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

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.