Mystic Muse's Magnificent Masquerade Random Banter #225

[Peelee]

Do you expect the people here to pass up on a perfectly good chance to misinterpret something for a joke? For shame, miss, for shame.

Hey now, she's a master naturalist, they don't feel shame in that!

[Mystic Muse]

Hey now, she's a master naturalist, they don't feel shame in that!

Another 7 weeks, and 20 hours of Volunteer work before I get that title, actually.

[DataNinja]

Hey now, she's a master naturalist, they don't feel shame in that!

Oh, yes, how foolish of me.

Another 7 weeks, and 20 hours of Volunteer work before I get that title, actually.

Ah, so we have no need to avert our eyes until then, got it.

[Peelee]

Oh, yes, how foolish of me.

You keep lobbing 'em over the plate, I'ma keep swinging, is all I'm saying.

Ah, so we have no need to avert our eyes until then, got it.

I'll still avert my eyes after, I'm no master birder!

[LaZodiac]

Another 7 weeks, and 20 hours of Volunteer work before I get that title, actually.

You can do it Mystic Muse! Become a powerful Ranger and save me from the devilish wiles of nature.

(as a kid I always said, among other things, I don't like going outside cause my hat gets stolen by trees, because I'm tall. This has actually recently happened >_>)

[DataNinja]

You keep lobbing 'em over the plate, I'ma keep swinging, is all I'm saying.

I do have a way with words. In that I phrase them in the worst possible way.

You can do it Mystic Muse! Become a powerful Ranger and save me from the devilish wiles of nature.

(as a kid I always said, among other things, I don't like going outside cause my hat gets stolen by trees, because I'm tall. This has actually recently happened >_>)

I don't think there's any ranger powerful enough to save you from the dread Curse of Cold Cotton.

[factotum]

Here about one roll per person per three days

One roll per person per three days? How on earth do you get through that much?

[Rawhide]

We tend to use one roll per attack. More if things get critical.

[DataNinja]

One roll per person per three days? How on earth do you get through that much?

Cheap ply, I'd imagine. I've found that since I accidentally bought the cheaper stuff last time, I've ended up going through rolls quicker. Which is not reassuring during this time.

[BisectedBrioche]

Another 7 weeks, and 20 hours of Volunteer work before I get that title, actually.

Who nude, huh?

[Anonymouswizard]

One roll per person per three days? How on earth do you get through that much?

Lactose intolerance+wheat intolerance+using it for a handful of everyday cleaning tasks+using it as tissues.

Simples *meerkat sound*

[factotum]

Ah, right, I use tissues as tissues and kitchen towel for general cleaning tasks, so I don't use toilet paper anything like that fast.

[Insane Jeenyus]

Oh, yes, how foolish of me.

Ah, so we have no need to avert our eyes until then, got it.

Have you noticed the blurred avitar? We can't clearly see, so no need to avert our eyes.

[Aedilred]

The flu make you kinda... void, rather substantially.

Covid-19 doesn't, though - or at least, it's not a common symptom. Sneezing isn't a symptom either.

Stockpiling loo roll specifically only makes sense if for some reason you think the supplies you would otherwise need normally are going to run out, and there's no particularly good reason to think that (unless the panic buying in itself leads to a shortage). If you're concerned that you might get quarantined and be unable to buy more - well sure, but I'd have thought food should be your priority there.

[The Fury]

You can do it Mystic Muse! Become a powerful Ranger and save me from the devilish wiles of nature.

...Is anyone else imagining a Sentai series about park rangers? Mighty Morphin' Park Rangers?

(as a kid I always said, among other things, I don't like going outside cause my hat gets stolen by trees, because I'm tall. This has actually recently happened >_>)

I must have been a nice hat, trees seem to have no interest in mine. I can't really claim to be tall though. Or short. I'm sort of medium-height.

[Peelee]

Ah, right, I use tissues as tissues and kitchen towel for general cleaning tasks, so I don't use toilet paper anything like that fast.

I use toilet paper for tissue on occasion, but usually i go for paper towels. I have a powerful nose and need to triple up on tissues or they'll just get blown clean through. Not really worth it.

[LaZodiac]

Have you noticed the blurred avitar? We can't clearly see, so no need to avert our eyes.

I like it, it adds to the mystique.

...Is anyone else imagining a Sentai series about park rangers? Mighty Morphin' Park Rangers?

I must have been a nice hat, trees seem to have no interest in mine. I can't really claim to be tall though. Or short. I'm sort of medium-height.

That'd honestly be pretty rad, actually.

Look I'm very tall trees are jealous.

[Tvtyrant]

Covid-19 doesn't, though - or at least, it's not a common symptom. Sneezing isn't a symptom either.

