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Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

zoux posted:

Like, what's your game here? Scaring people, getting quotes, I don't get all the doomsaying going on around here. You wanna be right that bad? It's like people get a thrill out of saying worst case scenarios to people, I don't understand it at all.

Also outside of Wuhan province WHO says a CFR of .7% Remember SARS?

Okay if we're going to quote market watch and not the actual report, here's the same study from a report three days later than your link.

The "doomsaying" is just using actual numbers and not downplaying that this is an actual pandemic of an actually deadly disease and that maybe people should stay the gently caress home if they're feeling sick rather than assuming that it's fine. My "game" is counteracting idiots who try to say that it's perfectly normal because that can lead to folks patient zeroing their workplaces and possibly killing people or flooding hospitals with sick folks. It's similar to shouting down folks who say that vaccination is actually bad, or that getting measles is good for kids, or that essential oils cure the flu.

What is your game here, zoux?

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zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Inceltown posted:

Can't we all just have a little hope that a bunch of boomers will die, even if only for a little while?

Very Well

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
Life comes at you fast

https://twitter.com/peterliakhov/status/1232935546072293376?s=21

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008

Somfin posted:

What is your game here, zoux?

The same it always is: be arrogant and act superior towards everyone and everything.

Sandwich Anarchist has a new favorite as of 01:17 on Feb 28, 2020

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

christmas boots posted:

I’m really annoyed that you didn’t offer to buy him a Corona

Corona with lime disease

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

Platystemon posted:

Corona with lime disease

I've already got the lyme, just need the corona now. I leave for Tokyo in 12 hours. RIP me

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/1233147343542685696?s=21

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Somfin posted:

Okay if we're going to quote market watch and not the actual report, here's the same study from a report three days later than your link.

The "doomsaying" is just using actual numbers and not downplaying that this is an actual pandemic of an actually deadly disease and that maybe people should stay the gently caress home if they're feeling sick rather than assuming that it's fine. My "game" is counteracting idiots who try to say that it's perfectly normal because that can lead to folks patient zeroing their workplaces and possibly killing people or flooding hospitals with sick folks. It's similar to shouting down folks who say that vaccination is actually bad, or that getting measles is good for kids, or that essential oils cure the flu.

What is your game here, zoux?

I'm just trying to have a positive effect on people's lives by painting a realistic picture of what's going to happen instead of being a morbid ghoul who likes to tell people worst case scenarios that almost certainly won't come to pass. But you know, contribute to the panic if you enjoy it I guess


Sandwich Anarchist posted:

The same it always is: be arrogant and act superior towards everyone and everything.

Starting to think when you said that you hoped to help me after you missed an obvious joke that you weren't being entirely sincere.

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008

:hmmyes:

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

zoux posted:

I'm just trying to have a positive effect on people's lives by painting a realistic picture of what's going to happen instead of being a morbid ghoul who likes to tell people worst case scenarios that almost certainly won't come to pass. But you know, contribute to the panic if you enjoy it I guess

"Painting a realistic picture of what's going to happen" is one of those things that has to change based on new information. If you know better than actual epidemiologists and your data can contradict the people conducting up-to-date ground-level research that I've posted in this thread, please go ahead and submit that information to a reputable source to have it checked because that would be super fuckin' valuable to the people trying to contain and cure this pandemic.

Otherwise you're allowing your unfiltered, uninformed :actually: to contradict actual information about what's going on.

Folks who talk like you are not gonna have a positive effect on my life if y'all convince someone who's actually sick to come in to work and hit my immune-compromised colleagues and students with a potentially deadly disease

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.
Ladies, gentlemen, all those in between, did we all forget the fact that the virus is actually... good? The virus is good. It kills poor people and makes rich people richer.

https://twitter.com/kashanacauley/status/1233095943144136704

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

friends we came here to post good tweets, do not let the virus make you sick with hate

https://twitter.com/MarshallJulius/status/1230463695140085762

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Please let's not argue about the coronavirus in this thread. I'm not saying it's not worth discussing, but not here.

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
Slippery Tilde
:drat:

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/freedaaron/status/1233074334375251968

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

The rare good Musktweet:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1232748533486276608?s=20

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007
https://twitter.com/permafrostog/status/1233012809740562433?s=21

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

https://twitter.com/mrvndn/status/1233042201288093696?s=21

Huzzah!
Sep 15, 2007

Malnutrition is scarier than any beastie.
https://twitter.com/atari/status/1233198946262147073

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬

https://twitter.com/bigmusicfan69/status/1232753644589780994

Edit: this one got the axe but I managed to catch it



Not sure I understand this one. I mean I get the Eagles reference but is that all there is?

