Thread 7 - TalkLair: “In fact it’s an oblate spheroid”

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of previous threads (thread 6).
The new lair of JTT escapees is all cosy and homey; we have truly settled here. Outside, the garden is blooming with spring flowers. Inside, the hearth is glowing, pictures are up on the walls, rugs are down on the floors (and assorted pets curled up on them).

We just won’t mention the gnawed bones of our prey over there in the corner of the cave…

gnawing the bones is GREAT!

thanks for the new thread

<Loud crunching sound of bones>

Thanks @Kucinghitam

Hello new thread

Nice Donner party vibe, @Kucinghitam

Talk will eat itself!

According to QI, it's no longer considered to be an oblate spheroid. Why the actual flip it is considered to be these days, escapes me.

Sorry!

I thought it was slightly pear-shaped

I wouldn't be surprised, the wheels have definitely come off...

Hello, lovely new thread!

Oh that sounds interesting, Crows! So, the things I believe about corsets are they interfere with your breathing, distort your rib cage and make you faint a lot - all myths?

Mavis, all myths. I mean if you go for tight lacing it's possible that you'll find breathing a bit harder than it should be but most people didn't/don't go for tight lacing. They don't distort your rib cage or your inner organs as olde tyme drawings and diagrams would have us believe. In fact - I hate myself for using "in fact" - they can be incredibly helpful for people with back issues. It's a bit complicated because the patriarchy, but we could argue we were both forced into them and out of them by that there patriarchy.

Anyway! It will be at least a bit more interesting than that. I hope.

My Dad wore a corset in the early 1970s after slipping a vertebral disc (disk?). We all laughed at him, for months. I still grin when I remember it, my fat little Dad in a corset.

Gardening advice required! In a corner of my garden, there is a Ceanothus tree, was there and already big when we moved in. Gorgeous display of bee-attracting frothy blue flowers every spring/summer. Last year, I noticed it wasn't flowering very well and seemed to be losing leaves. This year, it's a 3-meter-tall dark-brown stick.

I am right to conclude that "He's dead, Jim"?

Do I need to buy a chainsaw?

I don't know, Kucinghitam, but here's some advice about them. I recognise it, but hadn't known the name previously; there's loads of them round our way.

https://www.thespruce.com/ceanothus-thyrsiflorus-growing-profile-3269246

Id test a few branches for residual life before giving up on the ceanothis, but it doesn't sound promising.

The other thing about corsets is that they form a much smaller.part of the history of underwear than people (including the ridiculous costume designer for Bridgerton) think. Mostly women wore stays rather than corsets - quite different things.

I think there's a lot of variation in ceanothus. Some seem to bloom freely on established branches but others only on new growth. We have one that took over what we are pleased to call our "patio" - an area of about 2m^2 - and I cut it back to its poor bones in winter. It looks like it's ok, but the flowers are more reddish than previously. Nutrients, maybe?

Hello, new thread!

Ceanothus don't live that long, @Kucinghitam. If you like them, have it out and put a new one in. They grow quite fast so it'll soon be back in business.

Ah yes, Google tells me that they might only live 10-15 years. I'd assume this one was at least that old, seeing as we've lived here for over 7 years.

I've just done a brief inspection of a few branch tips and they look brown inside too. I think we'll have to somehow remove the poor dead tree <wonders if DH would like a chainsaw for his birthday> 🤔

There was a gorgeous ceanothus here that lived quite a long time (several decades) before dying in altercation with next door’s fence during a storm. Both fence and tree lost that particular fight.

I put another in a few years ago in a different place and that’s doing okay but it’s not as nice as the first one. I may get another.

I bought macman a chainsaw for his birthday 20-odd years ago, and also felt obliged to buy the special gloves, hat/visor/ear protectors AND special don’t-cut-yer-legs-off-FFS trousers. Chainsaw still works, but apart from the headgear the rest has long been unused.

I bet there's loads of unused chainsaw gear, Mavis. Probably mouldering in garages and sheds in every town and village in the UK.

My son wanted three for Christmas once. We said no and he complained that he "would never learn to juggle now" and went off muttering.

Ha ha @angelico53 !

(Assuming you’re talking about chainsaws.)

Aye. It was have been pinched, though, from either The Far Side or Calvin and Hobbs. We both have a love for these and my son has bought me both complete works, huge hardback tomes in both cases, that quite honestly need a lecturn to read them! At certain times, after various libations, we have been known to converse entirely in quotations, which is every bit as boring for everyone else as this post... 😶

Not boring, @angelico53, as we do the same, only with film quotes. It's like having a private language.

We do similar ChezKuc, with extra points for quoting The Princess Bride.