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#152
Random Topics / Re: Coronavirus 2020
January 02, 2021, 05:30:56 PM
How much will $100 get me if I take Larry King in the celebrity death pool?
#153
Random Topics / Re: Bakegab: The Bellgab Bakeshop
January 01, 2021, 01:56:42 PM
I have less tha 1/2 a bag of Peet’s Holiday blend left.  And I ate the last bit of my homemade bacon.  I’m going to have to buy another pork belly.
#154
Tuck Andress has used super glue to reseat nails when one has lifted on the road.
#155
Random Topics / Re: Celebrity Deaths
December 30, 2020, 04:45:42 PM
I guess the answer is Ginger unless you are a necrophiliac.
#156
Quote from: Rix Gins on December 29, 2020, 06:46:41 PM
That is called free viewing.  Yes you can train the eyes to act like a stereoscope and when I was collecting stereoviews at flea markets and antique stores I would free view them to see if they were any good.  All stereoviews were not created equal.  Some had more stereo effect than others.
Yup, I learned to do it during a surveying course.
#157
Quote from: albrecht on December 18, 2020, 05:09:53 PM
Going through some boxes and found this stereoscope photo. 1889 Knights Templar parade in DC. Note also that the production was sold in foreign markets also. They look good in 3-D!
I can still make them work without a stereoscope.
#158
Politics / Re: Nashville Christmas Day explosion
December 29, 2020, 01:15:14 PM
Quote from: ItsOver on December 29, 2020, 12:56:14 PM
Ha!  No kidding.  I’d take listening to Petula Clark at a a stoplight over the usual ear-racking noise coming from some gang bangers rolling pile of junk.
I’d rather have an elephant step on my testicles than listen to Petula Clark.
#159
Random Topics / Re: Coronavirus 2020
December 28, 2020, 07:37:55 PM
Quote from: WOTR on December 28, 2020, 07:28:41 PM
I'm sorry. But I assumed it would be 3 deaths of their 2 children with 2 survivors. How do you plan to die a fourth time if you are already dead?  :-\
I blew my cover.  Run away!  This statistics stuff is so confusing.
#160
Random Topics / Re: Coronavirus 2020
December 28, 2020, 06:55:22 PM
My sister survived the ‘rona so my parents had three deaths of their two children with one survivor.
#161
Random Topics / Re: Coronavirus 2020
December 28, 2020, 06:49:44 PM
Quote from: WOTR on December 28, 2020, 06:45:25 PM
So- just what is your price?*

*Asking for K_Dubb.  ;)

**Also, do you have any 45's in the basement gym?
I use 60’s, 45’s are for children.
#162
Random Topics / Re: Coronavirus 2020
December 28, 2020, 06:38:18 PM
Quote from: WOTR on December 28, 2020, 06:34:34 PM
Whoozit has died 3 times...
I’d go for a fourth but that would be silly.  Unless someone paid me.
#163
Random Topics / Re: Coronavirus 2020 '
December 28, 2020, 06:27:50 PM
Quote from: K_Dubb on December 28, 2020, 05:50:43 PM
PCR has a long, proven history used to reconstruct genomes from Neanderthals etc. and the sort of amplification it does is by design.  How you interpret the presence of covid in your sample is up to debate, I agree, but this should surprise no one who actually understands how they work.

The case you are making, though, is that PCR tests are being used to exaggerate the scope of the problem which might hold true were not hospitalizations at dangerous levels in some areas and excess deaths compared to last year closely matching the reported covid totals.  We kind of know the scope of things now from many different angles, and I doubt people are using test result case counts alone to decide anything.  That was last spring.
You missed the entire point of my post but I agree with you on how tricky it is to use PCR as a diagnostic test.  The point was the constantly moving goalposts for success, form slow down hospitalizations, to looking at death counts to looking at “infections” using. Non-diagnostic tool.  I know that hospitalizations are up in my area, but it is still unclear if it is COVID or the flu.  I suspect it is both. I saw the number excess deaths over last year and remember it was over well 200K more so it does invalidate earlier arguments I heard where every death was being attributed to COVID.  200-300k is a large number and seems to jibe with the number of deaths attributed to COVID.
#164
Random Topics / Re: Coronavirus 2020 '
December 28, 2020, 05:36:12 PM
Quote from: K_Dubb on December 28, 2020, 05:00:15 PM
Personally I think that asymptomatic transmission will turn out to be one of those many lies told to us because they are good for us to expand control of us:
...At best the powers that be think we are too stupid to do what’s necessary, at worst they think we are thereto order around.  I admire your optimism but I don’t think it is warranted if you objectively look at what’s going on.  Remember at first we were going to stay home two weeks to flatten the infection curve.   When it did start to flatten the fixation turned to the number of deaths.  When that slowed down the fixation turned to the results of PCR tests spun up many times more than usual.  Presence of the viral genetic material in these overly spun up tests does not show whether someone is actively infected or contagious with COVID, only that some viral genetic material was found.  With the number of cycles run a farting flea on your street could be the source of genetic material found in the sample.  The inventor of PCR has stated many times that is not a tool to test for infection. Yet is the latest goalpost being used to measure progress.
#165
Random Topics / Re: Coronavirus 2020
December 27, 2020, 05:02:17 PM
Do I have to wash my hands if I pick someone else’s nose?
#166
Politics / Re: Nashville Christmas Day explosion
December 27, 2020, 05:00:23 PM
Quote from: Dr. MD MD on December 27, 2020, 04:01:14 PM
But why would an upstanding organization like the FBI want to blow up the place where they were examining the rigged voting machines? Oh...right...to get rid of the evidence so they can install their new dictator.
Do you really think AT&T was examining voting machines?  I’ve never heard of anyone going to AT&T for forensic auditing before but I am not an expert.  I suspect this was just to alarm the public for more draconian security measures in the coming months.  The warning sounded like something the government would produce.   I am very scared that lampposts spy on us but not surprised.
#167
Politics / Re: Nashville Christmas Day explosion
December 27, 2020, 03:44:09 PM
Quote from: albrecht on December 27, 2020, 12:54:38 PM
They are straying from the narrative, a bit. Now he is being described as an "oddball," not simply a "quiet man."
Soon we’ll find out he was the subject of an FBI “sting” operation where they were trying to talk him into blowing up the AT&T office in Nashville. 
#168
Quote from: Dr. MD MD on December 25, 2020, 03:43:47 PM
War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.

