(un)Official Glibs TPTB Statement on Coronavirus (hey, everyone else is doing it): My fellow Glibertarians, it is with great sadness that I suggest to you, out of an abundance of caution, that you continue to avoid each other and everyone else in the manner which you usually do. Avoid gathering in Glibertarian groups of more than 200. If you must meet your fellow Glibs in person, drink plenty of beer or liquor to combat the coronavirus. Wash your hands often. Even if you haven’t just finished touching yourself. And for dog’s sake, don’t breathe on Fourscore.
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Its the end of the world.. FSU declared ACC Champs after conference tournament canceled. Several old men of my acquaintance can die happy.
A plague of monkeys descends on Thailand after their primary food source (tourists) vanishes.
Unconstitutional or just good sense?
So, the monkeys ate the tourists? What is this? “Jurassic Park 200million – Monkey Business”?
It might happen!
You’ll never catch me Corona and Lime disease, I live in Hell
!!
You instead live in the Hantavirus zone of the US.
True, I recall the death toll in the millions then, it was pretty bad…….
“The normally well-fed primates had no food after coronavirus fears left the normally busy streets in Thailand completely empty of tourists”
They normally eat tourists?
Tourists are made of meat.
Meat *and Potatoes* apparently…
I know, it bothered me as I wrote it. Not enough to change it, but I get what you mean.
Also, turn off the sidebar.
At least I can give you one small spark of joy.
The sidebar has been auto-enabled of late.
Today sucked.
Cheer up! I’m sure there’s another Demi Rose pic to link in your future… and thicc…
Try that again…
She’s sporting a new look.
Greg Gutfeld on Weinstein’s upcoming suicide:
https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/1237855954453975042?s=20
Check out the eyeroll on Juan Williams
Since there is no tournament for us to not play in, I guess GT can claim our 5th place in the ACC.
If the NCAA tourney is cancelled, I can see them screwing us over and extending our ban until next year. Clearly, taking a recruit to a strip club (which is freakin’ stupid and got the assistant instafired) is far worse than two decades of fake classes.
March Sadness!
The two decades of fake classes was not fake classes. And it had nothing to do with sports.
It was a race thing.
I was there when they founded that department. It was a group in the history department, but the professor said it was racist not to make him a department chair. So they made him a department chair.
Everyone was afraid to challenge him on anything. Because racism.
Being uber-liberal means never having to say no to an oppressed minority.
Similar to John Thompson, he had a goal of “helping black students to graduate”. The “paper classes” moniker refers to an independent study class where they had to write a paper.
The problem was that he let his secretary handle the classes.
It was entirely an academic oversight issue at a university that was afraid to stop a handful of students from vandalizing and destroying a prominent bronze statue in full view of the public – lest they be labeled racist.
All of which is quite ironic, because the academic side of the university has been openly hostile to the athletic department for at least 40 years. And then they have a scandal because the academic side is so woke that they were afraid to exercise control over the department of racial grievances.
Meanwhile, Rat-boy has had a string of huge violations that somehow don’t even get reported.
And then there’s the non-violations…. like the observation that pre-FBI, folks around Zion Williamson were asking for a 6 figure check, a house near the school, and a job for the parents. After the FBI thing broke…. all of that stopped.
And then his family moved into a really swank neighborhood in Durham and Dad got a high paying job in Durham. But, you know, nothing to investigate there.
Giggity.
Who needs cock fights when monkeys will do all the work, plus they look like people!
(simpsons_monkey_knife_fight.jpg)
“plus they look like people!”
Hell, they looked like relatives!
For you too, huh? Glad I’m not alone there.
That video shows neither speed nor strength. No defense either.
It may be required but that doesn’t mean he has it.
The MNT sucks. They deserve to loose their compensation to the Women. Like i said they should play a game every year, and the winner gets the higher salaries.
Oh how I hate the “labor theory of value”: one does not get a salary commensurate with the ‘difficulty’ of one’s work, even in situations where such a thing can be determined. One’s salary is determined by what the employee is willing to accept and that is largely based on what that employee’s other options are. The US Men not only make far more money playing for their club than country, they also sometimes have options of playing for other countries. Their clubs would be thrilled if the players skipped national team duty altogether as it lessens wear and tear and reduces the likelihood of injury.
None of these things apply to the women. Their clubs don’t pay much, those clubs are wholly dependent on National Team soccer for the viability of the sport so they need their players playing National Team tournaments. The women simply don’t have the option of saying “screw it” and forgo playing for the national team (or more commonly with the men, “retiring” from the National Team when you still have several years of productivity left in you). They don’t get paid as much because they don’t have to be. They can strike if they want to try and change that, but there’s plenty of other very good women players who would be happy to take their place.
As for the women playing the men to see who gets paid more, the margin would almost always be double digits.
