What Made You Do A Facepalm Today??

[invisible airwave]

We now go live to Colin Hanks reading the news about his half brother.

 

 

[Fordgalaxy]

When people think you're talking about someone specific, and you're not. Also, stalkers.

[laughedatbytime]

Dishonest people.

 

They're the worst.

[LedRush]

March 6th, 2021. At the Idaho Capitol Building, in Boise, Idaho

 

 

 

In what can only be described as delicious irony, the legislature of the state of Idaho is shutting down at least until April 6th because of a Covid outbreak.

 

https://apnews.com/a...4f884e752317d8c

 

Irony so sweet, it’s giving me a toothache!

Meanwhile, blue state death rates continue to give others heartache.

 

https://www.statista...es-us-by-state/

I dunno, of the top 17 which is 1/3 of the 50 states and Puerto Rico, I believe 9 are red states.

8 of the 10 states/territories with the lowest rates of death are also blue states.

 

 

"Tell your statistics to shut up".

Joe Schulz to Jim Bouton, 1969

 

I don't give a rat's ass about what a state's stupid "color" is.

I care about dysfunctional, irresponsible parents passing their dysfunction onto their children and putting their health at risk, all because of their juvenile partisan agendas.

 

 

I agree with this completely. All the available evidence shows that for young children, the risk of Covid is significantly lower than the risk of the normal flu (in the range of 1-3 times less dangerous depending on the age). Yet you have parents who are teaching their kids hysterical fear in the face of what, to the kids, is essentially a non-factor. Parents, and society as a whole, have a responsibility to protect children physically and emotionally. What we’ve seen is that partisan stupidity, anti-science beliefs, and irrational fear have caused many to sacrifice children’s psychological, intellectual, and physical development by closing schools, wrapping their kids up like they’re in a The Stand, and some even physically distancing themselves from their own kids if the kids have had exposure to the virus. What some have decided to do is just a form of child abuse.

 

That isn’t to say the children don’t need to take any precautions: when I came back to the states to visit my parents for Christmas the kids masked up and socially distanced. Even though young children are significantly less likely to either contract or to pass on the virus than teens or adults, we planned to stay with my elderly parents and there was no need to put them at additional risk (the virus is significantly more dangerous than the flu for their age group). But there is a big difference between teaching kids to take some precautions in certain circumstances where they could increase the risk to others and the insanity which has gripped many in the US for the last year.

[Your_Lion]

When people think you're talking about someone specific, and you're not. Also, stalkers.

Are you referring to ME?! :rage:

 

 

 

;)

[Fordgalaxy]

When people think you're talking about someone specific, and you're not. Also, stalkers.

Are you referring to ME?! :rage:

 

 

 

;)

 

Dammit! I've been found out! Actually, there are a few but only one stalker, as far as I know. Maybe two, but you're just smarter and better at it? :huh:

Edited April 1, 2021 by Fordgalaxy

[invisible airwave]

When people think you're talking about someone specific, and you're not. Also, stalkers.

Are you referring to ME?! :rage:

 

 

 

;)

 

[invisible airwave]

March 6th, 2021. At the Idaho Capitol Building, in Boise, Idaho

 

 

 

In what can only be described as delicious irony, the legislature of the state of Idaho is shutting down at least until April 6th because of a Covid outbreak.

 

https://apnews.com/a...4f884e752317d8c

 

Irony so sweet, it’s giving me a toothache!

Meanwhile, blue state death rates continue to give others heartache.

 

https://www.statista...es-us-by-state/

I dunno, of the top 17 which is 1/3 of the 50 states and Puerto Rico, I believe 9 are red states.

8 of the 10 states/territories with the lowest rates of death are also blue states.

 

 

"Tell your statistics to shut up".

Joe Schulz to Jim Bouton, 1969

 

I don't give a rat's ass about what a state's stupid "color" is.

I care about dysfunctional, irresponsible parents passing their dysfunction onto their children and putting their health at risk, all because of their juvenile partisan agendas.

 

What will happen if a stronger strain of polio appears in the future? Will these parents again teach their children to ignore the medical experts, just because _________ is President?

 

I live in the Inland area of California so I know color doesn't mean jack here. There was some anti mask rally near me at the outdoor Victoria Gardens in Cucamonga a year ago and let's not forget Huntington Beach. Hoping my cousin is safe because she just moved there from Laguna. She grew up near Huntington in Fountain Valley.

