[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago

Does Ivor the Engine count as a cartoon? Animation, certainly, but I'm not sure about 'cartoon' as such.

Anyway, it is the 1975 version for me.

[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 6 points 11 months ago

Art in general doesn't have to disrupt anything. It can be as conventional and anodyne as you like, but surrealist art - as per the Surrealist Manifesto - was specifically intended to depart from the usual concerns of art - at least at the time:

Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

My emphasis. Conventionally, art does give some consideration to aesthetics.

[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 6 points 11 months ago

So this is hovering around the -2 votes so far. And I imagine that the downvotes are from people who didn't watch and were taken in by the title.

If the same thing had been in a four-panel cartoon or a screenshot of text or whatever, it would be raking the upvotes in.

[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

For me, at least, it correlates to the direction that provides the widest/least obstructed/most visibly clear/least disruptive/least hazardous direction to give onward travel. Clearly the direction that that boils down to varies according to the individual situation.

I don't recall being alone with a single central obstruction in the middle of an otherwise deserted and symmetrical street with no other influencing factors enough times to have noted any innate bias on my part.

[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Use Pritt or a rubber band or something to fix a 3mm A6 plastic or plywood sheet to the back of the notebook?

Or, you can buy A6 clipboards.

[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Depends what you mean by body language. I think that most can recognise basic facial expressions like happiness and fear before they can talk, and understand things like pointing and reaching for things to express interest etc.

[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

I can recall being in the cot under the window in my parents room, but there is nothing else attached to that memory.

I can also very clearly recall being put onto the floor in the back of my dad's dark blue side opening van, which had an orange tinted skylight, and crawling across the corrugated floor panel to pull myself up against the wheel arch - since this was evidently before i could walk - whilst my parents were talking just outside, and the van itself was parked across the road from the entrance to our garden.

However, apparently my dad never owned a van of that type, nor anything like it, and nor did anyone that either of my parents or my - significantly older - siblings are aware of. So despite the clarity and detail of that memory, I have doubts that it is at all real.

[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Risk assessments.

These days my job doesn't have much connection to my degree subject at all, so there is very little that it prepared me for. But my previous role - ranger - was very much tied into the subject that I took: Environmental Science.

Risk assessments are not unique to this area, of course and some of this is due to it being 20 odd years ago that I that I got my degree, but even so, looking back, I am surprised that risk assessments didn't feature anywhere. Not during that degree nor during the - much more practically based - arboriculture course that I took shortly before.

[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Very much the same in the UK - with a similar range of species, and C. danica the most prominent - and no doubt elsewhere.

[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

I'm in the UK, but I live in a small village. The nearest place with a menu at all (a pub) is about 3 miles away. There is a bakery around the same distance - but their bread is nothing to write home about.

Closest small town - 6 miles - has a few choices but also nothing really outstanding. If I had to choose from there, there is a pizza place with an decently spicy Vesuvio. To get to actual food producers of any size or quality I need to go further afield. One of these is based on a farm. The other in an old malthouse - both also in the middle of nowhere.

[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

I saw this around the time it was first released. One of the most memorable cartoons I have ever seen, I think. Excellent.

[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

What kind of explanation are you looking for?

As well as the required technology, it was political will during the cold war that drove the manned landing back then. That political will hasn't been there since: no-one is really interested in being second on the moon just for the sake of it.

And technological advances have, if anything, made manned missions less necessary if we want to investigate particular subjects: robots and remote scanning can do far more these days without the need for boots on the ground.

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