Classes start next week, so this week, all faculty were locked in various rooms at different times for extensive training. And team-building exercises. And “helpful” coaching on things like Mentorship. My favorite was, of course, the training on Vocabulary, where we were taught about verbal sensitivity. We were handed a sheet with at least 35 different sets of neo-pronouns, just in case bloody abortions like “ze” and “zer” are insufficiently indicative of a craving for attention by mentally ill mediocrities. Each one was carefully explained to us by some $350,000/year DEI dean. Then we moved on to “trigger words” and one of them is, of course “trigger.” So we now can’t say “trigger words,” we have to say “content warning” or some other euphemism. I’ve already been threatened with discipline for using the term “freshman,” and that was also discussed in excruciating detail.
My absolute favorite, though, is the prohibition against using the words “killed” or “murdered.” The example given for Correct Speech was, “Lee Harvey Oswald unalived President Kennedy.”
But the opposite of unalived is “born,” and birthdays today include a guy who led an enchanted life; an exemplar of historical fiction; a guy who presaged the current Team Blue view of genetics; a comedy writer who farted out a massive hit song; the best rock guitarist you’ve never heard of; the guy who ruined wrestling; the guy who ruined science fiction; a guy who baked the Pie; a guy who was always the weakest part of his films; an iron man who was actually tougher than tungsten; a woman who constantly missed verbal cues; a guy who is alternately hilarious and what the fuck; and chick who was annoying but quite hot and aged quite horribly.
Links are, of course, ageless.
“It’s so crowded, no one goes there any more.”
Just like with food and fuel, it isn’t stupid spending policies, it’s corporate greed.
“How about this as an alternative: you’re fired.”
In case you didn’t believe the Old Guy, here’s proof about the aforementioned birthday boy’s skill and talent.
Tell me you immediately burned it.
One wonders how small Unis like Alfred manage to stay in business.
I think they are well-known in certain fields?
Otherwise lots of small colleges are closing left and right.
(by which I mean the two schools in Alfred)
I’ve already been threatened with discipline for using the term “freshman,”
Would “fresh meat” be acceptable?
Challenge the head to trial by combat and slay Zir to take over the university.
I’d say “Too naive to know better” was an option — but they’re already too ripe for OMWC and all.
In roller derby they used to call the new girls “fresh meat”. Now they are “skater tots”. So stupid.
“Skater Tots” sounds like something you’d order from the kitchen at the venue.
“empty vessels”
The proper term, in lieu of Freshmen, is children. Or, as needs dictate, fucking children.
I’ve always preferred “callow youth,” not the least because whenever the term’s used around callow youth, they cock their heads at me like a dog trying to understand an unknown command. Very entertaining. Then I tell them to use the AwEsoMe PoWEr OF tE IntERWebs to look it up, and then they get all sulky.
Extremely entertaining.
I remember the freshmen girls trying to swim upstream every fall. They were sure they wanted to be an engineer.
From the start of the semester to the drop date, they’d be preyed on by every upper class engineering dweeb. By drop date, 90% of them had disappeared. Not just to the creepy upperclassman, but also to the reality that the engineering profs were pretty snotty about getting the exact right answer.
The gals were also swayed by the fact that their roommates who were liberal arts majors never had to study. Or turn in homework.
Interesting — I’d seen crap like that online, but thought it was only to dodge demonetization filters on the various social media platforms. No idea it was trying to creep into (relatively) mainstream usage.
Or is the college worried about the first-year-people (not freshmen!) surreptitiously recording faculty and causing on-line controversy by not using their lingo perhaps?
Yeah, I’ve seen people saying “unalived” as a joke for a couple years now, I don’t actually believe OMWC is telling the truth that this is real without proof.
I can’t even guess anymore.
Batshit insane if true.
“Unalived” and “self-delete” and suchlike is TikTok speak because they take down vids with “dead,” “killed,” “suicide,” and other “problematic” words like “crap.”
So the CCP is behind this! Shoulda guessed!
Yes, but YouTube’s taking it on too.
Yeah, I’ve also seen the word “grape” used for penetrative sexual assault (and of course, the acronym SA), just to get around the filters.
Didn’t Attack of the Show (or some other comedy show from back in the day) use the term “grapist” in one of its skits?
Grape Ape hardest hit.
I’ve also seen the word “grape” used for penetrative sexual assault
15 years and still up on youtube.
