Florentine_Pogen Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 (edited) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b03jb36z This podcast is on BBC Sounds, however, it was first broadcast in 2013. Edited April 16, 2020 by Florentine_Pogen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Utter head gone reactions to good news is what Twitter is all about: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky88 Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Thereisalight.. said: I happened to be up a hill “in” town when it was 8pm, it’s a decent sized hill and I could still hear horns and pots and pans being hit. Wonder if it can be heard in space... ^^^ dogging on Arthur's Seat 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 50 minutes ago, Theroadlesstravelled said: It'll take too long to walk. If the Romanians walked at some point they'd have to book-a-rest at a hotel with en-suite rooms- a Cluj-i in each. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Friends in North Macedonia are also saying "what a country". The Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Health Minister and Education Minister are having to self isolate after attending a meeting with the Mayor of Kumanovo who has tested positive for Covid-19. It's also the Orthodox Easter and the PM has apparently said he can't stop people going to church (although Orthodox countries like Greece and Russia seem to have managed it). The faithful go in for all that icon kissing stuff which isn't the best idea at present.. still maybe the disease only affects the godless and Protestants 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisalight.. Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 29 minutes ago, sparky88 said: ^^^ dogging on Arthur's Seat If only! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Just now, Thereisalight.. said: If only! Calton Hill then .. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisalight.. Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 56 minutes ago, tamthebam said: Calton Hill then .. If only Edinburgh was in Ayrshire 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFCDannyFTH Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Further proof (if it were needed) that this country is full of simps. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Theroadlesstravelled said: Utter head gone reactions to good news is what Twitter is all about: Graves won't keep them down in Ohio, the living dead were running wild there today - https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200413/gop-lawmakers-protesters-call-on-dewine-to-begin-re-opening-ohio?fbclid=IwAR2uStY9MsFWhJKEggFN5oA-wNSdW2z2mVSJWHtuTOJnKl_Y6-NtfpM2N_g 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Trying to return 150 packs of toilet paper. The exec did well not to roundhouse kick the mother fucker through the door. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 6 hours ago, Spring Onion said: I will admit I've been very very lucky and never had to claim benefits so far in my life, but doesn't your benefit money stop if you don't apply or take work that's on offer. Sorry I realise I'm asking this question in the wrong thread. Priti Patel will explain, she seemed to have it all in hand a couple of weeks ago. In the meantime. Temporary work is available in rural areas with near full employment. Even under Universal Credit rules you wouldn't be expected to commute from Glasgow to Auchternaewhere daily, or be forced to move. The brexit loving farmers have belatedly realised that the berries won't pick them fucking selves. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 5 hours ago, tamthebam said: If the Romanians walked at some point they'd have to book-a-rest at a hotel with en-suite rooms- a Cluj-i in each. F*** me, Tam, that was a bit contrived! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 5 hours ago, tamthebam said: Friends in North Macedonia are also saying "what a country". The Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Health Minister and Education Minister are having to self isolate after attending a meeting with the Mayor of Kumanovo who has tested positive for Covid-19. It's also the Orthodox Easter and the PM has apparently said he can't stop people going to church (although Orthodox countries like Greece and Russia seem to have managed it). The faithful go in for all that icon kissing stuff which isn't the best idea at present.. still maybe the disease only affects the godless and Protestants If we catch it it won't be from kissing icons, that's for sure... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloPerth Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 That's China stuck on an extra 1290 deaths onto their total which were not previously reported. Seem to recall a few hundred pages back folk being fairly vehement in defending the figures from China when some were suggesting they weren't accurate. When you look at how hopeless we've been in Scotland and the UK in reporting and tallying deaths, you worry for what's really happening in some very poor countries where monitoring and reporting will likely be far less accurate. We already know that the virus has been detected and caused deaths in many African countries, and in India, Indonesia, the Phillipines, South America.. the actual numbers could be several times higher than what is believed. It'll probably be years before true figures emerge. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 15 minutes ago, PauloPerth said: That's China stuck on an extra 1290 deaths onto their total which were not previously reported. Seem to recall a few hundred pages back folk being fairly vehement in defending the figures from China when some were suggesting they weren't accurate. When you look at how hopeless we've been in Scotland and the UK in reporting and tallying deaths, you worry for what's really happening in some very poor countries where monitoring and reporting will likely be far less accurate. We already know that the virus has been detected and caused deaths in many African countries, and in India, Indonesia, the Phillipines, South America.. the actual numbers could be several times higher than what is believed. It'll probably be years before true figures emerge. Can't say I've noticed a huge under reporting up here, the numbers certainly don't stack up down south but you've not been listening to the Scottish briefing properly if you think we're being played big style up here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky88 Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 13 minutes ago, PauloPerth said: That's China stuck on an extra 1290 deaths onto their total which were not previously reported. Seem to recall a few hundred pages back folk being fairly vehement in defending the figures from China when some were suggesting they weren't accurate. When you look at how hopeless we've been in Scotland and the UK in reporting and tallying deaths, you worry for what's really happening in some very poor countries where monitoring and reporting will likely be far less accurate. We already know that the virus has been detected and caused deaths in many African countries, and in India, Indonesia, the Phillipines, South America.. the actual numbers could be several times higher than what is believed. It'll probably be years before true figures emerge. I'm not sure it's a case of Scotland and UK being hopeless at recording deaths. A death in a hospital will be recorded straight away. A death elsewhere will rely on someone registering it. That lag will exist in whatever country's death figures you look at. As with nearly every statistic the media get hold of, the problem is their interpretation of what they are seeing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 14 minutes ago, PauloPerth said: That's China stuck on an extra 1290 deaths onto their total which were not previously reported. Seem to recall a few hundred pages back folk being fairly vehement in defending the figures from China when some were suggesting they weren't accurate. When you look at how hopeless we've been in Scotland and the UK in reporting and tallying deaths, you worry for what's really happening in some very poor countries where monitoring and reporting will likely be far less accurate. We already know that the virus has been detected and caused deaths in many African countries, and in India, Indonesia, the Phillipines, South America.. the actual numbers could be several times higher than what is believed. It'll probably be years before true figures emerge. Not to exculpate Western governments - especially ours and that of the US - but had China been that bit more transparent initially about their true casualty figures and the actual level of transmission of the virus a lot of lives might have been saved worldwide...it took it hitting an open transparent society like Italy before there was any sense of just how bad things could get. Even worse, what's emanated from China in the last month or so has been frankly unbelievable...it seems to be a characteristic that they're so used to being believed at home that they either are under the impression they'll get the same level of credence abroad or simply don't care if they do or not. So we've had claims of new infections/deaths down to zero countrywide, then the only new cases being pesky foreigners who probably started it anyway, and meanwhile in Wuhan they're ordering thousands upon thousands of funeral urns for absolutely no reason. No reason at all. Stop fucking eating bats. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 18 hours ago, Todd_is_God said: Japan is an interesting contrast to Spain / Italy. It locked down very early and had very low cases / deaths per day for a prolongued period as a result. It could be that by limiting initial exposure, and then not completely eradicating the virus, their strategy merely delayed the inevitable rather than prevented it, as would be asymptomatic carriers were not exposed to the virus until much later. Spain, on the other hand, clearly did not limit exposure early on, and therefore should, in theory, have a much higher percentage of the population already exposed and immune to the virus, which will limit its future ability to spread. That, of course, assumes that people are indeed immune to the virus after initial infection, at least for some period. Japan hasn't locked down yet, not in the sense we know lockdowns. And even that dilluted lockdown came only on 9 April. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendan Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 50 minutes ago, PauloPerth said: That's China stuck on an extra 1290 deaths onto their total which were not previously reported. Seem to recall a few hundred pages back folk being fairly vehement in defending the figures from China when some were suggesting they weren't accurate. When you look at how hopeless we've been in Scotland and the UK in reporting and tallying deaths, you worry for what's really happening in some very poor countries where monitoring and reporting will likely be far less accurate. We already know that the virus has been detected and caused deaths in many African countries, and in India, Indonesia, the Phillipines, South America.. the actual numbers could be several times higher than what is believed. It'll probably be years before true figures emerge. I've been on this thread since early on, and I don't remember anyone trying to say the Chinese figures were accurate. The consensus was that they were bollocks and shouldn't be used for any anlaysis of what would happen elsewhere. The discussion there has been on here is whether this was deliberate, or due to the difficulty of getting accurate figures. Even now, with far better testing available than China had back then, we have absolutely no clue how many people have been infected, and we've only a vague idea of how many died. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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