Coronavirus Death Thread

[Dquincy]

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:lol:

Isn't this the stuff Joe Rogan has been taking. He's not vaxxed. Caught covid recently, and then shrugged it off like a loose cardigan...just like Magic did.

[Don]

He jammed about 20 different meds into his system at the slightest sign of a cold, he can't have been downplaying the virus much.

[Lewis]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/bald-men-higher-risk-severe-case-covid-19-research-finds



And you all lolled at my paranoia.

Rogan. Reads the board. Rogan, Rogan reads the board.

[Yevrah]

The shit that must have gone into this thing at the Wuhan lab...

[Pepe]

Missed that. :D

My hair still going strong. I guess I don't need to vaccine then.

[Lewis]

Taz must be full Gareth Bale under that topknot.

[Boydy]

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Oh no.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That fella looks like someone you can trust.

[Disco]

I hear standing in traffic does wonders for it too.

[Spikey M]

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Oh no.

How long until we get an "Anti-Vaxxer loses cock to Rattlesnake" story?

[niko_cee]

Does the viper's venom ability to "inhibit the virus’s ability to multiply by 75 percent" work because the host is already dead from the venom?

[Shindig]

In the scientific journal Molecules, scientists shared results from a study on monkey cells showing that a molecule from a Brazilian jararacussu pit viper can inhibit the virus’s ability to multiply by 75 percent.

By the sounds of that, there's no living host to begin with. It's all petri dish stuff.

[Kikó]

Does the viper's venom ability to "inhibit the virus’s ability to multiply by 75 percent" work because the host is already dead from the venom?

wItH tHe VenOm not FROM THE VENOM.

[Queenslander]

We could be fully open by Christmas with double jab vaccine passports for international travel rolling out at the end of next month effectively ending the travel ban for those Australians. The NSW/QLD border bubble is set to be re introduced with it set to keep moving south as NSW get to the 70% double jab target.

Please no more variants...

[niko_cee]

That's all well and good, but you're going to have to get used to much higher case numbers than you have ever been comfortable with for that to work. Britain is over 80% vaccinated, with 90% having had one and is still lolling around with significant new daily rates of infection. It would seem that the endemic level of this thing is about where we are - tens of thousands of daily cases and death numbers in the low hundreds. I suppose, of course, you could do what everyone else seems to do and just stop bother testing as that is the key driver of the stats.

There will be more variants.

[Queenslander]

I have no idea how this plays out I'm just over it and really over zero covid people (women). I'm double jabbed and everyone I care about is as well. As soon as we have enough for everyone to have that option we just need to open up forever the anti vax people can live with their choices eg limited employment options, no pub, no live sport, no concerts, no travel etc. I do wonder if private hospitals will refuse to treat anti vax people as well...

[Spikey M]

What do you think the reaction would be over there if 1-200 deaths were being recorded per day? It's pretty much being ignored here because we're used to it, but would it not come as a shock to you guys?

[Spikey M]

Oh and refusing antivaxx people anything is just spite. Vaccinated people are still catching and spreading Covid so what's the point?

[Giggles]

Oh and refusing antivaxx people anything is just spite. Vaccinated people are still catching and spreading Covid so what's the point?

Because they're idiots and should be treated as such.

[Queenslander]

The Hospitals in QLD are currently running skeleton crews due to testing and vaccine hubs.

We would collapse if we had the covid pressures that the UK has been under.

There isn't a right answer I just don't care outside of my wee corner ATM.

I have anti vax people in my immediate family who are all vaccinated for everything except covid.

[Spikey M]

Because they're idiots and should be treated as such.

Being the petty man I am, I agree on both points. From a country managing perspective... Nope. What does it actually achieve?

[Boydy]

Probably keeps women in pubs and clubs safer.

[Lofty]

My mrs had to take an LFT when she got to work today, is that allowed? Seems a bit dodgy.

[Shindig]

Was it her first day back in a while? Our office has scheduled testing days.

[Lofty]

Apparently someone sat on her desk went for a test yesterday after work so they made her do an LFT. I imagine if she had refused she would be sent home without pay. They were insisting on people doing them regularly and when they returned from holidays but it seems like that only applied to certain people and not others.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've said it a lot over the last 18 months, but some workplaces have lost their fucking minds. Nothing has changed, you idiots. Just get on with it.

[Shindig]

At least my office has been fairly consistent over the whole thing. The only thing I'm miffed about is taking people away from their desks to conduct the tests. Do that shit at home and then nobody loses their shit when you turn positive in the office.

[John Arne]

My missus went back to her hometown today.... 8 military checkpoints for a 30km drive.

She had Moderna for her first shot, but the country has ran out now, so AZ for her second.

[Dquincy]

My mrs had to take an LFT when she got to work today, is that allowed? Seems a bit dodgy.

That's not allowed. Companies are not allowed to force staff to take LFT. We've given them to staff and asked them to take LFT, but noted that we cannot enforce it if a staff member doesn't want to.

