I can’t keep up.
I mean, other than primarily playing hall monitor, chauffeur and cook, I don’t have a lot to do these days. But the older I get, the faster the time flies by.
As a kid, we could bask in the sun all day.
Waiting for summer and the 4th of July seemed to take forever.
Life however, eventually speeds up and catches up with you.
We start reminiscing about when we were young.
But every cloud does have a silver lining.
A little Chet Baker for a slow, viral Saturday evening?
Someday our kids will go back to school, we will return to work, and families and friends will gather once again for birthdays, holidays, weddings and funerals.
We will see movies in theaters, get drunk in crowded bars, and scream recklessly in packed sports stadiums — droplets be damned.
And it won’t happen soon enough.
Also from the article:
However, shops and restaurants may be required to reduce the maximum number of people they serve at a time so customers can stay at a safe distance from one another.
Swann said we will probably live in a hybrid reality for several months — not quite lockdown conditions, yet not quite normalcy.
“We can expect some services to open, but not all,” she said. “We are entering a new world.”
Q. Are we going to be wearing masks for a long time?”
A. Absolutely,” Swann said. “It is possible that masks will become the new seat belts.”
The primary benefit of masks is not to protect the wearer from getting sick, but to keep asymptomatic people from accidentally passing on the disease.
“I think we will see a larger percentage of Americans wearing a mask even after the acute phase of this crisis,” she said.
Julie Swann can go fuck herself.
I would gladly take that over what we have now.
That water’s getting awful hot there, Kermit.
Noticed it was, what was done there.
This is how the Trump era will be remembered. First he made the masks come off, then he made them all come back on.
Winner.
Well done. Stealing this
I could see movie theaters going away.
But his campaign slogan — “Return to Normalcy” — could just as well have been adopted by Biden, the former vice president, who often says he’ll return the U.S. to the way White Houses operated before the “aberrant” Trump presidency.
I can’t wait for Solyndra 2.
Poor Joe needs things to return to Joe-normal so he can sniff hair.
Solynrda 2: Photoelectric Boogaloo.
Organizers of the Burning Man Project, the group that brings the annual arts and music festival to northern Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, made the announcement on its website and social media accounts.
The week-long event was scheduled for Aug. 30 through Sept. 7. It will now move online only, organizers said.
On-line only? WTF? You could probably just get an account on PornHub, post videos there, hang out there, and have the same experience for less money if you are going on-line only.
The PornHub version would probably be less weird and more entertaining, too.
It’s more weird when all the girls are stepsisters of all the guys.
“Weird tan lines in the age of coronavirus.”
Well, if you are white enough, and get enough of a tan, it will look like you are wearing a mask.
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So I can do that without shaving off the beard?
“Waiting for summer and the 4th of July seemed to take forever.”
It better be over by then.
In the Czech Republic, police in one town reportedly found 75 people violating rules by not covering their mouths in public. That included some sunbathers really enjoying their time out in nature. Police told these opportunistic nudists to cover up.
Sad.
Well, most nudists look better covered up.
It wasn’t about the masks.
“The Burning Man 2020 festival has been canceled — the latest large-scale event to fall victim to the coronavirus pandemic.
Organizers of the Burning Man Project, the group that brings the annual arts and music festival to northern Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, made the announcement on its website and social media accounts.
The week-long event was scheduled for Aug. 30 through Sept. 7. It will now move online only, organizers said.”
So months from now, literally in a desert, where people already wear masks.
If things aren’t relaxed by then, man is the economy ever fucked. And Trump’s re-election chances.
If all the voting is electronic, I won’t believe it either. I want to see purple ink and I want to see non partisan election judges.
I gotta agree. The democrats were waaaaay too quick to start demanding an all-mail-in or all-remote voting election. Like, about 48 hours in they started screaming that it was an attempt to steal the election if you didn’t let them move everything online or start having mail-in ballots now.
So you’re saying we shouldn’t relax things before then?
/Democrats
You know, when a bunch of hippies won’t flout the government, they’ve become the establishment.
But I repeat myself.
BLM land, so the event only proceeds with governmental blessing. Also, the BLM has been doing a real mafia imitation in dealing with the BM Org — our costs for “protecting” your event have gone up, so, youse needs to up the vig. Well, now they get to go without any of the water for their beaks.
Ohhhhhh, okay. That makes more sense, then.
No hapless farmer loaning out his farm without knowing what he was getting himself into.
“the latest large-scale event to fall victim to the coronavirus pandemic”
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics says ‘Hi!’
Last thread I’d asked if there was anyplace to look up the current decrees.
