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Post by tremblinwilbury on May 24, 2020 15:19:54 GMT
Just seen on Dave, a television channel in the UK... "Pretend you're on holiday in Australia by turning your TV upside down"
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Post by eloneen on May 25, 2020 2:55:19 GMT
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Post by Buttler on May 25, 2020 9:16:26 GMT
They might be useful (my tinnitus is so loud).
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Post by eloneen on May 25, 2020 16:03:21 GMT
What was I thinking? I do know which plague is up next: The Atlantic hurricane season starts one week from today, and it's supposed to be an active one, too!
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Post by Horacewimp on May 25, 2020 16:19:47 GMT
What was I thinking? I do know which plague is up next: The Atlantic hurricane season starts one week from today, and it's supposed to be an active one, too! They are out to get you eloneen take cover and stay safe
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Post by eloneen on May 25, 2020 17:19:06 GMT
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Post by dillwyn on May 26, 2020 9:55:14 GMT
Not sure if you will have seen this guy. Michael Spicer is a uk comedian/actor who does this special advisor in the speakers ear piece 'in a room next door' sketch. He has done just about every UK politician (especially johnson) and is currently being used by The Late Show in the US, this time it is Mr Trump's turn.
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Post by orioles70 on May 26, 2020 17:02:32 GMT
eloneen, you must have a different bunch of cicadas down there our Maryland ones are not due back until next year I remember them from 16 years ago - they were everywhere. My dog ran around the yard gobbling them up. (Labs will eat anything) unfortunately that dog has passed on now so we will just have to be careful where we step o's
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Post by BSJ on May 26, 2020 17:53:12 GMT
Hilarious! Baby brain word soup! So true. Don't say money! Luxury apartments and beefsteaks. Greedy plum cake. I hope Micheal keeps this up, it's the only way I'll watch a Trump press conference. I've seen very few, they're too depressing and embarrassing to watch and I just can't stand looking at or listening to that nasty waste of a human being.
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Post by dillwyn on May 26, 2020 22:23:16 GMT
he does useless british politicians too
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Post by BSJ on May 26, 2020 23:03:48 GMT
WOW!
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Post by eloneen on May 27, 2020 3:11:07 GMT
Ladies and gentlemen....I present to you Sarah Cooper. I just "discovered" her this evening! I LOVE her!
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Post by dillwyn on May 27, 2020 5:37:30 GMT
She is brilliant, her eyes at the end of that second one are a joy
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Post by Helmut83 on May 28, 2020 6:47:28 GMT
Argentina: we are proud of having the longest ....... in the world. Complete that phrase with whichever word comes to your mind, and it will probably be correct, at least in our arrogant, self-centered, narcissistic conception of the world. And if the word that came to your mind is "quarantine", it's also correct: we now have the longest quarantine in the world, and counting. As a big majority of the countries -including Southern Hemisphere countries, and even neighbours of us- are trying to open up things, here they are using the quarantine as an excuse for their own purposes and making it tighter. Now: - From Saturday on we won't be allowed to use cars at all unless you have a special permit issued by the government. It doesn't matter if you are 3 blocks away from home, if they catch you the fines are huge and even cars will be confiscated. My parents were stopped yesterday 10 blocks away from home, treated as criminals and finally let go because my mother had to take care of my uncle who is mentally challenged, but "since next Saturday it will be very different". - Cyberpatrolling: a minister admitted that they were hiring political supporters and assigning them to wander around social media "to monitor the social mood". Posts questioning the government are already being taken down. A friend of mine is on their blacklist apparently, because every post he makes against the government is down in no more than 15 minutes. All of this because "it's not a moment where people should be exposed to false information". - Working: about half the country is not being allowed to work. 70 days already, and we are not a rich country where people have the financial back to bear such a long time without any income. Some people are opening all the same because they don't have a choice, risking fines and closures. And courts are still closed, so the ones who live from law-related activities like myself are among the screwed. I am officially living off lent money now. The only courts working -and really fast- are those in charge of vicepresident Cristina Kirchner's many corruption trials: they are dismissing all cases. - There were protests against the way this whole quarantine travesty is being used; the government says that they have identified the protesters ("we know who you are") and will take measures, even though the protests were made from cars and with chinstraps. - Non-politician citizens are only allowed to buy US$ 200 per month, and to do it by any means which is not a bank operation is illegal. Soon they will forbid buying dollars at all. In a country with such demential inflation, buying dollars is the only way to keep your purchasing power, and not being able to do it makes us all poorer by the day. - And ( don't miss this because it's surreal!) we are being forced to install on our cell phones an app that the government made that monitors us 24/7, including sending continual geolocation data. It's closed-source/code so you cannot know how what it really does, but an investigation group found that it does triangulation with other cell phones that have that app, so they can know not only when and where you've been but also with whom. The app is supposed to let you know if you get Covid by repeating every day the same 4 questions (like "do you have fever? Do you suffer cough?"), but you have to answer to those questions daily and the answer is sent to the government as an affidavit/sworn statement under the threat of undetermined punishments if any of the answers is not exact. The terms and conditions "agreement" (which you are forced to "agree" with since having the app is mandatory) says that new functions may be added at any moment without warning, all under closed source so you never know what the app is doing. It's like something out of Big Brother, the Leviatan or 1984, a true cyber ankle monitor. Luckily a lot of people are refusing to install such a thing, me among them. And these rats are just getting started. The worse is yet to come. So I'm telling you, spoiled people: don't forget to defend your freedom. It's much easier to do it while you still have it. You take your freedom for granted and even like to flirt with liberticide politicians thinking it's romantic but I bet when push comes to shove each and every one of you would totally hate being forced to swallow the things we have to swallow regularly in our daily lives in some third world countries. And learn to identify scammers. They always come waving the same flags: "solidarity", "sensitivity", "the poor", "redistribution" and other emotional speeches. It all leads to the same: Venezuela. And no matter what you say in your café conversations in your free, prosperous countries, I bet you'd all hate to live in Venezuela -or in any country that has advanced considerably in that direction. Rant over.
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Post by dillwyn on May 28, 2020 7:58:43 GMT
Sounds awful Helmut, is the quarantine being successful in limiting the number of deaths/infections?
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