gregday posted:

my favorite part is how there's no barrier between players

i guess the table will be fine

Pidgin Englishman posted:

It's not, but it'll creep back up and we'll be bouncing up and down for months. Just trying to be sympathetic.

Also, our track and trace effort was an app that simultaneously only stored data on the phone and had an AWS hosting element, while also needing to be on in the foreground to work properly. So, uh, yeah

twoday posted:

People make fun of the medieval theory of miasmatic foul air and plague doctor masks, as if their society could come up with anything better

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

well yeah, you don't need to give a gently caress about the customers after you've got their money.

twoday posted:

People make fun of the medieval theory of miasmatic foul air and plague doctor masks, as if their society could come up with anything better

scapulataf posted:

Bachelor? Yeah, maybe.
Disgusting?? Oh gently caress yeah.

I've had a boil on my taint for a few days and its been bugging the gently caress out of me. It hurt to sit, it hurt to poo poo, it hurt to do a lot of things.

I tried scrubbing the area with alcohol, and then poking a pin through it, but it wasn't working. First squatting over a mirror and then propping the mirror up on a hamper full of dirty laundry.
I tried the boiling bottle technique, but I don't think I was patient enough.

So, today I had a great idea. I got out the antiseptics, and disinfectants, and the alcohol, and the vacuum. Its a Hoover wind tunnel since someone will ask.

The first shot I didn't quite get it centred where I wanted it but it was still over the mark. Even though it was on that spot for maybe half a second there was still evil juices flowing from my taint. When I got it centred properly, and left it for several seconds I could practically feel the magic as the juices were flowing from my body and into the vacuum hose, coating the inside of it. I'm going to have a hard time making my vacuum not look like a crime scene. But relief is upon me!!

Pidgin Englishman posted:

It's not, but it'll creep back up and we'll be bouncing up and down for months. Just trying to be sympathetic.

Also, our track and trace effort was an app that simultaneously only stored data on the phone and had an AWS hosting element, while also needing to be on in the foreground to work properly. So, uh, yeah

shovelbum posted:

Anyway time for another FORUMS CLASSIC this is a lot more recent than Bigpeeler and the TB Elephant but coming at you from the most bachelor poo poo you ever did thread part 2 from the distant days of 2011..........

Hatebag posted:

Just gonna touch all these cards with my bare hands that other people are touching, nbd. How would you even sanitize playing cards? Just leave them out in a hot dry place for a day or two? Does the glossy coating make a card more like a smooth 72-hr or like a 24-hr fiber surface? How many cards does a casino use in that timeframe?

shovelbum posted:

Anyway time for another FORUMS CLASSIC this is a lot more recent than Bigpeeler and the TB Elephant but coming at you from the most bachelor poo poo you ever did thread part 2 from the distant days of 2011..........

Whitlam posted:

That was definitely dumb but it's not the only track and trace effort, to be fair. Victoria alone has something like over 1000 people all up working in contact tracing and is still going to expand it further, I think. I mean I still think reopening now is dumb, but it's nowhere near comparable to the situation that the US or other countries are in.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

They already throw them out after a few hands IIRC

Pidgin Englishman posted:

Oh absolutely. Even Queensland is relatively all over it - the chud populations aren't really the issue, its the whole failed state thing I guess.

Hatebag posted:

Casinos suck and are wasteful and they always smell like a portapotty. Much like the president

shovelbum posted:

Anyway time for another FORUMS CLASSIC this is a lot more recent than Bigpeeler and the TB Elephant but coming at you from the most bachelor poo poo you ever did thread part 2 from the distant days of 2011..........

quote:

I’ve had formaldehyde poisoning. West Nile. But this is been the worst time ever been through can’t breathe Joint pain sore throat fever. I wouldn’t wish this on anybody

MysteriousStranger posted:

let me tell you about the hemorrhoid incident

shovelbum posted:

The US isn't a failed state any more than it's fascist, it's a state that's been intentionally dismantled. I mean a lot of the first several decades of that was to serve capital, and capital laid the groundwork for this (and if it had continued in that vein we could call it a classic failed state, victim of neoliberal pillaging), but rn the true "there is no legitimate state" ppl are not best understood in that context, they are deliberately recreating some sex fetish version of feudalism bc FOR NOW the inertia of american hegemony shields them from real consequence

MysteriousStranger posted:

it's because of religion. after the civil rights movement and sexual revolution christians gave up on democracy and decided theocracy or bust. the fact that we stopped financially backing countries that killed gays and since passing gay marriage now sanction countries that kill lgbtq is what kicked off the entire right wing love for Putin and the populist rights urge to destroy the american empire because it's spreading feminism, abortion, and lgbtq. this is also why you see the right railing against capitalism now because it's woke.

sure, capital did it's damage to kill the golden goose and pick through the corpse before moving on to other countries, but the religious right has been actively moving to make us a failed state entirely because of cultural issues because to them we will be a christian nation enforced by law and force or we will be destroyed.

you can't fix anything until that's addressed and nobody wants to take it on

i am harry posted:

While retail is plummeting, the industry of making and forming pieces of clear plastic so that you can be "safe" while standing at a cash register or sitting in a restaurant or casino is booming.

