Friday Ephemera
A lady descending, for unladylike reasons. || He wanted a piece of that action. || An alternative to towing. || Welcome to the clown timeline. || Selective umbrage detected. || Ceaseless innovation. (h/t, pst314) || Incoming. || Not for the nervous, a very close call. || For the bespectacled, a patent of note. || Not entirely implausible. (h/t, Damian) || Alpine shelter. Wi-Fi status unknown. || The past. || The roller skates of yesteryear. || Melon migration. || All back to mine. || Hers is bigger than yours. || Street vibes. || “Without testicles, a boy will become dependent on external hormones for the rest of his life.” || When your wardrobe solution requires some reorganization of external reality. || Freethinker detected. || And finally, when the new furniture is a little confusing.
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Unexplained automotive recursion.
Not for the nervous, a very close call.
Many years ago, I knew someone who insisted that wearing seat belts was dangerous: It was important that you be able to be thrown clear of the wreck. That was a very strange family.
Melon migration.
Spawning season, you know.
Family reunion.
She’s right, you know.
Simple bliss.
It was important that you be able to be thrown clear of the wreck.
Masten Gregory, aka “The Kansas City Flash”, a moderately successful racing driver in both open and closed wheel racing (including winning Le Mans with Jochen Rindt in 1965) had as a trademark standing up in the cockpit of the car and leaping out just before impact. Many times he did this during the most dangerous period of motor racing from the mid 1950s to early ’70s.
He died in his sleep in 1985.
A lady descending
That’s no lady.
Alpine shelter. Wi-Fi status unknown.
Speaking from experience, probably no worse than at any of the others.
The roller skates of yesteryear.
I have yet to encounter gaggles of hipsters, scooting around downtown (or hiking trails) on home-built versions of these. I’m honestly surprised.
Not for the nervous, a very close call.
Holy crap.
Morning, all.
That’s no lady.
Heh. Link added.
Holy crap.
Well, yes. Quite. A lot can happen in a second or so. The zig-zagging was quite impressive.
Hers is bigger than yours.
I did own a Percheron cross for a year once. I’m just saying.
Selective umbrage detected.
Equal treatment is SO UNFAIR.
Equal treatment is SO UNFAIR.
I think we should take a moment to feel the pain of Ms Howard (estimated worth $25M), a not especially gifted actress, and whose career is in large part a result of family connections, and who was hired for a dream gig – to run away from special effects – chiefly because she was young and pretty – only for her to discover, after getting a bit fat, that what is being paid for, and paid for handsomely, does not include bingo wings.
Oh, the injustice of it all.
I think we should take a moment to feel the pain of Ms Howard
She knows how the game is played. This is fan baiting. Same as her complaining that she wasn’t paid very well for the first Jurassic World movie but omitting that Pratt helped her negotiate for a larger cut of residuals and other things to get her compensation back up. This is just a way to get engagement from her core audience demographic (30+ women), the same way Rings of Power intentionally antagonizes its primarily male fanbase because it drives clicks and awareness.
The fundamental inability of an entire generation, men and women, to grow the f*ck up is what’s driving all this.
The fundamental inability of an entire generation, men and women, to grow the f*ck up is what’s driving all this.
And then there’s the acting demographic’s tendency towards hilarious self-flattery, with which these mouthings dovetail rather conveniently. A while ago, I saw an interview with Marina Sirtis, of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame, who was making similar noises about the producers’ expectation that she would fit into her outfit from one season to another, as if this were some outrageous imposition and an insult to her acting prowess. Such as it is.
That’s no lady
There’d be a lot less ‘transphobia’ if the fat blokes in dresses made a similar effort to pass as women…
Masten Gregory, aka “The Kansas City Flash”…
I will see your Masten Gregory and raise you Hans Hermann in the BRM P25 at the Avusring (1959 German GP).
Think I will just leave this here:
Not for the nervous, a very close call.
Driver (with the dashcam) deserves a medal for missing them.
Driver (with the dashcam) deserves a medal for missing them.
It was a bit… intense. A game of debris-debris-human being. But played really fast. And bad as it was, it could have been much worse.
Not entirely implausible. duplicated by Think I will just leave this here.
I laughed, but had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach wondering just how bad this winter is going to be for Europe. (Or at least for Europeans who are not wealthy and powerful.)
Bonk!
There’s a lesson here, folks: Practice throwing.
He wanted a piece of that action.
Warm, cuddly, and sexy at the same time. Ah, domestic bliss.
Warm, cuddly, and sexy at the same time. Ah, domestic bliss.
If anyone’s getting aroused by this thread, I’ll deploy the level-2 countermeasures.
only for her to discover, after getting a bit fat, that what is being paid for, and paid for handsomely, does not include bingo wings.
Couldn’t she just *act* thin?
