The Lockdown Diaries (5)
An open thread, in which to share links and bicker.
I’ll set the ball rolling with a clarification of note; some feline curiosity; an augmented cat; via Julia, some contemporary scenes; and via Damian, a wondrous feat involving carrier bags.
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It helps to keep this place here.
For those in need of further diversion, the Reheated series is there to be poked at.
Oh, and while I remember. I’ve recently been entertained by the Science Asylum and Oversimplified YouTube channels. If anyone can recommend similar fare – or any shortish, fairly breezy, information dumps – I’d be appreciative.
a wondrous feat involving carrier bags.
LOL Five stars for the ending.
Five stars for the ending.
I think it qualifies as a project for the weekend.
You can’t stop progress.
https://youtu.be/NAQjrTEd_Pc
a wondrous feat
I am never showing that to my wife.
I am never showing that to my wife.
While rummaging under the sink recently, I had to move the obligatory carrier bag full of other carrier bags. I discovered that some of the carrier bags within the outer carrier bag also had carrier bags inside of them. And a couple of those had carrier bags inside of them too.
It’s not a streamlined storage system, it has to be said.
Dredging up an old Twitter thread: Hide yo kids, hide yo wife.
I hadn’t heard the audio before – the repeated ‘no dates till you’re 30’ jokes really dial up the creepiness.
I discovered that some of the carrier bags within the outer carrier bag also had carrier bags inside of them. And a couple of those had carrier bags inside of them too.
Low cost remake of Inception?
Modern History TV has, despite its name, some interesting videos on the medieval period.
Thanks, Jonathan. Will browse.
Low cost remake of Inception?
Reminded me of this.
I think it qualifies as a project for the weekend.
You misspelled “project for a sick mind”.
Much easier is to take one bag, use it to line one of the tube good booze comes in (I realize finding one might be a problem around here), cram the others in that. You get towards the bottom, just pull the liner bag up and Robert is your father’s brother, the ones at the bottom come out, plus you have the bottle of good booze.
It’s not a streamlined storage system
I completely agree that the folding system is objectively superior. The reason I will never show it to my wife is that I am certain that it would somehow, and rapidly, mutate into my responsibility. It’s not so superior that I am prepared to do it.
The reason I will never show it to my wife is that I am certain that it would somehow, and rapidly, mutate into my responsibility.
[ Taps forehead. ]
Wise words.
Come, sweet Asteroid of Death….
via Yeyo
The reason I will never show it to my wife is that I am certain that it would somehow, and rapidly, mutate into my responsibility.
Granting, actually, for anyone out of range ot Tesco, that’s not an issue:
Yes, dear, as soon as you get us a steady supply of exactly those shopping bags, so that exactly those folding instructions can be followed., Etc.
I completely agree that the folding system is objectively superior.
Unless you factor in all the time wasted folding and unfolding, as well as wasting an entire drawer as opposed to hanging a bag of bags on a hook on the back of a closet door and taking up no otherwise usable space.
Come, sweet Asteroid of Death….
Related, tackling the important issues of the crisis du jour.
“clarification of note”
That reminds me of the time my TV told me the next show was “Football Rivalries: Arse”.
Is The History Guy of any interest, David, or already known? Also this dude, if astronomy (and occasional forays into, usually, related matters) is your thing.
if astronomy (and occasional forays into, usually, related matters) is your thing.
It is, and thanks.
Previously, in sports . . .
It didn’t take long for someone to weigh in with “better solution: use the same reuseable bag for all your shopping”. What kind of person can watch that and their first reaction is to scold?
…as soon as you get us a steady supply of exactly those shopping bags…
Too true, because as we all know, at least of those of us who live in civilized states that allow them, it it totally impossible to fold bog standard t-shirt bags into triangles.
In the near future, that which is not forbidden will be mandatory.
Either everyone must fold all bags and do so by the approved method, or no one shall fold any bag. Because coronavirus in both cases.
Hide yo kids, hide yo wife
The compilation.
What kind of person can watch that and their first reaction is to scold?
Twitter, innit? I spent half an hour whizzing around the twattersphere this afternoon and came to the conclusion that far far too many of my compatriots in the UK are bedwetting morons prepared to see the country fall apart around their ears rather than harden the fuck up and get back to work.
Actually, I am not one to talk about toughening up. I find those videos of Biden impossible to watch. They’re creepy as all hell. I wouldn’t leave him alone with the houseplants, never mind children.
The compilation.
Ugh.
We need to bring back dueling in the Senate.
Just me and the boys out taking our daily Exercise. Yes officer, we are observing social distancing!
Just me and the boys out taking our daily exercise.
Not too many options in a situation like that. “No, no, don’t rush on my account, chaps. Take your time.”
“Just me and the boys out taking our daily Exercise.”
Either that or the most badass motorcade in history.
You can’t stop progress.
At the 1:59 minute mark of that video we find “Fat Chat” with that “beacon of fat acceptance everywhere, Sophie Hagen.
Why do so many of these things seem like comedy sketches from the 70s?
David finally cracks after 7 weeks in lockdown:
David finally cracks after 7 weeks in lockdown
Heh. I think I’ve been to that nightclub.
Heh. I think I’ve been to that nightclub.
That must have been a hell of a night out, according to the “Darnitsya” on the front of that building, that is a metro station in Kiev…
that is a metro station in Kiev…
Nicely done Farnsworth; now we’re going to have to move the location of the Guild of Evil™ HQ.
That must have been a hell of a night out,
There have been one or two.
There have been one or two.
Go to a party in Luton and wind up in Kiev, it’s like they say, anybody who remembers having had a good time in the ’60s and ’70s really didn’t.
now we’re going to have to move the location of the Guild of Evil™ HQ.
Well perhaps I can get a table upgrade in the new location. Believe me, you don’t want to be sitting here after Farnsworth has used the loo. N95 facemask or no N95 facemask.
Believe me, you don’t want to be sitting here after Farnsworth has used the loo.
You are one to talk after what your last trip did to the sewers.
Yeah. But mine doesn’t stink. I told you to stay away from those Buffalo Bat Wings.
Yeah. But mine doesn’t stink.
Tell that to the buzzards who fell off the manure wagons 1000 yards away.
Anosmia is one of the most dangerous symptoms of WuPing Cough – just sayin’…
Shortish, fairly breezy, information dumps.
https://www.3blue1brown.com/ They are Maths. But if you want complicated Maths explained in about as good way as you can, they are a go-to source for me. I found the one on explaining Euleur’s identity in a physical way quite helpful.
Make Europe pay for this damn virus, I say! Those evil bastards!
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/05/11/ccp-approved-messaging-gov-andrew-cuomo-has-a-new-name-for-covid-19-a-fresh-dem-media-talking-point-is-born/
James Damore Silently Ends Lawsuit Against Google
and
Author of infamous Google diversity memo drops lawsuit against web giant
Try History Matters.
He originally did ten minuters, but had to pare back to avoid the demonetisation dance.
How does video length alter monetisation?
I say this with a Youtube channel of 100 videos, that I am not monetising. And am not particularly interested in, either.
If there are any fans of the Bard here, the Stratford Festival from my neck-of-the-woods, has been free streaming filmed versions of some its better productions. They’ve been releasing a different play every week. So far they’ve released King Lear, Coriolanus, and the Scottish play. They all have been very good, but King Lear was especially well done. King Lear ends in four days. The play’s the thing!
If you’re interested here’s the url: https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/AtHome/FreeFilms?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=B-LastChancetowatchKLR&utm_content=version_A
3blue1brown…
Chester, you bastard. There goes my week. And I had plans to take all y’all to Venice to fish in the now pristine canals, social distancing be damned.
Thank you Steve E.!