rusbots and xibots

[George.]

No way to know THE truth, all you can do is compare stories.

How Goebbels

[sandtown]

You appear to be disagreeing with Dr Mary Hickman, unless ethnic jokes about the Irish are not racist.

A good rule of thumb is that one is only allowed to mock one's own ethnicity . .

so yes, I have a store of Irish jokes.

[Peerie Maa]

A good rule of thumb is that one is only allowed to mock one's own ethnicity . .

so yes, I have a store of Irish jokes.

You of Irish stock?

I heard tell (probably an urban myth) that the Irish tell Kerryman jokes. Any truth in that?

[Chip-skiff]

I heard tell (probably an urban myth) that the Irish tell Kerryman jokes. Any truth in that?

The great Irish playwright and author, Brendan Behan, self-described as a "jackeen from the North Dublin slums" was extremely fond of jokes about the bog trotters of the west, whom he tagged as great hulking brutes redolent of turf fires, with the ****e of their cows still clinging to their boots, and so forth.

Which renders this photo of Behan on a visit to Connemara all the more of a laugh: only look at the face on the man.

[Chip-skiff]

The ethnic/religious minority in Tibet hasn't fared well during the brutal Chinese conquest.

Any precooked explanations for that?

[George.]

I see HR popped into the China balloon thread, to rant about... Uighurs and covid.

He made no comment at all on the subject of the thread.

Perhaps he didn't get the talking points about it from the CCP yet.

[Peerie Maa]

This explains why, without captions, people are unable to tell the difference between a photo of Joe Frazier and Prince Harry ! And all those benighted fools breeding dogs, cats, horses, cows, apples, apricots, plums and pears -- grapes ! Merlot is silly, a grape is a grape is a grape and a grape by any other name will taste the same ! Darwin and Linnaeus with their troglodyte evolution and genetics, silly old men, the products of a benighted age of ignorance !

It's truly gratifying what political correctness has brought to the sciences !

The word and concept of "Race" is the hom sap exact equivalent of "Breed" in domesticated animals. All Hom Sap, all dogs, cats , cows, horses, and sheep are each the same species, can interbreed within the species, and breed true if not interbred.

It is just human pridefulness that requires a different word, but the meaning is exactly the same.

[birlinn]

The word and concept of "Race" is the hom sap exact equivalent of "Breed" in domesticated animals. All Hom Sap, all dogs, cats , cows, horses, and sheep are each the same species, can interbreed within the species, and breed true if not interbred.

It is just human pridefulness that requires a different word, but the meaning is exactly the same.

I don't think that the term "half-breed" is too popular these days for describing persons of mixed race.

[Peerie Maa]

I don't think that the term "half-breed" is too popular these days for describing persons of mixed race.

Very true. Who should care, it is not as though Hom Sap competes for "Best of Breed" any more. Eugenics has been ruled immoral as well.

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

Metisse???

Metisse.jpg

[Peerie Maa]

Not just him. His screw is not as loose Heimlagas.

Back on topic, and WRT a recently departed rusbot

With respect to the Vladimir/Johan/sock puppet/propagandist argument. . . .

Just out of curiosity, I did a little googling. According to the Humanitarian Data Exchange's dataset Aid Worker KIKA (Killed, Injured, Kidnapped or Arrested) Data at https://data.humdata.org/dataset/sin...er-kka-dataset, there have been no international aid workers injured in Ukraine so far, and just one international aid worker killed in Ukraine. That occurred 25 April 2022, in Zaporizhia Oblast at 47.839 N 35.141 E (+/- 25 km), in "open space" (rather than a building, say). No incident description is given. The victim was killed by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (natch) with a firearm. And the victim worked for a human rights NGO.

As far as other aid workers go, there have been, so far, none injured and just 4 killed in Ukraine, all by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation:

- 2 killed on 15 March 2022 in Donetsk Oblast at 47.096 N 37.550 E when "March 2022: An INGO building was destroyed and two female aid workers were killed when a Russian tank fired at the building."

- 1 killed on 8 April 2022 in Donetsk Oblast at 48.739 N 37.584 E when "April 2022: An NGO volunteer was killed in a train station attack while he was helping IDPs board evacuation trains." The means was "Aerial bombing, missiles, and shelling." The victim worked in "protection".

