Friday Ephemera (706)
I always start my day this way. || I laughed and I’m not sorry. || The legend of Bum Farto. || “These holes are inhabited.” || He wants to teach you a lesson, repeatedly, with an airhorn. || 1940s IT. || Taking sides. || “Too much cheese” finally achieved. || Tourist attraction of note. || The Women of the Pussy Cat Club, 1970. || Liveliness in Wakefield. || Warfare, 1963. || Neighbours and renovations, 1981. || She paid for an affirming penis and is not entirely satisfied. (NSFW) || The progressive retail experience, parts 528, 529, 530, 531 and 532. || Pouring. || The thrill of salad. || He’s doing it for the little kiddies, you understand. || Mail theft. || The thrill of fluff. || Somewhat fluff-related. || Further to this from last week, question asked. || Feel your age. || And finally, it fits in his hand.
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Ephemera for Friday.
He needs to learn a lesson.
Breaking news from New Guinea: Not a high trust society.
When looting, penis sheaths must be an encumbrance. None to be seen.
I’d be gluing their hands to the road.
Entitlement isn’t a new thing.
Re: the ‘affirming’ appendage – do you think some doctors are counting on their patients’ disconnect from reality to protect them from lawsuits?
Cattails must really, really want to reproduce.
Ouch.
Head tilting proves womanhood!
Morning, all.
Yes, it does rather sting.
“The thrill of fluff.“
Oooh, that’s hypnotic!
The suggestion that there’s a vast and lucrative industry premised on exploiting the mentally ill is, of course, unsettling. But not, I think, unfounded.
And by mentally ill, I mean not only the kinds of people who would submit to such mutilation and then timidly ask if the results are normal. I also mean the kinds of people who see the damage done and then make excuses for those who did it, while denouncing and banning anyone who suggests that the procedure may not prove quite as affirming as previously advertised. As happened in the Reddit thread linked above, and in countless others.
Motorist of note.
His dad better have bought him that toy. 🙂
Indeed. There’s the moment, about 12 seconds in, when it looks like the little boy has conceded defeat and is putting the toy back on the shelf, when in fact he’s merely refining his strategy.
Should I be relieved or disappointed?
Well, if I hadn’t said beforehand what it’s supposed to be, I suspect you’d have difficulty telling what it is.
Hmmm. Intrigued then.
Missing from Ephemera.
Vigilantes doing God’s work on Narcos in Ecuador.
Problematic? Of course.
It’s worth noting the author’s statement that the surgical team responsible “refuse to fix” their handiwork. Likewise, the number of comments by other forum regulars acknowledging how common such baroque horrors are, along with any number of other, equally charmless complications. It seems such sights are par for the course, and a commonplace topic of discussion.
It’s also worth noting that even a suggestion that the procedure was suboptimal and possibly a mistake, something one might regret, is regarded by the forum moderator as “discrimination,” wickedness, and a basis for deletion and banning. This sentiment is shared by almost all of the forum contributors.
Apparently, they will compare their horror stories and accounts of suffering and misery, extending over years, often in gruesome detail, while simultaneously telling each other that everything is fine, and that no poor choices were made.
Not a basis for optimism, I’d say.
If my schoolboy French doesn’t fail me, the commune of Trôo in the Loir-et-Cher department translates as “Hole town, in the county of the Beloved Rat“.
How charming.
Also.
Coco Pops. With Ibuprofen.
I fear I may be allergic to cheese.
She paid for an affirming penis and is not entirely satisfied.
[ Peers over spectacles in judgemental way. ]
Why couldn’t the neighbor look like Barbara Good?
Is this yet another time you’ve almost died?
For those who missed it.
Not yet 🙂
I’m guessing that humble Marmite on toast is looking pretty good right now.
I did briefly consider cheese on toast, but I wasn’t planning to use three cubic metres of the stuff.
I may open a market stall. “Christmas Cheese“. While stocks last.
The difference between erotic and kinky: using a feather vs. the whole chicken.
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I think you’re right:
My pocket dictionary translates “loir” as “dormouse” and “cher” as “beloved” or “costly”. Yay Larousse!
(Google Translate only yields “Dormouse and Cher”: Amazing that it could miss “cher” which is such a commonly used word, mon chere.)
Cue Frank Zappa’s “Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?”
Ha! Take THAT Madame de Sade (French teacher year 5) – who said I would never amount to anything.
Or some French words to that effect.
