Friday Ephemera
A switched-on hepcat works her sweater like a pro. (h/t, Damian) || His handmade paper toys are better than yours. || Some people are just hard to please. || Woke pattern of note. || Bookcase inserts. || Minimals. || Manufacturing pencils. || Always respect the media. || The Manhoff Archives: Stalin’s Soviet Union in colour. (h/t, Coudal) || A (fairly) brief guide to flu jabs. || An unexpected turn of events. || Scenes. || This. || Twisted knickers. || As we’ve seen, repeatedly, Shoreditch is vibrant and diverse. || Darts post-game interview of note. || Real-time orbit in high definition. || And via Monty James, it turns out men have always wanted their own “imperceptible” foundation and waterproof eyebrow pencils.
Hobo Hieroglyphs:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a25174860/hobo-code/
“Brown trousers moment” compilation of note: https://twitter.com/WorldOfSporf/status/1065552368740245504
what a rocket launch looks like from the International Space Station:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/9zgyim/heres_what_a_rocket_launch_looks_like_from_the/
“A switched-on hepcat works her sweater like a pro.”
Knowing this blog, I was expecting… I don’t know… something else. Pleasantly surprised. Groovy, baby.
“[A]m I alone in finding this, their major window display, completely vomit inducing?”
Apart from a few other nuts and cranks… er, yeah, pretty much.
I’m not sure this quite counts as a “He does this better than you” (although he does), but we’ve come a hell of a long way from The Art Studio on the Sinclair Spectrum.
Happy Thanksgiving and hope you’re ignoring the dishes in the kitchen while comfortably enjoying the rest of your evening.
I’m happy to say family traditions continue — small blast from the past.
Thanks for sharing that, Darleen!
Scenes.
Mounted police.
Some people are just hard to please.
But I’ve been told the ‘LGBTQ+ community’ is all about being inclusive and diverse.
Morning, all.
Knowing this blog, I was expecting… I don’t know… something else. Pleasantly surprised. Groovy, baby.
That’s exactly how I glide into the kitchen to make coffee every morning, high on the thrill of another day’s blogging.
“Using a single thread roughly 1-2 km long (0.6 – 1.2 mi), Petros Vrellis continuously wraps the thread in straight, continuous lines, from one peg to its direct opposite peg in a circular, 28″ loom with 200 evenly spaced anchor pegs on its circumference. Thus each artwork is made from 3,000 – 4,000 continuously intersecting straight lines of a single thread.”
Here: https://twistedsifter.com/2017/11/renaissance-portraits-made-from-single-thread-on-circular-loom/
Mounted police.
Horses strike me as strange animals. They’re big, very powerful, and spend much of their time looking utterly inert. You can watch them standing in a field and see no evidence of activity at all, for ages. Maybe we’ve bred the brains out of them.
Either way, you don’t want to find yourself in, er, that position.
Always respect the media.
Like attracts like.
Like attracts like.
It does seem to be a convergence of impervious stupidity. And I suppose “You’re Sagittarius and therefore these are your defining attributes…” is next of kin to “You’re black and therefore these are your defining attributes.”
Still, at least we can now marvel at the term “social justice astrologer.”
Tim Newman, here.
Think you had a tough gym session? You’re just weak…
http://twitter.com/kwilli1046/status/1065770935142268929
Think you had a tough gym session?
She has really impressive balance…
But such things are possible: Alan Burrough lost a leg in the Western Desert, and went on to contest at least one rowing final at Henley Royal. In the 1980s, a man from one of the London clubs appeared there several times in decent crews: he had a wasted leg (polio, perhaps) that lolled against the side of the boat. Their core strength (and leg strength!) must have been astounding, to work with such intensity down a 2,000m+ course.
One of those days.
how I glide into the kitchen
If not an original phrase that’s an original picture, David, yet somehow faintly familiar.
Really big screen vour your viewing pleasure.
I was expecting Phillipa Fallon from High School Confidential!
Darts post-game interview of note.
15 pints of lager will do that.
I’ve heard.
High School Confidential!
My God, what a spoiled little child she is, whining about the horror in living with more freedom and wealth than was ever known before.
Unleash the ducks!
https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/9yirts/unleash_the_ducks/
“Either way, you don’t want to find yourself in, er, that position.”
Unless you are Catherine the Great. Allegedly!
My God, what a spoiled little child she is…
Why yes she does – Uncle Fester tickling the ivories in the background nods in approval…
“On behalf of all white people.”
“Tim Newman, here.”
From the comments (originally the great Australian all-rounder Keith Miller), possibly my new favourite quote:
Ditto journalism, acting, singing, videogame development…
“On behalf of all white people.”
Considering that there is evidence that there were Europeans in North American before the Siberian “natives”, I’m calling it “Reconquistagiving”.
…Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse.
“On behalf of all white people.”
