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#2469058 24-Apr-2020 10:39

MikeB4: I have lived a sheltered life I think. I had to Google Crocs. My initial thoughts were why would one wear a crocodile on their feet.

I am pretty sure you could have gone your whole life and not known about them and not been any worse for wear. I know I feel that way :)

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#2469121 24-Apr-2020 11:36

Animals make merry as humans stay inside. Watch groundhog eating pizza unfazed by owner, dogs

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#2469122 24-Apr-2020 11:36

No worries, even before the lockdown I could go into Countdown to get milk and end up with $220 worth of stuff but no milk.

I third that.

Terry Wogan used to call them Senior Moments - his best example being going upstairs, finding yourself on the landing wondering why you had gone upstairs!

Fortunately, we have a bungalow.

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#2469124 24-Apr-2020 11:38

Geektastic:

Terry Wogan used to call them Senior Moments - his best example being going upstairs, finding yourself on the landing wondering why you had gone upstairs!

Fortunately, we have a bungalow.

Didn't he just have the most wonderful voice?

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#2469127 24-Apr-2020 11:40

kingdragonfly: Animals make merry as humans stay inside. Watch groundhog eating pizza unfazed by owner, dogs

That's one of the most wholesome and enjoyable things I have seen for a while...

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#2470372 24-Apr-2020 15:02

MikeB4: I have lived a sheltered life I think. I had to Google Crocs.

Just think of them as plastic clogs for nebbishes.

(And now you can Google nebbish :-). Yiddish gives us so many great words).

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#2471285 25-Apr-2020 20:18

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#2471306 25-Apr-2020 21:03

networkn:

MikeB4: I have lived a sheltered life I think. I had to Google Crocs. My initial thoughts were why would one wear a crocodile on their feet.

I am pretty sure you could have gone your whole life and not known about them and not been any worse for wear. I know I feel that way :)

I have a pair of Crocs - Jandals. They are hands down the best pair of jandals I have ever worn. When I bought them I was dubious, I hadn't worn jandals for many years as I hated wearing them. For casual summer time footwear they are now my go to footwear. They look smart - for a jandal - and they are very comfortable. I wear the my "Crocs" all summer.

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#2471354 26-Apr-2020 07:21

Handsomedan:

What I found most shocking of all was the fact that there was a definite and deliberate reference to Crocs!

Nobody would've notice if he had no pants on, with those on his feet!

Yep, I mentioned the Crocs loud and proud! F$&@ the fashionistas- Crocs are a far more practical throw-on footwear choice than jandals or those heinous Adidas slider things.

Thinking back, though, I think it was an even more desultory scene than I painted initially: every few days I’d been slowly removing additional facial hair to produce some fantastically ugly results. That day was early in this ‘annoy my wife’ competition, so I think I also had full lamb chops and a handlebar moustache!

All I can say is at least it wasn’t a later variation, when all that was left had me resembling He Who Cannot Be Named On This Forum (and I don’t mean Voldemort). That said, my wife refused to let me leave the house with that, nor the thinner version that Mugabe sported...

While this may seem OT to this particular thread, the reality is this mucking about provided entertainment to the family in these weird times...

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#2471391 26-Apr-2020 09:40

Have been doing the same. Mucking about with facial hair trimming, and the hair on my head got shorter and shorter, until finally this past week I actually shaved my head. All for entertainment purposes. Desired result achieved. It'll grow back.

People often mistake me for an adult because of my age.

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#2471404 26-Apr-2020 10:14

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#2471423 26-Apr-2020 10:51

Stu: Have been doing the same. Mucking about with facial hair trimming, and the hair on my head got shorter and shorter, until finally this past week I actually shaved my head. All for entertainment purposes. Desired result achieved. It'll grow back.

I haven't' trimmed my facial hair (except for shaving the neck and making the sides neat) for the last six or seven weeks now. Used to trim every week. Getting to the point where the white hairs are getting to dominate the face (hair is still black as on top). Will likely trim just enough to make it neat than trim down to three mm like before.

As for head, had a haircut just the week before lockdown and think it will be ok for another two weeks. Did play with the idea of shaving down at home (the trimmer should do it) or go all bald at least for now. As you said, it grows back (and quite quickly) so all in good fun.

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#2471663 26-Apr-2020 16:49

Fred99:

Argh!!! Hand crocs! Now I need to try Trump's Covid19 cure on my eyes!

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#2471716 26-Apr-2020 19:09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ9W9LwAvjU

The NZ concert music group known as "Operatunity", has put on YouTube, nine lockdown half-hour "happiness" concerts, some of which involve merging the results of people singing at different locations.

The above link is to Episode 7 which includes the "Queen's Message". This is about 24 minutes in and it's very well done!

We enjoy the opera singing which is included in some of the episodes, particularly those items performed at the Waitomo Caves.

To get links to the other episodes that have been uploaded so far, go to Youtube and in the search area type in "Operatunity Happiness Half Hour".

People who regularly go to the monthly concerts put on by Operatunity are very pleased that the company has put these free concerts on YouTube, as they are specifically designed to cheer people up during lockdown.

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#2475545 2-May-2020 23:40

Handsomedan:

Geektastic:

Terry Wogan used to call them Senior Moments - his best example being going upstairs, finding yourself on the landing wondering why you had gone upstairs!

Fortunately, we have a bungalow.

Didn't he just have the most wonderful voice?

Truly. He was a consummate broadcasting professional and his Breakfast Show on Radio Two enlivened my commute to the office for almost a decade. It is a great shame that the BBC do not appear to have made any of his shows downloadable as I am sure they will have them all recorded.

On one memorable occasion, he had a technical issue in the studio and the got an engineer to come in to fix it whilst they were on air. The engineer was grovelling under Terry's desk for some while and the listener would have had not the slightest idea - he never mentioned it and it never put him off his stride.

That gentle affability was a balm in the mornings - so much nicer than the shouty rude variety so common on commercial radio.

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