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My own background is in the "hard sciences" and although it's self-evident to say so these are extremely dangerous/sinister developments in our culture.
We, collectively, must stress to those leading us down this road that when the great correction occurs (as it must at some point) that they pretty much begged for the results. Robespierre would agree I'm sure.
PS. Nothing wrong with having a weasel ferret around in your trousers. One mans meat and all that.
Commented Jun 24, 2021 on Deep Space, Baby at davidthompson
Deep Space, Baby
Or, Prattle Beyond The Stars: Physicists at MIT and SUNY Stony Brook recently announced findings that the total surface area of two black holes was maintained after the two entities merged. While this research was a welcome confirmation of both Stephen Hawking’s work and the theory of general r...
TimT,
"I was under the impression from videos that hedgehogs were quite pattable..."
You clearly haven't patted a hedgehog from North Wales.
Commented Sep 26, 2020 on Friday Ephemera at davidthompson
Friday Ephemera
A moment of new-parent panic. || De-pouching. || Somehow, I’d never seen a punt gun. || Full points for grip. || Atop a turbine. || Our betters are the clever ones. || Bathing scenes. || Beware of the dog. || All-you-can-eat buffet-discount technology of note. || Come closer, kissy face. || I do...
"not this kind of squalor"
You mean white privilege surely?
Commented Jun 19, 2020 on Sixties northern colour at Mick Hartley
Sixties northern colour
Shirley Baker was a pioneering photographer who chronicled the streets round Manchester and Salford from the mid-Sixties on. She really only became widely celebrated after her death in 2014, in particular with an exhibition at the Photographers' Gallery in 2015, which I covered at the time - and...
a while longer...
Are you considering leaving us?
Commented Jun 6, 2020 on My Kingdom For A Haircut at davidthompson
My Kingdom For A Haircut
Yes, it’s time to remind patrons that this rickety barge, on whose seating your arses rest, is kept afloat by the kindness of strangers. If you’d like to help it remain buoyant a while longer, and remain ad-free, there’s an orange button below with which to monetise any love. Debit and credit ca...
Weren't the Maldives supposed to be entirely under water by now?
Commented Apr 24, 2020 on Friday Ephemera at davidthompson
Friday Ephemera
Dr Lecter’s twilight years. || The underwater hotel suite you’ve always wanted. (h/t, Dicentra) || Witchcraft. (h/t, Tim) || Cinema takes its toll. (h/t, Ben) || Motion-sensor flower lamps. || Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster, 1965. || Joys of parenthood, part 604. || Parasite fighters. (h/t,...
If she really has decided to “live as wild people lived” I find myself wondering how she's lived 54 years?
Commented Apr 17, 2020 on Land Of The Before Times at davidthompson
Land Of The Before Times
As we confront the reality of COVID-19, the idea of living self-sufficiently in the woods, far from crowds and grocery stores, doesn’t sound so bad. From the pages of Outside magazine, the romance of the primitive: I’m on my way to meet Lynx Vilden, a 54-year-old British expat who, for most of ...
JML
Ref the "cute" reader.
The "reading" took about two hours. I have NEVER EVER been so bored in my life. I wanted to die. Big mistake. Never again.
What if it was cute AND topless? Would that adjust the equation?
Only asking.
Commented Apr 9, 2020 on Tune Your Amulets To 77 Megahertz at davidthompson
Tune Your Amulets To 77 Megahertz
Can you access a broader intelligence and gain quick information without having to use your logical mind? From the pages of Everyday Feminism, an offer you can’t refuse. Sharpen your sense of self-awareness. Just $35. Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
As women, we’re often taught at an early age to ignore our intuition and to trust the wisdom of others.
"Others" being?
Commented Apr 9, 2020 on Tune Your Amulets To 77 Megahertz at davidthompson
Tune Your Amulets To 77 Megahertz
Can you access a broader intelligence and gain quick information without having to use your logical mind? From the pages of Everyday Feminism, an offer you can’t refuse. Sharpen your sense of self-awareness. Just $35. Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
"Three strikes"?
When I were a lad.....
Commented Mar 19, 2020 on Self Service at davidthompson
Self Service
This is the nice version of what happens when the state justice system fails and private individuals must step in to fill the void. There is also a less nice version. Over at Samizdata, Natalie Solent is pondering this item of crime and policing news. Or rather, non-policing news: It was no surp...
I was only asking for a friend/science.
Commented Feb 28, 2020 on Rashly, He Appealed To Their Better Nature (2) at davidthompson
Rashly, He Appealed To Their Better Nature (2)
Or, In Which Your Host Learns Whether What He Does Is Of Value. Yes, it’s time to remind patrons that this rickety barge, on whose seating your arses rest, is kept afloat by the kindness of strangers. If you’d like to help it remain buoyant a while longer, and remain ad-free, there’s an orange b...
You pathetic donation whore.
Is it lucrative?
Commented Feb 28, 2020 on Rashly, He Appealed To Their Better Nature (2) at davidthompson
Rashly, He Appealed To Their Better Nature (2)
Or, In Which Your Host Learns Whether What He Does Is Of Value. Yes, it’s time to remind patrons that this rickety barge, on whose seating your arses rest, is kept afloat by the kindness of strangers. If you’d like to help it remain buoyant a while longer, and remain ad-free, there’s an orange b...
Ms Karlis goes on to mull “our” attachment to the plastic water bottle as a “an object that provides a sense of comfort.”
Plastic you say?
