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SweetWillyRollbar posted:God damnit. I bet my IRS check was mailed to my former address. That's some bad luck. I've been on ach refunds for a while, god bless turbotax. |
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Hot take: I wish people actually did the stay at home and mask wearing stuff so the gosh dang virus would get under control.
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jpeg posted:I'm in Midwest and like nobody wears masks and looks at me like I'm the weirdo wearing a mask in public like yell "wearing a mask is cool now like in Asia"  after that drop some of ur fave anime quotes/impressions on em. u earned it
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I have a mask and wear it, I also don't rub my face all over random strangers. Both equally strange and foreign to some. |
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I’ve purchased many beautiful masks in designer colors so I know the haters just don’t “get” fashion
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FluffieDuckie posted:I’ve purchased many beautiful masks in designer colors so I know the haters just don’t “get” fashion Mask of Many Colors |
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I hate wearing a mask in the hell hot summer of Osaka but we're all doing it! Mostly. The number of new cases are probably being somewhat suppressed but even then it seems to be pretty low. |
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jpeg posted:I'll be the first to say it: F this virus
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jpeg posted:I'll be the first to say it: F this virus  hope you are all well and staying safe and 
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GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:When you have cats, at least one cat hair finds its way inside your mask and tickles your face at all times. This but long haired dogs as well |
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The ire from some people towards pic health officials and even sometimes healthcare workers who are risking their health, is really awful and extremely unbyob if i may say so
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Even the governor was like "Guys, if you're going to be mad at someone be mad at me, I'm the one who implemented her recommendations and actually did stuff" but they were too wily to let him fascistically impinge on their right to be mad at whoever they want |
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google THIS posted:My state's medical director, a literal life-saving hero, has been made a scapegoat for anyone who lost a dollar over this mess and bullied into resigning google THIS posted:Even the governor was like "Guys, if you're going to be mad at someone be mad at me, I'm the one who implemented her recommendations and actually did stuff" but they were too wily to let him fascistically impinge on their right to be mad at whoever they want alnilam posted:The ire from some people towards pic health officials and even sometimes healthcare workers who are risking their health, is really awful and extremely unbyob if i may say so I wish nothing but the absolute worst for those people who, when the chips are down and people really need help and are suffering, decide to do the exact opposite and make the suffering worse for the downtrodden. If you weren't born with a sense of compassion, and there are people who actually DO fall into that category- then I feel sorry for you. But most of these people know they're contributing to the suffering, and they do it simply because it's mean- and I hope the comeuppance starts with them when it's time for justice to be served. |
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Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:I wish nothing but the absolute worst for those people who, when the chips are down and people really need help and are suffering, decide to do the exact opposite and make the suffering worse for the downtrodden. If you weren't born with a sense of compassion, and there are people who actually DO fall into that category- then I feel sorry for you. Yes I also have been disappointed on many levels. Like you’d like to think that if the human race was facing extinction we’d band together to try to save ourselves, but it’s getting harder to believe that.
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jpeg posted:I'll be the first to say it: F this virus I'm glad you said it first. Now when I say it people will be prepared. |
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FluffieDuckie posted:Yes I also have been disappointed on many levels. I mean, to be fair, I can't even keep my kitchen clean, so as for banding together to save the human race from extinction, that kind of seems like a stretch, but I'm highly supportive of other people doing it as long as they don't make more loving dishes |
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cda posted:I mean, to be fair, I can't even keep my kitchen clean, so as for banding together to save the human race from extinction, that kind of seems like a stretch, but I'm highly supportive of other people doing it as long as they don't make more loving dishes Well at least stay out of the way and don’t throw rocks is all I’m saying
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Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:I wish nothing but the absolute worst for those people who, when the chips are down and people really need help and are suffering, decide to do the exact opposite and make the suffering worse for the downtrodden. If you weren't born with a sense of compassion, and there are people who actually DO fall into that category- then I feel sorry for you. I feel like sociopathic tendencies are far more widespread than people realize |
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GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:I feel like sociopathic tendencies are far more widespread than people realize i feel like our empathy is conditioned out of us by a sick sick system predicated on the worship of wealth
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owlhawk911 posted:i feel like our empathy is conditioned out of us by a sick sick system predicated on the worship of wealth
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owlhawk911 posted:i feel like our empathy is conditioned out of us by a sick sick system predicated on the worship of wealth capitalism: motherfucker im ill, not sick. and im ok but my watch sick. yeah my drop sick. yeah my glock sick and my knot thick. im it. everybody else: healthcare pls 
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owlhawk911 posted:i feel like our empathy is conditioned out of us by a sick sick system predicated on the worship of wealth
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Goons Are Great posted:*clears throat* Respectfully, I'm not going to post anymore when my safety is being teargassed out of me. |
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This thread has been a useful place for people to share their own experiences with loneliness, health scares, dealing with lockdown, throwing in the occasional mild joke here and there to lighten things up a bit, chatting about the surreal nature of it all, etc. I like having a zone for that. Please be more careful about politic chat itt. An open invitation to post about pandemic related stuff is not an open invitation to post about politics. I know that politics are (stupidly) involved in the pandemic, but there are many, many, many pandemic related things to talk about that are not the politics part of it - see for example the first sentence of this post. I arguably walked kind of close to the edge myself and I'm sorry for that, I was more talking about people being dicks, but the people being dicks are pretty closely tied to politics as well. Ultimately the politics chat rule is a subjective call and if someone else had posted what I did I would have let it slide, but as the mod I probably shouldn't be pushing the envelope. There are other politics issues that are coming up that are not even related to the pandemic at all and instead are issues that have been ongoing for, well, centuries, and are off topic for this thread, so please odn't
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As always there are other places to talk about politics, including D&D, CSPAM, other websites, and even real life  and I strongly encourage everyone to be active in political things in general. BYOB is just not where we do it. It's a chill purple forum of roughly 15 people at any given time making funy jokes; disallowing politics is not in any way taking away anyone's voice.
