The Coronavirus Thread

[Cunt]

I know which job is more important.[/quote]
Your insistence on ranking jobs by importance is rather a gratuitous attempt to belittle the nursing profession.
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It's not me doing it, it's the tictok dances, which make it look like nurses have plenty of free time, while truckers are kind of crowded by tight margins.

Not that I want to see a bunch of truckers dancing...swamp-ass being what it is.

I just think of who you are, and your position makes perfect sense.

[Hermit]

Your insistence on ranking jobs by importance is rather a gratuitous attempt to belittle the nursing profession.

It's not me doing it

Yes, Daggles, it's you who is doing the ranking, and it's a logic fail. People don't get allocated sympathy according to the importance of their job. If you must allocate sympathy, do it according to how tough their job is. And no, a tik-tok clip by hospital staff hamming it up is not an indication that their job is a cakewalk. A hundred clips isn't either. Nor is someone filming empty hospital wings.

As for trucking, it's no bed of roses either, but the days of taking two sticks joey crashboxes over the razorback with a 95 horsepower Commer with 22 tons of wool on the trailer, getting a 22-wheeler stuck in the mud up to its axles on the way to Tennant Creek, having to stop twice on your way from Sydney to Melbourne to replace blown steer tyres on your own, spend two days sweating your way across the Nullarbor Plain in 40°C+ heat or running out of brakes on your way down from Mount Ousley are pretty much over. Not that this happened routinely in the past anyway.

And there really isn't much to driving a truck, especially in recent years. If you can back 48 foot trailer into a dock and read a map you're pretty much set. You don't even need to learn how to use a Road Ranger or an Eaton gear box any more. All those Volvos, Freightliners and so on change gears with the push of a button or are fully automatic now.

Stop listening to the whining of truck drivers. They are playing the sympathy card when they tell you about the lowlights, how dangerous, difficult and hard their job is and how nobody loves them. Yes, they get really shitty days from time to time. People get them in all walks of life. But the lot of a truck driver is a doddle compared to the stuff nurses put up with. You don't know what you're talking about.

[JimC]

But Hermit, truckers are men, doing a real job, not silly girls having a job for a few years before they get down to the serious job of obeying men and having babies...

[Hermit]

But Hermit, truckers are men, doing a real job, not silly girls having a job for a few years before they get down to the serious job of obeying men and having babies...

True. Also, most men are capable of looking at those temperature charts you can see hanging off hospital bedheads in old movies. I have yet to see a nurse manhandling a full 220 litre drum. I mean, manhandling. That says it all: Not for nurses.

[pErvinalia]

I noticed that Milo was talking shit about nurses a couple days ago.

that's where Cunt must have got his current obsession with nurses doing tic tok, like that has any relevance to the vast majority of nurses that are busting an arse in difficult conditions.

[Hermit]

I noticed that Milo was talking shit about nurses a couple days ago.

that's where Cunt must have got his current obsession with nurses doing tic tok, like that has any relevance to the vast majority of nurses that are busting an arse in difficult conditions.

Yabbut empty hospitals. Proof that nurses are lazy layabouts and liars.

[pErvinalia]

It's not him making the comparisons, don'tcha know? He's just reporting right-wing talking points for us. He's very handy for that.

[Cunt]

I don't mind saying there are a lot of shitty truckers, and a lot of shitty nurses.

Both deserve no sympathy based on their jobs, or both deserve plenty.

Of course, focusing on me effectively removes attention from the stuff the Lotus Eaters brought to light, but then, you don't want to address facts. Most of you just like pretending I'm horrible, and that makes you better.

Maybe you should do more tictok dances, so you aren't so focused on my lack of proper political correctness.

[pErvinalia]

Of course, focusing on me effectively removes attention from the stuff the Lotus Eaters brought to light, but then, you don't want to address facts.

What facts? Remember, we don't have front row seats in your brain.

[Cunt]

Of course, focusing on me effectively removes attention from the stuff the Lotus Eaters brought to light, but then, you don't want to address facts.

What facts? Remember, we don't have front row seats in your brain.

The facts discussed in the Lotus Eater video I posted.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Not convincing. Try harder.

[Hermit]

I don't mind saying there are a lot of shitty truckers, and a lot of shitty nurses.

Both deserve no sympathy based on their jobs, or both deserve plenty.

That may be so, but you still have not cottoned on to what I'm trying to tell you, which is this: Sympathy does not depend on the importance of their jobs.

[pErvinalia]

Of course, focusing on me effectively removes attention from the stuff the Lotus Eaters brought to light, but then, you don't want to address facts.

What facts? Remember, we don't have front row seats in your brain.

The facts discussed in the Lotus Eater video I posted.

Facts in a youtube video? Call me skeptical. Was the presenter a journalist following journalistic best practice? If not, they are probably just another of your biased sources with an agenda to promulgate.

[JimC]

But it was a video, and it echoed my incoherent beliefs! It must be right!

[pErvinalia]

I'm pretty sure Argument ad Youtube is a fallacy of some sort.