Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. Just ask comrade
Kim, the great steersman of North Korea, who has been in surgery and is now
fighting for his life. How true this piece of news is unknown, but there is no renunciations
of this either, so there is that. What next?
People in Nova Scotia are licking their wounds and
recovering from their losses; what do the people in North Korea feel is another
question altogether, and one that will be answered at a later date, provided
that the news of comrade Kim’s issues isn’t fake to begin with, (hey it could
happen!). What next?
I admit that I would like to talk to you about squirrels,
since our talk about rhinos did not take, but the truth is that the squirrel
situation is the same as it is with mice – it is a mess. First, there are the
Oriental giant squirrels, (4 species, 1 genus) and a single species of the Neotropical
pygmy squirrel, both of which have their own subfamilies.
…On the other hand, we have the terrestrial squirrel
subfamily, the bulk of which is composed of marmots, ground squirrels,
chipmunks, prairie dogs and the like; the outliers there are the so-called
spiny squirrels, but aren’t very spiny, (not compared to some of the spinier
rodents).
The next tribe are the Asian ornate squirrels, which are
tree squirrels rather than ground ones, and the subfamily of the ‘true’
squirrels, which features both the squirrels that are most usual for the
Western society and the ‘true’ flying squirrels as well – as opposed to the
scaly-tailed flying squirrels of Africa, whose closest relatives are the
springhares. Sometimes animal taxonomy is a crazy thing. And-?
And nothing. Part of the reason as to why I do not want to
talk about squirrels is because of AoS – its’ final episodes begin to come out
in about a month, (May 27, 2020), and here we are, stuck in
lockdown/quarantine/self-isolation/etc. without a working TV in sight. Real
life sucks, however petty in scope it may be!..
As for the computer, I got to watch another DW episode –
this one being the ‘Ming Warrior vs. French Musketeer’, with the latter
winning, spoiler alert! Was it a fair victory? That is prone to discussion,
seeing, for example, that team musketeer brought a rapier and a main gauche dagger to the short-range weapons, while the team
Ming only had the Dao sabre, but on the other hand…
On the other hand, unlike the DW S3 premiere episode,
GWVSNB, which also featured a misbalanced number of weapons, the two
contestants in this confrontation were clearly different, with the weapons of
team Musketeer being clearly more progressive and superior than those of their
opponents’. I.e., the Musketeers’ musket was a better and a more precise weapon
than the Ming’s ‘nest of bees’, (a more derived version of the incendiary
arrows, I reckon). Put otherwise, whereas DW S3 tried to feature more equal combatants in its’ episodes, the
show’s previous seasons – not so much. This what made them more fun than the S3
episodes too, FYI.
The team Musketeer also had a better armor, and at a time
when the firearms very still primitive, this was important, still. Therefore,
yeah, on this particular occasion, the victory was honestly, yay! Back to
squirrels?
Sadly, no. Real life obligations have intruded, and I am
afraid that our discussion for today must end. This is it for now, see you all
soon!
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