I will admit that I just have never understood nose rings. The communist who only wanted to marry a rich man has a name in the UK -- Bollinger Bolshevik. Come the revolution, they will man the barricades because capitalism is evil, but until then please pass the champagne.
Lionel Shriver once spoke about exquisiteness of feeling guilty about something which you know you have not done and can do nothing about. AWFL have drunk deep from this well.
All of it! Weird piercings, weird tattoos, and the strangely unnaturally colored hair. Oh, and let’s not forget so many of them are now wearing the Jeffrey Dahmer styled glasses. 🙄
I suspect many of the people getting the highly visible tattoos have not seen what tattoos on old sagging skin looks like. There again, apparently tattoo removal is big business.
I remember hearing a comedian years ago make a joke along those lines. He said “you know, ladies that cute little rose tattoo on your breast is going to become an entire rose garden by the time you’re in your 60s.” 😂
Ha. I am waiting until my face gets seriously wrinkled and only then am I getting a tattoo. I am serious. I figure at that point it will not matter what I look like and I can finally be truly outrageous and tribal.......
There was a cartoon from decades ago. First panel, lovely young thing with a rose bracelet on upper arm. Second panel, old gal with rose tattoo slipped to her wrist.
I was in the Marts a couple of months go and came upon a woman who looked like she was wearing skin that was two sizes too big. She was wearing a tartishly small outfit that revealed a tattoo that said 'baby girl' across her lower back.
Even when fresh, I don't understand. To me they are like putting a bumperstciker on a fancy car or graffiti on a beautiful building. And it isn't like other fashion you can take on and off or change. It is for the long haul.
I really enjoy looking at good ink. My problem with ever getting any myself is that anything that is important enough to me to put permanently on my skin is much, much too important to me to make it only skin-deep. And anything less important than that--as I know from long experience--is not guaranteed to *remain* important enough to put permanently on my skin.
One of the most breathtakingly beautiful students I ever knew worked as a waitress in her father’s Mexican restaurant. Two years after graduation, we encountered her there. We didn’t recognize her until she spoke.
She had become Grouch Marx’s ‘Tattooed Lady!’ I went home and cried.
I live in Asheville. It seems like every other women I run into has a nose ring and tattoos of some kind. I don't know these women, so it shouldn't bother me, but it always makes me a bit sad.
I went to an antique store near Ashville yesterday. The nose-ringed woman who opened a case for me had to ask if I knew whose image was carved in the cameo I was considering.
I've seen a 74 year old woman covered in tattoos. That hummingbird on her left breast probably looked cute 45 years ago, now looks like and is the size of a vulture. ,
Hancock was the health minister at the time and a noted mask enthusiast (except when he wasn't). It came about the same time Johnson's staff were actively ignoring the rules. The British national sport cricket is all about following the rules.
UK progressives can be equally idiotic. See today's BBC coverage of the Brize Norton security breach.
You comment reminds me of how the liberals also want to "save the world," but they have zero manners or common courtesy toward the person standing right next to them.
This is very true. They tend to be in the Violet Elizabeth Bott mode (I will scream and scream until I am sick if you don't give me what I want now!)
Normally children outgrow this. My daughter tried the trick when she was two, screaming for a shot because her brother had one. I nodded to the nurse who duly administered the MMR that she was due to have. Funny enough she never forgot that lesson...
See you on nose rings and raise you most of the stupid piercings. My threshold is the LARGE holes in the earlobes, which I've thus far seen only on male-apparents. First time I realized what I was seeing I was hard-pressed not to vomit. Still very distressing.
When they have stopped waiting tables and now have an MBA, they will have a hell of a time finding a job in the business world, same with neck tattoos.
I’d occasionally see a guy on Market Street who wore a chain that went from his earlobe to his nose. “What if some passerby yanks on it?” I’d have liked to ask.
"Pro-Palestinian activists claimed responsibility for breaking into the UK’s largest Royal Air Force base and damaging two military aircraft, in what UK media on Friday described as a major security failure.
"The incident occurred at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, where two members of the anti-Israel group Palestine Action infiltrated the base and sprayed red paint on the engines of two Airbus Voyager refueling aircraft before fleeing the scene. Footage shared by the group shows the activists riding electric scooters onto the airstrip and vandalizing the planes.
