Inconsequential things you ponder on...

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The local ice cream van plays the Match of the Day theme tune (has been doing it for years, so not to do with the Euros). I still can't work out the connection.

A neighbour over the road from me has a Ring doorbell. Since it plays the intro to the Go Compare jingle, is this some surreptitious form of marketing?

Yes, I probably do have too much time on my hands!

@TeddingtonTrashbag

How do we know we see colours the same? How do I know that what I call blue isn't what you call red. We both call the grass green but maybe your green is my yellow Had this discussion in class a few days ago (I am a secondary teacher) and it is interesting to see which children ‘get’ this and retain an open-minded curiosity and inquisitiveness and those who don’t.

I asked this one day a few years ago and was met with blank stares... granted it was in the middle of a work day and I'm not a teacher. But there was a BBC (I think) documentary about this a while back. I believe the conclusion was we probably do see colours somewhat differently but we can't really know, we've all been told for example grass is green so that colour is green. It's a pretty odd concept, I'd love to have the conversation with a class though!

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Gosh that's really choked me . It's so true that for some people they return to a state of total dependency much like we all start out. My item grandmother is in a home - incontinent, needing help with dressing, feeding etc, can no longer walk and I'm the past couple of years has taken to carrying around a soft toy that is a bit like a comfort object. Totally normal apparently with dementia.

I have all boys and that's weird that my DNA stops with me.☹️

I also wonder when will the earth die,and could it happen in my lifetime.

They weren't even considered as anything special until a century ago - they were just some old stones in a working farmer's field like in any other

That's amazing in itself. Proof of our power to accept what we're used to without question, however bizarre it is.

@BorderlineHappy

I have all boys and that's weird that my DNA stops with me.☹️

I also wonder when will the earth die,and could it happen in my lifetime.

@BorderlineHappy

? your DNA doesn't stop with you because you had boys.
they each have half of you

Eating shellfish. I can’t imagine the thought process of the first person who looked at a mussel or an oyster and said “I wonder what that tastes like”.

@Ratonastick

that would've been my kids. one of them ate a worm, another chewed on their shoe. at least 3 of them tasted their own poo and all the boys have tasted their own wee or made another one taste it.
and one of them licked something so disgusting I can't even....

admittedly all of that as babies/toddlers. but some people are trailblazers, rebels & adventures seekers. not to mention doing stuff as a dare!

Eating shellfish. I can’t imagine the thought process of the first person who looked at a mussel or an oyster and said “I wonder what that tastes like”.

I think Zing has it - it must have been a small boy who first ventured to discover it. I'm plenty old enough, but even now, if I see a jar of cockles, I just think "Eeuuuwwww - sea bogies!!!" and would run go and find something that looks like actual food and not human-generated slime

Hadn’t considered the small boy possibility, but that has got to be it. DS would definitely have leapt at the opportunity to try sea bogies………..

I enjoy watching "period" shows like Outlander and The Tudors etc. and all I can think of is people must have absolutely stunk back then, everyone and everywhere you went it wound probably have just smelt like death.

I know the tv shows are dramatisations but they'll show people riding on a horse for days or weeks, wearing the same clothes and no toilets/showers/toothbrush and then a couple will kiss or have sex in a field and all I think is omg neither of you have washed in days! Imagine a time before toothpaste or deodorant or access to indoor plumbing or sanitary products! I know I'm some parts of the world they don't have these things but I just imagine walking around Tudor London and heaving from the smell

www.wired.com/2009/09/video-how-a-construction-crane-is-erected/

Building a crane - ingenius!

Roseinbloom20

I've thought about that, too - the all-pervading stench of pongy bodies that must have been everywhere, from the sewer-man up to the king or queen. Animals in a farmyard now probably get hosed down far more than people did back then - and they still give off quite a strong bouquet as it is!

@Roseinbloom20

I enjoy watching "period" shows like Outlander and The Tudors etc. and all I can think of is people must have absolutely stunk back then, everyone and everywhere you went it wound probably have just smelt like death.