[invisible airwave]

Reality TV dancing reject who whines about cancel culture says what? Yeah, you're not winning anybody over with your cancelling of MLB besides Aubrey Huff and Lenny Dykstra.

 

Edited April 2, 2021 by invisible airwave

[laughedatbytime]

Hunter Biden says he has zero recollection of even meeting the stripper he impregnated, and who became the mother of his most recent child. Edited April 6, 2021 by laughedatbytime

[Rhyta]

March 6th, 2021. At the Idaho Capitol Building, in Boise, Idaho

 

 

 

In what can only be described as delicious irony, the legislature of the state of Idaho is shutting down at least until April 6th because of a Covid outbreak.

 

https://apnews.com/a...4f884e752317d8c

 

Irony so sweet, it’s giving me a toothache!

Meanwhile, blue state death rates continue to give others heartache.

 

https://www.statista...es-us-by-state/

I dunno, of the top 17 which is 1/3 of the 50 states and Puerto Rico, I believe 9 are red states.

8 of the 10 states/territories with the lowest rates of death are also blue states.

 

 

"Tell your statistics to shut up".

Joe Schulz to Jim Bouton, 1969

 

I don't give a rat's ass about what a state's stupid "color" is.

I care about dysfunctional, irresponsible parents passing their dysfunction onto their children and putting their health at risk, all because of their juvenile partisan agendas.

 

 

I agree with this completely. All the available evidence shows that for young children, the risk of Covid is significantly lower than the risk of the normal flu (in the range of 1-3 times less dangerous depending on the age). Yet you have parents who are teaching their kids hysterical fear in the face of what, to the kids, is essentially a non-factor. Parents, and society as a whole, have a responsibility to protect children physically and emotionally. What we’ve seen is that partisan stupidity, anti-science beliefs, and irrational fear have caused many to sacrifice children’s psychological, intellectual, and physical development by closing schools, wrapping their kids up like they’re in a The Stand, and some even physically distancing themselves from their own kids if the kids have had exposure to the virus. What some have decided to do is just a form of child abuse.

 

That isn’t to say the children don’t need to take any precautions: when I came back to the states to visit my parents for Christmas the kids masked up and socially distanced. Even though young children are significantly less likely to either contract or to pass on the virus than teens or adults, we planned to stay with my elderly parents and there was no need to put them at additional risk (the virus is significantly more dangerous than the flu for their age group). But there is a big difference between teaching kids to take some precautions in certain circumstances where they could increase the risk to others and the insanity which has gripped many in the US for the last year.

Things are improving with so many getting vaccinated but the trope that children are not at risk is now being revised. With the influx of the new strains, ones that are much more contagious, children are now at a greater risk of contracting the virus. The U.K. variant is spreading in Minnesota, 750 cases reported in the last two weeks. Nothing is guaranteed with these mutations. Being cautious is being smart.

[laughedatbytime]

[Principled Man]

Minutes Ago: Elderly couple was moving slowly in the back of my Sam’s Club. Their service dog, a large golden retriever, even older than they are, was leaving gifts on the floor everywhere they went. They were oblivious.

 

 

:facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:

[Fordgalaxy]

We got our stimulus check today, with the key word being "check." Last time it went directly into our account so I'm not sure why they mailed a check this time. But, I know enough to not try and figure out the ways of the government.

[invisible airwave]

Ellen Ripley, Event Horizon, 2002 Jason Voorhees and others say GFY.

 

 

Edited April 6, 2021 by invisible airwave

[LedRush]

March 6th, 2021. At the Idaho Capitol Building, in Boise, Idaho

 

 

 

In what can only be described as delicious irony, the legislature of the state of Idaho is shutting down at least until April 6th because of a Covid outbreak.

 

https://apnews.com/a...4f884e752317d8c

 

Irony so sweet, it’s giving me a toothache!

Meanwhile, blue state death rates continue to give others heartache.

 

https://www.statista...es-us-by-state/

I dunno, of the top 17 which is 1/3 of the 50 states and Puerto Rico, I believe 9 are red states.

8 of the 10 states/territories with the lowest rates of death are also blue states.

 

 

"Tell your statistics to shut up".

