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  • Time_to_LeaveTime_to_Leave Posts: 2,547
    Corbyn is just not capable of the right tone. It’s embarrassing.
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207
    Sex workers, driving instructors and masseurs have been ordered to stop work by the Dutch government as part of efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic, reports James Crisp, Brussels Correspondent.

    Amsterdam’s famous red light district, with its legal and regulated brothels, was shut on March 15 but escorts, who travel to meet clients, have been able to continue work.

    Seriously...........
  • nichomarnichomar Posts: 7,483
    Didn’t see anything wrong with it
  • Dura_AceDura_Ace Posts: 13,677

    Floater said:

    tlg86 said:

    What a **** Jeremy Corbyn is.

    What's he done?
    Being a %%%%
    Well that's nothing new, but what specifically?
    Committed the cardinal sin of not fawning over the caudillo.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,119
    edited March 2020

    Corbyn is just not capable of the right tone. It’s embarrassing.

    His hatred of Tories over-rules everything. It is why these people would be a disaster in government.

    And again compare to somebody like Ashworth, who clearly on friendly terms with a number of Tory colleagues, and thus for the most part managed to raise concerns without going OTT on the anti-government stuff.
  • nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207
    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    He was a disgrace
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,359
    It was ever thus with these rich twunts, not do as I do just do as I say.
  • Johnson playing a really straight bat, not trying take the piss out of Corbyn..... too much.
  • Dura_AceDura_Ace Posts: 13,677
    It will be hilarious if the only royals left standing are Captain & Mrs Hewitt-Markle.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,424
    Floater said:

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    He was a disgrace
    He referred to foreign Cheddar?
  • BluestBlueBluestBlue Posts: 4,556
    Nigelb said:

    kinabalu said:

    HYUFD said:

    Condolences to Charles

    Yes. From me too.
    And from me.
    I am very sorry, Charles.
    Nigelb said:

    kinabalu said:

    HYUFD said:

    Condolences to Charles

    Yes. From me too.
    And from me.
    I am very sorry, Charles.
    From me as well. Desperately sad news.
  • nichomarnichomar Posts: 7,483

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
    Totally I’ll watch it again later but he thanked him and then moved on.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 33,464
    Some good news; Eldest Granddaughter has been accepted on the Educational Psychologist course she's been trying to get onto for a couple of years.
    Taught PhD.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,609
    Will Corbyn be a **** in the second session too?
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 21,298
    Very sorry to hear of Charles’s loss.
    Deepest sympathy to your family.
  • VerulamiusVerulamius Posts: 1,543
    @Charles I am sorry to hear your news. My thoughts are with you and your family.
  • nichomar said:

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
    Totally I’ll watch it again later but he thanked him and then moved on.
    His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic
  • Some good news; Eldest Granddaughter has been accepted on the Educational Psychologist course she's been trying to get onto for a couple of years.
    Taught PhD.

    Marvellous news. Congratulations to her
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,935
    nichomar said:

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
    Totally I’ll watch it again later but he thanked him and then moved on.
    He seemed to think the PM was gloating.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,148
    malcolmg said:

    It was ever thus with these rich twunts, not do as I do just do as I say.
    A bad image for Nationalists attacking the heir to the throne when he is ill
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,935
    We could learn a thing or two from them...
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 33,464

    Some good news; Eldest Granddaughter has been accepted on the Educational Psychologist course she's been trying to get onto for a couple of years.
    Taught PhD.

    Marvellous news. Congratulations to her
    Thanks. She's delighted!
  • Dura_Ace said:

    It will be hilarious if the only royals left standing are Captain & Mrs Hewitt-Markle.

    Why are they immune to this.

    You do know BC/Canada is in crisis and putting in place the same restrictions
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,359

    Compare and contrast the childish behaviour of Jezza, to the grown ups who used to run the Labour Party like Dougie Alexander.

    Can we please have the grown-ups back in charge of a once great party.

    Dougie Alexander was and will still be a fanny of the first order, an absolutely useless erse.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,119
    malcolmg said:

    Compare and contrast the childish behaviour of Jezza, to the grown ups who used to run the Labour Party like Dougie Alexander.

    Can we please have the grown-ups back in charge of a once great party.

