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posted by martyb on Saturday March 14 2020, @10:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the sign-me-up-for-the-next-hermit-convention dept.

Babylon Bee:

The nation's nerds woke up in a utopia this morning, one where everyone stays inside, sporting events are being canceled, and all social interaction is forbidden.

All types of nerds, from social introverts to hardcore PC gamers, welcomed the dawn of this new era, privately from their own homes.

"I have been waiting my whole life for this moment," said Ned Pendleton, 32 -- via text message, of course -- as he fired up League of Legends on his beefy gaming PC. "They told me to take up a sport and that the kids playing basketball and stuff were gonna be way more successful than us nerds who played Counter-Strike at LAN parties every weekend."

Always look on the bright side of life.

[Certainly an element of gallows humor, but it does offer a different perspective from the incessant drumbeat of gloom and doom surrounding the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. What "positives" have you seen? --martyb]


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 15 2020, @04:43AM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 15 2020, @04:43AM (#971490) Journal

    The best piss, is underway on a large ship, doing 20 to 30 knots, and kicking up a huge rooster tail of foam behind. Walk out onto the fantail, unzip, and let it fly. I suppose that if I were a Paul Bunyan sized man, I could tint the wake yellow. ;^)

    Before anyone asks, no, that is NOT approved naval procedure. If an officer saw you doing that, he'd write you up, and the CO would take some of your money, your rank, and he'd have you chipping paint for a couple of weeks. So, don't get caught pissing off the fantail!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @06:36PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @06:36PM (#971641)

    Be careful not to get it caught in the propellers or tangled in the towed array.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 15 2020, @06:51PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 15 2020, @06:51PM (#971649) Journal

      No worries. When I dropped it in the cold water, it shriveled up almost instantly, safely out of reach of the screws.