Does anyone know one? I honestly can’t keep track.
this?
That looks like it has the cower in place orders, but not the rest of it.
I’m not sure what the “rest of it” is but under each state they link to the actual orders and local coverage, I clicked a few and seems like the local coverage gives some decent breakdowns, just not all in one place.
The rest of it would be things like mask orders, close these businesses, those sorts of things.
You expect shit that is absolutely ad hoc to be organized into a coherent set of the new rules? Don’t you get it – the rules are what they say they are when they say they are, subject to change every nanosecond and retroactive on demand.
This is why I just DGAF. I’m not wearing a mask or gloves. I go where I want when I want. If I get stopped, my current plan is “I’m not answering any questions, contact my attorney.” and then give my neighbors name and number. While I’m “essential” the rules are changing too quickly to follow. I got yelled at Wednesday for walking into CVS to try and find toilet paper. “It’s senior only time and you don’t have a mask” “of the 30 signs on your front window, senior hours aren’t posted. Also, TX isn’t yet mask, also, do you have TP or not for crissakes?”
I would be ok dropping one odd custom (but not by law): handshake!! I hate the ritual handshaking and transmission of germs that might accompany that.
For its replacement, I vote for the chest bump.
Finger guns.
Ayyyyyyyyyyy!
Don’t let HM vote in this. I really don’t want that Japanese butt thing to be our standard greeting.
Jugsy would destroy you.
So would Hayek.
Handshaking in the US is already less common than in some other countries. Here you shake hands only when you meet a person for the first time. In Russia men shake hands every day they see each other.
Depends on the person, I have a few acquaintances that want to shake hands every time they see you. It’s a minority but they are out there, the freaks.
At least they can disinfect with vodka first.
Hey Grrizz, I sure hope our jesting about accents did not offend you last night. That was not my intent at all. Love the accent. My first overseas job I was in a camp with 300 Moldovan’s. The kitchen ladies laughed at me every time I said “Spasibo” when they gave me my food.
I met a few Moldovans at a fish processing plant and they refused to admit that they weren’t Russian until an actual Russian made fun of their accents. Which was weird because 99/100 people there didn’t know that Moldova was a country and most of those people were from countries that made Moldova looks like paradise.
I can’t identify a Moldovan accent, but I at least knew where the country is.
My only experience with folks from Moldova was that camp. Nice enough folks given the living conditions. I had quit smoking and then went to two packs a day and gave myself bronchitis. The Doc, just waved it off and said, “meh, everybody gets that, her take these”. It was interesting to say the least. We were all sick living in the mud. I came back with giardia from that one. Lost a bunch of weight I didn’t have to lose.
No big deal. Speaking with an accent is like having a speech defect. I’m aware of it even if nobody points it out.
No defect at all. Just different. I think this bunch here especially approves of different. I talk like a redneck and am well aware of it. Probably not noticeable during the happy hours because I am slurring my words.
In Soviet Russia, hands shake you!
No hugs?
Hey Girogy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4nk5mSz_2s
So glad that was what I thought it would be. I love that bit, in fact love every show on “3C-P One”.
Real men shake hands.
Don’t touch me with your hand fetish.
I thought of you yesterday. My neighbor was cleaning up his yard and his lawn tractor wouldn’t start. I wandered over to offer him mine for the job. He went to take off his work glove to shake my hand, pulled back and said, “oh yeah that’s right, we’re not supposed to shake”. I looked at him, smiled and said, “leave the glove on”.
No glove, no love.
Always be prepared.
Don’t you mean “. . . smiled softly and whispered ‘leave the glove on, you stud, you’ “?
No, no. This was more manly. Bareback Mountain stuff.
At least let him don his handshaking gloves first.
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Elbow tap or fist bump will be the new normal…..maybe. Ambivalent as to handshakes but a limp wrist is often revealing.
Is that avatar Allen Collins?
Here’s some advice from him.
Indeed!
Old people shake hands with friends often, mostly because we are surprised to see them still alive. Its always something like, “Do I feel cold to you?”
Not a chance I will do that. I’ll wave “Hi” or something first.
I am sticking to the Three Stooges double eye poke block.
I just exposed the almost-3 year old to the three stooges for the first time today. Most the humor was over her head, but she watched the whole episode without asking to turn it off, which means she liked it.
I predict everything will go back to normal and people will forget this ever happened.
It will probably be one of those things that goes on “weird historical events” lists.
You’re probably right; people seem to have short memories. They will also forget what’s changed, ie executive orders for citizens will be accepted as carrying legal authority.
