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Bronze Fonz: Feb 14, 2019

My favorite comedian was gonna do a show about mental health, now he got fired because of coronavirus.

Thanks Twitter!

# ? Feb 24, 2020 03:28

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# ? May 30, 2024 10:29

Hadlock: Nov 9, 2004

Bronze Fonz posted:

My favorite comedian was gonna do a show about mental health, now he got fired because of coronavirus.

Thanks Twitter!

The guy who intentionally broke quarrintine to introduce covid-19 to the US is your favorite anything? Cool story

# ? Feb 24, 2020 03:50

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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Hadlock posted:

The guy who intentionally broke quarrintine to introduce covid-19 to the US is your favorite anything? Cool story

I wonder what username he posts under

# ? Feb 24, 2020 03:51

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Hadlock posted:

The guy who intentionally broke quarrintine to introduce covid-19 to the US is your favorite anything? Cool story

Wait what?

# ? Feb 24, 2020 03:54

Bronze Fonz: Feb 14, 2019

Yeah, this fucko:
https://twitter.com/theMHcomedian

Former writer for Jay Leno, of all people, who snuck out of the hotel where he was quarantined because he had "speaking engagements back home and didn't want to lose money".

He definitely lost that gig and any other future bookings, at least for a while.

Apparently putting millions at risk was worth 9k.

# ? Feb 24, 2020 03:57

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Wait a minute.

Jay Leno had writers?

# ? Feb 24, 2020 03:59

MarcusSA: Sep 23, 2007

Bronze Fonz posted:

Yeah, this fucko:
https://twitter.com/theMHcomedian

Former writer for Jay Leno, of all people, who snuck out of the hotel where he was quarantined because he had "speaking engagements back home and didn't want to lose money".

He definitely lost that gig and any other future bookings, at least for a while.

Apparently putting millions at risk was worth 9k.

loving lol he�s getting lit up in the comments

https://twitter.com/themhcomedian/status/1230521371811143680?s=21

He is also wrong and a loving dumbass.

# ? Feb 24, 2020 04:00

Bronze Fonz: Feb 14, 2019

infernal machines posted:

Wait a minute.

Jay Leno had writers?

This was the part I found the most shocking too.

His first tweet got a lot more attention:

https://twitter.com/theMHcomedian/status/1229610312367853568

# ? Feb 24, 2020 04:01

Shumagorath: Jun 6, 2001

There needs to be a tour of hecklers showing up to all his gigs with surgical masks and coughing non-stop.

# ? Feb 24, 2020 04:16

GoutPatrol: Oct 17, 2009; *Stupid Babby*

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Spare a thought for all of those people on holiday in Europe who aren't being subjected to obnoxious Chinese tourist groups at the moment.

But they still could get some Wu Flu:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/23/world/europe/italy-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

# ? Feb 24, 2020 06:21

Atopian: Sep 23, 2014; I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.

EasternBronze posted:

I am just going to interject here because it is topical, but China only legalized marriage with foreigners back in 1983.

Also, I love and trust my wife but having a joint account? That is just asking for trouble, especially in China.

For security reasons, if nothing else.

By all means share money roughly equally, but in a series of individual accounts, so that neither accident not design can let all of them be emptied at once.

# ? Feb 24, 2020 11:18

Fallen Hamprince: Nov 12, 2016

https://twitter.com/YuanfenYang/status/1231915399723139072?s=20

China's got the WHO doing brand plugs like its the Olympics. The Coronavirus response, brought to you by Huawei

# ? Feb 24, 2020 13:58

Atopian: Sep 23, 2014; I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.

Something something low latency period.

# ? Feb 24, 2020 14:43

Zernach: Oct 23, 2012

Fallen Hamprince posted:

China's got the WHO doing brand plugs like its the Olympics. The Coronavirus response, bought to you by Huawei

# ? Feb 24, 2020 14:52

oohhboy: Jun 8, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Are they praising them for making phone calls? WHO does that?

# ? Feb 24, 2020 15:40

Warbadger: Jun 17, 2006

It does if it wants even the appearance of cooperation from the CCP.

# ? Feb 24, 2020 15:51

Mozi: Apr 4, 2004; Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die; Nap Ghost

i doubt that. they're just too afraid to call their bluff

what's the CCP going to do? anything to reduce cooperation will just end up hurting themselves as well

besides it's out of China at this point anyways so who cares about Xi's feewings

these WHO officials were probably all bought and paid for a long time ago

# ? Feb 24, 2020 15:55

Rent-A-Cop: Oct 15, 2004; I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

Couldn't buy FIFA, bought WHO instead.

Gotta be good at something!