The university I work at, as well as several others in the state have implemented the in person class ban and classes will go online only starting on Wednesday for the foreseeable future. I am clinical faculty, so we are sill status quo at the moment, though some students who have recently travelled (one to Thailand – I think she was eaten by the monkeys) have been quarantined. Thing got interesting here quick today.
A fellow academic! My college has not implemented the ban but admin is talking about it. The scariest thing right now is literally every fucking store in the city is out of toilet paper and I have half a roll left!!!!!!!!!! Send help!
Shit in the shower.
Yup. We have essentially the same thing here. We are keeping our clinic open, but making sure the students disinfect like crazy. We used to use Chlorox wipes, but those are completely out of stock everywhere too. I stopped at Wal-Mart to pick up some ibuprofen and tylenol and there was a run on both of those. I grabbed a couple of bottles of ibuprofen though.
I’ll fax you some toilet paper, though.
Also, The Hyperbole…. Ewww…
You have options.
What did I just click?
Welp, Henrico County schools just announced a closing of two weeks. Guess I’m getting a staycation.
Paid staycation?
Yeah – I can do some of my work at home, though not all of it, and I’ve got vacation time to use too. Not thrilled about using it for this, but what can you do.
Well at least you can work. I suspect there will be lots of people who will expect to be paid despite not working.
I’m assuming James City and York won’t be far behind.
Nope. The dominoes are all falling – once UVA shut down in-person classes yesterday morning, I knew it was all just a matter of time. UVA led to the other state schools following suit, and once that happened the rest of the school system was bound to fall in, if for no other reason than to avoid getting blasted for staying open when other counties were closing theirs.
I expect to hear from my son’s soccer and my daughter’s softball leagues within the next day, too.
Feel bad for my son – this is going to torpedo his birthday party.
It’s a life lesson. My son has three music competitions and multiple music camps lined up over the next four months. They’re probably all torpedoed at this point. We’ll have to retool for things to put on college applications.
Life is what happens while you’re making plans.
Yep. My son is contemplating flying home from Scotland and finishing the semester remotely. He had three weeks of travel through Europe all teed up.
He’s really bummed. I feel bad for him, but like you say, life lesson.
No, no. Now is the time to go! Only easy chicks will be in the bars, and all the competition will be staying home.
LOL!
That’s a good point.
You only get to be young and stupid once, and his survival rate is better than at a soccer riot.
We’ll have to retool for things to put on college applications.
“Survived SARS-2”
He can say he survived the virus.
Stafford county too.
I’ll be drilling remotely this weekend. Apparently we can finally get the telework agreement approved and we’ll be continuing briefing/planning for ops, etc.
However, getting tomorrow off (already signed my timesheet for “vacation” tomorrow) means I can go look at houses tomorrow and maybe not on Monday ;p
This is what annoys me currently.
I’m thinking of cancelling my PTO for early next week, as everything is getting cancelled now anyways. We’re going full WFH already.
I think my kids’ school system has decided to make it to Spring Break. They aren’t supposed to reconvene until a week from Tuesday, and by then the school district will have time to make decisions.
continue to avoid each other and everyone else in the manner which you usually do
Obviously.
drink plenty of beer or liquor to combat the coronavirus.
Alcohol (sanitizer) cleanse for the outside and alcohol cleanse for the inside.
Wash your hands often. Even if you haven’t just finished touching yourself.
If anything you need to wash your junk. Your hands are out touching things all day. In fact, wash your hands before you rub one out.
George Carlin agrees.
So does Don King.
PSA: Stop Using Racist Terminology
Chick-fil-A Announces New Bottled Sauces That Still Won’t Open On Sunday
*chuckle*
Glad my favorites aren’t on the list of racist:
Mao’s Revenge, and the Flu Manchu
LOL
My town just cancelled their St. Patrick’s Day parade. I hope the breweries will still be open.
“Dey took r prades!”
And it came to pass that in those days Trump Donaldus declared that all the world (except the illegal folk) should be taxed, and so every man went unto his house and was counted…
Got my Census request today.
::crosses fingers, hopes A-10 follows ACC’s lead & declares U of Dayton conference champs::
Marginally OT: no confirmed CV cases in my OH county, but schools will be closing next week & gov’s cracking down on “mass gatherings.” Should I take a break from YMCA spin class or not be a weenie? I DO have a treadmill at home.
My dad works for U of Dayton.
One of the uni degrees I’m not using is from UD.
My wife has 3 degrees.
I like to point out that she can’t be that smart because she married a loser like me!
I have a degree.
They say nothing about the judgement of the person who has them, just that they completed the curriculum.
*unless the curriculum itself says something about their judgement…. *cough*studies degrees*cough*
I have multiple degrees. Trust me, I am living proof that it doesn’t make y ou smart.
