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One scientist alone can often be wrong, the weight of multiple scientific minds in agreement so much the better, hence SAGE - pity they're up against the closed-minded political chancers of the Cabinet.What has the WHO come out for?
Johnson, Hancock and CummingsThe Three Innuendos ?
On my way to visit my mum I pass the memorably named Bell End Farm. I thought they were grown mainly at Eton.
Sera69 wrote: "Johnson, Hancock and CummingsThe Three Innuendos ?"
Brilliant!
Bohemian CatastropheWelcome to the Bungle
Liar's Tongues in Backsides
Failing England by the Hour... they write themselves!
Gordon wrote: "On my way to visit my mum I pass the memorably named Bell End Farm. I thought they were grown mainly at Eton."They don't grow, they regress at Eton.
Tim wrote: "The PCR test they are using (not just here) was never designed to find viruses..."Utter nonsense.
Teflon wasn't designed to line frying pans. The worldwide web wasn't designed to spread conspiracy theories. Do you deny that they are highly effective for those uses?
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays were designed to detect nucleic acids (RNA and DNA) as an indicator of the presence or expression of specific genes in small biological samples. They have been used successfully for detection of viruses (which are made of RNA or DNA plus a bit of protein) for 35 years. Routine testing for HIV, hepatitis C, flu and many others is performed with PCR. It is an absolutely standard tool in virology.
Tim wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "Tim wrote: "LOL. Shame the traditional name isn't the four bells. They could have added Ferguson in then."..... or Jenrick - mainly entitled/incompetent science-ignoring Tory t..."
"A recently published peer reviewed article states that 99.8% of people who catch covid survive." - the survival rate may well be high but that's not the issue. The issue is the sheer numbers getting infected, the proportion of those needing ICU beds and ventilators, sometimes for weeks and the expectation that our health care system will be able to cope. If we go down the Steve Baker et al route and remove the majority of the restrictions then infection rates will soar even more than they have under current in effective and patchy measures. For most of these new infections they may not suffer any symptoms or may experience a mild illness and just recover in isolation at home but cases among the very young, pregnant, BAME, poor, elderly, obese and those with other co-morbidities will also soar. It is they who may well overwhelm the ICU units of the NHS including the Nightingales which could lead to doctors having to ration care - no bed for you as you're 75, of Asian extraction, have a BMI of 40 and are a chronic asthmatic, please go to your cramped multi-generational home, take paracetamol and die there; at least your family can say goodbye. Hasn't happened yet as the belated first wave lockdown eventually flattened the curve. Who's to say it won't happen this winter especially as any measures taken now will have no effect on the infection and death rates for at least 3 weeks and this softly, softly, 3 confusing tiers in England but different restrictions in each of the other 3 countries of the fast-dissolving UK is too cautious?
There's also the question of what 'surviving' Covid means. So many are left with long-term weakness, fatigue, brain-fog, organ damage, etc - it's not like bouncing back after a bout of flu.
A circuit-breaker lockdown for an extended half-term might have been effective but the opportunity's been spaffed up the wall. Can't put any faith in a lazy, lying, self-serving, opportunistic narcissist to do the right thing, especially since following the science has morphed into studiously ignoring it.
This could be quite useful 😁...Shakespeare Insult Kit - http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/shake_...
There is a random auto insult generator too - http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker...?
Thou wayward pottle-deep pumpion!
Thou qualling boil-brained malt-worm!
Thou bootless weather-bitten pignut!
"Saucy knave" has always been a favourite of mine. And the Duke of Kent's likening of Oswald to a letter of the alphabet in King Lear: "Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter!"
Quick crossword clue; 'Manipulate balls (6)' - suggestions please!!
Brass Neck wrote: "Quick crossword clue; 'Manipulate balls (6)' - suggestions please!!"Juggle
Isabella wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "Quick crossword clue; 'Manipulate balls (6)' - suggestions please!!"Juggle"
Jiggle fits too, pocket billiards not so much.
Can't help thinking the Minnie-ster's quite a clever pup. I was throwing her pull toy - sort of two foot long knitted and knotted multi-hued rope with squeakers inside - into the the next room for her to fetch. The first few times she grabbed one end and trotted back with it but it got under her feet. Quite consistently now she manoeuvres one end next to the other and experiments until she's got both sections secure in her mouth and then trots back unencumbered. Call me (too easily?) impressed.I went on a rare visit to Lidl (actually any visit to any shop is a rarity these days) and they had these little hi-vis jackets with USB rechargeable lights for less than £6. Since one of the sections of her territorial perambulations is an unadopted lane off our road with no street lighting ...... and no street I thought it would be sensible to avoid treading on her. She was NOT impressed by either speed of flashing red lights down her flanks and kpt trying to twist and bite the coat but seemed OK with the lights just on. Meanwhile her nighttime pee and poo patrol is like Xmas every day!!!!!
Walking her's not that much fun as yet as she has her nose permanently a mere 3 microns from the path/wall/verge and every scent has to be fully investigated necessitating lengthy stops every other step. Took her to a local park with a railed off dog run yesterday - unfortunately long-unmown and no other dogs to play with. I was a bit perturbed to see her walk straight through the railings so we won't be going there again until she's bulked up a bit. Had a walk round the rest of the park with brief interactions with other dogs OK and then she saw ....................... a squirrel, shot off at full tilt and for one with short stumpy legs she can't half move until she reached the end of the 5m reel and nearly garroted herself! In other circumstances she seems to have understood that when I call, "Whoa" it narrowly precedes that outcome and she slows down but not this time.
Tech XXIII wrote: "he's in love!"Of that there is no doubt - he says as he cleans up the puddle of piss from the carpet in the corner of the living room. Good job Missus Neck's off to Sainsbury's and, since the chicken wire arrived this morning, I must dog escape-proof the garden so she can go out there.
