Wednesday 18 March 2020

QUARANTINE - WALKING DEAD AND LEARNING SPANISH



For those of you wondering why your posts have not been published, ask yourself a few simple questions.  Were your posts enlightening, entertaining or intended to stimulate discussion? Or were they intended to hurt, embarrass and demean?  I know some of you have grudges going back many years and I am sorry that I am taking up so much space in your heads, but from hereonin, you will have to get your jollies elsewhere.  Call it censorship, call it unjust, call it what you like, but I am no longer giving you a platform for your hate.  

But back to now, and back to day 7/8 or 9 of quarantine.  I have cabin fever!  Not that I am going to the shops, apart from the local one, but I hear the shelves are emptying at a batshit crazy pace.  My hope is that they will be eating rotting, unappetizing food for the next few months! This crisis is bringing out the worst in some people's natures, their true selves are being revealed and it aint pretty.  Sure, there has been a domino effect, no-one knows where the toilet roll panic buying began, and many are not being greedy, just trying to get some before it runs out.  But others are hoarding because they have gone into full blown 'every man for himself' mode.  Had they been on the Titanic they would have trampled over the women and children without a second thought.  This is society now - Gawd 'elp us.

For myself, I am getting a feeling of wartime, Churchillian morale, thinking up creative new ways to make lentils and dried pulses exciting.  Thus far, they are the only 'staples' left on the shop shelves.  As our forefathers, and mothers, learned, necessity is the mother of invention.  Mostly from having to live on minimum wartime rations - a bag of pearl barley and split peas can make a hearty stew!  

I am of course, also heavily influenced by having watched all 10 seasons of The Walking Dead.  We, a collective we, are pretty much where they were in Season 1.  One of the biggest fears right now is that the excessively greedy, those with toilet rolls from floor to ceiling, will start to form gangs to protect their stash, and take over the black market.  Happily, they are not all running to gun stores as they are in the USA, because we don't have them, but there will probably be a high demand for camouflage gear and catapults.

Meanwhile, none of us are technically alone because we have the wonders of the internet.  We are still being informed of everything that is going on.  As a lifelong fan of disaster films, the catastrophe really kicks in when the information stops.  That's the time to hook up with a Rick or a Daryl and learn lethal fighting skills should you have to take on a herd to get hold of the last pack of Andrex.

Of course we could all use this Quarantine time to learn something amazing, a new language, wartime cookery skills, lethal fighting skills.  I am presently torn between Spanish and Kung Fu.  Maybe I should do both?  I feel I am halfway there with the Kung Fu as I watched most of most of the series and have a litany of Grasshopper quotes.  Floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee might present problems, with the arthritis, though I feel I could emulate some of Michonne's (Walking Dead) fighting kills if I had a katana.  The Spanish I'm struggling with, if I could just say one sentence perfectly, I feel I could get past the wall.  

Buen dia mis amigos, or should it be amigas?  Doh!



23 comments:

  1. Ros this comment is not intended to hurt, embarrass and demean, but do you realise what self isolation actually means?

    Social isolation doesn't mean staying inside all the time. There is nothing wrong in going into the garden or for a walk - keep a 2 mtr distance. Take a drive to the countryside if you have a car. Set up a bird table - even on a window sill, start growing some seeds.

    There is no reason to get cabin fever - except possibly for people who have limited mobility.

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    1. Perhaps I should have added condescending and patronising. I don't need you to tell me I can go for a walk in the garden, I'm not a fecking moron.

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    2. @ Ros - you could of course just have said - "thanks for those tips, thankyou"

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    3. @20:24

      Indeed.

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    4. I suggest a round padded room. You can pass the time learning to type with a straitjacket on . :)

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    5. Tut tut 16:26, ffs, can't you just lay off the snide comments for a wee while?

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  2. Go for the Spanish, Rosalinda. Must be the easiest language to learn actually. Unlike Portuguese.

    Best wishes. We will survive.

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    1. Thank you Colin, I really do intend to knuckle down and learn it. I am really impressed by people who can speak two or more languages. I can't help feeling though, that it is much easier to learn another language when you are younger. That may be the lazy answer however, because if you are determined to learn something, it can be done.