Mak0rz has a new favorite as of 03:28 on Feb 28, 2020

SneezeOfTheDecade
Feb 6, 2011

gettin' covid all
over your posts

Mak0rz posted:

Edit: this one got the axe but I managed to catch it



Not sure I understand this one. I mean I get the Eagles reference but is that all there is?

Atari is literally starting a hotel chain.

e: my guess is someone at corporate went "you can't say that, check-out is at 11 AM".

e2: yes I know it says "check-in", many people are as dumb as I am

SneezeOfTheDecade has a new favorite as of 03:51 on Feb 28, 2020

Samuringa
Mar 27, 2017

Best advice I was ever given?

"Ticker, you'll be a lot happier once you stop caring about the opinions of a culture that is beneath you."

I learned my worth, learned the places and people that matter.

Opened my eyes.
https://twitter.com/jazz_inmypants/status/1213881201766866945

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.



What do the colours mean? Why are there two pairs at the bottom who aren't connected to the rest? Why are some people connected by three lines instead of one?

wizzardstaff
Apr 6, 2018

Zorch! Splat! Pow!

Tiggum posted:

What do the colours mean? Why are there two pairs at the bottom who aren't connected to the rest? Why are some people connected by three lines instead of one?

https://twitter.com/intrnetdaughter/status/1233072106646253568

E: no clue why they chose to add two unconnected couples at the bottom though

Mister Mind
Mar 20, 2009

I'm not a real doctor,
But I am a real worm;
I am an actual worm
https://twitter.com/koonbosom/status/1233182618608422912?s=21

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/EddyElfenbein/status/1233090677875134464

cohsae
Jun 19, 2015


Post Good Tweets: he keep saying Pasta Pasta Pasta

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

https://twitter.com/Keepo_man/status/1231388551369121793?s=20

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
I made a joke on twitter and then I found out someone already made it:

https://twitter.com/Baldured/status/1208633494093434880

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

TinTower posted:

I made a joke on twitter and then I found out someone already made it:

https://twitter.com/Baldured/status/1208633494093434880

That's just a new version of an old Bruce Sterling super short story.

The phone rang and I answered it. A voice said "can I have a minute of your time?" I said yes. They said "thank you" and hung up, suddenly I felt a little older.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1233292371326128129

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

https://twitter.com/christhebarker/status/1233330733290344448?s=21

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.

Skwirl posted:

That's just a new version of an old Bruce Sterling super short story.

The phone rang and I answered it. A voice said "can I have a minute of your time?" I said yes. They said "thank you" and hung up, suddenly I felt a little older.

Surely the archetype of a trickster fae is centuries older?

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

okay, which one of you is this

https://twitter.com/KidsWriteJokes/status/1233361607067144192

Slippery
May 16, 2004


Muscles Boxcar

I think we can safely agree that that tweet is all of us.

Mr. Bad Guy
Jun 28, 2006

Giving me a crazy flashback to a playground argument when I was like 8 years old. A kid in another class insulted me by saying I had a fat wiener and I spent the rest of recess trying (unsuccessfully) to convince him that a girthsome hog was a desirable trait. Of course I didn't have that sort of vocabulary back then, so I was just shouting "A FAT WIENER IS A GOOD THING IDIOT!"

Flint_Paper
Jun 7, 2004

This isn't cool at all Looshkin! These are dark forces you're titting about with!

Mr. Bad Guy posted:

"A FAT WIENER IS A GOOD THING IDIOT!"

Strong contender for a new thread title tbh

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Skwirl posted:

That's just a new version of an old Bruce Sterling super short story.

The phone rang and I answered it. A voice said "can I have a minute of your time?" I said yes. They said "thank you" and hung up, suddenly I felt a little older.

There was an old Bruno the Bandit story-arc based on a similar idea.

Negostrike
Aug 15, 2015



Nope

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Trevor Hale
Dec 8, 2008

What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Mr. Bad Guy posted:

Giving me a crazy flashback to a playground argument when I was like 8 years old. A kid in another class insulted me by saying I had a fat wiener and I spent the rest of recess trying (unsuccessfully) to convince him that a girthsome hog was a desirable trait. Of course I didn't have that sort of vocabulary back then, so I was just shouting "A FAT WIENER IS A GOOD THING IDIOT!"

Holy poo poo. This happened to me, too. I was in 8th grade and they would pair us up with “little brothers” in 1st grade. There was a kid in 1st grade who knew enough to know you should mock someone’s dick, but not enough to know which direction to go with it. So he looked at me, a goony looking lad, and told me I had a fat dick. Then he told me he’d tell everyone I had a fat dick.

In hindsight, I should’ve been a lot more concerned about the implication of how he came to know that as opposed to just trying to keep a straight face and going “oh no, please don’t tell all of those girls in my class”

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