Sweeet! [DOT 11/12/20]

11/12/20 MegMegMcGee 36

Header image is the actual visual representation of me this morning.

Let’s see what’s going on…

‘Rona

FDA advisers recommend Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, with agency action expected soon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/10/fda-advisory-panel-recommends-covid-vaccine/

It’s been 84 years dot gif

Boris Johnson: no-deal Brexit now a ‘strong possibility’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/10/boris-johnson-tells-cabinet-to-prepare-for-no-deal-brexit

Sprots!

Amy Olson leads US Women’s Open after hole-in-one on 16th
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/dec/10/amy-olson-hole-in-one-us-womens-open-houston

Stonks!

Airbnb skyrockets 112% in public market debut, giving it a market cap of $86.5 billion
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/10/airbnb-ipo-abnb-starts-trading-on-the-nasdaq.html

Sorry guys, but ban men.

‘Take off your mask’: Boorish customers have found a way to make sexual harassment even more of a hazard
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/masks-restaurant-harassment-pandemic/2020/12/09/d8100674-397b-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html

What do we think of these?

Ultimate Grey and Illuminating: Pantone’s 2021 colours of the year spark hope and despair
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/dec/11/ultimate-grey-and-illuminating-pantones-2021-colours-of-the-year-spark-hope-and-despair

Have a great day!

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36 Comments

  1. …having been without an internet connection for a chunk of this week I wonder if that might have been a blessing in disguise since it handily meant I didn’t spend half the week being all “don’t get me started on brexit” about everything…84 years might seem like the blink of an eye otherwise?

    …suffice to say that for some of the folks who drove the brexit project the no-deal cliff was one they were always keen to push the country off so that will doubtless go down quite well with a surprising number of misguided idiots…& a smaller number of people well-off enough not only to be unconcerned by a hike in the cost of living (a friend suggested that 3-5% rises in the cost of food come the new year might be one consequence for starters) but actually come out ahead thanks to having shifted money out of the UK in investment terms

    …the way, for example, that the fund(s) jacob rees-mogg co-founded (based, curiously enough, in the bit of ireland that will be remaining in the EU despite the firm itself being a UK concern) have been doing for at least a couple of years

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/14/brexit-warning-investment-firm-somerset-capital-management-jacob-rees-mogg

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jacob-rees-mogg-brexit-scm-ireland-investment-fund-conservative-mp-a8461021.html

    https://www.indy100.com/news/jacob-rees-mogg-brexit-tory-mp-eu-investors-london-dublin-twitter-response-8783421

    […technically I think he had to put some daylight between the firm & his role in it when he accepted a cabinet post but I don’t think that prevents his profiting from any of what they’ve been up to]

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/05/rees-mogg-firm-accused-of-cashing-in-on-coronavirus-crisis

    …what really melts my brain is that whether it’s because the consequences have been/will be somewhat camouflaged by the pandemic-related ones or just because the delusion is so well-entrenched in so many…it seems likely that johnson’s tory party would handily win another election despite having done so much to make a better case for scottish independence than the nationalist party in scotland has in living memory…not to mention the possible repercussions where northern ireland is concerned…but I should probably shut up before my whole head spontaneously combusts?

    • Jacob Rees-Mogg has all those children with interesting names, yes? I think that Sixtus is a cool name for his latest child. He may well be a terrible human being doing awful things…but I’m playing ostrich today, having hit my horrible world (and local) event limit, and for today, will only look at the fluffy side of life.

    • I am so SO so done with greys…grey sucks as much now as it did in the early to mid-nineties.

      I see they went with the TCX version of that yellow. Ever since X-Rite took over Pantone it has done nothing but confuse everyone by trying to be less confusing.

      For example, the TCX and TPG series. They have led architects and designers, marketers in branding, and printers everywhere to confusion because there are two sources for each colour. 

      “Oh you mean it’s possible to get this on that textile?”

      “Sure…I mean it’s possible…”

       

    • She had me at “cold sunshine and cement”. 
       


