Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Salt n Vinegar]

55 minutes ago, Proposition Joe said:

They could have hired a pretty lassie and a tall, dark and handsome dreamboat (like myself) for about 500 quid each to read a couple of lines, thus avoiding any controversy.

Avoiding controversy except for that bit, obviously...

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

24 minutes ago, Bob Mahelp said:

It's a move in the right direction, but I have absolutely zero confidence in the Tories to remove these insane testing requirements. Foreigners and 'foreign variants' have become a useful bogeyman for them, and the current ridiculous requirements are a buffer which the Tories can wave around to say 'look what we're doing to protect you'. 

On top of that, and pushing aside the fact that summer has gone, the most important aspect is that the UK making things easier to travel is only one half of the whole experience. It'll make f**k all difference saying, 'oh yeah, you can now travel without testing requirements', when so many countries have different hoops for the people of Plague Island to jump through before we can get in. 

Travel to the EU is complicated and confusing (I'm thinking about a break next week, so I'm knee deep in this). Different countries have different restrictions.....it's relatively easy to travel to Malta, for instance, but it's impossible to travel to The Netherlands without quarantine. 

I'd love to travel to family in the USA, but there's feck all chance that's going to happen in the next 6 months, despite an apparent 'working group' being set up between the governments over 3 months ago. 

The government have done NOTHING in the last year to support the travel industry, and continue to drag their heels despite promises and assurances that they're doing all they can. 

 

Travel to the EU isnt that complicated at all, done it twice in the last few months and just read the entry requirements properly. 

[Bairnardo]

1 hour ago, Granny Danger said:

I think Janey Godley is not funny but the amount of outrage (or more accurately exaggerated faux outrage) this advert has caused amongst some posters on here is very, very funny.

 

Given the numerous (absolutely correctly btw) venomous posts you have aimed at the Tories over a period of years, and under the assumption that your outrage is not "faux", can you put a number on monies robbed from the public purse to pay cronies before outrage can be considered genuine?

[Thereisalight..]

1 hour ago, williemillersmoustache said:

Au contraire.

Not sure how you feel about screenshotiting search results but perhaps you could search for "spike" in this thread.

And while I'm here and I appreciate these aren't all aimed at you.

 

It doesn't take 30 seconds to make a 30 second advert in the same way Jaws wasn't made in 2 hours and 4 minutes.

Commercials are often paid with a small retainer and royalties. This would have been exponentially more expensive and a flat fee is pretty much a favour for a multiplatform national campaign, although more common with a client who'd want to cap costs like a government.

A nurse or NHS worker wouldn't have had the same cut through or gained anywhere near as much exposure. Maybe pick one at random, give them 10k for a holiday, just as effective.

You're all allowed to not find her funny, maybe this advert wasn't aimed at you, although as we can see it has nonetheless been partially effective, even for this threads not entirely receptive demographic. 

Ergo, vis a vis, girfuy, bargain. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How the fck can you compare Jaws (with "special effects" of the time) to Janey Godley sitting on a chair spouting her pish. One of the most bizarre comparisons I've ever heard tbh

[Bairnardo]

1 hour ago, williemillersmoustache said:

Au contraire.

Not sure how you feel about screenshotiting search results but perhaps you could search for "spike" in this thread.

And while I'm here and I appreciate these aren't all aimed at you.

 

It doesn't take 30 seconds to make a 30 second advert in the same way Jaws wasn't made in 2 hours and 4 minutes.

Commercials are often paid with a small retainer and royalties. This would have been exponentially more expensive and a flat fee is pretty much a favour for a multiplatform national campaign, although more common with a client who'd want to cap costs like a government.

A nurse or NHS worker wouldn't have had the same cut through or gained anywhere near as much exposure. Maybe pick one at random, give them 10k for a holiday, just as effective.

You're all allowed to not find her funny, maybe this advert wasn't aimed at you, although as we can see it has nonetheless been partially effective, even for this threads not entirely receptive demographic. 

Ergo, vis a vis, girfuy, bargain. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wish I had tried this hard at school

[Guest Bob Mahelp]

20 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

Travel to the EU isnt that complicated at all, done it twice in the last few months and just read the entry requirements properly. 

I agree that it's not as complicated as say, sitting a Law degree in Mandarin Chinese, but the very fact that each and every country in the EU has different requirements for travellers from the UK already adds a layer of complexity.

My company suggested I fly to Germany and then travel to offices in The Netherlands, then France, then travel back to Germany.  Each country has different entry requirements for the UK, and you have to make sure you don't inadvertently break the law (such as stepping across the border from Germany to The Netherlands as a UK citizen). 

