Friday Ephemera (749)
Bathroom visitor. || His bouncy shoes. || Nail-biting scenes from a Japanese bed-making competition. || Chompy-chompy. || Saying more than I think they realise. || The Ashmolean advent calendar. || You have not died of dysentery, a game for all the family. || Tidiness at all times. || Tiger Sweat, Torso, and other male cosmetics, 1966. || One or two? || Today’s word is briskly. || Non-binary stand-up. || Peekaboo. || Sofa compression of note. || Positioning of note. || Pornographers in Soho, 1979. || “Wrong gas station,” they said, nonchalantly. || Winter wheels. || Caviar. || Sea cow. || Cheeeldren of the night. || He knows if you’ve been naughty. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || Are you here for the flattery or for the scolding? || Cliffhanger. Fear not. || And finally, in fashion news, an unforeseen sock crisis.
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“I don’t do police.”
They won’t really be needed their own flag, then, will they?
I used to think those were really cool, back when I was a kid. Then I started considering reliability and repair issues.
Seen elsewhere: the meta Advent calendar: Each calendar door opens an entire other Advent calendar.
This raving lunatic needed a beatdown or a bullet. #ChangeMyMind
Saying more than I think they realise.
I must be unusually slow today, but I have no clue what is going on in that picture, other than there seems to be a weird looking man in it holding a deflated balloon. I kinda miss the days when you could read Twitter comments without an account.
One way to make things go faster.
Sit-down might be closer to the truth.
Me, too.
I bet that lion is trans.
This tweet has generated some rather sharp replies. This…and this…and this….
Shutting down nuclear power plants, to become dependent on coal, wood, and Russian gas was not exactly the first insanely stupid thing those oh-so-smart Germans did.
Had an MR2 for 14 years & never had an issue with the headlights.
First, second or (ugh) third gen? I looked at a new first gen but ended up with a CR-X.
Oh wait… third gen didn’t have popups.
I recall owners saying it wasn’t a problem, but given that it could happen I preferred to not risk it. Speaking of which, the 80’s MR2 was one of the cars of that sort that I rather liked before I settled for something more boring and practical.
The flying doorstop (1986).
Fun to drive & not nearly as impractical as it appeared.
It’s the stripes that give it away.
Cliffhanger. Fear not
As unlikely as this sounds, I’ve seen two people fall to their deaths while working from some form of scaffolding on the outside of a building. One was a window washer. I lived on the top floor (25th) and he had just hooked on the roof above me, swung over the side and plummeted to his death. The other was a construction worker. He and a partner were working on a hanging scaffolding in a new apartment tower kitty-corner to my building. I was watching them from my apartment when one side of the rig gave way. One man fell to his death (about 12 floors) while the other was able to grab on to the end of the scaffolding as he fell. His coworkers quickly and heroically worked their way through the building, found the right floor and window opening and saved him. I still don’t know how they figured it out so quickly.
I get the heebie-jeebies when I see people working on the outside of tall buildings.
First gen (approx 1989) MX5’s are fine
I store one for a bloke and occasionally get it out and take it for a spin.
The pop up headlights have never given any problems
That’s odd, because I seem to remember seeing cock-eyed cars all the time, where one light was stuck open or stuck shut.
During/after an ice storm, I’d rather not have my headlights beholden to something that can be fused shut by ice. It’s fun to watch them unfurl, but I don’t trust them.
New insult just dropped: “wholehearted professional snot goblin.”
It’s a dairy farmer responding to this assertion by a “Green Industrialist”:
It’s a pretty good thread. She eventually answers the accusation, plus fields more canards.
I’d recommend reading as much of the thread as you can. Very informative.
*triggered*
Morning, all.
Dinner and a show.
It’s not immediately obvious, but it seems to be a dating test, in which the chap pointedly (or rudely) declines the trans person first, by bursting his balloon, prompting the ladies to burst their own balloons to display their solidarity with the trans person and their rejection of the man. Which seems to suggest that the ladies wouldn’t date a man who doesn’t date other men who dress up as women.
And which, on reflection, is an odd thing to signal.
There’s also the crowd behaviour thing, as the urge to signal, and to be seen signalling, spreads throughout the female participants. Which in turn raises the question of whether the ladies’ behaviour is driven by a conviction that they’re right, or by a concern for how they would be seen, and judged, by their female peers.
Actually jumped.
The obnoxious moron authors of their own misery.
You could always create an X account, which costs nothing, even if you don’t plan to post anything. It would at least allow you to read the subsequent threads, which are often entertaining.
If you voted for Trump, she doesn’t want to date you.
