Interesting Links for 27-03-2020

[andrewducker]

Reminder that you do not have to have sex with your partner just because you're trapped in the house with them

(tags:sex consent )

Clearly some people are spending their quarantine more productively than others

(tags:pandemic video impressive )

A resource for explaining coronavirus to small children

(tags:disease children )

Gordon Ramsay hasn't spoken to staff since laying 500 people off over coronavirus fears

(tags:OhForFucksSake restaurant uk )

British Archaeologists Discover Huge Stash of Victorian-Era Beer

(tags:archeology London alcohol )

Telling Half Life Alyx with Valve in "the meanest interview ever"

(tags:VirtualReality games valve half-life )

The Ibuprofen Debate Reveals the Danger of Covid-19 Rumors

(tags:drugs pandemic )

"To show just how insane this week's unemployment numbers are, I animated initial unemployment insurance claims from 1967 until now. These numbers are just astonishing."

(tags:unemployment visualisation viaSwampers )

RBS Edinburgh headquarters becomes foodbank distribution centre

(tags:rbs Edinburgh food GoodNews )

Coronavirus: Spanish police collar citizen out in dinosaur outfit amid lockdown

Mostly for the music
(tags:dinosaurs Spain pandemic )

I just started reading this parenting blog a friend of mine writes, and am enjoying it quite a lot

(tags:parenting blogging children )

Comments

Victorian beer stash

[claudeb]

Most British news ever.

Re: Victorian beer stash

[dewline]

Agreed on that score!

Also, archeological science marches on, right?

Archeology AND DInosaurs: Science Marches Onward in Morocco, Also!

[dewline]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/28/scientists-discover-three-new-species-of-pterosaurs-in-the-sahara

Dinosaur outfit?

[dewline]

I remember seeing someone walking around my neighbourhood in such an outfit last weekend. This was a surprise and yet not.

Re: Dinosaur outfit?

[andrewducker]

The dinosaurs are returning. Keep a close watch for them!

parenting blog

[calimac]

A decade from now, those kids are going to be so embarrassed at this. They will just turn red all the way down to their toes.

Re: parenting blog

[andrewducker]

Or we'll have got used to the idea that kids behave like kids.

Re: parenting blog

[calimac]

We're used to it. But circa-12-year-olds have always been acutely embarrassed by stories of themselves as toddlers, and I don't see that stopping. By the time they're in their 20s, they'll just crack a wry smile, and once they have kids of their own they'll call up (or whatever people will be doing then) their mother and say, "Now I understand."

Re: parenting blog

[andrewducker]

Good point!

I shall not force Sophia's old pictures on her when she grows up.

apricots

[darkoshi]

I'm wondering if "open an apricot" and "rip [the apricot] open" simply means to cut it in half with a knife, or something more outlandish (to me) like prying it apart with one's fingers? Is that a typical phrase in some places?

Re: apricots

[andrewducker]

Nope, that's just young kids trying to communicate that they want part of one.

Re: apricots

[darkoshi]

That's how I interpreted it to begin with, but when the parent also mentioned ripping one open, it made me wonder. :)

Re: apricots

[andrewducker]

It's just easier to talk back to them in their own language unless you really want to correct them.

Re: apricots

[mair_in_grenderich]

I interpret that as breaking it open with your fingers, which is exactly how I always open apricots (on the rare occasions that I have such an exotic fruit).

Re: apricots

[darkoshi]

Wow, really? I've never even thought of trying that. I expect that trying it on a firm one would hurt my fingernails, digging into the fuzzy skin and hard flesh. And that on a soft one, that the fingers would dig into the flesh, getting the fingers sticky and the flesh squished and mushy.
...searching on "how to open an apricot with your hands" only brings up one page that mentions first cutting it in a circle and then twisting it open, which is exactly what I do.. wait, is that what you mean?

Re: apricots

[mair_in_grenderich]

No? Apricots have a seam. They (usually) break open easily starting at the top of the seam. If it needs a knife it's probably not ripe and won't taste good...

I mean we will probably never know whether the blog poster was or not using a knife... that's just how I do it (and my mother before me...) and what I imagined from the description.

Re: apricots

[darkoshi]

I'll have to try that next time! It does sound like that is what the blog poster did, from the wording. I had just never heard of that being possible (without making a mess) which is why I was confused.

Re: apricots

[darkoshi]

Fresh apricots are pretty rare around here too. Which is odd, as I think of them similar to peaches, and this is very much a peach-growing region of the U.S.