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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/02/25/lettershow-long-will-eu-prioritise-open-borders-disease-prevention/
Good morning all!
It’s 4.20 am and I came downstairs to brew a cup of tea. So, once again, I am first on here. I shall add a postscript to this post to start your day off with a small smile on your face. And then I’ll finish my cuppa and go back to bed.
Here’s my postscript:
GREAT QUOTES BY GREAT LADIES:
A male gynaecologist is like a car mechanic who never owned a car.
Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
Thirty five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.
Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
And one from me, Elsie: I must go back to bed now in order to bake a rhubarb crumble later today.
All so very true!! Good morning dear Elsie….save me some crumble….yum.
Morn EB – “A male gynaecologist is like a car mechanic who never owned a car” but who could still overhaul an engine through the exhaust port.
Good morrow, fellow NoTTLers, be ye awake or not, the fun, started by Elsie, must go on.
With a very seductive voice the woman asked her husband, “Have you ever seen Twenty Dollars all crumpled up?”
“No,” said her husband.
She gave him a sexy little smile, unbuttoned the top 3 or 4 buttons of her blouse, and slowly reached down into the cleavage created by a soft, silky push-up bra, and pulled out a crumpled Twenty Dollar bill.
He took the crumpled Twenty Dollar bill from her and smiled approvingly.
She then asked him, “Have you ever seen Fifty Dollars all crumpled up?”
“Uh… no, I haven’t,” he said, with an anxious tone in his voice.
She gave him another sexy little smile, pulled up her skirt, and seductively reached into her tight, sheer panties… and pulled out a crumpled Fifty Dollar bill.
He took the crumpled Fifty Dollar bill, and started breathing a little quicker with anticipation.
“Now,” she said, “have you ever seen $50,000 Dollars all crumpled up?”
“No way!” he said, while obviously becoming even more aroused and excited.
ROFL!!!!!!….love it. Good morning NtN…..xx
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New MasterChef started last night. They’ve tweaked the format again but not John Torode’s grammar.
Good morning all.
Good morning Peddy, Happy Pancake Day.
‘Morning, Jenny. Detsamma!
I shall be having my pancake on Thursday.
Enjoy whichever day…we can have a pancake week…just for you.
Good, that means I can have one on Friday as well, before the Cote menus change on Sunday.
Go for it Peddy!!
Do you know, I think I will.
Life is for living..and if it gives just a little extra pleasure…grab it!!
A storm in a tea cup…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51621812
‘Morning, Peddy, what a load of twaddle – who on earth would blame the tea supplier if an MP wanted to make tea for the troops?
Smacks of the usual lefty nastiness.
‘Morning, Nanners. Nastiness is the stock response from yer average lefty. They don’t have the wit to respond in any other way.
‘Morning, Tom.
Indeed it does. I tried YT once & didn’t like it much. Maybe we have the wrong water here in Hunts.
Look hard enough and you will find YT specially for hard water areas and there is even a decaffeinated product.
Useful to know – thanks.
My new go-to drink mid-afternoon is Bovril.
Put a drop of milk in it and it becomes the original beef-tea.
Hmmm… I don’t have a cup with a spout. ;-(
Love that , delicious , with just a little bit of added chilli.
They do one for hard water and one for soft. Loose tea is by far the best.
That’s what some men say about women, Johnny.
:-))
For teabag tea I only ever buy Clipper or Cafe Direct. As we’re on chalk our water is hard and those brands work well. I was always led to believe that hard water was best for making tea. It never seems to be as good where we holiday in Spain, where the water is soft.
‘Morning, Nanners. Nastiness is the stock response from yer average lefty. They don’t have the wit to respond in any other way.
Wot I Tw@ted:-
https://twitter.com/Bob_of_Bonsall/status/1232288407570862080
https://twitter.com/Bob_of_Bonsall/status/1232289494705065984
Morning Peddy
https://twitter.com/PyroTheKilljoy/status/1232024443435782145
‘Morning, Belle.
We’re in for a real mixed bag of weather today; fortunately I did the shopping yes’day.
Pleasant morning here …. so far. Pink sky looking East, we had some rain during the night.
I fear you may be correct about the weather though.
Morning Belle. Still and calm here for a change – we’ll see how it pans out.
From those photos, it would seem that Conservative actually know what to do with the tea.
He make tea for his team. great bloke.
I know this is very shallow of me, but he has a lovely smile.
Unforced, is perhaps a better word.
I think he would actually be good company.
Morning Johnny – he can make me one too.
I love Yorkshire Tea.
Too strong for me; I like my tea barely able to crawl out of the mug.
‘Morning, Anne, he may have a teapot but that’s when you brew with tea-leaves and NOT tea bags.
I have used tea bags in a tea pot.
I then use any remaining tea to soak fruit and sugar to make Irish Brack.
Absolutely…good morning Anne.
Morning, Peddy.
Earl Grey was a Whig i.e. a Liberal.
I will have to stop drinking his tea.
‘Morning, Anne.
You can carry on drinking it as long as you don’t enjoy it. Alternatively, have the fingers of your left hand crossed behind your back.
That’s ‘handist’ Peddy. Your comment will cause a Twatter storm for all aggrieved left-handers like me…
I have a get out of jail free card – my mother was left-handed.
So was mine. She was made to use her right hand.
She could remember changing hands while playing tennis whenever the games mistress hove into view.
She always attributed her bad spelling to the forced change.
‘Morning Anne
I suffered similar attempts to make me write right handed,that combined with the inevitable smearing when using dip nib pens with my left hand left me with a lifetimes handwriting that looked as if a demented spider had fallen in the inkwell and crawled out
Hooray for keyboards!!!
Good morning, Rik. I think you are either Lady Judge-Spider or Prince Charles and I claim my five bob postal order.
It’s okay if you don’t swallow it, Annie.
It must be really depressing to be a leftard as they look and find misery in everything they see and do.
I keep forgetting to smile and often grouse, Alf. So clearly my drink of choice is The Famous Grouse.
A very wise choice. Iβm on Bellβs at the moment I won it at a bowls match towards the end of last season. Iβve also got some a Teacherβs I picked up duty free in December for Β£11 per litre. Used to drink it years a go when I knew one of their sales managers. Iβm a bit of a mercenary where Scotch is concerned.
https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1232207926414266368
What about Europe’s open borders and families returning back to UK from their half term holidays?
Morning TB,
Should I get out of bed this morning?
Morning Angie…..oh yes….if the day promises to behave.
Well looking out my bedroom window I can see blue sky for the first time in days, so definitely worth getting up for if it’s the same your way.
Ours is not blue but the sun is smiling.
Disappointingly it has now clouded over – so often seems to be the case: I wake up to a sunny morning, but by the time I have dressed etc I come downstairs to discover the sunshine has disappeared. At least it is not raining and the river level is stable and not rising.
Perhaps it’s only sunny if you look through the bedroom window? Just a thought…
Whose bed are you in?
Well I did Angie (at 4.30am) but I got straight back in again (at 4.35am).
Maggie, just for a second I thought Matt Hancock had suggested that holiday makers who visited Italy should self-immolate!
Bonfire of the Vanities.
My free DT access for one month has ceased to exist.. as of yesterday.
Or was I just lucky?
Has anyone else been restricted?
If you change your IP and clear cookies, you might get another month.
Morning, Campers.
Richard Littlejohn; do I mention Blighty’s spinelessness over kosher and halal slaughter?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8040053/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Finger-Lickin-Chlorine-Chicken.html
Morning to you.
This is the very reason I walk down into town to buy our meat from the local butcher.
I had a long discussion with him about halal slaughter and supermarket produce, he does not partake in that practice.
He even has beef in his burgers and not the ass and tail cuts.
My preferred local butcher had a notice on the counter stating that very fact.
It disappeared so I can only assume that they had a visit from some town hall desk pilot.
However, it was there long enough for the message to get through.
Morning to you
When I asked my butcher cheekily whether his meat was halal slaughtered , the little wretch asked me ” Why , are you racist?”
Our old butcher had died , and his old business was sold to another family .
What an idiot…..what has that got to do with it?
Tell him that you are a member of PETA, looking for small businesses to damage or shut down.
His answer indicates to me that it is. He would no longer get my business but I appreciate how difficult it is to find an alternate supply.
Religion is not race.
See also in this respect Sharia and Beth Din.
SIR β My village has no gas supply; my house has oil-fired central heating and a log burner (Letters, February 24). Which should I abandon first in the interests of curbing global warming β the oil or the wood?
Angela Lawrence
Woodbridge, Suffolk
Breathing, dear, that’s all that will satisfy them.
Carry on with both as long as you can. Good luck!
Ditto…..
Neither, Angela. It’s just another load of irritating but meaningless greenwash.
SIR β When I marked the ballot paper, I thought I was helping to get Boris Johnson into office; I think I must have checked the wrong name as we seem to have the Greens in government.
Philip Hall
Petersfield, Hampshire
You’d think with such a majority Boris would actually be repealling legislation that is detrimental to the UK – starting with Theresa May’s hideous ‘net zero’ nonsense.
‘Morning, Peeps.
Eco-nutjobs on parade…
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/24/watch-green-extremists-stage-protest-outside-london-police-hq/
What a bunch of silly bunts.
‘Morning, Hugh.
Now ( last few minutes) Tenerife hotel with 1000 guests in isolation after Italian is in hotel.
‘Morning, Angie, those parasitic Italians get everywhere. Does he have slant eyes and a yellow complexion?
316636+up ticks,
Morning Each,
“How long will the eu prioritise open borders” seeing it was set up mainly as a controlling people, power movement, with the continued backing of politico ego addicts / golden troughers it is hardly likely to set up a campaign for the benefit of all, it was never set up for that.
The boris chap could gain the peoples trust in saying we
are taking a total severance standing, isolating these Isle
but for emergencies & essentials only.
Instance, peoples cannot go holidaying abroad then return & whinge knowing the current consequences.
What an extraordinary chap,……
SIR β I built my own aircraft in my garage. It took me eight years, and an extraordinary amount of training and study was required. I had to perfect new skills, and at every stage of the process I was examined and my work checked.
I flew the aircraft all over the world for 10 years without any maintenance or other issues. I fulfilled all the airworthiness directives and carried out maintenance myself.
I have visited Boeingβs facilities in America many times and been impressed by the companyβs βcan-doβ attitude. It has been a major contributor to civil and military aviation.
However, I was not surprised by your report (February 20) that debris had been found in the fuel tanks of grounded 737 Max jets, in the wake of two fatal crashes. While I admire the scale of Boeingβs operations, its accounting for tools, equipment, components, materials and work done always left me with the impression that something could go wrong.
During my aircraft-building days, my garage was like an operating theatre. Every tool had a clear storage place, all items were accounted for and each period of work was logged. I was accountable to the UK Civil Aviation Authority, but ultimately my safety was in my hands.
At Boeing, I was surprised to see each worker wheel out a personal toolbox at the start of their shift. Each airframe had an army of people crawling all over it with what seemed like casual professionalism.
Boeing, like many big businesses, is focused on profit β and, while it may proclaim that safety is its top priority, recent events cast doubt on this. Cost-cutting in any industry where safety is critical leads to safety being compromised. A cosy relationship with a regulator can make things worse.
I do not recommend your readers build their own aircraft β but mine was the safest I have ever flown in.
Dr Michael A Fopp
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
He sounds slightly weird. Is he a GP or some other form of doctor?
An Aussie flying doctor perhaps?
Could be…morning Sos.
From Leighton Buzzard.
Hence the love of flying?
Raptors get everywhere.
Talking of planes; how on earth did Sopwith come up with the name ‘Camel’ for one of his aircraft?
Surely the hump would suggest a lumbering animal that wasn’t exactly aerodynamic?
Early in its development, the Camel was simply referred to as the “Big Pup”. A metal fairing over the gun breeches, intended to protect the guns from freezing at altitude, created a “hump” that led pilots to call the aircraft “Camel”, although this name was never used officially.
Never knew that…
The Things I Learn On NOTTL.
HK seems to have the answer.
Amongst other planes, I believe my grandfather flew one in WW1.
Likely a mechanical engineer. A google of the fellow shows (perhaps?) to be the retired director of the aviation museum.
Walk into any RAF maintenance hangar and you will see wall-mounted boards with Dayglo cut-outs for every tool. A visual check is quick and easy. Unfortunately there is still the occasional mishap caused by the failure to remove everything before engine or flight testing. Problem is, it is a system operated by humans…
A friend of ours built a two seater from a kit and he was absolutely meticulous over parts and tools.
He was unpleasantly surprised by how many small pieces were not exactly as they were supposed to be according to the instruction manual. He always double checked measurements/threads etc. before moving them into place.
The plane was a lovely thing and he has had a lot of pleasure from it.
You still wouldn’t get me to fly in it!
A friend built and still flies this. He wouldn’t take me up in it, saying that our combined weight was too much! He is a big bloke. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4d5b3026dc4e7b8f4afe285e04470b87a22ae5d101d0ad577230459427280830.jpg
His was a similar sort of size.
His had a two seats at the front if I recall correctly, which would presumably cause balance/trim issues unless the passenger was roughly as big as the pilot.
The mechanics of it were surprisingly straightforward looking. Like a very glorified soapbox derby cart.
