The Llandudno goats are so much better with a West Side Story soundtrack.
(thanks to @AndrewStuart and the Bergamo boars) pic.twitter.com/A71FumsGNa
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) March 31, 2020
Cats really hate aluminum foil.
Also, Janet. pic.twitter.com/kmaoJcMJ73
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) March 30, 2020
My friend Rosie’s doggo has recently had seven puppies.
They’ve just been introduced to the joys of a puppy play pit. ?
The tails! Their little bottoms… ? pic.twitter.com/HM2oFlP9Ia
— helen ayres (@Raphaelite_Girl) April 2, 2020
West of the Rockies
Crazy cute!
BruceFromOhio
“I can’t make you love me” – Bonnie Raitt’s original makes me sing along. Adele’s version makes me want to sob like a lost child. What the hell, its the same song? Maybe its the time of day.
BruceFromOhio
Puppy play pit looks like just the thing right now.
mrmoshpotato
Hahahahahahahaha that cat jumped about 10 feet off of the counter.
mrmoshpotato
@BruceFromOhio: I need a bouncy castle.
Mnemosyne
I’m probably going to dye my hair purple tomorrow. I found some stuff called Overtone that will let me do a dark purple without having to bleach my hair. We’ll see how this goes. ?
mrmoshpotato
@Mnemosyne: ?
West of the Rockies
@Mnemosyne:
When I am old, I shall wear purple. And dye my damn hair purple, too.
Peale
Word of the day: allotheism: the worship of strange gods.
Aren’t they all strange?
Amir Khalid
I queued up again this week to get into the supermarket. (I guess that’s going to be a thing in the era of covid-19.) Plenty of TP, no apparent shortage of anything. A woman two places ahead of me in the queue was wearing her mask — kind of. She kept her nose and mouth uncovered, so she could chat with her friend standing right next to her and blow her nose every few minutes. She covered up only when right in front of the security guard at the entrance; once she was past him, down went the mask again. SMH.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: And that’s why Amir started shopping with a 2.5m pole. I mean, he needed a half meter to firmly hold it for slapping.
mrmoshpotato
@West of the Rockies: I’m jealous.
ETA – in my later years, I shall dye my scalp purple.
Anne Laurie
Strange gods for strange worshippers!
TBH, I’ve only ever heard the word used in two contexts: As an accusation of faddism (eg, Terry Pratchett’s Tibetan monks who worship ‘The Way of Mrs. Galloway’, an ordinary Ankh-Morpork landlady, because she’s exotic to them); or as an accusation of heresy.
Either way, using it just seems to be asking for trouble.
Major Major Major Major
Did about 875 words of the “write a random chapter in a book in a day” thing I’m doing. It’s due tomorrow at 4 and I wrote a beat-by-beat outline so I think I’m good. About 1/3 of the way through the outline.
Anne Laurie
@Amir Khalid: To be honest, in my coronavirus searches, I’ve seen more than one Muslim jeering Doesn’t wearing niqab look like a good idea now?
(Not that I agree, but if *those guys* wanna wear one… )
Amir Khalid
@Anne Laurie:
Masking up for covid-19 isn’t just for women so it doesn’t count as wearing niqab, I would think. And I wouldn’t really call that jeering; it’s more like friendly teasing.
mrmoshpotato
@Major Major Major Major: Random chapter? The mongoose is neither a mon nor a goose. Discuss.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
I may email you about that if it’s the one sponsored by Literature & Latte. I’m considering trying to organize a romance version.
NotMax
Repeating from the morning thread.
Excuse me, ladies and gentlejackals, did someone at this table order an extra helping of cute?
Mnemosyne
@West of the Rockies:
I already wear a LOT of purple, so I figured, why not? It’s not like I have a whole lot else to do in quarantine. And my gray roots are really bad because I procrastinated too long on getting a professional to dye them.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: it is!
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
Yay! I’ll email you tomorrow, then. Hopefully they didn’t, like, swear you to secrecy on the process.
Anne Laurie
@Amir Khalid: Fair enough.
I’ve ordered a couple plain cloth masks, although the Spousal Unit is the only one going beyond our yard right now. (I have a ton of spare cotton fabric on hand, but no 1/2″ elastic I can find, and of course elastic is out-of-stock or backordered everywhere.) Wearing N95 masks, even if we could find the last couple opened, probably-expired packets from the last basement renovation project, gets tedious fast.
Dan B
@Amir Khalid: My friend in Saudi has been poking fun at the men for discovering the joy of niqab. Her friends are having great fun. Wish I could forward the memes.
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
Mom told me that earlier in the week (or maybe it was late last week) she went to her local CVS to get a prescription refill. Said she was the only customer in the place and the pharmacist commented that she wasn’t wearing a mask, then he disappeared into the back, reappeared and gave her a brand new one. For free.
Mnemosyne
@West of the Rockies:
Though I’m looking at my test strand again and seriously considering going with rose gold even though I’m not normally a fan of pink. It seems to leave a nice shimmer on top of my normal color, whereas the purple will take me a couple of shades darker. ?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Purple and Gold would work fine. Go Huskies!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: Obviously he’s a typical medical professional and is hording medical supplies just like the nice Mr. Trump said. //
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Well, the “gold” color is actually a warm pink, but I could wear my new yellow face mask with my purple hair. ?
MisterForkbeard
@Mnemosyne: That sound slikena good idea. I’ve been thinking about screwing with my hair since I’m now stuck in the home for a month or ywl.
I’ve basically had a ponytail for 25 years and a beard for 10. Maybe time to switch it up.
opiejeanne
@Mnemosyne: The warm pink sounds nice.
opiejeanne
@MisterForkbeard: You could braid your beard and lace some big beads into it, ala the dwarves in The Hobbit.
oatler.
As Billy Joel said, in a way it’s okay to wake up with yourself.
Mo Salad
@MisterForkbeard: Confused insomniac here.
So you’re going to tell everyone you’ve had the beard for 25 and the ponytail for only 10 years then?
Ruckus
@MisterForkbeard:
47 yrs with the beard here. Started the minute I walked off the ship I was discharged from.
cliosfanboy
@mrmoshpotato: one of my friends jokingly calls those a Neglectomatic. :)
cliosfanboy
@Ruckus: about 35 years here. Just hated shaving. And hated being carded in my mid 20s.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@cliosfanboy: I got carded into my mid-40’s.
HeartlandLiberal
Son and I managed to get the large rear tine tiller started yesterday, and tilled up the 2,000 sq ft garden. 2/3 will be vegetables, 1/3 separate plot will be sunflowers, zinnias, and wildflowers. I went to this config two years ago and we have enjoyed the three or four months of flowers beyond measure. The butterflies, birds, including swarms of hummingbirds, have shown their appreciation, too.
Could not start the small, light Honda tiller. Engine is locked up again. I forgot to fuel it with stabilizer and give it a final run leaving some gas in the tank. Will have to call small engine guy to come pick it up and degunk it again, I did this two years ago. Sigh.
Here in south central Indiana, at this point global warming has produced situation where in early April one has to question if there will be another frost. When we moved here 35 years ago, one could expect frost and sleet and snow into the first week of May. Now in first week of April we have temps hitting upper sixties, I think one day made it to lower seventies.
Trying how to figure out how to get tomato and pepper plants without exposing myself to virus and bringing it home and killing everybody. Read that the Farmers Market may offer online order and curbside deliver. Will have to check the web site out. That is where I get my plants from local nurseries every spring.
Hope everyone is staying safe and taking this seriously. As I predicted weeks ago, the Deep South is about to be hit by a wave of sickness and dying off that will be unprecedented in any of their lives or imaginations. All because they drank the kool-aid, and think that quoting Psalm 91 and the words of Dear Leader Trump will protect them from this Democrat Hoax virus.
Not going to work out well for many gramps and grannies, I fear.
Geminid
Just read a good article in Medium by the brothers Krassenstein regarding a certain Biden assault accuser. I came away wondering, was the “Russian friend” who was with her when she wrote her fulsome Putin praise KGB or GRU? Is she being paid in rubles, dollars, or both?
raven
@HeartlandLiberal: Close to Seymour?