      I once decided I wanted to learn how to play the guitar and booked a private lesson. It was an absolute disaster, my neighbours thought I was having 'a domestic', I simply could not manoeuvre my short stubby fingers into the contortions he demanded to hit the right notes. My guitar playing ended then and there, I would never have the bendy digits required for stringed instruments, I once had the same problem with a violin teacher. My one singing lesson ended in much the same way when I discovered just how bad I sounded when not drunk.

      We will hopefully survive, our predecessors went through much, much worse. Take care Colin, and kindest wishes to you and yours.

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    2. Keyboards? It's never too late to find your inner Chopin or Orchestral Manoeuvres, depending on your taste (OMD for me).

      Blessed are those who remember how to cook pulses and lentils...

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    3. Sam Neill's playing his ukulele. (Badly lol)

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    4. Colin @20:54

      “We will survive.”

      Sure thing.

      Event 201
      http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/about

      Event 201 scenario
      http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/scenario.html

      DAVID ICKE - THE TRUTH BEHIND THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: COVID-19 LOCKDOWN & THE ECONOMIC CRASH
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMTZu6_TjU8&feature=emb_rel_end

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    5. I've never actually watched or read anything by David Icke Colin, and I'm not sure I want to just now!

      Sam Neill playing his ukulele and Steve Martin playing his banjo makes me smile. Gal Gadot et al singing 'Imagine', maybe not so much ;)


      Ps. Normally luuuuve Gal Gadot, she is my favourite superhero!

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  3. que mucha mierda

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    1. Nice try 21;26, but it's qué.

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    2. I'm getting nowhere with my Spanish 21:26, I had to look that up! I gratefully accept your good luck wishes :)

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  4. Media Silent as William Barr Formally Announces Orwellian Pre-Crime Program
    https://themindunleashed.com/2019/10/william-barr-pre-crime-program.html

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    1. Sadly, this is a good time for the sinister plans of despots to be brought to fruition. Trump has longed, like his hero Putin, to have his own Secret Service and the powers to arrest, brutalise and execute his enemies.

      I think a pre-crime program is more Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Minority Report etc). It may be that Trump will slide in laws that will benefit himself while everyone else is focused on the pandemic, but it could also be that the democrats are scrutinising everything he does.

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  5. I am in absolute shock at the outrageous ignorance and denial of coronavirus on the hellhole.

    CORONAVIRUS - Was a group of senior Freemasons planning this back in 2005?
    https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t16768p525-coronavirus-was-a-group-of-senior-freemasons-planning-this-back-in-2005#415147

    It is significant to note that it is the same posters who are "respected" about their comments on the Mccann case. They are trying to mislead everyone - again.

    It just shows what complete idiots they are and always have been.

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    1. Time is precious these days 16:50, even if it may appear we have an abundance of it, so I suggest you do not waste any of it on the cesspit. They are a group of oddballs and misfits obsessing over the lives of others because they can't bear themselves and their own lives.

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  6. 'The perfect time to start': how book clubs are enduring and flourishing during Covid-19"
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/26/the-perfect-time-to-start-how-book-clubs-are-enduring-and-flourishing-during-covid-19

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    1. Thank you for that 18:35, it would indeed be a good time to start talking about books, that was my hope for social media back in 1999. Unfortunately the book chat room I joined discussed anything but books, and now the moment has passed. Who reads books these days? I physically can't - unfortunately my try out of bifocals has not been a success, ergo I can only read the (small) printed word with a magnifying glass. I still have a shelves spilling over with books I have loved, but now they are more keepsakes, unless of course I get the magnifying glass out.

      Book chat is always agreeable, and quite a thrill when you happen upon someone who loves a book as much as you do. But I think I lean a little more towards film chat, or movie chat, I have loved everything Hollywood since I was a nipper! I have of course matured a little, and it's not just Hollywood now - my fav film at the moment is the South Korean 'Parasite', it is a masterpiece.

      In any event, thank you for your contribution 18:35, it would be nice to chat online with like minded people and I might move towards that once I stop being miffed over the sarcasm and nastiness of some who regularly post here.

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    2. I read plenty of books via Kindle app on my PC, phone and tablet. There are thousands of free books (I am a member of Kindle unlimited - which is like a library) I can magnify the text size to anything I want to make viewing easier.

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  7. "Finally working on that novel as you self-isolate? You're not alone"
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/mar/26/novel-writing-during-coronavirus-crisis-outbreak

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