Brass Neck wrote: "Quick crossword clue; 'Manipulate balls (6)' - suggestions please!!"Isn't that what Allegra Stratton is being appointed to do?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/pol...
Brass Neck wrote: "Tech XXIII wrote: "he's in love!"Of that there is no doubt - he says as he cleans up the puddle of piss from the carpet in the corner of the living room. Good job Missus Neck's off to Sainsbury's..."
Nothing like mopping piss from a carpet to foster man to dog love.
Gordon wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "Quick crossword clue; 'Manipulate balls (6)' - suggestions please!!"Isn't that what Allegra Stratton is being appointed to do?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/pol......"
What was she thinking when she accepted that thankless, bollockspeak mouthpiece job? It's a no-win - she won't be allowed to voice independent thoughts regardless of her inevitable doubts about the back-of-a-fag-packet policies and requirements to defend the indefensible. No matter what the pay is, her self-esteem can't survive past the first month, never mind into a deal-less new year.
Brass Neck wrote: "...since the chicken wire arrived this morning, I must dog escape-proof the garden so she can go out there..."You'll be need some of these too. I never knew "dog fence windows" were a "thing":-
The last one's Laika at Baikonur just prior to blast-off, no?
Brass Neck wrote: "The last one's Laika at Baikonur just prior to blast-off, no?"Yes!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=dog+fenc...
"Bubble Window for Your Dog Cat or Child"ideal viewing station for your pet child? be as well just labelling the product as a paedo window!
Tech XXIII wrote: ""Bubble Window for Your Dog Cat or Child"ideal viewing station for your pet child? be as well just labelling the product as a paedo window!"
Paedo Porthole
The cast of a yodelling musical have rejected blame for a COVID-19 outbreak dubbed one of the worst in Europe.https://news.sky.com/story/coronaviru...
or, as splashed on walls and doors of certain addresses hereabouts. peedo - pedo - pido!
reminds me of the most pathetic hate grafitti sprayed on the shop shutters of a convenience shop in town, owned incidentally by a (scottish) gentleman of asian descent,"go back to zimbababy"
Tech XXIII wrote: "reminds me of the most pathetic hate grafitti sprayed on the shop shutters of a convenience shop in town, owned incidentally by a (scottish) gentleman of asian descent,"go back to zimbababy""
I seem to remember that some years ago, at the height of the paedophile scandal, someone sprayed a paediatrician's house, not knowing the difference ...
Ignorance and stupidity, the ultimate birthright of the British? Explains so much about our politics over the last few years.
"Ignorance and stupidity"you said a right thing! add in criminality to get the trilogy of despair!
Tech XXIII wrote: ""Ignorance and stupidity"you said a right thing! add in criminality to get the trilogy of despair!"
Only north of the border in Jakeyland.
actually, a fourology if you include addiction!
Tech XXIII wrote: "reminds me of the most pathetic hate grafitti sprayed on the shop shutters of a convenience shop in town, owned incidentally by a (scottish) gentleman of asian descent,"go back to zimbababy""
Truly outrageous. Everyone in his right mind knows it's "zimbubbly".
They're bigging up exercise classes in their charmless, racist, illiterate way - Zumbababy?
And they didn't even mention sandals;https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/m...
As an adult-life-long Grauniad reader I/we only partially match 8 and 11, mebbes a switch to a politically neutral and sober purveyor of the truth like the Daily Fail is in order?
They've confused Grauniad with Hipster, there. Don't recognise a single one. Not for me or for the publication itself.
As a 'might pick up the Guardian if it's the only thing available in the coffee shop to read' reader, I fail on all of those tests. To be fair, the Express, Sun, Torygraph, Daily Mail, all fall into the same readership category for me.I'll stick with The Times.
In a scouse accent, "Wouldn't wipe me arse with the Sun ..... la".
Serial wrote: "Only in the USAhttps://news.sky.com/story/us-electio..."
Oh look, they've got their Xmas cracker hats on, sweeeeeet!
Haven't seen any coverage of the final 'Presidential' debate but found some of these tweets amusing (and, no Serial, none of them are supportive of the orange one);https://www.pastemagazine.com/comedy/...
Brass Neck wrote: "Haven't seen any coverage of the final 'Presidential' debate but found some of these tweets amusing (and, no Serial, none of them are supportive of the orange one);https://www.pastemagazine.com/co..."
My favorite
'Trump is describing his vision for a metal as hell America. Suicide. Booze. Ghosts. Wild shit, man. #Debates2020
2:22 AM · Oct 23, 2020'
Got the washing out then holding the phone to the vets to enquire about getting Minnie spayed since yesterday's walk on Cleethorpes beach resulted in two dogs trying to mount her!Having got through they say two months after her first season so I'm going to get a chastity belt for her! They don't bugger about like this with cats, they're straight in cutting their bits, what's so different about dogs?
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..... or Jenrick - mainly entitled/incompetent science-ignoring Tory tossers who're misha..."
Just because someone is a scientist, doesn't mean they're correct. Ferguson is a case in point. Just examine his dismal track record going back nearly two decades. And just for the record, the WHO has now come out against lockdowns.
I certainly agree about the useless test & trace farce. Just last night on the telly there was a story about cases in Hertfordshire (circa 715) of which 473 were for people who are not currently living in the county (students, I guess). The PCR test they are using (not just here) was never designed to find viruses. There are many false positives, but the powers that be won't admit it. People who have gone along to a test centre, and given up after waiting for an hour or longer, have apparently received emails saying they've tested positive, even though they never had the test. The whole thing is a joke.
One final thought. A recently published peer reviewed article states that 99.8% of people who catch covid survive.