Random Thursday Stuff

[moon_custafer]

Apparently there’s been speculation for a couple of years that pantyhose are coming back into fashion, even if at the moment, we still have to pretend we’re wearing them to be ironically tacky or something. Nice to be on the cusp of a trend, for once – I wear skirts winter and summer, and in the winter black tights look weird with a not-black skirt.

Fundraising is afoot to replace the sculpture that has given Dude Chilling Park its nickname with a permanent bronze cast (the current version is wood).

One of my colleagues drinks his coffee black, with apple slices in it. Trying to figure out if this is a Russian thing or just a personal eccentricity – leaning towards the latter, as googling “apple slices coffee” gets me nothing but apple-coffee-cake recipes, and occasional claims that “an apple will wake you up better than a cup of coffee.”

OK, back to politics: Depression takes My Body Away -- Arabelle Sicardi

Comments

[sovay]

One of my colleagues drinks his coffee black, with apple slices in it. Trying to figure out if this is a Russian thing or just a personal eccentricity

It sounds to me like a combination of both: there is a Russian tradition of drinking tea with an apple slice in it, so this person just transferred the habit to coffee.

[moon_custafer]

Or perhaps it was tea, and the third party who told me it was coffee was mistaken.

[sovay]

Or perhaps it was tea, and the third party who told me it was coffee was mistaken.

Further research is required!