If you’ve got an A-10 you can get pretty much what you want.
Same with an AR-10.
If you have an AR-14 doomsday weapon you would rule the earth.
My alma mater (U. of Colorado) preemptively cancelled its men’s basketball season by losing five in a row. Went from top 15 to the toilet in 10 days. Complete collapse. But at least they beat Dayton on a buzzer beater!
Just finished the finale of the Elizabeth Warren series. I hope it’s as broadly enjoyable as I personally find it.
If it doesn’t end with her suck starting a glock, I’m going to be a bit disappointed.
Looking forward to reading that.
I’m so fucking happy that I switched jobs last year.
Old job: working for a tour operator, which is probably talking layoffs to cope with the cash hemmorage involved with cancelling thousands of guests’ trips with full refunds after already paying for the spaces on airlines, hotels and attractions while working everyone to the bone in a frantic effort to get travelers home wherever possible and managing accommodations for people trapped overseas.
New Job: working for an insurer that is an indirect competitor of Swiss Servator’s masters. They canceled a bunch of meetings that I didn’t want to attend anyway and are holding the actual mission-critical ones via skype. We have good capitalization, and are comfortable that once the storm has passed, business will be good thanks to the free advertising from those who were under-insured for the various losses this causes.
Life is much nicer.
indirect competitor of Swiss Servator’s masters.
Indirect competitor of the Swiss?
In cheeze? Clocks? Or Gold?
If I recall correctly, he works in the best industry of all, where you sell a promise to pay a portion of a loss in the future should it occur, in exchange for cold, hard cash now.
Now, if I can get underwriting to remove the requirement that commercial customers ban employees from bringing firearms to work as a condition for us insuring them, I’d be very happy.
Stealing from (((them)))?
Hail Zard… wait. No. Hail… Bret?
Hmmm. Not the same.
Oh yeah… on topic… Emereld Robinson’s response to that twunt Brian Stultz… Seltz… Steltz… whatever was a burn. Get the aloe vera.
Nissan Sentra: It has enough driving aids so that women can actually operate it.
Comments for this video are turned off. Hmm I wonder why?
Jesus! 4K liked it and 27K hated it?!?
What imbecilic advertising agency came up with that turkey?
On the one hand it got me to watch their ad.
On the other hand I don’t want no bitch wagon.
The same people who did the Peloton ad?
Or the Audi ‘Green Police’ ad?
I still purposefully avoid the Audi exhibitions at car shows.
I just hope ‘Drop the Taco’ becomes a thing.
Hey you, drop the taco.
I was almost there, and then I dropped the taco.
Climate ChangeCoronavirus is our WWIIIn an attempt to blame the virus spread on President Donald Trump, Sanders said, “We have an administration that is largely incompetent and whose incompetence and recklessness have threatened the lives of many, many people in our country.”
Sanders said, “Cases of coronavirus continues to grow exponentially here in the United States and around the world, and we have witnessed a global economic meltdown which will impact millions of workers in our own country. In the terms of potential deaths, in terms of the economic impact on our economy, the crisis we face from the coronavirus is on the scale of major war, and we must act accordingly. Nobody knows what the number of fatalities may end up being, or the number of people who may get ill and we all hope that that number will be as low as possible, but we also have to face the truth and that is that the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the armed forces experienced in World War II.”
Please define that.
And no bullshit like we need a vaccine, or we need a better speech, or the CDC is underfunded….
That’s what drives me nuts. Blah, blah, blah, Trump is doing it all wrong, but I’m not willing to say what exactly should be done, because I don’t have a clue either.
Ok Grandpa Gulag. Give us the citation for your numbers.
I blame the communist Chinese – big surprise Bernie doesn’t. If the percentages seen in Italy occur here, it will be more casualties than WWII.
What are you talking about?
827 dead in Italy. Out of 12,000 cases, out of 60 Millon people.
That equates to about 6% of .01% of the population. In the Us it would be around 3,000 people.
This shit is more over hyped than Al Capone’s vault.
If you looked hard enough, you might have seen the virus in Al Capone’s vault.
“Six percent of the population??” /faints
827 dead in Italy
Nearly all of whom are probably old enough to remember WW2.
It’s just a drop in the bucket compared to the number killed by communism, you commie fuck.
Cases of coronavirus continues to grow exponentially here in the United States and around the world,
I’m more worried about the growth of the case of communists…. There is only one known cure….
Helicopters?
Nobody knows…
But we do know who to blame.
Why should a commie be distressed by negative impacts to an evil capitalist economy?
Nobody needs 23 different kinds of flu virus!
If we’re going to play moral equivalency games with WW2, shouldn’t we be talking about nuking China, or at least firebombing them?
Ohio Gov. DeWine bans gatherings of 100+, announces extended spring break for schools
All public schools closed for 3 weeks, starting Monday.
