Random Thought Thread

^Just our Google overlords doing their good work.

They bless me with good YouTube recommendations from time to time.

Such as: Doctor's hate him! Never be single again. WATCH THIS. LIMITED TIME—

 

Does anyone else ever wonder what background extras are talking about in bar/restaurant scenes in TV and film?

Apparently they're saying "Rhubarb rhubarb. Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb, rhubarb. Rhubarb." but I don't know how true this is.

 

I desperately want what lays at the end of the plan...I just don't have the energy or enthusiasm for enacting the plan.

 

It's a bit like the old adage, 'It'll all be worth it one day.'

This mythical 'one day', as though at some point in the distant future everything adds up, makes sense...

 

Random thought #729
For all you horror and erotica writers - Today is Splatterday!

Carry on.

 

Seems there is a National Daughters Day. I'm one of two, and have two of my own, yet never knew it existed until now.

 

Is there a Wooly Ears Day?

 

Twas unexpected...

 

Headline of the Day:

Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain

 

Oh, great! Music's now done. Come on, artists! Generate every possible painting! Programmers, generate all possible software! Release it all to the public domain, so we can all go back to sleep knowing the work is done.

Yay! Finally!

 

I posted it thinking that doing the same with the alphabet, creating every possible combination of words, should just be a matter of computing power, ending literary copyright too.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wxepzw/musicians-algorithmically-generate-every-possible-melody-release-them-to-public-domain

 

Therefore, if you want to write anything, you have to create your own alphabet.

 

Headline of the Day:

Sydney Baboon Escape: Male Runs Off with 2 Females Before His Scheduled Vasectomy

 

I think it's safe to say that he's onto their plan.

 

Supermarkets trying to pull a fast one on us with pricing 'errors'. Just now while doing a little shopping I picked up an item from a reduced section (reduced because of packaging damage, not sell by dates). I had a vague idea of the normal price of this item, but because there was no price on it had no idea how much the reduction would be. When I scanned it through the self-serve checkout the reduction showed quite clearly (- £1.00) but what really caught my attention was the 'before' price of £4.00. I suspected this was high so finished my packing and walked the short distance to where I knew the item was located. Sure enough the normal price is £3.00. Another one they do, also on reduced sections, is 'forget' to replace the barcode, so that it tills through at normal price. I suspect millions of shoppers never even notice these things.

 

Carrying money, as in cash/notes.

I've always had a slight envy of people pulling notes out of a pocket or wallet - it has that cool thing going on, rather like those who make smoking look like the coolest thing in the world. In fact I can imagine few things cooler than a guy with a fag in his mouth, squinting as the smoke rises across his face, thumbing off notes from a wad of cash.

But I can't bring myself to do it. Maybe if I were wealthy and money wasn't quite the concern I would, but despite the fact I will, more than likely, be spending (for example) £50+ before pay day on bits and bobs, I couldn't bring myself to draw it from an ATM and carry it.

And it's not a security thing. It's not even an inconvenience thing (spare change etc). It's about drawing out money for unspecified petty spending. In my damaged brain I'd be lessening my balance for unspecified reasons, and it won't allow me to do that, even though an equal amount (and probably more) is going to get spent anyway via card payments.

I'm not really sure what purpose this post serves... which is why it's in here.

 

I do nearly everything with credit cards. I carry cash - a little - for the few things I can't use credit cards for, but those are fewer and fewer and farther and farther between. I could easily get through 99% of my life with no cash on my at all, these days. It's gotten to the point where I hate the feeling of coins in my pockets. I so rarely carry them that, if I get them in change from McDonald's or someplace, I immediately dump them in some crevice in my car or in a box on a table in my office, never to be thought of again. Coins - eww. Even one-dollar bills bug me. My wallet was stuffed so full one day that I thought I was rich, and it turned out to be all ones, and I had maybe forty bucks on me. Looked like a thousand; was only forty. Into the box in my office it went. Maybe I'll use it next time I go to McDonald's, but then I'd have to remember to bring it with me, which I never do, so I have to break a twenty and that means more change and the box in my office gets fuller. Argh.

Eventually I donate it to charity, like the food bank or something. But for day-to-day purchases, it's credit cards all the way.

 

Listen, if you can afford to be so frivolous about $40, I can PM you my PayPal details. Just think of the hassle I'll be saving you.

 

If you're going in on this venture, I'll join you at a even 50/50 split
of all 'donations'...

 

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