“Bathroom visitor.“
No matter the size, cat is typical cat!
“And finally, in fashion news, an unforeseen sock crisis.“
More proof, as if it were needed, that people who get tattooed aren’t very bright…
Again, you have to marvel at the often mouthed progressive position, in which you’re not supposed to mind, or even register, the obvious degradation, the fear, the misery. The only permissible responses seem to be pretentious sympathy for the aggressor, who must be regarded as the victim of the drama, or a kind of pseudo-sophistication, a hipster pose, in which enduring such abuses, regularly, with learned cowardice, is a credential of some sort. Hey, no biggie.
Well. Yes biggie. It’s a wretched way to live.
And I suspect the mouthers of progressive pieties know that. Which may explain the often emphatic dislike of anyone who points to the phenomenon and what it implies.
There’s the start of your horror film.
It does suggest… possibilities. I’m assuming the driver discovers that the problem isn’t the wolves but something much worse.
Giant Santa, perhaps.
A lot of the weepy women are just performing, but this one has tears in her nose and throat, so I think she might be genuinely terrified that she’ll go on a date with someone who will look normal but then yank her soul out through her nose.
The activists who’ve scared her like this need to be dragged through an open sewer — after some unhappy encounters between their limbs and cheese graters.
She “did something brave.“
She’s an educator, you know. In charge of children.
And as we’ve seen, that would include much of the mainstream broadcast media, any number of educators, and quite a few columnists for the Guardian.
A test of patience.
I have a list of questions.
This needs to be repeated multiple times every day on every news source for a year.
Birthday scenes.
Cheeeldren of the night.
Gave my dog a thrill. Had it gone longer I think Bronx would have joined in.
I wouldn’t say “all the time”, but I did see them now and then.
Probably just a random asshole with opinions and an email address.
That compressed sofa video ended a bit too soon. I’ve bought mattresses like that, so I know it works for very basic shapes, but come on, we really need to see how it looks when it gets unsquished…
You could always create an X account…
Yes, but then one have a “social” media account.
Meanwhile, I always thought they were just 50/50 vodka and Kahlua. Meet Marina, Andrey, Miska, and Alexi Nachevko, typical Bolshevik Muscovites one would see out and about in revolutionary Russia.
Hive mind in action.
End the revolving door of prison and poverty: shoot the criminals and be done with them.
… shoot the criminals and be done with them.
In related news…
Well, no, three against one, that was sort of leveling the playing field.
Moral degeneracy is quite a thing. Despite repeated exposure to it, it can still raise eyebrows. I’d suggest that by breaking into someone’s home, armed with brass knuckles, a knife and a machete, the burglars were sending a fairly clear message about exactly how much concern, or little, one should have for their wellbeing.
Not to mention the brass knuckles. Those kids were ready to commit violence.
Good grief. Who’s in favor of shipping all the shippers to Afghanistan?
As noted here before, to assume that a burglar is anything other than an existential threat seems foolish in the extreme.
As noted here before, to assume that a burglar is anything other than an existential threat seems foolish in the extreme.
Nonsense, you just have to follow the fairness rules.
When the chaff separates itself.
And skill.
Let us visit The World Of Science…
Poliovirus keeps popping up in European wastewater, perplexing and worrying scientists
I think I solved the mysterious mystery.
Sanity from the Antipodes:
Cue the ululations…
“My rice bowl has been broken”, he added. (OK, I was reading between the lines a bit)
Oh no, how will we know Indigenous Ways of Knowings™?
What kinds of replacement jobs do we propose for them?
The grandfather should be charged along with the others.
I am convinced troons do not know any actual women, because I have never known, or even seen one, who acts like this.
Garbage sorting. How else will they get their pagpag?
Obama gets in a final blow: Biden admin releases $10billion funds to Iran. Why do they love Iran? It is hardly a prog mecca. These funds have been funding missiles aimed at Israel. Sick sick behavior.
Why do they love Iran?…These funds have been funding missiles aimed at Israel.
Only a conspiracy theorist would even entertain the slightest suspicion of an inkling of an iota of a connection.
Which in turn raises the question of whether the ladies’ behaviour is driven by a conviction that they’re right, or by a concern for how they would be seen, and judged, by their female peers.
Thank you! Now the talk of patient zero and spreading infection make sense – and why I think the latter in the above is the correct reason.
“It’s annoying when Chomsky is right.”
The ice makes it classy.
Heh.
Regarding the subway psychotic, a non-trivial footnote.
Is Heinz now a sponsor of this blog?
