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Which is why you do not put a businessman in a (major) political office. They do not understand the job. They think you can run a government like you run a business, and you just can't.
I've been saying this since Ross Perot ran for public office.
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Had to go to the supermarket this morning - out of bread, milk, and a huge list of other stuff - so I stocked up for a long wait: couple of episodes of "Avenue 5", "Better call Saul", few Android games, big thick jumper, sleeping bag, you know the kind of thing.
Walked up to entrance, straight in. Walked round with shopping list, got everything on it. They had pasta (not on list, didn't buy), TP (not on list, didn't buy) - everything that they had run out of has been replenished. Had to queue briefly (just me, no-one in front) for a self serve till, paid and out.
Painless, and efficient. (Except for the "aisle campers" who make 2M / 6ft Social Distancing pretty difficult, of course.)
Maybe the panic stockpilers have run out of room to store TP, I dunno ... 
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The joy of living apart from the civilized populated world!
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OriginalGriff wrote: TP
Any idea how many weeks went by first before tp started staying on shelves? We're about 2.5 weeks in to the TP craze here in the US and just trying to get an idea when the sanity might start to return. We seem to be following in the footsteps of everyone else.
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About a week and a half, maybe two weeks tops?
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Really? That's great.
I am guessing we're going to have TP problems for months because people are conditioned to buy it right now. I think that will take a while to wear off. I hope I am wrong.
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As it says at the end of "The Galaxy Song[^]:
Quote: So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
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ZurdoDev wrote: Any idea how many weeks went by first before tp started staying on shelves?
After two weeks we could see TP and other "hamstering" staff again in the shelves... with big signs telling "only one per houshold", yes. But available again
Many other things without that kind of signs... empty. I suppose some people just thought: If I can get that, I'll take something else. 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Nelek wrote: with big signs telling "only one per houshold", yes. But available again
We have that too, but one the TP is stocked it's gone within the hour.
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I have seen that kind of behaviour... one is waiting, then he / she calls the family and every one gets a package of this, a package of that (maybe wait 15 mins outside and come in a second time)... so at the end, the same houshold end buying 15 items again.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Bad Griff!
You're not supposed to go to the supermarket at three in the morning and use a crowbar to get in!
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What's the problem? It's an object oriented approach!
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But you're calling a private move constructor!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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OriginalGriff wrote: so I stocked up for a long wait: couple of episodes of "Avenue 5",
Not to hijack the thread...but I haven't seen any discussion of it (at least not on CP)...what did you make of it?
Myself: Not impressed, and I came in with low expectations. The jokes fell flat. The situations felt forced. And I swear the guy who played Jared on Silicon Valley has already been forever cast as..."that guy".
It's just a half-hour show, but I literally kept falling asleep on them. If a show can consistently fail to capture my attention for half an hour...there's something fundamentally wrong.
I didn't come in with any preconceived notion about Hugh Laurie - this is the first show he's been on that I've watched (I've never seen 'House' and I kept hearing he's a great actor). My verdict: As an actor, yeah, he's good...but he can't do humor. Patrick Stewart, much as I love him, is in the same category - always steals any scene he's in, but he can't do funny.
How it got renewed for a second season, I don't know.
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It's hard to watch: most of the characters are unlovable and two dimensional, and the episodes are - simultaneously - too short and too long. They are too short because there could be a good series here, and it needs better than 20 minutes to get it "real". But they are also too long because the jokes are flat and badly delivered.
I'm struggling through because Hugh Laurie is a good actor, and it's hard to believe he'd want to work in something so completely lacking in quality - I suspect that the plot summary he was sold on was nothing like the actual scripts.
But there is a good plot here, if they could just concentrate on that in season 2 instead of trying to appeal just to turd joke fans and the current "no-attention-span" audience model.
(Plus "The Expanse" won't be here for months and months - and that's if we are lucky ...)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Plus "The Expanse" won't be here for months and months - and that's if we are lucky ...
There's 2 completely opposite ways to interpret that comment. 
At this point I'm only watching because I'm perhaps a little too OCD to stop watching a series I've already invested this much time in. I just can't get into it to appreciate it the way some obviously do. Maybe you have to have read the books? More likely it's because, for one thing, I despise that plot device where lazy writers use invisible characters that only one person can see and talk to. I thought Gazoo was interesting on The Flintstones when I was a kid, but that sort of thing has no place in a sci-fi series that takes itself seriously, IMO.
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Yes, I read the books first - and Miller was significant, explained pretty well, and required.
It's a good TV series because it's based on good books, and written / produced by the authors!
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Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device | The Guardian[^]
How terrible that someone from the genius profession should have suffered such an embarrassment while implementing such a genius-level idea, for a device that everyone obviously wants and needs.
It obviously would have made him a multi-billionaire, if it weren't such a bleeding stupid idea for mistakes made by the people who designed the parts he was using.
I mean, who wants working wristwatches, phones, keyboards, laptops, etc, when you can have brilliantly ideated and designed electromagnets on your wrists, instead of all that useless cr@p?
I hope that one day I grow to be as clever as astrogonomicalists and astrogophysicists.
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Haven't you heard that insulting the retarded differently-abled is non-PC, and may subject you to twitter-storms by twits SJWs?
SJW does not mean Single Jewish Woman...
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: SJW does not mean Single Jewish Woman...
Damn.
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Quote: My partner took me to the hospital that she works in because she wanted all her colleagues to laugh at me.
I can fully understand that! 
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If the soapbox still existed I'd suggest he tries inventing a device to stopping him touching something else ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: If the soapbox still existed I'd suggest he tries inventing a device to stopping him touching something else ...
Cake?
I don't see what's soapboxy about that.
And it would sell like hot... Um, it would really sell.
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It's funny how people don't see the easiest solution.
A simple surgical mask is extremely efficient at stopping you from picking your nose. 
And while they're fairly inefficient at stopping airborne infections from entering you, they are quite efficient at stopping droplet infections from leaving you.
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