Scarlet Pimpernel

Why thank you! I'll gladly drive my Volvo to this country club! (Actually, I don't have a Volvo, but anyhow...)

...and a player to be named later, too?

Gah...what a SNOWFLAKE!! My comment just above was meant as a joke, too, obviously!!

Or for that matter, arguing that car accident deaths = covid, or shark attacks, or whatever. Which of course totally misses the point.

You know, that was my first thought too when I saw that image! But I didn't want to be the first to admit it!

Ha! OK now that one wins for college cooking disasters! And being a student you ate it all the same, of course! Whether it was still good, I'll trust your judgment... But apparently you survived! Now I will say, you should have poked it a few times with a fork before putting it in the microwave to avoid unnecessary explosions and pieces parts all over the place! I guess this would literally be "winner, winner, chicken dinner!"

OK, true story from grad school. I actually witness someone mess up boiling water...twice! Had a roommate who was going to prepare pasta or something, put the pot with water on the burner, and went back to his room. Something like 20 minutes later he runs out, the pot is dry as a bone with no water left, and hot as hell. So he curses, puts more water in and...you guessed it, went back to his room again and the same thing happened! Now...in his defense (somewhat), he had some exams coming up and was highly distracted and busy. But it was still damned funny, he never really lived it down (and it was *my* damn pot he nearly ruined, too!).

Or if that doesn't work...does @Mrs.J have curb-side pickup???

That's great! Somehow, just knew you'd have such a recipe handy! I see you have a box of Stoned Wheat Thins there...I get those same crackers fairly often, very tasty! (ETA: I actually scored some yeast in the baking aisle the other day, after weeks of not seeing it! It was like a veritable miracle, I thought I heard choral voices from above! They had a couple of boxes filled with those packets that have 3 "servings". I just took 2 packets...wasn't going to be "that guy" and take an entire box, haha!)

Gotta love that name! Makes one wonder...what would be in a box from some place called "Who Gives A F**K"??

Good points, and I have heard some about this. With luck, having several month's "lead time" before the next season, we'll have better ways of treating this in lieu of a vaccine at some other time in the future.

Exactly. The more dire estimates of mortality, as I understood things, were *if* we did nothing or almost nothing. That the numbers are now indicating a lower amount (thankfully!) would seem to me to be a direct result of stay-home orders, social distancing, and restrictions on what establishments can remain open (and how many people can be in those places at one time). There's also the concern over a second wave next fall/winter, right at the same time as the regular flu season is going on. In many ways, that actually alarms or scares me more than how to deal with things now. How will we deal with that?

Oh, my!!! (Thinking of Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, where Jim Carrey says "Do NOT go in there...whew!!!") Personally, I've never had it myself! I prefer my whisky to be of the single-malt variety (being of bastard Scottish descent!). And not on the rocks...straight up, dammit!

If you hear voices from the fridge, might want to call Ghostbusters!

Damn, that looks tasty! Like the mug, too! I see you got it at Epcot Center?? I was at Disney a couple of summers ago, including at Epcot, but unfortunately did not get to that Biergarten! On a side note, I know some people kind of don't care as much for Epcot compared to the other Disney parks, but I really enjoyed it (the Soarin' ride is incredible)!

Well, if it were this kind of wild turkey, you should have grabbed it and run!!

Uhhh-huhhh! (said in an Elvis voice of course)...

They definitely should get bonuses of some sort. On an individual level, I still patronize places I've liked (restaurants) when I can just to be supportive and hopefully help keep them afloat. Of course, my contribution as one person is a drop in the bucket, but if enough people do that at carry-out or grab-and-go places, that's something.

Wish I could recommend this 1000 times...spot-on concerning public health and economic security!! This country has about the most minimal safety net in the western world, and yet everyone complains when there are attempts to expand it or help people in this type of emergency situation. We cannot afford that, apparently...but hey, we can give $2T in tax cuts for multi-millionaires, so whatever. Oy!

May have spoken too soon...looks like it's gotten a bit chippy in there this morning from what I saw! LOL!! Well, when I saw @stormtracker appear in here the other day, Beethoven was wearing a mask!! So there is that...

Hey now...lawn gnomes are people, too!!

I also have compassion for kids missing school (I have one myself...though at least doing online stuff for what it's worth), employees who are now laid off, small businesses that are going under and losing employees, etc. I'd wager that a huge majority have compassion as well, it's not just a one way street. That's precisely why Congress needs to come up with some inventive ways to assist people during this whole crisis. I'm far from an expert in knowing exactly what to even do (not an economist, and don't even play one on TV, and I have not stayed in a Holiday Inn Express any time recently!!). Invest in some type of temporary income assistance? Debt forgiveness? Who knows...something like that, I suppose, and on a large scale. We'll need to re-think things in how to deal with such situations again...much how we had to do the same in the Depression. Not much of a time to be timid here.

Funny you mention that. I was just talking to a friend the other day and we discussed just this. What would some of these (loudly complaining) people today do in the 1930s or 1940s during the Depression and WW-II, with all the restrictions and required sacrifice to assist the war effort and to climb out of the economic disaster?

OK, this may be borderline political here, but aren't nearly all of these "protests" of the astroturf variety? As in they're contrived and well funded by various groups, not some individual grass-roots organizers. Think of the infamous "Brooks Brothers Riot" back during the Florida 2000 recount fiasco. Now...concerning "opening up", I agree that it will have to be done discretely, and depending on how much testing is done...like what Gov. Hogan is advocating. So open some things marginally, see what happens, and be prepared to close it up again if cases spike. Something like that. I cannot imagine anyone really wanting to go all in 100% at once.

LOL, I know...and I guess I'm agreeing with your agreement, haha! Sorry to get a bit in a circular or repetitious discussion there! Preaching to the socially distanced choir, I suppose!