I'm up early today, scaffolding is coming down and there's only me around to feed hot coffee to the poor sods who have to do it.
It is currently cold and grey and pissing down with rain.
Very much like the conditions the poor sods had to put it up im.
Oh - we painted the house with a special waterproof paint/coating. Actually good fun.

My brain works strangely in the mornings, I think mainly to take it's mind off the fact that it is morning and why am I not still asleep ?

I watched one of the SNL election skits yesterday. With kate mackinnon as the interviewer. Very good.
She was also the best thing about the female ghostbusters film - which I watched a few days ago, as it was on and I quite like it and couldn't be bothered to watch anything else.

And I thought, kate mckinnon was brilliant in it, spotting the cast of the original series and their cameos was the next best thing about it.
And obviously melissa mcarthy is always watchable.

well she has to be, as she's currently the only fat women allowed in hollywood.
(see where I'm heading yet ?).

So I started thinking about how there is only ever one fat woman and one fat man allowed in hollywood films at any given time.

a few decades back it was john candy - you wanted a fat bloke in a film - you booked john candy.
Then it was some kid who either died or dieted and was never seen again, then jack black.
The guy from mall cop was in a few films.
But it's only ever one person at a time.
There were two fat people in the film evolution - but one lost a LOT of weight and played randy in 'my name is earl ' and the other was never heard from again.

But basically there are almost NO fat people in films.
As far as tv shows go - similiar situation, the fat guy from LOST is now in hawai 50.

So it occured to me that there are almost NO fat people in visual media at all.

Not in films, not on telly and not in youtube videos.

And as visual media will form the bulk of material for future archaelogists they are going to look at the visual media of our time and then look at the medical records and be totally and completely confused.

Why did all those thin, healthy good looking vegans suffer so much from diabetes, heart attacks and diseases brought on by unhealty life styles, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.

To an archaelogist in 500 years time: It's going to be a complete and total conumdrum.

   I personally don't mind TV and movie actors and actresses being mostly thin, in shape people.  Such mediums are  for escaping reality.  If I want to see someone who is fat all I have to do is look in the mirror.

Fun thing to toss in there:    They probably will also only have access to films on physical media that survives, for two reasons: 

One, servers might get purged or recycled or phased out, deleting everything we currently stream or save in the cloud.

Two, file formatting issues with backwards compatibility might make  for some significant problems in reading what they can salvage.  But, a DVD player is a relatively simple machine, and pin-outs for connecting them to projectors or screens might be possible, and so that's what they'll have to work with (conjectural speaking, of course).

So after a certain point, when films stop being released on physical media, they'll be really, really confused, and will have to treat us like we were prehistoric.

Confused archaeologists are the best archaeologists, and they're going to be very confused as these problems compound.

Anti-tRump memes should be preserved forever.  Some of them are genius.