As time was short this week, you’ll have to throw together your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. I will, however, set the ball rolling with, via Obnoxio, some classy signage; a collection of people posing for photographs with their television sets; a map showing the concentration of metal bands in Europe per million residents; some more Korean rap care of Elephants Gerald; and a reminder that among this world’s wonders are amateur video guides to public lavatories.
Oh, and this.
Posted by: Geezer | August 04, 2017 at 00:25
And you thought you had a sh*tty day.
Posted by: Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA | August 04, 2017 at 01:16
As time was short this week....
For what do we pay you...?
In other news, the youngest will be a defender on his high school soccer (football) team. So there's that to hold us over until next week.
Posted by: R. Sherman | August 04, 2017 at 05:42
a collection of people posing for photographs with their television sets;
Posted by: Hal | August 04, 2017 at 06:11
concentration of metal bands in Europe per million residents;
At least the Scandinavians can make use of a historic musical album to provide guidance.
Otherwise, there might be confusion . . .
Posted by: Hal | August 04, 2017 at 06:31
classy signage
Aberdeen!
Posted by: [+] | August 04, 2017 at 06:33
Oh, and this.
But Sean Connery made it look so easy.
Posted by: [+] | August 04, 2017 at 06:50
Playing a new round of Count The Errors.
Oh, bloody My, does Theodore Dalrymple rather come to mind . . . .
Posted by: Hal | August 04, 2017 at 06:54
And from the pages of Everyday Feminism, the level of discrimination before you ever get that job interview.
Is it possible for sane people to actually make this up?
Posted by: Trilby | August 04, 2017 at 06:58
Is it possible for sane people to actually make this up?
I suppose it’s easier to make a list of this kind if you’re determined to make excuses for not even trying. And making excuses is a large part of what modern feminism and “social justice” generally are about, hence the types of personalities they attract. The implicit excuse of the very first cartoon is “I may make a mistake on my job application and this mistake will be noticed,” as if this were obviously and inexcusably unfair. This is followed by “My employer will expect me to arrive for work on time,” which is also terribly oppressive, apparently.
I’m paraphrasing, of course. But only just.
Posted by: David | August 04, 2017 at 07:14
Three people get shot while in a very busy park, in the middle of a city, in the middle of an afternoon.
Rather a bit of interestingly varied commentary turns up online.
Posted by: Hal | August 04, 2017 at 07:19
This.
Via dicentra.
Posted by: David | August 04, 2017 at 07:19
Tim Newman fisks Laurie Penny brilliantly:
http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=5238#comments
Posted by: Theophrastus | August 04, 2017 at 08:48
I suppose it’s easier to make a list of this kind if you’re determined to make excuses for not even trying. And making excuses is a large part of what modern feminism and “social justice” generally are about, hence the types of personalities they attract.
That. :-D
Posted by: sH2 | August 04, 2017 at 08:59
That. :-D
Well, imagine the kind of attitude behind that article. Imagine being stuck in a room with it. Say, at a job interview. It doesn’t exactly suggest a ‘can-do’ approach. I doubt that many employers are desperate for employees who regard expectations of punctuality as something to grumble about, and whose primary talent is devising excuses for why it’s not their fault.
And it’s probably not irrelevant that the readership of Everyday Feminism is to a large extent made up of vain, status-hungry mediocrities, the kind of people who think that pissing away large sums of money on worthless, self-flattering pseudo-degrees is not only a sensible thing to do, but an entitlement, a marker of their social standing as elevated beings. And who then bitch about how unfair it is that they can’t find a suitably statusful job with which to pay off the debts they chose to take on. Because their own choices, their own vanities, should never, ever have consequences.
Posted by: David | August 04, 2017 at 09:08
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4759510/National-Trust-tells-workers-wear-pride-badge-face-ban.html
Apparently, what a civilised and discreet Norfolk squire achieved in his lifetime is merely a convenient peg on which to hang LGBTQ propaganda. Unlike the Norfolk squire, most trans-sexuals are mentally ill.
Posted by: Theophrastus | August 04, 2017 at 09:50
Cat Bros.
http://twistedsifter.com/2017/08/10-cat-bros-that-will-never-leave-you-hanging/
Posted by: svh | August 04, 2017 at 10:36
A little more delving into the politics of the lass in charge will be of great interest.
https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/city-file/article/handsome-her-and-equal-pay
Posted by: Black Ball | August 04, 2017 at 10:40
A little more delving into the politics of the lass in charge will be of great interest.