Agreed, Hugh, when I first went into Man Service in the Royal Air Force in 1961, I was issued a tool bag and a set of tools. I was never more glad than when it was withdrawn and I was issued with identity discs, each with a hole in it, to place on the shadow board for every tool I took to use on aircraft. I had/have a habit of putting a tool down while working and then forgetting to pick it up! A loose screwdriver in a non-fly-by-wire aircraft is an accident looking to happen.
Me too Tom – I think my personal tool kit (minus any special tools I had made) was handed in in ’61 and the shadowboard replaced it. One hangar I worked in later didn’t even have shadowboards, you had to book tools out from a store which was ridiculously slow and inefficient and you handed them back in at the end of your shift. Thankfully it was discontinued after a few months.
Certainly no er Fopp….
When Boeing took over McDonnell Douglas, the old Boeing “Engineering for engineering sake” attitude was displaced by McD-D “Money at all costs” attitude as a kind of reverse take-over, and they have been much more cost focused. That shows, in the statistics.
An article from The Conservative Woman. I have also sent it to my local MP. The word ‘bansturbation’is reappearing; I am tired of British governments’ knee jerk micro management of our lives. This is not what we voted for.
https://conservativewoman.co.uk/sneering-tories-have-no-ideas-of-their-own/?utm_source=TCW+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=3011ad32cb-Mailchimp+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a63cca1cc5-3011ad32cb-559682581
Even BoJo is terrified at the thought of an attack by an ignorant, anti-right media. That and the dreaded soshal meeja, of course.
Why don’t the Conservatives have any ideas ?
They don’t need any as Open Society claim to have “leveraged policy” for an amazing “three decades”, so it’s all outsourced to them !
Yet it is what will continue. We voted for change and nothing will. It only ever gets worse as the state further controls our lives.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4248bc276ed69e611393789c46c99e7e042aa60916c1c1f11d93c915e23e5b6b.jpg
Ooo… Mmmmmm!
Morning, Jenny!
Morning Obers…..they do look yummy and I am not a fan of the pancake……xxx
Nice with syrup and lemon… or bacon & brown cheese.
316636+ up ticks,
Morning J,
Did you not agree with my earlier
post ?
Morning Ogga…yes, I upticked.
316636+ up ticks,
J,
The reason I asked was that to my mind there is a lot amiss behind the disqus tag.
…and in English?
Wowsers. I know my brekkie won’t look like that!
Well I enjoyed my little packet of Bel Vita and a glass of milk…yum.
A comment on Twitter suggested Shrove Tuesday and pancake making was WHITE PRIVILEGE !
So be it……
It’s clear who the tossers really are.π
Our previous MP – you know who – actually had a photograph of him tossing pancakes with a number of other Parliamentarians removed from the interwebby.
Presumably he thought the chef’s toque didn’t flatter him.
Sorry, but to me those are not Shrove Tuesday pancakes. Pancakes should be filigree thin, see through in many places and much larger than the ones in your picture. Some lemon juice and sugar are then the only accompaniment they need.
To me they are all ‘craps’…..lol.
They look more like drop scones to me Jenny
I thought they were called pikelets.
Wow…we have full sunshine now. Just when I am stuck here with decorators and waiting for the car coming home after repair.
Silence over latest carelessly parked car.
Do we assume the driver wasn’t Johannes Schmidt?
Or even that well known Methodist, Johan Smed?
Amazing, not a squeak. Maybe the brakes needed servicing. German citizen, but probably not a sausage lover.
Always had a nice smile.
Always said ‘Guten Morgen’.
Oma’s in bits.
…and Opa’s off to the Mosque!
https://www.dw.com/en/german-man-crashes-car-into-crowd-at-carnival-parade-injuring-dozens/a-52509654
A moderate jihadi? Not given to killing, only causing serious injuries? Kind to his mother, went the messages for his grannie?
(State of health? Ah, they mean mental health. I get it.)
The investigators will be being cautious, given previous early calls that were wrong. That said, I would err on the side of him being an extremeist.
Driving into a crowd probably qualifies as extremism. Its just a matter of whether it was islamic inspired or right wing extremism. Iβm still undecided but its odd how that after last weekβs hookah horror, the name and complete life were on the wires within hours, but in this occasion, the name is withheld under privacy laws.
I also find that somewhat strange.
There will be a lot of digging going on the background. I would be interested to know if the car was stolen.
It’s probably my imagination, but there seem to be more cases of estranged men/women trying to take out their “ex” with little or no heed as to collateral damage.
The βfamilyβ dispute was quickly trotted out after Dutch tram murder. Later, the real cause was admitted. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/utrecht-shooting-live-updates-tram-holland-netherlands-dutch-latest-a8827936.html
Or do they mean he has been beaten up in a police cell?
Well, I guess most extremists are not born with a record.
Der Spiegel saks he was drunk at the time. Muslims do not drink therefore he cannot have been a Muslim.
He was a German citizen.
I think you may be ill-informed over Muslims not drinking.
I know many Muslims who drink regularly, often to excess.
I’m reasonably sure that first indications were that he was not drunk.
I dont’s see many around here, just the occasional one sipping furtively at a glass while looking over his shoulder to see who may be watching him.
I suspect it very much depends on how high a proportion of Muslims live in the area and also the level of education/social interaction with non Muslims.
Boy, do we know about Muslims and alcohol. As anyone who has provided accommodation for English language schools can attest.
The reply I would like to post to John Redwood’s Diary but cannot as JR does not want mention of names in his latest series of essays. Today’s essay reviews the performance of the Home Office and immigration.
I think too much blame is placed on May – which is an unusual thing for me to say.
Over the removal of profiling for stop and search that was obviously a political bid which continues to do damage to this country, especially London.
Over the EU negotiations her team – the civil servants – withheld data and simply were playing for the other side and as a consequence she was terribly informed – of course, she shouldn’t have got involved at all leaving it to David Davis. Again, political manouvering.
I think her tenure was a series of steps up the greasy pole to win notoriety and visibility for Theresa May, taking bad advice and doing the wrong thing but the politically opportune and state welcomed thing and thus ensured a comfortable waft up the ladder to PM.
Of course, the consequences for the UK were disasterous, but politicians think to Friday afternoon. May was a politician – a good one. In that sense, she was successful in her roles because she achieved the highest office in the land. The damage she did to the country is – to her – irrelevant. It is that lack of sense of duty and integrity that makes me look at Westminster as a snake pit of failure, back stabbing and poisoning one another for fractional gain rather than a pack of dogs all working together.
I disagree. She is evil.
The word ‘evil’ has religious undertones which may be relevant given that there is a cloud of suspicion over her priest father about unsavoury behaviour. Why was Mrs May so very keen to get information about him removed from the web?
She wasn’t up to the job.
There were plenty of people around her to make use of her disastrous mixture of arrogance and lack of imagination.
History is littered with useful puppets being manipulated by eminences grises behind the scenes.
He finally named Soros !
Check out my post on his blog yesterday.
Ask him if Treasa and George were best friends.
Particularly as Treasa just picked up a huge bung at Davos for speeches hardly anyone wanted to listen to.
Catch you later……must look after cats as their room is being stripped and they don’t like change…especially Luna.
You cannot keep good men/ women down,
https://kippercentral.com/2020/02/24/change-is-coming-tommy-robinson-carl-benjamin-to-launch-free-speech-movement-in-london/
Where and when? (London’s a big place.)
316636+up ticks,
Morning Jbf,
It has come as a surprise to me but a most welcome one, suggest contact Alan Craig / Carl Benjamin / Peter Mcilvenna on twitter.
I don’t tweet.
316636+ up ticks,
Jfb,
In the nicest possible way then you have two options,
One is change your seed diet,
Two is await further info, which I do not believe will be long in coming.
I now know that it’s at 11:30, but no more precise than central London.
316636+ up ticks,
Jbf,
Maybe forewarned is forearmed as in not revealing to the opposing enemas until the last moment.
I know that works both ways but I would assume the Tommy /Carl/ Alan side to be more dedicated.
Tommy Robinson & Carl Benjamin To Launch Free Speech Movement In London.
Thatβs not going to go down too well!
316636+ up ticks,
Morning AS,
Something had to give, I for one will say the pat mountain & co
ersatz Nec, UKIP will be in total disagreement.
As in prior post the likes of Tommy Robinson as with Tommy Atkins will be sorely needed, and is being called for as day follows day and things get progressively worse.
I very much doubt whether there a single member of the current government who has the courage to say, unequivocally, that he or she is in favour of free speech?
Morning Richard. They could of course say it, but it would be a lie. In their attempts to mislead and gull the public into accepting their policies the Political Elites have constructed an edifice of unparalleled deceit. This has to be maintained and so the truth must be suppressed at all levels of society. It is not unlike the situation that existed in the old Soviet Union and will very probably end the same way!
According to the labour party, women in deprived areas are more likely to die earlier. The causes have not actually been defined but of course It’s because of tory government cuts. Nothing to with lack of funding because the people who are living in the deprived areas are recent migrants, don’t work and live completely off the UK taxpayer.
Then of course it’s everyone else’s fault that the local councils have no money in the kitty because their income is almost no existent. Perhaps a simple reminder might be circulated in such ‘deprived’ areas. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch”.
Unless of course you’re a political figure, or a lounging specialist trougher in the house of Lords.
I suspect it is more like lt to be down to they don’t take any exercise and that they are obese and that they are heavy drinkers and smokers and may also be taking drugs
Then again, what would life be like without all that?
Also women in a certain community tend to have a lot of children.
Yes Sue and they often use the kids to increase their income.
As part of their findings that life is sooo unfair due to austerity, they are surprised that life expectancy has stopped increasing. Well, unless you can regenerate the basic human biological form, then there must be a limit as to how long you can keep an organism from living. Once you have reduced deaths from avoidable or treatable illnesses, improved nutrition and improved care for the elderly, there is little more than you can do. One thing is for certain, none of us gets out alive.
DT Headline
Politics latest news: Brussels to reveal its red lines in trade negotiations with UK
Red lines are completely irrelevant. All Traita May’s red lines were ignored and swept away – the same should happen to the EU’s red lines.
The sooner BJ abandons all further non-negotiations with the EU and finds a better use for his testicles than his own domestic gratification the better it will be for all of us including, I suspect, Ms Symonds.
Stay safe out there …. If in doubt, self-isolate …. BTW it’s perfectly safe to travel to Italy:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/177b16d6c1487cce7dd7e9cd1243314f97f412df057c7e7a80eb53de21cecb85.jpg
But not to Tenerife –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51627597
So Africans are unaffected then, are they immune to it?
No, they can still travel here ……..:-)
Most youngsters play with plastic balls now not much heavier than a balloon.
Footballs are also far lighter than the lumps of paneled wet leather with the huge laces we played with when we were younger.
I’d imagine more brain damage could occur with constant use of 4 and 5 G.
Apparently the number of times you can head a ball will depend on your age – I wonder who will keep tally?
We need to get out more with the ball Alec. β½πon me ‘ead son π
What is utterly ridiculous is banning heading in training for the youngsters yet still allowing it in matches. It should be all or nothing.
A child who has not been taught to head the ball properly is in far greater danger of damage than a well trained youngster.
Agreed re mobile devices.
I knew two guys who had brain tumours attributed to the use of mobile phones. One died his doctor told hem he had a virus !
The other one use to spend most of his daily life on his phone for business reasons. He’s still alive but in a bit of a mess after the tumour was removed.
That is disturbing, I watch people in the streets who seem to have their mobiles grafted onto the sides of their heads. Youngsters will probably be even more vulnerable.
Presumably the figures are too low to establish a pattern, although it quickly became apparent that vaping wasn’t as “healthy” as first thought.
Nobody talks on the mobile any more. Its used for reading, gaming and playing music.
Thought for the day.
They are playing with them on their laps, might that cause sterility or deformity of off-spring?
For years the advice has been not to put laptops directly on your lap.
Not even when viewing “dancers”?
I’ve often wondered about ‘head banging’ shaking heads when dancing etc, more obviously boxing, it must have a deleterious effect.
The guitarist in the Rock Band ACDC Angus Young, for instance.
Sports are waking up to the dangers, even for fully developed adults, but I don’t suppose the music/entertainment industry gives two hoots.
They might when “the drugs don’t work”.
Mo Farah and his Kryptonite?
I wonder if he’ll lose his knighthood.
Right now he has a clearly marked card.
It won’t happen.
Farah is as close to fireproof as any athlete gets. If he goes down there are potentially dozens, if not hundreds of athletes who will be attached to the anchor chain.
Famous last words; (from someone who believed Lance Armstrong for a long time)
When I played rugby at school I often used to take the conversions or the penalties.
It would have been virtually impossible to succeed with a soggy, water-drenched, heavy leather ball as it is today when conversions and penalties can fly between the posts from the half way line even of the wettest of days..
Mind you, in those days a penalty was worth the same as a try – three points.
‘Morning All
Awkward………………
https://twitter.com/DarrenPlymouth/status/1232048051541487622?s=19
Why are the Swedish Education authorities allowing her to stay away from school?
She goes to a special school for people with learning difficulties. Attendance is optional.
So what you are saying is that the cover girl for “Time”, the advisor emeritus to Heads of Government such as the UK, the darling of eco-greens everywhere, is a retard?
As are those who pay any attention.
Got it in one!
An ideal representative of the current self-hating European establishment.
