What's the first thing...?
What's the first thing...?
What's the first thing you'll do once this is all over?
I doubt I'll be going anywhere for a while (I'm still paranoid), but I think I'll go to the bookstore first and buy all the books.
I doubt I'll be going anywhere for a while (I'm still paranoid), but I think I'll go to the bookstore first and buy all the books.
-
coffeepotman
- Graffiti Bandit Pioneer
- Posts: 1487
- Joined: 23 Jun 2008, 1:51pm
Re: What's the first thing...?
Go to my local and have a few drinks with friends
- Dr. Medulla
- Atheistic Epileptic
- Posts: 115976
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 2:00pm
- Location: Straight Banana, Idaho
Re: What's the first thing...?
Probably start breathing on people in public with impunity.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
- Wolter
- Half Foghorn Leghorn, Half Albert Brooks
- Posts: 55432
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 7:59pm
- Location: ¡HOLIDAY RO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-OAD!
Re: What's the first thing...?
Probably nothing interesting. Especially since I don’t think this will suddenly be over in any meaningful sense. Just a lot of gradually going back to things with varying degrees of confidence.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
Re: What's the first thing...?
Go to a movie.
Got a Rake? Sure!
IMCT: Inane Middle-Class Twats - Dr. M
" *sigh* it's right when they throw the penis pump out the window." -Hoy
IMCT: Inane Middle-Class Twats - Dr. M
" *sigh* it's right when they throw the penis pump out the window." -Hoy
- Dr. Medulla
- Atheistic Epileptic
- Posts: 115976
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 2:00pm
- Location: Straight Banana, Idaho
Re: What's the first thing...?
Chatting about this with my therapist a few weeks ago, he suspects that collectively we will develop a mostly functional form of agoraphobia. This will be made possible by our Internet lives, which offer enough of a substitute for in-person interaction that we won't be forced to confront this anxiety the way they had to in 1920. But given the option of doing a lot of stuff online and at home, the stuff outdoors and amidst people will be the thing we weigh the possibilities. That all seems a quite reasonable prediction.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Re: What's the first thing...?
I'd be in a worse place without the interaction I have with people here for sure but I do also crave some physical or face to face interaction with other people who I haven't seen in a while.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 May 2020, 10:32amChatting about this with my therapist a few weeks ago, he suspects that collectively we will develop a mostly functional form of agoraphobia. This will be made possible by our Internet lives, which offer enough of a substitute for in-person interaction that we won't be forced to confront this anxiety the way they had to in 1920. But given the option of doing a lot of stuff online and at home, the stuff outdoors and amidst people will be the thing we weigh the possibilities. That all seems a quite reasonable prediction.
- Flex
- Mechano-Man of the Future
- Posts: 35799
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 2:50pm
- Location: The Information Superhighway!
Re: What's the first thing...?
I think we're still a year or two off from being able to do this, but I miss going to see live music. I wanna go see a concert.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
- Wolter
- Half Foghorn Leghorn, Half Albert Brooks
- Posts: 55432
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 7:59pm
- Location: ¡HOLIDAY RO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-OAD!
Re: What's the first thing...?
My honest answer is going to sound so mundane, but once I feel safe enough, it will be great to take my older son somewhere for lunch and to play in public while my younger one naps.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
Re: What's the first thing...?
Dropping the kid off with her grandparents and having alone time with the wife.
*edit* - that sounds like sex. Maybe, but i wasn't thinking anything in particular. Go to a movie, get out of town, watch a movie at home, I don't know. Just some time to breathe would be nice.
*edit* - that sounds like sex. Maybe, but i wasn't thinking anything in particular. Go to a movie, get out of town, watch a movie at home, I don't know. Just some time to breathe would be nice.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
Re: What's the first thing...?
Go to my regular pub if it still exists.
"Suck our Earth dick, Martians!" —Doc
- Dr. Medulla
- Atheistic Epileptic
- Posts: 115976
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 2:00pm
- Location: Straight Banana, Idaho
Re: What's the first thing...?
On the other side of things, I'm gonna miss not having to come up with excuses not to go out.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Re: What's the first thing...?
Indeed, I'm a little anxious about me still being tentative and friends putting on the peer pressure. I'm not convinced that once things are a bit more normal, people aren't going to just slide back into their usual patterns and let this whole thing fade from memory. Masks are going to be important in the future for mitigating future issues, but I'm concerned that this time isn't really going to drive that home to a lot of people.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 May 2020, 1:22pmOn the other side of things, I'm gonna miss not having to come up with excuses not to go out.
"Suck our Earth dick, Martians!" —Doc