Thank you, David.
[ Dons sackcloth. Begins pilgrimage to Canterbury. ]
I’ll deploy the level-2 countermeasures.
Oh my. You just knew I’d click that link. Now I’m praying the effects aren’t permanent.
Street vibes
William Gibson said that the future is here, it’s just unevenly distributed. I don’t think this was what he meant, though.
Angela’s Anguish, An American Tragedy in five parts.
“It was important that you be able to be thrown clear of the wreck.”
That was the widespread belief in motorsport until the late ’60s. And frankly, looking at the cars, it’s hard to say they were entirely wrong. Being thrown several feet in the air at high speed might not have been the best thing to happen to anyone, but it beats being trapped in a lake of burning fuel.
Angela’s Anguish, An American Tragedy in five parts.
I’m not familiar with the kind of thing I’m seeing.
It was important that you be able to be thrown clear of the wreck.
“Perhaps the blast of the explosion will carry us to safety.”
“Perhaps the blast of the explosion will carry us to safety.”
It ranks right up there with “smoking dope makes me a more skillful driver” and “instead of paying attention to what you say and do, I’ll just read your aura”.
There is a reason you were told never to do this.
Street vibes.
A real-life zombie movie.
Driver (with the dashcam) deserves a medal for missing them.
That was hella scary. Now that I’ve reached a certain age, I worry about encountering this situation and not reacting in time.
Cue Steve Martin.
There is a reason you were told never to do this.
Props to the guy on the right for hanging on a smidge longer than the crew on the left.
I’ve been in buildings struck by lightning before (the childhood estancia was situated on top of a ridge). It makes one hell of an impressive zapping sound when it strikes the lightning vane and follows the ground wire to earth.
I saw an interview with Marina Sirtis
Having met a number of genre actors and actresses in pseudo-social settings – i.e. where they’re not trying to be “on” – I can attest that many of them are neither bright nor particularly pleasant people. Sirtis in particular is quite the slag, in the UK vernacular.
That said, keep in mind that middle-aged women made up a large chunk of the demographic for the later seasons of TNG, much of DS9 and all of Voyager. She’s still playing to her audience because her career tanked after TNG and she’s trying to stoke her brand awareness. You don’t see Kate Mulgrew doing this. Her loudest complaint about working on Voyager was the inconsistency of both the hairstyles and Janeway’s psychology.
To be fair to Marina Sirtis, there was no way to tell whether she had any acting talent or not.
I’ll deploy the level-2 countermeasures.
Nuclear options are available.
Vice News made a sympathetic video about sex offenders re-integrating into society. One interviewee later demonstrated he wasn’t completely reformed.
Twitter thread https://twitter.com/jenbrained/status/1574988311747100672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1574988311747100672%7Ctwgr%5Ea135f7c8dbfd7df3fc68039de65636cc37abf8f6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Fmattvespa%2F2022%2F09%2F30%2Fvice-news-story-about-reintegrating-sex-offenders-ended-poorly-n2613816
@Nate Whilk – just for future reference, and to make things easier, only need the bit before the first question mark, e.g., https: // twitter.com/jenbrained/status/1574988311747100672
Lightning: had it hit the tree next to our house. Blew the tree into toothpicks. What a boom! The sound is completely gone and THEN you jump because we are slow by comparison.
Nuclear options are available.
Can-Can fatissima
Meanwhile, in fascist Berkeley, CA, a whole NextDoor thread about how cars a danger to people and the planet. Many amens about how we should just not let people have cars except for the people deemed to “need” them, and then only for “necessary” excursions. Because these people think all of us should let them run our lives. Sadly, on NextDoor, one is not allowed to say what one IS allowed to say at Reason: FUCK OFF, SLAVER.
in the BRM P25 at the Avusring (1959 German GP).
Drivers used to die a lot while racing. “Ein Wunder”, indeed.
Of course, in the really early days of racing, Brooklands say, it was open cockpit, no safety belts, no helmets. Cars still went over 100mph.
I need to rant. God, I hate these people. These tiny control freaks–actual totalitarians–who think everyone else should be governed by their miniscule little intellects. NO CARS! QUIT WASTING WATER! We’ll tell you what light bulbs to buy! LIVE IN DENSE CITIES! ETC ETC ETC.
I almost want something like a Carrington event, just so I can know that those fuckwads finally learn what REALLY governs men.
But I’d settle for a couple of helicopters, a sniper rifle, and 10,000 rounds.
A question for the ladies. Why are you uncomfortable with “other women”?
Sooner or later everyone comes around to the idea of helicopters. Although I applaud your efforts to diversify their application.
Why are you uncomfortable with “other women”?
*whispers* He’s. Not. A. Woman. */whispers*
He’s. Not. A. Woman.
Heh. I take it you weren’t convinced.
But Alice, all you have to do is submit to manipulation and perceive what you’re told to perceive.
And if you don’t do as you’re told, then you’re obviously a “coloniser” and a “white supremacist.” You’re enabling “global violence.”
Sirtis in particular is quite the slag, in the UK vernacular.
Heh. Yes. I think that’s her schtick now.
And if you don’t do as you’re told, then you’re obviously a “coloniser” and a “white supremacist.”
HE pretends to be a woman and HE wants to invade OUR private spaces but WE’RE the colonizers?
Angela’s Anguish, An American Tragedy in five parts.
Please tell me that was “Jen” doing the mimicry.
HE pretends to be a woman and HE wants to invade OUR private spaces but WE’RE the colonizers?
What are you, an extremist?
Note that the Green Party councillor in question, a professed socialist, is busily blocking anyone who asks even polite questions about his position on the matter.
““[New York] is the narcissist capital,” Duke, who works as a personal assistant, said”…with an utter lack of understanding what “projection” or “introspection” mean…
.with an utter lack of understanding what “projection” or “introspection” mean…
No, it’s the meaning of the word ‘prostitution’ that she is having difficulties with. Or more specifically, difficulties avoiding the meaning of that word.
No, it’s the meaning of the word ‘prostitution’…
TBF, more like “escort” unless the shaboinking was guaranteed, then definitely prostitution, though I am guessing if that is the case the $50 guy got off with a visit to a clinic.
Meanwhile, someone didn’t think this one through.
A question for the ladies. Why are you uncomfortable with “other women”?
Not uncomfortable with other women
Nuclear options are available.
Tsk, tsk. Sternly worded but toothless letter to follow.
no safety belts
I remember when safety belts were not standard and many people did not bother to get them.
Why are you uncomfortable with “other women”?
Such people need to be made “uncomfortable” with saying such things.
Why are you uncomfortable with “other women”?
He’s a pawn in a game he doesn’t even realise he’s being used as a playing piece in.
I’d almost feel sorry for him if he wasn’t such an obvious asshole.
Transautistic.
“Why is basically no one taking this genocide of all humanity seriously?”, asks climate activist, socialist, and NHS campaigner, Maddie Budd, 21.
Before proceeding to answer her own question via the medium of pouring a gallon of liquid shit over a memorial to British Army veteran Captain Tom, who famously raised almost £40 million for the National Health Service, briefly becoming a national hero in the process.
That’ll do it, Maddie. That’ll get people to
notice how stunning and brave you arecare about the climate.Why are you uncomfortable with “other women”?
1. He’s not a woman.
2. He’s a controlling, smug, jerk
3. Why is he afraid to admit he’s gay?
To ask is to answer I guess – white homosexual male just doesn’t have the cachet and high victim points it used to, plus trans gives you power over other people.
Why are you uncomfortable with “other women”?
And for those who missed it. (Caution advised.)
Ok, I’m old, but when my youngest daughter was in high school in the early 2000’s … the GSA club was “Gay Straight Alliance”…
When did it become “Gender and Sexuality Alliance”, now all about promoting sex changes to children?.
You’re enabling “global violence.”
It’s amazing that there isn’t local violence from the fathers and the boyfriends of the women he’s walking in on.
The culture has been saturated with messages to men to respect consent and not do anything that might be construed as creepy: you don’t get to decide in principle or in individual cases whom she associates with; she doesn’t have to defend her choice of whom to associate with to you or anybody; don’t do things that cause discomfort even if you think you’re well intentioned.
The culture has also been saturated with a parasite-friendly inverted morality: the parasites get to decide in principle and in individual cases that the hosts are obliged to associate with them; there’s a never-ending burden of proof on the hosts to show that they’re not even subconsciously thinking of discriminating against parasites; the discomfort of the hosts is pathologized – “that’s on you not me”, “you need to do the work”, “your discomfort is violence”.
It’s obvious which morality takes precedence, which morality has more general application. Hyping-up consent and creepiness issues has its uses in casting suspicion between the sexes. But consent as a general principle (the consent of the governed, the consent of people to being imposed upon) isn’t encouraged.
Eddie Izzard thinks that we should sympathize with him when girls object to him using a women’s restroom.
…the GSA club was “Gay Straight Alliance”…
I’m so old GSA was Girl Scouts of America.
Farnsworth, hey, cut them some slack. That’s not just math, it’s Advanced Mathematics!!
