Too Much Monkey Business

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Wasted Time Lord, Aug 19, 2024.

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    I don't know, you'd think I'd have seen the moon that colour before, but I don't remember so doing. I had a friend, when we were about 19 who, when I pointed out the full moon in broad daylight, claimed not to have known you could see it in the daytime.

    Also there was a guy worked down the chip shop swore he was Elvis*

    Anyway, I woke from this dream, half an hour ago. I don't remember the dream but I remember this bit: I had an office and someone did the storming out into the broom closet bit, and it came to me - in the dream - to have an Exit sign, on a rail that ran from above the exit to above the adjacent broom closet, and a floorboard from beneath the exit outside to beneath the broom closet. When you step on the floorboard outside the office, the Exit sign slides across to above the broom closet, and when you step on the floorboard inside the broom closet, it moves back to above the exit.

    I offer this idea gratis to any office designers who may be reading this.

    Incidentally I didn't get to sleep until about Chinese dentist antimatter, so I still haven't really got enough sleep waking up at half eight. Which might explain why I don't remember seeing an orange moon before.


    *Not Bob Williams.
     
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  2. bounders love it apparently.
     
  3. Took me awhile to see the difference (Monsieur). And now I've remembered something. In '94 I was staying in Paris and these two chicks offered to show me around. I'd done the Louvre and the Gare whatsit, Notre Dame and so on; I couldn't think offhand what else I might want to see. I'd been to Pigalle and found it about as seedy as Soho. Anyway I suspect they wanted an excuse to go somewhere their maman wouldn't otherwise let them. They were probably still in school, and I was twice their age and whatever sensual possibilities wishful thinking might conjour up being chaperoned by two nubile Parisienne girls, I'm not quite that depraved (a decade later, aged 43, I went out with a 26 year old. I could, what with not caring what strangers think, handle her asking how old I was, in Nandos, Edgware, which was so loud I had to shout it, which made the surrounding tables turn to look at me; and I could certainly handle the way she moved, that made me think for all my vaunted worldly wisdom, there was something I'd been missing out on. What killed it, was her being into Britney and Take That.)
    Anyway, everyone but me seemed to think it'd be a great idea for these two chicks to show me something of Paris and so I suggested the Pompidou (frankly I wish I hadn't - but I'd seen Van Gogh and Rembrandt and Rodin and Monet and so on, and now I got to see some Picasso).
    At some point we were window shopping in the little underground precinct next to it, looking at shoes, and I came out with about the longest sustained French I think I've ever managed: "la plastique c'est à la mode a Paris ?" They said"Oui" so quickly you'd think I'd spoken in actual foreign!

    Only now it seems to me I was pretty much looking at Crocs - in '94.
     
    #24 Wasted Time Lord, Aug 28, 2024
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  4. Oh... the romance of it all...

    I recall something similar where my excited lauding of the Live Aid concert fell on ears that weren't even born at the time... ho hum : unamused:
     
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  5. Yeah. Even traces of arthritis and occasionally looking in a mirror doesn't make me feel so old as realising that that new band Nirvana is further back now than rock'n'roll was when we were teenagers. John Lennon died as long ago as the Wall Street Crash was before I was born (or the birth of the Talkies, and Lindbergh flying the Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic).

    Here's another one: right now I'm reading Michael Collins' 'Carrying the Fire'. Apollo 11 being almost exactly as long ago as Woodstock, of course. So that's as long ago, to someone born today, as the First World War was to us and at no point in my life, even having watched and read so much about it, has it ever seemed other than ancient history, for archaeologists (and a constipation cure for Belgian farmers).

    I'm still resisting the impulse to buy a 70th anniversary Stratocaster.
     
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  6. I hope Take That do a reunion like Oasis :grinning:
     
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  7. Oh Lord... I now find it best not to do the maths.

    Having said that I happened to (re)watch Casablanca and it's now 82 years old...
     
  8. If you're only going to watch one Bogie film then it's gotta be The Maltese Falcon.

    There again The Big Sleep is pretty good also.
     
  9. Which half?
     
  10. I used to have the radio version of The Maltese Falcon - Bogie, Greenstreet, Lorre and Astor. I could almost quote it line for line. I forget if Elijah Cooke Jr was in it.

    And, yes, The Big Sleep. I watched that again recently. Dorothy Malone's high point.

    Can't really beat those two.

    'Half a key Largo' being from the Firesign Theatre's 'The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye' as spoken by Phil Proctor doing Rocky Rococo (Joel Cairo). The album being 'How Can You Be in Two Places at Once, When You're not Anywhere at all'. Smoking a requirement.
     
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  11. You can say this about Britney though: she's sat on a 999.

    Whether she sat on it moving, who knows? Or, indeed, if she wore trolleys.
     
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  12. Wtf room have I just stumbled into?
    <backs away slowly hoping nobody notices I was here>
     
  13. Could you imagine if Robbie got back with them would be great or better still Boyzone do a reunion :heart:
     
  14. Sorry I only speak English
     
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  15. As well as the moon being an odd colour have you noticed that when the moon is close to the horizon it looks smaller in a photograh than it did in real life?

    This is due to summat called the Moon Illusion and it is because the brain 'adjusts' it's size relative to things of known size it may be silhouetted next to i.e. houses, church spires, trees etc. When the moon is high in the sky there is nothing in close proximity so the brain performs no adjustment and we see it as it's actual size.

    Therefore we look with the eyes & see with the brain... so perhaps the colour you saw it as wasn't the colour someone else saw it as... :confused: ;)

    https://science.nasa.gov/solar-syst...sion-why-does-the-moon-look-so-big-sometimes/
     
    #36 Andy Bee, Aug 31, 2024
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  16. Well well. I thought it was because phone cameras are useless at distance shots.

    Haven't looked at the link, largely because I'm on phone only these days on top of which I use PAYG. I presume what it says about looking larger is because magnified by the greater distance of atmosphere.

    I am familiar with illusion, having 'done' psychology (and acid), though there are still surprises. I recently saw the PBS Nova 2-part documentary 'Your Brain', which was the first I knew about the 'blue dress' (I see it as blue anyway).

    To say 'what is real?' is the most interesting question there is seems to state the blindingly obvious, but most are too busy feeding the kids to even know to ask it.
     
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  17. Ok, got it now. Fascinating.
     
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  18. Almost always I think -though the difference might typically not be that great
     
  19. Is this why some incorrectly think the faster ones are red I wonder... :thinkingface::)
     
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