I would agree, except for the needless recession/depression. That is going to be memorable.
You’re assuming things will come back to something similar to what we had a few months ago. This could drag on to the point that people forget we ever really had it so good.
As a nominal Catholic, I’ve always hated it. It was refreshing when I went to Germany and at Mass there they didn’t do the “share your germs by offering some sign of Christ’s peace” thing they do in the States.
Fist bump. Explosion optional.
“Second worker at Greeley meatpacking plant dies; Pence and Trump acknowledge outbreak at JBS
JBS CEO says cleaning, testing will happen this weekend”
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/coronavirus/second-worker-at-greeley-meatpacking-plant-dies-pence-and-trump-acknowledge-outbreak-at-jbs
“Hazleton meat-packaging plant closes with 130 workers testing positive for COVID-19. Union leader at Souderton plant died last Friday.”
https://www.inquirer.com/business/meat-plants-pennsylvania-cargill-jbs-souderton-covid-20200409.html
“Hundreds of U.S. Meat Workers Have Now Tested Positive for Virus”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-10/worsening-outbreak-at-colorado-meat-plant-impacts-as-many-as-300
Awesome.
The food riots can’t be far behind now, can they?
Not to worry; the government will deliver your rations as scheduled.
Hmm. We notice your cholesterol is higher than normal. We have put you on a special diet. Bon appetit, comrade.
If they decide to interrupt the meat supplies due to possible covid exposure, i will be very pissed. Just cook your meat people! No virus can stand up against 30 minutes at 425 degrees.
But of course that won’t mean anything if it comes to that, we can’t take the chance that someone out there might be stupid.
That would be a problem.
This has been my wife’s biggest fear. Now that we finally have enough toilet paper and paper towels, she’s convinced that a meat interruption is coming. Maybe she’s been hearing about these meatpackers infections, I have no idea where she had been getting her paranoia until seeing this.
Have you assured her that you’re well-stocked on viagra?
What? You telling me my special Kirkland ground beef tartare is off the menu now!
*mumbles*
I may have mentioned cooking meat well done before….a time or two
+ ketchup?
“I lost all my garden seeds in a boating accident.”
https://twitter.com/XChowder007X/status/1248815655928856577
glib?
No one needs fresh veggies, just eat the canned stuff.
/sarc
Fake news! Add a few months to that idiots.
‘Coronavirus: China’s first confirmed Covid-19 case traced back to November 17
•Government records suggest first person infected with new disease may have been a Hubei resident aged 55, but ‘patient zero’ has yet to be confirmed
•Documents seen by the Post could help scientists track the spread of the disease and perhaps determine its source’
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074991/coronavirus-chinas-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-traced-back
Bullshit.
When think started?
Confirmed case. How many cases, let alone asymptomatic carriers, were out there before that was identified?
First, SLD about ‘facts’ from China
Second, ‘There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.’ — Donald Rumsfeld
Donald RumsfeldGin RummyThat the virus in NYC apparently came via Europe is a pretty good indicator that it was traveling at least by the time of that first confirmed case.
Those great European healthcare systems have for the most part been less efficacious than our ‘system’. Same with the govts.
today’s fun fact: psychedelic comes from Greek words that mean mind-revealing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8
Psychedelic
+ some melty clocks
Are yall still doing Zoom happy hour tonight?
Yes, though like last night I’ll only sort-of be participating as I have stuff to do for work.
We are, start time at 20:00 Eastern. Link here. In honor of my lost Viva weekend, I’ve got a bowling shirt picked out.
Thanks!
Bear #4 sighted!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gruDq0hFsmU
RUN!
It’s great that you’re doing these sessions.
I started to jump on my my audio copped out. Have fun.
Nothing ever happened.
No problem, not real social anyway.
I keep hearing so many conflicting ‘facts’ about the commie cough and it sure has been a convenient pretense for statists. I dont believe a goddamned word of any of it.
It’s like a commie commie commie chameleon.
It comes and goes, it comes and goes.
[polite applause]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw
chameleon means ground lion in Greek
Do you really want to hurt me?
I read an NPR article this morning that stated they are counting people with symptoms as actual cases and deaths “that may be associated with” as deaths by with out positive test results. I imagine many of the deaths are deaths with Covid, not because of Covid. In CO at least, I am not buying their numbers. Polis is a commi through and through and is loving this.
I’ve got a lot of bones to pick with Polis, but his barely contained power boner is disgusting.
That’s the frustrating part, Suthenboy. They don’t know anything for certain, but they certainly know they need to curtail our freedoms.
98% of those who get infected recover. Around half of those infected have mild or no symptoms at all. If only some super genius could look that the common traits among the other 2%, we could know who should be extra careful and who could carry on as normal.
Hmm, yes. And perhaps by systematically testing ideas about disease, we could even learn about to cure and prevent it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ
By the time that happens this thing will have burned itself out. Next year some Chinese moron will eat a raw monkey’s asshole and give us all a whole new form of cooties.
Another tidbit I haven’t heard mentioned is that the flu that gets going every year also comes from China…chicken farms.
I vaguely remember seeing a photo of a Chinese chicken farm working crouched in the mud next to a horrible mud hole plucking chickens and dipping them. in the muddy water to ‘rinse’ them off. The country is a shithole….literally.
I forget which regular here said it, but the point was that India is very similar to China when it comes to population and peasant habits, yet there are very few disease outbreaks from there.
I heard a report on the radio that the bat the virus comes from lives 500 some miles from Wuhan. There’s a video of Chinese researchers handling and warning each other to be careful. I couldn’t find that video, but I did find this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEARtTBHXEw
“India is very similar to China when it comes to population and peasant habits”
I’ve mentioned this a few times. I know there is a difference between the two in that China slaughters these animals in the open with people walking by in very close proximity but India has a few billion feral animals – from cattle to rats – which pretty much have free reign of the country so I’m not sure which is a bigger problem.
Bleagh. That would make me go vegetarian.
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Remember when the Chinese government ran an ad campaign before the Beijing Olympics to get people to stop hawking loogies and blowing snot rockets in the street? And inside public places? And busses and trains? And had to have the equivalent of traffic cops giving tickets to people for shit like that?
I went to China and Tibet in the summer of 2007 as a college graduation present to myself. Beijing has bad air pollution, but otherwise the country seemed nice. There were more smokers than the US and more people spitting on the side walk, etc. It didn’t bother me because I had just spent the last 4 years walking around vomit piles from drunks every day Monday at Bovine University.
When I first went to China in 1988 all the infants and toddlers didn’t have diapers. They all wore crotchless trousers so they could squat – or be held with their backsides protruding – and dump/pee in the street. I can’t say when that was stopped or if it might still be going on in the hinterlands.
Circa 2000, I was living in Queens and witnessed this on Main St. in Flushing (bigger Chinatown than the one in Manhattan). Old habits die hard.
Maybe the town name (Flushing) wasn’t translated to them as intended?
Ralph Wiggum confirmed.
“…snot rockets…”
Around here they are known as “Farmer Brown”
You put your fingers on your nose in a pinch position, lean over, blow like hell and then pinch it off. If you are really good you sling it off backhandedly and hit the target of. your choosing out to ten feet.
Fond childhood memories…..
Dat wasist
At the beginning of a China trip (work), I try to eat as “normally” as possible. By the end of the trip I’m often about 80% of the way to rice and beer only.
Too sick?
Interesting. Regular flu leading (not #1) causes death. Citation Chinese chicken responsible?
learn about how to cure, that is
damn you, Shiner Bock! You taste delicious but make me stupid!
We had Growler of that last night. It is so delicious.
Just you wait for the Shiner Shits….
I don’t think it’s the beer making you stupid. :-p
More like 99.7%
Silicone Saturday don’t give a fuck.
http://archive.li/9RP7z
I really like #4
Despite the number of RealDolls, I really like this gallery.
20, 21, 22, nice streak going.
“Antibody tests are coming online. Never before have humans needed to understand Bayes rule more. Let’s talk about why it’s critical NOT to assume you are immune to covid-19 when you have a positive antibody test. Seriously, people need to understand this to prevent many deaths.”
https://twitter.com/taaltree/status/1248467732774785024
“Say a test has a 95% specificity rate. 95% of people who are neg test neg. 5% test positive. For a rare condition, occurring say in 1 out of 100, you test everybody. 1 true positive tests positive. ~5 in 99 true neg also test positive. Ergo. Only 1/6 positive tests are a true pos”
https://twitter.com/amykatherine/status/1248787138704887808
is that true? i thought the failures were generally false negative.
I think that is true of the virus test. This person is talking about an antibody test.
“Seriously, people need to understand this to prevent many deaths.”
People will die?
And if 30%, 50%, 70% of people are actually positive? What’s the false positive rate in that population?
According to the thread, the false positive rate goes down as the number of actually positive goes up.
“Stop wearing face masks. #coronavirus”
https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1235083668336431104
CWAA
Must’ve ran across one of these
OK. Which of you is this?
https://mobile.twitter.com/holbornlolz/status/1248567385130401792
NSFW?
