Wednesday, December 01, 2021

Links - 1st December 2021 (1)

Hello, Please Stop Man-Bashing My Husband As A Conversation Starter - "I’m packing my groceries at the supermarket, trading toddler war stories with the checkout lady, as my own son wails in his trolley seat, because I stopped him from upending a magazine display.  But, when I let slip that my husband is cooking dinner tonight, the checkout lady makes this noise:
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA.” It’s a laugh, but one so loud and high and mocking that even my tantrumming son falls silent.  “Oh, excuse me, is it his majesty’s annual turn to cook tonight?” The checkout lady hoots. “I hope you’ve got backup fishfingers!  “Because they always ruin dinner, even when they’ve used every pan in the house. And do they wash up afterwards? Do they buggery. Hahahahaha.”"

Let children play! - "‘School almost “eliminates bullying” with breaktime ban on games.’ To me, this is like saying that getting rid of children’s play is a price worth paying if it means teachers can have a quiet life.   It seems that in the view of Charlotte Whelan, the headteacher at Hackney New School, the elimination of children’s breaktime is a great pedagogic achievement. She said of her school experiment, where games are banned in breaktime, that ‘a school without bullying [might] sound like a utopia, but it is achievable’.   I am a little suspicious of utopias, so I wasn’t surprised to discover that what certain school administrators describe as a utopia is actually a pretty dystopian situation in which children are not allowed to play spontaneously and freely with one another.   Instead of the usual breaktime, where children are able to release their energy by running around and messing with each other, at Hackney New School the kids ‘participate in supervised quizzes, poetry recitals and other activities, including chess and choir clubs’. In other words, the pupils are subjected to an intensively structured regime of constant supervision by adults.  Campaigners against bullying have long believed that the way to eliminate bullying is through more structured supervision of children’s lives. One of the supporters of banning old-style breaktime is Linda James, founder and chief executive of Bullies Out. She advocates ‘structured games, structured activities’, which she believes are better than allowing children to ‘wander… around aimlessly’. She warns that ‘unstructured games can sometimes lead to nasty comments, aggressive behaviour or children feeling left out’. James’ use of the term ‘unstructured games’ speaks to a hyper risk-averse mentality in the world of pedagogy today. There was a time when we simply said ‘play’ rather than using technical-sounding terms like ‘unstructured games’. What they call an ‘unstructured game’ is nothing more and nothing less than children playing with one another. From a technocratic perspective, it might look like children are ‘wandering around aimlessly’, but from the standpoint of common sense this is really kids messing about, exploring and probably getting into a bit of trouble. Precisely what childhood is about! Is it really worth trading off children’s freedom to play in exchange for the elimination of bullying? Real play – which is by definition unstructured – is an important part of child development. Children learn to test boundaries and to forge relationships through playing with each other. It is through independent play that they come to understand their own strengths and weaknesses. Through play, children develop a capacity for risk-taking, and an aspiration for freedom."

Why the Queen wears lime green for her most important occasions - "“She needs to stand out for people to be able to say ‘I saw the Queen’,” the Countess of Wessex said in the documentary The Queen at 90. “Don’t forget that when she turns up somewhere, the crowds are two, three, four, 10, 15 deep, and someone wants to be able to say they saw a bit of the queen’s hat as she went past.”... Though trends don’t play a part in the Queen’s fashion choices, it proves that she certainly has the power to influence them. In the wake of that appearance, high street retailer JD Williams reported that sales of neon clothing soared by 134 percent."

Meme - "In the middle ages, the "shrew's fiddle" was used to punish women who were caught bickering. The "double fiddle" attached two people together face-to-face, forcing them to talk to each other. They were not released until the argument had been resolved."

Phil Nobile Jr. on Twitter - "My niece wants to know: if she donates her hair to Locks of Love, and the recipient of her hair commits a crime and leaves hair at the crime scene, will her DNA be found all over the crime scene and thus incriminate her? She's 12."

