You’ll Feel Better Afterwards
Or, How This Place Is Still Here After Sixteen Bloody Years.
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Oh yes. The buttons.
Unfortunately I don’t think these idiots will learn anything.
Here’s to another 16 bloody years…
*hits tip jar*
Ping!
Bless you, sir, and bless you, madam. May your enemies have difficulty finding the right size bin liners.
I was recently referred to as one of the “longest-running” UK bloggers. Which didn’t quite feel like the compliment I’m assuming it was meant as.
A small token of appreciation.
Bless you, sir. May the unplanned Bond film that you’re obliged to watch turn out to be Goldfinger, not A View To A Kill, or Never Say Never Again.
Or Octopussy.
God, no.
The thrill of government planning.
Faux pas of note.
Subscriber of several years’ standing, and somewhat pleased to know that there’s no longer any need for that all arsing around with brackets when you want to link to something. What’s next on the list- a lift? Air conditioning? A new seat in the end stall in the gents?
The new comment styling options do, I think, make life a little easier – at least for me. I no longer spend my time un-upbuggering mangled HTML. As various plugins get updated, my behind-the-scenes tweaking – or more accurately, bumbling – will doubtless continue.
[ Resists urge to enable nested comments. ]
The new comment styling options do, I think, make life a little easier – at least for me. I no longer spend my time un-upbuggering mangled HTML.
And that’s very important. My willingness to spend large chunks of time doing tedious IT chores has decreased greatly over the last 20 years. Much better that you be free to spend your time doing things that are rewarding rather than annoying.
The thrill of government planning.
Or rather, “planning”. The lack of foresight by our ruling “elites” is constantly demonstrated by any random page of news.
A metaphor for our times.
[ Leans on bar, looks at clientele. ]
[ Straightens tie. ]
Ah – I see you have the machine that goes “PING!”
*Ping*
You know you want it, and at $25 for a four pack, if it was half as expensive it would be twice as cheap.
This may be purchased at David’s Amazon link.
Something for your trouble, barkeep. 🙂
Bless you. Should foxes sit on your lawn, looking at you expectantly, may you have the remains of a chicken carcass handy.
Heretics detected.
Normal stick tape? How dare they? Salt mines are too good for these heathen bastards.
We seem to have gone from “Equality would be nice, if you don’t mind” to demands for endless, public affirmation, however unnecessary or incongruous. And failure to defer, to jump when told, will evidently result in hair-trigger slander and general name-calling.
We seem to have gone from “Equality would be nice, if you don’t mind” to demands for endless, public affirmation, however unnecessary or incongruous. And failure to defer, to jump when told, will evidently result in hair-trigger slander and general name-calling.
Not to mention loss of employment and “conversations” with the police.
I first noticed this trend quite a few years ago. My “liberal” friends condemned me for objecting, and many of my “conservative” friends denied that anything was going on.
Ping!
Well, as we’ve seen many times, any excuse for an opportunist and nakedly vindictive pile-on. And if someone is psychologically wounded by another person’s decision not to use rainbow-patterned hockey stick tape, then medication seems in order.
Bless you, madam. May your bathroom be free of odours.
Do you get any of these, David?
Occasionally. The topics on offer are sometimes comically incongruous.
Sub hunting.
That there is a whole twitter dedicated to this is a bit depressing, particularly as it seems to be multinational and multiracial.
Is our children learning?
Now is the time when we dance.
hockey sticks: The demands for loyalty and kow-towing (oh, can I say that?) are way out of hand. What has sexual orientation got to do with hockey or football (either kind)? People watch sports to escape from the stress of life. But that is now where you WILL get indoctrinated. It isn’t just rainbow hockey sticks: a couple years ago it was all about taking the knee on the playing field for BLM in the US–while actual mayhem and arson were going on IRL. Any call to consider who we let across our border (in any country) are called racism. Just try to emigrate to China. ha. We supposedly elect people to represent the things we want, but hahahah no. They promise X but really want to impose their will.
To be fair to the dancing gentleman, his name IS “Lurch”
If you’re punished for reporting the assault, you stop reporting them and VOILA! assault/rape/threat stats go down.
And it also helps the TRAs who sneer at anyone who brings up these incidents that we are imagining it, or it’s so rare we’re just using it as a “moral panic” button.
Oooo! A button! ::::ping::::
Bless you, madam. May your butter spread without exertion or muttered epithets, even on crisp January mornings.
See, for instance.
You know you want it, and at $25 for a four pack, if it was half as expensive it would be twice as cheap.
[ Recoils in horror. ]
David, we’re going to need more galleons.
*kerching*
*lights cigarette*
Today in Racism, Episode 10,875, “Not Plagiarizing and Cheating”.
Always the “elite” universities leading the way. Expecting “FLI” students not to cheat seems a bit racist to me, but than I suffer from internalized and externalized hwiteness.
Bless you, madam. May your draining board glisten at all times.
Honor code: the data presented do not prove injustice. For example, 22% of murders is almost entirely by other blacks. How did ypeepo cause that? The actual number is more like 45% of murders which means blacks in US are almost 6 times as likely to murder as whites (FBI crime stats ref).
An example of lowering the bar besides grades is what has happened to debate. To allow “inclusion” the rules have been thrown out such that it is now a shouting match. I kid you not. I’ve seen video.
An example of lowering the bar besides grades is what has happened to debate. To allow “inclusion” the rules have been thrown out such that it is now a shouting match. I kid you not. I’ve seen video.
I think David may have covered that back in the mid to late 2010’s.
Honor code: the data presented do not prove injustice.
Given the average GPA at Princeton is 3.49, why even bother to cheat?
Our authoress, you will be surprised to learn, is “…a prospective physics major in the class of 2025, also pursuing certificates in Gender & Sexuality Studies and Portuguese Language & Cultures.”
“Prospective”, right, because physics and Useless and Angry Studies fit like socks on a rooster.
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WTP: Tearing apart sanctimonious talk about ‘how not to fix academia’ “.
You know you want it
In light of this threat to breakfasts everywhere, I have authorized the release of ten thousand barrels from the Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve.