The Reading Room

12:03 AM

I couldn't resist bookmarking yesterday's limerick extravaganza as Limerick NIght.

Most of the conversations I've bookmarked are D&D sessions, but here is a funny one where North considered which class (from D&D) various biblical figures would fit into

Tsundoku

A bit puzzling if you're unfamiliar with D&D, like I am, but nonetheless funny.

You missed limerick writing night, @Gallifreyan!

Gallifreyan

I did read it

Never was good at writing any sort of poetry myself

Someone gifted me a sketchbook for New Year's and now I'm turning it into a bullet journal

In hopes it'll make its way to properly suggestible person in some distant future and they'll reconstruct me from it a la Tom Riddle's diary

Maybe I'll add haikus to it

Tsundoku

12:19 AM

Well, at least that's useful. I haven't used bullet journals myself, but there are plenty of YouTube videos about it, for example by people who use it for language learning.

Gallifreyan

I've seen subreddits dedicated to bullet journals

I'm already discouraged from continuing with it because everyone else seems to have been to bullet journal art school

And then there's me, not able to write in a straight, parallel lines

I could've sworn I had a question I was going to ask here on the site, but now I can't remember

Tsundoku

I've also seen some of those artsy examples on YouTube, but that isn't necessary.

I used to carry a notebook around for that sort of thing. I still don't have a smartphone.

Gallifreyan

1:31 AM

@Tsundoku That's the modern-day anarchism we need

Tsundoku

1:52 AM

@Gallifreyan I know what you mean, but I would hardly call not owning a smartphone "anarchism". It's non-conformist at best.

Gallifreyan

Duly noted

Gallifreyan

2:18 AM

My favourite new word of the week is "swot"

The noun, that is

Tsundoku

Something for a haiku? ;-)

Gallifreyan

Re-watching Doctor Who, actually

Tsundoku

"Haiku" rhymes with "Doctor Who". You are clearly on your way to becoming a poet! ;-)

verbose

2:34 AM

@Tsundoku I once tried to get out of doing the laundry by asserting that separating the whites from the coloreds was inherently racist. My (Caucasian) husband, unmoved, said: "just think of it as getting the whites into hot water."

Also, my niece used to shelve her books by color. I don't know whether she still does it.

Tsundoku

2:57 AM

@verbose Hot water? I wash it all at the same temperature.

@verbose So did not only know how to do things with words but also with books.

Gallifreyan

@Tsundoku If "whites" includes sheets and stuff here, iirc it's recommended to wash them at a higher temperature for hygienic purposes, not to mention towels and stuff

Tsundoku

@Gallifreyan Isn't that advice a bit outdated because laundry detergents have become much more effective over recent decades?

Gallifreyan

Perhaps it's geared towards the "use fewer chemicals" crowd, or some detergents are more effective than others

Tsundoku

If I was something at a higher temperature, then it's 60°C.

And more and more types of fabric can't stand being washed at higher temperatures.

Gallifreyan

Yep, there's that

Tsundoku

3:07 AM

That includes fabrics made from cotton.

Gallifreyan

Though I do believe bed related things were more conservative in that regard

I should probably check that though

Tsundoku

Right, bed sheets can still be washed at 90°C, as far as I know. (Well, if they are cotton. I don't have silk bed sheets are anything fancy like that.)

(Reminds me of Sheridan from Keeping up Appearances.)

For a short time in early February 2021, the Reading Room was known as the Launderette.

Gallifreyan

A hygiene PSA a day keeps the germs away

Rand al'Thor

4:01 AM

@Gallifreyan "The Witch's Familiar", Missy storytime?

Only place I can remember the word "swot" being used in DW.

Prince North Læraðr

4:27 AM

I seem to have missed out on some fun here

verbose

4:44 AM

@Tsundoku I also tried getting out of laundry duty by saying, plaintively, to the husband: “But I don’t want to deter gents. I want to encourage them.” 🧺 He was unimpressed

@PrinceNorthLæraðr indeed. We missed you.

Tsundoku

5:05 AM

@verbose "deter gents" :-D

@PrinceNorthLæraðr I almost changed my username to Tsundoku misses PrinceNorthLæraðr.

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