    Dougie Alexander was and will still be a fanny of the first order, an absolutely useless erse.
    I am sure he speaks highly of you too.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,935
    HYUFD said:

    malcolmg said:

    It was ever thus with these rich twunts, not do as I do just do as I say.
    A bad image for Nationalists attacking the heir to the throne when he is ill
    Like they give a crap! :p
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,676

    nichomar said:

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
    Totally I’ll watch it again later but he thanked him and then moved on.
    His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic
    Not at all
  • GideonWiseGideonWise Posts: 1,123
    Pulpstar said:

    @Charles Really sorry to hear about your Dad

    What's the specificty of the Coronavirus test ?

    If it's 75% sensitive then 3 or 4 tests are needed per person really.

    Yeah but one reason for the lower sensitivity will be the timing of when the test is done. Doing three of four swabs at the same time might not necessarily do anything. But doing it over two or three days might.

    Specificity is less important in my view. We want the most sensitive test for front line workers. The most sensitive test currently is to self isolate for 14 days.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 62,767
    eadric said:

    We may have to add Greta to the Hall of Shame

    https://twitter.com/timothydaw/status/1242783394913804288?s=21

    Isn't she sick with the virus? If I had it, I wouldn't be too bothered what my FB is doing.
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 21,675
    Good luck to HRH. Sounds like he is ok. I hope his test is an indication that testing is becoming more widely available rather than a privilege.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,424
    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Hmm. It was maybe rather barbed. It wasn’t perhaps as bad as I expected from the comments here, I was expecting a highly personal attack on Johnson, which it wasn’t.

    I think it’s fair enough for him to say he rejects any obituaries and intends to remain active, although Starmer probably groaned when he heard it. It was however a silly thing to say given the damage he has done to his causes.
  • GideonWiseGideonWise Posts: 1,123
    eadric said:

    We may have to add Greta to the Hall of Shame

    https://twitter.com/timothydaw/status/1242783394913804288?s=21

    She is a child so you try and give the benefit of the doubt but that is very poor form and I think will critically undermine her over the long term.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,359
    HYUFD said:

    malcolmg said:

    It was ever thus with these rich twunts, not do as I do just do as I say.
    A bad image for Nationalists attacking the heir to the throne when he is ill
    Get up of your belly loser. If he had any principles or morals he would follow same guidance as the public , stay away from your 2nd , 3rd, 4th ......ad infinitum homes. Instead the arsehole flies to Scotland with an entourage spreading it all over the place.
  • nichomar said:

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
    Totally I’ll watch it again later but he thanked him and then moved on.
    His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic
    Not at all
    He has single handedly damaged the labour party more than anyone could imagine
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,935

    nichomar said:

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
    Totally I’ll watch it again later but he thanked him and then moved on.
    His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic
    Not at all
    He has single handedly damaged the labour party more than anyone could imagine
    And now he can retire with full honours, after a particularly shaky moment in 2017.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,880
    @Charles

    So sorry to hear of your loss. Sincere condolences.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,148
    edited March 2020
    malcolmg said:

    HYUFD said:

    malcolmg said:

    It was ever thus with these rich twunts, not do as I do just do as I say.
    A bad image for Nationalists attacking the heir to the throne when he is ill
    Get up of your belly loser. If he had any principles or morals he would follow same guidance as the public , stay away from your 2nd , 3rd, 4th ......ad infinitum homes. Instead the arsehole flies to Scotland with an entourage spreading it all over the place.
    Balmoral is a royal estate and he went there before it was confirmed he had the virus, quite possibly before he had symptoms either
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,119
    edited March 2020
    Reminder.....presume every time you go out, there is potential to contract the disease.

    British OAP dies after 'only leaving house once a week for food'

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronavirus-british-oap-dies-after-21750387
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,424

    eadric said:

    We may have to add Greta to the Hall of Shame

    https://twitter.com/timothydaw/status/1242783394913804288?s=21

    She is a child so you try and give the benefit of the doubt but that is very poor form and I think will critically undermine her over the long term.
    If these climate activists feel so strongly we are a disease and our extinction is the cure, they could always start the process by self immolation.

    Ah, no, hold on, that gives off lots of CO2.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,148
    RobD said:

    HYUFD said:

    malcolmg said:

    It was ever thus with these rich twunts, not do as I do just do as I say.
    A bad image for Nationalists attacking the heir to the throne when he is ill
    Like they give a crap! :p
    They don't, middle ground Scots might
  • Richard_TyndallRichard_Tyndall Posts: 32,570
    Just seen from a friend in lockdown in Northern Italy that there appears to be a link being investigated between the case spikes in Bergamo in Italy and Valencia in Spain tied to a football match.