- 1 killed on 15 December 2022 in Kherson Oblast at 46.641 N 37.550 E when "15 December 2022: A volunteer health worker was killed when the NGO facility was hit by Russian shells." The victim worked for the Ukrainian Red Cross.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Very true. Who should care, it is not as though Hom Sap competes for "Best of Breed" any more. Eugenics has been ruled immoral as well.

Of course homo sapiens competes in “Best of Breed” competitions!

Here’s a best of breed competition !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Universe_2022

Note however that the winner has an American mother and a Filipino father. Some such international parentage is now almost a requirement for beauty pageants.

In fact when my niece was runner up in … yes, really… her University beauty pageant her tutor remarked that she actually isn’t “mestiza” (except through her grandmother, who is half Spanish) and is actually a Filipina.

[George.]

Nice to see you mocking a torture victim, HR. You must be a really fine person.

So, nothing to say on the Chinese spy balloon?

[George.]

Interestingly enough, there is a xibot in the comments section of the Ars Technica article I linked to in the Chinese balloon thread.

He shows up around the third comments page, and his MO is remarkably like HR's.

[Chris Woodward]

So what really happened at Tiananmen Square?
Asking for a friend.

[Chris Woodward]

But if they are so happy and content why would they want to overthrow the very system that makes them so? I don't understand.

[Peerie Maa]

Of course homo sapiens competes in “Best of Breed” competitions!

Here’s a best of breed competition !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Universe_2022

Note however that the winner has an American mother and a Filipino father. Some such international parentage is now almost a requirement for beauty pageants.

In fact when my niece was runner up in … yes, really… her University beauty pageant her tutor remarked that she actually isn’t “mestiza” (except through her grandmother, who is half Spanish) and is actually a Filipina.

Do you still watch that meat market?

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

Well so much for improving the breed

For that you need a meet market. -> try Tinder

[Chris Woodward]

When the south wanted to rebel, Abraham Lincoln unleashed a war five years long that killed many more than tian an men. Do Chinese people bring that up every other sentence ? "Oooh, what happened at Fort Sumter ?"


Why did the January 6 people attack the capitol, cause millions in damage, and try to burn it down ? I guess US democracy is a failure, eh ?

If you heard about both of these alleged incidents from the Western press than you can be sure that it is fake news. They never happened.
Sure there were a few malcontents like John Brown that tried to start a slave revolt. But that ended peacefully.
And Jan. 6 was just some rowdy tourists that had to much spiked Kool-Aid to drink at breakfast.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Do you still watch that meat market?

Beauty pageants are the Philippines national obsession - even more than basketball, boxing and chess*- and I can assure you they watch lots and lots of them.

Every town has its own pageant to choose the Queen of the fiesta, every province has a big one and they feed into the big national organisation - Bilimbing Pilipinas - which selects for and co-ordinates the nation’s entries for the half dozen or so big international beauty contests. The Philippines dominates international beauty contests! The nation doesn’t dominate anything much, but beauty pageants are almost a form of alternative warfare, and they absolutely dominate them. My favourite niece has spent years dodging selection for her home town’s pageant, but her University one, held concurrently with the provincial one, was a Big Deal, and her university faculty leaned on her to enter.

This involved a professional coach (gay, by definition) and dance partner and several costumes and trips to the beauty salon, and a lot of rehearsals. First picture, taken by her on her phone, shows an early rehearsal and the arrow points to the girl with the most professional stance:



She didn’t want video of her taking part on social media, so none was taken but she did get a snap of her sashes:






* Top three chess nations by number of Grand Masters - Russia, the UK and the Philippines - bet you didn’t know that!



She and her two fellow team members were also runners up in university debating competition across a dozen provinces - but nobody cares about that!

[L.W. Baxter]

Actually, there have been a lot of riots in US history and a lot of mass murders carried out by the governments, see columbine massacre for one (the original one).

how could you possibly know that? you don't even live here.

[Peerie Maa]

Beauty pageants are the Philippines national obsession - even more than basketball, boxing and chess - and I can assure you they watch lots and lots of them.

