Tim, get the test. I hate the test, it's no fun whatsoever, but it's also not the worst thing.
Whatever happened to the still beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Volans - Nov 18, 2020 10:53:59 am PST #29901 of 30019
move out and draw fire
Steph L. - Nov 18, 2020 11:03:06 am PST #29902 of 30019
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Steph, can you try guilting him into it? "Do you really want to be responsible for getting me sick?"
I tried guilt and he was impervious! Or I'm not very good at laying on a guilt trip.
Shir - Nov 18, 2020 11:11:58 am PST #29903 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Would it be wrong to hold his presents hostage until he gets a Covid test?
#TeamSteph
Atropa - Nov 18, 2020 11:26:25 am PST #29904 of 30019
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I tried guilt and he was impervious! Or I'm not very good at laying on a guilt trip.
Tell him you know someone who has NO moral qualms about hexing him with uncomfortable things, and if he wants to avoid that, go get damn tested.
(I am. here, as always, to be the threatening witchy figure for the Buffistas. Does it work? Who knows? But the offer is always open.)
Dana - Nov 18, 2020 11:28:05 am PST #29905 of 30019
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
If withholding the presents seems like it would work, you should totally do that.
Someone is doing some kind of roadwork outside that sounds like a giant rattling sander, and it's been running for hours. I expect it will continue all day. Definitely not slowly driving me round the bend.
Steph L. - Nov 18, 2020 11:40:15 am PST #29906 of 30019
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Tell him you know someone who has NO moral qualms about hexing him with uncomfortable things, and if he wants to avoid that, go get damn tested.
I will TOTALLY do this!
Tom Scola - Nov 18, 2020 11:58:42 am PST #29907 of 30019
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
NYC is closing all their schools, after having reopened them.
DavidS - Nov 18, 2020 12:06:35 pm PST #29908 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
NYC is closing all their schools, after having reopened them.
I'm just looking at the SFUSD Dashboard for reopening and they haven't finished ANY of the shit that they could do for a reopening.
Have small cohorts/group of students been identified for reopening? - Not finished
Are general safety measures in place, including a staff testing plan? - Nope. Why the fuck not?
Have all staff been trained? - nope. Again, why haven't they?
Are instructional learning plans in place? - etc.
I get that there's a new surge going on and even SF backed up on its safety tier. However, the district clearly isn't going to do the shit that it could do. And they said they would do everything based on the numbers, but when the transmission numbers came down they didn't open anything.
They're not transparent and they're not doing the work they could do, and they aren't following their own timeline. It's frustrating as fuck.
Especially since Matilda was just sobbing over her Algebra class in the other room because she couldn't figure out how to do a problem in a breakout room over a chat box. Which, frankly, is not how I would have done well learning math.
Not being in school is its own kind of damage.
lisah - Nov 18, 2020 12:08:52 pm PST #29909 of 30019
Punishingly Intricate
I did a lot of crying over math in a totally analog, in-person school situation. At least online you can turn off video and mute yourself and cry in private.
JenP - Nov 18, 2020 12:13:10 pm PST #29910 of 30019
(I am. here, as always, to be the threatening witchy figure for the Buffistas. Does it work? Who knows? But the offer is always open.)
I kind of love this. Actually, no "kind of" about it.
I'm so sorry for all of you parents and your kids having to navigate this. I can't even imagine.