the nothing ,anything ,everything thread

[opmania]

This is a thread with no particular

Topic so no one can be off topic 🙂

So if anyone out there has something 

To say about anything you like now

Is your chance

Keep it clean 

And be nice 

See how long that lasts

Can we keep politics and religion out 

Of the conversation 

[ecar3483]

The chairman of the local Scrabble association emailed me to let me know that the ACT public library service had emailed him...

They've asked the Scrabble association to suspend their meetings at libraries, for the time being, while social distancing is in force.

He said as a courtesy he emailed them back, thanking them for their email, and saying, as a post script, that had they told him to vamoose he would've gotten a better letter score...

Ha ha...

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[ecar3483]

It could also be used as a handy guide to working from home... ha ha...

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[domino-710]

[ecar3483]

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[ecar3483]

Please don't try this at home...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chloroquine-phosphate-death-coronavirus-trump-trea...

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[ecar3483]

I was having a talk with the bloke at the chemist, earlier.

I said "If the pills come 50 to a box, and I take one a day, under the new rule of 30 days only supply, does that mean I'll get a box of 30 pills with an IOU for the remaining 20?", ha ha...

He said I'll be fine, he's more worried about the annual flu vaccine - it's coming out in a couple of weeks, but chemists who have a supply can use it right away...

He said he's waiting to see if there'll be a rush on that, too, leaving a shortage in supply later on in the season.

All the people who don't need it will rush in and get it, (just like they have in previous years) and all the people who have a genuine... well...

It'll be something else for him to ration, I s'pose.

It seems to be the temper of the times - you can't legislate considerate behaviour, so everyone has to suffer short supply...

I'll leave you on that grim note, ha ha...

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[ecar3483]

I had a game of tug of war with a piece of bread and one of the cockatoos...

I hold the bread out so the corner of the slice is closest to them and they grab it with their beak and pull backwards...

As a rule, they'll come away with about a third of the slice, and think all their Christmases have come at once, ha ha...

Today, however, the bird got the better of me, and I ended up with about a third of the slice...

He was so pleased with himself that he strutted about proudly, with the bread dangling in front of him like an oversized bib, nearly tripping over it as he went, ha ha....

They're so easy to amuse, ha ha...

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[imastawka]

[imastawka]

Funny thing is, I don't mind not going anywhere.

For years I had serious agoraphobia.  

Serious heart palpitations just going to the letterbox.

It's not so bad these days, but going somewhere strange is still a trial.

[ecar3483]

I went up to the local supermarket on a bread-milk run and was sorely disappointed that there was no barbed wire, or a checkpoint manned by sullen faced, uniform clad, semi automatic rifle wielding men, waiting to demand my papers, and ask me the purpose of my visit...

The biggest delay I faced was waiting at an intersection for a bus, who had right of way anyway, to pass, ha ha...

Life ticks along... ha ha...

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