So yesterday I was looking through a stock image collection to find an appropriately smug woman to illustrate my post on the alleged secret plans of female supremacists to take away men’s rights. I went for a picture of a woman wearing a crown. But there were so many other choices! And they all seemed to involve women pointing at themselves.
So ,in the tradition of The Hairpin’s famous post “Women Laughing Alone With Salad,” I present to you “Women Pointing at Themselves Alone (Without Salad).”
Well that’s enough of that for now.
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In fairness, Pluto was just the blooming Ceres thing all over again.
History doesn’t repeat, but it sure as hell rhymes.
@Alan:
*starts singing On Ilkley Moor Baht ‘At*
Amusingly, I actually ended up singing that in a church once, over in British Columbia. It was a farewell dinner for a lay reader that was quite well liked by the congregation (better than most of the actual priests we’d had recently) and he was actually from Ilkley originally. He could boom that song out across the church hall with the best of them.
Still my favorite version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8MWb1FlODQ
ETA: I know I’ve posted this here before, since Alan admired it, but Impatient and Gorgeous Bitch Becky hasn’t seen it, and probably a few others beside.
The hill I am willing to die on (and apologies if I mentioned this here before):
Pluto should be granted the title planet emeritus. Ceres, too, I would say.
I’ll leave it to the Brits to sort out the henge thing. But if I had a choice of being an official henge, or being the subject of a Spinal Tap song, I know which one I’d pick.
@Victorious Parasol
Thanks. Cool.
My boss who cued me into this blog likes you. She doesn’t like everybody. Thus: I take that seriously. I’ll read here more.
@Impatient and Gorgeous Bitch Becky
I’m honored by your boss’ compliment. Thank you for passing it along.
@ jenora & Vicky P
I do love that version, especially when BRIAN BLESSED appears.
Ilkley Moor has quite a nice stone circle. Although it’s probably more accurately described as various people’s attempts to reconstruct the original.
The moor is more famous though for its collection of cup and ring stones.
Hmm, this didn’t link properly and now it won’t let me edit; but more on cup and ring stones….
http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/rombaldsmoor.htm
@Alan: It’s even more effective since it’s that once that he goes full BRIAN BLESSED. You notice.
I saw a cup and ring stone in Scotland once, and the answer to “what are they for and why are there so many of them?” is officially ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ gss ex-noob
No one knows who they were
Or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock of………Stone’enge
This popped up, and seems apposite for next time there’s an incel post.
@Alan: Did you see where they’re making a new Spinal Tap movie with all the originals?
There were some excess concrete slabs in the back (about 3 feet tall) when we bought the house, and we seriously considered turning them into a trilithon (even did the figuring of where midsummer sunrise would shine through it), but it would have been difficult to mow around, so the Mr. just took a sledgehammer to them and they went in the garbage can. We certainly would have had an epic party to dedicate it and our friends would have danced around to that song. Could have put Barbie and Ken into tunics and posed them with it.
I’ve got a “Build Your Own Stonehenge” kit the Mr. bought me after we decided against the concrete one.
https://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Stonehenge-Miniature-Editions/dp/0762443359
@ gss ex-noob
Ooh I had not. I’m not sure how to feel about that. The original film is so perfect my instinct is to just leave it be. Having said that, Tap live are amazing. So maybe they can take it in a new direction to coin a phrase.
Some friends have a couple of fallen standing stones (so I guess technically, just stones) on their land. We keep meaning to re-erect them. The original plane was to do it all authentically a la Wally Wallington style. But as time goes on I suspect we’ll resort to borrowing a JCB. I want to stick a digital watch in the hole; just to make a future edition of Time Team more interesting.
But speaking of stones, new find down here (I’m not actually convinced by it)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/19/rare-stone-circle-found-castilly-henge-prehistoric-ritual-site-cornwall
Here goes. Wish us luck!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/19/the-person-in-the-room-court-mulls-if-elephant-has-human-rights
Each time I come back to this thread I like that woman’s earrings. She has a good reason to point at herself!!!
