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"Wait, there are consequences to people running riot in the streets? But no-one told us!"
Friday Ephemera
Snack treat of note. || Modern woes, a possible series. || Ah, Waitrose, always giving that little bit extra. || For Julia, luminous gin. || Vegan leather. || Our betters at large. || Our betters project. || Our betters vent their brains. || Hurling their bodies into the void. || Icebreaker. || ...
The current police line over the coronaviruspanic - ‘there’s thousands of interactions a day and they mostly get them right’.
‘We agree’, said the White Star Line owners, ‘Almost all our ships made it across the Atlantic in 1912...’
Friday Ephemera
Hog toys. || Big Bob ahoy. || Witches’ brew. || Build your own engines. || Dog versus leaf blower, metamorphosis begins. || At all times, dignity. || Godzilla versus Mito Komon. || A gift for the mother-in-law. || Good idea. (h/t, Perry) || Day 14. (h/t, Damian) || Moon whales detected. || The s...
Yes, it is indeed a nasty strain and beware - you'll think you shrugged it off, only for it to return about a week later... :/
Man Down, Send Tissues
If it’s seemed a little quieter than usual, that’s because your host is now entering week two of Man Flu Fortnight™. And this year’s strain is a real humdinger. I’m assuming that the fever and shivers and sleep deprivation will eventually pass, at which point normal service will resume. By all m...
Of course, it's just as well they aren't reading out the names of all the black people killed by other black people, because I think the restaurant would be long closed for the night before they'd finished...
You Think Your Day Was Bad?
Slurry tank explosion flings faeces on people and shops in Guangxi. A headline in the Want China Times. A slurry tanker containing human waste suddenly burst spraying innocent bystanders and nearby shops in Hechi in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Saturday… Several bystand...
Well, I think Elrond Hubbard just won the thread...
You Think Your Day Was Bad?
Slurry tank explosion flings faeces on people and shops in Guangxi. A headline in the Want China Times. A slurry tanker containing human waste suddenly burst spraying innocent bystanders and nearby shops in Hechi in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Saturday… Several bystand...
Why have so many people got it in for peacocks?
Elsewhere (140)
Charles Murray reflects on his book The Bell Curve, and its reception, twenty years on: The reaction to The Bell Curve exposed a profound corruption of the social sciences that has prevailed since the 1960s. The Bell Curve is a relentlessly moderate book — both in its use of evidence and in its...
Where's YOUR 'respect' for Lee Rigby, Blooperkit? I mean, you can't even be bothered to spell his name right...
UK: EDL leaders attacked then arrested for attempting to walk through "Muslim area"
Now just walking down the street gets you arrested in the UK if it might upset Muslims. The entry ban against Robert Spencer and me, and now this, while the left and the Islamic supremacists beat their chests in victory. Sign this petition now. Compare the above video with the Muslims "protesti...
I just knew that hole in the foreground was going to have a starring role!
Funny How Quickly the Day Can Turn to Shit
Somewhere in China, a man has difficulties with his scooter. Things start going awry top centre. Do watch to the end. Via Mick.
"A combination of fear and tiredness led me into various unprepossessing areas, my mind full of memories of Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities." There is no stealth mode in a Ferrari."
But an unrivalled ability to show pursuers a clean pair of heels!
New friends, new experiences and some scary moments
Logan, from Pensacola FL We shouted "Go, Cards!" but I doubt they heard The Big Muddy from the top of the Arch Logan looks quite at ease in Speranza's driving seat The Arch, from the park below We are safe and well, let me make that clear at the outset. I made an error of judgemen...
"... it was torn down by an activist who claimed the wall was an “act of violence” against the gay community."
Should said activist like to come to East London, and take a stroll round areas claimed by one of our many Muslim community outreach projects, he might learn just what an 'act of violence' really is...
Our Brightest Minds
More psychodrama on campus: Only hours after students installed a “Free Speech Wall” at Carleton University to prove that campus free speech was alive and well, it was torn down by an activist who claimed the wall was an “act of violence” against the gay community. “What we wanted to promote wa...
No doubt she'd find much in common with Jill Filipovic's 'new family' concept:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/11/family-isnt-dead
". When the traditional family model isn't something that everyone is expected to personally sacrifice to create, we can construct and implement policies that benefit actual families, in all of their incarnations. When they are not a crass economic contract where financial support is traded for housekeeping and child-rearing but instead a unit based on love, respect and mutual support, marriages last longer."
It’s Politically Radical Sex, Not Ordinary Mortal Sex
A librarian replies to a comment piece in the Daily Californian: Please don’t fuck in the library. I work here. My staff works here. The piece in question is by UC Berkeley student Nadia Cho, who seems to believe she’s very edgy and progressive. In fact, it’s difficult to overstate just how ed...
"We’re not supposed to notice that such people are typically feckless, infantile and all too often a nightmare for their equally poor yet law-abiding neighbours. "
That's the bit that really, really enrages me - their insistence that these feckless minority need stay right where they are to make the latte-sipping crowd happy.
Insufficiently Prole
It’s been a while since we’ve had a classic sentence to add to our collection. So here’s one – actually two – from the Observer’s ersatz class warrior Barbara Ellen: Mocking the posh and smirking about silver spoons rammed into gobs is a comic artform honed by the masses as a response to centur...
"Spider chases a laser pointer."
Awwww, I love videos like tha...
Wait. When you typed 'spider' you really meant 'kitten', I hope..?
Friday Ephemera
This plane is about to crash. // What to do with a naked male model and 28 cans of shaving cream? // Adorable toy butcher’s shop, circa 1900. // The Xiying rainbow bridge, Taiwan. // Yo-yos in microgravity. // Sea dragon babies. // Fun with strobes and video capture. // Calculating machines of y...
