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7 hours ago, BuddieinEK said:
Good luck with that one.
I've just booked a week in Ayr for September and am refusing to get too confident about actually going.
Interestingly, we have holidayed in the same place at least twice a year for five years.
Now, because more people are staying local, the price was up by 20%.
Don't blame the resort one bit... Supply and demand and they have lost hundreds of thousands in lost revenue over the last year.
Welcome to the new normal.
I'll be waiting for you - be afraid, be very afraid...
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It seems Ridley Scott's biopic of Gucci (see above) has attracted the ire of the Gucci family who have accused the auteur of hiring an actor to play Gucci who is horrible, horrible, short, fat & ugly...
I'm sure Al Pacino will know how deal with unwelcome critics...
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So it seems BJs claim of Capitalism/Greed riding onto the scene like the 7th Cavalry to save the world from Covid were untrue and that 97% of the funding for the Astro/Zeneca vaccine was publicly sourced - ah the benefits of accounting, or ahem, hindsight. Perhaps Boris was correct to say "Fuck Business" after all.
QuoteAt least 97% of the funding for the development of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has been identified as coming from taxpayers or charitable trusts, according to the first attempt to reconstruct who paid for the decades of research that led to the lifesaving formulation.
“We need to stop perpetuating the narrative in which the private sector and profit are the sole drivers of innovation, and recognise that the life-saving ChAdOx vaccine technology was developed with near total governmental and charitable funding,” the researchers said.
“Our study shows that quite the opposite is true: public investment and international collaboration gave us the Covid-19 vaccines,” the team of researchers, from the advocacy group Universities Allied for Essential Medicines UK, said in a statement.
Throw in that the government's agreement to underwrite any claims against vaccine suppliers and you see how little the capitalist model offers in times of adversity. Oh well onwards & downwards as we cheer the end of Lockdown & prepare for the return to Austerity followed by the inevitable economic crash. With any luck I'll be dead before the one after that.
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6 minutes ago, faraway saint said:
And there we are, figures you don't like, right them off.
Don't you like the ONS figures?
You are SO predictable.
When the figures change my opinion will change, until then it's not a rabbit hole I intend to go down again.
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It's not really news as NS has already admitted as much unlike BJ who still insists no mistakes were made and any criticism is based solely on hindsight...
4 hours ago, faraway saint said:I'm really surprised
no one had reported this startling admission?
The SNP responsible for the death of people, my oh my.
SNP Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has been slammed by opponents after admitting her biggest error during the covid pandemic was to move older people from hospital into care homes without proper precautions
Nicola Sturgeon’s Cabinet Secretary for Health made the startling admission in an interview with the BBC’s Nick Robinson.
In a clip released before an upcoming interview Freeman said: “We didn’t take the right precautions to make sure that older people leaving hospital going into care homes were as safe as they could be and that was a mistake.”
Care homes were at the forefront of the battle against coronavirus with some residences reporting dozens of deaths in the early stages of the pandemic when 900 elderly people were transferred untested from hospitals to residential settings.
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3 hours ago, faraway saint said:
As I have thought for some time, almost a quarter of reported deaths are not FROM covid but people who just happened to have it.
That'll dent the figures and upset @Bud the Baker
Almost a quarter of registered Covid deaths are people who are not dying from the disease new official figures show, as the Government was urged to move faster with the roadmap in the light of increasingly positive data.
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that 23 per cent of coronavirus deaths registered are now people who have died "with" the virus rather than "from" an infection.
This means that, while the person who died will have tested positive for Covid, that was not the primary cause of their death recorded on the death certificate.
Well that's a convenient distinction but it doesn't change anything - anyone reading the rest of the Mail/Telegraph articles in full will see it's clearly a gammon ploy...
Quote- Tory backbenchers are now calling on Boris Johnson to accelerate the route of the Covid lockdown
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48 minutes ago, FTOF said:
Looks like a few will be offski.
That's a bit sad but the science of building a squad over a period of a few years is a thing of the past.
Ideally we'll get a few replacements in at the start of the window and hold a bit back till near the end of August when the bigger clubs are cutting their squads - as ever I look forward to @Flareybobs tips!
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1 hour ago, antrin said:
It’s a milestone.
similar figures about...
Say... London get quoted to help people grasp some reality behind vast numbers.
When the UK passed the 150,000 Covid deaths milestone it was not the headline but Para9 with a disclaimer...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56709870
QuoteSeparate figures published by the UK's statistics agencies show there have been 150,000 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.
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In a weird case of double standards the BBC is highlighting the NRS figures that Scotland has recorded 10,000 Covid deaths while still using the 28 day total for the UK as a whole - bizarre!
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26 minutes ago, faraway saint said:
You just need to give up the internet and you'll be complete. 😉
On days like today when I'm not working I prefer to get my news online rather than watch the Breakfast shows which are now very "lightweight" - Dan Walker interviewing BJ after the last election reminded me of "wur ain" Chick Young's fawning attitude to Walter Smith, even BJ recognized this by asking Dan to make the last question a "hard one".