Stockpiling loo roll specifically only makes sense if for some reason you think the supplies you would otherwise need normally are going to run out, and there's no particularly good reason to think that (unless the panic buying in itself leads to a shortage). If you're concerned that you might get quarantined and be unable to buy more - well sure, but I'd have thought food should be your priority there.

Yeah but stockpiling food is easy. "I got 3 10lb bags of potatoes and 10lbs of dried beans for $30" easy.

Although that also makes this a handy time to invest in a bidet, the cornerstone of civilization.

[Rawhide]

Currently debating whether I should rickroll everyone when they get a 404 error.

[Anonymouswizard]

Well if things get any worse then work could essentially start taking away my lunch break (which is my one break in the working day) due to people not being able to come into work due to looking after children.

I mean, it looks like the measures they're planning for might not be a thing even at peak, but it's still annoying to have the threat hanging over my head.

[Aotrs Commander]

(unless the panic buying in itself leads to a shortage).

And this is what concerns me. While serious, this situation is being inflated out of proportion by the media-induced panic; and the more people that panic, the more people WILL die because OF the panic causing more problems (both short AND long-term). A UK health official pointed out on the news a bit ago that closing the schools, for example, shuts down one avenue to open another; where kids will then gather informally, unlike at schools, where the whole health stuff like properly washing your hands properly (a sensible thing that everyone should already be doing all the time anyway) is not going to be observed; same as not shutting down the football match (I don't know which one, I don't Sports) would have just lead the people to go down the pub instead.

There comes a point at which if you terrify people to the point they are afraid to leave their homes (as the media would seem to want to do, because it generates them eyes and thus money), you WILL DEFINITELY kill more people than the virus ever could.


One thing my sister (who works at the hospital) pointed out at we ARE being Statistic'd to by the media; she said that the places hit hardest are also ones where people have a higher vulnerability due to respiritory problems (more smokers, significantly higher air pollution etc). Just something worth considering.



Again, this is not the Aotrs releasing a hiterto-undeveloped C-strain of our Overmaster virus to literally turn everyone into animated Undead by simple proximity or something. (If that happens, you'll know about it...) Panic is just as, if not more dangerous, than complacency.



Serious, not cataclysmic, people; serious, not cataclysmic - unless it is collectively MADE cataclysmic.

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Actually, you know what, disregard everything I just said.

Panic! Panic, burn everything down and break your civilisations!

Why am I trying to PREVENT the extinction of humanity? I should be putting the boot in while I have the chance!

Not only do I get all your stuff if you make yourselves extinct, even if you don't, it'll be so much easier for me to justify turning up to take over in my next "seriously, just let me crush them," request form!




Meanwhile, in other news, Africa/Asia (some of which are already suffering serious famine) are likely to be hit by the biggest locust infestation for 25 years. But that's apparently not worthy of mainstream news, it would seem.



(Let alone really interesting stuff like finding an exoplanet where it literally rains molten metal that was also annouced today.)

[Mystic Muse]

(Let alone really interesting stuff like finding an exoplanet where it literally rains molten metal that was also annouced today.)

Ooh, tell me about this.

[Aotrs Commander]

Ooh, tell me about this.

Courtesy of one of the ladies/gentleman/small furry creatures from Alpha Centuri on the Stellaris forums: link.

[Anonymouswizard]

Currently debating whether I should rickroll everyone when they get a 404 error.

It is your attitude to comedy error pages.

Never gonna give them up
Never gonna let them down
Never gonna run around and dessert them

[DataNinja]

Never gonna run around and dessert them

Well, of course not. What is he, some kind of food sorcerer?

[SZbNAhL]

My main issue will be work wanting me to continue working if at all possible (but if today went as well as I think it did I might be on notice by that point).

Don't you work in a care home? I would have thought they'd be desperate to keep anyone with even the slightest hint of the virus as far away as possible.

[Anonymouswizard]

Don't you work in a care home? I would have thought they'd be desperate to keep anyone with even the slightest hint of the virus as far away as possible.

We need to keep away for seven days of we start to develop cold or flu symptoms, but unfortunately now we're not allowed to get in agency workers to convert vacancies.

Not to mention this place has a habit of saying one thing and doing another. You're told to stay away if you're sick, but with no sick pay many will risk being infectious over not affording food.

[Bartmanhomer]

This is a message for everybody in Giant In The Playground Forum: Please remember to wash your hands and/or use hand sanitizer. I'm saying this because I care.

[Mystic Muse]

This is a message for everybody in Giant In The Playground Forum: Please remember to wash your hands and/or use hand sanitizer. I'm saying this because I care.

*scrubbed*

[Bartmanhomer]

*scrub the post, scrub the quote*

Seriously?