Gad Saad on Twitter - "Paid leave is infrastructure. Child care is infrastructure. Caregiving is infrastructure."
"Sleeping with individuals other than one's spouse is monogamy. Sleeping with men when you are a man is heterosexuality. A penis is a type of vagina. Pregnancy is virginity. Virginity is promiscuity.
Language can be so liberating when we are unshackled by shared semantics."
"Exactly. Violent crime is climate change. Open borders is climate change. Defund the police is climate change. People menstruate is climate change. Voting fraud is climate change. [I'll retweet.]"

Sen. Gillibrand tried redefining "infrastructure" to justify Biden's $2 trillion spending spree and got absolutely ROASTED 😂 - "Here, she's basically saying that "infrastructure" means whatever in the heck she wants it to mean to justify Biden spending trillions of dollars.... 'The border wall is actually infrastructure'"

Ted Cruz on Twitter - "Abortion is infrastructure. Gun control is infrastructure. Forced unionization is infrastructure. Whatever the Left wants is infrastructure. You know what’s not? Roads & bridges. ONLY 5% OF BIDEN’s “INFRASTRUCTURE” BILL IS ROADS & BRIDGES. 🤡🤡"

Pete Buttigieg says there is ‘racism physically built into’ America’s ailing infrastructure system

The Senate’s Infrastructure Bill Redefines ‘Broadband’ To Manufacture a Connectivity Crisis - "the new federal broadband rule is the equivalent of mandating that all homes have at least five bathrooms...   Ironically, the change in definition might actually make it harder to close the so-called "digital divide." As Joan Marsh, a vice president at AT&T, pointed out in March when the present debate over broadband definitions was first ramping up, setting poor standards can result in "overbuilding" that prioritizes faster access for places with already-fast connections rather than reaching the hard-to-connect parts of the country"

What Is Infrastructure? It's A Gender Issue, For Starters - "Past infrastructure jobs have been men's jobs...   "A lot of this is a big branding exercise," he said. "And if Biden can convince the American people that this actually is an infrastructure bill, its chances of passage are much higher simply because voters are overwhelmingly supportive of spending more money on infrastructure.""
Infrastructure is sexist! Time to tear it down!

Biden's $2T spending plan, billed as infrastructure bill, spends less than half on infrastructure - "less than $750 billion of the spending fits even a broad definition of infrastructure... "This plan is not about rebuilding America’s backbone. Less than 6% of this massive proposal goes to roads and bridges," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said. "It would spend more money just on electric cars than on America’s roads, bridges, ports, airports, and waterways combined."... "It's hugely ironic because the leading Democrats have bashed corporate welfare and corporate subsidies for years, and they always claim that Republicans do corporate subsidies," Edwards told Fox News. "But in fact, Biden would subsidize corporations hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars with this plan.""

United pledged to diversify its pilot pipeline. Conservative outrage followed. - The Washington Post - "Less than 20 percent of United Airlines’ pilots are women or people of color — a statistic the carrier wants to change.  So United said last week that it had set a goal to train 5,000 new pilots, at least half of them women or people of color, at its new flight school over the next decade. In a statement, CEO Scott Kirby said those pilots would be guaranteed a job after completing the requirements of the airline’s pilot career development program, called Aviate."
Enough time has passed since Kara Hultgreen's crash for the lessons to have been forgotten
Of course, if a plane crashes due to inadequate training or talent it will be the fault of "white supremacy"

Allegations surface of inappropriate behaviour by former defence chief Jonathan Vance - "Canada’s top defence officials say they are troubled by allegations that former defence chief Jonathan Vance engaged in inappropriate behaviour with female subordinates...   Vance took over as defence chief in July 2015, at which point the Canadian Armed Forces was struggling with allegations of having turned a blind eye toward sexual misconduct in the ranks.  Vance’s first order as Canada’s top military commander was to launch an all-out effort against such inappropriate behaviour, which he continued to push during his five-plus years at the helm."
The lady doth protest too much, methinks

Meme - "Shrek Movies: Don't judge others by their appearance.
Also Shrek Movies: *laughs at Lord Farquaad*"

Sammy on Twitter - "Anarchism is anti Maoist
Anti Maoist is anti communist
Anti communist is pro fascist
Anarchism is pro fascist"
Tankie logic: anyone not a communist is a fascist

Apparently you can reheat pizza by turning your toaster on it’s side. : lifehacks
If anything spills...

