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Jackstar’s glorious escape return!

https://youtu.be/ixbStXcVqW4

Quote from: Pizzapunch on May 21, 2020, 04:07:52 PM
He's been bellowing for full blown UBI of 2000 a month.

That’s more than he earned during his entire “career”.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on May 21, 2020, 03:41:02 PM
In your defense, he didn’t die in the video but was only writhing and moaning in pain. I’m sure he probably died soon after though.

A few band aids, some ministrations from Senda, and he was up and about in no time.

My favorite part of BellGab is the sober, rational, and well thought-out posts.

i can see them now; “You owe me, I saved your life!   Give me money now or I’ll sit on one of my cats!  You cheap fucker!”

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 17, 2020, 05:30:54 PM
Imagine keeling over, only to come to and find this Beluga whale sprawled over you giving you the kiss of life.

I think I’d rather die than have to live with that.  A lawsuit is out of the question because all I’d actually receive is an alien head and rat urine soaked plush toys.

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on May 17, 2020, 04:55:06 PM
Oh my.  This may be one for the ages!

Rage against the machine Senda.  Rage!


Wow.  His best chum as a kid had his stomach exploded out by a lightning bolt.  Poor little guy was only 10.   

George must not have been around or he would have fixed it.  He has been reading medical journals and all.

Will AOC go back to bartending if she isn’t re-elected? 

Since Joe outdid Trump by literally grabbing ‘em by the pussy is he considering injecting Clorox?  That thought kept me up last night.  His desire to outdo Trump is staggering.  Weird mutation of TDS.

Quote from: FearBoysWithBugs on May 16, 2020, 05:44:21 PM

You are making me think I should give Senda the benefit of the doubt. 

Quote from: WOTR on May 16, 2020, 02:45:32 PM
But the WHO is now saying we may never get a vaccine. I need some advice. Should I continue to cower locked away in my basement like our prime minister until a vaccine is found?

From the Jerusalem post. https://www.jpost.com/international/this-virus-may-never-go-away-who-627909

"It is important to put this on the table: this virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away," WHO emergencies expert Mike Ryan told an online briefing.

I think it is important we are realistic and I don't think anyone can predict when this disease will disappear," he added. "I think there are no promises in this and there are no dates. This disease may settle into a long problem, or it may not be."

Why are contradictory statements from “experts” considered leadership yet when Trump tries to be upbeat and positive he gets hammered?  It seems to me that the experts should be held to higher standards than the CEO.  I know if there is an issue with a product at my company chewing out the CEO is never the answer, he is just a figurehead.  I understand that Trump tramples everyone’s delicate sensibilities but ultimately he follows the advice of the experts.  Talk about shooting the messenger.

Quote from: K_Dubb on May 15, 2020, 01:49:41 PM
Ha ha ha move 'em out chubbycakes.

During yesterday’s run I saw a large woman out walking/running.  Since she is out trying to become non-chubby (there is a joke there about her already being non-chubby and trying to chiefs chubbiness) would she be eligible for your Camp Corona?  This is one of the gray areas that should be worked out beforehand.

Tonight is the night.  I know you have all been watching the bond grow between me and George.  I took the plunge earlier and emailed him, letting him know I love him and want to get married.  I asked him to answer tonight on the show.  But in order to keep the arrangement between us and my close fellow BellGabbers, I asked him to refrain from playing Norwegian death metal to say yes.  Still no email back from him but he has been so kind and understanding about my goldfish I just know he’ll say yes.  Wish me luck.

Quote from: K_Dubb on May 15, 2020, 01:47:12 PM
Only if they're fat.  Not obese, I mean just ugly fat.  A whole economy driven by restaurant deliveries would spring up overnight, saving that beleaguered industry.

You made me lol with this one. 

Quote from: K_Dubb on May 15, 2020, 01:38:39 PM
Hey that is my pet idea you guys better do it or we'll never know if it works!  Seriously, what is your problem with it?

Should we make the feeble stay at home too?  Wouldn’t it be easier to round them up and put them someplace safe?  Wait...

Time to get ready for a run lest you want to round me up for getting fat. 

