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Post by Felice Landry on Apr 8, 2020 11:26:37 GMT
We do a 30/40 minute walk at about 17:30 3 or 4 times a week, don't see many people but there is a lot of nodding and smiling when we do, most unnerving.
Everyone does the social distancing, some of them to quite a ridiculous level almost turning around and running away*.
*It's quite possible they did this before the current nastiness and I never noticed.
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Post by Chumbles on Apr 8, 2020 11:46:37 GMT
I'm watching 'The Thick of It' on BBC iPlayer, no 'hurricane of piss' that is playing with dollies. OTTM: The LED watch blew it's back off last night, just after I'd been to the toilet and blown my bottom off. Lucky. Did it go off like a small grenade, or just make a tiny "pop"? I believe Tids might have been fishing for a FTFY. Oh... silly of me - the unspecified it could be the bottom* *I love that word, bottom, always have since my fellow scruffy 13-14 yr olds in the dunce's school, aka Secondary Modern, were given A Midsummer Night’s Dream to learn for a term project... as most of them still found farts and beating up someone else funny, this was not a good plan. With characters like Titania, Puck and Bottom, any speech with their names in was repeatedly and loudly quoted by even the neanderthal thuglings from the mud on the floor of the gene pool. Especially near prefects and especially Puck... "Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck:
Are not you he?"
As for the the Wall scene, "O Wall, full often hast thou heard my moans,
For parting my fair Pyramus and me!
My cherry lips have often kissed thy stones..."Was a particular favourite quote... Giving that play to a bunch of rejects from the education system... "Here chump, go to Secondary Modern, and learn menial tasks as befits your future servile status was probably the only time some of them engaged with Literature... the practical skills were Technical Drawing (TD as in TDious), Agricultural Studies, Metalwork, PE, Woodwork amongst others, but they were taught in the same way as in Reform Schools - mainly to while away the time until you could be chucked out to go and get a menial job... The restrictive way 'education' was structured is exemplified by the choice children / parents were given to specialise at thir-fucking-teen. You had to choose between French/TD/Art and the other was Geography and History ... My parents with a hyper-genius son (not me!), IQ off the top end of the scale, scholarship to a public school and at 15 becoming a rebel with the kind of destructive capacity on all and anything around that might have created a nasty criminal mastermind; and the other 'subnormal' child, they just couldn't work, keep control of Machiavelli and pay attention to me. So I made my ill-informed choices... I deliberately did only half the TD exam (getting 49%, I was extremely good at it, but I hated the obnoxious midget - Mr Roberts - no prizes for guessing his origins - who loved picking on all 6' 1" of me), and illustrated my answers in French, so the teachers agreed I should do Art. The other choice was a horror because I wanted to do both, but Geography was chosen for me... I was lucky in one respect because the History curriculum switched from Ancients to 19th century... You can see why I loathed my schooldays.... |
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 8, 2020 11:46:59 GMT
The people in masks are a bit odd. You can't see if they are smiling.
I presume they are.
Laughing that they will outlive the rest of us.
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 8, 2020 11:50:17 GMT
We do a 30/40 minute walk at about 17:30 3 or 4 times a week, don't see many people but there is a lot of nodding and smiling when we do, most unnerving. Everyone does the social distancing, some of them to quite a ridiculous level almost turning around and running away*. *It's quite possible they did this before the current nastiness and I never noticed. I'm a big fan of keeping at least 2M apart from people. No touching suits me. I'd quite like to implement it as a permanent rule. |
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Post by scubar on Apr 8, 2020 11:56:23 GMT
I hadn’t realised Sheep was enough of a bumpkin to go cow tipping. Thought that was just Cobblers domain.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Apr 8, 2020 12:05:16 GMT
So the cows have reclaimed the streets of Birmingham? Is it as awe-inspiring as the giraffe bit in that game?
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 8, 2020 12:24:49 GMT
This was years ago in Sutton park. It's about 7 square miles in total.
There's a herd of cows on one side and ponies on the other side.
I was walking to one of the pubs on the edge of it about 8pm one evening just after dusk. Years ago.
There was a big dip in the road and a cow hidden there.
I used to walk in the park loads at night. There was some talk of a stalker there. But I never saw him.
It is easily as inspiring as the giraffes.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Apr 8, 2020 12:27:05 GMT
Anyone been furloughed yet? We did it to 800 employees recently but I managed to slip under the radar. Sunny out. No games. Not me but a good chunk of my firm have, on 100% pay. I am absolutely furious. I thought it was 80%? |
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 8, 2020 12:27:40 GMT
I believe Shenguin walked across one of the lakes in Sutton Park one night when it was about -10c. Went to a little island in the middle.
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Post by Shenguin on Apr 8, 2020 12:29:40 GMT
I believe Shenguin walked across one of the lakes in Sutton Park one night when it was about -10c. Went to a little island in the middle. It was one morning, and I was sober. I was not the only person doing it. |
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Post by crankcaller on Apr 8, 2020 12:44:34 GMT
Online library chat, any good apps or do you have to use the one your area has singed up A lot of the terms and conditions say they're only meant to supply to folk in the area they provide for so check what your local library provides. In reality... You could join Oxfordshire libraries who will give you access. They have pressreader which gets you newspapers & a shit load of magazines; news, sport, games, food, tech all sorts. They also have borrowbox & overdrive which do ebooks/eaudio. Some publishers are in one and not the other. |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Apr 8, 2020 12:57:58 GMT
I now have a 3 hour meeting with IT.
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Post by scubar on Apr 8, 2020 13:02:53 GMT
My beer arrived!
The box sounds like broken glass.
My beer is all in cans!
I still need to sift through the broken glass to get to it.
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Post by amipal on Apr 8, 2020 13:21:40 GMT
I've just had someone say to me that "prime minister is just another way of saying president what's the difference?" (their spelling and grammar), and I'm furious.
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Post by crankcaller on Apr 8, 2020 13:30:09 GMT
Work zoom call.
Someone is going to attempt to make it Management team only so we don't have to join. Wish them luck!
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Apr 8, 2020 13:33:04 GMT
https://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/fwwocx/most_traumatising_moment_in_dayz_is_deffo_this/
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Post by tenthenemy on Apr 8, 2020 13:44:50 GMT
https://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/fwwocx/most_traumatising_moment_in_dayz_is_deffo_this/ Bollocks. |
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Post by cobblers on Apr 8, 2020 13:53:51 GMT
The new barbecue is assembled and it’s an absolute behemoth. Now all I need are corpses.
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Post by gongfarmer on Apr 8, 2020 14:03:12 GMT
Hot Diggity Dang! I have just gone 2-0 down in the chess grand final.
As it's best of 3 the odds are not looking good.
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Post by Shenguin on Apr 8, 2020 14:08:29 GMT
My beer arrived! The box sounds like broken glass. My beer is all in cans! I still need to sift through the broken glass to get to it. Only one of my wine cases arrived. Can you send me the shards of 12 bottles of competitively priced red and the soggy cardboard please? |
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Post by tenthenemy on Apr 8, 2020 14:19:34 GMT
This morning I ventured out briefly to fetch the bins from the curb and the neighbours on both sides were busy chatting to people who don't live in their household whilst also flouting the keep 2 metres apart rule. I waved at them from a safe distance.
Yesterday evening we had a mail delivery that also contained our now stricken Prime Minister's letter to all households. I was a bit distressed to see that he put his Johnson on it at the end.
He again talked about how he's got to level with us. Here I noticed that something had been deleted in favour of this phrase as too much space had been left between the words. I understand that it's a difficult time but how about some proofreading?
I apologise to Shenguin for last night's Ocado boasting, but some of you are at least allowed outside to do shopping, although I don't really get why even when there isn't a pandemic. This morning Pref. Mam. spoke of that delivery as "finally finding our El Dorado". More like El D'ocado.
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Post by mlu035rsc on Apr 8, 2020 14:24:09 GMT
I believe Shenguin walked across one of the lakes in Sutton Park one night when it was about -10c. Went to a little island in the middle. It was one morning, and I was sober. I was not the only person doing it. Christmas morning in Blackroot perchance? |
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Post by amipal on Apr 8, 2020 14:24:48 GMT
He again talked about how he's got to level with us. Here I noticed that something had been deleted in favour of this phrase as too much space had been left between the words. I understand that it's a difficult time but how about some proofreading? He is constantly talking about "levelling" - makes me wonder if the country is subsiding. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Apr 8, 2020 14:25:10 GMT
Our barbecue isn't big enough anyway but I'm also very wary of eating neighbours who haven't been practising social distancing in this crisis.
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Post by mlu035rsc on Apr 8, 2020 14:29:20 GMT
This was years ago in Sutton park. It's about 7 square miles in total. There's a herd of cows on one side and ponies on the other side. I was walking to one of the pubs on the edge of it about 8pm one evening just after dusk. Years ago. There was a big dip in the road and a cow hidden there. I used to walk in the park loads at night. There was some talk of a stalker there. But I never saw him. It is easily as inspiring as the giraffes. According to google sums it's 3.75 square miles, but definitely feels more spacious, and certainly longer when you're driving the entire perimeter. I bloody love our park, allegedly the largest urban park in Europe although the Dubliners would argue that one. Lots of interesting flora, fauna, three bar / restaurants, a golf course, a boating lake, several other lakes, a now defunct lido where I first got sunburned back in 1985 or thereabouts. There was definitely a homeless dude living in the park a few years back and many reports of flashers over the years. My school's home cross country course and training runs all there, plus having mountain biked it to death (now almost impossible thanks to lack of proper management meaning all the good trails are eroded to fcuk) mean I know every inch of the park like the back of my hand. Actually made it to Blackroot on Christmas morning just gone with the dog as wanted him to see one and the previous two I'd been too hungover to go early enough. God I miss my dog. |
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