Old, yes, but still good. || Intrigue. || The miracle of good lighting. || Greetings, human. || How many holes does a given object have? || Hazards of the highway. || Crab and coral. || Meanwhile, in Switzerland. || Everyday songs for the lady in your life. (h/t, Neocon Servative) || Athlete of note. || Stuntmen watching stuntmen doing stunts. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Today’s word is inadvisable. || Moment of doubt. || Long way down. || Employed as an educator, you know. || Airbag for the elderly. || A brief history of the drum machine. (h/t, Things) || “The definitive guide to the Doctor Who theme.” || Evergreen. || We live in strange times. || Portland’s finest. || And finally, they most come at night, mostly.
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First?
I’ve always wanted to write that.
Posted by: Adam | November 13, 2020 at 00:23
Airbag for the elderly and drunk?
Posted by: Angus | November 13, 2020 at 01:27
Linked over at Althouse. I thought you folks here would be a natural for this.
https://www.curbed.com/2020/11/mary-wollstonecraft-statue-london-feminism.html
Posted by: Assistant Village Idiot | November 13, 2020 at 01:30
Airbag for the elderly.
Only if they fall backwards?
"Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit", said the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet.
Posted by: pst314 | November 13, 2020 at 01:36
Hazards of the highway.
Oh, Brilliant . . .
Posted by: Hal | November 13, 2020 at 01:43
“How many holes does a given object have?”
I'll never forget my biology teacher pointing out that most of the stuff you swallow never actually enters your body, it just passes through a hole in the middle.
Posted by: Sam Duncan | November 13, 2020 at 04:08
Nice doggy, roll over, glare with glowing red eyes.
Posted by: Hal | November 13, 2020 at 05:02
Consequences
Posted by: JuliaM | November 13, 2020 at 06:10
Greetings, human
That does it, how do you become a UPS driver? That is soooo cute I am giving up my day job and heading off for life on the road :)
Posted by: Felicity | November 13, 2020 at 06:18
Moment of doubt.
What was he planning to do?
Posted by: Mike | November 13, 2020 at 07:39
Morning, all.
House tour of note.
Posted by: David | November 13, 2020 at 07:46
This just in.
Posted by: David | November 13, 2020 at 07:49
Don’t worry if you can’t get a doctor’s appointment, others can help
https://www.rt.com/news/506457-sweden-circumcision-soldering-gun/
Posted by: Watcher In The Dark | November 13, 2020 at 08:37
I lIke the house tour of note. Basically a warehouse, complete with casually open bladed knife on table, possibly a soiled seat and an unused vacuum cleaner. Even germs wouldn’t live there.
Posted by: Watcher In The Dark | November 13, 2020 at 08:45
Snowy nights in Switzerland
Switzerland is very lovely but frighteningly expensive.
Posted by: Jonathan | November 13, 2020 at 10:44
Old, yes, but still good.
Still funny. :-)
Posted by: H | November 13, 2020 at 10:46
House tour of note.
(In Lloyd Grossman voice) " So, who lives in a house like this?"
Posted by: Jonathan | November 13, 2020 at 10:57
Soldering Gun
He presumably has already been snipped otherwise it would be good grounds for application of the eye-for-an-eye principal.
One shrivels at the very thought...
Posted by: asiaseen | November 13, 2020 at 11:06
As well as the shrivel factor, the idea played hell with my spelling and html.
Posted by: asiaseen | November 13, 2020 at 11:08
House tour of note.
As they say, there are never any looters around when you really need them.
Posted by: WTP | November 13, 2020 at 11:48
Today’s word is inadvisable
Today I learned that I have three grandads
Posted by: Toxteth O'Grady | November 13, 2020 at 12:46
Today I learned that I have three grandads
A Friday the 13th miracle.
Posted by: asiaseen | November 13, 2020 at 13:03
How much topical anesthetic and wound gauze would nine people have to buy to make a pharmacy call the cops, I wonder...
He should have done it the old fashioned way.
Posted by: SumDumGuy | November 13, 2020 at 14:06
...others can help
He was providing a community service.
Posted by: Hurry Harry | November 13, 2020 at 15:07
To fight racism, Cornell renames its English department
Posted by: Hurry Harry | November 13, 2020 at 15:16
To fight racism, Cornell renames its English department
And so academia’s Clown Quarter ever more closely resembles a psychiatrist’s waiting room. The inhabitants seem to regard neuroticism as a goal, a credential.
