Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,094
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
What a waste of money which could have bought something that did work. Whichever scientist researched its authenticity together with the civil servant who approved the purchase should hang their head in shame, as should Hancock unless this was when he was ill.
BTW I only saw a bit of the article as I refuse to subscribe to the paper or remove my Adblock.
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John Buckley
- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
- Posts: 615
Think it’s positively unfair to blame the “purchasers” in this particular instance, after all, we all know that when it comes to flogging quality items the inscrutable Changs are second to none.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,094
Big decision.
Cut own hair and look like butch lesbian or leave it and go full Rastafarian? ☹️
Not sure there is a half way house.
WWJD?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
I have one of these and could leave the outside tap on overnight so you can get your ditch crawler past the back gate!
Happy to help
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Arte et Marte
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
So, 'coronavirus front-line' didn't translate that well then.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52330531(Not my real name.)
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
I always knew some of the USA population were odd but those above and that insular oddball Trump prove it, still I guess it is one way to deplete the population.
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Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,938
Karlos wrote:Lockdown to continue for another three weeks, which leads to my important question.
Where can I get a haircut??
Where there’s a will there’s a way. You may need to think about a Will if you ask for a social distancing wet shave Karlos!
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,938
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,094
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,069
Sorry for asking, B, and laying aside Trump's predictable politicking, but what exactly
are the arguments for unprecedentedly confining and pauperising healthy people and shutting down an economy, other than the BBC's lame 'The curbs, which include stay-at-home orders, are needed to slow the spread of coronavirus', which even a Trump supporter could see is merely assertion.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
I'm guessing that all those less entrenched in their views than me will have read today's Sunday Times main story. Good journalism and a sobering read. Will lessons be learnt or are the king's new clothes still the most remarkable we have ever seen?
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Weird Granny Slater wrote:what exactly are the arguments for unprecedentedly confining and pauperising healthy people and shutting down an economy, other than the BBC's lame 'The curbs, which include stay-at-home orders, are needed to slow the spread of coronavirus', which even a Trump supporter could see is merely assertion.
Well (laying aside the fact that those guys carry guns which probably churn out bullets faster than you can say NRA), as I understand it, this corona virus can be spread human-to-human but it's mostly unknown (here and in the US) which humans are healthy and which unhealthy and, even, how the latter are doing it. So there's a series of nested risks: that I come across such a human, contract the virus, develop COVID19, pass it on in my turn and die. I don't know the likelihood associated with those risk events, but death strikes me as quite a severe potential outcome.
(Not my real name.)
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,706
Add to that the recent announcements from China and south East Asia that a small percentage of people who had previously recovered have become re-infected...
Until an adequate testing regime is available and there is clarity from the scientific and medical community over the level of immunity conferred by having been infected then perhaps caution rather than economics or even worse politicking should be the watchword
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 357
Sir Paul of McCartney is performing on the telly right now.
Can you guess which bell end I'm having to listen to instead?
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
Last time I heard Paul McCartney singing live? he was B awful so I feel sorry for you with both of them giving you an ear bashing.
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TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 357
How dare you. Macca's a legend. I was looking forward to seeing him at Glastonbury this year.