Commented Feb 18, 2020 on Passionate Attachments at davidthompson
Passionate Attachments
In the pages of Salon, where our progressive betters ruminate, Nicole Karlis ponders the latest fashionable anxiety. Specifically, Stories of heartache, tears, stress and dehydration that people experienced after a forced separation from their water bottles. Says Ms Karlis, I have an irrational ...
I received over a dozen responses, suggesting that I may have tapped into a cultural phenomenon
Over a dozen with an opinion on a an entire culture.
One should be impressed.
Commented Feb 18, 2020 on Passionate Attachments at davidthompson
Passionate Attachments
In the pages of Salon, where our progressive betters ruminate, Nicole Karlis ponders the latest fashionable anxiety. Specifically, Stories of heartache, tears, stress and dehydration that people experienced after a forced separation from their water bottles. Says Ms Karlis, I have an irrational ...
Oh, for the heady days when the half-black-on-the-left guy wanted to kill the half-black-on-the-right guy.
Whilst not forgetting that the half-black-on-the-right guy also wanted to kill the half-black-on-the-left guy with equal vigour.
The unfortunate all white and black guys were stuck in the middle.
Commented Feb 6, 2020 on It Requires A Firm Tongue at davidthompson
It Requires A Firm Tongue
How to pronounce Betelgeuse. Also, open thread. Feel free to share links and bicker.
What about Uranus?
Commented Feb 6, 2020 on It Requires A Firm Tongue at davidthompson
It Requires A Firm Tongue
How to pronounce Betelgeuse. Also, open thread. Feel free to share links and bicker.
"Afro-diasporic popular dance" you say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGtOT1tIAwg
Sterling stuff.
Commented Jan 24, 2020 on Wokeness And Woo, Together Again at davidthompson
Wokeness And Woo, Together Again
Time for another tug on the teats of super-woke theorising: White people ‘can’t dance’ because white-ness is a traumatized state that is disconnected from the body. Set aside those thoughts of ballet, Footloose and MGM musicals. We must press on. Colonization/Westernization has profoundly impac...
"White-ness… is an energetic imbalance caused by a loss of spinal fluidity"
Kubrick was onto this more than half a century ago.
https://youtu.be/N1KvgtEnABY?t=68
Commented Jan 24, 2020 on Wokeness And Woo, Together Again at davidthompson
Wokeness And Woo, Together Again
Time for another tug on the teats of super-woke theorising: White people ‘can’t dance’ because white-ness is a traumatized state that is disconnected from the body. Set aside those thoughts of ballet, Footloose and MGM musicals. We must press on. Colonization/Westernization has profoundly impac...
@NTSOG
"In other words what's good for the goose is good for the gander".
Oh no, that's different.
Commented Jan 8, 2020 on The Pulse Of The Nation at davidthompson
The Pulse Of The Nation
We’re nearly all vegan now. Yes, you guessed, it’s a Guardian headline. For an article in which an oddly confident Barbara Ellen asks, Who isn’t vegan in some way these days? Ms Ellen describes herself as a “dairy-dabbling vegetarian.” Update: In the comments, Rafi reminds us that, even accordin...
Serious note on the nanchuk scene.
This represents a deeply ingrained adversely developed culture.
All cultures are equal though of course.
Commented Dec 25, 2019 on Friday Ephemera at davidthompson
Friday Ephemera
Gently does it. (h/t, Darleen) || I’m no structural engineer, but I question the choice of material here. || “They mostly come at night, mostly.” || Children are not nunchucks. Because apparently this fact isn’t sufficiently obvious. || When you want your seafood fresh. || We are always falling....
@NTSOG
"crisps I think they're called in England"
Well they aren't French fries I can tell you.....
Commented Dec 25, 2019 on And In Foreign News at davidthompson
And In Foreign News
Time for an open thread, I think. Feel free to share links and bicker.
He could always pimp her out and get the best of both worlds?
I'm only exploring possibilities here.....
Commented Dec 23, 2019 on Our Betters In Love at davidthompson
Our Betters In Love
Let’s turn to the pages of Slate, where left-leaning sophisticates mull the issues of the day. Among which, an obvious question for the woke and well-adjusted: I (35, male) started dating someone (33, female) recently that I’ve really enjoyed connecting with and have found a higher level of chem...
"The moral issue of sex buying is a serious one for me, but one that I’ve ultimately come to believe can be ethical in the right context."
Context matters.
Commented Dec 23, 2019 on Our Betters In Love at davidthompson
Our Betters In Love
Let’s turn to the pages of Slate, where left-leaning sophisticates mull the issues of the day. Among which, an obvious question for the woke and well-adjusted: I (35, male) started dating someone (33, female) recently that I’ve really enjoyed connecting with and have found a higher level of chem...
short of societal collapse and mass death
Greta...calling Greta.....
Commented Dec 4, 2019 on I’m Sensing Unease at davidthompson
I’m Sensing Unease
Here’s an open thread, in which to share links and bicker.
One assumes he'll be let out early on "licence".
Commented Dec 4, 2019 on I’m Sensing Unease at davidthompson
I’m Sensing Unease
Here’s an open thread, in which to share links and bicker.
including praise for shoplifting and robbery as anti-capitalist countermeasures against “the violent maintenance of property,”
Well that's alright then.
As opposed the violent deprivation of it.
Commented Dec 4, 2019 on I’m Sensing Unease at davidthompson
I’m Sensing Unease
Here’s an open thread, in which to share links and bicker.
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