Wachter posted:

My mother-in-law has been sent home from work because her damaged vocal cords (unrelated to COVID-19; she is symptomless) are scaring customers. They're refusing to pay her anything because she's not self-isolating, she's just been told she can't work

What can she do?

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Also my mind wandered earlier while thinking about population density and the claim that 500 people per square kilometre was "crowded". To the best of my back-of-the-envelope capabilities, 500 people/km^2 is 8 people in an area the size of the pitch at the Oval (17,000 m^2) - in other words just over half as crowded as a cricket pitch during a game (including umpires). That's a lot of space to stretch out.

An average football pitch is 7,500 m^2 - with 22 players and a ref (the assistants are of course outside the pitch) that's a density of 3,000 people per square kilometre, or about the same as the most suburban of the London suburbs.

A tennis court in a singles match has a population density of 10,223 people per square kilometre, about the same as an average inner London borough - in a doubles match that goes up to 15,340 (it's not double because the doubles court is larger of course) which would put it between Hackney and Tower Hamlets (3rd and 2nd most densely-populated local authorities in the country).

To get up to the density of Marsh Wall/Millharbour on the Isle of Dogs (~75k/km^2) the only sport I could think of was volleyball, which with ten players on a court of 162 square metres has a density of 61,728/km^2 - I can't think of any sports that have a more crowded playing area than that off the top of my head.

I've not really got a point to make about this other than as an interesting way of visualising what those differing densities mean. Also I discovered, while working out the numbers for a couple of examples (I really wanted one that was around the 7.5k mark that most urban areas top out at) that a lot of sports average out around the same kind of density (rugby, gridiron and association football are all similar despite different numbers of players and basketball, futsal, handball and most other indoor sports all come out around the same as doubles tennis despite very different backgrounds). Anyway that's what I did instead of work for the last half hour.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Also my mind wandered earlier while thinking about population density and the claim that 500 people per square kilometre was "crowded". To the best of my back-of-the-envelope capabilities, 500 people/km^2 is 8 people in an area the size of the pitch at the Oval (17,000 m^2) - in other words just over half as crowded as a cricket pitch during a game (including umpires). That's a lot of space to stretch out.

An average football pitch is 7,500 m^2 - with 22 players and a ref (the assistants are of course outside the pitch) that's a density of 3,000 people per square kilometre, or about the same as the most suburban of the London suburbs.

A tennis court in a singles match has a population density of 10,223 people per square kilometre, about the same as an average inner London borough - in a doubles match that goes up to 15,340 (it's not double because the doubles court is larger of course) which would put it between Hackney and Tower Hamlets (3rd and 2nd most densely-populated local authorities in the country).

To get up to the density of Marsh Wall/Millharbour on the Isle of Dogs (~75k/km^2) the only sport I could think of was volleyball, which with ten players on a court of 162 square metres has a density of 61,728/km^2 - I can't think of any sports that have a more crowded playing area than that off the top of my head.

I've not really got a point to make about this other than as an interesting way of visualising what those differing densities mean. Also I discovered, while working out the numbers for a couple of examples (I really wanted one that was around the 7.5k mark that most urban areas top out at) that a lot of sports average out around the same kind of density (rugby, gridiron and association football are all similar despite different numbers of players and basketball, futsal, handball and most other indoor sports all come out around the same as doubles tennis despite very different backgrounds). Anyway that's what I did instead of work for the last half hour.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I can't think of any sports that have a more crowded playing area than that off the top of my head.

feedmegin posted:

Zone 4 technically Essex krew

I will say, at least I'm saving about £7.50 a day on my commute while I'm working from home!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

If you're zone 4 you're not technically Essex, you're London and have been since the establishment of Greater London. In fact if you're zone *anything* you're in London, it's not called Transport for London And Places That Were Outside London in 1964 And Desperately Cling To Two-Letter Postcodes To Pretend They Still Are So They Don't Have To Have Darkies Move In*.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

If you're zone 4 you're not technically Essex, you're London and have been since the establishment of Greater London. In fact if you're zone *anything* you're in London, it's not called Transport for London And Places That Were Outside London in 1964 And Desperately Cling To Two-Letter Postcodes To Pretend They Still Are So They Don't Have To Have Darkies Move In*.

