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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 23:47:45 GMT
My last experience of school dinners was vomiting down the neck of the boy in front of me at the canteen queue. That would have been about 1988. A while ago now but I bet he remembers it. Ben Connop was his name. Architects son. I managed to get it right down inside his shirt and it made a terrible mess of his blazer. Happy days I can honestly say that had it not been for school meals I would have suffered from all the ailments that malnutrition brings. The only bad thing was not getting seconds. Summer breaks were always a bit touch and go.
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Post by phil70 on Mar 24, 2020 0:51:13 GMT
That's good news. I'll be dead within a week if if all goes wrong. The kids were worried about the large red spot in my left eye earlier but I assured them a large red spot in eye was not a Coronavirus thing. That will sort itself out but other things will come into play and I will not ultimately be one of the approx 875k surviving humans because I can't be arsed. Anyway good luck everyone. Hey!join the club, I woke up and found my eye was one big red spot. Not for the first time, just a little bleed which fades over 3 or 4 days, quite a common thing and nowt to worry about Phil
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 24, 2020 5:57:55 GMT
I wake up this morning and see Boris has 'ordered' a 'lockdown'. I thought aye aye - I bet that's bollocks. Then I see the words 'imposing', 'should' and 'could', so I suspect there is no actual law yet forbidding people to move about freely.
First it says the Police WILL fine you, and then the article says they COULD fine you. Well, which is it?
"PM said from tonight people should only go out for essential goods, medical needs, or brief exercise" - what, so the Police can fine you??
"Gatherings of more than two people will be banned" - so, only 2 people per Underground train carriage? Only 2 people per bus?
"The government's Cobra emergency committee met at 5pm" - why is this committee named after an Indian snake? Why not the 'Red Squirrel emergency committee'?
"The children of coronavirus key workers including firefighters have been turned away at the school gates while parents who fail to meet the criteria have verbally abused teachers and threatened to sue; The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, has said no new trials will start and that ongoing trials will be paused while arrangements are put in place so they can continue safely" - so just how exactly are these parents going to sue? I expect they were at the school gates in their dressing gowns anyway.
"Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said in a video posted to Twitter: 'I want to speak directly to Londoners" - they moved out to Essex 40 years ago. Trains from Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street, Sadiq.
"Police will be able to fine people £30 if they ignore the rules" - and what if they don't have £30?
"And yet are flights from China, Iran, Italy and other Covid-19 hotspots around the world still being allowed to arrive at UK airports, bringing more people from these countries, potentially bringing yet more coronavirus here and wanting access to treatment from the UK?"
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 24, 2020 6:14:25 GMT
"It is not acceptable to prohibit weddings or baptisms when one of those concerned might very soon die." "I'm sure your god, who could immediately stop the virus since they are omnipresent and omnipotent, will understand."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 6:16:19 GMT
I bet all these religious and spiritual nutters will be out trying to recruit as aggressively as possible via social media.
Nothing like a good trauma to help get hold of a few new followers and do them over.
Ker-ching!
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 24, 2020 6:37:42 GMT
I bet all these religious and spiritual nutters will be out trying to recruit as aggressively as possible via social media. Nothing like a good trauma to help get hold of a few new followers and do them over. Ker-ching! I've seen it already. Still, it's a free world. Here ya go - complete with narrowboats on the Severn
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Post by patty on Mar 24, 2020 13:26:51 GMT
I'm in a fairly good spot, it's mostly an industrial area but close enough to both smaller shops and three supermarkets (and also a small pet food shop that also stocks eggs and firewood which they are happy to drop at the end of my gangway I just leave the money under a tile at the end) I have good friends living within a few miles who have offered to deliver whatever I need, I have medical supplies for just over two months and food for quite a long time ( I suppose I have had a bit of a survivalist outlook for a long time so I didn't need to "panic buy") Lovely to read a positive post..the negative cut n paste drivel that is coming from some is like wading through treacle...So from now on I'm skim reading certain posters contributions Remember the HIV panic?..we found a means of controlling that Spanish flu came, decimated the population and went We will get through this... Whatever Bojo says n does will never be right in some folks opinion On a plus..here at home.... My house is tidier than it has been since I moved in... Cannot declutter more cos Charity shops all shut Just about to subject the neighbours to my ukulele practise..
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 16:26:13 GMT
patty ... let me assure you, you're not alone ... some people's posts on here are DEFINITELY best ignored Don't get dragged down into their personal mire. Rog
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 16:32:43 GMT
Going back to the whole "social distancing" thing.
It's an intriguing use of words.
I like a bit of social distancing personally but it's an expression that did not previously exist, as far as I am aware.
I wonder who it was who invented it.
I reckon it might be an English translation of a French expression..
It's a sad time for the country as a whole I do realise that and bad shit is going to happen but the expression "social distancing" seems to be full of humour.
I hope it is not as bad as a lot of comments suggest.
Still a few planes coming into Heathrow but noticeable less. It's definitely getting quite serious now.
I started wondering about the zoo earlier. I hate the zoo and would never take my kids there in a million years but if there is a major pandemic what do they do?
Just kill the animals I suppose.
House of cards.
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Post by The Lockie on Mar 24, 2020 17:46:18 GMT
Don't bother they are ‘orrible, yolks are really chalky (is that even a word?).....Don’t ask how .I know this
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 17:49:01 GMT
Don't bother they are ‘orrible, yolks are really chalky (is that even a word?).....Don’t ask how .I know this I threw a piece of wood at the goose because it was too noisy and it broke the egg. I think they have buggered off now. Too noisy really. When social distancing one thing you don't want is irritating noise.
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Post by The Lockie on Mar 24, 2020 17:51:23 GMT
Believe me they are like Arnie the will be back!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 17:55:11 GMT
Laser pens scare the shit out of geese. As soon as they see the red dot on them they are off. Maybe they think its a laser sight
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 18:04:22 GMT
I can confirm that the black widow catapult even with the big 1/2 inch steel balls does not faze them .
Where is that dynamite?
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Post by Jim on Mar 24, 2020 19:38:24 GMT
I can confirm that the black widow catapult even with the big 1/2 inch steel balls does not faze them . Where is that dynamite? Are they more expensive than small 1/2 inch steel balls? Try talking a bit more working class when you're in the engineers merchants. Oily hands and grubby boiler suit too.
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