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[ladymuck]

Entertainment: some lunatic suggesting that 6 year olds should get the vote.

I can't remember who, as it was a while ago, but I remember watching someone argue for something like "children should be allowed to vote". Their logic was that such rules introduce arbitrary reasons for exclusion.

You have to ask what is the purpose of an age cut off. The initial reaction is that a child of 6 doesn't understand what they're voting for. Which is what you can also say about a lot of adults. So then it becomes an argument about intellect and/or educational attainment.

If it's about being a tax payer, then you could argue that everyone in receipt of benefits shouldn't be allowed to vote. Also, a 6 year old child actor, piano virtuoso, etc. could be earning millions, and therefore paying taxes, so surely they should be allowed to vote too.

It actually becomes a very interesting debate about why we find reasons to exclude groups and what a slippery slope it becomes. Not just in voting.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny day, with a reasonable amount of wispy cloud and a bit of a breeze. Currently 25°C, it’ll creep up to 26° shortly; the barometers are back down a bit at 1006/1014mB

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with wispy fluff, although my weather app says it's cloudy. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 28 expected. Barometer at 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 05:36; Sunset 20:37 BST

Uneventful journey home yesterday afternoon. Current me was very happy that past me had put fresh bed linen on the bed before I went up to Glasgow. I was very happy to see that my plants hadn't withered while I was away.

Lazy morning had. An equally lazy afternoon beckons. I might do some cleaning as the floors could really do with an intervention of some sort (it's all laminate here).

[DoctorStrangelove]

Finally, the end of S1 of Silo in which it becomes clear that when you get a contract for a second season, you need to introduce a twist at the end that will let you draw the story out for a bit longer

I've lost count of the number of septic series which ended on unresolved cliff hangers. One is grateful when a series ends up resolved. Well, other than S5 of Fringe all in all. .

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

19.8 deg in here, 21.2 in the kitchen (yes: the graduations are in 20th of a degree ), 19 in the leanto, 14 out the back.

1014 mBar, 29.94 in Hg, 760.6 Torr, 14.7 psi, (down from 1016 last night), 54% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April between 11:31 and 12:01, Brillo, covbob, DaveB, eek, LM, NF, PhilTheGreek, SimonMac, and WTFH popped in. Apparently MrMarkyMark had a Bakewell Tart.

The duvet was pressed into use once again.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked very slowly this morning. Any slower & I'd have been going backwards.

What I'd previously thought to be a bee fly is more likely to be a Hummingbird Hawk Moth, judging by the one in the front garden this morning. It seemed to like some of the flowers.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some lunatic suggesting that 6 year olds should get the vote.

Car Cam thing on Sky Mix. There's some nutters out there & they are driving things, mostly very badly judging by most of that.

Book. I'll be glad when this one is finished.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <click>.

TPTV: Scotland Yard S1 E7 "Fatal Journey (1954)".

To celebrate this, I broke a tooth. .

Maigret S1 E7 "A man of quality (1960)".

Blaze: that 'Itler on Alderney.

Blaze: some other bollox: Secret Wars: Syria.

Blazian real bollox: National Park Mysteries. The Truth is out there, just not on Blaze.

[WTFH]

Morning all

Mostly blue skies, but no sign of rain for at least 10 days.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was Primate (2025) in which some humans who live with a chimpanzee for vaguely explained reasons get upset when the poor chimp develops rabies. I’m not sure this was an entirely realistic film, TBH. For a start, the (dead) mother who introduced the chimp to the family home was a professor of linguistics, and the father is deaf and communicates by sign language but is apparently an ecologist who writes books. How do these people have an unbelievably luxurious home in Hawaii? But they do. And if the father has to leave because he’s on a book tour and can’t be home that night, why is he able to get back home within an hour of realising something’s wrong? If I was signing books in a shop that close to home, I wouldn’t bother with a hotel. Anyway, the poor sick chimp gets all the blame even though it was the family’s fault it got bitten by a rabid mongoose (are mongooses native to Hawaii?) but I reckon they shouldn’t have had a chimp living there in the first place. If Alison from Monkey World heard about them, she’d come and take it off them no matter how many words it had learned on its iPad

And then a rewatch of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) because one should watch the most incredible film ever made from time to time

Finally, the end of S1 of Silo in which it becomes clear that when you get a contract for a second season, you need to introduce a twist at the end that will let you draw the story out for a bit longer

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been M&S Korean ribs and chips. Very spicy

And to go with it, the final episode of the Lockerbie thing

[ladymuck]

The "might rain" has been upgraded to "enthusiastic rain"

[NickFitz]

Shopping accomplished!