It will be difficult for her to maintain the image of plucky child as she grows up. World watchers might just expect her to be able to answer questions and explain her views.
Looking at her, she doesn’t seem to resemble a properly developed western 16 year old girl.
Soviet Bloc gymnasts spring to mind, though probably her alleged anorexia may play a part.
Barking mad, in an extremist household, may also play a part!
18yo I believe.
This poor girl is nothing more than an auto-cue reader for her eco-loon parents/minders. She can’t lecture ‘off piste’ as she doesn’t speak from research, merely the outpourings from her scriptwriters. Think Naga Munchetty with a higher golf handicap.
When are the police going to act against Left wing Extremists and anarchists
Why are the police still failing to take action against left wing extremists and anarchists. Parts of the UK are now regularly bought to a halt by so called Climate Activists which appear to consists mainly of extreme left wing types and anarchists and are frequently protesting about anything and everything yet the police take almost no action
Perhaps the police need to keep on the ‘right side’ of these people because the authorities will be in need of thousands of woke smoke detectors. Walking the streets looking for people burning wood in future urgent chimney alerts.
They have friends (and possibly parents) in high places, Bill. The Establishment is on their side. Think on it, the Church of England is teaming up with XR for it’s Lent programme. Forget the man from Nazareth, He didn’t say the right things.
Peaceful protest is permissible but ER go way beyond that and have broken endless laws yet the police largely ignore them
Well the Canadian barricades are down. The climate warriors just moved down the road and are now throwing burning tyres onto the tracks.
Ship in a few Chinese pseudo-tourists who are surprisingly keen to take photos, especially selfies, and let them cough a little. Or even some Italians.
Why burqas, grass skirts, and african costumes come mostly in larger sizes>
Type 2 Diabetes Rates by Country
Rank Country Value Year
1 Kiribati 22.50 2019
2 Tuvalu 22.10 2019
2 Sudan 22.10 2019
4 Mauritius 22.00 2019
5 New Caledonia 21.80 2019
6 Pakistan 19.90 2019
7 Solomon Islands 19.00 2019
8 Papua New Guinea 17.90 2019
8 Palau 17.90 2019
10 Egypt 17.20 2019
11 Belize 17.10 2019
12 Malaysia 16.70 2019
13 United Arab Emirates 16.30 2019
14 Saudi Arabia 15.80 2019
15 Tonga 15.70 2019
16 Qatar 15.60 2019
16 Bahrain 15.60 2019
18 Fiji 14.70 2019
19 Puerto Rico 13.70 2019
20 Syrian Arab Republic 13.50 2019
20 Mexico 13.50 2019
22 Barbados 13.40 2019
23 St. Kitts and Nevis 13.30 2019
23 Brunei 13.30 2019
25 Antigua and Barbuda 13.10 2019
26 South Africa 12.70 2019
26 Jordan 12.70 2019
28 Suriname 12.50 2019
29 Comoros 12.30 2019
29 Seychelles 12.30 2019
31 Kuwait 12.20 2019
32 Nauru 12.00 2019
33 Vanuatu 11.90 2019
34 Guyana 11.60 2019
34 Dominica 11.60 2019
34 St. Lucia 11.60 2019
34 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 11.60 2019
38 Nicaragua 11.40 2019
39 Jamaica 11.30 2019
40 Lebanon 11.20 2019
41 Turkey 11.10 2019
42 Trinidad and Tobago 11.00 2019
43 United States 10.80 2019
44 Sri Lanka 10.70 2019
44 Grenada 10.70 2019
46 Germany 10.40 2019
46 India 10.40 2019
46 Brazil 10.40 2019
49 Bhutan 10.30 2019
50 Libya 10.20 2019
51 Oman 10.10 2019
52 Guatemala 10.00 2019
53 Portugal 9.80 2019
54 Israel 9.70 2019
55 Cuba 9.60 2019
55 Paraguay 9.60 2019
55 Iran 9.60 2019
58 Liechtenstein 9.40 2019
59 North Macedonia 9.30 2019
60 Samoa 9.20 2019
60 China 9.20 2019
60 Afghanistan 9.20 2019
60 Bangladesh 9.20 2019
64 Costa Rica 9.10 2019
65 Cyprus 9.00 2019
65 Serbia 9.00 2019
65 Montenegro 9.00 2019
65 Bosnia and Herzegovina 9.00 2019
65 Albania 9.00 2019
70 The Bahamas 8.80 2019
70 El Salvador 8.80 2019
70 Iraq 8.80 2019
73 Dominican Republic 8.60 2019
73 Chile 8.60 2019
75 Tunisia 8.50 2019
76 Denmark 8.30 2019
76 Malta 8.30 2019
78 Panama 7.70 2019
78 Andorra 7.70 2019
80 Canada 7.60 2019
81 Colombia 7.40 2019
82 Burkina Faso 7.30 2019
82 Uruguay 7.30 2019
82 Honduras 7.30 2019
85 Nepal 7.20 2019
86 Mauritania 7.10 2019
86 Philippines 7.10 2019
88 Morocco 7.00 2019
88 Thailand 7.00 2019
88 Czech Republic 7.00 2019
88 Venezuela 7.00 2019
92 Hungary 6.90 2019
92 Romania 6.90 2019
92 Spain 6.90 2019
92 Korea 6.90 2019
96 Bolivia 6.80 2019
96 Cayman Islands 6.80 2019
98 Haiti 6.70 2019
98 Timor-Leste 6.70 2019
98 Algeria 6.70 2019
101 Peru 6.60 2019
101 Austria 6.60 2019
103 Uzbekistan 6.50 2019
103 Slovak Republic 6.50 2019
105 Dem. People’s Rep. Korea 6.40 2019
105 Cambodia 6.40 2019
105 Lao PDR 6.40 2019
108 Indonesia 6.30 2019
109 New Zealand 6.20 2019
110 Turkmenistan 6.10 2019
110 Kazakhstan 6.10 2019
110 Poland 6.10 2019
110 Ukraine 6.10 2019
110 Kyrgyz Republic 6.10 2019
110 Russia 6.10 2019
110 Armenia 6.10 2019
110 Azerbaijan 6.10 2019
110 Tajikistan 6.10 2019
119 Congo 6.00 2019
119 Vietnam 6.00 2019
119 Bulgaria 6.00 2019
119 Equatorial Guinea 6.00 2019
119 Gabon 6.00 2019
119 Central African Republic 6.00 2019
119 Cameroon 6.00 2019
119 Dem. Rep. Congo 6.00 2019
119 Chad 6.00 2019
128 Slovenia 5.90 2019
128 San Marino 5.90 2019
128 Argentina 5.90 2019
131 Iceland 5.80 2019
131 Botswana 5.80 2019
131 Georgia 5.80 2019
134 Switzerland 5.70 2019
134 Moldova 5.70 2019
134 Tanzania 5.70 2019
137 Australia 5.60 2019
137 Japan 5.60 2019
137 Finland 5.60 2019
140 Singapore 5.50 2019
140 Ecuador 5.50 2019
142 Croatia 5.40 2019
142 Yemen 5.40 2019
142 Netherlands 5.40 2019
145 Norway 5.30 2019
146 Somalia 5.10 2019
146 Eritrea 5.10 2019
146 Rwanda 5.10 2019
146 Burundi 5.10 2019
146 Djibouti 5.10 2019
151 Luxembourg 5.00 2019
151 Italy 5.00 2019
151 Belarus 5.00 2019
151 Latvia 5.00 2019
155 France 4.80 2019
155 Sweden 4.80 2019
157 Greece 4.70 2019
157 Mongolia 4.70 2019
159 Belgium 4.60 2019
160 Malawi 4.50 2019
160 Namibia 4.50 2019
160 Hong Kong SAR, China 4.50 2019
160 Angola 4.50 2019
160 Zambia 4.50 2019
160 Eswatini 4.50 2019
160 Lesotho 4.50 2019
160 Madagascar 4.50 2019
168 Ethiopia 4.30 2019
168 Macao SAR, China 4.30 2019
170 Estonia 4.20 2019
171 United Kingdom 3.90 2019
171 Myanmar 3.90 2019
173 Lithuania 3.80 2019
174 Mozambique 3.30 2019
175 Ireland 3.20 2019
176 Kenya 3.10 2019
176 Nigeria 3.10 2019
178 Monaco 2.90 2019
179 Ghana 2.50 2019
179 Uganda 2.50 2019
181 Cabo Verde 2.40 2019
181 Mali 2.40 2019
181 Liberia 2.40 2019
181 Senegal 2.40 2019
181 Niger 2.40 2019
181 CΓ΄te d’Ivoire 2.40 2019
181 SΓ£o TomΓ© and Principe 2.40 2019
181 Guinea-Bissau 2.40 2019
181 Sierra Leone 2.40 2019
181 Guinea 2.40 2019
181 Togo 2.40 2019
192 Greenland 2.10 2019
193 The Gambia 1.90 2019
194 Zimbabwe 1.80 2019
195 Benin 1.00 2019
https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SH.STA.DIAB.ZS/rankings
What on earth are we doing? 171st out of 195? We can do better than that surely? Come on, let’s show them. Let’s set a target of getting in to the Top 10 in the net five years. We can do it!
I have to admit I was surprised at our low rating.
The USA and Canada are up there. There must be money in diabetes treatments.
Oh look another TV ad, there is money in diabetes.
I wonder if the low rates in some countries African countries like the Congo, is because everyone gets killed before they can reach an age at which it usually develops.
Blimey. I can wind up D-in-law; Denmark has a higher diabetes rate.
Lots of hypochondriacs on the eu continent, so diabetes is probably more frequently diagnosed.
Any one noticed how the ER brigade have gone a lot quieter since the schools and colleges etc have gone back
School keeps the teachers off the street.
Good morning, everyone. MacBook Pro is in the hospital as I spilled half a pint of beer on it last night. Now on a very slow iPad.
What a waste ! Which beer was it ?
Doombar.
Well. what do you expect…!
BBC hits back at poll showing majority of UK adults support scrapping BBC licence fee
Well they would. 61% in a poll is a massive majority and only 29% thought the TV licences was value for money. It probably really started going wrong at the BBC with the arrival of digital and they were no longer constrained by lack of bandwidth for channels. They also got heavily into so called local radio of which less than 5% is local the rest is pumping out the same music but usng different presenters for each local station
What is a radio ? You mean some kind of television with no picture, like they used to have in the olden days ?
Wireless !!
Thanks. I read about that in a book once !!
Cats whisker ?
Porn Actress: Crystal Sett.
Ah that brings back memories – the radio that is not the actress. Radio Luxemburg under the bedclothes club.
208!
Ah! The bus from Bromley South Railway Station to the Bromley Court Hotel, not been on that for a while!
316636+up ticks,
T,
You read ?
Funny.
That’s a microwave. Do keep up!
Working for the BBC: never admitting you might be wrong…
It’s also all the left-wing cultural nonsense that they shoehorn into everything.
Good Morning All,
Some of you will have noticed the absence ot CV2 this last week. He is fine – perched in his new home on a hill tom in East Wiltshire (the views are spectacular), but he is being mucked around by BT who do not seem to be able to sort out his internet provision. Engineer coming tomorrow so he hopes to be back soon.
BT letting him down? There’s a rarity!
Absolutely to be expected:)
Demand compensation and things start happening amazingly quickly
Ah so thats why the CV2 has disappeared from my credit card
Excellent news!
This is Tom but I’m not Tom Hill so I don’t have a CV2 perched upon me.
Surely you are not glad to see the back of 2cv?
I have found 2CV
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f718821c8063cc07f014d19648a3c5f0a45eca57761178fa890dcf35c9f7eef7.jpg
Be seeing you…
Heyup Lass!
Pass my regards on to him.
A BT technician/ repairman or woman will repair the fault just as a motor mechanic repairs a car.
An Engineer is a highly qualified graduate in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering………….
Met Office warnings UPDATED: New alerts as snow bomb to blast Britain this week
Seems the Met Office is joining in the climate change scam. It appears we no longer have snowfalls but snow bombs. Does the snow explode as it hits the ground ?
They must have been reading the Daily Express.
The weather’s been far worse since they kept naming the slightest alteration in wind, sun or rain behaviour.
The elements have to live up up to their monikers.
But it’s much quieter on here this morning. It was very squally yesterday evening…
Yes I popped in late yesterday and ran away very quickly.
I looked in at the end of the spat. I was very close to handing out a pair of one hour suspensions.
A one hour suspension at that time of night would hardly have cut the mustard.
I flagged the most offensive post, but it was still there this morning.
It would have stopped them going on and hopefully given them time to calm down.
I did not receive any notification about an offensive post, maybe someone approved it.
They had already stopped – more or less. Andy had twice said goodnight, but Sos kept up the tirade of insults.
But never mind, water under the bridge.
Oh, I thought you meant the weather…
Environment Agency chief: Avoid building new homes on flood plains
Given the planning regulation dont stop homes being built on flood plains they will continue to be built on them. Local council cannot see that over development sand particularly on flood plains cause flooding and to stop that flooding you would need to spends tens of million pounds which would make building on them non viable
Building new homes on flood plains in England should be resisted if at all possible, the head of the Environment Agency Sir James Bevan has said.
He said where there was no alternative, homes should be made more resilient, for example by using ground floors for garages so people stay safe upstairs.