*I'm looking at you too, places inside the M25 calling themselves "Surrey", and don't even get me loving started on places still calling themselves Middlesex. And yes, I also include the areas beyond Zone 6 - gently caress you Watford, you're a suburb, get used to it.

Wachter posted:

My mother-in-law has been sent home from work because her damaged vocal cords (unrelated to COVID-19; she is symptomless) are scaring customers. They're refusing to pay her anything because she's not self-isolating, she's just been told she can't work

What can she do?

feedmegin posted:

My IG postcode says different

(The darkies still moved in. I'm married to her ;p)

feedmegin posted:

My IG postcode says different

(The darkies still moved in. I'm married to her ;p)

thespaceinvader posted:

It's probably important to note when thinking about this kind of thing that densities are very rarely uniform, though.

The low-density areas still crowd people in relatively tightly, they just have LOTS of entirely-unoccupied spaces.

Failed Imagineer posted:

Do e-sports have infinitely high or insanely low density? And when will we start broadcasting e-sports on Soy Sports one?


E: I obviously meant Sky sports but I'm keeping that typo

fridge corn posted:

I live in Surrey within the M25 and I definitely wouldn't call where I live London

NotJustANumber99 posted:

A WWF royal rumble has ~30 wrestlers in an area how ever big a wrestling ring is.

fridge corn posted:

Maybe this is just me but the fact that you are (still??) constantly posting about how you married a black woman is really loving weird

stev posted:

gently caress me, I'm seeing some small transactions on my statements over the last few days that weren't me. And of course my bank isn't answering the phone at the moment.

People are going to seriously take advantage of this situation.

Oodles posted:

https://twitter.com/lynseybews/status/1240268811770761216?s=20

the gently caress do I do with my kids for 4 months.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

What colour are your buses?

fridge corn posted:

quote:

▪ Abstract The modern study of a crowd as a flowing continuum is a recent development. Distinct from a classical fluid because of the property that a crowd has the capacity to think, interesting new physical ideas are involved in its study. An appealing property of a crowd in motion is that the nonlinear, time-dependent, simultaneous equations representing a crowd are conformably mappable. This property makes many interesting applications analytically tractable. In this review examples are given in which the theory has been used to provide possible assistance in the annual Muslim Hajj, to understand the Battle of Agincourt, and, surprisingly, to locate barriers that actually increase the flow of pedestrians above that when there are no barriers present. Modern developments may help prevent some of the approximately two thousand deaths that annually occur in accidents owing to crowding.The field of crowd motion, that is, the field of “thinking fluids,” is an intriguing area of research with great promise.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

An average football pitch is 7,500 m^2 - with 22 players and a ref (the assistants are of course outside the pitch) that's a density of 3,000 people per square kilometre, or about the same as the most suburban of the London suburbs.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

fluid dynamics

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Red enough, London.

stev posted:

gently caress me, I'm seeing some small transactions on my statements over the last few days that weren't me. And of course my bank isn't answering the phone at the moment.

People are going to seriously take advantage of this situation.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAusbJmRB0c

Interesting video about why London begins and ends where it does, although like I say if you're using TfL services you're in both London and denial.

Payndz posted:

My wife was fanatical about Criminal Minds when I first met her, so I started watching it with her. Later on it gets to CSI: Miami levels of ludicrous dumbassery, but the early seasons... Basically each episode starts by introducing us to a nice suburban family. Who are then brutally and graphically terrorised and slaughtered by the serial killer of the week. Original star Mandy Patinkin quit because it just got too much for him.

His character was later horribly murdered in a 'there's his body, but we can't quite see his face' way for some cheap Sweeps Week drama.

fridge corn posted:

what the

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Red enough, London.

bionic vapour boy posted:

Watford buses are blue

TheRat posted:

"New York State reports 1,106 new cases overnight. Bringing total to 2,480. Total death is at 16."

Looks like New York is about to pop off Lombardia style

goddamnedtwisto posted:

See that roundel? It's not called the Hertfordshire Underground, is it? You're in London, time to develop a chirpy persona even while the bombs are dropping.