Back on topic some online forms now have the Mobile Phone slot mandatory and I've had to enter my partner's number for simple things like getting my gonorrhoea treated...🤮
I will prob'ly be forced to relent and get one soon but I'm gonna hold out for as long as possible.
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Staying off-topic I can understand the desire to cut costs for milk delivery (below) and the extra expense & inconvenience of leaving people on old systems of payment but somewhere inside me there's a caveman just waiting to shout Yabba-Dabba-Don't!
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As one of the last "hold-outs" without a mobile phone I read this with dismay until I realized I very rarely visit pubs these days, or even back in them halcyon just before Lockdown daze...😵
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Little shocks me about grift in politics these days but the emerging news that a senior civil servant (Bill Crothers) joined financial services company Greensill while still employed by the taxpayers comes close.
Mr Crothers is no relation to 60s US comedy duo The Smothers Brothers but his insistence that there was no conflict of interest is a comedy classic...
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Since the heyday of this thread - winning the Championship in 2018 and our return to the Top Flight I'd say only 3 candidates - 2 keepers (and they are in both senses
Hladky & Alnwick) and the mighty, mighty Jeff King.
McGrath prob'ly deserves a mention in the Cult Heroes category for his spot-kick brilliance even if he did blot his copybook against Well last Saturday...
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Fairy Nuff
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19 minutes ago, faraway saint said:
Deleted.
Time to draw a line, you were the one who, unnecessarily , brought the term "paedophile" into this thread.
As for a disturbing mindset, that's ironic after some of your posts you make about people you don't know.
I think that was you...
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Does anyone feel up to making an argument for anyone from the class of 20/21?
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The Brexit Bonus Pt. 247 - JD Sports owned by Brexit & ex-UKIP supporter Mick Ashley is opening a new warehouse in Dublin. Obviously it's a complicated issue but is their any doubt that the long term goal of big business, the Tory party & the gammon press was to push back workers rights by scaremongering and encouraging people to see the differences between us & Europe - roll on Hartlepool and the next triumph of the gammons...
QuoteRetailer JD Sports is to open a 65,000 sq ft warehouse near Dublin to tackle post-Brexit trading problems.
Goods which JD imports from East Asia to GB now incur tariffs when they are distributed onward to its stores across Europe.
To deal with this JD has already opened a warehouse in Belgium but says it needs a specific facility for Ireland.
apparently...
QuoteThe boss of one of Britain's big retailers says Brexit has turned out to be "considerably worse" than he feared.
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There are two aspects to PPs death, the personal and the institutional, and Patrick Harvie has got it right by acknowledging this.
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11 hours ago, antrin said:
This won a lot of stuff this evening at the BAFTAs.
I usually carp on about not knowing where a story’s going, what does our hero want, is it an interesting plot/storyline... and this fails on these - yet it is a movie that sticks around in the mind,
Well worthy of its BAFTAs.
The Grapes of Wrath for a new millennium - makes me want to cry...
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On 4/11/2021 at 4:13 AM, Sue Denim said:
Czech Republic
went into lockdown a week before the U.K. last year
Now has the highest death rate in the world
@DougJamie says it would all have been ok if we’d gone into lockdown last year a week earlier
He’s not quite a useful idiot though. Just an idiot.
@Bud the Baker was one of the middle class left’s useful idiots though
he did their bidding at the expense of the working class and the vulnerable
his virtue, their death
The forum's most middle class poster still pedalling this nonsense - high spot of my morning reading this.
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In the run up to the last election many of Labour's policies were well regarded but they lost the "Battle of the Leaders" and their Brexit message was, erm, ambiguous, they're obviously hoping the lustre will have worn of BJ/the Tories by 2024 or whenever - don't see it being successful but they're locked into this strategy as long as KS is their leader.
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11 minutes ago, faraway saint said:
YOUR'E the one throwing terms about, not me, nice try.
....and the term is accurate, as is the the attempt to rehabilitate Andrew, meanwhile your need to express devotion to "your betters" turns rabid - yet again!
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1 minute ago, faraway saint said:
More deflection, and you, as usual, CHOOSE, to overlook the goings on of "rock stars".
Less procurement, are you having a laugh?
Ignore the point while you spill your bile?
Tragic.
There's only one person spilling their bile in this conversation and it ain't me...
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3 minutes ago, faraway saint said:
More unnecessary terms.
I bet most of the bands/groups you have idolised have been guilty on the technicality of being "
paedophilesephebophiles" when females under the legal age have looked older and offered themselves on a plate?In fact a bet a few people on this site have fell foul of this "technicality".
If it keeps you happy, fire in.
I will be happy to oblige.
As ever you ignore the point - if it's business as usual for "The Firm" & their hangers on (especially the hangers on) then that should include criticism.
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Sure I'm well aware that I've indulged in "benefit of clergy" with respect to rock stars at times but my view of groupie scene is that there was a lot less procurement & coercion involved than with Epstein and his cabal, but if yer past catches up with you then you should really face the consequences.
Prince Philip has gone
in General Nonsense
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The BBCs coverage of PPs funeral on Saturday is going to be very much pared back compared to the hagiographies of last Friday...