Friday Ephemera
July 05, 2019
Bad dog. (h/t, Holborn) || Inadvisable cat handling. || Scenes. || More scenes. (h/t, Damian) || Yet more scenes. (h/t, Holborn) || Restoration. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Style points. || Today’s word is gripping. || How to be glamorous. || London pad, only £9,950,000. || She seems nice. || Headline of note. || Somewhat related. || Gyro-X, the two-wheeled transport module you’ve always dreamed of. (h/t, DRB) || Deadheads. || Bra donations of note. || His is bigger than yours, and louder. || “Earth music for plants.” || The vampire of Cinkota. || Russian eruption. || Luftraum. || Skillz. || It’s what Sibelius would have wanted. || It’s not a Ferrari. || Friend. || And finally, that was closer than one might like.
She seems nice
She has apparently been identified, and faces up to 20 years in prison. So it looks like she'll get her just desserts.
London pad
When I clicked the link, I expected something a little well, um, groovier. That's quite tastefully done.
Restoration
Superb in every way.
Posted by: Captain Nemo | July 05, 2019 at 00:41
Luftraum.
Warum? Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum????
Posted by: Tim Train | July 05, 2019 at 02:20
Disaster has struck. I have lost my collection of hints, I only have the first chapter that I’d typed. There will be a slight delay.
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | July 05, 2019 at 03:08
20 years for licking the ice cream? Let that be a warning to all you scofflaws out there!
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | July 05, 2019 at 03:09
20 years for licking the ice cream?
What's the statute of limitations on these sorts of things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E2oirmkjOk
Seems like being famous buys you a certain amount of leeway.
Posted by: Steve E | July 05, 2019 at 03:57
20 years for licking the ice cream?
She was trying to spread disease:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/07/justice-police-believe-theyve-identified-viral-blue-bell-licker-say-charges-will-be-filed/
"As it turns out, the miscreant woman was also identified bragging about what she did on social media (of course). She posted that she had the flu at the time and she added that others who are also sick should lick ice cream in stores as well in order to 'start an epidemic'. She’s calling it the '#tinroofchallenge' since the ice cream she licked was the 'Tin Roof Sundae' option. Here’s some links, and yeah, that is, in fact, [biological] terrorism, buddy….
https://i.imgur.com/BekBO1j.png
https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/asia-blue-bell-ice-cream-licker/
Posted by: pst314 | July 05, 2019 at 04:08
Yuck. Off with her head!
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | July 05, 2019 at 04:46
Morning, all.
She was trying to spread disease
I wonder how that all-important fame is tasting now.
Posted by: David | July 05, 2019 at 06:47
Heh.
Via Ben.
Posted by: David | July 05, 2019 at 06:49
Joss Whedon is unwell.
Posted by: David | July 05, 2019 at 07:09
And finally, that was closer than one might like.
Must go faster.
Posted by: Joan | July 05, 2019 at 07:55
Joss Whedon is unwell.
Being woke should come with a health warning.
Posted by: Connor | July 05, 2019 at 08:14
Re Josh Whedon:
Dude be whack.
Es loco.
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | July 05, 2019 at 08:16
Being woke should come with a health warning.
It’s a kind of breathless rhetorical self-pleasuring for people who get high on pretentious outrage.
See also Mr Whedon’s latest protégé, Laurie Penny. For whom, hyperbolical breathlessness is a way of life.
Posted by: David | July 05, 2019 at 08:22
Andrew Neil eats another one alive.
http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/9849/
Posted by: sH2 | July 05, 2019 at 11:22
Andrew Neil eats another one alive.
Our betters, behold them.
Posted by: David | July 05, 2019 at 11:46
"It’s not a Ferrari."
Name the car after Arte Johnson, who kept falling off a tricycle in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
Posted by: pst314 | July 05, 2019 at 14:42
It’s oddly quiet today, comment-wise. Is everyone hiding in the bushes?