A life lesson for all the teens reading this blog:* I regret only studying one language, German, in school. That was what my high school guidance counselor recommended, saying that German was “the language of science”. But that has not been true for a long time. I could just as usefully learned French, for example. Or split my efforts and learned multiple languages. As it turned out, I regret not being at least moderately fluent in French and other Romance languages as that is where my adult interests went.
* I wonder about the demographics of David’s readers. We do seem to mostly be middle aged if not creaky.
Do help yourselves.
Pouring.
Given that the guy is a Red Bull pilot we can assume he knows his stuff – a properly executed barrel roll (as opposed to an aileron roll) is a +1G maneuver throughout so neither the plane, can, or liquid knows it is upside down or sideways.
#pedant, #spoilsport
Meanwhile, speaking of food deserts as we were, another in San Francisco (of course) which does not appear to have weave deserts.
In other locales the WEF frets, though other than being loaded into a boxcar at gunpoint, I am not sure what “involuntary migration” is.
*winces*
If the ferals didn’t keep robbing the place, stripping it bare, and generally exulting in their dysfunction, I suspect the owners of said establishment would be happy to keep selling things and trying to make a profit. But blaming the ferals is evidently frowned upon, practically taboo. And so, the dance goes on.
I was recently rewatching some episodes of DS9 and Voyager, so you can imagine how that chafes.
And the retooled Battlestar Galactica aired in 2004, three years before I started writing this blog. Which itself started almost 17 years ago.
17 chuffing years.
[ Rummages under bar for the good moisturiser. ]
If there was any Food Justice [TM] in the world, cheese wouldn’t give me heartburn. Or cold sweats. Or gout.
Well, to be fair, if you are a member of the WEF the ability of the populace to inform themselves probably is your #1 Risk. The other items on the list would count more as opportunities than risks really.
I’m assuming that “involuntary migration” is when Klaus Schwab repossess your country.
‘Disappointed’ doesn’t even come into the mix.
Just Stop Oil have a spiritual ancestor, I see.
I haven’t seen the video (and have no desire to either) – but just out of interest, was this procedure conducted in the patient’s home country or does it seem like they may have travelled further afield to get it?
Clicking through the author’s earlier posts, I believe the, er, affirmation was done in the Netherlands. I’m assuming that’s where she lives, though it’s not clear to me.
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Pretty much every one one of her posts is about some new complication, some revolting development, and yet the author takes exception to any non-dysmorphic person noticing the same horrors and recoiling, or suggesting that her choices may not have been the optimal ones.
[ Bungs lasagne in oven, wafts smell of melting cheese towards Karl. ]
Following the link, the WEF defines “involuntary migration” as:
–which a very expansive definition, and one which serves the interests of those who want to maximize “migration” over the wishes of the natives being invaded.
Battlestar Ponderosa does tend to elicit that reaction.
Following the link, the WEF defines “involuntary migration” as:
Yeah, but every one of those is “I don’t like it here, so rather than trying to fix things, I’m outta here”, though I will grant that certain man made disasters like a dam being built and putting your town underwater, or that dam breaking and washing your town away would qualify as “involuntary”.
OTOH, there is this involuntary emigration…
It started off well, very well, but started wobbling about halfway through, when it became clear that the writers didn’t actually have a plan. Despite the word plan cropping up in the titles every week.
Exactly my point: The WEF wants unlimited “reasons” to require the West to accept unlimited millions of “migrants”, so as to:
Drive down wages, which benefits corporations and wealthy WEF donors.Shift voting patterns farther left, in favor of paternalistic Big Brother government.Dilute and destroy the indigenous cultures the West, which are too individualistic and resistant to arbitrary totalitarian rule. (Yes, even those left-voting French and Germans are too right-wing for the WEF.)Destroy Christianity, which wrongly values the indivdual, in favor of religions which are favorably inclined to totalitarian rule.Third World “migrants” will be far more willing to accept a lower standard of living than what Westerners are accustomed to. This comports with the WEF’s “zero carbon” utopia in which we are all warehoused in tiny apartments, no longer own cars, no longer can travel, and are allowed only very limited amounts of meat and luxury goods. Even that would be an improvement over current conditions in much of the Third World.
“Didn’t actually have a plan” seems to be the default state of Hollywood.
It was kind of irritating, as BSG opened so strongly. The first few episodes were striking and quite unlike previous mainstream TV science fiction. It was unusual to see a new series hit the ground running, with a confidence and atmosphere, and a musical and visual style, already dialled-in. But slowly, much of the potential was frittered away, and the show didn’t seem to know which of its half-baked themes and storylines it wanted to pursue.