UnknownTarget posted:

My favorite thing about the freedoms/rights argument is that in the constitution it says you have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. While you might make the argument that closing down businesses violates the last, going around without a mask violates other's right to the first.

shovelbum posted:

if this is a real post

Funion posted:

Had another honest-to-god "just the flu bro" person in a live lecture the other day. She told us that we just had to "stop thinking about it and it will go away".

In an advanced anatomy/physiology class specifically for the surgical field, where just last week we had gone over the immune system.

She's black and had a pride flag on the wall behind her.

She's also a nurse.



I could visibly see the crack-ping from everyone else in the call, including the doctor who was giving the lesson.

MysteriousStranger posted:

oh gently caress yeah it is.

so I had a hemorrhoid. didn't start off bad but ended up the size of a small grape (external) and as it grew the pain got insane. was purple like a grape as well from the blood clot and the skin was stretch so thin you could see everything. so infected it burned to the touch as well. i'd seen the doctor at the start and they had told me it would go away and given me creams and bath instructions, didn't do poo poo. so after week I gave up and decided to lance the fucker. i've pierced my own ears before, given myself stitches, and hot metal cauterized wounds before all sans any sort of pain killer so should be easy right? WRONG! any attempt to lance the fucker resulted in horrific pain and I couldn't finish it, plus trying to aim down there is hard, you can see it and no amount of mirror acrobatics helped. I flailed about for an hour or so and went to work.

Well midway through the day the pain just stopped, I didn't fell anything, couldn't tell just went away. Then there was this horrid smell and my rear end was wet, put my hand on my pants and those were wet as well. I damaged it enough it just blew up. Said I had to go for personal reasons and went home. Dr. said it was fine and that often happens.

so yeah, hemorrhoid bad

Pidgin Englishman posted:

It's not, but it'll creep back up and we'll be bouncing up and down for months. Just trying to be sympathetic.

Also, our track and trace effort was an app that simultaneously only stored data on the phone and had an AWS hosting element, while also needing to be on in the foreground to work properly. So, uh, yeah

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

A chud country with $19.49 min wage pegged to inflation, universal health care, one month minimum vacation and employers have to pay an extra 9.5% salary towards your retirement.

shovelbum posted:

yeah like i think a lot of the left wants to understand christianity as a misguided by brave religion of liberation and tolerance or else a scam being run by capital, but the problem with christianity in the 2nd sense there is that now all the morons believe in the version that tv evangelists cooked up to make themselves rich or w/e, and there's lots of precedent for "evil christianity" in the annals of US apartheid history that u can tap

and u cant critique any religion ever bc everyone left of bush lined up behind "all religion is incredibly good, actually" bc the US went islamophobic as hell

shovelbum posted:

yeah like i think a lot of the left wants to understand christianity as a misguided by brave religion of liberation and tolerance or else a scam being run by capital, but the problem with christianity in the 2nd sense there is that now all the morons believe in the version that tv evangelists cooked up to make themselves rich or w/e, and there's lots of precedent for "evil christianity" in the annals of US apartheid history that u can tap

and u cant critique any religion ever bc everyone left of bush lined up behind "all religion is incredibly good, actually" bc the US went islamophobic as hell

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

lol a guy who would post that the virus is liberal bullshit on every single one of a nurse friends posts on Facebook’s wife just had to go to the hospital for covid and he is screaming about calling the police for harassment because we screenshotted his now deleted posts about how anyone who gets this is weak and survival of the fittest and posted them in response to his asking for prayers.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

Jesus

MysteriousStranger posted:

you get the "not all christians, actually there are left wing christians that are really good, besides even if they are lovely on abortion we can work with them on XYZ" and that might be true but it dodges the issue that the majority of those who remain christian do it entirely because of racial and sexual hangups. they also wield enormous power, they are why we have Trump. r

Mackers posted:

oxsnard posted:

Leftist Christians are mostly fine because they realize the best way to reduce abortions is UHC and a social safety net

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

lol a guy who would post that the virus is liberal bullshit on every single one of a nurse friends posts on Facebook’s wife just had to go to the hospital for covid and he is screaming about calling the police for harassment because we screenshotted his now deleted posts about how anyone who gets this is weak and survival of the fittest and posted them in response to his asking for prayers.