Interesting Links for 08-03-2022
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andrewducker- Fracking cannot be the answer to the UK's energy problems
- (tags:UK gas electricity environment )
- Researchers identify genetic differences associated with suffering from severe Covid
- (tags:Pandemic disease genetics )
- The Spirited Away stage show looks amazing
- (tags:ghibli theatre )
- Brain shrinkage linked to COVID-19
- (tags:brain Pandemic Doom )
- The United Kingdom government is rushing through anti-oligarch legislation without proper scrutiny
- (tags:law UK Russia Ukraine Doom )
- Toddler Diagnosed with Extremely Rare "Uncombable Hair Syndrome" (lovely looking kid)
- (tags:hair babies )
- Teachers are sharing their students' wildest excuses that actually turned out to be true
- (tags:teaching time )
- The Bubble is a comedy about people trying to make a (terrible) movie during the pandemic. It looks like a lot of fun
- (tags:movies trailer video )
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Date: 2022-03-08 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-03-08 03:31 pm (UTC)I once had to attend a company conference in another town. The company had laid on a coach, but it left earlier in the morning than I fancied getting up. And I had a friend living in that town – in fact, an ex who I was still on good terms with – so instead I decided to drive there myself the evening beforehand, and crash at her place for the night.
My ex, it turned out, worked from home, and liked to start the day by sleeping in until the first phone call of the day got her out of bed. On this occasion, the first call was urgent, and needed her to dash out of the house to sort something out. So she did that, absentmindedly locking the front door behind her – leaving me unable to get out, just when I was supposed to be making a move towards the conference.
Eventually she got back, with a big apology and a lavish breakfast to make it up to me. I got to the conference about an hour late, and cravenly decided to mumble "sorry, I got stuck in traffic" rather than sticking up for the truth with "my ex-girlfriend locked me in her house".
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Date: 2022-03-08 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-03-10 09:16 am (UTC)I admit that I smiled a little when reading the excuses - and yours, as well - which counts as a big win for me today, since I just had a tooth removed today & my face hurts.
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Date: 2022-03-08 06:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-08 06:34 pm (UTC)Lock, the peach-fuzz toddler.
Date: 2022-03-08 11:01 pm (UTC)I was wondering whether I might have had that as a kid, but I don't think so - or at least not that fuzzy. I do recall the screaming and yelling every morning to comb my hair, and combing freshly washed hair[1] was really truly terrible. I have a memory of an extended camping trip in the USA when I was eight (so 1964), and my mother tried to dry my hair with a hand drying blower in a washroom at the Grand Canyon. That was one of the times my mother gave up and did not finish combing out my hair. That's my most solid memory of the Grand Canyon. ;)
I remember when the ads first aired on TV for Tame hair rinse. I was ten (1966), and both my mother and my grandmother sat up like they were galvanized, and nearly burst out the door right then. It was evening, so stores weren't open then, but next morning we were on the drugstore doorstep as they opened, demanding to be shown the Tame.
My hair is still too slippery for barrettes or clips or bobby pins, straight as a plumb bob, and sheds constantly like a cat in spring. New hair grows newly everyday so I have irregular wispy bits everywhere.
I don't think my mother and I would have survived true uncombable hair syndrome.
[1] - mind you, this was hair washing over the sink with sunlight yellow bar soap, so.