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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Mar 27, 2020 23:21:48 GMT -5
As I keep saying every few pages, even with me living in NY, I go out for at least 5-10 mins every other day just to get some air and come back in
If you're not sick, try to make some time to move around outside for a few mins every other day or so
I don't take multiple trips outside, once that one trip is done it is over. I haven't even left my neighborhood in almost 2 weeks since I started working from home. It is taxing on the brain and body with being stuck but it is doable. Just got to keep your focus
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Post by hassanchop on Mar 27, 2020 23:37:58 GMT -5
Also, look at how every news outlet covered the issue in the past months: If we're gonna antagonize one, we should antagonize them all.
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Post by hassanchop on Mar 28, 2020 0:44:12 GMT -5
Also whatever happened to these people:
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Mar 28, 2020 1:02:34 GMT -5
And here we go again.
DO NOT USE THE SLIGHT RELAXATION OF THE NO POLITICS RULE AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO AIR YOUR GRIEVANCES WITH A POLITICIAN.
Anyone doing this, you get a period of enforced isolation from this forum.
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Post by hassanchop on Mar 28, 2020 1:47:11 GMT -5
Here's song of unity and hope during this difficult time from various singers in the Philippines, it has a mix of English and Filipino:
If Lionel Richie wants to make a song, have him do a rendition of this
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Mar 28, 2020 4:22:44 GMT -5
My 89-year-old grandmother called me today and was so excited because "The president said we can start going out again around Easter." That's the shit that scares me the most. My grandmother is far from a news junkie and doesn't know that much/care about politics. Older people like her are going to hear that garbage and start going out and about again, then we're dealing with even more deaths. The incompetence on display from our government during this is shameful. What REALLY blows my mind is that a certain someone's approval rating is going up. Has the country regressed that much to where this is now acceptable and considered doing a good job? There's a large chunk of this country that needs to do some serious soul-searching. You'd hope something like this might do that, but it's seemingly having the opposite effect. This is why Dr Fauci should be the one leading the press conferences. Dude is taking it seriously, isn't making dumb promises, and isn't giving everybody false hope. He's being honest. Heck, even a certain guy from Indiana is taking it more seriously than the individual above him. The approval ratings always go up in a time of crisis. People rally around the leader. The ratings aren't going up as much as previous Presidents.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Mar 28, 2020 4:57:44 GMT -5
I'm guessing this came from the Fed as i'm currently not watching No, Trump was talking about that Malaria drug and when it got to talking about testing, he said we've got people who are very sick and dying, and we could test it on them. And said if they don't make it, oh well they tried. I bowed out after that to play some MLB The Show. It’s a case of speaking inelegantly. What he is describing is off-label usage, which is not an unheard of practice. A doctor might prescribe boner pills to your grandma to improve her circulation. Another doctor might prescribe those same boner pills to a 9 year old boy in an effort to slow the progression of his muscular dystrophy. Neither uses are what the blue bombers were approved by the FDA for, but in theory should work for. I must admit that I don’t understand how an anti malarial infection medication could be used for COVID-19. The pandemic is caused by a virus and malaria is caused by a eukaryotic parasite. The only thing they have in common is that they get inside your cells during an infection. They don’t even infect the same cells as infecting the red blood cells that malaria targets would be an infectious dead end for the virus. It would have lost its capsule entering the rbc and there are no cellular mechanisms for the virus to hijack (rbc’s don’t have DNA and cannot make new DNA, RNA, or proteins). If a virus infects a rbc it gets stuck there until the cell starts going bad, at which point the cell and all of its contents are disposed of.
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Post by flakeymcgill on Mar 28, 2020 4:59:14 GMT -5
I don't understand the no politics rule. I understand keeping it out of the wrestling forums but this site isn't sponsored, it isn't a public service. When it comes to things like this and it's impossible not to discuss the political reaction that politicians have or haven't taken worldwide, the rule seems silly. Besides going by the number of people who post here about wrestling from way back when, a number of us are over a certain age. A relaxation of the rule would make other areas of the forum more appealing to us as opposed to having 'general discussion' about Tik Tok, Call of Duty, Fortnite or anything else most people over 35 aren't going to be interested in.
Surely at some point the whole 'A rule we invented for some reason that doesn't really make sense must continued to be enforced because we thought of it once' just starts to look silly.
It's like a NFL forum that prevents discussions of trees and someone made a thread on environmental conservationism in their 'general discussion' forums and mods fall in with:
"FOR THE LAST TIME GUYS ANYONE WHO MENTIONS CONIFERS WILL BE BANNED"
It's just....silly, isn't it?
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Mar 28, 2020 5:02:38 GMT -5
I don't understand the no politics rule. I understand keeping it out of the wrestling forums but this site isn't sponsored, it isn't a public service. When it comes to things like this and it's impossible not to discuss the political reaction that politicians have or haven't taken worldwide, the rule seems silly. Surely at some point the whole 'A rule we invented for some reason that doesn't really make sense must continued to be enforced because we thought of it once' just starts to look silly. It's like a NFL forum that prevents discussions of trees and someone made a thread on environmentalism in their 'general discussion' thread and mods fall in with: "FOR THE LAST TIME GUYS ANYONE WHO MENTIONS CONIFERS WILL BE BANNED" It's just....silly, isn't it? It’s a rule to keep the peace. Yes, this is a topic where politics are part and parcel to the conversation, but most topics can and should avoid such talk as it always leads to flaming.
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Post by KofiMania on Mar 28, 2020 5:28:34 GMT -5
I don't understand the no politics rule. I understand keeping it out of the wrestling forums but this site isn't sponsored, it isn't a public service. When it comes to things like this and it's impossible not to discuss the political reaction that politicians have or haven't taken worldwide, the rule seems silly. Besides going by the number of people who post here about wrestling from way back when, a number of us are over a certain age. A relaxation of the rule would make other areas of the forum more appealing to us as opposed to having 'general discussion' about Tik Tok, Call of Duty, Fortnite or anything else most people over 35 aren't going to be interested in. Surely at some point the whole 'A rule we invented for some reason that doesn't really make sense must continued to be enforced because we thought of it once' just starts to look silly. It's like a NFL forum that prevents discussions of trees and someone made a thread on environmental conservationism in their 'general discussion' forums and mods fall in with: "FOR THE LAST TIME GUYS ANYONE WHO MENTIONS CONIFERS WILL BE BANNED" It's just....silly, isn't it? The reason is the same reason you shouldn’t bring up politics (or religion) during Thanksgiving dinner.
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Post by Push R Truth on Mar 28, 2020 5:49:34 GMT -5
IMHO the no politics rules is one of the main pros of this forum, along with butt related humor and hatred for Baron Corbin.
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Post by Sephiroth on Mar 28, 2020 6:04:53 GMT -5
Also, look at how every news outlet covered the issue in the past months: If we're gonna antagonize one, we should antagonize them all. I've heard a lot of arguing in the last couple of days about how South Korea and even Sweden were able to flatten the rates of infection so much faster, and without the kind of wide scale disruption that is occurring here in the US. But no one wants to mention how both those nations have had preparations for a potential national health crisis in place for a long time now-AND that they both took this seriously and enacted those measures from day one. It took the US a couple of months to finally take this seriously, and it wasn't due to a rising death toll; it was because the stock market imploded in the space of one week.
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Post by hassanchop on Mar 28, 2020 6:10:08 GMT -5
Also, look at how every news outlet covered the issue in the past months: If we're gonna antagonize one, we should antagonize them all. I've heard a lot of arguing in the last couple of days about how South Korea and even Sweden were able to flatten the rates of infection so much faster, and without the kind of wide scale disruption that is occurring here in the US. But no one wants to mention how both those nations have had preparations for a potential national health crisis in place for a long time now-AND that they both took this seriously and enacted those measures from day one. It took the US a couple of months to finally take this seriously, and it wasn't due to a rising death toll; it was because the stock market imploded in the space of one week. Speaking of Korea: And how one of the cities in the Philippines is handling it:
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Post by The Barber on Mar 28, 2020 6:24:40 GMT -5
I don't understand the no politics rule. I understand keeping it out of the wrestling forums but this site isn't sponsored, it isn't a public service. When it comes to things like this and it's impossible not to discuss the political reaction that politicians have or haven't taken worldwide, the rule seems silly. Besides going by the number of people who post here about wrestling from way back when, a number of us are over a certain age. A relaxation of the rule would make other areas of the forum more appealing to us as opposed to having 'general discussion' about Tik Tok, Call of Duty, Fortnite or anything else most people over 35 aren't going to be interested in. Surely at some point the whole 'A rule we invented for some reason that doesn't really make sense must continued to be enforced because we thought of it once' just starts to look silly. It's like a NFL forum that prevents discussions of trees and someone made a thread on environmental conservationism in their 'general discussion' forums and mods fall in with: "FOR THE LAST TIME GUYS ANYONE WHO MENTIONS CONIFERS WILL BE BANNED" It's just....silly, isn't it? It is. I agree with you. IMHO the no politics rules is one of the main pros of this forum... I disagree. I view it as a negative.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Mar 28, 2020 6:36:03 GMT -5
the no politics rule isnt going anywhere, its been explained multiple times over the years why its there and why it stays in place.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 28, 2020 6:59:49 GMT -5
It’s a rule to keep the peace. Yes, this is a topic where politics are part and parcel to the conversation, but most topics can and should avoid such talk as it always leads to flaming. Hell, certain threads can get pretty heated without ever bringing politics into the discussion, and nothing about the political landscape of last four years or so is conductive to peaceful discussion. Mods don't want to be spending all their time here locking threads, deleting posts, and banning people.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 28, 2020 7:59:25 GMT -5
the ban on politics is one of the best parts of this forum. I like having a place I can go to to escape all that. there's plenty of other places online you can have those sorts of discussions.