[Giggles]

What's an LFT?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Lateral flow test. I think they call them antigen in other countries. Or maybe those are different things. I don't know anymore.

[Baz]

aka the biggest waste of money in our lifetime.

[Spikey M]

Hs2.

[Giggles]

Are they the ones you can buy in Lidl?

[Don]

Helps the fatties spot when they need to waste some more public resources.

[Shindig]

We get them for free at pharmacies.

[Spikey M]

Are they the ones you can buy in Lidl?

Don't think you can here. We get them free by post or over the counter in the Pharmacy.

[Dquincy]

They do seem pretty useless, all the people I know that have received a positive result from them are either false positives, or after the point of showing symptoms and them being quite poorly. I.e. they are shit at early detection.

[Spikey M]

I can't imagine I'd bother doing one now. Maybe if I had to for a flight or something I guess.

If I had symptoms I'd do a proper one, but I'm not testing when I'm feeling fine and if you are feeling ill and test positive on an LFT you have to get a proper test done anyway, so what's the fucking point?

[Lofty]

The tit she works with went for a test to get out of working today and it's come back positive :D

[Spikey M]

:D enjoy your weekend dickhead.

Edit: is your Mrs double jabbed or has this fucked your weekend too?

[Don]

You sure it was simply to get out of work for the day and not because they were in fear of their lives. This thing is pretty serious you know, Kiko posted an FT article which explained why IIRC.

[Kikó]

Tedious.

[Giggles]

You sure it was simply to get out of work for the day and not because they were in fear of their lives. This thing is pretty serious you know, Kiko posted an FT article which explained why IIRC.

Nobody is listening any more wee spud.

[Lofty]

You sure it was simply to get out of work for the day and not because they were in fear of their lives. This thing is pretty serious you know, Kiko posted an FT article which explained why IIRC.

He's 22 non jabbed ('not arsed') and was last seen driving off with some mystery bird having declared yesterday 'I'm fucked off with this place I'm not coming in tomorrow'.

[Don]

Sounds a top lad, get him signed up to here.

[Dquincy]

He's 22 non jabbed ('not arsed') and was last seen driving off with some mystery bird having declared yesterday 'I'm fucked off with this place I'm not coming in tomorrow'.

:D He sounds brilliant.

Him and Giggseh would get on great i think.

[Spikey M]

1 in 45 people in Scotland had Covid last week apparently.

That must make the Mortality rate absolutely pathetic now.

[Don]

It's been a quick recovery following day 5 this time round but I was unusually feeling like an afternoon nap on days 7 and 8 which must be what the much talked about long-COVID sufferers are reporting. It seems to be fixed now after I went to bed 2 hours early yesterday but still, terrifying to have such a close shave. Gonna make a joint vid with Karl Darlow and some fat universal credit claiming single mums to warn people.

[Magic]

1 in 45 people in Scotland had Covid last week apparently.

That must make the Mortality rate absolutely pathetic now.

Great job we've now got vaccine passports for Airdrieonians vs Arbroath.

[SvN]

They're in different leagues.

[Waffdon]

And don’t get over 10k at a game

[Dquincy]

It's been a quick recovery following day 5 this time round but I was unusually feeling like an afternoon nap on days 7 and 8 which must be what the much talked about long-COVID sufferers are reporting. It seems to be fixed now after I went to bed 2 hours early yesterday but still, terrifying to have such a close shave. Gonna make a joint vid with Karl Darlow and some fat universal credit claiming single mums to warn people.

You've bounced back incredibly. Alpha.

One presumes the body is better prepared to deal with the virus 2nd time round.

[niko_cee]

Almost as if the immune system has been trained . . .

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He still can't smell or taste after the first though.

Alpha indeed.

[Dquincy]

He still can't smell or taste after the first though.

Alpha indeed.

Cuck?

[Giggles]

Cuck?

Cunt.

[Queenslander]

If we go into lock again over 2 cases Im gonna 'redacted' the 'redacted' building and piss on the ashes.

[Queenslander]

The NSW Government have cancelled daily covid press conferences going forward. Gladys didn't even notify all of her party room before it went to the media.

The Military's still in the streets, some areas still have night time curfews and they havent even peaked in total covid cases.

lol out loud

[Queenslander]

2 more youngish people died in their homes in western Sydney yesterday.

Didnt get tested, wasnt vaccinated absolutely unforgivable outcome again.

[Yevrah]

Vaccine Passports ditched.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58535258

Mrs. 45 will not be happy.

[Lofty]

Get the fuck in :drool:

[Giggles]

Bottled it :nono:

[Manc]

Is Lofty team Novid?

[Dquincy]

Vaccine Passports ditched.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58535258

Mrs. 45 will not be happy.
Victory for common sense!