And other greatest hits of totalitarian regimes.
Remember, if you have no family, there is no need to gather.
#169
Politics / Re: Nashville Christmas Day explosion
December 25, 2020, 05:40:58 PM
Abundance of caution equals closing close the barn door after the horse escaped and shooting everything that has four legs.
#BanRVs
#170
Random Topics / Re: What the actual fsck?
December 24, 2020, 12:40:37 PM
Quote from: Walks_At_Night on December 24, 2020, 12:06:29 PM...or wrung up a $450 long distance phone bill talking to some skank who said she loved you but then dumps you for some dude named Milt...
Milt did you a favor, show the dude respect. Was Milt from the Rubini clan?
#171
Random Topics / Re: Bakegab: The Bellgab Bakeshop
December 23, 2020, 01:30:46 PM
Pork pies and gingerbread done.  The secret to gingerbread is black pepper.  I have to make crackers and tomorrow I’ll make a Tunis cake.
#172
Random Topics / Re: Coronavirus 2020
December 22, 2020, 05:14:00 PM
#173
Quote from: ItsOver on December 22, 2020, 03:38:35 PM

Is that Captain Ahab’s harpoon coming in from the left?  Summon the flensers!
#174
Random Topics / Re: Will K_Dubb adopt S.V.?
December 22, 2020, 03:37:01 PM
Quote from: ItsOver on December 22, 2020, 03:34:14 PM
Christ, isn’t Pud enough?  Just what Kalifornia needs, to make sure they sure NOBODY there will ever want to reopen a bar.
I have a suspicion that all Brit expats will be seduced by the fact that they can buy beer at a sporting event or that anyone can buy a butter knife and become a wee bit less Brit.
#175
Random Topics / Re: Will K_Dubb adopt S.V.?
December 22, 2020, 03:25:36 PM
Quote from: Walks_At_Night on December 22, 2020, 03:22:11 PM
In all seriousness, it looks like Brexit is gonna happen finally, with the the Super Corona-Chan on top of it. So you'll be adopting Sredni V. then? For just 75 cents a day............

The Brits are just as fat as the rest of the sedentary world.  I use to enjoy Jeremy Clarkson picking on fat Americans as he had his 19.64 stone jammed into jeans only made to handle 16.07 stone on Top Gear.
#176
Quote from: AZZERAE on December 22, 2020, 03:15:35 PM
Straight off the pharmacy shelf. Its really bad. I eat like a pig.

This stuff:



What are the long term side effects? Stomach suicide?
Long term Nexium use depletes some vitamins and minerals.  I can’t remember which ones off the top of my head.  It’s part of the reason I cleaned up my eating, started exercising regularly and lost a lot of weight.
#177
Random Topics / Re: K. Dubb isn't gay
December 22, 2020, 03:13:56 PM
Quote from: AZZERAE on December 22, 2020, 03:12:03 PM
Oh I'm not hurt. You'd know if I were hurt. You and I PM'd one another mutual appreciation in our salad days. We're good (as far as I'm concerned).
I know.  Just kidding around of people on a forum.
#178
Quote from: AZZERAE on December 22, 2020, 03:06:19 PM
I love shoveling junk food down my gullet. I live on antacids, and I'm surprised I'm not twice my size.
OTC antacids or prescription?  If you can get off prescription ones, they are bad news long term.
#179
Random Topics / Re: K. Dubb isn't gay
December 22, 2020, 03:11:36 PM
Quote from: Walks_At_Night on December 22, 2020, 03:09:36 PM
350 g of flour?  What kind of commie shit is that man?
All good baking is done by weight in grams.  Ounces are just too imprecise for baking.  But I understand your sentiments.
#180
Random Topics / Re: K. Dubb isn't gay
December 22, 2020, 03:07:24 PM
Quote from: AZZERAE on December 22, 2020, 03:04:12 PM
My homemade pizza game is dog shit.
I put a link in my original post that will help.  Get some unglazed quarry tiles to cook the pizza on.  Much cheaper than buying a pizza stone.  Crush some canned tomatoes, put on some sliced Roma tomato’s, fresh basil and fresh mozzarella, put on a touch of olive oil and bake in a 550F oven about 8-10 minutes.
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