Thirteen months ago the CON poll lead dropped upto 17 points after the Cummings Barnard Castle revel

dr_spyn said:

Why is the Hancock story suddenly breaking today? Seems as if some people were gunning for him over the last month vie leaks to the press.

Just as well 24 rolling news wan't around during the First World War, when Ministers and Admirals were known to be spending time with other men's wives.

And as for that David and Bathsheba. Poor Uriah.

What would the Daily Mail have made of that?

Nunu3 said:

Hancock has to go. He broke his own rules.


Simple as that.

This is serious, I dont think the politically obsessed get how serious it is, because normal peoples lives were badly disrupted by the rules Hancock himself ignored.

He will be gone before Batley and Spen.

Yes. My family, which is marginally pro-Brexit, pro-Boris - with lots of exceptions, from Remoaners to Corbynism - is universal in its condemnation of Hancock. All angry. He has to go. That's it.

Boris has made an error even trying to defend him

eek said:

DavidL said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Well now.

Two brothers who launched a bitcoin trading business from their bedroom and amassed $3.6 billion in investments have vanished, increasing their clients’ fears about their money.

Raees and Ameer Cajee, 21 and 17 respectively, have not been heard from since April when their platform shut down and they told clients it had been hacked and funds stolen. The brothers are alleged to have urged Africrypt’s investors not to contact the authorities as that “would only delay” efforts to recover the money.

According to reports, police are investigating what could be one of the biggest crypto thefts in history.

In the weeks before the disappearance, the brothers sold assets including a Lamborghini Huracan, and gave up their permanent suite at one of South Africa’s most expensive hotels and their rented beachside apartment near Durban, lawyers for the investors say.

The company’s tech staff were allegedly unable to access back-end systems a week before the claimed security breach, Darren Hanekom, a lawyer in Cape Town acting for some investors, told Bloomberg.

Africrypt’s pooled funds were transferred from its bank accounts and client wallets and put through bitcoin “tumblers and mixers” in an effort to make them untraceable, he claimed. “We were immediately suspicious as the announcement implored investors not to take legal action,” he said. In a letter to their clients dated April 13, Ameer Cajees is claimed to have written that it was “unknown to us the extent of personal client information breached during the attack”.

According to lawyers, he added that the brothers were attempting to retrieve “stolen funds and compromised information”. The apparent disappearance of the Cajees coincided with a record high in bitcoin’s value, following an announcement by Elon Musk that Tesla, his electric car maker, would start accepting the currency. Since then, its value has been hit by China’s crackdown on digital currencies and Musk reversing his decision.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cajee-brothers-who-ran-3-6bn-bitcoin-fund-vanish-lbfhbc0sh

I am going to have a wild stab at this and speculate that your client base when you operate what seems to be a money laundering scheme for a money laundering currency probably don’t use the likes of me to recover money that they believe that they are owed.

I suspect that their methods may not even be fully ECHR compliant.

I suspect they now have new identities and are sat in somewhere like Dubai....

And Bahrain. And Qatar. Possibly at the same time.

Sandpit said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

Scott_xP said:

...

Quite well by the looks of the photo....

Great comment but time for him to go

Its like Cummings, the longer he stays around the more damage it does.

It would be interesting to hear Kay Burley and him arguing about their behaviour live on Sky

At least she went away for 6 months

Every minister interviewed by Burley, needs to bring up her own little problem with following the rules.

Why are you calling for Mr Hancock to resign, when you didn’t resign yourself?

I agree. But he still needs to go.

SandyRentool said:

Leon said:

squareroot2 said:

glw said:

Mexicanpete said:

Roger said:

Anyone watching Ch4 News would bet the house on Hancock going. Probably tonight. It's a firing squad

The problem is *if* Johnson has a similar skeleton in a similarly socially undistanced cupboard, and should it come to light, he would surely be obliged to go too. And Johnson being Johnson, that is not beyond the realms of probability.

Can I hear the sound of distant violins?

I'd be surprised is Boris hasn't been cheating on Carrie.

I know someone who cheated on the day of his wedding with the brides best female...friend... nothing is impossible..

I know the diametric opposite. A bride who fucked the best man on the wedding day

The human comedy is nothing if not diverse and egalitarian

The moral of the story: Don't ask Leon to be your Best Man.

lol, but no

I have fucked a couple of bridesmaids on the wedding day, but as an usher. Isn't that what ushers and bridesmaids are meant to do? It's like an open goal

Memorably, I once sniffed coke off the bonnet of the Wedding Bentley, with a bridesmaid, that I then merrily tupped

Sigh. Now I mainly think about UFOs

SandyRentool said:

Good to see you posting @DavidL

How are you doing?

I’ve waited all day for a scan that may now happen tomorrow. Bit frustrating but I feel much better. Got an exciting injection in the stomach to look forward to at 11. Breaks the tedium, I suppose.

DavidL said:

SandyRentool said:

Good to see you posting @DavidL

How are you doing?

I’ve waited all day for a scan that may now happen tomorrow. Bit frustrating but I feel much better. Got an exciting injection in the stomach to look forward to at 11. Breaks the tedium, I suppose.

Some good drugs?

rottenborough said:

Niall Paterson
@skynewsniall
·
3h
I got to hug and kiss my mum and dad last week for the first time in almost a year. Matt Hancock was one of those who told me what I could and could not do; he apparently broke the rules that he told me (literally, given my job, to my face on occasion) I had to follow.

Who has been unable to see their parents in the last several months? Unless they live abroad?

DavidL said:

SandyRentool said:

Good to see you posting @DavidL

How are you doing?

I’ve waited all day for a scan that may now happen tomorrow. Bit frustrating but I feel much better. Got an exciting injection in the stomach to look forward to at 11. Breaks the tedium, I suppose.

An injection in the stomach doesn't sound like fun.

Have your family been able to visit?

DavidL said:

moonshine said:

Leon said:

SandyRentool said:

Leon said:

squareroot2 said:

glw said:

Mexicanpete said:

Roger said:

Anyone watching Ch4 News would bet the house on Hancock going. Probably tonight. It's a firing squad

The problem is *if* Johnson has a similar skeleton in a similarly socially undistanced cupboard, and should it come to light, he would surely be obliged to go too. And Johnson being Johnson, that is not beyond the realms of probability.

Can I hear the sound of distant violins?

I'd be surprised is Boris hasn't been cheating on Carrie.

I know someone who cheated on the day of his wedding with the brides best female...friend... nothing is impossible..

I know the diametric opposite. A bride who fucked the best man on the wedding day

The human comedy is nothing if not diverse and egalitarian

The moral of the story: Don't ask Leon to be your Best Man.

lol, but no

I have fucked a couple of bridesmaids on the wedding day, but as an usher. Isn't that what ushers and bridesmaids are meant to do? It's like an open goal

Memorably, I once sniffed coke off the bonnet of the Wedding Bentley, with a bridesmaid, that I then merrily tupped

Sigh. Now I mainly think about UFOs

Sorry to be a bad influence

Now that’s what I call boasting. A bad influence on Leon. Ha.

Yes, I can safely say there has been no Bad Influence, apart from one guy I had a bromance with in the late 1980s, when we just egged each other on, in a folie a deux. We were Bonnie and Clyde but actually two guys who should've known better

I am cordially loathed by lots of wives and mothers, as the guy who might lead their sons and husbands to an alt.life, and, frankly, fair enough

Leon said:

squareroot2 said:

glw said:

Mexicanpete said:

Roger said:

Anyone watching Ch4 News would bet the house on Hancock going. Probably tonight. It's a firing squad

The problem is *if* Johnson has a similar skeleton in a similarly socially undistanced cupboard, and should it come to light, he would surely be obliged to go too. And Johnson being Johnson, that is not beyond the realms of probability.

Can I hear the sound of distant violins?

I'd be surprised is Boris hasn't been cheating on Carrie.

I know someone who cheated on the day of his wedding with the brides best female...friend... nothing is impossible..

I know the diametric opposite. A bride who fucked the best man on the wedding day

The human comedy is nothing if not diverse and egalitarian

In my younger days, I worked in F&B at a golf club that did a lot of weddings. The two highlights from attending a couple of hundred weddings were:

1. The group of, err, travellers, who booked a room for 100 people but 1,000 turned up, that finished with the bar ransacked, two other events disrupted and the staff locking themselves in the cellar, as the police called us back to say they were going to be a while as they were calling in reinforcements. Six riot vans turned up to disperse the crowd.

2. The one where the husband found out about his wife shagging the best man. The groom had put an envelope on each table, with a note saying do not open until told. He stood up to make his speech, asked everyone to open the envelopes which contained photos of the wife and best man in flagrante, he thanked her father for the £25,000 that the day had cost him, and invited his family and friends to join him in leaving the venue. Which they did.

FrancisUrquhart said:

eek said:

DavidL said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Well now.

Two brothers who launched a bitcoin trading business from their bedroom and amassed $3.6 billion in investments have vanished, increasing their clients’ fears about their money.

Raees and Ameer Cajee, 21 and 17 respectively, have not been heard from since April when their platform shut down and they told clients it had been hacked and funds stolen. The brothers are alleged to have urged Africrypt’s investors not to contact the authorities as that “would only delay” efforts to recover the money.

According to reports, police are investigating what could be one of the biggest crypto thefts in history.

In the weeks before the disappearance, the brothers sold assets including a Lamborghini Huracan, and gave up their permanent suite at one of South Africa’s most expensive hotels and their rented beachside apartment near Durban, lawyers for the investors say.

The company’s tech staff were allegedly unable to access back-end systems a week before the claimed security breach, Darren Hanekom, a lawyer in Cape Town acting for some investors, told Bloomberg.

Africrypt’s pooled funds were transferred from its bank accounts and client wallets and put through bitcoin “tumblers and mixers” in an effort to make them untraceable, he claimed. “We were immediately suspicious as the announcement implored investors not to take legal action,” he said. In a letter to their clients dated April 13, Ameer Cajees is claimed to have written that it was “unknown to us the extent of personal client information breached during the attack”.

According to lawyers, he added that the brothers were attempting to retrieve “stolen funds and compromised information”. The apparent disappearance of the Cajees coincided with a record high in bitcoin’s value, following an announcement by Elon Musk that Tesla, his electric car maker, would start accepting the currency. Since then, its value has been hit by China’s crackdown on digital currencies and Musk reversing his decision.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cajee-brothers-who-ran-3-6bn-bitcoin-fund-vanish-lbfhbc0sh

I am going to have a wild stab at this and speculate that your client base when you operate what seems to be a money laundering scheme for a money laundering currency probably don’t use the likes of me to recover money that they believe that they are owed.

I suspect that their methods may not even be fully ECHR compliant.

I suspect they now have new identities and are sat in somewhere like Dubai....

There was a really good article in the Guardian the other week, originally from El Pais about how Dubai is where all the captains of Europe criminal networks now live, while still having their henchmen in Marbella.

Sounds like the Cajees would be well advised to locate somewhere else in that case... somewhere where they're less likely to bump into their former clients.

FrancisUrquhart said:

Charles said:

rottenborough said:

Niall Paterson
@skynewsniall
·
3h
I got to hug and kiss my mum and dad last week for the first time in almost a year. Matt Hancock was one of those who told me what I could and could not do; he apparently broke the rules that he told me (literally, given my job, to my face on occasion) I had to follow.

Who has been unable to see their parents in the last several months? Unless they live abroad?

The moral indignation of the media is ridiculous. We know they are as bad as politicians when it comes to drugs, shagging around and not following rules....

Stick to the story.

I know. But I think Niall Paterson is either lying or is a bad son. But I’m wondering if someone can come up with a scenario?

Leon said:

SandyRentool said:

Leon said:

squareroot2 said:

glw said:

Mexicanpete said:

Roger said:

Anyone watching Ch4 News would bet the house on Hancock going. Probably tonight. It's a firing squad

The problem is *if* Johnson has a similar skeleton in a similarly socially undistanced cupboard, and should it come to light, he would surely be obliged to go too. And Johnson being Johnson, that is not beyond the realms of probability.

Can I hear the sound of distant violins?

I'd be surprised is Boris hasn't been cheating on Carrie.

I know someone who cheated on the day of his wedding with the brides best female...friend... nothing is impossible..

I know the diametric opposite. A bride who fucked the best man on the wedding day

The human comedy is nothing if not diverse and egalitarian

The moral of the story: Don't ask Leon to be your Best Man.

lol, but no

I have fucked a couple of bridesmaids on the wedding day, but as an usher. Isn't that what ushers and bridesmaids are meant to do? It's like an open goal

Memorably, I once sniffed coke off the bonnet of the Wedding Bentley, with a bridesmaid, that I then merrily tupped

Sigh. Now I mainly think about UFOs

Leon, as I think you are the resident expert on the China Lab Leak theory, (some would say conspiracist theorist But I'm open minded for now)

Have you seen this, an allegation that the charitable arm of Google was also funding an organisation called Eco Health Alliance that was also doing 'gain of function' resuch in animal to human viruses?

State at 6.30 in to vidio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIP-GxOLDsQ

Leon said:

squareroot2 said:

glw said:

Mexicanpete said:

Roger said:

Anyone watching Ch4 News would bet the house on Hancock going. Probably tonight. It's a firing squad

The problem is *if* Johnson has a similar skeleton in a similarly socially undistanced cupboard, and should it come to light, he would surely be obliged to go too. And Johnson being Johnson, that is not beyond the realms of probability.

Can I hear the sound of distant violins?

I'd be surprised is Boris hasn't been cheating on Carrie.

I know someone who cheated on the day of his wedding with the brides best female...friend... nothing is impossible..

I know the diametric opposite. A bride who fucked the best man on the wedding day

The human comedy is nothing if not diverse and egalitarian

Anyone offer the bridegroom with the best man.. or the bride with her matron of honour?

TheScreamingEagles said:

Matt Hancock photo prevented from trending on Twitter by anti-porn filters

Matt Hancock has been prevented from trending on Twitter due to anti-porn filters applied to suspected pornographic terms

https://inews.co.uk/news/matt-hancock-photo-prevented-from-trending-on-twitter-by-anti-porn-filters-1071913

Well, there is an enormous arse very prominent in the images.

It’s groping a woman.

Charles said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

Charles said:

rottenborough said:

Niall Paterson
@skynewsniall
·
3h
I got to hug and kiss my mum and dad last week for the first time in almost a year. Matt Hancock was one of those who told me what I could and could not do; he apparently broke the rules that he told me (literally, given my job, to my face on occasion) I had to follow.

Who has been unable to see their parents in the last several months? Unless they live abroad?

The moral indignation of the media is ridiculous. We know they are as bad as politicians when it comes to drugs, shagging around and not following rules....

Stick to the story.

I know. But I think Niall Paterson is either lying or is a bad son. But I’m wondering if someone can come up with a scenario?

We know the media have spent way too long during covid concocting extreme scenarios or going out of their way to find edge cases.

BigRich said:

Leon said:

SandyRentool said:

Leon said:

squareroot2 said:

glw said:

Mexicanpete said:

Roger said:

Anyone watching Ch4 News would bet the house on Hancock going. Probably tonight. It's a firing squad

The problem is *if* Johnson has a similar skeleton in a similarly socially undistanced cupboard, and should it come to light, he would surely be obliged to go too. And Johnson being Johnson, that is not beyond the realms of probability.

Can I hear the sound of distant violins?

I'd be surprised is Boris hasn't been cheating on Carrie.

I know someone who cheated on the day of his wedding with the brides best female...friend... nothing is impossible..

I know the diametric opposite. A bride who fucked the best man on the wedding day

The human comedy is nothing if not diverse and egalitarian

The moral of the story: Don't ask Leon to be your Best Man.

lol, but no

I have fucked a couple of bridesmaids on the wedding day, but as an usher. Isn't that what ushers and bridesmaids are meant to do? It's like an open goal

Memorably, I once sniffed coke off the bonnet of the Wedding Bentley, with a bridesmaid, that I then merrily tupped

Sigh. Now I mainly think about UFOs

Leon, as I think you are the resident expert on the China Lab Leak theory, (some would say conspiracist theorist But I'm open minded for now)

Have you seen this, an allegation that the charitable arm of Google was also funding an organisation called Eco Health Alliance that was also doing 'gain of function' resuch in animal to human viruses?

State at 6.30 in to vidio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIP-GxOLDsQ

Eco Health Alliance is Danzuck

eek said:

Sandpit said:

Leon said:

squareroot2 said:

glw said:

Mexicanpete said:

Roger said:

Anyone watching Ch4 News would bet the house on Hancock going. Probably tonight. It's a firing squad

The problem is *if* Johnson has a similar skeleton in a similarly socially undistanced cupboard, and should it come to light, he would surely be obliged to go too. And Johnson being Johnson, that is not beyond the realms of probability.

Can I hear the sound of distant violins?

I'd be surprised is Boris hasn't been cheating on Carrie.

I know someone who cheated on the day of his wedding with the brides best female...friend... nothing is impossible..

I know the diametric opposite. A bride who fucked the best man on the wedding day

The human comedy is nothing if not diverse and egalitarian

In my younger days, I worked in F&B at a golf club that did a lot of weddings. The two highlights from attending a couple of hundred weddings were:

1. The group of, err, travellers, who booked a room for 100 people but 1,000 turned up, that finished with the bar ransacked, two other events disrupted and the staff locking themselves in the cellar, as the police called us back to say they were going to be a while as they were calling in reinforcements. Six riot vans turned up to disperse the crowd.

2. The one where the husband found out about his wife shagging the best man. The groom had put an envelope on each table, with a note saying do not open until told. He stood up to make his speech, asked everyone to open the envelopes which contained photos of the wife and best man in flagrante, he thanked her father for the £25,000 that the day had cost him, and invited his family and friends to join him in leaving the venue. Which they did.

Number 2 is a day that I suspect ever guest remembers for good and bad.

Was a really wierd one, as the bride was in tears, her father angry, and about 50 guests remained who had hotels and taxis booked, and just wanted to get pissed. I think the bridal party left quite quickly, but the rest of the guests wanted a party!

Sandpit said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

Scott_xP said:

...

Quite well by the looks of the photo....

Great comment but time for him to go

Its like Cummings, the longer he stays around the more damage it does.

It would be interesting to hear Kay Burley and him arguing about their behaviour live on Sky

At least she went away for 6 months

Every minister interviewed by Burley, needs to bring up her own little problem with following the rules.

Why are you calling for Mr Hancock to resign, when you didn’t resign yourself?

Fuck you're telling us that Kay Burley is responsible for setting UK government policy? Which she subsequently ignored?

Now that is news.

Leon said:

Charles said:

Leon said:

Charles said:

rottenborough said:

Niall Paterson
@skynewsniall
·
3h
I got to hug and kiss my mum and dad last week for the first time in almost a year. Matt Hancock was one of those who told me what I could and could not do; he apparently broke the rules that he told me (literally, given my job, to my face on occasion) I had to follow.

Who has been unable to see their parents in the last several months? Unless they live abroad?

Me!

Tho it depends what you mean by "seen". I have sat on a long outdoor bench a 3m distance from my dear old Pa. I haven't hugged him or interacted normally since Xmas 2019

Does that count?

He is very old and his younger wife is recovering from cancer so they are hyper-paranoid about normal socialising

But you didn’t get to hug & kiss him last week? When there have been no meaningful change in the rules for a significant period of time

Er, no. Not sure of your point? But that might be me being dim. He lives 200 miles away and I worry that he will die without any of us hugging him again.

I am certain there are many people like him and his wife, who have been terrified into a kind of voluntary quarantine that just goes on and on.

I have decided to be more Dura Ace. Enough of this shit. Life must go on. I am double jabbed. I don't care any more

And the stats are with you...you are now more likely to be kicking the bucket from about every other thing out there, cancer, heart disease, accident in the home etc etc etc.

DavidL said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

DavidL said:

SandyRentool said:

Good to see you posting @DavidL

How are you doing?

I’ve waited all day for a scan that may now happen tomorrow. Bit frustrating but I feel much better. Got an exciting injection in the stomach to look forward to at 11. Breaks the tedium, I suppose.

Some good drugs?

Leon said:

DavidL said:

SandyRentool said:

Good to see you posting @DavidL

How are you doing?

I’ve waited all day for a scan that may now happen tomorrow. Bit frustrating but I feel much better. Got an exciting injection in the stomach to look forward to at 11. Breaks the tedium, I suppose.

When you said "blood clot" what did they mean?! Where?

Sorry to pry, just asking for a male friend in later middle age who drinks too much. He'll be very grateful for any info

Glad you are still here, old PB pal

The scan will tell but about 3 years ago now I suddenly got blood clots in both my lungs. It’s a bit dangerous because if bits of them break off and get to your heart or brain the result can be considerably disappointing.

This seems the same. We never found where the clots came from the last time. No obvious DVT or anything like it. Basically I get put on blood thinners till they dissolve.

Some speculation that a low grade infection might cause it but the mechanics are beyond me. I have a feeling these blood thinners are going to be permanent from here on.

Ah, that sounds rough. Sympathies

But it could have been worse?

Some of us on here thought you might have croaked it, TBH, the "chest pain" stuff was very ominous.

Articulate, wry, unionist Scots lawyers are at short supply on PB. Try to stay alive, if you possibly can, for the sake of the site

Neil Henderson
@hendopolis
·
4m
TELEGRAPH: ⁦
@MattHancock
⁩ faces sack if affair turns into a ‘Barnard Castle moment’ #TomorrowsPapersToday

My take on B and S. The strategic object of each of the parties was: Lab - hold, Con - gain, Lib Dem - save deposit and increase capacity in Spen, Galloway- disrupt Labour campaign. I reckon all win except Labour.

Leon said:

DavidL said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

DavidL said:

SandyRentool said:

Good to see you posting @DavidL

How are you doing?

I’ve waited all day for a scan that may now happen tomorrow. Bit frustrating but I feel much better. Got an exciting injection in the stomach to look forward to at 11. Breaks the tedium, I suppose.

Some good drugs?

Leon said:

DavidL said:

SandyRentool said:

Good to see you posting @DavidL

How are you doing?

I’ve waited all day for a scan that may now happen tomorrow. Bit frustrating but I feel much better. Got an exciting injection in the stomach to look forward to at 11. Breaks the tedium, I suppose.

When you said "blood clot" what did they mean?! Where?

Sorry to pry, just asking for a male friend in later middle age who drinks too much. He'll be very grateful for any info

Glad you are still here, old PB pal

The scan will tell but about 3 years ago now I suddenly got blood clots in both my lungs. It’s a bit dangerous because if bits of them break off and get to your heart or brain the result can be considerably disappointing.

This seems the same. We never found where the clots came from the last time. No obvious DVT or anything like it. Basically I get put on blood thinners till they dissolve.

Some speculation that a low grade infection might cause it but the mechanics are beyond me. I have a feeling these blood thinners are going to be permanent from here on.

Ah, that sounds rough. Sympathies

But it could have been worse?

Some of us on here thought you might have croaked it, TBH, the "chest pain" stuff was very ominous.

Articulate, wry, unionist Scots lawyers are at short supply on PB. Try to stay alive, if you possibly can, for the sake of the site

And the feeing opportunities, natch.

eek said:

Remember when the Ever Green blocked the Suez Canal for a week. Well it's not moved very far as people argue over $1bn in salvage fees.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/ever-given-global-supply-chain#intcid=_wired-uk-right-rail_d5c11f01-6e5c-422e-964c-108410d3bae6_popular4-1

The ship’s insurers have basically said to the Egyptians that they can keep the damn boat, because it’s not worth a fraction of what they’re trying to claim as damages.

rottenborough said:

Neil Henderson
@hendopolis
·
4m
TELEGRAPH: ⁦
@MattHancock
⁩ faces sack if affair turns into a ‘Barnard Castle moment’ #TomorrowsPapersToday

How could it not? This one is far more interesting, even if Cummings was more dislikable.

DavidL said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

DavidL said:

SandyRentool said:

Good to see you posting @DavidL

How are you doing?

I’ve waited all day for a scan that may now happen tomorrow. Bit frustrating but I feel much better. Got an exciting injection in the stomach to look forward to at 11. Breaks the tedium, I suppose.

Some good drugs?

Leon said:

DavidL said:

SandyRentool said:

Good to see you posting @DavidL

How are you doing?

I’ve waited all day for a scan that may now happen tomorrow. Bit frustrating but I feel much better. Got an exciting injection in the stomach to look forward to at 11. Breaks the tedium, I suppose.

When you said "blood clot" what did they mean?! Where?

Sorry to pry, just asking for a male friend in later middle age who drinks too much. He'll be very grateful for any info

Glad you are still here, old PB pal

The scan will tell but about 3 years ago now I suddenly got blood clots in both my lungs. It’s a bit dangerous because if bits of them break off and get to your heart or brain the result can be considerably disappointing.

This seems the same. We never found where the clots came from the last time. No obvious DVT or anything like it. Basically I get put on blood thinners till they dissolve.

Some speculation that a low grade infection might cause it but the mechanics are beyond me. I have a feeling these blood thinners are going to be permanent from here on.

May the good Lord protect you. V sorry to hear you are having a tough time.

Sandpit said:

eek said:

Remember when the Ever Green blocked the Suez Canal for a week. Well it's not moved very far as people argue over $1bn in salvage fees.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/ever-given-global-supply-chain#intcid=_wired-uk-right-rail_d5c11f01-6e5c-422e-964c-108410d3bae6_popular4-1

The ship’s insurers have basically said to the Egyptians that they can keep the damn boat, because it’s not worth a fraction of what they’re trying to claim as damages.

That covers the excess but it still leaves the rest of the money to be found - and that money will be coming from everyone including the people with containers on the ship.

International Maritime law is everyone's responsible and will pay their bit.

Apparently the UAP report is a letdown. No little green men.

BigRich said:

Sandpit said:

Leon said:

squareroot2 said:

glw said:

Mexicanpete said:

Roger said:

Anyone watching Ch4 News would bet the house on Hancock going. Probably tonight. It's a firing squad

The problem is *if* Johnson has a similar skeleton in a similarly socially undistanced cupboard, and should it come to light, he would surely be obliged to go too. And Johnson being Johnson, that is not beyond the realms of probability.

Can I hear the sound of distant violins?

I'd be surprised is Boris hasn't been cheating on Carrie.

I know someone who cheated on the day of his wedding with the brides best female...friend... nothing is impossible..

I know the diametric opposite. A bride who fucked the best man on the wedding day

The human comedy is nothing if not diverse and egalitarian

In my younger days, I worked in F&B at a golf club that did a lot of weddings. The two highlights from attending a couple of hundred weddings were:

1. The group of, err, travellers, who booked a room for 100 people but 1,000 turned up, that finished with the bar ransacked, two other events disrupted and the staff locking themselves in the cellar, as the police called us back to say they were going to be a while as they were calling in reinforcements. Six riot vans turned up to disperse the crowd.

2. The one where the husband found out about his wife shagging the best man. The groom had put an envelope on each table, with a note saying do not open until told. He stood up to make his speech, asked everyone to open the envelopes which contained photos of the wife and best man in flagrante, he thanked her father for the £25,000 that the day had cost him, and invited his family and friends to join him in leaving the venue. Which they did.

The second sounds like a dramatic way of doing it, but did this not mean that they where legally marred, would it not have been, easier/safer to revel before? the ceremony, otherwise was he not liable to lose half of evthing he owns?

or can the mirage be annulled in such circumstances?

Depends who has the money - if she has money and he was poor he could get half of what she owned.

rottenborough said:

do we know who is funding galloway?

novara media says he has ten full time organizers in batley.

Full time organisers could still be unpaid volatiers?

The long-awaited UAP report is apparently out.



“Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, w/out discernable means of propulsion. In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed RF energy associated w/ UAP sightings.”

beentheredonethat said:

Apparently the UAP report is a letdown. No little green men.

I heard they were orange, and not little, but bigly.

moonshine said:

WhisperingOracle said:

The long-awaited UAP report is apparently out.



“Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, w/out discernable means of propulsion. In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed RF energy associated w/ UAP sightings.”

"We currenly lack data to indicate any UAP are part of a foreign collection program or indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary"

Or a branch of their own government.

eek said:

Sandpit said:

eek said:

Remember when the Ever Green blocked the Suez Canal for a week. Well it's not moved very far as people argue over $1bn in salvage fees.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/ever-given-global-supply-chain#intcid=_wired-uk-right-rail_d5c11f01-6e5c-422e-964c-108410d3bae6_popular4-1

The ship’s insurers have basically said to the Egyptians that they can keep the damn boat, because it’s not worth a fraction of what they’re trying to claim as damages.

That covers the excess but it still leaves the rest of the money to be found - and that money will be coming from everyone including the people with containers on the ship.

International Maritime law is everyone's responsible and will pay their bit.

Yes, maritime law is a little weird in that context.

The problem is that, in the minds of the insurers of “Ever Given”, all the ships that were delayed eventually got through, and the Egyptian government which runs the canal haven’t actually lost any money.

There were a lot of delays to ships sailing through the canal, but those losses didn’t accrue to the Egyptians, who seem to be making up a number and doubling it. Their actual losses are limited to the canal fees from a few ships that diverted around Africa.

moonshine said:

moonshine said:

WhisperingOracle said:

The long-awaited UAP report is apparently out.



“Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, w/out discernable means of propulsion. In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed RF energy associated w/ UAP sightings.”

"We currenly lack data to indicate any UAP are part of a foreign collection program or indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary"

Our analysis of the data supports the construct that if and when individual UAP incidents are resolved they will fall into one of five potential explanatory categories: airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, USG or U.S. industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and a catchall “other” bin.

Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers, and visual observation.

Sandpit said:

eek said:

Sandpit said:

Leon said:

squareroot2 said:

glw said:

Mexicanpete said:

Roger said:

Anyone watching Ch4 News would bet the house on Hancock going. Probably tonight. It's a firing squad

The problem is *if* Johnson has a similar skeleton in a similarly socially undistanced cupboard, and should it come to light, he would surely be obliged to go too. And Johnson being Johnson, that is not beyond the realms of probability.

Can I hear the sound of distant violins?

I'd be surprised is Boris hasn't been cheating on Carrie.

I know someone who cheated on the day of his wedding with the brides best female...friend... nothing is impossible..

I know the diametric opposite. A bride who fucked the best man on the wedding day

The human comedy is nothing if not diverse and egalitarian

In my younger days, I worked in F&B at a golf club that did a lot of weddings. The two highlights from attending a couple of hundred weddings were:

1. The group of, err, travellers, who booked a room for 100 people but 1,000 turned up, that finished with the bar ransacked, two other events disrupted and the staff locking themselves in the cellar, as the police called us back to say they were going to be a while as they were calling in reinforcements. Six riot vans turned up to disperse the crowd.

2. The one where the husband found out about his wife shagging the best man. The groom had put an envelope on each table, with a note saying do not open until told. He stood up to make his speech, asked everyone to open the envelopes which contained photos of the wife and best man in flagrante, he thanked her father for the £25,000 that the day had cost him, and invited his family and friends to join him in leaving the venue. Which they did.

Number 2 is a day that I suspect ever guest remembers for good and bad.

Was a really wierd one, as the bride was in tears, her father angry, and about 50 guests remained who had hotels and taxis booked, and just wanted to get pissed. I think the bridal party left quite quickly, but the rest of the guests wanted a party!

Why would the groom go through with the wedding though?

Charles said:

Sandpit said:

eek said:

Sandpit said:

Leon said:

squareroot2 said:

glw said:

Mexicanpete said:

Roger said:

Anyone watching Ch4 News would bet the house on Hancock going. Probably tonight. It's a firing squad

The problem is *if* Johnson has a similar skeleton in a similarly socially undistanced cupboard, and should it come to light, he would surely be obliged to go too. And Johnson being Johnson, that is not beyond the realms of probability.

Can I hear the sound of distant violins?

I'd be surprised is Boris hasn't been cheating on Carrie.

I know someone who cheated on the day of his wedding with the brides best female...friend... nothing is impossible..

I know the diametric opposite. A bride who fucked the best man on the wedding day

The human comedy is nothing if not diverse and egalitarian

In my younger days, I worked in F&B at a golf club that did a lot of weddings. The two highlights from attending a couple of hundred weddings were:

1. The group of, err, travellers, who booked a room for 100 people but 1,000 turned up, that finished with the bar ransacked, two other events disrupted and the staff locking themselves in the cellar, as the police called us back to say they were going to be a while as they were calling in reinforcements. Six riot vans turned up to disperse the crowd.

2. The one where the husband found out about his wife shagging the best man. The groom had put an envelope on each table, with a note saying do not open until told. He stood up to make his speech, asked everyone to open the envelopes which contained photos of the wife and best man in flagrante, he thanked her father for the £25,000 that the day had cost him, and invited his family and friends to join him in leaving the venue. Which they did.

Number 2 is a day that I suspect ever guest remembers for good and bad.

Was a really wierd one, as the bride was in tears, her father angry, and about 50 guests remained who had hotels and taxis booked, and just wanted to get pissed. I think the bridal party left quite quickly, but the rest of the guests wanted a party!

Why would the groom go through with the wedding though?

Because the bride’s father was paying for it.

Charles said:

Sandpit said:

eek said:

Sandpit said:

Leon said:

squareroot2 said:

glw said:

Mexicanpete said:

Roger said:

Anyone watching Ch4 News would bet the house on Hancock going. Probably tonight. It's a firing squad

The problem is *if* Johnson has a similar skeleton in a similarly socially undistanced cupboard, and should it come to light, he would surely be obliged to go too. And Johnson being Johnson, that is not beyond the realms of probability.

Can I hear the sound of distant violins?

I'd be surprised is Boris hasn't been cheating on Carrie.

I know someone who cheated on the day of his wedding with the brides best female...friend... nothing is impossible..

I know the diametric opposite. A bride who fucked the best man on the wedding day

The human comedy is nothing if not diverse and egalitarian

In my younger days, I worked in F&B at a golf club that did a lot of weddings. The two highlights from attending a couple of hundred weddings were:

1. The group of, err, travellers, who booked a room for 100 people but 1,000 turned up, that finished with the bar ransacked, two other events disrupted and the staff locking themselves in the cellar, as the police called us back to say they were going to be a while as they were calling in reinforcements. Six riot vans turned up to disperse the crowd.

2. The one where the husband found out about his wife shagging the best man. The groom had put an envelope on each table, with a note saying do not open until told. He stood up to make his speech, asked everyone to open the envelopes which contained photos of the wife and best man in flagrante, he thanked her father for the £25,000 that the day had cost him, and invited his family and friends to join him in leaving the venue. Which they did.

Number 2 is a day that I suspect ever guest remembers for good and bad.

Was a really wierd one, as the bride was in tears, her father angry, and about 50 guests remained who had hotels and taxis booked, and just wanted to get pissed. I think the bridal party left quite quickly, but the rest of the guests wanted a party!

Why would the groom go through with the wedding though?

That's my thoughts, if you what the big dramatic moment, hand out the envelops at the church and then ask them to open them, as the bride is at the back door about to walk up. or something like that.

