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Post by impulse on Mar 6, 2020 10:43:24 GMT -5
Well, this is disappointing. Found out about a concert I'd like to go to in town. Tickets are cheap (only $20, unheard of these days) and at a cool venue, but it's downtown. I saw there were 7 bands on the ticket, so I called box office for schedule. The headliner does not take stage until 11:40pm. PM!! AT NIGHT!! What???
This is not the life stage for me to go to things that start at midnight. I'm getting too old for that crap. Well, its not even me so much as it is the fact I have two kids under 6 years old that will wake up before 8am whether I go to bed at 10pm or 3am, so.... responsibilities!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 6, 2020 10:47:25 GMT -5
Well, this is disappointing. Found out about a concert I'd like to go to in town. Tickets are cheap (only $20, unheard of these days) and at a cool venue, but it's downtown. I saw there were 7 bands on the ticket, so I called box office for schedule. The headliner does not take stage until 11:40pm. PM!! AT NIGHT!! What??? This is not the life stage for me to go to things that start at midnight. I'm getting too old for that crap. Well, its not even me so much as it is the fact I have two kids under 6 years old that will wake up before 8am whether I go to bed at 10pm or 3am, so.... responsibilities! There are some really lovely things about empty-nesting.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Mar 7, 2020 3:19:30 GMT -5
So the panic wave of the Cornavirus has hit the west hard I've noticed. Particularly in the bay area I saw last weekend that people at Costcos were blitzing hard stocking up on bread, toilet paper, and rice. Same thing in Japan, after they took measures like shutting down schools indefinitely in addition to businesses shutting down public venues. My wife sent me this clip of people getting into a fracas in Australia over toilet paper: EDIT: Another one, also in Australia. Are you joking me? Also, apparently a knife was pulled between two people fighting over a pack of toilet paper. Last by not least, check out this photo: This is hilariously stupid. Also in Hong Kong a month ago, armed robbers stole a pallet of toilet paper from a distributor. I live in Macau, and this panic wave hit us about three and a half weeks back. My little market by my house was packed like never before. A ton of public places have been shut down, and schools are still closed. Now things are slowly going back to normal with some places reopening with limited hours. Probably going to be a while before this terror wave completely goes away. Folks are still wearing masks of course, but personally I think the fear has made people panic way too early. Buying seven big bags of rice like I heard someone do, is nuts at this point. I will say, I always enjoy fictional movies, television, and books that depict a world wide threat/pandemic that just showcases how quickly humans resort back to savages when their livelihood is severely threatened. Obviously there are aspects of many fiction stories that are just bullshit, but people acting like hooligans in the face of their own destruction is spot on. I will say, if things did get Stephen King-level bad, I wouldn't want to be in a place like the USA. I'd probably take my chances with the yahoos in a place like Japan.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 7, 2020 6:43:32 GMT -5
^^ Wait...so, the Japanese are all "yahoos"? That's a pretty offensive thing to say, BigPapaJoe. As for people panic buying because of Coronavirus, a few isolated incidents make the news and give the impression that it's widespread. It's just yet another example of the media exaggerating things in order to make a better story. I have seen some evidence of panic buying of hand sanitizer in London, but little other evidence of people's so-called "panic". Likewise, several newspapers here have had photographs of people wearing face masks on the London Underground on their front pages. But my wife commutes on the Underground for three hours every day and she hasn't seen a single soul wearing a face mask. So again, it's just the media exaggerating things. Basically, the level of concern over Coronavirus is way out of whack with the reality of the situation (due, in no small part, to the aforementioned media). Flu is far more deadly and nobody's wringing their hands over that. So far, just over 3,000 people have died of it worldwide, and only 2 here in the UK, but in the UK last year 15,000 people died of flu. Where are the font page news reports about flu? I guess it's just because Coronavirus is new and unknown, and so it's rather scary. And, of course, there's no vaccination for it at the moment. Also, it's worth remembering that 9,000,000 people die every year of hunger and starvation (or related diseases) worldwide, but nobody's reporting about that or panicking. Mostly because rich people don't tend to die of starvation.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Mar 7, 2020 7:39:07 GMT -5
