Topic: What are you doing right now?

[smokester]

I'm savouring the last moments of this age before I become a year older tomorrow.

Methuselah ain't got nuttin on me.

[smokester]

Methuselah? Young pup.

Sort out the weather, boss. It never rains on my birthday but I fear you missed the memo this year.

[8ullfrog]

Bright and shiny here. Mom unloaded a podcast worth of vitriol on me, but I got a sandwich out of it, so yay sandwich.

Also. Racism. She usually hides it well, but apparently it's a day of stereotypes.

[6pairsofshoes]

A corrective to bright and shiny:  The Great Stink.  I'm reading about the history of sewers lately.  Before they built the various embankments, they used to dump raw sewage into the Thames.  Not a great move when it comes to protecting the water supply for a large city.
https://soundcloud.com/yaleuniversity/dickens-darwin-disraeli-and-the-great-stink-of-1858

[goldshirt*9]

A corrective to bright and shiny:  The Great Stink.  I'm reading about the history of sewers lately.
https://soundcloud.com/yaleuniversity/dickens-darwin-disraeli-and-the-great-stink-of-1858

interesting

[smokester]

A corrective to bright and shiny:  The Great Stink.  I'm reading about the history of sewers lately.  Before they built the various embankments, they used to dump raw sewage into the Thames.  Not a great move when it comes to protecting the water supply for a large city.
https://soundcloud.com/yaleuniversity/dickens-darwin-disraeli-and-the-great-stink-of-1858

It's not a pretty river and it's pretty hard to love.

[6pairsofshoes]

No.  It's rather inaccessible.  And hearing of the history of human pollution doesn't really endear it to one, but it serves as both transportation venue and impediment.  I am reading about bridges and tunnels lately, and the rail system.

Found today a youtube documentary by Sir Peter Bazalgette, "The Great Stink."  There's apparently been a good deal of interest  in recent years about public works.  Bazalgette's grandfather designed the sewer system that was encapsulated in the Victoria Embankment. 

[goldshirt*9]

off on holls, bye bye

[smokester]

"Loving" a river led my imagination on a very colourful set of thought experiments, thank-you.

... but to summarise my mental adventure, I can see how loving a river is hard difficult.

Not a angler I take it?

There is always the Severn Bore. That can inspire a pilgrimage.

[smokester]

"a angler"

'an angler', then.

[6pairsofshoes]

My sister used to have to travel to Seoul on business a lot and she'd come back with wacky souvenirs.  One, a hat featuring a leaping trout with a hook in its mouth said, "Let's angling together."  Somebody in the garment factory must have gotten his English expressions out of a dictionary without checking on particular idioms.

I expect that the volume of such trespasses would curl chrisT's hair.

[8ullfrog]

That's a niche market in and of itself. Dunno if I like it being called "engrish", that just seems pointlessly racist.

[6pairsofshoes]

Making apricot jam.

[Alfonz]

Checking in to see what you all are up to, granddaughter is screeching her head off 

[smokester]

Checking in to see what you all are up to, granddaughter is screeching her head off 

I hope she's not 23.