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[NickFitz]

Walk briskly walked, green ring closed

[NickFitz]

Watched High Plains Drifter last night. Bit confusing as the marshal that was whipped to death looked like Clint Eastwood. Thought maybe he'd somehow risen from the dead, expect nobody in the town recognised him.

I assume that was the idea; create that ambivalence about whether it's his ghost come to take revenge, and so on

[NickFitz]

Having thought on this I suspect the logic used here was, "I am on my own, so therefore I am isolating" whilst completely missing the point of what self-isolation actually entails.

Possibly so, though one would hope that a woman in her eighties had managed to garner at least a vague understanding of how disease transmission happens

[DoctorStrangelove]

Not Eastwood but Walter Barnes according to

High Plains Drifter (1973) - IMDb

Entertainment: Dunno yet.

"Why does everyone hate the English" on Blaze at 21:00.

Scotland this week.

Walter Barnes presumably was the sheriff who replaced the whipped to death sheriff.

A third of the way through the 4 hour epic that is "Gettysburg (1993)".

Possibly so, though one would hope that a woman in her eighties had managed to garner at least a vague understanding of how disease transmission happens

It's them 5G mast wot do it.

[WTFH]

TFBSZ

I see “it’ll all be over by Christmas” is now “it should be getting better after Easter”

[DoctorStrangelove]

Entertainment:
"Why does everyone hate the English" on Blaze at 21:00.

Stirling bridge.

Culloden.

William Wallace.

Refusing to take Scottish money in England.

The evils of Thatcher.

Shutdown shipyards.

Deep fried Mars bars.

Deep fried watermelon.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken rogan josh, with rice and naan; very tasty

[ladymuck]

Tado challenges continue. Waiting on a support response.

HWMBO made dinner for today and tomorrow as the Caribbean goat curry needs to fester in the fridge overnight.

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was Linotype: The Film (2012), about the eponymous typesetting machine and the people who still keep them going. Big nostalgia kick for me, as we had one at the school press in the late 1970s, when they started vanishing from the printing industry as phototypesetting took over, and to this day it's the most incredible and unlikely machine I have ever encountered. Seriously, it's like a Heath Robinson contraption raised to the Nth power; yet for nearly a hundred years it was used to set every page of every newspaper in the world, and a good percentage of the books too. A wonderful beast, if you don't mind being close to a machine that has so many moving parts it could remove multiple pieces of your body simultaneously just in the normal process of operating it, and is prone to squirting a powerful jet of molten type metal at your groin if something goes wrong; as one of the chaps in the film said, "This was pre-idiot-proof"

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning all if all there be

Dry.

What appears to be blue sky with fluffy white clouds, though I fell for that one yesterday.

Warmer at 15.6 deg in here.

1014 mBar and 65% RH.

Tuesday.