Friday Ephemera (751)
Wind instrument of note. || Let’s just say mistakes were made. || Just one or two drinks during lunch. || The demands of glamorous dining. || On thin wings and flying faster than the speed of sound. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Stroppy and incoming. || Not as easy as it looks. || Adventures in large rock relocation. || Ripples. || Nodules. || More joys of public transport. || Zipper trouble. || Pigeon peepers. || The attempt to steal propane did not go entirely as planned. || The progressive retail experience, parts 607 and 608. || Helping hand. || Are you not inspired? || Well, I suppose he treated her as an equal. || Why spiders don’t (yet) rule the Earth. || Flatbread proportions. || Fishing will be fun, they said. || And finally, is your womb “an energetic vessel that holds ancestral imprints”?
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You know, it does look a bit like Mordor.
Boys.
I don’t think this is how you attract Minions, David, is it?
NOT the Bee
from previous thread:
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I laughed a lot at that. Gonna go with my brother and find one of those and try it.
More California wildfire madness:
Unasked question: Why would a convicted murderer ever be released from prison?
Glad I’m not in charge of cleaning that cab.
Theory advanced. Interesting, but I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
Band name.
“Are you not inspired?“
To buy those chairs? They are damn sturdy!
“I paid my fare this time.”
“Can I get my $2.75 back?”
“Can I see the body?”
There’s a lot to unpack in that video.
I wondered how long it would be until they found some of the LA fires were deliberately set….
Morning, all.
In terms of normal functioning, in terms of focus and basic competence, it’s the analogue of sudden-onset bone cancer. Every damn time:
For instance.
Heh. Yes, it’s quite dense with implications.
[ Slurps coffee, looks at snow, defiantly unmelted. ]
No.
To be sure, though, we’ll need you to writhe about on a hillside, next to a cow, while some wacky bint waves her arms about.
Look, it’s basic science.
You may just need your connections guiding.
Hey, I’m just reading what it says here.
HEY!
They’re talking about the vagus nerve, here, and that’s a real thing. Your whole life improves when you stimulate it.
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I honestly cannot relate to what’s going on. What happens to women that drives them to think their womb is some kinda mystical thing with the feminine energy and you gots to be embodied and… I don’t know.
Why isn’t it feminine embodiment when I spend all day in a sugar coma because I had pie for breakfast?
[ Puts up sign saying Magic Womb Realignment, £50. Starts waving arms about. ]
Di, help me find a cow.
Blockage removal.
[ Commotion, suspicious mooing. ]
I gotchu fam.
Okay, so which one of us wears the tight peek-a-boo sweater?
That would be you.
Chasing off those pesky cervids.
It’s a bit snug.
[ Squeaking, grunting. ]
[ Mooing intensifies. ]
I’m not even sure what to say here.
Severely deluded to the point of not understanding how awful he looks? or severely twisted to the point that he enjoys scaring the normies?
If anyone has just joined this thread, it’s going to be difficult to explain what’s going on.
[ Adjusts tight peek-a-boo sweater. ]
I could have worn that in 1996. Now, not so much.
[ Waits for customers. ]
How does she use a phone? How does she even get dressed?
One of my male X mutuals says he can tell Zuckerberg has been upping his T. Maybe this explains his recent behavior,
I’ve often found it weird, and wrong-footing, how quite a lot of people seem to base their positions on something other than what they think to be the case, having pondered it, or even what is obviously the case. The reliance on social consensus, on fashion, however manufactured or absurd, makes interaction with such people quite tricky. It’s as if they were running on incompatible software.
When you’re discussing some hot-button topic – crime, immigration, transgenderism, whatever – it’s a little disconcerting to realise that the other party isn’t actually thinking about the issue as such, and that any disagreement may not be a result of error or of being unfamiliar with some pertinent piece of information. And that instead, the other party may be making tactical calculations based on, essentially, what their opinions will look like to others.
What their friends will think of them, should they agree or disagree, or even just pause to think.
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I recall one exchange, during which the other party expressed something like surprise at my reasoning. Not the particulars of it, which weren’t engaged with, but the fact that any reasoning was there – the fact that it was a thing one might do before adopting a position. As if, in their world, opinions were things one simply chose, like a flattering shirt.
How does she use a phone? How does she even get dressed?
How does she wipe her ass?!
You don’t hate the media enough.
Goal for Saturday morning is now set.
Thanks. I have a collection of these links for when people sneer at me for being an Orthodox Jew.
I gotta meet y’all in person one of these days.
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land?
Stephanie:
They would come up to Riverdale from Manhattan to do photo shoots for the catalogs at Wave Hill. The clothespin trick was done regularly for men’s shirts. I assume also for Talbots-style shirtdresses.
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land?
No, you don’t want to go to Memphis unless you absolutely have to and Graceland is overrated anyway.
I like a feelgood story.