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  1. Limo
    A very good outcome. Much better dress sense (much worse taste in music, though), much less macho bullshit and a drastic decline in population numbers because gay people just don’t reproduce that much. Sign me up.
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    Which reporting is that? Volkskrant (vaguely left wing) is mostly in agreement with his position (but not with the manner in which it is put forth). The suggestion was made - in that paper - that government leaders will step in and hopefully work something out between them. Unfortunately Merkel already had enough of our government's leader's "childish" (her words) position on increasing the budget of the EU even before this corona thing hit, so success is not exactly guaranteed. Not sure what will happen, actually. I can't see the Dutch not using their veto to block or Merkel agreeing to financial guarantees for Italy that don't come with any sort of restriction. We'll see.
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    I can assure you that is incorrect.
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    pizza

    Limo replied to Chris Moss Acid's topic in General Banter

    It is bad enough that this Corona crap means having good pizza is impossible (as the only proper way to have pizza is straight from a professional wood oven). No need to make it worse by suggesting f-ing avocados belong on pizza.
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    A Dutch professor suggests an explanation for the disproportionately large number of overweight and obese people that suffer severe symptoms and death: the virus can easily enter cells with ACE-2 receptors (as mentioned above) and one of the cell types that has a lot of those is fat cells. If you’re so overweight you’ve got a lot of fat cells close to your lungs, it becomes that much easier for the virus to attack your respiratory system. Up to 90% of hospitalized patients in the Netherlands are overweight and of those 90% a significant number is obese.
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    Hey ... isn’t this also what they were suggesting why Iran is so heavily hit? I recall reading something a few weeks ago suggesting a variation of this gene that makes them more susceptible to diseases like this being more common among people of Persian descent. This would explain why so many of them have died of COVID-19 - but also why the Spanish Flu hit Iran much harder than it did the rest of the world.
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    Just finished watching it. It was. Lots of ace fighting. Plot beyond laughable and some superb 1980s HK sexism and homophobia but the choreographies more than made up for it. Good escapist fun. ?
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    I need a DJ name

    Limo replied to a topic in General Banter

    DJ Wanky Panky
  9. Limo
    That is a *very* good recommendation. I could really use some Jackie Chan. Will try to locate a copy. Thanks! They made a movie about this? Christ ... If it's any consolation the book was a chore to get through as well. Instead of "interesting and delicious visuals" it had "overwrought sentences", however and the story, well there was none. For some reason that hasn't stopped this book from being one of the national novels of Poland. But yeah: Jackie Chan. Woo!
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    Not yet, but the weather is getting better, so who knows. Maybe later this week.
  11. Limo
    Hadn’t noticed more birds than is usual in spring though there are reports of other forms of wildlife becoming more daring, such as coyotes wandering the streets in San Francisco and mountain goats doing the same in Wales. But re: pigeons, yes, apparently they are in trouble. Magpies, crows and seagulls are fine. They can either get food elsewhere or do things like steal from trash bags (which are still around). Pigeons, however, need garbage strewn on the street (including, get this, vomit from drunk partygoers) and there’s very little of that left.
  12. Limo
    Very good article. Thanks. ? I found the following a bit surprising: Would’ve thought they’d be more effective. And less dangerous. Oh well ...
  13. Limo
    Hate to break it to you, but hand washing *also* isn’t that effective against a virus that spreads through the air on droplets of saliva and phlegm. The only thing that truly works is is to get out of the way of these droplets, ie: keep your distance. Which is exactly what authorities including WHO and our local authorities have been advising all along. (and this, btw, is why medical staff *do* in fact need those face masks: because they can’t get away from all the droplets with virus material on them)
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    In 2017. In Asterix and the Chariot race, that came out that year, the bad guy is called Coronavirus (and his side kick is named Bacillus, btw).
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    FWIW the official Dutch standpoint - with the Dutch CDC insists is in line with WHO recommendations - is that face masks lead to a false sense of security, increase the risk of transmission (as you’ll be touching your face more to adjust the damn things) and the protection they offer others should *you* be the one that’s contagious is less than if you would just keep a safe distance (which over here is 1.5 meters). They say the only reason to recommend facial masks for everyone if keeping such a safe distance is impossible. Which I guess it is, in places where they use them a lot, such as Japan or South Korea. Or the subway in New York.
  16. Limo
    Dug up this beauty from the record collection: Sleeve comes with schematics (oscillator 1 goes into oscillator 2, that sort of thing). Record is transparent vinyl with *glitter*.
  17. Limo
    You guys seen this? http://www.beepstreet.com/ios/drambo It’s a modular music studio for iOS that comes with more than a hundred modules including samplers and stuff and a sequencer that can be p-locked. Demos look interesting. Here’s a quick overview: But there’s more. I thought the “samplers” demo was pretty neat as well: All this for 22 bucks. Tempting.
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    ^ Was coming in here to say that. The unabridged version of the toilet discussion had me in stitches.
  19. Limo
    In a country where political ads feature porn stars accusing the sitting president of lack of stamina in bed, this is almost civilized.
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    This is true. I'm actually somewhat surprised at this gaffe, to be honest. One would think after the women and booze incident they'd learned to tone it down a little. Apparently not. Agreed, but you don't see the Finns, Germans and Austrians insulting the Italians and Spanish, do you? The adagium "you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" applies here, I think. See?
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    I think you underestimate how this rudeness (which the Dutch themselves simply think of as "being direct") is an eyesore to the rest of the world. It is not a diplomatic "strength" to accuse governments of squandering their money on women and booze, it's, well, rude and unhelpful. You're right that the preparation of the meeting probably wasn't optimal, but this isn't the first time a Dutch politician antagonizes pretty much the whole world simply by being a jerk. Maybe take a look at how the rest of the world perceives actions such as this. Or maybe ask how people from the rest of the world view Dutch people in general. This is not a political tactic, it's a true national character trait and it's a really, really bad one. You'd be surprised.
  22. Limo
    I bought a normal computer desk. No one makes them anymore but you should be able to find them second hand for peanuts.
  23. Limo
    The Dutch are spectacularly rude. Always. And their government is no exception. Italy and Spain asked for help. Which is reasonable. In the form of a blank cheque. Which is not. Civilized people would respond to such a request by proceeding to discuss, politely, what other forms of help would also acceptable. Not so the Dutch. The fault lies with both parties, here. The Dutch, for being by nature a rude and uncivilized people, and the Italians and the Spanish for making demands they, after having worked with the Dutch for so long, should have known would elicit a stupid response.
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    Wow ... truly the end of an era. I highly doubt they will start up the printers again after this is over, seeing as that so many of these comics were already distributed electronically even before this decision was made. This is terrible for comic book stores. Even my local comic book store in the Netherlands has up until now managed to stay afloat mainly because of the people buying American superhero comics every week. They expect to be out of business soon, which is really really ? for me as well, even though I don't read American superhero comics myself. I also wonder what this will mean for smaller "indie" publishers such as Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly. I imagine they've always benefited from having the superhero comic infrastructure in place. If stores selling mainly superhero comics close, I doubt the indie book stores in big cities can make up for them.
  25. Limo
    It’s the movie as a whole that is a confusing mess.
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