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Bad Apples
In 2020, three prolific burglars were on the loose in Leinster, Ireland. Together they had accumulated over 200 convictions. But one day, they all died in a traffic accident. As a result, the robbery rate plummeted.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including how to build a walking coffee table; things incoming; a 70s cop show that didn’t happen; and a tale of harvesting psychedelic frog secretions.
The Wig Is Doing A Lot Of Heavy Lifting
Readers will note how “listening to the community” is conceived by Mr Bucholtz as deference and prostration, and regurgitating things that are obviously untrue. If it sounds like a struggle session, hold that thought.
Further to this, some additional thoughts.
An Interest In Children
According to Mr Andersson, other academic colleagues have hailed his “queer autoethnography” as “wonderfully written, reflective, analytical and intriguing,” and have described it as “very publishable.” Readers will doubtless recall the dizzying rigour of Mr Andersson’s academic work, noted in the post linked above, in which we learned that his feverish wanking gave him “a more embodied understanding of the topic.”
On the standards of academia’s Clown Quarter, that fiefdom of progress, and an unrepentant pervert.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including scenes of jiggling; a tourniquet test; a cleaning complication; and some customer service at an emotional moment.
Discontinued Lines
“It almost feels, like, kind of shameful to want to have children.”
In the Los Angeles Times, an associate professor of gender studies begs questions, while her students fret about climate and babies, and struggle with logic.
Sitcom Potential
Well, if someone’s view of crime and antisocial behaviour is informed only by abstractions – convenient abstractions – they’re not getting the full picture, or anything like the full picture.
Some immediacy and vividness would, I think, correct that.
From the comments following this, in which I pitch an idea for some late-night viewing.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including how to climb volcanoes; a notable hair-care regime; a test of blue perception; and several pressing questions – among which, “Will Newquay ban beatniks?”
More “Queering” Of Museums
From the world of the woke – specifically, Manchester Museum – I bring you problematic taxidermy.
You May Need To Write This Down
Or draw some kind of diagram:
So, to summarise,
Opportunist female porn models who pretended to be men pretending to be women, to thereby rake in lots of cash, have annoyed actual men who pretend to be women, including men who pretend to be women while making pornography.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including the removal of earwax and other objects; a suboptimal situation; a spa day takes a turn; a bold attempt at pilfering; and the thrill of phone mites.
Today’s Word Is ‘Irony’
A tale of intersectional complication:
After employees had gone unpaid, they were left with a dilemma: notify law enforcement about the founder of their company – which has a goal of abolishing the police – or handle it internally.
Don’t Let Them See The Stubble
When not suing women who would rather not participate in his fantasies of sudden-onset womanhood, Mr Tickle spends his time sharing Instagram photographs of his underwear and neck hair, and cartoon sex toys.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including gambling gone too far; a guide to stuffed chine; a game of naming countries; and a careful lowering of the scrotum.
First, You Invert The Words
Ah, but, you see, they’re “dissenting,” albeit in a very conformist way. And any failure to “dissent” – on demand, as instructed – will be punished. Compliance under duress being the way of the dissenter.
The rhetorical inversions may, I grant you, take some getting used to. But you will start celebrating now, comrade, spontaneously, and with great joy.
Lifting A Finger
So the socialist wants to be an aristocrat?
From the comments following this.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including powder room scenes; the thrill of 1970s seaside nudism; a chap with moves; a wrap malfunction; and an unhappy discovery on the lingerie aisle.
Shush, Daddy’s Being Fabulous
You’ve got to pretend that it’s all okay… You have to realise that your dad has fallen in love with himself, and there’s no part for you in that where you are not just a prop.
It’s like this person came along and said, “You know how you had a dad? Well, that was all a lie. And all that time, your dad didn’t like being your dad.” And my dad was kind of replaced by this other person. This other person who didn’t love me like my dad loved me, wasn’t interested in me like my dad was.
And his love was conditional.
From the forthcoming film Behind The Looking Glass, about women whose partners, or fathers, have ‘transitioned’.
An Unfamiliar Neighbourhood
The speed of change has been mesmerising. Indeed, lacking any real sense of overarching identity, the need to impose a sense of community has become paramount. Whether locally or indeed, as we see, nationally, never have we heard the word community so bandied about. But it’s all pretend, really. Community was never talked about before, simply because it didn’t have to be.