
Matrixmall VR kiosk, you die in real life.”LOL
One of the worst things that arose mid last century was therapeutic culture as described:
This gave rise to much of the social pathology seen now, and extreme horseshit like this brave battle with anorexia*.
*(diagnosed by an online dietitian)
Meanwhile, over in Blighty, “I am a very practical person. I have a plan, as you know, a solution…” for climate
changehysteria.Meanwhile, over in Blighty
Ms Westwood and her enormous, throbbing brain have been mentioned here before.
I don’t fully grasp the economics of the ‘progressive retail experience’. Given the quantities of merchandise involved, this stuff is obviously being stolen for resale. But if you all you have to do is walk into a shop and take what you want, why would you pay a fence for it? If you have a problem with theft, then you should also have a problem with buying obviously stolen goods. Surely it would make more sense to cut out the middle man?
But if you all you have to do is walk into a shop and take what you want, why would you pay a fence for it?
I’ve wondered that too, but all I have come up with is the fence is charging pennies on the dollar for the stuff, and maybe the fence comes to you, kinda like ye olde peddlers of medieval times. Still – the quantities of the stuff stolen – is there really that big of a market for it in the ‘Hood (or homeless camps) and how many of each item do you need? Or is the packrat mentality taking over, and because the stuff is fenced so cheaply, the buyers purchase multiples of said items. You have to wonder when market saturation will take place, unless the buyers are just hoarding, and they manage to beg, steal, or get from the gov’t enough money to keep purchasing the cheap, fenced stuff. You would think the state and city would get angry about all the sales tax they are losing – especially on the fancy goods.
Or maybe the fence is going to suburbia and white people are buying it. Stuff’s expensive in cities, what with markup, local taxes, and of course state taxes – even Walgreens tat. I used to go to the AGU conference in SF, CA every December, trying to get by on the $30 a day per diem the university gave me, and Walgreens was a good source of relatively cheap nourishment (compared to restaurant prices). There were no supermarkets in walking distance of the convention center.
They are mass produced fuckups and nothing more.
Oh, I don’t know. Some of them are working in, even running, HR departments, administering universities, working in hospitals, teaching children, especially small ones, etc. etc. etc.
Doppelgangers: I have at least one. I was once mistaken for a guy’s next door neighbor. He couldn’t believe his eyes and insisted on taking selfies to send to the “real” guy back in Minnesota.
Ladies – prettier womynx are after your men, plan accordingly.
In the world of problematic, a person is troubled that a movie about wypipo has an all yte cast.
Except maybe the Egyptian dude who looks yte, but as we all know from our Useless Studies all Egyptians were black, except for this film. Or something.
Getting so you need a scorecard.
Well that was double-plus ungood. Not sure how that happened.
Progressive Retail: What would it be like if Walgreens pulled up in a van at a street sale, loaded up with stuff displayed and took off?
That’d be cool.
FACT CHECK: Flying chairs in the classroom.
That was the debating club practicing for an upcoming tournament. Coach was demonstrating the Swift Retort.
Tourons: in yellowstone there have been multiple tourists who slipped into hot springs. One was rescued but the others not and the springs are so hot and caustic that there is not even a body to retrieve.
Bison and moose are unpredictable and can be well over 1000lbs. Too many people think disney movies are real life.
Some of them are working in, even running, HR departments, administering universities, working in hospitals, teaching children, especially small ones, etc. etc. etc.
And fucking it all up, as their kind are meant to.
move Oppenheimer: it is an historical movie in which only white people played a role (development of the atomic bomb). Historical themes get screwed up enough without changing the race of historical characters. Will they demand next that a japanese movie about the shogunate have blacks? They complained about Dunkirk that it was too white and too male. FFS
By the way, if you want an accurate historical movie where plenty of characters were multiracial/female, make one about 9/11.
Progressive Retail #420: Somehow I knew that the bananas were going to figure into the action. Kudos to the cinematographer for excellent foreshadowing.
Progressive Retail: What would it be like if Walgreens pulled up in a van at a street sale, loaded up with stuff displayed and took off?
