The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Gabe1]

SIS sent me this Bday present

A herb garden

And my DS girlfriend sent me this basket

 

[Gabe1]

just saw this

 

[Gabe1]

This is a young woman I know from a previous forum I played on

 

[Gabe1]

Weird dropping clouds today

 

[Goofyernmost]

I had a great uncle and aunt who lived in Montreal. When I went to visit them once, my aunt told me not to speak English on a bus. She said they didn't like English spoken there.

In fairness in circa 1970 Quebec was fighting for some form of independence from English domination of French Speaking people in Quebec. There were kidnappings, killings in Montreal, letter box bombs, the works. I can remember going there (for those of you that don't know, my wife was from Montreal) and we would stand in line at coffee shops, snack bars and other places while French speaking were served and everyone just walked around us. It was pretty tense up there. I think it was called the Parti Québécois. My wife's family was as British as possible. Her Father was born in London. They all thought it was silly and in some respects it was. They passed a sovereignty resolution that included the general idea that Quebec wanted to be independent from the rest of Canada, but that they would still share the same benefits afforded all Canadian Citizens. Governmental child bonus's, health care and currency, etc. It was laughable if it hadn't been so violent. Here was going to be a sovereign French speaking country completely surrounded by English speaking Provence's and the U.S. that were insisting that business be operated in French, but not lose any business and still have the nation of Canada support them financially. Sweet deal! It all ended up in a compromise where the French population were afforded the ability to run their own Provence with bilingualism an official part of Canada. It's pretty calm now and I doubt that many people today are even aware of what went on there during that time. To me now, Montreal is a place were I feel safe walking around. It's friendly and industrious.

 

[Gabe1]

went for a walk. Approach front door. There are these two middle age people a planter away from my door. She looked at me a few times and I’m not budging. After about 20 minutes they get up and walk back to their car in the opposite direction and drive away.
Friday affairs day lives on even with Corona

 

[MinnieM123]

Please disregard if no interest. (Realize that some have their own reasons not to clean containers, and are doing what's best for them.) No problem with differences of opinion, just prefer that someone not insinuate that I'm a jerk.

Article/(brief video) below is from Dr. Sanjay Gupta regarding cleaning grocery containers.

Here's how Dr. Sanjay Gupta says to properly disinfect your groceries

Trips to the grocery store are inevitable for many Americans during the coronavirus outbreak, but Dr. Sanjay Gupta has some tips on how to properly disinfect your groceries and prevent the virus from spreading to surfaces within your home. The virus can live on steel and plastic for up to three...

www.boston.com

 

[MinnieM123]

@93boomer , Happy Birthday to Mr. Boomer!! (I figured he had enough cakes sent to him, so here's a little scream to go along with those!)

 

[Lilofan]

I never had any problems with Brazilian groups at Disney either, but my friend was a CM for a while and she said they are horrible about line cutting, and table stealing. Like, someone will be sitting at a table at a counter service restaurant, and she said a Brazilian group will just come over and sit down at the table with you and take all the chairs, and then not understand (or pretend not to) when you try to tell them those seats are taken. (That did happen to us in 2010 at Universal, but I don't remember if it was a Brazilian group. And if I remember correctly, there was a Brazilian family who cut in front of us to get a picture with the Hogwarts express on that same day. We waited patiently for our turn and then a family walked up as the group before us was finishing, and they just went right up and ignored the line.) CMs will just go with it because it takes even longer to try to explain to them that they have to get in line. It's faster just to let them cut and get rid of them so you can get back to the line.

Brazilian tour groups like them or not are a big force when they come to Orlando mainly in the summer. One part of International Drive is regarded as Little Brazil where hotels, restaurants and outlet shopping cater to the Brazilians. In the late 1990s I was at DHS. For the first time I saw an evening show at Indiana Jones advertised as the show is in Portugese. The ones standing in line to enter were hundreds of guests from the tour groups.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Same here, only because I've seen a few reports with doctors advising to do this. It's a nuisance, though.

I'm afraid that I have weighed my options and found out that living has a definite effort ceiling. That would all be way to much effort and since it is such a strong virus and tiny missed spot could be as deadly and the entire thing being affected. I'm taking what I consider to be reasonable steps to avoid contact, but I don't remember anyone, be it wanna be medical experts or actual doctors, say anything about washing every item we come in contact with. If you did, well why wouldn't our favorite actual WH doctor have mentioned it. He's into OCD hand washing, which makes sense, but handling every item to clean them, to me, seems like way more exposure then necessary. I don't own rubber cloves or face masks, nor do I know how to make them and have never owned hand sanitizer. Besides isn't hand sanitizer for bacteria and not effective on a virus?

