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I suspect that if the EU had been informed of this through diplomatic channels as new information emerged, a joint response could have been formulated. Maybe we could have even offered to help other countries get up to speed on tracking the spread. But instead we've spent 4 years pissing down diplomatic channels, and yelling gently caress you we're the best. And when there actually does turn out to be something we're the best at, we beat our chests about how great we are instead of using it to help. No wonder they took the first chance they got to pull up the drawbridge. e: catte Tarnop fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Dec 22, 2020 |
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Even if it does turn out to be 10x more dangerous imagine how it would have been briefed if it had happened to coincide with Eat Out to Help Out or Vaccine Day etc. bottom of page 94, "it doesn't help anyone to speculate" etc. Because there was bad news to be delivered we instead got "reports that the dead are returning to life are unverified at this time".
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# ? Dec 22, 2020 14:21 |
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Bobstar posted:Plus the other countries are looking at their calendars and going "eh, we were going to put the barriers up in 8 days anyway" Implementing visa control for Brits is a very far cry from preventing all travel, for Brits and non-brits
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gonadic io posted:Implementing visa control for Brits is a very far cry from preventing all travel, for Brits and non-brits That was mostly a joke, though the truck chaos is to some extent just a bit early.
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# ? Dec 22, 2020 14:27 |
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This government get's Brits banned from 50 countries and counting, kills probably over 100k people, destroys the economy and completely fucks up Brexit and all associated diplomacy and literally cancels Christmas. AHEAD IN THE POLLS!
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# ? Dec 22, 2020 14:42 |
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And we don't even get to enjoy Alan Rickman being the one doing it all
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# ? Dec 22, 2020 14:45 |
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Looks like plague Island is open for business https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1341372906119553024?s=19
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# ? Dec 22, 2020 14:59 |
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Tell that to the Post Office. In addition, people are getting turned away if they want to send stuff to the US.
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Tarnop posted:And when there actually does turn out to be something we're the best at, we beat our chests about how great we are instead of using it to help. Which is somewhat amusing. Last time I checked the stats Australia, New Zealand, and Iceland had a greater proportion of cases sequenced.
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Charisma chat: I’ve only met one MP and that was Angela Smith when she was briefly a CUK. She was doing some weird publicity thing with a board you stuck stickers on indicating whether you liked Brexit or not. I went and had a conversation with her and she was actually one the most charmless, bland, easily annoyed people I’d ever met. Gentle ribbing about CUK was met with poorly concealed grimacing fury, so I decided to prod a bit further and give her poo poo for all kinds of issues and she basically got into a huff and walked off lol. Her husband was much better at it and maintained a calm good humour through it all.
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Bobstar posted:Plus the other countries are looking at their calendars and going "eh, we were going to put the barriers up in 8 days anyway" If I were a cynic I would say that the uk gov's actions were entirely intentional and that they wanted to create this chaotic situation so that they can blame covid instead of brexit when everything goes to hell on Jan 1st
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Flayer posted:This government get's Brits banned from 50 countries and counting, kills probably over 100k people, destroys the economy and completely fucks up Brexit and all associated diplomacy and literally cancels Christmas. AHEAD IN THE POLLS! God it's so loving good to have the grown ups in charge.
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kyojin posted:If I were a cynic I would say that the uk gov's actions were entirely intentional and that they wanted to create this chaotic situation so that they can blame covid instead of brexit when everything goes to hell on Jan 1st Nah they don't think as far as 10 days ahead. It was entirely about shifting blame by pointing at something new an unforeseeable as the reason they had to cancel Christmas
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kyojin posted:If I were a cynic I would say that the uk gov's actions were entirely intentional and that they wanted to create this chaotic situation so that they can blame covid instead of brexit when everything goes to hell on Jan 1st Wouldn't it be comforting to believe the government had a plan at the moment.
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I've seen an MP on Tinder, which is sort of the same, if you think about it.
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BizarroAzrael posted:I've seen an MP on Tinder, which is sort of the same, if you think about it. Did you match? Please tell me you matched.
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Great stuff, excellent all round. https://twitter.com/PeterAdamSmith/status/1341386357516754945 keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Dec 22, 2020 |
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Competent world level 1 - screening at all ports from February, bans on flights from high risk areas, short tightly focused lockdowns, mandatory masks and other PPE UK level 4 - Homeware stores & garden centres will now close.
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# ? Dec 22, 2020 15:31 |
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Close the loving schools and offices you cowards
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Well, just tried to go to my local ASDA. Massive queue,, as long as I ever saw in March, only it was even more actual people because noone was social distancing. So I crossed the street and went to Iceland instead which was merely regular busy. At least I got my Christmas oranges.
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Trip report: Home Bargains. Went about 20 mins ago. Almost empty. Apart from kids' toys, almost everything else except food roped off. Got mum a £1 bottle of wine (small one obviously - she can't drink much without getting entirely slaughtered and I have an idea one of my brothers has sent her a hamper). The thing I am planning to get her from Ikea is currently unavailable for home delivery (and has been for weeks) so will have to get it when it finally does reappear. Also bought a large tub of Vit C + Vit D capsules. (150 for £3.99) - they're 'therapeutic' doses ie about 3x RDA so I figure they'll last a year if I take one every 2-3 days. I do have some general multivits as well. Waitrose later for some particular toiletries items unavailable elsewhere (including online!)
