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    Getting old

    Red replied to Yenn's topic in General Discussion

    Anything that shortens your life is to be resisted, just because there are things that have been out there killing us for a long time that we need to fight does not excuse us from trying to fight a new killer Its easy to look at the numbers of deaths so far and think its relatively low level stuff (perhaps even easier if you live in a sparsely populated and little affected country) but this is just the beginning, Winter in Europe is going to be a shit-fest
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    Getting old

    Red replied to Yenn's topic in General Discussion

    Its very very good
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    I'm anti-social and don't get on with crowds so the whole lockdown thing has not brought much mental anguish my way in fact its made things a lot less stressful
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    "One tragic knock on effect of the coronavirus is the cancelling of the footy" I have this dream that most things get back to Normal after all this...........but not everything:hide:
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    The business gets to keep its staff on the books, many of which would out of need tried to find alternative jobs, they don't have to re train new staff when things come back online, this is not an insignificant factor for any business and its taxpayers money, I wonder how many business owners with multiple millions in the bank even consider topping up the wages from their own profit margins, its a definate that they wouldn't have kept the people on if it was entirely out of their pockets, so once again its public support for a private business
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    There are many multi millionaire business owners in the UK who have furloughed their staff and the government is paying them 80% of their wages whilst off work I'm glad the workers are being supported, but its another example of private businesses benefitting from public handouts, I understand why this is a good thing to do, but it should require some payback from the private companies, otherwise its just another example of privatising profit and nationalising debt
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    Its the same for Taxes, the reason? keeps the money with those that have it. In the UK Rural Landowners get paid for having Land and doing nothing with it..seriously the more land they have the more they get paid from the public purse just to leave it as a field and do nothing It's socialism in reverse the poor subsidise the rich, it's always been this way.
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    Americans believe a meritocracy enables social mobility the problem being they don't actually have a meritocracy they have just been brainwashed into thinking they do, those with the best start get ahead and it continues through the generations, Trump is a great example he was born with a silver spoon up his arseand I believe that someone sat down and worked out that if he had put the original fortune given to him by his parents into a high interest account he would be worth more now than he is through his so called business success, he is a failure as a human being with little merit yet he is the president of the USA
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    There are good People in the States, I've enjoyed my time there but its a broken society now. Back to Covid. I'm a bit depressed tbh ........here in the UK the traffic is increasing daily and more and more people are ignoring what was a rather weak lockdown anyway. No police evident in my area for the last month and I get the feeling that people have become blase about it and those who havn't had a personal experience think it was all a storm in a tea cup ...its not we haven't even seen the worst of it yet. It feels like summer in the UK now...............but there are very Dark Days ahead
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    Worry not St Patrick's Day drinkers ignore calls to avoid pubs over coronavirus
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    Lets face it, Trump could go shoot an unarmed 12 year old girl in the street and the average republican would come up with some sick reason why it was the kid's fault. He'll get another 4 years...be sure
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    Dammit SS, see where fooling around gets you?, now get back in that rocking chair........................ I'll fetch yer pipe and slippers :) Just re-read that: Sorry SS...please re-direct my instructions to Mr Atrick
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    "We shouldn't make fun of the Yanks" Why?
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    Confusion reigns, google gets it mostly wrong I blame Americans they have to changethe name of things because they think different = better and everything in america is better of course They still can't say aluminium As you know pmc, This is a cotter pin
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    NT edited out, I just remembered that Rich Bigots who have caught religon can be quite litigious
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    Yea, got similar reactions from my friends in L.A. when I first asked where I could buy some fags
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    Your perspective is about to change radically
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    You wear Thongs?
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    Not a pet hate, I'm a pilot/owner and aviation enthusiast. Cruise ships are obviously another thing needing to be shutdown Society needs to reset, human nature means we all think we are the greatest thing since RNA came into being, we will probably end up as a short paragraph in the history of the Earth a mere blip compared even to the Dinosaurs but we can stretch our term a bit by understanding we can have a good time without being complete arseholes (I include myself in the defined realm of arseholiness)
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    kgwilson, Could you provide a source for this? Much garbage gets posted on the internet and then repeated as if fact "most bat species in Wuhan were hibernating at the time, there were none available for sale at the sea food market, there is likely to be an intermediate host that has not been identified, no animal there has so far tested positive and probably only a single human was the source".
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    I hope the airline businesses do go extinct, it was the main spreader of this pandemic, its demise would massively reduce spread of further virii and of course it would mean that all that bollox talking about reducing the worlds carbon footprint could actually become real Plus points that far outweigh millions of job losses IMO
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    I know your a bit of a keyboard comedian Phil, but your perspective on this is part of the reason that the UK is set to be in a worse situation than Italy
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    An attitude that flys in the face of the evidence and one that will hasten the spread. Next year yours and my world is going to look very different
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