Persiflage

August 9, 2016 • 2:15 pm

I am back from Poznan, had dinner and cherry pie, and now can’t brain. You will have to be satisfied with persiflage today. The good news is that there are two bits of it here.

It seems to be not unusual (at least if you look at YouTube) for a squirrel to steal a GoPro camera, take it up a tree, and then drop it, with the camera filming the entire event. (I’m sure the photographers plan on this, maybe even baiting the camera with noms.)

I posted one of these a long while ago, and of course someone cried that the film was faked. Well, I won’t rule it out entirely here, as that’s not scientific, but this one looks real to me:

And this, which I find hilarious:

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28 thoughts on “Persiflage”

    2. If a mandatory orchiectomy was part of the syllabus for the training of all “holy” men the world would be a much better place.

      1. Do you do the ball-docking (is that what “orchiectomy” means? Yes, it seems so.) at the start of training, or at the end, as part of the “final examination”?
        Serious question. I’d ball-dock people on entry to the seminary, party because it sounds right, but mostly because culling the credulous early is likely to improve the species as fast as possible. (Caveat : choosing to enter the semenary should be voluntary.)

        1. Onset of puberty.

          I say this as the servant of various male cats over the years, several of whom were not neutered until certain unpleasant (from my point of view) habits had become ingrained.

          1. And since the Catholic church has employed castrated boys in their church choirs since the 16th century it’s not as if this would be a new policy on their part.

          2. While that doesn’t fuss me, some people are attached to the idea of having children.
            [SELF] Off to the gene labs to work on the human-terminating germ weapons.

  3. I’m wondering why anybody would bother faking a squirrel-steals-GoPro video when it seems so much easier to let a real squirrel do the work.

    1. My thought too. In fact I’m not sure exactly how you *could* fake it. Other than extensive CGI.

      cr

  4. Re the Pope: Can’t help but think of the famous Marilyn Monroe photo. However, I’m grateful that we didn’t have to see the Pope’s legs (and other parts?!)

    1. The pope and his clerical cabal reserves that special treat for underage children.

      It’s a sin to do this with another consenting adult, don’t you know.

    1. I think either 1), his bib’s on backwards, or 2), he lost hold of the pizza he was twirling.

  9. As I understand it the Cone of Shame is intended to stop a kitteh from licking his balls.

    I expect it works on Pope Francis too.

    cr

      1. Such that: .all of this ‘information’. about the Papally Draped One could, please Mr Darrelle and infiniteimprobabilit, be formatted into a PoHuff clickbaiting headline, not ? !

        Blue

        1. *laughing* (out loud even)

          I don’t have the wit, but I know I few of the regulars around here could compose some appropriately humorous clickbaiting headlines.

        2. 🙂

          Oh dear.

          How about “The Pope does not lick his own balls” ?

          Leaves a number of possibilities open.

          cr

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