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Quarantivity (or how to stay sane while working from home forever)

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    I carved out a little divot for the orb and then I put some sort of frightening polyvinyl acetate adhesive in the divot and then I put the orb in the divot its all very tehcbjcal

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    I'm hopeful that this is what kills off Internet April Fools Day once and for all. I think we've collectively proven that we can't be trusted with any level of nuanced dishonesty on the internet.

    Google has announced they are not doing one.

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    JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    I'm bored. I might do a Google hangout if anybody is interested. I'll probably be drawing dumb stuff.

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    How do google hangouts work?

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Zoom is what the cool people use now though jugs.

    (I have not used zoom yet, but supposedly since you can just have people come in through a link, it’s a little simpler to set up)

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    JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Lol if you think I'm cool.

    Let me see this Zoom thing.

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    miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    Bedlam wrote: »
    I was going to mention the Taskmaster home tasks as well.

    And if you dont know what Taskmaster is, they have the full first four seasons up on their youtube channel for free:

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT5C7yaO3RVuOgwP8JVAujQ/playlists

    Its now my favorite British Telly show since it has a bunch of creativity and they spend a good deal of time roasting each other and having fun. Each season is 6/5/5/8 episodes!

    i haven't seen any taskmaster aside from a few clips that popped up in my youtube recommendations last year

    this one in particular is a rollercoaster

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

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    JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited March 2020
    zoom zoom zoom

    Juggernut on
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    UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    zoooooom

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    UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    it turns out Zoom is bad

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    zoom has been pretty good for me so far. Can be a bit laggy if we get more than 6 people on the call, but in fairness my wifi is shit (and also not actually my wifi, I'm piggybacking from somebody else in the building so can't really complain)

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    UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    yeah we couldn't hear each other at all even though we both successfully tested our audio settings on our own end

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    Virgil_Leads_YouVirgil_Leads_You Proud Father House GardenerRegistered User regular
    I was inspired to buy some blue moon beer from the grocery.
    Probably been about half a year since I bought a beer.

    Beer is fucking goooood!

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    GrisloGrislo Registered User regular
    Zoom can be finicky for some people with sound, but it mostly works well.

    If anyone is planning on using it to hang out, instead of planning a meeting using a password, just start a meeting in your "personal room" since people can jump right in if they know your ID number thingy. It's easier for anyone joining you.

    Also, for anyone joining Zoom hangouts, the owner can enable automatic recording, so don't say anything too incriminating.

    This post was sponsored by Tom Cruise.
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    FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
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    That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited March 2020
    Anti socialisation has kicked up again here. Only allowed out in pairs now.

    Blake T on
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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2020
    I'm supposed to be "meeting" two friends for a "quarantine hike" which is a thing we invented where, since we live on opposite sides of a decent hiking area, we bike over to our edge of the nature reserve then head along opposite trail ends up a mountain and try to time it so we can shout at each other from a distance once we get to the top (yes this is kind of insane but we're all going a little mental by now)

    that said the weather is kinda rancid and after spending all day yesterday unpacking I just kind of want to slump on the couch all afternoon

    maybe I can download some photos from google and fake it. "Huh we must have missed each other by like, minutes".

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    webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    I'm supposed to be "meeting" two friends for a "quarantine hike" which is a thing we invented where, since we live on opposite sides of a decent hiking area, we bike over to our edge of the nature reserve then head along opposite trail ends up a mountain and try to time it so we can shout at each other from a distance once we get to the top (yes this is kind of insane but we're all going a little mental by now)

    that said the weather is kinda rancid and after spending all day yesterday unpacking I just kind of want to slump on the couch all afternoon

    maybe I can download some photos from google and fake it. "Huh we must have missed each other by like, minutes".

    I remember back in the early aughts I was heading north a couple hours and about halfway their on the interstate I saw a car that was the spitting image of a good friend of mine's heading the other direction. I got my cell phone out preparing to call her when it rang. It was her! She had spotted me also and we had a good laugh and chat. We were both heading opposite directions to visit our significant others at the time.

    I know it's only tangentially related to your story but it dredged up the memory. Thanks for that!

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    chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    Les 'Survivorman' Stroud has an outstanding series going on the pandemic on youtube.
    He starts off with actually important things, what to buy, how to plan, etc.
    And then he goes on to actual survival in his usual motif. How to find a place to sleep (on the couch), how to improve your condition (make the bed), how to stay safe from predators (keep the two absolutely adorable chocolate labs in their yard).
    :+1:

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    chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    Oh shit.
    A friend just revealed on Facebook that the children born 9 months from now are likely to be called 'Coronials.'

    Goddamn, that blows my mind.

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    webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    chromdom wrote: »
    Oh shit.
    A friend just revealed on Facebook that the children born 9 months from now are likely to be called 'Coronials.'

    Goddamn, that blows my mind.

    Haha oh fuck thats great.

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    JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    chromdom wrote: »
    Oh shit.
    A friend just revealed on Facebook that the children born 9 months from now are likely to be called 'Coronials.'