[ Starts thrashing bushes with stick. ]
Posted by: David | July 05, 2019 at 14:45
Posted by: CayleyGraph | July 05, 2019 at 14:55
Can’t talk. Thrashing bushes.
[ Bush-thrashing intensifies. ]
Posted by: David | July 05, 2019 at 15:02
[ Starts thrashing bushes with stick. ]
Arrrgh! What the? Trying to sleep off last night's celebrations thankyouverymuch
[ grumbles ] ...salty Brits...
Posted by: Sam | July 05, 2019 at 15:02
Man found dead in garden appears to have fallen out of an airplane (via Headline of Note)
Top comment:
Funny cuz it's true, huh?
Posted by: Sam | July 05, 2019 at 15:05
salty Brits
[ Taps watch. ]
Posted by: David | July 05, 2019 at 15:07
And finally, that was closer than one might like.
Thing is, after an encounter like that not only is the rest of that trip filled with existential paranoia but every time they travel that road they have to muster the confidence to say, "This route to my destination is worth the not-insignificant chance I will be tackled and eaten by an enormous predator."
I mean, as a species we've been doing that for thousands of years but you sort of assume we're past that phase.
Then again, I've gone swimming in lakes after spotting gators and swam around a boat after catching several small sharks in said boat. But that was Florida, which doesn't quite share the same plane of existence with the rest of the world.
Posted by: Sam | July 05, 2019 at 15:26
Our betters, behold them.
[regarding failed German defense minister]
True, I am sure her mother and dog like her. Where do they dig these people up ?
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 05, 2019 at 15:41
Feel the love: http://archive.vn/2cRrM#selection-1095.55-1095.255
Posted by: Zombie Dodge | July 05, 2019 at 15:54
[ Taps watch. ]
Some of us live waaaay over on the other side of North America. In which case, from your time stamp, it would barely be 7am here. :)
Cheers
Posted by: Russtovich | July 05, 2019 at 17:22
it would barely be 7am here
Here I am, at all hours, slaving away at the cruel rockface of blogging…
Posted by: David | July 05, 2019 at 17:53
Unlurking to say that Tin Roof flavoured ice cream (sans spittle) sounds very tasty.
Posted by: GT | July 05, 2019 at 18:46
Unlurking to say that Tin Roof flavoured ice cream (sans spittle) sounds very tasty.
I should thrash the bushes more often.
Posted by: David | July 05, 2019 at 19:13
I should thrash the bushes more often.
You and Donald Trump -- two of a kind.
Posted by: Boatswain's Mate | July 05, 2019 at 19:51
David, I would also speculation that since July 4 is on a Thursday, that my fellow lazy-ass Amuricans took Friday off to game themselves a four-day weekend.
Posted by: Uma Thurmond's Feet | July 05, 2019 at 20:03
my fellow lazy-ass Amuricans took Friday off to game themselves a four-day weekend.
That’s the kind of cunning that cost us the colonies.
[ Shakes fist, glares across Atlantic. ]
Posted by: David | July 05, 2019 at 20:26
Ha! ALL my weekends are 7-day weekends now. 🍺
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | July 05, 2019 at 21:43
Read it and weep: Frederick Douglass’s 4th of July speech
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/
For those who are unfamiliar with him, Douglass was himself a slave for many years. Consider the eloquence and beauty of his language, and compare it to today’s eddicated Americans.
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | July 05, 2019 at 21:50
That's the kind of cunning that cost us the colonies.
Ha-ha, David thrashing the bushes -- pah! I'm up in a tree.
"How did you get up in the tree?"
I sat on it when it was an acorn.
Posted by: Baceseras | July 05, 2019 at 22:38
"We must destroy western civilization, because I can't be bothered to eat less and exercise more". OK that is not the exact words but...
Ignoring the Grand Canyon leap of logic linking enslavement with "fatphobia", she is an "Instagram therapist", so we know we are dealing with a super cereal person to whom we should all listen.