@Alan, I only just saw that article this morning and was about to ask what you think – is there any chance? The (cynic?/realist??/pessimist???) in me thinks that the vast livestock agribusiness interests ranged against recognition of a non-human person’s personhood are just too great for any court to even come close to setting a precedent, but whatdoiknow :-\
On a happier note, I see that there appears to be a blooming cottage industry in chucking-eggs-and-stuff-at-the-new-Thatcher-statue, including an egg-seller setting up a pos (as in point of sale) right beside the PoS (as in Thatcher statue).
@Alan:
https://youtu.be/mbyzgeee2mg
(By Ylvis, the Norwegian comics who had an accidental hit a few years back with “What Does the Fox Say?”)
Another Yorkshire song that YouTube just recommended to me – Alan, I’m guessing you’ve seen this before.
@ Vicky P
I had not seen that! That’s brilliant though; I shall be sharing that immediately with all the other tykes.
I got all nostalgic; I recognised so many of those places. Especially all the rocks (perhaps unsurprisingly.)
This is my favourite Yorkshire song. By a friends’ band. It’s actually quite insulting. It’s aimed at a bunch of us who moved to London. Still love it though; and can’t argue it isn’t true.
@ moon custafer
Heh, things no one will ever understand, Stonehenge, magnets.
I do love Stonehenge; but I advise people visiting for the first time to exercise a little expectation management. Nearly all the photos are taken from the Heel Stone end of the Avenue; and that’s definitely the best view. Go round the back and it get’s a little tumbledown. That’s quite authentic though. Even when built, they only fancied up the bits you can see from that vantage point. They didn’t even dress the back of the stones where you can’t see.
Neolitic PFI probably.
I want those earrings too.
@Alan
Ooh, thanks for sharing that! I’ll have to see about Mr. Parasol hearing it; it’s the sort of music he likes.
@ opposable thumbs
We’re under no illusions about the battles ahead; but we’re in it for the long haul. It’s just a matter of constantly pushing and chipping away. The animal personhood crowd all know each other, so we liaise and try the arguments at any suitable opportunity. Whether big test cases like this, or just regular cases like my dog one. We have had a few successes, like Cecilia.
The main pushback in the Happy case is from zoos and exotic animal breeders. But as you rightly suppose, animal-ag really hate the personhood argument; and they are quite powerful.
Like this instance where they got an advert changed from “I don’t want to eat animals” to “I don’t want to eat meat.” And they weren’t even very happy with that compromise.
But the tide is turning. A lot of it is economics. Having plant based options is highly profitable. Consumers are increasingly swapping meat for plant based alternatives. Even if not full time. ‘Flexitarians’ and ‘Reducitarians’ are a big market. Something like 90% of Quorn sales are to meat eaters who just want to cut down a bit. There are a number of drivers for that. With the more woke folk it is the ethics and environmental impact. But for the average punter it’s health. Ironically the covid had a big impact there.
We also though have a lot of success with just plain old cashing in on the public’s disdain at being ripped off. Undercover filming works really well here. Obviously some people will be shocked into avoiding meat by the cruelty issues. But for a lot of people it’s seeing how scuzzy the product is that they’re paying good money for. It’s like with the horsemeat scandals. But show a few rotting unattended corpses or animals with tumours and that puts people off their dinners.
@Alan: I saw both of those stories yesterday and thought of you. I fear the best that could happen for the heffalump is relocation to a wildlife preserve, but that beats a zoo.
Why aren’t you sure about the new find? And I encourage the placing of a digital watch or useless old cell phone underneath the re-standing stones, fwiw.
I myself love meat, but I’ve got a half pound of Beyond in the fridge for tonight’s dinner. I’ve tried Impossible, but alas it lives up to the name. Tasted like plastic. I was comforted by a vegan friend saying it tasted like plastic to her too. She’s Jewish, so being vegan also saves all sorts of faffing about wondering what’s kosher; I know some Muslims who’ve gone veg so they don’t have to pay the ridiculous prices for halal meat.
Our local halal grocer doesn’t pretty it up — there’s a guy in a butcher’s apron with a cleaver hacking away at a sheep carcass right as you come in the door. No neatly wrapped packages of cuts, you know what you’re getting. And the grandmas tell him in no uncertain terms; I don’t speak the language at all, but “picky matriarch demanding the best” sounds the same in all tongues. He’s a grumpy guy with a fearsome glare, but is meek as can be with them.
@Alan
Mr. Parasol thanks you for the recommendation. He’d heard a couple of their other tracks, but not that particular one.