Friday Ephemera

Menfolk, impress women with instant burliness. // How to make Möbius bacon. // Batman’s many enemies, from Condiment King to Killer Moth. // How a bean becomes a fart. // It was the Seventies, everyone was funky. // “Fuck patriarchy.” // The patriarchy in action. // Pornographic sound design. // Iris the piglet likes bounding and belly rubs. // Clouds over Kansas City. // Cloud shadows. // Origami crease patterns. // Ranking the Bond cars. (h/t, Ace) // Volvos in North Korea. // We need to see the return of anti-cheating hats. // In auction news. // Stone mosaics. // Mr Marvin Gaye. // Hardcore dog lover. // What ants do. // And finally, in thrilling lavatorial news, “Earliest known wooden toilet seat discovered.” 

Comments

[Spiny Norman]

Möbius bacon, savory awesomeness.

[rjmadden]

“Fuck patriarchy.”

I wonder if he's appreciating the irony.

[rjmadden]

How to make Möbius bacon.

Today I learned that meat glue exists.

[Hal]

Möbius bacon.

Remember, mobius strippers never show their backsides.

The patriarchy in action.

Sometimes really in action . . . .

[Jeff Guinn]

This is intellectual deprivation of the first order: irony anemia.

I'm a quarter of the way through the comments, and not ONE mention of North Korea.

[David]

irony anaemia

I’m not familiar with most of the books Mr Morrison is upset about on grounds that they’re insufficiently leftwing, but people who are familiar with them have pointed out his breathless distortion of their themes and particulars. Still, apparently it’s vital that children don’t become at all sceptical regarding any government or movement that “sees itself as a utopian social engineer.” We can’t have that.

[Minnow]

It's a relief to see those ants. It must mean they have abandoned work on an internal combustion engine after all.

[David]

It must mean they have abandoned work on an internal combustion engine after all.

If they learn how to make fire we’re pretty much screwed.

[Rafi]

“Fuck patriarchy.”

Brilliant. :-)

[David]

“Fuck patriarchy.”

I’m just a little curious how he’s processing the experience.

[Sam]

David, I think you'll appreciate this...

"He recently described Owen Jones as our generation's incarnation of [George Orwell]."

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2014/09/russell-brand-and-johann-hari-the-revolutionary-dream-team/

[David]

I fear standards may be slipping.

[DH]

...the multi-millionaire revolutionary’s YouTube claim that IS are less of a threat than David Cameron.

I agree with Brand on this. Gunning thousands of people down for refusing to renounce their faith, beheading western journalists and aid workers on camera, raping and selling thousands of women into sexual slavery.
It's all small fry stuff compared to the unparalleled evil of David Cameron, the extremist monster whose atrocities include making it legal for gay fellows and lasses to get married.

[Joe]

David -
You didn't get the memo. "Burly" has been declared a racist term: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/08/michael-brown-too-burly-for-the-new-york-times.php

[David]

“Burly” has been declared a racist term.

I denounce myself. When I say ‘go’, throw that salt in my eyes. It’s the only way I’ll learn.

[svh]

“Burly” has been declared a racist term.

So now the New York Times is just making shit up. They should hire Johann Hari.

[David]

“Burly” has been declared a racist term.

I can’t say the word has ever conjured any association with being black, or, as the New York Times would have us believe, being black and threatening. If anything, its connotations are now quaint and slightly comical, and have been for many decades. Hence, presumably, its use as a sight gag in The Simpsons. Still, we mustn’t let reality or a sense of moral proportion stop poseurs from signalling their superiority via pretentious hand-wringing.

[Hal]

“Burly” has been declared a racist term.

So now the New York Times is just making shit up.

Hmmmmm.

Apparently the Colonial Chronicle, or perhaps the Colonal Chronicle, needs to look into hiring people who actually write.

[Kevin B]

“Earliest known wooden toilet seat discovered.”

So was it left up or down? I think we should be told.

[Theophrastus]

Btw...imagine, if you dare, Zoe Williams' naked selfie. Or perhaps not...

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/sep/05/saturday-sketch-naked-selfie-citizen-porn

[David]

Chica the DogSpider wants fuss and petting but inspires sickening horror.

[WTP]

Re Zoe W:

when you don't ask, "who does that? Who has naked photos in the cloud in the first place?", then you don't find out. Which is a big hole in your knowledge, because the answer is everybody. Everybody but you.

So everybody is stupid/crazy but me. I've been trying to tell my shrink this for years.

[Sam]

Chica the DogSpider wants fuss and petting but inspires sickening horror.

Evil genius.

[David]

You’ll be happy to hear there’s a gif.

[mojo]

Dog Spider: now, that there's funny. But only in a country with no civ guns. Because, you know, somebody would shoot that creepy fuckin' thing.

[ac1]

http://liza-valieva.livejournal.com/391432.html

[sackcloth and ashes]

On the 007 cars:

'The Vanish isn’t exactly believable'.

No shit. But then it did feature in a Bond film that ripped off 'Diamonds are Forever' and 'Octopussy', and had a cameo from Madonna.

'Gunning thousands of people down for refusing to renounce their faith, beheading western journalists and aid workers on camera, raping and selling thousands of women into sexual slavery.
It's all small fry stuff compared to the unparalleled evil of David Cameron, the extremist monster whose atrocities include making it legal for gay fellows and lasses to get married'.

You sir, have just won the internet.

'I’m not familiar with most of the books Mr Morrison is upset about on grounds that they’re insufficiently leftwing, but people who are familiar with them have pointed out his breathless distortion of their themes and particulars'.

If memory serves me correctly, the 'Hunger Games' novels feature a dystopian America, based on rigid social stratification, in which an oligarchy is overthrown by a revolution from below. Aside from the obvious 'Battle Royale' parallels, you can see Spartacus and Jack London's 'The Iron Heel' in the plot.

But no, Morrison doesn't think it's 'left wing', and he's advising parents to stop their teens from reading them.