Notice of note. (h/t, Holborn) || I am the night. || Gracious in victory. || The inventor of karaoke. || Vibrant diversity in street and park. || Place your bets - will advocaat carbonate? (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Quick and tasty snacks, plus patting. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Interloper. || Portals. || One pack or two? || Today’s word is parasites. || She calls it prayer rape. Because of course she does. || Cleavage detected. || A labour of love. || When you really channel that bad mood. || Jam session of note. || Jigsaw puzzle. || Just like normal people. || “You have to, you do.” || Woke art, woke artist. || Woke blathering level 9: “Fat-phobia is a direct result of anti-blackness.” || And finally, you want to and you know it.
Garlic Bread Popcorn!!
aka croutons
all that patting ... ? ... for the sound effects?
Posted by: Darleen | June 04, 2021 at 00:20
Library book of note:
https://twitter.com/MonsieurPompier/status/1399379389196890121
Posted by: Captain Nemo | June 04, 2021 at 00:23
you want to and you know it.
Pass.
Posted by: Darleen | June 04, 2021 at 00:40
What a way to go
Posted by: Ted S., Catskill Mtns, USA | June 04, 2021 at 01:44
Portals pairs nicely with vibrant diversity in street and park
We live in hope that one day Ryanair will inaugurate direct flights between Vilnius and Lublin. Until then, the reciprocal webcams are a light in our dark age.
Posted by: Sally | June 04, 2021 at 02:13
you want to and you know it
Assuming Indiana Jones was about 30 in 1936, he'd be Harrison Ford's age in the 1980s. Thus allowing for a Ford-as-current-Indy-Chris-Pratt-as-1930s-Indy movie that might not actually suck.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | June 04, 2021 at 02:43
That’s why we’ve decided to bring the PORTAL idea to life
What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Daniel Ream | June 04, 2021 at 02:46
“The Inventor of Karaoke ... Wanted to 'Teach the World to Sing'”
Mm. He should have done that instead.
“We live in hope that one day Ryanair will inaugurate direct flights between Vilnius and Lublin.”
And that someday people will be able to afford webcams of their own.
Posted by: Sam Duncan | June 04, 2021 at 02:56
Place your bets - will advocaat carbonate?
I learned something today. Also "It smells like fart".
Posted by: Mags | June 04, 2021 at 06:28
Morning, all.
I learned something today.
For those who want their advocaat with bonus “eggy fog.” And who wouldn’t, frankly?
Our betters clench their fists.
Posted by: David | June 04, 2021 at 07:04
Our betters clench their fists.
*Wants to smash capitalism*
*Can't clench a fist*
Posted by: sH2 | June 04, 2021 at 07:19
*Wants to smash capitalism*
*Can’t clench a fist*
Don’t laugh. It’s inspiring and powerful. They are clearly our betters and born to rule. We should do as they say.
Note the jaunty elbow work of the chap bottom left, the one who appears to be punching himself in the face.
Posted by: David | June 04, 2021 at 07:25
Cleavage detected.
That's not what I was hoping for.
Posted by: John D | June 04, 2021 at 08:57
That’s not what I was hoping for.
No refunds. Credit note only.
Posted by: David | June 04, 2021 at 09:01
tasty snacks
I see that this chap(ette?) has minimal equipment - a single pan and a single hob. So why not whisk the bloody egg in the dish you're going to use to coat the bread?
Or is that just me?
Posted by: Karl | June 04, 2021 at 11:50
Or is that just me?
I didn’t notice. I was hypnotised by the patting.
Posted by: David | June 04, 2021 at 12:06
Your links lead to many other interesting things, David.
And this promises to revive many lost gems. 71,000 video tapes???
Posted by: pst314 | June 04, 2021 at 13:15
Our betters clench their fists.
They simultaneously oppose war and vow to "smash capitalism". Does the cognitive dissonance give them headaches?
Posted by: pst314 | June 04, 2021 at 13:28
Portals pairs nicely with vibrant diversity in street and park
Set up portals in Karachi and Mosul and see what lovely diverse behavior Europeans are confronted with.
Posted by: pst314 | June 04, 2021 at 13:36
Woke blathering level 9
It's pronouns can only be it/it.
Posted by: pst314 | June 04, 2021 at 13:38
Portals pairs nicely with vibrant diversity in street and park.
Indeed. And despite the border-disdaining self-satisfaction, it’s not a new idea. Both Samsung and Marvel did something very similar, independently, years ago, to promote phones and films respectively. If memory serves, neither company saw a need to condescend to the natives or to imply that they were tribal, parochial and unsophisticated. Instead, it was presented as a bit of fun, which it was.
Posted by: David | June 04, 2021 at 13:44
Why can't I have nice things? If there was any seriousness to capitalism, free markets, and freedom in general, there would be a tv show, hell even make it ppv, where the "Interloper" guys would have a lights-out cage match with the "Our betters clench their fists" folks. They tell me I'm a dreamer, but surely I'm not the only one.
