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hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




that situation sucks but she'll probably get a vaccine soon right?

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Odd
Dec 30, 2006

I think everybody just needs to maybe cool out a little maybe

hemale in pain posted:

that situation sucks but she'll probably get a vaccine soon right?

Isn't it a really bad idea to get vaccinated for, hell anything, when you're immunocompromised like what cancer treatment generally does?

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWfPGIMDhNw

Christmas Eve plans with the kids.

Trainee PornStar
Jul 20, 2006

Odd posted:

Isn't it a really bad idea to get vaccinated for, hell anything, when you're immunocompromised like what cancer treatment generally does?

From what my dad has been telling me I think so.

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




I guess you just gotta decide how much it's worth the risk then. Normally I'd be like DONT VISIT FAMILY!!! but obviously in your situation it might be worth it if she doesn't have very long. Could you just visit for the day and stay outside?

Trainee PornStar
Jul 20, 2006

hemale in pain posted:

I guess you just gotta decide how much it's worth the risk then. Normally I'd be like DONT VISIT FAMILY!!! but obviously in your situation it might be worth it if she doesn't have very long. Could you just visit for the day and stay outside?

It's possible I guess but bloody hell! it's the middle of winter..

I think I'm just going to have to suggest a zoom call or something, she'll be pissed off but better than than dead.

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler
I fully intend to spend Xmas day drinking and playing Rimworld. I'll be wearing a santa hat to make it appropriately Christmasy.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
:coolslime:

oh no computer
May 27, 2003

hemale in pain posted:

that situation sucks but she'll probably get a vaccine soon right?
but then she'll have bowel cancer AND autism!!!!!

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
It's ok, the Bill Gates chip has an neurology patch to counteract that.

Lemon
May 22, 2003

my Dad had a ukulele on his list but I'm not going to be able to give it to him until who knows when, so I'm going to spend Christmas learning to play it I guess

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
lilt

with a tot-ally trop-i-caal taaaste

with a tot-ally trop-i-cal taaste

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
My mum is going to do a parcel exchange with my sister in a carpark tomorrow morning. I expect there will be sobbing.

Endjinneer
Aug 17, 2005
Fallen Rib

Odd posted:

Isn't it a really bad idea to get vaccinated for, hell anything, when you're immunocompromised like what cancer treatment generally does?

Depends on the vaccine. Live vaccines where the disease has just been beaten up a bit, those can end up giving you a full blown case of the illness because your immune system can't even stomp the crippled germs.
I think all the COVID vaccines are variations on a theme of inactive fragments of the germ so you can never get full blown COVID from it.
If you have a tendency towards allergic reactions, I think they're advising against it though. In case your crappy immune system throws a wobbler and causes anaphylaxis.

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

oh no computer posted:

but then she'll have bowel cancer AND autism!!!!!

a lucrative career in youtube game journalism beckons. think of the inheiretance

Sunswipe
Feb 5, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

a lucrative career in youtube game journalism beckons. think of the inheiretance

See if she could take over Total Biscuit's old channel.

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always

hail satan

redreader
Nov 2, 2009

I am the coolest person ever with my pirate chalice. Seriously.

Dinosaur Gum
What's up with London night bus drivers? When I was living there, they'd regularly drive past me and not stop. Once I ran to the next stop because 'maybe the bus was full' (it wasn't) and they let 2 people off and didn't let me on. I ran to the next stop and got there before the bus too and again, wasn't let on. I've asked this before and get a bunch of 'maybe x y z' responses, so here are some answers!
-No there wasn't another bus right behind. In like all 20 times this happened to me.
-No the bus wasn't late and had to make up time.
-No I didn't look like a maniac who would murder the bus driver.

Another friend posted a couple of years ago how he stood in front of the bus and forced the driver to let people on, so it's not just me. One time a day bus stopped and I was about 5 steps away from the door. I started walking towards it while I said goodbye to my friend, and the door closed and the bus left.

Mojo Jojo
Sep 21, 2005

Endjinneer posted:

Depends on the vaccine. Live vaccines where the disease has just been beaten up a bit, those can end up giving you a full blown case of the illness because your immune system can't even stomp the crippled germs.
I think all the COVID vaccines are variations on a theme of inactive fragments of the germ so you can never get full blown COVID from it..

No, the mRNA jobs aren't bits of the virus. They're instructions to make proteins that your immune system then eats and catalogues how to eat. Proteins that are present on the virus.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



If they're letting people off just get on?

redreader
Nov 2, 2009

I am the coolest person ever with my pirate chalice. Seriously.

Dinosaur Gum

stev posted:

If they're letting people off just get on?

Yeah I don't live there any more and that is correct, but also the on door is different to the off door, and I would wait at the on door in the front which wouldn't open. Last I was there you have to tap your card at the front as you get on.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



redreader posted:

Yeah I don't live there any more and that is correct, but also the on door is different to the off door, and I would wait at the on door in the front which wouldn't open. Last I was there you have to tap your card at the front as you get on.

Oh right, I don't get the bus often but most of them have card readers on the middle doors now too IIRC.

redreader
Nov 2, 2009

I am the coolest person ever with my pirate chalice. Seriously.

