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Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2023 22:05:40 GMT
 Header by ChumblesIt's the weekend. |
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Post by Chumbles on Mar 25, 2023 0:47:21 GMT
Wordle 644 3/6* 🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨 🟨🟨⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 and back to limbo |
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Post by Chumbles on Mar 25, 2023 6:12:05 GMT
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 25, 2023 7:54:08 GMT
God I miss the Chatteroox.
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Post by Chumbles on Mar 25, 2023 9:41:15 GMT
Ye ghods, it's bloody early - my carers turned up at 8.00 a.m not 10... It's going to be a while before stuff gets into... ...Perspective |
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Post by lonewolf on Mar 25, 2023 9:49:49 GMT
Met up with a friend for a meal.
He was with a work colleague who was waiting for his friend.
She turned up with someone he didnt even know.
We started talking to her and she mentioned she hadnt been to Boro for awhile but used to as her son lived here.
My friend asked "how is your son?"
He is dead he killed himself at 17.
Then proceeded to discuss suicide for 30 mins.
On a lighter note I tried suishi, did not like. Wife bought me a bottle of Ardbeg and I got RE 4 remake.
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Post by Shenguin on Mar 25, 2023 9:56:59 GMT
Bloody hell Lone Wolf, that sounds grim; sushi is fucking disgusting.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 25, 2023 10:15:20 GMT
Sushi is delicious you monsters.
Apart from prawn or octopus obviously
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Post by whatalark on Mar 25, 2023 10:52:42 GMT
Is the colour orange named after the fruit or the fruit named after the colour. From what I can see oranges came to Britain around 1290. So before then did we not have the colour orange. And what about greengages ?
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 25, 2023 10:56:13 GMT
Is the colour orange named after the fruit or the fruit named after the colour. From what I can see oranges came to Britain around 1290. So before then did we not have the colour orange. And what about greengages ? Wait a minute, are you saying that oranges are the only thing that are orange? Maybe we had the concept of the colour orange but a different word for it. Or people just referred to it as 'that fucking reddy yellowy colour' or similar? |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 25, 2023 10:57:29 GMT
Mind you, everyone must have been off their face on scurvy.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 25, 2023 10:57:36 GMT
Off to get the child's feet measured in Clarks. A cheap morning out no doubt.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 25, 2023 10:57:58 GMT
Carrots.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 25, 2023 11:03:34 GMT
Iirc carrots were purple until the 16th century, when they were all painted orange in honour of King Billy.
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 25, 2023 11:04:10 GMT
Is the colour orange named after the fruit or the fruit named after the colour. From what I can see oranges came to Britain around 1290. So before then did we not have the colour orange. And what about greengages ? Wait a minute, are you saying that oranges are the only thing that are orange? Maybe we had the concept of the colour orange but a different word for it. Or people just referred to it as 'that fucking reddy yellowy colour' or similar? Everything was shit coloured. Apart from a few kings. |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 25, 2023 11:07:35 GMT
Don't forget Erik the Red - he was red.
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 25, 2023 11:07:36 GMT
I have never worked out why the. Dutch bods claimed to be Princes of Orange.
It's in the south of France, absolutely nowhere near Amsterdam. And they didn't own it
Possibly it was far enough away so no one could check on their claim.
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 25, 2023 11:09:44 GMT
Don't forget Erik the Red - he was red. He was (chief Vi)king of Greenland. Allowed to choose a colour. |
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Post by whatalark on Mar 25, 2023 11:13:42 GMT
Off to get the child's feet measured in Clarks. A cheap morning out no doubt. Someone told me that Clarke's have their own measuring system. To stop people going to Clarke's to get feet measured and then going somewhere else to buy shoes much cheaper. |
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Post by whatalark on Mar 25, 2023 11:15:45 GMT
If I had been the first person to see an orange I'd have it Fiery Dragons Egg.
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Post by whatalark on Mar 25, 2023 11:16:40 GMT
If I had been the first person to see an orange I'd have called it Fiery Dragons Egg. |
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Post by Chumbles on Mar 25, 2023 11:17:29 GMT
It's a moot point. The development of terms for colour has always been a matter of debate: "Wine-dark sea is a traditional English translation of oînops póntos (οἶνοψ πόντος, IPA: /ôi̯.nops pón.tos/), from oînos (οἶνος, "wine") + óps (ὄψ, "eye; face"). It is an epithet in Homer of uncertain meaning: a literal translation is "wine-face sea" (wine-faced, wine-eyed). It is attested five times in the Iliad and twelve times in the Odyssey,[1] often to describe rough, stormy seas.
The only other use of oînops in the works of Homer is for oxen (once in both his epic poems), where it seems to describe a reddish color, which has given rise to various speculations about what it could mean about either the state of Aegean Sea during antiquity or the color perception of Ancient Greeks"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea_(Homer)#Development_of_color_terms_in_languageMy dad used to go on about this, and I looked it up again when I read "The Wine-Dark Sea. Patrick O'Brian. 1993" brilliant series 5*+ |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Mar 25, 2023 11:26:14 GMT
Sushi is horrendous, a sure sign your life has gone on off the rails.
My new telly soundbar is awesome, nice bass and dialogue is much crisper for my old bastard hearing.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 25, 2023 11:45:39 GMT
I've seen purple carrots in Wholefoods.
Before Giffnock got de-gentrified and it got swapped for an Aldi.
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 25, 2023 11:46:24 GMT
Wordle 644 5/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I am the best.
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