       

    • Shutterstock selected Set Sail Champagne (#FAEBD7), Fortuna Gold (#DAA520), and Tidewater Green (#2F4F4F) as their colors of the year for 2021. Here’s the article about their choices.

      I wear gray but do not decorate with it. I avoid yellow in general, but have some soft federal gold trim on the first floor.

      Why yes, I am indeed blathering on about colors rather than process or comment on the current event horror du jour.

  4. Brexit, a 1-act play

    Britain: So, we have this idea … 

    Europe: Don’t do it.

    America: Don’t do it.

    China: Don’t do it.

    Scotland: Nay, you cannae do it, we quit!

    Britain: We voted! Yay!

    Europe: We’re not helping.

    America: Us either.

    China: LOL

    Britain: Uhh, stand by, just working it out … still working … yup, any second now …

    Europe: So … ?

    Britain: We did it! Hey, why is our economy collapsing?

     

    • …pretty much…but I feel you undersold the split-personality aspect of the brits?

      …so internally there was a bit more

      brexiters: so – you know how we hate europe & some of us have been moaning about being in the EU since there was an EU to blame things on?

      the rest of britain: christ, yes – you literally never shut up about that shit despite nearly everything you say being bollocks

      brexiters: dave cameron’s gonna let us have a vote on leaving

      r.o.b. : well, he’s known to be complete pillock so that’s not entirely surprising – will you finally shut the fuck up if you lose?

      brexiters: fuck, no – whatever gave you that idea?

      r.o.b. : oh, well – at least only an idiot would believe all the bollocks you talk about europe

      brexiters: ah, but that’s the clever bit – you lot are stuck campaigning on facts…we can say any old shite & you’d be fucking amazed how many people seem to latch on to one bit or another

      r.o.b. : sure – but barely any of those people even agree what the term brexit means…at least we know what the fuck we’re talking about

      brexiters: pish, tosh, stuff & nonsense – that’s the ticket…you wait & see

      r.o.b. : pull the other one, it’s got bells on

      *campaign takes place*

      brexiters: it’ll be great – we’ve got it all worked out

      r.o.b. : like fuck you have it’d be a fucking disaster at best & left to you lot probably a damn sight worse than that, even

      *vote happens*

      *all politicians previously espousing remain cave almost entirely & barely manage to prevent the country instantly cementing a no-deal outcome*

      *years pass during which brexiters simultaneously make no apparent effort to prepare for exiting the EU while claiming to have already done so before taking a punt at claiming they’ll contravene their own agreement & break some international laws because they don’t know what the fuck to do about northern Ireland which has to somehow have a border with the EU but not the UK despite it being imperative that the border between it & the rest of ireland not revert to the previously notorious shitshow made famous by “the troubles”*

      *transitional period nears expiration date*

      brexiters: we’ll totally get a deal

      r.o.b. : you fucking arseholes – you’re the reason we need one & the reason we don’t have one already

      brexiters: there’s plenty of time – these things always happen at the last minute anyway, don’t you worry

      r.o.b. : we’re well past worrying you feckless bunch of wankers – we’re trying to figure out how to cope but you’ve stitched us right up, haven’t you?

      brexiters: look here – that’s jolly unfair

      r.o.b : is it really – then where’s this deal you promised everyone but never seemed to really want to make?

      brexiters: oh, that – yeah, that’s probably not going to happen but it’s totally all their fault not ours

      r.o.b. : how the fuck do you keep getting elected?

      brexiters: just don’t think about it too hard – none of our voters do & they seem much happier than you

      • So much good in this comment. From delightful derogatory terms (complete pillock, feckless bunch of wankers) to observations that work just as well in the US (“ah, but that’s the clever bit – you lot are stuck campaigning on facts…we can say any old shite & you’d be fucking amazed how many people seem to latch on to one bit or another”, and “just don’t think about it too hard – none of our voters do & they seem much happier than you”.  Sigh

      • Were most of the brexiters dumbasses who thought Britain produces most of their own food, clothing, toiletries, medicines, etc?