^^ Wait...so, the Japanese are all "yahoos"? That's a pretty offensive thing to say, BigPapaJoe . As for people panic buying because of Coronavirus, a few isolated incidents make the news and give the impression that it's widespread. It's just yet another example of the media exaggerating things in order to make a better story. I have seen some evidence of panic buying of hand sanitizer in London, but little other evidence of people's so-called "panic". Likewise, several newspapers here have had photographs of people wearing face masks on the London Underground on their front pages. But my wife commutes on the Underground for three hours every day and she hasn't seen a single soul wearing a face mask. So again, it's just the media exaggerating things. Basically, the level of concern over Coronavirus is way out of whack with the reality of the situation (due, in no small part, to the aforementioned media). Flu is far more deadly and nobody's wringing their hands over that. So far, just over 3,000 people have died of it worldwide, and only 2 here in the UK, but in the UK last year 15,000 people died of flu. Where are the font page news reports about flu? I guess it's just because Coronavirus is new and unknown, and so it's rather scary. And, of course, there's no vaccination for it at the moment. Also, it's worth remembering that 9,000,000 people die every year of hunger and starvation (or related diseases) worldwide, but nobody's reporting about that or panicking. Mostly because rich people don't tend to die of starvation. Yeah that is offensive. Good thing I didn't say it. Unless you'd like to point out where I utilized the word "all" when referring to yahoos in Japan??? Even if I used that word in my sentence ("all the yahoos in Japan"), it wouldn't imply that all people in Japan are yahoos/crazy. "I'd probably take my chances with the yahoos in a place like Japan." does not equate to "all Japanese people are yahoos". Every place has yahoos i.e. every place has a contingent of people that are nutty. That's what I was implying. Sorry it wasn't clear enough.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 7, 2020 8:24:25 GMT -5
Basically, the level of concern over Coronavirus is way out of whack with the reality of the situation (due, in no small part, to the aforementioned media). Flu is far more deadly and nobody's wringing their hands over that. So far, just over 3,000 people have died of it worldwide, and only 2 here in the UK, but in the UK last year 15,000 people died of flu. Where are the font page news reports about flu? I guess it's just because Coronavirus is new and unknown, and so it's rather scary. And, of course, there's no vaccination for it at the moment. Also, it's worth remembering that 9,000,000 people die every year of hunger and starvation (or related diseases) worldwide, but nobody's reporting about that or panicking. Mostly because rich people don't tend to die of starvation. Well said! Humans are usually very, very bad at maths and have no natural grasp of statistics. When you tell them day after day that ten, twenty or fifty more people died yesterday of the coronavirus, they immediately envision a plague of biblical proportions without stopping to consider that roughly 3,000 people die each day in traffic accidents. Most media also thrive on flashy headlines and bite-sized information, a world in which things must either be absolutely great (“fantastic harvest of gold medals at the Olympics!”) or absolutely dismal (“we’re all gonna die!”) and where we only pay lip service to the principle of critical thought (“although it is too soon to be certain, we are all likely going to die horribly soon”). It wouldn’t be so bad if, in their panicked state, so many people didn’t act in a reprehensible way. Here we have witnessed several instances of racist acts (going from assault to vandalism) targeting people of Asian ancestry, because some morons out there think that the coronavirus is somehow associated with Asians (even when their forbears came west generations ago)... That’s just insane. And that’s the problem with borderline irresponsible, panic-inducing reporting, even when the facts are accurate. It does little to stop an epidemic, but does a lot to add a new psychosis to our problems.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 7, 2020 8:57:01 GMT -5
