Back in March, in the window of two weeks, my husband lost his job, and my web design business closed. So now, here I am, waiting tables during what is probably the absolute worst time to be a waitress. Especially a waitress in a left-wing college town in New-fucking-York.
My exposure to sane people is so limited that I asked SP (also known as Mom) if I could come on here and write this post because, frankly, I need to vent to people who won’t look at me as if I’m out of my mind.
•••
As of this writing, there have been fewer than 100 cases in the entire county since this whole fucking shit show started, yet the rules that we have to abide by were put in place by people who seem to have forgotten that New York City is not the only part of this state.
And because this town is a liberal haven, everybody here (apart from a few notable exceptions) believes:
- Governor Cuomo has our best interests at heart, and has no ulterior motive.
- The reason we haven’t been hit hard by this horribly scary virus is because of the rules the Governor put in place.
The rules vary from county to county, but so far as I can tell the variations have nothing to do with facts.
We currently have to:
Require customers to wear masks at all times unless the customer is eating or drinking.
If a customer won’t comply, we’re supposed to throw them out. The health department is sending spies in to make sure we actually do this.
The business was fined $500 for an elderly woman who went to the restroom and didn’t wear a mask while she was walking from her table to the restroom. There were no tables or customers between her table and the restroom. Furthermore, it was a slow period, and the single waitress who was working that shift was in the kitchen and doing dishes, so she didn’t witness this.
The health department spy witnessed the only other person in the dining room walk 20 feet to the restroom without a mask on, and also witnessed the waitress wasn’t in the dining room, and yet they still fined us $500 for not enforcing the mask rule.
I am sure you can imagine how furious I was when I learned this happened.
Customers are fucking furious about the mask rules, and I don’t blame them. The next county over, which has had 3x as many cases, does not require customers to wear masks at all times. I spend an inordinate amount of time telling customers they have to put their mask on when I’m at the table.
My spiel now goes something like this, “Look, I know this is stupid, and if it were up to me, we wouldn’t wear talismasks at all, but the health department insists, and we can get in seriously big trouble if we don’t enforce it.”
A few customers have been good natured about it, but most of them take it out on me and punish me for enforcing the policy that I will get fired for not enforcing. I am now lucky if I make more than 10% per night in tips. Combined with my hourly wage of $7.85, it’s not nearly enough.
Wear masks at all times while on shift, including in the kitchen with the industrial hood.
This is the one that pisses me off more than anything else. I have asthma. I am exempt from the mask policy everywhere else, but I have to wear the fucking thing at work because it’s a restaurant, and I work with customers. The health department requires it, and will punish my employers if I don’t wear the mask.
As a result, I try to go outside when I can and breathe some fresh air, but the restaurant has become such an unhealthy and toxic place to work (partly because of this bullshit; partly because of the owner’s reaction to this bullshit) that we are short-staffed. At least a couple days a week I am stuck there with just one cook, and I have to run the entire dining room and patio, takeout, cash register, phone, and dishes. I don’t have time to take a sip of water let alone go outside and breathe fresh air.
Block off every other table to ensure 6′ of social distancing is met.
This is supposed to be a state-wide regulation, but it’s mysteriously enforced in this county but not the next one over. This applies to the outside seating, as well, so we removed 50% of our outdoor tables, roped off every other table in the dining room.
Now the town itself is trying to enforce a 12′ radius around each table, and if that happens, the owner said he’ll just have to close permanently.
And on the topic of social distancing, we’re supposed to make sure every single customer standing in line to pay is at least 6′ apart unless they’re from the same household.
Well, it’s a college town. College kids come in with their friends. How the hell are we supposed to know if they are housemates? Furthermore, why is it OK for them to eat together, but they can’t stand next to each other in line?
Sanitize each menu every single time it is touched.
Like a lot of diners, we have paper menus shoved inside plastic menu covers. Every. Single. Time. a menu is touched we are supposed to sanitize it. But the plastic covers aren’t waterproof, so the paper menus get soggy, and then guess what? They get moldy. You would not believe how moldy and nasty our menus get, and yet the health department says that’s OK because we’re killing the virus. What???
How the fuck is it acceptable to hand a MOLDY menu to a customer??
I throw away and replace probably 30-50 menus per week, which is an expense that we can’t really afford. Pre-pandemic we would replace the menus 3x per year.
Throw out anything disposable that goes to a customer table even if the customer doesn’t touch it.
This is equally obnoxious. We are allowed to use ketchup and mustard bottles so long as we sanitize them after each use, but we aren’t allowed to use syrup bottles even if we do sanitize them. We’re not allowed to use salt and pepper shakers or sugar shakers. We’re not allowed to use creamer pitchers. But we can use ketchup and mustard bottles?
So we have these stupid packets that we have to give out when someone wants syrup, salt and pepper, sugar, or creamer. We’ll put a few creamer packets on the table when we serve coffee. If the customer uses one of the three, we have to throw away the other two — even if the customer didn’t touch them! — because they were at a customer’s table, and the customer might have COVID.
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Last week I told the owner that I was really upset that customers are abusing us and not tipping.
Apparently a) it’s in my head and I’m over-reacting, and b) I’m not making money because I only want to work five days a week and not seven.
Unfortunately, this appears to be normal in this region.
All the servers around here know each other. They all are saying the same thing.
Retaurants are short staffed. Each server is trying to cover multiple stations per shift. Owners are acting like tyrants because they’re so afraid of the health department and Cuomo’s task force. Waste for non-perishable goods is through the roof, and customers who are pissed about the rules punish the servers by withholding tips.
And yet — and this is what I am especially angry about — this is all for “the public good.”
When I express my outrage, I am treated as if I am the problem. I am so fucking tired of being told that I don’t care about people. I do care — more than I want to.
That’s really the reason why I get so upset. People are not only blind to the manipulation that’s happening on a grand scale, they are willing participants.
Someone said to me the other day, “If the virus wasn’t so deadly, why would they require masks? Why would they possibly want to scare us?”
Because a fearful populous is easier to manipulate, that’s why. Wake the fuck up.
If I weren’t already a libertarian, I surely would’ve become one this year.
I’m unfortunately here all week. Don’t forget to tip your waitress!
“Back in March, in the window of two weeks, my husband lost his job, and my web design business closed. So now, here I am, waiting tables during what is probably the absolute worst time to be a waitress. Especially a waitress in a left-wing college town in New-fucking-York.”
Yikes! Sorry. I hope you get your web business back.
Thanks. My clients all lost their businesses, so there went mine.
Apparently websites are a luxury item now.
Was it because they couldn’t work as dommes because of covid? How would the government even know?
Easy, that’s how one get’s punished!
Amazing. And I’m sitting here dealing with a so-called web developer who doesn’t know how to bind the correct TLS certificate to the correct site in IIS8.
I shouldn’t complain (he’s certainly keeping my ass employed) but still, holy shit.
Sorry, WD. It’s not much, but I hope things get better.
…That’s seriously a 10 minute job…
Thanks. It will eventually. I just gotta figure out wtf to do about it. Maybe I need to startup another web design gig with a different business model. I need to not be out in public anymore.
Well, that’s what we’re here for.
“As a result, I try to go outside when I can and breathe some fresh air, but the restaurant has become such an unhealthy and toxic place to work (partly because of this bullshit; partly because of the owner’s reaction to this bullshit) that we are short-staffed. ”
I’m surprised with so many places closed you don’t have a line of people trying to work there.
