In THe NEWS... Corona

[oldjarhead100]

hey RagweedDWC when were you in I was with 1st bn 8th marines .76 -80

[Gingerbeard]

Crap! Have we forgotten about the zombie apocalypse? We have shows about both zombie and non-zombie virus outbreaks. People don't seem to care about the non-zombie outbreaks as much as they do about zombie outbreaks. You can tell the popularity of the shows by what people talk about.
They talk about zombie shows. Not non-zombie shows because they don't care about a regular virus outbreak because we've kept a bunch of others at bay. We haven't taken care of a zombie causing virus. But I think we're much more prepared to do so because you can see a zombie and have a whole Pantheon of methods to kill them. If there is a ZV, and dude next to you coughs, you can kill him because he's a zombie. Someone with a stye? It's probably a zombie stye and requires a double tap. Maybe a good argument for open or concealed weapons? No flame throwers or Molotov cocktails. You don't want a bunch of flaming zombies bumping into buildings and shit and setting everything on fire.

Keep your sneeze to yourself and an eye out for zombies.

[Gingerbeard]

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation."

[Farmall]

Well: here’s another.... my friend and I had to take a truck to Huntsville Alabama and pick up another one to return to the northeast. We had been on the road for 3 days already and tired, needed a shower and looked like a couple of really dirty bikers. No place to eat in Tennessee where we were but we had a smell in the air of the greatest steak on the planet.... we headed over to the place and the girl at the podium said “ if you want to put your name on the list, it’s a 90 minute wait”. WTF, we never waited to eat anywhere but the aroma of that steak was incredible....we walk out and sniffed the air and turned around and said ok.... the girl then says to us on the way back in.... “ you know, if a table frees up around the bar, you can order a full menu right there”.

We walked into the bar area an my buddy goes up to a table of 4 guys drinking beer, they may have looked finished but? He say” you Guys are done here right?”

They looked up at the two of us and said.... YEP, all yours. We ordered stuff we never had eaten like this before and added their bloomin onion,shrimp on the barbi and filet.

Yes, it was the first time we ever heard of OUTBACK ! In butt fuck, Tennessee... a couple of yankee boys from the big city

[Farmall]

GreenState. Does he live on that road(can’t think of the name right now) that runs route 7 between Charlotte and Shelburne? The absolute most amazing views of Lake Champlain !

[JDU]

As of today the shelves in Walmart are fairly well stocked. (If 1/2 full equals fairly well & in my mind it does- considering last wk) You might not get your brand or size but there was a little bit of almost everything. Most ppl are patient & careful to maintain 6ft & there was plenty of parking lol. Hang in there folks!!

[StillHigh1982]

Shit. Commented on wrong thread. You are all high. Yous guys will figure it out

[Gingerbeard]

If you're not off the grid, you're using those fracking things. Lights use electricity to power unnatural lights that are made from unrecyclable parts and more than probably will be tossed in a landfill when they are broken, used up, or replaced. Even electronic recycling will produce waste. We use the end products of what we hate. We are the end products of what we hate. It's give and take.
Yep. Hybridization, naturally, forever. All I'm saying, in a gingerbeard sort of way, is everything we do is 'unnatural' in a natural sense. Human nature is to adapt and survive. Proceed with innovation. Make our environment suit our needs. Having a camp fire, or wood stove for you teeth chatterers, is not a creation of nature. It is a creation of human nature to start a fire and keep warm in an otherwise natural environment.
If it's not fossil fuels, then what? We have the technology for other things. Know what? Lots of those other technologies rely on fossil fuels for manufacturing and maintenance. Solar panels and windmills were made from something. Without wood, no houses. The human nature to cut down all the forests and move on is being replaced by human nature to protect itself from loss of such an abundant and renewable resource by reforestation of harvested lands. Not all, I know.
Dabber is looking like her nature needs to go poop...

alltatup , my Hummingbird.

[StillHigh1982]

I was thinking the same thing today as I drove into a red state with supplies for my elderly mother who just finished chemo. Tell the cops I have Corona....Luckily I made it to Kentucky safely. Now driving back to Michigan, still illegal for another 140 miles, somewhere in bfe Indiana...can't wait till my lock box keeps me safe from the govt again.

[Gingerbeard]

Farmall
I took a road trip, in college, from San Diego to San Antonio with a couple buddies of mine. Great drive. I ate a brownie when I wasn't behind the wheel. Buddies didn't imbibe.
I took them to a restaurant I had been to in Junction, Texas. Homemade chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, fried okra, and white gravy. Real mom-and-pop, like. The lady who took us to our booth looked kind of nervous. Head on a swivel. Another, older, woman came to take our orders. She kept looking at my buddies. I realized I was sitting at a roadhouse type truck stop in an extremely redneck town. My buddies were Vietnamese.
We got to talking to the lady about what we were doing and school and junk. She perked up a little when I told her I was a vet. The restaurant seemed to get a breath of fresh air when the red necked folk saw we weren't up to any shenanigan's.
In end, the meal was amazing and I bought a coffee cup.

[Farmall]

Funny story about Waffle House; NOVEMBER 1972. 3 friends (2 girls and 1 guy) decide to drive Disney World. We’re all long hairs and late teenagers. We stop in Georgia at Waffle House for breakfast... as we sit in a booth and wait and wait and wait, my buddy realizes they are intentionally not coming to the table to take our order. So he starts getting louder and louder and as the look on some faces gat scarier than what we may have looked like we decided to get up and head out the door. stop at the Welcome center in Florida and each had some really great 2oz shots of free orange juice....

Like the scene in Easy Rider... ‘ they look like they from a gorilla love-in”

[Gingerbeard]

The massage parlor across the street is closed. I'm not nearly as satisfied with a stack of waffles as I am at the end of a good rubdown. The liquor store has Eggo* waffles.

*Note: Eggo is not recognized by spellcheck.

[alltatup]

GB, I wouldn't put all the Cannabis-related technology you mention in the same category as those who are fracking, promoting increasing use of fossil fuel, etc. Hybridizing seeds doesn't hurt the environment in the least; Cannabis plants have been hybridizing w/ each other for thousands of years...

[Farmall]

Ayup! Know it well. As my mother in law will say...’goddamn snow”

[Gingerbeard]

Yeah. We're buttholes. Defying MN, and all that. Like hybridizing weed! Using alien technology light setups! Force feeding fertilizers! Customizing soil! Puffing up her lava rock to make perlite! Growing multiple crops in a year! Snake oil and witchcraftery and Solo cups! MN better get on the ball and see we're only trying to help her make her bounty bigger and more beautiful for the good of mankind! And we always replant when we harvest. Lets not forget to recognize MN when we realized we can keep things in coolers and refrigerators, to extend the life of her bounty.
We accept our viral nature on nature or go back to living in nature. The number of people living off the land will neither increase nor decrease from any of this. Folks who have come to realize how important it is to use as little as possible and recycle during this time of crisis will forget all about it three days after the world is declared, alas, again, safe to get back to populating.