Utah Gov. Herbert essentially did the same today.
CA too
This clearly is all just a plot for money by Big Daycare.
CV can’t spread unless there are at least 100 people near one another.
I believe the idea is to slow the spread at this point.
The science, such that it is, is that if a region can slow the spread enough that hospitals don’t get overwhelmed, the death rate will be dramatically lower.
No question. Slowing it gets us past flu season, keeps the hospitals from being overwhelmed, and provides extra time for a working vaccine to be developed.
My son’s school district called, texted, and emailed me to let me know they’d be closed next week (this week is Spring Break). This, after the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo was cancelled. The latter I didn’t mind so much, but seemed a bit premature.
Just issued a respirator mask. Things are gettin’ real, Ya’ll!
Is there a little cut out or trap door so you can still snort meth without taking it off?
I think the meth is actually built into the filter.
Get better, doggie
You’re one of the lucky ones then.
The rest of us are going to get tampons to stick in our nostrils and maxi-pads to tape to our mouths.
In your case the “gently used” ones from Daily Femsplaining.
I’ve got one of those in box somewhere… not sure what my wife and kids are gonna do, but I’m covered.
I was organizing my shop yesterday and found two boxes of these. It’s like I just hit the lottery!
It’s one of the ones with screw on cartridges. Probably as effective as the ones painters use.
Glibertarian confirmed.
Wait til you see what the government issues to people on Indian reservations.
Blankets?
Not enough for everyone, the folks will have to share
Personal Euthanasia Kit, KPE-1194, Single-Use, Painless, Self-Injectable?
Except for the “painless” part.
$100 says a world leader dies from the Kung Flu.
I personally think that the presidential election should be decided by injecting both the president and Biden with Kung Flu. Whoever survives gets to be president. Are you not entertained?
Tulsi Gabbard quietly waits in the shadows
Jacob Hornburger has a sad.
But, I like Tulsi and Jacob. That wouldn’t be as funny
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What’s your threshold for “world leader?”
If we’re lucky, it will get all of the “world thought leaders”
Wouldn’t be too soon for the Ayatollah. Sounds like those jerks are dropping like flies.
If Bernie was President, coronavirus would be free.
*golf clap*
Tournament gone.
Over at AIER, Adam Thier has a lovely article:
How the US Botched Coronavirus Testing
Don’t let the title fool you, it’s more than a savage beatdown of the FDA. That’s the first half. The second half starts off with
It ends weakly, calling for regulators to be more innovation-friendly. My take is a bit different. We really should be encouraging people to be more open to evasive entrepreneurship.
Bernie would have eased regulations and got shit done!
Innovation-friendly – like Theranos?
I just heard on the news Disneyland is shutting down through the end of the month. I don’t think that has happened before.
Sold my Disney stock this morning. Looks like I picked the right time to bail out.
Yeah, the movie business is going to get hammered hard, too. I wonder if we’ll see summer blockbusters moved to later in the year, or even next summer.
Woke Bond already did postpone.
Theaters, sure. But streaming will increase what with all the sports leagues closing up.
Fuck, the Dow is at 21K, and all the stores are out of rice.
Rice? Dude the local Kroger has 2 for 1 on chuck roasts. Stock up on what matters.
I wasn’t stocking up. It was just my usual shopping.
From the sidebar in this AM’s Chelsea Manning piece. I’ve found just the spot for the next Glib meet-up. Not sure if there are separate accommodations for your orphan batman.
@Leap (and to whom it may concern) I think it’s you that listens to the Short Circuit Podcast. Yesterday i just listened to the one they did live at Georgia. I listened to the case of the Georgian who was arrested for destorying property when he was being kidnapped by the cops was very interesting. But i was very disheartened by the self proclaimed progressive in the panel who was dumbstruck that it would not be illegal, and even to use force to resist arrest, even if the cops were illegally arresting you. The idea that cop should bear any kind of protection when acting illegally is what gives them the confidence to go around harrasing people for bulshit.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez✔
@AOC
Right about now would be a great time to weigh emergency measures like:
– Extending Medicare/Medicaid coverage to all
– Eviction freezes
– No-strings UBI programs
– Eliminating work requirements for SNAP &other assistance
– Humanitarian provisions in prisons & decarceral policies
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez✔
@AOC
Some are taking about ⬆️unemployment insurance, & while good it’s not nearly enough. There are enormous sectors of our economy (tipped workers, freelance, shift workers) who may not be “unemployed” but whose lives are still dramatically disrupted to the point of eviction, etc
*waives magic wand*
emergency measures
In a good republic, any politician who utters that phrase would be dragged out by the mob.
In a good republic, any politician
who utters that phrasewould be dragged out by the mob.FTFY
I Like you Hyperbole.
any = all
How convenient that it reads like a lefty wishlist.
