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14-Sep-20 1:19

@KornfeldEliyahuPeter
Ouch: Coronavirus: Israel to impose three-week national lockdown[^]
That's gotta be difficult ... what have you all been doing?
Good luck Peter!

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter14-Sep-20 1:29

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

14-Sep-20 1:29

To be honest, not the first lockdown and not this we should face have not much effect on me...
If I can commute I do, otherwise working from home...

But! There are a few - or even more than a few - who lost their job (including my big brother, who was on unpaid leave for a few months)... As I understand this time there will be no restrictions on the workforce, except if the nature of the work implies crowd (like sport, theater, hotels, restaurants and such)...

At my office we keep distance in an average day, so not much changed there... Probably part of the colleges will work form home, to keep an eye on the kids, but as my wife works from home most of the time anyways, no problem there either...

The only problem that we are under extreme pressure to enable full online learning - including exams... A lot of work...

(because of the holiday season I have only 7 days of work left until the end of the 3 weeks lockdown planned)

"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012

Daniel Pfeffer14-Sep-20 2:18

Daniel Pfeffer

14-Sep-20 2:18

Well...

As a result of the behavior of many of the ministers and other bigwigs during the last lockdown and since, the Government has very low credibility.
Israel is an extremely diverse country. We have a serious problem of disobedience to the Coronavirus regulations among certain groups.
We have a Prime Minister who is under trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust, refuses to resign, at least one minister under suspicion of the same, and weekly protests calling on the Government to resign.
We have very high unemployment, businesses have closed, etc. The tourism, entertainment, and retail businesses have been worst hit, but everyone has been affected to some extent.

In short, the actual Coronavirus is the least of our problems. Sigh | :sigh:

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter14-Sep-20 3:04

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

14-Sep-20 3:04

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
the Government has very low credibility

You phrased that very gently... Maybe you meant that 'low' === 'converges to zero'...

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
We have a serious problem of disobedience to the ~~Coronavirus~~ ANY regulations among ~~certain~~ ALL groups.

FTFY

"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012

trønderen14-Sep-20 4:55

trønderen

14-Sep-20 4:55

You make that sound like a much larger country!

Nelek14-Sep-20 8:19

Nelek

14-Sep-20 8:19

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CCC 2020-09-14

Peter_in_278013-Sep-20 23:48

13-Sep-20 23:48

Sorry it's late Blush | :O

Casual farewell before a dog attacked the gourd. (8)

Cheers,
Peter

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Re: CCC 2020-09-14

OriginalGriff14-Sep-20 3:33

14-Sep-20 3:33

Cucumber?
Total guess, and I know it's wrong ... but it's the only gourd I can think of with eight letters ...

Re: CCC 2020-09-14

Peter_in_278014-Sep-20 3:36

14-Sep-20 3:36

A good start... think generic.

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Re: CCC 2020-09-14

OriginalGriff14-Sep-20 3:43

CCC 2020-09-14 - Solution

14-Sep-20 3:43

List<Cucumber>?

Peter_in_278014-Sep-20 3:52

Re: CCC 2020-09-14 - Solution

14-Sep-20 3:52

Solution:

C U casual farewell

CUR BIT dog attacked

definition - Gourd

Guess I'll have to think up another one tomorrow.

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musefan14-Sep-20 3:55

musefan

14-Sep-20 3:55

Got the word (with google help), but I couldn't get the solution. Although I only spent a couple mins on it.

Re: CCC 2020-09-14 - Solution

pkfox14-Sep-20 11:42

pkfox

14-Sep-20 11:42

Curbit is not 8 letters

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Re: CCC 2020-09-14 - Solution

Peter_in_278014-Sep-20 12:10

English is a funny language.

14-Sep-20 12:10

... but CUCURBIT is.

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OriginalGriff13-Sep-20 22:59

13-Sep-20 22:59

Take the word for "good or bad luck, viewed as resulting from one's actions" for example.
It's spelt as "K-A-R-M-A", but pronounced as " Laugh | :laugh:

Nelek13-Sep-20 23:24

Nelek

13-Sep-20 23:24

That's only if you are speaking in third person. If you speak in first person it is more usually pronounced as " D'Oh! | :doh:

M.D.V.

megaadam13-Sep-20 23:45

megaadam

13-Sep-20 23:45

"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"

Gerry Schmitz14-Sep-20 5:13

Gerry Schmitz

14-Sep-20 5:13

You mean: 💩 happens!!?

It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
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GuyThiebaut14-Sep-20 0:00

GuyThiebaut

14-Sep-20 0:00

I have heard it described as a mixture between latin languages, where all vowels and consonents are pronounced in a consistent manner, and character based languages like Mandarin.

So - trough, bough, though, thought are essentially character based words as the pronunciation of the "ough" is different in each.

Which leads to fish being spelt ghoti.

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CodeWraith14-Sep-20 0:42

CodeWraith

14-Sep-20 0:42

Even stranger is that this is closely connected to the concept of 'Schadenfreude', wich you don't have a word for.

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

OriginalGriff14-Sep-20 0:49

14-Sep-20 0:49

That's because we would never delight in another's misfortune, no matter how deserved it was.

(And I managed to type that with a straight face, as well!)

CodeWraith14-Sep-20 1:09

CodeWraith

14-Sep-20 1:09

Big mistake. Rub it in, otherwise they will never learn.

Wer den Schaden hat, spottet jeder Beschreibung.

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

trønderen14-Sep-20 5:20

trønderen

14-Sep-20 5:20

I suppose most readers know English is tough stuff[^]. If not, it is worth a try at reading out loud!

(The refererence to Nato at the top is BS - the poem was first published in 1929 or 1930, fifteen years before Nato was established. There is a longer version of the poem, but this one - which is one commonly presented - is bad enough...)