३ जून, २०१९

At the Sit-Next-to-the-Queen Café...



... you can be your usual charming self.

(Photo source: Andrew Dunn.)

६२ टिप्पण्या:

Bay Area Guy म्हणाले...

I guess the bearded fellow is the King. In the modern era? Might not be so clear.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

that face you get when the Activa kicks in

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

...and you need to use the throne

Original Mike म्हणाले...

Sit quietly and carry a big stick.

Narr म्हणाले...

Guy buggers off for hundreds of years, I'd look pissed too.

Narr
Gonna get medieval on someone's heinie

William म्हणाले...

I saw Deadwood the Movie. I had liked the series, but the movie was disappointing. It was written by David Mi!cher who wrote it whilst deteriorating from Alzheimer's. I feel like I'm booing Timmy, but it didn't have the bite and the bile of the original Swearingen was kind of cuddly. In keeping with the #me too era, he decided to make the brothel a dance hall. Maybe he could hire a girl named Kitty to hang out there and tell the Marshal to be careful and thus complete the cycle of rebirth and renewal.

Helen म्हणाले...

The king face. I don't like the king face.

Helen,
xxx hobby lobby coupon entire purchase xxx

walter म्हणाले...

Wooden expressions

BJM म्हणाले...

Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine?

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

"Thou wert the most qualified!!"

" Why am I not 50 cubits ahead! 'Twas MY TURN !!"

Heartless Aztec म्हणाले...

Mate in two.

eddie willers म्हणाले...

Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine?

Shhhh...Althouse hasn't watch this (wonderful) movie yet.

Quaestor म्हणाले...

I like that face/palm gesture the queen is making. With those shocked eyes it must reflect her thoughts, Shit! Shit! Shit! I married a hipster! I just noticed a man-bun under his crown. Well, there go my eggs...

Quaestor म्हणाले...

Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine?

Possibly, but the Norwegian style would suggest less well-known royals were the models.

StephenFearby म्हणाले...

Latest manifestation of political correctness:

DC
DODGEBALL IS A TOOL OF OPPRESSION, RESEARCHERS SAY

'A team of Canadian researchers are set to lecture teachers about the moral dangers of dodgeball, a sport they say teaches kids to single out and violently dominate weaker students.

'Dodgeball is a tool of “oppression” and “miseducative,” the researchers say in the abstract of a paper cited by the National Post, which they will present in Vancouver at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, a summit for thousands of academics happening in early June. The “hidden curriculum” it teaches students is out of step with the larger curriculum, they argue.

“As we consider the potential of physical education to empower students by engaging them in critical and democratic practices, we conclude that the hidden curriculum is antithetical to this project, even when it reflects the choices of the strongest and most agile students,” the abstract reads.

he researchers add that dodgeball “reinforces the five faces of oppression” as defined by the late University of Chicago theorist Iris Marion Young. Those are marginalization, powerlessness, helplessness of those perceived as weaker, exploitation and cultural domination, according to the abstract. The story in the National Post is part of a larger series on the most interesting research to be presented at the conference.

“Despite the fact that many physical educators understand their vital role in helping students develop robust, equal, productive relationships and critical awareness, their practices on the ground do not always reflect this agenda,” they write. “We suggest that this tension becomes sharply visible in the common practice of allowing students to play dodgeball.'

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/03/dodgeball-oppression-canadian-researchers/

Of course, this could just be a hoax article of the type written by James A. Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian (the academics who successfully carried out publishing hoaxes that targeted far-out politically correct scholarly journals).

But I doubt it.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

dodgethis!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQtIearBLAE

Lawrence Person म्हणाले...

It's the latest Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM म्हणाले...

a more animated clown car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRusCUI9dwc

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

Dodgeball is a sport of violence, exclusion and degradation. So, when you're picking players in gym class, remember to pick the bigger, stronger kids for your team. That way you can gang up on the weaker ones, like Chuck.

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

He took away her rolling pin before she could do him any harm.

readering म्हणाले...

