March 2024 – Page 3 – INANIMATE CARBON GOD

Man no longer on fire, alas

Grant Page having a normal one in Mad Max (1979)

News of Grant Page’s passing is starting to come through, just heard about it via an industry friend on Facebook who worked with him on various projects. The greatest stuntman in Australia cinema somehow lived to be eighty-five, when by rights he probably shouldn’t have lived past 40 or so; he was one of the stars of Not Quite Hollywood by Mark Hartley (who seems to have first broken the news of his passing), at the premiere of which he set himself on fire cos, you know, that was the sort of thing he did for a living. It still astonishes me that he made it out of the 70s alive when you look at some of the things he did (cf. the Don Lane Show stunt in the video below), with his most recent stunt co-ordinating credit being from just four years ago. Good rest to you, sir, you worked for it.

Andrew Taint needs smarter friends

Twitter was melting down last night, or at least certain parts of it were, at the news that Andrew Tate had been arrested in Romania again… and we now know it was one of his own supporters that inadvertently dobbed him in. This is fucking HILARIOUS.

According to a legal representative for McCue Law, the firm representing four British women accusing Tate of rape and sexual assault, U.K. judicial authorities issued a warrant for their arrests and extradition on sexual abuse charges after “we were informed by one of our contacts that an associate of Tate (Adin Ross) had discussed Tate’s intention to flee during a video on the gaming and livestreaming platform Kick.”
In the clip viewed by Rolling Stone, Ross appears to be reading direct messages from Tate. “Andrew had hit me up. He said, ‘Hey, I’m gonna be leaving Romania soon and probably never coming back. If you want to come over and do a week of long streams and content before I leave, I think it’ll be big. And it’s never’ — I’m sorry, he said, ‘It’s basically now or never,’” he read.
Ross goes on to ask fans on his stream whether they would be interested in seeing content featuring him and Tate, saying, “Again, guys, it might be the last time we ever do this. So it’s kinda like, we gotta take advantage of it now. Because hey, it’s basically, it’s basically like that.”

Adin Ross is a piece of shit whose primary claim to “fame” is being banned from streaming on Twitch so many times they finally permanently blocked him, and being a simp for Taint. Honestly, I accuse myself of having no ambition sometimes, but at least I’ve never aspired to be that. I’d actually rather be me (and being me is not a barrel of laughs, I must say) than this substandard Taint wannabe… To make the whole thing funnier, Ross has basically admitted “whoops, yeah, I kind of did that, didn’t I”:

…Which is only slightly less stupid than exposing Tate’s plan to flee Romania, which in turn wasn’t as stupid as Tate admitting it in the first place. Let’s face it, Ross was a fucking idiot but his idol didn’t exactly display the greatest sense either…

Sydney Sweeney’s tits: saving Western civilisation

I don’t know much about Sydney Sweeney, who I gather is best known as a TV actress, but I do know that her cleavage has somehow become a flashpoint in the culture war.

Former (?) professional racist Richard Hanania decided that the presence of this undeniably perfectly attractive young woman and her pretty good cleavage on a TV program of variable relevance and mediocre ratings meant the end of “woke”, for reasons that, frankly, I don’t understand, because this is the modern world and there’s no obligation for things to make sense any more. There has been a fair bit of discourse as a result, because OBVIOUSLY; I’m not sure this was a particularly helpful contribution to it, mind you:

Sydney herself doesn’t appear to have offered any commentary of her own. She’s spoken of coming from a conservative family background but her own positions on such matters seem to be pretty much unknown, beyond the fact that she herself has been unhappy with her own boobs in the past. Whatever the case, though, it must feel weird at best being singled out by clowns like Hanania, Amy Hamm or Bridget Phetasy and pressed into absurd service for the right… in some respects, the fact that it’s women salivating as much as men is the oddest thing about it all, but then again there are “reasons” why Ms Sweeney is so important, as Amy Hamm explains:

We’ve spent years being chastised for desiring or admiring beauty — because beauty is rare and exclusionary, and to exclude is to hate — or so we’ve been scolded to accept by today’s diversity, equity, and inclusion fanatics. We aren’t supposed to admire Sweeney’s beauty; but we’ve done it anyways. The times, they are a-changin’. Aren’t they?
Recall the words of unrepentant thought criminal Jordan Peterson on the plus-sized model that graced the cover of Sports Illustrated two years back: “Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.” To this day the man is partly facing censure from his professional regulator over these words. We’ve all been pressured into pretending that we are bad people if we aren’t attracted to every influencer-wannabe who is unattractive by any reasonable standard of beauty. It is the adult equivalent of handing out prize ribbons to every kid on sports day — even to the kid that faceplanted in a mud puddle and couldn’t finish a potato sack race. Everyone wins, and everyone must be regarded as beautiful. Except, of course, the people who actually are.