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yo I'm just waiting for a gosh dang antibody test. i literally know 0 people that have gotten a coveted test.
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I'm going to go with the analogy of the BYOB title here as an addendum to al's post: We want to be an island of chill in a sea of madness. I am quite sure it was fluffie who made that title, too! I feel like this is what we are trying to accomplish here, being that island and not getting drowned in the sea. This thread exists, because sometimes stuff is so annoying and bad, like the virus, that it even invades us on said island. Now, it is understandable to take the binoculars and check out what the hell is happening there and it is good and healthy to do so - stay informed, stay political, understand what's going on. You can venture out and post about this at any time and as much you want - we have one big serious and one big less serious political forum on SA, plus several smaller ones for specific things. Go post there, get gang tags from them, pledge your allegiance to anyone and anything you wish, we will not judge you for it here! We do, however, want to stay on this island, even as much as the wind wants us to go out sailing. No matter on what side of the fence you want to be, no matter your political opinions, BYOB is a neutral place to post about pets and food and jokes and open to anyone. We cannot stay like that if we allow anything from the sea to invade us. This is not us silencing political opinions, pushing for some agenda, trying to prove a point or enforcing peace in a war zone or us questioning your safety, this is about us trying to keep BYOB as we know and love it. A chill place for chill people regardless of what terrible things happen outside. If you have thoughts or feeling on this or anything else and you want to discuss it with al or me, feel free to pm us! We are entirely open to talk.
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jpeg posted:yo I'm just waiting for a gosh dang antibody test. i literally know 0 people that have gotten a coveted test. I was tested for that, actually! It does happen, but I heard scientifically speaking the tests are not super accurate? Also we are not sure if antibodies really mean we are entirely safe, as we do not yet know exactly how the virus works. It's scary stuff.
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imo mods are taking the wrong tack here. there's some Seriously Big Stuff happening right now, and when i need to talk i want to be able to talk about it with my friends. reminding us the D&D and C-SPAM exist is all well and good, but i don't know the posters there. i don't know how to fit in the culture, i don't know how they'll respond, i don't have several months of getting to know these people. i feel like being told "you cannot talk about this with your friends here, you cannot discuss these unsafe happenings in a community where you already feel safe and comfortable" is kinda crappy. especially since there are posters here who are in Literal Danger with what's going on -- i am, for now, not in danger, but if i was the people i would want to debrief/decompress with are a) my spouse, b) my brother, and c) you folks. i like you. i trust you. i don't want that avenue of recovery cut off from me. i'll abide by the rules, but i don't think that the rules are correct in this case. i think we should be able to have a lil lake of madness on our island of chill, i don't think that would ruin anything. especially since this is already an opt-in thread, designed to contain things.
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Kief Richards posted:Have a nice life. pouring one out for s-tier poster hamjobs aka Kief Richards. you will be missed. mods  where's the line anyways? flaws in the system seemed ok, was calling the system itself a problem the line? i really like  ing with a crew i trust but if there's limits on that it'd be good to know what they were
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i get that byob is primarily a place for jokes, but a lot of people are unsafe right now and it just seems a little weird that we cant talk about that with our friends. one of the big things that has always drawn me to the yob is that its a safe and inclusive community, so i think we should be allowed to safely support each other. i don't have the energy to argue about this, or to articulate myself much further than that, but thank you for reading my thoughts and god bless
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Being told "no politics at all period end of story" does not a chill place make and when it's said AT THIS POINT IN HISTORY makes it especially disappointing. "Sorry, French Resistance, we "acknowledge" your pain but we just don't want your icky "political" talk about nazis poluting OUR clubhouse." |
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