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goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe
"Match the NHS's best vaccination day" - that was the opening up to under-30s when they used six football stadiums as well as having the really big centres running at full pace, there is literally no way that they can do that at such short notice.

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happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
This was so he can go on holiday early, wasn't it.

Skull Servant
Oct 25, 2009

I got double jabbed in ROI before I moved to England in October. After Boris' announcement, I am in the timeframe to get boosted. If I register with a GP, with my vax details transfer over? Or am I just going to have to wait until Ireland opened up the scheme and travel back?

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018
Johnson officially downgrading Omicron from a tsunami to a tidal wave, that's a relief

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
https://twitter.com/DawnButlerBrent/status/1470124426121392128

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
Coke on his jacket too

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I really did not want to have the words "boris johnson" and "no ring" in the same reference frame.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

Skull Servant posted:

I got double jabbed in ROI before I moved to England in October. After Boris' announcement, I am in the timeframe to get boosted. If I register with a GP, with my vax details transfer over? Or am I just going to have to wait until Ireland opened up the scheme and travel back?

I would assume you need to be registered but i'm not sure

you could try the 111 service unless there is a more specific vaccine information number i don't know

The Perfect Element
Dec 5, 2005
"This is a bit of a... a poof song"
Feels a little tacky for an MP to be gossiping on twitter about lack of wedding ring. Especially as she doesn't even know whether he wears one or not.

Like, obviously he's a oval office and I wish he died of Covid, but it's still quite crass.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Being crass is a good thing, though? I'm crass.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

OwlFancier posted:

I really did not want to have the words "boris johnson" and "no ring" in the same reference frame.
Guess where he was hiding his hands.

peanut-
Feb 17, 2004
Fun Shoe
I booked a booster yesterday and the first slot available where I am was December 31st. There's one permanent vaccination centre that can process about a third of the number of people as the place they had open earlier in the year.

They're gonna have to scale things up a lot very quickly.

Lady Demelza
Dec 29, 2009



Lipstick Apathy

goddamnedtwisto posted:

"Match the NHS's best vaccination day" - that was the opening up to under-30s when they used six football stadiums as well as having the really big centres running at full pace, there is literally no way that they can do that at such short notice.

Can't wait to see how many tens of thousands turn out on Xmas Day to get jabbed!

I got a notification today urging that more vaccinators are needed urgently at all sites. Once again a big announcement has been made with no guarantee there will be the people to carry it out.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
Send every adult in the UK an ampoule of Phizer and a syringe, how hard can it be you just stick it in.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Unfortunately everyone has been sent an ampoule of Tizer and a syringe instead.

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Z the IVth posted:

It's not a moralistic right/wrong, it's the reality of it as I am sure you're well aware.

To cut a very long story short, language matters here, and diabetes is a condition that is so constantly moralised that implicitly shifting 'blame' to individuals by talking about 'good/bad decisions' reinforces very toxic attitudes towards people living with it, whatever type. People decide to do what they will, often for very good reasons (because positive biomedical results are only one potential 'good' outcome), and this is often perfectly legitimate in their own subjective context. Saying that a decision is 'bad' is extremely reductionist and contributes towards exactly the kind of discourse around health that we really need to move past. Big parallels to deserving/undeserving poor etc.

ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Dec 12, 2021

Camrath
Mar 19, 2004

The UKMT Fudge Baron


Hallelujah, my parents have seen sense and cancelled the Christmas in France plans. Now having it here with two of my closest friends and a metric fuckton of weed, then hosting my parents after Boxing Day.

In other news, while I was peddling fudge at the local artisinal market yesterday we heard someone with a loudspeaker absolutely murdering various Christmas songs.. turns out it was a bit of a blast from my past.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news...ty-with-voters/

I know this guy (or at least, knew him in a previous life). He’s probably the most insane person I have ever known- he ended up getting ostracised from the furry community for being too weird and crazy for /them/ to give you an idea. It’s deeply unsettling to find him running for office in my area- I thought I’d left all that weirdness behind me in London.

Camrath fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Dec 12, 2021

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Guess he found something to dress up as that's even worse than a cartoon wolf in a wehrmacht uniform with sex flaps.

Z the IVth
Jan 28, 2009

The trouble with your "expendable machines"
Fun Shoe

ThomasPaine posted:

To cut a very long story short, language matters here, and diabetes is a condition that is so constantly moralised that implicitly shifting 'blame' to individuals by talking about 'good/bad decisions' reinforces very toxic attitudes towards people living with it, whatever type. People decide to do what they will, often for very good reasons (because positive biomedical results are only one potential 'good' outcome), and this is often perfectly legitimate in their own subjective context. Saying that a decision is 'bad' is extremely reductionist and contribute towards exactly the kind of discourse around health that we really need to move past. Big parallels to deserving/undeserving poor etc.

Maybe not "bad" but definitely suboptimal.

There's a difference from bodily autonomy in making an informed choice about the management of your condition and simply not being able do it despite your best efforts because you can't grok the concept.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


The Perfect Element posted:

Feels a little tacky for an MP to be gossiping on twitter about lack of wedding ring. Especially as she doesn't even know whether he wears one or not.