Please disregard if no interest. (Realize that some have their own reasons not to clean containers, and are doing what's best for them.) No problem with differences of opinion, just prefer that someone not insinuate that I'm a jerk.

Article/(brief video) below is from Dr. Sanjay Gupta regarding cleaning grocery containers.

Here's how Dr. Sanjay Gupta says to properly disinfect your groceries

Trips to the grocery store are inevitable for many Americans during the coronavirus outbreak, but Dr. Sanjay Gupta has some tips on how to properly disinfect your groceries and prevent the virus from spreading to surfaces within your home. The virus can live on steel and plastic for up to three...

www.boston.com

Since I had the only post that addressed your statement I can only assume that you are referring to me. I am really concerned that you think that I think that you are a "jerk" for doing that. It is no business of mine, but I don't think that some of the stuff that we are "suggested" we do necessarily makes any sense. Nothing personal, just my opinion.

I strongly feel that no one really knows what to do concerning this virus. Nobody, including me. I don't care how many of their names are prefixed with "Dr.". To me the more we handle this stuff the more apt we are to pick something up. Can you guarantee that in the process of cleaning this stuff it won't accidentally brush your clothing without you noticing. That is what I mean by sometimes the perceived cure is worse then the problem itself. Just today I read a report on how a remote group of people in the Amazon has been shown to have the virus. (However, like everything else that we read today, how do they know that if the tribe is really remote? How did they find out?) If true, how do we escape something like that? Answer, we can't! So I guess I will put of my trip to the Amazon! Damn, I hope they weren't talking about a remote corner of an Amazon warehouse.

So all we can do is what is best, like you said, for each of us. If you want to do all that, fine, but I find that their are droves of people coming out of the woodwork with their idea of what would be effective. All with no proof that their theory is anymore sound then anyone else's. Bottom line, just do what makes sense for you and allow that others may disagree, but that doesn't make them anymore right then you. It is a bad time and all of us are getting pretty much on edge.

 

[Songbird76]

Yeah no, not here. Females have fought long and hard not to be ’touched’ by men unless they it is consensual. (At time reverse men/women or man/man etc) Never ever between an under aged person and an adult. Let alone a person of authority over the minor. We are working towards being a keep you hands and other part off of other people unless it is spoken to be consensual. #MeToo

I think he was actually agreeing with you that the way that guy acted was inappropriate and not part of their culture. Like, yes, Latin American culture is known for being warm, welcoming, and even affectionate, but there's a difference between that and what that teacher did. There are boundaries even in cultures that are more touchy-feely, and that teacher crossed them.

Like, here, for example, I hate the way people greet each other. It's so uncomfortable to me. They kiss each others' cheeks 3 times. So like, when my husband's company had a Christmas party, I had to kiss every one of his coworkers and their wives on the cheek. I don't know them really well, but that's the expected greeting. You go to somebody's birthday, and you have to shake hands and kiss every guest's cheek by way of greeting. That's the custom. It's considered pretty rude if you don't do that here. Just like it would seem like a huge snub in the US if you refused to shake someone's hand when you are introduced. But no one here considers it inappropriate to greet each other in that way...that's just how it's done when you haven't seen someone for a time. But if a teacher greeted his students every day at the door like that, that would be inappropriate and would make people uncomfortable. There are boundaries to those customs even though it's part of the culture.

 

[FutureCEO]

Please disregard if no interest. (Realize that some have their own reasons not to clean containers, and are doing what's best for them.) No problem with differences of opinion, just prefer that someone not insinuate that I'm a jerk.

Article/(brief video) below is from Dr. Sanjay Gupta regarding cleaning grocery containers.

Here's how Dr. Sanjay Gupta says to properly disinfect your groceries

Trips to the grocery store are inevitable for many Americans during the coronavirus outbreak, but Dr. Sanjay Gupta has some tips on how to properly disinfect your groceries and prevent the virus from spreading to surfaces within your home. The virus can live on steel and plastic for up to three...

www.boston.com

My dry groceries I got from Target yesterday is already in quarantine. I bought Chickpea pasta. I just wanted to try it but it hurt me - in my wallet. For the record - usually I only get pasta if it's on sale.

