February 2022 – Page 8 – Splendid Isolation

News Roundup

February 16, 2022 Kim du Toit Bad News

Today’s piss-poor news is sponsored by:

…gawd, I hope not. As it is, they’re too much like Democrats for my liking. (no link because paywall)

…key word: “Pakistan”, but it could have been any of the Muslim garden spots, really.

…I would have thought that “machine guns” and “barbed wire” would work better than “cameras”, but then I’m just a simple man.

…and you can stop that raucous cheering and applause, you lot — because the fucking Austrian prosecutor wants to charge her for assault.

Train Smash Watch:

…can’t be long now…

…wait for it… wait for it…

…OF COURSE SHE DOES. Only an intersectional feminist could imagine that she could stop an international flight just because of ME ME ME ME ME !

Let’s look in on Covidiocy:

…good. I hope they all catch it and die.

…I would normally be sympathetic, except that Levi Strauss is a bunch of gun-controlling assholes, so fuck ’em.

How about the Freedom Trail:

…just wait till the tar, feathers and ropes come out.

…LesboPM can’t imagine any resistance coming from her cowed Kiwi peasants.

…and when you’ve lost the Belgies… oh wait:

…as Castro’s love child goes full Stalin.

…[whimper] oh FFS, kill me me now.

And now, more INSIGNIFICA:

…and if you used the Hubble telescope focused to “infinity”, you still wouldn’t be able to find my interest in this story.

Lastly:

…Amanda who? Nemmind:

And dat be Da Nooz… for now.

Dept. Of Righteous Shootings

February 16, 2022 Kim du Toit Righteous Shootings

…or “Why You Should Always Keep Your Bedside Gun Handy“:

An intruder broke into a West Palm Beach, Florida, home just after 4 a.m. Saturday morning and turned on the bedroom light before being shot and fatally wounded by a homeowner.

The actual article calls the corpus delicti an “alleged” intruder, but he’s nothing of the sort as a.) he was found inside the house without having been invited in, and b.) he was unknown to Our Hero. Ergo: intruder. Shot with an “alleged” gun.

Once again, note that the sequence of events was: Choirboy breaks in; turns on light to see what he can steal; is confronted by half-asleep homeowner; refuses to leave; gets shot.

And no mention of said homeowner fumbling around in a safe or bedside drawer for his gun.

Just sayin’.

Want

February 16, 2022 Kim du Toit Guy Stuff

I’m not often envious of what other people do or have, but I’ll make an exception for this guy and his toy:

We used to have a 30′ Scalextric track layout in the basement of our Chicago suburban home, but in subsequent homes we never had the space available to set it up again. And unlike Our Hero, we only had a few cars, which we’d race against each other by class, so to speak:

Great fun.

Oops

February 15, 2022 Kim du Toit Funny Stuff

“Follow me for more reloading tips.”

Yeah, Duh

February 15, 2022 Kim du Toit Business, Old Age, Two-Minute Hate

Via Insty comes this belated news:

IBM faces age bias complaints in arbitration and court proceedings by former employees across the country. A former IBM vice president of human resources said in a court deposition in one of the cases that the company faced talent recruitment problems and determined one way to show millennials that IBM was not “an old fuddy duddy organization” was to make itself appear “as [a] cool, trendy organization.”

In one email chain, an International Business Machines Corp. official described a plan to “accelerate change by inviting the ‘dinobabies’ (new species) to leave” and turn them into an “Extinct species,” according to the filing. Company officials also complained about IBM’s “dated maternal workforce” that “must change,” and discussed frustration that IBM had a much lower share of millennials in its workforce than a competitor, but said its share would increase following layoffs, according to the filing.

Of course, IBM denies all this, oh no we’d never do a thing like that:

An IBM spokesperson said in a statement that the company never engaged in systematic age discrimination and it terminated employees because of changing business conditions, not because of their age. In 2020, the median age of IBM’s U.S. workforce was 48, the same as it was in 2010, according to the statement.

The spokesperson also said the language cited in the emails “is not consistent with the respect IBM has for its employees and as the facts clearly show, it does not reflect company practices or policies.”

Lying cocksuckers.

It’s an open secret that old farts get shafted in today’s workplace: “Become a Wal-Mart greeter” used to be the dismissive term leveled at us. Only now (at the Wal-Marts around my house anyway), the cheery old duffers who waved you in and checked your Sam’s Club purchases on the way out have all — all — been replaced by younger Indians and “efnicks”.

Fuck all of you corporate assholes, and enjoy the taste on your tongues as you lick the rank feet of Millennial wokedom.

I hope you all die painfully.

Caution — Pineapples

February 15, 2022 Kim du Toit Clothing, Men & Women

Over the weekend, I learned something new.

Apparently, wearing a pineapple sign on your person may indicate to others that you’re an adherent of “The Lifestyle” — i.e. a swinger. Thus, innocently wearing either of the shirts below could get you all sorts of unwelcome invitations.