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CelloCello Registered User regular
Hey folks

How uh, how're we all doing these days

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Found a poem I liked

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    Transcript:
    Don't Die, by Jay Hulme

    I say it so often it's embedded in my skin
    don't die

    Have another cup of tea.
    Did you buy the new shoes?
    What's your plan for tomorrow?
    don't die
    don't die
    don't die


    When the plague is over, we'll go dancing;
    I hate dancing, but we'll go.
    don't die
    We'll visit that coffee shop, if it's still open;
    that one you took me to, before all of this.
    don't die

    What's on telly?
    don't die
    What're you eating?
    don't die
    What do you want from this stunted existence?
    please don't die

    I'm reaching out again,
    trying to find the edges of you in the ether.
    A hundred miles away, and still beside me.

    Let me tell you about the future.
    don't die
    What we're going to do together.
    don't die

    The supermarket is closing soon,
    you have to go and buy groceries.
    Be careful, I say.
    Stay safe, I say.
    don't die

    I say.
    don't die

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    I had been going to the gym here in Seattle since about a month after it reopened. At first it was great, exactly what I expected from how to do a gym in the plague times. Very few people, super distanced, no showers or anything that could increase droplet type stuff.

    They just opened up the pool and locker room showers and plus, the last couple times I went, there's more & more of the younger muscle-bro crowd making a big deal of oh no, gotta pull my mask down to talk at the pretty girl on the treadmill, or, can't bench unless I take my mask off.

    So welp it was nice being able to work out at the gym again for a while but I guess I'm stuck using my home equipment again.

  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    tynic wrote: »
    Found a poem I liked

    gajmk7j6zadc.jpeg


    Transcript:
    Don't Die, by Jay Hulme

    I say it so often it's embedded in my skin
    don't die

    Have another cup of tea.
    Did you buy the new shoes?
    What's your plan for tomorrow?
    don't die
    don't die
    don't die


    When the plague is over, we'll go dancing;
    I hate dancing, but we'll go.
    don't die
    We'll visit that coffee shop, if it's still open;
    that one you took me to, before all of this.
    don't die

    What's on telly?
    don't die
    What're you eating?
    don't die
    What do you want from this stunted existence?
    please don't die

    I'm reaching out again,
    trying to find the edges of you in the ether.
    A hundred miles away, and still beside me.

    Let me tell you about the future.
    don't die
    What we're going to do together.
    don't die

    The supermarket is closing soon,
    you have to go and buy groceries.
    Be careful, I say.
    Stay safe, I say.
    don't die

    I say.
    don't die

    Angry about how good poetry is again

  • mightyjongyomightyjongyo Sour Crrm East Bay, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    I got gas for the first time in....two months? Crazy.

    I ordered some maybe overpriced but excellent smelling candles from Cantrip Candles and now my house smells like a coffee shop. I would rec if you can find them in stock and are okay with the pricing.

    I also started cleaning up my garage! Believe it or not I'm getting tired of video games so I've started finally looking at my house instead. It's amazing (and embarassing!) how much you can clutter up in 5 years without regular clearing.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    I'm tired

    that's how I am

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Today is not a fasting day so I get to have lunch!

    I am so used to wearing my mask at this point, it is astonishing to me that anyone might ever be uncomfortable wearing one.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I'll get in a car with a covid-bubble friend and find myself pulling up my mask whenever another car pulls up beside us at the lights
    the mere visible presence of other people is enough to induce a reflexive mask panic. Next I'll start doing it while watching tv

  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    Found out my daughter's covid bubble friend was recently exposed to someone (a teacher) who just got a positive test.

    And of course we just visited yesterday.

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    Uhhhh my partner person in Philly is very very slowly on the mend from the Rona and that's fucking stressful

    And apparently one of my uncles decided to do a 23andMe kit?

    Because nothing turns a lighthearted genealogy exercise into immediate family turmoil like 2020 (turns out my great grandfather is decidedly not my great grandfather :cool: )

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2020
    Cello wrote: »
    Hey folks

    How uh, how're we all doing these days

    I just bought an Oaxacan Advice Pig from a slightly dubious online vendor at the princely sum of $42, so I think I'm making pretty good decisions right now.

    tynic on
  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    Cello wrote: »
    Hey folks

    How uh, how're we all doing these days

    I just bought an Oaxacan Advice Pig from a slightly dubious online vendor at the princely sum of $42, so I think I'm making pretty good decisions right now.

    You'll be able to run any future questionable late night purchases by it first, so this is some good forward planning if anything

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited October 2020
    I don’t know how I’ve survived nearly 40 years without one and I will most assuredly die unless I can obtain one in the next 25 minutes.

    sarukun on
  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    sometimes I feel a little guilty that I was so accustomed to spending most of the day alone (plus dog) before the quarantine, that it hasn't been that big a change for me in terms of socializing. My wife is able to work from home but really misses going into the gym and the office.

    In other news, I'm learning to build wooden stuff. I made a chair and just got some more wood for a second one.

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    Cello wrote: »
    Hey folks

    How uh, how're we all doing these days

    I just bought an Oaxacan Advice Pig from a slightly dubious online vendor at the princely sum of $42, so I think I'm making pretty good decisions right now.
    Can you ask your pig what I should do with these three beans I just purchased?

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    I'm doing well enough, I suppose

    I'm different, that's for sure, and my interests have changed or adapted in some ways

    I cannot imagine doing some of the things I used to do before the pandemic, namely hanging out at bars and going to the movies.

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Lupin III: The First ain’t come out here till January.

    So I guess no movies till January.