Did New York decide to continue the Unemployment + $x payments? Ohio went with a $300 “bonus” for unemployment continuing (and I believe they’re back paying it for the time between the $600 federal expiration and now).
Yes, but NY computes unemployment based on the number of days you work for one hour or more. I’m working less than 20hrs a week, but because those hours are spread out among 5 days, I don’t qualify for any UI money. We’re hoping my husband will qualify.
And yes, you’d think there would be people who want to work, and we’ve hired a bunch, but people quit shortly thereafter because they don’t have the mental strength to deal with the increased bullshit *and* making no money. If I were at least making money, I could stomach the bullshit.
One of the waitresses was making $1200/wk before the shutdown. She’s now making $300 or less.
I assume most of that $1200 is from tips, which Governor Human Filth wants to get rid of despite the competent waiters repeatedly telling him they want to be tipped workers?
Yep. When people aren’t angry about the pandemic bullshit, being a competent server in this area is a phenomenally good job. The servers at my husband’s restaurant were making $300 a night in tips.
That’s insane.
I was more suggesting it as a reason for being short staffed
Ooooh. Well, that was a problem at first, but then the UI ended and NY only got the final go ahead for the $300/wk today. Everybody who was on the $600/wk UI came back to work because they assumed that they’d make more in tips than the hypothetical $300/wk in extra benefits.
“We are allowed to use ketchup and mustard bottles so long as we sanitize them after each use, but we aren’t allowed to use syrup bottles even if we do sanitize them. We’re not allowed to use salt and pepper shakers or sugar shakers. We’re not allowed to use creamer pitchers. But we can use ketchup and mustard bottles?”
SCIENCE!!
Science and logic have long since gone out the window.
I need to vent to people who won’t look at me as if I’m out of my mind.
Well, we will look at you as if you are out of your mind, but not because of this. 😉
Appreciated.
Well, fuckshit. Or shitfuck, anyway.I tried to get in touch with SP, but it looks like that’s non-negotiable. If I’m persona non grata here, all I ask is for a FYI regarding that, so I won’t have to waste my time.
What are you talking about?
Have you checked your email? Like in the past week?
Every day. Even spam after someone else got caught in there.
So, you’re saying I should go take another look? Just as an FYI, I get literally 100+ emails per day for various reasons. Sometimes things can fall off the first page and get buried before I know it.
*backs away from Baked Penguin to avoid lightning*
Lightning
Lightning
Lightning
That thing you guys are doing, you have to stop doing it.
Nope, sorry –
Dammit Ride the Lightning
Ted’S made me do it.
Please tell us this means there’s another edition of “Secret Nazi President” coming up.
That was my first thought. Maybe Penguin spoke of George Soros in it?
Someone needs a Snickers.
What are you talking about BP? You didn’t get the banhammer.
Ted, thx for the backhanded compliment, and “yes”. Also, I actually like some music you listen to.
Sean, don’t we all at some point?
Chafed – apparently not, I just apparently have issues sending attchmnts to the right address.
SP – I will resend.
I *like* Secret Nazi President. That wasn’t meant as a backhanded compliment.
SNP??
Yes to SNP!
Ted – (egould310, too) I didn’t mean to imply anything derogatory. I’ll try to keep it up, and to a standard.
You will produce more SNP. NOW! Let us worry about standards. 🙂
Bwahahahaaa!
(Close enough)
I just want to see the Russian chick call Becky, Pecky. That’s my favorite part besides random drunken asshole.
Sorry you’re going through that.
Thanks.
I know in the great scheme of things, life could be worse, but for fuck’s sake, it sometimes feels insurmountable. Can’t quit because nowhere else to work, but I can’t stomach dealing with it either. I have nightmares every night about going to work.
It’s gotten so bad that my coworkers are all working while stoned.
Is leaving the state an option?
We want to, but can’t afford it. The pandemic really fucked us over.
🙁
I had that during my hotel days. Dreading work is a terrible thing.
Ugh. At least you escaped! That’s a good thing!
Yep. A distant memory from 20+ years ago.
OTOH… the same thing happened when I had a really nasty boss a few years ago at my otherwise great job.
IOW it can strike at any time 🙂
And Cuomo thinks you’re a stupid blankety-blank who should have gotten an essential job.
That POS should get one first.
Wood chipper quality assurance?
I didn’t there could be a worse governor than Dannel Malloy or Jon Corzine, but New York did it.
He’s a fucking nightmare. And he’s brainwashed so many of the citizens it’s fucking disgusting.
Yes, despite restaurants in NY being classified as essential businesses. Gr.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
I wonder how that would hold up as the only sentence in an appeal?
Extra $1,000 fine for daring to question the integrity of one of our selfless public servants?
I took it as a general appeal, not specific to these fines, which I don’t belive have an appeal path.
I meant it as specific to the fine. Wishful thinking on my part, I know. I was inspired by a former co-worker who successfully fought a speeding ticket by demanding the police produce documentation of the radar gun’s most recent calibration. They either couldn’t, or it hadn’t been calibrated as recently as required. She had once designed a Microsoft Access database for the QS9000 QC program at a Delphi Automotive engineering facility. I suspect that’s where she got the idea for her defense.
Not very well, as the law predates photography.
Law of Harambe
So your dick’s out?
Someone said to me the other day, “If the virus wasn’t so deadly, why would they require masks? Why would they possibly want to scare us?”
Because a fearful populous is easier to manipulate, that’s why. Wake the fuck up.
Sadly, I wish it were that case. Gonna turn it over to Mr Lewis
Oh, fascinating read. Thanks for sharing! Where can I find more of this?
C.S. Lewis. Worth the time and mental energy to read.
Enthusiastically recommend – while he does require a certain that investment of mental energy I find his writing quite approachable and relatable.
C.S. Lewis – he wrote a fair amount of Christian apologetics besides the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
I don’t mind enacting a little labor for you, WebDom.
“Clive Staples”?!
That. Is. Awesome.
My other favourite Christian academic is F.F. Bruce. ”F.F” stands for “Frederick Fyvie.”
Man, those Brits could build bizarre names.
There is an unconfirmed rumor that case officers at the CIA use fictitious names for reports writing that are pulled from a WW2 London phone directory and consists of a lot of names similar to “Frederick Fyvie” and the like. I have no idea if that is true or not, but a friend told me that.
It should be pointed out that most of his writings deal with theology (which is not everyone’s cup of tea), either directly or indirectly through the philosophical implications thereof, but he does have some very quotable passages like the one shared by Gustave because he had this view of the individual versus the collective, informed by his theology:
That sucks, WD. I hope things get better for you very soon.
It’s quite shitty the diners are taking out their frustrations on you.
This is a good reminder to me that we should dine out this weekend at our new favorite restaurant.
I’ve been going out every weekend for magical dining.
https://www.visitorlando.com/en/magical-dining
They have something similar here – restaurant week. I think it’s once a quarter.
That looks fantastic.
Hey–Restaurant Week! We have the same around here, although it’s usually just the…2nd week of August. Well, some drag it out for longer.
But, when all the good restaurants either bail, or, cut the best options, why bother?
Thanks. I’ll figure something out; maybe I need to restart a new web design thing, but with a different business model.
I’m sure you’re not a shitty diner, so you’ve got nothing to worry about. 🙂
The health department is sending spies
Aka disease vectors.
I’ve been tipping heavy when I’m out and about just to try to counteract the reduced capacity and restrictions.
Yeah, also for hair salon since they can’t overlap clients.
That’s very nice of you!
#metoo
Problem is that restaurant steaks aren’t even close to what I do at home.