I know the tv shows are dramatisations but they'll show people riding on a horse for days or weeks, wearing the same clothes and no toilets/showers/toothbrush and then a couple will kiss or have sex in a field and all I think is omg neither of you have washed in days! Imagine a time before toothpaste or deodorant or access to indoor plumbing or sanitary products! I know I'm some parts of the world they don't have these things but I just imagine walking around Tudor London and heaving from the smell

I think the idea that people didn't wash in Olden Times is a myth. Of course they washed - they even had special basins and jugs for the purpose. Outer clothes weren't laundered as much but the inner layers of a shift/smock were washed frequently and were there to protect the outer garments from sweat/body oils.

tudorsdynasty.com/keeping-appearances-tudor-style/%3famp

What did the first person to see someone die think had happened? Or were they used to seeing animals die and had no attachment .And why do we humans risk all for the feeling described as love ?

@Ratonatick
@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

look up "Why boys need parents" images on Google or Pinterest🤣

? your DNA doesn't stop with you because you had boys.
they each have half of you

Mitochondrial DNA is passed down by the mother. Without a daughter, that line of DNA ends.

@GiantWingedWaspMoth

*? your DNA doesn't stop with you because you had boys. they each have half of you*

Mitochondrial DNA is passed down by the mother. Without a daughter, that line of DNA ends.

thanks @GiantWingedWaspMoth

I had been aware of that and she didn't mention a specific part of DNA so I was perplexed.
thanks for explaining!

@BorderlineHappy thanks for posting that, sorry if I sounded rude replying.
very interesting fact

Zing

I often wonder how we’ve got to this stage of having so many rubbish jobs, my job is honestly pointless, pandering to demanding people, I know so many people who do jobs that really are just pointless - I wonder what it was like to live in a time before these pointless jobs - in my mind, I would be able to lunch and have afternoon tea and play bridge 😂

The other thing I can’t get my head around is that everything that is on the earth has always been here, so even hundreds of years ago when there were fewer buildings and, well just less stuff, the potential to make everything was already here - I’m not sure if I’m explaining that well.

I had a conversation about building insurance with an architect friend of mine. She said that most of the new buildings (Gherkin, Shard etc) are only insured for 100 years. Essentially, they're not built to last. Next time I pulled into London on the train, I looked at them, all made of glass, and I thought 'all the knowledge in there is in computers (or the cloud), so, if we lose access to that, they will just be glass boxes.'

Nothing you can hold in your hand. Nothing you can pass on to someone.

Our existence now is temporary. We don't have anything that will still be tangible in 200 years. None of our photos will be 'old photos' because we will lose access to them. So many less of our books are physical books, so we will lose access to those too.

There will be nothing left of todays society in a few hundred years. Except toothbrushes. And lego. 1000 years from now, one of our descendants will kneel on a bit of lego, and spur a massive project to discover if that's what humans built their houses out of in the 21stC.

Were people 150+ years ago just mentally harder than we are now? Operations, amputations etc without anaesthesia, enthusiastically off to battle on horseback seemingly without fear, nip to the shops and watch public hangings or beheadings, losing your loved ones every five minutes and carrying on. It fascinates me how mentally tough people must have been.

Also I am now convinced we all perceive smell differently.

I lost my sense of smell with Covid. It slowly came back but it isn't right. I can smell for example, OH cooking bacon and eggs in the kitchen but it isn't the scent I remember. Everything is recognisable but different. I dont think I like it.

@danadas

Were people 150+ years ago just mentally harder than we are now? Operations, amputations etc without anaesthesia, enthusiastically off to battle on horseback seemingly without fear, nip to the shops and watch public hangings or beheadings, losing your loved ones every five minutes and carrying on. It fascinates me how mentally tough people must have been.

I don't know if they were tougher. I'd call more desensitised, probably because they had different standards.

But also they mainly knew about their immediate surroundings.
They didn't experience compassion fatigue on a global level.

@Myfanwyprice

I often wonder how we’ve got to this stage of having so many rubbish jobs, my job is honestly pointless, pandering to demanding people, I know so many people who do jobs that really are just pointless - I wonder what it was like to live in a time before these pointless jobs - in my mind, I would be able to lunch and have afternoon tea and play bridge 😂

The other thing I can’t get my head around is that everything that is on the earth has always been here, so even hundreds of years ago when there were fewer buildings and, well just less stuff, the potential to make everything was already here - I’m not sure if I’m explaining that well.

Yeah I know what you mean about the potential being here! I often think of it.

What are things from Denmark, Danish.and the people Danes?

Why not Danmark or Denish and Denes?