Hasn’t history taught us that the purpose of emergency measures is to 1) ram through a political factions wishlist, and 2) never rescind them after the emergency.
They promised they would pull out!
In 9 months, you’ll have a bouncing baby bureaucracy!
Our Gov is implementing climate change nonsense that that the Legislature didn’t (because the rump Republican remainder walked out and prevented a quorum).
Sure, let’s have all those tipped workers, freelance, gig, whatever show their tax returns and provide some level of unemployment. Whoops – that doesn’t add up to much.
Shift workers are presumably employed, so would qualify for unemployment and increases if enacted. Oh wait, I don’t believe she is talking about those who are legitimately employed.
“Honey, don’t spoil it by talking.”
Temporarily shutting down all immigration.
Building a wall so we can control who is coming into the country.
Eliminating all taxes for one year.
Suspending all politician’s salaries and diverting the funds to combatting corona.
See AOC I can do it too!
Iowahawk brings it.
https://twitter.com/angryasianman/status/1237625500362665987
LACIST!
Jimmy Dore: Honest Lefty
He’s been an open Bernie supporter. Yet here he is, lambasting Bernie as a fucking idiot:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NVaNY4THm90
I enjoy his stuff. I tried showing him to my Bernie supporting friend, but the episode i picked was him lambasting Biden and talking about how that biden will be eaten by trump, and i think it depressed my friend even more.
So, a job well done!
There are still a few principled leftists and he’s one of them.
The one thing he does here that sticks in my craw is refusing to make Berie take ownership for the things he says. Dore desperately wants to blame these things on Bernie’s staff and advisors when all the evidence would suggest that he’s just another ineffectual cuck for the DNC. We all have our blind spots, I guess.
He likely knows but this lets him chew Bernie’s ass without really chewing Bernie’s ass. I don’t know if his audience would stand for that.
https://twitter.com/jordylancaster/status/1237867176171692039
OK?
Good thing i work from home, or else “Penis” would have loudly come over my speaker….
We’re really not doing phrasing anymore, are we?
Funny how medical stocks are some of the biggest losers during a pandemic fear.
It makes sense when you consider EMTALA laws and declaring a national emergency.
And diversion of R&D/manufacturing to coronavirus related from more profitable avenues.
Yeah. Just shows how far from a free market it actually is.
Another factor is that a lot of patients will be elderly and on Medicare, which pays less than half of what private insurance pays. Which is why MFA is totally going to work and makes perfect economic sense.
Bitcoin is down too.
Panic selling of assets of any kind.
Listen to this science-denying MONSTER telling you not to panic over THE KILLER VIRUS.
He does have a silver lining for us, though: it has the potential to dramatically reduce homelessness.
He occasionally rubs me the wrong way but as far as I can tell, he has accurately stated what the current state of medical science does or does not show.
Checking the map.
Looks like Uruguay has no confirmed cases of Coronavirus, Legal weed, and fine beaches….
Ya me voy!
In other news, this happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX78DbOXVJ8&
Another Rethuglican prancing around when the country needs real leadership. For shame.
This is the cyberpunk dystopia I was promised back in the 80s.
+1 William Gibson
So why are our current pop idols worthless thots instead of bike-riding power suit wearers?
Was that a Bubblegum Crisis reference?
You are indeed a man of culture.
Yes, yes it was. We were discussing anime on discord couple weeks back and I went into a rant about how awesome 80s stuff was, and in particular how I still watch that in Japanese whereas the modern stuff I can’t abide, even if I like the show (e.g. Black Lagoon or even Girls Und Panzer, glory be to it). BGC was one of my examples.
It was the first media of any type to predict a future war against Boomers.
Yeah, probably still would.
I played soccer on Tuesday night and some asshole nailed me in the back as I was running up field, which caused me to land hard on my left shoulder. I went yesterday for x-rays which were negative, but my PCP has not called me back today for any further referral.
I have more mobility in my shoulder than I did yesterday, but still very limited. Wait until Monday to see if it is just a sprain and heals on it’s own?
It’s coronavirus.
*rubs Purell on shoulder, gives Ted thumbs-up*
We talked about this earlier.
Hang, dude.
I saw, but not sure now is the right time to do it. My shoulders have been fine before this injury.
Mine was a hockey impact injury.
Hang.
How would shutting down the capitol be unconstitutional? In todays electronic world I cant think of a good reason for that gaggle of halfwits to be in DC at all.
They only work 100 or so days out of the year anyway.
I’m half rooting for a complete government shutdown that extends until the end of May so that my dream of seeing a non-operating federal government by the age of forty is fulfilled. Of course, that would probably mean a lot of people are still dying and a lot of economic damage. Not from the lack of government per se, but from the impact of the virus itself.