Facebook - "Just a reminder that the 3 best-funded presidential campaigns in history combined for a grand total of winning an American Samoa primary and nothing else. Yet the far left keeps telling me Citizens United opened the door for corporations to buy elections."

irwin on Twitter - "I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Gopher, Netscape with frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

Gad Saad - Posts | Facebook - "Progressive epistemology of causality:
1) If a woman-led country fared comparatively well in the COVID crisis, this "proves" that women leaders are superior during a pandemic.
2) The number of US COVID deaths are strictly due to the incompetence of @realDonaldTrump.
3) If out of one hundred cities ranked on 10 metrics of misery, 99 have been governed by @TheDemocrats for the past 100 years, this proves nothing.
4) If the US had done well on COVID, this would be due to the policies of @BarackObama.
Any questions, bigots?
The mindset that I'm describing above is not restricted to a few undergraduate students who failed a critical thinking course. This is what most leading "intellectuals" have repeatedly argued. Professors are at times some of the dumbest people on earth."

Flag of Norway: the mother of all flags - "Well, if you type ‘mother of all flags’ into Google Images you’ll see many images of Norway’s flag with several other national flags marked out within it. These flags are: Indonesia, Poland, Malta GC, Finland, France, Netherlands and Thailand. Serbia & Montenegro is also there if you look at an old enough version – it would be directly underneath the Dutch flag on the image above. Also bear in mind that the Dutch flag is very similar to Luxembourg’s (and if you remove their coat of arms: Croatia and Paraguay) and Monaco’s is almost identical to Indonesia’s. In total that’s a minimum of nine current national flags which can be found within Norway’s."

D.Va's Thot Patrol - Posts | Facebook - "So Black Ops Cold War has caused a meltdown among Twitter losers for having an anti-communist premise. I'm not surprised at how pathetic these people are anymore." Apparently to the left, the video of Yuri Bezmenov warning of Communist infiltration is fake

Meme - "*picture of fish* Stage One: Initially, the sign (image or representation) is a reflection of basic reality.
*Baked fish filets* Stage Two: The sign masks a basic reality. The image becomes a distortion of reality.
*Fish nuggets* Stage Three: The sign marks the absence of basic reality. The image calls into question what the reality is and if it even exists.
*Swedish fish Oreos* Stage Four: The sign bears no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is its own pure simulacrum."

Meme - "I will never forget the look on hillary's face when she went into the home of a working class family"

Let These Mermaids Touch Your Dick Maybe by Riverhouse Games - "This is a game about dick touching, maybe. I should make that clear up front. If you're not on board with telling the story of a bunch of mermaids maybe touching your dick this may not be the best game to play right now and if that's the case, that's totally chill. There's so many games out there to play that don't involve mermaids possibly touching your dick, find one of those and have a blast, friend.

Meme - To Aliens: "So why do you keep abducting and probing our people?"
"YOU SENT US UNSOLICITED NUDES, A MIX-TAPE, AND DIRECTIONS TO YOUR HOME..."

Teh Tarik carbonara pasta as a new food trend? It's more likely than you think.
Yet so many Malaysians got upset over crispy rendang

In Quebec, lock your car or face a fine - "Sgt. Martin Fournel said MRC des Collines-de-l'Outaouais police have received 271 reports in the last five years about thefts from vehicles parked near tourist or commercial areas.  He said the fines are meant to prevent that.  Between 2013 to 2018, officers have issued 458 fines to vehicle owners who left keys in the ignition, left their cars unlocked, or a combination of the two...   MRC des Collines-de-l'Outaouais police have already earned a reputation for scanning parking lots for motorists who've failed to update their licence plate stickers."

