9 Jul 20 Edition—

Did Ghislaine wa

Fuggit. That's the problem, nobody cares.

Dated her. She knew a lot of dumb jokes.

Los Angeles is a great place to live… But in the summer heat?…

Oh, these allergies....

Mine is a sensational mother, a woman of character, clarity and resilience who instilled a rainbow of virtues to my own character, though many not so well expressed; but one blessing which has rewarded across a lifetime is a featureless disinterest in French history & culture.

Nonetheless, there are games to be played. I've been following the Twitter account of a youngish woman in Paris. I think… I don't know French, which is the point. She posts the usual girly stuff about loving her friends and hating bumblebees and mean people, and it's fun to try and decode the meaning without using Google translate first.

Her tweet from this morning (lunchtime there):

Je n’aime pas les égoïstes. Ni les menteurs. Mais la différence avec il y a quelque temps encore c’est que j’ai appris à faire la part des choses, entre ce qui est important et ce qui ne l’est pas.

My guess at what she was saying (took about two minutes):

I'll go beyond egotists. No time for mindfuckers. Find the distinctions between the ones under consideration, remembering what's before the good choice, beginning with the important and let the rest go.

Google translate:

I don't like selfish people. Neither are liars. But the difference with it a while ago was that I learned to make a distinction between what is important and what is not.

As Hitchens once said regarding chicanery in DC, "Always look to the language." Even if it's an unfamiliar tongue, you comprehend more than you think you do.

Via Iowahawk: I'm not a real estate guy, but that looks like an extremely good price for a whole lotta house.

I miss Cable TV cartoons from the mid 1990s:

https://twitter.com/PunishedW3eb/status/1281018973438521344

Lasted six seconds. How can you stand listening to cartoon voices? They make me want to kill, kill, kill.

As Monty Python put it, "Always look on the bright side of life."

I didn't know —

• The origin of this chair.

• The actual look of this fish.

I'm surprised no one at this company added hidden needles into the POTUS' suits:

https://twitter.com/Nut_Sac_Bandit/status/1280944446897520640

I'm going to say it ONE MORE TIME... And expect to be heard. Are you giving your full attention?

No matter how resourceful the performer, no matter how deft the performance, no matter of brief the passage, I will never, ever like that song.

Viva Frei and Barnes Law discuss Maxwell the Younger and her father Robert. She might be boring, but her dad was much more interesting. Some speculation that Epstein simply picked up portions of Robert's business and continued.

https://youtu.be/Dv92ey9ZzaQ

Viva discusses the Maxwell's indictment. I haven't watched this one, yet.

https://youtu.be/-kR1RU2Jox4

Hate crimes in Canada.

Investigators would like to speak with the driver responsible for defacing a recently installed Pride crosswalk at 16th St. and Esquimalt Ave. If you have information, please call

https://twitter.com/WestVanPolice/status/1280964217172983808

Every corpse on Mt. Everest was once a highly motivated person.

...I will never, ever like that song. ~ Crid at July 9, 2020 9:22 AM

Near-constant MTV played inured most of us to it years ago - you know, back when MTV was actually about music, or at least pretended to be.

Scented candles are slow hell. ~ Amy

Incense, too.

Most perfumes, essentially (so to speak) all scented product; white wine.

Make no room for these things in your home or your life. You are not a teenager anymore: Leave Irish Spring and Teen Spirit as the shameful stages of growth that they were.

Handsome sarcasm.

That particular toy company has been successfully exploited in earlier times, as elsewhere in this article:

"Better at 'fun stuff', my arse. The only way to have fun with a Mac is to poke its insufferable owner in the eye."

More interesting is the yellow banner on the Guardian page: "This article is more than 13 years old." That's presumably prophylaxis against woke accusation:

Please don't cancel us if this ancient columnist said something like women are different than men, or that the mentally ̶r̶e̶t̶a̶r̶d̶e̶d̶, um, *distinguished* aren't as good at microprocessor design as MIT valedictorians, okay? It was a long time ago."

50 Popular Movies

I have seen, all the way through, only twelve- 3, 7, 10, 22, 30, 31, 33, 36, 41, 45, 49. I've walked out of half as many in the cinema, and abandoned broadcasts of a dozen more, and should have stayed through the twelve I paid to watch. Our time is worth something!

Most perfumes, essentially (so to speak) all scented product; white wine.

Make no room for these things in your home or your life. You are not a teenager anymore: Leave Irish Spring and Teen Spirit as the shameful stages of growth that they were.

Crid at July 9, 2020 10:47 AM

I’m allergic. Can you say screaming sinus headache?

John Wick is probably incensed at Mister Miyagi's 'wax on / wax off' approach to training.

Free-flight creative word association? Sure. You can call it that.

I call it "not fully caffeinated".

Crid, that French business reminds me of how, decades ago, I read a funny Dagmar Dorsten play. Many years later, I found online audio recordings of actors performing it - in the original German. (Only snippets, mind you - not the whole play.)

And it's amazing how easy it is to decipher the German (just from the actors' tones) if you already know the play!

Also, about songs - I never understood the saying "it's the singer, not the song." Not for ME it isn't. A mediocre song is just that. It doesn't matter who's singing it.

A match made in heaven:

https://twitter.com/QuestionMThings/status/1280897383111540740

This is almost as funny as the Transformers Offendatron parody cartoon:

https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1281327808833359875

"Mine is a sensational mother, a woman of character, clarity and resilience who instilled a rainbow of virtues to my own character, though many not so well expressed; but one blessing which has rewarded across a lifetime is a featureless disinterest in French history & culture."

One wonders whence you learned English upon seeing so elegant a phrase. The rest of you - Patrick, the Angry; Artemis, the Effusive - should take a lesson, and open your hearts even if you're disgusted by his ideas now and then.

Write a book, Crid. I'll buy it.

I appreciate kind words, but —

[A] I have nothing to say, and just enjoy internet bitching.

[B] 'Character' twice in one sentence is just lazy.