Gf & I have found a place that does some damn good prime rib though. New favorite dine in place.
This. +/-25% instead of +/-18%. It’s the least I can do when they’re running at 50% capacity.
This is probably the single most depressing 6 months I have ever been alive. Not personally, but as a country. Watching civil society unravel and 3/4 of the people passively roll with it like the dumbass attorney on idiocrasy has sealed my belief that I will live to see the end of this country. There may be a USA in name when I die, but the American experiment is over.
Ask yourself why ammo is out of of stock across the country and triple priced.
Shit is gonna hit the fan. 66% chance minimum.
I think I’m becoming personally depressed because of it.
I know my mood has gotten much worse over the past 6 months.
I’m carrying a bunch of stress that just isn’t going away. Work isn’t stressful. Homelife isn’t stressful. But the muscle tension and headaches are daily.
Just drink too much and get fat.
It rocks.
*cracks open a beer*
Crusty lies. Being fat sucks.
Disagree.
I’ve been very fit. Being very fit means you have to put effort into exercise and maintaining a healthy diet.
It’s a lot of work.
Being fit means you have certain dating expectations, like being able to maintain a hard erection.
Us fats don’t have that pressure.
When we are with a sexual partner and hope they coax some arousal out of the weak diabetic slug laying on our thigh, they aren’t surprised! They knew what they were getting into! We’re fat!
Best GlibFit ad evah!
I started out at the beginning of the lockdown orders nearly hysterical with rage. I knew the promises of two weeks to slow the spread were bullshit, and if they got away with it, we’d get more of it. Sure enough, six months later, and I’m a lot calmer, simply because the worst nightmare scenarios I projected in my head have already come true. The one thing that continues to stick in my craw and frustrate me are how many people seem to believe the people in power are doing this for our own good. They’re not, they’re doing it for a mix of political purposes and to stroke the power-boner they grew when the general public trusted them enough to lock themselves inside.
I am right there with you. It is the relentless pounding of it all, with new mandates and rage inducing events every damn day. It starts to feel like a deliberate and personal assault. You can get used to almost anything, if it stays the same, and find ways to cope, but with this nonsense the powers ruling our lives seem to take any attempt to cope as an affront and immediately act to close any coping mechanisms off. I have always been a high stress person, but this year is taking it to new heights and when I hear people talking about continuing along this path deep into 2021, I end up in a screaming cursing rage.
I think so, too. And I am frightened.
I know that I am feeling some degree of depression about this. I am not coping very well with the current state of the world. This isn’t the way things are supposed to be. And I’m really disheartened to learn that many of my friends and loved ones are among the stupidest people.
Wife wouldn’t let me go to the hairdresser so she cut my hair at home. Every time she cut my hair, I left $40 in an envelope at the door of my hairdresser’s salon.
You were shelling out $40 for a haircut?
Check out Mr Rockefeller over here…
Meh, it’s usually about $32 but, you know…
Same as downtown?
$8 for the happy ending?
You get what you pay for. I use to go to great clips. They screwed up my hair for the last time. I’m going to my wife’s stylist this weekend to she what she can do.
Florida Man after returning from his wife’s stylist
I can only hope.
I did great clips last week, and the price was right ($25 after tip), but she simply didn’t get the top right. I have curly hair, and if you don’t cut the top right, I look like a fucking poodle.
OTOH, $45 (after tip) at the local barber gets me a good cut, but the only improvement (besides some addons that I don’t care about) is that he knows how to properly cut curly hair.
I miss my barbershop in VA. $25 and most of them actually knew how to cut my hair.
Ah…Great Clips…
I actually got a good couple cuts from the lesbian with an AK tattooed on her arm. Sure, she might have knicked my ear with the clippers, but it was only a flesh wound.
10 months no haircut here. We’re in uncharted territory now.
I have a set of clippers, only used on cranial hair.
No manscaping gloves?
My clippers cannot make the same claim.
You use your clippers to shave your pubes?
Different set of clippers (with matching gloves).
I used to laugh at the idea $30 haircuts, after getting tired of inconsistent cuts from the cheap place, my wife bought me a gift card to a “high end” place. I’ve been going there for the last year now. Well worth it.
Wife wouldn’t let me go to the hairdresser so she cut my hair at home. Every time she cut my hair, I left $40…
RN, Isn’t that, uh, ambitious? And it’s not like I have a mane to brag on…
LOLOLOL
Nah, just helping out one of the people hurting the most AND buying some future good will.
Yeah, me too….40-100%. I used to only do that when I wanted a date. Now I just have to be certain my wife doesn’t see or I will be back to the previous rationale.
Sorry to hear about your rough patch. I usually tip 20 percent but have been tipping 30 since I know the capacity for restaurants is down and I’m sure wait staff isn’t making as much as normal.
That’s really nice of you. If only other diners were so considerate.
It comes down to this for me:
If you’re not going to tip, at least don’t be an abusive asshole the whole time.
I have several elderly customers who don’t tip, and that’s fine. I’m happy to serve them because they’re nice people, and coming out to for a grilled cheese sandwich is their only social interaction.
I’m sorry you are going through this WebDom. It sounds terrible.
Thanks. I’ll be fine once I figure out wtf to do about it.
Web Dom: I think I’ve mentioned Quorn before. One of the few meatless foods I’d actually categorize in that (food) group. Pretty much the only meat-less meats I’d argue for. Myco-protein, so no soy
It sounds like you could just eat the mold on the menus.
Breaded Death for her, unfortunately.
CAKE OR DEATH?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVH0gZO5lq0
A fave shirt of mine
Way to flaunt your gluten privilege shitlord.
Me?? I’m not the one eating the cake, so much as merely asking a question.
And, I know which answer I prefer to get.
Yes! I still need to look into those. I have some food issues that complicate the whole vegan thing. Anything with mushrooms is out.
I’m really sorry to hear all of this, and it’s a story I’ve heard before. There are a lot of people in the same position as you, and they’re all struggling in silence as there is no sympathy from most people.
I hope you quickly find an opportunity that doesn’t force you to be under the constant eye of the mask Nazis. I can’t imagine the helpless feeling associated with that dynamic. In a sane world, the mask Nazis would be tarred, feathered, and humiliated in the town square.
I hope this is over after the election. Nashville just got caught hiding facts to keep the fraud going. The election is the only reason I can see why to keep the tyranny happening.
I saw that. I read the emails. I am more convinced than ever that this will be over by January 21st. We’ll suddenly have the virus under control.
Our county health Fuehrer got caught on a hot mike saying the school closures would continue until ” after election day.” She said it two or three times. Most people can plainly see this is a stick in Trump’s eye, nothing more.
Well, you have both the La Brea Tar Pits and the Spotted Owl.
Stuff the owls into the tar pits. Make future excavators wonder what happened.
My wife’s pissed because she works from home. This zoom bullshit is difficult at best. I got a 14 day quarantine now, so I’m doing it until I’m cleared. Imagine average people. They can’t work because this whore want’s to minimally reduce Trump’s chance at reelection. Multiply by millions. These people are evil.
Yeah, our mayor is a lying POS just like his congressman brother who I loathe with the heat of a thousand suns. Last time I saw him I told him I will be donating heavy to whomever primaries him. Well, sadly, that didn’t work, but we are hoping to get his little brother ousted as mayor.
Nope. See the often posted CS Lewis quote I threw on again. It’s not going to stop whatever the election results are.
Link?