Interesting David Brooks column on generational divide in party politics.

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

nteresting David Brooks column on generational divide in party politics.

Is it a “divide” or more of a “crease”?

That’s a joke you won’t get readering, but it explains why a lot of people don’t take him seriously. Go ahead google his name with “crease."

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

Deadwood the novel by Pete Dexter is a masterpiece.

readering म्हणाले...

Hmm. Brooks predicted in 2006 that Obama would become president. Brooks in 2019 predicts younger voters will remain overwhelmingly Democrats as get older.

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

That’s some solid reasoning right there!

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

It’s true though that our kids have been indoctrinated to like shiny pretty things over substance, and Obama was sure shiny and pretty.

Francisco D म्हणाले...

dodgeball “reinforces the five faces of oppression” as defined by the late University of Chicago theorist Iris Marion Young

Children must avoid experiencing any negative feelings whatsoever so they are well prepared for competing in the real world.

I suspect that the totalitarians want to raise a docile and unquestioning population.

Quaestor म्हणाले...

Brooks predicted in 2006 that Obama would become president.

Brooks predicted Ted Cruz would face Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Clinton would beat him soundly.

Hmm that for a few minutes, readering.

readering म्हणाले...

So agreement that Obama visuals make a strong impression.

readering म्हणाले...

Apparently enough Republicans feared Clinton would beat Cruz soundly ....

stevew म्हणाले...

The best dodgeball teammate is the small and swift, not the big and strong.

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

I figured that Trump was the only guy nasty enough to take on Hillary and her enablers in the MSM. I didn’t even know about her CIA enablers then.

Remember when nobody was allowed to talk about Bill Clinton’s little peccadilloes like forcible rape? Half the country was part of a conspiracy of silence.

Quaestor म्हणाले...

readering wrote: Apparently enough Republicans feared Clinton would beat Cruz soundly ....

Anybody but you would wonder why Pinch Sulzberger's "conservative" mannequin has any cred as a political prognosticator after missing that obvious conclusion.

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

“Time’s have changed about what you can do to a woman against her will. And that’s a good thing!” -WJBC

No Billy Blythe, forcible rape and sexual harassment were never OK, the only thing that has changes is that you finally can see that people might take your victims seriously.

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

The best dodgeball teammate has a good arm. But it’s best if the kids grow up with anxiety disorders as a generational epidemic on account of never having successfully faced any kind of adversity.

readering म्हणाले...

Young people, Republican appeal in 2019, anybody?

stevew म्हणाले...

That couple in the photo seem to be in the silence phase of a dispute over who was supposed to recall the warder from the rear gate.

stevew म्हणाले...

Good point by Nobody.

Would anyone prevented from experiencing defeat and disappointment in youthful games ever aspire to going on Jeopardy?

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

readering said...
Young people, Republican appeal in 2019, anybody


Jobs? I don’t know about where you are, but you can’t get out of your car her in the US without tripping over a help wanted sign. I was a Democrat when I was young too, an unemployed Democrat until Reagan came along.

Danno म्हणाले...

Are you talking about the David Brooks who was all excited about a crease in someone's pants?

readering म्हणाले...

A lot going on in those comments.

readering म्हणाले...

Keep up Danno.

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

Whose side are the Democrats on when 250K “migrants” in Mexico are bound here to file 99% bogus asylum claims?

Whose side are the Democrats on when Trump is fighting the Chinese from co-opting our economy and moving high paying manufacturing jobs overseas?

Whose side are Democrats on when it comes to the price of gas and affordable heat in winter and reliable air conditioning in summer?

Whose side are Democrats on when it comes to choosing between minimum wage jobs bolting on Chinese made solar panels or high paying energy extraction jobs?

Those are all issues that mommy and daddy worry about, so nothing bad will happen, right?

Fortunately schools don’t teach economics any longer so Dems are safe.

Karen of Texas म्हणाले...