# ? Feb 24, 2020 16:08

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Rent-A-Cop posted:

Couldn't buy FIFA, bought WHO instead.

Gotta be good at something!

Pretty much. Just in case anyone thought that the WHO wasn't a fully-owned subsidiary of the CCP. (it really is worth reading for those of you not familiar with the WHO's CCP dick-licking)

Wikipedia posted:

Taiwanese membership and participation
Between 2009 and 2016 Taiwan was allowed to attend WHO meetings and events as an observer but was forced to stop due to renewed pressure from China.[150]

Political pressure from China has led to Taiwan being barred from membership of the WHO and other UN-affiliated organizations, and in 2017 to 2020 the WHO refused to allow Taiwanese delegates to attend the WHO annual assembly.[151] On multiple occasions Taiwanese journalists have been denied access to report on the assembly.[152]

In May 2018, the WHO denied access to its annual assembly by Taiwanese media reportedly due to demands from China.[153] Later in May 172 members of the United States House of Representatives wrote to the Director General of the World Health Organization to argue for Taiwan's inclusion as an observer at the WHA.[154] The United States, Japan, Germany, and Australia all support Taiwan's inclusion in WHO.[155]

Pressure to allow Taiwan to participate in WHO increased as a result of the 2019�2020 Coronavirus outbreak with Taiwan's exclusion from emergency meetings concerning the outbreak bringing a rare united front from Taiwan's diverse political parties. Taiwan's main opposition party, the KMT, expressed their anger at being excluded arguing that disease respects neither politics nor geography. China once again dismissed concerns over Taiwanese inclusion with the Foreign Minister claiming that no-one cares more about the health and wellbeing of the Taiwanese people than the China's central government.[156] During the outbreak Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau[157] voiced his support for Taiwan's participation in WHO as did Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.[150] In January 2020 the European Union, a WHO observer, backed Taiwan's participation in WHO meetings related to the Coronavirus outbreak as well as their general participation.[158]

Reactions to WHO response in 2019-20 novel coronavirus outbreak (COVID19)
WHO faced criticism for its conduct over the novel coronavirus outbreak: the WHO has been criticized for not providing clarity when it said on 14 January that there was "limited" human-to-human transmission of the virus only to retract the statement later that same day to say there was "no evidence of human-to-human transmission". Critics have said that the declaration for "a global health emergency" should have come sooner.[164] Xi Jinping had urged the WHO to assess the "epidemic situation in an objective, just, calm and reasonable way", and critics have hypothesized this was an appeal to protect China's economy which influenced the WHO's decision.[165] As a consequence, the WHO had advised "against the application of any restrictions of international traffic based on the information currently available on this event".[165]

A wide range of opinions towards the WHO's response have been issued since the start of the outbreak. John Mackenzie of the WHO's emergency committee and Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Washington suggested that China's official tally of cases and deaths was an underestimation, while others noted that China lumped Taiwan with the semi-autonomous regions of Hong Kong and Macao when reporting outbreak data.[166][167][168] Alexandra Phelan of Georgetown University said that the lockdown "should be called out, both for their human rights implication and their very limited public health impact" but reasoned that Tedros would dare not speak out in order to ensure China's co-operation.[169] An unnamed United Nations diplomat said that the "WHO is so much in thrall to China's influence, they have felt compelled to stay close to China's line on this crisis...to downplay this virus...until its position became untenable".[167] Taiwan, for refusing the adhere to the "One China" policy, was only granted participation at the WHO for this outbreak after "lobbying by countries including the U.S."[170][171] Some attacked WHO director-general Tedros for his apparent appeasement to avoid "antagoniz[ing] the notoriously touchy Chinese government", however others defended this strategy in order "to ensure Beijing�s co-operation in mounting an effective global response to the outbreak", leading to further criticism that such a stance "puts [the] WHO�s moral authority at risk". Tedros also drew criticism for delaying the declaration that the outbreak was a global emergency, leaving to an online petition calling for his resignation.[168][172][169]

# ? Feb 24, 2020 19:40

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

Atopian posted:

For security reasons, if nothing else.

By all means share money roughly equally, but in a series of individual accounts, so that neither accident not design can let all of them be emptied at once.

It's not uncommon in Japan and Korea for the husband to give all money over to the wife and receive an allowance, I do not know if that's a thing in China. Lol at doing that, either way.

# ? Feb 24, 2020 21:59

Meme Poker Party: Sep 1, 2006; by Azathoth

This is way to lol too not repost. Hot off the r/relationships thread.

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for not wanting to let my daughter see her maternal grandparents anymore?

Context - I am a widower with a 15-year old daughter. My late wife passed away from health complications when my daughter was 11. I've raised her by myself ever since.