 

[Songbird76]

In fairness in circa 1970 Quebec was fighting for some form of independence from English domination of French Speaking people in Quebec. There were kidnappings, killings in Montreal, letter box bombs, the works. I can remember going there (for those of you that don't know, my wife was from Montreal) and we would stand in line at coffee shops, snack bars and other places while French speaking were served and everyone just walked around us. It was pretty tense up there. I think it was call the Parti Québécois. My wife's family was as British as possible. Her Father was born in London. They all thought it was silly and in some respects it was. They passed a sovereignty resolution that included the general idea that Quebec wanted to be independent from the rest of Canada, but that they would still share the same benefits afforded all Canadian Citizens. Governmental child bonus's, health care and currency, etc. It was laughable if it hadn't been so violent. Here was going to be a sovereign French speaking country completely surrounded by English speaking Provence's and the U.S. that were insisting that business be operated in French, but not lose any business and still have the nation of Canada support them financially. Sweet deal! It all ended up in a compromise where the French population were afforded the ability to run their own Provence with bilingualism an official part of Canada. It's pretty calm now and I doubt that many people today are even aware of what went on there during that time. To me now, Montreal is a place were I feel safe walking around. It's friendly and industrious.

Wow....I had no idea there was ever that kind of issue there! I knew they learn both French and English in Canada, but I didn't know the history behind that. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Songbird76]

Please disregard if no interest. (Realize that some have their own reasons not to clean containers, and are doing what's best for them.) No problem with differences of opinion, just prefer that someone not insinuate that I'm a jerk.

Article/(brief video) below is from Dr. Sanjay Gupta regarding cleaning grocery containers.

Here's how Dr. Sanjay Gupta says to properly disinfect your groceries

Trips to the grocery store are inevitable for many Americans during the coronavirus outbreak, but Dr. Sanjay Gupta has some tips on how to properly disinfect your groceries and prevent the virus from spreading to surfaces within your home. The virus can live on steel and plastic for up to three...

www.boston.com

Wow...I hadn't thought of that. I haven't been doing that. To be fair though, my kitchen is WAY too small. I put my groceries directly into the fridge or the cupboard because I just don't have the space to put it anywhere else. I don't have room for a clean area and a dirty area. (My dream kitchen would have an island, but I'm afraid that will have to wait until we win big in the lottery) But I do wash my hands a LOT, and I bleach my counters often.
But I figure, whatever works for a person, go for it. If it makes you feel safer to wipe down your groceries, then you should absolutely do that. If you think it's going overboard to do that, no one is holding a gun to your head to force you to. You do what works for you!

 

[Songbird76]

Since I had the only post that addressed your statement I can only assume that you are referring to me. I am really concerned that you think that I think that you are a "jerk" for doing that. It is no business of mine, but I don't think that some of the stuff that we are "suggested" we do necessarily makes any sense. Nothing personal, just my opinion.

I strongly feel that no one really knows what to do concerning this virus. Nobody, including me. I don't care how many of their names are prefixed with "Dr.". To me the more we handle this stuff the more apt we are to pick something up. Can you guarantee that in the process of cleaning this stuff it won't accidentally brush your clothing without you noticing. That is what I mean by sometimes the perceived cure is worse then the problem itself. Just today I read a report on how a remote group of people in the Amazon has been shown to have the virus. (However, like everything else that we read today, how do they know that if the tribe is really remote? How did they find out?) If true, how do we escape something like that? Answer, we can't! So I guess I will put of my trip to the Amazon! Damn, I hope they weren't talking about a remote corner of an Amazon warehouse.

So all we can do is what is best, like you said, for each of us. If you want to do all that, fine, but I find that their are droves of people coming out of the woodwork with their idea of what would be effective. All with no proof that their theory is anymore sound then anyone else's. Bottom line, just do what makes sense for you and allow that others may disagree, but that doesn't make them anymore right then you. It is a bad time and all of us are getting pretty much on edge.

I saw on the news that I want to say maybe Red Cross doctors were traveling to remote areas to warn them about the virus, because some areas didn't have access to health care except by boat, which was sometimes not accessible due to weather, time, etc. I was wondering at the time, if they are remote, how would they get the virus in the first place? It seems like more of a danger to go there to warn them and possibly bring the virus to them when they are unlikely to come into contact with someone who has it because they live so remotely.

 

[93boomer]

@93boomer , Happy Birthday to Mr. Boomer!! (I figured he had enough cakes sent to him, so here's a little scream to go along with those!)

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He loves ice cream! Thank you!

 

[Rista1313]

Good Morning! Happy Saturday!

 

[donaldtoo]

A very happy birthday to your hubbs, @93boomer ...!!!

 

[93boomer]

Good Morning! Happy Saturday!

Good morning!

 

[donaldtoo]

I just read one of my 8th graders assignments for the week and she said she was addicted to tic tok! I laughed. I'm not into it, but I can see why people fine it entertaining.

Other than this site, I’m involved in absolutely no other social media. No facespace, no mybook, no tikkity, no twitty, etc. ...!!!!!