What to do when you’ve got too much time on your hands? Play a video game? This one looks a little laggy.
Some people are just eating their way through this time of uncertainty.
Pass the pepper: Social distancing is nothing to sneeze At – Joseph’s Machines
Don’t overdo it, though, or you’ll be expanding your vocabulary as well as your waistline.
Do you speak corona? A guide to covid-19 slang – 1843
Coronaspeck
1. Coronavirus fat (noun)
German workers ordered to stay at home to help the government flatten one sort of curve have found themselves battling the emergence of another, just above the belt. Home workouts sound great, but the days are long and dull and your latest bout of Hamsterkäufe (panic-buying; lit. “hamster-purchase”) has left the fridge gloriously well-stocked. There’s always another variety of Ritter Sport to try, oder? Anyway, what’s a few kilos between socially distanced friends?
Coronaspeck is the helpful German word for the fat deposited by weeks of stay-at-home grazing. Shoppers in Germany may know Speck as a bacon-like foodstuff, perhaps found on a crisp Flammkuchen or inside hearty Swabian Maultaschen. But its broader meaning corresponds to something like the English “flab”.
Perhaps you need some exercise, but what if you can’t think of a routine or a soundtrack? No problem. This website will pair up a random move with a random piece of music.
I’ll pass on that, thanks. But speaking of music…
Plink, Plank, Plunk! virtual performance – Chicago Sinfonietta
RPO trombones play Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ over Zoom – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
That sounds more like it.
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