Crack?
K2 or maybe PCP would be my best guess.
That’s Beto O’Rourke, isn’t it?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVPwCKsU8AEMDKm.jpg
5G protesters sabotage Dutch phone towers
When will the 5g terror stop!?
When they roll out 6g?
If they’re Huawei I say go for it.
Huawei is asshole:
https://nationalpost.com/news/exclusive-did-huawei-bring-down-nortel-corporate-espionage-theft-and-the-parallel-rise-and-fall-of-two-telecom-giants
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-trump-is-right-to-take-on-china-but-canada-shouldnt-extradite-meng
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/nj-hospital-tries-experimental-placenta-therapy-on-critically-ill-coronavirus-patient.html
Huh. Stem cells?
Ooh, the anti-abortionists are going to freak out over this even if it has nothing to do with abortion.
I’ve been trying to avoid writing virus themed stories, but it’s been hard.
Grim Reaper Annoyed by Upstart Virus
Nation Returns to Normal After Alex Jones Says Virus Cures Autism
Scooby Doo Gang Unmask Virus to Reveal Captain Planet
Americans Retaliate on Chinese by Eating Animal-Style Burgers
Virus Pandemic Ends Suddenly After it Mentions Having Dirt on Hillary Clinton
I vote for the last one:) lol
So let it be written; so let it be done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOnjKPcxw0c
?♨️
Lacking Content, ESPN To Promote Competitive Social Distancing
Professional Social Distancing League Cancelled Due to Lack of Tryouts
“However, before they can feel confident that a drop has truly occurred, testing capacity must increase dramatically.”
The more we test. The more cases we find. The longer we wield absolute power.
Fear! Doom! No one is safe!!!!!!!
I just went to pick up food and growler from local pub. Half dozen folks sitting in lawn chairs in the parking lot between their cars having a gay old time.
I drove a very busy local coffee shop today, restored a little of my faith in humanity.
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Thanks!
My motherfucking car just got stolen. Right in front of my fucking house. It was there this morning. The kid got hurt and his friend knocked and asked me to go check on him, I went out to see and my car was gone. It was a bitchin Trailblazer SS with a 12k motor in it. Goddamn this fucking virus bullshit.
Damn that sucks dude.
What?!? Good Lord. Sorry, d00d. Hopefully the po-po can actually earn their paycheque for you this time.
I have full coverage, but it ain’t gonna pay for my motor upgrade, plus, I had a checkbook and my ID package that I use for work (birth certificate and SS card) in it. Hassling with the bank right now. Already verified that it wasn’t impounded. So pissed!
Holy shit. Thieves are the worst sort of people. Right there with socialists but I repeat myself.
Sorry 🙁
Damn, that fucking blows. I’ve had my vehicle stolen before, twice actually, got it back both times minus the stereo and a few parts. Hope it didn’t go to a chop shop, but that is likely where it is now. Sucks.
Dude, that’s horrible. Happened once to me, no $12k motor though.
Same deal on the personal docs too. It was dumb, but they were in there for a new job.
That fucking sucks dick. Is your kid okay?
Yeah, he just fell and his friend freaked out. He missed out on his extra dose of concerned parent, though. I’m so pissed. I just checked bluebook and I’m going to get reamed by about 10k or better, aside from the motor.
Know how you feel. Glad he’s okay.
Yeah, thanks for asking about the kid. that’s what is important. Should have made that clear. Just a little worked up.
Dude… that sucks!
Sorry.
Oh, man, I am so sorry!
Gah, that sucks. I had a car stolen ages ago. Went out to where I parked it and found a pile of glass. Cops found it stripped down in Compton a few months later.
If you get it back or for the next one:
https://www.lojack.com/products/stolen-vehicle-recovery-classics/
you need a trunk monkey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW8iAVwt_Yc
Shit. Sorry man.
Ouch. That sucks, sorry.
I’m late as usual but just wanted to add my condolences. Dayum…
Many months my ass. Fuck that asshole. Good luck enforcing that.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/gov-dewine-to-msnbc-until-we-get-a-vaccinethings-are-not-going-to-be-totally-normal
Fuck.
I can’t even…
I suspect that percentage will drop substantially once everyone realizes just how much structural unemployment will arise from this state of affairs. As I said to one of my cousins who thought that our governments had no choice but to do what they did, “You think COVID’s death rate is high? Wait’ll you see the food riots.”
Yeap. The rural areas that have zero or a only a few deaths from this in 6 weeks aren’t going to put up with past end of month. Shits going to get ugly.