[Luke Emia]

Also dropping hints about not needing to do a PCR test when returning to the UK from travel. It’s almost as if they have taken all the money over the summer holidays…

[Magic]

BoJo. :cool:

Burying the SNaziP.

[Shindig]

It'll still knack us for travel at the other end.

[Spikey M]

Hopefully the difference hurries the next referendum along. Although they'd only bottle it again.

[Lofty]

Is Lofty team Novid?

Double jabbed and believe it exists but having to produce documents to go to events is too much for me, personally. I would have just fucked off anywhere that insisted on it. Same as when I went on a mini break to York a few weeks back without a mask so anywhere insisting on them didnt get my money.

[Magic]

Double jabbed and believe it exists but having to produce documents to go to events is too much for me, personally. I would have just fucked off anywhere that insisted on it. Same as when I went on a mini break to York a few weeks back without a mask so anywhere insisting on them didnt get my money.

My man. :drool:

[Shindig]

Insisting on it just sounds like dodgy territory when it's not a legal requirement. On a weird aside, I'm reviewing Bus Simulator 21 at the minute and some of the passengers are masked up. :D

[Magic]

I've stopped wearing it where I can. Supermarkets mostly there's a distinct lack of fucks given.

[Shindig]

The only mask requirement that bothers me is the one in the office. Having to put it on when leaving my desk is a faff. Especially when you're segregated from other people.

[Spikey M]

Mental you're still doing that.

I don't even know where my mask is. Haven't worn one for a month or so.

[Shindig]

The day they feel comfortable about ditching masks is the day they ask me back in full-time. I consider that the silver lining.

[Giggles]

Masks are the smart thing to do and it costs and inconveniences fuck all. Not wanting them is just for anti-everything headcases.

[Magic]

Masks are the smart thing to do and it costs and inconveniences fuck all. Not wanting them is just for anti-everything headcases.

Will you be wearing it forever then, dweeb?

[Giggles]

Dweeb :D Take a long look at yourself you imbecile.

I won’t have to decide that because luckily we still have to wear them here. Even after all the other restrictions go :cool:

[Magic]

Dweeb :D Take a long look at yourself you imbecile.

I won’t have to decide that because luckily we still have to wear them here. Even after all the other restrictions go :cool:

Luckily. :harold:

Freak.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Are you still wearing 2 at a time, Giggles?

[randomlegend]

Wonder how many Boom wears.

[Giggles]

On jobs yes because you’re in close quarters for extended periods with people who may have zero responsibility. If I’m just going to the shop or something like that I’ll throw on one.

[Giggles]

Luckily. :harold:

Freak.

Yep, luckily. Because when it’s a requirement it keeps the scum out of places, making it better for the superior of intellect.

[Magic]

On jobs yes because you’re in close quarters for extended periods with people who may have zero responsibility. If I’m just going to the shop or something like that I’ll throw on one.

"That's not in my contract" attitude. Self righteous cunt and classic ceiling hitter.

[Magic]

Yep, luckily. Because when it’s a requirement it keeps the scum out of places, making it better for the superior of intellect.

You, Kiko and Mahow. Scintillating.

[Giggles]

"That's not in my contract" attitude. Self righteous cunt and classic ceiling hitter.

You’ll have to explain that one because it makes zero sense and sounds like you’re just popping off for the sake of it now.

Choosing to wear two masks in places I’m required to wear at least one is “not in my contract attitude”? What?

Anyone else know what he means?

[Magic]

You're a by the book bedwetter, taking rules to the extreme only when it suits you. The worst kind of person.

[Giggles]

Wearing a mask over another one when I’ve to be among 2 or 3 different sets of strangers on a daily basis, knowing I could drag it between those sets or on to others the next day or week. Yeah huge extremes there, worse than hitler. You really are some sad piece of shit, though knowing you’re desperately unhappy no matter how big the front does make all the bluster worth a lol at least.

[Magic]

Hopefully you'll die if you get it so you can't pass it on.

[Giggles]

Like I said, lol.

[Kikó]

You, Kiko and Mahow. Scintillating.

What have I done?

[Manc]

I've stopped wearing it where I can.

This reveal is surely the end for Team Novid.

[Spikey M]

Masks are the smart thing to do and it costs and inconveniences fuck all. Not wanting them is just for anti-everything headcases.

Not really. I'm vaccinated and I've had it. I'm about as covered as I can be. Masks are OK, I can lump them if I have to, but I'm not wearing one if I don't.

[Yevrah]

Giggles, if you feel more comfortable wearing two masks then you do you (as it affects no-one but you), but for my money, it clearly isn't rational behaviour for anyone outside the seriously immunocompromised.

I only wear one when I absolutely have to now. COVID is done and we need to get back to normality.

[Giggles]

Giggles, if you feel more comfortable wearing two masks then you do you (as it affects no-one but you), but for my money, it clearly isn't rational behaviour for anyone outside the seriously immunocompromised.