The reverse of Progressive Retail wouldn’t work because the street sales would be defended with firearms, knives, and other assorted weaponry, wielded by persons who would have no hesitation whatsoever to use them. And the soft wypipo of Walgreens know it.
this stuff is obviously being stolen for resale
Yep. There’s a huge black market in stolen/ off the books merchandise, esp in bodegas and such. It’s so common that some retailers are putting “this is from …” stickers on goods for tracking purposes…
Tourons: in yellowstone
Took the kids and camped in Yellowstone a couple decades ago. Spent the prior year doing camping in local mountains/desert sites to instruct them on everything from how to pitch a tent to prepping to cook over a firepit.
The lessons always included “you’re not top of the food chain out here … respect and give the animals their space.”
What sealed it for them was while in Yellowstone, watching from afar as some touron thought the Rangers’ warning didn’t apply to him and he tried to get in for a closeup shot with a huge grazing elk. A bull with 6-point antlers.
Guy’s own lizard brain must have kicked in because when the elk lowered his head and tensed to charge, the guy realized he was on the pointy end of antlers much taller than him and he backed away. Elk took the surrender gracefully and went back to grazing.
We sleep soundly in our beds, because TicTok “stars” stand ready in the night to make the Russia situation make sense for us. Yo.
Ms Westwood and her enormous, throbbing brain have been mentioned here before.
From that link: “Clothes and food should cost much more than they do in Britain to reflect their true impact on the environment, Vivienne Westwood said on Wednesday night. Speaking at a Guardian Live event…
Counter-suggestion, just to mess with their minds: Leftist speech and behavior should cost much more than they do to reflect their true impact on humanity. Maybe a tax of $10 per word? After all, if leftists are entitled to enact taxes and laws to punish Wrong Think, they why can’t their chosen enemies do the same to them?
Sf writer John Scalzi once again beclowns himself.
Still – the quantities of the stuff stolen – is there really that big of a market for it in the ‘Hood (or homeless camps) and how many of each item do you need?
I have friends who grew up in parts of town where many neighbours used to make a living as shoplifters/ opportunistic thieves.
Shoplifted clothes were sold very cheap- most thieves wanted rid of them by end of day.
Because they were sold cheap they were treated as disposable- no question of trying to look after an expensive jacket or shirt.
There is huge wastage- you may have grabbed a box of 100 tee shirts but not everyone in your neighbourhood wants to be seen in that tee shirt. So it is dumped.
Removing security tags can tear or leave dye on stolen clothes- dump them!
I vaguely knew one individual who had seen someone wearing a white crombie overcoat and decided that it was the coolest coat he had seen (this was about 1980 when rude boys and ska reigned). He would have been 15 at the time. Someone mentioned that they had seen such a coat in a nearby clothes shop- one of those small family-owned and run shops that somehow survived in that run down and increasingly crime-infested area. A gang of them stormed into the shop, punching the owner and knocking over rails of clothes to cause confusion. The individual grabbed the white coat, rolled it up and the gang ran up the street and up to the roof of a no-go block of flats. There the coat was unrolled- and was discovered to be a white duffle coat and not a crombie. It was thrown down to the ground where it became just another piece of rubbish on the street.
The individual used to tell the story against himself in the pub- he was an extremely funny individual and could turn it into a hilarious tale.
I always thought of the disruption, the injury to the middle-aged shopowner, the loss of trade that day and the end result- an expensive coat lying on the street soaking up dirt and being run over by traffic.
After all, if leftists are entitled to enact taxes and laws to punish Wrong Think, they why can’t their chosen enemies do the same to them?
Because their enemies don’t have the guts. Not even to say “Boo”. At least not in numbers too big to ignore.
Not entirely ideal.
Wow! On one hand, it’s extraordinary that we can witness a moment like that on video with a click of the mouse. We live in amazing times.
On the other hand, what kind of lunatic climbs up ice on what looks like a 1000-foot sheer wall? Jeez!
Point proven
Still – the quantities of the stuff stolen – is there really that big of a market for it in the ‘Hood (or homeless camps) and how many of each item do you need?
I have friends who grew up in parts of town where many neighbours used to make a living as shoplifters/ opportunistic thieves.
Shoplifted clothes were sold very cheap- most thieves wanted rid of them by end of day.
There’s now the added factor of online shopping. Gangs and many individual criminals have found it lucrative to pay pennies on the dollar for stolen merchandise then selling it as an Amazon 3rd party seller or on eBay?
@pst314, that reminds me that I have a couple of that asshole’s books that I had bought prior to finding out about his rampant leftist idiocy. I need to take them over to Half Priced Books so he won’t get paid for someone else buying *my* old copies.
