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Post by Ness on Sept 3, 2021 14:37:20 GMT
Destination wedding is some bullshit in itself. All that pomp and circumstance for a union not likely to last.
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Post by Big Pete on Sept 3, 2021 15:37:28 GMT
🤯, how well does she know your family? Can we come up with a great uncle Louie who needs help getting rid of varmints in his attics and they recently attracted rabies? Get III on the act and you could be saved. Also I know it's dirty pool, but you could always play the son card. Learn how to create fake vomit and get a fake temp reading and surely that will mean you get to stay home, put your feet up and watch some Ted Lasso. Fallback plan, we'll call it the Big gamebit where you pretend your 13 year old self has inhabit your body and you can't be taken anywhere without causing a scene. Can we work an allergies angle into this? Or fake a zombie invasion that forces you to stay inside?
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Post by nath45 on Sept 3, 2021 20:41:33 GMT
What's the worst feeling in the world? Checking the mail and seeing a wedding imvite. I can one up that. Forgetting to invite the person that introduced my wife and I and the celebrant asking her to stand up and wave after putting her over.
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Post by iNCY on Sept 4, 2021 1:43:13 GMT
What's the worst feeling in the world? Checking the mail and seeing a wedding imvite. Absolutely agree, so over weddings. I don't enjoy them, not even really my own My record: Groom x 1 Best man x 4 Groomsman x 1 I don't really have any friends now, so I don't expect this to happen again. That might be more than what I listed though. 🤯 I'm confused. Did you literally receive the invitation on the same day as the wedding? Normally you receive the invitation months in advance...so wouldn't you have made the decision to go then? Family friend of Wife's, practically a sister. Original plan I think had been for them to get married destination style in Italy. Corona changed those plans last year. We got the invite to this Plan B maybe a month or so ago? Recall feeling like it was very last minute, but considering the girl's personality and the Covid monkey wrench... It kinda fit the bill. We RSVP'd yes at the time, but then like immediately afterward the delta variant shit started going hog wild. Even without corona, I would've preferred to sit this one out. It's a bunch of uppity ego-driven elitist white suburbanites gathering at a country club. Fuck that scene. But now add things like you getting corona'd, or c jacking my anxiety, or just in general the anecdotal stuff seen on Instagram or reddit of friends or people getting sick, and I'm like... Is this worth it? I mean, to me the answer would be no regardless of corona. But now is corona at least a viable excuse for expressing my desire to not go? Anyway... Back to watching rad's PW Wrestling rrrrumble!!! I totally get doing the RSVP thing and noping right out because you hate people... I can see me wanting to do that but not being able to because of my conscience.. Which is my wife. But if it's a Covid thing, why the heck aren't you vaxxed and if you are... What's the problem?
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Post by 🤯 on Sept 4, 2021 1:54:50 GMT
What's the worst feeling in the world? Checking the mail and seeing a wedding imvite. Absolutely agree, so over weddings. I don't enjoy them, not even really my own My record: Groom x 1 Best man x 4 Groomsman x 1 I don't really have any friends now, so I don't expect this to happen again. That might be more than what I listed though. Family friend of Wife's, practically a sister. Original plan I think had been for them to get married destination style in Italy. Corona changed those plans last year. We got the invite to this Plan B maybe a month or so ago? Recall feeling like it was very last minute, but considering the girl's personality and the Covid monkey wrench... It kinda fit the bill. We RSVP'd yes at the time, but then like immediately afterward the delta variant shit started going hog wild. Even without corona, I would've preferred to sit this one out. It's a bunch of uppity ego-driven elitist white suburbanites gathering at a country club. Fuck that scene. But now add things like you getting corona'd, or c jacking my anxiety, or just in general the anecdotal stuff seen on Instagram or reddit of friends or people getting sick, and I'm like... Is this worth it? I mean, to me the answer would be no regardless of corona. But now is corona at least a viable excuse for expressing my desire to not go? Anyway... Back to watching rad's PW Wrestling rrrrumble!!! I totally get doing the RSVP thing and noping right out because you hate people... I can see me wanting to do that but not being able to because of my conscience.. Which is my wife. But if it's a Covid thing, why the heck aren't you vaxxed and if you are... What's the problem? We're vaxxed. Concern I guess is transmitting back to son somehow. But fuck it, we're here. And Wife is loving it. She, being the extrovert has missed this. Me, whether introverted or just hating most people, am realizing just how much I took the worst of the pandemic for granted. I feel bad saying this within b earshot of our Aussie brothers, but I could go for us getting locked down hard again.
