Sunday, January 13, 2013

Million dollar fishpond

Extract from J's work journal: A fish pond in an office (pic) that overflew and caused a million dollar worth of damage. Somebody, possibly, forgot to close the faucet before leaving on Friday afternoon. I asked the owner if the fish had died. Typical J galgenhumor. The pompous answer: "I shall answer you in court". Another example of galgenhumor (from the wiki): The rate of Jewish intermarriage is a serious problem. Scientists estimate that unless something can be done to stop intermarriage, in 100 years, the Jewish people will be reduced to a race of gorgeous blondes.

36 comments:

Anonymous said...

Most of the Jewish intermarriage doesn't occur with blondes. Brunette whites, East Asians and Hispanics (in California) account for most intermarriage in the U.S. Intermarriage with truly blond Northern Europeans may not be much more common than intermarriage with people of sub-Saharan African descent.

Anonymous said...

Truly blonde Northern Europeans are pretty rare in the US in the circles that Jews mix in. I just saw a photo of my daughter's fencing team at MIT (which is more or less a random sample of the student body) and there was not one.

I haven't heard of that much Jewish- Hispanic intermarriage even in California, especially if by Hispanic you mean mestizo. A lot of the people who get into universities under "Hispanic" quotas are 100% European.

K

B said...

Not rare at all. Go to the Camp For Talented Youth run by Johns Hopkins, they're everywhere. My first girlfriend was one.

MIT is a tech ghetto. Check out the Ivies.

Anonymous said...

I attended an Ivy, and true blondes were thin on the ground. There are more blondes at party schools like ASU and USC, but their blondeness may come mostly via bottle.

Anonymous said...

Was your first girlfriend Russian? The Slavs are blonder on average than the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and German ancestral populations from which most American whites descend.

K's comment that blondes are rare in Jewish social circles rings true to me. Americn Jews are concentrated most heavily on the Northeast coast where Anglo founding stock whites are rarer than the descendants of 19th and 20th century immigrants. Anecdotally, there seemed to be a fair bit of Jewish intermarriage with dark-haired Italians in NY. I didn't see as much Jewish-Irish or Jewish-WASP intermarriage, but I wasn't there for long enough to make a serious study of the issue. I noticed the Jewish-Hispanic couples on a visit to California a few years ago. The Hispanics weren't Sailer's "Mixtec-speaking drywallers," but I doubt that they were purely European either.

Anonymous said...

http://cty.jhu.edu/sebin/x/u/study_of_exceptional_talent.jpg

Count the blonds. This is the SET crowd (SAT over 700 before age 13) - anybody reasonably bright can attend the camp but SET is where the real talent is.

K

J said...

Gorgeous blondes never excelled in academic circles and academics dont marry other academics. Doctors marry pretty young nurses, businessmen marry smiling easy PR girls, and physicists like Richard Feinstein marry Irish maids. Males are attracted to youth and beauty, while females... well, I'm still finding it out.

Anonymous said...

Blondes are not as stupid as you think. There has also been a trend towards assortative mating in the U.S. so that, for example, doctors now tend to marry other doctors and lawyers other lawyers. Certainly American academics do marry other academics. It's difficult to preserve social standing if one marries below his credentials.

Anonymous said...

Traditionally men did often marry below their social standing (but above their looks - the converse was that attractive women married above their original social standing) but nowadays, as women tend to have more education, assortative mating is more common - the doctor marries another doctor, not his nurse. The woman who in another generation might have been a schoolteacher is now a doctor of psychology.

K

Anonymous said...

I should add that the Fishtown-Belmont divide is greater than ever. I worked in a large law firm and it was unthinkable for a lawyer to date a secretary - they were from different social classes entirely, different IQ strata, different everything. At one time a bright but poor girl might become a secretary -now she becomes a lawyer herself or at least a paralegal. In my day, a lot of the secretaries were working class Irish or Italians (their fathers/husbands might be policemen or construction workers). Nowadays the secretarial pool in Philadelphia is increasingly black.


K

B said...

She was as Anglo as they come.

The SET kids, well...I would guess that lots of them have scores relatively high for their intellectual ability due to being drilled for hours a day starting from age 7. Not future leadership material-broken early, no creativity, no charisma. It's unfortunate.

>the doctor marries another doctor

And they have one child, with lots of artificial assistance, once they have both completed their fellowships. Next comes the divorce-the wife's drooping, the husband is pulling ass like he never has before...

John American Marine said...

black cocks for the YAHUDIM ASS

Anonymous said...

A Marine Jew-hater?

Anonymous said...

My daughter was self-motivated. She enjoyed taking practice SATs the way you would do a crossword puzzle. Believe me, you couldn't make her do anything that she didn't want to do on her own. And she had been accelerated in math (in school) from an early age, so she had already had the algebra and other material that is on the test in class.
I've met some of the other SET kids - a lot of them are first generation Asian American but they seemed well adjusted enough. If not letting your kid smoke dope and expecting them to do their homework makes you a tiger mom, then their mothers were tiger moms.

You can't drill your way into SET anyway. Most 12 year old kids just don't have the cognitive capacity to get a 700 on the SAT. Hell, 90% of college bound high school seniors don't have that capacity and never will. Your tiger mom could drill you 24 hrs a day and it still wouldn't help if you didn't have what it takes already.

K

Anonymous said...

Nah, not a real Marine, just some filthy Arab probably.

K

Anonymous said...

Not future leadership material-broken early, no creativity, no charisma.

A lot of the South Asian kids are very quiet - their culture does not reward being loud mouthed and wise assed. And their IQ does tend to be skewed toward the non-verbal - you see a lot more Asian engineers than you see Asian lawyers. But don't underestimate them - people used to make these kind of negative assessment about Jews (with different pejoratives), and a couple of generations later, Jews had risen to the top of the field in just about every sphere of American society.

K

Anonymous said...

To some degree, the Jewish rise to the top can be owed to collusion and in-group favoritism as well as intelligence and drive. The Asians, both East and South, are even more brazen about this, and it will not be good for our declining nation. The future will consist of endless rounds of fights for spoils with the combatants arranged along ethno-racial-religious lines. Non-elite Jews (upper middle class and below), belonging to a small group disliked by large constituents of whites, blacks, Hispanics and Asians, will be poorly positioned in this struggle. They will almost surely be betrayed by their elite brethren on Wall Street, in the C-suites and in the media who care only about lining their own pockets. The outlook really is unspeakably grim. Being excluded from WASP country clubs and white-shoe firms in the prosperous '50's will seem like a picnic compared to being a despised downwardly mobile petit bourgeois in a declining and morally degraded, dysfunctional multi-ethnic dystopia.

Anonymous said...

"..Jews had risen to the top of the field in just about every sphere of American society".

What about rap music? There aren't enough Jews in rap.

This can only be a manifestation of deliberate cultural deprivation, and must be rectified immediately.

Anon.

J said...

Here in Israel there is a taboo to date within the company and office romance is cause for dismissal, but I feel that class barrier is not the reason. And young lawyers in Israel are not high class because thousands are studying law. We must have the highest lawyers to population ratio in the world. Of course there is a legal elite that services the corporations, they are famous and very rich.

Anonymous said...

Law has become a two-tier profession in the U.S. as well. Lawyers who graduate below the top decile from non-elite schools (humorously described by some as TTT's or "third tier toilets") have difficulty even finding jobs, and the jobs that they do get are often poorly paid drudgery (document review). Even top 10% from a low-ranked school may be too low a threshold to avoid that fate, as the law school glut has left some of the graduates of elite schools unemployed or underemployed. Law is in decline as a profession. Healthcare reform is doing the same to medicine. The upper middle class is shrinking, and all that will be left are a small plutocrat elite and a mass of proles - a Latin American social scheme to match the country's increasingly Latin American populace.

Anonymous said...

If you can solve somebody's problem, you will always be employed; this used to be the fundamental business model of the West.

Now, if you create a problem, you will be given money; this is the new 'business model' of the West, and it is one of the fundamental causes of our decline.

Anon.

Anonymous said...

What about rap music? There aren't enough Jews in rap.

Matisyahu. DeScribe.

K

Anonymous said...

Do you think that the Talmud study influence the jewish verbal intelligency?

Anonymous said...

"The outlook really is unspeakably grim."

You don't know what grim is. Grim is a muddy shtetl with no industry where you scratched out a living surrounded by drunken hostile peasants. The Jews lived this way for centuries. My father recalled visiting the houses of the poor and the interior walls were glazed with ice due to the humid breath of the occupants freezing on the wall. A "degraded" America is still a paradise compared to that.

Even though sectors such as law and medicine are not as booming as they were during the glory days, they still remain very large and lucrative. Even in a plutocrat S. American type society there is demand for lawyers, bankers, plastic surgeons, accountants, etc. - all the sectors in which Jews do well. A US that is more like Brazil is not the end of the world for Jews or anyone else. Brazil is a viable society.

K

B said...

>There aren't enough Jews in rap.

Only the producers.

Anonymous said...

"Matisyahu. DeScribe."

I stand corrected.

Maybe Birthers, then, or Sasquatch trackers?

Anon.

Anonymous said...

There is a shortage of Jews in the toothless hillbilly segment.

K

Anonymous said...

Yes, silly me. Appalachaian snake-handlers.

Well, K, we're counting on you to get out there and show the flag.

Anon.

Anonymous said...

Is speaking Yiddish anything like speaking in tongues?

K

Anonymous said...

Safe enough, I would think; in West Virginia I suspect you'll be dealing pretty much with the extreme left side of the Scots-Irish bell curve, little danger anyone speaks German (not even Jesus, who makes an appearance after closing time).

Anon.

Anonymous said...

Safe enough, I would think; in West Virginia I suspect you'll be dealing pretty much with the extreme left side of the Scots-Irish bell curve, little danger anyone speaks German (not even Jesus, who makes an appearance after closing time).

Anon.

B said...

Meh, we've got them in the hills of Judea and Shomron.

Anonymous said...

Snakes or snake handlers?

K

B said...

Toothless hillbillies. We took care of the snake worshipers a long time ago.

Anonymous said...

We took care of the snake worshipers a long time ago.

Ha! Good one. But Baal lives on without his worshipers.

B said...

Baal is not the name of a snake idol-it is, like Moloch, a euphemism for an idol or several whose cult we so thoroughly destroyed that the original name is unknown. The snake idol of the Egyptians was Set, who is nowhere to be found, like his followers. And in general Isaiah 44 disposes of those idolworshippers quite nicely, by pointing out that you have to be an idiot to cut a log, cook bread over half of it, then fashion the other half into an idol and pray to it, as though you hadn't just been sawing away at it an hour ago.