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    Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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    1 minute ago, Billy Jean King said:
    1 hour ago, Steven W said:
    No deaths in Scotland again. 15th July was the last. Infections hovering around the 40-50 mark.
    Maybe time to ease restrictions a little (gyms, swimming pools?) and see where that takes us? Am I right in thinking a review is due on Thursday?

    We already have an indicative date for those, it's 14 September. Given when the date was given daily new cases were near enough in single figs I think it's safe to say we will see no acceleration from the dates given even more so until the effects of the schools returning are clear.

    What if the 0 deaths trend continues until then but cases are still above single figures?

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    Smoking

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    10 hours ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:

     

    As a smoker trying to stop ( replacing every other roll up with nicorette ). I will simply ignore that video like every other smoker I know. Most smokers just play dumb to the dangers of smoking, me included. In fact I'm committed to stoping smoking for financial reasons more so than health reasons

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    Golfers Thread

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    The next decade could be the most open and exciting era in the history of golf. So many young players with buckets of talent and all winning majors, outside of Rahm, Dechambeu. As good as it was to watch Tiger in his prime it would have been great to see him against this era. He is the Goat al9ng with Nicklaus, butoutside of Mickelson,Els and Singh and Duval for a few years, his competition was lacking compared to this era

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    Snooker

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    39 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

    On the subject of nicknames

    Ding Junhui is the Dragon

    Yan Bingtao is the Tiger

    The other Chinese boy whose name I forget that went out in the first round was called the Firecracker

    Can only assume the next Chinese guy to make the tour will be called the Wall or something equally ridiculous 

    5G?

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    Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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    34 minutes ago, Marshmallo said:

    Maybe it's just where I live but the overwhelming majority (90+%) of people I've seen not wearing masks/wearing masks round their chin/not covering their nose have been fat, white, Rangers-y looking males in their 50s/60s.

    Outside of the usual suspects in Edinburgh, i.e drug addicts whom have no concern for their own welfare nevermind others. I've noticed far more people you would class as BAME flouting the face covering rule on public transport than any others. 

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    The Creepy & The Strange

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    12 minutes ago, invergowrie arab said:

    I might have told this story before on here but myself and the missus were out in the Sidlaws doing some off path compass and navigation practice (f**k off it's fun)

    The point is to follow a compass bearing across open ground, not to follow paths etc to practice for doing it on snow fields on winter hills.

    We had to cross all this bog and then go through dense woods and then we stumbled across a clearing about 20m long and 10 m wide. There were about a dozen rocks placed in a horseshoe around a burnt out fire.

    Because I had the compass I took a bearing on the open end of the horseshoe and it pointed exactly due west which I thought was interesting at time. Like it had been placed there deliberately 

    Then my missus says, what are all these bones?  In the fire there were loads of bones including what was unmistakably a pelvis bone and a femur. Compasses have rulers on them so was able to measure the femur at about 35cm

    At this point we are thinking it must be like a scout camp or something and they have brought up a few pigs or a cows to BBQ but there was no place nearby to pitch tents and it was a few miles from the nearest road. 

    You could get to within half an hour on farm tracks with a land rover probably but it's a long way to drag a whole beast.

    Any there were dozens of bones but at least 3 pelvises

    Anyway we thought we better phone police to report just in case something weird was going on as by now the missus had convinced herself it was human bones.

    So we reported when we got home and local bobby from Birkhill arranged to meet me in a couple of days to go back up and take a look.

    I was waiting outside police station on the day to go up when I got  a call from another officer saying something had come up and that someone would call me to rearrange.

    I never got a call back so who knows what it was but too many things were just a bit off about it IMO.

     

     

     

    Sounds like you came accross a serial killers dumping ground

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    Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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    1 minute ago, eez-eh said:

    I remember at the height of lockdown @JTS98 getting on his high horse about people in the UK following the rules set by the UK Government. His argument pretty much being that we should be adhering to the much stricter rules which were in place wherever the f**k it is he lives - I think Malaysia.

    People going out for a walk or a run locally were scum, despite being told by authorities here that these were things perfectly acceptable. Don’t they know they should all have been following the standards set in a country in the far east! 

    I think on that basis his remarks on this can be safely filed in the bin. Although worryingly there were actually quite a few people on here agreeing with him at the time.

    Quite a few folk on here can be considered doom mongers, although Jambos kickback is a thousand times worse. I get the impression half that forum thrive on any bad news and take glee in criticising people who instead of hidding under there beds, are getting on with their lives

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    Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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    The story about the girl from Motherwell getting 5 prelim A's and being awarded 2 A's and 3 B's seems incredibly harsh, and no doubt would never happen to a pupil from a posh school. Hopefully her results are reversed upon appeal. The BBC article will probably make it a formality

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    Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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    Are those who achieved highers this year going to have an * next to their results, in regards to potential emoloyers and universities looking at applicants. I feel for the pupils in life and I was one who done just enough in class to get by then knuckle down for the exam. The SQA are going to get criticised either way, impossible situation they have been put in

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    Obesity

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    6 hours ago, ICTJohnboy said:

     

    Reminds me about the Glasgow guy who was out looking up and down the street for his weans an' that.

    Eventually he spots them - 2 boys, one was dragging a chair behind him and the other one pushing a settee. 

    "Where did youse get these from?" he shouts at his boys. "A man gave us them" replied the older boy. He gets a belt across the ear from his dad and an explanation..... "What have I telt youse boys about taking suites aff strangers"..! 

    Is that you Norm macdonald 

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