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Some Big Boys Made Me Do It

August 19, 2025 105 Comments

Apparently, and this may be news to you, littering isn’t a moral shortcoming of the people actually dropping the litter:

Which seems awfully convenient, for a certain kind of person, if not entirely convincing.

Litter – and its inegalitarian distribution – is a topic we’ve touched on before. From which, this came to mind:

[Urban Studies lecturer, Peter Matthews] also thinks that “deprived” and “marginalised” communities can be elevated, made less dysfunctional, by “the provision of services… such as… street cleaners.” Meaning more street cleaners, cleaning more frequently. He links to a report fretting about how to “narrow the gap” in litter, how to, “achieve fairer outcomes in street cleanliness.”

But neither he nor the authors of said report explore an obvious factor. The words “drop” and “littering” simply don’t appear anywhere in the report, thereby suggesting that the food-smeared detritus and other unsightly objects just fall from the clouds mysteriously when the locals are asleep.

The report that Mr Matthews cites, supposedly as evidence of unfairness, actually states that council cleaning resources are “skewed towards deprived neighbourhoods” – with councils spending up to five times more on those areas than they spend on cleaning more respectable neighbourhoods. And yet even this is insufficient to overcome the locals’ antisocial behaviour.

A regular visit by a council cleaning team, even one equipped with military hardware, won’t compensate for a dysfunctional attitude towards littering among both children and their parents. And fretting about inequalities in litter density is a little odd if you don’t consider how the litter gets there in the first place. Yet this detail isn’t investigated and the report can “neither confirm nor reject the idea that resident attitudes and behaviours are significant drivers of environmental problems.”

And Mr Matthews, our Urban Studies lecturer, is educating teenagers. Telling them how it is.

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Free-For-All Pronouns Or Else

His Fabulist Pronouns Were Nonetheless Observed

August 10, 2025 95 Comments

And in don’t-mention-the-mental-illness news:

A “diaper fetishist” who repeatedly dumped soiled nappies outside nurseries and was caught raking through bins semi-naked has been given a suspended prison sentence.

I should perhaps point out that it doesn’t get better as we go on.

Abbi Taylor also smeared faeces on children’s bottles and was filmed with her [sic] trousers down in a bin at a South Shields block of flats, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

As I was saying.

Taylor, who identifies as female, had a history of similar offending in the Nottingham area before moving to the North East, the court heard. Taylor, who admitted depositing controlled waste and breaching a court order that had banned the 46-year-old from attending nurseries or climbing into bins, was jailed for two years suspended for two years.

I suppose we could take a moment to ponder the fact that there are creatures, cross-dressing middle-aged men, for whom it is necessary to conjure court orders to deter them from attending nurseries, as if they were children, and from climbing into wheelie bins. While wearing soiled nappies.

I’ll give you a minute.

Staff at nurseries in Jarrow, Cleadon, and South Shields frequently arrived at work to find bags of soiled adult nappies dumped on their doorsteps… Initially it was believed the waste was left accidentally by nursery workers or even dumped as part of a campaign by a childcare rival, the court heard.

Cut-throat business, childcare.

Investigations revealed the nappies were larger than those used by the children and on one occasion sections of carpet smeared with faeces were found in the dumped bags.

Hey, I’m just reading what it says here.

Taylor had 90 offences on her [sic] criminal record, many committed under the previous name of Martin Tarling,

That’s 90. Nine zero.

and in November 2014, Taylor was found partially clothed in a bin of nappies, the court heard. A Facebook account search found a post Taylor had made depicting herself [sic] in cartoon form wearing a nappy, with a caption declaring she [sic] was an “adult baby diaper lover”…

No, we’ve come this far. We must push on.

In mitigation, Nick Lane… said psychiatric reports confirmed [Taylor’s motivations] were “not simply linked to sexual arousal” but could symbolise a more “carefree” time in a person’s life with a “return to childhood innocence” providing “psychological comfort” and a “unique form of self expression.”

Mr Taylor, since you ask, “was also ordered to do 100 hours’ unpaid work and will have to wear a GPS tag for a year.” So that’s everything taken care of. I’m sure we’ll hear no more of Mr Taylor’s excremental self-expression.

A resident at a flat block in South Shields caught Taylor naked from the waist down inside a bin bag in a wheelie bin in the communal waste store… The man filmed Taylor pulling up her [sic] trousers and fleeing, the court heard.

Said video of the gentleman in question, doing his lady business, in a wheelie bin, in a totally ladylike manner, can be found at the link above.

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Academia Free-For-All

And Chest-Puffing Ensued

July 22, 2025 126 Comments

Time, I think, to dip a toe in the world of academia. Specifically, some lively rumblings on the relative importance of electricians and sociology lecturers. I suppose you could start here, with this, but there are plenty of tangents and pith, and moments of slightly comical indignation.

