i stand corrected (although isn't Greg Clarke MP from around there?)
tbf i think Kent is certainly quaking under the strain, when I went to Sheerness recently there were several Labour signs visible
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:53 (four years ago) link
As a sometimes glasses wearer I can say this has never happened to me, only cos I can’t see beyond the tip of my nose if I take them off ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’ve left them in work a few times though which is always horrendous
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:54 (four years ago) link
gyac's russophilia has also been noted and it will have been speculated whether she and her spouse met in moscow
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:55 (four years ago) link
i am extremely blind (up to -10) and would never lose my glasses. usually i wear contact lenses when i go out socially though
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:57 (four years ago) link
Gotta feeling in the past I've dropped glasses while falling over or puking
I did a spectacular face plant at 6 in the morning in McDonald's the other week and popped a lens out of my glasses, got found by a helpful pitying stranger after 5 minutes of searching
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:58 (four years ago) link
I only really need them for TV or movies tbf but I can't enjoy either without them
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 10:59 (four years ago) link
tt is another 'no glasses unless at cinema' denizen, but we usually sit front row anyway so sometimes there's no need
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:02 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:06 (four years ago) link
my stupidest glasses move was trying to superglue a silicon nose pad back onto them whilst quite drunk. You get superglue on them lens they are finished!
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:06 (four years ago) link
Rene Russo
― too many cuckth thpoil the broth (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:08 (four years ago) link
i left glasses on the jacks at the Oliver StJohn Gogarty during a twelve pubs spree in 2014 and when I went back the next year some cunt had swiped them
― too many cuckth thpoil the broth (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
God you can't trust nobody
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
also, birdwatching is impossible with glasses because glasses + binoculars = nonsense
i've just volunteered to be the london bird club's spotter for my two local parks, so i'll be wearing contacts a lot more. adding a morning ramble to my schedule might be a fillip for my otherwise-stagnant creative life and a generally good thing for the *soul* etc etc
ilx birdwatching club anyone
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:12 (four years ago) link
maybe not so much a russophile as a pivovarovaphile, sorry to generalise
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:12 (four years ago) link
I can tell it's time for an eye test because my glasses have started falling off my face if I look down/bend over. the lenses still seem about right but new frames that don't do that would be lovely
(you can tighten them but once they're a couple of years old my fat head forces them loose again within a day or two)
the numbers claim I'm only a bit shortsighted but astigmatic as hell so it's all the same really, can't see much of use without them on
re 00s poll, NV partly otm about needing to remember something for it to be worth voting for, but on the other hand recency bias will see me deciding that whatever noise I heard two minutes ago was the jam of the decade while forgetting all the things I actually love. BUT I will look through the noms and try to get something together and howl in anguish when I remember some classics I should have nominated
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:13 (four years ago) link
birdwatching club anyone
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:13 (four years ago) link
wagtails are amongst my favourites! we get a few pied wagtails dotted around london, and along some of the rivers you see grey wagtails now and then. cheerful presences all. there's a pair of collared doves in my local park who sit on the tennis court fences in the early morning. alas no ravens
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:22 (four years ago) link
not sure how we found this out (might have been a mistype into google) but the urdu for collared dove is 'ghuggi' and we call them that, it is very fitting
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:23 (four years ago) link
― imago, Tuesday, October 8, 2019 1:12 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
DOUBLE YES! Still waiting for you to trod the Wadden Sea and spot migrating and breeding birds
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:30 (four years ago) link
Withers was born in Karachi, British India (now the largest city in Pakistan) to Edgar Withers, a captain in the Royal Navy, and a Dutch-German mother, Zitette.[3] She was fondly given the name "Googie" (Little Pigeon) at a young age by her Indian ayah (nanny)
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:32 (four years ago) link
a visit to your neck of the woods is definitely on the cards, lbi! perhaps next year some time...
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:33 (four years ago) link
I can barely tell most birds apart but I like to see them and collared doves make me especially happy
and wagtails, for some reason there were loads of pied wagtails in the street where I grew up and I hardly see them where I am now, despite not being that far away or very different terrain-wise (nominally more urban but still mostly low-rise residential with gardens and some grassland)
great Googie Withers fact!
