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Stefan_Lang27-Mar-20 1:10

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27-Mar-20 1:10

It's not a bug, it's a feature! Poke tongue | ;-P

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Greg Utas27-Mar-20 2:01

Greg Utas

27-Mar-20 2:01

A quote within the article:
When you have huge amounts of plastic in the environment, that means there is a lot of carbon and there will be evolution to use this as food. Bacteria are there in huge numbers and their evolution is very fast.

I wondered if they were going to make this point; it finally appeared near the end of the article.

Mark_Wallace27-Mar-20 4:14

27-Mar-20 4:14

Greg Utas wrote:
A quote within the article:
When you have huge amounts of plastic in the environment, that means there is a lot of carbon and there will be evolution to use this as food. Bacteria are there in huge numbers and their evolution is very fast.
I wondered if they were going to make this point; it finally appeared near the end of the article.

So the plastic should go into lockdown, and socially distance itself from other plastics.

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Daniel Pfeffer28-Mar-20 8:59

Daniel Pfeffer

28-Mar-20 8:59

The was, if memory serves, a story by Larry Niven in which he mentions a bacterium that lives on polyurethane. Eventually, people just had to do without plastic wrappings. OMG | :OMG:

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Mark_Wallace28-Mar-20 9:49

28-Mar-20 9:49

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
The was, if memory serves, a story by Larry Niven in which he mentions a bacterium that lives on polyurethane

I don't recall that one, but maybe I'm mentally obfuscating it with the Puppeteers' bacterium, that eats superconductor material (and has Louis Wu performing the stupidest and worst thought-out/written repairs ever in the history of Sci-Fi).

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
people just had to do without plastic wrappings

No bubble wrap?!?

Thank God mobile phones had been invented, otherwise no-one would have anything to keep them occupied whilst waiting for Louis Wu to repair their alien-tech computers with a bolt of superconductor cloth, a pair of scissors, and a (presumably) slot-head screwdriver.

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CCC may be late...

OriginalGriff26-Mar-20 22:39

OriginalGriff

26-Mar-20 22:39

Currently queuing to enter the supermarket, 35 minutes so far. "1 out, 1 in" system in operation, with priority for NHS workers.
Will get more than I wanted to as I don't want to do this tomorrow...

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Mark_Wallace26-Mar-20 23:01

26-Mar-20 23:01

It seems that the government is trying desperately hard to reintroduce the wartime black market (which so many of their progenitors made their fortunes from).

They must have pals who aren't filthy-rich enough, yet.

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OriginalGriff26-Mar-20 23:30

OriginalGriff

26-Mar-20 23:30

45 minute queue to get in; it'll be worse later on when more people are up and wanting the weekly shop.
And of course, once they are in there, they want to make it worth it and be sure they don't have to visit again soon ... so the stockpiling will get worse. Sigh | :sigh:

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Mark_Wallace26-Mar-20 23:44

26-Mar-20 23:44

Would this help?[^]

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CPallini26-Mar-20 23:47

CPallini

26-Mar-20 23:47

Here we elaborate very complex algorithms to choose the time of the day when the queue lenght is at a minimum. So far the 'go at lunch time' worked better.

Toilet paper shortage?

Daniel Pfeffer26-Mar-20 22:01

Daniel Pfeffer

26-Mar-20 22:01

Bake your own!
'People love it': Toilet paper cakes fly off the shelves at Dortmund bakery

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John R. Shaw26-Mar-20 22:16

John R. Shaw

26-Mar-20 22:16

Thanks for the laugh.

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Mark_Wallace26-Mar-20 22:24

26-Mar-20 22:24

I also like headline of the next article on the page: "Demand for German Toilet Paper Three Times as High".

What, has the social-distancing diet made their rear-ends three times wider?

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Nelek26-Mar-20 22:47

Nelek

26-Mar-20 22:47

The best is (I today saw it in the news):
In a German city, WC-Paper makers are complaining about the shortage of used normal paper to be recycled (recycling courtyards are closed too) and warn about a possible reduction in the production of WC-Paper...

As a certain person in a certain house says: "This is going to be a matter of national security" Laugh | :laugh:

Problem is... most of the people that bought decens of packets are going to think "you see? we were right" Sigh | :sigh:

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Mark_Wallace26-Mar-20 23:05

26-Mar-20 23:05

Nelek wrote:
Problem is... most of the people that bought decens of packets are going to think "you see? we were right"

Ah, a self-fulfilling prophecy!

Nelek wrote:
As a certain person in a certain house says: "This is going to be a matter of national security"

Ah, a complete fruggin' idiot!

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Stay at home. Practice social distancing. Clean yourself often.

W∴ Balboos, GHB27-Mar-20 1:54

W∴ Balboos, GHB

27-Mar-20 1:54

Mark_Wallace wrote:
Nelek wrote:
As a certain person in a certain house says: "This is going to be a matter of national security"
Ah, a complete fruggin' idiot!

Come to think of it - wouldn't you feel insecure if you didn't know if any paper would be available when you had to go? Then tension, as you enter the sanctuary - and look to the walls . . . hoping against hope . . .

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OriginalGriff26-Mar-20 21:54

OriginalGriff

26-Mar-20 21:54

OMG...[^]

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Re: Stay at home. Practice social distancing. Clean yourself often.

John R. Shaw26-Mar-20 22:10

John R. Shaw

26-Mar-20 22:10

If you are in an in-closed space and someone coughs, does it matter if you are 6 ft (1.8288 meters) away or not?

Answer: No.

I just want to know why people think they need six moths worth of toilet paper.

Re: Stay at home. Practice social distancing. Clean yourself often.

Mark_Wallace26-Mar-20 22:27