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Soylent Yellow posted:If the nursing homes are struggling to get masks and hand sanitiser, how are the hairdressers going to be able to? Or even afford it? We're talking about two months from now when (in a sane country) alternative/additional manufacturing would be in place for both.
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Oh gently caress no, the Yorkie bar thing was flat out misogyny which doubled every time that loving advert was on TV. Young people have no idea what it was like to be a woman simply trying to exist while being left the gently caress alone by men in the 90s, you’d go to buy some normal poo poo like a can of paint and every single loving man who saw you would point at your tin and go “it’s not for girls hur hur hur”
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Barry Foster posted:With that said, you just gotta do what you gotta do in a situation like this. I'm pretty much allowing myself to weed as much as I feel like, but it turns out that I naturally keep it to the evenings regardless, so that's fine and keeps me sleeping at least a bit Entirely understandable. Unfortunately for myself I do not weed, so I am stuck with beer and free whisky I got from a friend half a decade ago. I wonder how much we try and lose ourselves in oblivion because it is easier than living with the self we have to be. And I wonder how much we have to live with ourselves.
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Apr 19, 2020 18:43
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Gloves and mask for the stylist, cleaning the chairs etc between customers (the implements are all meant to be cleaned between each use anyway) and distancing in the waiting area and a couple of big bottles of hand sanitiser should be enough, surely? Most hairdressers aren't that big, as they only need a row of chairs to sit and wait, and how many chairs and mirrors on the opposite side. They aren't designed for distancing mostly. Also, hair itself is hard to keep track of, and it can have the virus itself.
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I can't remember which organisation/company it was from but I got an email talking about the opportunities for new and inventive design and architecture solutions in the post Corona world. In that spirit I would say hairdressers need to all refit to be like old banks where the customers and staff are separated by glass, then they could use those homer Simpson built in nuclear gloves to do the hair dressing. Also I guess all the banks should go back to how all the old banks were rather than trying to be Apple stores.
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Apr 19, 2020 18:52
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happyhippy posted:Most hairdressers aren't that big, as they only need a row of chairs to sit and wait, and how many chairs and mirrors on the opposite side. Conversely I've almost never seen a salon with all the chairs occupied at once, so distancing (albeit with reduced capacity) should be doable. Hair's an interesting one, could it be solved with a Henry or similarly filtered vacuum cleaner and just leaving the clippings overnight before emptying it? Also maybe a physical barrier between chairs to stop hair blown from the dryer making it out?
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Apr 19, 2020 18:53
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learnincurve posted:Oh gently caress no, the Yorkie bar thing was flat out misogyny which doubled every time that loving advert was on TV. That and MCCoy's MAN CRISPS. gently caress that poo poo.
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Apr 19, 2020 18:55
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Josef bugman posted:Entirely understandable. Unfortunately for myself I do not weed, so I am stuck with beer and free whisky I got from a friend half a decade ago. for me anyway it's more being able to break out of established thought patterns for awhile - although I suppose those patterns are part of the 'self'. Also just experiencing things in a new, different way, with new, different ideas and sense impressions. A weed is a lot better for this than a booze, though. I really enjoy altered states, although I feel really guilty that I do
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Soylent Yellow posted:Just as with bogroll, being able to have your hair cut is a symbolic representation of normality for a lot of people, and hair salons are also a prime example of the type of small business the government is sending to the wall. I guess my idea of normality has 'having a haircut' pretty low down on the list, its so odd to me who gives a poo poo?
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Barry Foster posted:for me anyway it's more being able to break out of established thought patterns for awhile - although I suppose those patterns are part of the 'self'. Also just experiencing things in a new, different way, with new, different ideas and sense impressions. A weed is a lot better for this than a booze, though. That is an interesting one. I'd love to be able to get some but unfortunately I am white as snow and look like I might be a cop, so I am unsure how to ask for weed without looking like an obvious 'No really, I am very strung out and could really use some "reefer"' 1950's mother fucker. Why? The altered state itself is useful to knowledge of the world and our own personhood.
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https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1251873185907093512?s=19 Nice to see opinion crystallising from "Who?" to "Ugh, no thanks" Centrism is just great.
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Apr 19, 2020 19:06
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Guavanaut posted:Who is that even for? reminds me of that ecig advert that was all porny with a woman crooning about she wants you to show it to her so she can put it in her mouth I mean I know that's a thing  but I dunno how many vapes it soldjustcola posted:My mum sent us this saying we're just a few weeks away from going back to normal. After pestering her for the source (The Sun) I was a bit more dubious. enhenched surely
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Skarsnik posted:I guess my idea of normality has 'having a haircut' pretty low down on the list, its so odd to me Theres a lot of people who get their haircut weekly. Even I resorted to a Corona cut with hair clippers because i'd left it so long it was getting really unprofessional. It's one of those things that make people feel better about themselves so it will probably be fairly high up the list to re-open. Takeaways and things of that sort too I would expect. Also given the amount of cars I had overtake me on my bike ride today vs last week, the lockdown is ending of its own accord. I reckon we've got 2, at a push 3 weeks max before people just go out anyway.