    40,000 fans from Bergamo travelled to Milan for the Atalanta (Bergamo local team) vs Valencia football game on the 19 Feb. The spikes correlate with 14 days later.

    https://www.worldsoccer.com/features/did-atalanta-v-valencia-contribute-to-the-coronavirus-409342
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 27,932
    edited March 2020

    eadric said:

    We may have to add Greta to the Hall of Shame

    https://twitter.com/timothydaw/status/1242783394913804288?s=21

    She is a child so you try and give the benefit of the doubt but that is very poor form and I think will critically undermine her over the long term.
    More likely this is yet another instance of public figures having many social media accounts (often maintained by third party agencies) and not realising they are not write-only and that they will be held responsible for comments added by anyone at all.
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207
    nichomar said:

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
    Totally I’ll watch it again later but he thanked him and then moved on.
    Seumus, is that you?
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,676

    nichomar said:

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
    Totally I’ll watch it again later but he thanked him and then moved on.
    His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic
    Not at all
    He has single handedly damaged the labour party more than anyone could imagine
    You said "His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic"

    Watch it again you are completely wrong IMO
  • nichomar said:

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
    Totally I’ll watch it again later but he thanked him and then moved on.
    His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic
    Not at all
    He has single handedly damaged the labour party more than anyone could imagine
    You said "His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic"

    Watch it again you are completely wrong IMO
    I respect your IMO BJO
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 21,675
    @Charles sincere condolences and much love.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,424
    HYUFD said:

    malcolmg said:

    HYUFD said:

    malcolmg said:

    It was ever thus with these rich twunts, not do as I do just do as I say.
    A bad image for Nationalists attacking the heir to the throne when he is ill
    Get up of your belly loser. If he had any principles or morals he would follow same guidance as the public , stay away from your 2nd , 3rd, 4th ......ad infinitum homes. Instead the arsehole flies to Scotland with an entourage spreading it all over the place.
    Balmoral is a royal estate and he went there before it was confirmed he had the virus, quite possibly before he had symptoms either
    Actually technically I think it’s a private estate owned by the Queen, not a royal estate.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,176

    Just seen from a friend in lockdown in Northern Italy that there appears to be a link being investigated between the case spikes in Bergamo in Italy and Valencia in Spain tied to a football match.

    40,000 fans from Bergamo travelled to Milan for the Atalanta (Bergamo local team) vs Valencia football game on the 19 Feb. The spikes correlate with 14 days later.

    https://www.worldsoccer.com/features/did-atalanta-v-valencia-contribute-to-the-coronavirus-409342

    Oh dear - that was played behind closed doors, but unfortunately I can believe that Atalanta fans might have travelled.

    It's obviously of little importance, but I do feel sad for Atalanta as they are a fantastic story.
  • AlanbrookeAlanbrooke Posts: 25,413
    eadric said:

    eadric said:

    We may have to add Greta to the Hall of Shame

    https://twitter.com/timothydaw/status/1242783394913804288?s=21

    Isn't she sick with the virus? If I had it, I wouldn't be too bothered what my FB is doing.
    She’s all better now. Her father had it worse.

    As Gideon says, she is a child so maybe this is excusable, but if I’d lost someone to this virus I would not appreciate the sentiment expressed here
    she's 17

    that's the age of majority in Sweden, so not a child.
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207

    nichomar said:

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
    Totally I’ll watch it again later but he thanked him and then moved on.
    His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic
    Not at all
    He has single handedly damaged the labour party more than anyone could imagine
    You said "His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic"

    Watch it again you are completely wrong IMO
    John, he was a graceless knob.

  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,225
    A really good thread on the difficulty of ramping up PPE production and supply at short notice:

    https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1242490035707895808
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 27,932

    eadric said:

    eadric said:

    We may have to add Greta to the Hall of Shame

    https://twitter.com/timothydaw/status/1242783394913804288?s=21

    Isn't she sick with the virus? If I had it, I wouldn't be too bothered what my FB is doing.
    She’s all better now. Her father had it worse.

    As Gideon says, she is a child so maybe this is excusable, but if I’d lost someone to this virus I would not appreciate the sentiment expressed here
    she's 17

    that's the age of majority in Sweden, so not a child.
    You are Prince Andrew AICMFP ;)
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207

    eadric said:

    eadric said:

    We may have to add Greta to the Hall of Shame

    https://twitter.com/timothydaw/status/1242783394913804288?s=21

    Isn't she sick with the virus? If I had it, I wouldn't be too bothered what my FB is doing.
    She’s all better now. Her father had it worse.

    As Gideon says, she is a child so maybe this is excusable, but if I’d lost someone to this virus I would not appreciate the sentiment expressed here
    she's 17

    that's the age of majority in Sweden, so not a child.
    You are Prince Andrew AICMFP ;)
    Tempted to replace with lower age ........
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,604
    Today's data - just published



  • Richard_TyndallRichard_Tyndall Posts: 32,570

    Compare and contrast the childish behaviour of Jezza, to the grown ups who used to run the Labour Party like Dougie Alexander.

    Can we please have the grown-ups back in charge of a once great party.

    I am quietly confident that if Starmer wins we will see that change. I still don't necessarily like or agree with the guy but he is at least an adult compared to Corbyn and his acolytes.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,935
    Barnesian said:

    Today's data - just published


    That includes today's UK numbers?
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,119
    Floater said:

    nichomar said:

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
    Totally I’ll watch it again later but he thanked him and then moved on.
    His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic
    Not at all
    He has single handedly damaged the labour party more than anyone could imagine
    You said "His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic"

    Watch it again you are completely wrong IMO
    John, he was a graceless knob.

    Please, not was, it isn't as Jezza said an obituary, so is a graceless knob....
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,676
    Floater said:

    nichomar said:

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
    Totally I’ll watch it again later but he thanked him and then moved on.
    His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic
    Not at all
    He has single handedly damaged the labour party more than anyone could imagine
    You said "His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic"

    Watch it again you are completely wrong IMO
    John, he was a graceless knob.

    I dont think he was. He thanked Johnson for his kind words and with a smile on his face said he was hoping to be on these benches fighting injustice for some time to come.

    Whats wrong with that?
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,935

    Floater said:

    nichomar said:

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
    Totally I’ll watch it again later but he thanked him and then moved on.
    His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic
    Not at all
    He has single handedly damaged the labour party more than anyone could imagine
    You said "His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic"

    Watch it again you are completely wrong IMO
    John, he was a graceless knob.

    I dont think he was. He thanked Johnson for his kind words and with a smile on his face said he was hoping to be on these benches fighting injustice for some time to come.

    Whats wrong with that?
    You missed the bit where he was suggesting Boris was gloating about his departure.
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207
    A headline so bad it could have been written by TSE

    Dutch sex workers told to down tools
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 27,932
    eadric said:

    eadric said:

    We may have to add Greta to the Hall of Shame

    https://twitter.com/timothydaw/status/1242783394913804288?s=21

    She is a child so you try and give the benefit of the doubt but that is very poor form and I think will critically undermine her over the long term.
    More likely this is yet another instance of public figures having many social media accounts (often maintained by third party agencies) and not realising they are not write-only and that they will be held responsible for comments added by anyone at all.
    Except that the XR posters on the trees in the Midlands said almost exactly the same thing: humans are the disease, corona is the cure

    So it’s clearly a meme transmitting in XR circles, and it may have a fatality rate for their cause of 100%
    It may but that is not to say it is genuine. It might be, or it might have been originally planted by one of those notorious Russian troll farms and then bounced around by a combination of troll bots and useful idiots. Given XR's attempts to stop buses and DLR trains, it is hard to say. Tbh the whole of XR might have been designed to discredit the wider cause.
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207

    Floater said:

    nichomar said:

    nichomar said:

    Didn’t see anything wrong with it

    Really. You cannot be serious
    Totally I’ll watch it again later but he thanked him and then moved on.
    His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic
    Not at all
    He has single handedly damaged the labour party more than anyone could imagine
    You said "His tone and attitude was, sadly, pathetic"

    Watch it again you are completely wrong IMO
    John, he was a graceless knob.

    I dont think he was. He thanked Johnson for his kind words and with a smile on his face said he was hoping to be on these benches fighting injustice for some time to come.

    Whats wrong with that?
    the tone, the look on his face and the words themselves - apart from that he was fine
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,992
    I don't see why Matt Hancock is 21s (bf) for next Cons leader/33s to be next PM.

    Too long surely. Have backed both for small sums.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,720
    edited March 2020

    Foxy said:

    Floater said:

    Foxy said:

    felix said:

    Floater said:

    nichomar said:

    eadric said:

    nichomar said:
    Spain is still less than two weeks past its lockdown tho, isn’t it? So we shouldn’t expect an improvement yet?
    Total lockdown 17/3
    They really should have cancelled the Woman's day marches
    They are takintg a lot of stick for that. But to be honest the past -even the recent past- is another country given the immediate problems. No country has gotten everything right.
    It really is a very fast moving situation. Yesterday I had a clinic this morning, today it was cancelled.

    Also this AM, Mrs Foxy and I woke with an ominous cough. No temperature at present. Feeling OK , just not sure if it is Coronachondria or not. Having a day at home to see how things develop.
    Stay safe Foxy (and Mrs Foxy) - there are other lurgies out there still - best wishes to you both
    I am really not sure if it is anything or not, so doing my admin by phone and online as far as possible.

    Testing would be great. Otherwise really in the dark.
    Surely you can trace some ancestry back to the Royal family?
    Not me, though I can to one of the regicides who signed the warrant

    So patient zero passes it on to 3 people on day 1 etc etc

    Day 10

    3 to the power of 10=59,049

    Day 12 = 531,444

    Day 14 = 4,782,969

    Stay isolated

    I think that you need to allow that even with an r=3, the infected person is not infective themselves immediately. There is an incubation period of 4-10 days before they can infect others.

    That would slow down spread by your model considerably.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,676
    Floater said:

    A headline so bad it could have been written by TSE

    Dutch sex workers told to down tools

    Classic TSE headlines are much often repeated in Chez BJO
  • Time_to_LeaveTime_to_Leave Posts: 2,547
    To paraphrase Red Dwarf, all MPs have something to bring to this debate, but what Jeremy Corbyn should bring is silence. Fortunately he’s now sodding off to his allotment.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,148
    edited March 2020
    ydoethur said:

    HYUFD said:

    malcolmg said:

    HYUFD said:

    malcolmg said:

    It was ever thus with these rich twunts, not do as I do just do as I say.
    A bad image for Nationalists attacking the heir to the throne when he is ill
    Get up of your belly loser. If he had any principles or morals he would follow same guidance as the public , stay away from your 2nd , 3rd, 4th ......ad infinitum homes. Instead the arsehole flies to Scotland with an entourage spreading it all over the place.
    Balmoral is a royal estate and he went there before it was confirmed he had the virus, quite possibly before he had symptoms either
    Actually technically I think it’s a private estate owned by the Queen, not a royal estate.
    Balmoral and Sandringham are both owned by the royal family, unlike say Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle which are owned by the crown estate to be crown residences and funded by public funds
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,119

    To paraphrase Red Dwarf, all MPs have something to bring to this debate, but what Jeremy Corbyn should bring is silence. Fortunately he’s now sodding off to his allotment.

    Is going to your allotment allowed under the rules? And as a 70+ year old, he really should be adhering to the even stricter rules of not ever going out for the next 12 weeks.
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,604

    Charles said:

    algarkirk said:

    RobD said:

    ydoethur said:

    How come the Prince of Wales met the criteria for having a test? Is being Royal on the list?

    Probably, yes (certainly being a senior royal). Same as being someone who might come into contact with senior govt members. This is not the time to risk infecting the people running the operation.
    Is Prince Charles running the operation?

    The Queen is socially distancing herself, what does her heir have to do with anything?

    Realpolitik means he would qualify but there's surely little operational reason to do with it.
    Orders in Council need to be signed by someone. That's why I was arguing earlier that William should be declared regent, as the most senior royal in a low-risk category.
    Isn't he already a councillor of state?
    Teach young George joined up writing quick.

    Apparently a lot of American schools no longer teach joined-up writing as it is considered redundant in the age of texting and tweets.

    ETA if you want to google it, the term is "cursive" which is American for joined-up writing, and "penmanship" means using a pen.
    That is certainly true at ASL. we are teaching our daughter cursive at home
    In my Northern Irish primary school we were taught using an Osmiroid Italic pen, which made it a bit more difficult.
    I was taught italic handwriting with an Osmiroid pen by the Irish Christian Brothers. It is still basically italic but no longer with an Osmiroid pen. I was well trained.
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207

    Floater said:

    A headline so bad it could have been written by TSE

    Dutch sex workers told to down tools

    Classic TSE headlines are much often repeated in Chez BJO
    Each to their own John :-)
  • ABZABZ Posts: 441
    I think the much more interesting parliamentary meeting today (much more informative than PMQs) was the evidence of Neil Ferguson to the select committee. I do hope that his modelling is correct as it would suggest that while this will be bad the NHS will just about manage to cope.
  • numbertwelvenumbertwelve Posts: 6,814
    All I can say is thank goodness Corbyn is going. He cannot help himself. I understand having valid questions and scrutinising the government but my goodness, the tone was so off kilter I was amazed.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 62,767
    Can they also be evicted from the Labour party? Then we might get a functioning Opposition again.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 27,932
    Someone should have told them it is on telly. That said, I'm pretty sure MPs often take videos or photos inside the chamber.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 38,868

    So patient zero passes it on to 3 people on day 1 etc etc

    Day 10

    3 to the power of 10=59,049

    Day 12 = 531,444

    Day 14 = 4,782,969

    Stay isolated

    It doesn't quite work that way as infected people come into contact with other infected people, especially as the rate of infection rises and specific social circles reach saturation faster than others.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 42,000
    eadric said:

    eadric said:

    eadric said:

    We may have to add Greta to the Hall of Shame

    https://twitter.com/timothydaw/status/1242783394913804288?s=21

    Isn't she sick with the virus? If I had it, I wouldn't be too bothered what my FB is doing.
    She’s all better now. Her father had it worse.

    As Gideon says, she is a child so maybe this is excusable, but if I’d lost someone to this virus I would not appreciate the sentiment expressed here
    she's 17

    that's the age of majority in Sweden, so not a child.
    Yes, I was being very generous. She’s old enough.

    If she gets to lecture us on the environment, and we have to listen, then she has to own it when she gets it all wrong.
    You don't 'have to listen', unless you're one of those right wing snowflakes who perceives the very existence of ideas and attention paid to them as an assault on their own raddled freedom.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 28,482
    Dura_Ace said:

    Those struggling with getting skimmed milk, even UHT milk, you can purchase milk powder in bulk from a number of online stores.

    You don't actually need to ingest cow mucus.

    Bit of dairy fat might do wonders for making you a less grumpy tosspot. Living on carby plant-based glucose is going to exaggerate mood swings.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,119
    edited March 2020
    ABZ said:

    I think the much more interesting parliamentary meeting today (much more informative than PMQs) was the evidence of Neil Ferguson to the select committee. I do hope that his modelling is correct as it would suggest that while this will be bad the NHS will just about manage to cope.

    I am rather concerned by the claim only 10% of Londoners will get it. I just can't see how that is possible, given most countries talk about 50-60-70% of people getting it.

    Even if he is talking about this "season" and the big number is total over the course of the disease, still, 10% seems incredibly low.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 28,482
    Charles said:

    How come the Prince of Wales met the criteria for having a test? Is being Royal on the list?

    Key worker?
    Having symptoms? Hope he's ok. Guess Royal rumpy pumpy is off the menu with Camilla being clean.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,676
    Foxy said:

    Foxy said:

    Floater said:

    Foxy said:

    felix said:

    Floater said:

    nichomar said:

    eadric said:

    nichomar said:
    Spain is still less than two weeks past its lockdown tho, isn’t it? So we shouldn’t expect an improvement yet?
    Total lockdown 17/3
    They really should have cancelled the Woman's day marches
    They are takintg a lot of stick for that. But to be honest the past -even the recent past- is another country given the immediate problems. No country has gotten everything right.
    It really is a very fast moving situation. Yesterday I had a clinic this morning, today it was cancelled.

    Also this AM, Mrs Foxy and I woke with an ominous cough. No temperature at present. Feeling OK , just not sure if it is Coronachondria or not. Having a day at home to see how things develop.
    Stay safe Foxy (and Mrs Foxy) - there are other lurgies out there still - best wishes to you both
    I am really not sure if it is anything or not, so doing my admin by phone and online as far as possible.

    Testing would be great. Otherwise really in the dark.
    Surely you can trace some ancestry back to the Royal family?
    Not me, though I can to one of the regicides who signed the warrant

    So patient zero passes it on to 3 people on day 1 etc etc

    Day 10

    3 to the power of 10=59,049

    Day 12 = 531,444

    Day 14 = 4,782,969

    Stay isolated

    I think that you need to allow that even with an r=3, the infected person is not infective themselves immediately. There is an incubation period of 4-10 days before they can infect others.

