Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,101
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Worrying signs. All the more reason why this nuanced nonsense that is about to come out this evening is dangerous.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Disagree. There is a finite time different societies will accept 'lock down'.
IF we'd locked down two weeks earlier (Idiots citing Cheltenham/Liverpool football) then parks would have been full a fortnight back and we'd be heading for second epidemic.
Time will tell which country played this best.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,101
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
There has been a lot of debate about the new slogan - but in a relative vacuum regarding what happens next. If there is nowhere to go or nothing to do, beyond garden centers, then I guess people will stay at home by default anyway.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Be alert - Britain needs lerts!
(Not my real name.)
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
who wants to be a lert any way. lol
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,071
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,938
Rather clever the order Boris mentioned ‘the four nations of the U.K.in, ‘ when he outlined his plans.
Scotland,
England,
Wales,
Northern Ireland......
SEWN
Is it just me or was this code for a stitch up!
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/embroideredDo nothing and nothing happens.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Basically about time people got back to work.
1/5 of population sitting on their backsides on 80% pay has stopped 'our' NHS getting overwhelmed.
Good result but about time people got their arses into gear.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Captain Haddock wrote:Basically about time people got back to work.
1/5 of population sitting on their backsides on 80% pay has stopped 'our' NHS getting overwhelmed.
Good result but about time people got their arses into gear.
This appears to provide some leeway, for companies that are able to observe the rules for maximising protection for staff, to get them back working again which would then prevent claims of ‘the government forced us back.’
They always had to go back sometime, although when was always a difficult question to find an answer to.
The 2 week isolation for travellers coming in to the U.K., if /when it is actioned could provide the next headache for those coming back to the U.K. after holidays or coming in for holidays in the U.K.
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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- Posts: 8,101
Sweden doing well?
Swedish Government apologises for not doing enough to protect older people: “We failed to protect our elderly. That’s really serious, and a failure for society as a whole.” 90% Sweden’s Covid-19 deaths were among the over-70s
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Ethel says walking to work is so much more healthy than catching t'tram
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Captain Haddock wrote:Basically about time people got back to work.
1/5 of population sitting on their backsides on 80% pay has stopped 'our' NHS getting overwhelmed.
Good result but about time people got their arses into gear.
Signs of memory loss, or just 'on message'? Tory tyranny
imposed the backside position on an upright nation, under diktat and police enforcement.
btw, I did a rain dance Saturday. It rained Sunday. Good result.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Weird Granny Slater wrote:Tory tyranny imposed the backside position on an upright nation
Wicked, wicked Tories. Bet an administration of any other political hue would never think of doing such a thing.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
Following on from Buttons comment it was the Labour voices on the tv this morning who were unsure about the new policy of back to work.
It will be interesting to see if the virus numbers climb again as in some other countries now people are encouraged to go back to work.
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Then again, if you don't like the analytical approach there's always the opportunity to take the p**s.