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Post by flakeymcgill on Mar 28, 2020 8:13:36 GMT -5
IMHO the no politics rules is one of the main pros of this forum, along with butt related humor and hatred for Baron Corbin. We're all probably on many different forums about wrestling. I know I am. I could be wrong but I don't know any that ban political discussion and I also don't know a single site that has a problem with people talking politics. Really how many wrestling forums do you go to where you wanted to discuss the Royal Rumbles but people kept replying with their thoughts in the Clinton impeachment, the Iran-contra affair or won't stop endlessly going on about the benefits and negatives of FDR's new deal. Honestly I've never had that happen to me. If the no politics rule didn't exist would the Wrestlemania thread be full of people posting memes painting their least favourite politician in a negative light? The idea that banning talk about politics is why this site is good as a wrestling discussion forum is kind of similar to how Homer thought the Bear Tax was the reason for lack of bears in the neighborhood. Or claiming that the 'No bear talk' rule was what made this forum better than all the others because elsewhere you can't mention the Iron Man match from WM12 without everyone wanting to debate which one out of the Asiatic or North American black bears would win in a fight. It should be easy to regular discussion so the wrestling stuff stays on topic about wrestling. I'm sorry but 40% of members here have their name in colour which I presume means they're mods or managers of some description, it shouldn't be difficult to manage instead of this blanket ban that ensures that discussion about a serious pandemic like this has people walking on egg shells trying to convey themselves as if they were on Sesame Street. "I think this politician's response to this crisis has been poor!" Mods come along "KNOCK IT OFF!" It's demeaning and illogical. It's only being enforced because someone wants to enforce something. It's like when your older brother would baby sit when your parents went out and to feel in charge he'd unilaterally decide you can't open the fridge and he'll stand there blocking just to be a jerk. No reason why he wouldn't let you open the fridge, but he's in charge so he's implemented a 'no opening the fridge' rule. The logic is identical and it's surely driving people away to other forums where they can discuss stuff without being treated like kids? Even in the WWE Current section there are an absurd level of announcements and rules and chastisements pinned up there, about 12 I think. Easily the most needlessly authoritarian forum I've been to and all 99% of us want to discuss is wrestling. It's really, really odd. It's literally like this forum was created by someone who wanted others to follow their rules and sometimes wrestling discussion is allowed ; but no politics....or bears.....or Homers.....and the only the mods can open the fridge. Really if people have such an authority complex join the military or the police but seeing a wrestling forum monitored and overmoderated and suffer with nonsensical rules where you click on a section and in addition to the 1000 rules they impose, they think of 12 more and pin them. The discussion can be good here but moderators who didn't see it as toy through which they can play 'North Korea' would be good.
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Post by Tenshigure on Mar 28, 2020 8:41:59 GMT -5
Checking in with you guys. Love you all. Stay safe, FAN. Stay healthy. Don't hoard the TP.
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Post by Tenshigure on Mar 28, 2020 8:45:25 GMT -5
the no politics rule isnt going anywhere, its been explained multiple times over the years why its there and why it stays in place. Even TV Tropes provides an awesome explanation for the truly naive as to why the ban is a damned good thing: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BanOnPolitics
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