That sucks. All the same crap is happening here,too. Undercover enforcement and everything. Our favorite bar is closed forever because of this bullshit. I hope the people who did this face retribution some day, in some way ( not to be misconstrued as me personally putting anyone into a woodchipper)
That’s some good music. I’m sorry your favorite bar closed. Mine, both here in NH and PA, are limping along but I’m not sure for how much longer they’ll be able to limp along.
My wife used to go the same gym as the lead guitarist’s wife. We found out when they showed up to play, That bar was magical. I’m half tempted to try and save it. I just don’t have the time, and dog knows when it’ll even be viable again.
My friend in PA did that with his restaurant. His place had been abandoned for a few years before he bought it. More than a year and five to six figures of money before he could open. And then six or eight months later, boom, Gauleiter Wolf strikes.
Hell yeah! I want to dance with the two blondes and not give a shit about the consequences on the ride home later. Worth it.
#$%&*!#%$# fucking fuck local government tyrants! Serious they are sending spies? Something something @#%%$#^&#$%# cough wood cough chippers. This shit has gotten way out of hand. We don’t have that here because the local government knows better. We have some spineless shitheads who nod and go along it with all for sure, but enforcement or fines is unheard of afaik.
Yeah, that’s where I lost it.
We don’t have this in NYC because we don’t have indoor dining. I can only imagine the army of stormtroopers that Oberbürgermeister Deblasio is assembling in preparation for indoor dining that is supposed to resume soon*.
*This from the same guy who as of today has delayed in-person schooling (formerly known as “school”) twice.
And to clarify, the spineless shitheads I speak of are the local gov officials. They state the rules set by the state and say they apply to x coounty but at least they are not strictly enforcing, again, afaik. County commissioners with the backing of the Sheriff could end all this now across the nation county by county by just saying we are not complying, none of this is backed by science. Seriously you can have a mustard bottle but not syrup? Fuck the fuck off and shove your mustard bottle up your ass.
I am constantly bitching about the syrup.
I started using it last week. Fuck it. I told the owner so long as we’re using and sanitizing the ketchup and mustard bottles, I’ll be using the syrup one too, and if he doesn’t think it’s defensible he can throw it out.
Every time I set it down on a table I say, “Here is a freshly sanitized syrup bottle for you.”
Our warden likes to report the number of arrests for businesses not adhering to the dictates. 60 here, 80 there, etc. Like a small business can go 6 months without income! Then, they spend a stack on plexiglass, floor decals, signage, and whatever, only to be told that, no, you can’t reopen after all. I strongly suspect this is why there’s almost no Biden/Harris lawn signs or bumperstickers anywhere. The blue team knows it’s hated openly this time around.
Arrests? Are you serious?
Well, citations and arrests. Some kind of two strikes you’re out scheme. Either way, a guy with a gun and a walkie talkie whips out his badge and sanctions you. If he does it more than once, you get handcuffed. They also shut off power to houses that have parties, revoke business licenses, and have running lawsuits with numerous businesses. It’s evil assed shit, and our mayor is right in the middle.
This is a topic I have brushed by in the zoomhappyhours and am not comfortable putting in type forever, but shit howdy, someday the local pols might not like what happens when enough non believers have had enough.
I should come to a happy hour. I need happiness. When are they again?
Friday night and Saturday night, link in the afternoon/evening links.
What. The. Fuck.
Are you in America?
No, he’s in California
Truer words were never spoken
/Californian
This made my blood boil too. A few of these “health Inspectors” need to be kneecapped to make them less enthusiastic about their new Gestapo roles. And the resulting limp will make it easier to identify them when they show up.
YES!
Each business in town has been hit by these fuckers. They’re from the county health department.
This town has had 2 cases since March. TWO!!!! I don’t have words for how angry I am.
2?! JFC.
Dentist who pulled out patient’s tooth while riding a HOVERBOARD is jailed for 12 years for reckless endangerment and $1.9million Medicaid fraud
It’s now illegal to be totally awesome in Alaska. I thought we were making America great again, Mr President!
But people lobbing incendiaries at a federal courthouse get misdemeanor charges, walk, and do the same thing the next night.
That’s some justice for ya.
12 fucking years????
That does seem a tad excessive, given that there was no actual harm done.
OK–let’s cut it in half. If you can’t do whatever fakakta stunt you want to do, unless your patient is sedated to the point of being knocked out, I can see some prison time being earned.
Whatever your views are on consent vis-a-vis sex, the doctor/patient thing is a whole other level.
He was also convicted of Medicare fraud.
Pfft, like I’m some schmuck who actually reads the articles
Keep kicking ass WebDom. This shit; your shit, all this complete bullshit will be over soon. My life is shit. https://youtu.be/8SLcSYgbSaU
LOL That’s totally the theme song for my year.
Thanks. 🙂
Restaurants are short staffed. Each server is trying to cover multiple stations per shift.
Sounds like a good time to be a waitress, high demand low supply, name your price.
I wish. The restaurant would rather fire someone who wants more than minimum wage and deal with being short staffed. They constantly complain about how they can’t find any employees, yet treat us like we are expendable.
“ The health department is sending spies”
Nothing left to cut!! But seriously, if anyone is a non essential it has to be government bureaucrats.
Wait until we get that giant new monstrosity health organization under the Biden administration. That should be fun. Just make sure to sleep with your mask on, so there’s not a militarized 4am no knock safety call.
WebDom, I’m sorry you’re going through this.
This poor gal is sharing her financial woes while you bourgee monsters brag about your expensive haircuts.
For shame, sirs.
I cut my own hair short and wear baseball caps.
You’re a man of the people, Ted. Respect.
We can tell.
If one, then the other?
#metoo
I haven’t paid for a haircut in 20 years.
Me three. I started when the barbershops closed and I can give myself a better haircut almost every time than the shops around here. And the price is right.
1997. Last time I sat in a barber chair.
OT- saw your question from the morning links long after that went cold. I was a child of the don’t ask don’t tell era army, so not long after it was officially just SPC (looked it up and 1985 was the phaseout of SP4 and SP5). Many of the
godsNCOs I looked up to still called them Spec 4’s and was printed stuff with SP4 instead of SPC.I am not sure you should call people who go to a “hairdresser” sir.
Yup–“Lord” is acceptable, now.
haha. I don’t mind. 🙂
Frankly, I’m glad that not everybody is fucked. It’s promising.
FWIW, I won’t dine indoors – if and/or when that is ever allowed – if I have to wear a mask. Not out of “defiance” – I just hate wearing the things any longer than a few minutes at a time because it gets hard to breathe and my glasses fog up.
*reads further*
OMG.
I had no idea The Rules were so stoopid. If things are that bad in Liberal Bastion I can’t fucking imagine how bad it’s going to get in NYC for those restaurants which somehow survive the winter.
^this
…is one of the things I’m most angry about. This whole thing is fucking destroying what’s left of what I will call “polite society”.
#metoo
Yesssss! Soooooooooo stupid. They defy all logic.
And many of them defy the health department regulations restaurants have been following for years.
There are a couple of places in Nashua, since they’re under a city mask ordinance, that I’ll bend for.
In towns or cities with no mask ordinance? I’m not going to patronize a place that requires a mask. The Clown’s orders say restaurants “should” ask customers to wear masks. Contrary to what some folks say, the orders do not say that restaurants must ask customers to wear masks, or even require customers to wear masks. So, a restaurant that requires them outside of municipalities with mask ordinances is doing it on their own. No business from me.
The outsourcing of law enforcement to shopkeepers and such angers me to no end.
