Quote ="Cronus" Since than we've all watched the global numbers and it's been patently clear for quite some time we would exceed 20,000 as the situation developed. Of course you've just been waiting for the moment so you could post a smug comment on here...so congratulations, you got your moment. What an odious individual.'" So the best way to deal with it is to make up some headlines from a fantasy world? We've already had enough lies from the fantasy world thank you. We just want someone to supply PPE to the NHS and an end to the ridiculous promises like this: https://www.ft.com/content/fce110fc-6ea ... bea055720b but it just keeps carrying on and on

Quote ="Cronus" Since than we've all watched the global numbers and it's been patently clear for quite some time we would exceed 20,000 as the situation developed. Of course you've just been waiting for the moment so you could post a smug comment on here...so congratulations, you got your moment. What an odious individual.'" So the best way to deal with it is to make up some headlines from a fantasy world? We've already had enough lies from the fantasy world thank you. We just want someone to supply PPE to the NHS and an end to the ridiculous promises like this: https://www.ft.com/content/fce110fc-6ea ... bea055720b but it just keeps carrying on and on

*Edit*: in fact I'll expand on that reaction. You don't even realise by posting that comment you are validating my extremely tongue-in-cheek (but clearly fairly accurate) post. I made it patently clear that I picked it up on social media and added a few lines, and one would presume that any rational person wouldn't therefore take it too seriously, even if it hits a nerve.



And you come back with "SO THE BEST WAY TO DEAL WITH IT IS TO MAKE UP SOME HEADLINES FROM A FANTASY WORLD?"



Are you Kathy Newman/Laura Kuenssberg/Kay Burley in disguise? You trot out a line that entirely proves the point being made. Kathy Newman's nonsensical triggered "so you're saying..." interventions are famous, so you never know...



To be fair, you're not the only one. A couple of other intellectually challenged lefty loons took the bait.

To be clear, in case you're still confused, the answer is no. No, the best way to deal with it is not to make up some headlines from a fantasy world. Not that in fact my fabricated headlines have any affect "dealing with it" given I'm not a scientist or medical expert or government adviser or doctor or nurse, so my fabricated headlines are clearly utterly irrelevant, but they still did the satisfying job of triggering the sort of idiotic left wing reaction the left wing can't help but serve up. No, the best way to deal with "it" it to let the geniuses and NHS do what they do and find a way to stop a lot of us dying, ideally before we are destroyed economically.

Flashman & standee go down together about as well as a blankety-blank cheque book & pen.

Are people on this forum still trying to score political points for their chosen party.

How utterly embarassing lmao

I will break down for all you whoppers. There isn’t one person or party who could have handled this perfectly so wrencat and Cronus, stfu, you are just embarassing, yourselves trying to score school ground points on an Internet forum

Go get em tiger.

Erm...that's kind of the point I've been making for weeks.



But crack on, as ill-informed dramatic interventions go, that wasn't a bad effort.

Trying to double justify your bollox, doesn't make it any less bollox.

No entirely sure who are you, but I don't need to justify anything.

The responses from Mash Butty and others have made the point very nicely.

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Put em up putty cat.






That's good then.
As long as the fragility of your superiority complex let's you get another half decent nights sleep Flashers.

Today’s real newspaper headlines provide an interesting cross-section, imo. https://news.sky.com/story/sundays-nati ... s-11978833 It’d be naive to think that in polarised Britain that there’s any issue that won’t be politicised. I feel a bit for those trying to hold the middle. That Kuenssberg is on Cronus’ journalistic ladies pooplist (snide implication of misogyny trigger bait) seems so remarkable to me that I assume it is an attempt to shift our perception to make the Telegraph (Johnson raring to go) or the Express (PM’s back to tighten grip on crisis) appear centrist. Edit: The BBC includes a few more papers, including the Daily Star Sunday’s ‘Prem ace’s x-rated bash with models’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs/the_papers How do we all perceive Daily Star readers and their voting tendencies? I’m assuming all sides will be as ready to claim them for the other as they are Kuenssberg. Or might the right try to cast them as salt of the earth types and turn liberal sneering at Star reader’s fondness for neopolitan ice cream and chips with curry sauce (all of which I grew up on and curry and chips, still now) back against those liberals? Second edit. Breakdown of voting habits by newspaper readership in 2017: https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/how-dail ... -election/ Salt of the earth Star readers leaned towards Labour back then.