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Post by System on Sept 4, 2021 7:20:57 GMT
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Post by c on Sept 4, 2021 7:30:07 GMT
That is the default policy of 0 tolerance lockdowns right? Two weeks at 0 for thresholds.
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Post by System on Sept 4, 2021 8:05:27 GMT
That is the default policy of 0 tolerance lockdowns right? Two weeks at 0 for thresholds. What I’m confused about is, article is posted on Sep 3 saying there needs to be 14 days of zero cases by Sep 10 for us not to be in lockdown until October… When there has already been cases so that’s not going to happen so why even publish it? Unless I’m really misinterpreting it
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Post by c on Sept 4, 2021 8:10:46 GMT
Think the problem is assuming it was actually news of merit and not just another article to keep the news moving.
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Post by Big Pete on Sept 4, 2021 11:32:11 GMT
Damn 🤯 what happened to you 'growing a tail' or 'turning into a frog' to get out of the wedding? -_- Did they at least seat you at Table 19?
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Post by 🤯 on Sept 4, 2021 15:28:02 GMT
Damn 🤯 what happened to you 'growing a tail' or 'turning into a frog' to get out of the wedding? -_- Did they at least seat you at Table 19? Nope. Table 1. Dafuq is that!? I did rip silent but deadlies out of spiteful protest throughout the entire toasts and dinner portion though.
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Post by c on Sept 4, 2021 23:18:02 GMT
Mr. No Reasonable Person Could Believe, Tucker Carlson on the air with this gem:
Of course no reasonable person could believe that he is suggesting getting fake vaccination cards or doing so is not a serious crime.
Nursing homes are claiming if you force the staff to be vaccinated there will be severe worker shortages and are trying to leverage this into allowing them to continue giving the patients COVID and killing them.
Mu variant spreading widely in the US now. FREEDOM~! means we can cross breed the Mu and Delta variants to create a far superior strain that we will gift the world.
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Post by c on Sept 5, 2021 0:16:07 GMT
My favorite US COVID news, a group of parents after their kid was sent home to quarantine went to the principals office of the school and attacked the principle and zip tied him for a citizen's arrest. Schools and school boards are considering budgeting for private security to protect against violence from anti-vax parents that has been increasing over the last few months. Armed private security use will likely grow as the violence continue to grow.
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Post by Ness on Sept 5, 2021 0:24:38 GMT
There's two ways of looking at is. Either they're just crazy anti-vax and they're getting more extreme (terrorism when?) or they really don't like they're kid and they turn violent to anyone that makes them forced to be around them.
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Post by c on Sept 5, 2021 0:36:53 GMT
Can't wait to see our freedom fighters bring their super COVID to the world after delta passes. Main reason for all the fake papers is to be able to travel.
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Post by Ness on Sept 5, 2021 0:39:11 GMT
Can't wait to see our freedom fighters bring their super COVID to the world after delta passes. Main reason for all the fake papers is to be able to travel. If I'm going down I'm taking you all with me.
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Post by c on Sept 5, 2021 0:46:01 GMT
US citizens are literally a bioweapon at this point...
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Post by Ness on Sept 5, 2021 1:10:40 GMT
US citizens are literally a bioweapon at this point... When you turn Coming 2 America from a comedy to a disaster film.
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Post by c on Sept 6, 2021 3:33:56 GMT
In the last six weeks over 1000 schools closed due to overwhelming COVID levels. If only there was someway to see reopening schools would be a disaster.
Schools that stayed open are seeing their elderly or compromised teachers quitting, and other teachers dying, so the teacher shortage is leading some schools to close simply from lack of staff. In the death cycle as well, as each teacher that quits makes the job harder on those who remain, increasing the likelihood of someone else quitting. Hitting rural areas worse than urban areas, which is no surprise.
