Sustainable Humour

 It's all about sustainability, if it's not AI talk. So, here are some tips to sustain you through the next chapter of your life-

Bread is not as sustainable as cake. Marie Antoinette was right, you should eat cake if you don't have bread.

Chocolate is for winters, as it does not melt. Try ice apple in summers. 

Jokes about bosses make your stay in the organisation less sustainable- they have informers. Wait until you have left the organisation to crack them. 

War with Pakistan is sustainable - for us. Not for them. We just have more people.

A Ph.D. makes you immune to delayed gratification in all spheres of life. Try it!

Acting is temporary. Reality is permanent. Be real. (sorry, lifted from something equally inane said by cricket commentators- Form is temporary, class is permanent?- whatever that means)

An Unusual Celebration

 Just attended a wonderful birthday celebration of a friend's aunt. She turned 87, and is as lively as ever. She was joking around, chatting as if we were longtime acquaintances (I met her for the first time), and was generally in high spirits. Some pics from the event, which involved two cakes. One, a special one from Vienna brought in by her nephew, and another, a home grown one from an Indian vendor, in the shape of a grenade, of all things! Great fun.

The 'Grenade' cake, before pulling the pin,..

and tadaaa, after.

Below, the special one from Vienna, Apricot flavoured, and a big deal in Europe.

A Birthday Celebration or Two

 The wife's birthday celebration at our new abode, Bangalore, and a quieter celebration of mine at Indore during the middle of the pandemic earlier. A Pictorial...

This was an extended celebration with some Tequila..

Fun With Brexit

 Not sure if anybody takes the former Colonial Boss seriously anymore. But here's a small further attempt at not taking them seriously- Brexit jokes, in other words. Or more accurately, jokes that are inspired by the word Brexit.

What are these?

Cakexit..no, it's leaving a room which has an excess of cake. That day is not far, we are at December 23rd, right now.

Teaxit..taking down the truly English drink. Refusing a tete-a-tete over tea, in other words.

Coffexit- similar to the above, additionally proving that a lot does not happen over coffee, putting that advertising line in the CAN.

White Housexit- Throwing tantrums that force new inhabitants to evict you from the White House.

Sexit- Taking anything inherently dull, and performing some plastic surgery to enhance parts of it.

Textit- this is not a joke, it's asking someone to send you a text. As in SMS or Messenger.

Bullshit..it's nothing to do with the U.K, -it's found all over the world..universal xxx.

The Science of Everyday Life-Book Review

Marty Jopson is the author. Apparently British, as he calls a biscuit a biscuit- and not a cookie. One of his most interesting takes is about the difference between a cake and a biscuit- if it turns hard when you leave it out in the open for a day or two, it is a cake; if it turns soggy, it's a biscuit.

Also, he explains  how an induction top works, in language that anybody (I) can understand. Also, the GPS and how its use for locating anyone (through your mobile phone) is based on Einstein's theories.

He's got a lot of stuff about food and drink (my favourite chapters), bathing and why it causes wrinkles if you dip too long in a tub, why teapots/kettles dribble and how you can stop it (applying butter to the spout can do it!).

Other interesting things as to how the ice being less dense than water is responsible for us being alive as a species on earth, and so on. Why we all dream, but only some of us remember them, why all sweat does not smell bad (deo customers will be able to 'defogg' themselves), why paint needs a quickly evaporating substance to be mixed in it- this also has something to do with the shape of coffee stains.

Well, some other interesting things to know- including simple ones such as how a refrigerator works, and why Alternating Current (A.C.) is used in transmitting electricity over long distances-and why Fall colours like Orange and Yellow and Red appear on tree leaves in colder climates like the U.S. Lots of humour in it too. Recommended.