It's Brunswick. They're all tree huggers.
Posted by: TimT | August 04, 2017 at 13:09
Via Tim Newman, this.
Posted by: David | August 04, 2017 at 14:24
Meanwhile, from the files of the self proclaimed urban sophisticates, one Sadie Stein expounds on a New York phenomenon.
I don't know how it is over in the UK, but the fact that one could put butter on a roll floored me, here in South Flyoverlandia we generally only use lard or used motor oil, but butter ! I asked for it at a local diner and got thrown out for being some high and mighty Mr.Rockefeller.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | August 04, 2017 at 14:35
Via Tim Newman, this.
LOL
Posted by: Joan | August 04, 2017 at 14:40
I don’t know how it is over in the UK, but the fact that one could put butter on a roll floored me,
It’s a shocking innovation.
Posted by: David | August 04, 2017 at 14:42
And someone fetch a glass of water for Joan. She’s looking flustered.
Posted by: David | August 04, 2017 at 14:43
The sex might have been consensual.
Posted by: SumDumGuy | August 04, 2017 at 14:55
It’s a mystery, it really is.
Posted by: David | August 04, 2017 at 15:03
SumDumGuy,
Okay, that's enough internet for me today. I was going to post something amusing, but I've completely forgotten what it was...
O_o
Posted by: Spiny Norman | August 04, 2017 at 15:12
The sex might have been consensual.
All these years I had just thought the saying about the guy who was so horny he'd do that was just a bit of hyperbole.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | August 04, 2017 at 15:47
What the Everyday Feminism lady is too young to know is that stupid job-application questions are nothing new. In 1977 I applied for a minimum-wage job that had an 8-page application. I don't remember the entire 8 pages, but some of the questions were:
--marital status
--current address+ addresses for last ten years
--any and all clubs and organizations of which you are or have been a member
--any and all awards you have won in the last ten years
--hobbies and interests
--high-school graduation year and grade-point average
--any pets you have
And several other equally stupid questions I don't remember.
And everyone except Everyday Feminism knows that the shittier the job, the longer and more detailed the application form. So while a lot of their complaints are valid, they're posting old news on the front page.
Posted by: Pogonip | August 04, 2017 at 16:42
Am I the only one who noticed that the even in EDF's articles the more masculine of the obviously lesbian couple is the ignorant one who must have every, tiny little detail explained to them.
Even being female and gay isn't enough. You must also be the most female of the two females. I almost can't wait for that to be a thing. Lesbians tearing their already broken families apart over who is the most female and therefore carries the most mental/emotional load.
I'm going to buy stock in the most masculine popcorn possible just so I have snacks for the show.
Posted by: SumDumGuy | August 04, 2017 at 17:45
It's obvious that Everyday Feminism has none of these draconian and unfair hurdles on its job application. Chronic lateness, nor mental issues, nor surly disposition, nor innumeracy, nor crippling insecurity, nor total lack of relevant experience are considered disqualifiers. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Posted by: Governor Squid | August 04, 2017 at 17:50
“Aberdeen!”
The Shibuya of the North.
“Via Tim Newman, this.”
Is that the bloke from Florida WTP mentioned last week?
“I don't know how it is over in the UK, but the fact that one could put butter on a roll floored me”
Sandwich shop in Glasgow. Former kids' show on ITV. Presumably nobody outside New York gets the joke.
“Order a buttered roll and you’ll invariably be handed a kaiser. But ask old-time New Yorkers, and they will swear up and down that today’s model is a pale version of the remembered 'Vienna' or 'hard rolls,' a smaller, cornmeal-bottomed pastry with an open crumb and a shatteringly crisp crust.”
And that sounds suspiciously like the rolls you can still find in the west of Scotland (and quite possibly elsewhere; I'm not the NYT). I've been convinced since childhood that wood pulp is involved in the recipe somewhere.
“To some purists, a buttered roll made with 'spread' is not worth eating. 'The entire point is a roll spread with real, sweet butter'”
I'll put my name to that, right enough.
Posted by: Sam Duncan | August 04, 2017 at 17:50
I’ll put my name to that, right enough.
Absolutely. Anything else is an appalling compromise.
#ButterSnob
Posted by: David | August 04, 2017 at 17:54
Is that the bloke from Florida WTP mentioned last week?