Posted by: David | November 13, 2020 at 16:00
The psychiatrist would likely think there is nothing wrong with them, but that you’re the crazy one. Ask me how I know.
Posted by: WTP | November 13, 2020 at 16:13
I'm quite sure I have no idea why Incitatus as a name comes to mind.
Posted by: Hal | November 13, 2020 at 17:19
Home Tour of Note
By all means, take a look. Go down into the basement. It goes on forever.
Just avoid the dark places. You will be eaten by a grue.
Posted by: Uma Thurmond's Feet | November 13, 2020 at 18:26
Hazards of the highway, part two.
Posted by: David | November 13, 2020 at 18:39
House tour of note.
There is a well fed white and black cat sitting placidly (on a box naturally) in what seems to be the living room. Those with nothing better to occupy their time* can have fun trying to find it.
* which of course would not include any regular visitors to this site he quickly adds.
Posted by: John | November 13, 2020 at 20:18
Those with nothing better to occupy their time* can have fun trying to find it.
The whole thing has the air of a game.
Posted by: David | November 13, 2020 at 20:25
Those with nothing better to occupy their time* can have fun trying to find it.
Found it. (I had nothing better to do...)
Posted by: Captain Nemo | November 13, 2020 at 21:30
Today I learned that I have three grandads
Oh, that's nothing. More importantly, are you one of 'em?
Posted by: Hal | November 14, 2020 at 03:02
In reading this Guardian interview with Otegha Uwagba, author of Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods, the impression I got was not so much of an author keen on promoting sales of her book but that of some kind of 'Miss Whiplash' dominatrix holding out a promise to punish all those white middle class progressives for the sin of being white, middle class, and progressive.
For instance, she explains that the book is not actually intended for a white readership at all, but she nevertheless acknowledges that many white people will likely buy it.
And for those white readers:
"I want them to feel uncomfortable. I want them to feel challenged. I want them to feel confronted.”
And this is apparently because they have been very, very bad boys and girls:
“[White people] think racism is bad and they want it to be over. But the implementation and the facts of that require them to do things they are not willing to do. [They] talk a big game about allyship and dismantling racism but when it came to the prospect of maybe losing their jobs or getting in trouble at work in order to take a stance against racism, they weren’t willing to do it."
They're bad because they just have not realised that true "racial justice is “redistributive” – that they must give something up if black people are to thrive"; and that in turn means "giving up power, money, wealth, opportunities, things that will change the quality of your life and make it feel relatively worse".
Posted by: Nikw211 | November 14, 2020 at 12:48
I want them to feel uncomfortable.
It’s strange just how often the urge to inflict discomfort and anxiety on white people crops up. Even when the enthusiastic inflictors of said anxiety are obliged to admit that the reason for doing so is seemingly non-existent.
Posted by: David | November 14, 2020 at 13:33
obliged to admit that the reason for doing so is seemingly non-existent
Racists do exist and it's not hard to imagine that Uwagba may have been on the receiving end of some ugly language or behaviour at times in her life.
But I reserve the right to be incredulous that racism has been a typical experience, let alone a defining or dominant feature in her life to date.
To be an Oxford graduate, bestselling author, and celebrated as a media and marketing entrepreneur by Forbes all by the age of 28 stands in sharp contrast with claims to have lived a life suffering under "the burden of whiteness" and "the mental and emotional trauma” it has caused. Rosa Parks she is not.
The target of the "restrained prose" under which we are told lies "an iceberg of rage and frustration" in that interview is not, as might reasonably be expected, actual racists such as Britain First, National Action, or Combat-18. It's not even against the Metropolitan police's 'stop and search' policies. None of those even get a mention.
Instead, the target for her "rage and frustration" turns out to be "white people", “progressive, liberal people", and even including her own "friends" some of whom she explains she has found herself unable to "sustain relationships or friendships with".
It's not that such “progressive, liberal people" are beyond criticism for the way they express their political convictions, far from it.
But to even suggest that their non-racism and even anti-racism is proof that they racist is preposterous up to and beyond the point of delusion.
Posted by: Nikw211 | November 14, 2020 at 14:51
Preposterous up to and beyond the point of delusion seems to be the establishment default position.
