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Post by bodger on Apr 14, 2020 12:45:50 GMT
Did anyone see Trump? What a nutter! I wonder how long he is going to last. Seems like he has lost the plot he even claimed the president has overall control and the last word but that is not correct. Megalomaniac. As long as the majority of voters in the Rust Belt are kept happy he will stay. Most of them are completely unaware of global issues or anything that requires an iota of analysis. As long as the coal mines and the steelworks keep operating, and there's beer down the local bar, they will keep voting him in. How we got to the state where the most powerful country in the world is also, in many respects, the most backward in the so-called civilised world, God only knows .................. oh, and he is another of their favourite fantasies.
Expect to see him propose a constitutional change to make him a life-time president.
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Post by bodger on Apr 13, 2020 19:43:43 GMT
SWMBO always comes up with the same punishment for crimes against the community - the stocks. shame the bastards in front of the community.
trouble is that these days if the crim or his mates recognise anyone throwing rotten tomatoes at the crim, he will be a marked man - so masks to be issued to all.
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Post by bodger on Apr 13, 2020 17:06:36 GMT
it makes no difference. if the arithmetical curve is flat, then the logarithmic curve is also flat.
Technically correct but a typical engineers response. engineers excel at getting technical things right. innit?
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Post by bodger on Apr 13, 2020 16:55:19 GMT
It's interesting because there always seems to be talk of "flattening the curve" which presumably relates to the logarithmic curve so someone somewhere with influence must be using these figures to formulate policy. it makes no difference. if the arithmetical curve is flat, then the logarithmic curve is also flat.
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Post by bodger on Apr 13, 2020 16:51:58 GMT
To be fair they aren't allowed to nip out for some masks, they have to use approved suppliers who have jumped through all the expensive hoops to get on the list. Even if you or I got on the list and were best value we STILL wouldn't get business because if something works people don't change. Imagine you tried a new supplier for something essential and were let down. Not worth the risk, loose my job. The whole system prevents anyone with imagination doing anything positive. My ex Father in law, just a chippy really but he knew everyone, somehow got a job overseeing all the contractors ******* city council were using to build a tech college. He demonstrably saved them millions, I think he'd been slipped in there quietly by the council in desperation. Everyone was taking the piss. There were 10 empty skips on continuous hire and never used, tradesmen all over putting in the hours doing naff all. Materials coming and going. It was a regular snout in the trough fest. This is typical of public funded anything isn't it? I worked on the construction of the first big North Sea Platform Jacket for BP (then majority state-owned). We (the contractor) were paid on a reimbursible basis. We had a service contract with a major crane hire outfit and at peak we had 57 mobile cranes running around the site.
BP decided we were overspending on cranes and asked us to fix it. We poached the hire company's site co-ordinator whose task had been to maximise the number of cranes on hire. On his first day he put 40 cranes off hire and from then on spent the working day chasing round keeping all the cranes busy, for which we and BP paid him a substantial bonus. It's surprising what can be done when the motivation is present!
I cannot think of a single government department or major nationalised/public body that understands that the object of business is to achieve results, not to feather the nests of the employees.
On the other hand the most respected and successful contractor's construction manager that I worked with excelled in achieving results efficiently and maximising profit whist maintaining quality and reputation. He was French, behaved and looked just like Napoleon, and had a very hands-on manner. He was loved by the UK work-force. He held daily meetings after close of work with all managers and supervisors for as long as it took to ensure tomorrow's targets - not getting away from work till 9pm was not uncommon. It was by far the most inspiring period of my career.
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Post by bodger on Apr 13, 2020 12:15:20 GMT
Bit like "we are working extra hard to get ppe" when they were miles behind after the starting gun went, meanwhile dedicated hospital staff, porters and cleaners as well as doctors and nurses, die! I have great sympathy for NHS staff having to make do with unsatisfactory PPE, but I wonder to what extent the crisis in NHS staff contracting the virus, and some of them dying, is overdone.
About 2% of the total population of the UK works in the NHS. So by the law of averages it could be expected that about 1600 would contract the virus (using the criteria of Worldometer - obviously a huge under-estimate) and 200 would die.
Does anyone have the actual figures?
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Post by bodger on Apr 12, 2020 18:57:24 GMT
thank god for that. even when the regatta's not happening the course is just an obstruction to normal progress and when the wind is blowing (always seems to be a windy reach) my leccy boat struggles. But you don't live in Henley! Why don't you piss off? no I'm not going to stoop to a point-scoring game with you.
for the record the average resident of Henley isn't the least bit interested because they are not regular river users.
you may carry on making a cnut of yourself if that is what floats your boat. good luck.
at least Cnut did what he did to prove to his subjects that he was not omnipotent.