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feedmegin posted:Well, just tried to go to my local ASDA. Massive queue,, as long as I ever saw in March, only it was even more actual people because noone was social distancing. Makes sure you stick some tin foil and candles on them to annoy Guavanaut.
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feedmegin posted:At least I got my Christmas oranges.
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Nowhere is safe from the virus anymore: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/antarctica-covid-coronavirus-outbreak-b1777580.html quote:
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Miftan posted:Makes sure you stick some tin foil and candles on them to annoy Guavanaut. Or mix it with some chocolate...somehow...to annoy Miftan (and me)
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Guavanaut posted:And he received the oranges from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded idol. Then they said, “This is your god, O England, that brought you out of the land of Europe!” Borange
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I've started (posting about PC game giveaways), so I'll finish: Brigador is free on GOG today. I don't know much about the game but the soundtrack is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAzIuxldPhE (you get the soundtrack as an extra with the game) Convex fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Dec 22, 2020 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Trip report: Home Bargains. The Vit D (D3 i assume) takes seven days from ingestion till you get any benefit, the quicker version is hospital use only via injection. I'm prescribed D3 myself for low D level (3200iu per day plus i take an additional 4000iu (that i bought) at this time of year), i definitely want a good immune system this year.
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Maybe my timing was just fortunate, but i swear that the Big Tesco near me in Midlothian yesterday was Christmas busy but not stock running out busy. Is the extra supermarket busyness an England thing or are other parts of Scotland seeing it too? The nearby Morrisons had a queue out the door but i've seen it like that for months so assumed they were just being hyper diligent with the number of people simultaneously inside in a way that Tesco arent. Kin fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Dec 22, 2020 |
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kyojin posted:Borange
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Just Another Lurker posted:The Vit D (D3 i assume) takes seven days from ingestion till you get any benefit, the quicker version is hospital use only via injection. Yeah I have some D3 2000iu which I was taking one a day from clocks back to clocks forward but I've been somewhat slack of late. I discovered in 2013 when I had a particular experience of having to return to the UK for 3 months in November to 24/7 pouring rain, staying somewhere with dense tree cover so it was dark, gloomy, miserable and wet for weeks on end, and after 360 days of sunshine a year for 6 years, I really went into a depression (other factors involved too). Started taking D3 and within 5 days really noticed a positive difference. I don't eat a lot of fruit as I find it very bitter, but my 'emergency preparedness rations' include a small long-life fruit in juice pack for every day ('tropical fruit' and 'peaches' - only two types available). But if there are to be shortages best to be covered. Also, I have high blood pressure apparently (had a 'now we are 60 MOT' at the docs a few weeks ago) and I'm not taking pills because last time I had it in 2007, I was given pills and they made me feel really bad so I flushed them down the loo and in fact blood pressure went right down a couple of months after chucking in my job and without losing weight, changing diet or exercising particularly more. But I digress. I read that Vitamin C 'may' contribute to reduction in blood pressure so another reason to take it.
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My suspicion is that it'll be places that have suddenly gone into T4 which are having trouble - essentially where people were expecting to be going to relatives for christmas but are now having to do a full christmas shop themselves. And as so much of our media coverage is biased towards London, that's the picture that's being painted.
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RichardA posted:Which is somewhat amusing. Last time I checked the stats Australia, New Zealand, and Iceland had a greater proportion of cases sequenced. Given the lot of them combined have had less cases, total, than we were getting per day *in the summer lull*, that's not that hard. (This isn't a knock on them, it's very much on us making the best of being the petri dish of the world)
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Jakabite posted:Charisma chat: I’ve only met one MP and that was Angela Smith when she was briefly a CUK. She was doing some weird publicity thing with a board you stuck stickers on indicating whether you liked Brexit or not. I went and had a conversation with her and she was actually one the most charmless, bland, easily annoyed people I’d ever met. Gentle ribbing about CUK was met with poorly concealed grimacing fury, so I decided to prod a bit further and give her poo poo for all kinds of issues and she basically got into a huff and walked off lol. Her husband was much better at it and maintained a calm good humour through it all. please go into more details about the gentle ribbing
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The (availability of) citrus fruit demonstrates God's love for (the rest of) the world
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Ribbed, for her Displeasure.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Trip report: Home Bargains. lightweight mum buddy "i bloody love you, you know" yes mum lets just get you down these three steps, it should only take about 45 minutes
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Convex posted:I've started (posting about PC game giveaways), so I'll finish: Brigador is free on GOG today. I don't know much about the game but the soundtrack is
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Gort posted:Close the loving schools and offices you cowards “Who the gently caress keeps screaming at me to close the schools? Show yourself, coward, I’ll never stop teaching children about the Mitochondria!”
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"In cases of Long Covid, the mitochondria is the Northern Powerhouse of the cell."
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