With the season of bonhomie fast approaching, patrons are reminded that any festive shopping done via the following Amazon links – here for the UK, and here for the US – results in a small fee for your host at no extra cost to you.
Write a list. We wouldn’t want you to forget anything, especially if it’s expensive.
Also, open thread.
Former U. S. President George H.W. Bush has died at 94. Another WW II veteran gone.
Posted by: Pogonip | December 01, 2018 at 05:08
Can you also provide an Amazon Australia link?
Posted by: Aus_Autarch | December 01, 2018 at 08:34
Can you also provide an Amazon Australia link?
The problem is, the Amazon affiliate programme doesn’t allow you to consolidate the earnings from various countries into one usable balance, and so, having multiple overseas accounts isn’t very practical. I’m pushing it already.
There is, however, a PayPal button, top left.
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Posted by: David | December 01, 2018 at 08:56
Me. Me! Meeeee! It’s all about MEEEEE!
Those poor babies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/opinion/sunday/stay-at-home-mom-two-kids.html#
Posted by: Pogonip | December 01, 2018 at 16:53
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/30/pelosi-barbara-lee-house-democrats-1037024
I have nothing against Rep. Lee—hadn’t heard of her till 2 mins ago—but is passively accepting a make-work position created for you because of your race and your sex “leadership”? I don’t blame her for accepting the sinecure, I’d love one myself, but I wouldn’t call it leadership!
Posted by: Pogonip | December 01, 2018 at 18:11
“Where are the kids?”
Posted by: David | December 01, 2018 at 18:31
“Where are the kids?”
I would have smacked the husband so hard ...
Posted by: Darleen | December 01, 2018 at 19:58
Those poor babies.
Hubby & grandparents aren't helping at all ... no one seems to understand at all what to expect out of stay-at-home parenting.
The same people who will spend the time to learn to golf or do yoga or any number of highly skilled hobbies seem to believe they'll know what to do when babies come via instinct.
The one small glimmer of hope for her is that she believes she'll come out a better person on the other side of this trial. If she keeps that attitude, she will because having child DOES grow most people up. It needn't have been this hard, though.
Posted by: Darleen | December 01, 2018 at 20:42
“Where are the kids?”
Reason 128 to have a shooting iron handy in the house. I haven't decided if the cat is brave, or very, very stupid.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | December 01, 2018 at 21:54
Proof at last of condescension.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/White-liberals-dumb-themselves-down-when-they-13433699.php
Posted by: Andrew Rowe | December 02, 2018 at 00:35
Have anything negative to say about migration? Shut up, or else.
Posted by: Darleen | December 02, 2018 at 01:46
Migration as a "human right"? That effectively abolishes all international borders.
I used to think the "New World Order, Global Government" nutters were, well, nuts. (o.O)
Posted by: Spiny Norman | December 02, 2018 at 02:05
And you were right!
Posted by: Pogonip | December 02, 2018 at 06:48
“Where are the kids?”
Proof, if any were needed, that man never quite grow up completely.
I would have smacked the husband so hard ...
It would still have been worth it.
Posted by: Tim Newman | December 02, 2018 at 08:24
"Educated"
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1068991028148035585
Posted by: Clam | December 02, 2018 at 09:04
“Educated”
As one wag puts it,
An example, one of many in the archives.
Also this, via Dicentra.
Posted by: David | December 02, 2018 at 09:24
"Educated"
Alas, she is far from alone.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | December 02, 2018 at 13:58
I feel I ought to have a secret wine cellar.
Posted by: David | December 02, 2018 at 14:38
"Educated"
The Groucho Marx eyebrows take the cake. (o.O)
Was she mental before Gender Studies, or is that the actual cause?
Posted by: Spiny Norman | December 02, 2018 at 15:41
Also this
The sign-carrying, black-masked protestors in the replies seem... well, disappointed in the "ignorance".
Posted by: Spiny Norman | December 02, 2018 at 15:52
Also this
From the comments:
Challenging the status quo needs to be encouraged indeed.
Posted by: WTP | December 02, 2018 at 16:51
Was she mental before Gender Studies, or is that the actual cause?
You do have to wonder why anyone in their right mind would pay for a “gender studies” course – a subject that’s widely and rightly ridiculed as intellectually flatulent, actually stupefying, and which is generally taught, badly, by someone whose sole qualification is in English literature, rather than, say, biology or neuroscience or evolutionary psychology.
Though there’s little if any maths, or much of anything too demanding, which may hold some appeal.
Posted by: David | December 02, 2018 at 16:55
Someone pass the Dramamine
Posted by: Darleen | December 02, 2018 at 17:08
I feel I ought to have a secret wine cellar.
You mean you don't already have one at the Guild of Evil™ Headquarters? I'm disappointed - no lair worth the name should be without one.
Posted by: Captain Nemo | December 02, 2018 at 17:19
Someone pass the Dramamine
I’d thrive in that situation.
What?
Posted by: David | December 02, 2018 at 17:21
You mean you don’t already have one at the Guild of Evil™ Headquarters?
Alas, no. But we’ve repurposed the never-used dishwasher to serve as a glorified wine rack. Albeit one that’s also cluttered with takeaway menus and bewildering blender attachments, the functions of which, even now, years later, have yet to be determined.
Posted by: David | December 02, 2018 at 17:31
WTP
From the comments:
Yeah, that's one of the severely educated twerps I was referring to.
Posted by: Spiny Norman | December 02, 2018 at 18:09
"Are you willing to die for YouTube shit? ... Death is coming to you."
Posted by: Darleen | December 02, 2018 at 18:35
It appears that feminism causes weight gain. 😶
Posted by: Pogonip | December 02, 2018 at 18:39
"Are you willing to die for YouTube shit? ... Death is coming to you."
The willingness of "moderate liberals" to tolerate and defend such thugs shows that liberals are not the moderate and reasonable fellow citizens that they pretend to be.
Posted by: pst314 | December 02, 2018 at 18:54
“Are you willing to die for YouTube shit? ... Death is coming to you.”
Sociopaths gonna sociopath.
Posted by: David | December 02, 2018 at 18:57
“Are you willing to die for YouTube shit? ... Death is coming to you.”
And the police do nothing. The “justice system” does nothing. Yet shoe on the other foot and it would be a watershed moment for the history books. I’ve seen this day coming for 20 years. When I spoke up about it, to “conservative” people no less, I was the one with problems processing reality. Don’t ask what I see 20 years from now. Hopefully I’ll be dead. Prolly will be one way or another anyhow.
Posted by: WTP | December 02, 2018 at 20:51
Hopefully I’ll be dead.
That’s the spirit.
Posted by: David | December 02, 2018 at 21:18
With the season of bonhomie fast approaching ...
Bonhomie? Sweet Baby Jesus, please don't tell me there's going to be bonhomie.
Posted by: Trevor | December 02, 2018 at 21:24
please don’t tell me there’s going to be bonhomie.
Rather depends on the gathering, I suppose.
Failing bonhomie, there’s always heavy drinking. Though that could go either way.
Posted by: David | December 02, 2018 at 21:31
It appears that feminism causes weight gain.
It’s a feedback loop, a mechanism for both sowing and harvesting energy from disattraction, as it were.
Posted by: Squires | December 03, 2018 at 01:39
Bonhomie?
Posted by: Lancastrian Oik | December 03, 2018 at 01:54
Well, if I can’t bring my famous Kazhakstanian bonhomie recipe, I guess i’ll just have to bring eggs pickled in hump fat!
Posted by: Pogonip | December 03, 2018 at 02:05
And on cue...
https://everydayfeminism.com/2013/01/your-figure-everyones-issue/
I’m overweight, I admit it, and blaming the entire world will not make me one ounce thinner.
I will assign David some of the blame for serving hump fat.
Posted by: Pogonip | December 03, 2018 at 02:59
I agree completely, but then I'm of a rather Libertarian viewpoint.
Do EF really want to run with that? I rather fear that they haven't started to thing through the consequences of thinking that people should be in charge of their own lives.
The rest of it is nonsense. I don't judge a person's obesity based on their BMI, because I don't know their BMI (but I do know how fat they look). I do judge people on other aspects of their health, such as their management of stress and sleep (albeit I keep it to myself). I do consider overweight but active people to be managing themselves better than skinny unhealthy people. I doubt I am alone in that.
Posted by: Chester Draws | December 03, 2018 at 08:19
5 Reasons Not to Bring Up ‘Health Concerns’ in Fat Acceptance Discussions
OTOH, maybe we should discuss risk vs. benefit, not that there is much, if any, of the latter.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | December 03, 2018 at 12:12
It’s an individual’s own decision to decide what is best for themselves, their health, and their body.
It's funny that decisions about diet and exercise and other lifestyle behaviors (e.g. sex, drugs, rock'n'roll) are strictly individual and not to be questioned, but the health consequences of these decisions are a societal problem requiring the participation of all (or at least everybody with money).
I've argued with quite a few people that they really don't want me to be in charge of paying for their health care, because I'm not going to take on that responsibility without also taking on the management of their lifestyle so that I might more effectively control my costs. (They generally don't appreciate that line of reasoning.)
Posted by: Governor Squid | December 03, 2018 at 15:36
The Guardian: The Wizard of Oz is a grotesque predictor of Trump’s America
Also, Mongolian folk-rock.
Posted by: Damian | December 03, 2018 at 16:10
L Frank Baum’s original novel was written in 1900 and the film was made in 1939. Yet all the themes of Trump’s America are there.
Because the “allegory about the gold standard” BS was all played out. These are smart people. They went to college and stuff. Can’t do much real, productive work but they can allegory like there’s no tomorrow.
Posted by: WTP | December 03, 2018 at 17:21
Also, Mongolian folk-rock.
Related, Paul Pena blind US musician and noted for the song Jet Airliner (not Steve Miller spit), taught himself Tuvan and traveled there to learn Tuvan (Mongolian) throat singing.
"Genghis Blues" is a documentary of his trip which includes his award winning performance mixing throat singing with some good old Resophonic backing, well worth watching.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | December 03, 2018 at 17:45
I’m overweight, I admit it, and blaming the entire world will not make me one ounce thinner.
I will assign David some of the blame for serving hump fat.
No refunds. Credit note only.
Posted by: Boatswain's Mate | December 03, 2018 at 18:05