He also argued there may be a need to shift some communities out of harm’s way when the risks become too great.
It comes after Storms Ciara and Dennis caused widespread flooding.
I noticed that he mentioned the climate emergency, so its nothing to do with the EA then and little that we can do about it, apparently. I saw some of the near brain dead from Pontypridd being interviewed, they complained that an EA text that said there would be flooding had arrived after the water flowed into their house (by the river). There had been warnings for days about the rain and likely flooding. If you go to bed and believe that you are going to be reliably informed of the situation in time to move your valuables upstairs then you are deluded.
What climate emergency? Have I missed it?
” EU demands UK keep chlorinated chicken ban to get trade deal”
Leaving aside vested interests, what is the general opinion here about this ?
EU say use Lactic acid both serve the same purpose I suspect the EU’d dislike of Chlorine is more to block competition
https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2012/01/18/FSA-backs-lactic-acid-in-meat-processing-despite-concerns
Both Chlorine and lactic acid can reduce contamination of food. It is nonsense to say the US only uses it because o poor hygiene practices. I suspect the EU has banned it to block competition
Contamination of meat and poultry occurs on the surface which is why a rare steak is ok but not a rare burger
Enjoy your KFC (YUK)
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/you-wont-feel-like-chicken-tonight-6308189.html
Interestingly the EU have approved lactic acid which is used for the same purpose. I suspect it is to try to block competition as the US has used Chlorine rather than lactic acid
Rather like turkey twizzlers.
When Jamie Oliver showed youngsters exactly how they were made and asked the children if they still wanted to eat them, there was a resounding “yes”; much to his surprise/horror.
We and the EU put it in the drinking water, so what’s the hooha all about?
And in much higher concentration in swimming pools
I don’t use public pools so am unsure about drinking from them.
The use of chlorine on poultry in the US is due to their lower standards of husbandry. As stated elsewhere, if people here don’t buy it then it won’t be imported. Quite simple really.
The EU says chlorine-washed chicken is safe
No one is saying that you just rely o chlorine for food safety that would be daft
The European Food Safety Authority has said that there are βno safety concernsβ with the chlorination of chicken, but it has also said this practice might not be sufficient for maintaining good hygiene standards throughout the slaughter process..
This is the farming lobby seeking to keep down the competition. A visit to a chicken processing factory should weed out the snowflakes. Those bruises you see on the raw chicken before you cook it? That means they werenβt dead before the feathers were ripped off!
Stress has a bad effect on animals. They produce all sorts of chemical/hormones as part of the “fight or flight” response. However they cannot do either. The chemicals remain in the bodies after slaughter and adversely affect the taste. After death comes packaging. The film released showing the Two Sisters truly horrible factory made it clear what the bottom end of the food industry looks like. Two Sisters supply M&S. The standards of M&S have dropped thought the floor. There was time that they required producers to have a dedicated M&S factory.
They lost us as a customer after I raised the issue with M&S and they blatantly lied about things.
‘Morning, Tony what has it to do with the EU? We will import what we like and if they want our chicken nuggets then you get what you pay for, otherwise you’re free NOT to buy them. Understand, thicko? – Not you Tony, the EU.
The only say in it the EU should have is whether they want to buy chlorinated chicken from the UK or not
Here are 3 articles related to chickens imported to the UK from Brazil. I don’t understand the chlorination fuss.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/food/1148776/salmonella-bacteria-risk-warning-food-poisoning-what-is-salmonella-infection-chicken
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chicken-forests-greenpeace-supermarket-fast-food-wildlife-trees-climate-deforestation-a9292576.html
https://www.globalmeatnews.com/Headlines/Promotional-Features/How-the-Brazilian-poultry-industry-is-adapting-to-changing-European-demands
I would have thought they would have been delighted that we were all going to die from eating it. I wonder how many Americans die from eating their hone produced chicken? Probably the same number who die in the U.K. from U.K. produced chicken. Not many.
Been eating chicken here for 40 years without any ill effects. I recall poor Edwina Currie getting in the neck for pointing out back in the late ’80’s that the British chicken and egg business was riddled with Salmonella, which of course it why the Americans do wash their chickens as part of the process.
What you are really seeing is lobbying by British chicken farmers trying to avoid competition.
But why are English egg yolks so much yellower than American egg yolks? They don’t bleach the eggs do they?
They might add something to the feed in UK, eg maize.
French egg yolks are delicious, at least from the local farmer who definitely uses maize (it’s a maize growing area).
Agreed Jack. Scaremongering of the first order. They think weβre re as stupid and insular as they are. Condescending dimwits.
I gather that the US is moving towards using acetic acid instead of chlorine to remove bacteria.
I don’t have a problem with it, as like Richard L I’ve eaten it when I’ve been in the U.S..
Beats eating horsemeat labelled as beef…
I suppose that when we visit the US, we get to eat chlorinated chicken. We are still here, so it did not kill us.
Unlike the tap water in many places , their chicken does not smell or taste like some chemical brew (Jack or Jill may contradict me if WV water is drinkable).
Edited.
Outgoing head of MI5 says lack of regulation on ‘wild west’ web is ‘mystifying. 25 February 2020.
Questioning why there was so little regulation of social media and the internet, he said: βAre we really wanting a world where thereβs a cyber space that is a wild west, unregulated, inaccessible to authorities?
Er� Yes! Next question.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/02/25/lack-regulation-wild-west-web-mystifying-says-head-security/#comment
Absolutely.
Anything else leads to mass censorship and authoritarianism.
Now about that incident in Germany………………………..
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cb5b7c9b3376d1625f0592bd9e7907d13d47d2f2d5854062c0f2425e5a841bb6.jpg
I swear that someone uses one of those on me every morning, just before I get out of bed.
Shhhhh, nobody has noticed apart from some right wing maniacs on conspiracy websites.
I am offended brigade
I tried to work this out and failed miserably as I could find nothing to be offended by
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51621812
Much ado about nothing at all!
No canot be that Yorkshire tea was not around back then ??????????
Professional troublemakers given too much publicity by the media.
I was offended by the crockery……where’s the bone china!
Any half-decent Tyke would tell them all where to go.
Talk about a storm in a tea cup!
I don’t understand it either.
Jeff Taylor: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZexbr6WvkA
The Great Lefty Yorkshire Tea Meltdown
“Is there anything as ludicrous as berating a tea producer just because someone you don’t like drinks it? Well that’s where the left has now sunk to!”
Pst do me a few favors and I will give you a seat in the Lords giving you a nice Β£300 a day plus expenses and heavily subsidized meals
In any other business it would be a criminal offence but in politics s anything goes
How you change this corrupt system who knows as it is the politician that control the system. At the rate they are going we will have a 1000 Lords before long
To the Tower with them…..
As long as they don’t all start a-leaping at once.
Probably not all but quite a few have made a habit of leaping into bed with random woman
And the rest could not leap anywhere to save their lives.
Coronavirus
spreads to the SOUTH of Italy, with panic-buyers stripping supermarket
shelves bare in Palermo after infected tourist from the north – where
death toll has hit 7 – visits Sicily
(From the Mail)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TCM0nDE1BfU
Will All Cruises Be Cancelled In Europe This Summer For 2020?
The cruise industry has already pulled out of the Far East because of the virus outbreak. With the outbreak in Italy, the Mediterranean could be next.
This could seriously affect the global economy, seeing as so many countries have outsourced so many jobs to Chi and so much of their production of goods, plus the effects it will have on international trade overall.
If it does badly affect the US economy, that could benefit Bernie Sanders, as an economic downturn tends to favour the presidential challenger, and the left will spin it as being Trump’s fault.
Itβs coming! Remember. When you panic. Itβs already too late!
It’s beginning already. A colleague of mine down South caught it off the Sussex Royal website.
Sussed Ex-Royal website.
Would you eat a ‘steak’ printed by robots?
You might not know it, but if you wear a hearing aid, you are likely to be part of the 3D printing revolution.
Almost all hearing aids nowadays are produced using the technique.
Also known as additive manufacturing, 3D printing involves building up layers of material – plastic, metal or resin – and bonding them together, until eventually you have the finished product.
Sounds a bit like how integrated circuits work which is a mixture of depositing materials and etching material away
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51263266
Ah! So that’s why the one I bought last year isn’t as good as the one I had before !
Sorry, say again!
No need to shout.
Has it run out of toner?
…… I’ll get me ear trumpet.
What?
I heard you the first time, but I have forgotten the question.
HALF PAST TWO!
That reminds me.. Must go to the dentist.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/96d6ff03a1b37c9576a1d0f59e1e53258ee0d82d2e4fe81a30fa83dbe3a2fd06.jpg
What on Earth is that?
It looks like one of those rubber things with suction pads that sticks to everything!
I think it has quite a long CV considering the small length of time it’s been around.
A long CV ?
The popular song : ” I’ve gotta long Corona Virus ” ?
(No relation of the 2CV below)
It represents a worldwide virus.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a97378b783b1dd807ebcd5af049fd4d1c3c8d82aad6ece87171667e4084a86e2.jpg
Has it got a conker inside?
Not that old chestnut again.
BBC Drama Chief Defends βDoctor Who,β Says Itβs A βLong Wayβ From Being Rested Amid Ratings Drop
The program is tired and probably needs to be dropped after this serious. There will be I am sure a niche audience of fans but just not that many
Working for the BBC means never having to say you’re sorry, or that you’re wrong in any way, even if your ratings are disappearing faster than an ice cube in a hot desert.
The programme has been ruined by far left identity politics.
Could be worse. Could be Batwoman on CBS in the U.S., which can’t muster a million viewers out of 350 million audience.
Both series have been renewed for another season.
When in the wrong and destroying a brand, double down, and refuse to admit you’ve f***** up. Blame the audience instead.
very serious
Very seer-aus, by the sound of it. (bi-lingual pun).
BJ, you cannot be serious! (No, NoTTLers, I am not a famous tennis player, and I will not send you each a five bob postal order.)
BJ is a cereal killer.
Well I did eat to live Wheatabix this morning
Good morning Nottlers…..looks like we may have an okay day today, the sun is showing its face. Happy Shrove Tuesday……the day when everyone is allowed to be a tos ser.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/071bb9a2fb397052daa0f560f18d6cea1ccf5861a80bed6eef465325f328600f.jpg
Itβs time for men to man up. Spiked. 25 February 2020.
My fear is that 21st-century culture is helping to infantilise men, and that this in turn feeds bad behaviour. We no longer venerate great fathers, husbands and brothers. Instead, we are expected to value self-obsession, self-promotion and self-prioritising. Men donβt seem to strive to have a family anymore. Increasingly, they have protracted, frivolous and feckless existences. Their adolescence stretches way beyond their youth.
Morning everyone. We have never venerated great fathers, husbands and brothers the very idea is a self-serving feminist myth since it casts men in a supporting role. The real justification for past masculine social supremacy was their willingness to be rounded up when required, equipped with weapons and then be despatched to fight like minded groups. Their reward for risking their own lives and the sacrifice of their brothers was to be βveneratedβ by the society which they served. The requirement for this has now passed away due to the technological changes in warfare where only small contingents are required to wage it and almost none at all at the higher levels of lethality. This evolution in conflict has made men socially redundant and ushered in the Feminist Age by default. It is no coincidence that it is almost without exception a Western phenomenon and paradoxically because they have been the most successful at what they were sent to do! White men conquered the world and thus made themselves and their raison d’Γͺtre irrelevant! Unfortunately it also means that the present supremacy of Women will not only continue but augment.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/02/25/its-time-for-men-to-man-up/
Wow! And I thought the virus was bad.
Morning Minty et al
A nice obituary of Hosni Mubark in the Guardian, with the expected anti-Sisi slant.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/25/hosni-mubarak-egyptian-president-ousted-during-arab-spring-dies-at-91
Morning
SIR β The Schengen Agreement is the perfect policy to implement if you wish to spread any contagious virus.
The coronavirus has reached Europe and will now fly β yet the EU is reluctant to close its borders. Clearly its blinkered devotion to the rules comes above all else.
Mick Ferrie
Mawnan Smith, Cornwall
SIR β May we be clear that βpandemicβ refers to the spread, not the devastation, of a disease?
The geographic coverage is not synonymous with βglobal disasterβ.
John Buckland
Iwerne Minster, Dorset
Can people be trusted to self isolate?
No! I can….and isolated myself from a hospital visit and the family when I had that infection and it wasn’t the C one….but the main public? No.
Short answer is NO.
It seems that some are infectious but symptom-free. That is a particularly clever virus!
‘Morning, Belle.
Morning, Belle.
How can they? Obviously the actual patient can take themselves off to bed, but those around them must still get on with life. What happens to a household that cuts itself off for a fortnight – or a month as is now being suggested?
Children still have to go to school.
Shopping still has to be done. Even if others do it for the plague house, the goods have to be handed over. Who has handled the goods beforehand?
Most work places would be unamused if staff failed to turn up because Jacintha sneezed.
Although I would be v. cross and whingey if I caught the bug, it would seem to be on a par with previous winter flu outbreaks.
The uncertainty is a secretive Chinese government and the proximity of China’s answer to Porton Down in the original area of the outbreak. Most pandemics have originated in the Far East.
(And given the number of Chinese in Africa, I treat the silence over infections levels there with great scepticism.)
Good morning Anne ,
The media are scaring the living daylights out of many people .