There’s something really unpleasant underlying this particular take, and it’s there in the Jurr Durr reference; one of his more infamous “episodes” involved him sniping at a plus-size model of Asian extraction on the cover of Sports Illustrated‘s 2022 Swimsuit Issue. Whether he took issue with her size or her half-Japaneseness is something I still don’t know, but either way he copped a lot of shit for this as he should’ve done. He’s not obliged to find anyone attractive, obviously, cos no one is, but being quite so crass about it is unnecessary (much like everything else he says). And I’m fairly sure that’s the least of the things he’s said to piss off his higher-ups in the profession.

Like I said, I don’t know if size or ethnicity was JBP’s issue with Yumi Nu. However, Hamm’s invoking of DEI suggests to me that her issue might just be the latter… cos when the idiot right-wing starts whining about DEI these days, what do you think they’re mostly complaining about? When Boeing’s current woes started in January, who did the right-wing commentariat crap on about when they were talking about Boeing’s DEI policies producing unqualified pilots: fat people or black people? Perhaps I’m being uncharitable in assuming Hamm’s thoughts are similar, but I am not a charitable person. I mean… why aren’t we “supposed” to find Sydney Sweeney attractive? Who does Hamm think “DEI” wants us to find attractive instead? What makes Sweeney “actually” beautiful, unlike them?

The thing about this “authoritarian tolerance” Beeferson was pissing and moaning about and that Hamm evidently has issues with? It’s something only THEY feel. Like I said, JBP is not obliged to find Yumi Nu attractive. NO ONE is. It’s just these dickheads trying to feel oppressed. I feel ABSOLUTELY NO obligation to find anyone attractive, and I actually find most “beautiful” people… unmoving, shall we say. They don’t particularly interest me; I can look at them and see why people find them attractive but I don’t really care. Something about them leaves me cold (although, on the upside, this means I find very few people actively unattractive too; it takes a fair bit for me to find someone actually repulsive). This is not the case with, for example, Emilia Clarke, Dua Lipa (whose music I’m not big on but I like her), Anya Taylor-Joy, Kate Bush, Stevie Nicks, and, let’s be honest, quite a few of my female friends, some of the people I follow on Youtube, and the various other pretty young things you may see in the Important Images section. Maybe I don’t necessarily find someone overwhelmingly hot but they interest me somehow nonetheless.

And yes, many of these are admittedly white folks of the cis variety, indeed, some of them are even blonde. Like I said, I don’t feel obliged to find anyone attractive, so I don’t feel the obligation Peterson and Hamm seem to think I should feel as a good leftist to moon over “diverse” objects of desire. But I’m also not afraid to do that in the way they seem to be… somewhere deep down I feel like Jurr Durr feels some kind of fear that he might find a plus-size half-Asian model attractive, or a trans woman, or a perfectly “normal” cishet woman who’s just his political opposite. (Personally I find Chaya Raichik an absolute moral monster but I don’t find her displeasing to actually look at.)

Anyway, if nothing else, it’s been nice to see The Discourse turn its attention to something other than Taylor Swift for a few days. I suppose if someone starts accusing Sydney Sweeney’s cleavage of witchcraft some time soon, we’ll know she’s really arrived…

An out of context Bible verse

This is one of the best things I’ve seen in ages. What makes it even funnier is that the people behind it seem to be actual Christians, too, albeit Christians with a clearly developed sense of irony about Christian culture.

Nuke the entire pedantry from orbit

There’s been some amusement online about this act of international diplomacy from Marjorie Taylor-Greene:

I know nothing about Emily Maitlis other than that she’s ex-BBC and now does something called The News Agents. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, on the other hand, is one of the most monstrous people in American politics, which is quite an achievement, and this kerfuffle has had a lot of people amused, including MTG supporters posting it as if it were some sort of a win for her without realising just how much of a cunt it actually makes her look (of course, if you’re stupid enough to be an MTG supporter in the first place, you’d be stupid enough to miss the point of this too). But the most interesting response I saw came from someone, an avowed non-MTG fan, pissing and moaning about everyone using the words “Jewish space lasers” when she never actually said those words.

And this… confused me, cos I could’ve sworn… but! lo and behold, we actually HAVE been experiencing the Mandela Effect all this time on the Jewish space lasers thing! Marjorie’s original Facebook post, which she deleted but Media Matters got a screenshot of it somehow, does not in fact in fact use the phrase “Jewish space lasers”! Or any variant thereof, or even the word “Jewish”. So that bloke complaining about people misquoting her was, in fact, quite right. She never said anything about the Jews as such.

What she did invoke was “Rothschild Inc.” So she didn’t need to say the word “Jewish” or “Jews”. It was already implied.

I’m not sure what if anything the difference is between “Rothschild Inc.” and “Rothschild & Co.”; a quick search showed that Roger Kimmel, the VP of the former that MTG specifically names, has an email address pointing to the latter, so I suppose the difference is… nothing really? Anyway, the company is, obviously, owned by THOSE Rothschilds, without whom generations of conspiracy theorists and antisemites would’ve had to find someone else to blame for everything (apart from the Illuminati, of course), and, let’s face it, when you’re invoking “Rothschild Inc.” in the manner MTG did, you’re being disingenuous at best.