Man wins French Scrabble championship without speaking a word of French - "The newly crowned champion of French-language Scrabble, faced a unique challenge going into Monday's final in Louvain, Belgium. After all, he doesn't speak French. At all.   Nigel Richards, of Christchurch, New Zealand, defeated a competitor from the French-speaking African nation of Gabon two games to none.   Richards, who works as an engineer in Malaysia, is no stranger to the crossword board game. He was the world champion of English Scrabble in 2007 and 2011, won five U.S. national titles, and is considered one of the world's top players...   His training involved memorizing the French Scrabble dictionary in about nine weeks."

Toucans are pretty weird, right? - "Toucans are pretty weird, right? I mean look at them, they’re all fucking beak.  But they get weirder.  Have you ever seen a toucan skull? I MEAN LOOK AT THIS THING THEIR BEAK IS TALLER THAN THEIR ENTIRE FUCKING SKULL"
"It gets worse: Without the added volume of feathers, a toucan’s beak is the size of the whole rest of its body put together. They are literally and without exaggeration 50% beak by volume."

Razor on Twitter - "The "Jesus Christ was a person of color lol" crowd suddenly very big on people from Syria being white."
On the Boulder shooter

Meme - "Can sex doll cook your meals? Can sex doll have your kids? Can sex doll wash your clothes? Can sex doll make your home? What's it? You'll are really triggered TBH ain't no sensible man that is buying that shit."
"So, cos of Sex Doll , y'all women suddenly think it's a woman's duty to cook, wash and take care of the home ?"

Daily Gondor - Posts | Facebook - "Barad-durFeed
Freedom of thought doesn't mean freedom from consequences
Some call it 'brutal repressions', but it’s a natural consequence of failing to conform
Every current (and future) servant of the Dark Lord enjoys nearly unlimited freedom of thought, as long as it's not not expressed in any way. Wrong facial expressions or, in some extreme cases, spoken words, can lead to just punishment. But how else can we eradicate orcophobia? Everyone must act as a willing and obedient servant to their overlords. It’s called basic decency, folks.
Trending now:
Saruman: 'extraordinarily disrespectful' to ask whether Uruk-hai violence has anything to do with murders in Gondor as (false) rumours claim"

Caleb Franz on Twitter - "US Internet Speeds 91% Faster in 2020 According to User Speed Tests"
"Is there anything more embarrassing than how wrong the Net Neutrality crowd was?"

James Christians on Twitter - "Tay K’s free. Why shouldn’t the Internet be? Twitter: $14.99/month Snapchat: $9.99/month Youtube: $19.99/month Netflix: $9.99/per movie Google: $1.99/per search If you don't want to pay extra for your favorite sites you need to be supporting #NetNeutrality"
From 2017

T@nkyes for successful rev0lut10ns | Facebook - "Yes, a Marxist-Leninist won in Peru
But he's a homophobe, so he's still trash and not a real comrade <3"
Ironic, given how Communism has historically punished deviants like homosexuals

Paul Watson quote - "Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet."
Time to eat bush meat like seafood!

WWE fan takes his date to Monday Night RAW as she prepared for night of passion - ""When the guy I was seeing texted me "Monday Night RAW?  "So I planned for a night of intense pleasure but instead I ended up here..."  Attaching an image of a live RAW event"

Gad Saad on Twitter - "One thing that I've noticed in academia (having been a professor for nearly 27 years) is the extent to which people now preface a question that they are about to pose. In my days, it was considered baptism by fire for the audience members to challenge your ideas in a frontal and forceful manner (without necessarily being rude or impolite). Now, audience members apologize for 30 minutes prior to asking a banal two-second question because bruh questions are violence. The tepid gentle diplomacy breeds intellectual weakness."

Sargon of Akkad - Posts | Facebook - "Leftists have a 26,000-strong group dedicated to humiliating the "gun girl" woman over some silly high-school embarrassment, and have the absolute gall to have "no bullying" as one of the rules.  Your entire group is dedicated to bullying, you disgraceful hypocrites."
Just like the "be kind" people are usually savage beats, and anti-racists are the biggest racists

Meme - "Hi Betiful
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U R My Pussy Cat Dol!
Please Send Bobby for 34000 Rupees Maam
Bloody Slutwhore Father Fuck SEND NAKDE PIC Now I ASK MANY TIME?????
Please Send It Dying Frm Cancer Last Wish to See Ur Bob Then I Take Off Life Support So Can Die in Peace
Ok I Dead Now Fuck You Bich Bye Nevr Contact Me Again"

ʙᴇ ɢᴀʏ ᴅᴏ ᴄʀɪᴍᴇ on Twitter - "did you call your boyfriend daddy because you knew he was going to leave you too or was that just a coincidence"

What is that "one thing" you did as a child that still gets brought up to this day? : AskReddit - "When I was 7 my neighbor had a heart attack. I felt like I could have helped prevent it because I had saw a commercial advertising bayer aspirin and how it kept your heart healthy or something. I thought the doctors didn’t know about this miracle drug. From that day on, I wrote down every medicine commercial with a brief description of what the medicine did. One day at dinner my brother was complaining his hands were dry and itchy. I ran to get my notepad and told him he should try vagisil."
"When I was a wee lad, my family and I were at a restaurant. We were waiting an unusually long amount of time for a server. I stood on my chair, slammed my fist into the table and exclaimed “They’re not helping us cuz we’re black!”  We are not"
"My dad loves to tell this story about my sister: They were in line at a store and my sister who just learned nursery rhymes stands up in the cart and points to the very dark skinned lady at the register and starts singing "BA BA BLACK SHEEP" at the top of her lungs"
"When I was around 3-4 I used to try to seat people at restaurants. I also made my parents let me stand by the doors to the mall (with them right next to me) so I could welcome people to the mall. My mom brings it up WHENEVER she can."
"I used to jump on the ground sensors for automatic doors while someone was walking up to a store. I thought I was sparing them a huge burden."

Gingerswappingresponse - Posts | Facebook - "A black wife left her husband with 7kids because of their poor condition while a white woman, a tourist fall in love with him, married him and adopted the 7kids."
"Western women will either not date you for not owning a Mercedes or they’ll live in a fucking dirt hut for the virtue signaling clout. There’s no in between."

Meme - "When his height starts with 5'"
"When your weight starts with two hundred"
"@MeninistTweet thank you for ruining my life.
You should seriously feel like a piece of shit right"
Misogyny is holding women to the same standards as men - they can talk shit but no one can talk shit back

Meme - "Yer a WIZARD, Harry"
"I'm a wot?"
"A wizard gains magical power through training and study. A Warlock gains power through deals with supernctural beings. While a sorcerer has innate ability. Technically I'm a Sorcerer."
"Yer a nerd, Harry."

Unclaimed monies held by government agencies - "This register publishes unclaimed amounts with Singapore Public Sector agencies including Ministries, Organs of State and Statutory Boards. The public sector agencies holding on to these monies would very much like to return the monies to the rightful owners, but have not always been able to do so because they could not contact the owners despite repeated attempts to do so.  The public sector agencies have already made reasonable efforts to refund the unclaimed monies. These efforts include sending reminder letters and checking with the relevant authorities for the official addresses of individuals or companies.  If you have documentary proof that you are the rightful owner of the monies published, please approach the contact persons in the respective agencies."

Meme - "When You Tell Him Over the Phone That You're Built Like a Goddess but He Never Took Art History and Is in for a Shock
I Never Said *Which* Goddess"

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Groups - "The life cycle of groups:
"I'm gonna form a group to do good things."
"As the goodest of groups, we must make sure we do good things."
"We are the good group! We!"
"Things are good because we did them.""

Meme - "YOU HAVE "REALLY BAD ANXIETY' EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO CHEATING ON YOUR BOYFRIEND, DOING DRUGS AND POSTING LEWDS?"
"iTs hOW I COpe"

Meme - "Pride getting its own month
The other Six deadly sins"

Meme - "Neekolul @ @neekolul: $2,000,000 Apartment Tour (My New Apartment)"
"What happened to tax/eat the Rich?"
"2 million is not rich."
Rich is anyone richer than you

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