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He never misled parliament, though.

One of my friends spewed all over the school bus on the way to the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988. About 2 minutes after leaving the school. It was running up and down the aisle and was making us all feel ill. I know, I know. 1988 thread for this pish.

Take away the question mark...

As a report we had to wait ages on, there is very little indeed in this. The juicy stuff has been taken out. The most robust it gets is this:

12 in total, 4 considered non-criminal.

I remember watching TFI Friday. The album had been out for a couple of weeks and sales were high, but people were starting to say that it wasn't as good as the earlier albums. Chris Evans did a bit on the show pretending to be a doctor, using a stethoscope to examine the album and declaring it dead. After that, I think folk stopped buying it.

I started using the internet in ~1995. In 97 I got my first home PC - it weighed a bloody ton. I would sign up to whatever provider was offering a free month of internet access (compuserve, AOL and so on) then cancel with them and move to the next one, before Freeserve came on the scene and removed the need for hopping around. Maybe used it for an hour every second day. Bear in mind, it tied up the phone line for the house in those days. When I went to uni, they had computer labs that were open 24 hours so would surf the web from there rather than at home. Youngsters on this thread have no earthly idea how slow the internet was on a 14.4k modem. You would go to a website, off to make a cup of tea and a sandwich, and if you were lucky the page had loaded up by the time you got back.

This is an issue for me with many in this group. They are very sceptical about vaccines that have gone through the biggest and most rigorous clinical trials, with published data and key information on side effects, but will believe social media stuff about ivermectin and point to this or that small scale study as absolute proof that it works.

U2 released Pop! which was the signal that their downward spiral had begun.

Watched the Mandalorian episode with the kids. My daughter was raging that Boba Fett wasn't in it. Seemed an odd episode. It should be in the other show.

Update: 2 weeks the repair lasted. Parts of the "fixed" bits of the roof fell off at the weekend. The roofer has been emailing mum* asking her to put a review on Trustpilot. She doesn't want to as she doesn't like to be mean. I said she just should. Now she needs to get a new roofer to fix the repair. * just for @Hedgecutter

For me personally, it was the year I left school and went to university. I got a summer job as a roads surveyor for Stirling council, driving up and down the A84 and A85. Couldn't work in the rain. Lunch on sunny days in Strathyre. It was probably the best job I have ever had, hanging out with friends. I guess for me it was a pivotal year. Turned 18, started visiting pubs legally. Hit the nightclubs. Voted for the very first time. Became a student. Passed my driving test. Bought my first car (a B-reg Vauxhall Nova). Saw U2 at Murrayfield. Looking back it was a busy year for me. And an enjoyable one.

I made a joke about ivermectin, but let me clarify. It is entirely possible that this drug has an unexpected side effect that helps Covid infections. Viagra started out as heart medication until the clinical trial revealed an unexpected (and profitable) side effect. I'll wait for the results of a proper, full scale clinical trial on the use of this drug on Covid patients before deciding if this is a goer or not. The odd study here and there proves nothing,

Fair summary @Miguel Sanchez There were some absolute gems in the Capaldi lot (and some utter dross). Looking forward to seeing how the Chibnall era drains you.

I got to the door naked and it really freaked the JW's out. Not sure what scared them the most. The fact I was naked, or the fact I knew where they lived.

I for one admire the bravery of the poster in offering a picture to football fans on the internet rather than seeing an optician. Next week, a new poster will pop up with a thread called "are these hemorrhoids?"

I actually had one of these back in the mid 2000s. It was great until the bill came in. £30 a month just for this thing to dial up and check my emails. Straight in the bin.

On Fox, this guy has been desperate to catch Covid for ages, just to prove that he can brush it off with his immune system and no vaccine. It helps him spread his propaganda and misinformation. He's boasting about his immune system because, unlike most who have become seriously ill or died, he is not old or has serious underlying health issues. He's boasting about taking ivermectin on the off chance he is in fact a horse with worms. He's like a kid on Christmas morning now he has Covid.

9 for Monday. Tibet

On contract cheating, our uni has a single line regardless. Expulsion. Other places may have a range of options but for us, if a student has paid for work and submitted it as their own, they are out.

Peston's thread saying it better than I could.

Chance for @WhiteRoseKillie to meet a genuine working class hero!