Richard Cranium: I was a big Scalzi fan back in the day, before he published his first book. He used to write movie reviews and they were highly entertaining (I’m surprised he hasn’t collected them, a la Ebert). I enjoyed “Old Man’s War” and read his blog.
Over time, his nastiness started getting to me. He made fun of child-free people and other idiots. He also seemed opportunistic. When Katrina hit, he wrote a piece about poverty that was widely published, for which he was paid a lot, and he bragged about buying a high-end camera with it. Which, considering he profited off of poor people flooded out of their homes, seemed a tad tone-deaf.
His bullying personality surfaced in his blog more and more, and he grew rancid about Republicans and Bush, so that reading one of his posts boosted my blood pressure to the point where I walked away. Life has improved greatly, which reminds me I should dump most of his books as well.
Richard Cranium: I was a big Scalzi fan back in the day, before he published his first book…
Old Man’s War was when I first heard of him, I think, although I can’t be sure. That novel was fairly enjoyable. I sampled one or two later on (local library) and found them to be meh, so there was no temptation to spend money on him. I’m not sure how I found his blog–maybe via Glenn Reyolds? If so, Scalzi would be just one more blogger who got a boost from Glenn but then turned way to the left. (Remember Jeff Jarvis’ Buzz Machine blog? He wrote chiefly about bad/dishonest news reporting, but now seems to be all in favor of leftist disinformation.)
Over time, his nastiness started getting to me…
He initially posed as a libertarian, but soon switched to a leftist persona. (That switch alone got me wondering how honest and sincere he is about anything. Amoral opportunist with no actual convictions? Or typical lying leftist?) His nastiness repelled me, too, and I ended up deciding that even if I liked his stories it would be silly to put money in the pocket of someone who chooses to define me as an enemy. (This put me in sharp disagreement with my fake conservative/fake libertarian friends, who are very good at finding rationalizations for defending bad ideas and bad people.)
Shoplifted clothes were sold very cheap- most thieves wanted rid of them by end of day.
I believe it has always been the case that fences typically pay thieves a tiny fraction of the retail price of the goods they stole. Pennies on the dollar, even.
…futuristically, the world of tomorrow.
More from the futuristic Glorious World of Next Tuesday.
WBF Aeronautics, “Tomorrow’s Stupidity, Today”
More from the futuristic Glorious World of Next Tuesday.
Broken link. Try this. Via here. Via here.
God, what a bunch of silly bints.
Thanks pst, for some reason the http stuff got chopped from my link, but it still worked in preview.
Anyway, silly bints indeed – my last name may not be von Braun, but I am pretty sure that greater surface from and all the, ahem, anatomical accuracy means more form drag, not less.
I am constantly amazed, though, about the hordes of people whose whole being and purpose in life revolves around their naughty bits.
Anyway, silly bints indeed…
I’d like to suggest that everyone read Gtoss and Levitt’s book Higher Superstition for some eye-opening examples of lunatic feminist attacks on science. (Also black radical attacks, Marxist attacks, etc.)
We are not related.
Some kids in my ‘naughty’ class were very pleased with themselves when they found this. I wear a similar shirt and have a similar red bag. I showed my family without comment and they asked where and when? And that is totally the way I would go down.
https://twitter.com/Felix59250582/status/1502578257861873666?s=20&t=3HgaLsTd1Mzf8u88QhXnzQ
The uncanny part is that I have always worn my hair a lot longer, and it is longer now. In 2018 I had chemo and it fell out. When the boys found the clip in 2020, that was the exact length my hair was at that point in time.
A situation has arisen
Coulda been naked. Just a suggestion.
In today’s exciting episode of “Modern Problematic Problems”, Colonized Gas Pumps.
And that is totally the way I would go down
Presumably, you’d stay sprawled on the floor, feigning injury, waiting for a handsome doctor to pass by.
Hey, I’m not judging you.
I am constantly amazed, though, about the hordes of people whose whole being and purpose in life revolves around their naughty bits.
What those girls need is some rod from God.
I should dump most of his books as well . . . .
I ended up deciding that even if I liked his stories it would be silly to put money in the pocket of someone who chooses to define me as an enemy.
