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"Think we'll get another big walk today, then Casper?"
"Well, if we do, I've made sure we don't lose the ball chucker. Daft old sod couldn't find it this morning."
"Eh, should that not have a ball in it, or something?"
"Oh, bugger."
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Indeed, even though I've got More NY than many have music, it makes a nice wee back-up in the car when DAB and phone signal let me down.Rather good CD , what ?1 -
Ten for Friday, aided by an old technique on Q. 10.
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20 hours ago, 101 said:
What's that?
Jack The Ripper, i.e. a stab in the dark.
(Thanks, Arch).
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Yet again, NY shows you don't have to be a whore to be successful.The needle and the damage done...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/26/spotify-neil-young-joe-rogan-covid-misinformation
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"We're on the train to BangkokThat's not actually about trains [emoji6]
All of my top 5 have been mentioned except this...
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best" Sounds pretty much like a train to me - especially as none of the products mentioned therein have an effect which you'd describe as "express". Anyhoo.. 1. Ozzy - Crazy Train. The POFD* returns from his Sabbath dismissal with a blistering album, with this as the single. Awesome. 2. See Above. The "other" side of 2112 has a couple of classics, including this and Something for Nothing. 3. Neil Young - Southern Pacific. There had to be something from the model nut who bought a large chunk of Lionel (US equivalent of Hornby) and has (or had, pre-divorce) a massive set up of his own:
4. Chris De Burgh - Spanish Train. Yes, seriously. I've always been a sucker for a "story song", and back in the day this guy wrote some cracking stuff. The album has some other really good tracks, and it's hard to believe this talent came up with Lady in Red. Mind you, Chuck Berry's forever tarred with My Dingaling, and Jeff Beck must wish he'd never recorded hi-ho Silver Lining.
5. Grateful Dead - Casey Jones. Well, it's the Dead, innit?
* Prince of Fúckin' Darkness.
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2 hours ago, strichener said:
I don't think I'll be taking an lessons for you when it comes to maturity.
behaviour that primary one kids wouldn't have the brass neck to show.
@Miguel Sanchez - apologies for ruining your forum experience. Rather immature of me.
So, who was living in whose head, again?
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6 hours ago, oaksoft said:
Nothing tells you that you don't really belong and that you're just an unimportant cog quite like hot-desking.
When I was young, I met my entire social circle (including sports) through work and also met my wife there. It must be very difficult for young people nowadays.
^^^ WFH PIoneer.
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3 hours ago, coprolite said:
If only there was a famous quote of hers to deploy here. … nope, can’t think of anything
Neither. Can. I.
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2 hours ago, Billy Jean King said:
BBC News - Universal Credit: Jobseekers must widen job search more quickly
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60149016
On the face of it classic Tory going to Tory stuff but the fact the Scarecrow announced yesterday at PMQs that today would see the launch of a major new policy intended to get more folk into work is simply disingenuous shite. It's another benefit cut plain and simple.It's not disingenuous shíte. It's a bare-faced fucking lie.
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Ten for Thursday - aided by a complete JtR on the music. Otherwise comfortable, making up for a poor start to the week.
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Ten for Wednesday. Pure guess on YPM - might as well have been an árse album..
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7 minutes ago, John Lambies Doos said:
I'd be very surprised if he hadn't informed then, obviously he is a compulsive liar so probably said he didn't. Completely right about the phones though, although the useless bunch would be better just playing tetris for what its worth
I think you misunderstand - he hasn't said this - it became evident when minister afeter minister gave the "what police involvement" response.
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10 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:
A Gray whitewash followed by a Met whitewash with Johnson continuing to insist he has not broken the law is the best outcome. No one will believe it and Cressida Dick’s reputation damaged even further (if that’s possible).
Even if that were to happen I think the magical 54 letters would be received by Graham Brady with Johnson out on his arse and, hopefully, a very public and very messy leadership contest.
Can Ministers submit letters, or does the 1922 deal exclusively with backbenchers' issues? I ojnly ask becuse of this morning's "if I ignore it it might go away" ploy (see above).
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1 hour ago, Highlandmagyar Tier 3 said:
So convenient for the Met to ontervene on the eve of the report. The most corrupt police force in the land investigating the most corrupt government in my lifetime. Bed pals indeed. It will be buried and never brought to light.
Interesting to hear on Sky News that Johnson didn't inform his cabinet during this morning's meeting, even though he'd been told about the Met's involvement prior to the event.
Coupled with the "no phones" rule in force at these meetings, this apparently led to a string of bemused ministers being asked, as they left
Hacienda SouthDowning St., what their opinions were on this development - which they, supposedly Johnson's top team, were entirely unaware of. He sure knows how to piss off the people who can do him most damage.0 -
Shapps on Sky this morning twisting himself in knots by desperately playing the "I couldn't get to see my ill father during lockdown" card for sympathy while simultaneously excusing his boss having a fucking birthday party, and being re-shown footage of said boss lying through his teeth at the dispatch box.
"Let's establish the facts" - we've established the facts, boyo.
Burley's morning chats with the Judas Goat of the Day are becoming quite the entertainment.
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Six for Tuesday. Finland, quarks, Monarch (which I knew but second-guessed) and, to my Total War-playing shame, empire.
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I just hope we're not having another false dawn, and that Kyle's return resembles Kris Boyd's rather than Mulumbu or, dare I say it, Losa's.
