MrsDoyle

Following up on that, I'd been trying to remember the song in Blazing Saddles, when they literally break the fourth wall and there's an anachronistic musical number being filmed - it's called "The French Mistake". https://youtu.be/FezOkjeNs5Y

1967, dir Mel Brooks - I mean, who else? What a guy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Producers_(1967_film)

Allofmp3, that was it! I downloaded the Muse albums too. :-)

The swamps of Dagobah.

There was this Russian website where you could download whole albums for like 50 cents. I absolutely loved it, because as well as current hits it also had the most obscure, crazy stuff, classical music, jazz, and world music. I think they're all in prison now, the guys who ran it.

Springtime for Hitler, The Producers https://youtu.be/1zY1orxW8Aw

I was born in the year Princess Elizabeth became Queen. Also, Evita died that year.

Aaaand then there's slime moulds. Some of which can run a maze...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold

It's sooo clickbaity - I didn't even click because I knew how boring the actual story would be.

I tell you what freaked me out - I was tidying up my contacts and my late sister's photo had changed to that of a nice-looking youngish man. She died of brain cancer in Jan 2020. I'd left her contact there out of sentiment, but of course her number has been recycled. Ooof.

I hate headlines like this. There is no "chaos". A bunch of politicians are arguing and having meetings. Bureaucracy chunters along as usual. Paralympics are happening.

If the politicians were having shootouts in the Champs Elysées and disrupting traffic then yes, a bit of chaos in Paris. But they're not. Sigh.

It wasn't always this way. When I first started working in the early 70s, women weren't allowed to wear trousers at work. Or have bare legs, even in summer. Women called bullshit, and the rule was relaxed in most places to allow us to wear trouser suits. But as late as the mid-80s I was chastised for wearing trousers at work. I had to point out that the then prime minister, a woman, wore trousers at work!

If you want the dress code to change, then lobby for it to change. I honestly feel sorry for men locked into their own notions of what they're "allowed" to wear. I remember a friend whining enviously about how breezy my summer skirt looked. I suggested he wear a skirt himself. "I can't! People would think I'm gay." Sigh.

Also - men used to make an effort! https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5ec9401b929e439dacc2a56a/master/w_1280%2Cc_limit/Piepenbring-Codpiece02.jpg https://www.thecultureconcept.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/404448.jpg