I woke up this morning feeling very headachy.. Moh who always feels the cold far more than me , had closed the bedroom window and turned the electric oil heater up in the bedroom .. so that plus 2 dogs on the bed was a very uncomfortable feeling .
This country has more things to worry about re the dreadful floods .. and other things.
That is the problem. The whole matter has been inflated to fill space – both on air and in newsprint.
In my more paranoid moments, I wonder what is being hidden behind this smokescreen of deliberately stoked-up panic.
It used to be that the government would try to restore calm and give confidence to people that they had it under control. Those days are long since gone and it now seems they try to scare the sh 1 t out of everyone at every twist and turn.
I wonder if our parents became like us as they got older? Sceptical of so called authority.
No. It is completely weird of the government to have expectations that they will do so. May their chickens come home to roost in Westminster. In any group I am sure there are people with the turn of mind “well, if I’ve got it let’s see how many I can give it to”. In this day and age the concept of ‘me first’ will prevail especially if they’ve just returned from a holiday and have to re-stock the pantry.
Morning pm,
Just like the blighters who spread STD’s / Aids/ toxic TV/ coughs colds and the rest ..
Just thinking about BBC Breakfast prog this morning showing a bike hike for charity in the Sahara .. Louise Minchin and several others sweating their hearts out to raise money for mental health .
I think they must be darned mad themselves because their carbon foot print , transporting a whole BBC team there in the middle of nowhere to record the event must cost a bomb!
Just saying, that’s all .
I agree. There are many people these days who act solely for themselves. Our country is feeling so foreign in many ways (apart from the obvious) from the one in which I grew up and started on the path of my young adult life.
SIR β A recent study found that the plastic personal effects trays used in security checks at airports contained many viruses and bacteria more harmful than those in airport toilets.
These trays are not washed frequently, so passengers should carry anti-bacterial spray to administer to the tray and their hands before and after passing through security.
Fiona Thomas
Grosmont, Monmouthshire
I never thought of that! I don’t fly anyway.
Me neither.
They have those plastic trays at security at the Eurostar terminals.
Is the security there as strict as airports?
It seems to be, but I’m not up to date on airports; I stopped flying when I retired 8 years ago.
I am happy in summer just visiting a local garden and having a pot of tea and a home made scone or snack……and a good book. Heaven.
In a mere century, one of mankind’s greatest aspirations has been turned into a living hΔll.
I loathe flying. I resent handing over good money to be treated like vermin.
Console yourself by considering that the UK were world leaders in setting up “airport security”. As the Home Secretary of the time stated publicly, “it does nothing for security. It is a PR exercise to make people feel safer.”
That has not changed. The number of actual terrorists arrested at “airport security” each year is zero.
Oh, I thought it was just an exercise in annoying travellers to make flying an evermore unpleasant experience (with thelong term knock on effect of discouraging people from flying and reducing their carbon footprint).
No that’s just collateral irritation, part of the package.
If it is so uncomfortable it must be working?
‘Morning, Jenny. In my experience, no. There is the usual tray-through-the-xray-machine and the walk-through archway thingy, and if you trigger the latter you get the magic wand treatment, but I haven’t come across any of the other measures like the ban on liquids. Mind you, it’s some years since I flew anywhere; if I can’t get there by Eurostar then I don’t go.
Morning Hugh…..my sentiments exactly. It is over 20 years since I have flown and never will again now and I wondered about the tunnel.
Morning all.
Big problem Fiona Thomas, if you took out any type of spray can at the endless boring cattle queue at airport security, you’d be jumped on immediately by the security guards.
Not to mention the queues stretching into next week.
Maybe thatβs what Fiona would like!
SIR β Given the Covid-19 transmission rate, I wonder how many infected children will be returning to school from a short break abroad with parents during half term? None, I hope.
William Blake
Clun, Shropshire
SIR β I am astonished by the number of people who have been photographed wearing masks but not gloves. These are a tried-and-tested means of preventing the spread of disease.
Geoff Lowden
Wimborne, Dorset
SIR β Having spent a fair bit of time in Africa these past few years, and witnessed the large numbers of Chinese people there, Iβm amazed there are no recorded cases of the coronavirus.
Robin Beckett
Singapore
SIR β Is the spread of the coronavirus on a cruise ship a wake-up call to carriers, ships or aircraft to install more effective air purification systems? These could include Hepa filters and ultraviolet light, as used in hospitals, to destroy bacteria and viruses.
If these are not thought to work, there would seem to be a business opportunity to develop an effective air purification system.
Eirwen Sykes
Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire
BBC Radio 4 this morning reported that a BA flight coming into Heathrow when 7 miles from the runway reported an emergency. The co-pilot had passed out and was unresponsive. The Captain had to land the plane. The cause was a leak of toxic air into the cockpit. The report also said that an average 5 such incidents took place world wide each day.
316636+up ticks,
Perhaps they’ll listen now,
https://twitter.com/GerardBattenUK/status/1232292299503218688
316636+ up ticks,
O2O,
These requests ( at the moment) should not come to hard too the governance parties seeing as they are
being of a submissive,PCism, Appeasement nature already.
All the peoples have to do is join the dots nationwide on who is getting power positions where it counts.
Plus the
fools, sorry typo, peoples really must stop this party before Country voting trend.My belief is that the islamic ideology
followers already have the curtain requirements for the lab windows.
Four men jailed for smuggling 29 Vietnamese nationals into Britain in back of van
Four men have been jailed for smuggling 29 Vietnamese people into Britain in the back of a cramped van.
Women and children were among those taken into the UK from France on a 42ft yacht before being herded into the vehicle.
Jon Ransom, 63, from Kent, Glen Bennett, 55, from Burnley, and Frank Walling, 72, from Colne, were sentenced at Truro Crown Court on Monday to four and a half years in prison, police said.
Keith Plummer, 63, was sentenced to three years and four months.
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But they just look so trustworthy.
Faced with that group of dubious individuals it’s surprising the Vietnamese didn’t head straight back to France.
I suppose the 29 were allowed to stay and now on benefits
Goodness, I thought that I was in trouble there for a mo, but no relation.
They’ve found the perfect cast for the remake of ‘New Tricks’.
Police sergeant sacked for refusing drugs test
A police sergeant who refused to provide a drugs test has been dismissed despite a “previously unblemished career”.
Sergeant Michael Suley, of Essex Police, who was based in Clacton, was found to have breached standards of professional behaviour for orders and instructions and discreditable conduct.
Essex Police Chief Constable BJ Harrington chaired a hearing yesterday in Chelmsford, which heard that Suley refused to provide a urine sample during a drugs test on November 25, 2019.
Suley cited the reasons for his refusal related to concerns that the test would return as positive because he took cannabidiol (CBD) oil and that he had recently been at risk of passive inhalation of cannabis smoke while off duty.
Refusing to provide a sample is deemed to be as serious as failing a drugs test, Essex Police said.
I understand the police have routine drug tests……if only the higher ups did it might curb some of their stupid political decisions
Good.
When I was working, had I refused to allow urine or blood samples to be taken and tested for drugs I’d have also been sacked.
A pity our MPs and senior snivel serpents are not under the same regime.
Designer Virus:
{Apocalpse Meeow!)
https://youtu.be/RVVOS_Y-Jf0
Amazon and Netflix face new rival as France’s TF1 launches London TV drama studio
Have they not heard of Brexit. They are supposed to be fleeing the UK and not fleeing to it
Franceβs biggest commercial television company is launching a major English language drama production company in London to create a European alternative to US studio giants Netflix and Amazon.
TF1βs Newen division is investing in a major joint venture with veteran TV producer Gub Neal, famed for hits from The Fall and Cracker to Prime Suspect.
Ringside Studios, as the joint venture company is called, will create English language series and serials using talent from across Europe.
It will both create entirely original dramas, and remakes of existing foreign language series into English versions.
It might be dawning on the continentals that following Brexit, there is a good chance of tapping into preferential terms with all sorts of places (a lot of them English-speaking) that have trouble tying up a deal with the EU. Australia, India and the United States all have thriving industries, but continental Europe could well find a cultural niche beyond them. If it all goes pear-shaped for the incompetent Brits, there’s stlll the UK home market, competing with the BBC.
316636+up ticks,
More facts,
https://twitter.com/GerardBattenUK/status/1232303142647291905
Going Viral 2
The official url from WHO:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
Greenpeace boss John Sauven at risk of two-year jail term after stopping BP drilling for new oil
Greenpeace’s boss could be jailed for two years, after the owner of a rig that eco-activists blocked from drilling for new oil wells pursued legal action against him.
John Sauven, the executive director of Greenpeace, whose HQ is at Canonbury Villas, attended a hearing at Edinburgh’s Court of Session today, which saw Transocean seek to hit the non-governmental organisation with unlimited fines for contempt of court.
The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise blocked the Transocean rig – which BP was paying Β£140,000 a day to use – as it was en route to the Vorlich oil field in the North Sea to drill for new wells in June, forcing it to do a u-turn and head back to shore.
Greenpeace stands accused of breaching an interim interdict secured by Transocean – with BP’s consent – because it continued its protest – which eventually lasted for 12 days and saw activists board the rig.
Lawyers for Greenpeace argued it was necessary to disrupt the BP rig to prevent the multi-national oil and gas giant from making the climate emergency worse by extracting 30 million barrels of oil.
The rig is the ‘Paul B Loyd Jr’, owned by Transocean, and on its way to the Vorlich field where it was to be drilling new oil wells, operated by BP, paying 140,000 a day for its use. BP is the operator, and Transocean the owner. Picture: Robert Omerod/ Greenpeace
Greenpeace climbers on BP oil rig in Cromarty Firth, Scotland. The rig is the ‘Paul B Loyd Jr’, owned by Transocean, and on its way to the Vorlich field where it was to be drilling new oil wells, operated by BP, paying 140,000 a day for its use. BP is the operator, and Transocean the owner. Picture: Robert Omerod/ Greenpeace
He said: “Six months after our rig action ended, and after getting a permanent interdict against Greenpeace, BP’s rig operator Transocean is desperately doing everything it can to scare us off. But we will not be silenced. We will stand up proudly in court to defend our peaceful protest.
J
Mother fears epileptic son could drown in bath at overcrowded housing association flat in Cally
Seems to be an excuse to try to get rehoused
A single mother has been pleading for a walk-in shower for two years because she’s fearful her son will have an epileptic fit and drown in the bath.
How about taking the plug away and then that risk goes
Showwer onthe taps, they still work.
The bath has one of those but she is trying to claim he could have a fit and drown. The solution though is simple just take the bath pub away
Foe some reason she is also trying to claim she needs a ground floor flat
Bath pub? Lead me to it!
Beer on tap
Brexit and lack of European nurses applying for UK jobs creating ‘extensive difficulties’ for Homerton Hospital
What Brexit has to do with it who knows. How about the NHS training nurses. The NHS have pretty much depleted the supply of EU nurses that want to work in the UK. You are also reach the time when some will want to return home
Brexit and the reduction in European nurses applying to work in the UK are contributing to the “extensive difficulties” in recruiting workers, Homerton Hospital bosses say.
Other factors causing a vacancy rate of 7.4% at the hospital include a 22% drop in the number of new entrants to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register and the number of nurses quitting. From 2016 to 2017, 20% more people quit than became registered nurses.
New recruits are probably scared off by the thought of student debt. Yet again government has mended something that wasnβt broken. Time to return to the old ways of Probationary Nurses taught on the wards by experienced nurses and Sister overseeing it all. Pass their probationary period, see what sort of nursing they have an aptitude for and then provide day release for further studies to make them proficient. Those that donβt like the sharp end will drop out and not be left with a debt mountain.
Remove the nursing degree and make it as it used to be.
Rather long windedly I was trying to convey that with a bit of meat on the bare bones.
‘ere, Alf, can you tell that daughter of yours that she’s starring on BBC4 tonight at 8pm.
I haven’t seen her all day.
I saw her this morning climbing into HG Wellsβ time machine. She was determined to make a personal appearance.
Thought I had posted something like this earlier but canβt see it.
Have they not started training their own.? Jobs for Brits first.
Rape complainants consented to sex with grime star Solo 45, court told
Why are the all called stars. Never heard of this guy
Four women who accuse a grime star of rape and false imprisonment consented to the sexual activity with him, a jury has been told.
Andy Anokye, 32, who performs as Solo 45, is on trial at Bristol Crown Court, where he denies 31 charges, including 22 of rape and five of false imprisonment.
The musician, who grew up in the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham and had a flat in Bristol, insists the allegations relate to consensual sexual activity between him and the four complainants.
In the defence closing speech, Sally O’Neill QC said officers who initially investigated Anokye showed a “prejudicial lack of open-mindedness which corrupted this investigation from the outset”.
She said failings in the disclosure process led to a previous trial in January 2019 being delayed, with a new team going “back to square one”.
Murder probe after dog breeder to royalty shot dead near Stanley Johnson’s Exmoor estate
A murder probe is under way after a dog breeder to royalty was shot dead near an Exmoor estate belonging to the prime ministerβs father Stanley Johnson.
Debbie Zurick was found with shotgun injuries outside a house in Winsford, Somerset, on Saturday. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The 56-year-old was a dog breeder who supplied spaniels to Princess Anne.
Boris Johnson’s father Stanley paid tribute to her on Monday night, saying she will be βsorely missed by her many friendsβ.
