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stev posted:The older I get the more I think organised gambling should be illegal. Problem is that like all vices it then gets pushed underground
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This is really weird but I think I might have seen two of my favourite Youtubers within 24 hours of each other. Yesterday I thought I saw Jago Hazzard (in that a guy who looks a lot like I imagine he looks was filming with a mobile phone near Lewisham station) and today I'm 99.99% certain I saw Tom Scott just outside Canary Wharf (only 99.99% because he was wearing a mask, but from the nose up it looked exactly like him and he was even wearing that same maroon t-shirt). This is the nearest I get to celebrity gossip and goddamnit I had to share it with *somebody*.
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Jul 8, 2021 17:08
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Municipal casinos.
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Jul 8, 2021 17:08
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Barry Foster posted:Problem is that like all vices it then gets pushed underground True. At the very least it should be treated the same as cigarettes - no advertising and massive warnings about the mental and financial devastation it causes. The whole "If the fun stops" thing is just enabling at this point.
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Jul 8, 2021 17:15
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Barry Foster posted:Shame really, that would've really owned the clearly super anxious guy I don’t give a gently caress how anxious you are, you don’t abuse teenage wait staff for no reason when you could have had the order brought to your car,
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Jul 8, 2021 17:20
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Guavanaut posted:Municipal casinos. Municipal pubs were a thing that was actually proposed back in the day
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Jul 8, 2021 17:20
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ThomasPaine posted:who knew 25% of this stupid country just wants to close all the nightclubs down forever, very normal attitude ...that took me back 
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Jul 8, 2021 17:23
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ThomasPaine posted:I had a fiver on a draw in the England-Denmark game and won just under twenty quid then stupidly chucked it all on one of those online wheel of fortune games the bookies have and turned it into £600, good day. I'm not sure whether this is an argument for casinos because that was pretty sick, or against them because now I definitely think I can magic money out of nothing and will probably blow all my cash trying to repeat the success after a few pints The beauty of gambling and why it's so dangerous. Win? That was easy. I can win more! Lose? I'm sure to win next time. It's ready to pay out! I'm glad I made a good chunk off bookies with matched betting before it turned garbage. They're a terrible lot.
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Jul 8, 2021 17:39
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LOL Source: heil
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Jul 8, 2021 17:44
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The only nightclubs I will allow to stay open: - 24/7 hour german techno ones. That is all.
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Jul 8, 2021 17:49
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of course boomers want to close down nightclubs, they're places where people who aren't them go to have fun
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Jul 8, 2021 17:50
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That is also the reasoning I use for why people going other places should have as much difficulty as possible.
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Jul 8, 2021 17:53
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stev posted:True. At the very least it should be treated the same as cigarettes - no advertising and massive warnings about the mental and financial devastation it causes. "if the fun stops" is just advertising. It implies it's fun, and obviously everyone thinks they'll stop if it stops being fun. It's stupid as hell.
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Jul 8, 2021 18:04
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the first lockdown really was a paradise for busybodies
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Jul 8, 2021 18:13
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Danger - Octopus! posted:I used to live really near a 24 hour supermarket and honestly unless you needed to buy stuff they could only sell during regular hours i.e alcohol, then going shopping really late or in the very early morning was great if it fit with work/lifestyle. Just peace and quiet, and no messing around with queues. Loved it. When i was working i loved doing my shopping after nightshift, 7:30 and nobody but shelfstackers and a few like minded shoppers. For the first three months of the covid restrictions i got to drive on practically empty roads when they used to be crowded man that was relaxing.
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Jul 8, 2021 18:15
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Miftan posted:"if the fun stops" is just advertising. It implies it's fun, and obviously everyone thinks they'll stop if it stops being fun. It's stupid as hell. "We told him to stop and yet he insisted on playing after the fun had stopped and how he's lost his house. Oh well.  "
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Jul 8, 2021 18:18
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It’s not boomers who want nightclubs and curfews, it’s vaccine luddites.
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Jul 8, 2021 18:19
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Julio Cruz posted:of course boomers want to close down nightclubs, they're places where people who aren't them go to have fun so does this thread think it's all going to poo poo again or not? Make your loving mind up. If the hospitals are getting flooded again, which they are, then yeah maybe you should close the nightclubs as well as lots of other things. Christ your loving stupid.
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Jul 8, 2021 18:28
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Regarde Aduck posted:so does this thread think it's all going to poo poo again or not? Make your loving mind up. It's almost like this thread has different people with different opinions!
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Jul 8, 2021 18:29
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Regarde Aduck posted:
Not really e: for context we're on an average of around 200k new cases per week atm, which is around the same as we had in mid-December. By contrast we're on around 450 daily hospital admissions now, while back then we were getting close to 2000. I'll take those numbers, 3/4 fewer admissions means we're nowhere close to capacity, and that's before you even get started on the argument that people are now being admitted for precautionary reasons more than they were when things were looking really desperate. Stop being such a doomer. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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Jul 8, 2021 18:31
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Regarde Aduck posted:so does this thread think it's all going to poo poo again or not? Make your loving mind up. Correct me if I'm wrong but the point of the survey was life 'after' covid (whenever and whatever that means) Edit yes it is about 'permanent' restrictions, I went back and checked
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Jul 8, 2021 18:33
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learnincurve posted:It’s not boomers who want nightclubs and curfews, it’s vaccine luddites. Regarde Aduck posted:so does this thread think it's all going to poo poo again or not? Make your loving mind up. ThomasPaine posted:Not really
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Jul 8, 2021 18:35
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I'm honestly not sure if things are going to poo poo or not. Sure, numbers are shooting up right now, but with 90%+ of the population having antibodies from either vaccinations or already having had Covid, how many people are there left to infect? I was looking at scientific projections of the current trends earlier on today and, as they were on a range between: "perfectly fine" and "perfectly awful", that wasn't much help either.
