A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum

[LMcD]

To the woods with a bottle of whisky and a revolver more like

BUT whatever floats .....

I was merely suggesting that not everything containing a germ will kill you

[Serial_Apologist]

Haydn in plain sight, or self isolation?

Haydn Seek

[Serial_Apologist]

I was merely suggesting that not everything containing a germ will kill you

There's a germ of truth in that...

[johncorrigan]

Concerned that I might not get to see my 93 year old Mum for a while, I headed over to the west yesterday to hang out with her for a while. We couldn't go to the usual cafe so we spent a couple of hours down on the Clyde Coast at Gourock - flask of tea, sandwich etc and a wee walk along the Front cheerily acknowledging and being acknowledged by passers-by. Glorious day...could have been summer, except for the wee nip in the air.

My Mum said she needed some mince and sausages and I spotted a butcher shop in the town, so I stopped and went in. The woman behind the counter was a right laugh as we talked all things corona, and panic buying and the like. She said that a few days before, one of the local guys had come in for mince and she had asked him what he was going to make. 'Lasagne!' he said and headed off to the supermarket. Next day he came back in, so she asked him how the lasagne had gone. 'I didn't make it. I couldn't get any pasta sheets in the supermarket!' So she asked him what he did. 'I just hit the drink instead!' he said. How we laughed!

[richardfinegold]

My 92 year old mother is in a Senior Residence in Detroit. 2 of the residents have tested positive. The others have been in enforced isolation for over a week, confined to their tiny apartments. I talk to her daily and she was bearing it well until yesterday when she just exploded in frustration

[LezLee]

Do any other older posters here automatically (and pigheadedly) translate 2 metres to 6’ 6”?

[Bryn]

Do any other older posters here automatically (and pigheadedly) translate 2 metres to 6’ 6”?

Sorry, I used to considerably annoy my geotechnics prof by responding to all his problems set in Imperial with answers in SI units. This was in 1992-3. I had been thinking in SI units since working as a research assistant at the then Heating and Ventilation Research Association back in 1968, though SI had already become the standard system in use when I was at school, earlier in the '60s. I do still think in inches sometimes, I must admit, but not in feet or yards.

[LezLee]

The ‘Patient Access’ website charmingly and weirdly, suggests ‘2 metres (6ft or a broom’s length)’ !

[oddoneout]

The ‘Patient Access’ website charmingly and weirdly, suggests ‘2 metres (6ft or a broom’s length)’ !

Bring back the besom!

[Serial_Apologist]

Bring back the besom!

Oh, I read that as "bosom".

[LMcD]

Do any other older posters here automatically (and pigheadedly) translate 2 metres to 6’ 6”?

Yes - some of my friends and acquaintances are from an age group which never took to metric measurements. Apparently the BBC's Hugh Pym is more or less 2 metres / 6'6".

[Pulcinella]

Not sure which thread is best for this, received from a friend (not sure how original); the Social distancing and Coronavirus threads didn't see quite right.

I heard a doctor on TV saying that to have inner peace and to help us get through our numerous days of isolation, we should always finish things we start.
This should give us a sense of pride and accomplishment.
I looked through my flat to find things I'd started and hadn't finished, so I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of wum an a box a chocletz.
Yu haf no idr how ffablus I feel rite now.
Won atel mfrends bout ths inner piss An telum i luvum.

[Joseph K]

Not sure which thread is best for this, received from a friend (not sure how original); the Social distancing and Coronavirus threads didn't see quite right.

I heard a doctor on TV saying that to have inner peace and to help us get through our numerous days of isolation, we should always finish things we start.
This should give us a sense of pride and accomplishment.
I looked through my flat to find things I'd started and hadn't finished, so I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of wum an a box a chocletz.
Yu haf no idr how ffablus I feel rite now.
Won atel mfrends bout ths inner piss An telum i luvum.

[teamsaint]

Yes - some of my friends and acquaintances are from an age group which never took to metric measurements. Apparently the BBC's Hugh Pym is more or less 2 metres / 6'6".

I think you'll find that 2 metres is exactly equal to 1 Tony Greig ( 6'7") as all cricket fans of a certain vintage know .

[teamsaint]

Not sure which thread is best for this, received from a friend (not sure how original); the Social distancing and Coronavirus threads didn't see quite right.

I heard a doctor on TV saying that to have inner peace and to help us get through our numerous days of isolation, we should always finish things we start.
This should give us a sense of pride and accomplishment.
I looked through my flat to find things I'd started and hadn't finished, so I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of wum an a box a chocletz.
Yu haf no idr how ffablus I feel rite now.
Won atel mfrends bout ths inner piss An telum i luvum.