So maybe I shouldn’t root for a shutdown, as much as I’d like to by reflex.
I’m hoping the virus makes a clean sweep through Congress.
That’s the ‘Hope Springs Eternal’ kinda mindset this country needs!
https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1238213711900393473
It’s OK when they do it, when non leftys do it they do it to disparage the Chinese. Ain’t you never heard of mens rea?
Well, yes, the context of discourse is a thing. What is ridiculous is the never ending cycle of one side sanctimoniously strutting around with an unwarranted sense of moral superiority by declaring something said in innocence to be taboo, which produces the overreaction of I AIN’T CALLIN’ IT ANYTHIN’ BUT THE SLANT-EYED YELLOW MONKEY PLAGUE CUZ I AIN’T POLITICALLY CORRECT OR NUTHIN’, which both fulfills the other side’s need to feel superior and drives even more pronouncements.
Bah! You probably thought it was no big deal when Obama didn’t wear an American flag pin in 2008. I also bet you thought the number of houses McCain owned was irrelevant. How can we know who to support if we don’t have easily identifiable trivia with which to beat one another over the head.
I still call them “Freedom Fries”.
You would. You’re well known as patriotic, flag-waving nationalist.
I bet your favorite song is “Proud to be an American.”
Siebel still hasnt switched back to teaching in german.
Slant Eyed Yellow Monkey Plague does seem inappropriate, I’ll give you that.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, CHINATARD!
Orangemonkeyplague is a-ok though.
Please, Orangegutan Pox (first part pronounced like the fruit) rolls off the tongue much easier.
I am partial to flu Manchu myself.
Today I got to witness my first full fledged panic buy at the grocery store. Cashier lines that stretched for miles, empty shelves. No chicken soup. No toilet paper, no soap. All of a sudden I look like a genius to my woman for insisting we always have three weeks of emergency food supplies.
On the other hand, this is the first time when I came home from a liquor store with 200 bucks worth of booze without her rolling her eyes. She even kissed me, saying “that was good thinking” as opposed to her looking at me and saying “you fucking lush”
Also, I now am able to get out of a Village People concert i was going to tomorrow. There is a god, and it rises a white horse and is named pestilence.
We normally purchase 4 24pk waters for the business…we have not been able because of the run on water.
That reminds me…I need to go buy beer
I was at the grocery today and someone was on the phone saying, “They’re out of water.”
I nearly pissed myself laughing. There were no 24-packs of water, but the shelf of gallon jugs was entirely full.
Ditto, there has not even been a coronavirus infection in my area.
Now you’ve done it.
Today I got to witness my first full fledged panic buy at the grocery store. Cashier lines that stretched for miles, empty shelves. No chicken soup. No toilet paper, no soap.
Not to worry, the dirty capitalists will continue to mercilessly exploit the proletariat by restocking those shelves tomorrow, and every day thereafter.
Last night Walmart had no bulk rice and low on canned soup. Went to the Safeway next to it and plenty of both.
Yeah, I’m seeing stuff like that, too. The local Safeway here has pretty much everything. So too does the local London Drugs and Shoppers Drug Mart (although there’s been a run in the last day or so on stuff like symptom relief drugs for the flu).
It’s a madhouse!
Except I went shopping today and saw nothing missing. No mobs. Maybe because I don’t shop at Walmart or Costco.
Nah. Costco here is a little bit light in TP, but otherwise normal.
It’s almost like the media are engaging in hysteria. Shocking, I know.
I’m flabbergasted.
But this just rolled around.
Remember it?
Nope. I really dug “Your Love” though, and this one is pretty good too.
LOL.
My stupid college band covered Your Love.
To say it was popular is a ridiculous understatement.
Walmart probably has the stuff but no staff to restock the shelves during the day.
I stop by Walmart on my way home from work around 10pm. Plenty of stockers moving pallets of chips but the soup and rice areas stay the same so I suspect their supply chain. I find it interesting to see where the demands are.
You guys are freaking me out with the panic crap, i have stocks of food, but Should I grab some Cash? if the Debit system goes down, so do i…
I’m now no longer accepting pay pal when I go dow town and blow sailors for money.
TMI, just say’n,
What? It’s fine for Winston’s mom to have a side hustle, but I can’t?
Listen, I said we’ll square up and I meant it.
Four Square, hardest hit.
Cash never goes out of style. Just grabbed a chunk o’ change myself, in case the networks go down or are temporarily overloaded.
And the spousal unit thinks I’m a genius for stocking up on supplies 10 days or so ago. I pointed out to her that I was simply trying to get us back to our standard “two months’ supplies” in stock. It’s all stuff we eat/need/want anyways, just a bulge in the supply stream. First time in almost 45 years I’ve let the stock dwindle that much.
As for booze, we’re capable of maintaining a buzz for at least six weeks — probably longer.
