…but don’t.
…the last because it’s going to give me endless opportunities for satire and mockery.
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Month: July 2023
Eucalyptus Now
When it snows in Johannesburg…
People wandering around in the streets yesterday, bemused, asking “What is this strange white stuff falling from the sky?”
One could say that this is evidence of Global Cooling Climate Warming Change©, but I remember it snowing in Johannesburg (and much harder than in the above) back in 1963, before SUVs.
Yes, I’m that old. And we just called it “weather”.
How To Kill Off Women’s ________ Competitions
It’s really simple: just open them up to men, or men masquerading as women. We’ve seen it happen in women’s sporting events, and now: beauty pageants?
A transgender woman has been crowned Miss Netherlands for the first time in the beauty pageant’s history and is now set to compete for the Miss Universe crown.
Rikkie Valerie Kolle, 22, made history after she won the competition in the Dutch country on Sunday. The new Miss Netherlands wore a red gown as she was overcome by emotion while receiving her crown from her predecessor Ona Moody and reigning Miss Universe R’Bonney Gabriel from the USA.
Of course, it had to be the Dutch — they, or the Canadians — who went Full Kneebend to the LGBTOSTFU crowd. (No pics because ugh.)
So hey, to all those feministicals who wanted to ban beauty pageants because Oppressing Womynz or whatever, you’ve got your wish, because now that girly-boys are bona fide entrants, few men are going to watch the poxy events (because who else watches this stuff?).
Few men = tiny viewing audience (WNBA, etc.) = no advertising interest = no revenue = eventual demise.
I’ve always thought beauty pageants were a load of bullshit, ever since they stopped making them about, well, beauty and started judging entrants by how well they played the violin or how well they understood world politics or similar irrelevancies, instead of how well they filled a bikini.
Let ’em all collapse into the trash dump of history: nobody cares.
It sucks for the girls, though: beauty pageants have always been a way for young women to get college scholarships, or modeling contracts or even movie roles. But if that avenue dies off, well… there ya go.
Gratuitous Gun Pic: Ithaca Mod 37 Featherlight (20ga)
I’ve always liked the Ithaca Featherlight shotguns: handy, reliable and easy to shoot, they’re just more fun than their heavier Police Riot guns — not that the latter are terrible, of course, as their thousands of users will attest. Anyway, this one just came in to Steve Barnett’s emporium, and it’s a sweetie (right-click to embiggen):
…and of course, this line will have prettier wood than the Riot guns:
Exquisite. I could see lots of happy-happy joy-joy bird-hunting with this one in my hands.
Dept. Of Righteous Shootings
Quote of the day:
“It was a robbery that didn’t go well for the robbers.” — San Antonio Police Chief William McManus
Seems as though a man went to draw money from an ATM, whereupon two choirboys approached him to ask him to donate to their church fund*. Apparently, they used the wrong terminology and body language, because our ATM cardholder shot them both dead on the spot.
*according to their relatives, no doubt.
That Time Of Year
Aaahhh, nothing says “SUMMER!” like Wimbledon:
