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Some of these posts are starting to come off the covid subject slightly ( polite hint at this stage)

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Well I'm the proud new owner of a really big box....lo

Just seen on the BBC news a passenger on board an Aer Lingus flight complaining about lack of social distance, the flight was practically full from Belfast to Heathrow. WTF does he expect a special aircraft all to himself on a £40 ticket. If he was that bothered about social distancing then he should stay at home in his bubble as per government instructions. I have had enough of it now. We are committing economic suicide, the repercussions will be felt for a long long time after this episode has finally finished. Our civil liberties and freedoms are being taken away. Being told that the new norm is going to be masks and gloves social distancing for up to 1 year. Also going to start tracking people via Apps on their phone. is this Berlin pre the fall of the wall. We lived in a free society where people can obtain and absorb the information in order to make balanced decisions. Being told to wear masks.gloves and not to go out to visit family and friends or risk being fined . Not only that encouraging the public to let the authorities know about people who they think break the lockdown is dystopian. I will not wear a mask or gloves. The numbers that are coming out of various countries suggest that this is one massive overreaction. Instead of locking down the whole population, plans need to be put in place for a full lifting of the lockdown while looking after people who are in the high risk category. The UK population is over 60 million there are 190000 cases and 29000 deaths. Current worldwide deaths 260000 if all the figures are to be believed. Over 400000 each year die of malaria spread over far fewer countries that have Covid 19. We are not barred from travelling to these countries, we don’t lock these countries down shutting down their economy’s in the process. No people make a balanced decision and travel whether for business or pleasure. (I know malaria is not contagious) Enough is Enough we are not solitary creatures, we need companionship we need to meet family and friends and have social lives. Once your freedoms and liberties are removed they are very difficult to get back. Do we really want the new norm enforcing the population to walk round in gloves masks and 2 meters apart. The long term affects of this don’t bear thinking about. Public transport will become uneconomical 15 people on a bus, 100 people on a 200 seat airplane. Stop being brainwashed look at the facts out there and make some balanced choices. Many people will not agree with my thoughts I accept that. However serious questions need to be asked re the current lockdown. I can’t wait for the time I am able to travel to Thailand and play some golf and have a beer with my mates, I fear it will be a few more months yet though.

Quantity over substance.

Loved his stories about pancake and shitting his rompers. L😀

The result of my resupply mission yesterday... The sambuca's for the GF, and she can have a bottle of my SML if she wants it, but the rest is all mine, all mine, my precious, bwah, haw, haw...)

Smiler doth protest too much, methinks.

this is for MrB

This hit the spot

Well Bro .. without laws and borders you do not have a country ... I just watched a youtube video with Nigel .. bitching about the same thing that was happening in Dover in the UK ... I am not sure why the UK doesn't do what the Aussies do ... f**k them ... most of these f**ks are nothing but trouble .... a big burden on tax payer dollars .. Build the wall .. LOL

Virgin to close London Gatwick and focus on Heathrow and Manchester, also merge Virgin holidays into Virgin Atlantic resulting in over 3000 job loses. Add this to 12000 from BA another 3000 from Ryanair plus 8000 from Rolls Royce. The Virgin announcement is based on finding a buyer by the end of May. If no buyer looks like they could be gone with more additional loses. This is all so tragic for all concerned but has been man made by some extremely poor political decisions. Major policies announced before all facts and figures had been collated. 1 scientists whose figures were so way off the mark has started a Tsunami of economic woe that will cost the country billions.

I worked on these in RAF Germany & in Oman for their Air Force.

A quick omelette using up ham, corned beef and cheese. I found by frying off the meat 1st in butter, olive oil, black pepper and garlic, the taste is awesome!

I don't have one of those, but I do check my blood pressure every day!

On checking my BP and O2 Stats this morning, it would seem I’m already dead. Don’t think it was Corona virus, more likely the 3 bottles of a passable Merlot I necked last night with dinner. ☹️

North end of Beach Rd was blocked for a short time this morning while they did a bit of tree trimming. Putting in rebar for the final section of storm drain. Drain pipe is now more than half full of sand. Making the beach look nice for all the tourists in town. Cleaning out the sand from the Soi 6 catch basin. Honest, I only stopped here to take a pic of the footpath repairs. I had speculated they would pour a single concrete cap that would cover the entire catch basin. Looks like I was wrong and they're doing it in two sections.

