Syrah 3/11/2020 5:08:09 PM

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I have it on good authority from someone in the thread below that If we all run in circles in full panic mode, we will be way to busy to drop dead. 

Screaming is optional.

Syrah 3/11/2020 5:11:18 PM

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I did all my panic buying about a month ago so I am in good shape. 

The water shortage in the stores surprised me a bit. We live in a rain forest, the tap water is just fine and it is one of the few infrastructure it ms that does not require a lot of personnel to keep running. 

Syrah 3/11/2020 5:13:33 PM

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People like to panic. 

People, generally, enjoy being a little bit frightened.

that is why horror movies sell so well. 

I think that half the problem with the Wuhan Virus Panic is that people are kind of enjoying the excitement of being in a largely safe crisis. 

midwestgak 3/11/2020 5:27:39 PM

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Will or will there not be a Biden/Sanders debate?

Place your bets.  

Syrah 3/11/2020 5:37:49 PM

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Reply to midwestgak in 4:

The only way that Biden would debate Bernie at this point is if he is asleep at the switch,....so I am going to say there is still a chance  

buzzsawmonkey 3/11/2020 5:43:54 PM

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In #4 midwestgak said: Will or will there not be a Biden/Sanders debate?

Of course there will be a debate.  They're both shills, and the script demands they both dodder up to the podium to prove to the rubes that Biden is still alive.

midwestgak 3/11/2020 5:52:09 PM

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JCM 3/11/2020 5:59:11 PM

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Reply to midwestgak in 4:

Biden wears a surgical mask.

Bernie coughs into his hand right before shaking Joe's hand.

JCM 3/11/2020 6:03:03 PM

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I still have surreal feeling when I see DJT as POTUS.

JCM 3/11/2020 6:05:36 PM

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Syrah 3/11/2020 6:14:50 PM

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“The cold and flu season” ends in May. 

Trump will have an opportunity to claim credit for beating the Virus.

The Democrats will hate that. 

Syrah 3/11/2020 6:15:55 PM

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Biden still won’t be able to draw any sizable crowds after the panic is over in May.  

Syrah 3/11/2020 6:17:18 PM

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midwestgak 3/11/2020 6:18:54 PM

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In #9 JCM said: I still have surreal feeling when I see DJT as POTUS.

You are not alone feeling that way.  

doppelganglander 3/11/2020 6:19:41 PM

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Reply to JCM in 9:

Oddly, I don't mind listening to him speak. I couldn't bear Obama or GWB, let alone Bill Clinton. Trump was subdued tonight, appropriately. The funny thing is, he's terrible at reading the teleprompter but great off the cuff - the exact opposite of Obama.

doppelganglander 3/11/2020 6:21:55 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 13:

Syrah 3/11/2020 6:23:35 PM

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Syrah 3/11/2020 6:25:31 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 16:

it even looks like Biden. 

JCM 3/11/2020 6:29:50 PM

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doppelganglander 3/11/2020 6:31:59 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 17:

They've only had 460 cases. I think they've got a better handle on it than, say, Italy. That could change, of course. 

I'm not worried about my son and his family. They live in a very small town that's not a tourist destination. They go to Cambridge every week for my granddaughter's Russian class and I'm hoping they stop for now - lots of international visitors there. 

buzzsawmonkey 3/11/2020 6:32:38 PM

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Reply to JCM in 19:

He was already cut off in the prime of life...

doppelganglander 3/11/2020 6:33:00 PM

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Reply to JCM in 19:

But I was told that if you try to prevent a person from changing their gender, they're more likely to commit suicide!

midwestgak 3/11/2020 6:33:44 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 18:

As does Walter.

https://images.app.goo.gl/XqfcQXyAfvMADiQHA

midwestgak 3/11/2020 6:38:01 PM

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Test

midwestgak 3/11/2020 6:39:39 PM

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Reply to midwestgak in 24:

Easier than I thought. 

buzzsawmonkey 3/11/2020 6:41:46 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 22:

Clementine (updated)

Since the trend is towards “transgender”

And has been so for some time

A young minor sans vagina

Declared he was “Clementine”

You must call me, you must call me

You must call me “Clementine”—

Though my given name is Clement

You must call me “Clementine.”

He said he was “non-binary”

Hewing to the party line

And he’d frown at the wrong pronoun

Because he was “Clementine”

You must call me, you must call me

You must call me “Clementine”—

Though my given name is Clement

You must call me “Clementine.”

With hormone blockers and fake knockers,

Litigation for a time,

The court system did assist him

In becoming “Clementine”

You must call me, you must call me

You must call me “Clementine”—

Though my given name is Clement

You must call me “Clementine.”

But alas for our heroine!

Eventually he did find

Drugs and trimmin’ don’t make women

Deep down, he was masculine

Oh my darling, oh my darling,

Oh my darling “Clementine”—

What’s cut off is gone forever 

Dreadful sorry, Clementine.

midwestgak 3/11/2020 6:56:53 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 26:

A bit off topic, or is it?  A 20-ish year old woman at the store (dressed in 70s color-style tights and hair having various shades of pink and purple) met an acquaintance in the self checkout area.  After a brief recognition, The woman announced to the acquaintance, "This is my son, Ed-iquette."

A fine name for a boy, no?

buzzsawmonkey 3/11/2020 6:59:12 PM

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In #27 midwestgak said: A fine name for a boy, no?

Very Emily Post-Modern.

Kosh's Shadow 3/11/2020 6:59:38 PM

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Just looked at my town's results for the Presidential primary.

While Bernie won the Democrap race, Trump got more votes than he did,

buzzsawmonkey 3/11/2020 7:00:53 PM

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Reply to midwestgak in 27:

BTW, back in the days when I was working at Lane Bryant, we'd routinely get women storming out of the dressing rooms, saying, "I'm not going to change next door to that!"

Lane Bryant, since it catered to the "plus sizes," was a favorite shopping destination for drag queens.

Kosh's Shadow 3/11/2020 7:13:28 PM

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In #30 buzzsawmonkey said: drag queens.

Jukebox

Kosh's Shadow 3/11/2020 7:18:38 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 31:

This, however. is probably the jukebox you were expecting

(How could you be expecting? Where's the fetus gonna gestate? In a box?)

doppelganglander 3/11/2020 7:23:56 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 26:

+++++++

doppelganglander 3/11/2020 7:26:36 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 29:

The most underreported story of the primaries. Georgia isn't even having a Republican primary, but in those states that are, Trump is racking up more votes than he did in 2016. People are coming out for a purely symbolic vote to show support for the President. Extraordinary.

Kosh's Shadow 3/11/2020 7:33:46 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 34:

Trump will win in a landslide, if we don't die of COVID-19 first

Right now, his opponents are Socialism or Senility

midwestgak 3/11/2020 7:36:29 PM

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In #34 doppelganglander said: Extraordinary

An indicator of the outcome this November.  Good luck CNN et al. poll testers/propagandist.

midwestgak 3/11/2020 7:40:19 PM

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In #35 Kosh's Shadow said: Trump will win in a landslide

Is there a yuuuger word for 'landslide?"

midwestgak 3/11/2020 7:41:50 PM

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Reply to midwestgak in 36:  propagandists

midwestgak 3/11/2020 7:42:52 PM

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Time to fly.

Swooosh

doppelganglander 3/11/2020 8:08:09 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 35:

Yep. 

JCM 3/11/2020 8:18:16 PM

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deploy a new modem.

Since I'm working from home I upgrade from 8ch to 32ch modem.

But it failed to intialize.