Friday Ephemera

The freshness is sealed in. (h/t, Julia) || Newcastle scenes. || Giant robot Pikachu rampage. (h/t, Damian) || Robotic sand flea. || Just another day at the salon. || Light vortex. || Venn diagram of note. || The Sounds of His Coming and other album covers. || Assassin’s cabinet, 1682. || Hail versus sunroof. || Headline of note. || Something error happen. || An encyclopaedia of science fiction. || Simple pleasures. || Unspoken rules, spoken. || Enriched. || Berezka redux. || Our betters in the respectable mainstream media. || The understated gaming throne you’ve always wanted. || Ah, my little dumpling sweetykins. || You want one and you know it. || And finally, as excuses go, it’s not the worst I’ve heard.

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[Lou]

"You want one and you know it."

Damn you!

[Pst314]

“Enriched”

“58% of men convicted in Sweden of rape & attempted rape over the past 5 years were born abroad, according to data from Swedish media outlet @SVT. In cases of rape where the victim was randomly attacked, the figure rises to 85%.”

I’ll bet that becomes near 100% when you count offspring of immigrants.

[Pogonip]

David, what are you doing up? Isn’t it oh dark thirty in England?

[Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA]

He can schedule the posts in advance.

[Pogonip]

I knew there was chicanery afoot.

[Sam Duncan]

“Giant robot Pikachu rampage.”

Perm any two of four for both band name and album title.

“The Sounds of His Coming and other album covers.”

Gotta say, unlike most of these internet “worst ever” lists, those genuinely are bloody awful.

“Something error happen.”

It could be worse. Spare a thought for her brother Dick.

Growing up, we had some family friends by the name of Diaper. Oh, the fun they had when they visited America.

“The understated gaming throne you’ve always wanted.”

It's like you're reading my mind.

[WTP]

Something error happen

Half hour on that. Simply couldn’t help my sixth grade self.

[Simen Thoresen]

For those interested - Douglas Murray speaking at a Norwegian conference a few days ago. Intro in Foreign, Murray starts a longish hour in;
https://www.document.no/2018/08/30/foredrag-med-douglas-murray/

-S, speaker-of-Foreign.

[Darleen Click]

Something error happen

Oh lord that was fun ...

(I've gotten comments on my last name and a couple of "for real", but never a ban)

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Our betters in the respectable mainstream media.

"Antifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization."

Er wut?

[David]

Morning, all.

Douglas Murray speaking at a Norwegian conference a few days ago.

The idea that nobody thought any of this through is an extraordinary admission… If you are having problems integrating people when immigration is at a relative historic low, why would you think you could do it better when it’s at an all-time high?

Like many of Mr Murray’s other speeches, this is worth the time. It’s also worth noting just how often Mr Murray, a careful thinker by any measure, is denounced by the left as beneath debate, as someone whose questions need not be addressed.

[David]

Douglas Murray speaking at a Norwegian conference a few days ago.

Not entirely unrelated.

[David]

Douglas Murray speaking at a Norwegian conference a few days ago.

We’ll give that one a thread of its own, I think.

[Daniel Ream]

The understated gaming throne you’ve always wanted.

It's made by Acer. There's a non-zero chance it will randomly fold in half and crush you to death.

[David]

It’s made by Acer. There’s a non-zero chance it will randomly fold in half and crush you to death.

Yes, but you’ll look hardcore while being crushed.

[Joan]

Our betters in the respectable mainstream media.

You missed one.

https://twitter.com/obnoxiotheclown/status/1035255906777358338

[David]

You missed one.

Some levels of idiocy are difficult to process.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

Well that didn't go exactly according to plan.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

Diversity !

[Tom]

Diversity !

I was going to say that I can see at least two men in that photo, if I'm being charitable, but that would be presumptuous of me.

I'll see myself out...

[David]

I’ll see myself out...