Posted by: WTP | June 04, 2021 at 14:22
Change my mind...If as little as ten years ago, you predicted accurately the 'woke' world we have today, the people getting fired for not playing along with the wokeness, the CRT being force fed not just to the regular folk but the leaders of our corporations and our military, if you predicted the kind of cartoon wokey recruiting videos we just saw recently from the US military, if you earnestly tried to warn people that these things would occur inside of just ten years, if you stuck to your guns on such predictions, you would have been marginalized as a right wing looney by even most conservatives..."conservatives", and likely recommended for psychological counseling and maybe even be put on prozac or something similar.
Posted by: WTP | June 04, 2021 at 14:53
Unintended consequences.
Posted by: David | June 04, 2021 at 15:08
... neither company saw a need to condescend to the natives or to imply that they were tribal, parochial and unsophisticated ...
It's like a 1950's science fiction where nuclear war/alien invasion having narrowly been averted, a World Council installs telescreens on every street corner so that cab drivers and housewives and delivery boys can see that they're just the same as etc etc.
This naive, corny stuff, which is intellectually impoverished insofar as it assumes that everyone is a Western liberal under their skin, is sold as progress and uplift to the municipal councils of Vilnius and Lublin.
The portals we live with - cheap jet travel, portable videphones, global brands - are more real and consequential than his stupid 1950's science fiction. The proles, who have portals bringing them to stag weekends in Vilnius and portals bringing halal butchering to the garden next door, are far past the point of gawking at foreigners who gawk back at them.
Posted by: Izzy | June 04, 2021 at 15:35
White supremacist bouncer punches out nonviolent clubgoer. (via Battle Beagle.) A shocking example of white privilege.
Posted by: pst314 | June 04, 2021 at 15:37
Set up portals in Karachi and Mosul and see what lovely diverse behavior Europeans are confronted with.
Best use would be to put one end in “vibrant” places like London and Cologne with the other end in “regressive” capitals like Budapest and Prague.
Posted by: Squires | June 04, 2021 at 17:38
Politicians worried that this would be used for a different kind of Happy Meal.
Posted by: pst314 | June 04, 2021 at 17:58
"Screw the people that live here" is an interesting take on immigration.
We'll try this one again, an interesting approach to gas shortages.
Biological Fundamentalism...
...outside of the Clownosphere, known as "biology".
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | June 04, 2021 at 18:03
“Screw the people that live here” is an interesting take on immigration.
Given that the world’s supply of “unskilled” people “from poor countries” – who should apparently take precedence over the natives - is effectively infinite, certainly inexhaustible, one wonders where the cut-off point might be. If, as Mr Bowman claims, “foreign people’s welfare is equivalent to our own,” and immigration to the UK and access to its infrastructure are some kind of moral right for all needy creatures, who, if anyone, could we exclude, and under what conditions? Exactly how long do the waiting lists for GPs, dentists and council housing have to be? What level of crime, resentment and social alienation would be deemed acceptable to a being so pious? Does the cut-off point come before, or shortly after, economic ruin and the collapse of British society?
It seems to me one should be clear about these things.
Not entirely unrelated.
Posted by: David | June 04, 2021 at 18:32
“Screw the people that live here” is an interesting take on immigration.
Sam doesn't worry that unrestricted immigration will be used to force down his wages--or even to make him unemployed.
Posted by: pst314 | June 04, 2021 at 18:39
Sam doesn't worry that unrestricted immigration will be used to force down his wages--or even to make him unemployed.
But that would then be capitalism's fault. Obviously.
Posted by: WTP | June 04, 2021 at 19:11
an interesting approach to gas shortages
I'm not sure who's stupider. The guy apparently filling the bed of his pickup truck with petrol, or the jabbering idiots closely following him while he sprays petrol over them.
Could they all just die in a blazing inferno?
Posted by: Karl | June 04, 2021 at 19:27
Could they all just die in a blazing inferno?
See, I knew I wasn't the only one.
Posted by: WTP | June 04, 2021 at 20:44
Much as I hate to piss on the picnic, the guy filling his pickup with gasoline is just clickbait from some street magician who is the walking embodiment of Backpfeifengesicht.
Be careful when you see somebody catering to your worst instincts, even (especially!) when it seems ridiculously believable.
Posted by: Governor Squid | June 04, 2021 at 20:48
...when it seems ridiculously believable.
Therein lies the problem, particularly when there have been real instances of idiots using shopping bags and plastic totes, plus it looks filmed in Arizona or California, both of which up the ante on dumbnity.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | June 04, 2021 at 21:14
Via Ace, the jokes, again they write themselves.
"If you surround yourself with clowns, don't be surprised if a circus breaks out"
Benjamin Disraeli
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | June 04, 2021 at 21:45
the jokes, again they write themselves.
