Random and useless thoughts and facts

I can’t tell you for how many years I’ve heard this song believing it to be Blondie. Let’s just say it was only in the last year or so I discovered it wasn’t.

 

That weird little red dot you can see on some bees and wasps is called a Varroa Mite

 

Have videos, embedded in forum threads like Music Night, started playing from the halfway point for anyone else? Every video on here that I hit play on, starts half way through. It’s most annoying.

 

Is the forum working okay, or has there been some kind of mass alien abduction of members?

 

They shall be returned once my orca agents are through with them.

 

Tsk. No one ever takes me anywhere.

 

If you've already seen half the video, maybe a week ago or a year ago, it'll start wherever you left off.

Or maybe your computer is going kaput?

 

But it’s always at the exact half way point.

 

Ever had one of those days where people look at you (and talk to you) like you’re a piece of shit? I’ve just spent 20 minutes walking round the supermarket, picking up a few things for tea, and I did begin to wonder if I was wearing my ‘Death To All Puppies’ t-shirt!

 

Why has no one told Murakami to stop writing sex scenes?

 

Japanese writer, but that's the thing. Even his fans think they're cringe.

 

For the same reason no one told Doug McClure to stop acting.

 

LOL!! Or perhaps the same reason people stopped telling George Lucas that anything he did wasn't perfect after he became Hollywood's mega Golden Boy. Having massive clout and power means you're surrounded by simpering yes men and sycophants.

 

As of the beginning of this season (2021), recently retired Philip Rivers holds three of the top 50 NFL quarterback seasons based on QB rating. Actually, he's tied for the 48th best season, achieving a 105.5 rating three times, so he's actually listed at #48-50.

 

the acid you use to treat them smells terrible, like if feta cheese was left in the sun for a week.

 

this is the sort of thing I would do sober
A drunk man who had been reported missing spent hours with a search party looking for himself, report says (msn.com)

 

The alliteration and consonance in this poem... beautiful!

Cargoes by John Masefield

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,
Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
With a cargo of ivory,
And apes and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus,
Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores,
With a cargo of diamonds,
Emeralds, amythysts,
Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores.

Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack,
Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,
With a cargo of Tyne coal,
Road-rails, pig-lead,
Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.

 

Granted, it looks like a much better film than the disastrous all-female outing, but I’m just not getting any kind of Ghostbusters vibe from this. At all.

 

Stranger Ghosts (just from the thumbnail)

 

really good, love it

 

I don’t know what this means.

 

He means it's like trying to capitalize on the popularity of 'Stranger Things' instead of making a reboot truer to the original (I think).

 

Oh, okay. I don’t know what Stranger Things is.

 

Yeah, I think that was the kid from Stranger Things. Trailer:


In fact, now I've watched the Afterlife trailer and it looks like a cross between the two. Which maybe isn't a bad thing really.