@tazzieterror wrote:
As a member of the GSP Outrage Neutralisation And Deterrent Squad, I can confirm this lull in activity.
And for other forum users who believe in our cause, please contact me for more details about how to join, or even just lend a hand โ G.O.N.A.D.S. could always use more support.
The problem is that with a name like that, some folk who don't have any will want to join. You may end up with a bunch of bullies in your group and you being the person you are, I think deep down you'd really not want that! See, bullies don't have any of those and that's why they feel the need to berate, belittle to bully others. It gives them something they lack in real life. Being selective you may lose a friend or three here but you'll be better for it. 
Now to the subject at hand, with the turmoil the world is in at the moment, I would say that items are probably stalling in Kentucky as they are moving a lot slower than normal. I was just talking to DHL this morning and the advice was to hold off on buying from the US and certain European countries. I think the US is still going to be OK but according to them, 2 and 3 months are not uncommon. 
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@4channel wrote:
@tazzieterror wrote:
As a member of the GSP Outrage Neutralisation And Deterrent Squad, I can confirm this lull in activity.
And for other forum users who believe in our cause, please contact me for more details about how to join, or even just lend a hand โ G.O.N.A.D.S. could always use more support.
...You may end up with a bunch of bullies in your group and you being the person you are, I think deep down you'd really not want that! See, bullies don't have any of those and that's why they feel the need to berate, belittle to bully others. It gives them something they lack in real life. Being selective you may lose a friend or three here but you'll be better for it.
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If the group were to devolve in such a way I'd have no choice but to revoke my membership and seek to serve another organisation โ perhaps the Virtue Upholding Local Volunteer Arbitrators Syndicate would accept me?
Purely as a biological aside... gonads apply to both men and women.
There was an episode of The Big Bang Theory - do you remember seeing it? - in which Sheldon referred to "lady parts", which sounded gawkishly endearing in its own way.
Under the current very hard lockdown conditions for metropolitan Melbourne, I will admit that I am fretting and fussing and I might just do something outrageous to ease this sense of confinement. I will resist the strange urge to go out after 8 pm and chase possums, but I might look at items being sold only through the GSP and tsk-tsk or tut-tut over the shipping costs and other charges. And then I might - no, I will - order some things from a few US sellers and have the items sent to my US parcel forwarder. I am also considering contacting Kuhn Kikon in the UK to see if they will send directly to me.
If they won't, I'm going to dance the Disappointed Tango.
I might outrageously sing Laschia ch'io pianga from the balcony.
I might perform a puppet show from the balcony. What do you think? A weird adapted version of The Man in the Iron Mask? I only have animal puppets plus a tree puppet, so it will have to be The Leatherback Turtle in the Iron Mask or The Alpine Ibex (aka Steinbock) in the Iron Mask or something of that sort. (But given the restrictions on not being able to go out and not being able to gather, there would be no audience, darn it.)
I might buy a harpsichord.
I might build a large horse out of papier-mรขchรฉ and have it couriered to a large area that I covet and which is heavily guarded.
I might adopt a white-faced saki and an adorable (but wild) margay by having them smuggled out of Suriname. (Note: no. They are wonderful creatures, but no.)
I might write some angry essays about the rights of molluscs and the mystical properties of rosemary plucked under the light of the moon while standing on one leg.
Ordering from businesses in Victoria at the moment fills me with trepidation. So much of the state's businesses shut down... Well, for me that really does remind me that overseas delays in getting orders aren't really so very onerous.