Yeah that is offensive. Good thing I didn't say it. Unless you'd like to point out where I utilized the word "all" when referring to yahoos in Japan??? Even if I used that word in my sentence ("all the yahoos in Japan"), it wouldn't imply that all people in Japan are yahoos/crazy. "I'd probably take my chances with the yahoos in a place like Japan." does not equate to "all Japanese people are yahoos". Fair enough. I'm glad that you weren't calling all Japanese people yahoos. I unfortunately misinterpreted your statement, "...take my chances with the yahoos in a place like Japan" as you dismissing the whole population of Japan as being "yahoos". My mistake. Please accept my appologies. I can't even see how someone would get that from my statement unless they either read it wrong, or are looking for something to get offended about/virtue signaling. Every place has yahoos i.e. every place has a contingent of people that are nutty. As noted above, I simply misinterpreted what you were saying. But to be pedantic, you could definitely use the words "...take my chances with the yahoos in a place like Japan" to indicate that you regarded all of the people living in a place like Japan as "yahoos". Whereas saying "...take my chances with the minority of yahoos you'd find in a place like Japan" makes it clearer that you are only referring to a small part of the population. Not that I'm telling you how to write your posts, you understand. Not at all. I'm just outlining the potential ambiguity of the English written word.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 7, 2020 9:03:06 GMT -5
It wouldn’t be so bad if, in their panicked state, so many people didn’t act in a reprehensible way. Here we have witnessed several instances of racist acts (going from assault to vandalism) targeting people of Asian ancestry, because some morons out there think that the coronavirus is somehow associated with Asians (even when their forbears came west generations ago)... That’s just insane. Yeah, there was a brutal attack on a young asian boy in London last week, by two youths who were yelling things like, "I don't want your f***ing Coronavirus!" and other racial slurs. This behaviour is moronic, but I'm inclined to think that even the dumbest thug wouldn't actually believe that asian people are the exclusive carriers of Coronavirus. Surely?! I think these people are simply racists, and something like the media's coverage of Coronavirus is just an excuse for these assholes to carry out the racially aggrivated attacks that they were probably fantasising about anyway.
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 7, 2020 16:40:19 GMT -5
The blame game seems to be the style of the times for some, meanwhile, as they used to say in Weimar Berlin 'your furs are swimming away from you'.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Mar 7, 2020 17:05:36 GMT -5
Speaking of Japan, check this out: www.tokyoreporter.com/japan/aichi-man-infected-with-coronavirus-goes-to-bars-to-spread-it/This would classify as a yahoo in Japan. BTW, someone brought up a good point that the America might be hit extra hard with this entire saga, due to people not willing to be quarantined. Since they'd have to be paying for all of these lab tests and screenings if it does happen. Some folks just won't be able to afford that. Especially with millions of Americans without health insurance/living paycheck to paycheck. And it's not like they'll self-quarantine either.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 23:49:35 GMT -5
For those that live in areas that observe Daylight Savings, don't forget to spring forward tonight.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 8, 2020 15:46:46 GMT -5
For those that live in areas that observe Daylight Savings, don't forget to spring forward tonight. -M The UK observes daylight saving, but our clocks don't "spring forward" until March 29th.
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Post by impulse on Mar 8, 2020 17:29:57 GMT -5
I really wish the powers that be would just abolish time changing. It's needlessly stressful.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2020 17:37:02 GMT -5
I do not understand, at all, the hoarding of Toilet paper.
then again, after my trip to Japan last year, we bought a Tushy Bidet attachment. . so we don't use much toilet paper these days.
he'll, we're only 1/2 way thru the 12 pack I bought before Thanksgiving.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 8, 2020 19:27:46 GMT -5
I do not understand, at all, the hoarding of Toilet paper. then again, after my trip to Japan last year, we bought a Tushy Bidet attachment. . so we don't use much toilet paper these days. he'll, we're only 1/2 way thru the 12 pack I bought before Thanksgiving. It might be due to my French ancestors, but I find the concept of the bidet far more hygienic and civilized than toilet paper. Cleanliness is next to godliness!
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