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.

Dinosaur outfit?

[dewline]

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

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.

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?