ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Captain Haddock wrote:And back to Cummings! Dunno about Islington, I think he inhabits your head!
Do you dream of him? Has he got his clothes on or not? Is this the love that dare not speak its name?
Get over it. Move on. There's serious sh1t going on.
(Btw, now Thursday's freed up from clapping for our wonderful NHS can we all go down on one knee for Floyd? I really enjoyed his fish cookery)
Don't worry Cap'n. Lockdown has been released somewhat and car showrooms are opening today. You could book a test drive and get an eye test at the same time!
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Reginald Barrington wrote:This implies he has integrity? What planet are you on this time?
"Surely they should receive comparable condemnation for the their behaviour or we are applying the same double standards to our own behaviour as Cummings is being accused of."
A different planet from you, Reggie, that's for sure. The post truth era hasn't quite made it to this neck of the woods yet.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,101
1. It begins.
2. It always begins in Liverpool!
On the plus side Cash converters opens up 15 Jun. Plenty of unopened laptops/tablets given to 'poor' kids to keep up on their skool work.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/dad-eight-stole-30k-ppe-18342195.amp?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar&__twitter_impression=true"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
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- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Captain Haddock wrote: There's serious sh1t going on.
Indeed. And a major reason, I think, for following the advice to stay home as much as possible is that there are no loos available when you're out.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Yup. Should have followed my advice to provide continental style 'pissoirs'.
Slightly sexist but main problem is blokes with a bladder full?
"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
Yeah, since those of us of a female persuasion can now go to a garden centre and buy a bush to go behind.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,071
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It is now a crime to stay at someone else's home overnight, or to hold gatherings of two or more people indoors or more than six people outdoors, under new legislation. Officers can fine rule-breakers and arrest them if they do not co-operate.'
Altogether now, There'll always be an England, etc... (other songs of patriotic self-delusion are available).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52880399'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
John Buckley
- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
- Posts: 615
I note that you failed to mention the good news bit though Granny, surely we should be celebrating?
The chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), Martin Hewitt, said personal responsibility was "key" as members of the public "enjoy these new freedoms".
What’s not to like?
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,071
Yes, from the front page of the Telegraph this morning, someone else 'enjoying his new freedoms':
If I were that child's parent, I'd offer a polite but robust 'NOT ON YOUR TERMS' to those masked and muzzled guards and swiftly remove him from that modern-day Bedlam before he suffers irreparable psychological damage. That's the only way to stop this insanity.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
That's not a young offenders centre then?
Arte et Marte
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Disciplinary institutions both, RB; the photo clarifies the identity.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Looking forward to the chaos around the 14 day quarantine for arrivals at airports and ports today. I see the Daily Mail reporting that the Government is stuck with it after Cummings' made it up on the hoof to try and divert attention away from incompetence in other areas.
Hilarious to hear Government floating the idea of "air bridges" with countries that are either the same, or not worse than the UK. That would mean an air bridge with everybody bar the US and Brazil!
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Damn all to do with Cummings. Stupid policy. Due to weeks of idiot commentators saying ' yeah, but there's planes landing at Heathrow etc' who understand bugger all about very much.
"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: 3,071
But 'idiot commentators' don't make government policy. Unless the government is open to idiocy.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Don't be like these bad boys and girls. Be good children, wear your mask. Or Mr Plod will slap you.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
"People will have to wear coverings on buses, trains, aircraft and ferries".
Yet another case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. If face coverings are so important now why not when shopping or out in public areas
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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I imagine that will come, JH, now their social experiments have shown how willing we are to infantilise ourselves.
'The worst of all public dangers is the committee of public safety.' C.S. Lewis
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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We're fighting this pandemic with a three month delay. It's absolutely nuts!
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Or, the conversation went like this:
GS: "But I'm the Transport Secretary, if I do the briefing tonight they will just hammer me about the nonsensical 14 day quarantine!"
No 10: "Well just announce another policy then, anything will do. How about face masks on public transport?"
GS "Fine."
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
Are the government involved in some sort of weird reverse psychology.
Next month perhaps they will float the idea of protecting nursing homes by not sending them NHS covid patients.
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