You should chew your food until it is small enough to swallow easily,
The Guardian, paper of the enlightened, tells its readers how to chew food.
Also, open thread.
Update:
In the comments, via Darleen, behold the bedlamite dance.
You should chew your food until it is small enough to swallow easily,
The Guardian, paper of the enlightened, tells its readers how to chew food.
Also, open thread.
Update:
In the comments, via Darleen, behold the bedlamite dance.
“Labour Party. Socialist. Teacher.”
Put another way, “State education is generally sub-optimal and often shockingly bad. Let’s make sure that’s all there is available.”
We’ve been here before, of course. As when we heard the claim, conveniently unchallenged, that doing one’s best for one’s own children – in contravention of “social justice” – is merely a “cultural construction,” and therefore, presumably, ripe for deconstruction. By our betters.
Minor malfunction detected. || An appetising dessert. || Just the usual family drama. || An alarming example of upside-down peas. (h/t, Damian) || How to sound like Erik Satie, or alternatively, like Bach. || The sounds of American doomsday cults. (h/t, Things) || It undulates. || Theodore Dalrymple on modern dishonesties. || The car of tomorrow. || Firecrackers of yore. (h/t, Coudal) || South African scenes. || Horse sense. (h/t, Darleen) || High anxiety. || I think something is rattling. || Attention, retailers: How to sell the Sony Betamax. || Stromboli goes boom. || There and back again. || God one, boat nil. (h/t, Rita) || Eleven elements. || And finally, via Elephants Gerald, a balance of terror.
I think it may be time for an open thread, in which to share links and bicker.
What?
Oh, sorry. Forgot.
A discussion ensues.
You can tell from his outpourings:
As someone who writes about Trump and his subordinates every day, I need every reprieve I can find from the ongoing toxic demise of our country, including in my personal social media. But my decision today to unfriend this individual was no simple purge; I am significantly emotionally wounded.
It’s all terribly dramatic. Practically a miniature opera. You see, while browsing Facebook, Mr Ford saw a photo of an old high school friend celebrating the Fourth of July with her daughter and while wearing a Make America Great Again hat. The latter detail, the hat, being, for Mr Ford, “unacceptable,” a personal violation and source of deep trauma. Naturally, and not at all oddly, Zack decided to scold his old high school friend, as was his duty as a super-woke being:
I gave my friend an ultimatum.
Always a sound opening gambit.
I told her I wouldn’t unfriend her so long as she apologised for wearing the hat and promised me I wouldn’t have to see it in my feed again.
Terms of surrender. A bold choice.
When she claimed I was trying to police her beliefs, I corrected her, pointing out that my conditions only regarded the hat, not her position on any particular issue.
Ooh. Terms of surrender with bonus sophistry. That’s bound to go down well. Let’s see:
When asked to choose between a hat that embodies that evil and someone she’s known half her life,
Wait for it.
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