Whenever one is confronted with the random squiggles and daubs that are a feature of “modern” art, there is an irresistible impulse to say dismissively “Looks like something my kid could do”.
Because it’s true.
I defy anyone to argue otherwise when seeing this travesty in what is quite possibly the world’s most cultured city. (via Insty, thankee Sarah… I think)
Fucking hell.
Now here’s a study I can get behind:
Bad grammar is so maddening it activates the ‘fight or flight’ response within the human body
No prizes for guessing which one, in my case.
Instances of bad grammar can include mixing up tenses within a sentence, confusing the singular and plural, using a double negative or misusing a comma.
They explained that knowledge about a first language is largely implicit, as most people did not need to sit and study to learn their mother tongue.
And this could mean that our body reacts to bad grammar even if we cannot pinpoint exactly what is wrong within a sentence.
My problem is that I usually can pinpoint the mistake; and my response is
Grrr grrrr grrrrr…
…that I have this right. Below is the evil, awful 15-round magazine as made by Glock:
And then what seems to be acceptable to the gun-haters:
Did I get that right?
I’m pretty sure that it would only take me a couple seconds longer to fire off 16 rounds from two magazines than 15 rounds from one.
Is this really the hill they want to die on? Two seconds’ difference? (figuratively speaking, of course)
(Next thing, California is going to ban the carry of more than one magazine on one’s person — ugh, perhaps I should shut up and not give them ideas…)
And of course, those .45 John Moses Browning boolets are going to arrive on target with, shall we say, a tad more authority than that lil’ 9mm Europellet.
I’ll stick to my 1911 and Chip McCormick mags, thank you.
FFS:
Let’s not. Everyone in the world knows about fucking breast cancer. Stop clogging up my mailbox.
Also, it’s nearly the end of the month (October 24, when I received it), so you’re late (amongst all your other stupidities).
Here are some headlines, all talking about the same thing. See if you can guess what it is (no links):
Of course, there’s always someone who missed the memo:
Yeah, that makes sense: cutting production of gas-powered cars to concentrate on EVs… when all signs point to growing consumer rejection of the latter. Nice one, Ford:
…when you should, in the words of some famous guy, just keep on truckin’.
Without the Lightning.
This is the kind of thing that gets me throwing things across the room in angry frustration:
A British police officer has said she was raped at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower on Monday.
The victim, 23, has told French police she was attacked by a man wielding a knife in the Champ de Mars park shortly before midnight that evening.
She said the suspect pulled out a knife as she tried to deflect his advances.
Okay, here’s my first point. I know this area very well indeed, and let me just say that it is — along with, say, NYfC’s Central Park — a tourist attraction I wouldn’t go anywhere near after dark. So why would this Dickless Tracy do such a stupid thing? Ah, here’s a clue:
The attacker pounced after the victim went behind a bush to go to the toilet.
She was separated from her friend for only a few moments when the attacker threatened her with a knife.
Translation: she’d been drinking hard, and needed to pee. Where better than in a dark park in a strange city, away from her drinking companion?
Anyway, the gendarmes found the guy and busted him. Surprise, surprise, it was another tourist (nationality not given, uh huh) — but a tourist who travels with a knife and harbors larcenous thoughts.
Sheesh, I myself generally carry a knife when I travel (because I can’t carry my 1911 [lots of bad words deleted] ), but I would only use it in the last extreme in self-defense and not to, say, indulge in a little coercive seduction.
My second point: One would think a cop — especially a Britcop — would know better than to do stupid stuff like the above; but clearly, an excess of booze makes a cop as stupid as the average idiot.
And so much for her police force’s self-defense training; she should ask for a refund.