I only wear one when I absolutely have to now. COVID is done and we need to get back to normality.

Calling something irrational a single sentence before saying it’s all done is quite the effort.

[Yevrah]

Calling something irrational a single sentence before saying it’s all done is quite the effort.

It is all done. As things are now is basically as good as it's going to get.

[Giggles]

If you want it to be all done then you’re the only one you need to convince and it sounds like you’ve already done that. That’s fine, even though it’s isn’t really done.

[Yevrah]

If you want it to be all done then you’re the only one you need to convince and it sounds like you’ve already done that. That’s fine, even though it’s isn’t really done.

How do you think it's going to get any better from where we are now? Are you intimating that we'll get rid of it?

[Yevrah]

I should add, I say these things assuming Ireland is in a similar boat to England. If it isn't, I'll stand down.

[Yevrah]

And I wouldn't say double masking is as mental as Magic's Novid nonsense, but it's certainly towards the other end of the spectrum.

[Giggles]

How do you think it's going to get any better from where we are now? Are you intimating that we'll get rid of it?

No I’m saying the exact opposite - we can’t get rid of it. Getting rid of it would make it “over”.

[Yevrah]

No I’m saying the exact opposite - we can’t get rid of it. Getting rid of it would make it “over”.

So you're planning to double mask forever?

[Giggles]

And I wouldn't say double masking is as mental as Magic's Novid nonsense, but it's certainly towards the other end of the spectrum.

I doubt you’re in close contact for extended periods with 20-50 different people a week in your job either.

[Giggles]

So you're planning to double mask forever?

Masks will be around for a long long time here, it’s in all the plans. I wear a single one on all occasions where I won’t be in close contact with work people for extended periods, and 2 for those times.

[Yevrah]

I doubt you’re in close contact for extended periods with 20-50 different people a week in your job either.

Fair point. It's not been great for other reasons, but from that perspective I've been pretty privileged throughout this whole thing. I'm pretty sure I'll catch COVID one day though and it may even be what kills me.

[Yevrah]

Masks will be around for a long long time here, it’s in all the plans. I wear a single one on all occasions where I won’t be in close contact with work people for extended periods, and 2 for those times.

That doesn't answer my question.

[Giggles]

I worked all the way through it with zero working from home and I didn’t catch it at any stage, so I’m not going to change my routines now when it’s worked so far.

[Yevrah]

So you're going to wear a mask (or two) forever?

[Giggles]

That doesn't answer my question.

As any person would, I’ll review the situation for myself from time to time but if things stand as they are now then I’ll be masking yes.
We’re not as rabid about them here anyway so even if the vast majority aren’t wearing them it wouldn’t be nearly as taboo here to keep wearing one.

[Lewis]

I think the only place I've worn a mask in months is London Zoo, where you have to wear one in certain bits to stop the monkeys getting it.

[Yevrah]

As any person would, I’ll review the situation for myself from time to time but if things stand as they are now then I’ll be masking yes.

So what will need to change for you to not wear one?

[Giggles]

So what will need to change for you to not wear one?

I haven’t given it much thought at this stage as, apart from some mild discomfort behind my ears once I’d hit 6 or 7 hours in them, it doesn’t bother me at all wearing them. I’ve forgotten to take them off at times.

[Don]

Lad, just sort out your lifestyle and you can rejoin society by taking off your muzzle.

[Magic]

I doubt you’re in close contact for extended periods with 20-50 different people a week in your job either.

I have not given a fuck throughout this whole period and I only caught it after a year so suck that you paranoid bell end. And yes I've been in contact with loads of random cunts FOR EXTENDED PERIODS.

[Dquincy]

I think the only place I've worn a mask in months is London Zoo, where you have to wear one in certain bits to stop the monkeys getting it.

What are you doing, shagging them?

[Dquincy]

I have not given a fuck throughout this whole period and I only caught it after a year so suck that you paranoid bell end. And yes I've been in contact with loads of random cunts FOR EXTENDED PERIODS.

:D

[Dquincy]

Fair point. It's not been great for other reasons, but from that perspective I've been pretty privileged throughout this whole thing. I'm pretty sure I'll catch COVID one day though and it may even be what kills me.
Quite a leap there when 1 in 2 people are currently dying of cancer.

[Yevrah]

Quite a leap there when 1 in 2 people are currently dying of cancer.

I know we're tight now n' all, but you might wanna have another crack at reading the words I used there.

[Dquincy]

Sorry bro. Mad respect.

[Spikey M]

Quite a leap there when 1 in 2 people are currently dying of cancer.

1 in 2 people have cancer at some point in their life, they don't all die.

[Lewis]

It was one in three before. What happened there?

[randomlegend]

More people live to a million and eventually get cancer, probably.

I'm not sure there's actually any benefit to wearing two masks. I only wear one normal surgical mask when I'm restraining 3 year old screaming unmasked covie kids, which is hospital PPE policy.