No...So much absurdity I don't even recall to which you refer. i'm sure it will come to me shortly, though...however, be aware that World Net Daily is a satirical site. Amusingly, a friend posted a story on FB from there about a Yale professor hired by Trump to be his science advisor. Said professor was supposed to have not known we landed on the moon. Of course the leftists all hopped on this Trump-and-Trumpkins-are-such-dummies fakey, satirey, parody-y story without first questioning why, in the parody universe, the guy would be a prof at Yale in the first place. Teh recursions of parody...
Posted by: WTP | August 04, 2017 at 18:01
Anything else is an appalling compromise.
Y'all ain't lived till y'all et one om them rolls with bearing grease and sorghum like memaw makes.
Posted by: Farnsworth M. Muldoon | August 04, 2017 at 18:09
In praise of rioting (From the Guardian, natch.)
Posted by: Richard Powell | August 04, 2017 at 18:10
In praise of rioting (From the Guardian, natch.)
For a less, um, romantic view, this.
And by romantic, I obviously mean pernicious and delusional.
Posted by: David | August 04, 2017 at 18:13
This just in from Frank J Fleming:
Posted by: dicentra | August 04, 2017 at 18:17
Speaking of ideologies that don't quite grasp economics, Spanish socialists want to trade tourists for "refugees".
Evidently this is because tourists take up a lot of space and leave money in their wake, whereas "refugees" just take up space, or something.
Posted by: Farnsworth M. Muldoon | August 04, 2017 at 18:36
This is important to know, thank you for the heads up. Honestly as a native Floridan stories like are ceasing to raise flags. It's almost like I am becoming desensitized to shock and awe.
Posted by: SumDumGuy | August 04, 2017 at 18:44
@hal 06.11am LOL
My favourite from "Class" was (dredged up from long ago memory) "Jen Teale keeps a supply of doilies by the bed to slip under Brian before they have sex."
Posted by: Jay | August 04, 2017 at 18:53
@Dicentra: That's an excellent one. I'll be stealing it.
Posted by: Sporkatus | August 04, 2017 at 21:21
Likely many folks here will have seen this already, but I've not noticed it being mentioned so - just in case - and even speaking as someone who is not really down on the NHS - this video of a live debate is just phenomenal.
The click bait phrase 'X destroys Y!' is so overused these days (mostly by The Independent it seems) that it is now practically meaningless (even for an expression that didn't exactly start off as profound) ... and yet watching Ben Shapiro repeatedly present actual arguments against Cenk Uygur's frankly embarrassing emotive floundering is really quite something to behold.
The phrase 'rips him a new one' just does not do it justice.
Long, but certainly worth it.
Posted by: Nikw211 | August 04, 2017 at 21:27
BUGGER!
Wrong link!
Sorry, this is the link to the debate between Shapiro and Uygur I was referring to.
Posted by: Nikw211 | August 04, 2017 at 21:31
the debate between Shapiro and Uygur I was referring to.
Thanks, will give that a squint, but probably tomorrow. It’s late and there’s a glass of red asking me to fondle it.
Posted by: David | August 04, 2017 at 21:35
My favourite from "Class" was (dredged up from long ago memory) . . .
Ehn, you might want to do a reread, or would prolly quite enjoy the reread---while Jen Teale is definitely quite a fiasco, I'm sure I'd remember Cooper describing a supply of doilies for sex . . .
But definitely yes, if you're remembering the the original, Cooper has even done an update that is just as entirely recommended.
Posted by: Hal | August 04, 2017 at 22:26
Female snakes don't have honey pots. They have a cloaca. I think World News Daily is having a bit of fun.
Posted by: Pogonip | August 04, 2017 at 23:49
World News Daily is a hoax site descended from (I think) the hoax newspaper Weekly World News.
Also, 'honeypot' is a very charming euphemism for vagina. British, I assume.
Posted by: TimT | August 05, 2017 at 00:29
I thought it was Southern U.S.
Posted by: Pogonip | August 05, 2017 at 04:13
And where else on the Internet can you learn about Korean rap AND snake privates?
Posted by: Pogonip | August 05, 2017 at 04:15
Oh no, the Weekly World News is still very much online.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | August 05, 2017 at 04:23
Also, 'honeypot' is a very charming euphemism for vagina. British, I assume.
Possibly British, but also with at least one definite particular collection of references which can be female or male . . .