So she didn’t actually say “Jewish space lasers” per se. She didn’t need to. The dogwhistle was there anyway and it lacked subtlety. Hilariously, she later tried to claim that she had no idea the Rothschilds were actually Jewish until all this bullshit blew up, and, well, this IS Marjorie Taylor-Greene we’re dealing and her being too ignorant to have known this is perfectly plausible… but I don’t buy it somehow. She is obviously far from giant intellect, but I don’t think she’s quite as stupid she tends to come across.

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A slight bit of nudity, plus evidence that Australia didn’t know what punk rock was in the 70s…

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Choose your candidates carefully

Mark Robinson’s Bizarre Ramble: ‘I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn’t Vote’

On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won the GOP primary to become his party’s nominee for North Carolina governor, presumably with the help of female voters.
But just four years ago, Robinson invoked a bizarre hypothetical in which he said he’d “absolutely” like to return to the days when the 19th Amendment didn’t exist ― when women didn’t have the right to vote.
“I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,” Robinson said in a newly resurfaced video of his remarks at a March 2020 event hosted by the Republican Women of Pitt County.
During this event, Robinson, who was running for lieutenant governor at the time, recalled someone recently asking conservative activist Candace Owens to pick which version of America would make America “great again,” one where “Black people were swinging from cheap trees” or one where women weren’t allowed to vote.
Robinson said he would definitely return to the days in America when women were denied the right to vote “because in those days we had people who fought for real social change, and they were called Republicans.”

I gather that female suffrage was a “real social change” the good senator disapproves of, though:

The North Carolina Republican’s longing for the days when women couldn’t vote ties into his history of demeaning women and mocking feminism, especially on social media. He’s claimed that feminism was created by Satan. He’s said that men who identify as feminists are “about as MANLY as a pair of lace panties” and are “weak mined, jelly backed ‘men.’” He’s routinely referred to feminists as “fem-nazis” and, in one particularly colorful post, described those who support equal rights for women as “sexist, hairy armpit having, poo-poo hat wearing pinkos.”
“The only thing worse than a woman who doesn’t know her place, is a man who doesn’t know his,” he wrote on Facebook in December 2017.

This is Mark Robinson, by the way:

And with all due respect to him, I say, SIR. You are one of the last people who should be talking about other people not knowing their place, cos there’s a shitload of white men and women in the party you stand for who’d love to tell you to know YOUR place—and how, if he’d been in North Carolina 200 years ago, that place would’ve been in servitude, not the Senate. Also, he’s been prone to quoting Hitler in the past and promoting various conspiracy theories, including…

Seriously, I read about this in the article and had to see it for myself before I could quite believe it. WOOF!

HOLY FUCK, SIMON COWELL IS THE ILLUMINATI! No, seriously, Mark Keith Robinson believes, or at least did so in 2015 (and I see no reason to assume he doesn’t still), that competition shows like American Idol and Dancing With the Stars are forerunners of the fucking New World Order. I mean… Stalin’s trials were about eliminating his enemies. That’s slightly different from the Idol remit of finding someone to front a pre-fabricated pop career for a record company… like, Kelly Clarkson won the very first series but they didn’t then execute the ones who lost. They got eliminated from the show but not existence. The Old Bolsheviks didn’t have to demonstrate which of them was the best at big band jazz. Jesus fuck.

And THIS is what the Republicans are offering in North Carolina. Sending their best, indeed.

He lives?

So James Somerton might indeed be OK after all? Someone reached out to his writer Nick Herrgott and got this response:

So that’s… OK then? Cos “nothing to worry about” is a bit vague; as others have said, it could mean James did try something but failed and is being cared for, or it could mean James was full of shit all along and faking for attention/sympathy. The former situation is bad, obviously, but the second one is a lot worse.

In any case, Peter Coffin’s still having a normal one:

Although for champion bad take on the affair, I think I have to give it to some Twitter shithead who said that if Hbomberguy’s not responsible for the bad behaviour of his fans and followers, you can’t hold Trump responsible for his either. Because there are SO MANY PARALLELS AND SIMILARITIES between an English Youtuber and a self-avowed would-be dictator, aren’t there.

“Bastard” is a slur now?

Person identified after Margaret Thatcher statue vandalised

Police said they have identified a person after an appeal for information after a statue of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher was vandalised.
However, at the time of writing this had not led to an arrest.
Lincolnshire Police said the sculpture in her birthplace of Grantham had “been defaced with a slur written in red paint”.
The force issued a CCTV image of the incident which was believed to have happened at about midnight on Tuesday.

For reasons best known to themselves, the BBC then left the picture out of their article, so I grabbed it from elsewhere:

Doesn’t exactly look like your normal vandal, does she? She looks old enough to remember Thatcher when she was PM. And I for one am fully in favour of this dear old lady being hunted down and caught, and made to write the word “cunt” on the statue instead of just “bastard”. I mean, if you’re going to vandalise a memorial to one of England’s worst people, the least you can do is not mince words. In any case, I’ve no doubt that if they do catch her, she’ll have people lining up to pay any fine she may attract…