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PIEBALDconsult15-Mar-20 4:44

PIEBALDconsult

15-Mar-20 4:44

Practicing for looting?

Daniel Pfeffer15-Mar-20 5:18

Daniel Pfeffer

15-Mar-20 5:18

True story:
Thirty years ago, my father took my sister on a trip to southern Italy. At one of of the petrol stations, he was asked if he wanted to buy a video recorder - "new, stolen just last night!"

Laugh | :laugh:

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CPallini15-Mar-20 7:10

15-Mar-20 7:10

Yes and, true story, they ripped me in Manchester, a while ago.
What the elephanting fuc#!

RickZeeland15-Mar-20 7:29

RickZeeland

15-Mar-20 7:29

I can recommend Manchester by the Sea (2016) - IMDb[^]
it does not have a happy ending though $Shucks | :-\$

CPallini15-Mar-20 7:33

15-Mar-20 7:33

I can recommend American Beauty (1999 film) - Wikipedia[^]. It doesn't have a happy ending either.

RickZeeland15-Mar-20 8:39

RickZeeland

15-Mar-20 8:39

Me too

CPallini15-Mar-20 7:01

15-Mar-20 7:01

Sorry?

peterkmx15-Mar-20 8:10

peterkmx

15-Mar-20 8:10

The same over here, more of less ...
All social life postponed (I don't mind ... Smile | :)

)
Luckily none is "hamstering"() food like a hamster Smile | :)

,
but there were some exceptions, and even here and there
some quarrels in the stores (quite stupid behavior of course,
this is what corona needs to spread more ...). I think the mortality
rate is 7% in known cases as of today, but not everyone over here
seems to be aware of that ...
Cheers, and keep the "solitary confinment" up Smile | :)

() oops.. sorry - this is "excessively storing" in Flemish/Dutch

modified 15-Mar-20 14:35pm.

CPallini15-Mar-20 8:48

15-Mar-20 8:48

Thank you for sharing your feelings (and for the one sensible reply). Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

RickZeeland15-Mar-20 10:16

RickZeeland

15-Mar-20 10:16

And watch it, no more sneaking over the border to visit cafe's in Zeeland $Shucks | :-\$

peterkmx15-Mar-20 22:59

peterkmx

15-Mar-20 22:59

yeah ... I could hardly resist to go on Friday ... And, on a more serious note, I think that the lockdown in Belgium was 2 days too late as now we have a surge to nearly 1000 cases ... Our offices are closed until 3rd of April and we are requested to work from home ...
Cheers, and stay safe ...

modified 16-Mar-20 5:10am.

I had a feeling this would happen - 2

RedDk15-Mar-20 10:42

RedDk

15-Mar-20 10:42

AH! THAT'S YOU?:
Kalimba player impales self on instrument[^]
PURCHASE:
Back on the horse[^]

... side effect of posting dumb comments in the Lounge => actual stuff worth buying ...

Richard MacCutchan15-Mar-20 2:29

Re: I had a feeling this would happen - 2

15-Mar-20 2:29

One of the forums showed a new message had been posted, but it was not on page 1. So I did a search and found a message relating to an answer that was posted 15 years ago. But, it was just saying thanks for the answer which is still valid 15 years later. So I can only conclude that the person who posted did a Google search for a particular problem, rather than opening a QA. If that is true then my faith in humanity has been notched up a tad.

David O'Neil15-Mar-20 10:10

David O'Neil

15-Mar-20 10:10

I'm so jaded I totally expected the ending to be about spam in some way, like bots were trying to post to old items. Glad to be wrong for once! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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Re: I had a feeling this would happen - 2

Richard MacCutchan15-Mar-20 12:25

Re: I had a feeling this would happen - 2

15-Mar-20 12:25

Also my first thought when I started to read it.

Mark_Wallace15-Mar-20 18:02

Mark_Wallace

15-Mar-20 18:02

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
my faith in humanity has been notched up a tad.

I don't know about all humanity.

That's the behaviour of someone who knows what he's doing, so he's one of the 0.03%.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

The worst Corona could have done

MehreenTahir14-Mar-20 22:57

MehreenTahir

14-Mar-20 22:57

My university is undergoing quarantine. All the classes have been cancelled, midterms postponed and all. We can't avail any facilities like gym or squash courts (now where am I supposed to take out my frustration Mad | :mad:

).

Worst is, we are being kicked out of hostels and forced to go home. Like why can't we do this quarantine thing at hostels and labs. I still have tons of work to finish. How am I supposed to do research at home? Hmmm | :|

I had squash tournament going on and my team qualified for nationals which is a big thing at least for me but here we are with Corona......EVERYTHING cancelled.

I was literally completely unbothered by the virus until now since I'm not afraid of dying or what so ever but this shut-down is making me go nuts now. I think this shut down is much worse than virus itself. Bankruptcy rate will go much higher than death rate. Whatever Hmmm | :|

OriginalGriff14-Mar-20 23:07

OriginalGriff

14-Mar-20 23:07

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This isn't about young healthy people getting sick, this is about preventing the spread of a pandemic and limiting it's growth rate to that which medical facilities can cope with. Because it kills 3.5% of all infected persons, and if everyone on the planet gets infected that's around 250,000,000 people who die as a result. The slower it spreads, the better medical facilities can handle it, and the lower the death rate.

And large (or even medium sized) groups of young people are a damn fine way to spread this around, particularly since it seems you can be infectious without showing symptoms. So stop whining about what are in the broad scheme of things minor hiccoughs, and think about your duties to your fellow human beings...

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modified 15-Mar-20 5:20am.

Richard MacCutchan14-Mar-20 23:15

14-Mar-20 23:15

Nothing to see here.

modified 15-Mar-20 8:10am.

OriginalGriff14-Mar-20 23:22

OriginalGriff

14-Mar-20 23:22

You're right, and I have removed it. Blush | :O

An overreaction on my part: I should have remembered that the advice "never compose email while snarling" also applies to forum posts.

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Richard MacCutchan14-Mar-20 23:33

14-Mar-20 23:33

We've all done it.

Nelek15-Mar-20 1:45

Nelek

15-Mar-20 1:45

He deleted the comment. I think you should too delete the quote

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Richard MacCutchan15-Mar-20 2:10

15-Mar-20 2:10

Thanks, I have done so.

Jörgen Andersson14-Mar-20 23:44

Jörgen Andersson

14-Mar-20 23:44

If there is a spread in universities and schools, shutting them down is the most stupid thing you can do. Now all sick students will go home to their parents...

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello