Stuck at home, sick. Bored out of my mind. Any Loungers out there?

[Aristus]

[Irish_Dem]

1. How do you know if you are a Lounger?

[Aristus]

4. If you post here, you're a Lounger.

Hi, Lounger!

[Irish_Dem]

5. Wow, I am honored to be considered such.

Howdy fellow Lounger.

[Hela]

7. Doesn't everybody lounge like this?

(She's making my sinuses hurt.)

[Aristus]

10. I do.

But I don't look as good in pedal-pushers...

[Sanity Claws]

27. She needs a box of bon-bons

To be a proper lounger.

[Irish_Dem]

28. Exactly, I was looking for the box of chocolates.

[Hela]

2. Also bored at home...

although technically I'm supposed to be working. Counting the days until Friday when I will be off for 2 1/2 weeks!

[Aristus]

6. I've already been off for two and a half weeks.

What a narcolepsy telethon...



I did need some time off from work, but medicated and in my bathrobe is not how I wanted to spend the whole time...

[True Dough]

14. Medicated and in your bathrobe?

You could pull a Jeffrey Toobin. But don't post pics!

[Aristus]

15. Don't worry. Nothing could induce me.

Between the COVID lockdown of my gym, and overwork at the clinic, I'm not as easy on the eyes as I used to be...

[Claire Oh Nette]

3. What's up??

I'm peri-retired, so an abundance of free time on my hands....

[Aristus]

8. Just dealing with an acute illness.

I won't go into detail.

I've just done nearly everything around the house to fill my time that I possibly can, and now I'm just idly surfing the net...

[Claire Oh Nette]

16. at least it's a cute one...

:: ::

[Irish_Dem]

21. Good one.

I never get the cute illnesses.

[cilla4progress]

17. Haha me 2!

I just retired from one of my jobs and now - as I feared - ...what is it about the devil and idle hands?

Good thing I'm a pagan and don't "believe"!

[Aristus]

20. The neighborhood sure is quiet here during the day.

Everybody is at work...

Except me...

[cilla4progress]

30. Haha!

I remember when my kid was little and I worked part-time... the stores are pretty empty and easy to navigate at 10 am!

So I feel you!

You take care, Aristus.

[Irish_Dem]

9. I'm so bored I started watching WWII movies.

I found out I actually really enjoy them.

I think I have seen every battle fought in the Pacific.
PS John Wayne single handedly won most of those battles.

[Aristus]

12. The kind of WWII movies made during WWII?

John Wayne won all of those, because the word had not yet got out that he weaseled his way out of serving.

[Irish_Dem]

19. Figures John Wayne didn't serve. He sure acts the big military wheel.

But I think the real military brass at the time, gave some actors a pass on serving.
It was thought making movies for propaganda or morale purposes was better than getting sent to combat.

My dad was career Air Force and I grew up next to aircraft hangers and runways.
So it is neat watching the Navy movies, the ships are so neat. And their planes land on the water.
That is so fun to see.

[Aristus]

24. John Ford, who served as a director for morale-boosting documentaries during the war,

never forgave John Wayne for chickening out. When, after the war, Ford and Wayne were filming "They Were Expendable", Ford filmed a scene in which Wayne has to salute a superior officer, and demanded over forty takes, to rub it in that Wayne had never served.

[Irish_Dem]

26. Wow I never knew that.

I have never been a John Wayne fan. Guess I knew there was something not right about him.

My uncle was in the Navy, he was killed when his ship was sunk by the enemy at Guadalcanal. My dad flew combat in three wars.

From watching the movies about the Pacific in WWII, I never realized we could easily have lost that war.
The Japanese naval fleet was vastly superior to ours. And what we did have was damaged at Pearl Harbor.
It appears that we won by sheer determination, bravery, very smart naval leadership, and luck.

[Boomerproud]

34. Your uncle's sacrifice will never be forgotten.

[Irish_Dem]

35. Thanks. We miss him at every family reunion.

Everyone raises a glass to him.

[rsdsharp]

29. The word got out. He was booed off the stage when he appeared before

wounded soldiers, sailors and marines at Hawaii during WWII. William Manchester wrote about it. He was then a marine recovering from his wounds.

“After my evacuation from Okinawa, I had the enormous pleasure of seeing Wayne humiliated in person at Aiea Heights Naval Hospital in Hawaii. Only the most gravely wounded, the litter cases, were sent there. The hospital was packed, the halls lined with beds. Between Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the Marine Corps was being bled white."

"Each evening, Navy corpsmen would carry litters down to the hospital theater so the men could watch a movie. One night they had a surprise for us. Before the film the curtains parted and out stepped John Wayne, wearing a cowboy outfit:10-gallon hat, bandanna, checkered shirt, two pistols, chaps, boots and spurs. He grinned his aw-shucks grin, passed a hand over his face and said, "Hi ya, guys!" He was greeted by a stony silence. Then somebody booed. Suddenly everyone was booing."

[True Dough]

11. My favorite lounger

Are you tickled?

[TexasTowelie]

13. I'm currently in the spin cycle.

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Oh well I'm the type of guy who will never settle down
Where pretty girls are well, you know that I'm around
I kiss 'em and I love 'em 'cause to me they're all the same
I hug 'em and I squeeze 'em they don't even know my name
They call me the launderer, yeah the launderer
I spin around around around

What a heavy load I carry...

[cilla4progress]

18. Howdy, Aristus -

sorry you are home sick!

Here's an idea: window shop online for all your DU friends!

[Irish_Dem]

23. Right, we could make a list of what we want from Santa.

[underpants]

22. Are you on the Facebook?

[Aristus]

25. Yeah, nothing happening there...

I'm getting caught up on tank videos on YouTube, though...

[underpants]

33. Meme heaven

Enjoy

https://www.facebook.com/groups/194814282760164/permalink/203551648553094/

[Wicked Blue]

31. You need a hobby

https://www.boredpanda.com/diy-why-projects/

[yellowdogintexas]

32. You Tube has a vast vault of material to plow through

there is a you tube tutorial for absolutely everything.