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 15, 2020, 01:35:41 PM


A lot of the decisions they are making don't appear to be very sensible. The idea that we are going to put everyone over 65 under house arrest doesn't sound like a recipe for success to me. But bus networks are an intricate thing, especially somewhere as busy as London, and I can't see that bringing in a bunch of buses from elsewhere is going to simplify things.

I think it is these wacky decisions that make it easy to see any sort of conspiracy you want.  Truth be told there is no simple correct response.

Quote from: K_Dubb on May 15, 2020, 01:25:53 PM
Seriously?  They should have requisitioned buses from all the surrounding cities to give people space.  This is like funneling everyone into a few big grocers, or harrying them for straying outside their massive germ-ridden apartment complexes.  Idiocy like that is why people will eventually just ignore.

But, but global warming.  If the pandemic doesn’t get us global warming will.  We should all shoot ourselves now.  But wait, not all of us can be trusted with firearms.  This is all so futile, I’m going to have a drink.  But alcoholism.  We’re all fucked.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 15, 2020, 01:25:44 PM
I had an email yesterday where they said that bus services are running at 95% but capacity around 15%. I assumed they meant they'd only let on a certain number, but good luck explaining that to a bunch of angry Londoners trying to get home.

Weird times.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 15, 2020, 01:18:35 PM
They 'claim' that bus capacity is reduced to about 15%.

Is that an enforced rule or just the result of people staying home?  I guess packed busses mean people fear global warming more than the global pandemic.  #warming>pandemic

Quote from: K_Dubb on May 15, 2020, 01:03:29 PM
Goodness!  I was going to say something about poo-flinging but I got nothing on the little guy who comes in to sniff his ass mid-fuck that would be a press secretary I suppose.

Yes, the whole political microcosm is portrayed.

P.S.  Those things are terrifying.  I used to have nightmares about them when I was little.  The choppers on those things put Falkie’s Snaggletooth (tm) to shame.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 15, 2020, 01:00:48 PM
That verse is normally summarised as 'go forth and multiply', in other words, fuck off! I always remember that one because it got me kicked out of the convent.

Sorry, I went for the low hanging fruit.    Get those hernias checked.

Quote from: K_Dubb on May 15, 2020, 12:36:54 PM
Ha yeah it used to be almost expected in the classical world that you at least put up a show of reluctance.  That kind of display was credited to at least Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, and Theodosius that I can think of, and of course Washington is our own native example, influenced doubtless by that idea.  Now it's like hey gimme.  We are led by an ignorant class of uncouth baboons.

Baboons?  Surely you meant red-assed Mandrills.


https://youtu.be/wtJyCGYgmLE

The politician is easy to pick out.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 15, 2020, 05:50:41 AM
Genesis 1:22

At least you are doing your part, you big fruit. 
I held on this long to post but couldn’t refrain any longer.

Quote from: nooryisawesome on May 15, 2020, 07:44:23 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_cnLQdpc8g

managed to get a cost co run in of course had to show everything he bought.

Wasn’t he just dying in an emergency room?  How many lives has this guy used up?  He makes Jesus look like a piker.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 15, 2020, 08:30:34 AM
This is why I'm going to separate you and WOTR. He's a bad influence on you, you could have just posted Stalin's quote about one death being a tragedy and a million a mere statistic. Instead we get all this gubbins which simply amounts to the same thing. Yeah, you can toss around all these numbers like they don't really mean anything. You also need to factor in the needless additional deaths because health services don't have the resources to treat other illnesses, people too scared to visit hospitals and developing chronic conditions etc. It's a concatenation of events that people are trying to avoid. Don't forget, as well, that this is a novel virus which we cannot predict with any accuracy. It might move away from simply killing off the bed-shitters and going after people like you if we don't take steps to limit its spread.

People are much more robust during difficult times than you realise. You only pretended to be in WW2, we actually lived through it and the figures for suicide were exceptionally low despite living with near-starvation and the constant threat of being bombed.

I'm going to take away that naughty chair and make you sit on the floor and let WOTR ramble on at you. It's time you learned what pain is.

Don’t be frightened by the fact that I scored a 0 in feeling on the Meyers-Brigg test.  I feel for all this impacted by the deaths.  All I am trying to say is I think the “cure” will have similar death rates if everything was fairly reported.  How on earth to get those true numbers is impossible so my argument is largely moot.  I think everyone can agree that life will eventually lead to death.  If that fact has become politicized we’re all going to be treated like your and K_Dubb’s playtime.