*(Yes, that same one featured herein before)
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 05, 2019 at 23:01
Not at all dystopian, and if it was half as expensive, it would be twice as cheap.
OTOH, you can start at about $1700/month, get a double room* (after the first 8-13 weeks), free food, free health care, vocational training, and money for college. See your recruiter today.
*(Offer does not apply to temporary accomodations on ships, in tents, or SEA, B huts, or containerized accomodations)
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 05, 2019 at 23:53
If western civilization is destroyed, we all, including Sonilee, will be eating a lot less.
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | July 06, 2019 at 01:14
Hi Bacesaras,
TOURIST: How do I get to Carnegie Hall?
NEW YORKER: Practice, dude, practice!
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | July 06, 2019 at 01:16
"Restoration" fabulously fantastic. Please thank the elephant man.
Posted by: Fay | July 06, 2019 at 04:02
[delurks]
I must say, David, you are in fine form in this thread. =^D
[lurks]
Posted by: Spiny Norman | July 06, 2019 at 04:09
I'm just dropping in to say that Spiny is not exactly a lurker and I see Pogonip behind that cardboard cat. The disguise is not working.
Posted by: PiperPaul | July 06, 2019 at 04:42
Busted! Darn!
I changed pseudonyms because of Steve E. pointing out something I hadn’t noticed about “Pogonip.” The new one was bestowed on me over at the Archdruid’s blog.
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | July 06, 2019 at 05:01
“We must destroy western civilization, because I can’t be bothered to eat less and exercise more”
I think we’ll give that one a post of its own.
Posted by: David | July 06, 2019 at 09:32
[regarding failed German defense minister]
Reviewing her history, it appears that she did not have any actual defense-related qualifications when she was appointed. So...typical EU bureaucrat?
Posted by: pst314 | July 06, 2019 at 13:53
I changed pseudonyms because of Steve E. pointing out something I hadn’t noticed about “Pogonip.”
I liked it, because 'pogonip' is a rarely used interesting word, and because it reminded me of Pogo Possum.
Posted by: pst314 | July 06, 2019 at 13:59
Thanks, PST! Just for you, I’ll go back to Pogonip here.
So there, Steve. Harrumph.
Posted by: Pogonip | July 06, 2019 at 14:41
Are women more emotional than men?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sexual-personalities/201504/are-women-more-emotional-men
The comments would seem to answer the question in the affirmative:-D.
Posted by: jabrwok | July 06, 2019 at 14:50
So there, Steve. Harrumph.
As my wife has told me on many occassions, I am often oblivious. I don't recall having commented on your pseudonym. I had always thught it was related to the cartoon strip Pogo. If I offended you in any way, I'm sorry.
Posted by: Steve E | July 06, 2019 at 15:51
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/pogonip
pogonip (ˈpəʊɡəˌnɪp)
n
(Physical Geography) an icy winter fog
Posted by: jabrwok | July 06, 2019 at 16:07
"Wait, that wasn't the way you wanted me to go through the gate?"
Posted by: Darleen | July 06, 2019 at 16:17
Pogonip,
I think you have confused me with Captain Nemo. I went back through the threads and found this:
Posted by: Steve E | July 06, 2019 at 17:35
"Man found dead in garden appears to have fallen out of an airplane"
Or as the Guardian could have reported it:
'Chilled migrant drops in'.
Posted by: Theophrastus | July 06, 2019 at 18:00
“Gyro-X, the two-wheeled transport module you’ve always dreamed of.”
Dammit, I keep losing my mental notes. I saw that a couple of weeks ago and meant to post it here.
“Friend.”
The change in urban foxes over just three decades or so has been astonishing. I remember when you'd barely see them out of the corner of your eye as they bolted at the merest hint of human activity.
“Heh.”
It occurs to me that this fact is actually much more important than whether it was “real communism” or not.