This is about when the studio accountants and the marketing department get script input. Suddenly there’s focus on the young kid and his robot dog (“Think of the merchandise tie-in for Christmas!!!”)
Another reason I cringe at the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi.
The 2004 reboot, madam. Not the 70s outing.
For a second there I was confused. “Did I miss the robot dog…?”
Sorry for my confusion. When “Battlestar Ponderosa” was mentioned I figured it was about the venture with Lorne Greene as Adama. I actually enjoyed the 1978 venture for a short while.
That said, I really did enjoy the 2004 venture, even if they did lose much of the steam towards the end. Still, even in those episodes were so much better than much of the rest of the offerings.
“affirming penis” I don’t see where anyone has asked the obvious question: band name?
Now laughing at the fact I was momentarily wondering if there actually was a robot dog in the reboot.
Oh, and you don’t need ‘pre’ tags when using blockquote. Just use the quote-marks button in the comment toolbar. The ‘pre’ tags bugger up the font styling.
Even the later seasons had some good moments, yes, and the performances were often very good. I don’t regret watching it to the end. I just think that, with more planning on the part of the writers and producers, more focus, it could have been really special.
I recall binge-watching the whole Battlestar reboot in around 2010. Something like 100 hours if I recall.
I have a clear memory of the beginning – the first re-contact with the Cylons on Armistice Station and the subsequent exciting introduction of Galactica and its redeployment.
However the end is just a messy blur. Something about a space Jesus, people being brought back from the dead and a stone circle on a moon somewhere?
What a waste!
Forgot to mention: Back in the 70’s I started to meet leftists who strongly believed that it was America’s duty to provide welfare benefits to the entire Third World–foreign aid and/or unlimited immigration and subsequent welfare dependency. Every person in the Third World was morally entitled to come to America for free medical care. And many of these leftists were from upper middle class and wealthy white families.
Uncomplicated motives.
My uncomplicated response: Permanent removal from society.
The sort who, never having been short, don’t understand limits.
Just realized my last couple comments were on the previous thread so…
To pst’s and others’ points surrounding evil, or the avoidance of acknowledging it…This guy gets his ‘first’ and ‘second’ mixed up. The problem is this, and this exactly…
https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/01/11/seven-men-gang-rape-two-toddlers-in-shopping-mall-restroom-and-post-video-online-n2168606
Again with the cops…
https://wsvn.com/news/local/broward/fhp-arrest-man-accused-of-using-spray-paint-to-cover-up-pro-palestinian-graffiti-on-i-95/
My niece lives in Broward county, about five miles from the exit where they “caught” this guy. Her car was stolen from her driveway in broad daylight on a Sunday, about a year ago two days after her first child was born. Hubs was on a diaper run and was confused and a tad scared to come home and see her car gone but my sister’s car still there. Broad f’n daylight. Of course the cops still haven’t solved that crime yet. But hey, this guy. Not that means anything regarding this situation. Still…
Indeed. Indeed. I remember Mom taking us kids to Goodwill to shop for clothes when we were very young. Didn’t know anyone else in college with that experience. Similar differences regarding such things as level of luxury in meals and vacations, automobiles, recreation and entertainment, and so on. I well remember listening to fellow students sneer at the cafeteria meals which seemed perfectly adequate to me.
Quite a contrast from some more civilized parts of the world where riots and looting would not immediately break out during a police strike.
Did someone mention a mouse?
Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickerin brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee
Wi’ murd’ring pattle!
Again with the cops…
Meanwhile up in The Great White North, mustn’t violate porch pirate’s “privacy”.
Case in point: Here is a sadistic monster who needs and deserves the most severe on-the-spot punishment followed by permanent removal from society. And yet bien pensant intellectuals and politicians will protect him from his just fate in the name of “rehabilitation” and “equity”.
“If you get some proof that somebody might have stolen something, call the police, give that proof to the police. We’ll do the investigation, bring that person to justice and file some charges.”
Suspending respiration is not advised.
