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Can't believe the thread's come full-circle and we're back on Trump, in the Corona thread of all. It's almost inevitable, and somewhat sickening tbh

So what do peeps make of Trump's mask? I think it's pretty great. The man's made masks great again, in one fell swoop!
 
Can't believe the thread's come full-circle and we're back on Trump, in the Corona thread of all. It's almost inevitable, and somewhat sickening tbh

So what do peeps make of Trump's mask? I think it's pretty great. The man's made masks great again, in one fell swoop!
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I think it's a bit dramatic and fearmongering to think the US of A will go to shit if the Democrat party has full reign over both houses and the presidency. I'm sure it wouldn't be dramatic if the Republicans had full reign?

Anyway, hasn't either party had that already? I'm pretty sure that must've happened and the country still exists.

The country will still exist but it will be more like Venezuela.
 
Can't believe the thread's come full-circle and we're back on Trump, in the Corona thread of all. It's almost inevitable, and somewhat sickening tbh

So what do peeps make of Trump's mask? I think it's pretty great. The man's made masks great again, in one fell swoop!
Trump is awesome and will be re-elected no issues, unless you believe the ‘polls’
Look how that turned out last time....
Oh and he looks just super in a mask, like a anti hero...
maga 2020!..
 
The country will still exist but it will be more like Venezuela.

See, I have a very hard time believing that. Even the most leftist of Democrats aren't even touching on the left side in Europe, let alone the regime in Venezuela.

Speaking of socialist things tho: a while ago when the lockdowns started in the USA I was reading the comments on an article of school closings in Oklahoma, one of the reddest states out there. People were getting scared their kids wouldn't get their free (!) food at school due to the lockdown. Do you know how socialistic this is? I've always lived in a pretty centrist to left city and we never had free food at school... Is this a pretty common thing?
 
See, I have a very hard time believing that. Even the most leftist of Democrats aren't even touching on the left side in Europe, let alone the regime in Venezuela.

Speaking of socialist things tho: a while ago when the lockdowns started in the USA I was reading the comments on an article of school closings in Oklahoma, one of the reddest states out there. People were getting scared their kids wouldn't get their free (!) food at school due to the lockdown. Do you know how socialistic this is? I've always lived in a pretty centrist to left city and we never had free food at school... Is this a pretty common thing?

National School Lunch Program signed into law by president Truman in 1946.

Has nothing to do with red or blue states, its all based on family income.

This is Florida
All public schools in the Sunshine State are required to offer breakfast, and schools with over 80 percent of students eligible for free or reduced meals must offer it at no charge and are encouraged to make the meal available outside the cafeteria.

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There is also a SNAP program (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) for food outside the schools. I got it once for a month when I was broke.

Also a bunch of charitable food banks and food panties here.
 
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I gave it a go; bloody hard it is
languages are far, far easier to assimilate at a younger age
I never took any language lessons
May not be too late.
'You were a waste of tape!'.

You people.

Language learning is great! At any age. Like anything else, it's about motivation. It's never too late to learn new things.

I'm currently learning two new languages. If I'm able to memorise different writing systems and syllabaries with my alcohol ridden brain, everyone can :)

Life's hard. But fun.
 
National School Lunch Program signed into law by president Truman in 1946.

Has nothing to do with red or blue states, its all based on family income.

This is Florida
All public schools in the Sunshine State are required to offer breakfast, and schools with over 80 percent of students eligible for free or reduced meals must offer it at no charge and are encouraged to make the meal available outside the cafeteria.

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There is also a SNAP program (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) for food outside the schools. I got it once for a month when I was broke.

Also a bunch of charitable food banks and food panties here.

Very socialist thing then, you get some extra's based on (low) income ;)

Do you think it's bad?
 
You people.

Language learning is great! At any age. Like anything else, it's about motivation. It's never too late to learn new things.

I'm currently learning two new languages. If I'm able to memorise different writing systems and syllabaries with my alcohol ridden brain, everyone can :)

Life's hard. But fun.

I was learning Russian on tape in my car on the way to work many years ago. Still remember a word or two.
 
Having just watched clips from an American debate on the wearing of masks I am giving up on America :)

They included

One guy screaming that he would die for his flag and senators proposing the wearing of masks for protection were traitors to the country.
A woman screaming that masks were the tool of Satan as they interfered with Gods breathing pattern and all those proposing them were basically going to hell
A woman screaming that masks were killing people daily and the senators were murderers.

I despair of the human race
 
. Do you know how socialistic this is? I've always lived in a pretty centrist to left city and we never had free food at school... Is this a pretty common thing?

living in the UK 50 years ago I grew up on free school meals, we were so poor even the beggars wouldn't let their children play with us.

It was a very elitist system though. The teacher stood at the front and called children to bring up their dinner money for their dinner tickets. Then she seperately called for the poor children to come forward and collect their (different coloured) tickets which they had to walk past the whole class to do.

Might as well have tattooed "poor family" on my fu**ing forehead. Probably why I have always spoilt my own children
 
I had the Free Meal stubs as a kid, possibly my greatest life achievement. Though we weren't segregated or made to stand in the corner facing the wall. In fact many a child were the recipient of those limp purple scraps of paper

If anything it was more the 'non-freebie' kids that were scoffed at, with their fancy-shmancy paying with actual money
 
I had the Free Meal stubs as a kid, possibly my greatest life achievement. Though we weren't segregated or made to stand in the corner facing the wall. In fact many a child were the recipient of those limp purple scraps of paper

If anything it was more the 'non-freebie' kids that were scoffed at, with their fancy-shmancy paying with actual money
It actually taught children economics at an early age. You collected your free school meal ticket, sold it to the one of the fancy-shmancy rich kids at a discount and then bought chips from the chippy for dinner.

It didn't turn us fat in those days because the only sweets you used to eat were the ones you could sneak in your pockets while the shopkeeper's back was turned getting your fathers tobacco :)

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So funny :)



Can remember getting my Mums ciggies from Kiwksave. We wernt supposed to but life was so much simpler. The girl, who i quite fancied, knew they were for my Mum.

yes, my mum use to send me up the shop with note for some pall malls.

The state here banned all menthol ciggs.

Gov. Charlie Baker has signed the country's broadest prohibition on flavored tobacco into law. The measure makes Massachusetts the first state to permanently ban retail sales of all flavored tobacco, including menthol cigarettes and vape products.Nov 27, 2019
 
yes, my mum use to send me up the shop with note for some pall malls.

The state here banned all menthol ciggs.

Gov. Charlie Baker has signed the country's broadest prohibition on flavored tobacco into law. The measure makes Massachusetts the first state to permanently ban retail sales of all flavored tobacco, including menthol cigarettes and vape products.Nov 27, 2019
Was the reason it targeted younger people, or what was the reasoning behind it?
I dont much like smoking, but it must kind of suck for the people that used to smoke menthols.
 
Was the reason it targeted younger people, or what was the reasoning behind it?
I dont much like smoking, but it must kind of suck for the people that used to smoke menthols.

The vaping was causing a lung illness in the teens but I think they were vaping black market weed. (THC)
 
The vaping was causing a lung illness in the teens but I think they were vaping black market weed. (THC)
I read somewhere about kids ordering that vape-liquid from china because of how cheap it was.
No telling what they were inhaling then i guess.

A friend of mine stopped smoking with the help of one of those vape-thingys.
Just kind of decreased the amount of nicotine he loaded up in the device, until he was almost at zero, then he just stopped altogether.
 
yes, my mum use to send me up the shop with note for some pall malls.

The state here banned all menthol ciggs.

Gov. Charlie Baker has signed the country's broadest prohibition on flavored tobacco into law. The measure makes Massachusetts the first state to permanently ban retail sales of all flavored tobacco, including menthol cigarettes and vape products.Nov 27, 2019

Thats the first time i have heard of vaping being banned. Though i smoke i have always thought that if a government really cared they would ban smoking completely.

I mean there is no real argument 'for' it. Plenty against and it makes complete sense aside from the jobs and money it creates.
 
Thats the first time i have heard of vaping being banned. Though i smoke i have always thought that if a government really cared they would ban smoking completely.

I mean there is no real argument 'for' it. Plenty against and it makes complete sense aside from the jobs and money it creates.
Apart from the fact that its pretty cool.

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There probably has not been enough research done on the long term effects of vaping.
But i remember reading about this a few years back aswell.

Sounds much more fun than it is.

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Yeah, seemingly pointing to evidence of the flavourings interacting with x,y,z but last time i looked the sample sizes etc weren't that great.

Fair to say that sticking anything other than oxygen into your lungs isn't particularly great anyhow. Probably won't know for a while how bad - and even so, I'm sure they'll be vested interests keeping it at bay :p

When i was younger i used to help uncle in and about projects and was cutting MDF etc so mine are probably buggered anyway with all that formaldehyde.
 
Yeah, seemingly pointing to evidence of the flavourings interacting with x,y,z but last time i looked the sample sizes etc weren't that great.