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Jul 8, 2021 18:36
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This is the view from a nurse I know: Which doesn't seem promising.
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Jul 8, 2021 18:42
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Regarde Aduck posted:so does this thread think it's all going to poo poo again or not? Make your loving mind up. other people have already pointed out this is about permanent closure of nightclubs, so I'll just highlight this: Regarde Aduck posted:Christ your loving stupid. 
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Jul 8, 2021 18:44
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Guavanaut posted:A bunch are going into black alert though. Yeah, but that's often to do with staff isolating and not being able to cover elective surgeries etc with the numbers, not a lack of material beds and resources. It's bad, but it's manageable with the right response. Also one of the two affected hospitals is a tiny, tiny place with barely 200 beds in Elgin, so it doesn't take much to overwhelm. It's bad obviously, but it doesn't reflect a nationwide crisis in the same way it did over winter. Major population centres are by and large coping. Doctor_Fruitbat posted:This is the view from a nurse I know: I am not trying to be an rear end in a top hat and I know things are hard and scary for frontline healthcare workers, but it is very important to recognise that very few nurses are either epidemiologists or virologists. Same goes for most doctors. I know quite a few of these people and many of them are also extremely full of themselves and a good number are actually quite dumb outside of their niche, so I certainly wouldn't be taking any doomsaying they come out with any more seriously than anyone else. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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Jul 8, 2021 18:46
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I feel like we should know how exponential growth works at this point. Saying it's fine now is saying very little at all.
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Jul 8, 2021 18:50
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mrpwase posted:My college at Lancaster Uni was Pendle, which just meant more witches at halloween parties than you might otherwise expect. In my own Uni days I was informed by my Cartmel brethren via a popular campus chant that Pendle take it up the arse. To which my response was generally "good for them." Ah, the casual homophobia of the mid-late 00s. Heady days.
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Jul 8, 2021 18:54
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OwlFancier posted:I feel like we should know how exponential growth works at this point. Saying it's fine now is saying very little at all.
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Jul 8, 2021 18:58
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ThomasPaine posted:
I currently care for young people with special needs and the greatest lesson I ever learned was when I met a ward sister on my first week who, and I poo poo you not, looked at the lad I was sitting next to and said “they are just like normal children really” I looked at her agog and then quietly told the specialist who immediately went very loudly ballistic at her on the ward. The lesson learned was “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”
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Jul 8, 2021 18:59
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OwlFancier posted:I feel like we should know how exponential growth works at this point. Saying it's fine now is saying very little at all. Yeah. Things are getting worse fast. We shouldn't wait until things are hosed to take action, that's how we got hundreds of thousands of dead in the first place.
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Jul 8, 2021 19:00
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sebzilla posted:In my own Uni days I was informed by my Cartmel brethren via a popular campus chant that Pendle take it up the arse. To which my response was generally "good for them." Do today's young teenagers still call everyone and everything gay? Or would they get shut down by their "woke" classmates? I have no connection to today's youth, so I'm wondering how much it's changed in the last 20 years.
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Jul 8, 2021 19:02
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average case numbers are actually beginning to level off slightly
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Jul 8, 2021 19:02
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Guavanaut posted:A bunch are going into black alert though. Nurse friend told me that Brighton are clearing down ITU wards in preparation.
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Jul 8, 2021 19:03
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IMO we should have imposed a full stay at home lockdown a year ago, and enforced hotel managed quarantine for everyone entering the country. We should also have co-ordinated this with our allies in the EU and NATO to ensure similar restrictions abroad as Covid is a legitimate national security issue for both blocs. If this had been done we could probably have been running more or less normally for the past 12 months. If there are any lessons to be learned, its that you just can't half arse a pandemic, and allow polticians to do cost/benefit decision making based on the economy and whims of capital. We should also be locking down now, and vaccinating children. edit: And I say this very much as someone who is normally of the opinon that the police are scum and libs should be marched to the nearest wall. keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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Jul 8, 2021 19:08
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So Mission Accomplished has driven down vaccine take-up amongst the younger ages https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/vaccine-uptake-coronavirus-england-near-halves-mixed-messages-manchester-sheffield-19-july I joined the 2nd AZ crowd this afternoon.
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Jul 8, 2021 19:17
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 He presumably wrote this because he thinks it shows him in a favorable light? quote:Rupert Matthews is the Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire and Rutland.
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Jul 8, 2021 19:22
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e: ^^^^ lmao what a nerdsebzilla posted:Ah, the casual homophobia of the mid-late 00s. Heady days. Borrovan fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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Jul 8, 2021 19:24
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ThomasPaine posted:I remember walking past one of those Evening Standard stands in London in March during the rush hour crowds and all the papers had the headline 'VIRUS MAY THREATEN BRITAIN' or something along those lines while thousands of people were marching past in a scrum and oh boy did it feel like the opening scenes of a disaster film, funny to look back on Ir was wierd going back to the office in mid-April and seeing everyone's calenders left on the day they stopped going in.
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Jul 8, 2021 19:31
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Apraxin posted:
So how many times a day do you think he has a wank in the office?
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