#metoo
It’s mandated in Nashua’s proposed updated mask ordinance. The update is likely to pass. I suspect that since the city police have no interest in enforcing the ordinance, the city will use business licenses and the health department as weapons against businesses.
“It’s” being having business staff be enforcers.
Yeah, I completely get that. At the beginning the owner’s wife — who is so scared of COVID she hasn’t left the town since the beginning of March — insisted on this rule. And people wouldn’t come into eat, and I don’t blame them. It’s fucking crap.
Two months after the village announced a massive budget short fall for 2020, the Obergruppenführer we elected as mayor passed a mask law for all public property and private businesses with public access. The law comes with a massive fine. A customer visiting from another town called it a “totalitarian cash grab.”
Happily the cops and the judge are all libertarians. The cops told me they won’t enforce it, and the judge told me she’ll just throw out all the cases.
Yeah, the fucking things are awful.
I don’t blame you at all. I don’t go out to eat because I don’t want to deal with this either.
Mr. Trump, tear down that wall!
Mr. Trump, tear down that link!
Nasty Ted!
Sorry WebDom. I hope things improve for you and your husband.
I have been tipping and heading out more than I did in the before times. A few places near me are worried about the next month or so. The weather is getting colder and it gets darker earlier. Fewer people want to eat outside. 100% capacity with tables six feet apart isn’t 100% capacity.
A friend of mine in PA with a restaurant is limping along still with takeout and outdoor dining. He doesn’t want to open up indoors because he doesn’t want to be the mask police and Gauleiter Wolf’s capacity restrictions and spacing restrictions combined with the layout of the place make it not worth his while to open up indoors.
They’ll get better eventually. I just gotta figure out wtf to do in the meantime.
I don’t blame your friend at all. I advocated for us to keep dining closed and go all takeout + delivery. We’d be able to survive on that because then we only need 1 cook, 1 cashier, and 1 delivery driver. It would dramatically reduce our overhead.
Reopen NH updated its list of endorsed candidates
I found it interesting that they did not endorse the LPNH candidate for governor. I know there are some Libertarians (I think all registered as Republicans, though there might be a registered Democrat or two in there) on the list of endorsed state house candidates.
NJ has allowed restaurants to reopen at 25% capacity which is worthless to most local places. Our favorite place is still closed.
The Japanese place in town has put up a massive tent in their parking lot with sides and a heater. How that is different than being inside is beyond me.
It’s not about actually producing conditions to reduce the spread of a disease, it’s about the Rulez and knowing your place, peasant.
I think Governor Goldman Sachs likes seeing small business bankrupted. Shop at Walmart and Amazon, eat at Applebee’s – all probably in his portfolio.
And eventually Taco Bell will win the restaurant wars.
I guess I am going to have to figure out how to use the three shells.
And you thought we were crazy to hoard toilet paper.
“Governor Cuomo has our best interests at heart, and has no ulterior motive.”
You would agree if you watched the Andrew Cuomo Rockin Chart Show
Stop trying to make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.
Check out Dr David Banner over here
Sorry WebDom.
This is fucking ridiculous. I am so pissed off at what these motherfuckers are doing to small business I might lose my mind.
Here in the People’s Republic:
Hastings restaurant fined $7,000 because one employee was wearing ‘non-compliant’ mask
I didn’t add a zero. $7 fucking K for the wrong fucking mask.
Thanks for venting to us.
You’ll be rolling again soon.
$7K? Fuck.
They should have their paycheck docked $12M for every death they caused.
^this
People need to know what’s really going on out there.
Some days I feel like me and you clowns are the only ones who aren’t living under a rock.
Yep
Yep.
There’s maybe 15 rational people in town right now.
“I am so pissed off at what these motherfuckers are doing to small business I might lose my mind.”
Yeah. I spent the day at a business that is bouncing along the bottom because of this shit. I’m personally rooting for them; otherwise 60 jobs go *poof!*.
Fucking hell. $7k. What the actual fuck.
Businesses here are so fucked. My web design stuff ended because websites are a luxury item right now and my clients also lost their businesses. There are 3 restaurants in this town that went under so far. The quick stop is closing at the end of the month.
This town has been literally destroyed, and our stupid cunt of a mayor just put out a statement saying she doesn’t understand why people are upset about the pandemic rules. — While passing more restrictions. I’m just incensed.
Life has gotten unreal. Sorry to hear the news, WD. The BS has a ripple effect, now that its so complicated to go out to eat the missus and I go out even less than before. As some others have said tips run in the 25 % range or a little more on a small tab. I try to be even more polite to the wait staff than my normal surly persona, ’cause I understand the difficulties they are having.
MN governor can’t make a decision until he sees what the guy in WI is going to do, so he’ll have a fall back. My county also has a low death count. (18 as of today). No indicators of age or other physical problems so it’s a meaningless statistic.
The question is how to we get out of this jam? I’m guessing some are going to wear the mask even after the restrictions come off, if they ever do. A learned relative (retired MD) told me, “Well, the Japanese and Koreans have been wearing the masks for a long time”. Sort of her “gotcha” moment. It’s impossible to have a sane discussion with the believers. When the vaccine doesn’t live up to the magic its being touted as what will happen?
Good luck, WD, keep us up-to-date via this format, if you want.
“Well, the Japanese and Koreans have been wearing the masks for a long time”. – If anybody throws this crap in your face tell them that the Japanese and Koreans live in population densities which few Americans would be comfortable with and they also ride mass transportation at much, much higher rates than almost any American locality does. You are talking apples and granite.
And when all this started one of the things the Japanese politicians started with was emphatically making it clear that they do not have the authority to tell anybody to wear a mask. They stated their reason for why they were asking us to do it but there was and has never been any “stick” applied to enforce it.
Given Korea is a peninsula, the norther border of which is called “North Korea”, they are both effectively islands.
My point being that Japanese live cheek-to-jowl – both in housing* and on the trains/buses – and even in these conditions masks are not required, only requested.
In addition, Japan did not shut down its economy. Things slowed down and shrunk in many ways but I know a number of small businesses that didn’t change a thing.
* I can lean out of a couple windows in my place and touch the building next door and in another direction about 20 feet away there’s a 15 story building where a few hundred people live.
I’m struggling to draw comparisons to here in NYC but it’s impossible since we have been effectively in lockdown for six months. By which I mean most small business is closed and masks are Required everywhere indoors. The subways are running at close to regular schedules again but ridership is down 70% I presume because the unemployment rate is pushing 25% and everyone else is WFH. So… you can’t function in society without a fucking mask but it’s obvious from my people-watching that people are over it.
I don’t know how you’re still living in NYC, if I’m being perfectly honest. I would’ve lasted maybe 6 weeks before fleeing.
*shrugs* I have everything I need and life goes on. I count myself lucky.
If I had kids or something the equations would be different.
Wow, Japan sounds comparatively sane.
Japan is closer to Sweden in its response to this virus – particularly in comparison to most of the US.
I hear ya. The responses around the world have enough variances you can use the practical result from country A vs. B that did/did not do X, Y, or Z.
In the end, I still don’t it will make a lot of difference. With some exceptions, the virus will pass through the population regardless of what governments do.
What is this magical fantasy-land you speak of…?
And the government introduced and passed legislation to allow it to declare a state of emergency, rather than just issuing an executive order of dubious legality.
Like a doctor that writes themselves a Rx, as opposed to just going and taking the meds out of the case.
Saving Gaia by not wasting pad paper!
Thanks.
This is really the worst year I’ve ever lived through, and I am convinced it’s all created intentionally by evil people who only care about power.
