Bartender - a drink for this gentleman, please, and put it on my tab!
In hindsight, I think the ladies should avert their eyes.
Haha - too late! I keep going back to play with it because it's fun.
Your comment, though, got me wondering about the Victorian era English - is it true they covered up the legs of tables, chairs, pianos, and such to avoid the aforementioned womanly inflammation?
...Victorian era English - is it true they covered up the legs of tables...?
I have read that this is not true, and that the claim may have originated as a funny insult directed at "those prudish Americans". The claim seems obviously absurd given how much effort the Victorians put into crafting elegant table legs etc. See here, for instance.
I don’t believe so, no. Though the idea of ladies becoming dangerously aroused by furniture is not without its comedic possibilities.
I admit it did smack of urban legend or humorous fable, but stranger things have been known to be true. What I had not heard though was that it all started as a joke that Americans were over-prudish. Learn something new every day!
I do worry about the lab rats that keep pressing that lever, poor things.
My office feels like a Skinner Box sometimes - I keep mashing the buttons on the computer, in spite of the negative feedback, because of the occasional positive feedback, so long as that slot opens and a paycheck comes out regular-like. I think that's why I keep mashing the buttons that lead to this place - the mental reward pellets outweigh the ones that aren't so rewarding (that See also link mentioned above, or anything by that Shaefer person, for example...)
For those not aware, the current Canadian flag was designed as a rejection of Canada's British heritage by a Liberal Party dominated by what has become known as the "Laurentian Elite". The previous flag was typical of former British colonies.
The maple leaf was chosen precisely because of its lack of historical symbology, and the flag is red on white because red is the traditional colour of the Liberal Party (our "conservative" party's colour is blue).
The best American analog I can think of is if the current administration retired the Stars & Stripes in favour of a blue flag with a picture of a donkey on it.
Any Kiwi's here? Curious how you expect this to play out. Is the vaccine being widely distributed there such that y'all expect herd immunity before the next outbreak?
Now that's a sore point: the buggers tend to come over to Australia and sponge off us. The Australian Government keeps sending the dodgy one's back as we have enough crims of our own. I don't know why so many Kiwis do come to Oz - they hold the America's Cup and have plenty of sheep of their own. That should be enough entertainment for them to want to stay.
Love it! But it looked familiar. That's Jonathan Pie, a fictional newsman portrayed by English comedian Tom Walker. Original video from 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_bI789Gog
In 2018, one of the co-directors at my university’s Office of Academic Indigenization invited an Indigenous elder to give a presentation on “Western Medicine vs. Traditional Healing Medicine.” A member of the audience asked the elder what he recommended for the “gut problems” afflicting her child. In response, the elder stated that the parent should “rub corn pollen on his feet and do a sunrise ceremony.” A number of professors in the Faculty of Science and Technology attending the session acknowledged afterwards that this example of “traditional healing medicine” was completely inconsistent with evidence-based scientific medical techniques (as seems obvious, even to those of us who aren’t doctors). But they remained silent at the event, as did everyone else, out of “respect.”
Dr. Widdowson wrote Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation, which sounds good until you read the summary:
They analyse all the major aboriginal policies, examine issues that have received little critical attention - child care, health care, education, traditional knowledge - and propose the comprehensive government provision of health, education, and housing rather than deficient delivery through Native self-government.
Does this mean it’s kosher for us to go back to walling up entire families inside their homes when any one of them is suspected of carrying the plague?
I kid, of course.
That plague was real, and that course of action was sensible in its context.
OMG, I try not to bring my work home, but I feel like I have just spent a day with the remedial year 8’s. It has been several years since I taught them, but once when I was off sick they ran amok on a relief teacher. When I came back I was finding penis doodles for weeks around the room.
As to table legs, one of the year nines once brought in an off cut from a turned table leg from the woodwork room and was traumatising the girls next door with it(glass windows between classrooms).
My resolve to not drink on work nights has just evaporated. Thanks guys.
Brilliant. I'm still laughing.
Posted by: Captain Nemo | March 01, 2021 at 12:39
Related: http://en.inkei.net/
Posted by: PiperPaul | March 01, 2021 at 12:40
Just let the A.I. enhance your doodles.
Reminds me of school. :-)
Posted by: Pete | March 01, 2021 at 12:48
Related
I’ve always said this place is educational.
Posted by: David | March 01, 2021 at 12:50
Nuts!
Posted by: anon a mouse | March 01, 2021 at 13:05
Reminds me of school. :-)
It’s a lingering memory of arriving at secondary school. I estimate some 30% of the textbooks had been thusly embellished.
Posted by: David | March 01, 2021 at 13:08
Just let the A.I. enhance your doodles.
That's awesome! Still laughing. Needed that on a lousy Monday morning!
Posted by: ComputerLabRat | March 01, 2021 at 13:30
Spotted the logical phallusy!
Posted by: Alex | March 01, 2021 at 13:42
In hindsight, I think the ladies should avert their eyes.
