You loved the tweet; now enjoy the major motion picture.

'Member Connery?: 'That's the CHICAGO way!'

I don't care if it's cheating. Theywin.

Wudjadoo with your weekend?

In my seventh decade of life, I'm still tickled when a famously stuffy Hollywood actor uses cusswords.

Also, Chappy be buff.

People ask why I'm such a stinkin' snotbiscuit.

It's because nothing gratifies like a crisp bitchslap.

(Does anyone remember RS's violently pornographic fantasies about UVA?)

For Raddy's archives.

This deserves more attention, especially from those who imagine themselves to be upset by it.

Oh.

Greta Thunberg's trans-Atlantic voyage on a 'zero-carbon yacht' has been rocked by revelations that crew will fly to New York in a gas-guzzling plane to bring the boat back to Europe.

It is claimed that this would generate more emissions than the yacht saves and threatens to leave the 16-year-old's plans to chart an environmentally friendly route to the United States in tatters.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7365909/Greta-Thunbergs-Atlantic-trip-zero-carbon-yacht-generate-emissions-saves.html

Cancel her!

Yeah, I know— 16.

Whatever… This is not the Nuance Century.

It's fun to imagine that these social twitches are coming so fast and furiously that their incoherence (and ahistoricism and factual disjunction) are, um, sinking the ships before they can sail.

"Greta Thunberg's trans-Atlantic voyage on a 'zero-carbon yacht'..."

Whatever happened to the word, "sailboat"?

It doesn't have Nylon or Dacron lines, no fiberglass, no auxiliary engine? Was it built by hand, from wood?

Fraud. As is the assertion that flying crew to it devalues it. You have to get passengers to and from anything you put on the water, too.

Also, "zero carbon."

Dozens of work hours to make this. And less than 10 seconds for a kid to tear it apart.

https://twitter.com/VPestilenZ/status/1162492640241364994

Wutwuzzut?

Crid, my lad---

You can NOT imagine how quiet a room becomes when a 6 foot tall 81 year old woman with long white hair confronts a nasty piece of trash and says to her, "One more comment like that from you and I will, with great pleasure, bitchslap you into next Tuesday."

By all means, do what you need to do.








81, huh? Can I date your oldest, shortest daughter?

Crid, my lad,

My oldest shortest daughter is married, is 5'3", and is 62 years old. She is also a gracious lady and I am only every other inch a lady. My 4 sons are very tall and my 4 daughters are very short.

Grandaughter maybe?

Many years ago, a woman smacked my then 5 year old son across the face for pushing the appropriate elevator button in our building. The kids saw me in Kill Mode and they still talk about it.

They know what I am capable of doing if necessary. Attack me or mine and I will rip your head off and throw THAT into next Tuesday as well.

> Grandaughter maybe?

If you should insist…

> rip your head off and throw
> THAT into next Tuesday

…But we needn't rush into anything.

"In my seventh decade of life, I'm still tickled when a famously stuffy Hollywood actor uses cusswords."

I still think that one of Hollywood's best and funniest transgressive bits was Julie Andrews' topless scene in S.O.B.

Blegh.

She deleted that twitter post.

Just an artist turning discarded styrofoam into a classic Chinese maiden statue.

Chinese Twitter is on edge these days.

Here's the best information I can find in English on the "zero carbon" yacht:

https://team-malizia.com/en/boat/

It's a fast, high tech racing yacht, with hydrofoils. Elsewhere I saw claims that it can reach 43mph when the wind and sea is right. That's incredible even for a sailboat built from the highest-tech materials yet invented.

Chances are the only wood on board is the cutting board in the galley - if they haven't found some $1,000 polymer composite version of that. I'm sure that a motor yacht it's size could putter around for years without emitting as much carbon as building that thing required. But these days, that conventional yacht would probably be built from fiberglass and plastic, too. There are a few craftsmen still building wooden boats, but the maintenance costs of such a craft will soon exceed the original price of the boat. Synthetics cut those costs a little.