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Post by c on Sept 6, 2021 19:01:55 GMT
New shortage in the US, this time ECMO machines, or artificial blood oxygenators. Read a great article on the debate of their usage, but basically since they are so expensive to use and only give a 50% survival rate for COVID patients on them, many insurance companies do not wish to cover the cost and many small hospitals cannot afford the cost of the staff to run them. So only the major hospitals have them, and most are refusing to accept transfers of patients who need them due to limited availability so the sick people just have to take their odds with nature. Course of treatment with one is usually months long, so only time the machines really open up now is if someone dies.
Of course those who can afford it and get a machine and hire a nurse to monitor it in their homes. For the rest, you will likely die before a machine opens up.
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Post by iNCY on Sept 7, 2021 1:31:22 GMT
No haircut in 2 months, I look like a wooly mammoth, best case scenario I get a haircut at the end of the month.
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Post by Ness on Sept 7, 2021 2:25:36 GMT
So I've shaved my head (myself) 2x in a year and a half. Just gotten so used to not going (usually every other month). Least my hair hasn't stopped growing I suppose.
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Post by c on Sept 7, 2021 2:43:09 GMT
I shave my hair too. Every few months I will just buzz it off. Do not really get why it is the end of the world for people not to get their regular cut treatment.
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Post by c on Sept 7, 2021 2:47:47 GMT
Court in Ohio that ordered a hospital to treat a patient with COVID with the horse dewormer in human form had a reckoning. Issued an order from a different judge that voided the order and detailed why it was a stupid idea.
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Post by c on Sept 7, 2021 17:58:22 GMT
US hit 75% for eligible people getting one shot of the vaccine. Country is increasingly split into areas where most people are either vaccinated or they are not. The places where people are not vaccinated also oppose mask mandates, so problem will sort itself out sooner or later. 13% of the US population is under 12 so no vaccine which drops the overall number to 62%. For some reason we report not eligible vaccination but vaccination as percent of total population by default.
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Post by c on Sept 8, 2021 5:31:37 GMT
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Post by iNCY on Sept 9, 2021 5:26:06 GMT
Just when I think the part of Australia I love is dead and buried. We get this masterpiece of a Covid-19 vaccination ad.
Which I am sure will not resonate with the rest of the world.
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Post by c on Sept 9, 2021 11:06:20 GMT
COVID child deaths are accelerating in the US now. In some places more kids died in the last 45 days than the first 18 months of the pandemic. Opening the schools without a good plan clearly paying off for team COVID.
Pretty funny that transmission rates for delta are lowing in both Mexico and Canada right now but the US blames the COVID outbreaks on illegal crossings.
Aussie data is weird this past month. It is pretty much linear, which is strange as it should be curvilinear and exponential. The outbreak they had last year was also linear. It is clear too you all plan to open up doing the worst outbreak of the pandemic which is utterly nutty and will be disastrous. Hope you all are vaccinated, as COVID will rapidly spread throughout the country and hospitals there are already overloaded.
Lockdown in the end will be successful, but with this arbitrary premature end it may be for nothing.
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Post by iNCY on Sept 9, 2021 11:10:07 GMT
COVID child deaths are accelerating in the US now. In some places more kids died in the last 45 days than the first 18 months of the pandemic. Opening the schools without a good plan clearly paying off for team COVID. Pretty funny that transmission rates for delta are lowing in both Mexico and Canada right now but the US blames the COVID outbreaks on illegal crossings. Aussie data is weird this past month. It is pretty much linear, which is strange as it should be curvilinear and exponential. The outbreak they had last year was also linear. It is clear too you all plan to open up doing the worst outbreak of the pandemic which is utterly nutty and will be disastrous. Hope you all are vaccinated, as COVID will rapidly spread throughout the country and hospitals there are already overloaded. Lockdown in the end will be successful, but with this arbitrary premature end it may be for nothing. We are still in lockdown c, so our r0 is hovering around 1.4. Cases seem to be doubling every 10 days.
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Post by c on Sept 9, 2021 12:03:43 GMT
I know you are still in lockdown but from what I seen the plan is to end the lockdowns in the very near future. Once lockdowns are lifted it will spread like wildfire.
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