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  1. 22 hours ago, BuddieinEK said:

    No it won't take a rest, and hopefully the vaccination programme will allow a return to "normality" of a sort.

    Spikes have happened before in a number of countries who thought it was under control.

    I am not living in a cave.

    I had my first draught pint in 15 months two weeks ago.

    Attended my first live gig of the year ... Was at 160 in 2019.

    I'm willing to take steps where I see safety measures are in place.

    A care home manager in England killed himself as the guilt of his residents dying was too hard to live with.

    I want complete peace of mind that whatever happens, I have done all I can to protect those in my care if I have that, I can cope with whatever happens.

    Brian, I'm not posting so much on here these days but popped in today after the nightclubs comment from the Scottish government spokesman and saw this exchange of posts.

    You are under no obligation to explain yourself and your personal choices to anyone.

    Certainly not a brainless nugget on a football forum.

    How you handle yourself is entirely a personal choice.

    I just wanted to make 2 comments.

    Firstly, we might well be as safe as we're ever going to be. I'm not sure what level of certainty you are after but this might be the floor of what we can expect. I'm not sure we'll ever get much lower than this if we ever want to fully open everything (which we should IMO).

    Secondly, you can't guarantee the safety of the people in your care. Every time you venture out of your house for shopping you risk picking up covid. You need to find a way of balancing that without feeling any sort of personal responsibility if someone under your care contracts it. Thinking that way is going to destroy you from the inside out so please don't do that. You're doing the best you can. You shouldn't lose sight of that. Good luck.

  2. Oh deary deary me.

    Masks and Nightclubs

    So as long as you have a pint in your hand you will not be needing to wear a face mask in either pubs or nightclubs but it's too dangerous to go without one when picking up a pint of milk at Tesco. All this is according to a government spokesman as seen in that tweet. :lol:

    I feel sorry for anyone (including some professional scientists) who genuinely believed masking was all about the science. You are going to feel a bit f**king daft after today, if you have any sort of self awareness or humility whatsoever.

    Is anyone really going to mask up for milk knowing people can freely abandon those masks in virtually every other setting?

    You have to admit. It's pretty hilarious how much of a knot Sturgeon has tied herself up in because of her undying obsession with appearing to care more than Boris.

    A bit of advice Nicola. Go to the press tomorrow morning and announce that masking is highly recommended but no longer legally required. And never, EVER darken our doorsteps again with this nonsense ya big dafty. :lol:

  3. On 7/17/2021 at 6:09 PM, antrin said:

     

    Masks ARE effective.  Understanding why that may be, is perhaps too big a mental step for some to take.

    You should definitely send an email to that guy. :lol:

    I'm sure he'll be impressed by your intellectual credentials for making such a definitive statement.

    By the way, the holes in these masks are 500,000 bigger than the particle the virus travels on.

    That's like expecting to catch a fish with a net containing holes the size of New Zealand.

    If you genuinely think your mask is catching any of those particles then that's your prerogative. :lol:

  4. 35 minutes ago, BuddieinEK said:

    Looks like we have assembled a very strong squad for the season ahead.

    Trying not to get too carried away here but we are cruising against teams we normally struggle like hell against - even in pre-season friendlies.

    I can't remember the last time we were like this at the start of a season.

  5. 45 minutes ago, Doakes said:

    He should have politely told you to mind your own business :lol:

     

    What kind of brainless twat would even think of approaching a stranger and ordering them about? 🤣

    I bet it wasn't a big bloke he approached.

    Cemetries are full of "have a go Harrys" who found themselves on the wrong end of a knife over arguments more trivial than mask wearing.

    f**king hell. Never get involved. It just isn't worth it.

  6. 4 hours ago, salmonbuddie said:

    Not so sure about that one, oakster. Mind you, add in all the other user names and you may have a point...

    And also, in fairness, you've not been shying in chucking it out either.

  7. 7 hours ago, salmonbuddie said:

    Yup, you and Sue Denim. You must be so proud...

    This is too, too easy.

    :lol:

    There's no way I have called you more names than he has.

    I mean......I can......if you want, but......

  8. 3 hours ago, salmonbuddie said:
    4 hours ago, oaksoft said:
    There's a surprise. emoji38.png

    Shouldn't be a surprise to you, you're responsible for most of them...

    So what you are saying is that it's other people too.

    There's a surprise. :lol:

  9. I wonder which of the OF clubs Brian Rice supports.

    Because he'll never persuade me that his rage is about the lack of oppportunities for a bunch of young players.

    A normal manager would be saying "Look, send your players to clubs like ours and we'll develop them in a properly competitive manner where they can truly feel the pressure of a relegation or promotion battle. They can't do that in a colt team which can't go up or down the leagues"

    Instead, he laments the enormous amounts of money the OF are losing by not developing these players.

    He needs to accept that battle is lost on this.

    Would be interesting to see how many clubs supported this proposal and how far short they fell of the numbers needed to secure a vote.

  10. And now today some "research" shows that there are 200 symptoms associated with Long Covid.

    it was published in the Lancet so it must be credible right?

    Well 2 things spring to mind on that score.

    1) No illness has 200 symptoms.

    2) The lead "researcher" who authored the paper claims she has suffered from Long Covid for about 15 months and counting. So straight away you can't trust her analysis. Everything she has published in that paper is tainted with bias.

    Just goes to show, just because something is published in a credible journal doesn't mean it contains credible science.

    This is what happens when journals chase eyeballs and don't do their homework. They become no bloody better than the Sun.

  11. 38 minutes ago, Doakes said:

    Short period of lockdown to protect the NHS

    Longer lockdown, we need to protect the NHS

    OK - the NHS is fine, but just another few weeks to flatten the curve until the vulnerable are vaccinated

    The vulnerable are vaccinated but just another few weeks, we're being cautious

    We know almost everyone is vaccinated but cases are still high

    Oh wait, it's almost flu season, further restrictions likely to continue over winter

    Climate restrictions set to be agreed at COP26 in November 

    I fully expect restrictions to be the new normal, especially regarding travel

    It's never going to end Doakes. I'm waiting for the "ah but we should mask-up to eliminate flu" crowd to pipe up. One of the Independent Sage members has already voiced that opinion. Susan Michie (?) believes we should NEVER give up masks. Are people really up for that? A lifetime of masking up? Seriously?

    Once certain people get a power rush they really struggle to give it up.

    Some of these scientists who are on the TV and radio everyday probably didn't speak to anyone outside academia prior to covid. Now they are inundated with people following their every word and they are drunk on that high. That why Jason Leitch makes stupid egotistical comments like "don't even bother to pick up the phone to me" regarding crowds of 500. Where does he get off talkinhg to anyone like that? Nobody elected this twat but he's sounding off like he's in charge.

    We've got a problem here and unfortunately the public support them in large numbers so I'm not sure how we're ever going to break free of their unwarranted and continued intrusion into our lives.

  12. John Swinney confirms masks are still very likely to be mandatory by Christmas.

    Which means they'll be with us until next summer because there's not the slightest chance they'll be removed in the middle of flu season.

    You really have got to laugh or you'd go crazy. :lol:

    Enjoy everyone.

  13. 5 hours ago, Slarti said:

    How is this "left wing"?

     

     

    5 hours ago, Cookie Monster said:

    For someone that claimed they were so clever you do seem to be a bit slow in the understanding that there is already restrictions in place for folk that aren't already vaccinated. emoji848.png

    Whit?

    Have you and Cookie both been smoking weed today or something? :lol:

    Enjoy your nights folks. I'm not getting dragged into whatever twilight world the pair of you have conjured up today.

     

  14. 3 hours ago, Slarti said:

    IMO, if someone gets infected with something for which they have previously been offered and refused a vaccine, then they should be charged for the medical treatment that they are given if/when they are infected with that something - if there is space for them at the surgery/hospital in the first place as they should go to the end of the queue.  I also think, among other similar things, that smokers should go to the end of the queue for lung transplants etc. as well as having to pay if/when they do get a transplant - and this is coming from someone who has smoked for over 40 years.

    You just can't buy this level of left wing "compassion". :lol:

    When the Tories come out with this stuff you are all over it.

    You are free to believe what you want.

    It'll never happen though and that's a good thing.

  15. 1 hour ago, Doakes said:


    It’s a lot, but it’s far from a majority that “sold football to Sky”.  

