Self Isolating Sanity
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Self Isolating Sanity
Several of my friends around the world have recently been posting about things to do whilst stuck at home for weeks on end.
A lot of them involve activities for their offspring, which tend to be educational in nature.
Some of the online virtual tours offered by museums and galleries are good, and a lot are upping their game to meet current needs.
Then there is the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma. They have put Tim, their Head of Security, in charge of their Twitter feed during their closure - and great hilarity ensures
Article about him here:
https://www.boredpanda.com/national-cow ... =stickybar
... or just go and follow him on Twitter, just for the fun of it
A lot of them involve activities for their offspring, which tend to be educational in nature.
Some of the online virtual tours offered by museums and galleries are good, and a lot are upping their game to meet current needs.
Then there is the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma. They have put Tim, their Head of Security, in charge of their Twitter feed during their closure - and great hilarity ensures
Article about him here:
https://www.boredpanda.com/national-cow ... =stickybar
... or just go and follow him on Twitter, just for the fun of it
"We, the sons of John Company, have arrived"
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This is hilarious....I can imagine his accent as well...using that new fangled interweb contraption to post twits...
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Why are the gods such vicious cunts?
Where is the god of tits and wine?
Why are the gods such vicious cunts?
Where is the god of tits and wine?
Not sure what I’m impressed with most. Hat, tache or toggle.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
His humour can be very subtle. Anglo subtle.
He makes me laugh a lot.
I respect your attention to learning the world language and so on (despite your absurd accent) but some things you won't never get, just like I won't understand confined rape in the same way you can.
Bite it.
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Yes.
As robW says my humour is too subtle for your Euro brain.
I’m sorry English isn’t your first language. I truly am.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
Ok, my remark shouldn't have been linked to that particular quote of yours, which for once was mildly witty.
It doesn't invalid its general relevance though. Just look at your recent exchanges with Horace for instance. You're morphing into Jep. Even he had rare moments of normality.
It doesn't invalid its general relevance though. Just look at your recent exchanges with Horace for instance. You're morphing into Jep. Even he had rare moments of normality.
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Meanwhile, back on the topic of staying sane during isolation (if that is still a possibility for some of the above posters)
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You Can Now Stream Shakespeare Plays Recorded At The Globe Theatre.
Plays Can be Viewed Here:Globe Player has paid-for recordings of many of the theatre's Shakespeare adaptations spanning more than 10 years, including Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry in Twelfth Night; Jonathan Pryce as the Merchant of Venice; Emma Rice's naughty telling of A Midsummer Night's Dream; Adetomiwa Edun and Ellie Kendrick in the 2009 production of Romeo and Juliet; and Lucy Bailey's bloodthirsty Titus Andronicus.
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"We, the sons of John Company, have arrived"
How deploying as a Soldier and a private security contractor to Afghanistan and Iraq has prepared me for self-isolation during the COVID-19 Pandemic:
1. You're used to seeing the same thing every day for months on end. The same colors, the same people, the same buildings.
2. You're used to being in a specific, defined area and not being able to leave.
3. Being told you can't go to certain places doesn't bother you.
4. Eating the same food, at the same place, every day, every week, every month is no big deal.
5. If you are even lucky enough to have a store where you are based, it often sells-out stuff, and you just roll with it.
6. Unless you're seriously injured, or sick enough to be in danger of dying, you're used to medical personnel telling you there's nothing they can do for you. Drink more water, and take the Panadol or whatever you have in your personal stash.
7. You get a respiratory infection from Hell every time you go on R&R.
8. You are near people from all over the world who don't necessarily use Western standards of Personal Hygiene.
9. Using bathrooms and showers that are shared by hundreds of people a day, and get nasty beyond description...is routine. Not to mention Porta-Loos that would scare Satan himself.
10. You live and work in parts of the world where Tuberculosis and the danger of a Chickenpox outbreak is something the Army takes very seriously.
11. You can get along with a$$holes you desperately want to throat punch. Every. Single. Day. For months.
12. Being "Bored" takes on a whole new meaning. We can deal.
13. The idea of dying is a little more real to you every hour of every day than it is to most people back home. It isn't a joke.
All the while, there are groups of bad guys who are trying to kill you.
1. You're used to seeing the same thing every day for months on end. The same colors, the same people, the same buildings.
2. You're used to being in a specific, defined area and not being able to leave.
3. Being told you can't go to certain places doesn't bother you.
4. Eating the same food, at the same place, every day, every week, every month is no big deal.
5. If you are even lucky enough to have a store where you are based, it often sells-out stuff, and you just roll with it.
6. Unless you're seriously injured, or sick enough to be in danger of dying, you're used to medical personnel telling you there's nothing they can do for you. Drink more water, and take the Panadol or whatever you have in your personal stash.
7. You get a respiratory infection from Hell every time you go on R&R.
8. You are near people from all over the world who don't necessarily use Western standards of Personal Hygiene.
9. Using bathrooms and showers that are shared by hundreds of people a day, and get nasty beyond description...is routine. Not to mention Porta-Loos that would scare Satan himself.
10. You live and work in parts of the world where Tuberculosis and the danger of a Chickenpox outbreak is something the Army takes very seriously.
11. You can get along with a$$holes you desperately want to throat punch. Every. Single. Day. For months.
12. Being "Bored" takes on a whole new meaning. We can deal.
13. The idea of dying is a little more real to you every hour of every day than it is to most people back home. It isn't a joke.
All the while, there are groups of bad guys who are trying to kill you.
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I'm not a negative person, I encourage people all the time...it's usually to f**k off! But, whatever.
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My main issue with this lock down stuff is that all my siblings either call, sms, email or IM me every other day to shite on about what they are doing etc..
Im quite happy to contact most of them once a year, or less.
Feels more like an invasion than isolation!
Im quite happy to contact most of them once a year, or less.
Feels more like an invasion than isolation!
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