Like, obviously he's a oval office and I wish he died of Covid, but it's still quite crass.

No, this is Crass: https://youtu.be/Furrw0VDpWM

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


https://twitter.com/mrgimpson/status/1470037823977889797

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Failed Imagineer posted:

Johnson officially downgrading Omicron from a tsunami to a tidal wave, that's a relief

Well thank gently caress.

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

Another CWS masterpiece

https://twitter.com/robinthemint/status/1470079722440863746

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

I just imagine all of Johnson's spawns running around the Christmas party all having bodies as rotund as he. And nabbing all the baked goods before gov or moggs got their nightly scone. While Johnson' 17 mistresses all cough on each other with different stories of how Johnson came up to them and beguiled their wits with his stories of how he single handily beat the best if Eaton's brightest in a fox hunt. All the while north korean esque beuracrats clap and congratulate Johnson for being so leaderly around all of the sickly peasants that carouse his onlyfans page.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Dec 13, 2021

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


Catpetter1981
Apr 9, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Because we all need a spot of laughter in these grim times:

quote:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/10/british-prime-minister-boris-johnson-pandemic-rules-scandal/

Is British Prime Minister Boris Johnson toast? He is engulfed in trouble this week, not over policy but over covid-19 hypocrisy. Friday’s Telegraph carried the ominous warning, “Tory MPs ‘having conversations’ on how to oust Boris Johnson.”

...

Watch his potential successors: Michael Gove, the 54-year-old housing secretary, reliably the smartest person in any room, and Liz Truss, foreign secretary, at 46 a decade younger than Johnson and perhaps a bridge to a post-Brexit Tory world.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Michael "pints" gove. The smartest in the room

What loving room the Tory Christmas party?

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

sure hope no-one throws me off a bridge

Michael Gove would struggle to be the smartest man in a loving phonebox.

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

The Houses of Parliament is a bit like the army , in that anyone who isn’t a drooling imbecile and has a reputation for reading books and occasionally using words with more than 3 syllables gets nicknames like “Two Brains” or “Megaboffin”

kingturnip
Apr 18, 2008
I think if you got Andrea Leadsom, Liz Truss, Gavin Williamson and Dominic Raab in the same room for a leadership debate, you'd risk forming a singularity.

Cronos for Prime Minister?

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

smellmycheese posted:

The Houses of Parliament is a bit like the army , in that anyone who isn’t a drooling imbecile and has a reputation for reading books and occasionally using words with more than 3 syllables gets nicknames like “Two Brains” or “Megaboffin”

Gove is often referred to as "Two Brains" but that's a bit of a misnomer - it's actually a set of distributed stellate ganglia around the major organs which allow Gove to retract his mantle and jet away from predators when it senses danger

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
Gove is a worryingly good civil service manager, and surprisingly good boss, fortunately his third rate Machiavellian bullshit has so far kept him out of real power. Because he’s fash.

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/510-million-to-crackdown-on-benefits-fraudsters

quote:

A £510 million funding boost targeted at fraudsters lying to the DWP about their benefit claims has been announced today (Monday 13 December).

The money will be used to improve the department’s capability and capacity to detect and deter benefit fraud and catch fraudsters, recovering more taxpayer money that funds essential public services.

This crackdown will include 2,000 trained specialists to review claims by carrying out property checks, following up earning declarations of self-employed claimants and cross-checking bank details.

You can be sure there will be no such checking of dodgy PPE contracts

JoylessJester
Sep 13, 2012

learnincurve posted:

Gove is a worryingly good civil service manager, and surprisingly good boss, fortunately his third rate Machiavellian bullshit has so far kept him out of real power. Because he’s fash.

Is that not based on his time in environment/justice, where he had no real interest and just listened to the civil servants? Where as he when he went into education it was a nightmare because he had 'opinions'?

Pantsmaster Bill
May 7, 2007

Anyone else having trouble ordering lateral flow kits?

Necrothatcher
Mar 26, 2005




JoylessJester posted:

Is that not based on his time in environment/justice, where he had no real interest and just listened to the civil servants? Where as he when he went into education it was a nightmare because he had 'opinions'?

I had some dealings with Gove in justice and simply because he spent most of his time undoing Grayling's fuckups he wasn't that bad a Chancellor.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!

Pantsmaster Bill posted:

Anyone else having trouble ordering lateral flow kits?

Everyone soon

https://twitter.com/elliemaeohagan/status/1470331056314368001

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

Yup, looks like they've run out of the 'free' ones.

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always

fuctifino posted:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/510-million-to-crackdown-on-benefits-fraudsters

You can be sure there will be no such checking of dodgy PPE contracts

isn't the DWP entire expenditure like ~£180m a year? they could just hand that money out no strings to UC claimants and have it be a better investment

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Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
The entire ethos on welfare spending of the past 25 years is "millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute" only the enemy force is their own citizens.

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