EU countries made it simple for vaccinated travellers to move freely within the bloc. The UK is continuing with ridiculous restrictions. 

Why ? 

[Melanius Mullarkey]

9 minutes ago, Thereisalight.. said:

How the fck can you compare Jaws (with "special effects" of the time) to Janey Godley sitting on a chair spouting her pish. One of the most bizarre comparisons I've ever heard tbh

I’d happily pay £10k to see Roy Shieder shoot a gas cylinder rattling about in Godleys slavering gob.

tbf

[UsedToGoToCentralPark]

I don't know what you heard about me
But you can take your £10k here from me
Gonna whiteknight Sturgeon you see
Coz I'm a motherfuckin' S.I.M.P

I used to be so Brexity
But now I love the SNP
I am the Granny D
And am a motherfuckin' S.I.M.P

[vikingTON]

1 hour ago, Johnny van Axeldongen said:

93 people under 45 in Scotland have died from covid since the outbreak began.

8105 people over 45 in Scotland have died from covid since the outbreak began.

The BBC managed to find a thirty year old the size of a house in an ICU ward though so you just never know who is at risk. 

[Billy Jean King]

How the fck can you compare Jaws (with "special effects" of the time) to Janey Godley sitting on a chair spouting her pish. One of the most bizarre comparisons I've ever heard tbh

Probably the worst since whoever compared vaccine passport introduction to the Ryan Giggs trial.

[Meldrew]

1 hour ago, ICTChris said:

Lockdown for the over 45s

i rather take a Louis Farrakhan idea and have one of either a council or health board area just for the over 45,

[NotThePars]

Multi-quote scrubbed the post for me from like 10 pages ago but shouts to the poster who had the staggering revelation that trade unions look out for their members first and foremost

[Bairnardo]

Currently an article on BBC about how concerned Boris Johnson is re the number of unvaccinated folk in hospitals. Another nail in the coffin of compliance with any future measures. Theres simply no way folk are going to comply with measures put in place to prevent unvaccinated people getting hospitalised. Gives me confidence that the age of restrictive measures is over tbh. 

Covid: Boris Johnson concerned over unvaccinated hospital patients - BBC News

Edited September 8, 2021 by Bairnardo

[Left Back]

6 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

Currently an article on BBC about how concerned Boris Johnson is re the number of unvaccinated folk in hospitals. Another nail in the coffin of compliance with any future measures. Theres simply no way folk are going to comply with measures put in place to prevent unvaccinated people getting hospitalised. Gives me confidence that the age of restrictive measures is over tbh. 

Covid: Boris Johnson concerned over unvaccinated hospital patients - BBC News

C4 news led with that tonight as well.  Their poster boy was an unvaccinated under 45 guy in ICU (who was well overweight) I thought it was a refreshing change to focus on the unvaccinated rather than the age.

I can’t remember the exact numbers but I think it was 72% unvaccinated and roughly 10% more of ICU patients had only had 1 jag.

[vikingTON]

20 minutes ago, NotThePars said:

Multi-quote scrubbed the post for me from like 10 pages ago but shouts to the poster who had the staggering revelation that trade unions look out for their members first and foremost

Didn't have you marked as an apologist for Economism tbh. 

[parsforlife]

If unvaccinated are clogging up hospital beds there’s are really fucking simple solution to free up those beds…

[Bairnardo]

10 minutes ago, Left Back said:

C4 news led with that tonight as well.  Their poster boy was an unvaccinated under 45 guy in ICU (who was well overweight) I thought it was a refreshing change to focus on the unvaccinated rather than the age.

I can’t remember the exact numbers but I think it was 72% unvaccinated and roughly 10% more of ICU patients had only had 1 jag.

Of course, those people making up an increasing % of hospitalisations also makes a complete (as if it wasn't already obvious) mockery of vaccine passports. The only people getting ill as a result of X% not being vaccinated is people within that X%. Get a vaccine. Be safe. It's really that simple. 

[DeeTillEhDeh]

Positive rumblings here re international travel: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58491245
The Government asking industry to make proposals, and they want the nonsense testing fucked off, so with any luck we'll finally come into line with the EU and bin it.

Various reports were saying they were looking at a system based more around if you were vaccinated or not rather than countries.

Also hints at having LFDs instead of PCRs - utterly pointless imho.

[Honest_Man#1]

25 minutes ago, parsforlife said:

If unvaccinated are clogging up hospital beds there’s are really fucking simple solution to free up those beds…

Genocide?

[parsforlife]

3 minutes ago, Honest_Man#1 said:

Genocide?

It’s more like a mass suicide.