When I was a wee sprout, we played dodgeball on the playground - not in gym class. Why must adults interfere and organize and oversee everything?! Anyway, if you sucked, you just didn't play. Most children are capable of self evaluation in such matters - or quickly learn the necessary lesson. So no picking on the weak, powerless, marginalized...the stupid, however...

Next up, Red Rover!

readering म्हणाले...

Glad to see we're off sex and on economics.

Danno म्हणाले...

Blogger readering said...Keep up Danno.

When she said conservative Republican I had my doubts it was the same guy.

Keep up, readering!!

narciso म्हणाले...

Deadwood is based on real character like willian Randolph Hearst's father who made a fortune in metals into a us Senate seat, which in turn financed the sons newspapers

narciso म्हणाले...

Or not:

https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/285822/why-jews-should-pay-attention-to-the-recent-debate-rocking-american-conservatism

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

Forcible rape isn’t “sex”

Here, read the evidence in the liberal magazine Slate and decide for yourself.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1999/03/is-juanita-broaddrick-telling-the-truth.html

My favorite excuse was that you couldn’t believe Broaddrick because she was a battered spouse going through a divorce, and so instead of using her bloody lip to get a restraining order on her soon to be ex husband, she made up a story about Bill Clinton, then got five witnesses to back her up even though they could have gone to jail for lying to federal investigators, that was a funny one!

But Trump mentioning that women let stars do things to them, now that was a real issue!

I just watched a movie, recently out, called Funny Story, and all through the movie this older TV star kept getting fucked by younger women. Hmmmm....

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

I still am amazed at the denial of Democrats that Bill Clinton is a forcible rapist, even though the stories have been following him since Oxford. Why didn’t he finish? Why was he kicked out? Oh yeah, and at Yale there was a story too. The man is a sociopath.

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

All of Blaisly Ford’s witnesses turned on her, none of Broaddrick’s five witnesses did, even though they faced prison. She only admitted she was raped in the first place when she was finally asked under oath and threat of prison for lying. I am sure that her lawyer advised her at that point to be truthful.

Kevin म्हणाले...

Rather than address border security, the House is focusing on letting everyone know that if you can get here they want to make you a citizen.

They’re whining about the price of an avocado going up, but don’t want you to consider what it’s going to cost to provide education and medical care to anyone who comes.

Kevin म्हणाले...

I still am amazed at the denial of Democrats that Bill Clinton is a forcible rapist, even though the stories have been following him since Oxford.

Are you kidding? There are women willing to be raped as long as abortion on demand is maintained.

Some would argue they owe it to him.

narciso म्हणाले...

Do they apologize?
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/06/03/us-journalists-fake-news-north-korean-official-purged/?fbclid=IwAR10BtTJhnNzUMY-GI2ojmly-8gEuqw6tjKdwA5XFnjQY--1jZ2LOxAuvYI

Hagar म्हणाले...

Jerry Nadler apparently is going to call John Dean as the first witness to testify before his committee.
But can they keep it straight as to which President is under scrutiny?

narciso म्हणाले...

They could try to be correct:

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/26/donald-trump-pull-feds-out-k-12-education/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR2BUI1mXhWWJJgc59IMgtHLPEmyJOweX5QYwD5E95KyJTaNmmL4c1qx4IY

BudBrown म्हणाले...

Queen looks to me like she's just realized she married an incel.

Friendo म्हणाले...

Narciso - great links, especially @0623. Thank you.

JHapp म्हणाले...

An empathetic king and queen, something you don't see every day, but the way it should be.

Birkel म्हणाले...

readering is so sure Democrats want to talk about jobs and the economy that no presidential candidate except Trump is talking about jobs and the economy.

Circles that won't square for $500, Alex.

todd galle म्हणाले...

I saw that pair last summer in Edinburgh. We brought back the Museum Replicas of the set.

Nina म्हणाले...

"It is a useful accomplishment to be able to say no, but surely it is the essence of amiability to prefer to say yes where it is possible. There is something wanting in a man who does not hate himself whenever he is constrained to say no." - Robert Louis Stevenson, "Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions"