Friday Ephemera (782)
Big beast incoming. || Interspecies battle of wits. || Cheeeldren of the night. || Eight literally dark days in history. || Trajectory detected. || Trajectory detected 2. || Gratuitous gesture. || A gathering of dragons. || Hot and steamy jiggling. || The joy of budgeting, 1957. || Suboptimal driving mindset. || It’s a “joyful noise” of resistance, see, so suck it up, neighbour. || It involves a rug. || “No recognition was given for improving literacy, numeracy, or classroom learning outcomes.” || On history and the tragic vision. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || On medical ethics and body modification. || Over a vape. || For portable storage. || The progressive retail experience, parts 655, 656, 657 and 658. || Experiments in sudden-onset upwardsness. || Finger licking good. || And finally, somewhat flappy at speed.
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“I feel inferior to my son’s friends’ parents….”
That’s because you are.
It will be a happier ending if he gets an undetectable beat-down in the paddy wagon.
And blacks complain about whites avoiding them. All civilized people avoid them.
If only there had been some way to anticipate that, some information available.
“Go get the butter.”
Apropos: This article from 2003 on why middle class black kids fail in school:
The article cites a culture that despises kids who work hard as “acting white”. That pathology was widespread when I was a child in the 60’s, and still pervades black America today.
See also, the Smithsonian African American Museum’s page that I’ve mentioned before which disparages various attitudes and behaviors conducive to success as “whiteness”.
Black America needs less pride and more shame.
David always disappoints me with these provocative tag lines.
Better used here.
It’s time to make fun of the Dutch.
Lucas all grown up?
Senator Klobuchar Issues a Denial
David’s head?
I’ll send myself for re-grooving….
“We have these assault rifles that can reel off 30 clips, in conjunction with a magazine.”
“The West Should Welcome Gaza Refugees”: These two shit-stains take to the Wall Street Journal to lecture the West that it should accept the “Gaza refugees” that Israel and the Arab neighbors are wise enough to reject.
And “refugees” from the Middle East and North Africa and South Asia and elsewhere have proven to be unassimilable invaders.
What level of malice is sufficient to explain such false moral instruction?
Another indicator you’re living in an enemy-occupied country.
If we’re going to elect idiots can’t we at least elect a better class of idiot?
‘We have these politicians that can reel off lies in conjunction with a falsehood.’
“A gathering of dragons.“
I feared a feeding frenzy.
“Always respect the media”
Morning, all.
I’m guessing the third article will be, “Crying Uncontrollably In My Car, Why This Is A Good Thing.”
Incoming.
Incoming 2.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
“Bernard Bresslaw playing Nosferatu” 🤣
Yes, creeping around graveyards in the middle of the night, in bad drag, is a curious way to express one’s alleged inner self.
It does rather suggest an outtake from Carry On Screaming. And no amount of supposedly coquettish foot-raising will change that.
Are the brown ones the most dangerous ones ?
I was in Canada for a short holiday in 1998, and the motel bloke in Jasper said something about not worrying to much about the black ones, but watch out for the brown ones. I think that is what he said
I believe the worst ones are the poley bears, then brown ones (grizzlies being a type of brown bear), then the black bears.
Of course, the best way to scare bears away is to wield a cat.
Best reply.
Choose your keyboard.
Snake removal.
But if you have your hands full – the only reason you’d need it – you can’t do the gesture because your hands are full.
They just like being anti-social.
Grok says this 2020 video is real but it likely depicts a roundworm parasite rather than an actual snek.
It’s unlikely a snek would see a human as a cozy place to hang out, and even if it did, her gag reflex would have prevented it from slithering into her stomach.
None of them appear to be QWERTY keyboards.
And obviously the mozzarella.
Well, yes, as we’ve seen many times. And yet this obnoxious, delusional self-indulgence – 30 days of it – is framed as “joyful noise,” proof of “awareness” and of having “a big heart.”
Rather than, say, proof of being childish, selfish, narcissistic, or slapworthy.
Because the needless and protracted aggravation of hundreds of people – your neighbours – is seemingly inconsequential when compared to that unearned sense of importance.
It’s the progressive way.
“Reflecting our community”
Modernity, baby.
A gathering of dragons
I am reminded of the video for “No Rain” by Blind Melon.