Well, you’re entitled to read whatever you like, but surely you are aware that imposing an ideological litmus test on your reading list is exactly what the woke lunatics running the Hugo Awards were (and are) doing? They decided that no works by insufficiently “diverse” authors with “racist” or “problematic” opinions should be allowed to be submitted for an award. This is largely what inspired the “Sad Puppies” movement.
Scalzi’s personality and politics may be a loathsome, but he’s a pretty good writer. No one is forcing you to read his blog, after all. Would you refuse to watch a movie featuring Alec Baldwin because he is such a despicable person? He’s still a hell of an actor.
What those girls need is some rod from God.
Only if they are virgins.
The Holy Ghost will boycott all others (should that be personcott?) including chicks with dicks.
She laughs, and laughs, and looks like a hostage in all the photos.
For a long time the feminists complained about “phallic” skyscrapers. In a downtown area to increase density you can only go up.
Forever, men have strived to make the lives of their wives and children better. These efforts never appear to be enough to satisfy.
Learning environment.
According to the Education Data Initiative, the USA is the fifth highest spender on K-12 public education amongst the OECD countries, which comes to a national average of $12,624 per pupil, or $640 billion dollars annually.
That’s money well spent then.
“Well, you’re entitled to read whatever you like, but surely you are aware that imposing an ideological litmus test on your reading list is exactly what the woke lunatics running the Hugo Awards were (and are) doing?”
Agreed, but it’s not so much a litmus test in my case, as a visceral reaction to Scalzi’s personality.
Just like I can’t read John Birmingham’s books after reading his Trump diatribe in his self-published time travel novel, and stopped listening to Kevin Smith’s “Hollywood Babble-On” after the Trump jokes started. And Marc Maron after he called Trump voters — all Trump voters — evil.
OTOH, I loved Sean Penn’s work in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” despite his loud support for Venezuela. Same for “Sherlock” with the woke actress playing the coroner.
Also, I would never call for Scalzi to lose his Tor contract and be run out of the genre, and if he was threatened with censorship I would defend him, if only to say, “Scazi’s an obnoxious asshole, but he should be allowed to speak.”
“Well, you’re entitled to read whatever you like, but surely you are aware that imposing an ideological litmus test on your reading list is exactly what the woke lunatics running the Hugo Awards were (and are) doing?”
That is a bit like saying “Executing murderers makes you a murderer”: Scalzi, like the left in general, seems to be fine with excluding those he disagrees with from publishing and, well, everything else perhaps.
There is an old saying that “conservatives think liberals are mistaken, while liberals think conservatives are evil”. We conservatives, after suffering decades of warfare from the left, are reassessing our belief that liberals are merely mistaken.
Scalzi’s personality and politics may be a loathsome, but he’s a pretty good writer.
I read an excerpt that he thought was so great that he wanted people to read it without having to buy his book. I guess he thought it would draw people in.
It involved a superior forcing a man under her command into sex. It was so revolting (and so poorly written, at that) that I swore off ever buying anything with his name on it.
::::snicker::::
By the way, further to the previous post, the weather was good today, so the Other Half and I went for a drive around the Peak District National Park. Saw people of all colours, shapes and ages wandering about and enjoying the scenery. So far as I could make out, none of them were rendered tearful by the “whiteness” or “heteronormativity” of the activity in question. In fact, they seemed quite jolly.
Had an ice cream, obviously.
In fact, they seemed quite jolly.
Operative word is “seemed”, probably seething on the inside…
In fact, they seemed quite jolly.
That’s what makes it so insidious.
The heteronomativity will continue until morale improves. And by improves, I mean gets worse.
::::snicker::::
Those images are so far from “normal” today as to be pornographic.
Quick get the hamster urine.
::::snicker::::
Also: “Feminism leaving the body when the WWIII draft starts”:
Operative word is “seemed”, probably seething on the inside…
And oddly, the chap selling the ice cream didn’t ask whether I was “pansexual” or “genderqueer,” or indeed middle-class. He just apologised for forgetting the napkins.
…the chap selling the ice cream didn’t ask whether I was “pansexual” or “genderqueer.”
Well of course not, being filled with raging cis-heteronormativity and patriarchal white privilege he would just assume your race and gender identities.
WWIII draft: won’t actually be time to draft anyone for this war…
I think many of those who go on about being oppressed and seeing phallic symbols and “whiteness” everywhere aspire to be intellectuals but lack the IQ to pull it off. At least with a brilliant mind you can be crazy without it being so obvious (e.g., Chomsky, Bertrand Russell).