Fair to say that sticking anything other than oxygen into your lungs isn't particularly great anyhow. Probably won't know for a while how bad - and even so, I'm sure they'll be vested interests keeping it at bay :p

When i was younger i used to help uncle in and about projects and was cutting MDF etc so mine are probably buggered anyway with all that formaldehyde.
When i was in Norway i worked construction/demolition.
Bunch of the old buildings had asbestos.
That shit takes 15-30 years before you get cancer, so i may also have a suprise waiting for me. :P

I didnt work with cleaning asbestos, but sometimes when tearing down a walls etc you just kind of found sections that had asbestos in them, and you had to call the asbestos-boys to seal of that floor and clear it.
 
When i was in Norway i worked construction/demolition.
Bunch of the old buildings had asbestos.
That shit takes 15-30 years before you get cancer, so i may also have a suprise waiting for me. :p

I didnt work with cleaning asbestos, but sometimes when tearing down a walls etc you just kind of found sections that had asbestos in them, and you had to call the asbestos-boys to seal of that floor and clear it.

Yeah same here - as a teenager my Dad renovated a house - the plonker pulled Christ knows what down and we all stayed there - it was only after he was like - oh, that may have had the white asbestos in it - my mum was like 'we need to get everything disposed!' - bit late now Ma, what will be will be, it's been years!

Still pretty sure in a house ages ago we moved to the guy didn't overboard the ceiling like we said but scraped it off, so there's another nail in the coffin. Mrs P was like - find some and get it tested! I was like, no i'd rather not know my death date.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss - unless it's something like Rabies where u actually can do something about it:p

Oh and there was the time we had to do work in a place with pigeon shite, literally everywhere. I remember walking in the first time, looking round, seeing the masks and gloves on everyone there and going 'where's mine?' - oh we don't have any spare Paul, you won't be long so no need to go back - needless to say i went fuck this and legged it.
 
Yeah same here - as a teenager my Dad renovated a house - the plonker pulled Christ knows what down and we all stayed there - it was only after he was like - oh, that may have had the white asbestos in it - my mum was like 'we need to get everything disposed!' - bit late now Ma, what will be will be, it's been years!

Still pretty sure in a house ages ago we moved to the guy didn't overboard the ceiling like we said but scraped it off, so there's another nail in the coffin. Mrs P was like - find some and get it tested! I was like, no i'd rather not know my death date.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss - unless it's something like Rabies where u actually can do something about it:p

Oh and there was the time we had to do work in a place with pigeon shite, literally everywhere. I remember walking in the first time, looking round, seeing the masks and gloves on everyone there and going 'where's mine?' - oh we don't have any spare Paul, you won't be long so no need to go back - needless to say i went fuck this and legged it.
We had some pretty serious masks&filters we were supposed to use when tearing down sections where we thought there could be asbestos.
But then when the asbestos-boys shows up in their freaking space-suit and a mask that made ours look silly you kind of get the feeling we were not as protected as one should be around it. :p

The chances of getting cancer from it is still rather small unless you are very unlucky.
Wich going by my slots-results as of late, i am.
Oh well.
=)
 
Felt a bit crappy of late so a mate took me out for a few beers today.
first time in A british pub since lockdown.

never found it as odd as expected, social distancing was adhered to, sanitisers used and masks on the staff.

mate was served at the bar no issues and we sat down in peace, will happily repeat when finances allow, second bar wasn’t so busy due to them requesting payment by app and the old school folk wouldn’t or couldn’t handle that lol!..

glad it’s getting back to normal
 
We had some pretty serious masks&filters we were supposed to use when tearing down sections where we thought there could be asbestos.
But then when the asbestos-boys shows up in their freaking space-suit and a mask that made ours look silly you kind of get the feeling we were not as protected as one should be around it. :p

The chances of getting cancer from it is still rather small unless you are very unlucky.
Wich going by my slots-results as of late, i am.
Oh well.
=)

I used to be relatively unhealthy up until my early 20's and then boom, started becoming aware of what i was eating, started on quest to quit smoking etc. Probably have gone way OTT now as when i look at ingredients i go 'Nope', not having that shite mutating my cells :p

I will be a bit pissed off if, having turned the tables, the Big Man goes 'Nah mate, it's the first half result that I'm taking - you're coming off early' :p

As long as i don't take my last breath at the same time as the last diamond on the 6th reel on Bonanza is dropping in on a x34 multi for a streamer hit, it's fine though. If not, the sound of thunder will be me going ape shit up there and wrecking paradise.
 

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