Don’t want any womanly inflammation. Just had the carpets done.
Posted by: David | March 01, 2021 at 13:45
In hindsight, I think the ladies should avert their eyes.
What is the likelihood that there is already an app that draws a pussy hat on whatever it is given?
Posted by: pst314 | March 01, 2021 at 14:00
Spotted the logical phallusy!
Bartender - a drink for this gentleman, please, and put it on my tab!
In hindsight, I think the ladies should avert their eyes.
Haha - too late! I keep going back to play with it because it's fun.
Your comment, though, got me wondering about the Victorian era English - is it true they covered up the legs of tables, chairs, pianos, and such to avoid the aforementioned womanly inflammation?
Posted by: ComputerLabRat | March 01, 2021 at 14:03
is it true they covered up the legs of tables, chairs, pianos, and such to avoid the aforementioned womanly inflammation?
I don’t believe so, no. Though the idea of ladies becoming dangerously aroused by furniture is not without its comedic possibilities.
Posted by: David | March 01, 2021 at 14:10
...Victorian era English - is it true they covered up the legs of tables...?
I have read that this is not true, and that the claim may have originated as a funny insult directed at "those prudish Americans". The claim seems obviously absurd given how much effort the Victorians put into crafting elegant table legs etc. See here, for instance.
Posted by: pst314 | March 01, 2021 at 14:17
David, I see that we simultaneously located the same source.
Posted by: pst314 | March 01, 2021 at 14:19
Help me put these paper towels down, just in case.
Posted by: David | March 01, 2021 at 14:25
David, we should first spend an hour on the internet researching what brand of towels is most absorbent.
Posted by: pst314 | March 01, 2021 at 14:30
we should first spend an hour on the internet researching what brand of towels is most absorbent.
Damn it, man, it’s tempting, but we may not have time.
[ Eyes room suspiciously. ]
One of these dames could blow at any moment.
Posted by: David | March 01, 2021 at 14:36
Haha - too late! I keep going back to play with it because it's fun.
The website, you mean. Right?
Posted by: PiperPaul | March 01, 2021 at 15:05
The website, you mean. Right?
Yes, the website. Of course. That is what I meant.
Posted by: ComputerLabRat | March 01, 2021 at 15:29
Meh, at least its not a virus.
At the iUVULA™ factory we are switching from nylon to Kevlar.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | March 01, 2021 at 15:32
I keep going back to play with it because it's fun.
I do worry about the lab rats that keep pressing that lever, poor things.
Posted by: pst314 | March 01, 2021 at 15:48
Meanwhile in the Grauniad...
https://twitter.com/GarbyJooman3/status/1366322671315730435
Posted by: sH2 | March 01, 2021 at 16:14
Holy crap that was funny. Thanks David
Posted by: Sam | March 01, 2021 at 16:39
One for Mr. Ream 'eh' al…
Posted by: Sam | March 01, 2021 at 16:40
Holy crap that was funny.
Given our usual programming, the adventures in woke dementedness, the occasional knob joke seems apt, indeed necessary. Keeping us grounded, you see.
Posted by: David | March 01, 2021 at 16:46
See also.
Posted by: David | March 01, 2021 at 16:50
2-for-2 monsieur. Top marks.
Posted by: Sam | March 01, 2021 at 16:53
See also.
Bill Gates recently Educated us about the existential threat of such emissions. Should Something Be Done about such performance artists?
Posted by: pst314 | March 01, 2021 at 17:45
I don’t believe so, no. Though the idea of ladies becoming dangerously aroused by furniture is not without its comedic possibilities.
I admit it did smack of urban legend or humorous fable, but stranger things have been known to be true. What I had not heard though was that it all started as a joke that Americans were over-prudish. Learn something new every day!
I do worry about the lab rats that keep pressing that lever, poor things.
My office feels like a Skinner Box sometimes - I keep mashing the buttons on the computer, in spite of the negative feedback, because of the occasional positive feedback, so long as that slot opens and a paycheck comes out regular-like. I think that's why I keep mashing the buttons that lead to this place - the mental reward pellets outweigh the ones that aren't so rewarding (that See also link mentioned above, or anything by that Shaefer person, for example...)
Posted by: ComputerLabRat | March 01, 2021 at 18:11
the mental reward pellets outweigh the ones that aren’t so rewarding
High praise. I’ll put that in the brochure.
Posted by: David | March 01, 2021 at 18:14
One for Mr. Ream 'eh' al…
For those not aware, the current Canadian flag was designed as a rejection of Canada's British heritage by a Liberal Party dominated by what has become known as the "Laurentian Elite". The previous flag was typical of former British colonies.
The maple leaf was chosen precisely because of its lack of historical symbology, and the flag is red on white because red is the traditional colour of the Liberal Party (our "conservative" party's colour is blue).
