Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

i went on a coupe music-themed cruises years ago that were pretty awesome, both times it was just a small subset of the cruise, like 400 punks mixing with 2000 midwestern old people, a pretty great combo. no poolside asseating afaict tho

You didn't spend enough time with the old Minnesotans, clearly. Lutefisk and rimming, two great tastes that taste great together.

"come on, if i didn't tell you what it was, you'd love it"

"Let them eat ass"

-Marie Marley

(i mean it was consensual , don't want to suggest otherwise, but y'know if you're inches away from someone do u wanna watch them eat ass?)

unavoidable collateral damage from wanting to watch someone get their ass eaten

cruise immediately renamed to 70,000 Tons of Tossed Salad

70,000 Tons of Butthole

in four and a half weeks!

Class options: window, balcony, butthole.

I've been on two cruises, one of which was last minute and dirt cheap and had awesome food and easy to avoid Texans and Oklahomans, and the other a cruise to Alaska which was incredible in every regard. Which is to say, do I ever need to go on another cruise? No, but if someone invited me on one I'd at least consider it.

70,000 Tons of Butthole

this is extremely zen, I mean how do you assign weight to a hole

I can't wait to cruise

Pretty sure 70,000 Tons of Butthole was the name of Russell Crowe's band, and you can't make me believe otherwise.

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I have questions

cotton candy sweetie go
how do you assign weight to a hole?

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Well, it would have been funny.

-Don Henley

If you want to be on a boat in Alaska you can fly to Juneau and take a ferry fyi; you don't strictly have to go on a cruise to see the sights.

cruises don't even seem to be about sight-seeing anymore. half the people I talk to that go on them say "oh we didn't do any excursions, we got drunk on the pool deck all week".

they cancelled the excursion on mine, so I just went to the shopping/bar district in Cancun and got really drunk and much cheaper prices than on the boat.

These boats are huuuuuuuuge. Half of the people could be there to get drunk on the/a pool deck, and there could still be 1000 more people doing something totally different, and the two groups may never even meet. It's basically a giant, floating hotel with little rooms.

Fun fact: when we ported at Skagway in Alaska I learned that each year the local high school gets to use the big ballroom on the boat for their senior dance. The particular year I was there the school had just two graduating seniors, so everyone in the school (and I assume others as well) gets to go to the dance, too, and no one is allowed to bring a date. They call it "going Skag."

that's charming.

I guess I read Trainspotting at too impressionable an age bc that reads v weird to me

T/S: butthole cruising vs. Butthole surfing

Skag cruise would probably be super low key.

Choose going Skag. Choose eating ass in a hot tub. Choose a giant, floating hotel with little rooms. Choose going to the shopping/bar district in Cancun and getting really drunk at much cheaper prices than on the boat. Choose boneless pork rectums, inverted. Choose 70,000 Tons of Butthole...But why would I want to do a thing like that?

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/13/976631541/opinion-the-comfort-of-cow-cuddles

The cows are willing to be hugged, even eager. Sometimes, they'll flop down on their sides and place the heads in the laps of their — well, really, I don't know what to call someone who pays $75 to cuddle a cow. Customer sounds so cold.

And after the year we've had, I see the appeal.

"You cannot hug your friends, or hug your grandkids," Suzanne Vullers, who owns the Mountain Horse Farm in Naples, N.Y., told us. "But you can hug Bella and Bonnie," the half-Scottish Highland, half-Angus cows who reside at her farm.

By the way, Bella and Bonnie's snuggling services are booked solid through May.

I assume they would only let you on board if you're fully vaccinated no? If that's the case, I don't really see the problem.

― groovemaaan, Monday, 15 March 2021 17:56 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

It's different for every cruise line. Apparently, some require passengers to be vaccinated but not staff (which makes some sense considering passengers are generally older, and from richer countries, and so you can assume they might have more access to get it). Some companies requiring staff but not passengers, and some both.

xpost Just wait until someone throws a fit because an airline won't let them bring their cow on a plane.

"it's only one year old, your website says they fly free"

I was thinking service cow. I always assumed calves fly free already.

Lap cow.

Or if your cow serves as your wallet, your cash cow

Or if it's judging pop stars, your Simon Cow. If it's a scarf-y thing that's keeping your neck warm, a knit cow.

this conversation has jumped the moon

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bullabunga

Somewhere back in my family tree there is a rich ancestor who used to travel by private train car and bring a cow along on the train so his kids could have fresh milk.

boy did that go awry the one time they accidentally brought a bull

i like how that sounds like something ODB might have done too.

Emotional support ox

well it's also cos originally the WHO/CDC seemed to think that was the main way it spread, and that it wasn't airborne.

I don't think is right, is it? They said it mainly spreads through someone catching droplets from an infected coughing or sneezing in close proximity. Surface transmission. was always thought to be a more minor thing. What's changed is growing evidence of transmission by aerosols (the smaller-sized particles) - that's what makes it airborne. Transmission by larger droplets through coughing and sneezing is not classed as airborne. Very happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.

originally they didn't know that it spread from human to human at all, but that had somewhat to do with the Chinese government's secrecy about it:

https://www.voanews.com/science-health/who-does-not-rule-out-human-human-spread-new-coronavirus

we knew it was human-to-human by March though

yeah by that point they just didn't know about the 'airborne' part.

I feel like the whole "airbone vs droplet" thing is something people get VERY HET UP about and... I don't really get why? "do you need to wash your groceries" is an important question we didn't know the answer to early and it slowly got settled and that's good. But once human-to-human transmission was established (pretty early, as sic says) then everybody basically knew "you get it from other people, you can get it from people who don't feel sick, the farther away you are from someone and the less time you spend in a room with them the less likely you are to get it," which is pretty much what you'd say with both droplet and airborne. If airborne meant "don't stand somewhere anyone else has been standing in the last hour," OK, that would be really different advice, but that's not the advice anyone's giving, right?

I guess to some extent a more "it's airborne" POV leads you to a heavier weighting on "outside is safer than inside" but again, it seems to me that has in fact been conventional wisdom for a really long time?

yes, hence the lower-than-expected rates of transmissions amongst the unhoused population