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Alcohol may not kill Coronavirus, but it's worth a shot!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Several shots.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That virus is quite a Brut but vodka we do? Wine about it olive on as best as we can?*
* I just got back from a run to the liquor store - how timely.
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I don't get it - Corona[^] *is* alcohol. You can absolutely kill it  But for some unknown reason people currently don't want to. 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Stefan_Lang wrote: Corona[^] is alcohol
Hardly. And I say that as someone who drinks it. Sometimes.
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jus being pedantic but the disinfectant sprays and hand sanitisers that do work against coronavirii do so by virtue of the ethanol they contain.
Warning: disinfectant & hand sanitiser ought to be applied externally, not imbiblicaly.
OriginalGriff wrote: but it's worth a shot!
shooting ? really? bit drastic what?
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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Just to be really pedantic, it's not just (or even) ethanol they contain, it's often a mix of isopropanol and / or n-Propanol either added to ethanol or replacing the ethanol completely (to prevent alcoholics consuming them*)
* You can tell a true alcoholic by their knowledge of what you can get drunk on - they know that vanilla extract is 40% proof booze with vanilla seeds added for example. But nobody looks at it when trying to keep you clean ... not from personal experience, I hasten to add.
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maybe in some places, but the cheap stuff made here (Asia) is just fragrance, softener and about 90% ethanol
- denatured eth though so drinking it will likely also result in cleaning out the stomach via the mouth (or/and nose if really violent)
... not to mention the small side effects of temporarily flammable hands (much cooking here done on gas) and permanent blindness - but at least you will be virus free!
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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Some may contain ethanol, but primarily the alcohol for (non-drinking) use is isopropanol. It is much cheaper and manufactured. Furthermore, unlike ethanol-containing products, there's no danger of anyone (in different times) using it for a beverage (directly or by re distillation) without rapid and unpleasant consequences.
Generally sold as 70% and 91% solutions with water, but some more dilute concoctions are available either as witch hazel or in cheap-junk stores that give you the idea you're getting a bargain unless you notice it's 50%.
An added plus for ispropanol (i.e., normal rubbing alcohol) is that it's less volatile than ethanol.
Methanol, another very cheap manufactured alcohol is extremely toxic and can be absorbed through the skin with serious consequences. It generally only shows up in things like car wiper fluid.
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We used to mix Methanol with a few drops of Nitroglycerin to make suitable fuel for an RC helicopter.
Ah! The good old days when you could buy Nitroglycerin from a hobby store!
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Let's drink to that!
/ravi
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Vodka hell are you thinking!
I appreciate your rye sense of humour but you really should scotch these rumours your ginning up.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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As usual, your thoughts are Everclear[^].
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Google cancelled it's annual April Fool's thing.
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Boo 
They had some good ones in the past.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Found the guy who likes that sort of thing.
Good riddance, I say.
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dandy72 wrote: Good riddance,
Really?
"Where's Waldo" on Google Maps
Ms. Pac-Maps
Treasure Hunt on Google Maps
gmail gestures...
I found the guy with no sense of humor.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: I found the guy with no sense of humor.
It's not for a lack of sense of humor. I like a good joke as much as the next guy.
There's an endless number of articles being published every year suggesting April Fools is just passé in the age of the internet. It's definitely not just a "me" thing.
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dandy72 wrote: It's not for a lack of sense of humor
I disagree. When google did the gmail gestures, that was hilarious.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: When google did the gmail gestures
I have no idea what that is. I must've missed it[*], otherwise it clearly left no lasting impression whatsoever.
[*] ...which is likely to be the case, as I avoid gmail like the plague that it is.
But hey - you called it, I have no sense of humor. 
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dandy72 wrote: I have no sense of humor.
Last chance for you, here's part of the joke, Introducing Gmail Motion - YouTube[^]
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Last chance for you, here's part of the joke, Introducing Gmail Motion - YouTube[^]
Right...I have a vague recollect. If it's a video, not tied to anything, and that's the extent of it...sure, I can live with that. It's when you have a series of headlines, for example, and you can't tell which is real, and which isn't...that's when things simply get annoying.
Just saw your new thread, which you've started with :
I don't think most April Fool's jokes are very funny.
That's pretty much where I stand. Most people couldn't pull off a good prank if their lives depended on it; most fall flat. So I can do without a day where everyone thinks he's God's gift to comedy. That's all I meant.
I'm glad to see we're not in total disagreement.
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On both my linux desktop and my Win7 VM, I'm using Firefox v74.0 (the latest version).
On the Win7 VM, youtube runs without hindrance (other than the fact that they changed their interface).
On the Linux (Mint) host, I get a yellow banner stating that they "will stop supporting this browser soon", and the get the latest version. Also, the youtube home page doesn't show some of the thumbnails, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme/reason as to which thumbnails won't be displayed.
Since I'm running the latest version of FireFox, I can only assume they mean that they won't support FireFox on Linux. I say this because I don't get the message in Chromium (open source version of chrome).
Just to be sure, I fired up my Lubuntu VM, and I get the same behavior - Firefox displays the banner, chromium does not. Again, the Windows VM doesn't display the banner either.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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I have latest FF on Fedora 31...
No warning...
You may need a cache wipe-out?
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