Coronavirus complaint/commiseration thread.

[krp8128]

NSFW language

Epic rant
He does make a good point that three months furlough of all payments would be helpful to everyone.

And also the spit flying shows he needs to wear a mask in public.

I didn't watch to the end.

Does he drop the mic and stroll off?

[jgb@etree]

He does make a good point that three months furlough of all payments would be helpful to everyone.

Haven't watched the vid, but why would the 3 months of mortgage furlough help unless your salary was disrupted during the shutdown? Based on what I've read from Wells Fargo (my mortgage co) interest still accrues, and you either have to pay it in a lump sum at the end of the 3 months, or basically setup a payment program to repay it over time along with regular mortgage payments. So really no benefit unless your cash flow has been significantly interrupted and you need a few months to regroup. If it were a true pause (no interest accrues - you just have a 3 month break on payments penalty free) I would have already signed up and made my next 3 payments against principal.

Am I missing something? Maybe I should give them a call to make sure I'm clear on the furlough conditions.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

If there's a company I'd want to go tits up during this whole thing it's Wells Fargo.

[char_]

Haven't watched the vid, but why would the 3 months of mortgage furlough help unless your salary was disrupted during the shutdown? Based on what I've read from Wells Fargo (my mortgage co) interest still accrues, and you either have to pay it in a lump sum at the end of the 3 months, or basically setup a payment program to repay it over time along with regular mortgage payments. So really no benefit unless your cash flow has been significantly interrupted and you need a few months to regroup. If it were a true pause (no interest accrues - you just have a 3 month break on payments penalty free) I would have already signed up and made my next 3 payments against principal.

Am I missing something? Maybe I should give them a call to make sure I'm clear on the furlough conditions.

A better use of your time instead of typing, would have been watching the video.

[Benny Profane]

If there's a company I'd want to go tits up during this whole thing it's Wells Fargo.

X2, but, ain't happening.

[Benny Profane]

NSFW language

Epic rant
He does make a good point that three months furlough of all payments would be helpful to everyone.

And also the spit flying shows he needs to wear a mask in public.

Imagine him and Bill Burr in the same bar room.

Edit: And as far as the spit flying, that's an extreme example of proving my argument that, sadly, people should not only practice distance in public, but refrain from talking much. And using that word: "distance". Say it a few times, and follow the imaginary particles leaving your mouth.

[glademaster]

Edit: And as far as the spit flying, that's an extreme example of proving my argument that, sadly, people should not only practice distance in public, but refrain from talking much. And using that word: "distance". Say it a few times, and follow the imaginary particles leaving your mouth.

This. Forget pleasantries, when you're out in public, shut the fuck up. Keep you mouth closed. There will be time for small talk in a few months, but for now, shut your fucking disgusting pie holes.

I've said it before, but I hope social distancing protocols never go away. Giving everyone 6+ feet of personal space is stupendous. There are few things I dislike more than feeling like my personal space is being violated, and a minimum 6 foot clear radius is where it starts to feel comfortable being in the presence of my fellow animals.

Although I think I'm going to start taking my trekking poles on walks so I can hold them out horizontally with my arms extended when passing someone. We have a lot of close walkers out here. Shitheads.

[uglymoney]

Agree 100%. You have to refrain from talking to keep others from talking. At least that part works sort of. And I like my space too. I really see how hard it is for some people to give it. Not sure if they are ignoramus or assholes.

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[GimpToo]

Here's to all you boomer and older haters. Curious, just how did boomers/older seniors ruin your life?

"Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment,.
The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
The older lady said that she was right our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on toexplain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days.
Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.
When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power.
We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing."
We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off... Especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much."

[glademaster]

Take your chain email bullshit somewhere else, you waste of oxygen.

[4matic]

Here's to all you boomer and older haters. Curious, just how did boomers/older seniors ruin your life?

Debt fueled greed that continues to reward reckless risk taking and deportation of jobs and industry to ideological rival.

[Ted Striker]

Every generation thinks they had it harder than their parents. Every generation says "kids nowadays".

