Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog

The things I've seen at Waffle House.

1. Couple eating. The girl orders orange juice and extra waffles. The guy gets visibly upset and says, "Why you ordering extras when you see me just eating a basic meal?" The girl gets upset and says, "You asked me out to eat and I'm just trying to enjoy myself". Guy says, "You know I only get paid on the 1st and 15th. Ask her to take it back so they don't charge me for it. Girl, "Eew you cheap!". Guy, "Your weave is cheap. It was a mistake to ask you out!" Girl grabs her water and throws it at him, "You alone because you're cheap and that's why no one likes you!"

2. Heavy set guy eating a steak with a ton of A1 sauce. I see him grab his arm and scurry on outside to his truck. Paramedics show up and the poor dude had a heart attack.

3. Guy surrounded by three women. It was a crazy table since all the girls were dressed up with glitter or tiger print. They start to hand money over and I realize he's a pimp.

I think after of those I decided to skip Waffle House unless I was really really hungry. Anthony Bourdain was right though when he said, "It is indeed...Marvelous!"

 

Those are the stories that I wish I had. But I never had any drama at WF. However, the first story is legit and that guy is a tool. He reminds me of my virgin friends who are still virgins in their 30s/40s living with mommy.

WF food still great.

 

God I miss the T-bone steak, eggs, and hash browns. Great when you need something to sober up from the bar. I can see why he got caught there.

You're right though; I had to cut ties with friends who were just mooching off everyone until their next unemployment check. When you're in your late 30s and you haven't figured life out but are still going to the club while complaining about money. It's time to face reality on why you can't hold a relationship.

 

“We’re storming the Capitol it’s a revolution”





Steve Colbert had a funny response to this clip.

at 7:13

 

Curfew in NL starts tomorrow. I honestly do not mind the measure that much. It is the details that worry me.

It might help a bit but as a Dutchie I know there will be people sneaking around because they can. When you know where to disappear, you move in the shadows.

NL is almost in a state of emergency, the current cabinet (including prime minister) stepped down because of a massive clusterfuck (, yes it is really that bad) and this cabinet is still semi-in-charge (demissionair) of the Covid-19 measures. The current cabinet fucked up by being lazy in the beginning (March to September 2020), particularly regarding testing and tracking the virus. In NL Covid-19 was treated like a flu at first. Many of my colleagues at the time (many Asians among them) treated the situation better than most doctors and medical experts in NL did (you know family with S.A.R.S. stories).

Our state media still call Covid-19 a "epidemic" instead of a "pandemic."

There are some nuances I am skipping (enough for a rant filled book mind you) but staying calm is so hard these days. I am disgusted, really disgusted.

 

This goes back to my old job writing content for brands, working in marketing and analytics and all, but people referring to Tweets as "twits" has always peeved me, never mind that "twit" is a remarkably accurate descriptor for loads of what goes on there.

Also, on the topic of things that mess with my sense of inner peace: https://www.bworldonline.com/its-final-lockdowns-dont-work/

They may have half a fair shot at working if not for the fact that vacuous people with essentially nothing in the way of brain matter didn't think it was fine to keep breaking quarantine to get laid, get wasted, or get high.

Submitting my area for consideration as an exception, save for that Sinophobia that goes beyond harshly judging the CCP is definitely in vogue.

 

Of course he was arrested at a Waffle House.. Classic Florida Man.

 

Serious questions about the WHO, but, more seriously, no government needed the WHO to wave the P flag before they got started. WHO might well have been doing a chocolate-fire-guard act, but that does not excuse individual governments' actions or inactions. Each was responsible for their own. And continue to be.

 

I'd honestly be happy to joke about that but I'm maybe getting a job teaching English to Chinese kids over a proprietary program that I'm not entirely sure isn't malware. Just makes me more keen to finally get a desktop build done so I can use my old lappy as a burner for this sorta crud, lmao.

