Throw Tonight's ONT Into The Harbor!

Howdy Horde! Welcome to Thursday night! Did you ever get the feeling that there is nothing new under the sun?

Apologizes in advance, tonight's ONT is going to be leaning heavily on Twitter and YouTube content. I try not to use more than a few links from those sources because I know that it can bog down the ONT experience* for some of you, but I've got content backing up in my ONT browser and I want to clear it out.

*Note to self: Copyright “The ONT experience”. When it becomes either a band or a catchphrase, it doesn't matter, I'll be rich!

First Up, Content From Jim SND

What can I say? He's a cat guy. OTOH, it does capture cats perfectly. Who knew demanding that humans serve you would be a good survival strategy (Besides Democrats, I mean)?

Musical Jenga

Two weeks ago I posted a video of a group of people who made a great song that started with a clip of a cat lapping up milk. Musician after musician added their own talent to create a crowd sourced video. Frankly, I liked it. I liked it a lot. I even used lyrics from the last guy in the clip as the titles for both my ONTs that week (I investigated and found out that he's a guy who likes to contribute to videos like this, and ad-libs the lyrics. (If you missed it, the clip is here))

In any event, that kind of thing, enabling human creativity, voluntarily, collectively, is one of the things that I like best about the internet. (There's a dark side to it, see below) I've since found out that there is a sub-reddit devoted to things like this that's called “Musical Jenga”. I dunno where the name came from, in Jenga you're subtracting blocks, while this is adding blocks, but it is what it is. Here's a link to the sub-reddit if you're interested: Musical Jenga

The Dark Side

The internet allows creative people to come together and produce something wonderful, as above, but it also amplifies the tiniest bizarre thing and makes it seem mainstream, even normal. For example, suppose someone gets the idea in their mind that they want to stick their dick in a garbage disposal. In the past, if they mentioned it to anyone, they would rightfully be told that they were crazy, and would be encouraged (sometimes forcefully), to just drop the whole thing. Now, however, our perspective dick eviscerator can go online and find a group of people who share his fetish, and they will support and encourage him, telling him that his desire is normal, even beneficial. It doesn't even matter that the community is comprised of a couple of dozen people out of a worldwide population of billions. No, the smallest, craziest, most bizarre thing will be amplified all out of proportion, and this is not a good thing. Couple that with a western society that seems determined to coddle the weirdest and kinkiest fetish as “your truth”, and you get a society on the express train to collapse.

Pretty Cool

God bless those guys for delivering closure to grieving families.

Fantastic Twitter Follow

This account specializes in telling the story behind obscure historical events with panache and humor. For example, the above is the first tweet in a tweetstorm about the time a US Navy squadron just happened to bump into The United States. First tweet in the series after this one starts:

In 1923, Captain Edward H Watson of the US Navy had the unexpected honour of discovering California.

The inevitable court martial didn't quite describe it in those terms.

Brilliant stuff. Click through and read all of his stories, it'll occupy you for hours.

How To Be A MAN

This guy gets it. Funny thing is, I don't even know his name. I'm a sports fan, but NBA basketball? I'm about as interested in it as I am in Indian male field hockey. (I understand that men playing field hockey is a big thing in India, but over here it's a woman's sport and I know nothing about it except that in high school, we had a field day where those of us from the boy's school played a game against the girl's school and they kicked our sorry asses up one side and down another (I attended a high school with separate boys and girls schools on the same campus)).

The thing that gets me about this clip is that what that man is talking about are the exact lessons that fathers are supposed to teach their sons. Honesty. Humility. We're told that “masculinity” is “toxic”, and as such we need to remove “masculinity” from our culture. Maybe that would be true if masculinity was as they portray it: A feral jungle survival-of-the-fittest life where the biggest, strongest man imposes his will and strength to crush the weaker to his momentary desire. That's not masculinity, that's bestiality. Masculinity is honor, humility, courage, protection, strength and a willingness to sacrifice yourself for the ones you love, and even for those that you don't know, but are in need. That's what my father taught me, and it's the bedrock upon which Western, classically liberal society is founded.

But hey, what do I know? I'm an anachronistic fossil who believes that men and women, while different, but equal, are complementary and that it takes the two of them together in harmony to raise balanced children. That's been the case for all of human history, but now we know better and should encourage women to eschew men in favor of a government that will replace men with welfare payouts, and BTW, have as many kids as you want, I'm sure all of them will turn out just GREAT without a father in their lives.

What If Star Wars Was A Western?

Tea Time

Today is the 248th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. If you'd like background on the event, and context as to where it fit in the timeline leading up to the American Revolution, I gotcha covered, fam.

American Revolution: Boston Tea Party

Particularly notable is the following passage:

Taking great care to avoid damaging private property, they ventured into the ships' holds and began removing the tea. Breaking open the chests, they tossed it into Boston Harbor. In the course of the night, all 342 chests of tea aboard the ships were destroyed. The East India Company later valued the cargo at £9,659. Quietly withdrawing from the ships, the "raiders" melted back into the city.

The only property damage outside of property belonging to the East India Company was the breaking of a single lock that belonged to the captain of one of the ships, and some patriots returned the next day and reimbursed him for the cost of the lock. Now tell me, which does that sound more like, the Tea Party rallies a decade ago, or any leftist demonstration since?

Just A Reminder

Question Of The Day

What was something that was common and fun when you were a kid that they don't do anymore? I offer balloon ascensions. We used to do them when I was in elementary school. All the kids would but a balloon (or more than one) with a post paid card attached with their name on it. On ascension day all the balloons would be released, and whoever's card was mailed back from furthest away won a prize. It was a lot of fun. What you got, Horde?

Stop, He's Already Dead!

Here's a link to @Gitabushi absolutely flaying a never Trumper (who may be familiar to some of y'all) to absolute whale shit.

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