A stolen credit card, a convenience store and a getaway that doesn’t go quite to plan. (h/t, Gary) || The sizes of penises. Avert your eyes, ladies. || Look at these lovely kitchens instead. || Disney’s robot stunt doubles. || The basics, explained. || An airbag for your phone. || Meanwhile, at the Bolshoi. || Kindness of note. || Photographs of note. || Explore phantom islands. (h/t, Things) || Hardcore joinery. (h/t, Franklin) || He reviews sidewalks so you don’t have to. || Today’s word is testicondy. || Unrelated. || Not actually what it says. || Whoa, whoa! Be careful, dad! || Dispute of note. || How to operate your dining table. || Ride. || And finally, a tale of ambition and madness. His wife only wanted a potato storage pit.
Look at these lovely kitchens instead.
Notice all the housewives doing the housework in heels.
Posted by: Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA | July 06, 2018 at 00:06
That time a bunch of American college students wound up on a Soviet TV game show
Posted by: Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA | July 06, 2018 at 00:09
For those of you who were/are fans of the Metal Gear Solid video game series, here's that same convenience store arrest set to MGS sound effects.
https://twitter.com/OmarVillegasLA/status/1014284467966341120
Posted by: Tman | July 06, 2018 at 02:00
The basics, explained.
Add this to the exhibits.
Posted by: Darleen | July 06, 2018 at 03:05
that same convenience store arrest set to MGS sound effects.
There's a Yakety Sax version I can't stop laughing over.
Meth. It's a hell of a drug.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | July 06, 2018 at 05:43
Add this to the exhibits.
"Not gone to Concordia" would have been one option. Anyone ignorant of its reputation for leftist thuggery is simply being disingenuous.
Terry Newman is currently an MA student in the Media Studies Department at Concordia University in Montreal.
"Not gone to grad school majoring in Useless Studies" running a close second.
She is also a Teaching Assistant in Concordia’s Engineering Department.
They've learned nothing.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | July 06, 2018 at 05:58
Morning, all.
Make way for the bicycle of education.
Via Stuart Ritchie.
Posted by: David | July 06, 2018 at 06:25
For those who missed it yesterday, via Dicentra, a left-leaning journalist is confused.
And the tolerant left, part 3,044. More here.
Posted by: David | July 06, 2018 at 06:36
Avert your eyes, ladies.
I looked and I'm not sorry.
Posted by: Alice | July 06, 2018 at 07:01
Kindness of note
I'm not crying. You're crying.
Posted by: Clam | July 06, 2018 at 07:10
I looked and I’m not sorry.
Fetch smelling salts and towels. And some kitchen catalogues. I think Alice has fallen into a deep erotic trance.
Posted by: David | July 06, 2018 at 07:26
"Notice all the housewives doing the housework in heels."
Well, how else to reach & dust those over counter cabinets?
Posted by: JuliaM | July 06, 2018 at 08:07
His wife only wanted a potato storage pit.
I'm showing this to my own dear wife next time she mentions fixing the garage door.
Posted by: rjmadden | July 06, 2018 at 08:12
Well, how else to reach & dust those over counter cabinets?
I’m now picturing Julia cleaning the oven in a ballgown, glittering with jewellery.
It’s possible that third mug of coffee was a mistake.
Posted by: David | July 06, 2018 at 08:21
And part 3,045.
Posted by: The Sage | July 06, 2018 at 08:45
And part 3,045.
Again, their self-flattering psychodrama demands monsters, and so they see monsters.
It’s quite strange, though, to imagine sustaining that level of reactiveness, of lunatic outrage. I’ve encountered people wearing Marx t-shirts and hammer-and-sickle badges – suggesting an approval of atrocity on a scale far beyond anything in even the most feverish dreams of the anti-Trump left. And yet I’ve managed not to assault them or scream in their faces.
It’s almost as if what we’re seeing unfold, repeatedly, isn’t so much a political philosophy as a psychological condition.
Posted by: David | July 06, 2018 at 09:05
Disney’s robot stunt doubles.
And the article even provides political---or whatever it is---commentary:
Posted by: Hal | July 06, 2018 at 09:28
He reviews sidewalks so you don’t have to.
Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road
Posted by: Hal | July 06, 2018 at 09:32
Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road
Heh. I hadn’t seen that one.
Posted by: David | July 06, 2018 at 10:41
Next time, Mr Arakelyan, consider a wife bin. They are a great time saver.
Posted by: Adam | July 06, 2018 at 11:49
"Uxbridge Road" is funny, but far too white.
I ended up watching video of the 2018 Sao Paulo Carnaval as part of my multicultural reeducation.
Posted by: Adam | July 06, 2018 at 11:56
And part 3,045.
No timeouts from the outrage. Not even on a Euro holiday in beautiful Denmark. Some people just don't know how to have fun.
The only missing piece here is the Che t-shirt she should've been wearing. She probably has one at home.
Posted by: Burnsie | July 06, 2018 at 12:12
Handy guide to make sure your female characters are not incorrectly written.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 06, 2018 at 12:16
And part 3,045.
He's in the jailhouse now
He's in the jailhouse now
Well I told him once or twice
Stealin' hats and throwin' Coke ain't nice
He's in the jailhouse now
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 06, 2018 at 12:30
"Media Studies"
AKA, let's obsess over what we see in mainstream media and then mimic it (with of course the correct political bent).
Posted by: PiperPaul | July 06, 2018 at 12:55
Not actually what it says.
Posted by: sH2 | July 06, 2018 at 12:58
Is this pornography?
Heh. For someone, somewhere, possibly. Good thing we’re not a judgemental crowd.