[4matic]

Every generation thinks they had it harder than their parents.

I never thought that once for even a second.

[Ted Striker]

Although I think I'm going to start taking my trekking poles on walks so I can hold them out horizontally with my arms extended when passing someone. We have a lot of close walkers out here. Shitheads.

The worst group in this town are the really fit runners. The I just took it up because I have nothing to do crowd are slow and easy to avoid, but the long time runners have gone agro, presumably because their sidewalks are too crowded now. Forget six feet, they won't give you three.

[Core Shot]

is # 420 the functional stoner fishy skibum whose gonna continue to trod thru creation with an irrie meditation in all situations?
asking for a friend

I think the 420 is the Party Animal and Realist combined.

It is what it is, so why stop toking and keep enjoying life.

It’s not a bad way to live. Irie mon.

[TahoeJ]

I never thought that once for even a second.

Same. I mean, my dad got drafted and had to go to Vietnam. Kind of makes my shit seem petty in comparison.

[liv2ski]

Debt fueled greed that continues to reward reckless risk taking and deportation of jobs and industry to ideological rival.

I never thought that once for even a second.

Huh...sometimes I do totally agree with you

[glademaster]

Every generation thinks they had it harder than their parents. Every generation says "kids nowadays".

It's not a whole generation, however, that argument might have a leg to stand on if your parents were born(white, in the US) between 1956 and 1967 or so. That was an anomaly though.

[JongDoe]

I think it's every generation thinks they had it harder than their kids and says "kids nowadays".

[riser4]

It's not a whole generation, however, that argument might have a leg to stand on if your parents were born(white, in the US) between 1956 and 1967 or so. That was an anomaly though.

I have always thought the generation boundaries were off by half an interval. The above interval is roughly top half of boomers and bottom half of Gen Xers. And they have more in common with each other than the other half of each respective generation. The younger boomers didn't have to go to Vietnam, weren't hippies. Plenty of upper half Silent gen kids did go to Vietnam and or were hippies. I love a good thread drift into previously covered material. Was Woodstock held in upstate NY?

[Skidog]

I have always thought the generation boundaries were off by half an interval. The above interval is roughly top half of boomers and bottom half of Gen Xers. And they have more in common with each other than the other half of each respective generation. The younger boomers didn't have to go to Vietnam, weren't hippies. Plenty of upper half Silent gen kids did go to Vietnam and or were hippies. I love a good thread drift into previously covered material. Was Woodstock held in upstate NY?

Woodstock was a soundstage in Hollywood like the moon landing. Catch up man.

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[Core Shot]

Uncle bob.
He’s creepy

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[El Chupacabra]

Uncle bob.
He’s creepy

https://mobile.twitter.com/CBCTheNat...cy-theories%2F

Bob's yer uncle?

[Buster Highmen]

I have skis siting out in the living room, ogling them like it's October.

[BmillsSkier]

Did they serve Utica Club, Labatt or Gennie Cream at Woodstock? How many people got sucker punched? Pierogies served? It rained, right?

Answer that and you’ll know if Woodstock took place in Upstate New York. Or Cleveland.



On topic, this week weigh harder than the previous 4 for anyone else? It did for me. I’m luckier than a lot of people but I think the anxiety of it all just came crashing down hard. The homeschooling, trying to maintain normalcy doing work while simultaneously trying to shut out the people freaking the fuck out (from work and otherwise) while dreading each Monday morning zoom call, and boozing harder than normal took its toll on me this week and my patience and temper felt pretty fucking frayed. Walking, biking and keeping active more than normal, connecting with so many people I haven’t spoken to in years and having a great time doing it, drives and good music, the sunny warm weather and of course my family being with me have all helped. I’d be lost without all that. Still, I’m fucking spent. We say it in so many other threads and I’m sure it’s been said 100 times in this one, ask your people how they’re doing. I had people ask me this week if and it was a god send. Hell, I feel guilty just saying it’s been a hard week.

Be well maggots, and sincere condolences to all whether you’re doing “fine” or if you’re looking for your next meal.