Sunday, 24 April 2022

Mixed up Memes

There is no common theme today, just a random selection.

Semi topical Dune related meme. Bless his cottons sacks he's an angry ballbag of a man. 


Pertinent to a video I will share in another post.


How did Data cope.


I almost feel sorry for the bloke in the lower panel who has had his picture purloined to poke fun at hipstrs.


We have all been there.


Some uncomfortable truth. You are a long time dead, and no one on their death bed is going to be thinking ... "I wish I spent more time at work."


This is the way...


THE ARGUMENT FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY


Ginger Economics

 Things people don't necessarily think of when they shop for those special fresh ingredients.

For instance, 75gm frozen Root Ginger from one of the big four is £1.50 (from £7.92/kg). Or 300gm Fresh root Ginger, £1.58 (£5.25/kg) ... clearly you do the leg work when it comes to chopping it and storing it.



Sunday, 10 April 2022

Memes again ... but that's memetics.

I often wonder if people actually know what memetics is as a subject. People throw the word meme about left right and centre, but of course, memes follow memetics. `Meme' wasn't a new word when memes found their feet on social media. 

Ask a meme poster what memetics is? I reckon 90% or more will tell you it's posting funnies on Facebook or the like.

Memetics, Wikipedia

Anyway on with the show.

Nerd meme, explains itself. Context ... literally anything that fits.


Self-Explanatory and especially useful for checking your ego at the door


I don't agree with all the Atlas Society says or posts, but as a general rule, Thomas Sowell quotes never fail to hit the spot.


A memetic innuendo punarama 


Oh Dear ... didn't take long did it. I've had this one saved for over a month, I reckon this popped up three maybe four days after the invasion of Ukraine


Yoda it is .... hmmmm


Anyway, that's enough of that. I shall bid you, fare well (as in being excellent to yourself and others, and in doing so fare well). And also, goodnight ... though in the context of the reader, goodnight may be a relative term. However, whenever you read this, wherever you are around the world and the clock, when the time comes sentiment still applies, it is timeless.



Joe Rogan, Siddharth Kara: Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.

Ok, so this isn’t my usual fare (and hello … I have been absent, it happens, I’m a very busy man all of a sudden). Below is an economist Edi...