Police were called to a property in the village at about 2.30pm on Saturday after concerns were raised over the welfare of a woman.
They arrived to find Mrs Zurick. Her cause of death has since been confirmed as shotgun injuries.
A second woman, who is being treated as a key witness, was located nearby and taken to a place of safety. She was uninjured.
A further search of the premises by police a 67-year-old man was found in an outbuilding, Avon and Somerset Police said in statement.
He had suffered serious injuries caused by a shotgun
Police are looking for a gun dog.
Tesco announces 1,800 staff could lose jobs in bakery changes
Tesco has announced 1,816 of its employees are at risk of losing their jobs as it makes changes to its in-store bakeries.
It comes as the supermarket announced a number of changes to “adapt to changing customer demands”.
Tesco will convert 58 of its bakeries to be able to finish off pre-baked products in-store.
While 201 sites will only bake some of its most popular items from scratch.
HS2 releases new images of west London βsuper hubβ Old Oak Common station
Old Oak Common is set to be constructed in 2026 in Hammersmith and Fulham as part of the governmentβs HS2 plans.
It will see high-speed rail services to the midlands, Scotland and the North, as well as access to central London and Heathrow via Crossrail, according to HS2 Ltd β the government-funded body responsible for developing the new network.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hs2-reveals-old-oak-common-station-designs-as-work-ramps-up-on-west-london-super-hub
HSBC will close 27 branches this year to reduce its network to 594.
“The plans reflect the long-term change in the way customers are banking alongside the bankβs need to ensure a sustainable branch network for the future,” it said.
Over the past five years, the number of customers using HSBC UK branches has fallen by a third, it said
βRetaining a sustainable branch network is extremely important to us and we need to ensure it is fit for the future,” said Stuart Haire, HSBC UKβs head of retail banking and wealth management.
“But, the way our customers bank with us has changed significantly over the last five to ten years, and that change is something we cannot ignore”
The bank said it will be investing almost Β£34m in its branches this year, including installing new technology and refurbishing 49 sites.
HSBC brings early close to partnership with British Cycling
Probably down to the drug taking in Cycling. Not the sort of image thy want to be associated with
British Cycling has announced that HSBC is to end its partnership with the sport, four years into an eight-year arrangement.
The bank, which recently announced 35,000 job losses worldwide, has cited a shift in βUK marketing and sponsorship prioritiesβ as being behind the decision, which will come into effect after the Olympic and Paralympic games this year.
https://twitter.com/_F_B_G_/status/1232278020691570688
Well, his father is the Prince of Whales.
A crossed red mullet?
Woke happened to me ?
Modern Life
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I think the one on the left would date more closely to mid-20th C, or more precisely third quarter of the 20th C. I would say they had become extinct by the late 20th.
By the late 20th Century, they’d become the establishment.
Daniel Cohn-BenditLikeBeckham.
Now an MEP.
You missed out paedophile.
The German Socialist movement was very much into the sexualisation of children during the ’60s & ’70s.
BBC Radio 4 reported this morning that working with police and authorities, the muslim Mosque leaders have formed a volunteer group of about 100 civilian muslims to protect their mosques from the “fascist right group”, [Britain First] , attacking their mosques. Vigilantes?
Well, if they can’t get a job, I suppose it’s better than nothing.
It seem the authority which to deflect attention away from the real problem. I don’t think there is much left of Britain First in fact I think it has disbanded. Now whilst not a particularly nice group they did not go around planting bombs or knifing people or grooming school girls. In most case any violence was due to far left groups attacking them
316636+up ticks,
Morning C,
insert paedophiles in place of mosques and you are right on the money.
Oi Laffed
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EU set to agree UK trade talks mandate
Ministers from the EU are meeting to approve their mandate for post-Brexit trade talks with the UK.
The document approved by the EU General Affairs Council on Tuesday morning will be the basis for future negotiations, to be carried out by Michel Barnier.
It says that EU standards should serve as “a reference point” in any future trade deal.
Meanwhile, UK ministers will also meet at No 10 to discuss the government’s opening stance for negotiations.
The final agreement is due to be published online and presented in Parliament on Thursday.
Nathalie Loiseau, an MEP for French President Emmanuel Macron’s La RΓ©publique En Marche! party, said the bloc wanted clarity about what the UK wanted to achieve in trade talks.
“If you would like to lower the standards [in areas such as food, farming], there would be mechanism to protect us from any sort of unfair competition,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“But the question I would like to ask is: what sort of discussion will your government have with other trade partners? Will you abide to American standards in terms of consumer protection for instance? This is still unclear to me.”
It is expected that ministers in the UK will commit to seeking a Canada-style agreement with zero tariffs, a proposal Mr Johnson and his Europe adviser David Frost have set out in speeches in recent weeks.
Which came first, the chlorinated chicken or the chlorinated egg ?
Ah it appears now that most use lactic acid on chicken. Whilst never mentioned most UK beef i washed in lactic acide
How does that work with the Jewish ban on mixing meat with milk?
316636+up ticks,
Fact or fiction ?
Really the political inmates of the HOc have truly shown themselves to be masters of deception especially over the last two decades, & still at it.
https://twitter.com/GerardBattenUK/status/1232291479793602561
316636+up ticks,
Paging Mr Gerard Batten, paging Mr Gerard Batten,
how about joining Tommy / Carl / Alan & co and giving the peoples a large dose of HONEST political rhetoric
in their shell likes.
You have the proven CV as seen in actions / rhetoric
inclusive of being a politician of an honest decent standing.
PS,
IMO retirement does not become you.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Ln7StISJ0
True Cost of Carbon Neutral by 2050
(by Jeff Taylor)
Published on 25 Feb 2020
“You may have missed it but one analysis puts the cost of going zero carbon in the UK by 2050 at Β£100,000 per household.”
There is huge demand for more homes to be built.
More people are living alone and growing numbers of young people are living with their parents because they cannot afford their own place.
But everything from where all the new homes should go to how big there are is a source of much debate.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-51577853
Scroll down to the bottom and see for yourselves how mean some of the property sizes are .. depending in what part of the country they are built ?
316636+ up ticks,
Afternoon TB,
I do believe we the indigenous quit building homes long ago it is now a case of immigrants building homes for immigrants, ongoing.
Turn off the inlet valve clearly marked
“Mass Uncontrolled Immigration”, stop giving mass uncontrolled immigration parties support & start jailing their voters as enemas of the state, then commence GIANT cull of illegal bodies.
We will then find we have enough homes for the indigenous to have two dwellings, one for living in, and one as a holiday chalet.
My studio flat in a block opened in 1937 is just 310 square feet but apparently there are many much smaller than that being built today.
Ex-Lib Dem leader quits party after Westminster child sex abuse report
Ex-Liberal Democrat leader Lord David Steel has quit the party and will retire from the House of Lords “as soon as possible” following the publication of a damning report into allegations of child sexual abuse linked to Westminster.
The 81-year-old said: “I have received indications that some in the Liberal Democrat party wish me suspended
In his twilight years, at least Lord Steel can take his well
blaggedearned retirement, safe in the knowledge that the LibDems continue to go from strength to strength.The new leadership has issued instructions to “Go back to your constituencies, and prepare for Government” to both party members.
I understood he’d already been thrown out because he’d known about Cyril Smith and not said anything.
How is it that the “great & good” seem wholly incapable of doing the right thing? Steele is beneath contempt for doing nothing: I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.
I would.
Thief fined for stealing from vehicles and carrying a knife
Carrying a knife ought to have an automatic prison sentence in my view
A thief has been fined Β£90 and forced to wear an electronic tag for three months after stealing from three vehicles, carrying a knife and possessing class A drugs.
Q: If you wake up and it’s bright and sunny with a blue sky at 8 o’clock, what does it signify for you?
A: That by 3:30, when I collect my grandson from school and begin the walk home, it’ll be p1ssing it down.
A: That I’ve come out of hibernation ?
I commented earlier today that usually it has turned cloudy by the time I have got dressed and come downstairs. It was attempting to snow as I went to collect my grandaughter – by the time I reached her school it had passed on but still freezing cold, though she insisted on having the car window open on thte return ( I deduce the school is overheated.)
The Guardian view on Eurovision 2020: donβt blame the public. Editorial. 25 February 2020.
Yes indeed. But what might seem straightforward for Mr Ulvaeus has become horribly complicated for the United Kingdom, which has underperformed in the competition to a startling degree for more than 20 years. Britainβs last victory came in 1997, with Love, Shine a Light by Katrina and the Waves. Years of failure and sometimes outright humiliation followed, most famously in 2003, when Jemini finished last with no points at all. Last year Michael Rice fared little better, scoring a miserable 11 points and also finishing at the bottom of the pile.
Underperformed? How is this possible? Winning this dreadful load of Gay Kitsch would be a blot on any countryβs record. The European Song Contest is the prototype of all the drivel that currently appears on the BBC. If my television did not have an on/off switch I would be condemned to hiding behind the sofa as I did when I was six, albeit that was to avoid the horrors of Quatermass, a far superior production! The reason for the BBCβs addiction to this exercise in cultural androgyny is that it is European and thus irreproachable!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/24/the-guardian-view-on-eurovision-2020-dont-blame-the-public
Greek clashes erupt over new migrant camps
This mass migration in my view will end very badly. Hundreds of thousands of illegals are pouring in to a very overcrowded Europe from countries with low population densities. It cannot continue but the politicians and left think it can and believe Europe can accommodate unlimited numbers of people. The problem is it cannot. If it carries on Europe will become in my view a tinder box. WE are already seeing the strains and frictions it is causing
Hundreds of thousands of migrants arrived on the Greek islands off Turkey en route from Syria to Europe in 2015 and 2016. Numbers have dropped since then after an EU deal with Turkey.
However, arrivals have been rising again and a total of 42,568 migrants are currently on the islands.
Some 19,000 people are currently housed at the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos – originally designed to accommodate fewer than 3,000.
There are similar levels of overcrowding at other sites spread across the islands.
Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, recently called for an end to the “shocking and shameful” conditions at the Greek camps.
Mr Mitsotakis and his conservative government have taken a tougher line on migration. The Greek government recently invited proposals for a floating barrier to block migrants from arriving by sea.
Total land mass of Africa 30,365,000 square km
Total land Mass of UK 245,000 square kilometers
THe above gives some idea of the problem of mass migration. It is a bit like trying to fit a Litre into 1cc
More than half of the worldβs population growth will be in Africa by 2050.
By 2050 around 2.2 billion people could be added to the global population and more than half of that growth will occur in Africa.
Africa will account for the highest population spurt with an additional 1.3 billion people on the continent, a new UN population report shows.
There is no way that Africa can support this increase! They must therefore come to Europe which will collapse under the influx!
https://qz.com/africa/1016790/more-than-half-of-the-worlds-population-growth-will-be-in-africa-by-2050/
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The 19th century was the century of massive population growth in Europe and those lands settled by Europeans as economic growth drove medical advances, advances in agriculture and demand for labour. The 20th century was Asia’s “turn” . Now Africa is following.
Doesnβt the tribe with the upper hand just slaughter the others. It keeps the numbers down in London.
Also in much of the Americas.
Overcrowding leads to disease.
316636+ up ticks,
BJ,
We in England / GB lead the way, a country mile ahead of the others with our packemin campaign.
Mr cameron ( the wretch) a conservative leader of late even when out in front with the packemin campaign, raised the numbers,what a man, what a leader.
https://twitter.com/EnvAgency/status/1232349536946921472
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuQjR2lsYl0
It’s good not to flounder, Belle.
Anyone that begins a thread with fishy puns is to be Meunièred and have capers thrown at them !
Filletted Phizzee ?
That too !
Actually i prefer the whole fishy. With brown shrimp in the butter. :o)
Shrotted pimps.
Delicious.
They are aren’t they. Mine are line caught individually. At least i think so, given the price.
I enjoy home made butternut squash and prawn curry, with lots and lots of shrimps.
Set another plaice !
Welcome to our hall-i-but.
Oh my cod…here we go again….
You joined the line, now you’re being reeled in.
Stitched up like a kipper…..I’ll walk the plankton…..
Well, get your skates on…
Scaling back on this trend.
Flying away, or being catty?
Hoping to avoid turtle disaster.
That’s Hoki then
I am getting a haddock with all this carping on….
I guess that’s a Notothen.
Fishcious rumors.
Now that’s just quillfish
Ha!!…you habe met your nemo sis my friend…..xxx
Don’t be a yellowtail flier or the outlook will be bleak
Um…you did mean to put a comma after the first word didn’t you. :o(
Please be aware that any fish that flounder into your home remain the property of the EA and must be returned to them
HAPPY HOUR – Deja vu….
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Boris “Non Je Ne Regrette Rien”
“M Barnier, I open with the EU having to pay Β£39Bn PA for access to Britain for trade.
Limited, tightly controlled, fishing rights will cost you a further Β£39Bn PA.
You will of course be required to meet any standards that Britain might decide to create to make the EU’s life difficult.
Britain will be granted all overseas territories “owned” by EU members, but we will return Gibraltar to the Spanish.
All illegal immigrants and asylum seekers will be returned to the EU.
Oh, and don’t forget that the final arbiter, in case of any dispute, will be Dominic Cummings.”
Faites vos jeux, M Barnyard!
