The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Goofyernmost]

Red neck bidets --out house and a garden hose --it's not to late

Just make sure that you do not have too much water pressure or you might blow the top of your head off. #mindblown

 

[John park hopper]

And the country gets even dumber. This attack on intellectualism is started to sound like a real thing. Now that is something to panic about.

Daughter in law is a college professor all her classes will be on line --can't the public schools do the same thing

 

[Goofyernmost]

I think she was suggesting you have refillable bottles to take to work/school instead of buying the already bottled water. Then if the store doesn't have bottled water, you still have bottles to take with you. You can certainly fill them with the filtered water and then what's the difference between that and bottled water?

The only difference is that filling your own bottles lets you know exactly where the water came from and not some cesspool in Bangladesh.

 

[Songbird76]

Will you have meetings next week to come up with a plan? I know that our teachers are not on vacation., nor do they want to be.
I don’t think a lot of people really want a forced vacation... especially if that means extending into the time of year where you would normally be on vacation.

I think the thing with a forced vacation is that it's not really a vacation. You can't go anywhere or do anything like you would during a vacation. You have to just stay home, or what's the point of not being at work? Going somewhere else just brings the germs to a different location, but doesn't keep it from spreading....it's just spreading it somewhere else. I feel bad if the kids and teachers lose their actual vacation and instead have to just work from home or whatever.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Daughter in law is a college professor all her classes will be on line --can't the public schools do the same thing

Oh, great, now there will be a world wide shortage of Laptops.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

And the country gets even dumber. This attack on intellectualism is started to sound like a real thing. Now that is something to panic about.

Our school year ends the Friday before Labor Day. My kids are homeschooled, so it doesn't affect me. My kids are in school rain, snow, virus meltdowns, school holidays, etc. I would think that the teachers would provide actual schoolwork for the kids to do at home. They all in our district have computer access. I know many need to submit reports, homework, assignments over a school server. Maybe @ajrwdwgirl and other teachers will be getting together at the schools so they can discuss how they will implement the temporary computer based assignments. I don't think it will be a vacation. All kids will now be homeschooled for the next month. That may be a good thing, so that it shows how productive home schooling can be. It still gets looked down upon, even though where I live it is pretty normal. My two younger kids finished their actual science curriculum over a month ago. They found it so interesting that they did multiple assignments daily. That was not me pushing, they were ambitious on their own. Language Arts will be completed within 2 weeks. Now I need to find other scholastic material for them. I was thinking of a study on famous artists like Picasso, Monet, etc, .

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

I think the thing with a forced vacation is that it's not really a vacation. You can't go anywhere or do anything like you would during a vacation. You have to just stay home, or what's the point of not being at work? Going somewhere else just brings the germs to a different location, but doesn't keep it from spreading....it's just spreading it somewhere else. I feel bad if the kids and teachers lose their actual vacation and instead have to just work from home or whatever.

My guess is they will do work at home and have to check-in on a system set up. PA has public cyber school. It is a homeschool program run by the state education system, so it follows the public school curriculum.

 

[MinnieM123]

And just when you think that going to church might have a beneficial affect, they close them down. What happened to faith?

Well, you can still have faith and not go to church. (Not to worry, buddy, I'll pray for you from the comfort of my livingroom.)

Oh, and the Catholics don't let us off that easily. They are making it clear that Sunday Mass is on TV . . .

 

[MinnieM123]

The psychologist will be studying and writing about this for years to come ---mass hysteria on a level I don't think we have ever seen before

The good thing for you is that the traffic heading toward your hospital on Monday (for your surgery) will be much lighter. So it should be a nice ride. The traffic on the highways around here has dropped considerably in the past week or so.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

And just when you think that going to church might have a beneficial affect, they close them down. What happened to faith?

Exactly, that’s why my husband still wants to offer services and an open church to those that feel comfortable and will live stream services that still want to participate but don’t or can’t go out.

 

[MinnieM123]

Exactly, that’s why my husband still wants to offer services and an open church to those that feel comfortable and will live stream services that still want to participate but don’t or can’t go out.

When is your flight home today, by the way?

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Wait... I guess I am confused. I thought that the minimum required school days was so that the students had enough education to be called satisfactory. If only the teachers show up at the school how does that benefit the kids overall education? It does benefit the teachers, which is a good thing, but I never really thought that schools existed just to benefit teachers.

We have other teacher work days built in and could do those now and make the other student days. But I don’t know how this is going to shake down yet,

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

When is your flight home today, by the way?

Flight is at 9 pm plenty of time to play today.

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

I think she was suggesting you have refillable bottles to take to work/school instead of buying the already bottled water. Then if the store doesn't have bottled water, you still have bottles to take with you. You can certainly fill them with the filtered water and then what's the difference between that and bottled water?

I fully agree with everything you just presented/posted. Have a nice weekend. ☺

 

[Dead2009]

I get to work a 10 hour shift today on the busiest day of the week and I can only imagine the amount of people that will be out panic shopping because they're idiots.

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

I get to work a 10 hour shift today on the busiest day of the week and I can only imagine the amount of people that will be out panic shopping because they're idiots.

Above I gave you a "wow emoji" but your post also deserves a sad emoji. You'll sleep easily tonight after your busy day. Best wishes!

 

[BAChicagoGal]

My husband thinks everyone is over reacting during this entire virus crisis. Illinois' Govenor said something yesterday that has stuck with me. He said "We do not want to be accused of not doing enough, I'd rather be accused of doing too much".

 

[Figgy1]

 

[Figgy1]

You know water comes out of your faucet at home right? If you don't have some.. buy some refillable bottles!

Mine doesn't when the power goes out so I always has a couple of cases for emergencies

 

[Figgy1]

Now they do this, after I bought it for $20 last week.

I have to think of something else to put in the Easter Basket, thinking serger thread