    For example, there’s around 3.6 million millionaires in the UK. If you look at the crowd at Wimbledon - then look at the crowd at Wembley, you see a lot of the same faces in the good seats. :ph34r:
     

    I’m not saying it’s right that folk stormed the venue, but I can relate to why it happened. There’s a growing feeling that the super rich (or someone who has a spare few hundred quid to blow) are the only ones allowed to watch a big game in a stadium. The Premier League is similar. Stolen from the poor, given to the rich. The Super League nonsense from a few months back was the perfect example of that!

    I’d say a minimum price of £295 qualifies as eye watering :lol: 

    People stormed Wembley out of frustration that seats were being deliberately kept empty. I don't believe it had anything to do with match ticket prices. The mindset was "There's an empty seat. It's the Euros final. I'm having it."

    BTW, 9 million is almost twice the population of Scotland and I'm pretty sure it's more than the weekly attendances at all senior football matches in the UK combined. I'm taking a wild stab at that last part but I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong. :lol:

    Anyway, I'm not disagreeing about ticket prices in general.

  16. 4 hours ago, Slarti said:

    In a way I agree with that, but there are other people that cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons who will be put at a greater risk by those who choose to not get vaccinated.

    Maybe those who choose to not get vaccinated should be restricted to their own homes to keep others safe. You know, treated like the idiots they are.

     

    I wasn't commenting about those with medical reasons for not vaccinating. I was aiming that comment squarely at @saintnextlifetime.

    I don't agree with that bit in bold.

    They should be and will be free to live however they want. None of us have the right to force any medicine on another human being. And using the justification of "to keep the rest of us safe" doesn't cut it. The idea of vaccine passports to limit where they can go and what they can do is an abomination which should be opposed. The last year has been a horror show in terms of how easily people are willing to give up hard-fought- for every day freedoms in the name of "safety". That has been a real eye opener.

     

  17. 1 hour ago, Doakes said:

    Not true.. Only a small percentage of the UK population subscribe to Sky, I believe around 9 million when I worked for them, and an even smaller percentage in the UK have legal access to Sky Sports. 

    Sky make the majority of their money from selling the rights to a worldwide audience. So really it’s been sold to the highest bidder by the FA
     

    I think 9 million UK subscribers qualifies as "millions" Doakes.

    I take your point about worldwide subscriptions and that will certainly have implications south of the border.

    Not sure how any of that explains what happened prior to the game last night though.

  18. 13 hours ago, Hizzmann said:

    That is a really hard financial period for most people. A lot of people lost their jobs and now they should look for some alternatives, to try new spheres to earn money. I have also changed the sphere of work and this site helped me to find a job in IT. Yeah, that is great difficulty, but I believe that we should just work hard and all will stabilize. Believe in yourself!

    Are you guys all working out of the same office?

  19. 3 hours ago, Doakes said:

    Quite a lot to unpack with regards to England fan behaviour;

     

    On one hand, supporters rushing the gates was dangerous and could have ended very badly if someone was crushed by a fence when they kicked them down.

    However - I do believe that football has been stolen from the working class. (especially in England where money is king) 

    Ticket prices for the final were eye watering. Far beyond the reach of most. Seen some online going for thousands

    The security was nowhere near up to scratch, so I can understand why it happened - can't be too mad about that

     

    The racial abuse of their own players is to put it bluntly - f**king disgusting, seems to be a real issue with that south of the border (and with fans of a certain club up here, who's views seem to align quite closely with the mutant section of the England support)

     

    The images from Leicester Square pre match were some of the worst I've seen, people throwing glass bottles into the air into a crowded area - whoever does that is quite frankly, an absolute dick, and if caught should be given a decent amount of time in jail. Could easily give someone life changing injuries doing that. 

     

    It was the working class who bought Sky subscriptions in their millions which kept the entire farce afloat for the last 30 years. There is no escaping that shared responsibility.

    The working classes sold their own sport.

    Absolutely nothing excuses either the racism, the storming of Wembley or the violence last night. The people involved are not working class. They are scum.

  20. On 7/10/2021 at 6:37 PM, saintnextlifetime said:

    Thanks for that update EAB.

     

    Is it the unlicensed , untested , emergency use only vaccines that you are promoting?

    I am guessing it's the one which has virtually eliminated serious illness and death for those who have had both injections.

    Almost everyone in hospital and ICU in particular are those who are unvaccinated.

    Your life, your choice.

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