But will it? There is a large percentage of people who are happy to go on unemployment and sit at home especially if it means more money than working. This is really turning into a colossal shit show.
I was playing some board games online with some friends earlier, and the conversation about the cower in place order came up. One friend was of a like mind with most of us. The economic damage will be worse then the disease, and we would be better suited helping those who are susceptible to the disease to isolate. The other friend… sweet cheebus. Said that the death toll is going up, the real number of COVID deaths aren’t being counted because, “Only people who have had a positive test are being counted as Coronavirus deaths”, and that wanting schools and businesses to reopen isn’t fair to those who are high risk.
“you tel Bill I said suck MY Dick. Have a coke and a smile and shut the fuck up, motherfucker!”
-Eddie Murphy as Richard Pryor
That friend of yours should absolutely quarantine themself for as long as they feel it is necessary. The rest of us need to live our lives as we see fit.
What’s the polling on rounding up Jews, circa late Weimar Germany?
The poll question was “Do you support eliminating the Coronavirus, or do you want to die?”
Ask me again next week.
“Until you replace me with someone more liberty-minded and/or my power-boner goes away, things are not going to be totally normal….”
Alien Progenitors of Humanity Reveal Pandemic Was Just a Prank
“Are you scared? Well, you should be. You’re on Scare Tactics!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h9NNKG_tNE
“Coronavirus ‘could be spreading across the globe through farts’ claim doctors
Doctors have made the foul discovery that farting could spread the Covid-19 disease – unless infected people wear pants which can protect this from happening”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/coronavirus-can-spread-through-farts-21852204
Just keep your face out of other peoples’ asses and you’ll be fine. Sorry HM, you may need to find a new kink.
Let OMWC know.
Next they will be ordering us to wear our underwear on the outside of our clothes.
That Time It Rained for Two Million Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1LdMWlNYS4
Wasn’t there some sci fi author who wrote about a world that had hurricane force winds 24/7?
Interesting. Citation?
I want to say it was the guy who wrote Day of the Triffids, but I’m not sure.
Thanks.
Ray Bradbury in All Summer in a Day?
Still remember watching the adaptation on Wonderworks
https://youtu.be/iz05RhA9Cyw
Good, but that’s not it.
I thought of that one too.
Larry Niven, Known Space stories/novels. Can’t remember the name of the planet (mebbe Wunderland?), but multi-thousand-mile-an-hour winds that scoured the planet’s surface for a good portion of its year. It was chosen to be colonized by a bit of really bad luck — the remote probe that landed there just happened to land during the “non-windy” season, and reported back that everything was hunky-dory. The colonists, arriving years/decades later, were perturbed, to say the least.
I think you’re right about it being the Known Space series, but not the planet. Wunderland was kind-of Earth-like. There was a planet where the colonists lived underground, and I think that was the planet with the high winds. I can’t remember the name of the planet.
From Wiki-
“We Made It”, orbiting Procyon A, got its name because the first colony ship crash-landed. Gravity is about three-fifths Earth’s. The planet’s axis is pointed along the plane of its ecliptic (like Uranus), creating ferocious winds on the order of 500 mph (800 km/h)[2] during half of the planet’s year, forcing the people to live underground. Natives are known as “Crashlanders”, tend to be very tall, and many are albinos. Their capital, which was the site of their colony ship’s landing, is called Crashlanding City. We Made It also has viscous, algae-choked “oceans” and a big icy moon, ironically named Desert Isle.
Looks like “We Made It” was right
lol
You know you can’t smile without me.
Huh, like Pitch Black, but with wind instead of monsters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luuYRrPaEpM
This?
Bingo! Promote this man!^
I’m not a very good promoter, people don’t buy what I’m selling very much.
Hey all!
Glibs Zoom meeting hosted by Nephilium is on right now!
Link:
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Still doesn’t work for me
Bearded, we’re still going:
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Is there a safe area around St Louis where one can stop for an overnight and not fret?
While you should avoid nearly all of it, East St. Louis is right out. Mojo would likely be the person to ask, WRT a ‘safe harbor’
I’m trying to plot a route to Vegas, it’s eight hours to Cleveland, then eight hours again puts me near St Louis.
Though I could go nine hours to Columbus, and ten to Kansas City.
I’m not crazy about going past eight hours driving on a vacation day.
Similar in KC avoid the east side of KCMO, however the suburbs east, north and west of city are all ok. I assume you’ll be going west on I-70. In which case if suggest you stay near the racetrack on on the Kansas City, Kansas side. There’s shopping, a casino, a race track and a MLS stadium so plenty to do and several hotels.
