The Coffee Shop

[The Fallen Angel]

Anti-racism protests last summer were allowed
But a peaceful vigil over the murder of a young woman must be arrested by police. Hmmmm?

Crowd shouts 'Shame on you' as London police break up a peaceful vigil for Sarah Everard

Police stormed the stage, handcuffed women and dragged them into police vans. The crowd shouted: "Shame on you," "Leave them alone" and "Arrest your own."

www.cnn.com

Football fans can gather in thousands outside Ibrox. Swill beer, not wear masks and celebrate. Their team can egg them on at the gates, kiss and hug on the field and do everything but shag each other in the middle of the pitch. Is that because they are Scottish or that the police didn't fancy taking on a 15 stone drunken Rangers fan?

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

Football fans can gather in thousands outside Ibrox. Swill beer, not wear masks and celebrate. Their team can egg them on at the gates, kiss and hug on the field and do everything but shag each other in the middle of the pitch. Is that because they are Scottish or that the police didn't fancy taking on a 15 stone drunken Rangers fan?

Hey! Don't mess with the 'Gers!

 

[montycrusto]

Got my vax appointment booked, hooray for science! and yah-boo-sucks to science deniers

 

[Rias]

lockdown in poland from thursday to after easter minimum they say is almost sure now also no ambulances here avalible if someone have accident or is ill firemans come drive for him and take to hospital

 

[Eulalia]

My childhood years were spent (as was no doubt a shocking amount of my parents' hard-earned cash) chatting for endless hours on the phone. In the days when it was a gadget attached to the wall, and a bill came every so often which caused a chilly atmosphere at breakfast time.

 

[malins]

How did you even cope with that? That would have driven me mad.
We must have done something with our spare time before computers. It probably involved other people.

Haha I guiltily admit to having for the first time bought a computer game for my son. Now he is certainly doomed!

 

[Barbaria1]

I have a closet I call my pc graveyard. It’s where old ones go to die. What’s that old saying attributed to General Motors? Make obsolescence pay?

 

[LittleSiss]

I have a closet I call my pc graveyard. It’s where old ones go to die. What’s that old saying attributed to General Motors? Make obsolescence pay?

Honestly! I think Ford and Dodge actually did.

It is a shame that they all look like Hot Wheels!


Or Matchbox toys!

 

[Frank Petrexa]

How did you even cope with that? That would have driven me mad.
We must have done something with our spare time before computers. It probably involved other people.

Nerds did number theory. One kid a couple of centuries ago, ticked off when his tutor asked him to write down the squares of the numbers from 1 to 100, figured out that once you had n^2, the next one was that +(2n+1). (1^2 = 1, 2^2 = 1+3, 3^2 = 4+5, etc. Then there were radio hams, and car and bicycle mechanics, and photographers with dark rooms (remember those--I miss the smell of acetate). Then there were artists who actually drew freehand and painted from scratch, and people who sewed some of their own clothes. I even hear that some people like to garden from seed instead of just ordering flowers on line or going to a "farmer's market". Weird.

 

[montycrusto]

Then there were artists who actually drew freehand

Surely not..

 

[Frank Petrexa]

Surely not..

Yes, I have always enjoyed your work. There is a Farside cartoon with two bears talking. "Is it true? Is it true!? Does a bear...well, I know you do, Angelo."

 

[Jollyrei]

photographers with dark rooms (remember those--I miss the smell of acetate)

Well, that takes me back.

 

[Barbaria1]

We must have done something with our spare time before computers.

You mean there actually was a time before computers?

 

[montycrusto]

You mean there actually was a time before computers?

Yes, and Silicon Valley was just another way of saying cleavage

 

[Jollyrei]

Yes, and Silicon Valley was just another way of saying cleavage

I suppose it really begs the question what the best use of silicon was, eh?

 

[windar]

Then there were artists who actually drew freehand and painted from scratch,

But a computer artist known as Beeple just got $ 69 million for this



And what did his computer get???

 

[montycrusto]

And what did his computer get???

A windows upgrade that paralysed it for two hours?

 

[cruxlover]

Enjoy this video sent by a friend, don't know where it originated.
Love the sound of the flying buttons, like birdshot.

 

[Hugin&Munin]

My childhood years were spent (as was no doubt a shocking amount of my parents' hard-earned cash) chatting for endless hours on the phone. In the days when it was a gadget attached to the wall, and a bill came every so often which caused a chilly atmosphere at breakfast time.

And in my childhood we had the problem that there were only two telephones in the entire village. One in the mayor's office and one in the post office. That was normal in the former GDR. So we kids played outside with our friends.

 

[Madiosi]

And in my childhood we had the problem that there were only two telephones in the entire village. One in the mayor's office and one in the post office. That was normal in the former GDR. So we kids played outside with our friends.

Me too!