Rikkitic:

 

How to have a good time raising weevils?

 

 

 

vexxxboy:

 

My wife says i was made for a life of shutdowns as i hate going out anywhere and now i have a ready excuse when people and relatives invite me to places.

 

I read an interview with an academic a few months ago talking about why genes related to being "introverted" had not been bred out, given that extraverts tend to socialise and mingle more..

One big possible reason given was that more introverts survived pandemic episodes, due a much lower desire to socialise ......  so the gene pool directly after a pandemic has a high number of introverts....

networkn:

 

@tinkerisk I sincerely hope you meant ramped :) 

 

 

 

I meant "ripped up the pavement", sorry for the horrification. Something in my offline 5 languages checker went wrong.:-)

Bung:

Eva888: First Lockdown bought 20kg of flour to accompany the other 2x5kg already in the pantry, 1 kg yeast, had various jars of sourdough starter bubbling on the bench tops because that’s what the world prescribed. Baked ONE loaf of bread and 6 pitta breads since March 23rd. I have enough food not only for another lockdown but for a nuclear winter caused by an Earth-directed CME

Unless you have other uses for flour other than bread making even 2 x 5kg was too much. It doesn't stay in top condition forever. Worst case you'll end up with it full of weevils.

Reminds me of a story my father told me. He was on a transport ship during WWII. The voyage took weeks. The sailors on board appreciated the raisins in the bread that was baked fresh each day. Except they weren't raisins.

Oh god, that's why the sieve was invented !

dejadeadnz:

 

The number one positive for me is that it's dragged NZ at least a decade ahead of where it would otherwise have been on its attitude towards working from home plus flexible working. Before it was a kind of thing that people just tolerated or individual teams/managers did on a discretionary basis, with a limited subset of shining examples where flexibility as to time and place of work was an established norm.

 

A good win for workers.

 

I agree 100%. I have been fortunate enough to work from home for the last 5 years, and other than an initial settling in period during which the wife and I had to adjust to being together 24x7 😃, it's been a very positive experience in terms of both my productivity and health (less travel stress).

Pre covid, a lot of companies (wrongly, imho) equated productivity with physical presence at the office but have now realized that most employees are equally (maybe even more so) productive working remotely. Additionally, companies will now be able to spend less on desks, pc's, power, parking, etc.

There will always be some businesses where remote working is not possible and some people who actually prefer to go to work outside of the home, but over time, I suspect we will have a lot more businesses offering "remote working" as an option.

The second major positive for me is that a lot more food takeaways now have an real online presence and now offer online menus, ordering and payment. Personally, I just find it a lot easier to create and pay for my order online and then have delivered or collect it vs. arriving, finding a long queue, placing the order and then hanging around 20-30 minutes while the food is cooked. One of our local fish and chips places (who had no online presence before) now even text when the order is ready. 

We all now have a lifetime supply of toilet paper , stacked away somewhere .
Those with kids can use the TP hoard to make play forts in the lounge .

Im eating less McDonalds & K-fried , as theres no way I'll sit for 20 minutes in the drive through que , so eating healty boring lunches .

mattwnz:

The problem is NZ can't keep going into level 3 or 4 each time a case sneaks in, due to us not picking the outbreak in time.

Handsomedan:

What in the sweet Jeebus is a "Poking Device"????

We got the see and hear Ashley Bloomfield list “Guinea pig show” as a possible location for casual contacts, in the 1pm press conference today.

concordnz: Silver plated would be better (better anti-microbal properties) & you can poke a vampire in the eye with it.....