Interesting Links for 20-12-2013

[andrewducker]

• Eerie Eastern European War Memorials Look Like They're From Another Planet
  Had some of these before, back in 2011, but they're worth seeing again
  (tags: architecture war history )
• There are, apparently, no gay football players in the UK
  (tags: lgbt football uk )
• Robots Can't End Amazon's Labor Woes Because They Don't Have Hands. (Yet)
  (tags: robots

Comments

[philmophlegm]

That duvet method doesn't seem to be any easier or quicker than the 'insert-corner-of-duvet-into-corner-of-duvet-cover-and-repeat-for-second-corner-then-shake' method.

[andrewducker]

For smaller duvets, I expect your right.

And the "turn duvet cover inside out, do ghost impression, grab duvet, invert cover" method works well for medium sizes.

But neither works well for our duvet, which is a super-king-size, or some other ridiculous nomenclature. So I'll give this a go and see if it's any better!

[philmophlegm]

That might be the difference - we have two single duvets on a king size bed.

[andrewducker]

Aaaah. Julie was getting cold because of the chemo drugs, and initially wanted to move to that, but we moved to a single duvet that's large enough that she can wrap herself up completely in it _and_ leave enough for me (and hangs down over both sides of the best most of the time).

[bart_calendar]

Well.... Becks did leave the UK to play in America.

Just saying.

[andrewducker]

Ba-doom-tish!

[hano]

hehehe, and he is a gay icon...
More seriously, gay footballers won't come out mainly because they're terrified of the abuse they expect to get from the terraces. They all remember what happened to Justin Fashanu and think they'll get the same treatment. I like to think that fans are more tolerant these days, but hey, who am I kidding...

[cybik]

Having heard from my brothers what gets chanted at football matches, I'd be staying schtum about being gay, too..

[philmophlegm]

Footballers aren't gay.
Figure skaters are gay.

All is right with the world!