He breaks into little kids’ rooms, in the middle of the night, and he grapes them in the mouth.
lolo. such a classic
I prefer disembrained.
“Provided increased cranial ventilation”?
Carcanoed
Lead poisoned.
I should have guessed it, I didn’t… but I have to say I chuckled. Nicely played.
Academia is murdering language.
^This.
The irony of it all.
But they’re also murdering other disciplines. Apparently you can’t tell certain students their answer to a math question is wrong, because that might be
triggeringculturally insensitive.“Just occurred to me – do the militant vegans now chant “Meat is unaliving!”?
That’s different.
Trigga, please.
lol, Rhy
It occurs to me that the arts half of arts and sciences is in the final stages of making itself completely irrelevant. It used to be you could get an English or history degree and still be fit for working in the real world. The last 20 years has seen a shift from a classical education to one based in postmodern critical theory, making its graduates qualified for nothing other than more than future baristas.
What feeling will the recipient have when the bridge they designed collapses?
When there are zero consequences for stupidity, stupidity will flourish.
Sounds like they decided to screw with him instead.
Thank God Germany is a civilized country with no guns, or else there would have been more debreathed persons in addition to the three unenlifened.
The old cliche: if you charge less than your competitors, that’s dumping. If you charge more, that’s gouging. If you charge the same, that’s collusion.
Call it what you want, all of your stuff belongs to us.
The city of Solingen has a long history making swords, knives and such. I wonder if the stabby guy used locally sourced equipment.
Probably cheap, foreign stuff, from Damascus most likely.
I see the twist you made there.
“Unalived”. Read “The Principles of Newspeak”, Orwell’s appendix to 1984–if you haven’t already read it 20 times.
Politics and the English Language too.
Great essay, should be required reading in schools, but… yeah.
in case bloody abortions like “ze” and “zer” are insufficiently indicative of a craving for attention by mentally ill mediocrities
Well said.
Unhappy, but seemingly rational parents. I’d be pissed if that was my kid. Not sure I’d go ER depends on how looped the kid was.
If the restaurant is smart they’d get on the phone quick and pay for the ER visit. But they won’t because that’s not how we do business anymore. It will be suck it insurance company. The insurance company will proceed to dick around for at least a year, piss everybody off and pay out well into 5 figures. And the insurance company will claim victim status and the rest of us will wonder why insurance is so expensive.
All of which could be avoided with an apology, actual costs incurred and possibly a few free meals.
Who amongst us didn’t want a taste of the adult beverages when we were little kids (7-8 years old and maybe even younger), out of curiosity ?
For sure. However 2 years old might be pushing it…
I remember my dad letting me sip his drinks.
I got tipsy at a wedding once around that age.
But if they’d slipped the kid some gender-affirming hormones without parental permission, that would have been totally fine. Kidding, of course.
The parents did their due diligence, out of some combination of concern for their young child, to establish a paper trail as CYA insurance against charges of parental neglect, or as the basis for future legal claims against the restaurant.
In the old days this would have been handled quietly, as Sensei described, or been a funny human interest story in the media.
One small upside: it’s still summer, so the incoming freshm… I mean “first years” are all wearing short shorts and crop tops.
*Mostly* it’s a good thing, but a 200 kg green haired monstrosity dressed exactly that way just walked by.
Yep, the scenery here has quite pleasant the last couple of weeks.
Sat outside for dinner last night – dinner and a show.
Not around here. The young hotties are all into self multinational now. Used to be a handful, now it’s all of them. Winter can’t get here soon enough.
This seems like a good place to drop this.
😜
self multinational
Very kinky.
Your use of the metric system displeases me.
I just moved my daughter into college. I had some trouble staying focused on the work.
2 former Boilermakers Union presidents among 7 indicted in $20 million theft
In other words, they did what every other union boss in the country has been doing for a about a century and a quarter. I wonder who they pissed off.
Geez… I wonder what the Martinimakers Union bosses pull in!
The DNC didn’t get their cut?
Boilermakers union! You mean a union man has to make my cheap drinks now?
Awkward. “Content Warning” Daily Beast.
Cheryl Hines Brutally Trolled After RFK Jr. Endorses Trump
Oh no! Anyway…
Being on the receiving end of liberal hate often turns people. Gavin McGinnis’ wife was a standard lib until they came after their family. Once she realized what scum they were, she took a hard turn right to the point that Gavin has to reel her in sometimes.
I have no idea what that graphic tsimmes above is supposed to mean. What are the squiggles above Build? Where are the verbs, much less full sentences? Why does it look like a placemat to a kids’ meal?
Because the school knows their customers.
It looked to me like a warehouse wall in a heavily graffiti-ed city… which still fits with Pat’s reply.
Judge rules in favor of transgender woman in landmark discrimination suit
I’m glad I’m old, I can’t keep up with the changes in society.
These people really really really hate women and really really really want to violate children.
But the seed corn!
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
+1 Couche-Tard
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/08/the-week-in-pictures-deja-obamavu-all-over-again.php
Damn… This one is really good, right up there with all the gas pump “I Did That!” Biden stickers/magnets over the last few years.
I see Shepard Fairey is still riffing on the sole artistic idea he’s had in the last 35 years.
Thanks, I need a laugh to start the morning.
“…a craving for attention by mentally ill mediocrities.” <— It appears your grasp and use of the language is already sufficient.
"Then we moved on to “trigger words” and one of them is, of course “trigger.” So we now can’t say “trigger words,” we have to say “content warning” <— one thinks using the structure and logic of their first language. If the language is ever changing then rational thinking becomes increasingly unlikely.
“Lee Harvey Oswald unalived President Kennedy.” <—No they did not. We get it already, you dont have to make stuff up.
Bdays: Racist. Communist. Racist communist. I guessed wrong…thought of Stan Lee and his cameos. Huckabee is one of the good ones but then he belongs to a grifter's club so that aint hard to do. One of my cousins played pro for a while with Ripken. Chapelle is the greatest comedian of his generation.
More coffee and I will snark at the links
One of my cousins played pro for a while with Ripken.
For my beloved Birds or one of the farm teams?
The Orioles. I dont remember how long he played. He and his brother played college but only one went pro.
Name? Maybe I was a fan of his…?
And be sure to keep this card in your store window.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Recovery_Administration#/media/File:NRA_member,_we_do_our_part.jpg
Damn. The FT nailed it. The reason we American hicks don’t like Zeitz is because he is poly.. poly… p o l y g lo t…???
The Harley-Davidson boss caught in an ‘anti-woke’ squall
https://archive.fo/U3c2N
Sometimes hiring a C suite with executives who are even passingly familiar with your brand is a better strategy than pandering to your financiers. It’s fun watching the foot-stomping over 4 companies that cater to rednecks toning down their public messaging about how much they actually despise their customers after the last 2 decades of uninterrupted skinsuiting of the Fortune 1000 by Ivy League Gramsci acolytes though.
But the Harley guy is a genius – he turned around Puma by outsourcing. No one had ever thought of that before.
Harley just did an about face and is dumping the dei nonsense.
Only a five year old would not have realized what that is.
Yet they continue letting more savages in because they are accomplishing exactly what they want to accomplish.
To answer quote with quote “They are getting what they voted for, good and hard.”
They just need to regulate harder.
I have heard of slip-and-fall but c’mon…
Museum legal team should show up in court dressed all out as SS officers with little fake toothbrush mustaches.
Yesterday the courageous Mises institute claimed that Kamala is not a radical communist but…
I would like for them to explain in explicit detail how she is not a radical communist. This morning I overheard some news commentator running down her policy prescriptions as ‘communism 101’.
Yes, I know all of the our wars are all fake and just money laundering operations but oddly they always seem to favor our enemies.
Yeah, I am blackballed and a bit pissed about it.
Fuckin’ spellcheck. Black pilled. Fuckers
LOL. I was gonna say something, but got distracted and went grocery shopping.
Porterhouses on sale! We’ve made friends with the butchers at the new grocery store. 😉
I saw that Black and Hispanic admissions are down significantly this year at my alma mater , it sounds like Chocolate City (yes, that is the real name of a living group at MIT!) is going to turn into The Fortune Cookie Jar LOL
“The mean old Supreme Court won’t let us be racist pieces of shit anymore!”
Mind you, that ruling shouldn’t apply to private universities, who should, owing to their freedom of association, be unconstrained in their racist piece of shittery.
Not if they receive public dollars – and almost all of them do.
True, of course. I’d like to think the sort of country that still respected freedom of association would also not allow public meddling in education. But I dream…
unalived
You must really love teaching to work in such an intellectual cesspit.
a guy who was always the weakest part of his films
https://youtu.be/fI4bRqjobbw?t=54
SFed that link real good!
I guess one could cut-n-paste the text. Simpson’s Stonecutters song.
“…the weakest part of his films…” – Happy Birthday Woody Allen!
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S08E06/277793
The example given for Correct Speech was, “Lee Harvey Oswald unalived President Kennedy.”
No. I truly hope you are being hyperbolic.
The ongoing unalivement of rationality.
OT. Ignore the E30 in the title. Mistake and not mentioned in the video.
https://youtu.be/tyQvRyyV2PY?si=IS2uMkFFPHiAF-cH
A restomod in keeping with the vehicle.
I hate yard work 🥵
The summer sun has scorched all the vegetation such that I haven’t had to mow for a month a half. It’s been glorious.
Anthony Fauci recovering from West Nile virus after hospitalization
Unfortunate. His recovery, that is.
Surprised they didn’t go with Monkeypox since that’s the new hotness
Why would anybody want to bake Pie? Vampires taste terrible.
I won’t be so impudent as to ask how you know.
He’s followed the exploits of Muffin, the Vampire Baker.
@trashmonster
From your description of were you live I am pretty close, Springfield,(and moving to a town about 10 miles away in the near future). I think you live in the town who’s school mascot is the Mt’neers. Anyway, if you need some labor help with some of you projects sometime hit me up at: lazersrfc07@hotmail.com
I’m pretty busy in the fall, but if I could find a day to help I’d be glad to.
KC-area Glib meet-up September 21. I know that’s a few hours for you but wanted you to know.
Joe’s Kansas City in Olathe. Time TBD.
Where everyone is an asshole! New York, naturally.
NY rabbi, wife booted off JetBlue flight by ‘antisemitic’ staff after heated exchange over switching seats: suit
This whole can’t sit next to woman thing ain’t new. I’m betting he was an ass about it and pissed off the crew. Dude was willing to switch, but because he pissed off the crew the pilot claimed “weight” and off his ass went. Google says this is a A320 it ain’t a puddle jumper.
I can recall being in EWR with an observant Jew likely delayed on the Sabbath blocking the fucking escalator and screaming at the young woman with him (daughter?) about how he couldn’t go down them. I get it but how about moving out of the fucking way for the rest of us? Fuck no. Until this guy is shown where there is a flight of steps nobody in the airport is going to use that escalator.
Should have just hit the temporarily stairs button.
Pressing that button likely counts as “work”. And this shabbos goy wasn’t gone to eat the fine and hassle.
Powerline
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/08/the-week-in-pictures-deja-obamavu-all-over-again.php
That same month a police officer murdered George Floyd, and shortly afterward DEI burst into boardrooms around the world.
Our modern day Crispus Attucks.
Sensei=
Ausgezeichnet. That’s better than any so called supercar.
I probably want heat and AC. However, killing both likely takes a good amount of weight out of the car.
Is it too much to ask that if I have to go back to my 18-24 year-old insurance rate that I get to boink 18-24 year-old girls again?
I can’t believe King Walz didn’t tout that – under his leadership – insurance rated doubled.
Never should have allowed the St Paul and Travelers merger. Not his fault.
I’m sure there were all sorts of factors that went into this increase. I’m pretty sure that 100% of the increase can NOT be laid directly at the feed of King Walz.
Too bad that we don’t have some independent people that do nothing except look into stuff like this. Wouldn’t it be great if I could read stories in the Strib, the PioPress and other local media where they went out and documented why our rates were skyrocketing?
It’s comprehensive so blame inflation and FedGov mandated safety and electronics.
It’s both more expensive to repair or more likely to be a total loss because of the increased costs.
Savior of our nation
Kamala Harris just showed us the promise of a post-MAGA future. Now it’s up to the voters to decide to take us there.
In her rousing convention speech on Thursday, Harris offered many olive branches to right-leaning independents and Republican voters. She vowed toughness on immigration and crime. She promised to transcend the nation’s divisions. She vowed to govern for all Americans and transcend faction or party. She made numerous appeals to voters with decidedly right-leaning values.
But, in mulling what Harris means by all this, it’s crucial to appreciate what she did not do. Harris offered all this outreach to voters outside the core Democratic coalition without making serious concessions to the ideological preoccupations we associate with MAGA-style right-wing populism. There was no real accommodation with what might be called The World According to MAGA.