"Bodycam footage released by the group shows the activists spraying red paint directly onto the turbine engines of the aircraft, which the British Air Force describes as 'essential to extending the range and operational flexibility of the UK’s air power.'
"Palestine Action said the activists also used fire extinguishers and iron bars to cause further damage. They sprayed red paint on the runway and left behind a Palestinian flag. Days earlier, the same group filmed themselves vandalizing a warehouse belonging to a company that supplies military equipment to Israel."
Many yes but there are millions who are li ing the good life and spend hours in the gym. Do not stereotype for the latter ( many of whom wield power in various ways) are much more dangerous than the former . Overcoming their white guilt is a powerful need of theirs
The woman with the nose ring already looks like a fat pig. Instead of getting her nose pierced, she should have spent her time and money having her hair properly colored and conditioned.
Thanks, Celia, made my morning. But why do these loons persist in posting their various and sundry meltdowns and manifestos on line so the world can gawk on their insanity? Proving but amplifying the old saw about opening one's mouth to remove all doubt. And you wondered why the birthrate is plummeting?????
A DJ in L.A. once had a call-in feature where listeners were encouraged to submit examples of her actually being funny. There were very few submissions.
No, but I get it now! Those gadgets that are used to insure that mirrors and artwork are even when nailed to a surface. I am laughing at my ignorance. I don't know much about hardware.
Mary, did you ever work building houses in WNC? Just wondering if you could be part of the reason I can’t find a level floor or square wall in the whole place.
Ha! Good one. You can't pin that on me. I don't think I recall ever even having to use a hammer. Color me old fashioned, but I associate men with construction. DIY household projects are not in my zone of interest. I employ a handyman for things of that nature. Thanks for the chuckle!
It kind of sucks to be on the West coast and miss all the fun in these comments. But here's my two cents regardless. I would like someone with an analytical frame of mind to explain to me why this insane woke catastrophe has caught on with so many people who really should know better. Is it the education system? The detritus left from the hippies or the feminist movements? I never thought it would get this bad. I have trouble laughing at the memes when people are being assaulted and even murdered in the street. Sorry to be Debbie Downer, but it just doesn't seem that funny anymore.
Haha! I saw the one about the kid and the German shepherd a couple of years ago and sent it around. I didn't know then that such a thing is called a meme.
These are all great. Hard to pick a favorite but I think getting to the basics of this situation is the meme “what offends you now””they haven’t told me yet”. It’s the manipulation. The propaganda.
The "Liberal" women afraid to walk alone at night who want to release criminals -- ha ha hhhhaaa hhhaaaaa.
How is it they missed the memo, that Defunding Police would make the world a much more dangerous place?
This reminds me of a faculty meeting....in which 'Attacks on Asians' mythically deployed by those awful white people -- even though every video of said attacks showed an unhinged black person shoving the Asian person onto the subway tracks...
(I tried to tell them this, to no avail...the perpetrators just HAD to be white!)
Anyway, some workshop was offered, in which my "liberal" white women colleagues were taught how to defend an Asian student under attack. How to fend off the attackers.
I had to laugh, because in their minds, those attackers were white, and perhaps easier to fend off.
But what if they were unhinged black men? Or schizophrenic black women? Then what?
In any case, I suggested it would be more effective to give students the tools -- the street smarts -- necessary to avoid such confrontations in the first place.
"Don't make eye contact," I said.
The Golden Millennial of the Department, who once schooled us NEVER to ask a student where they're from (despite the fact that we teach ESL, and the students' origins matter in terms of language quirks) proclaimed that SHE LOVES TO MAKE EYE CONTACT!
"I smile at everyone!" she said proudly.
"Well," says I, "having been around the block a little longer than you, in my experience, smiling at erratic people is how your blond hair ends up in a ditch."
Imagine how hard that harsh reality hit them. Still, I would have loved to be a fly on the wall should Elizabeth (who's about 80) had defended one of our Chinese students from some foaming at the mouth black schizophrenic....
Because one thing these "liberal" women lack, is cognizance of reality.
And in the meantime, the union is shilling that we must vote for Mamdani.
The concept of “defunding the police” is squarely at odds with their own ideology. If “the patriarchy“ is a violent Cabal meant to keep women oppressed, removing the one source of defense for women would only increase the power of the violent oppressors. But I guess it’s the same bad logic as “gays for Palestine“. Never let a slogan be tainted by reality.
Unions have been pushing candidates who they think are sympathetic to them for as long as there have been unions. Only nowadays, unions have gone off the deep end.
Rwanda and DRC are set to sign a ceasefire next week in DC after years of fighting in which literally millions of black people have been killed by other black people in what can only be described as real genocide. But not a peep out of the Liberals focused on Israel (or their nose rings) or- like Whoopi - focused on how awful black women in the US have it.
She’s a troll! She obviously takes great delight in upsetting others, and she is notably ignorant about history, which makes it easy for her to assert wild claims without being bothered by facts or common knowledge.
Yes. She's a mess...inside and out. It's amazing how they can fill that studio every day with screaming harpies, but ABC does. You can't find anything that idiotic even on CNN or MSNBC. But ABC? Yes, owned by Disney.
I've been thinking lately of how many "powerful" black women in power jobs have produced a really bad PR take for many observing from the sidelines. Fani Willis (GA DA in the Trump suit who was in bed with her co-worker and probably taking money she shouldn't have), the NY AG who went after Trump and was herself falsifying loan papers for property ownership in GA), Michelle Obama's whole being these days is so "off," Whoopi of course, the HR person at Lockheed making promotions/rewards NOT be on merit but on DEI which meant breaking some civil rights laws... There are likely many more.
I'd have to go with the Feminism one & Rachel Maddow, I think.
However, the "change your values & beliefs so I fit in" really hits home. It's a major reason why all the sane teachers are quitting or taking early retirement. 😢 Probably applies to parents nowdays, too.
I'm visiting my oldest as on, for the week. I think you captured what my sons aren't dating .it's jarring and sad. The only thing missing, where my son lives, is the gold digger. 😂😂
A young woman friend of ours is having trouble finding good reliable young men to date around here. She used to be a more reasonable liberal but is now leaning more reasonably conservative and looks nothing like the rainbow memes. Dating seems really tough out there these days all the way around.
I’m going to offer a slightly different take. Whenever I see women who look like this working at a coffee shop, I know I’m going to get a good oat-milk cortado.
Spot on in so many cases…ALTHOUGH, I wish we’d do a better job of not conflating Leftist and Liberal. Most of these memes describing “liberal” people are, in fact, displaying attitudes that are ILLIBERAL by very nature and that’s where we need to be careful to use the word “leftist.” But then again, what do words mean these days anyway?🤦🏻♀️
Thank you. I know good people who identify as liberal but look and act nothing like these memes portray. I try to use the term 'radical left' when describing the crazies.
Yes, it's good to remember the etymology of the word "liberal." Can anyone really say that Whoosits Mamdani running for mayor in our fair city is liberal? Globalize that intifada!
Or that Bernie Sanders is liberal? If he were liberal, he wouldn't have fled Brooklyn for the green hills of Vermont when the going got tough here in the 1970s. He would have stayed and tried to help black people keep black people from killing one another.
I always call them Leftists instead of Liberals, because they ARE illiberal. But a lot of people are still stuck in the old Liberal/Conservative verbiage.
Do we really need to use labels, when they constantly mutate, are subjectively defined, and are used primarily for implied connotations? What if leftists could sit wherever they wanted?
I gave up that fight years ago. Like "gay" and more recently "pride," "liberal" long ago became more placeholder than conveyor of actual meaning. Failure to provide context is a perilous venture.
Agree Casey--and the historical definition of "liberal" that rose out of rebellion against "monarchy" has been a battleground site from the beginning. But it is clear that for some the whole issue has been turned on its head today and bears no relationship to the original meaning that included "personal freedom" from a state--but with some controls all agree to have--thus the battleground over what power the state should have. Now--with the loss of history--a really important point--some have become illiberal and don't understant that they have totally devolved into forms of fascism, authoritarianism, etc.
Good point SallyWally. I think we need a new word for these crazies. Karen doesn't seem to fully grasp it. I am so hoping that the female liberals in my family will begin to see that their natural empathy has been weaponized in unhealthy ways--unhealthy for them, for their family, for the society, etc. But there is the continuous propaganda via lies, etc.
Very amusing.
I will admit that I just have never understood nose rings. The communist who only wanted to marry a rich man has a name in the UK -- Bollinger Bolshevik. Come the revolution, they will man the barricades because capitalism is evil, but until then please pass the champagne.
Lionel Shriver once spoke about exquisiteness of feeling guilty about something which you know you have not done and can do nothing about. AWFL have drunk deep from this well.
All of it! Weird piercings, weird tattoos, and the strangely unnaturally colored hair. Oh, and let’s not forget so many of them are now wearing the Jeffrey Dahmer styled glasses. 🙄
I suspect many of the people getting the highly visible tattoos have not seen what tattoos on old sagging skin looks like. There again, apparently tattoo removal is big business.
Thanks for that visual, Michelle. Not.
Ha!
😂
I remember hearing a comedian years ago make a joke along those lines. He said “you know, ladies that cute little rose tattoo on your breast is going to become an entire rose garden by the time you’re in your 60s.” 😂
Very good.
I thought it was so that their leaders could attach a leash when needed to keep them from even thinking of straying to the "other side."
Oh, I have GOT to make a meme of that one.
That was why farmers installed them in bulls and rams.
My mom managed a plastic surgery clinic. Confirming that tats on seniors are "yikes!" and people come in droves to get them removed.
Ha. I am waiting until my face gets seriously wrinkled and only then am I getting a tattoo. I am serious. I figure at that point it will not matter what I look like and I can finally be truly outrageous and tribal.......
There was a cartoon from decades ago. First panel, lovely young thing with a rose bracelet on upper arm. Second panel, old gal with rose tattoo slipped to her wrist.
I was in the Marts a couple of months go and came upon a woman who looked like she was wearing skin that was two sizes too big. She was wearing a tartishly small outfit that revealed a tattoo that said 'baby girl' across her lower back.
I think I know her.
Made me chuckle. Thanks.
I'm sure she's a lovely person.
Even when fresh, I don't understand. To me they are like putting a bumperstciker on a fancy car or graffiti on a beautiful building. And it isn't like other fashion you can take on and off or change. It is for the long haul.
I really enjoy looking at good ink. My problem with ever getting any myself is that anything that is important enough to me to put permanently on my skin is much, much too important to me to make it only skin-deep. And anything less important than that--as I know from long experience--is not guaranteed to *remain* important enough to put permanently on my skin.
One of the most breathtakingly beautiful students I ever knew worked as a waitress in her father’s Mexican restaurant. Two years after graduation, we encountered her there. We didn’t recognize her until she spoke.
She had become Grouch Marx’s ‘Tattooed Lady!’ I went home and cried.
I live in Asheville. It seems like every other women I run into has a nose ring and tattoos of some kind. I don't know these women, so it shouldn't bother me, but it always makes me a bit sad.
I went to an antique store near Ashville yesterday. The nose-ringed woman who opened a case for me had to ask if I knew whose image was carved in the cameo I was considering.
"Shakespeare."
"Who's that?"
As Biden would say: no joke.
I will not have one (others can, I don’t care). I would get sick of it after a couple of months and then what?
I've seen a 74 year old woman covered in tattoos. That hummingbird on her left breast probably looked cute 45 years ago, now looks like and is the size of a vulture. ,
The N-95 masks. Outdoors.
The vast majority of masks disappeared in the UK when Matt Hancock was caught on camera shoving his tongue down his mistress's throat.
There are a few who still wear them but not many.
It never became a way of virtue signalling in the UK as it remains in the US.
So I take it your progressives are not as dumb as US progressives?
What's the correlation between shoving a tongue down someone's throat, and N-95 masks?
Hancock was the health minister at the time and a noted mask enthusiast (except when he wasn't). It came about the same time Johnson's staff were actively ignoring the rules. The British national sport cricket is all about following the rules.
UK progressives can be equally idiotic. See today's BBC coverage of the Brize Norton security breach.
It was the UK’s “Gavin Newsom at The French Laundry” moment.
And it looks like…oops, he did it again! Apparently, Newsom was at a posh Napa Valley wine tasting event on the night the riots began in LA.
The yard sign for the face
Worn by nobody except frightened old liberals and Antifa wannabe street fighters.
Or in their car alone with the windows rolled up
I’ve seen a bit of a resurgence of masks lately. I’ve also heard from friends and family about more respiratory illnesses going around.
That's why the glasses are so off putting!! They are Dahmeresque!
You comment reminds me of how the liberals also want to "save the world," but they have zero manners or common courtesy toward the person standing right next to them.
This is very true. They tend to be in the Violet Elizabeth Bott mode (I will scream and scream until I am sick if you don't give me what I want now!)
Normally children outgrow this. My daughter tried the trick when she was two, screaming for a shot because her brother had one. I nodded to the nurse who duly administered the MMR that she was due to have. Funny enough she never forgot that lesson...
Oh, now that's funny!
Oh boy did this hit home this am. I am absolutely feeling like having a screaming 2 year old tantrum fit right now.
I'd buy tickets to see that.
See you on nose rings and raise you most of the stupid piercings. My threshold is the LARGE holes in the earlobes, which I've thus far seen only on male-apparents. First time I realized what I was seeing I was hard-pressed not to vomit. Still very distressing.
Oh, the ear gages; fortunately, that trend seems to have mostly stopped. And I do know a couple of women with them.
When they have stopped waiting tables and now have an MBA, they will have a hell of a time finding a job in the business world, same with neck tattoos.
I’d occasionally see a guy on Market Street who wore a chain that went from his earlobe to his nose. “What if some passerby yanks on it?” I’d have liked to ask.
I had a very talented student, determined to become a professional actor. Worked hard; stayed clean; I thought he had a decent shot.
Then, one morning, he showed up to class sporting ear plugs the size of pill-bottle tops.
End of that dream. Wrong color to be cast as a 19th century African chieftain.
Here's for you:
"Pro-Palestinian activists claimed responsibility for breaking into the UK’s largest Royal Air Force base and damaging two military aircraft, in what UK media on Friday described as a major security failure.
"The incident occurred at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, where two members of the anti-Israel group Palestine Action infiltrated the base and sprayed red paint on the engines of two Airbus Voyager refueling aircraft before fleeing the scene. Footage shared by the group shows the activists riding electric scooters onto the airstrip and vandalizing the planes.
"Bodycam footage released by the group shows the activists spraying red paint directly onto the turbine engines of the aircraft, which the British Air Force describes as 'essential to extending the range and operational flexibility of the UK’s air power.'
"Palestine Action said the activists also used fire extinguishers and iron bars to cause further damage. They sprayed red paint on the runway and left behind a Palestinian flag. Days earlier, the same group filmed themselves vandalizing a warehouse belonging to a company that supplies military equipment to Israel."
Real beauty without tattoos.
For your viewing enjoyment:
Be sure to watch this on the largest computer screen you have; (HD if possible) and have your sound turned on.
The hummingbird doing rolls chasing a bee is not to be missed.
Be sure and watch closely, check out the baby bat under its Mother. Unreal.
If you never knew what goes on in the garden when you aren't paying attention, watch this - some of the finest photography you will ever see.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xHkq1edcbk4?rel=0
That was wonderful! Thanks!
Liberal Barbie, with the blessed tattoo! 😂😂
Aside from the nasty piercings, tattoos, and hair colors, they are extremely hard to look at because of their weight and wardrobe.
Many yes but there are millions who are li ing the good life and spend hours in the gym. Do not stereotype for the latter ( many of whom wield power in various ways) are much more dangerous than the former . Overcoming their white guilt is a powerful need of theirs
I agree, and thanks for pointing that out. These women seem to be in different camps, but the latter are far more dangerous.
The woman with the nose ring already looks like a fat pig. Instead of getting her nose pierced, she should have spent her time and money having her hair properly colored and conditioned.
And still they "threaten" us with civil war. Are we all quaking now?
LOL. We have gun, which they are deathly afraid of. We also know how to use guns. The left's inability to see consequences is a serious disadvantage.
I remember liberals in CT trying to buy guns in CT and having meltdowns because they lacked the pistol permits they imposed on the rest of us.
Those permits weren't that hard to get -- I have one. Here in the PRNJ OTOH... but they did put paid to instant gratification.
The civil vs. the uncivil. My bet is on the former.
I grew up on a small farm. I always associate nose rings with pigs.
Previously acknowledged bulls and rams. Also boar hogs. That's what you're emulating, girls!
Thanks, Celia, made my morning. But why do these loons persist in posting their various and sundry meltdowns and manifestos on line so the world can gawk on their insanity? Proving but amplifying the old saw about opening one's mouth to remove all doubt. And you wondered why the birthrate is plummeting?????
Because they have a narcissistic need to be paid attention to. Look at me. Or else
How about the ugly, untalented but nonetheless exceedingly wealthy Karen Johnson, whining about how awful it is to be a black woman in America?
On behalf of jews everywhere we demand she again become a "Johnson" and cease to culturally appropriate the jewish name Goldberg
👏👏👏
And yet with her culturally appropriated name (supposedly taken so she could get ahead in Hollyweird), Goldberg, she has yet to stand up for the Jews.
She is truly a Karen
We should send her to Iran to see why she is wrong.
She has a reputation for flatulence. Perhaps it could be put to use in subduing the IRGC.
😂😂
A DJ in L.A. once had a call-in feature where listeners were encouraged to submit examples of her actually being funny. There were very few submissions.
Bingo. It's all about the virtue signaling.
A person who believes viewers would enjoy watching them have a full blown meltdown is not a sane person. The videos prove it.
Natural selection is working.
That’s a good thing.
Once this virus is purged, babies will be a thing again.
For our entertainment! You really should be more grateful 😇
Can someone explain the last joke? I don't understand DeWalt tubular earrings.
I took it that these earrings would let us know if they were on the level. Am I wrong?
Thanks Noreen L. Your explanation does make sense.
Candice’s is the more accurate.
Half a bubble off means you’re “slightly out of kilter”.
Yes. Balanced or unbalanced.
Correct.
Have you ever heard the expression “half a bubble off”?
No, but I get it now! Those gadgets that are used to insure that mirrors and artwork are even when nailed to a surface. I am laughing at my ignorance. I don't know much about hardware.
A level is used in construction for many things.
To be sure a floor, countertop, etc… is level.
Yes, thank you Brian. Now that I think about it I've seen them used for such purposes.
Mary, did you ever work building houses in WNC? Just wondering if you could be part of the reason I can’t find a level floor or square wall in the whole place.
Just kidding.
Ha! Good one. You can't pin that on me. I don't think I recall ever even having to use a hammer. Color me old fashioned, but I associate men with construction. DIY household projects are not in my zone of interest. I employ a handyman for things of that nature. Thanks for the chuckle!
I have a few. I use the pretty brass one to check that the baby grand is level and hasn't crushed its shim in the last couple of years. It matters.
The big one a contractor left behind I keep in top of the fridge in case anyone gets through the back screen door.
It kind of sucks to be on the West coast and miss all the fun in these comments. But here's my two cents regardless. I would like someone with an analytical frame of mind to explain to me why this insane woke catastrophe has caught on with so many people who really should know better. Is it the education system? The detritus left from the hippies or the feminist movements? I never thought it would get this bad. I have trouble laughing at the memes when people are being assaulted and even murdered in the street. Sorry to be Debbie Downer, but it just doesn't seem that funny anymore.
I’ve never that expression, but I like it!
Exactly what I was thinking! Or, not level headed.
The vials weren't long enough to "lose the bubble." Which is too often clearly the case.
No, but I get it. Now that I think about it, I know some people that are several bubbles off.
My husband tries to argue “half a bubble off” is still level.
Then he wants to know why I don’t often ask for his help.
🤣
Haha! I saw the one about the kid and the German shepherd a couple of years ago and sent it around. I didn't know then that such a thing is called a meme.
These are all great. Hard to pick a favorite but I think getting to the basics of this situation is the meme “what offends you now””they haven’t told me yet”. It’s the manipulation. The propaganda.
Well said, Noreen.
It is the very definition of the useful idiot.
What Some of Us might call the meta issue. That which makes many others possible and/or significant.
The "Liberal" women afraid to walk alone at night who want to release criminals -- ha ha hhhhaaa hhhaaaaa.
How is it they missed the memo, that Defunding Police would make the world a much more dangerous place?
This reminds me of a faculty meeting....in which 'Attacks on Asians' mythically deployed by those awful white people -- even though every video of said attacks showed an unhinged black person shoving the Asian person onto the subway tracks...
(I tried to tell them this, to no avail...the perpetrators just HAD to be white!)
Anyway, some workshop was offered, in which my "liberal" white women colleagues were taught how to defend an Asian student under attack. How to fend off the attackers.
I had to laugh, because in their minds, those attackers were white, and perhaps easier to fend off.
But what if they were unhinged black men? Or schizophrenic black women? Then what?
In any case, I suggested it would be more effective to give students the tools -- the street smarts -- necessary to avoid such confrontations in the first place.
"Don't make eye contact," I said.
The Golden Millennial of the Department, who once schooled us NEVER to ask a student where they're from (despite the fact that we teach ESL, and the students' origins matter in terms of language quirks) proclaimed that SHE LOVES TO MAKE EYE CONTACT!
"I smile at everyone!" she said proudly.
"Well," says I, "having been around the block a little longer than you, in my experience, smiling at erratic people is how your blond hair ends up in a ditch."
Imagine how hard that harsh reality hit them. Still, I would have loved to be a fly on the wall should Elizabeth (who's about 80) had defended one of our Chinese students from some foaming at the mouth black schizophrenic....
Because one thing these "liberal" women lack, is cognizance of reality.
And in the meantime, the union is shilling that we must vote for Mamdani.
"[In] my experience, smiling at erratic people is how your blond hair ends up in a ditch."
Man, am I roaring with laughter here!
I hope it's OK that I laugh at this too.
You should have seen their faces!
The Golden Millennial of the Department,
Love that
The concept of “defunding the police” is squarely at odds with their own ideology. If “the patriarchy“ is a violent Cabal meant to keep women oppressed, removing the one source of defense for women would only increase the power of the violent oppressors. But I guess it’s the same bad logic as “gays for Palestine“. Never let a slogan be tainted by reality.
The union is pushing Mamdani ?
That’s brutal stupidity.
Any way to anonymously report that to the news ?
Unions have been pushing candidates who they think are sympathetic to them for as long as there have been unions. Only nowadays, unions have gone off the deep end.
Rwanda and DRC are set to sign a ceasefire next week in DC after years of fighting in which literally millions of black people have been killed by other black people in what can only be described as real genocide. But not a peep out of the Liberals focused on Israel (or their nose rings) or- like Whoopi - focused on how awful black women in the US have it.
Every time I think Whoopi has finally gone too far, she goes a little further.
Can you imagine Ted Danson’s life? Dude had everything going and then married…that.
They had a short relationship in the 1990s, while Danson was married. Whoopi has never been married.
Who would marry that hag?
Are you referring to Ted "black face" Danson?
She’s a troll! She obviously takes great delight in upsetting others, and she is notably ignorant about history, which makes it easy for her to assert wild claims without being bothered by facts or common knowledge.
Yes. She's a mess...inside and out. It's amazing how they can fill that studio every day with screaming harpies, but ABC does. You can't find anything that idiotic even on CNN or MSNBC. But ABC? Yes, owned by Disney.
She’s also morbidly obese. I don’t think she can walk without a cane.
I've been thinking lately of how many "powerful" black women in power jobs have produced a really bad PR take for many observing from the sidelines. Fani Willis (GA DA in the Trump suit who was in bed with her co-worker and probably taking money she shouldn't have), the NY AG who went after Trump and was herself falsifying loan papers for property ownership in GA), Michelle Obama's whole being these days is so "off," Whoopi of course, the HR person at Lockheed making promotions/rewards NOT be on merit but on DEI which meant breaking some civil rights laws... There are likely many more.