I went via the slightly more direct route rather than past the old flat, which meant going to Sainsbury’s first. The refurbishment drags on, meaning many things still aren't where they ought to be, but I think I managed to get everything I needed, along with the usual assortment of things I didn’t

And then over to M&S, where it turned out the shirt I was thinking of getting wasn’t available in my size. I dithered around for a bit, but almost everything that I thought of buying was also not available in my size, so in the end I didn’t bother getting any clothes at all. Instead, I headed for the Food Hall where, given that I can never get the app to work with the public wi-fi, I used one of their self-scan handsets for the first time. This proved to be adequate at making me no longer look like a shoplifter whilst also avoiding the hassle of tipping everything out again for scanning at the end

And so home. I realised that being parked by M&S with no need to go to Sainsbury’s meant the best route home was the one past the old place. Not because it’s shorter or quicker, but largely because I’d have to drive all the way through the shopping park to take the other route, and I find the place vaguely annoying. So I was able to confirm that the chestnut trees are still OK

Time for lunch now

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy with outbreaks of sunshine. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Might rain at some point. Barometer steady at 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 05;33; Sunset 21:12 BST

Date night dinner at Margo was very good yesterday evening.

This morning HWMBO has made Scottish morning rolls filled to bursting with egg, bacon, square sausage and potato cakes.

I head home this afternoon where I see it's already 23 degrees.

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.
9C at 5am, warmed up now.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start, with wisps of mares’ tails here and there. The wind seems to have dropped too, so 17°C now feels like 17°; the expected high is 23°, and the barometers are up to 1012/1020mB

Though the nights are getting cooler, the bedroom is still above 20° at bedtime so I haven’t reactivated the duvet yet. But I’ve taken to chucking a throw over the duvet cover under which I sleep, which tends to slide off the bed at some point during the night. It hasn’t been cold enough yet for the loss of it to lead to me waking up

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky with high wispy clouds.

Brrrr 19.7 deg in here, 21.2 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 12 out the back.

1018.5 mBar, 30.07 in Hg, 763.9 Torr, 14.77 psi, (unchanged), 52% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 10:58 and 11:21, barrydidit, covbob, eek, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, and scruff popped in.

For the first time in ages the upstairs windows were closed overnight, and, even more alarmingly, the duvet was pressed into service for most of the night.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked. Wore jacket: better to have a jacket & not need it, than need a jacket & not have it.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: noon o'clock news. Much crap on the tube about the Demented Orange Mother****er. And one about the SAS teaching the Septics how to do it on a training course.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: "Flapping" races: amateur horse & "long dog" races done in the evenings. Changes in farming practices over his lifetime: remembers returning in 1946 to see some prize winning heavy horses on a ploughing team: the next day they were off to the slaughter house because they'd been replaced by tractors: 2nd time I've heard that story. . 2nd hand tractors sent over by the septics in WWII that replaced the heavy horses. Combine harvesters. The machine that makes those big round bales of straw. How modern wheat is much shorter than the old wheat and how the combine leaves most of the straw on the field so it's either burned or baled.

Tea: chilli con carne with rice etc. Entertainment: PM <click> UFO bollox on Blaze.

Ships: HMS Victory. This proved so inneresting I washed the dishes.

Six Million Dollar Man: S6 E5: Sasquatch. I thought I recognised Geoffrey Lewis.

Bab5 S2 E22 "The fall of night". The excrement has entered the aircon.

Taggart S15 E4. "Long Time Dead". The organlegging one: I have no recall of this whatsoever.

[NickFitz]

I ended up watching another episode of the Lockerbie thing, so just one left now

And in Just a Shot Away, Meredith Hunter has been stabbed and beaten to death by the Hells Angels while the Stones continued to play. Then the Stones left the USA in a hurry and have been trying to distance themselves from the whole sorry affair, but Rolling Stone has put together a special issue revealing just what a nightmare Altamont was, even for those who didn’t get killed

Shopping tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

^^^

Control Panel Design: Features wild black controls labeled in black on a black background, complemented by a small black light that lights up in black when operated.

Arthur's Question: Asks what the button does.

Ford's Warning: Tells him not to touch it.

The Result: A panel lights up saying "Please do not press this button again".

. .

That would be a better design than what we have at the moment