Yeah, I’d say an extra hour to Columbia, MO is a much safer bet.
Avoid the east side. Any suburbs west of the city are ok.
Avoid the Dreary Hotel.
My friends live in St Charles. Stay on along I70 anywhere west of the river and you should be fine.
stay at the Westin and take in a game at Busch Stadium
How’s Memphis?
I make an effort to not get off the freeway when I drive through West Memphis.
Is the east side any better?
I’ve only gone north/south on I55. South Memphis near the border with Mississippi looks nice enough at 65 mph down the freeway.
UCS in St Louis
I have a little more sense than Griswald.
Still funny, tho.
Clark was remiss in not wearing his driving gloves anyhow.
While I am not a fan of Memphis (sorry Don), the transition as you cross over into Arkansas is one of those N. Korea/S. Korea border moments. Memphis for all its flaws is lighted and teaming with life, Arkansas is not.
the Peabody is a blast and you can walk to the river and the Rendezvous
and take in a Redbirds game in the best AAA park in the nation
any your beer is on me
You say that because you know I’m not a beer fan.
It looks like the weekend before Thanksgiving I should be in Central Ohio, and the weekend after I’ll be in the Vegas/Arizona area.
On the draft itenery it’s Home -> Columbus -> Memphis -> Dallas -> Roswell -> Vegas -> back towards home along an undefined route.
You’re going through Roswell to Vegas? Just clear through?
I’m not sure.
I recommend it. See the alien museum and clear out of New Mexico.
Avoid the city, keep going west for 20 miles to the outer burbs of STL county. No worries.
Well, our governor has updated CoVID reporting: Coronavirus: Explaining the new way Ohio is reporting numbers
“The other cases involve those where there is no test at all, but a strong suspicion a person is COVID-19 positive. A person will be counted if there is “clinical evidence and epidemiological evidence of COVID-19 when there is no other likely diagnosis,” the governor said. For example, the governor said, if there is a person in a nursing home showing symptoms of COVID-19 and others in the nursing home have tested positive for the virus, that case may be considered a probable case.”
Sounds perfectly cromulent.
Never mind the various other diseases that Covid-19 mimics.
They gotta keep those numbers up….SHUT UP COVID-TARD!
Like the body counts in Viet Nam.
Oh, sure. Just got back from the ER with my son who has a dry cough, shortness of breath, and low-grade fever. With the exact diagnosis you described above, I’m sure he will be counted in NJ (quote from the ER doc: “Assumed positive”). And discharge instructions to take Tylenol and Vitamin C, self-isolate for 14 days, and wipe down all our household surfaces with bleach (because he hasn’t been touching anything for the last two weeks). I can’t even.
Especially because they *want* young people to be diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus so they can propagandize that it doesn’t just infect old farts.
Seriously, hope the kid gets well soon.
Thanks, I think he’ll be fine. It’s the uncertainty due to lack of testing that is the concern – my wife and I are both “at-risk” (wife: asthma, 2x breast cancer survivor, self: 67 years old, COPD, sleep apnea, prior major lung surgery, pipe smoker) and would REALLY like to know if we’ve been exposed. Trying to set up an appointment for him tomorrow at a local urgent care facility which actually does the testing. ER was completely useless.
Why do you hate those ER heroes?
Should have taken a picture. Fucking “Heroes” signs lined up all along the driveway right to the door. STOP GETTING ME AGITATED!!!!
Welcome to our brave new world, where doing your regular job is heroic and the police can pull you over for leaving your house.
I hope your son gets well soon.
Thanks.
I’m thinking a lot of you would like this.
They started off so well and had to ruin it with whisky.
Sic semper tyrannis.
MN’s brave governor
Walz enlisted in the Army National Guard in 1981, and served over a 24-year career. In 1989, he earned the title of Nebraska Citizen-Soldier of the Year. After a deployment to Italy with his Guard unit, Walz was conditionally promoted to Command Sergeant Major. Walz chose to retire before his most recent six year enlistment was complete when his unit received orders to deploy to Iraq
In the real army that would be called AWOL. A pimple on a pfc’s ass. In addition he’s a carpet bagger. Like VP Cheney with all his VN deferments “I had better things to do”
https://mobile.twitter.com/DickDelingpole/status/1248880610963316736
My wife and daughter both have PMS at the same time. Help me.
Have you considered murdering them? Or perhaps just a slight beating if that’s not your bag?
If the hotels weren’t closed I’d be considering staying elsewhere for a few days.