My wife came from a Chinese background, and her parents are Chinese nationals. When my wife was still with us, our whole family took annual trips to China for Lunar New Year. My wife made me promise to continue the tradition with our daughter after she passed, so every year I've taken my daughter to China to see my wife's family.

Last year, my daughter's maternal grandparents told me I should let her be more independent and go alone. Fair enough; she was 14 then, and would only be alone in the airport and the plane, since my wife's family would pick her up and take care of her when she arrived.

While my daughter was in China, my messages to my parents-in-law regarding when my daughter would return home when unanswered. NBD, probably just busy with the celebration, it gets hectic, I understand.

I went to the airport on her return date to pick her up.

And then my daughter failed to arrive.

I cannot describe how terrified I was when I waited over 2 hours with no sign of her. I was loving scared out of my mind. I called up the airline, and was told my daughter never boarded the plane. I called my parents-in-law again for hours in a row, until finally, they messaged me back (did not take a call on purpose) and apologized. Said that my daughter had missed her flight by accident and everything was OK. I asked when I should book the return flight and was told how they would book the flight as it was their fault she missed it.

1 WEEK LATER they send me details about my daughter's return flight and I rushed to pick her up. She was in tears when she came out of the gate. Turns out, my parents-in-law spent the whole time in China trying to strong-arm her into staying in China for good. Her maternal grandmother kept telling my daughter how her health was failing and she wanted my daughter to stay by her side. I later learned they went as far as to review possible legal actions they could take to seize legal guardianship of my daughter from me - no such chance, thank God.

I'm FURIOUS at them. I made every effort to let them have a relationship with her, and they repay me by traumatizing my daughter and literally trying to KIDNAP her.

I now want my daughter to have nothing to do with her grandparents, but my family, and some of my Chinese friends, have taken issue with this, trying to use cultural differences as an excuse for her grandparents outrageous behavior, and telling me it's not right of me to withhold my daughter from her kidnapper grandparents... Am I really the rear end in a top hat here?

Trying to kidnap my foreign born granddaughter so she can be my caretaker slave. It is our culture, do you know?

# ? Feb 24, 2020 22:02

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

Christ. gently caress that, never go back.

# ? Feb 24, 2020 22:06

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Called it from the first line. No amount of blind selfishness, indifference, and shortsightedness surprises me when it comes to Chinese olds. They honestly make western Boomers look like the most selfless people on earth.

# ? Feb 24, 2020 22:45

d0s: Jun 28, 2004

Do you guys know if Guangzhou is under some sort of lockdown due to the virus? I am dealing with someone there about a sea freight shipment and he says everyone is locked in their homes because government orders so nothing can get done for two weeks or so. I was assuming that was just Wuhan/Hubei but idk

# ? Feb 25, 2020 00:03

MarcusSA: Sep 23, 2007

d0s posted:

Do you guys know if Guangzhou is under some sort of lockdown due to the virus? I am dealing with someone there about a sea freight shipment and he says everyone is locked in their homes because government orders so nothing can get done for two weeks or so. I was assuming that was just Wuhan/Hubei but idk

I dunno about that specific location but it�s not just Wuhan.

# ? Feb 25, 2020 00:04

Thrasher: Apr 21, 2002

MarcusSA posted:

I dunno about that specific location but it�s not just Wuhan.

I�m getting a bunch of stuff manufactured in Liuyang,Hunan and my contact there said the factory is starting back at work this Wednesday.

Logistics of getting it out to port may be another issue but I�m waiting to hear back on that.

# ? Feb 25, 2020 01:29

oohhboy: Jun 8, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Chomp8645 posted:

This is way to lol too not repost. Hot off the r/relationships thread.

Trying to kidnap my foreign born granddaughter so she can be my caretaker slave. It is our culture, do you know?

Maximum

with all of them. He must be getting gaslighted hard af if he is thinking he might be an rear end in a top hat keeping his daughter safe.

# ? Feb 25, 2020 02:31

MarcusSA: Sep 23, 2007

Thrasher posted:

I�m getting a bunch of stuff manufactured in Liuyang,Hunan and my contact there said the factory is starting back at work this Wednesday.

Logistics of getting it out to port may be another issue but I�m waiting to hear back on that.

I�d take that date with a grain of salt TBH.

If it does happen great! Don�t be surprised if it gets pushed though the situation isn�t better China is just downplaying it as much as possible at this point.

# ? Feb 25, 2020 02:38

Shumagorath: Jun 6, 2001

Grand Fromage posted:

Christ. gently caress that, never go back.