Rien ne va plus M Barnier.
Faites vos jeux.
As a caption, I prefer lacoste’s “play your games” as opposed to your more accurate “place your bets”
I prefer PAS D’ENTENTE……
Not a position I know…
Is that like woman on top?
};-O
….I must clean my teeth first!
Al dente as opposed to pas d’entente?
Is it still firm and slightly chewy…..
All gristle.
Think: lacoste…
.I must
cleanremove my teeth first!‘Votre’ – a bum steer from Google Trans, peddy …
Google Trans – flexible on the gender?
How many times have I berated Google Trans on these threads?
Ze boot eez on ze other foot M. Barnier…..
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Ze boot is up ze uzzer arse, m. Barnier.
HAPPY HOUR – Deja vu….
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Funniest story of the week (so far)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2020/02/25/clarifying-rugbys-thorny-issue-transgender-players-hormone-levels/
“Clarifying rugby’s thorny issue of transgender players’ hormone levels is vital for fairness in the women’s game
At a time when participation numbers in the womenβs game are soaring,
there are concerns that players who were born as male, but now identify
as female, could increase the risk of injury when they play in the
womenβs game. There is also the issue of fairness.”
“Rugby is a game played by
menwomen with odd-shaped balls”.https://twitter.com/Councillorsuzie/status/1232319440102076416
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…no garage..comes with a boatshed!
What happened to the medically correct term ‘quarantine’ to describe isolation measures that have proven medical benefit? When did everyone begin to use the term lock down? Was it to save time having to type two characters in a headline? Is one more complex description than the other for the ‘audience’ to grasp? Or is it, that one is synonymous with figures in baseball caps and bullet proof jackets armed to the teeth shouting acronyms as they wave automatic weapons? Is one therefore immediately and dramatically more exciting and therefore stimulating of reactions? Fear, anxiety? Public health since A.I.D.S. has pursued a path of maximum strength dysfunction in place of common sense and objectivity. By this date full millions in the U.K. should have died from A.I.D.S. They have not. Then by now, a million plus should be languishing in the grip of the truly horrific Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (C.J.D.)β such were predictions made at the time. S.A.R.S. is worth mentioning. Instead of science and measures that were commonly employed by ‘matron’ decades ago have been replaced by a shallow and dishonest disaster movie. Theatre has replaced science (c.f. Ms Thunberg). I shall have to face facts: Quarantine is not going to shift product is it?
Journalists should all be sent to the lockup.
Prince Andrew was photographed with a quaran teen.
In the Middle East, it would have been a Quran teen. Or more likely a pre-teen.
Not too concerned about this latest scare over the COVID-19 virus, I just hope I don’t get that damn’ Ebola again.
Had a job shaking it off last time.
:Β¬(
Yes, we recall that it complained that being in you was like trying to get blood out of a stone.
{:-O
It’s that leprosy that’s difficult to shake off, it’s the fingers and toes that usually get shaken off. Right, just off to the lazarette.
I played poker with a guy who had leprosy – he threw his hand in
Was that the game where his friend laughed his head off when he saw what had happened?
Yep :o) had another pal who stuttered – I always won playing snap with him
The way they dealt with Foot & Mouth was to organise huge funeral pyres and burn all susceptible creatures within a 3 mile radius of any outbreak.
Shouldn’t we be doing the same here?
With you nearly all the way, but I’d prefer AIDS (without the full stops), as it’s a true acronym (rather than an initialism) and is pronounced “aids” (unless you actually say “ay eye dee ess”, of course).
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (A.I.D.S.) Each word is abbreviated. The full stops are therefore sending a message. I cannot be held responsible if the message is unwelcome.
Old cyril smith might have sung like a canary on his way down, so bloody true, April 2018 Gerard Batten real UKIP leader.
Judged to be not of good standing by the present
ersatz UKIP Nec.
Starry ,starry night, perhaps they’ll listen now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U4_KaO2T7Q
Labour leadership frontrunner Sir Keir Starmer says the most exciting thing he has ever done is ‘go to the football with his children’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8037561/Sir-Keir-Starmer-says-exciting-thing-football-children.html
Not running through a field of wheat then Keir….?
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We believe you, Sir Bloke.
Sir Broke…..
I wonder if he has Miss Diane and the Stormer trooper round for Lunch.
His first name is ‘Morally’.
“Trust me, as a wide boy, I’m this wide”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr43gIn88zM
When will he come out?
I’m amaized. What a corny reply.
Cransley High School in Northwich has been shut for the rest of the week
I think the head teacher, Richard Pollock, deserves an award for sending a directive to parents in face of conflicting information and directions from the authorities;
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/cheshire-school-closed-over-coronavirus-17809590
Kids, eh. They catch on pretty quickly when it suits!
Welcome to Harry & Megans new cookery school
Lesson 1 is a new recipe called Wokeamole
Eton Mess…..
Key swine pie
Banoffee pie with inspiring messages.
They are also selling a range of Wokes for cooking the Wokeamole in complete with a signed certificate of authenticity
Cucking with Meg.
Another political practise that in my view should be stopped but as it is a nice gravy train for them it will not be stopped
There has to be a conflict of interests and this highlights it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-51616151
Strongly disagree; the lady is simply talking favourably about 200 of her constituents, and about a product that is available to purchase in Westminster.
The BBC then confuses the matter by quoting a man who lost his seat at the last general election, but they cunningly refer to him as an “ex-Plaid Cymru” MP. He has not drifted off to a different party, rather he is no longer a Member of Parliament.
Mind you, I liked the pun about “… this could be opening up the floodgates.”
Strongly disagree; the lady is simply talking favourably about 200 of her constituents, and about a product that is available to purchase in Westminster.
The BBC then confuses the matter by quoting a man who lost his seat at the last general election, but they cunningly refer to him as an “ex-Plaid Cymru” MP. He has not drifted off to a different party, rather he is no longer a Member of Parliament.
Mind you, I liked the pun about “… this could be opening up the floodgates.”
He is unfit to be an MP and should be made to stand down and a by election held
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/james-grundy-filmed-genitals-exposing-pub-tory-mp-a4371081.html
Choose any one of 650?
Goes without saying really….
I am not a prude…well maybe just a bit – but such behaviour imo, should result in instant dismissal.
Dismissal from what? He wasn’t an MP at the time.
Nobody saw any more than if he had been wearing a Speedo on the beach.
Peddy… I just feel that people at the top need to be squeaky clean….call me old fashioned.
It shows very poor judgement and indicates he is unfit for public office
Or a kilt?
What a twerp!
316636+up ticks,
BJ,
Is he into animal husbandry same as the wretch cameron ?
May we ask, what is it with the tories & their tool kits?
In time what will johnson reveal ?
316636+up ticks,
O2O,
Who is it that cannot face facts ?
From other reports it was the woman who asked he lift his shirt tails to show his crown jewels at a private (!) function.
No pun intended?
So 13 years ago this bloke exposes his bits at a private party with the encouragement of those there and nobody saw what happened apart from those in the room.
13 years later a Peeping Tom who videoed the event exposes the video to a potentially worldwide audience without the permission of the person in question.
Which is the bigger exhibitionist?
Not very bright on his part, but a lot of double standards on display.
Unfortunately that is the new reality.
Meejarcheology.
I thought publication of revenge porn was now an offence. Maybe the one with the video will be expecting a knock at the door.
Or maybe not.
It would be poetic jusice were it to happen, but I won’t hold my breath.
316636+ up votes,
This is one plague that has been successfully covered up for many a year, and is still in place passing
fromone human to another human to another human,ongoing. https://twitter.com/GerardBattenUK/status/1232375458903318529Travelodge gets more than 1,500 job applications for its new Sittingbourne hotel
So much for the claim that mass migration is needed to fill jobs in hospitality. What they mean is they prefer to recruit cheap labour. I thought as well they are claiming we have a Labour shortage ?
Travelodge says it received more than 1,500 applications for the 15 positions it advertised for its new town centre branch.
The budget chain is set to open a 63-room hotel in Sittingbourne at the end of the month.
Perhaps all the applications were from newly arrived Iranians fresh off the dinghies.
Corona virus carriers!!
Apols if already posted; been on hospital duty.
From the Spekkie:
COFFEE HOUSE
Mhairi Blackβs drag queen stunt has backfired spectacularly
Joanna Williams
25 February 2020 5:52 PM
Sometimes a politician displays such spectacularly bad judgement their only option is to lash out at their critics. This appears to explain how the SNPβs Mhairi Black has spent much of the past 24 hours. Black has never knowingly shied away from publicity. Perhaps then we shouldnβt be too surprised at her decision to pop along to a primary school for a reading session with a drag queen in tow. And not just any old drag queen but one with a penchant for sharing sexually explicit posts on social media.
Children have always loved story time. Throwing drag queens into the mix is a far more recent development. Drag queen story hour took off in the US as anxious parents sought to tick off both a visit to the local library and lessons in gender fluidity in one trip. Such sessions are slowly becoming more popular in the UK, with teachers and librarians seeing them as a way to challenge the homophobia and transphobia they perhaps envisage to be lurking deep in the heart of every toddler. Still itβs not every day that your local MP comes along for the ride.
It seems fair to say that the drag queen Black accompanied, Nathan Mullen, aka FlowJob, was used to performing for slightly older audiences (the clue was surely in the name). Mullen has taken to social media again to defend the story time routine:
βYou take your kids to see panto at Christmas that has drag. Drag is mainstream now. Itβs on our TVs, in the news and all over social media.β
Perhaps itβs just Canterbury, but the dame at my local pantomime was far more interested in shouting βOh yes he is!β than posting racy pictures online.
Itβs astonishing that not just Mhairi Black but also the school itself decided a visit from a drag queen was just what the children of Glencoats primary school in Paisley needed. Presumably FlowJob received an appearance fee. This was money that could, surely, have been better spent on, well, books for the library.
But Black still isnβt backing down. The SNP MP has justified her decision to accompany FlowJob to the primary school by Tweeting:
βIf my school had invited a gay MP and a drag queen to visit during LGBT History Month, or even acknowledged that LGBT History Month existed, it would have made an immeasurable difference to the difficult childhoods my LGBT classmates and I had.β
This gets to the heart of why the drag queen visit happened. Campaigning MPs like Black, as well as teachers like those at Glencoats Primary, appear to see the role of school not as educational but political. This presumably means challenging old fashioned notions that there are just two sexes. And it means exposing kids to characters like FlowJob. Heteronormativity, it seems, is far too conventional.
Yet rather than having an argument about the rights and wrongs of the gender debate with adults who might dare to disagree with them, campaigners opt to persuade children who canβt answer back. Enter, stage left, the drag queen. The cross-dressing risque performer, once a cheap turn in working menβs clubs, is now also likely to be found reading stories to pre-pubescent children in schools and libraries. The gender-bending, outlandish costumes and crude double-entendres remain. But now the audience is too young to be in on the joke.
In the hands of ideologically-inspired teachers and librarians, nothing is off limits in the drive to shock children out of their heteronormative assumptions. The notion that some topics are not suitable to discuss in front of children or that (whisper it) the role of adults is to protect children from ideas and issues they are too young to need to know about is derided as hopelessly out dated. The views of parents, of course, are deemed to be largely irrelevant.
Since her school visit, Black has explicitly attacked those who she claims have expressed βfaux sincerityβ about FlowJobβs trip to Glencoats. Taking to Twitter once more, she said:
βYou just know that the people pretending to be livid that a drag queen read a book in a school. . . are also the people who run out to buy their kids the latest Grand Theft Auto on release day. Your homophobia is transparent.β
Letβs hope sheβs not relying on the votes of any of these parents come the next election.
Black deserves all the criticism that has come her way over her decision to join FlowJob in the visit to the primary school. But before Black got involved in this stunt there was a teacher who thought that having a sexually explicit drag performer come along to read to children was a good idea. And, even before this, there were MPs and civil servants all too ready to act at the behest of campaigners in their demands for ever more relationship and sex education for even the very youngest children. Children at school are a captive audience for adult concerns. Itβs imperative we do not abuse this responsibility.
To misgender an old Yorkshire/Lancashire expression:
There’s nowt so queer as woke.
Respect. One to treasure.
Isn’t corruption of a minor still an offence, then?
Is showing a child your c*ck corruption these days? One wonders.
Yo Paul. I suppose it depends on whether the owner of said c*ck identifies as male, female, or something else…
GP surgery in Colchester closed due to suspected Coronavirus case
Chanced upon this, quite a decent bit of adventure music!
https://youtu.be/B2v7ttkci6k
Anglian Water to axe 200 jobs over the next 5 years
Gone down the plug, have they?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/821f3df2d560c118c04159bfa93551876e6faad965fe7c8f2ddd67162928b6fd.jpg
Credibility of European Court of Human Rights lies in ruins after judgesβ links to Soros revealed
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/481651-george-soros-european-court-judges/
I’m Shocked,shocked I tell you
Blimey, that’s so much seed that the parrot will turn Norwegian Blue.
He has a lot of baggage. Under his eyes at least.
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Paint me surprised.
316636+ up ticks,
Lest we forget, via the three monkeys,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjydtAEDcwU
Well, we’ve learned something today.
We took elderly chum to the hospital. She has a Blue Badge card. MB took it to reception and was asked if he wanted a permit for the day or for the whole span of the card (over 2 years). His car registration was entered on the parking data base, and he now has free parking until April 2022.