That 'Avengers' subtitling! "My next goal - I need a bait and eyeliner!"
*boggle*
Friday Ephemera
This plane is about to crash. // What to do with a naked male model and 28 cans of shaving cream? // Adorable toy butcher’s shop, circa 1900. // The Xiying rainbow bridge, Taiwan. // Yo-yos in microgravity. // Sea dragon babies. // Fun with strobes and video capture. // Calculating machines of y...
"Why wildebeest don’t rule the Earth."
:D
Friday Ephemera
Why wildebeest don’t rule the Earth. // I hear you still don’t have your very own battle robot. // Bond is coming. // Lullaby versions of alternative pop. // Little people, giant food. // “What factors could increase the survival rate of red-shirted crewmen?” // For people who just have to look ...
I must say, though I'm not usually find of remakes or reboots, I am quite looking forward to seeing the new 'Dallas'...
Elsewhere (68)
Daniel Hannan on patriotic feeling: The first few days of the Olympics have been accompanied by a clutch of articles about how British patriotism has been rehabilitated, the Union flag reclaimed and so forth. Really? Reclaimed from whom? Other than in the imagination of a tiny metropolitan eli...
It seems to be catching on at the dear old Grauniad. Edward Sidelsky: "The state, then, should drop the mask of neutrality and come out in favour of the good life. What, after all, do human beings need? The answer is not hard to seek. Human beings need healthy bodies and unfettered minds. They need love, security to plan and innovate, private spaces to "be themselves", and time to do as they please, not as they must. They do not need sushi boxes and pre-washed salad leaves. An economic system geared to the production of baubles and gadgets leads us away from the good life, not towards it."
Maybe it's me. But the life he's describing seems more like one of a pet, than a citizen...
Onwards to the Future
A vision of tomorrow, and at least one classic sentence, courtesy of the Guardian’s Jackie Ashley: Prospect magazine carries a thoughtful, slightly wistful piece by the former Labour MP Chris Mullin in which he calls for the abolition of the private car. Yes, Mr Mullin would have us inhabit a w...
I'm still marvelling at the concept of the 'vast right-wing Cherokee conspiracy'...
Elsewhere (67)
John Ellis and Charles Geshekter on academia’s growing political lockstep: The slant is even now rapidly increasing. At Berkeley the 2004-5 imbalance in political affiliation for the most senior faculty (full professors) was 8.3-1, but for the next rank (associate professors) it was an overwhelm...
That crab was fast! Like an....armoured....spider?
Oh dear. I think I've just gone off the idea of crab pate.
Friday Ephemera
The flatulence deodoriser is worn “taped inside the underwear next to the buttocks.” And for bedtime, there’s the gas sack. // Every woman wants a chainsaw handbag. // Crab and dachshund meet on a beach. // Kiev in infrared. // Fireworks filmed from above, via balloon. // Papercraft heads. // Fu...
"We set out with the intentions of shutting the fucker down and started the event with the distribution of some dope literature, some inflammatory speeches, the harassment of mainstream media..."
From such an auspicious beginning, it's hard to see how it could all dissolve into chaos, confusion and recrimination, isn't it?
Occupy Fights Patriarchy, Defends Child Molestation
Once again, Zombie reports from Occupy’s moral wasteland. This time, the object of the protestors’ umbrage was a conference on how to combat child sex trafficking: If there’s one issue that unites Americans of all political stripes, it’s the sexual enslavement of children. Whatever our opinions...
That's a shame, I was looking forward to this on DVD. I don't bother much with the cinema any more - too expensive, no subtitles and full of popcorn-munching teenagers and adults behaving like teenagers.
Why Prometheus is Inexcusably Bad
Spectacular digital effects, of which there are plenty in Prometheus, are complicated, time-consuming and expensive. Likewise, impressive sets and cinematic hardware cost money. Orchestral scores and booming sound design aren’t cheap either. Had Ridley Scott dropped the ball in these departmen...
"Body armour made of meat. "
Yikes! Someone flayed the Hulk!
Friday Ephemera
Attention, ladies. An end to the nightmare of camel-toe slacks. // Instant, fleeting inebriation. // Touchscreen with no touching. // “Stroud had discovered that magnets repel sharks.” (h/t, Dr Westerhaus) // Body armour made of meat. // The mysteries of yawning. (h/t, MeFi) // Trundling into th...
"No more mayonnaise mishaps.."
Ah, but new Helmann's squeezy bottles fixed that one already!
The Condiments of Tomorrow
Because the world has been waiting for a low-friction ketchup bottle. MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith and a team of engineers and nano-technologists at the Varanasi Research Group have devised a “super slippery” coating ideal for clogged condiments. The coating does have potential in other, non-ke...
"...after special dinners made for himself by himself."
Wow! I can foresee a blinding crossover opportunity with Channel Four's 'Come Dine With Me'!
Crotch Funk as Art
Aesthetes that my readers are, you’ll no doubt be familiar with the name of Jan Fabre, a Belgian performance artist and “theatre-maker” who, we’re informed, “expands the horizons of every genre to which he applies his artistic vision.” Mr Fabre’s acclaimed efforts at horizon-expanding include Pr...
"Nothing I have read so far evinced the slightest surprise from me..."
Me neither! It was nice to see the Yanks held the same opinions on the regard in which Cameron is held, mind you... :)
Wiki takes a Leak: Yawning becomes infectious!
Well, I just had a quick read of the NYT's version of the WikiLeaks dribble, and then I had a skim-read of The Guardian's report in which it assumes the swooning pose of an elderly Victorian lady inadvertantly catching a glimpse of an uncovered table leg. Nothing I have read so far evinced the ...
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