    That would slow down spread by your model considerably.
    Thats good news still once you start using to the power of mathematics even if its n-4 you still get eye watering numbers.

    Lets hope self isolation reduces the transmission r number as well
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 28,482
    guybrush said:

    Fire up the bloody Quattro...also doesn't mention the G-Tech scrapheap challenge solution.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/airbus-dyson-firms-waiting-uk-green-light-produce-ventilators-coronavirus

    Sounds like the Airbus consortium planning to bang out a licence built version of the Smith design is a winner. Some serious players involved (McClaren and GKN) who know a thing or two about manufacturing and presumably existing supply chains that could be leveraged.

    Less sure about the clean sheet designs being pursued by the various vacuum cleaner manufacturers. Got to be worth a punt in these circumstances, provided the gvmt is brave enough to shortcut usual regulatory approvals process.
    Dyson makes hoovers, G-tech makes hoovers. Don't see the difference.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 42,000
    Jonathan said:

    @Charles sincere condolences and much love.

    Same here.
  • I'm so sorry, @Charles.
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,604
    RobD said:

    Barnesian said:

    Today's data - just published


    That includes today's UK numbers?
    I don't know. It was published at about 12:30. UK figures for cases 8077, 774 new.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 38,868

    eadric said:

    We may have to add Greta to the Hall of Shame

    https://twitter.com/timothydaw/status/1242783394913804288?s=21

    Isn't she sick with the virus? If I had it, I wouldn't be too bothered what my FB is doing.
    Not going to lie, there really isn't much else to do. I'm just extremely bored at the moment.
  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,541
    edited March 2020
    eadric said:

    Barnesian said:

    Today's data - just published



    China reporting zero cases?

    Remember when I said the best way to assess China is not to read their official data, but watch the social media leaking out.

    Here you go

    https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1242788677199298562?s=21
    I completely agree that the data from China has to be critically observed. Equally one needs to keep one’s critical faculties alive when considering other sources. Jennifer Zeng is a Sydney based Falun Gong practitioner who was sent to a labour camp by the CCP on 4 occasions. She was forced to seek asylum in Australia and has, understandably, published scathing books and articles about China. That being said, she does have a bit of an axe to grind, and is not reporting on the ground. She also describes Corona-19 as #CCPvirus.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,935
    Barnesian said:

    RobD said:

    Barnesian said:

    Today's data - just published


    That includes today's UK numbers?
    I don't know. It was published at about 12:30. UK figures for cases 8077, 774 new.
    Those are yesterday's figures.
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,604

    ABZ said:

    I think the much more interesting parliamentary meeting today (much more informative than PMQs) was the evidence of Neil Ferguson to the select committee. I do hope that his modelling is correct as it would suggest that while this will be bad the NHS will just about manage to cope.

    I am rather concerned by the claim only 10% of Londoners will get it. I just can't see how that is possible, given most countries talk about 50-60-70% of people getting it.

    Even if he is talking about this "season" and the big number is total over the course of the disease, still, 10% seems incredibly low.
    I agree
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,676
    edited March 2020
    @Charles Just seen your post about your father

    Thoughts with you and your family
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 28,482
    Having been absent from PB today, I am so sorry now to hear that news Charles. Condolences to you and the family.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,720
    edited March 2020
    eadric said:

    Barnesian said:

    Today's data - just published



    China reporting zero cases?

    Remember when I said the best way to assess China is not to read their official data, but watch the social media leaking out.

    Here you go

    //twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1242788677199298562?s=21
    To state the bleeding obvious, people with COVID19 do not collapse and die of it in the street. They slowly become more breathless over days.

    Whatever happened in that video is not evidence of COVID19.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,119
    edited March 2020
    eadric said:

    Barnesian said:

    Today's data - just published



    China reporting zero cases?

    Remember when I said the best way to assess China is not to read their official data, but watch the social media leaking out.

    Here you go

    twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1242788677199298562?s=21
    You only have to look at South Korea.....they have had a handle on this throughout, but their daily numbers still are ~100 new cases a day. China was literally out of control to zero in no time.
  • DougSealDougSeal Posts: 12,541

    @Charles Just seen your post about your father

    Thoughts with you and your family

    Seconded - and the sad news was announced with customary class too
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