I wonder how much more serious it would have been if the town had been full of tourists and all the Hotels etc had been open and using water? It has been so dry for so long I imagine the recent rain would have not sunk in and evaporated within a day or so.

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Read the article, and make up your OWN mind. My view is simple : If YOU believe this is a dramatically dangerous virus, stay home but dont oblige people with a different view to follow your "believe". And I am sure correct about the fearmongering, the media dramatization, and the politicians covering their ass with little or no clue about the problem . The politician being advised by experts whose main preoccupation was not to take any legal risk, not to say anything that could be turned against them in the future, and try to look good in the eyes of the politicians which can always be handy for your future career.

Have you noticed that many people have developed a new habit - prefacing the answer to any question with the word "so"? It is totally superfluous and meaningless. Does it annoy you as much as it does me? For me, it has an annoyance ranking equal to the incorrect use of the words "literally" and "confirm". 🙂

Was on meds myself till summer last year, off them now. Main difference for me is my life is way less stressful now, just took my BP for the first time this year. Attended by Doctors Fullers, Smith & Turner

When I lived in Hayes every sentence ended with 'innit'.

Funny you should say that, probably a tad late, but one has to try me thinks!

Back at ya Boydeste, we have that too at the house, we have alot of toys! LOL! Every morning after breakfast we both check... @thumper63 Beautiful pics Terry...

Normally I eat mostly take aways, but with this lockdown I have taken to doing a little cooking and found out that I like veg more than what I realised.

Only ever see it on Thailand forums or repeats of Alan Partridge but for some reason the use of "methinks" grits my shit.

Steak night with mixed veg.

Vicky Pollard ...

Mark Zuckerberg and co started it ...... Seattle geeky expression. Hear it all the sodding time. Allows them to sip their bloody lattes and kombuchas before answering ... The other one I hate which is more of a UK one (think a Harry Kane interview or even Prince Harry).....'yeah no ... but....'

Yea Bro .. the Aussies should be asking hard questions .. we should be f**king demanding hard answers just like every other affected country in the world... These cock suckers .... plus, I think it is great that the Aussies have demanded that Taiwan be admitted to the WHO, but for what ... F**k the WHO ... what a bullshit .. political .. organization ... makes me happy Trump has said f**k them ...

Fullers London Porter

But the whole aviation sector is living a new reality. When lockdown restrictions ease and flight schedules are increased again there will be fewer passengers, fewer and probably more expensive flights and sadly thousands of cabin crew, pilots and ground staff will have lost jobs. It will take years for the aviation sector to bounce back to where it was before the pandemic. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52539905