Yes, the media and democrats will tell you that you should revere these women, but hate Condi Rice.
The Rwandans and Congolese don't matter to these people, though I recall a time when the starvelings of South Sudan were all the rage.
Happy Friday, JiP Crew!
Oh, boy. It was hard to pick a fave meme today!
I'd have to go with the Feminism one & Rachel Maddow, I think.
However, the "change your values & beliefs so I fit in" really hits home. It's a major reason why all the sane teachers are quitting or taking early retirement. 😢 Probably applies to parents nowdays, too.
I liked the purple frog and the girl with purple hair the best.
My vote, Rachel Maddow. But they're all great.
I'm visiting my oldest as on, for the week. I think you captured what my sons aren't dating .it's jarring and sad. The only thing missing, where my son lives, is the gold digger. 😂😂
A young woman friend of ours is having trouble finding good reliable young men to date around here. She used to be a more reasonable liberal but is now leaning more reasonably conservative and looks nothing like the rainbow memes. Dating seems really tough out there these days all the way around.
Again, it's the loss of community that in ways vetted potential spouses in one way or another.
Yes, the break down of institutions causes less potential meeting spaces for people with similar interests. Tragic.
"Smart" "phones."
Definitely. It seems almost impossible. It's very difficult to make friends, as well.
I’m so glad I’m fifty and only date grown men conservatives.
I’m going to offer a slightly different take. Whenever I see women who look like this working at a coffee shop, I know I’m going to get a good oat-milk cortado.
Fun life experiment: do that once and then try again with a maga hat.
They do take their froth seriously.
Spot on in so many cases…ALTHOUGH, I wish we’d do a better job of not conflating Leftist and Liberal. Most of these memes describing “liberal” people are, in fact, displaying attitudes that are ILLIBERAL by very nature and that’s where we need to be careful to use the word “leftist.” But then again, what do words mean these days anyway?🤦🏻♀️
Thank you. I know good people who identify as liberal but look and act nothing like these memes portray. I try to use the term 'radical left' when describing the crazies.
Yes, it's good to remember the etymology of the word "liberal." Can anyone really say that Whoosits Mamdani running for mayor in our fair city is liberal? Globalize that intifada!
Or that Bernie Sanders is liberal? If he were liberal, he wouldn't have fled Brooklyn for the green hills of Vermont when the going got tough here in the 1970s. He would have stayed and tried to help black people keep black people from killing one another.
Or Whoopi Goldberg? (I mean Caryn Johnson.)
Agreed. But I equate leftists or radical leftists with bolsheviks and communists.
I always call them Leftists instead of Liberals, because they ARE illiberal. But a lot of people are still stuck in the old Liberal/Conservative verbiage.
Do we really need to use labels, when they constantly mutate, are subjectively defined, and are used primarily for implied connotations? What if leftists could sit wherever they wanted?
I gave up that fight years ago. Like "gay" and more recently "pride," "liberal" long ago became more placeholder than conveyor of actual meaning. Failure to provide context is a perilous venture.
Agree Casey--and the historical definition of "liberal" that rose out of rebellion against "monarchy" has been a battleground site from the beginning. But it is clear that for some the whole issue has been turned on its head today and bears no relationship to the original meaning that included "personal freedom" from a state--but with some controls all agree to have--thus the battleground over what power the state should have. Now--with the loss of history--a really important point--some have become illiberal and don't understant that they have totally devolved into forms of fascism, authoritarianism, etc.
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Good point SallyWally. I think we need a new word for these crazies. Karen doesn't seem to fully grasp it. I am so hoping that the female liberals in my family will begin to see that their natural empathy has been weaponized in unhealthy ways--unhealthy for them, for their family, for the society, etc. But there is the continuous propaganda via lies, etc.
OMG. Bookmarking, saving, backing up in the cloud.
"By the power of white girl" lol
They got Harvard Barbie wrong.
She needs to be black, wear a kiffeyeh, and have several piercings and tats.
Accessories should include an encampment tent, tampons, and Starbucks.
And mastectomy scars.
I had that same thought, but was late to the party. Good call.