Fun fact of the day: “The F16 will lay on its back and “play dead” when it feels under threat…”
Isn’t natural history fascinating?
“It’s not dead, it’s just resting.”
“The F16 will lay on its back and “play dead” when it feels under threat…”
There’s a joke about God playing lawn jarts in there somewhere but damned if I can flush it out.
There’s a joke about God playing lawn jarts in there somewhere but damned if I can flush it out.
Search far enough back in that Twitter account and you may find it.
A mother U2 Stealth planes leads her young from the hangar for its first flight. Aww, isn’t that sweet?
Except that’s not a U2. It’s an SR-71, I believe. Likely not an A12 but maybe. I’m not an expert but I pretend with my friends. They’re clueless on these matters. But I digress…
F16… U2
Is it somehow part of the joke that both planes are misidentified?
Is it somehow part of the joke that both planes are misidentified?
Could be. There are a lot of clearly intentional misidentifications in that account.
Fun fact of the day:
One would think a guy billing himself as “RAF Luton” would have gone for a perfidious French joke with an upside down Jaguar.
Brianna is unhappy. Via Julia.
Our betters gather.
Delusion not indulged – by everyone, everywhere, all the time – weeping ensues.
Could be
Good God.
You mean none of you could tell “RAF Luton” was a parody account from…I don’t know, literally any of its tweets?
imposing an ideological litmus test on your reading list
I impose an “I’m not reading shit by mediocre authors who can’t resist injecting their smug politics into everything they write” test. This has the knock-on effect of excluding most leftist authors. And Pratchett.
Well…
So, a) your concern has been noted and b) I’m not going to turn all 4 cheeks to my enemies.
I’m not going to turn all 4 cheeks to my enemies.
I’m writing that one down.
Delusion not indulged – by everyone, everywhere, all the time – weeping ensues.
She looks like she fell in a cutlery drawer. Who’s *hiring* these people?
By the way, further to the previous post, the weather was good today, so the Other Half and I went for a drive around the Peak District National Park.
We got three inches of snow yesterday. Just when the last of the previous snow melted. Same happened two weeks ago.
There’s a joke about God playing lawn jarts in there somewhere but damned if I can flush it out.
Relevant
You mean none of you could tell “RAF Luton” was a parody account from…I don’t know, literally any of its tweets?
Especially as it described itself as a “parody/satire? account
And Pratchett
That’s where you blew your credibility
You mean none of you could tell “RAF Luton” was a parody account…
Yes, everyone could obviously from “Luton” which was in nigh half of Monty Python jokes, real though it is. The point is the jokes were bad (actually most of his), but could have funny without (hopefully) deliberately mis-identifying things, there is no humor added by calling an SR-71 a U-2, a French plane, particularly named after a cat, showing its belly is more on point, and so on.
OTOH, it can be done right.
Could be
Good God.
You mean none of you could tell “RAF Luton” was a parody account from…I don’t know, literally any of its tweets?
Oh, I could tell immediately. I just didn’t know if “U-2” was a mistake or an attempt at added humor: Mistakenly calling an SR-71 a U-2 doesn’t really add usefully to the humor, but any comedian will tell you that “U-2” sounds better than “SR-71”: It falls more easily off the tongue and the sounds of words do affect their comedic value.
It falls more easily off the tongue and the sounds of words do affect their comedic value.
Except it is not being spoken, but if it was, “…rarely seen in the wild Blackbird…”, “Skunk Works spawning ground”, etc. etc.
As we both said, mis-identifying adds nothing, e.g., his one good joke about the AWACS being sprayed for covid is not improved by calling an E-3 an A380.
Except it is not being spoken…
True, but still relevant because most people do hear the sounds of words when they read.
…”…rarely seen in the wild Blackbird…”, “Skunk Works spawning ground”, etc. etc.
I like your formulations. So: “A mother Blackbird leads her young from the nest/hanger for its first flight…”
Side note: …only one in seventy baby U2s will survive:
That “seventy” (although not the “one in” does bear a superficial relation to the actual airplane: About 100 were built of which about 30 remain operational, which means that 70 were shot down, lost in accidents, cannibalized for parts, etc. I have no idea how many really were shot down because that is not the sort of thing the gov’mt willingly talks about.