Otherwise smart people are buying into the narrative, and it’s really crazy to me. If I hear one more person say we need to get used to wearing masks “like the Japanese” I’m going to scream in their face.
“…say we need to get used to wearing masks “like the Japanese” ”
Once again, If anybody tells you this tell them that the Japanese are not required to do it and there are no enforcement mechanisms for it in Japan. I even see the occasional person not wearing a mask in public – even inside while shopping – and nobody bothers them over it. There are a very few indoor bars/restaurants I’ve been to lately where the wait staff will remind you to wear a mask between your table and the restroom but that was definitely out of the norm.
Gov. shit-spit can go climb a tree.
And take my might-as-well-be-a-democrat with him. Hell, take the useless state senate as well.
Remember the good ol days when you could just bribe the toad from the health dept with a bottle of whiskey?
I look forward to the near future when a government agent is spotted and he leaves wearing tar and feathers.
Wasn’t that long ago. About 10 years ago I was at a different restaurant, and I’m 90% sure the owner bribed the health inspector. We kept passing when we *really* shouldn’t have.
Best of luck Web Dom. I wish I could tip some waitstaff. Hawaii is all bars closed and no indoor or outdoor dining- take out only. Starting on August 1st we had outdoor spaced out dining but that has been rescinded from late August to what they are now promising Oct 3rd. Nobody believes that opening date since the two week mandatory quarantine for all arrivals until at least October 15th. All haircutting establishments are closed as well, as all non-essential businesses.
A local business group conducted a survey last week and an estimated 60% of all dining options in the state will be permanently closed if this nonsense of outdoor dining (when permitted) continues until Thanksgiving. Only 26% of the jobs lost when the panicdemic started have returned. Hotel industry officials are publicly estimating that it will take a decade to get the numbers back up to 2019 occupancy.
All this for a state with significantly under 100 deaths attributed to Kung Flu. So when you and your husband properly flee NY- don’t come to Hawaii looking for a better life.
For a State as dependent on tourism as Hawaii that sounds like disaster.
It is a disaster.
And Hawaii is rich compared to many tourism dependent countries/regions elsewhere in the world. There’s going to be a lot of deeply fucked places.
Holy crap, that’s worse than NYC. With the minor quibble that when it gets cold in a month the restaurant industry will collapse for good.
I’ve been reading a lot about what’s going on in NYC right now. It feels like NYC is done.
Honestly, I have no idea. I mean, freeloading off rich people is done. That is for sure.
But average life for the rest of us? I don’t really see much difference. OTOH I’m an oddball who doesn’t eat out and can WFH so what do I know.
But it’s hard to judge when we’re STILL in a holding pattern here.
Wow, that’s insane.
I have a friend who left this town and moved to Hawaii with her husband in January. They’re lucky that they both work from home, but fuck.
I had no idea it’s that bad there. I’m sorry. I hope it gets better for you soon.
If you have to be stuck somewhere because of the Kung Flu there are few more attractive locales to be.
But as soon as it it time to retire retire I may flee back to Wyoming.
Wyoming is on the shortlist, actually. Not keen on the winters, but there’s a lot to recommend it.
Whatever happened to the rednecks who hunted down and shot that colored “jogger” who might have been casing that home which was under construction? In my memory It feels like that story was just headlining yesterday, but no Covid angle, no mask drama and it’s just gone pfft! and now it seems like it happened ten years ago. was there a resolution that I missed or are the rednecks still awaiting trail?
Awaiting trial.
Sorry to hear this Web Domme! I am actually surprised any restaurants are staying afloat at 50% capacity max. I was never in the restaurant business, but in the nightclub business you could not have survived on 50% capacity max. (you could do fine on 50% or even lower average, but to hit that sort of average you have to be at 100% (or more shh don’t tell the fire marshall) on your peak nights to make your nut). You really can’t spread your business out all that much, people want to eat and drink at their desired times, not when you have the capacity, and if you can’t accomodate them they stay home.
Yes, similar principles to your nightclub example. Three restaurants in this town couldn’t make it at 50%, and have permanently closed. The convenience store is also restricted on capacity, and the owner’s fed up, so he is closing at the end of September.
The only reason the restaurant I’m at is still open is because the owner paid off the mortgage on the building last year, so he’s squeaking by right now.
For Ted S.
Watched Wings (1927) for the first time. The technical difficulties they overcame getting some of those shots… just wow.
Also watched All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), the restored version. If any Glib hasn’t ever watched it, please do. Well worth the time.
And now, I’m going to go root through your blog to try and find your reviews of said films.
I always thought Roy Biggins was underwritten.
OT Windows 10 finds new ways to annoy me every damn week. For the past couple days It has decided to repeatedly move all the icons on my desktop over to my secondary monitor. I checked and it still has that monitor labelled as secondary, but no matter how many times I move them back it decides to move them whenever I open anything to full screen on my main monitor, and then leaves them there when I close it.
I feel your pain. It drives me to distraction the way IT companies believe that “different” is always “better”. No, it’s not better. It’s just no longer the way I’ve learned to do it and now I have to figure out and learn the “new” way to do it.
If I had magic powers every time I got an “updated” Windows I would cast a spell over every vehicle the Windows designers drive and their steering wheel would be the accelerator, the shifter would be the brakes, windshield wiper adjustment for speed control, and blinkers/headlights for drive/reverse/park. “Hey! It’s different so that means it’s better!”
And then when it’s at freeway speeds, move all of the controls and pedals to the glove box, leaving them with a empty dash in front of them.
I used to read Radley Balko’s stuff at Reason until I reached a rage level that was unsustainable and I had to stop for my own mental and physical health.
Your tale takes me to that level and, once again, I have to just back off and try to control my rage.
It’s the simultaneous feeling that I am the only sane person in the world and there is not a dammed thing that I can do about it.
I feel the opposite, I’m the crazy one and everyone else is just humoring me so I don’t cause trouble and will go away.
That’s how I feel on a daily basis. My husband came by to my work for 10 minutes last week, and ever since then he’s had alcohol waiting for me when I get home. He understands now why I come home and just scream or cry.
Sorry to hear this, WebD. Sounds like crazy town and you’re doing what you have to do. It should get better.
Thanks. It’s gotta, right?
I didn’t even get into some of the real insanity of this town with our unhinged SJW mayor.
Does your town have two large universities or am I thinking of the wrong liberal haven?
feel free to tell me to stuff it 🙂
Peppers? Tomatos? Mushrooms? Turkey?
A wild bikini!
You win.
::takes a bow::
Cheese. The correct answer is “cheese”.
Cheese is ALWAYS the correct answer.
Vaya con queso.
cheese stuffed cheese? I’d think you’d need at least another layer to make it work. Queso con carne con queso.
Can the carne be corned beef? (Corné carne?)
cheese stuffed cheese?
Burrata is cheese stuffed cheese.
Burrata is awesome, obviously.
Yes.
Ah OK. I like it there. But I’ve only been a visitor.
No, I don’t think so.
You can send me an email with your guess, Rhywun. 😉
Heh OK
How large is ‘large’? Because I can think of at least two universities in most of the upstate cities.
You’re probably thinking of the right one.
But the other liberal haven is just as bad.
Jesus, that sucks. I’m with the Hobbit, the world is fucking crazy, and the crazies here may be the only sane people left.
Yep, sounds about right.
Reading the article just makes me angry, the entire thing. Fuck Mafiosocuomo. The thing that makes me the most angry is them forcing you to wear a mask when you have asthma, that’s awful. It should be illegal for them to do that.
