I find the PB obsession with military grade masks and the dangers of supermarkets absolutely baffling.
How much time to people spend in supermarkets, and how close are you getting to others?!
@SandyRentool - I shop about 3 days in 7. Without a car a 'big shop' doesn't really work. Nor for people who live in city/town centres - because there are fewer big supermarkets. But I spend maybe 5 minutes in the shop on each visit.
Scaremonger article. (Almost) everyone goes to a supermarket....
Well they should try not to go.
Not a realistic option for the bulk of the population.
Delivery. Click and collect. Not unrealistic for many of us.
What's the total home delivery capacity of the UK grocery sector? Enough for 10%, perhaps 15% of total sales? If our experience and that of relatives is anything to go by then slots often can't be got for love nor money, and when you can get them the deliveries are frequently full of missing items, short-dated items picked from the front of the shelf and sub-optimal or downright useless substitutions.
Click and collect also has limited capacity and is of little or no value to non-drivers, and both home delivery and click and collect services accrue minimum spends and/or charges that you don't have to pay if you turn up in person.
Consequently, most people, most of the time are obliged to go to a shop.
You don't need a car for click and collect. You can say no to substitutions. Sometimes you get the short dated items for free.
This evening I booked a delivery slot for a week on Monday. No problem.
My experience is just like Sandy's. Where I'm fussy I specify "no substitutes", where it's got an expiry date within 48 hours I can get a 100% refund, and where I forget to say "no substitutes but don't fancy what's on offer I can just return it without charge. Delivery cost ranges from £0 to £4, deoenbding on the timne you select. It's MUCH better than shopping in the supermarket, regardless of Covid. But I do concede that spots are getting scarcer - I generally have to wait 9-10 days between orders - and people not on the over-70/vulnerable list will struggle to get slots - click and collect is easier, I've heard.
The problem is Andrew Sullivan is British and understands the need to be conciliatory and to find ways of compromising with people you don't agree with, whereas most Americans in politics seem to have forgotten how to do that.
A brilliant essay. Depressingly accurate.
Sleepy Joe Biden isn't going to Heal America, his pathetic, decrepit Wokeism will make the divisions worse.
Which brings to mind the Ultimate Nightmare Scenario. What if the Republicans, in response, find a young, articulate, non-insane version of Trump? A kind of populist, quasi-white-supremacist JFK, also appealing to religious or right-wing Hispanics and blacks, seen in a mirror? Then he will win, I am sure. And then all bets are off.
America will go truly populist-hard right. And square up to China. Eeek.
Sullivan's description of Biden's immigration proposals are not very accurate: the "path to citizenship" for Dreamers and those who've been in the US more than 11 years are very long and would only really apply to a fairly small proportion of illegal immigrants (how many have filed tax returns, really?) Indeed, a cynic would say that Biden has proposed something that sounds radical but will have very little real effect.
True. But he's no doubt thinking of how his GOP buddies are gonna spin this. And spin doctors are often among the first to become baffled by their own bullshit, and convinced that everybody naturally agrees with their way of thinking.
Thus limited process you describe = "opening the floodgates" or words to that affect.
Indeed. A "politically correct TikTok dance" didn't have the resonance. Switch targets. Hope it sticks.
"Politically corret TikTok dance" is of course a scumbag thing to say. And doubt even Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity will pick up on it, especially since the author of THAT specifically objected to sign-translation of the Pledge of Allegiance!
AND it is also a turn of phrase that amused the author a wee bit toooooo much. Which is generally a sign to a halfway decent writer, that it should be cut. Too late now!
Indeed, every time this clown peeps above the parapet, someone ought to smack him upside his fool (and foul) head with this immortal (and immoral) quote.
The problem is Andrew Sullivan is British and understands the need to be conciliatory and to find ways of compromising with people you don't agree with, whereas most Americans in politics seem to have forgotten how to do that.
A brilliant essay. Depressingly accurate.
Sleepy Joe Biden isn't going to Heal America, his pathetic, decrepit Wokeism will make the divisions worse.
Which brings to mind the Ultimate Nightmare Scenario. What if the Republicans, in response, find a young, articulate, non-insane version of Trump? A kind of populist, quasi-white-supremacist JFK, also appealing to religious or right-wing Hispanics and blacks, seen in a mirror? Then he will win, I am sure. And then all bets are off.
America will go truly populist-hard right. And square up to China. Eeek.
Sullivan's description of Biden's immigration proposals are not very accurate: the "path to citizenship" for Dreamers and those who've been in the US more than 11 years are very long and would only really apply to a fairly small proportion of illegal immigrants (how many have filed tax returns, really?) Indeed, a cynic would say that Biden has proposed something that sounds radical but will have very little real effect.
True. But he's no doubt thinking of how his GOP buddies are gonna spin this. And spin doctors are often among the first to become baffled by their own bullshit, and convinced that everybody naturally agrees with their way of thinking.
Thus limited process you describe = "opening the floodgates" or words to that affect.
Indeed. A "politically correct TikTok dance" didn't have the resonance. Switch targets. Hope it sticks.
"Politically corret TikTok dance" is of course a scumbag thing to say. And doubt even Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity will pick up on it, especially since the author of THAT specifically objected to sign-translation of the Pledge of Allegiance!
AND it is also a turn of phrase that amused the author a wee bit toooooo much. Which is generally a sign to a halfway decent writer, that it should be cut. Too late now!
Indeed, every time this clown peeps above the parapet, someone ought to smack him upside his fool (and foul) head with this immortal (and immoral) quote.
Every time he writes anything. One response. Dickhead.
Re: showers, is anyone else disturbed to learn, that a disproportionate share of the younger population lacks the intestinal fortitude to face their own shower?
AND that above-average share are so wacked out, they simply "don't know" which way they're facing in a freaking shower.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UPjUH4UeEc
24 staff, half have turned it down...should be no jabbie, no workie....
AND it is also a turn of phrase that amused the author a wee bit toooooo much. Which is generally a sign to a halfway decent writer, that it should be cut. Too late now!
Indeed, every time this clown peeps above the parapet, someone ought to smack him upside his fool (and foul) head with this immortal (and immoral) quote.
One response.
Dickhead.
"Turn, turn, turn! / There is a season, turn, turn turn! / And a time for every purpose under heaven"
Including showering.
"The Ghost and Minority Leader McConnell" would make a GREAT humor-horror flick; The Ghost = The Donald.
AND that above-average share are so wacked out, they simply "don't know" which way they're facing in a freaking shower.
What a shower, indeed!