idk I guess we don't go through that much toilet paperxps
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
Anyway, I'm stocking up on lentils &c.
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
like i think we buy an 8-pack once a month? TMI I suppose
on the other thread we went over how much toilet paper one person usually uses a week. I probably am lowkey annoyed by people who over use toilet paper but hopefully I will never have to be a first person witness to a lot of it. All people should be able to use the amount they need to self soothe.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
but at max, even with single ply, i would think an average person needs one roll a week max, even taking into account shark week or food poisoning.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
If those who poop at work will be working from home, it makes sense to stock up on extra toilet paper.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
oh yes that reminds me, due to underfunding the campus bathrooms are frequently either closed or out of soap
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
sharkshart week or food poisoning.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
tt i got this thermometer the other day, Amazon doesn’t have them anymore but Argos might. It has lots of others too.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
If you have to quarantine for 2 weeks, you better have some toilet paper. Even moreso if you are a whole family that needs to quarantine. I don't see why this is weird to people.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
some people like to wrap up their hands in TP like boxers preparing for a big fight. i always assume their anal cavities are in catastrophic condition
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
I'm just stocking up for the start of the next varsity sports season.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link
xp: Thank god I brush with crest every night.
Anyway, a case has been announced in my county in Maryland just now.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
I wonder if there will be a covid baby boom this fall?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
psa: if you're having sex while wfh and end up having a wfh/quarantine baby, it'll be a sagittarius. so use some judgment and practice safe sex.— stan of cleves (@alex_abads) March 11, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
Sagittarius Baby sounds like a great fictional hippy name.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
xps, thanks gyac! Alas all out of stock for delivery or nearby. I found this one on Amazon that doesn't look like the worst thing?
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
i am so glad we have a bidet in our household
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
i heard march is usually a peak month for vasectomies so I wonder how this is all going to pan out. xpost
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
according to andrew cuomo the cuny/suny schools are all remote starting march 19, not that the schools have announced a goddamn thing
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
hah, the closest location Argos suggests for that thermometer is Grimsby, 135 miles away
but I guess I too am stockpiling thermometers now as I bought a 2nd forehead strip thermometer from a local chemist since the first cheap one from Amazon didn't work and... it doesn't work? that or I might just be dead
well I guess if I'm dead already that takes a lot of the worry out of this coronavirus thing
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
I knooooow, I was just looking through locations, I have narrowed down various thermometers to Grimsby, Chippenham and...most of Kent? Boots say on their site they’ll get more stock in too, but I’ll keep looking.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/03/empty-spaces-due-coronavirus-fears/607666/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
I like the 'idle gondoliers' and the cat
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
huh I always assume if I have a fever I'll just know about it
my manager came back from a skiing weekend (in Bulgaria, not a high risk area) and has been sick all week, he looks rough as fuck and his voice is gone, coughing all over the place... luckily he looked at one of those symptom checker things and is like 90% sure it's not this virus, just some other virus that he is knowingly spreading around, so it's fine. He's still in the probationary period so won't get company sick pay if he's off, otherwise he def wouldn't be in. Today the head of the dept called HR about him and after hearing the symptoms they advised that he should stay at work. Pandemic aside it's fucking galling to hear "you should work if you're sick" as official word from a human resources dept
In other dismaying news there was an incident at my mum's work of some Chinese students being racially abused by some other students who were throwing stuff at them while pretending to cough. Hope the little cunts get kicked out
― Garu you just posted flange (wins), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
I get the feeling both music events I was planning on traveling to the States for (Long Play and Migration) are gonna get shitcanned :(
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
really glad my wedding is not until July.
not so glad that I work at a university and have no way to work from home. I basically have to hope a student or faculty member in this building gets confirmed with COVID for the university to be shut.
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
sitting in a meeting right now watching everyone rub their eyes, scratch their face, and lean their heads on their faces and wondering "WTF PEOPLE??!"
