The Lockdown Diaries
Time, I think, for an open thread, in which to share links and bicker. Feel free to recount your adventures during The Old Testament Event of 2020, aka, The Toilet-Paper Apocalypse.
For those in need of diversion, the Reheated series is there to be poked at.
That’s my mother-in-law’s couch just past the spiral staircase.
And then there’s the bathroom, which is a hell unto itself. What with the green shag and migraine-inducing walls. I’m trying to think of the name for the colour of the fittings. A sort of pale puce?
“Private memberships run up to $3,000 per year”
So… it’s basically a gentlewomen’s club? A sort of White’s for chippy millennial chicks?
(I love that “These persons…”. In Wikipedia, yet!)
Wow. I once rented a big house in the Monterey CA area for a family reunion. Before Yelp reviews and the like, and I only had a few photos to go by. Weirdest place ever. All the various types of rooms haphazardly arranged in three levels and two outbuildings. Pool table in my own bedroom. But the piece de resistance was a meter wide pillar in the middle of the main room on the second floor. Three meters tall, flaring into a dish shape at the top. Not supporting anything,just free standing. And it was a marbled violet color. WTF.
…the piece de resistance was a meter wide pillar in the middle of the main room on the second floor.
Ahem:
https://youtu.be/kZzi25eGlIM
The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
Seriously, who in Hell recalls the womb? Fantasies don’t count as recollection.
There are well-appointed pump rooms…
Would one be forgiven for assuming these were rooms full of really cute high-heel shoes for the members to try on?
Interesting that they celebrate fiction & purveyors of same rather than, say, Lucrezia Borgia, Catherine de’ Medici, or Isabella of France.
Seriously, who in Hell recalls the womb?
Assuming their likely stance on abortion and when life begins, none of us can recall the womb because, according to them, human life is non existent in the womb. Logic is fun. 😉
Here’s a little palette cleanser: Weird Al performs Classical Gas on the roof at sunset.
See, it wasn’t China’s fault: https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1242262842092347393?s=21
I wonder if she’s offering gift certificates for when this all passes …
Oh, right, her—There is indeed the racist posturing, but the really big deal for her is indeed that the assorted lockdowns are cutting into her incoming cash flow.
There’s a fellow in Louisiana who’s having the exact same reaction and reasoning—i.e., how dare you threaten my big party?!?!?!—and he makes exactly as much sense . . .
the demise of a millennial-female-centred media group via TimT’s link…
I read it. In it’s entirety. The resulting combination of laughter and vomit was a new experience for me. So thanks/f*** you TimT.
Barkeep, my credit note forthwith if you please.
Squires,
I admit I did not examine the purple pillar for embedded demons. My bad.
Perhaps the maze-like design of the whole place was indeed some kind of cage for evils.
No matter, even if so my family all got out intact and sane. Except maybe…hmm. That might explain…
But the piece de resistance was a meter wide pillar in the middle of the main room on the second floor.
For decades, the presentation design of Wagner’s Ring was the breastplate and magic helmet variety.
And then someone came up with the idea of doing a totally modernIsh Ring, with breeches and waistcoats from the 1700s at the start, finally finishing up with the industrial revolution or so.
The initial reactions were utter and absolute horror, but after awhile the production did get declared a classic . . . with one issue that the designers just couldn’t manage to redesign their way around. In Die Walkure, there is Hunding, and Hunding’s house, and he’s clearly a major industrial baron, with a house that has an absolutely immense ballroom with entire walls of glass windows . . . . and a tree in the middle of the ballroom.
There are well-appointed pump rooms…
Would one be forgiven for assuming these were rooms full of really cute high-heel shoes for the members to try on?
Works fer me . . . but then more likely . . .
Pump room…
I expect Hal has it right.
But now I have to abandon my imaginings based on Austen era Bath.
Sigh. No romance anymore.
Ha! This is the most true thing ever. Seen at Insty in a thread about parents trying to cope with kids at home all day.
Commenter “Contumacious” writes:
“If there is a baby boom nine months from now they will all be first children.”
See, it wasn’t China’s fault
Please, Karma, be a thing.
Putting a new face on doing mass.
Ah, shades of lime green. Tricky to coordinate an outfit with that.
Perhaps, but not impossible.
parents trying to cope with kids at home all day
I think my favorite was “Second day of home schooling. So far two kids have been suspended for fighting and one teacher fired for drinking on the job.”
“They are threatening me with their language, with their ideals.“
Donald Trump Killed Her Calathea:
https://www.salon.com/2020/03/21/my-houseplant-garden-is-a-tiny-national-park-donald-trump-can-never-destroy/
The fiend.
Well, actually, she overwatered it and killed it, but it’s Trump’s fault anyway.
This is one of those specimens where I’m pretty, but not entirely, sure it’s a parody. Enjoy!
You know, as funny as that article was, it made me feel a bit cheated. I’ve been growing house plants for 40 years and it was never that exciting. Of course, I don’t grow calatheas; I’ve never seen any sense in growing delicate, easy-to-kill plants, foliage plants in particular, when there are so many equally attractive ones that are as tough as a Marine sergeant. So maybe that’s why Donald Trump never snuck in at night and attacked my plants. 😊
Is it true there’s a fad for calatheas? That fad could get expensive in a hurry! I know several people who’ve killed the prayer plant, probably the least delicate of the calatheas.
“They are threatening me with their language, with their ideals.”
Heh. The titans of tomorrow.
“And worse than that, Officer, they’re threatening my plants!”
David, if you get time, I think you could do an excellent fisking of the plant article if you start from the premise that it’s serious. And for all I know, it is. You can never be sure these days.
On it.
Looking forward to seeing which is funnier, yours or the original!
There you go. And thank you.