Dinosaur Gum
Yeah, sorry, I lived in London in 1998 and 2003-2007. Since I saw my friend post about night bus drivers recently I thought it was still a thing. Maybe they've all changed their ways! I still harbour resentment at having to walk most of the way from bond street to neasden one night (I walked for an hour and then got the next night bus, an hour walk towards Neasden since I was walking along the route and calculating when/where the next bus would be)

kemikalkadet
Sep 16, 2012

:woof:

Odd posted:

Isn't it a really bad idea to get vaccinated for, hell anything, when you're immunocompromised like what cancer treatment generally does?

My mum has stage 2 bone cancer and she had the flu jab this week. She'll get the covid vaccine eventually but she's not in the top priority group for whatever reason, I'm not sure where she falls in the heirarchy.

oh no computer
May 27, 2003

my only memory of using a bus in london was drunkenly trying to tap my paper ticket on the oyster card reader repeatedly before the driver just sighed and told me to sit down

Galewolf
Jan 9, 2007

The human gallbladder is indeed a puzzle!

redreader posted:

Yeah, sorry, I lived in London in 1998 and 2003-2007. Since I saw my friend post about night bus drivers recently I thought it was still a thing. Maybe they've all changed their ways! I still harbour resentment at having to walk most of the way from bond street to neasden one night (I walked for an hour and then got the next night bus, an hour walk towards Neasden since I was walking along the route and calculating when/where the next bus would be)

I think, with the advent of CCTV and gps tracking as well as increased ways of giving customer feedback it is better nowadays. I lived in London only 1.5 years now and 9 months was during lockdown but previous to that I never had any problems like you mentioned and I used pretty night buses extensively up until March.

Missing or late busses were rare but did happen, though but maybe cane across once or twice. That being said, I never lived outside of Zone 2 except one month in Hounslow but even that particular night bus with 55 stops was on-time.

Danger - Octopus!
Apr 20, 2008


Nap Ghost

redreader posted:

What's up with London night bus drivers? When I was living there, they'd regularly drive past me and not stop. Once I ran to the next stop because 'maybe the bus was full' (it wasn't) and they let 2 people off and didn't let me on. I ran to the next stop and got there before the bus too and again, wasn't let on. I've asked this before and get a bunch of 'maybe x y z' responses, so here are some answers!
-No there wasn't another bus right behind. In like all 20 times this happened to me.
-No the bus wasn't late and had to make up time.
-No I didn't look like a maniac who would murder the bus driver.

Another friend posted a couple of years ago how he stood in front of the bus and forced the driver to let people on, so it's not just me. One time a day bus stopped and I was about 5 steps away from the door. I started walking towards it while I said goodbye to my friend, and the door closed and the bus left.

Not in London, but here I've seen night bus drivers do that when there's people on the bus who are drunk and could be trouble or are actively hassling other passengers. Driver will keep to the route and let people off but sometimes not let other folk on.

Trainee PornStar
Jul 20, 2006

Has anyone else heard about the 'boris johnson is a loving oval office' song?
Apparently it's quite high in the charts & they want a no1 for christmas.

I've been checking out the other stuff & if anyone needs a laugh watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8V9Nf-TZL8

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Kunt's a good lad. I think I met him at a b3ta thing years ago.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
nn

(night-night)

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Lorry traffic through Dover stopped, never to start up again. The land across the water shall be naught but myth to the children of tomorrow.

Galewolf
Jan 9, 2007

The human gallbladder is indeed a puzzle!
Are they going to cement the tunnel? :ohdear:

Natalie Fartman
Apr 5, 2013

I selflessly rescued an abandoned cat during the COVID-19 Pandemic :3:

Your anticipation is palpable


Yes... Yes... cement

Galewolf
Jan 9, 2007

The human gallbladder is indeed a puzzle!
As a guy who works in construction, I can say that solution to everything is cement.

Che Delilas
Nov 23, 2009
FREE TIBET WEED

Odd posted:

Isn't it a really bad idea to get vaccinated for, hell anything, when you're immunocompromised like what cancer treatment generally does?

If it's a live virus vaccine the answer is usually "talk to your doctor." As far as I've heard none of the covid vaccines are live - the moderna and pfizer are both mRNA (meaning they tell your body to produce the spike protein which is what your immune system recognizes as an invader) and at least one of the others is a traditional vaccine, which is a killed virus with the protein shell. In either case they cannot give you the disease.

The general advice I've heard for the covid vaccine w.r.t. immune compromised people is "covid is going to be a lot worse for you with your crappy immune system so get the vaccine." But if you have concerns or are severely allergic to eggs, talk to your doctor first (they will most likely tell you to get it anyway, but maybe if you're allergic you should get it at the hospital if possible so they can handle the allergic reaction - that advice usually pertains to the flu shot which is widely available though, so it's probably going to be handled differently this time).

I'll reiterate, talk to a doctor about it if you're concerned, they will be able to tell you with a reasonable degree of certainty.

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



The NHS vivid app occasionally gives me a notification saying 'loading', but never anything else. App says nothing. Latest version.

Is this normal?

Rondette
Nov 4, 2009

Your friendly neighbourhood Postie.



Grimey Drawer
Unf. Christmas fun for everyone!

BBC News - Covid-19: Boris Johnson to chair emergency meeting amid travel bans
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55391289

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



Nice of EU Games to give us a demo before Brexits release

Collateral
Feb 17, 2010
They are a bit late tho, the mutant covid horse has long since bolted.

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Salisbury Snape
May 26, 2014
While a grain platform can be used for corn, a specialized corn head is ordinarily used instead.


Galewolf posted:

As a guy who works in construction, I can say that solution to everything is cement.

Amen

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