“On hearing ill rumour that Londoners may soon be urged into their lodgings by His Majesty’s men, I looked upon the street to see a gaggle of striplings making fair merry, and no doubt spreading the plague well about. Not a care had these rogues for the health of their elders!”
DownUnda we have discovered a heretofore untapped national stockpile of stupidity.
The pictures of Spring Break in Florida USA are similar and lo and behold over half a dozen of them have tested positive for COVID-19 now that they are back home with mom and dad again!!! I'm sure those numbers will go up leading to even more isolation time for even more people, we were all young once and did stupid things but I'd like to think putting my parents lives at risk wasn't one of mine.
BTW drinking English Leather is NOT recommended!!!
That's a lot of twine for me to get run over by. Obviously it would need quite a tug and a bit of misfortune to launch it at myself, but I imagine it's possible. Might even make the papers :) You know... one of those little snippets they pop in at the bottom of a column to fill up space... like: "man killed in bed by falling cow". They're reallyreally NOT funny, at all - but your nose goes and snorts hideously inappropriately anyway, or is that just me...?
:) Ooh it is lovely to see you all! :)
Kavanagh mentioned Londoners ... behaving badly. Yes. Well it really isn't difficult to see why so many residents of other areas aren't keen on us (I'm having to say "us", because it's where I live - and where my other half, and my two lovely children were born too - although they've observed I don't fit in here very well at all... no...) but having cornered a particular market in stupidity - it's topped off with lashings of selfishness that seem to really know no bounds :( We're not all like that - but there are enough of us that are, to entirely justify every hostility in response ...is my view anyway :) So places like Cornwall - and the peak district - suddenly find themselves swamped in potentially infected people filling up all the holiday homes etc... no doubt some of the ones who'd just emptied all the supermarkets in London :/ and who still probably don't think they've quite got enough food and whatnot to last them so empty theirs too.
I mean, of the pickings they left behind on the shelves for me, and others like me: the tinned and dried goods sections comprised - a few large packets of twig teas and coffee beans, and four tins of evaporated milk - which you had to crawl on your knees in order to reach.
Three bags of Caesar salad, loads of flowers, and some growing-herbs were the sole occupants of the fresh fruit and veg area; whilst 6 or 7 bags of ice, and one frozen bag of okra was the full complement of every single fridge in the "superstore". No toiletries and medications of any kind, apart from laxatives *... no cleaning agents except a spilled box of what might have been washing powder, some floor wax and a can of furniture polish; but plenty of clothes and all the most expensive of the spirits in the alcohol section. Which left me sadly pondering my one bag of salad, and a tin of evaporated milk on my way home, and wondering how I was going to turn them into dinner for humans and cats.
I could go on moaning for ages... but I'll give you all a break first. Be safe and well everyone :)
*is it just the UK that always uses women to advertise them? I've often wondered...
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That's a lot of twine for me to get run over by. Obviously it would need quite a tug and a bit of misfortune to launch it at myself, but I imagine it's possible. Might even make the papers :) You know... one of those little snippets they pop in at the bottom of a column to fill up space... like: "man killed in bed by falling cow". They're reallyreally NOT funny, at all - but your nose goes and snorts hideously inappropriately anyway, or is that just me...?
:) Ooh it is lovely to see you all! :)
Kavanagh mentioned Londoners ... behaving badly. Yes. Well it really isn't difficult to see why so many residents of other areas aren't keen on us (I'm having to say "us", because it's where I live - and where my other half, and my two lovely children were born too - although they've observed I don't fit in here very well at all... no...) but having cornered a particular market in stupidity - it's topped off with lashings of selfishness that seem to really know no bounds :( We're not all like that - but there are enough of us that are, to entirely justify every hostility in response ...is my view anyway :) So places like Cornwall - and the peak district - suddenly find themselves swamped in potentially infected people filling up all the holiday homes etc... no doubt some of the ones who'd just emptied all the supermarkets in London :/ and who still probably don't think they've quite got enough food and whatnot to last them so empty theirs too.
I mean, of the pickings they left behind on the shelves for me, and others like me: the tinned and dried goods sections comprised - a few large packets of twig teas and coffee beans, and four tins of evaporated milk - which you had to crawl on your knees in order to reach.
Three bags of Caesar salad, loads of flowers, and some growing-herbs were the sole occupants of the fresh fruit and veg area; whilst 6 or 7 bags of ice, and one frozen bag of okra was the full complement of every single fridge in the "superstore". No toiletries and medications of any kind, apart from laxatives *... no cleaning agents except a spilled box of what might have been washing powder, some floor wax and a can of furniture polish; but plenty of clothes and all the most expensive of the spirits in the alcohol section. Which left me sadly pondering my one bag of salad, and a tin of evaporated milk on my way home, and wondering how I was going to turn them into dinner for humans and cats.
I could go on moaning for ages... but I'll give you all a break first. Be safe and well everyone :)
*is it just the UK that always uses women to advertise them? I've often wondered...
Anniet I hope your pantry isn't as bare as you make it sound like it could be!! Here in the US alot of shelves are empty but not all day long every day, the stuff is on the shelves at different times of each depending on when the trucks get there. And with the stores becoming more aware of hoarders they are limiting the purchase of more and more things everyday..ie 2 items of almost everything in the grocery stores, which means couples are being sneaky by going thru different lines each with 2 items. The Managers are getting wise though and are discussing ways to stop that too, most people use credit cards so it's just a matter of matching what you are trying to buy today to what you've already bought today. BUT people will then use multiple cards and the computers will have to get even more involved by looking up addresses and then matching your purchases. Cash presents it's own problems as the cashiers don't work all day long so if the husband catches cashier A this morning the wife will probably catch cashier B this afternoon, but facial recognition will fix that to oby matching your face to your address. People already scream about the police using facial rec what will they think when the grocery store uses it??!!! Will they be willing to expose themselves as hoarders on social media to point out the grocery store is blocking their purchases?