No, it’s a good bit broader than that. The culture has been saturated with the message that any common sense, reason, or traditional value is to be shouted down, mocked, and/or reframed as fascism of the worst and most dangerous kind and any pushback is a nail that must be hammered down. This has been the message of psychology and our academic institutions for decades. Conservatives…”conservatives” let it happen and in many cases joined in on the hammering. And most conservatives…”conservatives” that I know are still afraid to say anything. If anything, it is the more liberal, mostly in the classical sense, who are noticing. Noticing, but even more afraid to push back. I’d say a pox upon everybody’s houses but the pox is already here. The stupid is stunningly thick because the stupid is convinced it is the smart. Why would it think otherwise?
WTP is right. Anything normal is old-fashioned, oppressive, racist, ist ist. Women have absorbed a lot of this wrt men. And yet these terrible conservative values are what make marriage work, what enable one to be successful, what enable one to raise kids, conduce to happiness. So people are trying to destroy the very things that in the end are what they want or will want as they get older.
Someone mentioned above that trans results from just being afraid to accept that you are gay. Maybe sometimes, but those trans XY who keep their dick and want sex with women (like Bruce Jenner)…not sure what they are but not gay.
Clown timeline continues.
And because things aren’t clownish enough.
The culture has also been saturated with a parasite-friendly inverted morality
It’s the Geek Social Fallacies run amok. Which really aren’t anything to do with geeks, they’re how children construct social relationships because they’re still insecure and solipsistic.
This is what happens when you destroy the traditional family and have two generations raised by pop culture instead of their parents.
Geek fallacies: children learn to be nice. Fine. But there are not nice people out there and society cannot act “nice” –it must punish also.
There is a huge naive streak in all of this. They define illegal aliens as “refugees” but then will not admit that gangs will take advantage. In the past, Castro sent us all his prisoners and now I think Venezuela is doing the same. They deny that trans (again, victims) might take advantage. Or criminals. naive naive naive
Someone mentioned above that trans results from just being afraid to accept that you are gay.
Whoops – I was not clearly speaking. I meant that particular man in that tiktok video linked above and who I think also posted pics of himself showing off his male body. For some reason he chooses the trans bandwagon to jump on.
And because things aren’t clownish enough.
A while back I commented that there is no such thing as perfectly hemispherical real breasts, similarly, as the ones the “teacher” sports never move when he does, any real breasts that massive would obey the laws of physics and move when he does absent, of course, his wearing a titanium bra which, just blueskying here as I don’t know if any are made by Fredrick’s of Hollywood, likely wouldn’t allow his overt flashing of high beams.
“Hypertrophy”, yeah, a male sprouts those things in one year with no other medical issues, that’s the ticket, and Keffals there is Tsarina of all the Rus.
There is a huge naive streak in all of this.
…and an even greater willful denial of reality.
In the past, Castro sent us all his prisoners and now I think Venezuela is doing the same.
I have read claims that Africa is doing the same thing to Europe.
And you’re back. Thank God. I was worried.
Actually Promoted me to checkin on my long dormant Typepad blog and saw same issue. Typepad sent me nothing in regard to such a long outage. I would think they would email blast their users at least something without being promoted. Hell, at least my cable and power companies do so.
Re Geek Social Fallacies, apparently there are a lot of women geeks…or perhaps…? No, I dare not say.
‘prompted’ not ‘Promoted’…I blame the usual suspect.
And you’re back.
Group hug.
And you’re back. Thank God. I was worried.
Bring forth the fatted calf, let us eat and rejoice.
For this my favorite blog was lost and is now found….
No, it’s the meaning of the word ‘prostitution’ that she is having difficulties with.
When asked why he would pay women for sex, Frank Sinatra responded by saying, I don’’t pay them for sex, I pay them so they’ll leave.”
It’s probably why some of these guys pay Duke. $50.00 would be a bargain to get her to shut the hell up.
. Stopping italics spill, yes?
[/i] guess I forgot the formula.
Well, hell.
The problem with Wokeism is sooner or later you run out of helicopters.
Help! We are in HTML Hell!
.And welcome back.
[ Turns on spotlight, taps sign. ]
A question for the ladies. Why are you uncomfortable with “other women”?
Someone on twttr observed, women need to wear bindesr, have mastectomies &c to pass as men; men going t’other way don’t even bother to shave…
I DID THAT
Trying to fix someone else’s bloody mess.
I tried putting before my sentence. Then I tried putting the open ital before and close ital after.
How did you fix it?
How did you fix it?
As best I recall, I have fixed it by beginning a comment with the “close italics” html, followed by any ordinary text.
Yeah. That’s what I tried but it didn’t work. Maybe needed two sets? I haven’t tried that in months, maybe years and thought I might have forgotten how it gets fixed. Plus, ‘preview’ doesn’t show the fix. You have to hit ‘Post’ and pray. Maybe I forgot to pray…
[ Turns on spotlight, taps sign. ]
David, may I please remove my Badge of Shame now?
David, may I please remove my Badge of Shame now?
I say we blame everyone EXCEPT pst for this. But only the white people.