By now there must be an enormous pile of coats in the gutter outside. Doused in petrol. And on fire.

[Squires]

Diversity!

Blue hair, don’t go there.

Not entirely unrelated.

As I said in the previous thread regarding Australia’s own studiously deaf, dumb, and blind: culturally lobotomized, morally castrated.

[Clam]

Our betters in the respectable mainstream media.

Another one.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/306304/

[David]

And in evil paraglider news.

[Captain Nemo]

I don't remember this one being among Enid Blyton's books:

https://twitter.com/danhett/status/1035478817035497473

[Sam]

Well that didn't go exactly according to plan.

I'm trying to get into the mind of someone who "needs feminism because 90% of CEOs are men". Is she an aspiring CEO who believes there is an unbreakable cabal of male CEOs who just can't stand an uppity broad crashing their party? I guess these types have never actually hung around executives and therefore don't understand that most of them are the biggest feminist pushovers one could imagine.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

Is she an aspiring CEO who believes there is an unbreakable cabal of male CEOs who just can't stand an uppity broad crashing their party?

She might, California (of course) apparently does.

California could soon become the first state in the nation to require public companies based within the state to have at least one woman on their boards.

SB 826 headed to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk Thursday after the state Senate passed it in a 23-9 vote. The Assembly had approved the bill Wednesday in a 41-26 vote.

Once again I seem to recall a name an Italian dude came up with for a scheme where government dictated how business ran.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

Our betters in the respectable mainstream media.

Another one.

Pregnancy is a form of body modification so extreme that its result is another person. In this, it resembles sex change.

Well, except for that whole part about pregnancy resulting in two (or more) people, and the sex of neither the party of the first part nor second part not changing, I guess it does, but wait ! That's not all !

Having a child, like heterosexuality, is a very stupid idea. It will not end well—for you, your friends, the planet...Children are a cancer.

It gets, stranger. Apparently the writer is a guy who thinks he wants to be a gal.

Merve Emre presents the stories of her interviewees as evidence that all reproduction is, and should be, assisted, not “natural.”...Even queer theorists are sobered to learn the sex of an embryo....I’m alienated by the discourse around the natural, sure, but only the same way I’m alienated by the skinny white girls with dead eyes and bare midriffs who herald, like dandelions, the arrival of summer in New York City.

If it is a put on, it is brilliant, if not, a locked ward is calling. RTWT.

[Captain Nemo]

Lego build of note:

https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/1035097798075506688

[Daniel Ream]

If it is a put on, it is brilliant

What's Godfrey Elfwick up to these days?

[Jacob]

"Antifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization."

LOL

https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1034771550094802944

[David]

LOL

“Jeffrey Toobin. Staff writer for The New Yorker, Senior Legal Analyst for CNN.”

Our betters.

[Sam Duncan]

“California could soon become the first state in the nation to require public companies based within the state to have at least one woman on their boards.”

“Good afternoon, I'm from the California Inspectorate of Tokenism. It would appear that none of you is a woman. This is a grave offense, you know.”

“Sure, we know. That's why we have women on the board.”

“Well, gentlemen, I don't see any...”

“Sexist pig! Gentlemen! We're all women. Ain't we, boys? Er, girls?”

[Murmurs of, “Oh, sure,” “You bet,” “I'm wunna them les-beens,” etc.]

“I'm not sure that...”

“Get outta here, ya hater!”

I don't think they've thought this through.

“And in evil paraglider news.”

In Bexhill, eh? Makes a change from flinging batter puddings at people, I suppose.

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

As predictable as the sunrise.

[RTW]

Actually, the second one from the right didn't look that bad.

[David]

Thread.

[Hal]

Florida man arrested for wet willy

I recommend adding "Florida Man" and "Wet Willy" to the band name list . . . .

[Doubting Rich]

"The Sound Of His Coming"

Look at the smirk on the second woman in. She knows not only the double entendre, but the sound of his coming too.