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Post by bodger on Apr 12, 2020 16:51:03 GMT
This makes the badger's scare-mongering scenario redundant, then. Thanks! you really are the most stupid Cnut .
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Post by bodger on Apr 12, 2020 16:47:52 GMT
Henley regatta is cancelled but this is mainly due to the rather expensive contract of building the course to seperate the rowers from the rest of the boats. The course install usually starts about now and it's a £££k job so they cancelled it before having to fork out for the setup works. thank god for that. even when the regatta's not happening the course is just an obstruction to normal progress and when the wind is blowing (always seems to be a windy reach) my leccy boat struggles.
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Post by bodger on Apr 12, 2020 16:46:04 GMT
well that appears to be good news, but without the lockdown it would be carnage. Is it carnage in Sweden where there has been no 'lockdown' ? Eh? I don't have a fuckin' clue and I couldn't give a flying fuck.
if you are suggesting that the current lockdown in the UK is unnecessary and makes no difference to the rate of infection (and therefore the rate of deaths) then feel free to write to your MP.
.................. oh, sorry, you don't even live here. piss off.
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Post by bodger on Apr 12, 2020 12:04:27 GMT
From the Wail... "A week ago, at the daily official briefing, Dr Jenny Harries, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer, confirmed my point that many deaths with Covid are not necessarily from Covid. She said: 'These are Covid-associated deaths, they are all sad events, they would not all be a death as a result of Covid.' What nobody says is how many are as a result of the virus. Then, if you look at the Office for National Statistics weekly death charts, for week 13 of each year (the week which this year ended on March 27), you find some interesting things. The total of deaths for that week in 2020 is higher than the five-year average for that time of year, which is 10,130. In fact, it is up to 11,141. This is 1,011 more deaths than normal per week, 144 more deaths than normal per day, regrettable but not gigantic. Do these figures justify the scale of our reaction? If you add up the total deaths for the first quarter of the year from respiratory diseases, the figure so far for 2020 (22,877) is less than those for 2013 (25,495), 2015 (28,969), 2017 (25,800), 2018 (29,898) and 2019 (23,336). Again, is this event as exceptional as we are being told? If not, why the shutdown?" well that appears to be good news, but without the lockdown it would be carnage.
oh .................. and the very mild winter may have something to do with it.
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Post by bodger on Apr 12, 2020 12:01:03 GMT
Huge reduction in demand for round tuits 'cos anything worth doing will have been done.
Unfortunately it'll probably result in redundancies at the tuit factory.
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Post by bodger on Apr 12, 2020 6:43:51 GMT
I think that's fairly likely given their apparent penchant for dogging sites. is that like a pension? where do I find one? is there a Nicholson's Guide?
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Post by bodger on Apr 11, 2020 8:58:27 GMT
"The terrifying reports that tell the truth about how lockdown ends - there will be NO return to normal: America’s top experts explain how the nation faces mass digital surveillance" - 5G!"Gatherings of a certain size would still be banned, and remote work encouraged" - that will get rid of trades unions and workers asking for better wages and conditions!"plans call for the construction of a vast digital surveillance system to track movements of all" - apart from those running the system, of course!"Such a system, deployed with success in authoritarian China, would be certain to raise difficult questions about privacy and individual liberty." - "the Chinese lack any notion of human rights, animal rights, do not follow strict pollution laws, massive government subsidies resulting in cheap and nasty products, no health & safety laws, no laws to protect the environment … absolutely fuck all in fact!
And yet strangely all the protest groups over here in the West are strangely muted when it comes to criticising China for some or all of the above. Where’s Greta? Where’s Extinction Rebellion? Where’s the Guardian & Twatter? Where’s the Wimminz groups? Where’s the effnicks groups? (you don’t see many darkies in China, why is that?)"more unattributed twattering from the key board of the master crap dealer.
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Post by bodger on Apr 10, 2020 15:53:12 GMT
You want accuracy? It's plus ça change not plus ca change cedilla /sɪˈdɪlə/ Learn to pronounce noun a mark (¸) written under the letter c, especially in French, to show that it is pronounced like an s rather than a k (e.g. façade ). Better badger bodger about that one. yeah but .................. I don't have time to waste on finding how to make these marks on my qwerty quayborde
can I send things like that to you by p.m. in future for you to punctuate/apostrophise/whatever in future?
having spent 6 years in Turkey I learned to ignore their bits and bobs, speshully their cedilla which AFAIK makes a c, otherwise pronounced j, into a ch.
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