    Goddamn, that blows my mind.

    Well, only for the first twelve years.

    After that, they'll be quaranteens.

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    JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    I needed frozen yogurt because that's been my comfort food and I felt less bad about eating half a carton and not moving for 5 hours at a time. But all the fucking frozen yogurt was gone so I had to get whatever real ice cream was left. Now I'm gonna be 45-60% more guilty about eating half a carton and not moving for 5 hours at a time. The only way to deal with it is too eat more ice cream.

    I am handling this in an extremely healthy manner.

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    edited March 2020
    Juggernut wrote: »
    I needed frozen yogurt because that's been my comfort food and I felt less bad about eating half a carton and not moving for 5 hours at a time. But all the fucking frozen yogurt was gone so I had to get whatever real ice cream was left. Now I'm gonna be 45-60% more guilty about eating half a carton and not moving for 5 hours at a time. The only way to deal with it is too eat more ice cream.

    I am handling this in an extremely healthy manner.

    Wait do you count walking to the bathroom to shit all that out as moving?

    Or are you just ... are you just attached to your toilet at all times

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    I think once this quarantine business is done I am going to be looking for a job closer to home

    Working from home is stressful in its own way but I was thinking of how much it’s gonna suck going back to commuting for 4+ hours a day after this

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    GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    chromdom wrote: »
    Oh shit.
    A friend just revealed on Facebook that the children born 9 months from now are likely to be called 'Coronials.'

    Goddamn, that blows my mind.

    Well, only for the first twelve years.

    After that, they'll be quaranteens.

    how many ya series have been pitched with that title by now

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    RanlinRanlin Oh gosh Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    I think once this quarantine business is done I am going to be looking for a job closer to home

    Working from home is stressful in its own way but I was thinking of how much it’s gonna suck going back to commuting for 4+ hours a day after this

    That is definitely way too much time commuting, especially if you work 5 days a week.

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    ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    'CAUSE I'M JUST A QUARANTEENAGE DIRTBAG, BABY

    LISTEN TO IRON MAIDEN, BABY

    WITH ME

    ON ZOOOoooOOOM

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    JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Juggernut wrote: »
    I needed frozen yogurt because that's been my comfort food and I felt less bad about eating half a carton and not moving for 5 hours at a time. But all the fucking frozen yogurt was gone so I had to get whatever real ice cream was left. Now I'm gonna be 45-60% more guilty about eating half a carton and not moving for 5 hours at a time. The only way to deal with it is too eat more ice cream.

    I am handling this in an extremely healthy manner.

    Wait do you count walking to the bathroom to shit all that out as moving?

    Or are you just ... are you just attached to your toilet at all times

    My body is a garbage factory that I abuse with impunity my terrible guts are nearly invincible.

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Supermarket now handing out disposable gloves while you queue to get in. Ingenious.

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    VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    edited March 2020
    tynic wrote: »
    Supermarket now handing out disposable gloves while you queue to get in. Ingenious.

    Meanwhile the Coles downstairs here is... handing out flyers telling us to pack our own shopping bags...

    Veldrin on
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    Desert LeviathanDesert Leviathan Registered User regular
    My grocery store just put up a plastic screen in front of the cash registers. Except I'm tall enough that they come up to my nose level, and I'm quite sure my breath cloud is spilling over the top. Also if I need to use the card reader, I have to step a foot to right, entirely past the screen.

    Meanwhile the self check-out always has a line so big that it's colonized half the deli area.

    Realizing lately that I don't really trust or respect basically any of the moderators here. So, good luck with life, friends! Hit me up on Twitter @DesertLeviathan
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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    watching Lou Diamond Phillips slam Donald Trump on twitter over NYC mask bullshit.
    1980s me would not have understood our current reality one bit.

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    VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Welp, in my efforts to avoid unnecessary surface contact, I managed to forget to lock the toilet door at work just now.

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    #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    watching Lou Diamond Phillips slam Donald Trump on twitter over NYC mask bullshit.
    1980s me would not have understood our current reality one bit.

    Fuckin 2010 me would have struggled

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    Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Gustav wrote: »
    Jedoc wrote: »
    chromdom wrote: »
    Oh shit.
    A friend just revealed on Facebook that the children born 9 months from now are likely to be called 'Coronials.'

    Goddamn, that blows my mind.

    Well, only for the first twelve years.

    After that, they'll be quaranteens.

    how many ya series have been pitched with that title by now

    As if Pooro isn't madly scribbling all this down!

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    Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    Welp, in my efforts to avoid unnecessary surface contact, I managed to forget to lock the toilet door at work just now.

    Oh no!

    EXTREMELY unnecessary eye contact!

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    Welp, in my efforts to avoid unnecessary surface contact, I managed to forget to lock the toilet door at work just now.

    Really you should double down and stop shutting the door.

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Week one of optional school resulted in fifty kids over six year groups over the entire school.

    People say without the kids this job would be easy which is true. But it is very boring.

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