Random Thought Thread

I just saw one yesterday that said that waffles are pancakes that are ribbed for your pleasure.

 

I am not worthy ...

https://www.chron.com/news/article/Mom-runs-3-11-marathon-while-pushing-185-pounds-14114115.php

 

Two points:

1. Damn. My best 3 mile as an 18-year-old Marine was somewhere around 21 minutes, unencumbered. The pace she maintained for the full marathon.

2. “But I would never really do that. I tear up when I think any day could be the last day my oldest daughter goes for a run in the stroller. She can ride her bike while I run now.”
WTF is a six-year-old doing riding regularly in a stroller? No indication she's disabled.

 

I think I’m getting into African mythology! So many cool characters and stories here!

 

Save the volcanoes?

 

This is actually one of my bugbears. I get annoyed seeing kids who are perfectly capable of walking bundled into buggies.

 

In the future, there will be no LGBTQ cyborgs.

 

My God, I just found one of my first drafts of my Alkorian fantasy.

I seriously thought a bar fight with a dwarf (with a man of nobility and a blind urchin on one side and a random drunk dwarf on the other) ending with Lord Gregreo Valmorn (the nobility guy) discovering that Mishu (the blind street urchin) may, in fact, be his bastard daughter from a barmaid was a good idea.

*cringes* xD I still remember making that joke in class — Mishu hanging off a cliff with Gregreo going, “You think I killed your father? No, child, I...am your father!”

I’m glad my current draft is leagues better than that.

 

When the context is right, I'll see what I can do about adding a bar fight with a dwarf. Just maybe not with a man of nobility and a blind street urchin joining forces against the dwarf. We will see.

 

If there are cyborgs in the future, gender could be obsolete. Meaning, these so called "LGBTQ cyborgs", or lack there of, would be due to societal assimilation and removal of unnecessary labels. Where humans become one fluid entity, alleviating the current negatively perceived climate and bringing in the age of unity. Maybe even hive mind?

 

If you need inspiration for that, then Terry Pratchett is your friend.

 

Can anyone out there please explain how the hell I'm not losing weight?

About ten weeks ago I landed a full time job, which in a nutshell has me travelling from bowling green to bowling green all day, where I spend 40 minutes at each pushing around a lawnmower. According to the step counter on my phone I'm averaging 15,000 steps per day, which equates to about 8 miles.

My diet is still poor, but then it always was. However, I'm in no doubt whatsoever that I'm shovelling far far less of it down my gullet, and the amount of daily exercise has increased tenfold. So how can I not be losing weight??

 

You might build muscles while burning fat.

 

You will lose weight.

I’m on about 20 000 x 4 days a week + beer/wife-wine in the evening, and I’ve lost a stone.

 

Beach Party any body?

 

I've lost several kidney stones over the last year...

 

Anachronistic whiteboards.

 

So long story short, there is a portrait of an old man from the 1800s mounted in the dining room of my house. This man is not part of the family, rather he is the ancestor of a hateful stepdad who mistreated my mom when she was growing up and, for reasons unclear to me, her mom had her mount this man in the dining room.

Now, I’m a history buff so when I see this unknown man, my instincts tell me to commence research to put a name to him — find out about his life, what he did, etc. Heck, it could even make the grandmother happy to know as even she isn’t all that familiar with this ancestor of the stepdad. Thing is, and while I may be overthinking a bit, this guy is the ancestor of the asshole stepdad so researching into his life comes off as a betrayal to me. Like I care more about that asshole stepdad than my own mom. Yet at the same time I feel like I’m gonna regret it if I don’t at least try before my grandmother eventually passes away.

And beyond the regret, it seems silly that we have a giant portrait of a man from the 19th century whose name and life we don’t even know, yet he’s the first thing you see when you walk into the dining room. I want to research him just on that basis alone as that’s what my history buff instincts tell me but what if he was an asshole? What if I research and find out he was some slave-holding douchebag, or an all-around dickwaffle? I know, it’s not fair for me to assume so quickly for a (dead) guy I don’t even know but that idea is still there.

So here’s the TL;DR version:

— There is a portrait of a long-dead guy in my house who is the ancestor of an alcoholic stepdad who treated my mom like shit. He’s the first thing you see when you enter the dining room.

— I want to research him for (1) historical purposes, and (2) maybe help my grandmother put a name to that guy before she passes.

— I fear if I do that, I’m somehow betraying my mom by devoting my attention to the ancestor of her tormentor.

— What if the said dead guy was also an asshole? What would my research have proven?

 

I'd say do the work. History is full of dickwaffles, and it's also full of good people who went on to whelp assholes. You won't know until you check him out ( if possible).