I hope things start looking up for you soon. Any prospect of getting out of NY? I mean if you want to.
Thanks.
We’d fucking love to leave, but not in a position to do so financially right now, or probably for another year at this rate.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-live-with-covid-not-for-it-11600271921?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
A cut from it: “The collective goal of this new phase should be to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. When faced in March with the choice between imposing limited shutdowns to buy hospitals time and increase capacity, and enormous, indefinite shutdowns that ignored societal and economic costs, most political leaders chose the latter. When faced in May and June with the choice between embracing policies that balanced Covid-19 prevention with the activities that give life meaning and policies that sowed distrust and stirred fierce passions over civil liberties, most political leaders chose the latter. We have the opportunity to choose differently this time.”
I hope the author had a good life, because the Reeeeeeeeee are about to hunt him down.
The virus would’ve been bad enough without the authoritarians using it as a power grab.
I doubt that it would have even been 10% as bad. And if Biden wins, they’re going to shut down the entire country hard, including travel bans. Not because of the virus, but because they have to show the deplorables who is boss now, how it should have been done, and then they’ll declare victory and then we can get back to a full on push for socialism.
It would’ve killed a lot people directly or indirectly regardless of what we did.
But we have to balance that with depression and suicide, along with people who wouldn’t seek medical care because of this. And that’s not even counting the financial loss.
We should have just let it run it’s course.
I think the lockdown will kill several times as many people as the virus would have. Over the next few years a lot of people who no longer have an income to pay for proper medical care will die much sooner than they would have – cancer and other diseases not caught soon enough to treat them because they put it off due to no income. Selecting the cheaper option to treat problems because they lack to funds for the best option. As the number of people who have the money for good healthcare shrinks the market for and thus the availability of good healthcare will shrink. Nobody lives longer under those conditions.
He’ll be cancelled soooo hard.
It looks like the PA dems already booted the Green Party candidate out of the race. And they’re going to count ballots, not mailed, but dropped in drop boxes, up to 3 days AFTER the election. They are trying really hard to make sure this thing cannot be called on election night. Democracy, someone is trying to steal our democracy. They just want this thing to linger so they can send their rioters out.
This is why I dont buy the polls – the Dems are acting desperate.
They’re acting beyond desperate.
And I don’t get their entire plan of winning fairly, doesn’t look like they have one. Because brain dead Biden getting off planes and waving to non-existent people waiting for him, and then having Camela walk around in combat boots, that’s not a good look.
Youth is no longer wasted on the young.
Shana tovah, y’all.
I have partiality restocked the scotch collection of my father in law, may he rest in peace; I am greatly enjoying the Dalmore 12
And boo – I was looking forward to the Islanders resurrecting their dominant ways. Ah, well.
My reaction: “Oh. It’s over. ‘Bout time.”
Me too. Or a you talking hockey?
Shania Twain to you, too.
Thanks Slumbrew. FYI, you are a day early.
This little guy is not following the social distancing rules. I keep moving him to the other side of the picnic table, but he keeps coming back.
https://ibb.co/S35TZTz
One out of five wearing a ?.
https://ibb.co/gMYYwN5
See now if you were in the Home of the Brave™ one of the other four’s mom would come over and shame that kid to tears.
Oh fudge I bollocksed that up. You know what I mean.
Enh it’s bedtime anyway.
Made sense to me.
Feel like doing the Donald Sutherland and pointing while shrieking “No mask! no mask!”.
https://www.koin.com/news/wildfires/looters-descend-as-fires-empty-beavercreek-homes/
Wait a sec… I was told that looting was a fantasy of those stupid hicks in the sticks. Wtf??
“What’s the greatest [insert genre] and why is it [specific thing]?”* is 2020’s version of ‘94’s “Allllllrighty then!”
*example: what’s the greatest band and why is it Kiss?
What politician do you want to punch in the face, and why is it Cuomo?
Poor Bill De’B, always finishing second.
Et Tu, Brute?
If I could pick three they would be Newsom, Newsom, and Newsom. He just exudes slime while screwing people and this state over.
Thread winner. Nothing more to see here folks.
Because, alerting the cops that you are about to shoot them definitely helps accomplish your goal. Not to mention bitching out and leaving the under-aged shooter at the scene.
Also:
-stop calling it an “assault rifle”, when it almost certainly was not
-a mask….out in the middle of the Arizona heat? Talk about sheeple…
I want to know how it is there is no report of the shooter being injured.
The MSM protecting the shooter-cops!
How do you miss when you are going to deliver a sucker punch?
Eat this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/dietotaku/status/1306708083431923715
Man, that dude is a stone-cold fuckwit. I agree with the person who thought it was a parody account–he’s so clueless, Hasbro fired his ass.
He did it with the candlestick in cubby hole.
In *his* cubby hole, based off of his behavior.
I’m flattered that you assumed not every comment I make doesn’t have anal innuendo baked into it.
I ASSume it, butt, I don’t typically act on it.
Tushy.
“The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.”
Ludwig von Mises
Holy shit, this is from Rob Schnieder, who knew he was a libertarian?
I think a few of Adam Sandler’s cohorts are based. Then again, Chris Rock kinda sorta was, but not at this point (AFAIK).
“Don’t forget to tip your waitress!”
In cash.
Can’t at a lot of places now. Even the hair salon has venmo for tips
Is that a decent tool for frosting tips?
I wonder how Gavin will punish us for upsetting Gaia.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/17/california-wildfires-burned-carbon-power-23-coal-plants/
What’s a metric ton and why didn’t they go with metric shit ton?
A megagram. But no one actually uses more than a handful of the prefixes in the metric system.
Thank you for writing this. Perhaps, I shouldn’t condemn everyone enforcing mask rules as a collaborationist. Of course, I would never dine out in your county now.
If I weren’t already a libertarian, I surely would’ve become one this year. – this is your mistake. You should become a socialist and stop working and expect the government to meet your needs.
The next person that thinks they’re being clever by saying, “You don’t wear a mask so you don’t get corona. You wear a mask so you don’t give it to someone else” can:
A) Get intubated with my tube
B) Go ventilate their skull
C) both
Go on….
It would be very messy sloppy seconds.
More feel good stories
https://youtu.be/t4NJK3BkgEI
Awesome! Also–I wish I had access to women who “grodied up” as well as that.
Good on them.
You’re up late for a Thursday. Are you working?
Yeah….I usually do (and, am on then).
Have I been off that many Thursdays that it seems weird??
Damn…kinda wish I was, now.
And she’s got good taste in dogs.
True dat
So…..not for nothing, but, I’d be willing to ante up for WD, if anyone else wants to jump in. We help out around here when we can, so, why not now?
Throw up a GFM and I’ll toss a couple coins.
I’m leery of using them, based on recent events they’ve shat on. That said, I’ve never done this before, so I need to look into how to do this for the lowest cost.
I’m still going to dine-in restaurants at least 3 to 4 times a week. I’m tipping at around 25%. We don’t have to wear masks when seated. I don’t think we have health department spies yet.
My business needs its website redone.
It would be great if you knew someone who created websites. Like for a living or something.
Can someone please explain this “Despacito” shit to me? First, “Joe’s being weird”. Then, the media jump in and “hurr durr, them Cons don’t know the singer was there!”
WTFuck is Despacito, wanyway? I thought it was just Desperado being misspelled, at first. Now, I’ve apparently not bee sufficiently Latin-X enough…whatever.
Isn’t that some kind of soup?