Today’s real newspaper headlines provide an interesting cross-section, imo. https://news.sky.com/story/sundays-nati ... s-11978833 It’d be naive to think that in polarised Britain that there’s any issue that won’t be politicised. I feel a bit for those trying to hold the middle. That Kuenssberg is on Cronus’ journalistic ladies pooplist (snide implication of misogyny trigger bait) seems so remarkable to me that I assume it is an attempt to shift our perception to make the Telegraph (Johnson raring to go) or the Express (PM’s back to tighten grip on crisis) appear centrist. Edit: The BBC includes a few more papers, including the Daily Star Sunday’s ‘Prem ace’s x-rated bash with models’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs/the_papers How do we all perceive Daily Star readers and their voting tendencies? I’m assuming all sides will be as ready to claim them for the other as they are Kuenssberg. Or might the right try to cast them as salt of the earth types and turn liberal sneering at Star reader’s fondness for neopolitan ice cream and chips with curry sauce (all of which I grew up on and curry and chips, still now) back against those liberals? Second edit. Breakdown of voting habits by newspaper readership in 2017: https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/how-dail ... -election/ Salt of the earth Star readers leaned towards Labour back then.

Quote ="Mild Rover"Today’s real newspaper headlines provide an interesting cross-section, imo. https://news.sky.com/story/sundays-nati ... s-11978833 It’d be naive to think that in polarised Britain that there’s any issue that won’t be politicised. I feel a bit for those trying to hold the middle. That Kuenssberg is on Cronus’ journalistic ladies pooplist (snide implication of misogyny trigger bait) seems so remarkable to me that I assume it is an attempt to shift our perception to make the Telegraph (Johnson raring to go) or the Express (PM’s back to tighten grip on crisis) appear centrist. Edit: The BBC includes a few more papers, including the Daily Star Sunday’s ‘Prem ace’s x-rated bash with models’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs/the_papers How do we all perceive Daily Star readers and their voting tendencies? I’m assuming all sides will be as ready to claim them for the other as they are Kuenssberg. Or might the right try to cast them as salt of the earth types and turn liberal sneering at Star reader’s fondness for neopolitan ice cream and chips with curry sauce (all of which I grew up on and curry and chips, still now) back against those liberals? Second edit. Breakdown of voting habits by newspaper readership in 2017: https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/how-dail ... -election/ Salt of the earth Star readers leaned towards Labour back then.'" You've gone and done it now. I can't wait to get my joggers on to rush down and buy the Sunday Star with a clear conscience. I'm just praying Laura Kuenssberg wasn't one of the scantily clad models at the Prem aces party. I'll get back to you when I've examined the pictures.

Quote ="Mild Rover"Today’s real newspaper headlines provide an interesting cross-section, imo. https://news.sky.com/story/sundays-nati ... s-11978833 It’d be naive to think that in polarised Britain that there’s any issue that won’t be politicised. I feel a bit for those trying to hold the middle. That Kuenssberg is on Cronus’ journalistic ladies pooplist (snide implication of misogyny trigger bait) seems so remarkable to me that I assume it is an attempt to shift our perception to make the Telegraph (Johnson raring to go) or the Express (PM’s back to tighten grip on crisis) appear centrist. Edit: The BBC includes a few more papers, including the Daily Star Sunday’s ‘Prem ace’s x-rated bash with models’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs/the_papers How do we all perceive Daily Star readers and their voting tendencies? I’m assuming all sides will be as ready to claim them for the other as they are Kuenssberg. Or might the right try to cast them as salt of the earth types and turn liberal sneering at Star reader’s fondness for neopolitan ice cream and chips with curry sauce (all of which I grew up on and curry and chips, still now) back against those liberals? Second edit. Breakdown of voting habits by newspaper readership in 2017: https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/how-dail ... -election/ Salt of the earth Star readers leaned towards Labour back then.'" You've gone and done it now. I can't wait to get my joggers on to rush down and buy the Sunday Star with a clear conscience. I'm just praying Laura Kuenssberg wasn't one of the scantily clad models at the Prem aces party. I'll get back to you when I've examined the pictures.