DownUnda we have discovered a heretofore untapped national stockpile of stupidity.
We here in the US have also discovered a similar untapped national stockpile of stupidity. It is said that you "can't fix stupid" but behavior like this might just prove that you can. Survival of this fittest - they won't make the cut.
“On hearing ill rumour that
“On hearing ill rumour that Londoners may soon be urged into their lodgings by His Majesty’s men, I looked upon the street to see a gaggle of striplings making fair merry, and no doubt spreading the plague well about. Not a care had these rogues for the health of their elders!”
Samuel Pepys Diaries - London 1664
Richard
That's an interesting
That's an interesting quotation.
DownUnda we have discovered a heretofore untapped national stockpile of stupidity.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote:That's an
The pictures of Spring Break in Florida USA are similar and lo and behold over half a dozen of them have tested positive for COVID-19 now that they are back home with mom and dad again!!! I'm sure those numbers will go up leading to even more isolation time for even more people, we were all young once and did stupid things but I'd like to think putting my parents lives at risk wasn't one of mine.
BTW drinking English Leather is NOT recommended!!!
anniet.. and anyway, I still
Is this it?
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
That's a lot of twine for me
That's a lot of twine for me to get run over by. Obviously it would need quite a tug and a bit of misfortune to launch it at myself, but I imagine it's possible. Might even make the papers :) You know... one of those little snippets they pop in at the bottom of a column to fill up space... like: "man killed in bed by falling cow". They're really really NOT funny, at all - but your nose goes and snorts hideously inappropriately anyway, or is that just me...?
:) Ooh it is lovely to see you all! :)
Kavanagh mentioned Londoners ... behaving badly. Yes. Well it really isn't difficult to see why so many residents of other areas aren't keen on us (I'm having to say "us", because it's where I live - and where my other half, and my two lovely children were born too - although they've observed I don't fit in here very well at all... no...) but having cornered a particular market in stupidity - it's topped off with lashings of selfishness that seem to really know no bounds :( We're not all like that - but there are enough of us that are, to entirely justify every hostility in response ...is my view anyway :) So places like Cornwall - and the peak district - suddenly find themselves swamped in potentially infected people filling up all the holiday homes etc... no doubt some of the ones who'd just emptied all the supermarkets in London :/ and who still probably don't think they've quite got enough food and whatnot to last them so empty theirs too.
I mean, of the pickings they left behind on the shelves for me, and others like me: the tinned and dried goods sections comprised - a few large packets of twig teas and coffee beans, and four tins of evaporated milk - which you had to crawl on your knees in order to reach.
Three bags of Caesar salad, loads of flowers, and some growing-herbs were the sole occupants of the fresh fruit and veg area; whilst 6 or 7 bags of ice, and one frozen bag of okra was the full complement of every single fridge in the "superstore". No toiletries and medications of any kind, apart from laxatives *... no cleaning agents except a spilled box of what might have been washing powder, some floor wax and a can of furniture polish; but plenty of clothes and all the most expensive of the spirits in the alcohol section. Which left me sadly pondering my one bag of salad, and a tin of evaporated milk on my way home, and wondering how I was going to turn them into dinner for humans and cats.
I could go on moaning for ages... but I'll give you all a break first. Be safe and well everyone :)
* is it just the UK that always uses women to advertise them? I've often wondered...
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
anniet wrote:That's a lot of
Anniet I hope your pantry isn't as bare as you make it sound like it could be!! Here in the US alot of shelves are empty but not all day long every day, the stuff is on the shelves at different times of each depending on when the trucks get there. And with the stores becoming more aware of hoarders they are limiting the purchase of more and more things everyday..ie 2 items of almost everything in the grocery stores, which means couples are being sneaky by going thru different lines each with 2 items. The Managers are getting wise though and are discussing ways to stop that too, most people use credit cards so it's just a matter of matching what you are trying to buy today to what you've already bought today. BUT people will then use multiple cards and the computers will have to get even more involved by looking up addresses and then matching your purchases. Cash presents it's own problems as the cashiers don't work all day long so if the husband catches cashier A this morning the wife will probably catch cashier B this afternoon, but facial recognition will fix that to oby matching your face to your address. People already scream about the police using facial rec what will they think when the grocery store uses it??!!! Will they be willing to expose themselves as hoarders on social media to point out the grocery store is blocking their purchases?
Okay I am out of the rabbit hole and winning!!!
Mike Hewson wrote:That's an
We here in the US have also discovered a similar untapped national stockpile of stupidity. It is said that you "can't fix stupid" but behavior like this might just prove that you can. Survival of this fittest - they won't make the cut.
I apologise. That 'quote'
I apologise. That 'quote' from Pepys was a fake, I've been had by no less a person than one of the Thailand cave rescuers. I'll ponder my revenge.
Richard
Kavanagh wrote:I apologise.
Thank you for the update. Dang, and I had such fun trolling my friends via text with it.
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
cecht wrote:Kavanagh wrote:I
LOL!!!