Among those moments, this one:

Societies lived without electricity for millennia. Some still do. Don’t give me this shit.

By contrast, societies have ALWAYS needed individuals to assess their societal needs and propose solutions.

That by nature is The Sociologist. https://t.co/A0xifaYrXW

— Tim Gill (@timgill924) July 22, 2025

You see, Dr Tim Gill, our associate professor, is “an authority on society and everything in it.” Being an “intellectual,” he can “diagnose entire societies.” And then issue instructions to people of less importance.

Update, via the comments:

From one of Dr Gill’s own students:

“This class is very easy… However [Dr Gill] has an ego…”

A data point, I suppose.

Quoting this,

You see, Dr Tim Gill, our associate professor, is “an authority on society and everything in it.” Being an “intellectual,” he can “diagnose entire societies.” And then issue instructions to people of less importance.

Rafi adds,

But he didn’t see the pushback coming…

Which does rather suggest a gap in his model of the world.

At one point, Dr Gill boasts of never having used a lawn mower. Because apparently that’s a credential. Readers may also note Dr Gill’s use of the word handyman, complete with connotations of something other than respect. Still, you’ve almost got to admire the imperviousness of someone who responds to accusations of being arrogant and haughty and unmoored from reality by being arrogant and haughty and unmoored from reality.

Regarding Dr Gill’s rumblings of alleged profundity and intellectual heft, commenter Chow Bag draws our attention to this.

No laughing at the back.

And it must be quite strange to be rendered indignant by something – assumptions about a field, its standards, and the kinds of people it attracts – that your own indignant replies are pretty much confirming.

The thing is, the field of sociology needn’t, I think, have become so disreputable. I see little that’s inherently dubious about an attempt to study human society. But the field’s near-total occupation, or colonisation, by smug, delusional leftists, with all of their blind spots and baggage – and the consequent near-ubiquity of faulty default assumptions and predestined conclusions – has, inevitably, taken a toll.

The kind of people who, like Dr Gill, want to use a pretence of academic rigour to propagate their own rather weird and implausible political preferences.

Which is why we get supposed social scientists who find it problematic that Wikipedia entries written by men about pop culture topics that tend to be liked by men are often longer and more detailed, more nerdy, than entries by women on topics that are more likely to be of interest to women. As if men and women were somehow – and must be – identical in their psychology, their preferences and priorities, and as if any difference in Wikipedia entry length must be a result of some social oppression, some invisible downtroddenness.

And likewise, it’s why we get a social science lecturer being bewildered by the inegalitarian distribution of litter, and fretting about how to “narrow the gap” in discarded fag packets and food-smeared detritus, while studiously avoiding any acknowledgement of obvious differences in behaviour between social groups, as this would presumably offend his own egalitarian assumptions. And who gives no thought, none at all, to how the litter gets there in the first place. As if it just fell from the sky, randomly, like overnight snow.

And among Dr Gill’s peers, thinking of this kind is hardly uncommon. Hence the reputation.

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Academia Free-For-All

Have You Tried Using Cheese?

July 14, 2025 60 Comments

And in brief British heatwave news:

Dr Ben Roberts, a senior lecturer in healthy buildings at Loughborough University, said applying yoghurt to the outside of windows can lower the temperature by up to 3.5C.

It was a month-long experiment. Behold your taxes at work.

In May, Dr Roberts and PhD student Niloo Todeh-Kharman conducted an experiment on two identical test houses at Loughborough University by putting yoghurt on the windows of one, but not the other. The experiment found the indoor temperature of the house with yoghurt on the windows was on average 0.6C cooler, but up to a maximum of 3.5C cooler when it was “hot and sunny.”

And before you ask,

[Dr Roberts] told the BBC the yoghurt smells for “30 seconds when drying” but that as soon as it has dried “the smell disappears.”

Oh, and should you be tempted:

For their experiment, the scientists at Loughborough University used a supermarket-brand of Greek yoghurt that has a fat percentage of about 10%.

Do let us know how it goes.

Should clarity be required, this is not some miraculous property of yoghurt, even of Greek yoghurt at 10% fat. It’s merely a function of any substance that can be smeared onto windows before drying white. Presumably, similar effects could be achieved by gluing toilet paper onto your windows, which would also alert neighbours to your cunning. Or by purchasing any of the commercially available window films that do much the same thing, only better.

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Behold My Anus Free-For-All Parenting

The Person That He Is

July 12, 2025 103 Comments

Lifted from the comments, which you’re reading, of course:

It was an act of celebration to be finally able to put myself out there confidently, to forgive my past and to own my present, to manifest my future, and to ultimately feel good about the person that I am.

Said the man flashing his arse to elementary-school children.

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