Random Thoughts X: Impromptu Interpretations

[AdamCrock]

coffee

I've put a cigarette in it

 

[Gori the Grey]

If you're named Chad, one method of suicide is pretty much ruled out for you.

 

[AdamCrock]

If you're named Chad, one method of suicide is pretty much ruled out for you.

In our language "chad" literally means high levels of CO2. I don't see how this is in any way rellevant - just a random thought

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I personally think that taking a real-life disease that many people suffer from and turning it into a horror gimmick where people who show symptoms of that illness are ostracized, punished, and even exterminated in an organized fashion by the government is an absolutely HORRIBLE idea. I just don't even know what else to say, I'm completely flabbergasted that something like this would even be thought up.

Just imagine the scene where people who are showing symptoms of early-onset dementia are taken to death centers and exterminated en-masse.

Wow.

Agreed. Seeing my grandmother die of Alzheimers and seeing my dad lose more and more of himself over 12 years until he didn't remember me anymore and died exactly how he did NOT want to die (we had a conversation about this after my grandmother died, when he was still of sound mind; he said, "If I ever get like that, shoot me") and being terrified every time I can't remember something I used to know and can't bring it to mind... that's not something that's entertaining. I felt like slapping my mother whenever she made "Alzheimers jokes". But then she hated my grandmother, so of course she thought it was funny.

I watched Contagion a month before COVID started coming up. Seemed really apt. Fantastic film.

Plus, it has Gwyneth Paltrow destroying society.

I read a Star Trek novel about a really contagious virus, and although Greg Cox wrote it over two years ago, I read it maybe a month before the pandemic was officially declared. I felt like marching over to TrekBBS and telling him not to write anything else like that, thankyouverymuch.

My own random thought: I've started packing my plush penguins. I keep thinking I should have packed them in a container with air holes.

 

[Synobun]

I read a Star Trek novel about a really contagious virus, and although Greg Cox wrote it over two years ago, I read it maybe a month before the pandemic was officially declared. I felt like marching over to TrekBBS and telling him not to write anything else like that, thankyouverymuch.

I think every major series has at least one episode dedicated to a virus of some kind. DS9 had several. I guess it doesn't surprise me that the same thing happens in the books.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I meant to send the smirking smiley to someone on discord. I accidentally typed :smork: instead.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I think every major series has at least one episode dedicated to a virus of some kind. DS9 had several. I guess it doesn't surprise me that the same thing happens in the books.

I bet Julian Bashir could figure out a vaccine for COVID by the end of the episode.

Don't get me wrong - Greg Cox is one of the best pro Trek authors these days, and the only one whose books I am willing to buy (I ran out of shelf space years ago for Star Trek stuff). I haven't ever met a book of his that I hated, and he's super-friendly to people over there, both in the TrekLit forum and in the other media forums where he hangs out (he's a fan of stuff, too). But it's just that this one was ill-timed for me to read since it pretty much mirrored what was going on in March and April. When I checked the publication date, it's like he had consulted a time machine.

Some authors are like that, though... Alan Dean Foster made me afraid of plants for quite awhile, after Midworld and Mid-Flinx came out. Those novels take place on a planet that's covered entirely in tropical rainforest, and there is no species of plant there that will not try to kill you somehow. He said he got the idea from his own house plants (which I'm sure are quite mild-mannered and not interested in eating him, but he has a very good imagination and is good at prompting his readers to put themselves into the stories he writes).

Life lesson learned: After reading Mid-Flinx and trying to come up with a solution for insomnia, do NOT put on a mood music tape of jungle sounds. It will only reinforce the images from the novel where half a dozen characters died gruesome deaths from various plant species.

I meant to send the smirking smiley to someone on discord. I accidentally typed :smork: instead.

Someone needs to create a smiley to go along with that. A cross between a smirk and something else.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Someone actually made a :thonk: smiley. I often use this particular gif:

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

So, uh....I take it the sink is broken?

 

[Kaitzilla]

So, uh....I take it the sink is broken?

This reminds me of the time some Baptists wanted to baptize me again.

I tried to explain I had it done twice as a baby and didn't need a 3rd time, but they wouldn't listen.

 

[Takhisis]

Have you tried ‘I'm a Catholic, you heretics!’?

 

[amadeus]

I told some Jehovah’s Witnesses I only spoke Bulgarian.

They carry Bulgarian translations.

edit: they carry Bulgarian translations in Japan, in the suburbs.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

You should've told them you only speak Klingon.

 

[MaryKB]

You should've told them you only speak Klingon.

mIv'a' joH'a'?

 

[Synobun]

mIv'a' joH'a'?

Gesundheit.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

An announcement....that there's going to be an announcement. Nice.

 

[amadeus]

I say battrey. Saves time.

I probably need some new battreys for something.

 

[Takhisis]

Bat-tree?

 

[amadeus]

Bat-tree?

Spoiler :

 

[Broken_Erika]

Are you sure you don't mean a bat-tery?