 

The Soviets tried the same shit. The PRC is just a fascist state ruled by a communist party. It will get it’s due eventually and the results won’t be pretty. Expect falling down buildings like the eastern block with straw in the concrete and former Yugoslavia type ultraviolence. All of the CCP’s against the Tibetans, Uighurs, and Mongols will have bad blowback for the Chinese people the rulers bussed into points and lines on the map.

 

Actually where I live, the population is probably more disciplined and trusting in government that I ever could imagine. In other Canadian cities people are complying to the point that every time they discover some public gathering it becomes a national news.
You completely miss the point: the link in your note is not about some theoretical model of reducing infections by quarantine of the healthy. it is about about the trade offs. And I quoted here before, that just in Albert the delta of deaths from overdose exceeded the COVID deaths. I recently found out that a member of my distant family who had addiction problem died from overdoes and cold because he could not find a shelter during lockdown.Non-elective surgeries in Ontario are reduced to the point that people die, and that is acknowledged by the media.
The bottom line is that if we try for another year if lockdowns work or not, we may kill a lot more people. And contempt for people who may not comply with the restrictions solves nothing.

 

I reread the article and my previous post to make sure my head was on as straight as can be expected given scoliosis. I was not contesting the findings of the study referenced in the piece (which I did not bother looking up, I must admit) because it only makes logical sense and my own personal experience and observations ratify that yes, protracted lockdowns have debilitating economic impact and that the risks of undertaking the same should have been obvious to anyone with two neurons to rub together.

Why this piece irritated me was that it framed lockdown measures as ineffective against case growth and transmission of this virus, especially in a an area where you have a population density of approx 15.6k people per square kilometre. Estimating the tradeoffs between letting this virus do as it will and the socioeconomic and health ramifications of keeping people inside has been a popular conversation piece for a while, though that strangely hasn't stopped many people (not quite enough I suppose: https://www.bangkokpost.com/busines...tself-as-a-paradise-covid-retreat-no-one-came) from faffing about for trivialities.

The point I am scraggling towards is that community quarantining would be far more effective if people actually adhered to the damn advisories.

 

Don't blame the lockdown. In a rare show of humanity from a British Tory government, they almost eliminated on-the-street homelessness by taking people into hotels. This was in the first lockdown there: I don't know that they are doing the same now. Tory compassion tends to be limited to the rich.

This is one example. Many things are blamed on lockdown, and many reasons are given why lockdown can't work. But many of them are not directly due to lockdown, they are due to bad, or lack of, management of the other stuff.

 

It doesn't take an epidemiologist to understand that if people don't meet they can't catch stuff off each other.

But yes...

And if they don't, then it is not so much lockdown as lockjoke. And a very bad joke too.

 

Maybe you should look at the Scottish NHS statistics regarding the death from deprivation and dramatic spike during the first lockdown.
And sure government can take care of all of us, with printed money for unlimited time.
Surviving maybe the endgame for older people with health conditions already. But people who are 20-50 have kids, jobs they lost, savings for kids college that cannot make anymore. Businesses they lost in the most dramatic ever transfer of ownership to the wealthy.

That is becoming the discussion between people who can afford to be inside almost indefinitely, either do not have to work, retired like me, or can wok from home, doing administrative or creative work, and the people who sustain them.
People working in the food distribution and selling, meatpackers, factories, hospitals, Amazon warehouses etc. shop owners on the streets in my neighborhood they do not go to shelters.

My wife works is a psychologist, some of the clients have addition problem. She has a composite sketch of the people who lives are destroyed by the comfortable: someone who is sober or clean for a year, six months, got his own room is subsidized housing, gets his ass out of bed 7AM and goes to a low paying job where he meets people, and survives day by day. Then the job is gone. Watching TV , and the walls will send this person to the street to get something to forget about all this shit that is so good for him. They are not f'ing audiophiles.
And she works in the hospital the building almost empty , the biggest teaching hospital in our "overwhelmed" health care.

And by the way, the government did not create one additional ICU bed since the pandemic started. Why should they if lockdowns are the only game in town.
This discussion does not make any sense anymore, people who can afford to be locked down will be for lockdowns for 5 more years.