While I take a short break, here’s an attempt to distract you with some items from the archives:
The Importance Of Plumbing.
A tale of tax, utopia, and human faeces.
Dish magazine hailed the project as “Seasonal, sustainable, organic, artisanal, waste-free, foraged.” While readers of
EasyJet Traveller were told that the resort is “A new way of living that’s as sustainable as it is delicious.” For Ms Helbæk and Mr Hansen, the name of the resort, which is Danish for “sense of place,” reflects “which direction we need to go as a society.”
Readers will doubtless be intrigued by the “foraged” food – i.e., carrots and leaves, served repeatedly – plus the unheated rooms, the lack of running water, and the whole shitting-in-a-barrel thing. For a mere £900 a night, one can’t expect luxuries like plumbing, protein, or the prospect of heat.
And for those inclined to squint, there may be a rustic charm to things being a loose approximation of what is claimed. And so, just as unheated fishing huts with no plumbing or sanitation are framed as “luxury,” seemingly random objects on a plate are hailed as meals, as “artisanal” and “delicious.”
Peer-Reviewed, You Say.
On self-other paradigms and situated bodies.
Such is the radical heft of the Journal of Lesbian Studies. Where other topics of deep pondering include “lesbian-dog relationalities and becomings,” and “lesbian, non-binary, and trans-dog intimacies.” Empowered feminist ladies and their erotic entanglements with pets is, you’ll recall, a subject we’ve touched on before.
Have You Tried Storing Them Upright?
On crime, incarceration and dubious conclusions.
Readers will note the odd implication that the level of serious criminal behaviour at any given time should somehow conform to the amount of prison space you have at that time. As if the moral gravity of a criminal act, and likelihood of recidivism and danger to the public, should be determined by whether or not you can be bothered to build another dungeon.
Footwear Enthusiast.
Cross-dressing bedlamite attacks women, steals their shoes.
After all, what could possibly go wrong when housing with women a mentally ill man who likes to hold knives to women’s throats before stealing their footwear, and hoarding said footwear for sexual purposes? A man who delights in stalking women, assaulting them, and waving his tallywhacker at mothers with their young daughters.
A man who is referred to in the German media, somewhat surreally, as a woman, a she-person, despite being identified via the very male genetic material left at the scenes of his crimes.
For those craving more, this is a pretty good place to start.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
I bet they didn’t put that in the brochure.
Very on-message for the Greens.
It does, I think, have a symbolic resonance.
The low IQ fascism of Reddit moderators – banned from r/LandLord for being a “class traitor.”
“We reject any and all calls for us to view landlords as individuals. As a class they are a plight [sic] on humanity and as a class they will be judged.”
I have a friend who owns a rental property. Fortunately, she has a property manager who is very good at vetting potential tenants and she charges slightly under market rent, because she’d rather have – and she does – a good tenant who has respect for the property.
@David: I only noticed the comment you posted yesterday on another thread because I still had that browser tab open this morning.
I wonder: Is there a WordPress feature to display alerts in the sidebar when other threads are updated?
I have no idea. Not even sure what such a thing would be called.
And the most recent ten comments are already displayed in the sidebar.
Seems wise enough. You wouldn’t want to rent out your property to a preening communist forever itching for a quarrel. The kind of tenant who always has a reason for why the rent hasn’t been paid, again, and who wants you to believe that this is somehow your fault.
I preferred it when our laws weren’t totally insane.
It would be nice if we weren’t expected to pretend quite so many things.
John D…
Quite concerned about the contents of their “forage”.
‘Annoying’?
Speaking of landlords.
Is it pretence though? The basics of pricing seem to mystify more & more every day.
I’ve managed to resist the temptation to install the wpDiscuz voice commenting addon, whereby you could drive each other, and me, insane with recordings of your own voices.
The problem is that such off-thread comments can disappear quickly from any “ten most recent” list.
Don’t make me install the voice commenting addon.
Landlords: they provide a service. No landlords=no rental properties. “council housing” as the Brits call it, is rarely satisfactory and is generally down-market. Demonizing them just reflects the typical commie economic ignorance and desire to stir up discord.
In Minneapolis, Somali immigrants have a charming habit of renting a house (typically from a bank, foreclosed property) and then paying one month rent and staying up to a year before being evicted. Rinse and repeat. Bad tenants can destroy a place.
Why? Do you find the existing “most recent 10 comments” annoying?
Theodore Dalrymple has recounted various horror stories–not just the bad tenants but the callous indifference of the government officials.
They’re not bad, they’re culturally enriching.
No, but it doesn’t act as an alert as such.
Yes, well, so is ordure or so we’ve been told.
And, it occurs to me, other bodily sounds.
Such as our digestive systems struggling with your bar snacks?
Have you ever wondered if the right punishment is death by torture?