Instead, Harris treated Trumpism and the MAGA movement as forces that must be decisively repudiated—and unequivocally left behind.
We will all join together in joyous celebration of our new glorious reimagined future of love and peaceful coexistence. But first we must subjugate the heretics and crush their will.
All I’m hearing is “she issued forth one lie after another”.
I was going to condense it as “She told all of the right lies now lets see who falls for it.”
If she wins we are in for another Obama “You fucked up. You trusted me.” with the Kamala drunken cackle added.
OMWC, when you aren’t stealing bicycles, are (((you))) using your outsized media influence to push Wonder Dog’s kin into position of power?
Nice link, bro.
Sarcasm in unbecoming
Just the sort of tricknology, I’d expect from (((your)))! I’m sure I probably lost some valuable item while trying to post this.
In a remarkable turn, Harris appears prepared to run precisely the aggressive, inspired campaign that combatting the rising forces of domestic authoritarianism requires. Her vision hints at a post-MAGA future that is fully faithful to liberal ideals—freedom, autonomy, open societies, free and fair elections—while also addressing dissatisfactions with American life, from economic precarity to feelings of physical insecurity, that are leading many into the temptations of illiberalism. Getting to that future, Harris and Walz appear to be saying, will require fully consigning MAGA to the dustheap of history where it belongs.
She’s a dadgum genius; the greatest political philosopher of our time. Her moral leadership will bring us to Paradise on Earth, founded on love and respect for those deserving of it. As for the others? Well, we can always dig more ditches.
What this world needs is more helicopters.
No one cool uses dadgum anymore
That’s a dadgum shame, that is.
*Starts to object
*Reconsiders
I play with a former MLB pitcher in the local men’s baseball league. Devout Christian.
He uses dadgum all the time. It’s fucking hilarious.
“fully faithful to liberal ideals—freedom, autonomy, open societies, free and fair elections”
Those must be some good drugs.
“…fully consigning MAGA to the dustheap of history where it belongs.”
I dont know why they dont just come right out and say it. Oh wait, I think they just did.
I think it is very wrong of me that when i read about the Solingen stabing I thought it was apropos
One of the local winemakers i like made a viognier and it is good so in your face OMWC ( unless i misremeber you saying viognier should only be made in a specific place)
I’m always hoping, but so far, the only great viogniers I’ve had came from Condrieu. Does he export?
No. Not really. Also one of his most interesting white wines will be sadly discontinued as it it not worth the trouble.
This viognier is kind of high on the sugar for me at 3
8 g.per liter but has quite good acidity to compensate.
Though i am not sure i would call it quite great… But it is good.
A shockingly large number of academics don’t know the difference between mediators and confounders.
Consider: With confounders, controlling for them is good. With mediators or colliders, controlling for them is bad!
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1827104040045396033
It’s comprehensive so blame inflation and FedGov mandated safety and electronics.
What? You mean when somebody rams a shopping cart into the back of your car and disables the computer controlled led taillight assembly it’s not a $259 repair?
“Kamala’s brother-in-law fleeced taxpayers for billions to give to left-wing groups and lawyers
At the start of his administration, President Trump’s Attorney General banned settlement slush funds, while one of the early acts of the Biden-Harris DOJ was to rescind that ban….
Meanwhile, the Tony West-invented, Biden-Harris operated “Honest Graft” machine pours taxpayer billions into left-wing activist groups, and West is said to be Harris’s White House counsel-in-waiting.”
https://nypost.com/2024/08/23/opinion/kamalas-brother-in-law-fleeced-taxpayers-for-billions-to-give-to-left-wing-groups-and-lawyers/
Each one was carefully explained to us by some $350,000/year DEI dean.
Nice grift.
Project Veritas’ latest: DC insiders on Kamala Harris.
“Republicans were nicer.” 😐. My shocked face.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 08/24:
*21/21 words (+4 bonus words)
📖 In the top 8% by bonus words
I played https://squaredle.com 08/24:
*46/46 words (+15 bonus words)
📖 In the top 5% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 415
Guess we’re gonna have to wait a while for mexi’s post.
Fixed.
So my synthesizer madness has brought me to tape.
Anybody have a reel to reel machine they don’t want anymore?