A true question from one of the kids:
Q: “Dad, are there any female opera singers who aren’t fat?”
Sure stumped me. Are there any female opera singer’s who aren’t fat? Where did that saying come from, “It aint over till the fat lady sings”? Probably from the same place as my kid’s question; observation and experience.
Racism! Anti-semitism! Bigot! are all variations on the same and single theme: your observations and experience are irrational! You lie! Your eyes lie, and you are a lying hater who hates…female opera singers??? I’ve got nothing against female opera singers yet, I do agree with the stereotype of them being fat. Is this observation by my child a form of bigotry?
It’s a good question. Are there any female opera singers who aren’t fat? I’m sure if there are they are the exception to the rule.
Maybe Dame Kiri Te Kanawa?
Oh my dear father,
I like him, he is very handsome. (Ed: Not talking about me, but is true)
I want to go to Porta Rossa
to buy the ring!
Yes, yes, I want to go there!
And if my love were in vain,
I would go to Ponte Vecchio
and throw myself in the Arno!
I am pining and I am tormented,
Oh God! I would want to die!
Beer Born and Bread 
That’s an interesting thing actually. They train to increase their girth by stomach breathing and pushing out. Powerlifters do the same thing. Everyone is a bigot; discrimination is natural and good.
BTW, I like this Christmas design! The snowflakes follow the curser around.
Do powerlifters do this breathing technique solely to increase girth? Your comment made me wonder if powerlifters have a larger girth because they would be utilising a breathing technique to increase power. My understanding is that power comes from the abdomen and correct breathing technique is from the abdomen.
I learned a brass instrument as a lad because my mother heard it was good for asthma which I had a mild case of. I learned to breathe from the abdomen playing. Whenever lifting heavy objects I usually suck air into the abdomen and exhale with the lift.
A lot of these singers, men and women have large torso frames it seems to me from that breathing technique. As opposed to the Mamma Cass style modern singers who just seem to be obese slobs.
Totally agree with the racism term. It’s good, right and natural. I try to distinguish between racism and bigotry (not that being a bigot is necessarily wrong) in that bigotry is defined as only irrational beliefs and the ensuing response.
Racism on the other hand may stem form irrational beliefs but they are just as likely if not more likely to extend from rational beliefs. To criticise someone for being a racist is as absurd as criticising someone for being rational. I discuss it here The Rationality of Racism vs Bigotry"
That snow effect is an option in wordpress. I didn’t notice it followed the cursor – good one. Cheers mate and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Sorry, I meant diaphragm not abdomen.
Part of it is clearly that some powerlifters are fat. The only concern is how much weight they can move, so looks are irrelevent. Breathing the wrong way causes one to “leak” power. The higher the internal tension, the more one can lift.
It’s like a pyramid. The wider the base, the more stable. Many wouldn’t explicitly put it this way, but that’s what they’re trying to do. I hear a man gains 1-4 inches on his waist by breathing a certain way, like a baby.
Merry Christmas, Pat.
Merry Christmas to you too Ryu.
In America, we had laws on the books forever to keep the races apart. Mixing was illegal. Blacks raped white women, same as always, but they got swift justice back then. But in the 1960’s, that all changed. Blacks have since been allowed to do whatever they wanted and been subsidized by the government and lauded by the commie press for their hostile aggression against whites. It’s been going on so long now that whites don’t even fight it anymore and simply let their daughters be raped by the animals; the “Christians” now practically encourage it. The mixing is still increasing here; it is very high in the cities where my family members live, about 30% of the young people, mostly stupid white girls with black or Indian (feathers, not dots) boys, or white boys with asian girls.
Some complain, but no one does anything. The blogosphere is full of the proof of our demise but they seem to think “somebody” will come along and fix it. Few have noticed that the West is already dead. It’s past time to be making other plans. Australia, Canada, and Europe’s situation will not improve. Eventually, mixing will increase. You will see when it’s too late, or start doing something about it now.
You know, I have been thinking much the same of late, that “they seem to think “somebody” will come along and fix it. Few have noticed that the West is already dead.”
I have been contemplating the “alt-right” and what exactly does it constitute. I am thinking that the alt-right is merely a Judeo-American sub-culture. It does not transgress beyond what society allows, in that sense it is a variant of the status quo. Some claim reactionary status, like OneSTDV in his latest post, but what is that?
In essence, there is no revolutionary power in the alt-right. It is a hodge podge of the disaffected. Valuable for its counterpoints from diverse political or philosophical positions but inherently unable to transcend the reigning plutochratic-marxist system, because the alt-right has no concept of what it seeks to restore, or a will to impose anything at all. What would it impose if it had a will?
The West is dead, it died with American victory in WWII. It took a while before the true victor could be seen as America transitioned to Judeo-America. Today we can behold the devastating consequences of that victory in all Western nations.
What is required is a vision and philosophy rooted in the natural world, in biology, that also has revolutionary power. Will, and the power to go with it.
I’d also add that the alt-right sphere is typically American in it’s endless over-analyse. Analysis of any meaningless subject for no end and until the topic is completely exhausted and reduced to nothingness. Then rehash it and analyse it again. Analyse, analyse, analyse…
Sometimes a sausage is just a sausage. Just leave it alone.