Posted by: Sam Duncan | July 06, 2019 at 18:48
The change in urban foxes over just three decades or so has been astonishing. I remember when you’d barely see them out of the corner of your eye as they bolted at the merest hint of human activity.
We’ve a couple that sit on the lawn in the evening waiting to be fed.
Posted by: David | July 06, 2019 at 18:55
You owe Steve an apology, Pogonip. As he clearly states, it was indeed me who pointed out that your name had an unfortunate anagram. For what it's worth, I liked it as a name, and was disconcerted when you changed it. I am, however, happy that it's now been changed back.
Posted by: Captain Nemo | July 06, 2019 at 18:56
We’ve a couple that sit on the lawn in the evening waiting to be fed.
A couple of foxes, I mean. We’re not throwing scraps of chicken at people, you understand. That would be odd.
Posted by: David | July 06, 2019 at 18:58
We’ve a couple that sit on the lawn in the evening waiting to be fed.
..............
That would be odd.
You'd be surprised. When I put a pork butt in the smoker. The couple next door stare longingly over the fence expecting to be fed.
Posted by: Steve E | July 06, 2019 at 19:48
“Are women more emotional than men?”
I defy anyone, male or female, to feel more embarrassment than me. The avoidance of embarrassment is basically the central governing principle, above all else, of my entire life.
Of course that could be because I'm British...
Yay! Go blokes! Chin up, girls, it might never happen.
Heh. How about that, then?
Posted by: Sam Duncan | July 06, 2019 at 20:24
Joss Whedon is unwell.
Just noticing this now?
Posted by: Daniel Ream | July 06, 2019 at 21:23
That would be odd.
Given that you're English, wouldn't that be "eccentric"?
Posted by: jabrwok | July 06, 2019 at 22:00
Posted by: WTP | July 06, 2019 at 22:29
Just for you, I’ll go back to Pogonip here.
Thank you!
And reading the subsequent comments, I don't see them as a reason to have changed.
Posted by: pst314 | July 07, 2019 at 00:07
Joss Whedon is unwell.
Just noticing this now?
I'm avoiding his social media, and so am blissfully unaware of the day-to-day details of his madness.
Posted by: pst314 | July 07, 2019 at 00:09
A couple of foxes, I mean.
You have on your lawn a couple of foxes ? So get off my back, and let's get it out !
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 07, 2019 at 00:39
So get off my back, and let's get it out !
Next time, try five of them!
So get off my back, you big sex machine!
I swear there was an eastern european catalogue store back then. My Polish/Unkranian Bubba, for Christmas, bought my brother and I the exact same crazy polyester/rayon shirts that the Festrunk brothers wore. We'd put them on and become two "Wild and Crazy Guys."
Posted by: Steve E | July 07, 2019 at 01:58
Re urban foxes and the relaxed attitudes clearly on display, I'm assuming this has to do with the absence of rabies...because hereabouts, if a fox or a raccoon wandered up to me in broad daylight and commenced gnawing on MY instep, well, I MIGHT have the presence of mind to check for a collar before calling in some serious firepower -- but it would be a pretty cursory check, and performed only after I had levitated into the next county. Applies to skunks as well, of course, but then there are other, highly compelling, reasons where skunks are concerned. (BTW, if anyone anticipates a need I have a sure-fire de-skunking recipe I'm willing to share. Between friends.)
Posted by: Megaera | July 07, 2019 at 04:26
I'm avoiding his social media, and so am blissfully unaware of the day-to-day details of his madness.
You need only review his body of work for the dysfunctions to become apparent.
The primary reason Whedon is so popular with millenials is that nearly everything he writes has the same basic structure: poorly socialized loners form an ersatz family. It's not hard to see why this resonates with a generation raised in epic levels of familial dissolution, but I'd at least respect him if I thought he was cynically pandering. I just don't think he is.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | July 07, 2019 at 07:45
Ad placement of note.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 07, 2019 at 13:56
I'm avoiding his social media, and so am blissfully unaware of the day-to-day details of his madness.