Every town has its own pageant to choose the Queen of the fiesta, every province has a big one and they feed into the big national organisation - Bilimbing Pilipinas - which selects for and co-ordinates the nation’s entries for the half dozen or so big international beauty contests. My favourite niece has spent years dodging selection for her home town’s pageant, but runner up for her University one, held concurrently with the provincial one, was a Big Deal, and her university faculty leaned on her to enter.

This involved a professional coach (gay, by definition) and dance partner and several costumes and trips to the beauty salon, and a lot of rehearsals:












She and her two fellow team members were also runners up in university debating competition across a dozen provinces - but nobody cares about that!

Well as long as the contestants are happy, who cares. You will have to agree that it is now a tad passe in our neck of the woods.

[birlinn]

Irony meter failure.
Chinese ones not very reliable!

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Irony meter failure.
Chinese ones not very reliable!

You say that whilst watching a nation of 350 million people obsessing over a balloon!

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

For that you need a meet market. -> try Tinder

Chapeau!

[L.W. Baxter]

Do you really think that's cute ?

It's not. It's stupid...

alls i'm sayin is, if you haven't talked to my neighbors, all the americans i have met, you can't know what is really happening. your own experience and observations are moot.

just this morning on my perimeter walk i ran into my my back corner neighbor. he has a lot of really solid information to relay from fox news. ended up i bet him a c-note that trump will not regain the presidency in 2024. now we wait.

[Canoeyawl]

You say that whilst watching a nation of 350 million people obsessing over a balloon!

Arguably healthier than obsessing over the body proportions of young women

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Arguably healthier than obsessing over the body proportions of young women

It never happens in America :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego..._United_States

Nations that cannot put a man on the moon, or shoot down a balloon, can at least give a girl a sash, but the USA does all three!

[Gary Davis]

Beauty pageants are the Philippines national obsession - even more than basketball, boxing and chess*- and I can assure you they watch lots and lots of them.

Every town has its own pageant to choose the Queen of the fiesta, every province has a big one and they feed into the big national organisation - Bilimbing Pilipinas - which selects for and co-ordinates the nation’s entries for the half dozen or so big international beauty contests. The Philippines dominates international beauty contests! The nation doesn’t dominate anything much, but beauty pageants are almost a form of alternative warfare, and they absolutely dominate them. My favourite niece has spent years dodging selection for her home town’s pageant, but her University one, held concurrently with the provincial one, was a Big Deal, and her university faculty leaned on her to enter.

This involved a professional coach (gay, by definition) and dance partner and several costumes and trips to the beauty salon, and a lot of rehearsals. First picture, taken by her on her phone, shows an early rehearsal and the arrow points to the girl with the most professional stance:



She didn’t want video of her taking part on social media, so none was taken but she did get a snap of her sashes:






* Top three chess nations by number of Grand Masters - Russia, the UK and the Philippines - bet you didn’t know that!



She and her two fellow team members were also runners up in university debating competition across a dozen provinces - but nobody cares about that!

What is with those shoes?

[CWSmith]

Arguably healthier than obsessing over the body proportions of young women

I confess that I feel the same. There is so much to celebrate about young women, but we seem determined to build self-image issues when someone does not match a particular ideal.

The fact that the USA still does it, too, is very poor justification.

[Osborne Russell]

how could you possibly know that? you don't even live here.

Zang!

[Osborne Russell]

Originally Posted by HRDavies

When the south wanted to rebel, Abraham Lincoln unleashed a war five years long that killed many more than tian an men. Do Chinese people bring that up every other sentence ? "Oooh, what happened at Fort Sumter ?"

Huh huh uh huh uh huh

Why did the January 6 people attack the capitol, cause millions in damage, and try to burn it down ? I guess US democracy is a failure, eh ?

Like the commies they are in the grip of an authoritarian ideology. No one said the commies were the first, or the last. On the contrary.

[Peerie Maa]

I confess that I feel the same. There is so much to celebrate about young women, but we seem determined to build self-image issues when someone does not match a particular ideal.

The fact that the USA still does it, too, is very poor justification.

Which can be really harmfull to susceptible people.

[CWSmith]

Which can be really harmfull to susceptible people.

Horribly! And let's be honest, all young women are susceptible because they are still trying to establish their own worth in the eyes of others. It's just a matter of degree.

[Dave Wright]

What is with those shoes?

And more importantly, who would convince a young woman to wear them, and why?