Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,546
Tesco have removed all the arrows from their aisles, so everything must be back to normal.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,101
In my experience from a large number of supermarkets over the past few weeks the 'one way system' has been ignored for some while.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,071
Morrisons erected a tacky cardboard portico at the entrance to the tills especially for customers whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders. But it's a grand feeling nevertheless to pass through that faux classical feature with a hill of beans in your trolley.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,071
News for judicial review fans everywhere: on Monday Simon Dolan will formally request an appeal against the judge's decision to deny permission for JR of government's 'lockdown' policy.
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/lockdownlegalchallenge/'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,101
More money than sence (obvs).
Doubles and trebles around for m'learned friends.
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Captain Haddock wrote:More money than sence (obvs).
Doubles and trebles around for m'learned friends.
Hm. Why do I get the feeling some of MY money will be involved?
(Not my real name.)
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,071
The action is crowdfunded. Normally the loser pays all costs. So (should it get as far as JR) if the claimant loses, costs should be covered by the growing pot in the fund. 'You' will only pay if the defendant (i.e. the government) loses. In which case, it'll have more to worry about than finding a few thousand quid. But, given it's magicked a money tree from nowhere, it shouldn't be a problem anyway.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,071
So, if these are the conditions for
imposing the wrapping-up of faces, what would the conditions need to be for
removing the imposition? Asking for a friend.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Chris- Forum Admin
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Oct 2009
- Posts: 357
Given that the aim is to stop the number of deaths increasing again, this might be a more relevant graph (footfall compared to last year)? I think we can assume this is going to keep going up.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,101
After Leicester, it's now Blackburn.
Why is Boris Johnson allowing Covid to attack Muslim majority cities??
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,071
Chris wrote:Given that the aim is to stop the number of deaths increasing again, this might be a more relevant graph (footfall compared to last year)? I think we can assume this is going to keep going up.
I've yet to see a
more relevant graph than the one I posted in #814. If the hesitant / fearful / paranoid need reassurance then this is the one to stick on all the newspaper front pages and tv bulletins. (It makes you wonder why it isn't already, seeing as anyone, including journalists, can download the latest one from the ONS.) By all means contextualise it with statistics that show that weekly deaths from all causes have been below the five-year average since the week ending 19 June, and that the number of 'covid-19 associated' deaths for the week ending 3 July was a mere 5.82% of the 9140 total deaths from all causes. (If anyone's startled by the number of weekly deaths that are
not covid-19 associated, then he or she needs urgent education, not an arm around his or her shoulder.)
Forcing shoppers to wrap their faces simply conveys the message that shops are sites of contagion and the people in them are potential toxic enemies. That's hardly likely to reassure many. Especially so given that the government admitted as recently as 9 July that the evidence for the efficacy of face coverings was 'weak', and its own health officers (e.g. Jenny Harries) have since March very publicly indicated that they may in fact be harmful.
What's more it'll keep out the many sensible people for whom these places are off-limits all the while the government turns a pleasurable experience into a series of micro-managed interactions accompanied by security guards, police patrols and the assorted rigmarole of totalitarian states. It'll also turn many individuals into risk-averse comfort-blanket-chewers and others into denouncers and shamers of mask-refuseniks. That'll make for a truly suffocating future for those of us who still remember a free England.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,101
What I find weird is that the same people who got all jiggy about facial recognition through CCTV are uptight about facial masks?
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,101
Bored . Enjoy. I ♥️ Roy Harper.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Wonderful song by a superb singer/songwriter. I would never have know you had such eclectic tastes.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,101
My favourite musician.
Seen him countless times since the sixties. Even introduced my new born eldest to him at Leas Cliff Hall 37(?) years ago. Still have autographed ticket!
Saw him twice last year at De La Warre pavilion and Palladium.
Stormcock is my favourite album and Me and My Woman favourite track in the world.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,101
Still brings me to tears!
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
We'll be admonished for going off topic so I'll simply say this in parting:-
When the day is done and the ball has spun in the umpires pocket away
And all remains in the groundsman's pains for the rest of the time and a day
There'll be one mad dog and his master, pushing for four with the spin
On a dusty pitch with two pounds six of willow wood in the sun.
Good night.
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Hancock now trying to claim that lockdown started on the 16 March shows just how comfortably and easily this shower will try and re-write history right before your eyes
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
yes neil, they are all bull shiners.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
