madwullie

Hmmm, three alternate viewpoints. I like it. Have considered them all tbh (minus giving the cash to young couples - did consider fucking it in a uni / business fund for the weans when they're old enough to know what they want to do.)

Spot on. My wife does it too. She needs to learn to give them an effective bollocking. Thing is, I'm actually good at it having been a teacher for so long I can play them like a ukelele, but she's so stubborn to believe that she is just as good as me at everything (I don't believe the same.thing in return - she's much better at me at some shit) she takes a massive fucking huff when I try to give her advice and resorts to her tried and tested methods that have never ever ever worked.

I've inherited a house recently. Not entirely sure what to do. It's gained 40k on its value in the last 15 years. Just don't get that type of return with bank accounts or owt these days. Seriously tempted to keep it and rent it, but then can foresee that being a massive ballache. But then clearing it out of all the furniture and shit will also be a ballache. Especially the fucking garage. Dont particularly NEED the money now or even in the short to medium term. It's a conundrum. Any advice denizens of P&B? (I know this is the wrong thread but it does seem kinda on topic atm)

I don't think it's particularly controversial to suggest we're at the start of a third wave given what's happening with cases and to a far lesser extent hospitalisations. Point is though, we don't need to act like we did in previous waves due to the generally acknowledged fact by those in charge that vaccinations have broken, or at least seriously bodied, the link to deaths. Nothing that has been said in the last few weeks has made me think that even with rising cases were going to plunge back into heavy restrictions - quite the opposite in fact. It can still be called a wave tho

Bingo

I know for eg my dad got his second dose while he was in hospital and hands up I forgot to phone up and cancel his original app at the local health Centre. If so many people are doing walk-ups, a fair proportion of them will have appointments made that they don't turn up to and forget to cancel. I don't think it necessarily translates that all of these people haven't been jagged is what I'm trying to say, some just will have been forgetful or ignorant (I was the former fyis)

Dunno what it is, but there's something about the theme tunes of 80s cartoons that burned them permanently into your brain. Defenders of the Earth being a prime example. Even now 30-odd years later, absolutely no problem remembering those lyrics at all.

I'm a member of yougov and periodically go through a phase of doing their surveys. I have been asked the covid questions before (it's been over 6 months tho) and did get asked about independence quite regularly too. Not that that testifies to the veracity of their conclusions, but these surveys do actually exist.

I had to finish that last post in a hurry. Also meant to add that there genuine anger down south regarding how late the second lockdown was and the culpability of WM for the tens of thousands of deaths that resulted from the delay. Rightly of wrongly, that anger doesn't seem to exist as strongly up here. I think that colours English perceptions of restrictions and whether they should remain in place, given the tories are moving to lift them and people think they've fucked up previously - it probably doesn't help that cases are rising while they are still saying they'll open up. It doesn't seem to be quite as fringe a view up here as it seems down south that vaccines break that link and it is much safer to open up now. Of course that's just what I see on twitter and could easily be influenced by who and what I follow, but the views on this thread are certainly not echoed to any great extent on the English twitter regions I access compared to the Scottish

It's not scientific, but if you look on twitter, you'll find that a lot of English people are anti-restrictions loosening. I think that's down to dislike of the tories and their self-serving performance throughout, rather than actually considering the implications. Dunno if there's been Scotland only polls?

That's a fortune for them though mate. Got to consider that. Could feed the whole village with that not a problem. Sink a new well or some such

It's a log-scale is it not? I'm not going to pretend to fully understand the ins and outs, but I'm pretty sure that's the way this data has been displayed most of the way through the pandemic.

I'm no moon howler but

That's a very good point.

Dunno their crimes are so similar that any shade on Hancock is shade on him too

Tweeting away again tonight. Plenty of receipts earlier in this thread if you've not seen it before now

It's like when you were wee (my kids do this all the time) and as long as you just kept telling lies and didn't admit it noone could say you'd done anything wrong, no matter how incongruous and fantastical the lies were. Just fucking admit it mate ffs

Jesus f**k that is absolutely awful

My mum was fucking terrible for this. She would phone to find out how we were most days, and when in one of these huffs would still phone but say barely anything and be really short. What's wrong mum? (knowing fine well what's wrong) Nothing's wrong (very long silence) Bonkers behaviour.

Yeah I know. I meant they don't see anything wrong with it rather than they're nonplussed about it all.

He's just assumed we have without actually reading the thread based on his internal view of what snp supporters like / want / believe.

It's absolutely fucking ridiculous. Even proper Johnson supporters in the main accept he's broken the rules a number of times - they just couldn't care less. Yet for some reason the whole country has to go through this endless fucking pantomime to satisfy.... what exactly? I don't even know.

Easy Hastings

I think I might be an old b*****d