'War Stories'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Traditionally, a pound was 20 shillings, a guinea 21. Not sure what it is with decimal currency.
Basically, it's a little more than a pound with more class.
eta: Whistler had a dispute with someone who commissioned something - the Peacock Room - over whether he would be paid in pounds (as you'd pay a tradesman) or in guineas.
You pay the auction house in Guineas. They pay the seller in Pounds. This gives them 5% commission.
How funny. . . and kind of unfair.
And what is a guinea compared to a dollar?
fascinating.
serial:
Woman cheating on mentally disabled husband. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I'd have to live it to know.
A parent at the school where my mom works is in a situation like that. Her husband was in an accident that left him brain-damaged and mentally about six years old. He's at home because he can do basic self-care, but I can't imagine what that's like.
I can't imagine what it must be like to be with someone who's fundamentally not who you married, but can never understand that, much less marriage itself.
Why do I keep getting Pepsi/Coke taste test spam? Is there anyone in America who doesn't know which they prefer, if they care?
PS: Pepsi is nasty.
I prefer neither Pepsi nor Coke.
Interesting piece comparing the Casey Anthony case to the Karen Murphy case. (I hadn't actually heard of the Karen Murphy case prior to reading this.) I have to say that her reaction to finding her child seems more what you would expect.
A family friend's wife had fairly early onset Alzheimer's disease and he cared for her for years until he had to put her in a nursing facility. During that time, he became close with a neighbor who was 10-15 years younger. I don't really wish to know about the sex lives of my parents' friends, but they married when his wife died. His health began declining and she took care of him for a decade or so. His children wouldn't speak to her and tried to cut her out of the will.