Posted by: Hal | August 05, 2017 at 05:19
A cocktail and typography project: http://lettersandliquor.com
Posted by: Grike | August 05, 2017 at 07:19
This:
Funny how being “woke” is often difficult to distinguish from being smugly parochial.
Posted by: David | August 05, 2017 at 11:47
So, the NYT is publishing pieces on buttered bread and white male social interaction. I sense a diminishing gravitas at The Gray Lady.
Posted by: R. Sherman | August 05, 2017 at 13:07
So, the NYT is publishing pieces on buttered bread...
Speaking of buttered rolls, Tovarich Sherman, you ever go to Lambert's in Sikeston ?
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | August 05, 2017 at 13:25
@Farnsworth
Twice. I may have deep genetic roots in the Ozarks, but I still frown on having my food thrown at me. Excuse me. I meant, "throwed." I thought the Reformation cured Western Civilization of that habit.
Posted by: R. Sherman | August 05, 2017 at 16:44
Meanwhile, in Laurie World:
The drama never ends.
Posted by: David | August 05, 2017 at 17:30
Has she tried shaving her head?
Posted by: Pogonip | August 05, 2017 at 18:44
...but I still frown on having my food thrown at me.
I don't know, I always thought it was rather efficient, particularly if the roll guy was on the other side of the room.
Meanwhile, in Laurie World:
If repelling heterosexuals is her goal, I would have thought the words, "Hi, I'm Laurie Penny", would have sufficed and saved her the cost of an overpriced haircut.
Posted by: Farnsworth M. Muldoon | August 05, 2017 at 19:04
If repelling heterosexuals is her goal . . .
Doesn't David keep several 8 X 10 glossies of her picking her nose for such occasions?
Posted by: R. Sherman | August 05, 2017 at 20:09
I’m sure I don’t know what you mean.
Posted by: David | August 05, 2017 at 20:12
I got so fed up and gender dysphoric
Now, I don't think I've ever heard "I got so fed up and anorexic" or "I got so fed up and autistic"
Gender dysphoria may be a real mental condition, but the whole Trans-advocacy thing is the neveaux Lefty fad and cultural cudgel to beat the squares around the head & shoulders.
Posted by: Darleen | August 05, 2017 at 23:38
oh geez.... "nouveau" ...
Preview is my friend. Preview is my friend
Posted by: Darleen | August 05, 2017 at 23:41
It's the "dog-training shock collar" that always gets me about that one. Sheesh. >_<
Is it just me, or does anyone else suspect she might secretly be into the bondage-domination thing? With her partner dressed in a snappy SS uniform?
Posted by: Spiny Norman | August 05, 2017 at 23:52
Oh, by the way, our old Twitter-banned friend Godfrey appears to have returned:
https://twitter.com/EverydayLibFem/with_replies
Keep it on the "down-low" so the Twitter Stasi doesn't find out.
Posted by: Spiny Norman | August 05, 2017 at 23:55
It's the "dog-training shock collar" that always gets me about that one.
So it's not just me, then.
does anyone else suspect she might secretly be into the bondage-domination thing?
I don't suspect.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | August 06, 2017 at 01:08
No Darleen, they are the squares.
Regarding the neckwear, believe it's actually modeled after a gorget. As such one of us really should take the opportunity to lecture her sometime about the triggering ungoodness of this symbol of Westernimperialism.
Posted by: Squires | August 06, 2017 at 07:07
Wait - Godfrey got banned? Why?
Posted by: TimT | August 06, 2017 at 07:52
Godfrey called a goodthinker a rude name. Badthinkers aren't allowed to do that.
Posted by: Microbillionaire | August 06, 2017 at 09:29
The drama never ends.
Laurie is good at the humblebrag. This one shows she's in New York. The others say she is attracting lots of attention from men, albeit unwanted, because she grew her hair and lost weight. She also tells us she's never had big tits, as if that's something which would immediately put all men off.
Posted by: Tim Newman | August 06, 2017 at 13:57
"I tripped over my own shoelaces getting into my Ferrari this morning. What a fool I am!"
"I accidentally said hello to somebody I thought I knew in Rome just now! So embarrassing!"
"I caught a cold and I'm not sure pharmacies open in Annecy on a Sunday. Woe is me!" ;)
Posted by: Tim Newman | August 06, 2017 at 14:01
I caught a cold and I’m not sure pharmacies open in Annecy on a Sunday. Woe is me!
Heh. Quite.
Posted by: David | August 06, 2017 at 14:46