"Reports out of Berlin tell of a German Arctic cruise ship being fired on by a Venezuelan naval vessel, which then rammed the passenger liner, sinking itself in the process.
"No, this is not a story that appeared in The Onion."
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
Fools are still buying out all the toilet paper and other paper products.
I'm baffled. I'm pretty sure that there's the same number of As$holes in the county as there were before the virus hit. Did someone start a rumor that if you catch it you'll develop dozens of new As$holes? To wipe? People! Get real! It's a respiratory virus, primarily. No matter how much you end up blowing your nose you'll never need 2 dozen of the 36 roll packages of toilet paper! nOT gOING TO hAPPEN. !
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
The supermarkets near me don't seem to have restocked the aisle. I've only seen one person buying tp , and that was a four or eight pack. The aisle just stays empty.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
@Amos_Umwhat said:
Fools are still buying out all the toilet paper and other paper products.
I'm baffled. I'm pretty sure that there's the same number of As$holes in the county as there were before the virus hit. Did someone start a rumor that if you catch it you'll develop dozens of new As$holes? To wipe? People! Get real! It's a respiratory virus, primarily. No matter how much you end up blowing your nose you'll never need 2 dozen of the 36 roll packages of toilet paper! nOT gOING TO hAPPEN. !
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
@CalvinAndHobo said:
Our grocery store has started selling single rolls of the 1 ply crap for $1.00 each, it's all they have.
Yep, we bought several pallets of it from a food service company because they aren't selling it to restaurants.
@ShawnOL said:
The supermarkets near me don't seem to have restocked the aisle. I've only seen one person buying tp , and that was a four or eight pack. The aisle just stays empty.
The supply is exhausted. Warehouses are empty. We may have sold six months worth in two weeks. Companies can only make it so fast and every store in the country is out. The math does not work in our favor. This means it will be months to get back to normal, not days.
I'm off work now so let me elaborate a bit. Imagine this is a section of paper products and it is as empty as the toilet paper aisle in your local store. Now imagine a truckload containing 26 to 28 pallets of tp arriving at our warehouse that serves 900 stores. It's gone as fast as they can put it back on outgoing trucks. Just food for thought.
Inventory of any kind is expensive to maintain. That's the reason most companies of any size went to "just-in-time" supply scheduling. They paid big bucks for number crunchers to figure how much if what moved how often and where, then built supply levels to support that. We do it with parts. What no one foresaw was a totally random run on paper goods and they're playing catch up.
I'm still troubled by what I did for that Klondike bar...
If you are a Senior Citizen most places let them in the stores in the morning first for the first hour. Costco, Walmart, H-E-B are all doing this. So they get everything they need first. With that said I asked one in the neighborhood that has plenty of TP if they could pick me up some, they didn't mind and it was the damn Powerball! A 30 mega roll of Charmin, I was very surprised wasn't expecting that. Seniors rock! In return they are looking for bleach and other supplies so will snag some if I can find any. Everyone helping everybody during these strange times.
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Look around you. Hands down, twisting fibers into everything from thread to hawsers is the best idea ever. That and a sharp rock gives you the ability to bind and to sunder.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
Ironically, many of these same physicists would try to tell you in scornful tones that myths are too implausible for God to exist. I am neither mathematician nor mythologist; and yet I am ready to believe that a thousand years from now people will still get solace from Easter, whereas ten years from now, these forgotten anyons will have been succeeded by the next recondite speculative abstraction.
See, one is based on fundamental human aspirations, while the other is based on mathbabble like this:
... the elementary excitations of the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling factor ν = 1/m (where m is an odd integer) have been predicted to obey Abelian fractional statistics, with a phase ϕ associated with the exchange of two particles equal to π/m.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
Whenever one of the kids sneeze instead of ”bless you” or “gesundheit” I been saying “Wuhan”. Then I told them that was because the English translation for Wuhan was “sneezing bat”.
The National Park Service has closed Denali Park. The thing is bigger than the smallest 8 states, You can fit Rhode Island, Delaware and Connecticut inside it at the same time with room to spare. Anyone think there's a problem maintaining distances in there? This crap is getting out of hand.
I'm still troubled by what I did for that Klondike bar...
@Trykflyr_1 said:
The National Park Service has closed Denali Park. The thing is bigger than the smallest 8 states, You can fit Rhode Island, Delaware and Connecticut inside it at the same time with room to spare. Anyone think there's a problem maintaining distances in there? This crap is getting out of hand.
Yeah, they close businesses and leave people nowhere to go. Even safer places, like the wilderness and the beach.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
Well, I spose there's more than one way to keep busy during the pandemic.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
UC Davis Health specialists are seeing a big increase in cooking-related burns
Since California's stay-at-home order took effect, specialists at the Firefighters Burn Institute Regional Burn Center at UC Davis Medical Center have seen a nearly six-fold increase in patients with burns related to at-home food preparation.
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Not to sound too racist, but the Chinese seem to lack good kitchen hygiene. It's a wonder they haven't all died from eating all that weird ****.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
https://apple.news/AQFfJIaFDQIeTLLhbYCIpdg
Owner probably was letting the dog drive to beat a drunk driving charge. Sounds like perfect drunk logic.
