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Janisport wrote:Really, I haven’t heard of any schools or institutions closing over here yet. Is it really bad in Norway?

There were over 80 new cases in Norway yesterday, and now it's basically a free for all.

Gettenfeld, Morocco mole, Janisport, and Harteath

Saint Olav wrote:... now it's basically a free for all.

As long as nobody puts a rock in their snowballs; that's just unsportsmanlike.

Saint Olav wrote:There were over 80 new cases in Norway yesterday, and now it's basically a free for all.

Last I heard there were somewhere around 400 confirmed cases in Sweden

Gettenfeld, Morocco mole, and Harteath

Morocco mole wrote:As long as nobody puts a rock in their snowballs; that's just unsportsmanlike.

Rocks are for wussies. Put a lit firecracker in one of those suckers and let the malicious entertainment ensue.

Holy moly. Just heard that there's been 212 new cases since yesterday, to a total of 489 confirmed cases...

Gettenfeld and Morocco mole

Saint Olav wrote:Holy moly. Just heard that there's been 212 new cases since yesterday, to a total of 489 confirmed cases...

"Bobby, will you give it to me?"

Richard Cheese - Down With The Sickness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkHWszBJ-iQ

"Do you feel that? Oh, shirt
Wah-ah-ah-ah
Wah-ah-ah-ah

Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Open up your hate and let it flow into me
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
You mother, get up, come on get down with the sickness
You plucker, get up, come on get down with the sickness
Madness is the gift that has been given to me

I can see inside you the sickness is rising
It seems that all that was good has died
Oh no, the world is a scary place
Now that you've woken up the demon in me

Bobby, will you give it to me?
Wah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah...

Get up, come on get down with the sickness
You mother, get up, come on get down with the sickness
You plucker, get up, come on get down with the sickness
Open up your hate and let it flow into me

Why can't you just buck up and die?
Get down with the sickness
Fork you, I don't need this shirt
I'm down with the sickness
You stupid, sadistic, abusive finking bore
Get down with the sickness
Here it comes
Get ready to die
Get ready to... die"

Morocco mole wrote:That'll change.

It hasn’t yet, but...

Saint Olav wrote:My university has basically been shut down, together with basically all events in Norway. Fun times.

The Hungarian government has ordered all universities to be closed. My uni hasn’t yet said if, when, or for how long they will comply with this order, but the deed is essentially done. I guess spring break starts early?

Morocco mole and John Constantine

Gettenfeld wrote:I guess spring break starts early?

Bummer of a time to be abroad, huh? All that free time but you can't go anywhere. At least you'll have an interesting story to tell your grandchildren.

I find the panic quite strange. It is merely the flu, albeit a more deadly version, but people are acting as if it's the end of the world. I'm only now hearing the panic give way to facts and rationality.

Gettenfeld and Morocco mole

Morocco mole

John Constantine wrote:I find the panic quite strange.

Even though this one's bad there are cycles of news stories about super-flues that get a lot of repetition in the media. Every four or five years there's another scare about a new strain that sends people into a tizzy. Ignore it, same as you would all the other dangers this universe tries to kill you with. When it's your time, it's your time and nothing will prevent it. But you can accelerate the chances of dying by worrying about it constantly.

Morocco mole wrote:Bummer of a time to be abroad, huh? All that free time but you can't go anywhere. At least you'll have an interesting story to tell your grandchildren.

I can still tool around Hungary. There’s plenty to see in this country :)

Morocco mole and Janisport

Morocco mole wrote:When it's your time, it's your time and noting will prevent it.

Really? I had no idea that was the key to immortality. I’m gonna have to go buy me a notebook

Janisport wrote:Really? I had no idea that was the key to immortality. I’m gonna have to go buy me a notebook

Sometimes just Post-Its work.

Morocco mole wrote:Sometimes just Post-Its work.

Not if you're a grim reaper. Then that's usually the sign that someone's number is up.

(Dead Like Me)

Morocco mole

Morocco mole

John Constantine wrote:(Dead Like Me)

I enjoyed that show, at least half of the first season. After that the writers seemed to not know where to go with it. I think it was over for me when they started including reapers for animals, which just made no sense.

I like Bryan Fuller's work but have seen the same problem with a lot of his shows. Good, strong start, well-defined characters played by solid actors but the concept peters out after a season and a half. I will watch the first season of any of his productions and then hope it doesn't get renewed, lol.

"Dead Like Me is an American comedy-drama television series starring Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin as grim reapers who reside and work in Seattle, Washington. Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, the show was created by Bryan Fuller for the Showtime cable network, where it ran for two seasons (2003–04). Fuller left the show five episodes into Season 1 because of creative differences; creative direction was taken over by executive producers John Masius and Stephen Godchaux. A direct-to-DVD film titled Dead Like Me: Life After Death was released on February 17, 2009, with an option to restart the series.

Eighteen-year-old Georgia "George" Lass (Ellen Muth) is the show's protagonist and narrator. George dies early in the pilot episode and becomes one of the "undead", a "grim reaper". George soon learns that a reaper's job is to remove the souls of people, preferably just before they die, and escort them until they move on into their afterlife. George's death leaves behind her mother (Cynthia Stevenson) and the rest of her family at a point when her relationships with them were on shaky ground.

