I\m old enough to remember when (about 5 days ago) you were calling me a panty-wetting hysteric for freaking out about Nu (this is so long ago it was still called Nu!) and I insisted that this fucker gave me bad vibes. You then said “it’s just another scare story from South Africa, wake me up when it’s causing hospital admissions”
Oh.
I change my mind when the facts change. What do you do?
Thanks for the kind remarks. I’m not dying (I hope) but it isn’t pleasant. The main symptoms are intense fatigue, chest pain and a dry, scratchy cough - plus general aches etc. I have slept 32 of the last 36 hours. Mad. These are the signs of Omicron as reported from SA. My senses of smell and taste are fine
I’ve ordered a PCR which should arrive tomorrow so then I’ll know. It’s certainly something best avoided - whatever it is
Dude, that's just getting old.
Hah
This description of Omicron does sound exactly like my lurgy
Perhaps it goes without saying but stay off the sauce Leon! Even if you’ve felt better for a week give a it a few days after that, is the advice from all the pissheads I know who caught covid
Go to bed with our blessings and get the rest you need Leon.
Has he gone now?
pssst Ace. Is it too late to have Leon in the Deadpool?
Sarah Phelps @PhelpsieSarah I was a bit of a dick about doing the speed awareness course but I haven’t stopped thinking about it. Shocked by how much I drive like a stressy careless twat. Thinking about doing an advanced course or something like that so I’m not a car-twat. https://twitter.com/PhelpsieSarah/status/1466324421027770371
I did one earlier this year after being done for 27 mph in a 20 mph zone. Some interesting points, but I'm still bitter about the location.
In some ways driving is to easy - so people find they can all too easily drift off in their attention.
I drove through Hampton recently and I was so lucky that I was behind a local who knew it was a 20 limit. There are cameras both ways and they catch loads of people. Curiously, Google Street View is messed up just at bit where the cameras are:
For me, the issue is that driving is routine. We do it without incident for the vast majority of time.
Those 20 limits are an utter disgrace, in my opinion.
As per previous thread I hired a Ford Puma the other day which knew, and limited itself to, the speed limit. This was in Scotland where all towns seem to be 20 mph. Must have saved me several tickets.
That’s one of the reasons I love our Volvos. Their smart safety system must have saved me a fortune over the years. The cars have rock-solid info on all speed limit zones, and warn you if you’re going too fast when changing to a new zone.
Waze is almost as good, but maybe less user-friendly than an in-built system.
Our other car has no such system and I often find myself driving far too fast.
The mismatching cars can be a killer. I did £1500 damage to a land rover a few years ago because I expected it to have reversing sensors and it didn't. Thinking you have ABS when you haven't can also be problematic.
Snap.
Our Mini was the first of our cars in about ten years not to have reversing sensors. Various family members have now smashed the rear bumper on three occasions, so I can’t be bothered repairing the latest incident. It’s going in March anyway.
Weird, I've never had a car with reversing sensors.
I’m a huge fan.
Other outstanding newer safety features: Adaptive cruise control Automatic braking Lane change warners Smart headlights
I’m also a full convert to automatic and AWD. Although when on holiday I love to hire a crapmobile with a dodgy manual gearbox and no A/C. Just wind down the windows and pump up the radio
Smart headlights are a terrible invention which should be utterly banned. They may be great for the driver of the vehicle to which they are fitted, but I'm totally fed up of being dazzled by the stupid things, as they aren't very good at working out what they are looking at until its far to late (I generally dip before the guy going the other way comes round the corner, rather than 5 seconds after like most smart headlights - it's a skill called anticipation at which which car computer systems remain very poor).
On the jumping from vehicle to vehicle thing, we have three forklifts at work:
One has hydrostatic transmission, which means single pedal operation - you let go of the throttle and the transmission brings it to a halt. The other two have torque converter transmissions which roll when you come off the throttle - one has a RH throttle and brake set up (like an auto car), the other has the older configuration of a LH brake RH throttle.
By the time you've mastered regularly driving all three and had a few panics going for a brake pedal which isn't there, you can drive pretty much anything...
Thanks for the kind remarks. I’m not dying (I hope) but it isn’t pleasant. The main symptoms are intense fatigue, chest pain and a dry, scratchy cough - plus general aches etc. I have slept 32 of the last 36 hours. Mad. These are the signs of Omicron as reported from SA. My senses of smell and taste are fine
I’ve ordered a PCR which should arrive tomorrow so then I’ll know. It’s certainly something best avoided - whatever it is
Didn't you have covid in the very very early stages of the covid crisis. Like so before the beginnings that you went to PHE and they said maybe and the tests were shit and was not positive or something?
Glad the killers of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes have been found guilty.
For all those who expend their energy worrying about the theoretical harm being done to trans kids, we’ll, there are some very real cases of extreme child abuse like Arthur’s that should worry us more.
Just my 2p.
Btw - serious fuckup by Solihull council social workers.
The odd point that I saw was he grandmother had photos but the social workers told her they didn’t want to see them
The social workers saw the photos and did a visit just 26 hours later - and then said they couldn't see any bruises on Arthur. They had a medical expert testify that it was impossible for the bruises to have cleared up that quickly.
This is a bit strange and something that the Independent investigation into social services that will now happen will doubtless look into.
Lessons Will Be learned.
Some junior people will get the boot.
Some senior people will have to be let go, provided that higher paying, more responsible jobs can be found for them. Some assistance will be required to help them carry their golden goodbye settlements.....
Cases like this do make you wonder why they keep on getting it so wrong, but then we only ever hear about the cases that go wrong enough to make the news. Maybe there are lots of kids saved from horrifying cruelty every day that obviously never get reported?
And most of the cases that do make the news, are the other way around.
Private Eye also has a long-running series of articles, about family courts taking kids away from their parents for adoption. They never make the news because it’s illegal to report on family courts in a way that might identify children, even if the story is that the parents feel their kids have been ‘stolen’ from them.
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pssst Ace. Is it too late to have Leon in the Deadpool?
On the jumping from vehicle to vehicle thing, we have three forklifts at work:
One has hydrostatic transmission, which means single pedal operation - you let go of the throttle and the transmission brings it to a halt.
The other two have torque converter transmissions which roll when you come off the throttle - one has a RH throttle and brake set up (like an auto car), the other has the older configuration of a LH brake RH throttle.
By the time you've mastered regularly driving all three and had a few panics going for a brake pedal which isn't there, you can drive pretty much anything...
Private Eye also has a long-running series of articles, about family courts taking kids away from their parents for adoption. They never make the news because it’s illegal to report on family courts in a way that might identify children, even if the story is that the parents feel their kids have been ‘stolen’ from them.