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Regarding Suzy Lamplugh, is this not a case where they know who did it and the guy is in jail? This is the lovely chap, he's up for parole this year! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cannan
That's the creature. Horrible barrack room lawyer type as well.* I'm not convinced his continued refusal to admit to this offence will do his parole chances much good, but you never know."John David Guise Cannan (born 20 February 1954)[1][2][failed verification] is a British murderer, serial rapist, serial abductor and suspected serial killer.[3] Cannan, a former car salesman"
Say what you like, but he was the best salesman around in those days.
* As in "what do you know? You're only a prison officer." **
**"well, I know I'm going home to some cold beer, a warm bed and a hot wife. How's your evening looking?" (petty, I know but Fūck him)
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Nine for Monday - I feel a right Planck.
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55 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:
Yeah people who essentially wear masks only when popping in to shops really are in no place to declare wearing them as no big ask.
The pandemic has brought out the worst type of people who not only happily tell others what they should and should not be bothered about based on their own experiences, but pass their views off as fact.
Wow. Just Wow. Who would have thought, in the post-Covid celebrations of August 2020, we'd be seeing posts like this.
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True. My boy loves a ramble. His wee sister, on the other hand, reckons walks are serious business
Who says dogs can’t smile?
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isn't one of them dead now? I'm sure the Eye did a Thribb epitaph focusing on the way nobody ever knew one from the other..Thing that worries me is if the weirdo Barclay twins (who own the Telegraph, one recently deceased) have dumped Boris, to whom they've paid huge amounts of cash as their pet hack for years, who do they want to replace him with?
Quick Google reveals David pegged it 15/1/21, and is survived by Frederick.
Quick re-read of your post shows that I completely missed three words of your post. Wanna guess which ones?2 -
Again, if you are genuinely concerned over masks look up the different purposes masks are used for. If you base an argument on FFP respirators doing the same job as FRSMs, then the points you raise in the rest of your post become liable to be treated with the same level of respect as the others who see "masks" as an all encompassing term for everything from BP-RPE to a manky old RangAyr scarf slung over the face.Maybe try and explain why you don't agree with it, then, rather than assuming your standard role as the thread's posturing moral arbiter. Maybe you'd get less grief if you did that rather than quote a cherry picked sentence with something like "wow, libertarian type post!" or your endless girning about a subtext with no further comment.
Your health is primarily *your* responsibility. Clearly you disagree with this so I'm genuinely interested to understand why.
Everyone that is over the age of 12 and wants a Covid vaccine has had the opportunity to get one. This is their decision and it is their responsibility to make that decision. It is not for society to make this decision. Indeed, most have had the opportunity to get their booster and in many cases a third dose. The vaccines are effective at preventing serious illness.
It turns out that the vaccines are not however much use now at stopping you getting covid or indeed passing it on if you have it. So if people continued to be frightened of getting covid, what to do? Limit interactions? Not undertake "high risk" activities, wear a mask? These are personal decisions and responsibilities. Society isn't going to make all of these determinations instead. Facemasks are mandatory currently in many of these "high risk" settings and yet people still get the virus anyway.
Masks, at least in England, will soon no longer be mandatory. So with your three vaccinations and your own mask not coming off, then what? You can buy a FFP2 or FFP3 mask, which offer you a much higher rate of protection, backed up by studies. Indeed, the FFP3 masks were shown to offer NHS frontline staff up to 100% protection from infection. But I seldom see people wearing these masks, instead usually sporting a cloth or surgical mask that has probably been reused a number of times. Too much of an effort to protect your own health, and something best left us to *everyone else* instead. Again, this is a personal decision, and something people need to take responsibility for.
Society has sacrificed more than enough and put up with draconian restrictions for nearly two years in the name of protecting public health. Indeed a vaccine has been produced which has more than taken the sting out of the pandemic - peak hospitalisations are half of what they were during the Alpha wave, despite cases being 2.5-3x higher. Daily deaths are also down by a factor of 5; the vaccines work, society has protection available to everyone that de-risks the virus. It has fulfilled a big responsibility by making this vaccine available and providing a high level of protection available to all that want it.
But that's only part of it. If you're not vaccinated, you don't get that additional protection. It is *your* responsibility to make that call. And if you are at increased risk despite your vaccines, it is incumbent on *you* to take the measures necessary to protect yourself. And this is what I mean by your health beginning and ending with *you*.
It is a personal choice to whether or not you get vaccinated. Your responsibility to make that call.
Society (well, government and the much-maligned big pharma) provided the vaccine and therefore.the protection it brings. This provides a very good baseline protection for the public.
If that still isn't enough, it is a personal responsibility to determine what might be needed to make sure you feel safe, whatever that may be. It is not incumbent on society (which has already provided you with a good safety net).
Society has played its part.The tools are there for people to take additional precautions, but rather than do this people just seem to complain. Why? The amount of whining I see about masks no longer being mandatory and how terrified this makes people is wildly disproportionate to the amount of people I actually see wearing proper masks. If you are genuinely worried, you will take that extra step rather than moaning that everyone else should wear an ill-fitting mask that's been used 9 times without a wash and do it for you (or at least give you the illusion they're protecting you).
Rant
Not saying I agree or disagree with your other remarks but, while I am fairly ignorant on the real situation in Scotland at the moment (you'll excuse me for not taking the most active posters' tirades as gospel), there are some things I am knowledgeable about. One is that this is not a black and white situation, and the likes of MT, Wee Bully, WelshBairn and a few others deserve at least the respect of their views being listened to before rejected, rather than being treated to a torrent of ad hominem attacks which is becoming a hallmark of this thread.
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