[ Judging intensifies. ]
Posted by: David | July 06, 2018 at 13:04
Now is the Time When We Juxtapose.™
A pair of stickers that reveal how tolerant those "coexist" people really are:
Posted by: pst314 | July 06, 2018 at 14:03
Now is the Time When We Juxtapose.™
Where’s that from?
Posted by: David | July 06, 2018 at 14:54
And the tolerant left, part 3,044.
Today’s word, used ludicrously, is retaliation.
Via Dicentra.
Posted by: David | July 06, 2018 at 15:16
“Where’s that from?”
I thought it was from you, David, but google proves my memory wrong: it was from the Canadian blog Small Dead Animals. (Slips out the door in search of memory-enhancing nutritional supplements.)
Posted by: Pst314 | July 06, 2018 at 15:36
memory-enhancing nutritional supplements.
The bar snacks are full of… goodness.
Posted by: David | July 06, 2018 at 15:59
The bar snacks are full of… goodness.
That word doesn't mean what you think it does.
Posted by: fnord | July 06, 2018 at 16:17
That word doesn’t mean what you think it does.
It’s the kind of goodness that fetches the varnish off the bar.
That’s flavour, that is.
Posted by: David | July 06, 2018 at 16:21
Handy guide to make sure your female characters are not incorrectly written.
Mission accomplished, then.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | July 06, 2018 at 16:28
One notes that the poster on writing female characters includes a couple of benchmarks showing women and blacks on TV versus real-life numbers, but no such benchmarks against the general population are presented for women and blacks in STEM or corporate management.
Somebody wanna call Geena Davis and see if we can get some infographics that include useful info?
Posted by: Governor Squid | July 06, 2018 at 16:45
The bar snacks are full of… goodness.
They make CMOT Dibbler's wares seem palatable.
Posted by: pst314 | July 06, 2018 at 18:13
The bar snacks are full of… goodness.
I'm currently reading through Night Fall---tactical note, read Secret Histories and Nightside first---
Posted by: Hal | July 06, 2018 at 18:13
his wife only wanted a potato storage pit
They NEVER only want a potato storage pit, said the man who started out doing a screen porch and ended up with a garage conversion for the wife's art projects.
Posted by: Adam | July 06, 2018 at 18:15
They NEVER only want a potato storage pit,
I think I’m going to need to hear the ladies’ side of this before I commit to an opinion.
Posted by: David | July 06, 2018 at 18:21
I think I’m going to need to hear the ladies’ side of this before I commit to an opinion.
As you swelter in your 25C "heat" because air conditioning has been deemed sexist, just remember, if the ladies want you to have an opinion on the matter, they will let you know what it is.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 06, 2018 at 19:24
I think I’m going to need to hear the ladies’ side of this before I commit to an opinion.
In my house we call it "mission creep" ... and since hubby generally freaks out (he can't help but starting down the road "if we do this, we'll need to do that...and that ... and then there's. OMG $$$$!!!") I'm usually the once to hoist the Mission Creep Flag to stop the speculating.
Posted by: Darleen | July 06, 2018 at 20:57
Oh...btw... 1pm Pacific Daylight Time here in Rancho Cucamonga, California
113F/45C
Cheers!
Posted by: Darleen | July 06, 2018 at 21:01
I’m usually the one to hoist the Mission Creep Flag to stop the speculating.
I imagined you getting up in the middle of the night to loosen cupboard doors, then over breakfast pointing out that they need fixing, before producing detailed blueprints for a climate-controlled shoe closet.
What?
Posted by: David | July 06, 2018 at 21:08
before producing detailed blueprints for a climate-controlled shoe closet.
Next house. I'm building my patience cred right now.
Heh.
Posted by: Darleen | July 06, 2018 at 21:18
It’s cost me a bit
But I was still glad to git
My pit...
Two or three tons it holds
Even though my husband scolds
About my pit
I don’t know why I cook
By all these tater books...
Posted by: Pogonip | July 06, 2018 at 21:22
Well, at least the penises have been sufficiently covered.
Posted by: Monty James | July 06, 2018 at 21:25
"Uxbridge Road" is funny, but far too white.
But it's woke! The 29 year old leader of the expedition, Burt Tang(?), is a local headmaster and mother of three!
Daniel Ream: for your re-viewing pleasure: http://www.popularyoutube.com/video/yR8qd4LOwAo/Canadian-Bonnie-and-Clyde-Yakety-Sax
Our mission is to increase the percentage of accurate portrayals of women and girls
Nothing simpler!
Posted by: jabrwok | July 07, 2018 at 01:43
Today’s word, used ludicrously, is retaliation.
Heh!
Posted by: The Sage | July 07, 2018 at 07:51
Heh!
Also perversely used, the words personal responsibility. Because dressed like that,
shehe was just asking for it.Posted by: David | July 07, 2018 at 08:39
Heh!
I’m guessing that those busily excusing Mr Jimenez’s thuggery simply didn’t have the time to denounce his “toxic masculinity.”
Posted by: David | July 07, 2018 at 08:50
Also perversely used, the words personal responsibility. Because dressed like that,
shehe was just asking for it."Writer, teacher & broadcaster"
Posted by: dw | July 07, 2018 at 10:16
“Writer, teacher & broadcaster”
Apparently, any detectable sign of support for Trump, and specifically the sentiment “Make America great again,” is – and I quote - “the political emblem of a movement systematically dehumanising and persecuting minorities in an attempt to unite the majority through hate.” Of course, if you start from that assumption, what follows will tend to be absurd and hysterical too. And quite often, variations of the above seem to be used opportunistically as a fig-leaf rationalisation – a pretext to indulge in games of domination and other delinquent behaviour.
Posted by: David | July 07, 2018 at 10:30
Interviewee upstaged:
https://twitter.com/notesfrompoland/status/1015289680227643393
Posted by: Captain Nemo | July 07, 2018 at 12:18