Having just become a hunkerer it occurs to me we could ramp up the volume a little and make it an actual competitive, judged, and professional sport.
How you ask, huh you say???
I propose you get a sponsor, (hence the category), and devise, develop, design, the most obtuse, yet outstanding thing-a-ma- jig, that you can with the product that your sponsor manufactures.
Facebook will provide the platform, and the public will be the judges. The prize will be a year's supply of whatever the sponsor sells. (If it will fit next to your mountain of hoarded toilet paper and crap).-- blissmiss, Mar 19 2020 Sounds fun ... [+]
In the UK, at the time of writing, based on the current WHO figures and the 2017-18 statistics from the ONS, if you aren't high-risk you are 3.75 times more likely to die in a fatal car accident than from COVID ...-- 8th of 7, Mar 19 2020 //3.75 times more likely to die in a fatal car accident//
Not right now, there's practically no cars on the road.-- bs0u0155, Mar 19 2020 //3.75 times more likely to die in a fatal car accident//
Not right now, there's practically no cars on the road.-- bs0u0155, Mar 19 2020 Walking outside (with 6ft distance) I believe is still recommended. Maybe one of these days I'll go for a walk to the local grocer for health/resupply but also to people-watch on the way.-- sninctown, Mar 19 2020 // you're being so negative lately. //
To quote our annotation on another idea, // since [MB]'s departure, our display options are all set to "Extra Dark" //
// go out for a nice drive? //
Actually, it's the perfect time for a motorbike, and by coincidence the weather has improved too.
// people-watch on the way //
Wear an action cam, and cough a lot. Watch their reactions. Hilarity ensues.-- 8th of 7, Mar 19 2020 // You must have SOME usable parts //
Some? We have a substantial stock; we sell the surplus ones at competitive prices. Would you like a price list ? We are thinking of starting a scheme like Amazon Prime, for regular customers ...
// I jest, of course //
Please don't say that, it's mildly insulting, and after all we do have a reputation to maintain.-- 8th of 7, Mar 19 2020 This could be "hunkering up".-- tatterdemalion, Mar 20 2020 Or "The Hunker Games".-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Mar 20 2020 Love that..."The Hunker Games", staring 2fries hunkering at his freaky, spooky, axe murderer filled, Canadian hotel. Yes.-- blissmiss, Mar 20 2020 <Mental image of [2fries] in an empty lobby, typing "All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy"/>
Truly, a Shining example to everyone....-- 8th of 7, Mar 20 2020 All of life is work.
Only you guys and my family know my play......and they aren't interested. At least you guys fake it, I mean I love them dearly... but basically they just do their best to keep me humble with their eye-rolls when I tell them about my ideas and make throat-crossing gestures behind my back when I start going off on invention tangents with strangers.
Seriously, they think I don't notice but I can see their reflections in the corners of my glasses.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Mar 20 2020 Newton developed Calculus hunkered against the Great Plague. He was a lifelong hunkerer, rather than, say, a hunk, although he was apparently "dating" a girl at the time.-- 4and20, Mar 20 2020 // <Mental image of [2fries] in an empty lobby, typing "All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy"/> //
But what's he staring at?
// [Newton] was apparently "dating" a girl at the time. //
I had heard he was simultaneously gay, asexual, in a relationship with a man, and a lifelong virgin, but I think that's the first I've heard of him being interested in a woman. Unless you meant to type "eating"…-- notexactly, Mar 20 2020 There is a recent novel written about Newton's university era girlfriend. The article I read had a title something like "Newton was not gay"-- 4and20, Mar 20 2020 He was almost certainly Aspergers, or some autistic spectrum condition. All his known behaviour traits fit the DSMR criteria.
// what's he staring at? //
He's not staring "at" anything; it's the Thousand Yard Stare while he listens to the Voices In His Head.-- 8th of 7, Mar 20 2020 // what's he staring at? //
Somebody else's tiling mistakes, that have to be fixed, which induce Halfbakery ideas.-- wjt, Mar 22 2020 random, halfbakery