Be a post whore!

[Sundae]

Been watching Monty Python, Almost the Truth.
Oh, except the Life of Brian ep that Dad deleted while I was away, thinking he'd taped it.
"It wasn't any good anyway" he says. Well, maybe not to him, but then he didn't care enough to series link it or watch the previous four episodes (there were five but I missed the first one.)

Gosh I love the Galaxy Song.
Eric Idle at his most Jewish.

[BigV]

Off to mow the lawn now, during this brief and questionable break in the rain.

[Sundae]

Finished watching all the Almost Python eps now.
I have to remind myself that I do not know Michael Palin personally.
It just feels like it, having watched his excellent travel programmes and read his (published) diaries.

He hates the sobriquet "nice" Python. Perhaps because it seems to suggest he lucked into it without ambition. But he does have a steely cold intellect and highly developed sense of humour, both written and performed.

I'll join the hordes of people who would probably name him "Python I'd most like to have afternoon tea with" though. He comes second only to the lovely Mark Gatiss. And John Barrowman doesn't even feature; he's far too lively for tea and scones. Sushi, maybe.

[JamesB]

Originally Posted by Sundae

Finished watching all the Almost Python eps now.
I have to remind myself that I do not know Michael Palin personally.
It just feels like it, having watched his excellent travel programmes and read his (published) diaries.

He hates the sobriquet "nice" Python. Perhaps because it seems to suggest he lucked into it without ambition. But he does have a steely cold intellect and highly developed sense of humour, both written and performed.

I'll join the hordes of people who would probably name him "Python I'd most like to have afternoon tea with" though. He comes second only to the lovely Mark Gatiss. And John Barrowman doesn't even feature; he's far too lively for tea and scones. Sushi, maybe.

I wonder what QI would have been like if they'd managed to convince Michael Palin to be the host.

[Aliantha]

All the kids are sick. Its after midnight and i have been up since 3am with one or all of them. Daryl says he's not feeling well now either.

I dont have the heart to tell them my throat is swelling and getting sore too, and even if i did, what difference would it make? Like all mothers, i still have to do the looking after of everyone else. Maybe someone will make me a cup of tea in the morning. :/ Probably wont be Aden. Just gave him more drugs. His temp is a little over 39.

[DanaC]

I had such a crush on him when I was younger. I still think he's a very attractive man.

[DanaC]

Oh look, here's an interview with him I love the Mark lawson interviews. Theyre really good.





[eta]grr. Out of sync

[Aliantha]

Had to make my own cup of tea.

[DanaC]

Ali, that's shocking! I thought at the very least you'd have caught and trained a wild drop bear to do that shit for you.

I posted a funny in another thread and made myself giggle. And then it kept being funny so I laughed. And now Carrot is looking at me all quizzical like.

[elSicomoro]

I didn't sleep well last night...it's all M's fault. If she wouldn't have gone out of town to a convention, this would have never happened!

Now I'll just need to console myself with hookers and blow...

[glatt]

My birthday was last week, and my wife gave me a very generous gift. We had gotten a $100 rewards card from the credit card, and she gave it to me to buy a tent. Now, the tent is a nice gift, but the real gift is that it meant she was willing to go camping sometimes.

So fast forward to yesterday when the tent arrived from Amazon. It's a very nice tent. Sold as a 3 person tent, but the reviews said it was kinda tight for 3 and really should be used by 2. That's what I wanted, so I was happy. The outside label of the box has a nice floor plan diagram showing the layout.

Looks roomy and tall.

So we spread it out and set it up. And it doesn't seem very roomy. It's clearly a 2 person tent to me. You can see the floor size pretty clearly here where it's set up part way.


So let's look at that floor plan again. Huh. Look at those numbers. The tent is just over 3 feet tall, but look at the silhouette dude standing next to it. He can't be much more than 4 feet. And those sleeping bags. Are they right?

I open up the diagram in a photo editing tool and measure pixels against the scale provided.

That silhouette dude is only 4' 9" and those mummy bags are only 4' 10" long. What a crock! It's like the Stonehenge in Spinal Tap that was in danger of being stepped on by dwarves. Your product won't look so small if you get midgets to pose with it.

The tent is a good size for a 2 person tent, so I'm happy with it. It's nice. But it seems like there should be a standard person size when showing the scale of these things. Something around 5' 10"

[glatt]

And here's a shot of the tent with a kid in it, reaching simultaneously for the zippers on both doors. Did I mention it has two doors? You don't have to climb over anyone to get in.


Doesn't look so small with a little kid in it. They should get little kids to pose with the thing.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by glatt

And here's a shot of the tent with a kid in it, reaching simultaneously for the zippers on both doors.

Is this what happened when everybody got out?

[xoxoxoBruce]

The picture and your childish emotions have no bearing on the veracity of their claims. An adult would look at the numbers, then check the tent floor with a precision tape measure which every tent checker should own.

Pictured is a standard 12 year old Asian worker at the tent factory.

[glatt]