[Yevrah]

I don't know much about cancer, but presumably that suggests something we're increasingly exposed to is driving the rates up.

[Queenslander]

Masks on public transport makes perfect sense even without covid as some people are genuinely revolting.

[Shindig]

The average rate of cancer incidence in England was 593.2 per 100,000 people, but this varied across the country from 556.7 per 100,000 people in London to 630.3 per 100,000 people in the North East. - 4 Jun 2018

166,000 deaths a year. Annoyingly, that does work out at 1 in 2 or 1 in 3 depending on location and detection and gender. Well, that's put me in a mood. :moop:

[Yevrah]

Is anyone actually looking into why we're getting more cancer?

I hear about awareness all the time. I hear about how shit it is when you have it all the time. I hear about fund-raising for it all the time. But I don't hear about why we have it more. It can't be that hard to work out, surely.

[randomlegend]

I've already given you one reason. Medical science is better so we keep more people alive until they are really old. Once you get really old you're more likely to get cancer. So more really old people = more cancer.

[Spikey M]

Obesity must be a biggy too.

[Yevrah]

I've already given you one reason. Medical science is better so we keep more people alive until they are really old. Once you get really old you're more likely to get cancer. So more really old people = more cancer.

Are the rates the same among younger people then?

[Shindig]

Yeah, awareness and screening goes a long way. The preventable ones linked to smoking, sunbeds and obesity make up around 40% of the total.

[randomlegend]

My knowledge of cancer epidemiology is probably little better than yours. I'd imagine it's higher for lifestyle reasons like obesity as Spikey says.

[randomlegend]

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics/incidence/age#heading-Three

Open the "All cancers combined incidence trends by age" tab for exactly the information you're after.

[Spikey M]

Unregulated chemicals could well be a big deal too. That documentary about Dupont and C-8 still weighs heavy on my mind.

[Yevrah]

My knowledge of cancer epidemiology is probably little better than yours.

Where the fuck did that come from? :D

And I don't doubt it incidentally, but since you're spoiling for a fight, the way you've worded these posts suggests you don't actually know.


More people live to a million and eventually get cancer, probably.


I'd imagine it's higher for lifestyle reasons like obesity as Spikey says.

EDIT: Sorry RL, misread your post. Ignore me there.

[randomlegend]

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics/mortality/age#heading-Three

The "All cancers combined mortality trends over time by age" is also interesting.

[Yevrah]

Unregulated chemicals could well be a big deal too. That documentary about Dupont and C-8 still weighs heavy ony mind.

Indeed. But also, what about regulated ones?

[Spikey M]

Where the fuck did that come from? :D

And I don't doubt it incidentally, but since you're spoiling for a fight, the way you've worded these posts suggests you don't actually know.

I think you've taken that the wrong way. He's just saying he's no expert on cancer and isn't sure.

[Yevrah]

I have, I read "a" little better.

Sorry RL, my bad.

[randomlegend]

Where the fuck did that come from? :D

And I don't doubt it incidentally, but since you're spoiling for a fight, the way you've worded these posts suggests you don't actually know.

Errr...I wasn't remotely looking for a fight. I was just saying my knowledge of cancer epidemiology isn't any better than average despite me being a doctor. No I don't actually know, but they are educated guesses.

[Yevrah]

Errr...I wasn't remotely looking for a fight. I was just saying my knowledge of cancer epidemiology isn't any better than average despite me being a doctor. No I don't actually know, but they are educated guesses.

Sorry, my fault.

[randomlegend]

I have, I read "a" little better.

Sorry RL, my bad.

Ah no worries, I was really confused.

[Don]

Shut the fuck up.

[Lofty]

Cancer is going up because the population is increasing, more factors that can't be linked as variables keep emerging (vaping for example, stuff like that will likely take ages before conclusive evidence of the risks comes out) and as previously mentioned people are living well past their natural life cycle. People don't die of 'old age' anymore, I'd argue my 80 year old grandad did even if it was the lung cancer that finished him off.

[randomlegend]

Shut the fuck up.

You're even tetchier than usual. What's up, sweetie?

[Yevrah]

Those graphs are interesting, but why does the incidence of cancer one only go back to the 90s while the deaths by cancer goes back to the 70s? :sherlock:

[Spikey M]

Shut the fuck up.

Gammon probably causes cancer. Sit your short arse down.

[randomlegend]

Those graphs are interesting, but why does the incidence of cancer one only go back to the 90s while the deaths by cancer goes back to the 70s? :sherlock:

My guess would be that data for deaths is easy to get from death certificates, which have been around for ages, whilst incidence statistics were not recorded so well until more recently.

[Yevrah]

My guess would be that data for deaths is easy to get from death certificates, which have been around for ages, whilst incidence statistics were not recorded so well until recently.

That would make sense.

[Baz]

This page doesn't sit right with me. People apologising for a misunderstanding? This is TTH you cunts. Now get back to shaming those who don't want to catch Covid.

[Lewis]

Life expectancy can't have gone up that much since the one in three days, so I'm going with NHS scam. I was talking about the periodic meningitis scares we used to get at school the other day, and nobody at work remembered them. They were a massive thing, right? With the tumbler test, and GMTV reporting kids dying of it before I went to school. I can't have imagined them.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, we definitely used to get those. What happened to them?

[Shindig]

I'm sure we only got ours because a student died of it.

[Queenslander]

Meningococcal was thing when I was at school.

[Dquincy]

1 in 2 people have cancer at some point in their life, they don't all die.

Wanna apologise, sweetheart?

[Dquincy]

It was one in three before. What happened there?

Not enough plant based eaters and too many meat eaters. There I've said it.

[Spikey M]

Wanna apologise, sweetheart?

For what? I don't think I gave it to them.

[randomlegend]

Wanna apologise, sweetheart?

1 in 2 people who die doing so from cancer is absolutely not the same as "1 in 2 people are currently dying from cancer". For what you said to be true there would need to be 35m people in the UK currently dying from cancer.

[Spikey M]

I thought he was getting at the "1 in 2 UK people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime" stat, but fuck knows.

[randomlegend]

I expect he was and got in a muddle.

[randomlegend]

The reason the meningitis things that were big when we were kids aren't now is because of vaccines. I've never seen a meningococcal septicaemia in nearly two years of paediatrics.

[Jimmy Floyd]

2 in 2 people are currently dying, some more quickly than others.

[randomlegend]

Facht

[Dquincy]

For what? I don't think I gave it to them.

Apology accepted. :)

[John Arne]

Lockdown, originally due to end on the 15th, has been extended to the end of the month.

This is miserable.

[Yevrah]

Is most of South East Asia in lockdown JA? Vaccine rollout there give any sort of timetable to get out?

[John Arne]

Thailand and Vietnam pretty fucked. Vietnam is at about 5% vaccinated. There's just not enough vaccines. Government are begging for countries to donate. The north (Hanoi) basically has it under control, but it had time to spread here in the south. 10,000 cases per day, strict lockdown, military still on streets, 6pm curfew.

Gov have indicted Jan 15th 2022 to return to "normality".

[Yevrah]

Is it the variant transmissibility that's fucking you? 10,000 cases per day sounds like a fuckton more than you were dealing with last year.

[John Arne]

10,000 isn't a lot grand scheme of things, but the Gov did such a shit job preparing for this, they have to stop it spreading.

Vietnam was one of the countries who originally managed it well. We closed borders asap and the whole of last year was like 2,000 cases. Then, in April this year, Delta arrived and now we're at 600,000. Gov thought they had won, and sat on the arse doing fuck all last year.

[Yevrah]

That sucks.

[Spikey M]

His stay in the Gulag for saying all that will be worse.

[John Arne]

His stay in the Gulag for saying all that will be worse.

They can't even correctly record vaccines that have been given onto the app they've asked/demanded everybody download - I reckon I'm safe (for now).

[Queenslander]

Brutal.

The NSW Liberal Party are completely fucked.



Canterbury-Bankstown is also NSW's most populous LGA, home to 370,000 people.

The Mayor has called for curfews to be scrapped and local outdoor pools to be reopened.

He said local residents were "sick and tired" of helicopters flying overhead and the additional police presence on the streets.


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-14/nsw-premier-heated-meeting-with-lga-mayors-covid19/100459154?fbclid=IwAR351ybQp1l2kC7Z3rnPdwZFXtTDZks uQMCfdR5aOtmDeJizJhgKHPtM1uE

[7om]

#nguyening?

[John Arne]

#nguyening?

:D Not anymore.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58590187

I lolled all the way through this, mainly for the insane policies being enacted, but it peaked when I got to the health minister 'Roberto Speranza'. Minister, we have two hopes...

Teste sono andate, or something.

[Lewis]

I went to a trade show yesterday that required PROOF OF VACCINATION, which meant downloading the cursed app and that, and then they never even asked for it the wankers. Deleted. It's over. I'm not having any 'booster jabs' either like some beta.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Likewise, when I went to the golf last week I got a thousand sternly worded warnings about bringing my covid pass, and no one on the gate even thought about asking for it. It must be a box ticking exercise.

[Shindig]

When 80% of adults are covered, is there really any point to spending that time checking?

[Yevrah]

Watching Question Time and they actually have those perspex dividers between panellists.

[Magic]

Watching Question Time and they actually have those perspex dividers between panellists.

It seems if one cunt anywhere in your organisation is a complete bed wetter the whole company suffers for it.

[Manc]

My condolences to your colleagues.

[Spikey M]

1438454306932510724?s=19

Old people are just wrong about everything. We need to stop asking them questions.

[Kikó]

Next weekend if you're near the start of the week, t'weekend if you're near the end.

[Spikey M]

Add Kiko to the list of people we don't take opinions please Admin.

"This weekend" is the end of the week you are in.

[Kikó]

Not if it's Monday.

[John Arne]

Some deviants also say "on the weekend" instead of the obviously better "at the weekend".

[John Arne]

Not if it's Monday.

N'ah, not a chance. From Monday onwards, "this weekend" refers to the end of that week, "next weekend" the weekend after that.

[Kikó]

What about the weekend coming?

[John Arne]

What about the weekend coming?

You mean, this weekend?

[Kikó]

*checks date*
Yes, on the weekend coming.

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/17/long-covid-in-children-and-adolescents-is-less-common-than-previously-feared

Stfu and get them jabbed. From 6 month and above, pls.

[Spikey M]

Starting from this weekend or next weekend?

[John Arne]

Penultimate weekend coming next.

[Baz]

Had my flu jab this morning.

[niko_cee]

I just referred to something that might be happening tomorrow as being this weekend?

Did I get it right?

[Yevrah]

Yes, yes you did.

[Kikó]

Depends if he meant this weekend or the penultimate weekend prior to next last.

[John Arne]

Numberwang?

[randomlegend]

Next weekend if you're near the start of the week, t'weekend if you're near the end.

So if someone says "this weekend" on a Monday, what are they referring to under your ruleset?

[Spikey M]

A month on Tuesday.

[Kikó]

The previous weekend.

[Spikey M]

You mean last weekend?

[randomlegend]

I can only assume he's going to say the one just gone, but I can scarcely believe such levels of deviancy exist.

Waiting with bated breath.

[randomlegend]

Oh god he's done it.

[Kikó]

You're confused.

This weekend (on Monday) = the previous weekend
The previous weekend (on Wednesday) = the previous weekend
The previous weekend (on Monday) = the previous weekend before the previous weekend
Next weekend (on Monday) = The weekend coming
Next weekend (on Wednesday) = the next weekend)
The weekend = Saturday and Sunday.

See, obvious.

[randomlegend]

And they called me a rapist.

[Spikey M]

You're confused.

This weekend (on Monday) = the previous weekend
The previous weekend (on Wednesday) = the previous weekend
The previous weekend (on Monday) = the previous weekend before the previous weekend
Next weekend (on Monday) = The weekend coming
Next weekend (on Wednesday) = the next weekend)
The weekend = Saturday and Sunday.

See, obvious.

:D you're a fucking maniac.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Jesus fuck Kiko.

You need to take a good long look at yourself.

[niko_cee]

Do we still do that whoosh thing?

[Spikey M]

Not for a few weekends now.

[Spikey M]

What was the country that broke the old board because when they say "quarter past 10" they mean 10:45? That was fun. I want to say Holland.

[randomlegend]

Wot

[Kikó]

It was always Benelux. Freaky fuckers.

[Baz]

Speaking of which, look:

https://thedugout.tv

[Spikey M]

Lol


Imagine that you are not Dutch but you have arranged an important appointment with a Dutch person for ‘half acht’ (half eight). It could be a business meeting, a doctor’s visit, or even a date. Being a punctual person you set your alarm early. After you’ve woken up, showered, got dressed and eaten breakfast you leave the house with time to spare. Your journey goes smoothly and you arrive at the appointment location on time…

Then something strange happens. As you wait you discover a text on your phone from an hour ago. It’s from your Dutch business partner/doctor/date. In the text, they inform you (with an annoyed tone) that you never showed up for the appointment at half eight. You check the nearby clock on the wall and it is clearly pointing to half eight. Confused, you wonder if you’ve started to lose your mind or if you’ve fallen victim to some weird time anomaly. However, neither of these is the case. You’ve simply fallen victim to the Dutch system for telling the time.

In English, if someone says ‘half eight’ they mean half past eight (8:30).

However, if a Dutch person says ‘half eight’ they mean half to eight (7:30). The exact same numbers are said in the exact same order but there is a difference of an hour. If you are not careful this difference can easily catch you out (like it has with me many, many times before).

https://www.invadingholland.com/guides-to-holland/the-confusion-of-telling-the-time-in-dutch

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Quite a few European countries do that.

Poland has half to ...

And when I was a kid on holiday in Cyprus I asked a German kid what the time was and he said half past to ... As he tried to mix the German and English ways of telling the game.

[Magic]

How turgid must your life be to remember something as drab as that. :sick:

[Shindig]

I've had this situation as well. A German lass asked me for the time, I said quarter past 10 and she just repeated the time as a question and left confused. Come to think of it, when I was taught time in German classes, we used British conventions.

EDIT: There's your answer, Madge.

[Spikey M]

How turgid must your life be to remember something as drab as that. :sick:

My mind is a treasure trove of useless information. It's useful information I struggle with.