Joe Schulz to Jim Bouton, 1969

 

I don't give a rat's ass about what a state's stupid "color" is.

I care about dysfunctional, irresponsible parents passing their dysfunction onto their children and putting their health at risk, all because of their juvenile partisan agendas.

 

 

I agree with this completely. All the available evidence shows that for young children, the risk of Covid is significantly lower than the risk of the normal flu (in the range of 1-3 times less dangerous depending on the age). Yet you have parents who are teaching their kids hysterical fear in the face of what, to the kids, is essentially a non-factor. Parents, and society as a whole, have a responsibility to protect children physically and emotionally. What we’ve seen is that partisan stupidity, anti-science beliefs, and irrational fear have caused many to sacrifice children’s psychological, intellectual, and physical development by closing schools, wrapping their kids up like they’re in a The Stand, and some even physically distancing themselves from their own kids if the kids have had exposure to the virus. What some have decided to do is just a form of child abuse.

 

That isn’t to say the children don’t need to take any precautions: when I came back to the states to visit my parents for Christmas the kids masked up and socially distanced. Even though young children are significantly less likely to either contract or to pass on the virus than teens or adults, we planned to stay with my elderly parents and there was no need to put them at additional risk (the virus is significantly more dangerous than the flu for their age group). But there is a big difference between teaching kids to take some precautions in certain circumstances where they could increase the risk to others and the insanity which has gripped many in the US for the last year.

Things are improving with so many getting vaccinated but the trope that children are not at risk is now being revised. With the influx of the new strains, ones that are much more contagious, children are now at a greater risk of contracting the virus. The U.K. variant is spreading in Minnesota, 750 cases reported in the last two weeks. Nothing is guaranteed with these mutations. Being cautious is being smart.

March 6th, 2021. At the Idaho Capitol Building, in Boise, Idaho

 

 

 

In what can only be described as delicious irony, the legislature of the state of Idaho is shutting down at least until April 6th because of a Covid outbreak.

 

https://apnews.com/a...4f884e752317d8c

 

Irony so sweet, it’s giving me a toothache!

Meanwhile, blue state death rates continue to give others heartache.

 

https://www.statista...es-us-by-state/

I dunno, of the top 17 which is 1/3 of the 50 states and Puerto Rico, I believe 9 are red states.

8 of the 10 states/territories with the lowest rates of death are also blue states.

 

 

"Tell your statistics to shut up".

Joe Schulz to Jim Bouton, 1969

 

I don't give a rat's ass about what a state's stupid "color" is.

I care about dysfunctional, irresponsible parents passing their dysfunction onto their children and putting their health at risk, all because of their juvenile partisan agendas.

 

 

I agree with this completely. All the available evidence shows that for young children, the risk of Covid is significantly lower than the risk of the normal flu (in the range of 1-3 times less dangerous depending on the age). Yet you have parents who are teaching their kids hysterical fear in the face of what, to the kids, is essentially a non-factor. Parents, and society as a whole, have a responsibility to protect children physically and emotionally. What we’ve seen is that partisan stupidity, anti-science beliefs, and irrational fear have caused many to sacrifice children’s psychological, intellectual, and physical development by closing schools, wrapping their kids up like they’re in a The Stand, and some even physically distancing themselves from their own kids if the kids have had exposure to the virus. What some have decided to do is just a form of child abuse.

 

That isn’t to say the children don’t need to take any precautions: when I came back to the states to visit my parents for Christmas the kids masked up and socially distanced. Even though young children are significantly less likely to either contract or to pass on the virus than teens or adults, we planned to stay with my elderly parents and there was no need to put them at additional risk (the virus is significantly more dangerous than the flu for their age group). But there is a big difference between teaching kids to take some precautions in certain circumstances where they could increase the risk to others and the insanity which has gripped many in the US for the last year.

Things are improving with so many getting vaccinated but the trope that children are not at risk is now being revised. With the influx of the new strains, ones that are much more contagious, children are now at a greater risk of contracting the virus. The U.K. variant is spreading in Minnesota, 750 cases reported in the last two weeks. Nothing is guaranteed with these mutations. Being cautious is being smart.