If you hear the clip before you see the speaker, the mismatch is quite something.
Posted by: David | June 04, 2021 at 21:50
quite something.
We’re living the worst Tim & Eric skit.
Posted by: Squire | June 04, 2021 at 22:49
"If you surround yourself with clowns, don't be surprised if a circus breaks out"
Witty as it is, that does not sound like something Benjamin Disraeli would have said.
Posted by: pst314 | June 04, 2021 at 23:26
...Benjamin Disraeli would have said.
Would you believe Benjamin Franklin ?
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | June 04, 2021 at 23:36
Witty as it is, that does not sound like something Benjamin Disraeli would have said.
He's right, you know.
Posted by: William Gladstone | June 04, 2021 at 23:36
Would you believe Benjamin Franklin ?
Your credibility is falling.
Posted by: William Gladstone | June 04, 2021 at 23:37
Your credibility is falling.
Benny Goodman ?
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | June 05, 2021 at 00:13
Your credibility is falling.
Don't listen to that crank. Now I knew Ben, and that is exactly the sort of think Ben would say.
Posted by: George Washington | June 05, 2021 at 00:17
I'm pretty sure I said it. Or, at least, some folks born every minute might believe so.
Posted by: Phineas Taylor Barnum | June 05, 2021 at 00:50
"Benjamin Disraeli"
Dude had gears....
*ducks*
Posted by: anon a mouse | June 05, 2021 at 01:39
Dude had gears....
[ rings little bell ]
Bartender!
Posted by: pst314 | June 05, 2021 at 01:43
Disraeli? Franklin? You left out Twain...but doesn't sound like him neither. I say with confidence, Otto von Bismark.
Posted by: WTP | June 05, 2021 at 03:07
I say with confidence, Otto von Bismark.
What fresh hell is this?
Posted by: Dorothy Parker | June 05, 2021 at 04:06
I say with confidence, Otto von Bismark.
OK, OK, I'll come clean, it was Lavrenty Beria paraphrasing Cetshwayo .
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | June 05, 2021 at 04:19
the guy filling his pickup with gasoline
While not precisely the same thing, I have driven behind a vehicle which had a break in the fuel line that was between the fuel pump and the injectors. That resulted in a very large cloud of small gasoline droplets at the rear driver's side of the vehicle (since I'm in the US, that would be the left side while facing the direction of travel). The type of thing that creates a fuel/air mixture that tends to go BOOM instead of WHOOSH if an ignition event happens.
Since it was 2 lanes in the same direction and that person was in the right lane, I drove up parallel to said vehicle, rolled down my passenger window, honked my horn and yelled at the driver until he rolled down his window to find out what my problem happened to be. I screamed at him that he had a fuel leak that would get him killed (well, less specific with many more expletives and hand gestures pointing to the cloud); when he looked back and saw the cloud, he pulled over immediately.
I got the fuck out of the potential blast zone.
In the case of the magician, I guess he had a water tank in the cab and was pumping water into the bed with a hose that was hidden behind the pump handle. The earlier images showed leakage underneath the trunk.
In a country of 300 odd million people, I would expect at least one idiot who might think that was a good idea. The follow on bits where the precious gasoline was sloshing out should have been a tell, though.
Posted by: Richard Cranium | June 05, 2021 at 05:34
Any chance I can talk you into no links to Instagram, Facebook or Twitter?
It's kind of like whoring yourself out for a few a few pieces of silver, innit?
Posted by: Fred Z | June 05, 2021 at 05:57
Any chance I can talk you into no links to Instagram, Facebook or Twitter? It’s kind of like whoring yourself out for a few a few pieces of silver, innit?
Not sure how whoring comes into it. And if you want to see the bedlamites, we have to visit Bedlam.
Posted by: David | June 05, 2021 at 08:11
This seems to capture two of the comment themes nicely...
Posted by: TomJ | June 05, 2021 at 09:38
Speaking of bedlamites.
Posted by: David | June 05, 2021 at 09:39
And if you want to see the bedlamites, we have to visit Bedlam.
That reminds me of when I first heard Tom of Bedlam, sung by a group of pagans in the SCA. The enthusiasm with which they sang this verse was an early clue that maybe they were not as sweet and benevolent as they claimed to be:
I went down to Satan's kitchen
To break my fast one morning
And there I got souls piping hot
All on the spit a-turning
It would be slightly interesting to know what became of them.
Posted by: pst314 | June 05, 2021 at 11:58
>pagans
>SCA
They singing mad shit for someone within Crusading distance.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | June 07, 2021 at 14:21
They singing mad shit for someone within Crusading distance.
A lot of them, for all their talk about tolerance and love, deeply hated and despised Christians. Including or perhaps especially the ones who were kind to them.
Posted by: pst314 | June 07, 2021 at 17:06