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forkboy84 posted:Pretty excited for mandatory face masks to use public transport, because there will definitely be enough masks in a month to make that viable. (Also, where am I meant to buy one without first being able to go on the bus to town?) home delivery? the japanses government posted washable, reusable masks to every household. Johnson might tell you just to buy your own off amazon
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^^^ given the fact actual critical care health workers aren't getting supplies, I'd be extremely surprised if this government sent out anything. Although it would be extremely on brand to spend a lot of money on some PR stunt to every home while the NHS is falling overlearnincurve posted:Oh gently caress no, the Yorkie bar thing was flat out misogyny which doubled every time that loving advert was on TV. I've been saying this to people, in a lot of ways the world's got a hell of a lot better and kids seem to be growing up with way healthier attitudes about a lot of stuff. And I know the "I'm a woman, I can go to the gym and work hard" marketing stuff isn't doing it for the social good, but drat it's refreshing, and a lot of stuff is way less gendered now without even needing to make a big deal about it drat pc woke hellscape baka kaba fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Apr 19, 2020 |
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1251873185907093512?s=19 Jeremy Corbyn would be 20 points up by now.
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serious gaylord posted:
Yeah you can hardly tell at certain times of the day here Drivers are going a serious speed too on the relatively empty roads too
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Skarsnik posted:I guess my idea of normality has 'having a haircut' pretty low down on the list, its so odd to me 
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does the Sunday times getting the knives out for Johnson & pushing Gove as a replacement already mean they know something? about the state of Johnson’s health meaning he’ll not be coming back anyway
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Apr 19, 2020 19:29
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thespaceinvader posted:That and MCCoy's MAN CRISPS.
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This is one of those thing which highlights the massive gender divide in the workplace. Men in any job anywhere can very easily get a set of clippers and do a buzz cut, there are very very very few jobs where it’s acceptable for women to do the same. Women with long hair can go a while without a haircut but those of us with short hair get to week 8 and then BAM, looks like poo poo, and women can’t get away with that at work.
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I'm going down the rabbit hole of pointlessly gendered products on google and
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Guavanaut posted:I'm going down the rabbit hole of pointlessly gendered products on google and This implies a gynarchic British Empire that conquered the entire world.
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Cerv posted:does the Sunday times getting the knives out for Johnson & pushing Gove as a replacement already mean they know something? about the state of Johnson’s health meaning he’ll not be coming back anyway Nah, I think certain succession conversations were had during his hospital stay when he really could have died and once those conversations are had it's hard to put a stop to the whole thing. The situation is looking noticably bad to the sorts of people that the government cares about and the botched response will be hung on Johnsons head and he'll be couped, probably as soon as Brexit finally happens at the end of the year.
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Josef bugman posted:That is an interesting one. I'd love to be able to get some but unfortunately I am white as snow and look like I might be a cop, so I am unsure how to ask for weed without looking like an obvious 'No really, I am very strung out and could really use some "reefer"' 1950's mother fucker. If you really wanna know how PM me 
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Skarsnik posted:I guess my idea of normality has 'having a haircut' pretty low down on the list, its so odd to me I heard this black dude talking about how he and folks like him need a haircut every two weeks or so, and barbershops are good for that. Don't actually know since I'm literally the whitest motherfucker on the planet and also I never cut my hair, but doesn't seem that impossible that different people have different hair e: and obviously yes women as well, and different workplaces, etc etc
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Guavanaut posted:I'm going down the rabbit hole of pointlessly gendered products on google and Well this puts the accusations that it's a man's world to bed.
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baka kaba posted:I've been saying this to people, in a lot of ways the world's got a hell of a lot better and kids seem to be growing up with way healthier attitudes about a lot of stuff. And I know the "I'm a woman, I can go to the gym and work hard" marketing stuff isn't doing it for the social good, but drat it's refreshing, and a lot of stuff is way less gendered now without even needing to make a big deal about it Like obviously adult women having rights and not being considered mentally deficient infants* who need their husband's permission to set up a bank account is a good thing. But kids' toys (and globes) are a lot more gendered now than I remember as a kid. Things like pink and blue kinder eggs, pink and blue happy meal toys, pink and blue legos, and you see that extending into kids' stories and even adult products like body wipes and gender reveal parties. I used to read my uncle's "Boys Atlas of Science and Technology" (because no way would girls be interested in wheat harvests in the USSR or how we'll be able to telephone space soon) or similar from the 50s when I was young, as well as the much more gender neutral early 90s ones. Makes me wonder if the gender reveal crew will try bringing back boys' and girls' atlases. *However I've read some worrying stuff about how a lot of the new 'personality disorders' are being used to bring back female hysteria rhetoric.