 

I’ve never heard the trope that children are not at risk. What I’ve read is the scientific evidence that they are less likely to contract the disease than adults, less likely to pass on the disease than adults, less likely to have bad outcomes from the disease than adults, and that the disease is less dangerous for them than the flu. Even with the new variants, all this seems still to be true with the available evidence. Of course, you should be cautious when the danger is warranted (i.e., the kids may come in contact with high risk people). But many Americans aren’t merely being cautious, they are putting their kids’ mental and physical health at risk based on unscientific fear mongering.

[invisible airwave]

 

[goose]

 

I mean really...really.

 

:ebert:

[driventotheedge]

 

Stupidity really knows no bounds does it?

[invisible airwave]

 

Stupidity really knows no bounds does it?

 

A few months ago, I saw someone rightfully getting ratioed hard for saying Madonna only had one hit. An actual person, not the typical first name and a bunch of digits IDs a lot of bots have. Idiocracy just keeps getting more and more prophetic with people shouting "THE EARTH IS FLAT AND 2+2=5 AND IF YOU ATTACK ME YOU'RE JUST TRIGGERED AND PART OF THE FASCIST THOUGHT POLICE!" just to be edgy and rebellious when this is what they really are.

 

[Rick N. Backer]

Things are improving with so many getting vaccinated but the trope that children are not at risk is now being revised. With the influx of the new strains, ones that are much more contagious, children are now at a greater risk of contracting the virus. The U.K. variant is spreading in Minnesota, 750 cases reported in the last two weeks. Nothing is guaranteed with these mutations. Being cautious is being smart.

I’ve never heard the trope that children are not at risk. What I’ve read is the scientific evidence that they are less likely to contract the disease than adults, less likely to pass on the disease than adults, less likely to have bad outcomes from the disease than adults, and that the disease is less dangerous for them than the flu. Even with the new variants, all this seems still to be true with the available evidence. Of course, you should be cautious when the danger is warranted (i.e., the kids may come in contact with high risk people). But many Americans aren’t merely being cautious, they are putting their kids’ mental and physical health at risk based on unscientific fear mongering.

 

My nephew is in high school and has Asperger's Syndrome. He lives in Boston, which only recently went back to in-person learning. He's nearly 6 feet tall and probably weighs around 130 lbs or so, which is probably down about 20-25 lbs from last year at this time. His levels of anxiety and depression have skyrocketed. IMO being out of school has been, almost literally, killing him.

[blueschica]

Things are improving with so many getting vaccinated but the trope that children are not at risk is now being revised. With the influx of the new strains, ones that are much more contagious, children are now at a greater risk of contracting the virus. The U.K. variant is spreading in Minnesota, 750 cases reported in the last two weeks. Nothing is guaranteed with these mutations. Being cautious is being smart.

I’ve never heard the trope that children are not at risk. What I’ve read is the scientific evidence that they are less likely to contract the disease than adults, less likely to pass on the disease than adults, less likely to have bad outcomes from the disease than adults, and that the disease is less dangerous for them than the flu. Even with the new variants, all this seems still to be true with the available evidence. Of course, you should be cautious when the danger is warranted (i.e., the kids may come in contact with high risk people). But many Americans aren’t merely being cautious, they are putting their kids’ mental and physical health at risk based on unscientific fear mongering.

 

My nephew is in high school and has Asperger's Syndrome. He lives in Boston, which only recently went back to in-person learning. He's nearly 6 feet tall and probably weighs around 130 lbs or so, which is probably down about 20-25 lbs from last year at this time. His levels of anxiety and depression have skyrocketed. IMO being out of school has been, almost literally, killing him.

Shoot, I'm sorry to hear that. :hug2: A friend's daughter has been in a similar situation in Maryland. She has a rare genetic syndrome and is differently abled in a couple of ways. It's been really hard for her to be away from her classmates and routine. I'm really hoping schools will reopen and be able to stay open.

Edited April 8, 2021 by blueschica

[laughedatbytime]

This headline at reason.com

 

Biden Willing To Compromise on $2.3 Trillion Spending Bill So Long As It Spends $2.3 Trillion

[goose]

Learning the details of Tiger Woods' recent car accident. Namely that he was apparently going 85mph+ in a winding 45mph zone.

 

:facepalm:

[invisible airwave]

Learning the details of Tiger Woods' recent car accident. Namely that he was apparently going 85mph+ in a winding 45mph zone.

 

:facepalm:

 

Even the red rocker has his...limits. He's lucky he killed no one like Vince Neil and Matthew Broderick.