Things that don't deserve their own thread

[robmatic]

Covid has meant I am working from home all week, which has driven home two points.

One, how dull and lonely it is compared to being in the office.

Two, how utterly immobile I am working at home with nothing but a screen to stare at. At work, I get a lot of movement in, along the corridor to the scannner/printer, other people's rooms to discuss something, up and down stairs, even just around my room to get something physical from a file. I am currently stiff as a board from sitting in the box room, sorry, home office, all day.

I started working fully remote last October (I've actually never been in the office of my employer) and I don't mind it. I've been getting back into running, and being able to trot off for 10km at lunchtime while the day is pleasant and sunny instead of at the crack of dawn radically improves my day.

[Sandstorm]

Set alarms on your phone. Every 45 - 50 minutes then do 5 minutes of stretching by the desk or go for a wander round the house.

End up at the fridge, eat a snack and put on weight.

[TB63]

Set alarms on your phone. Every 45 - 50 minutes then do 5 minutes of stretching by the desk or go for a wander round the house.

End up at the fridge, eat a snack and put on weight.

Has Crazy Frog as alarm and forgot how to change it..

Suicide in 2 days..

[BnM]

Thought you lot would like this

choo chooooo!

[mat the expat]

Thought you lot would like this

choo chooooo!

Saw this on Reddit - the whistle!!

[SaintK]

Now that must have been a very heavy weekend of drinking!!!

A man has astonished police by calling 999 to report himself for drink-driving.
North Yorkshire Police said the call came in just before noon on Monday from a man who said he was "drink-driving and doesn't know what he is doing".
The driver, who is in his 50s, told the call handler he was in Knaresborough and had had "a heavy weekend".
Officers said he was three times over the drink-drive limit when he was located 15 minutes later.
He was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and remained in custody, a force spokesperson added.

[Glaston]

The state of the BBC
Their fact checking dept LOL.



Paraquat pesticide maker used “weak” data on Parkinson’s
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68215777







Paraquat is a herbicide

[Tichtheid]

The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West


Some time ago, a preview of this book appeared in various places around the internet; reddit, Twitter, and a few others. I encountered it, and knew at once that this is a book I would need to own and read. And I was right.

The excerpt reads as follows:

My husband plays the trumpet, which is a sort of loud pretzel originally invented to blow down the walls of fucking Jericho and, later, to let Civil War soldiers know it was time to kill each other in a river while you chilled eating pigeon in your officer’s tent twenty miles away, yet somehow, in modern times, it has become socially acceptable to toot the bad cone inside your house before 10:00 a.m. because “it’s your job” and your wife should “get up.” What a world! If one was feeling uncharitable, one might describe the trumpet as a machine where you put in compressed air and divorce comes out, but despite this—despite operating a piece of biblical demolition equipment inside the home every bright, cold morning of his wife’s one and only life—the trumpet is not the most annoying thing about my husband.

[TB63]

What Trump rally was that?..

[Uncle fester]

Any suggestions on a decent dash cam for car?
Bewildering array online.

[Guy Smiley]

The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West


Some time ago, a preview of this book appeared in various places around the internet; reddit, Twitter, and a few others. I encountered it, and knew at once that this is a book I would need to own and read. And I was right.

The excerpt reads as follows:

My husband plays the trumpet, which is a sort of loud pretzel originally invented to blow down the walls of fucking Jericho and, later, to let Civil War soldiers know it was time to kill each other in a river while you chilled eating pigeon in your officer’s tent twenty miles away, yet somehow, in modern times, it has become socially acceptable to toot the bad cone inside your house before 10:00 a.m. because “it’s your job” and your wife should “get up.” What a world! If one was feeling uncharitable, one might describe the trumpet as a machine where you put in compressed air and divorce comes out, but despite this—despite operating a piece of biblical demolition equipment inside the home every bright, cold morning of his wife’s one and only life—the trumpet is not the most annoying thing about my husband.

[Uncle fester]

This thing looks prehistoric.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-68250382

Thought this was going to be the 2024 manual of England backline moves.

[TB63]

[Uncle fester]

[Oxbow]

Wish I hadn't have zoomed in on that.

[TB63]

[Biffer]

Greece has legalised same sex marriage. First Orthodox Christian country to do so. Progress keeps chipping away, but by bit, despite the fuckers who are trying to take us back a hundred years.

[TB63]

Why not...

[vball]

Such a great film with so many references to other films.

"get the bags .." .....

[Sandstorm]

Greece has legalised same sex marriage. First Orthodox Christian country to do so. Progress keeps chipping away, but by bit, despite the fuckers who are trying to take us back a hundred years.

I love Greece and the Greeks.

[Oxbow]

[Enzedder]

Martin, andJeff Crowe, through their paternal grandmother, are a direct descendant of Simon Fraser, the last man to be beheaded in Britain.

[Biffer]

Greece has legalised same sex marriage. First Orthodox Christian country to do so. Progress keeps chipping away, but by bit, despite the fuckers who are trying to take us back a hundred years.

I love Greece and the Greeks.

They love you back big boy

[Tichtheid]

[bok_viking]

Greece has legalised same sex marriage. First Orthodox Christian country to do so. Progress keeps chipping away, but by bit, despite the fuckers who are trying to take us back a hundred years.

I love Greece and the Greeks.

They are just going back to their roots Same sex relations were nothing strange in ancient Greece.

[TB63]

Genius..

[Uncle fester]

You might laugh but there's a serious discussion to be had as to whether pandas are worth saving if they won't save themselves.

They are carnivorous animals that eat a plant with limited nutritional value and they don't do Nookie

[fishfoodie]

You might laugh but there's a serious discussion to be had as to whether pandas are worth saving if they won't save themselves.

They are carnivorous animals that eat a plant with limited nutritional value and they don't do Nookie

That's it in a nutshell !

Any animal that has to be shown how to reproduce is just not worth saving, I don't care how fucking cute they are, they're fucked !!!

Choosing species we're going to pour millions into saving on the basis we perceive them as, "cute", is absurd.

[Tichtheid]

Fucks sakes lads, Giant Pandas have existed for an estimated 3 millions years, they are know as a "living fossil". There is one major threat to their existence and that is humans, whether by habitat destruction or poaching.

Their reproduction is just fine if left alone in the wild, they've been at it a lot longer than we have.

[Gumboot]

Fucks sakes lads, Giant Pandas have existed for an estimated 3 millions years, they are know as a "living fossil". There is one major threat to their existence and that is humans, whether by habitat destruction or poaching.

Their reproduction is just fine if left alone in the wild, they've been at it a lot longer than we have.

Exactly, they've been around long enough without man-made rope ladders "proving" they're shit at evolution.

Humans are really fucking stupid at times.

[Biffer]

They are carnivorous animals that eat a plant

ummmm.....

[Blackmac]

They are carnivorous animals that eat a plant

ummmm.....

You know..... like a gay man who only has sex with women.

[TB63]

[Biffer]

Easyjet have ben confirmed as the official airline of this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo.

Easyjet does not fly to Malmo.

[weegie01]

Easyjet have ben confirmed as the official airline of this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo.

Easyjet does not fly to Malmo.

Fly to Copenhagen and a quick hop over the bridge. It is almost exactly the same distance from Malmo as Malmo's own airport. [spoilsport/]

[tabascoboy]

Easyjet have ben confirmed as the official airline of this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo.

Easyjet does not fly to Malmo.

Fly to Copenhagen and a quick hop over the bridge. It is almost exactly the same distance from Malmo as Malmo's own airport. [spoilsport/]

Isn't the toll fee something horrendous though?

EDIT - 61 Euros

I suppose there's a train/bus link though if it's cheaper

[Uncle fester]

They are carnivorous animals that eat a plant

ummmm.....

They have to eat loads of bamboo because their digestive system is so inefficient at extracting nutrients from it.

[TB63]

[BnM]

Cat jump fails - they never fail to be funny.

[TB63]

Im completely disgusted, but annoyingly tempted...