Quote from: K_Dubb on May 15, 2020, 07:50:14 AM
I don't understand why this is even controversial.  There are plenty of precedents, eminent domain and so forth, that transcend ideology.

The problem is that thing like eminent domain are abused.  There are many more cases where it is used fairly but unfortunately the world is not digital.  It is analog and there is black and white and gray.  Those gray areas are the tricky part.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 15, 2020, 06:05:35 AM
Seriously, darlings. That graph was put out by Imperial College, who have been at the forefront of the campaign to take this virus seriously. Do you honestly think they would put out something that intended to show that there's 'nothing to see here'? I've got two naughty chairs set up for WOTR and whoozit. You can discuss graphs and bad analogies in a distant corner of the BG common room, with appropriate social-distancing, of course.

Let’s do some back of the envelope calculations.  In 2015 57 million people died.  In 2018 the population was 7.594 billion.  Let’s not quibble and I’ll round it to 7.6 billion.  Whats 6 million amongst friends?  Before you put on the analogy police uniform that using 2015 and 2018 data is not an apple and oranges situation.  It’s more of a lemon and orange thing, keeping it in the citrus fruits. 

The chart basically states that if you catch Coronavirus you have doubled your chances to die.  Let’s assume everyone catches the disease.  The we can assume that the number of deaths double to 114,000,000.  I get the skewing of death rates at different ages but that is immaterial to this analysis.  It’s not quite that simple because it would actually be less than that because you can’t die twice (unless your Senda) and less people would die of other causes.  So if we take 114,000,000/7,600,000,000 that is a 1.5% mortality rate from the disease.  That literally decimates the decimation predictions if we stick to the true meaning of the word instead of the current hijacking of it. 

Let’s assume Coronavirus is actually 4 times as likely to kill you. 285,000,000 million dead is only 3.75% of the population.  Still not in decimation territory.  There are some wackos that would argue we need to kill orders of magnitude more.   I don’t want to see anyone die (exception of Senda) but life must go on.   The real issue is no one will ever publish the deaths caused by the coming implosion of the global economy.  I suspect that number may be within a order of magnitude of the actual Coronavirus victims.  I suspect those numbers will also be reported as COVID deaths further inflating the death rate as must be done to make it statistically relevant.   I realize this is a gross oversimplification but I think in terms of orders of magnitude not to far off.  Therefore I reserve the naughty chair for you.  I will be there to circle the chair chanting shame at you.  I won’t speak for WOTR, his mask frightens me.

As an aside I wonder what lists I have landed on having Coronavirus, COVID and Senda in the same post.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 15, 2020, 05:27:29 AM
This is what I mean about being stuck inside a mental box. There's an obvious inference here which you are unable to draw. I'm not even going to bother pointing it out because you clearly won't see it anyway.

Matthew 7:5.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 15, 2020, 04:23:01 AM
The boy who cried wolf is a terrible analogy. First, there were wolves (viruses) in every case. Second, the kid was eventually right and got killed. Go and think about it some more.

Governments around the world, by and large, appear to have got a better grip on it than the US and UK. Unfortunately we are both suffering under feckless incompetents who couldn't be trusted to run a bath, let alone a country.

You're closing in on 100,000 deaths, and you have no way of knowing how this will develop further. I'm not unsympathetic to the arguments of people like you. If the government is denying people a livelihood they need to compensate you accordingly, but unfortunately most of you apportion blame to the wrong people. I can't believe what a shambles US politics is. I don't know how you let it continue, but we aren't much better.

It’s not a terrible analogy if you think about it.  Not all viruses are wolves, but neither are they puppies. I grant it is inelegant, but I couldn’t think of a better one.

I agree governments are incompetent.  I think it is because a career in politics is attractive to narcissistic psychopaths who care nothing about the people. I know there is probably an exception to this somewhere but I can’t think of one.  Absolute power corrupts absolutely.  I am hoping this latest event causes many to rethink how they cast votes in the future.

Unlike some physicians on the forum I like differences of opinion.  They are fun, healthy and necessary in any society to keep it from ending.  Too much of anything will kill you.