Saturday, November 9, 2019

Sunday funnies










Poetry in motion.


Hey, it's five o'clock! Didn't y'all forget something?

Let him in! from r/aww



Boo!

Spoopy doggo from r/aww



Ya gotta love millennials (well, you don't, really; it's just the name of the song. H/T: Ace).




"Wake up, Harold!"


Yeah, I hate when that happens.


"Suicide Hotline volunteer shocked when Hillary Clinton tried to ‘place an order’".


"Boy, is this human lazy!"




From Powerline's "The Week in Pictures".

11 comments:

bruce said...

Well according to millennials, we boomers are ignorant prejudiced hate filled right wingers who destroyed the environment, AND self-absorbed leftists who invented feminism, multiculturism, vegetarianism and atheism and ruined their chances.

But they all agree that we are the problem.

Oh for a millennial Neil Young: 'Old man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you were'.

bruce said...

In truth, pretty much the only thing we can be credited with inventing is the technology & social media which dominates the kids' lives now, which they use to mock us. Weird huh?

Skeeter said...

In my view bruce, whichever generation gave us the global blight of political correctness can be blamed for all the bad things that have happened to us since its inception. What's more, as long as PC prevails, nobody will ever be able to fix the problems it has caused, because it will be deemed politically incorrect to even suggest a fix.

RebeccaH said...

Excellent roundup, Mr. Paco sir! I had to listen to Micah Tyler's Millenial song a couple of times just because he's a good singer and it's a catchy tune. If only I could sing, I'd sing it in every restaurant we go to.

Spiny Norman said...

That Micah Tyler video has been up for quite a while, and was taken down by GoogleTube for a while (at least it was back up when I last saw it - and oh, the comment thread below it was unintentionally hilarious). I still think it's brilliant. That fact that something so cute triggers so many proves his point.

Paco said...

The dog wanting to play fetch with the statue is one of the cutest things I've ever seen.

rinardman said...

Don't let anyone call you average that's just mean

I wonder what percentage of the population even realizes that's a joke?

bruce said...

Skeeter: It's true the distaff side of the boomers sure went for PC in a big way, but most blokes did not I think. I recall being lectured by an old friend how she hated being called a 'chick', but if someone said she was a 'hot chick' she would still have liked it.

Do you remember when we were supposed to talk of 'New Australians'? My mum used to blast my dad for the crude way he referred to them. It starts to look more to me like the age old battle of the sexes. Especially these days more and more. We can't win that war mate! :-)

Skeeter said...

Bruce, my N*w Aust***an friends were a bit ambivalent about that term. They had grown to love R*ffo and W*g. That was reflected in the number of TV comedies that were based on calling themselves by those terms and using exaggerated hairstyles and home decorations.
I was referring to the PC stuff coming out of the Canberra and other public services. I somehow got onto a distribution list for a monthly Canberra publication called 'Style', Orwellian code for 'this is how PC-rules require everything to be done'.
I agree that we blokes did decide to keep doing it our way. I kept telling Irish and Polish jokes to my Irish and Polish friends just as often. My Jewish friends kept supplying me with lots of Jewish jokes that they told against themselves.
But most of the bad PC was out of the pre-Boomers' control. You are perhaps too young to remember when 'Ladies' and 'Gentleman' signs were expensively changed to 'Women' and 'Men' on every public toilet in the land. It was decreed that the only time that the words ladies or gentlemen could be used was when a speaker addressed his audience at the beginning of a speech. The manifold pages of 'Style' were filled with that sort of detail. I estimated that roughly 10% of my English language had been removed by the PC tyrants.
After a few years of this, about the time that printing was changing from typerwriters and linotype machines to digital, the publication invited the readers to comment on a revised front cover. It used all-caps in about 10 different fonts and sizes — and that was just in one line. Why did she do that? Because in the new digital world, she could. No fulls stops (periods) on the cover so there was no way of knowing where a sentence began or ended.
I responded to the editor and told her, politely I thought, that she had made the cover unreadable for me. She did not reply but, much to my relief did strike me off the subscription list.

bruce said...

Yes I don't remember Ladies & Gents changing.

I joined the Dept of Social Services as a junior clerk after HSC early 1970s. Back then they were begging people to come to Canberra, and it was still all men in charge, everyone came back from lunch tipsy or drunk. Same with journalism, my mate joined News Ltd as a cadet and the older journos spent their time at the Evening Star bar across the road, and wrote brilliant articles. When the ladies became dominant all that changed. Same at universities I've attended. To me it's like the 1890s all over again, when the Methodists and women's groups tried to force men to stop drinking. We have seen this before, if you dig into history.

Meanwhile there is less PC on the web among young men than ever. You may not know they call themselves 'Generation Zyklon' and it gets worse:
http://www.unz.com/akarlin/generation-zyklon/

When they are kicked off Twitter they just move to Gab or a 'Dark Web' site which you can still read if you get the 'onion' link. These young men are like 1930s propaganda, but it's all a joke to them at the same time, except warning each other to avoid Fed "glow n*ggers" who also go on these sites to entrap them. PC is dead on the Men Going Their Own Way networks (MGTOW) of the young, which may be thousands of young men. But they're the ones who hate boomers the most, maybe they mean their mothers and grandmothers. Again it's like the 1890s when men and women lived in different worlds.

To get an idea you could read 'BAP':
https://americanmind.org/essays/americas-delusional-elite-is-done/

PC is dead among males.

bruce said...

If only we could get through to these young blokes that none of this is new. Men have been going their own way for centuries. They went to sea as sailors and went to the goldfields, even went to war or explored the unknown. In Australia after the 1890 Depression they went bush as 'swaggies: Henry Lawson's mother was a rabid feminist. Bossy females take over urban life when the middle class becomes dominant, from Queen Victoria's day until now. They start enforcing their rules of etiquette and 'decency'. Our ancestors were Bronze Age warriors which may be why we chafe at this. It's interesting that China was never conquered by the Indo-Europeans and retains a Neolithic type of communal culture which was wiped out by the Indo-European invaders elsewhere. 'Bronze Age Mindset' they say.

I guess this is way beyond what bothers you though Skeeter. Who knows where it's all going?