Why? Is having daughters more or less moral than having sons? Or do you think their parents used eugenics to choose the sex? I'm not sure what your point is.
Our mother was Scots-Irish (her clan, among others, was forced to move from Scotland to Ireland, so my sister generically refers to the Colonial British as "The Fucking English".
My beloved is from Nepal, and still has close family in Kathmandu who are mostly middle aged people whose kids have moved to other countries for opportunities they couldn't get back home. His family is, historically, privileged without actually being prominent or wealthy. Everyone back home is OK, but they found it all very worrisome and scary.
Over the years since Nepal kicked the king out, there has been a little revolving door parade of the same people at the top of the same parties moving in and out of the prime minister's chair bringing preferment to their followers. The parties battle for supremacy within government as far as appointments and offices go, but there is no real concept of "constituent service" so Nepal remains one of the poorest countries in the world and the people who are at the bottom feel disconnected from government.
Additionally, Nepal sits between India and China, both of which have a history of fomenting unrest within specific communities and engaging in a little proxy wrangling using the unfortunate people of Nepal. They've both treated Nepal badly.
For example, I'm not sure if anything has changed recently, but for the longest time, despite Nepal's incredible hydroelectric potential (given the number and strength of the rivers that rise in the Himalayas), they were never allowed to take advantage of that potential with dams because treaties and agreements wouldn't allow them to diminish the volume of rivers that flowed into India. So with all the hydroelectric potential in the world, newspapers in Kathmandu still had to publish load-shedding schedules so people would know when the electricity would be unavailable... and since all fuel oil (for generators) was required to be imported through India... it was hardly a mutually beneficial relationship.
The new PM, Karki, has a reputation for being anti-corruption and for standing up for her beliefs (she was jailed for political activity on the part of reformers during the 1990 protests and was targeted for impeachment as a Supreme Court justice for not caving to political pressure), so let's hope for the best, but the situation remains fundamentally pretty unstable and shitty.
"Protestors also rescued the wheelchair-bound wife of Energy Minister Sharad Singh Bhandari after her dickbag husband abandoned her and fled the country."
As we all know, I love my Wonkette to the death, most especially including Marcie. But I am unfortunately contractually compelled to point out that "wheelchair bound" is **probably** incorrect here.
As it happens, wheelchairs do not bind people. They set them free! Every single person who regularly uses a wheelchair is more mobile because of that. If they were wheelchair **bound** that would imply the wheelchair was preventing them from moving around, no?
There is a long history of the "wheelchair bound" phrase, and for my entire life and probably longer it has been solidly in the universe of idiomatic expressions whose actual meaning no one thinks about when used. Brains tend to process only the idiomatic meaning, not the literal. But honestly the meaning bound up in the phrase is that **wheelchairs are bad, actually.** And this has real world consequences with people doubled over in pain but not using mobility aids because they don't want to be disabled, as if it's the wheelchair and not the immobilizing pain that is the disability.
I want people to freely access the tools that help them, whatever they are, and not be so embarrassed by "claiming disability" when they "aren't really disabled" that they think using a wheelchair is somehow wrong OR that wheelchairs will confine them more than their own medical conditions.
The entire point of the wheelchair is to set people free. it is bizarre and antithetical to speak of being "wheelchair bound" unless you're a kinkster freak talking about a particular incident involving leather cuffs, d rings, bungie cords, actual chains and, yes, a wheelchair.
I'll give you that one. That really is being wheelchair bound. And if the energy minister's wife was stuck in Nepal because she was chained to a mobility device during some VERY Wonkette-approved sex games, then had her husband free the country while forgetting to unlock the VERY not-Wonkette-approved cloud leopard-fur lined cuffs, then, yes, she was wheelchair-bound and probably needed liberation very badly because nobody negotiates being immobilized until their spouse gets back from London in a few months after the violence calms down.
But if not that, she was probably just a regular wheelchair user who maybe needed even more help than the wheelchair could give because Nepal, being a mountain kingdom, has stairs everywhere.
I agree that the better phrase would be wheelchair user.
However bound can mean "confined to" but can also mean "is limited to". In this instance it's clearly meant her mobility is limited to using a wheelchair rather than being able to walk or use a stick. Or she is being confined to using a wheelchair for movement. Not that she's being tied into the chair, wrong type of confined.
I agree that people are stupid and often will not use the tools available to them preferring to use bootstraps instead of common sense. I also understand the people who would rather struggle because they don't want to loose their independence or change how they view themselves. My mother was told by the doctors to take it easy because of her heart and what did she do? She went flat out and made herself bed bound for a weekend.
Because a huge range of people with vast different levels of both health and disability use wheelchairs, I will point out that not all wheelchair users are able to transfer themselves in or out of the seat without people to help, or are able to use their arms to move themselves and have to be pushed (always ask first). Some people can take some steps once they're out the chair, others cannot. Some people are very healthy except they use a wheelchair. The people who probably were her helpers might have fled with her dickhead husband. It's why the protesters lifted her out and carried her on a normal chair.
Also you need to have accessibility for wheelchairs as standard because as you point out you cannot go up and down stairs, too steep a ramp or even move around in some shops or restaurants because they're not set out for people who aren't able to walk. My doctors office, was built in the 1980's so you'd think they'd have thought about wheelchair access beyond the ramp at the front door but no the internal corridors are tiny, the doors are just wide enough to let a wheelchair through. They had a fire extinguisher in the hallway making it impossible to get past.
Do you also not like the phrase "bed bound" or "desk bound"? ie so ill confined to bed? or cannot wander round the office because i'm stuck at my desk waiting for a call?
As a Nepali, I appreciate you writing about Nepal but please read Nepali sources because you blast an article about another country you probably never even bother about.
Social media ban was not a result of the hashtags and the calling out, the frustration was already gathering overtime.
Just saw, this morning, that Dump's response to Putin sending drones over Poland and Romania is to issue an ultimatum to NATO to stop buying Russian oil. Because he can't go after Putin for anything.
I had to reset my TV this morning and I swear to god it's a confusing thing to set up your TV once you restore it to factory. I had to check youtube a few times just to figure out what the hell I was doing!
Omg, we had to do that yesterday, too! We'd lost a bunch of channels, even after trying to "retune" the damn thing numerous times. Chris was on YouTube for most of the day and we tried everything. Everything said a total reset should only be used as a "last resort" and, well, that's where we were. So far, so good (knock wood). Had to set up Prime again (easy) and will have to set up our accounts for Channel 4 and BBC iPlayer again, but that should be easy, too. It's just such a pain in the ass.
My TV experience deteriorated in every respect and it got to the point where I'd set up my channels and by the next day half of them would disappear. I typically do it every 2 years or so and by the time it's due again I've complete forgotten how to do it!
Of course the channels we lost were the oddball ones I like to watchāincluding one that shows old movies (old sci-fi and horror) and one Chris likes to watch car programs on. We were absolutely lost and despondent for about a week and were afraid we'd NEVER get those channels back.
I don't know where you are but, here in the UK, we get little boxes on our screen every so often telling us we have to re-tune our TVs because the "programme map has changed" (whatever that means). I'd never heard of such a thing before I moved here; all my years in the States I never had to do anything like that. The first few times I had to do it, I was shaking and sweating, so afraid I'd fuck up our TV forever, ha ha!
And you're right, it doesn't feel so bad when you're not the only one going through this kind of nonsense.
The Mr introduced soundbars into the equation with both TVs, and I just walk away when shit gets screwy. It's like a Turkish puzzel of remotes and passwords.
There are ways of saving your configuration and then resetting to the last good configuration instead of having to do a factory reset. It would require some extra flash memory and probably add less than $2 to the price of the TV. Sadly, our junk-based manufacturing economy would make that INCONCEIVABLE!
I watch football games in Spanish because of my TV. I have spent many hours on this problem and have come to accept that it will not change . It's an enormous thing I got when my brother died. A Vizio - Walmarts finest. I have accepted my lot in life.
Well, nobody makes appliances with that feature. So, we are stuck with having to do factory resets followed by two hours of tinkering to get your favorite settings back.
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Probably because they weren't even in Nepal. Most likely being rich douchebags on the Riviera, or some other fancy place.
i hate to be this person but 4 of those 5 nepo babies were women.
that icks me out a little bit.
Why? Is having daughters more or less moral than having sons? Or do you think their parents used eugenics to choose the sex? I'm not sure what your point is.
"Those British, they always leave a mess behind!"
Our mother was Scots-Irish (her clan, among others, was forced to move from Scotland to Ireland, so my sister generically refers to the Colonial British as "The Fucking English".
My beloved is from Nepal, and still has close family in Kathmandu who are mostly middle aged people whose kids have moved to other countries for opportunities they couldn't get back home. His family is, historically, privileged without actually being prominent or wealthy. Everyone back home is OK, but they found it all very worrisome and scary.
Over the years since Nepal kicked the king out, there has been a little revolving door parade of the same people at the top of the same parties moving in and out of the prime minister's chair bringing preferment to their followers. The parties battle for supremacy within government as far as appointments and offices go, but there is no real concept of "constituent service" so Nepal remains one of the poorest countries in the world and the people who are at the bottom feel disconnected from government.
Additionally, Nepal sits between India and China, both of which have a history of fomenting unrest within specific communities and engaging in a little proxy wrangling using the unfortunate people of Nepal. They've both treated Nepal badly.
For example, I'm not sure if anything has changed recently, but for the longest time, despite Nepal's incredible hydroelectric potential (given the number and strength of the rivers that rise in the Himalayas), they were never allowed to take advantage of that potential with dams because treaties and agreements wouldn't allow them to diminish the volume of rivers that flowed into India. So with all the hydroelectric potential in the world, newspapers in Kathmandu still had to publish load-shedding schedules so people would know when the electricity would be unavailable... and since all fuel oil (for generators) was required to be imported through India... it was hardly a mutually beneficial relationship.
The new PM, Karki, has a reputation for being anti-corruption and for standing up for her beliefs (she was jailed for political activity on the part of reformers during the 1990 protests and was targeted for impeachment as a Supreme Court justice for not caving to political pressure), so let's hope for the best, but the situation remains fundamentally pretty unstable and shitty.
"Protestors also rescued the wheelchair-bound wife of Energy Minister Sharad Singh Bhandari after her dickbag husband abandoned her and fled the country."
As we all know, I love my Wonkette to the death, most especially including Marcie. But I am unfortunately contractually compelled to point out that "wheelchair bound" is **probably** incorrect here.
As it happens, wheelchairs do not bind people. They set them free! Every single person who regularly uses a wheelchair is more mobile because of that. If they were wheelchair **bound** that would imply the wheelchair was preventing them from moving around, no?
There is a long history of the "wheelchair bound" phrase, and for my entire life and probably longer it has been solidly in the universe of idiomatic expressions whose actual meaning no one thinks about when used. Brains tend to process only the idiomatic meaning, not the literal. But honestly the meaning bound up in the phrase is that **wheelchairs are bad, actually.** And this has real world consequences with people doubled over in pain but not using mobility aids because they don't want to be disabled, as if it's the wheelchair and not the immobilizing pain that is the disability.
I want people to freely access the tools that help them, whatever they are, and not be so embarrassed by "claiming disability" when they "aren't really disabled" that they think using a wheelchair is somehow wrong OR that wheelchairs will confine them more than their own medical conditions.
The entire point of the wheelchair is to set people free. it is bizarre and antithetical to speak of being "wheelchair bound" unless you're a kinkster freak talking about a particular incident involving leather cuffs, d rings, bungie cords, actual chains and, yes, a wheelchair.
I'll give you that one. That really is being wheelchair bound. And if the energy minister's wife was stuck in Nepal because she was chained to a mobility device during some VERY Wonkette-approved sex games, then had her husband free the country while forgetting to unlock the VERY not-Wonkette-approved cloud leopard-fur lined cuffs, then, yes, she was wheelchair-bound and probably needed liberation very badly because nobody negotiates being immobilized until their spouse gets back from London in a few months after the violence calms down.
But if not that, she was probably just a regular wheelchair user who maybe needed even more help than the wheelchair could give because Nepal, being a mountain kingdom, has stairs everywhere.
This has been my TED-xxx talk. Thank you.
Bound can also refer to a direction. I am sunward bound when I go south for my vacation.
I agree that the better phrase would be wheelchair user.
However bound can mean "confined to" but can also mean "is limited to". In this instance it's clearly meant her mobility is limited to using a wheelchair rather than being able to walk or use a stick. Or she is being confined to using a wheelchair for movement. Not that she's being tied into the chair, wrong type of confined.
I agree that people are stupid and often will not use the tools available to them preferring to use bootstraps instead of common sense. I also understand the people who would rather struggle because they don't want to loose their independence or change how they view themselves. My mother was told by the doctors to take it easy because of her heart and what did she do? She went flat out and made herself bed bound for a weekend.
Because a huge range of people with vast different levels of both health and disability use wheelchairs, I will point out that not all wheelchair users are able to transfer themselves in or out of the seat without people to help, or are able to use their arms to move themselves and have to be pushed (always ask first). Some people can take some steps once they're out the chair, others cannot. Some people are very healthy except they use a wheelchair. The people who probably were her helpers might have fled with her dickhead husband. It's why the protesters lifted her out and carried her on a normal chair.
Also you need to have accessibility for wheelchairs as standard because as you point out you cannot go up and down stairs, too steep a ramp or even move around in some shops or restaurants because they're not set out for people who aren't able to walk. My doctors office, was built in the 1980's so you'd think they'd have thought about wheelchair access beyond the ramp at the front door but no the internal corridors are tiny, the doors are just wide enough to let a wheelchair through. They had a fire extinguisher in the hallway making it impossible to get past.
https://xcancel.com/KenyanSays/status/1965830416893620580
Looks like she has lipodema.
Do you also not like the phrase "bed bound" or "desk bound"? ie so ill confined to bed? or cannot wander round the office because i'm stuck at my desk waiting for a call?
Now do the USA.
Ewww, no. Not my kink.
Nanas rule!!! Now go wash your hands.
Good old John Company. Plunder the heathen buggers and leave the mess behind. Thus we have Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Nepal....
As a Nepali, I appreciate you writing about Nepal but please read Nepali sources because you blast an article about another country you probably never even bother about.
Social media ban was not a result of the hashtags and the calling out, the frustration was already gathering overtime.
I feel sorry for the woman who burned alive. Otherwise, this is pretty great.
Yeah, 'wife-of' shouldn't be a death sentence.
https://youtu.be/_0hTtsqiFCc?feature=shared
Mr Tambourine Man
"the British declared war, which ended with them propping up monarchies there that they partnered with until they withdrew from India in 1847" *1947
The movie is over if you'd like to join us there for OT.
"They are coming for our throats." - Charlie Kirk (at end of video)
Mehdi Hasan
āŖ@mehdirhasan.bsky.socialā¬
For Charlie Kirkās sake, we should all tone down the political rhetoric, right?
https://bsky.app/profile/mehdirhasan.bsky.social/post/3lyrba4fgbk2e
This Charlie Kirk fellow doesnāt seem like he was a nice person.
Well, Kirk has finally toned down his rhetoric. They finally found a way to shut him up.
We could stop talking about him entirely
Epstein was a better dresser . . .
And kept better files.
And art
^^^THIS^^
This too shall pass, probably Tuesday when Mad Lord Yam kicks off the next episode of chaos train as he goes to London.
Just saw, this morning, that Dump's response to Putin sending drones over Poland and Romania is to issue an ultimatum to NATO to stop buying Russian oil. Because he can't go after Putin for anything.
Can we just go back to the days of "They are eating the dogs?"
We were so innocent...until Tim Walz properly called them weird, which everyone agreed with except the consultants.
Also, the media had more than an elbow on the scales by that point.
*where the fuck are my glasses?
Consultants who are on the payroll of right-wing extremists.
Background checks are DEI
I think they ate them all by now. They've probably moved on to stoats.
"They are eating the stoats. They are eating the gekkos..."
Someone should warn them about the cane toads.
Nah. If you are gonna eat a cane toad you deserve the trouble you get. I like toads.
The hats are especially indigestible.
https://substack.com/profile/158187002-hops-8647-or-bust/note/c-155758883
I had to reset my TV this morning and I swear to god it's a confusing thing to set up your TV once you restore it to factory. I had to check youtube a few times just to figure out what the hell I was doing!
But, my TV's all spiffy and quick now.
Omg, we had to do that yesterday, too! We'd lost a bunch of channels, even after trying to "retune" the damn thing numerous times. Chris was on YouTube for most of the day and we tried everything. Everything said a total reset should only be used as a "last resort" and, well, that's where we were. So far, so good (knock wood). Had to set up Prime again (easy) and will have to set up our accounts for Channel 4 and BBC iPlayer again, but that should be easy, too. It's just such a pain in the ass.
My TV experience deteriorated in every respect and it got to the point where I'd set up my channels and by the next day half of them would disappear. I typically do it every 2 years or so and by the time it's due again I've complete forgotten how to do it!
I'm happy we're all miserable together!
Of course the channels we lost were the oddball ones I like to watchāincluding one that shows old movies (old sci-fi and horror) and one Chris likes to watch car programs on. We were absolutely lost and despondent for about a week and were afraid we'd NEVER get those channels back.
I don't know where you are but, here in the UK, we get little boxes on our screen every so often telling us we have to re-tune our TVs because the "programme map has changed" (whatever that means). I'd never heard of such a thing before I moved here; all my years in the States I never had to do anything like that. The first few times I had to do it, I was shaking and sweating, so afraid I'd fuck up our TV forever, ha ha!
And you're right, it doesn't feel so bad when you're not the only one going through this kind of nonsense.
The Mr introduced soundbars into the equation with both TVs, and I just walk away when shit gets screwy. It's like a Turkish puzzel of remotes and passwords.
I just want a soundbar with a volume knob and a wire going to the machine. Preferably a choice of wires. But that's apparently too much to ask.
There are ways of saving your configuration and then resetting to the last good configuration instead of having to do a factory reset. It would require some extra flash memory and probably add less than $2 to the price of the TV. Sadly, our junk-based manufacturing economy would make that INCONCEIVABLE!
I watch football games in Spanish because of my TV. I have spent many hours on this problem and have come to accept that it will not change . It's an enormous thing I got when my brother died. A Vizio - Walmarts finest. I have accepted my lot in life.
Telemundo!
That would be what a smarter guy would do. š
Well, nobody makes appliances with that feature. So, we are stuck with having to do factory resets followed by two hours of tinkering to get your favorite settings back.
The Violent Femmes were basically the soundtrack for my skipping school and getting stoned youth. I honestly don't consider it misspent
https://youtu.be/JZwPcPy04AQ?si=E-oHZbDx_8PJGHIy
My 11th grade English teacher didn't like it when her son starting joining us on those outings. What a stick-in-the-mud.
Weād leave, cross the tracks and do a bunch of acid. Same.
We just went to the parking lot and sat in someone's car.
Mine, too.