It sounds like it.
At least Joe didn’t play Tijuana Brass as his pander song.
It was a song done by a couple Puerto Rican guys a few years ago – then covered/mixed by Bleiber-boy.
So Creepy Joe was introduced to a group of DNC Puerto Ricans and he played this song with his phone into the microphone before his talk to the group.
And, in turn, it became fodder for both sides–the Right owning Joe for pandering, and the Left owning the right for not being hip/not having a good “gotcha” after all/whatever.
OK. Thanks for that, and I’m now done with it.
Well crap. Another loss
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Goodkind
I enjoyed the first several books until he started lecturing and the series seemed to take a WoT turn to lots of pages but not really making any progress.
Heavy rain on and off tonight with lots of lightning. Last one was a bit too close for the dog’s comfort. I think I might be slightly inebriated.
I read wizards first rule. It was bad.
Forecast has a frost advisory for tonight.
Wasn’t it just boiling out?
in civilized Europe the forecast is not bad although it does get chilly and the lows may dip under 10 C
https://6abc.com/camden-county-police-officers-home-shot-new-jersey-nj/6431214/
Anarchy.
Only $2k for info?? They must have been defunded.
Sorry–$20k! That’s more like it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XGHRiTJReAk
Cover ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vUpcCN_PWYw
Rocking cover ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9fTDV5cedJQ
Classic cover ?
Morning Glibs.
Does it count as “leftover” chinese food if I bought it with the intention of putting it in the fridge overnight to have at work the next day?
Well, it WAS left overnight. Or leftovernight, if you want to save space.
Morning, UCS.
I’m trying to resolve a piece of contradictory geography in “Prince of the North Tower”, which has led me to investigate medieval bridge building, and that has led me to realize my mental image of the Grunstrom is probably far too narrow a body of water. My mind’s eye sees a creek where there need be a river. That makes me even more bothered about how the penniless pilgrims cross the as yet unnamed tributary that is in the way of the pilgrim trail.
Perhaps it reall is just a ford and the commercial travellers portage their cargos past the shallow waters.
Though I’m leaning towards “they dug a canal for the boats which has a footbridge ‘for local peasants’ to avoid officially sanctioning the pilgrims, but not raising their ire either”
Are the pilgrims so penniless that groups of them couldn’t barter for passage across on a flatboat ferry, operated by an opportunistic entrepreneur?
It varies from pilgrim to pilgrim. But this is the road that meanders along the borders between feifdoms because the people walking it can’t afford tolls.
My thought is the river started out with a shallow ford where the pilgrim trail crossed. The merchants lobbied for the navigable channel to be improved, and the priests petitions for the pilgrims’ passage to not be impeded. While the powers that be didn’t want to acknowledge the pilgrims (as that would mean potentially having to take responsibility for the entire trail) they did require the incorporation of a bridge “for the maintenance of the customary right of crossing by the peasant classes” at the ford.
sounds dangerous. throw it away. probably has salmonella and covid
“Nashville Officials Withheld COVID Numbers for Restaurants and Bars Because Cases Were So Low, Emails Show”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nashville-officials-withheld-covid-numbers-for-restaurants-and-bars-because-cases-were-so-low-emails-show/ar-BB199mbj
Nashville officials need to get sued, bigly.
If the cleanup report does not include the phrase “bloody trail of gore stretching for miles” you’ve been too lenient.
You’re hoping for too much. I’ll be satisfied with them being reduced to living in a tent under a freeway overpass.
I wouldn’t inflict that on the hobos already residing there.
Nursing homes makes sense, but…construction? Color me skeptical re: the accuracy of “contact tracing” in general. But as far as they’re concerned, the problem is that it’s not giving them the numbers they wanted.
And good morning, Stinky.
You’ve obviously never worked construction, GT. The first thing that the crew do on any given project is share a deep kiss with the foreman and after that its a peck on the lips in passing. Don’t ask what goes on in the porta-john.
***SIGH!!!*** I clearly missed my calling. : (
From my limited experience working construction, construction workers don’t give a damn…sharing cigarettes, passing around joints, swigging from bottles of whatever we’re commonplace back then and I doubt things have changed.
Construction is a little odd but allow me to toss in one word: port-a-potty.
In my experience, lots of hubby’s sharing apartments, as well.
We work hard and we play hard!
Ugh. Poor Webdom. That shit is infuriating! It’s not so bad here but the boot-licking over the Provincial Health Officer is gag-inducing. She’s just like all the rest, bubble wrap yourself and live in the basement until the scary thing goes away. Crime, overdoses and domestic turmoil are spiking hard here and the Journalos are busy slobbering over her shoes. Not hyperbole. It makes me sick. Last night at work four of the crew were gathered around the bulletin board looking at the new schedule and the Supervisor apologetically told then that they were standing too close together. These people had just spent a good portion of their shift standing right next to each other.
The supervisor clearly needs to print as many copies of the schedule as there are employees and post them all on the wall six feet apart. It’s the only way to be safe.
Good morning, Fes.
Mornin’ GT! She was clearly uncomfortable doing it but she’s a creature of the resident Gauleiter. Funny that I wheeled my garbage cart between them just as she was saying that and she had nothing to say to me about it. It also cracks me up that I grew up with her parents.
Speaking of social distancing, here at the office there’s a sign on the men’s room door indicating a maximum occupancy of “2 except in case of emergency”.
Guess how many stalls are in that bathroom?
Horny is as horny does. One stall sharing.
I knew someone was going to guess one.
It’s actually two.
LOL
Ooh! Wait! I know this one! ::thinks deeply:: Two?
But if you have a tornado drill or, heaven forbid, an actual tornado, you’re all going to die of COVID.
We have never had a tornado drill.
The geography of the area means we get very few tornados (one funnel every few years, little to no damage when it does come around)
May as well be made to feel like a woman right at the end. Guy strips naked and tells you to fold his clothes. (Shamelessly stolen from an earlier post).
My work has 6 stalls, but only two allowed in at one time. Only 25% allowed in building and you have to have a reason.
I’d think the reason to go into the bathroom is pretty obvious.
They’ve got those silly signs everywhere now. Tiny offices with “Maximum 3” and the like. The little Stalin is loving this nonsense. I was wiping down the ridiculous overseers desk that sits smack-dab in the middle of the floor and one of the rank and file said that I should rub my bum all over it when I was done.
Bum-buffed bureau?
It’s just such a stupid idea. Who the fuck places a desk in the middle of a busy warehouse and doesn’t expect some push back. They even put down some magic yellow tape on the floor to keep the forklifts from squashing them like a bug. Asshoe pointy-shoes has gone to war with the floor crew. I’ve been here long enough to see the last stanza of this epic poem.
I’ve seen layouts like that in call centers, with the supervisors on raised platforms either at the end of the rows, or mixed into the cubicle farms. Great way to make yourself approachable to your staff.
If they wanted to make themselves more resented than they already are I’m not sure how they would achieve their goals. Maybe a huge dude in the corner on the kettle drums?
The people in charge of the Scrabble app’s definitions are cowards.
The correct answer is a male-presenting leader of an erstwhile secondary power. God I loathe him.
Peaceful protest.
For once, not meant ironically. THAT’s how it’s done. ::grudgingly gives respect to the participants in That State Up North::
And more.
And good morning, Sean.
Good morning.
I’m not a violent man (anymore) but I endorse this message.
I wish that they would leave the kids at home with Grandma, though. Bringing kids to a political rally is wrong. Nurture them to make up their own damn minds.
LOL, wut?