The article below debunks that myth. It's a long article, but worth reading. LINK It's understandable that interest groups in China and Thailand will try to shift the blame from China to the U.S. While Americans aren't a negligible tourist group for Thailand, Chinese are much more important. In 2019, tourists from the People's Republic were solidly in first place as a source nation with 10,626,511 visitors to Thailand. The U.S. ranked eighth with 1,167,845. If you ran a tourist business in Thailand that derived most of its income from Chinese tourists, would you want people in Thailand to blame China for the coronavirus? Evil Trolls are spreading conspiracy theories that a U.S. Army reservist is "COVID-19 patient zero." China is amplifying that disinformation. BY DAN PATTERSON APRIL 30, 2020 / 11:33 AM / CBS NEWS A brigade of trolls is spreading conspiracy theories about a U.S. Army reservist, falsely claiming that she is "COVID-19 patient zero" and responsible for starting the coronavirus pandemic. Maatje Benassi is a civilian security officer stationed at Fort Belvoir in Virginia. Since March she and her husband Matt, also a government employee at the military base, have been targeted in YouTube videos and social media posts that wrongly claim she contracted COVID-19 in October while competing in the Military World Games, which were hosted in Wuhan, China. Neither Benassi or her husband have tested positive for or experienced symptoms of COVID-19. Hundreds of competitors participate in the Military World Games, a multi-sport competition like the Olympics which is held in a different city every four years. Why Benassi was singled out is unknown, but the harassment has changed her life. She told CNN that the trolling is incessant; conspiracy theory followers shared her home address and flooded her social media accounts with threats and menacing posts. "It's like waking up from a bad dream going into a nightmare day after day," she said. Many of the videos targeting Benassi and her husband were viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube after the conspiracy was amplified by Chinese diplomats and state-run media. In February, The Global Times, a site run by the Chinese Communist Party's People's Daily newspaper, alleged that coronavirus was brought to China from a U.S. military base during the World Games. A few weeks later, Lijian Zhou, a Chinese diplomat, reinforced the conspiracy theory in a tweet that speculated, "It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan." The use of state media to amplify online conspiracies is part of a broad strategy to deflect and reframe the coronavirus narrative away from China, said Priscilla Moriuchi, a senior researcher at Recorded Future, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in digital threat assessment. Moriuchi told CBS News that the coronavirus pandemic provided China with an opportunity to present a binary comparison between the Chinese government's response and the West's. Chinese social media posts around the COVID-19 outbreak on Western technology platforms.RECORDED FUTURE "China has leveraged its social media operations to conflate the speed and success of its response to the COVID-19 crisis, exaggerate its international aid efforts, shift the blame for the pandemic away from the Chinese government, and change the narrative from China as the source of the pandemic to China as a global leader in its response," Moriuchi said. The strategic goal of Chinese leadership, said Moriuchi, is to counter a negative story about the country by using social media to elevate pro-China stories, attack enemies, and generate confusion by sharing conspiracy theories — including scapegoating victims like Benassi. Starting in late January, data gathered from Western social media platforms by Recorded Future demonstrates a dramatic increase in COVID-19-related posts by Chinese accounts. In early January, Chinese accounts were posting fewer than 100 times per day. By February 10, the number of posts had spiked to over 3,500 per day. Between January and March, Chinese accounts created over 32,000 posts, nearly half of which mentioned "coronavirus" or "COVID-19" and portrayed China in a positive light. An example of a COVID-19 post by a Chinese state-run "influence account."RECORDED FUTURE An example of a COVID-19 post by a Chinese state-run "influence account."RECORDED FUTURE An example of a COVID-19 post by a Chinese state-run "influence account."RECORDED FUTURE Chinese social media posts around the COVID-19 outbreak on Western technology platforms.RECORDED FUTURE Chinese social media posts around the COVID-19 outbreak on Western technology platforms.RECORDED FUTURE According to the data gathered by Recorded Future, through most of January Chinese state-sponsored social media accounts shared positive stories indicating the country had controlled the virus' spread and that China was transparently collaborating with international health agencies like the WHO. By mid-March, Chinese state-run social media tactics became more aggressive. "China's engaged in a two-front strategy," Moriuchi said. "The first includes allowing state-run media to engage in a starkly more negative campaign around COVID-19 crisis than it has conducted before. Second is permitting a group of media-savvy diplomats to conduct a combative, truth-bending and misleading campaign on Western social media to shift the blame for the crisis away from China." China doesn't need to control the conspiracy, explained Moriuchi, "They just need a conspiracy to exist." Meanwhile, for victims like Maatje Benassi whose lives have been turned upside down by conspiracy theorists and a state-sponsored propaganda machine, there seems to be no end in sight. First published on April 30, 2020 / 9:32 AM © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Old saying... "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." My way... "You can lead an old goat to information, but you can't make him think."

No doubt the water shortage would have been much worse and the reservoirs would have run dry several weeks sooner.

If the yanks really wanted to create a deadly virus to attack china, they would have wiped them off the face of the earth. Only the Chinese could design a deadly bioweapon that ends up causing a sore throat and a dry cough.

Does this mean that they are correct or just reflect your view?

Great film..Denise Richards cute as fook.

Did he make them himself? In the dark, while he was drunk

The real truth and scam laid bare.

Sunday dinner was 2 nice n thick Ribeyes with a salad and mashed potatoes. Absolutely perfect.