Monday 28 October 2019

Pictcast?


I bought one of those turntable things from a model shop the other day.  Which felt a bit weird.  Almost like buying dirty magazines from my squalid newsagent down the road, years ago.  "Ooooh! Does Sir like to look at his models from every angle? Does he? Hmmm?  Does he like to make them ride on a pedestal? Ooooh, suit you sir!"
The 'Solar Spinner' is a rotary display stand made by Fascinations (wonders created by physicists). After the initial embarrassment wore off, I became captivated with the thing.  It's solar powered and I can't find a way to turn it off.  You can change the direction of the spin, but not stop it.  It works under flourescent lights and spotlamps too.  So it just spins round and round forever.  Unless I put it back inside the box.  But then I can't see it so I don't actually know whether it is still spinning or not.  Sort of like Schrödinger's cat.  It's about as interesting as watching things in a microwave, which is to say, vacuously mesmerising.



This is an opportune moment to see if I can upload videos to Blogger.  Never tried it before.

15 comments:

  1. Ooh Sir, you do though, don’t you Sir. Oh!

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  2. You just have to imagine the models going "WHEEE" and everything will be alright!

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    1. Oh no! Now you've made me think about 'The Magic Roundabout'! We're doomed!

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  3. I got one too, years ago now. I've done nothing with it!

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    1. Maybe it's still spinning in the box? Have you checked it recently?

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    2. No it's on my shelf, it does go round occasionally when it's sunny and I wonder what the little motor noise I can hear is, thinking it's mice or something in the shed!

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  4. So how many more are you going to get for the ol' display case?

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    1. That reminds me! I don't have a display case. I might have to do something about that.

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  5. Reminds me of an older Deadpool comic where he has to work with an "omni-fetishist" on a job.

    To the winch they're using to rappel down from their helicopter:
    "Ooh, who's a naughty spool, then? Are you a naughty spool?"
    "Stop gazing longingly at things! No one ever started a successful super secret infiltration by gazing longingly at things!"

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    1. Omni fetishist? Does that mean he has a fetish about everything!? Well, I never claimed to be completely stable and I do have a tendency to fixate on things. But then I get bored. Actually that's probably normal behaviour. Don't judge me!

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    2. Yeah, he found literally everything sexy. The plot actually centered around the fact that he was an underwear collector, tho. Even had a near-mint pair of Thor's underpants!

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    3. By 'near mint' you mean 'used' don't you?

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    1. He was named Sawberus on account of the 3 headed chainsaw thing but this is Chaos and all the best daemons have multiple names don't they? We are legion!

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