Scaring people. This has become standard procedure among activists. Air pollution/smoking etc was not merely annoying or bad for you but would kill you instantly. Climate change would not merely be a problem but would be the end of humanity. Trump does not merely have policies we (dems) don’t like but is literally hitler. It is all made much worse when the media blindly report this crap. For example, the forecasts for rising sea levels are for hundreds of years from now, but media just says the coastal areas will drown.
sofa: they do this with foam mattresses (rolled up tight). You can find vids where someone cuts the plastic and the mattress springs to life and throws them across the room.
Equity!
I should not have turned up the volume for that “Cliffhanger” story.
Edmonton, Ontario, Canada. Really?
Attention, British taxpayers:
£318,510, since you ask.
The Left has (perhaps deliberate) reading/viewing/listening comprehension problems. In “Baby its cold outside” both the male and female singers take turns urging the guy to stay. Not rape.
They objected to Sound of Music because there are Nazis….who are the bad guys.
In To Kill a Mockingbird they misconstrue the plot completely.
In Huckleberry Finn they had fits because Finn uses the N word….at a time when that was the norm. In Finn also, the black character has a role to play in pointing out the racism of whites. Could not do that unless he was/had been (can’t remember) a slave.
In Dunkirk they complained there were no POC….at a time when England was very very white.
It must be hard work being this dumb.
Burglary and the death penalty: if you watch cop shows (the reality ones) it is clear that many robberies/burglaries end in the victim dead. You cannot assume someone entering your home is just going to take your TV and leave peacefully. Rape might also be on the menu. or death
Don’t think you quite got your money’s worth there.
A bit late, all things considered.
And it won’t change the minds of any of the liberal cunts I argued with as the Duke Lacrosse hoax scandal unfolded. But then, nothing ever does.
Re: David’s browser history. (From Sarah Hoyt)
It’s alright, David. We love you anyway.
A man-bites-dog story.
Killing monsters is illegal but not immoral.
A thought: If the police do not yet know the identity of the passenger who shot the young boy, it must be because the driver said “I don’t do police” to which they could reply “Do you do ‘getting beaten by ten of the boy’s relatives?’ “
Duke lacrosse players: one player was on a bank ATM video across town at the time of the alleged event–Mike Nifong would not remove his name from the accused list. All of them lost their scholarships and could not play (IIRC) in spite of not guilty verdict (too late). The faculty at Duke all jumped on “guilty” from day one. Shameful. I believe several years later Nifong was disbarred, but again too late.
Attention, British taxpayers:
So the non-Sacred Indigenous People of Great Britain have to give up their heating dole payments so that British academics can go overseas and study the Sacred Indigenous Peoples of the former colonies? Or how water interacts with the Sacred Indigenous Peoples, or ..? I am confused as to why the British taxpayer has anything to do with Alaskan natives.
That’s correct. And a prosecutor has to fuck up very badly and very publicly to get disbarred.
When pensioners hope that Santa will bring them coal for Christmas.
While I hope that Santa will bring “liberals” muggings and burglaries.
Castles.
We shouldn’t have to share a country with these people.
Suitable for some of the items posted on this blog:
Isn’t it the woman who’s leaving?
I guess the roles get reversed in some versions, tho.
It’s annoying when Chomsky complains about a phenomenon that he was a key part of creating.
“Tim Walz and his wife are like the super nice, quirky couple that you meet in the middle of a post-apocalyptic film…
“And about 15 minutes into your conversation, you realize that they eat people.”
Looks like they want to divide people by race.
I would guess that what’s being said in one room may not be entirely consonant with what’s being said in the other. Two sets of lies.
See also this:
Because black students must be “empowered,” made even more glorious. While white devils must be made to “unlearn” their wicked ways.
I hadn’t heard of this psychopath before.
If that shows up in a James Bond movie, assuming proper James Bond movies will ever be made again, you know how some henchman is going to die. Most likely while trying to kill Bond, James Bond with it.
And in problematic casting news.
I was in a meeting in a conference room on something like the 35th floor of an office building in Cincinnati. Across the street, at about that same altitude, was a building with some architectural 45 degree sloped roof. I think it was all glass but, whatever. At some point during the meeting a worker had ventured out and was descending down that slope. There was nothing that I could see that would stop him if he slipped. Pretty sure he had a safety harness but from that distance it wasn’t really clear. Extremely distracting.
Exactly. Unnecessary complications are the bane of serious engineering. Fun tho. What used to amuse my car buddies back in the 70’s was that designers go to great effort to hide the headlights, designing the car for superior streamlining yet all that effort is meaningless, made worse even, once you need to drive it in the dark.