Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)

[luka]

what else do people dream of? Mr Tea said he dreams of a threesome but its not the ideal time for that

 

[WashYourHands]

To do nothing would be tragic, to surrender to the cage, instead of widening your perspective

i can count on one hand the people who said “oh I’m finally going to nail this novel”, myself included

 

[IdleRich]

i think anything you do to try and make it better is going to seem tragic and desultory unless its something youve long dreamed of doing and endlessly deferred, like 'writing your novel' or whatever

Also giving that a go.

 

[luka]

if i could get off the internet i miht join you but ive found that hard so far this year

 

[IdleRich]

Without going into details, I had an idea to try and actually finish some writing for once, which was to split the book into loads of different, barely connected, parts like, say, Borges - Impossible Creatures or whatever, so if I got bored of one bit I could just go to another. Turns out that brings in its own complications, but it obviates the need to just bash mindlessly onwards with the same bit.

 

[Leo]

@IdleRich you started a freakin' record label and have International sales, that's certainly an accomplishment.

 

[IdleRich]

Thanks Leo!

 

[Mr. Tea]

dont do this silly twitter speak. just go yes Luke, its a valid point, one youve made before and you shouldnt need to keep making it.

It would be valid if it gainsaid anything I'd actually said here. But you insist on saying, in a hundred different ways, "Rich men often do bad things, you know", as if this were some great revelation.

 

[luka]

if its not a revelation then why does it get you so worked up

 

[yyaldrin]

We're trapped inside going fucking mental. More and more shops shutting on my street, more and more of my friends regressing into the most monosyllabic of conversational methods. When they say "come out and play" in April (if they do) they will open up the doors and everyone will be dead.

Sometimes you message someone or whatever and say "How are you?" and they "Bored and shit, you?" and you have to reply "Same really" and that's pretty much the end of the conversation.

it's like this here as well and it's gotten worse the last few weeks. there's not even a point in asking my flatmate how his day has been, the same as any other for the last few months. nobody meets anyone, no one experiences something. i've noticed i have developed an internet addiction as well just going from one tab to the other, refreshing dissensus, switching to twitter, checking in onto another forum, see if youtube can recommend me something. and i keep refreshing, like a maniac. refresh refresh refresh.

another thing i noticed is that i lack attention. i want attention. i feel invisible at the moment. i'm the only person in my office who actually goes into the office, the rest is all working from home. so i just sit there alone behind my screen. i can't go into the neighborhood kitchen/cantina for lunch cos it has been closed for ages now, i miss the regulars there, the old lady cooking for everybody.

i'm skeptical about the vaccins and even if they work its gonna be another few years before everybody got one. i'm just hoping the weather will get better soon so at least i can go into the park and hang out outside and try and meet people in that way.

 

[Mr. Tea]

if its not a revelation then why does it get you so worked up

Because you always insist on missing the point I'm trying to make, which is that it's fucking stupid that so many people spend their time tilting at windmills when there is a bona fide evil giant standing right there, laughing his arse off.

 

[Leo]

Stop moaning and playing the victim card!

actually, what I meant to say, err, ...

 

[WashYourHands]

It’s weird, there must be millions of people with terminal illnesses who’d swap a palliative care bed for lockdown in an ¥ instant

(¥ nearly said heart-beat)

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

We're not going to be given the all clear, they have us where they want us. Easier to achieve net zero, less able to protest and gather, the disease is merely a justification. It'll be hard for any government to give this up. They will need to be made to unlock, or they will need to be removed.

 

[WashYourHands]

did you upload guns and Kung-fu like Keanu?

or will you crash the system with market guile like a crocodile?

if you do, do it in 2023, that’d be way cool

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Well at least lockdowns are effec...

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

Don't go out and get drunk. Protect the NHS.
Don't even think about flying abroad for a holiday. Protect the vulnerable.
Polling stations are closed for your safety.
Our freedoms are our weakness.

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

Because you always insist on missing the point I'm trying to make, which is that it's fucking stupid that so many people spend their time tilting at windmills when there is a bona fide evil giant standing right there, laughing his arse off.

Fuck your what aboutism. Typical liberal misdirection.

The opioid crisis is bad (and largely due to fentanyl imports from China in a bold reversal of the opium wars), but there's a bigger one going on that has <tea mode>checks notes... closed down the entire world economy and irreparably torn the social fabric</tea mode>

 

[sufi]

Stop moaning and playing the victim card!

actually, what I meant to say, err, ...

i gotta say there is a huge amount of whinging happening, it's true that homeschooling is worse than fucking purgatory, but it seems like so many voices now are invested in how awful everything is out of proportion, playing up the intangibles like the psychologicak effects and so on

+ as HMG said above the state are not gonna be able to roll this back

 

[Leo]

of course they will.