We then registered my car number as well, since I also take chum to appointments. Et voila. We waft in and out like Her Maj.
First find your Blue Badge patient.
Brilliant! No one should have to pay anyway to park for appointments or doing a good turn…..jeez, even the poor staff have to pay. All needs stopping.
Fine but your taxes will go up to compensate and you’ll be battling for scarce parking spaces with commuters and shoppers.
We have a dedicated car park for disabled badge holders at our local hospital. We still have to pay!
There are too few spaces. This arrangement is easier (once you know about it).
I may not have made myself clear. When I say we still have to pay I meant we all have to pay, disabled badge holders too.
FWIW, Frimley Health blue badge holders still have to pay, regardless. The disabled spaces are always full.
Register a campervan, then you could live in the carpark.
It is, of course, only valid if chum is actually in the vehicle!
Sadly…
Damn! I was thinking of renting my Blue Badge out… :-((
Some do, Geoff!
No surprise there (see I do reply to you).
Totally illegal, but it wouldn’t surprise me…
Here in the US some people have used mannequins in their cars, when driving on roads that require more than the driver. Otherwise, the toll is higher than for a single occupancy.
Wot?
Rentacorpse?
No. The car registration is on the data base.
We are transport for this lady.
Al-Beeb at its best
https://twitter.com/SimonPearson961/status/1232389553526317061?s=20
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c1f41b2ece950e05ed23bf41a1a32c94a7c7a70116d2989cdb7e7fee4e3fcee6.png
The Severn catchment has a long and well documented history of flooding going back to 1258 and probably further back, there are probably no record prior to then
The flooding may be getting worse but not due to climate change but to large amounts of development which add to the water flowing into the river causing higher levels of water in the river
Breaking News
Harry & Megan to form a Woke & Roll Group
I have better things to do with my time than be downvoted because of having moral principles.
Huh?
Who cares what other eejits think? Be true to yourself, and the world can eff itself if it doesn’t like it.
I won’t stand for it Obers…..I never attack others and if I offend someone inadvertently, I will always apologise profusely.
I’m sorry others don’t appreciate you as much as they should, but that’s their problem. Don’t make it yours.
Those of us with a thinking brain appreciate you beng on nttl. You make it a better site.
Thank you Obers…very much.
The older I get, the more the Yorkshire comes through. That, and not having lived in the UK for 22 years, I tend to be more & more direct. Clarity in everything, say what you mean and mean what you say.
Exactly people who get all uppity and abusive when others post opinions they disagree with should chill a bit.
I am not sure how saying I am old fashioned and a bit of a prude should offend anyone.
It shouldn’t.
Sue probably missed the target Jenny. She goes through these comments very quickly!
Yep easy to hit the wrong button.
3 times?
Happens occasionally – but always swiftly corrected!
ππ
That’s not like Sue.
This is the other Sue!
Oops. Sorry.
My bad.
:-((
That was probably an accident by a friendly forum lady.
Never take it personally, Jenny β€οΈ KBO.
We lost Bill Thomas because of down-voting to bully him.
Stand up to it and ignore them.
Hell’s teeth, I’ve got so many downvotes that even if I earn another 100,000 up votes I still won’t have any!
Well…you just lost Jenny too. Sorry folks.
Well good luck, and enjoy your doll’s house, we certainly did!
See you tomorrow.
};-))
:-((
Don’t take some stupid computer seriously. It’s a machine.
Mind you, I have to admit I wouldn’t have a clue how to check votes – up, down or even sideways.
Hover the cursor over your avatar.
76794 comments 0 votes.
Well done! You’re a Zerro.
Ta. Ignorance is bliss.
To put it another way; I don’t give a stuff.
I canβt understand why some take it so personally. All my ups disappeared a while ago and if someone disagrees with me, that is the nature of discussion. Try Twatter if you want some real offence!
Jenny – I’ve just checked my old account for upvotes. I’ve reached the dizzy
heightsdepths ofminus 164,051. It’s not important. No-one cares. Don’t go.
Downvoting is one thing but being accused of being Polly is quite something else…..my God….answering this in my notifs btw. Have seen enough.
Calm down, dear. Since this site was founded, there have been s few posters who may or may not have been Polly, with user names similar, but not identical, to yours. I believe you are genuine. Nothing else matters.
Yes Geoff…respect matters to me. If I don’t have it, I don’t hang around.
Donβt let some anonymous automaton win. Youβre more sensible than that.
I never knew but you can’t up and downvote the same comment.
True.
There is a silly bot that automatically gives downvotes.
I have been on zero for months.
Even your current avatar shows 9000+ comments and zero votes
Zero votes, what? I’ll update myself.
I only used to downvote cruel or ray-cialist comments, but gradually I realised that would be hypocritical.
Google “Belgian Health Minister ” and look at the pictures.
FFS…
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/815f0b9d16007efb9ffceb88ecd25a8cbddeae86dcf7470168539bc498b73dcd.jpg
That’s her. The waffles are good in Belgium.
Built for comfort, not speed.
It is not the waffles but the Chantilly.
Can’t be many ministers who are actually bigger than their own country, but she’s giving it her best shot.
She’s already absorbed Luxembourg.
and her twin sister went missing a while ago.
What a porker. Absolutely gross!
Oi that’s “fatist” .
Too many Buns?
Three EU microphones?
Perhaps she will sing when its over …
:-))
its never over till the fat lady sings. Is that her day job.?
Lady Nugeeβs big sister?
Lady Nugeeβs
biglittle sister.I saw one or two nurse like that this afternoon.
How the heck do their joints take it?
They will find out as they get older!
A few years ago, I had a – totally unnecessary – pre-op assessment with a diabetic nurse. Not a Diabetic Specialist Nurse – just a hideously obese nurse who claimed to be diabetic…
I’ve also experienced the totality unnecessary pre op assessment.
It didn’t help that the nurse had no idea what I was in for. Then, on reviewing my meds, I didn’t recognise the majority of them. Straining to read the form, upside down, I pointed out that, while the surname on the form was the same, the Christian names were far from correct…
One of the few things I retain from being an auditor is the ability read type that is upside down nearly as well as I can read it the right way up.
When working, I lost count of the times people were telling me one thing and the paperwork was telling me they were being economical with the truth.
Not just auditing. Believe me, it’s a useful skill for a contractor’s quantity surveyor, also…
IT contractors also used that skill, at least I used to.
About thirty years ago I had to visit the foot clinic.
As I walked into the consulting room, I noticed the doctor seemed rather surprised.
His notes were for a woman with the same surname. Her Christian name and address were different. And she was 84 years old.
Apart from that, the records office was spot on.
It’s always the Admin that lets our horse spittles down.
Assuming you’re not yet 113, I feel your pain…
What do they see in the mirror?
They avoid mirrors.
No reflection? π±ΓΈ
Well someone has to test each batch of Belgian Chocolate to confirm it conforms to public health standards and who better to do the job than the health minister…
AHOY CAP’N!! THAR SHE BLOWS!
LANDWHALE 2 POINTS OFF THE LARB’D BOW!!
Looks like she enjoys waffling.
Well it is pancake day.
A case of ‘Set a thief to catch a thief’?
German amok driver
In response to a request from Andy, I read the articles in the FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), & wrote a summary but it got buried between articles from 5 – 6 hours ago.
peddytheviking AndyCochrane65 β’ 2 hours ago
I read the main article, then went on to read the subsequent articles.
52 injured including 18 children, the youngest just 3 y.o. The driver was a 29 y.o. local man from a town of 7,000. He was already on police records for criminal activities. A 2nd person has been arrested, who was filming the event. It’s not yet known whether he was directly involved or just an on-looker.
So far no motive known, but it is thought that the deed was neither political nor terrorist. When the car came to a halt, members of the crowd ripped open the doors & attacked the driver. He is now in a state which makes formal questioning not possible. There was no alcohol involved but there is a possibility he had taken drugs. His apartment has been searched, various papers & computer examined but no significant clues found. It is thought that there is no connection with the recent mass shooting in Hanau.
Everybody in a deep state of shock, Carnival has been abandoned. Local church communities are providing counselling.
So no name for this character?
Not yet.
Thanks, Peddy.
De nada, Paul.
Now THAT’S Awkward
https://twitter.com/Wild4OxfordWA/status/1232220499192750080?s=20
Ah, yes. Those big, efficient, centralised slaughter houses that meant foot and mouth was trucked from Northumberland down to Essex.
Soooo much more hygienic than small, local abattoirs.
Bugger the slaughter houses. I live around 51/2 miles from Pirbright. The Gummint-owned source of Foot & Mouth…
I have suffered severe food poisoning a few times. The first was after eating Bratwurst in Berlin in 1972, next eating processed meat in a hotel in Switzerland next the German border circa 1978, next eating steak tartare in a fashionable bistro in Pimlico around 1982. In the last instance the presence of a boiled caterpillar on the greens was perhaps a clue as to what to expect.
Now the old joke:
Q: What’s worse than finding a slug in your salad?
A: Finding half a slug…
If only they washed the chook in chlorine
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/01cc026b3a9403608525cbc08b13371045256529d02226d041d8069828fdf0ff.jpg
The E.U. are being rather arrogant.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/25/downing-street-rejects-eu-opening-trade-offer
Cue Twilight Zone
https://twitter.com/Mac72Terry/status/1232173411310473216?s=20
Or the Manchurian Candidate……………………………
Dance student sues –
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/dance-student-charlotte-vanweersch-sues-northern-school-of-contemporary-dance-for-500-000-over-injuries-from-lifting-heavier-partner-n8mgx6rvj
It’s always someone else’s fault.
He wanted equality.
Weightism in action.
Talks formally kick of on Monday. It will probably make the little spats on here seem nothing
To what talks are you referring, Sir ?
Brexit talks in Brussels on Monday
316636+up ticks,
BJ,
You mean the farce.
As far as many of the peoples are concerned the “Talking” is over and the polite request
time commences.
Just a thought,how many cruise ships are in Venice at the moment?? and where will the Mobile Petri Dishes be sailing to when the Italians have pasta(sic) the virus around??
So who has had pancakes tonight and what fillings did you have?
0&0
Me. I had roast beef on Friday, fancied Yorkshire pudding, and froze the remaining batter. No lemon, sugar a no no, so I had tuna and mature cheddar, with a squirt of tomato puree. Yum.
My first was lemon and sugar (can’t be beaten) then second with M&S’ lemon and gin and tonic sauce, umm.
Talking of gin, I got a litre of Silent Pool gin for Β£22 at Gibraltar airport last week!
Not bad. Closer to home (for the moment), I noticed that the Post Office in Tongham was selling Thundry Hills Gin in gift packs at the weekend. Sadly, Lent begins tomorrow…
Just borrow a bottle then Geoff. Good evening hope you are keeping well.
Fine, thanks, John. Plodding on…
Gin and tonic sauce? Not something that I have ever seen over here.
Must add to the shopping list for the next trip.
I think it’s new this year.
You’ve never seen people on the sauce, RichardI?
I shall finish my lunches on Thursday& Friday with a crepe suzette.
How dare you call my friend Suzette a creep, Mr Peddy, Sir?
Toss er.
You devil.
Just a pussy cat….
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Lemon juice and sugar. The only way to have them. Very traditional.
Lemon juice & golden syrup.
Ireland which not so many years ago had no great housing shortage now has a big shortage. I wonder why ?
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/17/house-irish-first-protesters-block-housebuilding-non-national-families/
All the Remainers with Irish passports?
Dunno Bill. Is it because they are all over here parking their caravans on cricket pitches?
Night All
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Good night all.
BBC4 a real feast for historians tonight.
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Good night everyone. Thank you for the Shadow Play it was most entertaining!
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Mum says it’s good news from our lake. After hearing nights of happy croaking, it’s full of frog spawn !
Sure its not Soros in there, we are all waiting for him to croak.
Harry the hopping hypocrite is jetting in.
Prince Harry’s final hurrah:
Duke arrives in Edinburgh to begin one of his last round of engagements as a
workingwoking royal before Megxit on March 31Wot? Like using a private jet and helicopter whenever possible?
Gawd, how many trees must be turned into charcoal and buried to cover your trip?
Guess when the first laparoscopic operation was performed on the NHS?
No idea.
I suppose it depends how you define it, but I would not be surprised if it was close to the beginnings of the NHS.
In the 80s, a good decade after yours.
Well, somebody paid for mine, and it wasn’t me and I wasn’t insured, perhaps I was an NHS Guinea pig.
And just as a matter of interest, why have you suddenly popped up here, off topic on the matter being discussed, are you trying to pick a fight?
And please post your proof of that, together with how a laparoscopy differs from an arthroscopy in terms of “keyhole” surgery.
Both are forms of keyhole surgery or therapy if you prefer. The proof is on several timelines of the NHS. Am I trying to pick a fight? Who knows and who cares anyway ?
I remember reading about a dog that had open heart surgery in the early 1970s, but probably not on the NHS.
We took some to to get with it as itβs suggested it was first used in 1901 on dogs and 1909 on humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laparoscopy
Edit. 1909:on humans
Amazing. My uptick total has been halved at long last! Less than halved, in fact. I am no longer offended!
Edit: I mean my total is now less than half. Oh this is so exciting. I have been discovered.
Good morning all – Wednesday’s new page is here.