ZARDOZ approves (the first one, anyway).
He corrected her, sir. And when his wife tried to prevent him from doing his duty he… corrected her.
Wifey has the Cabin Fever real bad. She’s a social creature and this is hitting her hard. She can visit the horses but can’t enter the house to see Daughter#1 and Grandkids. Grandboy #3 had his birthday last week and she couldn’t hug him. She’s driving herself nuts. Myself on the other hand have not deviated from my routine which also pisses her off. I was self-isolating before it was cool, Man. She was in tears today. Pray for Judi and Festus.
I told my wife the other day how much I appreciated being quarantined with someone whose company I really enjoy. She said, “Must be nice.”
Shoulda went with “B!”
Ba-dum-tish!
LOL
Three teen Daughters and a Wife ovulating in sync is one of the circles of Hell. I feel your pain, JB.
I’m getting increasingly annoyed at everyone over the reaction to COVID-19. Yes. I think the social distancing measures are probably necessary. I’m fine with things like stores enforcing social distancing. I’m fine with things like stores telling people to wear masks. I’m fine with things like schools being closed and sports leagues being shut down. I’m fine with people staying home voluntarily, because we should be doing that right now. I think it’s a really good thing that people who can work remotely are working remotely (I hope that lasts forever, by the way.)
I’m not fine with the rest of this, this bullshit indefinite SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING. thing we have going on right now. Because according to some people I think they think we’re going to be in this scenario into 2022.
Also, I’m about 85% sure I had COVID-19 in January. I got sick right after coming home from visiting family for Christmas, spending time in the Atlanta airport in the process. I had never been that sick in my life. I had a terrible cough for nearly 4 weeks. For about a week of that I was constantly out of breath. It sucked. We need antibody testing ASAP.
A guy I work with swears up and down he had it, he was coughing and wheezing for a good six weeks but he never got that sick but it damn near killed his wife and they both tested negative for the flu (this was back in a January). It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s been making the rounds here in the US for longer than we thought.
Life speeds up.
https://youtu.be/TX-EV_plerM
Don’t you know? Don’t you know?
https://youtu.be/8V7-5UUwyVQ
Something appropriate for our current predicament.
Great song.
See them if you ever have the chance.
I would love to, but for some reason my insane wife hates them. That woman has poor taste!
https://www.songkick.com/festivals/3302844-cruel-world-fest/id/39476801-cruel-world-fest-2020#lineup
Let’s go to this.
I’m good with that, except for one thing. FUCK the Violent Femmes.
You’re wrong, but ok.
Seems unlikely since it would be the first time.
Also appropriate: Tangled (2010)
Female protagonist indoors whole life, about to turn 18. Lied to by authority how dangerous outside. Runs away with male just met to see herself cause of annual flying lights. Chased by mother-figure, law enforcement, and by some crooks after the male.
Tangled (2010) takes place in the kingdom of … Corona
B-side? I didn’t know this one.
No, I have that track on two different albums.
I see it on a collection and on a remaster with extra tracks. I don’t have any of that.
Apparently it is literally a B side. Looking at the albums I have, both appearances are on collections. Sorry for the misdirection.
Yeah I guessed it from the cover shown at Tundra’s link 🙂
Almost With You is up there with my favorite Church tunes.
Blurred Crusade extra track.
I was at a sound check a couple years ago and they did that song. Excellent.
http://archive.li/W5jFF/7f342867b2e15e77e79d2943551919ca83ced674.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/qTh7N/c0fed6de4e988ad41d94c37f663263d6904b74ff.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/WMABj/3a26c5f1fd558922643c8e69ab9b143aa3de2fab.jpg
NSFW.
Hello, Q Continuum
Hello, Q Continuum
“Squirrel!” — talking dog
I’ll take #1 as my punishment. A self-flagellation if you will..
Well, I’m investigating Onstar to see if they track vehicles after the subscription is cancelled. I have driven all the neighborhood in about a 1 mile radius (that’s a lot of driving!) The cops say that thieves leave the vehicle nearby for a day or two to verify that it’s not gps tracked. I put an ad up on craigslist looking for a rear door in black and claimed to be from a different area. Tomorrow, Imma call Onstar and see if they can find it. Still in shock that this happened. Noon on a Saturday, right at the curb in front of my house. Fucking crazy.
Can you subscribe to OnStar right now?
Dunno, but I’m going to try. I have accidentally pushed the button and gotten a dial tone and then answered by them, so maybe they can track it.
Offer a reward. Not for the car, for the thieves.
$10K for the name of the thief and his fence.