        While I know as an American, I don’t have any solid ground to stand on with good decision making, but Brexit struck me as so stupid because of how much of a mess it would be to renegotiate all those trade policies with the countries again. And how much it would be easier to remain than deal with how ya gonna get all your imports now, twits. 

        • …there’s a short answer & a really long answer…it’s not so much that most of them thought they produced all that stuff as they have a kind of patchwork of grievances & something akin to nostalgia for the supposedly halcyon days of empire…they think the place used to be better when britannia ruled the waves & that somehow a resurgence of the blitz spirit can restore a “sovereign” britain to what they fondly imagine to have been its former glory

          …some of them do pretty much seem to think they don’t need the rest of the world…but the truth is a lot of the things they said they wanted could have been done without leaving the EU had anyone been willing to stop scapegoating europe & burn the necessary political capital to do so rather than pander to what was once a niche faction of what for a while was referred to as “the nasty party”

          …the problem with the tail wagging the dog is generally that the tail isn’t home to a lot of brains…so yeah, twits is a pretty good word

          …the really long answer is considerably more complicated though…in that one the fault for the most part doesn’t lie with the twits but instead with a much smaller number of people who think they’re ever-so-clever because they successfully sold their country a bill of goods they could never deliver but which gets them pretty much everything they want in the short term

          …they tend to claim their all about “the will of the people” & “the national interest” but it’s legitimately possible they’ve fatally wounded the united part of the united kingdom & their interests will diminish if not break their nation…& if you started with the will of the majority of citizens & worked your way through some logic it’d be pretty clear that what they actually want has almost nothing in common with what they’re going to get…but honestly I was looking to spare folks from the whole 40yr+ saga

          …despite there being an almost endless number of important differences in terms of context & culture & circumstance & consequences the playbook is so full of parallels to the one the GOP uses you could easily mistake one for the other?

  5. So last nite, I’m dead asleep, in the middle of a marvelously oddball dream. Things got so weird, that I realized I was dreaming. So I kind of relax,  like, ‘ok, this is just a dream, I’m still asleep ‘. At that point, a sudden tidal wave of panic hits me, as I realize I forgot to set my alarm. I had off Thurs,  and had turned my alarm off, and forgot to reset it. So in my mind, I’m thinking that, if I’m sleeping this well,  I must’ve overslept . And in my job, 95% of the job is being at work on time. So I wake up in a total panic, and look at the clock, and it’s 1:33am. 
    WHEEEEEWWWWWWW.
    Set the alarm for 415a and rolled over as the panic washed away, and relief  came over me like a warm blanket.  
     
    Now I’m at work, and thinking, I haven’t felt panic like that in years, and how much i lucked out waking up when I did.

    • What was that sleep med with the commercial that had Abe Lincoln playing cards with a beaver?  Anyway, doc gives me a sample of that and says take it and go straight to bed because it’s pretty powerful.  I take one at around 11pm and go straight to bed as instructed.  Wake up feeling refreshed and invigorated.  “Man, I slept like a log, this is fantastic.”  Look at the clock, and it’s 1:30am.

  6. I’ll cry tomorrow:
     
    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/gop-lawmaker-who-said-there-was-a-political-agenda-behind-coverage-prays-for-a-miracle-from-his-icu-bed/
     
    Key takeaways:
    “I really need a miracle today!!” Byrd wrote Thursday. “My doctor said if my oxygen level doesn’t improve then he has no choice but to put me on a ventilator. So please pray that God will breathe His healing spirit into my lungs!!”
     
    According to the Tennessean, he was among the nearly 70 House Republicans who attended a caucus meeting held in the House chamber on November 24. A week and a half later, he was hospitalized with the virus. Reports say he was seen on the House floor without a mask. Just days before, he hosted a dinner for dozens of his fellow caucus members at a restaurant.
     
    Hey, asshole, why don’t you pray that God makes you less stupid? 

  9. MoPop in Seattle did a concert this week and honored Alice in Chains.  This was definitely a highlight but you can watch the whole thing on Youtube…
     

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