The show explores the experiences of a small team of such reapers, as well as the changes in George and her family as they deal with George's death.

Bryan Fuller left early Season 1 because of conflicts with MGM Television, including disagreement over major script and storyline cuts considered important to the main theme. He stated that the "lack of professionalism...made it really difficult. It was like being at war. They were constantly trying to strong arm me. It was the worst experience of my life." According to Fuller, Showtime canceled the show due to "a loss of quality and a sense the problems would continue." Actress Rebecca Gayheart also departed the show after the series' fifth episode."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Like_Me

"Rube John Sofer (Mandy Patinkin): (1876–c.1926) The head of the group of reapers. He is responsible for passing out reaping assignments, nearly always on yellow post-it notes."

I'd forgotten about the Post-It notes, lol.

Been a while since we had one of these, I've posted one of Agora Protergatis's issues as a poll

Gettenfeld and Morocco mole

After some historic research and rummaging around public records and archives, I have compiled a complete list of all Agora Protergatises, it can be found in the Regional Overview

Gettenfeld, Morocco mole, and John Constantine

Janisport wrote:After some historic research and rummaging around public records and archives, I have compiled a complete list of all Agora Protergatises, it can be found in the Regional Overview

Excellent. Good work and thank you.

Morocco mole wrote:I enjoyed that show, at least half of the first season. After that the writers seemed to not know where to go with it. I think it was over for me when they started including reapers for animals, which just made no sense.

They made some other changes too and I'd assumed the Writer's Strike got it, but I see now that it was too early for that.

George's dad was supposed to be gay and that was the reason for the divorce, apart from her death. I found the concept interesting enough to keep watching.

Morocco mole wrote:I like Bryan Fuller's work but have seen the same problem with a lot of his shows.

Have you seen Discovery?

Morocco mole wrote:I'd forgotten about the Post-It notes, lol.

It was an odd details that I always loved, especially since the note was sometimes useless.

Morocco mole

John Constantine wrote:Have you seen Discovery?

Not a single episode, sadly, and I'm a Star Trek Fan.

I've read the Fuller was fired from that project as well.

And his initial plan was exactly what I'd been hoping for in a Star Trek show; "as an anthology that would journey through previous incarnations of the beloved franchise to go beyond where the series has gone before on the small screen."

I've long thought it would be cool to have a Star Trek: Universe series that would fill out the details of what was going on outside the primary stories that follow the Federation. All the alien races and their worlds, the private, non-Federation space-farers, even an expansion of the "Below Desks" episode of Next Generation that would be about the common crewmen or characters like Mot the Barber.

This is quite surrealistic. Norwegian society has quite literally been shut down from today.

Gettenfeld and Morocco mole

Saint Olav wrote:This is quite surrealistic. Norwegian society has quite literally been shut down from today.

I heard on the news that Denmark is doing the same, Sweden however is the odd one out in Scandinavia, we haven't really been doing much except banning larger crowds even though we have more cases than Denmark and Norway. I guess we'll just have to wait and see who the lunatic is lol

PS: I'm so happy I don't go to school

Gettenfeld, Morocco mole, and Saint Olav

Morocco mole wrote:Not a single episode, sadly, and I'm a Star Trek Fan.

I've read the Fuller was fired from that project as well.

And his initial plan was exactly what I'd been hoping for in a Star Trek show; "as an anthology that would journey through previous incarnations of the beloved franchise to go beyond where the series has gone before on the small screen."

I've long thought it would be cool to have a Star Trek: Universe series that would fill out the details of what was going on outside the primary stories that follow the Federation. All the alien races and their worlds, the private, non-Federation space-farers, even an expansion of the "Below Desks" episode of Next Generation that would be about the common crewmen or characters like Mot the Barber.

That would have been interesting. I'm not unhappy with what we got, but I agree with the sentiment that it's not really Star Trek and Michael Brunham (a woman with a man's name is Fuller's trademark) has turned into a bit of a Mary Sue.

Regardless, it has some great actors like Jason Isaacs, Michelle Yeoh, and Doug Jones, and lesser known people who are nonetheless good performers.

Morocco mole

Saint Olav wrote:This is quite surrealistic. Norwegian society has quite literally been shut down from today.

Janisport wrote:I heard on the news that Denmark is doing the same, Sweden however is the odd one out in Scandinavia, we haven't really been doing much except banning larger crowds even though we have more cases than Denmark and Norway. I guess we'll just have to wait and see who the lunatic is lol

PS: I'm so happy I don't go to school

Just got the not-so-happy news that I’m being evicted from my apartment in a week and I have to return to America, where they have many more cases and are much less prepared (IL has 40 or so cases, Hungary has 13).

Morocco mole

Gettenfeld wrote:Just got the not-so-happy news that I’m being evicted from my apartment in a week and I have to return to America, where they have many more cases and are much less prepared (IL has 40 or so cases, Hungary has 13).

That sounds terrible. What's the reasoning behind the eviction? Are you a student?

Gettenfeld and Morocco mole

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