D&D and the rising pandemic

[Ryujin]

I'm an Angelino, so all that business of solid water falling from the sky blurs together to me.

(Though we do get hail once in a while, but not like what places that get real hail get).

An ice storm is something a bit different. The water isn't solid when it's falling, but it certainly becomes solid when it hits. The weight of the ice damages trees, brings down power lines, and is just generally crappy for everyone. (Image source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ice-storm-1998-1.4469977 )

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

In order to combat the pandemic, and/or the rise of various scary variants that are all Greek to me ... (quick- is "Tonight we dine in hell" from a movie, or Taco Bell's latest advertising slogan?), I have decided to take the following steps:

1. Cower in whimpering fear.

2. Drink.

3. Curse the gods.

4. Provide handy guides to bingeable viewing as we all prepare for the inevitable-

Snarf's Superior Syllabus for Binge Viewing: New Lockdown Edition (Part 1)

Delta delta delta, can Snarf help ya help ya help ya? That's right, as we round the bend toward Labor Day in the United States, Labour Day in Upper United States (sometimes referred to as, uh, Canadia?) and September in the remainder of the god-forsaken parts of the world that believe...

www.enworld.org

5. Donate money to good causes to combat the feeling of helplessness.

 

[Thomas Shey]

An ice storm is something a bit different. The water isn't solid when it's falling, but it certainly becomes solid when it hits. The weight of the ice damages trees, brings down power lines, and is just generally crappy for everyone. (Image source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ice-storm-1998-1.4469977 )

Oh, I knew it was different (though not the details) it was mostly just noting that Los Angeles isn't completely unknown to solid water falling from the sky, but a lot of fine details that are routine knowledge elsewhere can be kind of opaque to local natives who may have never seen it in their lives (I've encountered snow and hail for example going up in the mountains, but sleet is nothing but a theoretical idea to me).

 

[Umbran]

Oh, I knew it was different (though not the details) it was mostly just noting that Los Angeles isn't completely unknown to solid water falling from the sky, but a lot of fine details that are routine knowledge elsewhere can be kind of opaque to local natives who may have never seen it in their lives (I've encountered snow and hail for example going up in the mountains, but sleet is nothing but a theoretical idea to me).

New Englanders have seventeen words for various forms of solid water falling from the sky...
... a dozen of them break the Grandma rule.

 

[Cadence]

Yesterday around noon the provost announced classrooms would start getting HEPA filters. It was worth a two-minute interruption this morning...

 

[Ryujin]

New Englanders have seventeen words for various forms of solid water falling from the sky...
... a dozen of them break the Grandma rule.

You should hear the Quebecois and ALL of them break the Grandma Rule, though they are frequently also used by Quebecois grandmothers

 

[Umbran]

You should hear the Quebecois and ALL of them break the Grandma Rule, though they are frequently also used by Quebecois grandmothers

Yeah, but Quebec gets something like 124 inches of snow a year. I image they think of "snow" as a four letter word.

Yes, I'm aware the French for snow is neige, and has five letters. That's the joke, silly people.

 

[Cadence]

Columbia, SC school mask mandate shot down by state supreme court for going against budget proviso that barred any state provided funds from having anything to do with it. I'm waiting for someone to point out that TX might have found a way to have citizen enforcers of things...

https://www.thestate.com/news/coronavirus/article253913798.html

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Yeah, but Quebec gets something like 124 inches of snow a year. I image they think of "snow" as a four letter word.

Yes, I'm aware the French for snow is neige, and has five letters. That's the joke, silly people.

I’m sure the bilingual Québécois use the English word “snow” as a curse word.

As in “French french french french french SNOW french french french!”

(Pardon my French.)

 

[Zardnaar]

Who speaks French anymore?