The best American analog I can think of is if the current administration retired the Stars & Stripes in favour of a blue flag with a picture of a donkey on it.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | March 01, 2021 at 18:37
Any Kiwi's here? Curious how you expect this to play out. Is the vaccine being widely distributed there such that y'all expect herd immunity before the next outbreak?
https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1366223754142113800
Posted by: WTP | March 01, 2021 at 21:01
Kiwi logic
"It is time to start knocking on people's doors & making sure they are ... isolating for 2 weeks."
Knock, knock
Are you isolating?
Well, I was until you came along...
Posted by: asiaseen | March 01, 2021 at 21:40
let's appropriately punish them & make sure people know about that so other people don't do it as well
Disease as a sign of sin? Hmmmm.
Posted by: Darleen | March 01, 2021 at 22:03
WTP: "Any Kiwi's here?"
Now that's a sore point: the buggers tend to come over to Australia and sponge off us. The Australian Government keeps sending the dodgy one's back as we have enough crims of our own. I don't know why so many Kiwis do come to Oz - they hold the America's Cup and have plenty of sheep of their own. That should be enough entertainment for them to want to stay.
Posted by: NTSOG | March 01, 2021 at 22:29
"they...have plenty of sheep of their own."
[ Looks uneasily at commenter ]
Posted by: pst314 | March 01, 2021 at 22:45
"they...have plenty of sheep of their own."
But there's only one Daisy.
Posted by: Steve E | March 02, 2021 at 00:22
Two weeks to flatten the curve, what could possibly go wrong ?
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | March 02, 2021 at 00:30
But there's only one Daisy.
Hal 9000 sings: "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do..."
Posted by: pst314 | March 02, 2021 at 00:54
But there's only one Daisy.
Nonsense, one for the whole family !
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | March 02, 2021 at 01:41
Nonsense, one for the whole family !
And we kept them in unlocked gun cabinets!
Posted by: pst314 | March 02, 2021 at 02:11
Nonsense, one for the whole family !
There's still only one that matters: an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle with a compass in the stock.
Posted by: Steve E | March 02, 2021 at 02:34
David, is this you?
http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/36097-British-TV-newsman-loses-it-during-story-on-diversity.html
WARNING: Quite salty language, but funny as all get out. I hope the gentleman has found another job by now.
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | March 02, 2021 at 03:23
There's still only one that matters
You'll put your eye out, kid.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | March 02, 2021 at 03:47
David, is this you?
Love it! But it looked familiar. That's Jonathan Pie, a fictional newsman portrayed by English comedian Tom Walker. Original video from 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_bI789Gog
Posted by: NateWhilk | March 02, 2021 at 05:55
[...] and have plenty of sheep of their own.
Ah, back in the days when men were men and the sheep ran like hell.
Posted by: Richard Cranium | March 02, 2021 at 06:25
David, is this you?
With that hair?
Posted by: Nikw211 | March 02, 2021 at 07:02
I’ve always said this place is educational.
Speaking of education ...
In 2018, one of the co-directors at my university’s Office of Academic Indigenization invited an Indigenous elder to give a presentation on “Western Medicine vs. Traditional Healing Medicine.” A member of the audience asked the elder what he recommended for the “gut problems” afflicting her child. In response, the elder stated that the parent should “rub corn pollen on his feet and do a sunrise ceremony.” A number of professors in the Faculty of Science and Technology attending the session acknowledged afterwards that this example of “traditional healing medicine” was completely inconsistent with evidence-based scientific medical techniques (as seems obvious, even to those of us who aren’t doctors). But they remained silent at the event, as did everyone else, out of “respect.”
Lol
Posted by: Nikw211 | March 02, 2021 at 07:04
Dr. Widdowson wrote Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation, which sounds good until you read the summary:
Right. That'll fix it.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | March 02, 2021 at 07:37
Speaking of education ...
Does this mean it’s kosher for us to go back to walling up entire families inside their homes when any one of them is suspected of carrying the plague?
I kid, of course.
That plague was real, and that course of action was sensible in its context.
Posted by: Squires | March 02, 2021 at 07:44
With that hair?
I know. Bloody cheek.
Posted by: David | March 02, 2021 at 07:45
OMG, I try not to bring my work home, but I feel like I have just spent a day with the remedial year 8’s. It has been several years since I taught them, but once when I was off sick they ran amok on a relief teacher. When I came back I was finding penis doodles for weeks around the room.
As to table legs, one of the year nines once brought in an off cut from a turned table leg from the woodwork room and was traumatising the girls next door with it(glass windows between classrooms).
My resolve to not drink on work nights has just evaporated. Thanks guys.
Posted by: Felicity | March 02, 2021 at 08:13
Speaking of education
Oh, I think that one deserves a post of its own.
Thank you, sir.
Posted by: David | March 02, 2021 at 08:38
Hey, David and I have never met. Up till his recent discussion of haircuts, I didn’t even know if he HAD hair.
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | March 02, 2021 at 19:05
“She allows racists to like her”.
Posted by: Sam Duncan | March 03, 2021 at 05:28