The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. Up to the safari camp for a beer or three. They have the same system there Bob. The security guard has clubs all over the place in flower beds.

This must be one of the very few bars still open to serve alcohol in the country. Don't even know if they have a licence. The managers own the stock and sell it privately with a 50% mark up on cost. It is with the approval of their company. It has always been this way. Don't think the company wants to worry about stock and theft.

Blazing sunshine but a bit of rain yesterday.

Our security chappie went missing for a time last night. We suspect that our only neighbour has asked him to keep an eye on her as well. No way. Get her own chap. She could ask her housekeeper to get her boyfriend to guard but he is locked up for beating us up.

[barkingmad]

Snowing in my parish but melting immediately. 🥶

[4mastacker]

Morning folks.

I was going to mow the grass today but thought ****-it, drink tea instead.

Petrol down to 104.7p per litre in our bailiwick and diseasel at 108.7p. Was wondering what with the airlines shutting down and all that AVTUR sitting around doing nuthin, will HM's Flying Club take advantage and have a bit of fun punching extra holes in the blue sky?

[Wodrick]

Morning all,
Beautiful day, tad on the cool side but narry a cloud.

The Ragheads of Ethiad just went over laying a trail , going home from the windy city. It's very quiet looking up.

Bang on cue dogs crying to go out at 0800, they are still out.

Back/bed interface did not want to separate on both occasions.

[OFSO]

Sat drinking coffee in bright sunlight, listening to the wind howling......but by the time I popped out for the 'Sunday Times' thick grey cloud had arrived, it was 6° and Not Nice.

[om15]

It is very eerie, no sign of neighbours, village is silent and no trails above the house. One day someone will make a film about all this, funnily enough I read a book predicting a similar event to this by Robert Harris a couple of months ago, it didn't have a happy ending.
Going for a stroll while we still can.

[Pontius Navigator]

4ma, wise move. Did mine last week. Today watching someone, somewhere in the world, fixing a program in my computer. Taken him an hour so far. Just finished, now working, prognosis get a new computer.

[Capetonian]

It reminds me of this very eerie novel which I read years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_to_a_Sunless_Sea

David Graham's Down to a Sunless Sea (1979) is a post-apocalyptic novel about a planeload of people during and after a short nuclear war, set in a near-future world where the USA is critically short of oil. The title of the book is taken from a line of the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

[Pontius Navigator]

There is a trilogy by REMcDermott with the apocalypse based on a solar event. Plague is not an issue but certainly every man for himself is. His topography detail is so fine you are transported right into the story.

[TheGreenGoblin]

David Graham's Down to a Sunless Sea (1979) is a post-apocalyptic novel about a planeload of people during and after a short nuclear war, set in a near-future world where the USA is critically short of oil. The title of the book is taken from a line of the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Good poem. Probably written when old Samuel was off his head on opium... just the sort of thing that might help to fight off the Corona boredom...

Kubla Khan
BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Written in 1797 so stick that in your pipe and smoke it all you modern hippies...

[Woody]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_from_Porlock

[OFSO]

Just been watching the Eastbourne seafront webcam. Waves, wind etc. and cold. Guy comes along on roller skates, twirls, poses, then jumps up onto the traffic light switch box, turns, drops his pants and moons the camera. Up with them again, jumps down and off camera...

[TheGreenGoblin]

Just been watching the Eastbourne seafront webcam. Waves, wind etc. and cold. Guy comes along on roller skates, twirls, poses, then jumps up onto the traffic light switch box, turns, drops his pants and moons the camera. Up with them again, jumps down and off camera...

We all need a hobby I suppose!

[Rwy in Sight]

Linkedin, hand cream and sprot-center's subscriptions are similar: you don't only need to buy subscribe to but also use them. The outside of hands is rough (from the frequent washing) while the hand cream is on the table and a second tube in the bathroom.

[Ex-Ascot]

Went to the pub at lunchtime. Four local South Africans and us. It is getting stormy may have to move from the pool. 'er in outside bath, that may end soon or she may drown.

[Magnus]

OFSO, along the coast in Brighton he'd've had a price list tattooed on his arse.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Went to the pub at lunchtime. Four local South Africans and us. It is getting stormy may have to move from the pool. 'er in outside bath, that may end soon or she may drown.

Sheer luxury, post virus, I had to dodge police Corona isolation road blocks, leopard crawl though separation markers at Tesco's and hide bottle of wine in my stale French loaf! Tell that to kids these days and they won't believe you.

[OFSO]

A splendid roast of pork for lunch. Sherry and Cava Rossi. I requested "Hancock's Half Hour" on the radio while we ate, but the mem' demanded "Round the Horne" so we had Julian and Sandy while we licked the apple sauce from the festive pig and roast whatsits.

[TheGreenGoblin]

A splendid roast of pork for lunch. Sherry and Cava Rossi. I requested "Hancock's Half Hour" on the radio while we ate, but the mem' demanded "Round the Horne" so we had Julian and Sandy while we licked the apple sauce from the festive pig and roast whatsits.

Very rude...

[Rwy in Sight]

I went to the bakery this morning to buy some loafs of bread for my parents (they put them in the freezer and thaw them as needed). I asked like a traffic cop a customer to maintain separation and the nice sales assistant pointed out we become like the places where black and white people are separated like the States. I couldn't resist pointing out how great this period was and how Kennedy ruined it for plenty of people - ISTR that Kennedy did damage the solid democratic base deep south by doing so. And to be honest I didn't think about those places away from America where white and black people were separated.

Sociologist friend did call me Fascist but she knows it turn us both on.