OT: Now that the world is ending How will you spend your time?
I'm thinking of heading to Nebraska, I keep dreaming of an old women playing guitar on her front porch. Surrounded by acres of corn
Or are you going to Vegas to hang out with the dark man?
Either way I'd like to know your plans
I own guns, but I haven't gotten them out of the safe in years. I went to the store today and all of the pasta was gone, 90% of the bottled water, and all of the sugar and flour were out. I need to check if I have any ammo in my safe because the next time I go shopping it feels like it's going to be door to door with my shot gun.
(I'm joking of course, but the end of the world is going to be very exciting right up till the end.)
Drinking!
Seriously. I just assumed this was the new whatcha drinking thread.
Good thing I have about 15 kegs of homebrew on hand. Huzzah! Saving the 5 gallons of mead for the end. Valhalla here I come!
How Middle Ages. Drink fine mead tonight and die in battle tomorrow morning. Only thing missing are the wenches.
Same. Red wine, maybe give the wife some lovin’. Entirety of my plans
Beer, whiskey, Netflix, and my dog.
All I need
Everytime I settle in for some Netflix I end up surfing around for 30-60 minutes trying to find something good, watching something for maybe 20 minutes, and being regretful about my choice. I need someone to curate me a list or something.
At least you get to the point of deciding on something. I scan until I eventually give up and go to sleep
I thought the documentary was good on the Unabomber was good so far. Not sure if you've tried that yet.
There are two seasons of Babylon Berlin that will get you through at least 14% of the incubation period.
Believe it or not, the RCMB has been a good source of info on this. They always seem to have a lengthy TV recommendations thread going. That group watches a LOT of television, apparently.
The netflix app on my old appletv randomizes my 'my list' every time i open it, so i just add stuff to it constantly and when i need to watch something new i play netflix roulette and watch or delete whatever it puts first. If it sucks, i delete it and play again. Before that I had the same issue of browsing for an hour then deciding on something weird and crappy and goin to bed having watched nothing.
A levelheaded take from somebody recovering from CO-VID19: LINK
I sincerely hope more of us will actually listen to people lke her a little bit more.
Based on the numbers (which aren't 100% accurate but it's what we have), about 80% or more who get it will be able to stay home and take care of it themselves. It's the ~20% who will require medical assistance that are the concern, especially the ~3.4% (or whatever it is now) who won't survive it.
If we can stay ahead of it and 'flatten the curve' the fatality rate will likely be lower. It's when the medical system gets overwhelmed like what is happening in Italy and Iran where the fatality rates go up because people requiring medical attention can't get it.
Work from home so I can pay the bills next month.
Just bought a bunch of whiskey in case things go south. Wife is shopping and found some TP stashed in the pet food aisle. I told her to get it. If nothing else we can sell the TP if we need to.
Just do like I did and stop wiping your ass.
darker blue, you were that close to an invite up to the farm to wait out the zombie apocalypse, but that last line shredded the invite....
Well that stinks
Ba dum tiss
I have a friend who bought a bidet toilet about 6 months ago for himself and his new wife, and he caught a lot of grief for it.
Now he is laughing about the toilet paper shortage.
Apparently bidets are the thing now on Amazon. When the TP is gone, people who have to sh-t will find a way. :)
Digging through the garage for the kid's Super Soaker just in case.
I hear there's a run on coolers in Ohio
Can someone explain to me the toilet paper shortage? I get sanitizer and medical masks (unnecessary, but understandable). Why are people hoarding TP? It doesn’t make sense and is fucking annoying for those that actually need to buy some.
Bidets are great. They come in handy during a TP shortage, but also the morning after a particularly spicy bowl of chili.
I was kinda thinking the same thing given the folks who shit on the sidewalks downtown.
" ... stop wiping your ass."
Since that's what we do with Rutger during football season, I'm sure they'll be very glad to hear it.
Heh, last Monday my wife made her regular monthly Costco run and saw people loading up on alcohol - wine, beer, spirits, the works. Literally cartfuls. Self-medication just might be the cure. Or at least help cope with the family you're stuck in the house with for weeks.
what's the Over/Under line on # of babies born in 9 months?
Whatever the line is set at, I'm taking the over!
had that same thought. wasn't there some black out in NY decades ago and 9 months later it was a baby bonanza.
If that's what it takes for people to get busy nowadays then I weep for the culture
It was just less than 2 years after September 11th. People were freaking out at first because no one knew what was going on. Once we found out it was just a blackout, everyone went crazy partying. One of the most fun nights of my life, a lot of us had a life long memory that popped out 9 months later, as you said!
Probably have a bottle of water from my spastic neighbor that has a stockpile from 1999. Wackos.
You can start tasting the plastic in bottled water after a few years hence why they have expiration dates. I imagine 20 year old bottled water tastes awful
Catching up on reading and tv shows. Keep putting off reading Malcom Gladwell's new book due to time-constraints.
I laughed.
I already live only 15 miles from Boulder, so I have an easy commute ahead.
I look forward to meeting Mother Abigail, Stu, Frannie (I hear she's hot!), Nick, Larry, Glen and Ralph there.
Fuck Harold though.
Fuck Harold indeed. Damn, that book was fantastic. The movie was fine, but the book excellent...
I have a rental property in Boulder.
I can tell you it is definitely NOT a "Free Zone." Bring high-limit credit cards.
I plan on stealing a piece of farm equipment everyday from Scott Frost until I have enough to start my own farm. And then I'll steal Scott Frost.
Careful, you know it's a package deal. You'll be getting momma too.
As long as a Fargo-style chipper is among the equipment, I suppose there’s a plausible use for Scott Frost.
March 13th, 2020 at 10:16 AM ^
He's gotta be good at something
Waiting for the vaccine. Global leaders have already done as poorly as possible managing this situation, most dramatically our own dear leader. Science will need to fix what our incompetent, biased, agenda driven minds once again made worse than necessary.
Love to hear your dumbass ideas on to handle this.......
Aw, where did Bo touch you, Paul? As he said, denial by Trump (this is just the truth, not some political hit job) that this was less harmful than the flu set back CDC and state and federal government agencies. You’d rather pout about the criticism because of your allegiance to a concept (that’s all your fucking political ideology is: a set of feelings) than the facts of what has happened.
Here’s what real leaders do: they listen to the experts and they hire experts in the fields in which they are hired. We should have had a National Emergency called the moment the virus made its way to US. Building a wall around a virus and a population weeks after it’s multiplied is a problematic delay. But yeah, he’s a dumbass because he Referenced your shitty excuse for a president.
Then what do call his actions from yesterday? A shot in the dark? Or listening to experts?
Listen, I get people don't like the man (and I don't support him either), but he has really no control over what has happened. The EU travel ban stuff is just lip service. The preparedness (or lack thereof) of the CDC etc is not his fault. Constantly blaming the ills of society on one powerless person has gotten really old.
"We should have had a National Emergency called the moment the virus made its way to US"
No no no. This is not how any expert in the field would approach this with the information they had at that time. You are using the benefit of hindsight. Glad you're not in charge.
"The preparedness (or lack thereof) of the CDC etc is not his fault."
Maybe not all but he sure did contribute to a large part of it.
https://fortune.com/2020/02/26/coronavirus-covid-19-cdc-budget-cuts-us-trump/