No sign of any pushback other than from Laurence Fox who accordingly is firmly in the crosshairs. I wish him luck, he’s going to need it.
Posted by: John | November 14, 2020 at 15:14
It’s strange just how often the urge to inflict discomfort and anxiety on white people crops up
Because they themselves are failures, and instead of facing up to this they rage against those who are not failures. Prove me wrong. ;-)
Posted by: pst314 | November 14, 2020 at 16:12
Cornell's Department of Literatures in Enlish reminded me of this bit, with David Tennant as Catherine Tate's English teacher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxB1gB6K-2A&ab_channel=BBC
Posted by: Smallish Bees | November 14, 2020 at 16:16
Naw, no bias in this headline at all ...
Posted by: Darleen | November 14, 2020 at 16:52
To paraphrase the president elect, if you’re protesting against me you ain’t gay.
Posted by: John | November 14, 2020 at 17:31
"The wrong kind of gays who are on the wrong side of history."
Posted by: PiperPaul | November 14, 2020 at 17:51
"The wrong kind of gays who are on the wrong side of history."
People claiming their "existence" is being erased seek to erase the existence of others.
Posted by: Steve E | November 14, 2020 at 18:02
Naw, no bias in this headline at all...
The BAD WHITE GAYS strike again.
Posted by: David | November 14, 2020 at 22:06
Home Tour of Note
Quite a few bathrooms. The one with two toilets that might have been within mutual wiping distance was a bit of a surprise.
Posted by: Richard Cranium | November 15, 2020 at 07:35
The Bad White Gays would be a good name for a band.
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | November 15, 2020 at 08:36
mutual wiping distance
Also a band name.
Posted by: David | November 15, 2020 at 09:05
Not a bad white gay
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1327793827080515584
Posted by: Felicity | November 15, 2020 at 10:02
Not a bad white gay
We live in stupefying times.
Posted by: David | November 15, 2020 at 10:12
We live in stupefying times.
Indeed. This isn't what I thought the future would be like.
Posted by: Captain Nemo | November 15, 2020 at 12:27
We live in stupefying times.
Indeed, from a link above...
"Mein Kampf", boy Boy Scout becomes boy Eagle Scout.
One may draw one's own conclusions.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | November 15, 2020 at 12:41
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1327793827080515584
de-colon-ize: to pull out of one's ass
Posted by: Steve E | November 15, 2020 at 15:44
Doing the leftwing, crazed screamfest on camera -- not just for white chicks anymore.
Posted by: Darleen | November 15, 2020 at 22:19
...not just for white chicks anymore.
I dunno, I identify him as a white chick.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | November 15, 2020 at 23:54
He (it?) looks pretty chick-y to me.
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | November 16, 2020 at 00:38
looks pretty chick-y to me
The voice to go with it, too
Posted by: asiaseen | November 16, 2020 at 02:55
Not a big lolly eater, but I do like Chicos. They have been renamed to satisfy the identifreaks: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/red-skins-and-chicos-lollies-renamed-due-to-racist-undertones/news-story/55478a6e041c4b6307f40bd6cbb7190f
What I don't understand is how the new name satisfies them....
Posted by: Felicity | November 16, 2020 at 04:44
not just for white chicks anymore.
Although I actually voted Remain in the 2016 referendum, it's remarkable how both complaints from that Tiktoker are identical to those made by similarly shrill die-hard Remainers over here - that both the elderly and those failing to live at addresses with more fashionably expensive zip codes should be banned from taking part in elections on the grounds that (allegedly) neither have anything of value to add to society.
Such charming people.
Posted by: Nikw211 | November 16, 2020 at 08:23
They have been renamed to satisfy the identifreaks...
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | November 16, 2020 at 10:46
“The definitive guide to the Doctor Who theme.”
Any excuse to repost this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1SZs4xudf8
House tour of note.
Strongly resembles many of the student boarding houses in the town I grew up in.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | November 17, 2020 at 17:06
To fight racism, Cornell renames its English department
The new name in actuality is more correct. Literature can be written in English without coming from England, but of course that's not what they actually mean. If they valued true speaking (don't laugh) it would be.
"To punish YT and show that we are GudWhytes, only writings by persons with the acceptable skin color and/or reproductive equipment, and politics, will be considered.
Posted by: fnord | November 18, 2020 at 12:14