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
Have you ever had to quit biting your nails? Breaking unconscious habits that have lasted decades is fuckin hard.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
I basically have to hope a student or faculty member in this building gets confirmed with COVID for the university to be shut.samemy school hasn't even put out hand sanitizer much less prepared teachers or students for possible closure/remote classesmidterms are next week
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
i have touched my face (and bitten my nails) thousands of times, today alone. yeah, for some people (very much myself) the touching the face thing is not an easy thing to accomplish.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
lean their heads on their faces and wondering "WTF PEOPLE??!"
seems like a reasonable reaction tbh, how do they do it?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
my company just sent out guidance to managers: i'm being told that if someone wants to work home, i have to evaluate it on a case-by-case basis
these people are fucking morons, we should all be told to work from home as much as possible right now
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
grocery store update: plenty of tp, running low on certain varieties of canned soup and jelly
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
lean their heads on their faces and wondering "WTF PEOPLE??!
heh...woops. lean their heads on their hands
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
xxp yep, totally agree. Case by case, like public health needs some micromanagement nitpicking if the job couldn’t be perfectly done as well from home.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
mine is june, and i'm sweating a lil bit.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
My workplace is still open and apparently senior management is split between the WFH/shut-it-down advocates and a group demanding we stay open and insisting this isn't a big deal. If anyone at work gets the 'vid I hope it's them.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
rooting for jim and voodoo’s weddings
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
I’ve clearly gone full Australian because I just burst out laughing at that.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
So I had to refresh all goddamn day to find a non-paywalled news source to confirm but, joy, someone who works in a building two blocks from my own workplace has tested positive. And now the fun begins!
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
Am I correct in my feeling that preparation for a situation like this can be broadly reduced to a lot of people in positions of authority saying 'psssh, nothing like this could ever happen to US'?
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link
^^^ I think so. Although it's been interesting watching the cancellation of the Chicago St. Patrick's Day parade unfold. Publicly a handful of alderpeople were saying, "the parade must go on!" while behind the scenes they were essentially begging the mayor to come back from her vacation and cancel it for them.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
Current irrational thinking: everyone is going to be exposed so I need to get it now before the hospitals are full and battlefield triage kicks in because I won't make the cut
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
good friend buried both parents this last three months and the other lads in the group of four island lads are kinda going full tabloid about their own aul wans after being faced with this sudden burst of mortality, im veering btwn sympathy and impatience with their freakouts
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
xps the parade thing is mystifying to me, considering the single example of how to mishandle a pandemic that i keep seeing is philadelphia's decision to hold a flu parade (maybe the parade wasn't 'for' the flu, but the flu certainly thought it was) in 1918
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
Just come to my doctors office, I broke a toe at the weekend and have been exhausted for a couple of days, but no fever or other symptoms. My doctor is great and fabulously unflappable. Diagnosed a gastro type virus and told me to take it easy but still took me though the whole corona drill, symptoms, list of known contact spots, advice on what to do to protect myself (wash hands, hand washing more effective than sanitiser, use a tissue to open doors). Said I could get tested at the royal Melbourne if I was worried but also said there was no reason to be worried and the wait was long.
However, my doctors office is in a building with a language school, medical offices, diagnostic clinics etc. and everyone who walked in with me walk straight past the hand sanitiser dispenser and into the lift. Very glad my button was pressed on the way up and elbow presses on the way down.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
When you're sliding into firstAnd you feel something burstWho cares, nobody around to see itAnd nothing to wipe it with
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 22:00 (four years ago) link
I just checked the stocks & shares ISA I opened with 100 quid a couple of years ago and it was worth 97 quid, I was like fuck it just send me the cheque lol
― nephs and nieces spread diseases (wins), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
I wonder if the IRS will allow 401ks who follow Safe Harbor to add special Hardship withdrawals for people financially impacted by it. They did in the past for hurricanes. This would be unusual but y'know...
I mean, it's all sorts of fucked up that someone would have to raid their retirement for this reason, but given the Senate rn.....
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link