  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
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    Used to be they wouldn't let you wear a mask in public but now you're sposed to and they're never ever getting it back to the way that it was

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  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    sometimes I feel a little guilty that I was so accustomed to spending most of the day alone (plus dog) before the quarantine, that it hasn't been that big a change for me in terms of socializing. My wife is able to work from home but really misses going into the gym and the office.

    In other news, I'm learning to build wooden stuff. I made a chair and just got some more wood for a second one.

    Generally I like a good combination of extreme socializing and hiding out alone in my room for hours on end

    I've been quite good at the hiding out part but I am starting to really feel the lack of human contact since I've only been visiting one friend at a time, once a month at best, and whoof, I'd love to be able to leave the house more

    I do have a thing booked on Friday to get absolutely obliterated on moonshine with my best friend, eat some incredibly fancy cherry ice cream, and carve some pumpkins, so that will hopefully make up for things

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  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Agreed Hobnail I am thoroughly enjoying going out in a mask, sunglasses, and hat. Fuck you world nobody is taking photos of me and stealing my soul.

    I wonder how far you can push the mask thing. Can I get away with one of these.

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Looks perfectly reasonable to me, I'm looking forward to the onset of demented balaclava weather

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    I don’t like this cheap face shield I am wearing at work. I wonder if I could get a Mandalorian helmet and wear that instead. It is basically the same thing.

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    SCBA with mirrored faceplate, whos got money

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  • IronKnuckle's GhostIronKnuckle's Ghost This is also my fault Registered User regular
    I decided that if I'm going to be spending basically all of my time in my home office--I'm lucky enough to have a job where I can work remote full time--then I should make the place presentable. It's been my junk room since I moved here several years ago, and I spent last night unpacking some boxes, rearranging some furniture, and just generally cleaning the room for effectively the first time. This morning I am weirdly energized and feeling good. I suppose The Sims is completely correct and that nice surroundings do make you feel better.

  • DocshiftyDocshifty Registered User regular
    My test came back negative. So I went into work yesterday and was greeted with a surprise 12-hour shift, none of the days off I needed (And was promised), and a 12 hour to end the week as well. Realized that I have too much schooling (I STILL need to find someone to interview for a final project due, which is causing enough stress as is) to be working a job where the hours are "Well, whatever we need you to work".

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I don’t like this cheap face shield I am wearing at work. I wonder if I could get a Mandalorian helmet and wear that instead. It is basically the same thing.

    I did see someone getting about in a full plague doctor mask last weekend, your people are out there

  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    Some days are good, some days are bad

    Working from home is an improvement so far, on account of being spared the hour long commute each way. But it's also led to me taking less time off to rest. I've worked more overtime than ever, and today is actually my first day of vacation since January.

    I could definitely get used to working from home, and I'm an introvert anyway, but not being able to go out and do stuff after work grates on me sometimes, even if that thing is 'go get a cheesesteak from my favorite takeout place'

  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    Currently on lock down because of my wife's shitty friend.

    My wife was at an outdoor hang out last week with like 8 people. Everyone had masks on for most of the time, but at a certain point, people were getting a little lax and going without them, but still staying outside.

    Anyway, this friend posts on Instagram that her husband's coworker got it and they were in the office together so now they're quarantining. She then was like "we did everything right -- we didn't go to gatherings (lie), we didn't have people over (lie), and we wear our masks everywhere (also a lie). Stay vigilant!"

    Also, they had this coworker over for dinner -- their office is closed, so that's another lie.

    The annoying thing is that my wife found out through Instagram. This girl didn't even have the courtesy to tell anyone at that get together in person. When my wife saw that post and asked her when she was planning to get tested, the girl was like "I'm just going to wait until Wednesday or Thursday", despite working at a hospital and being able to get tested within minutes upon request.

    Needless to say, we're pissed and quarantining, because my wife's friend suuuuucks

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    This quarantine has made me old beyond my years. I have learned the meaning of the saying "Give them an inch and they take a mile" over and over again because as soon as the state is like "You can dine in but still stay distant!" the restaurants were like "Lets shove as many bodies as possible in one space!" and people decided this means the Pandemic is over.

    I hate my state.

  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Amherst Nova Scotia has the schools locked down and the mounties are looking for a potential clown with a firearm, hopefully nothing

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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    When you say clown do you mean jackass or is there a literal clown running around with a gun.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    It probably says something about 2020 that I immediately assumed it was a real, true, made-up bewigged big-shoes clown.

  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Amherst Nova Scotia has the schools locked down and the mounties are looking for a potential clown with a firearm, hopefully nothing

    Canadians are stealing American culture I see.

  • DocshiftyDocshifty Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    It probably says something about 2020 that I immediately assumed it was a real, true, made-up bewigged big-shoes clown.

    And didn't, for a single second, question it.

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Oh did ya'll not have the Great Clown Scare of like, 2016 or 17?

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Juggernut wrote: »
    Oh did ya'll not have the Great Clown Scare of like, 2016 or 17?

    Wonder whatever happened to those clowns
    do you think there's like, a spawn point in central Missouri

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Just some huge Spirit Halloween store somewhere deep in the heart of Appalachia where all the clowns live

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    tynic wrote: »
    Juggernut wrote: »
    Oh did ya'll not have the Great Clown Scare of like, 2016 or 17?

    Wonder whatever happened to those clowns
    do you think there's like, a spawn point in central Missouri

    The Slayer got 'em.

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    I meant jackass yes

    And said jackass has been located all hands stand down

    Somewhat surprised how twitchy the last massacre has me

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Amherst Nova Scotia has the schools locked down and the mounties are looking for a potential clown with a firearm, hopefully nothing

    Canadians are stealing American culture I see.

    Oh it's all bought and paid for import don't sweat it

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