My only worry is that I might not have enough food for the dog.
A good chunck of our dog grooming business is to the elderly. Gotta see if my wife will be eligble for that sweet government cash they are about to throw around.
No problem. Just ban reusable bags. Mandatory paper bag tax for all.
How is everything in NY? Curious to hear from someone on the ground – the TV talking heads are saying everything is on lock-down, empty restaurants, shops, etc.
Upstate, I’m not seeing any of that.
Can’t speak to downstate.
I’m not seeing much in Chicago either other than zero tourists/convention attendees. Nearby grocery store was far busier than usual today. St. Paddy’s Day parade cancelled.
ORD was quiet. Stool at the bar was easily had.
There has been a homeless problem at ORD of late.
Oh, barstool. Sorry.
PSA: DONT ignore your hemorrhoids or they might get necrotizing fasciitis and you’ll lose your testicles and legs. Possibles you’re hands.
No I did not reply to the wrong thread…
*runs away*
There’s nothing worse than knowing you have an asshole.
No it’s not possible you are hands.
Museums and other touristy things are closed but I don’t live in Manhattan so I don’t see any of that. I don’t see anything out of the ordinary in my area.
I’ve only been going to and from work because I’ve been doing obscene amounts of overtime.
Have to go grocery shopping and a liquor run after work tomorrow.
Dad took the dog to the vet (routine checkup, no need to worry) yesterday and went shopping today. I didn’t hear anything out of the ordinary from him.
All Orlando theme parks are still open. The spice must flow!
really you shouldn’t be going to the grocery store at this time. it is dangerous. We should ban going shopping.
How about a permanat repal and a prosecution of everyone who voted for the ban.
So… If you didn’t know. In the Classic Depeche Mode song “Blasphemous Rumors”, they don’t actually say “I think that God has a Sixth Sense of Humor”, but ‘Sick Sense of Humor’
/ PSA
You’re just now noticing? Do you still listen to Death Leopard as well?
I knew.
Did you reach out and touch faith?
It was personal…
Was a restraining order involved? Or just a bouncer?
It’s a lot like life.
There are Times,
Wait, there are classic Depeche Mode songs now?
Um, yes, I guess for us Oldsters there are, I even like Bob Smith and the Cure,
Heh, I used to hate them but they’ve grown on me. Back in the day they didn’t sound enough like Iron Maiden and Motorhead for my tastes.
Look fat, I’ll give you “personal Jesus” as a one hit wonder kinda thing but to claim some rando DM song as a ‘classic’ is a bridge to far.
I believe “Enjoy the Silence” was also a Top 10 hit.
Ugh, you’re words are like violence.
In related news, Taylor Swift has a lot of Starbucks lovers…
But is that Cool Whip in her hair?
No.
Well was she at least rolled up like a douche?
+1 Hummer in the night
Anybody else start playing plague inc again?
No, I’m trying to eke out more story words.
Ha! The thought crossed my mind. If they add a Wuhan expansion pack, I’ll download it again immediately.
I just started playing the original KOTOR on my tablet a few days ago. I had forgotten how good the idea and story were…and how the controls were so damn clunky.
Yeah, but the controls don’t really detract. The story and characters more than make up for it.
Well of course they cancelled Mariners spring training, the whole reason we were driving to Phoenix next week. Girlfriend is pissed.
I came home to find a letter from the Census Bureau. Instead of the usual census form and return envelope, there was a note directing me to a website and my home was given an ID number. I tore the fucking thing up. Are they only counting people with Internet acces this time around?
Sounds good to me. I dont have to load rock salt into otherwise perfectly good shotgun shells.
Enh, at least the census is something they are allowed to do.
The Bee, bringing the heat:
“Nation’s Nerds Wake Up In Utopia Where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports Are Canceled, Social Interaction Forbidden”
I picked the wrong decade to develop an interest in sports.
Yeah, but SD comicon is still on with no plans to cancel…
Part and event rental business is screwed for this year. I’m starting to hear the wailing from people in the industry.
Welcome to my 2008
It’s so fucking insane that even Amazon is out of most toilet paper.
What the fuck America?
I saw some used TP for sake earlier.
I would trade sake for new TP, but never used.
Sale
That’s some nasty sake.
A trade?
I’m sitting on my new Toto washlet/bidet right now.
*beams with satisfaction*
It seeks to cure what’s deep inside, frightened of this thing that you’ve become.
. . . aaaaand then the power went out.
Don’t even say that.
*hugs bidet for reassurance*
All my important electronics/electrical devices have UPSes attached to them.
Just sayin’.
I’ve got one. No idea why they haven’t caught on here in the US. Warm seat, warm water, warm blow dry. Nice! Anyways, if power goes out, I’m firing up the portable generator for my dumps – well worth it.
My wife is jealous of the thing because I like it so much.