Go back and :murder:

# ? Feb 25, 2020 03:08

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

Eh. Wouldn't help. Just ghost 'em. If the kid wants to reconnect as an adult, whatever. Her choice.

# ? Feb 25, 2020 03:10

tpink: Feb 18, 2013; Melman

Chomp8645 posted:

This is way to lol too not repost. Hot off the r/relationships thread.

Trying to kidnap my foreign born granddaughter so she can be my caretaker slave. It is our culture, do you know?

Holy WOW.

# ? Feb 25, 2020 03:58

Hadlock: Nov 9, 2004

Thrasher posted:

I�m getting a bunch of stuff manufactured in Liuyang,Hunan and my contact there said the factory is starting back at work this Wednesday.

Logistics of getting it out to port may be another issue but I�m waiting to hear back on that.

They're gonna lie their asses off to you, to make sure you don't go and shop your mfg to vietnam or malaysia. By the time they've delayed your shipment by three months it'll be too late and you might as well stick with them anyways.

Mfg name of the game right now is stall, lie, stall, repeat

# ? Feb 25, 2020 04:15

WarpedNaba: Feb 8, 2012; Being social makes me swell!

Grand Fromage posted:

Christ. gently caress that, never go back.

Never go at all, from the sounds of it.

# ? Feb 25, 2020 06:20

Ups_rail: Dec 8, 2006; by Fluffdaddy

oohhboy posted:

Maximum with all of them. He must be getting gaslighted hard af if he is thinking he might be an rear end in a top hat keeping his daughter safe.

Eh with all the wufu poo poo its seems like there is a real push to turn any and all critizism into racism. As other posters have called it. The only real interest in the girl is as a caregiver etc.

# ? Feb 25, 2020 06:38

Atopian: Sep 23, 2014; I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.

Yeah, if it weren't for the title, I would have assumed that the "I let her go alone" line was the end of the story. Amazed that she made it back.

Also entertaining: the not-actually-world health organisation. Someone should suggest they change their name.

# ? Feb 25, 2020 06:53

WarpedNaba: Feb 8, 2012; Being social makes me swell!

The beeb published that 'The WHO says we should definitely get ready for a pandemic. Which isn't the coronavirus, no sir, China has everything under control. But we should definitely get ready for the pandemic-that-isn't-coronavirus!'

Then again, the beeb's been weaning itself off PRC cock lately, so who knows.

# ? Feb 25, 2020 07:15

BrainDance: May 8, 2007; Disco all night long!

WarpedNaba posted:

The WHO says we should definitely get ready for a pandemic. Which isn't the coronavirus,

We totally should,

Simian Foamy Virus, I'm saying it here right now that shits gonna be the end of all of us. Look it up.

# ? Feb 25, 2020 10:32

Atopian: Sep 23, 2014; I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.

I always had a soft spot for the various equine encephalitis viruses (EEVs) - don't much care between EEEV / WEEV / VEEV / etc.

After years of crunching through editing articles on "bat reservoir" or "swine origin" or "when's the next coronavirus due?", it would have been cool to get a horse-flavoured apocalypse.

Commissioned a couple of editorials and a review, but it never really trended.
Of course, if climate change does expand the range of the principal vector then I was of course the first and foremost prophet etc etc.

# ? Feb 25, 2020 12:17

yaffle: Sep 15, 2002; Flapdoodle

Atopian posted:

I always had a soft spot for the various equine encephalitis viruses (EEVs) - don't much care between EEEV / WEEV / VEEV / etc.

After years of crunching through editing articles on "bat reservoir" or "swine origin" or "when's the next coronavirus due?", it would have been cool to get a horse-flavoured apocalypse.

Commissioned a couple of editorials and a review, but it never really trended.
Of course, if climate change does expand the range of the principal vector then I was of course the first and foremost prophet etc etc.

Poor ol' freckles, thought of bats and died.

# ? Feb 25, 2020 13:16

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# ? May 30, 2024 10:29

Thrasher: Apr 21, 2002

Hadlock posted:

They're gonna lie their asses off to you, to make sure you don't go and shop your mfg to vietnam or malaysia. By the time they've delayed your shipment by three months it'll be too late and you might as well stick with them anyways.

Mfg name of the game right now is stall, lie, stall, repeat

I think that�s a bit extreme. I�ve had this factory manufacture for me in the past and we have a good working relationship.. I can understand companies trying to be overly optimistic about dates and trying to keep customers from jumping ship in this situation.. but lie, stall, repeat hasn�t been my experience .. they have been upfront about their delays and how they have been impacted by the virus.

At least that�s what I�ve found with my supplier

# ? Feb 25, 2020 13:29

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