I don't know if it is happening in other areas but I'm noticing more idiotic driving behaviours lately such as: https://www.wigantoday.net/news/transpo ... ad-2550014 which is yards away from the entrance to Haydock Park (M6) trouble is: https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... nhs-staff/ Haydock Park has been set up as a drive in testing area for Coronavirus, I hope to god they didn't cause a road closure and delay any doctors/nurses who could have driven from Manchester & Liverpool.

I don't know if it is happening in other areas but I'm noticing more idiotic driving behaviours lately such as: https://www.wigantoday.net/news/transpo ... ad-2550014 which is yards away from the entrance to Haydock Park (M6) trouble is: https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... nhs-staff/ Haydock Park has been set up as a drive in testing area for Coronavirus, I hope to god they didn't cause a road closure and delay any doctors/nurses who could have driven from Manchester & Liverpool.

The main road near us sounds like the Isle of Man TT some evenings and weekends.

Anecdotal texts from friends suggest some people are driving like lunatics with the roads being so quiet.

That'll be me - as a key worker, with the daily emotional toll of trying to keep 450 vulnerable people and 1800 staff safe, I'm taking advantage of the empty roads by driving my electric vehicle like a fu**ing maniac; that, and the mindless clapping on command of Karen from Facebook every Thursday night, is all that's keeping me going.

The title of this thread is rather apt


Not proud of it but broke the social distancing rules by going for leg-over with one of the barmaids out of our local last night.
Didnt help that I had a tickly cough cos Id slung a packet of Lamberts down my neck whilst sat in my garden in the afternoon sun.


We'd been giving each other the eye before the lockdown and I'm f00ked if I was hanging around until pub opens again.
It could be Xmas!
Oh, and the alcohol abstention went out the window as well.
Litre of vodka followed by a couple of bottle of wines.


Well, if your gonna get back on it you might as well do it properly.

Presumably you got your leg over before the litre of vodka and bottle of wine - if it was the other way round you have my ultimate respect

It was after mate.

Helps that she's sixteen years younger.


And the blue diamond pills always come in handy.



Some would say it was non-essential, but hey, so is a morning paper and a bread loaf if we wanna go down that route.

I watched a documentary on Iplayer about Steve McQueen and the Le Mans film, his ego carried the production without a script for so long that when they eventually had a script to shoot they had to paint the leaves green because the season had changed. The lack of script and trail of destruction reminded me of something that is happening right now but in that instance he was following the art.

Quote ="Cronus"Stupid media overreaction for this weekend: Dominic Cummings attended some SAGE meetings. Or let's put it another way: the Prime Minister's Chief Adviser attended critical SAGE pandemic meetings. Labour said Cummings had "no place" on the government's scientific advisory group. I'd be more concerned if he WASN'T involved in high-level discussions and planning, you know being the Chief Adviser n'all. Thankfully members of SAGE have already clarified his minimal involvement. '" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... k-lockdown If this is true I stand corrected....respects due

Quote ="Cronus"Stupid media overreaction for this weekend: Dominic Cummings attended some SAGE meetings. Or let's put it another way: the Prime Minister's Chief Adviser attended critical SAGE pandemic meetings. Labour said Cummings had "no place" on the government's scientific advisory group. I'd be more concerned if he WASN'T involved in high-level discussions and planning, you know being the Chief Adviser n'all. Thankfully members of SAGE have already clarified his minimal involvement. '" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... k-lockdown If this is true I stand corrected....respects due

Clever cookie is Cummings. Just a pity he's batting for the wrong side.

That is a big IF and if true why will they not release the minutes of the meetings which would show his positive contribution.

Now do you see why I singled out these two clubs ?

The immediate future doesn't look great for any spectator sport but, travel between different countries will take longer to sort out than any domestic travel, especially as far as spectators are concerned.

There will not be any spectators at sports events during 2020 - all sport will be played - if at all behind closed doors

Quote https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... p_WhatsApp '" Hide in cupboard, chicken Johnson being called out by non biased European press. Bet V.E. day can't come quickly enough.

Quote https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... p_WhatsApp '" Hide in cupboard, chicken Johnson being called out by non biased European press. Bet V.E. day can't come quickly enough.