Open thread 8/2/21
I bring you – Ozzy Man reviewing Horse Girl.
As one YouTube commenter wrote: “This is amazing and disturbing at the same time.”
And in the words of another: “I don’t think I’ve ever been so impressed by such a useless skill!”
I bring you – Ozzy Man reviewing Horse Girl.
As one YouTube commenter wrote: “This is amazing and disturbing at the same time.”
And in the words of another: “I don’t think I’ve ever been so impressed by such a useless skill!”
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/us-womens-soccer-team-kneel-protest-olympics-matches
They lost to Canada and I’m chuckling.
Bronies don’t approve?
Her pronouns? Neigh. Winnie. ?
More like a chimp than a horse.
Art Deco:
The US women’s soccer team takes a knee to protest the treatment of blacks. Curious, I went to a webpage, TeamUSA dot org, that pictured all of the competitors on the US Olympic team. Some were competing in more than one category. Of the 431 pictures, 135 appeared to me to be black. 31%
As I understand it, that violates the new “Equity,” which insists that all outcomes be in accord with race. Or, did I get it wrong?
Horse Girl reminded me of a Turkish family that was featured some years back on a BBC documentary titled The Family That Walks on All Fours. The family was featured more recently on the Australian version of 60 Minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GlNQzjii1c&ab_channel=60MinutesAustralia
This family has been diagnosed with Uner Tan Syndrome or UTS, named for the Turkish biologist who first studied the Ulas family living in a rural area of southern Turkey. According to Wikipedia, “Uner Tan syndrome has been linked to intrafamilial marriage and reproduction, which suggests that it is an autosomal recessive disorder. The main characteristic of this syndrome is habitual quadrupedalism, meaning they can stand up straight until they try to move, then they walk on their hands and knees.” Affected family members also have learning disabilities and difficulties with speech. The major controversy related to UTS is whether the syndrome represents reverse evolution in humans (as its discoverer maintains), or whether it is primarily a genetic and neurological disorder.
Truly a day to celebrate ! Megan Rapinoe and her pals lose to Canada !
As I understand it, that violates the new “Equity,” which insists that all outcomes be in accord with race. Or, did I get it wrong?
You got it wrong. “Equity” means they seize your home equity and turn it over to D’Shawn. Also, you’re children are compelled by truancy laws to attend schools where they’re told you and your family are bad people by birth and require re-education.
Rapinoe’s crew has a shot at the bronze, but they have to get by the Swedish or the Australian team first. Sing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqtttbbYfSM
Something fishy in Can Do! world (it’s all Can Do! world).
https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htpara/articles/20210731.aspx
PA+Cat:
I don’t think I’m alone in thinking that I’ve witnessed Uner Tan Syndrome among the inhabitants of certain U.S. cities located in Oregon . . .
Hey Art Deco!
These 2020/21 Olympics may be a sign of “God’s great banana skin”!
1st the US Woketeam loses and now…wait for it…
https://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/two-words-youre-not-allowed-to-say-about-transgender-weightlifter-laurel-hubbard/news-story/7ce795b485d4754153dd85d621165f38
And if y’all ask politely…I can teach you to say “Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oy! Oy! Oy!”
Don’t they have medicines for that?
Walter…that’s what you say AFTER you’ve had a few stubbies of medicine.
The failure of the trans weightlifter will be used to normalize trans participation in women’s sports. Like, see, they lose, too, just like you, so shut up and accept the new rules.
A testament to exactly how adaptable human beings are.
Nevertheless, I am sticking with bipedal mobility…
How long until she fractures a wrist, hand, or forearm? This is where a parent’s or grandparent’s wisdom should step in. Not to wrap her in bubble wrap but eventually the God of Copybook Headings ….
The always erudite and never impolite BCE has been keeping a tally of post Jan 6 suicides of police present at the Reichstag:
https://bigcountryexpatoriginal.blogspot.com/2021/08/once-twice-three-times.html
@om:
“How long until she fractures a wrist, hand, or forearm?”
Yup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphoid_fracture
She should quit while she’s ahead. You Can’t Houyhnhnm All!
