Spike Killer

18 minutes ago, Stryker said:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/guns-n-roses-rescheduled-2021-tour-1176261/

I'm really confused.  Are the previous announced dates cancelled?

Now kicking off on July 31st, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium, the tour consists of 14 additional dates and will feature Wolfgang Van Halen’s new band, Mammoth WVH, in their touring debut. 

13 July < 31 July, WTF?  Did all dates prior to 31 July get cancelled or is this a poorly written article?

Well, looks like GNR in WDC should happen.  Nationals ballpark just announced starting 10 June the ballpark will be 100% capacity.

Fully vaccinated = No mask;

Not = Magic masks

Good times.  

There's different ways to do things - I get that.  But it seems odd to pretend there's not mountains of material out there.  If a person wants to see a killer clip of the UYI tour - why would you want them to go to questionable websites or buy bootlegs?  I'd think having things on youtube are the best of the bad options (best option = release it for sale).  Don't encourage people to buy expensive Japanese bootlegs or go to websites that might harm their computer or very illegal.  I don't get it.  I don't get it.

If we're highlighting wins from around the world - I think we should start with UFC 261

Winning!  

With Texas and Nevada opening up soon, which will hopefully domino to other states, who knows what's possible?

12 hours ago, downzy said:

Apparently Warner Brothers is only offering it in Canada as a digital rental, at $30 after taxes. 

So torrents it is!

Have you tried ExpressVPN?  I've had good luck with it to watch HBO Max (ignoring any difficultly in paying for it if you need a valid US address)

I recall listening to the Boston/Albany radio promo with the Chinese Democracy and Madagascar snippets over and over and just imagining what the rest of the album would sound like.

I can't find it online and it's entirely possible it's a sped up and modified version of leaks out there.  From my memory the radio promo doesn't sound like any of the leaks I've heard so far.  Have the base tracks for the radio snippet been leaked?

9 minutes ago, downzy said:

What does any of that have to do with my post?

Everything.  You cited rising numbers and I'm saying, "so what."  Numbers without context are meaningless.

I thought his appearance in Grand Theft Auto San Andreas was a lot of fun.

Maybe something for GTA6?

Videos like this make me glad the internet exists.

23 minutes ago, ZoSoRose said:

Yes

That's a bummer.  I'd still prioritize protecting the vulnerable all the same.

ZoSo Rose, are you a Led Zeppelin fan and a Guns N' Roses fan?  If so, I started my musical fan journey with Led Zeppelin and then found GNR.

6 hours ago, downzy said:

I was reading that Ohio is likely just as bad as Michigan. The test positive rate is the same in Ohio as it is in Michigan. The only difference is Michigan is testing far more than Ohio, hence the significantly higher case numbers in Michigan. 

And?  Are the bodies piling in the streets?  Are hospital beds filled beyond capacity to handle to surge of gravely stricken patients?  So what?

And I quote

"The researchers found that the age-specific infection fatality rate was extremely low among children and young adults, measuring 0.002% at age 10 and 0.01% at 25. However, the rate progressively increased with age, growing from 0.4% at 55 to around 15% at 85."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/89750

Why not protect the vulnerable and have everyone else monitor their own health (don't be fat).

I recommend unsubscribing from the panic porn you seem to enjoy

12 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

It definitely is. But it is not like humanity haven't done similar things before. Read up on smallpox.

I did and I'm glad you mentioned that.   Everything I've read is that the Covid vaccine will be an annual shot like the Flu vaccine every year. 

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/coronavirus-not-going-to-be-a-disease-like-smallpox-which-could-be-eradicated-by-vaccination/

“This is a virus that is going to be with us forever in some form or another and almost certainly will require repeated vaccinations,” he said.

“So, a bit like flu, people will need re-vaccination at regular intervals.”

I mentioned you might as well solve food hunger.  If certain developing countries can't keep it's population feed, how can it be expected to keep vaccinating their entire population every year?  One time deal, I can see that happening.  But the countries wouldn't be third world, or developing, if it functioned like the developed world.

Great suggestion.  

Just now, lame ass security said:

Cheerio my good man.

Same.  Prost

9 hours ago, lame ass security said:

@Spike Killer, just wondering what you thought was so amusing about my comment? 

All  of it seem amusing to me.  The two of you seem a bit on the crazy side of things.  Global vaccination seems like an ambitious goal.  Let's solve world hunger while we're at it.  I'm sure there are some countries that would be happy to have billions of other people's money in "aid" to make that remotely feasible.

Here's an inspiration quote for the day;

http://img.picturequotes.com/2/474/473316/foreign-aid-is-taking-money-from-the-poor-people-of-a-rich-country-and-giving-it-to-the-rich-people-quote-1.jpg

58 minutes ago, downzy said:

The man was 99 years old; had been in an out of hospital for the past two years, and reports showed his health was in decline for a long time.

But an interview with his grandson is the thing that did him him.  You can't be serious.

As for Canadians talking about America, you have a point.  Considering Americans and the country itself never talks or involves itself in the politics of other countries, non-Americans should never do the same about the land of the free... 

I'm not saying it did him in at all. I don't think the Fox and Friends did either but let's go with the narrative.  I don't care.

I've seen less evidence contribute to the Covid-19 death statistics.  I swear not all my jokes involve making light of the past year.  I'm not positive though.

I'm with you brother.  That's not my call.  You'll have to bark up another tree.

12 minutes ago, alfierose said:

Imagine being blamed for a seriously ill 99 yr old dying. Bonkers! 

It was quite amazing he survived the heart surgery a couple of months back.

Which part is most bonkers?  

"A Fox & Friends host linked Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to the death of Prince Philip just minutes after the announcement by Buckingham Palace, saying their recent public comments had “evidently” added to the 99-year-old’s “stress”. 

Between the accusations brought up in the interview (don't ask, I didn't watch it), I can see how that might cause a person additional unwelcome stress, which certainly didn't improve his health.  Seems like a reasonable conclusion

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fox-and-friends-prince-phillip-b1829096.html

I'm sure hearing a non-Brit talk about Brit business is about as welcome as a Canadian talk about America (it's not, Canada can fuck off)- so I'll just leave it at that.

I hope Spring/Early summer tours look like this, even after declared pandemic period is over.  I'd take a concert in this environment (as long as weather holds up) over any cramped theatre any day of the week.

That looks like a lot of fun  I've seen variations of that using parking lots (drive in concert) but I haven't see a picture that focused solely on the audience like this one.

15 minutes ago, allwaystired said:

For someone who finds the topic of Covid 'boring' and would 'rather talk Guns N Rosea' you seem pretty intent on posting about Covid. 

And yes the topics are very much related. The same weirdo cranks that think Covid is made up, exaggerated etc are the same weirdo cranks that believe the earth is flat, that paedo rings are running out of pizza parlours, etc etc. 

Anyone, you'd rather discuss GNR as this topic is so boring. So go ahead. Oh, hold on......

 

Again, more insults and bringing up topics that have nothing to do with Covid-19 or Guns N' Roses.  What's boring is responding to trolls like you.  Your posts are trash.  God bless.

No matter what songs the band plays, I hope they play them well.  Songs are key, but strong performances seem even more important.   There is likely nothing the band can play that we haven't heard at some point (minus new songs of course).  Still optimistic the North American tour happens at least in part.  

13 minutes ago, WhazUp said:

I sincerely hope that with GNR's live shows postponed so much they have done some serious reflecting on their live show and ways to change it up not just for the fans but for themselves as well.  I can only imagine how boring it must be playing the same songs in pretty much the same order for 5 years

Not that I think said self-reflection has or will take place lol but one could only hope.  I think even simply starting the setlist with a few different songs would help it out - or putting Paradise City earlier in the set and ending the show with Nightrain or something

Can you imagine though what would happen the first time Paradise City wasn't the last song played?  I'm sure there's more than just me that like to skate out while the last song is in progress to beat the traffic (1 minute vs 60+ to get out).   It would be a mega bummer to miss the majority of the show.

28 minutes ago, StayofExecution2020 said:

Please stop filling his brain with facts. Anyway those facts won't make it through the tin foil hat anyway.

Did you read any of the articles?  Geez person on the internet.  You seem to be pure troll trash and as I much as I want to drag this on with you, you bore me.  Either say something substantial or don't.  Either way, you've proved you have nothing to contribute.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33215698/

+ There is uncertainty about the effects of face masks. The low-moderate certainty of the evidence means our confidence in the effect estimate is limited, and that the true effect may be different from the observed estimate of the effect.
+ There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection. Hand hygiene is likely to modestly reduce the burden of respiratory illness. Harms associated with physical interventions were under-investigated. 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33249484/

+ Five identified studies found a low proportion of reported global SARS-CoV-2 infections occurred outdoors (<10%) and the odds of indoor transmission was very high compared to outdoors (18.7 times; 95% confidence interval, 6.0-57.9). 

+ Existing evidence supports the wide-held belief that risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission is lower outdoors but there are significant gaps in our understanding of specific pathways.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33479261/

+ The results indicate that a low 25(OH)D concentration is a contributing factor to COVID-19 severity, which, combined with previous studies, provides a convincing set of evidence.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33049331/

+ COVID-19 patients with mild-to-moderate illness are highly unlikely to be infectious beyond 10 days of symptoms.

15 hours ago, allwaystired said:

There's also the fact that in order to get so many people outdoors......they are all going to be indoors at some point, whether that's on public transport to the event, in toilets/facilities, etc, 

I like the amusingly naive idea that a virus can't spread by contact with humans outdoors but only indoors though, as if it can discern!

"Hey, this sweaty mob are all touching in an indoors venue.....let's spread", "oh, hold on, look- there's no roof on this place, better hold off on the spreading". 

i have to say, America has done a really excellent job at making a public health pandemic into a political issue, as if it's something that 'opinions' have a bearing on! Even the cretins in my country haven't managed that one! 

Fuck it though - at this stage if people are still playing the 'covid doesn't exist/it's exaggerated' cards you know it's not really worth getting into a debate. You might as well talk to someone that believes the earth is flat or lizards in human form are controlling us. They're too far gone to possibly have a normal conversation with. 

 

 

I don't understand the need for insults and brining up completely unrelated topics (lizard people, flat earth, all that).  It's sad for me to see that people are completely comfortable believing whatever their government tells them without question.  Money talks and when the poor have gotten poorer and the rich have only gotten richer during this time, I believe it's healthy to have some skepticism.  There seems to be a (hopefully) small amount of people that would be satisfied with a perpetual lockdown.  Why should I have much faith in government to begin with and organizations that have provided wildly inaccurate guidance, and write conclusions, that aren't supported by data?  

Covid-19 is dangerous.  But it would be useful data to know that the majority of deaths were in the old and people with pre-existing health conditions.  Why not prioritize and protect them?  80% of all people that died from Covid-19 were obese.  That should be worth talking about.  Life is about risk management.  I'm sure the people that haven't worked in months or the entire year would be happy     

This topic is boring.  I'd rather talk  Guns N' Roses. 

I haven't been to a concert in a long time and I haven't seen GNR in even longer.

I'd be pleasantly surprised for a new setlist but wouldn't complain too much fi they played the same songs as I heard before 

1 minute ago, WhazUp said:

So your answer is, hey let's operate these stadiums at 100 percent during a pandemic because fat people don't deserve to be surrounded by people who aren't throwing caution to the wind?

Huh?   What are you trying to say? 

Do you really think Guns N' Roses can sell 100% of the seats available in a stadium?  Is that how we can tie it all together.

But seriously.  Can you repeat that?

5 minutes ago, StayofExecution2020 said:

Yes you're right. We should have stadiums filled with people all the time, cause the virus can't spread outside. Stupid scientists have been lying to us, while you have been reading articles. Good job, man. Everyone give it up for the Spike Killer, cause he read articles.

Why salty?

Let's start here,

https://www.axios.com/bmi-obesity-severe-risk-factors-covid-19-cdc-063fb142-234c-4654-98b1-de357fb8df87.html

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html

Any health organization that advocates for masks, distancing, and keeping business shut down (arguable more impactful than COVID-19 over time), that doesn't address the obesity pandemic and how it's impacted death rates in modern countries - is not really taking the pandemic seriously.

Why not start there?  Encourage healthy life styles and make people provide they are not overweight or underweight.  Have fitness passports and periodic fitness exams - and you can get your passport to normal life.

"Distance yourself from too much food, not exercise or normal life." - Things like that.

Speaking of Guns N' Roses.  I'm cautiously optimistic that the North American shows will happen, at least in some cities.  Let's hope GNR have a spine.

43 minutes ago, StayofExecution2020 said:

If you really want to debate the basics of science, then yes. Cause nobody can be this stupid.

So you have no proof?  My internet's acting up but I'd be happy to point out plenty of articles that support no widespread transmission outdoors.  

Why are you not required to support your paranoia with facts?