Indeed. I wasn’t raised poor, but there were some long periods between sales (Dad quit engineering to become south Florida real estate broker. Mom never forgave him for that) where my raised-in-a-single-parent-household-in-the-Great-Depression mother scraped every nickel and dime. Her background and moderate depression colored things worse than they actually were but we certainly didn’t waste money. Only lately have I started to develop a strong resentment of my peer group from back then. These bastards were wearing designer clothes, going on ski vacations, etc. looking down on guys like me recycling beer cans and newspapers for a few extra nickels and dimes. Now that I am financially secure, they want to shove that scraping nickels and dimes lifestyle down my throat all for a BS AGW and BLM virtue signal to assuage the white guilt they feel ever so necessary to share. And after so many of them lost their sh*t and went into existential panic over the Wuhan Flu, these are (supposedly) smart people mind you, their parents all graduated from colleges, I cannot take any of them seriously as being grown adults.
Apologies if I’ve come across especially miserable today but since the new year I have sensed the normies and “conservatives” waking up to the bloody idiocy we have been stewing in for…decades. I should consider this heartening as I have been waiting for this to happen for…decades. But I cannot help thinking that it may be too late and I so want to beat the ever loving sh*t out of virtually everyone that I know. Especially the “smart” ones.
Full disclosure: We weren’t actually poor, more “lower middle class” or “working class”. We never missed meals, but we had few luxuries and those were modest luxuries and only very slowly acquired.
Did the newspaper thing all through childhood.
I used to know leftists with a “live for today” attitude while I “lived poor” in order to save as much as possible for retirement. They made it clear that it would be the duty of all who did have retirement nest eggs to support them in their old age. I have better suggestions of how society should treat parasites.
I’m not fond of the Russian government, but I do rather like this policy. (And scroll down for a contrasting lunatic policy in the UK regarding rapist immigrants.)
Don’t much care for the Chinese government but they have one of the few effective drug policies in the world.
I took Latin classes and was forced to have one semester of French. I took German in the Un-College. (That’s a riff off the commercials available in the late 1970s where 7-Up was the “un-cola”; hence West Point was the “Un-College”. My T-shirt with that comment has not survived the passage of time.) I consider my short study of French to have been an utter waste of time. I suspect that my German instructors consider my 2 year study of German to a total waste of their time. I will never claim that I can speak German because I don’t want any of my instructors who may not be alive to claw themselves out of their graves to murder me for such a horrendous claim.
What could possibly go wrong?
there is a reluctance by society to recognize that evil exists
There is a desire to level actual morality and substitute their oppression/class morality. They want a Disney version of reality. It manifests as the Biden admin removing Iran and the Houthis (etc) from terror watch lists. Oh, they aren’t terrorists–as they shoot thousands of rockets at innocent people and shipping.
As illustrated in the thread (and many times here), the perpetrators aren’t motivated by supposedly being downtrodden or oppressed. They’re motivated by malice, often gleeful malice, and a grotesque sense of entitlement. A pathological selfishness.
The paper on carjacking, referenced in the thread, can be downloaded here.
Doubtful if you could turn any one of them into an au pair or general dog’s body.
A wig was recovered from the scene.
More wig-related liveliness.
Oh, and boiled eggs for breakfast, since you ask. Four minutes, obviously.
Has anyone checked on Karl?
I vaguely recall that some SE Asian governments tell addicts that they will help them get off drugs, but that if they do not then they will be executed.
It is a common cognitive failing to see the world in black-and-white, so that people and institutions are either purely good or purely evil.
Related: Someone was commenting on WWII, minimizing the evils of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, by pointing out that the governments of some of the nations they conquered were very flawed by our standards. Well, okay, but all governments are flawed to some degree and how do such flaws justify invasion by a murderous totalitarian regime? One might call such rhetorical errors the Chomsky Fallacy.
Heh. Nor will I claim to be fluent, even after more than 4 years of instruction. But at least I can recognize enough words to glean a bit of knowledge from news headlines and articles, even though Google Translate is still essential.
It is 2024, the world will be filled with exciting new devices.
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien loathed Disney as “vulgar” and “hopelessly corrupted”.
[ Rummages in closet for box of ancient mixtapes. ]
[ Rummages in closet for box of ancient mixtapes. ]
You will need the rechargeable digital rewind pencil with Bluetooth for them which is sold separately. You will also need the subscription app for it, of course.
[ Realises ancient mixtapes were binned during recent clear-out of useless junk. ]
[ Realises ancient mixtapes were binned during recent clear-out of useless junk. ]
No worries, now is your chance to remake them by recording all your digital music over yard sale cassettes so you can get those “…analog properties… and ephemeral characteristics…” instead of that annoying noiselessness and broader frequency response.
Let us not forget the 14 November reissuance of a sanctions waiver giving Iran access to more than $10 billion.