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The mid to late 90s were very deliberately a backlash against political correctness of the late 80s and early 90s by the older gen X cohort tapping into 1970s nostalgia and hiding genuine misogyny and other forms of lovely behaviour under a convenient veil of irony. A lot of the lariest examples in the late 90a media are the exact same people who've retired to the country on lad mag money and push lovely transphobic poo poo as a misguided way to atone. The current culture war bullshit is just a ripple of a ripple of that, riding the nostalgia cycle, with people who should know better harking back to the late 90s. The wheel turns forever, we just have to keep pushing forward to make sure we get more progress than we let fall away
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There's a generational lag I guess to a certain extent. My siblings are having kids about now and don't really care about the clothes being blue or pink but it's our parents and excited aunties and uncles buying a lot of that stuff.
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thespaceinvader posted:That and MCCoy's MAN CRISPS. to my eternal shame I loving love mccoys, I'll see myself to the wall
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i'm on the red wine for the first time in yonks and ahhh yes, the happy boistrousness that precedes the headaches and hangover i miss weed but smoking or vaping seems like a really poo poo idea right now... wish it was as easy as powdered drugs to take differently. you can't really do edibles with any consistency without your tolerance skyrocketing re: Der Starmer, at least because he's such a piss-weak wasteman it means that the media can actually attack the tories now since there is no opposition to threaten their interests e: ThomasPaine posted:to my eternal shame I loving love mccoys, I'll see myself to the wall yeah mccoys cheese'n'ers (everyone else calls cheese and onion this right? and salt'n'ers for S&V) are the bomb
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Communist Thoughts posted:i'm on the red wine for the first time in yonks and ahhh yes, the happy boistrousness that precedes the headaches and hangover I find edible and lung tolerances are slightly different to each other, and edible tolerance doesn't necessarily rise all that quickly. But that's just me I don't see why vaping would be bad for you unless you're actively sick, tbh. THC is a pretty effective bronchodilator!
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Barry Foster posted:I find edible and lung tolerances are slightly different to each other, and edible tolerance doesn't necessarily rise all that quickly. But that's just me i definitely get a cough and poo poo while vaping, i dunno. its better than smoking i imagine but i still get pretty obvious signs that my lungs aren't happy with me. i use a volcano for reference coz i bought it with my student loan a decade ago lol. i think they're meant to be reasonably safe i miss those enormous bags of opaque white vape...
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Communist Thoughts posted:i definitely get a cough and poo poo while vaping, i dunno. its better than smoking i imagine but i still get pretty obvious signs that my lungs aren't happy with me. Are you running it hot? It really doesn't need to be above, at the most, 200c - I usually hover around 175c. Hotter than 200c and it's actively harsh, below that it's just cool flavoured air that makes you high Sorry to everyone else 4 weed chat
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^^^you Goveing it? that's what they're calling it nowGuavanaut posted:I think it's a lot less gendered in some places and a lot more in others. I dunno, I think Lego's an outlier because it started out as a gender neutral thing, and when I was a kid they still had the plain MODEL 0130 SMALL HOUSE WITH GARAGE line, but they were already into the shooty space mans stuff and whatever else. It just caught up with everything else later Gender reveal parties only really seem like a thing because people are more widely questioning gender and why it matters so much at all - I dunno how prevalent they were before, but I feel like that's more of a modern social media spectacle thing where the reveal is an event with impact. People definitely used to care about that, and you'd have announcement parties and gender themed baby showers and whatever, it just wasn't *huge pickup rolling pink coal arrives* But yeah toys and stuff were always super gendered, maybe that's got worse in some ways (because marketing knows a good thing) but I think it's also got better, in terms of more questioning and more of a pushback, y'know? Maybe that's not leading to big changes on the shelves yet, but people are definitely trying to make different choices and resist these boxes instead of seeing it as normal. Change is a slow process but you can see it happening
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Barry Foster posted:Are you running it hot? It really doesn't need to be above, at the most, 200c - I usually hover around 175c. Hotter than 200c and it's actively harsh, below that it's just cool flavoured air that makes you high nah i do it at 5 on the classic, which is 175c i think. very tickly though and gives me a dry roni-style cough for a bit afterwards. i think thc or cbd or whatever just really tickles your throat and makes you cough cause kief does the same for me and peeps i know e: i hope you're right though cause that means i can vape my way to
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Communist Thoughts posted:nah i do it at 5 on the classic, which is 175c i think. fair dos, I guess everyone's different and has different reactions to stuff, as we're finding out with the roni
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NotJustANumber99 posted:There's a generational lag I guess to a certain extent. My siblings are having kids about now and don't really care about the clothes being blue or pink but it's our parents and excited aunties and uncles buying a lot of that stuff. As a kid you are more worried WHATS on it, not the colour. Like holy poo poo I would go mental if I didn't have my Thundercat tshirt when I wanted it. I think kids are more into toy brands like we were than actual colours. Old folks picking presents default to the color difference if they don't know what to buy them.
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