You need only review his body of work for the dysfunctions to become apparent...
:-) Yes, I've seen enough to of it.
"...poorly socialized loners form an ersatz family."
Guaranteed fanboy (and fangirl) appeal. "Squeee!"
Posted by: pst314 | July 08, 2019 at 00:08
Damn you pst314! Now we're locked in a rogue vortex of italics.
Posted by: Steve E | July 08, 2019 at 00:40
Testing, testing...
Posted by: jabrwok | July 08, 2019 at 00:42
This is why David won't let us have nice things.
jabrwok, how do I close someone else's open italics tag? I tried the /i in my message but it didn't seem to close the italics out when I looked at it in preview.
Posted by: Steve E | July 08, 2019 at 00:47
Damn you pst314! Now we're locked in a rogue vortex of italics.
Sorry about that, Chief.
Posted by: pst314 | July 08, 2019 at 01:08
Steve, just putting a /i won't work unless it's surrounded by <> (less than and greater than brackets).
Unfortunately, the preview function does't seem to parse html, so I'm never sure that my "fix" works until I actually post it. Seems to have worked this time though, unless David did some surreptitious coding and didn't announce the fact.
Posted by: jabrwok | July 08, 2019 at 01:20
I did use the less than greater than brackets. I didn't show them in my post to you because html would be read as an actual command.
Looking at my comment now, I think it may have worked because my signature line isn't in italics.
Thanks for your feedback.
Posted by: Steve E | July 08, 2019 at 01:50
I don't recall whether my attempt worked or not. Maybe pst314 fixed the problem?
Whatever, at least we'll avoid the Scold-o-matic when it gets back from its tune-up:-).
Posted by: jabrwok | July 08, 2019 at 02:11
It must have been you who fixed it, jabrwok.
Did you simply begin your comment with a closing i tag? I don't recall the correct way to post a comment that fixes that problem.
Posted by: pst314 | July 08, 2019 at 02:26
“I did use the less than greater than brackets.”
It might have been a rogue <em> tag, rather than <i>.
Posted by: Sam Duncan | July 08, 2019 at 02:50
Frankly I'm a bit surprised TypePad doesn't sanitize the comment text block.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | July 08, 2019 at 05:06
We’ve a couple that sit on the lawn in the evening waiting to be fed.
My parents have wallabies.
This is a direct consequence of the disarmament of the general public after that Port Arthur episode in 1996
Posted by: Yawhook | July 08, 2019 at 07:40
It must have been you who fixed it, jabrwok.
Yeah, that occurred to me later, but I wasn't going to crawl out of bed to point out my own cluelessness:-P.
Posted by: jabrwok | July 08, 2019 at 15:26
“My parents have wallabies.”
We have seagulls. Who squawk up a racket at 3am (and most of the rest of the time, actually - yep, there they go, right on cue - but they seem to make a particular effort in the middle of the night). I have to sleep with earplugs. No joke.
“This is a direct consequence of the disarmament of the general public after that Port Arthur episode in 1996”
Oh, if I had a weapon... what does seagull taste like, anyway?
Posted by: Sam Duncan | July 08, 2019 at 18:19
My parents have wallabies.
My parents had Earth Shoes.
Posted by: Steve E | July 08, 2019 at 18:49
Oh my.
Posted by: David | July 08, 2019 at 18:50
Understated and stylish, the earth shoe's claim to fame was its negative heel. (The toe was higher than the heel.) Apparently it lead to the invention of chiropractory.
Posted by: Steve E | July 08, 2019 at 19:47
what does seagull taste like, anyway?
Well the one they just caught would probably tast like vindaloo curry.
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/a-glamorous-golden-bird-was-rescued-but-it-was-actually-a-seagull-soaked-in-curry
The Tiggywinkles Hospital. Heh.
Posted by: Steve E | July 09, 2019 at 01:09