I wonder whether all these pearl-clutching, guilt ridden worthies who post this sort of thing ever stop to contemplate what the alternative would have been. (That assumes the whole “stolen” narrative is remotely accurate to begin with. See, e.g. “Platte Purchase.”) Would North & South America remain an idyllic, untouched, Rousseau-ian paradise in 2018? Would the natives have eschewed all the accoutrements of modern life, remaining blissfully happy in buffalo skin loin cloths during a winter in the Dakotas was everyone else was wearing down parkas?
That assumes the whole “stolen” narrative is remotely accurate to begin with.
The Platte Purchase, or purchase of Manhattan (frankly I think we got the bad end of the bargain there), or anything else, the usual crowd will dismiss that as evil whites taking advantage of the Noble Gaia Worshipers. The bigger idiocy is their apparent thinking that any given tribe “owned” any land other than that which they were sitting on and could hold from another tribe at any given time, particularly the Plains Indians, not that the Iroquois and Algonquins weren’t continually trying to kill each other over territory.
Darlene, nice buns! (1:10)
IIRC, the Dutch may well have purchased Manhattan from the wrong tribe. They ran into the indians, perhaps the Canarsie tribe – who were just passing through – and offered to buy the island. The indians said “Sure! And we’ll give you a good deal on it, too.”
Ah yes, here’s an account:
https://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2011/08/americas-first-urban-myth.html
Speaking of wypipo, What’s up with all those black men who voted for the Republican in the Georgia governor’s race?
Gasps and rebukes ? Should have been riots at a minimum. Seriously, how racist and misogynist are they not to vote for someone just because of race ?
Self-determination and economic empowerment, can’t have that, we better nip it, nip it in the bud.
Someone tell Darleen she’s pulled.
Ann Margaret, still going strong at 77. Check her out on Netflix in Chapter 3 of The Kominsky Method.
[ Shameless, unpaid plug ]
“…Contemplate what the alternative would have been.”
Well, we sort of know, based on what just transpired on North Sentinel Island. And speaking of, it’s funny how all the usual suspects are so supportive of protecting these tribes. Where is the outrage at the gender based divisions of labour – the male warriors and the female caregivers? Where is the outrage at what can only be described as Toxic Masculinity as the males attacked and killed an unarmed visitor? I say we parachute in Laurie Penny and Owen Jones so that they may explain to them the error in their ways.
Thanksgiving, the holiday where one can be smugly racist.
I think it’s a lion.
Thanksgiving, the holiday where one can be smugly racist.
To be fair, that much is correct.
…Thanksgiving has nothing to do with the colonization…
If all humans came out of Africa, aren’t Africans the original colonizers?
Just asking.
Made up statistic du jour.
CBS News US – I want to know where the author of this mess lives – over 90% of US households own cars, and there are 1.8 cars per household. Even in NYC about 50% of households own cars, and that is the lowest rate in the US.
…the whole “stolen” narrative…
Nobody seriously intends to give the natives their continent back. What’s at stake is possession of the nation the “thieves”, if you like, built, with literacy and paved roads and no danger of being scalped by noble savages.
The moral taint extends to the receivers of stolen property at least in the first couple of generations – maybe your great great grandfather never shot an Injun, but he bought the land for his farm from somebody who did. But by now there’s almost no historical guilt attaching to somebody who for example purchases a house that was built on a subdivision of that farm.
This gives post 1965 immigrants in particular a moral bludgeon. They can say with pride and certainty that none of their ancestors were involved in the theft. What their grandfathers might have done in their corrupt, dictatorial, caste-ridden countries of origin is not held against them. Instead of being ashamed of being an outsider, they can be proud of not being an heir to the builders of the country. Ingratitude can be wrapped in a moral cloak.
Well, we sort of know, based on what just transpired on North Sentinel Island.
Perhaps, but do know the natives quickly got on board with capitalism, trading furs and such for iron pots, steel implements and thunder-sticks with which they could aggravate their native neighbors. And don’t forget the horse, foundation of the mighty “Plains Culture,” authored by the Spanish who were crap at animal husbandry.
As for the residents of North Sentinel, Leftists don’t view them as humans. They view them as pets being kept in an island zoo in order to enable Leftists to feel morally superior to the rest of us who have the audacity to use central air and flu vaccines.
I think it’s a lion.
We used to have a Chow / St Bernard mix that looked like that when her fur grew out in the winter (we had her “sheered” every spring). Probably the happiest, friendliest dog we ever had.
I want to know where the author of this mess lives
In the ether. “CBS-NEWS.US” a satire site, apparently.
Had me fooled.
Today’s words are about bloody time.
Re the above, more here:
The tactics have already helped to reduce moped-and-bike muggings by over a third. Though, inevitably, Labour’s shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, has denounced the tactics as “extremely concerning.” I suspect a majority of the public, including the thousands of Londoners who’ve been mugged or assaulted by the gangs in question, may feel differently.
Good turn out for Stalin’s funeral, but probably just there to check he’s really dead.
I suspect a majority of the public, including the thousands of Londoners who’ve been mugged or assaulted by the gangs in question, may feel differently.
Go plod!
Tim Newman, here.