[Magic]

My mind is a treasure trove of useless information. It's useful information I struggle with.

Can't be that much in it mate.

[Spikey M]

I'm not your mate, mate.

[Offshore Toon]

Magic outing himself as a mong again there.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58602481

Why are we keeping the traffic light system at all? Covid is rife and we're making no attempt to stop it spreading Internally, so why does it matter if some cunt catches it in Spain?

Obviously if a new VARIANT worth worrying about pops up, then you think again, but as things stand we already have the worst VARIANT going, so who gives a fuck?

[niko_cee]

People can't accept it's over, least of all the people with power to endlessly meddle in the lives of others.

[Shindig]

It doesn't really change much as it's not a global system. Other countries still treat the UK as a leper colony or have their borders shut entirely to non-residents.

[Spikey M]

Which is up to them. It doesn't mean we have to add our own layer of awkwardness to proceedings.

[niko_cee]

Are you allowed in the US if you had the AZ vaccine yet?

[Shindig]

The US is shut to us Brits unless you spend a fortnight in Canada or Mexico first.

[Dquincy]

Embarrassing.

[Queenslander]

Another anti-lockdown (we aren't in lockdown), anti-vax, anti-mask protest through the CBD today. Plenty of them are rushing into the food courts, clothes stores etc yelling nonsense.

These losers could have spent the day on the beach sinking piss but no.

[Andrew]

See Wales jumping on the vacine passport bandwagon.

Passport to get into what exactly it's a 3rd world shit hole, take Cardiff out of it and the rest of the place has been forgotten about the past 50 years.

Maybe we will need to produce the passport to enter the job centers when they have to sign on for the giros.

With furlough ending, and inflation higher than its been in my lifetime, something is going to go bang rather loudly soon.

[Don]

Let's fucking hope so. The city break wankers are coming back out the closet, we need a reality check. Where the fuck is that juicy variant?

[Queenslander]

Melbourne is the loon capital of Australia.


https://youtu.be/sj6XxNjPUek

[Andrew]

The video doing the rounds of the 70 year old protester being shoved to the ground from behind then pepper sprayed for 10 minutes...

In the interests of your health and safety Australia of course !!

[Queenslander]

Melbourne feels like a foreign city in a far away land.

[Kikó]

All my family met each other for an event the other day and pretty much every single one of them is now yellow inj with Covid. Thankfully most of them are fully vaccinated so I hope it's not too damaging.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58612530


He added: "Now I have to reschedule another airplane to travel back to training camp which is really upsetting, for no reason this was and I'm just so disgusted that American Airlines would do this to us and ban me from travelling."

Tell your dad to cover his nose, next time.

[Spikey M]

What a mong.

[Lewis]

Americans turning masks into their latest cultural AIDS issue is probably a better reason to avoid the place for the foreseeable than their murders.

[Baz]

Why is Nicki Minaj vs Chris Witty a thing? I don’t watch/read the news but caught some daft “rap roulette” thing on the radio where Fleur East rapped about Nicki Minaj having beef with the UK government over covid. Is it just from when she said the vaccine gave her relative elephantiasis? Why are the government responding to one random tweet?

[Baz]

Basically how can I worm my way into a Teams meeting with Nicki Minaj?

[Andrew]

I think Nicki Minaj tweeted something along the lines of

"My cousin had the vaccine and his bollocks exploded so think before you decide to get it"

To which Twitter closed her account and MSM journalists bombarded her cousins with threatening messages.

So after nearly 2 years of covid we are now at a point where we have Nicki Minaj fighting for our testicles and the pandemic is now so deadly we can fire most of healthcare workers who refuse the jab..

What a time to be alive.

[Yevrah]

For my money, we should be firing healthcare workers, but equally, if a member of the Minaj family was taken too young by the vaccine then Nicki should be free to tweet about it.

The end of that sentence makes me vomit, but hey ho.

[Andy]

For my money, we should be firing healthcare workers, but equally, if a member of the Minaj family was taken too young by the vaccine then Nicki should be free to tweet about it.

The end of that sentence makes me vomit, but hey ho.

The Trinidad government came out and said the whole story was BS and that the swollen testicle issue was to do with an STD.

[Yevrah]

"Sis, did you have to? Now everyone knows I'm riddled...."

[Lofty]

Blaming the covid vaccine for the std you caught playing away and your famous cousin tweeting about it in good faith :D

[randomlegend]

Interesting confidentiality laws in Trinidad if the government can just publically post stuff from your medical records.

[niko_cee]

I think it was more of a case of them saying they had had to investigate and found no evidence of the claimed event [the way it was described - ie as attributable to vaccine side effect or whatever]. In reality they probably wanted their 5 minutes of fame as well, but yeah, quite why this shit is being given the time of day is anyone's guess. "Doing my own research" - once you see those words you can pretty much tune out entirely.

[Shindig]

"His bollocks died from STD's. Visit Trinidad." :D