Happy Birthday Aimée!
I was not comforted yesterday by driving behind a pickup with custom law enforcement plates and a Proud Boys insignia on the back window. To protect and serve... NeoNazi domestic terrorists?
Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.
Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 09, 2021 6:33:04 am PDT #8355 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Laura - Aug 09, 2021 6:45:15 am PDT #8356 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Ick, Matt! I don't even like following cars with Trump bumper stickers. That would be way worse.
Thank you for the update, David. I hope that Gud knows how much he is loved 'round these parts.
Tom Scola - Aug 09, 2021 12:16:42 pm PDT #8357 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
A cartoon for Gud and Jesse: [link]
DavidS - Aug 09, 2021 12:21:30 pm PDT #8358 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
[Spongebob Narrator's Voice] 17 Months later....
And Matilda is finally back on a school campus with other students. She's got a two hour orientation that started at noon (took a Muni bus and arrived with three whole minutes to spare).
She is excited to see her teachers from last year who she's never seen in person, except her science teacher briefly handing out text books last year. She is also psyched to get to hang with her two friends there, MI and Ruby.
Her Sophomore year of high school starts next Monday, the 16th.
Consuela - Aug 09, 2021 12:39:34 pm PDT #8359 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sophomore! I'm agog.
I went to a lovely potluck in Glen Park on Saturday and there was a ton of food and people were great, and now I'm worried I shouldn't go to book club tomorrow in case I contracted the delta. SIGH.
This whole delta thing is just argh.
And I just booked a hotel for work travel in late September. I don't want to get on a plane!
Laura - Aug 09, 2021 1:45:52 pm PDT #8360 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Yay for back to school. How did the summer gig go for her?
This whole delta thing is just argh.
Seriously. I did a test before I came to FL. Haven't gone anywhere or did anything so hoping I don't have to do it again when I get back to NY, but I might anyway. I can't get a sniffle without wondering. The thing with vaccinated people being asymptomatic carriers is very concerning.
Laura - Aug 09, 2021 1:47:23 pm PDT #8361 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Also, I was pretty surprised with the plane travel part. People were very good about the masks and even with the 6 hour delay people were good natured and there were no obnoxious passengers like they love to show on the news. Might not hurt to pack duct tape though, just in case.
Steph L. - Aug 09, 2021 2:09:24 pm PDT #8362 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
The thing with vaccinated people being asymptomatic carriers is very concerning.
I worry about that, combined with the fact that people who are immunocompromised and vaccinated are still turning out to have a lower amount of antibodies. Tim is vaccinated, but he takes immunosuppressants, and we don't know how well protected he is. I'm hoping a booster shot will help, whenever that gets the official thumbs-up.
DavidS - Aug 09, 2021 3:19:22 pm PDT #8363 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How did the summer gig go for her?
It's been great. They love her. She works hard. The kids enjoy her.
Perfect schedule Tues-Fri, 10:30 to 3:30. Got us through the whole summer, got her out of the house, and she got paid for it.
DavidS - Aug 09, 2021 3:24:42 pm PDT #8364 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The thing with vaccinated people being asymptomatic carriers is very concerning.
That is true but the window for being an asymptomatic vector is fairly short compared to somebody who's unvaccinated and has a 4-6 day incubation period. Whereas in most vaxxed people the body is going to shut it down fairly quick. Maybe a day or two.
It's not a significant driver of the current surges at all, where Delta is just tearing through the unvaccinated populations because it's so much more transmissible.
I hate all the fucking clickbait panic mongering breakthrough stories, because nobody really has a number on that. And adding up all the anecdotes doesn't tell us anything right now.