"Reports out of Berlin tell of a German Arctic cruise ship being fired on by a Venezuelan naval vessel, which then rammed the passenger liner, sinking itself in the process.
"No, this is not a story that appeared in The Onion."
https://pjmedia.com/trending/venezuelan-warship-shoots-at-german-cruise-ship-rams-it-and-sinks-itself/?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=194d121b7c10d159552ae85fdb531708&recip=28465800
Fools are still buying out all the toilet paper and other paper products.
I'm baffled. I'm pretty sure that there's the same number of As$holes in the county as there were before the virus hit. Did someone start a rumor that if you catch it you'll develop dozens of new As$holes? To wipe? People! Get real! It's a respiratory virus, primarily. No matter how much you end up blowing your nose you'll never need 2 dozen of the 36 roll packages of toilet paper! nOT gOING TO hAPPEN. !
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
The supermarkets near me don't seem to have restocked the aisle. I've only seen one person buying tp , and that was a four or eight pack. The aisle just stays empty.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
It's unadulterated insanity. The world has lost its collective mind.
Our grocery store has started selling single rolls of the 1 ply crap for $1.00 each, it's all they have.
This article attempts a rational explanation: https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortage-c812e1358fe0
Yep, we bought several pallets of it from a food service company because they aren't selling it to restaurants.
The supply is exhausted. Warehouses are empty. We may have sold six months worth in two weeks. Companies can only make it so fast and every store in the country is out. The math does not work in our favor. This means it will be months to get back to normal, not days.
I'm off work now so let me elaborate a bit. Imagine this is a section of paper products and it is as empty as the toilet paper aisle in your local store. Now imagine a truckload containing 26 to 28 pallets of tp arriving at our warehouse that serves 900 stores. It's gone as fast as they can put it back on outgoing trucks. Just food for thought.
Inventory of any kind is expensive to maintain. That's the reason most companies of any size went to "just-in-time" supply scheduling. They paid big bucks for number crunchers to figure how much if what moved how often and where, then built supply levels to support that. We do it with parts. What no one foresaw was a totally random run on paper goods and they're playing catch up.
The link webmost posted makes a ton of sense and answered my questions regarding the surge in tp purchases.
TP shortage of 1973
When the truckers went on strike in 1979, all of the towns in my area were running short on everything.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
If you are a Senior Citizen most places let them in the stores in the morning first for the first hour. Costco, Walmart, H-E-B are all doing this. So they get everything they need first. With that said I asked one in the neighborhood that has plenty of TP if they could pick me up some, they didn't mind and it was the damn Powerball! A 30 mega roll of Charmin, I was very surprised wasn't expecting that. Seniors rock! In return they are looking for bleach and other supplies so will snag some if I can find any. Everyone helping everybody during these strange times.
Much is made of the wheel. Personally, I think that remarkable invention is way far eclipsed by cordage. Well, they've now found 52k year old string:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neandertal-made-oldest-known-string
Look around you. Hands down, twisting fibers into everything from thread to hawsers is the best idea ever. That and a sharp rock gives you the ability to bind and to sunder.
Bosons, Fermions, and now the improbable Anyons:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/collisions-reveal-new-evidence-anyon-quasiparticles-existence
Ironically, many of these same physicists would try to tell you in scornful tones that myths are too implausible for God to exist. I am neither mathematician nor mythologist; and yet I am ready to believe that a thousand years from now people will still get solace from Easter, whereas ten years from now, these forgotten anyons will have been succeeded by the next recondite speculative abstraction.
See, one is based on fundamental human aspirations, while the other is based on mathbabble like this:
So, for those of you who still aspire, Happy Easter
https://youtu.be/EjT7OvQMlQg
Thought this was funny
https://apple.news/AypndeR6hR4q5GEbVCrVWbw
Recognize this?
Magic eye! Haven't seen one of those since a kid. My dad used to buy old radios for me to fix/play with.
Strange times when I actually agree with bill mahr.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
Whenever one of the kids sneeze instead of ”bless you” or “gesundheit” I been saying “Wuhan”. Then I told them that was because the English translation for Wuhan was “sneezing bat”.
Gotta keep entertained during lockdown
The National Park Service has closed Denali Park. The thing is bigger than the smallest 8 states, You can fit Rhode Island, Delaware and Connecticut inside it at the same time with room to spare. Anyone think there's a problem maintaining distances in there? This crap is getting out of hand.
Yeah, they close businesses and leave people nowhere to go. Even safer places, like the wilderness and the beach.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
https://www.wbtv.com/2020/04/14/fla-man-accused-murder-day-after-he-was-released-jail-due-covid-concerns/
He had to get his "things to do when you get out" list done.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Orange Man Bad celebrates truckers
https://youtu.be/CJ3ivgwj7Dw
while Petunia brags on her ice cream
https://youtu.be/DgfumenJbXE
Well, I spose there's more than one way to keep busy during the pandemic.
UC Davis Health specialists are seeing a big increase in cooking-related burns
Since California's stay-at-home order took effect, specialists at the Firefighters Burn Institute Regional Burn Center at UC Davis Medical Center have seen a nearly six-fold increase in patients with burns related to at-home food preparation.