Rugged Australian Individualism Outbreak:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-03/qld-coronavirus-lockdown-cases-delta-school-outbreak/100343076
Or maybe not. Looks like everyone is hiding under their beds.
Your Government focusing on the Really Important Stuff:
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/080/938/792/original/593ee0ee462af155.jpeg
Anyway it’s not as if they’ve got better things to do.
Also… so much for the ADL being Anti-Israel.
@ Zaphod “so much for the ADL being Anti-Israel.”
I wonder if there are competing factions in the organization?
Or, the people to whom the ADL is grateful (a Democrat administration in this case) are NOT the “white supremacists” they are inveighing against, who are all conservative or Republicans (of course).
(for reference)
https://www.thenewneo.com/2021/07/31/open-thread-7-30-21/#comment-2567588
However, the fact that Democrats generally, & the Left always, diss Israel (even if Congress hands out largesse) while conservatives cheer the Zionist Enterprise kind of makes things difficult.
Ah, but Z., there is hope (or, if one prefers, light) at the end of that tunnel (well, it’s either hope or an incoming train….).
Yes, The New Generation (Generation “Nu”?) shows the way…. (as they say, “Buckle up”…sigh…)
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/bombs-and-buzzwords/
Best to be prepared…in these, the baddest of times, the saddest of times.
https://victorygirlsblog.com/sad-days-are-coming-says-the-new-york-times/
Aye, there’s a time to weep; and a time to weep even harder…thus sprach the NYT, apparently, though it’s never really clear if they actually KNOW what they’re saying or if they’ve all become bots. (Hmmm, one might wonder: why so sad? are they losing money hand over fist? Has “Biden” been spectacularly successful at showing us all—transparently, of course, not to mention robustly—the criminal goofiness, or rather awfulness, of the Left, i.e., even more successfully than the NYT itself?
To be sure, for a news org that seems to exult in (even as it contributes to) America’s destruction, what makes the NYT sad might well be a cause for joy to all decent humans. Though no doubt they’ll find some tawdry Trump stuff to print and so be able to cheer up a bit… In the meantime, though, maybe they can find, or hire, some emotive (Democratic) senators to shed a tear or two…
Of course it’s always possible that the NYT is “sad” because a certain news item leaked that really wasn’t supposed to see the light of day….
Nope. Most definitely NOT “news that’s fit to print”, nossir!!
https://unherd.com/2021/08/did-the-new-york-times-stifle-lab-leak-debate/
Marry me, Neo!
Woke commercials seem to becoming all the rage as well…and will continue to be until they’re proven to prompt consumers to buy very few of those products being advertised.
(Though it could the case that woke, or woke-friendly, merchandisers—in order to establish their anti-capitalist “bona fides”—may, in fact, prefer not to sell anything at all….)
In any event, here’s something—from nature, our greatest teacher(?)—that Ray-Ban(R) may well consider developing under the rubric of “redefining glamor”:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9855247/VIDEO-Orangutan-wears-zoo-visitors-sunglasses-fell-enclosure-Indonesia.html
Cappy:
Sorry, I’m already betrothed to Ozzy Man.
neo:
So you’re the Sheila? 😉
Or is it Shelia? Ask Ozzy Man? I’m at lose (loose) ends.
Gracie to cover all of my sins:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-sexually-harassed-women-retaliated-ny-attorney-general-report
https://youtu.be/4xUYE8s_Efw
Does grace extend to Albany, not just to NYC and the Gracie Mansion?
https://www.governor.ny.gov/explore-governors-mansion
“Missed it by that much.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPwrodxghrw
I read Barry’s link at VictoryGirls and then a few other posts.
This one is schadenfreude to the max, but the fun part is the video at the end.
https://victorygirlsblog.com/womens-soccer-team-loses-patriots-cheer/
“Snoop Dogg and Kevin Hart calling Olympic highlights:”
“neo on August 3, 2021 at 1:43 pm said:
Cappy:
Sorry, I’m already betrothed to Ozzy Man.”
My world is shattered. Gotta go have a few beers and cry into them over this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwZGxbrzEO4