Random Thoughts 3: A Little Bit of This, and a Little Bit of That...

[Ryika]

The bear from Annihilation must be the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. After months, I had finally forgotten about it, but then Youtube recommended me a short video titled "Annihilation: How That Horrifying Bear Creature Came to Be" and out of childish curiosity I watched it, and now I'm going to have nightmares for weeks again.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The books were filled with horrors like that. The movie was a faithful adaptation.

 

[Lexicus]

Watch postmodernism destroy the world in real-time

 

[Snerk]

Pre-apocalysm

 

[Ryika]

I hope we'll be able to play as attack helicopters in Cyberpunk 2077.

 

[shadowplay]

On rare occasion, the bus will pull up and the driver will be a young, stereotypically attractive blonde woman. My brain doesn't quite know how to process it.

 

[Farm Boy]

That's because it's suddenly low on oxygen.

 

[shadowplay]

I guess I'm just accustomed to bus drivers looking more like Louie Anderson than Pam Anderson.

 

[Farm Boy]

Well I learned something today, lol.

 

[Takhisis]

Hey, Pam Grier played a bus driver too once, y'know.

 

[shadowplay]

Some people stopped me in the park today and asked me where the scenery was. I didn't really know how to answer their question. It's a city park. Were they expecting the flowers to leap from the ground and start dancing like in Fantasia?

 

[Synobun]

Travel fifty kilometers west or north.

 

[Synobun]

An ex-girlfriend somehow got my email and wants to "catch up".

I thought maybe it was a spam email because it had a phone number in it and it was from Buffalo. But turns out she moved to Buffalo last year based on a quick Facebook sleuthing.

Not sure I want to bother with this.

 

[Arakhor]

Presumably you meant the place in New York state? That must be a very long way from Vancouver.

 

[Synobun]

Yup. She's an ex from five years ago though. I lived in Niagara Falls when I dated her. She very likely does not know that I'm across the continent now.

 

[Ryika]

As far as I can tell, a lot of .. water faucets - is that really the right word? - have a valve for warm water on the left and a valve for cold water on the right. When you get ready to brush your teeth, the "natural" way of doing it seems to be that you hold your cup in the weak hand, while you open the valve with your strong hand to fill the cup with water.

I wonder if this translates into a statistical difference between left- and right-handed people when it comes to how many of them brush their teeth with warm or cold water.

 

[Arakhor]

I'd say "mixer taps", but then I wouldn't even do that because we have very few of them in the UK.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Also why are you filling a cup with water to brush your teeth?

 

[Synobun]

Also why are you filling a cup with water to brush your teeth?

So you don't have to stick your face into the sink like a barbarian trying to get the faucet stream into your mouth. You're supposed to rinse and spit, not swallow.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Well, some dentists advise not to rinse actually. But even so, I've never needed to employ a cup.