Welcome to the first world.
Yeah. I was gonna say “Well, no shit” but if that was the case there wouldn’t be much of a point.
Apparently China is running an internal campaign to convince people that the US released the Coronavirus to attack the Chinese
Russia and Iran are jumping on that bandwagon too. Shocking, really.
China is asshole
^one important silver lining to come out of this whole thing is the world realizing this – maybe
What’s most important is that we don’t stigmatize the Chinese for slaughtering wild animals in open markets.
That would be lacist.
Bernie bots pick this narrative up in 3, 2, 1
Fuck the ChiComs.
I hope this is a wake up call for the world to stop being so dependent on them.
Oh my God. Who could have seen that coming?
Come for the Yellow Fever, stay for the Kung Flu.
http://archive.li/oDRDt
I needed this today.
Hate flash mobs, but enjoyed that for the music alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxxj4I4_2Ek
I’ll just leave this here. Audio nsfw.
Top quality pussy.
https://imgur.com/a/DgCnSzU
Russian blue? Does it fetch?
He actually does. If I throw his toy down the stairs, he’ll bring it back up.
I had a couple of them for about 20 years.
Try a large rubber band. He will make you shoot that thing until the skin wears off of your thumb.
Wife’s grandparents had a cat that would shoot rubber bands out of her hand. She’d stick it on one finger and the cat would pull the other end with its teeth.
Cool, I will do that.
Mine does that, but he has a small stuffed smiley emoji. We have to hide it before we go to bed or he’ll bounce on the bed in the middle of the night to play.
We had a cat that looked exactly like that one. He was great; only cat that I’ve ever had that wanted to go on walks with me.
Taken out by an owl or hawk, near as we can tell.
Yep, looks familiar.
I wish I wasn’t so allergic. Cats are cool.
You need this for you’re garage wall.
http://www.triumphspitfire.nl/brochurepics/1974_1500_us_05.jpg
Thank you!
I’ll be doing some body work this weekend. I got hit last fall by a chunk of metal and got a nice dent and gouge. Gotta clear out some rust.
goddam lingering cough.
I don’t like The Cranberries either.
?
IN my head I always hear “did you have to, did you have to, did you have to smell your finger”
You had me wrapped around your sphincter…
That works, too
Corona should send free cases of beer to anyone self quaranteening. Just saying.
But then you’d be stuck with Corona and Corona
Where is Corona going to get the beer?
From a horse?
China?
Eye candy.
What the hell did I ever do to you?
That looks like a dorm room. A very small dorm room.
You’re a bad man, a very bad man.
Bad, Bad Man.
Lol, Gary Coleman!
Q: In the spirit of UCS’s serial, would anybody be open to a serialization of a short story I already wrote and published?
TW: First person present tense.
Well hell yes.
⬆⬆
I can’t sanction present tense, but I’m sure people would gladly read it.
Did you finally start drinking?
Talented writer giving us stuff for free?
Gee, let me think…
It’s the one in Monsters & Mormons. Were you the one reading that?
Nope, but I can. Link?
You don’t have to.
Oh!!! It was l0b0t, but then his life crashed.
http://moriahjovan.com/talesofdunham/allow-me-to-introduce-myself/
I have it now!
of course, all are welcome…
/they let me in,
Well, my church just shut down all operations, including all worship services and activities.
Corona is there when three gather in its name.
Most of the churches around here already had streaming services – and that’s what most of them are doing exclusively this weekend.
Mine is still rolling for services, but they cancelled all extra stuff. And strongly suggested that oldsters worship remotely.
Which is smart.
Mine just announced no more services for 3 weeks.
The latest memo from my company regarding the Covid-19 virus states that “all employees are now required to enroll in the [company name] RAVE alert system (https://www.ravemobilesafety.com/).”
To enroll, you must agree to ravemobile’s (a 3rd party) terms of service and give them a bunch of personal information, including your cell phone number. The most onerous term is that, if I have a beef with the service, I have to duke it out in a court in Massachusetts.
Yes, I know I’m petty. I don’t like anything that’s mandatory or required. If this is required as part of continuing employment, are [company name] lawyers going to represent me in Massachusetts court?
Is this even legal?
Fuck off, slaver!
Do you have any other pre-existing phone tree set up that your manager can use to contact you?
Take care of your precious little angels.
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1237367948420902914
Well, they just cancelled the gun show which was the reason for the timing of my planned trip to the US. I’m probably going anyway since a raft of other reasons presented after planning this trip started. Bleah…
Our little league just cancelled the season.
Good lord. We have lost our minds.
Baseball is the perfect sport to play in this current scare. Outdoors, spread out. No fans to speak of. Everyone can easily stay 6 feet apart. And there are no old people involved.
But, yeah. Let’s cancel that.
Sheesh.