Her Dad will have still paid for everything by that point. and saves a lot of hustle afterwards

Brilliantly understated paragraph

"Other: Although most of the UAP described in our dataset probably remain unidentified due to
limited data or challenges to collection processing or analysis, we may require additional
scientific knowledge to successfully collect on, analyze and characterize some of them. We
would group such objects in this category pending scientific advances that allowed us to better
understand them. The UAPTF intends to focus additional analysis on the small number of cases
where a UAP appeared to display unusual flight characteristics or signature management"

We may require additional scientific knowledge to successfully characterize some of them


ie We are not as smart as ET

BigRich said:

Charles said:

Sandpit said:

eek said:

Sandpit said:

Leon said:

squareroot2 said:

glw said:

Mexicanpete said:

Roger said:

Anyone watching Ch4 News would bet the house on Hancock going. Probably tonight. It's a firing squad

The problem is *if* Johnson has a similar skeleton in a similarly socially undistanced cupboard, and should it come to light, he would surely be obliged to go too. And Johnson being Johnson, that is not beyond the realms of probability.

Can I hear the sound of distant violins?

I'd be surprised is Boris hasn't been cheating on Carrie.

I know someone who cheated on the day of his wedding with the brides best female...friend... nothing is impossible..

I know the diametric opposite. A bride who fucked the best man on the wedding day

The human comedy is nothing if not diverse and egalitarian

In my younger days, I worked in F&B at a golf club that did a lot of weddings. The two highlights from attending a couple of hundred weddings were:

1. The group of, err, travellers, who booked a room for 100 people but 1,000 turned up, that finished with the bar ransacked, two other events disrupted and the staff locking themselves in the cellar, as the police called us back to say they were going to be a while as they were calling in reinforcements. Six riot vans turned up to disperse the crowd.

2. The one where the husband found out about his wife shagging the best man. The groom had put an envelope on each table, with a note saying do not open until told. He stood up to make his speech, asked everyone to open the envelopes which contained photos of the wife and best man in flagrante, he thanked her father for the £25,000 that the day had cost him, and invited his family and friends to join him in leaving the venue. Which they did.

Number 2 is a day that I suspect ever guest remembers for good and bad.

Was a really wierd one, as the bride was in tears, her father angry, and about 50 guests remained who had hotels and taxis booked, and just wanted to get pissed. I think the bridal party left quite quickly, but the rest of the guests wanted a party!

Why would the groom go through with the wedding though?

That's my thoughts, if you what the big dramatic moment, hand out the envelops at the church and then ask them to open them, as the bride is at the back door about to walk up. or something like that.

Her Dad will have still paid for everything by that point. and saves a lot of hustle afterwards

Yeah, maybe it would have been better to do it in the church.

But if he had done it that way, the waiter at the reception wouldn’t be telling the story 25 years later...

beentheredonethat said:

Apparently the UAP report is a letdown. No little green men.

The lizards got there first I guess

FrancisUrquhart said:

Leon said:

Charles said:

Leon said:

Charles said:

rottenborough said:

Niall Paterson
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I got to hug and kiss my mum and dad last week for the first time in almost a year. Matt Hancock was one of those who told me what I could and could not do; he apparently broke the rules that he told me (literally, given my job, to my face on occasion) I had to follow.

Who has been unable to see their parents in the last several months? Unless they live abroad?

Me!

Tho it depends what you mean by "seen". I have sat on a long outdoor bench a 3m distance from my dear old Pa. I haven't hugged him or interacted normally since Xmas 2019

Does that count?

He is very old and his younger wife is recovering from cancer so they are hyper-paranoid about normal socialising

But you didn’t get to hug & kiss him last week? When there have been no meaningful change in the rules for a significant period of time

Er, no. Not sure of your point? But that might be me being dim. He lives 200 miles away and I worry that he will die without any of us hugging him again.

I am certain there are many people like him and his wife, who have been terrified into a kind of voluntary quarantine that just goes on and on.

I have decided to be more Dura Ace. Enough of this shit. Life must go on. I am double jabbed. I don't care any more

And the stats are with you...you are now more likely to be kicking the bucket from about every other thing out there, cancer, heart disease, accident in the home etc etc etc.

I'm in that boat too.
Met a friend today. We defiantly elected to greet each other with a handshake. Felt vaguely thrilling.

Christ, hadn’t seen the full sexy-sexy time vid till now.

https://twitter.com/ladyhaja/status/1408523194596737026?s=21

Floater said:

beentheredonethat said:

Apparently the UAP report is a letdown. No little green men.

I thought it was interesting - most of them are classified as physical in nature

"Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a
majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared,
electro-optical, weapon seekers, and visual observation."

Far too early to say what they are

America has by far the most advanced military in the world. If they don't what they are, then they are out of this world.

So the UAP report is Project Blue Book redux then?

This mash-up between Hancock fondling a woman's bottom and UFOs is causing all sorts of strange mental imagery.

Theuniondivvie said:

Christ, hadn’t seen the full sexy-sexy time vid till now.

https://twitter.com/ladyhaja/status/1408523194596737026?s=21

Oh dear, in his office?

Lots of questions as to how that video got to a newspaper.