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:36 (four years ago) link
all googie withers facts are great
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:37 (four years ago) link
shall i recount the twelve pubs itineraries of yesteryear
i shall not
tho the last one we did, pre everyone having kids, was limited to D7 and was a huge improvement
― too many cuckth thpoil the broth (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:39 (four years ago) link
Nice LJ, we'll go mudflat hiking.
Googie Withers was great in Hotel du Lac.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:40 (four years ago) link
https://keyassets-p2.timeincuk.net/wp/prod/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2013/07/The_WorldS_End.jpg
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:41 (four years ago) link
is that deems' pub crawl or an ilx birdwatch
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:42 (four years ago) link
xps, mostly to self: love to see coots too, common on this bit of river when I started here and now I hardly see them, alas
the tree by my flat was often home to young wood pigeons and one year some young collared doves, but now I see mainly street pigeons/rock doves in the area and daydream of tracking the ebb & flow of these things, which stretches of river are Greylag territory and which Canada geese
(there is a mixed greylag/Canada family here, don't think it's a crossbreed but I guess just a couple of goslings that ended up following the wrong family one day when two big clans of geese were sprawled out and squabbling across a grassy bank somewhere; that makes me happy too)
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
(calz is eddie marsan obv)
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
shall i recount the twelve pubs itineraries of yesteryeari shall nottho the last one we did, pre everyone having kids, was limited to D7 and was a huge improvement
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link
xps, mostly to self: love to see coots too, common on this bit of river when I started here and now I hardly see them, alasthe tree by my flat was often home to young wood pigeons and one year some young collared doves, but now I see mainly street pigeons/rock doves in the area and daydream of tracking the ebb & flow of these things, which stretches of river are Greylag territory and which Canada geese(there is a mixed greylag/Canada family here, don't think it's a crossbreed but I guess just a couple of goslings that ended up following the wrong family one day when two big clans of geese were sprawled out and squabbling across a grassy bank somewhere; that makes me happy too)
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
blackheath which i am passing through right now by bus is covered in warring clans of geese, i will enumerate as we go:
shooters hill end - nothing
urgh there are loads of teens necking behind me this is putting me off my goose watching stride ffs
princess of wales pub - three different flocks of canada geese and a smattering of egyptian geese
at this point I received a phone call cancelling my lesson so I got out in central Blackheath and haven't seen if all the greylags are on the western side of the heath, you'll have to trust me that there usually are some
this thrilling content brought to you by the overpriced bakery I'm about to visit
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:50 (four years ago) link
Who tf says “necking” in this day & age? Fped.
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
ok I'm at a loose end so I'll do some walking
hare & billet pond - a pair of egyptian geese, moving their necks around a lot, wish there was a verb for this
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:56 (four years ago) link
fwiw the best thing about coots is how radge they get, and when they get very low in the water as they prepare an attack
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link
There used to be loads of pied wagtails I assume they're another victim of ecosystem fuckery
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:06 (four years ago) link
mounts pond corner - no geese
ranger's house - no geese, BUT A PIED WAGTAIL oh em gee, lookit go
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:08 (four years ago) link
It depends where you live maybe? I don’t see any down here but when I was up in Derby I did and I still see them at home all the time.
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
Yeah maybe, grew up Midlands so that could be it
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
there were two pied wagtails in the end, and a call from thames water to pick up their big pink barrier they left in our garden three months ago
into central blackheath now
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
I found the greylags! God-fearing and pious, beside All Saints Church
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/9r8MSTz/IMAG4140.jpg
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:35 (four years ago) link
*honk*!
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:37 (four years ago) link
clipped the top of the church there. the intentional act of a dissident and in no way the cack-handed camerawork of someone who actually likes photographing old churches, oh no
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
'clipping the church' of course a venerable quasi-pagan custom god I'm full of it today
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link
Geese know no gods and no masters
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
maybe shitting in the church's presence is their way
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
Geese are pretty unfussy about where they shit afaik
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link