how will you spend your COVID-19 quarantine?

got a lot of records that need cleaning

I might record a double album

with Steve Winwood

Mods, can we exceptionally make it so that we can vote more than once?

might get that novel finished

I feel like masturbating should be an option.

Uncertain origin. Traditionally suggested to be a compound of manus (“hand”) + turbare (“to unsettle, throw in to disorder”), or a deformed compound of manus (“hand”) + stuprāre (“to defile (the self)”), from stuprum, with influence from turbāre – though the first part could also be mās (“man”).

Watkins traces the root to a Proto-Indo-European *mostr̥g-, extended and metathesised from *mosgʰos (“marrow”), also found in Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬯𐬙𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬔𐬀𐬥‎ (mast(ə)rəg-an-, “brains”) and Tocharian B mrestīwe (“marrow”); the semantic development would parallel "the symbolic autofellatio of Finn [mac Cumaill]'s gnawing his thumb to the marrow".

missing options smoking weed playing video games

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/image/74rijcfo7-54eb/578/426/956839.jpg

OMG, where to start. A lot of writing, a lot of reading, have already started an informal movie lineup...

I mean, the reality probably won't be as fun, given the state of mild societal collapse we'll be experiencing at that point and for some time thereafter, but it's keen to dream!

might get that novel finished
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 21:39 (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

how long is it now you've been reading it

three, four years

Mixing down years worth of unfinished Ableton bits & bobs :)

In no particular order

Worrying about End Times
Working
Reading
Cooking
Netflix + Prime + Disney Plus binging
Gaming

”the symbolic autofellatio of Finn [mac Cumaill]'s gnawing his thumb to the marrow".

posting on internet message boards is basically the same thing as masturbating, right?

reading wikipedia, working (not quite enough), procrastinating, practicing my strategies to avoid ruminating, thinking of useful productive things i could be doing with my time and not doing them

can't believe there is no option for pretending your house is a spaceship and doing an elaborate mock airlock procedure to throw turds out of the window and receive leaflets from fast food joints.

worrying about my continued access to booze

i haven't left the house since feb 29. I kind of have lost all will to.

I'm definitely using this as an opportunity to cut back. I don't want my immune system to be caught with its pants down.

xp

I will probably die (masturbating)

Home brewing, cooking, pickling

I will continue to be extremely online.

Write-in vote for 'pressing F5 on Site New Answers'.

xxxp I don't want to cramp your style, but you're probably masturbating wrong if it results in death.

I picked a hell of a year to quit drinking

great opportunity to travel to some tory constituencies to see if I can win some hearts and minds in the marketplace of ideas!!

I will watch every single video on pornhub

figuring out how to declare bankruptcy

Declare whilst masturbating is the way to go!

watchibg tv since it is my natural state

music making (masturbating)

No drinking, no credibility.

I probably could work from home, but the Feds have so far refused to authorize it. During the 2018-19 shutdown, I spent many of my days sleeping in, and messing around online.

High as fuck.

And hoping for our president to die on national TV.

I have approximately a billion unread books, unplayed Steam games, unwatched e-learning videos, etc, and pre-COVID I have thought to myself that I was never ever going to get through them unless I was housebound for a period (I had thought this might have had to involve sickness or injury but had not thought too much about the type or implications tbh)

of course we all know I am going to spend any quarantine time exactly as I spend my evenings and weekends as it is: intending to do some of the above and instead reading ILX and twitter and getting stuck in an anxious/angry F5 loop

(and drinking, but our moderately well-stocked booze cupboard could run dry quite quickly if both of us are stuck at home and can't get to a shop, oh no)

lol otm and same

id probably get less reading done without the 30 min commute tbh

How many podcasts will be started during quarantine?

get second captains btw

Will I hear you voicing the ads or something? I don’t really do podcasts, you’d have better luck with the other half.

hes a hard man to find

Video Games and Pluralsight

xp just insult Russia or Tintin

lol

Guess this is as good a time as any to organize my bookmarks. I've had this computer for five years and I have never once cleaned it out, and being a reflexive bookmarker, there's a lot of pointless shit in there, like the week I decided I might try to learn to play the mandolin and bookmarked like a thousand Youtube instruction videos, and many "Let's Defeat Trump, Here's How"-type articles from 2015

I also plan to list a million records on Discogs, because 1) it's a way to make a little cash while my work dries up (at least until the post office shuts down), and 2) it will double as a necessary and long overdue spring cleaning / culling

I will watch every single video on pornhub

― akm

there's only one video on pornhub, how many times are you going to watch it

ooooh cataloging my CDs and records on discogs would be an excellent use of my time, when else would I ever get around to that?

Of course:

remembering the account of the man who was quarantined in the UK after being evacuated from Wuhan who spent his time in hospital reading Ballard pic.twitter.com/hYi8KDXKh6

— hannah proctor (@hhnnccnnll) March 12, 2020

I signed a book contract on March 1, so...

QUINCE. A WORTHY QUEST.

xp Congrats, unperson!

congrats!

Congrats man!

So far I have not find the time/peace of mind to actively write on my own book.

congrats unperson!

good ponies, quincie!

good luck, outdoor_miner!

can't order food or other basic essentials online with an estimated delivery date before about July, but mr spacecadet was able to order a new graphics card via next-day delivery, so I'm watching him play some Wolfenstein thing and being called on intermittently to translate German labels and posters

is it the latest wolfenstein? i haven't played any of the modern ones but a friend of mine is always trying to convince me they are the greatest games of all time.

and yeah, major congrats unperson! that is amazing. that is a life accomplishment that is probably also a space you can land on in the Game of Life, amazing!

Yes, unperson, happy for you!

it's Wolfenstein Youngblood, from last year, where you play as two young women instead of the usual square-jawed guy. there might be a newer one now? I thought there was but then I realised I was thinking of the new Doom which came out this week.

I guess both are filed in my head under "nth-generation sequels of games I played in the early/mid 90s before I realised/decided that I hate 3d shooty games and every PC game released for 5 years was a 3d shooty game"

I bought myself Baba Is You in the sale last week, that's more my level of graphical sophistication - I was going to say "more my speed" but tbh I expect to get horribly stuck quite early on

Since the month started I haven't been able to concentrate more than 90 minutes on anything, but power on to everyone here who is successfully fighting entropy.

turns out i'm spending my quarantine high as FUCK

(masturbating)

one hand washes the other, man

i've mostly been on Twitch, listening to metal albums, rare occasions watching TV

just started the Expanse, and it's hooked me enough to where I can watch a few eps at a time.

also that rap battle competition show.

wait are you smoking the joint with your dick

lol it's 2020 i have vape pen

that’s a novel way to describe your organ

uh, okay

penis

probably spending all this new free time feeling even more anxious about not using all my free time doing productive activities (masturbating)

I'm posting a track for every year since 1888 in this Twitter thread, should take me a week or so -

Here is a track for every year from 1888 to 2020.

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) March 30, 2020

woo nice

Out of boredom just learned to identify all the historical counties of England on a map. Guess I'll move on to Wales and Scotland now.

Now that it is obvious to me that my self-isolation will be the norm for the foreseeable future, the most salient ways I will be spending my time (apart from making annoying posts to ILX as my chosen vehicle for maintaining contact with society) will be:

1) trying to sort, cull, organize and otherwise tame the mass of tangible STUFF that surrounds me in my relatively small, but cluttered abode, and

2) trying to eat as close to my normal well-rounded diet, based upon abundant fresh vegetables, fruit, dairy and eggs, as I can, while still exposing myself to grocery stores as little as humanly possible, while also

3) walking 2 to 3 miles a day.

how bout another short story contest he said

^never was my forte, but feel free to make wider enquiries

ok

how about a broad story contest

It was a dark and stormy night. ILX was convened in an emergency meeting of the minds.

All of a sudden lightning crashed, and knocked out the power. When power was restored, the gathering of ILXors was stunned to see that....

(passes feather)

penis

now stop that at once buck

we are proposing a thread along the poetry contest lines

So, ILX intoned, it really is all about the wang.

i would try to participate in a story thread!

penis

have you ever heard the tale of penisfingers?

(Aimless lifts an eyebrow and peers at Karl intently)

Just the 'tale' of penisfingers? Sir, what you speak of is legend around these parts.

it is an incredibly tall tall, passed on orally through genera-

i should probably find a different topic

-nd that was the last time that he enjoyed a game of Five Finger Fillet, although it was surely not the last time he played.

that's numberwang

one is the loneliest number that you'll ever wang

He found he was getting quite attached to the remote, which was ironic..

I just spent half an hour of my opportunity to spend quality time at home with my family watching Bob Mortimer boxing Les Dennis for charity 18 years ago.

far be it from me to say that was the correct choice but

i've spent quite a bit of time on Twitch. everybody's younger than me and says things like "simp" and "weeb".

and mods are weird. I was semi-drunk in a channel last night and I wrote 'malkovich malkovich' and I got banned for it.

Les very much the aggressor but Bob had more quality in the early rounds. Split decision for Bob was correct.

we’re just listening to Knuck If You Buck a lot

I'm posting a track for every year since 1888 in this Twitter thread, should take me a week or so

Oh yeah, I finished that, if anyone is interested -

Here is a track for every year from 1888 to 2020.

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) March 30, 2020

we’re just listening to Knuck If You Buck a lot

respect

We've just found a can of Stella at the back of the fridge. Oh, frail wonders!

And we're listening to Doves.

drank two 750 ml bottles of St bernardus abt 12 last night

was a good'un

Nice. Gonna get started on a can of oatmeal stout myself. It's past 6pm and, uh, today is Saturday.

It's dawning on me that my semi-religious adherence to watching the Young Ones has actually been a kind of preparation; for this, I am truly thankful.