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Post by berahinosgoals on Mar 21, 2020 9:47:47 GMT
You honestly believe there is no thinking, 26.5m employed, 4.6m self employed people got to concentrate on the majority first, the 4.6m self employed will require more tailored measures and they have already delayed IR35 and people having to pay their self assessment tax. Lack of thinking about the effect of making the announcement about the employed with seemingly no thought of how it would make the self-employed feel. It's quite simple, fuck em. I'm self employed and I'll get it back by doing cash work. I'll be as honest as them as they dish out the money I have put into the system to others |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 9:49:20 GMT
Day 6 of self isolation. Me and the wife are having a bit of breakfast. Kids are watching Paw Patrol....
Wife "You know what I've always wondered? Where does Ryder get all his money from? Who funds the operation?"
Me "You mean the programme with the talking dogs? And you're wondering where the money comes from?"
Wife "Yeah. I'd just like to know who funds it all."
Stay tuned for more wonderful insights over the coming months.
#GoingStirCrazyAlready #LifeOfAParent
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Post by somersetstokie on Mar 21, 2020 9:50:57 GMT
The social life of the nation closed down. Friday 20th March 2020 will be remembered for ever. You never know, people might even start using their phones to talk to each other ..... You jest but I swear that many times I've seen people in the same pub and even the same table texting or phoning each other when effectively only a few feet away. Who needs social distancing. |
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Post by followyoudown on Mar 21, 2020 9:52:23 GMT
Day 6 of self isolation. Me and the wife are having a bit of breakfast. Kids are watching Paw Patrol.... Wife "You know what I've always wondered? Where does Ryder get all his money from? Who funds the operation?" Me "You mean the programme with the talking dogs? And you're wondering where the money comes from?" Wife "Yeah. I'd just like to know who funds it all." Stay tuned for more wonderful insights over the coming months. #GoingStirCrazyAlready #LifeOfAParent Reading this made me think of this |
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Post by berahinosgoals on Mar 21, 2020 9:52:43 GMT
Day 6 of self isolation. Me and the wife are having a bit of breakfast. Kids are watching Paw Patrol.... Wife "You know what I've always wondered? Where does Ryder get all his money from? Who funds the operation?" Me "You mean the programme with the talking dogs? And you're wondering where the money comes from?" Wife "Yeah. I'd just like to know who funds it all." Stay tuned for more wonderful insights over the coming months. #GoingStirCrazyAlready #LifeOfAParent Buckle up, you might be inside for 6 month đ I predict plenty of relationship break downs and plenty of newborns. Spare a thought for gold diggers who are only in it for the money đ |
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Post by berahinosgoals on Mar 21, 2020 9:56:59 GMT
I trained for this in my early 20's with a stretch in Shrewsbury and market draytons finest establishments at the leisure of her majesty đ
Walk in the park
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 9:59:00 GMT
Day 6 of self isolation. Me and the wife are having a bit of breakfast. Kids are watching Paw Patrol.... Wife "You know what I've always wondered? Where does Ryder get all his money from? Who funds the operation?" Me "You mean the programme with the talking dogs? And you're wondering where the money comes from?" Wife "Yeah. I'd just like to know who funds it all." Stay tuned for more wonderful insights over the coming months. #GoingStirCrazyAlready #LifeOfAParent Reading this made me think of this I'm self isolating in the garden today. Theres easily 6 hours of jobs that need doing. I'll stretch it out as long as I can... |
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 21, 2020 9:59:48 GMT
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Mar 21, 2020 10:07:30 GMT
Corona positives. Laurel and Hardy trending on twitter I've got them all on a box set (as you can see from my handle I'm a fan). I'm going to be driving my missus crackers over the coming months. She hates them.  |
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 21, 2020 10:09:12 GMT
Corona positives. Laurel and Hardy trending on twitter I've got them all on a box set (as you can see from my handle I'm a fan). I'm going to be driving my missus crackers over the coming months. She hates them. I've genuinely just been crying laughing watching a few clips that are trending. Unbeatable and just what the doctor ordered. |
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 21, 2020 10:21:48 GMT
Day 6 of self isolation. Me and the wife are having a bit of breakfast. Kids are watching Paw Patrol.... Wife "You know what I've always wondered? Where does Ryder get all his money from? Who funds the operation?" Me "You mean the programme with the talking dogs? And you're wondering where the money comes from?" Wife "Yeah. I'd just like to know who funds it all." Stay tuned for more wonderful insights over the coming months. #GoingStirCrazyAlready #LifeOfAParent Buckle up, you might be inside for 6 month đ I predict plenty of relationship break downs and plenty of newborns. Spare a thought for gold diggers who are only in it for the money đ We were having a great time. Sadly kids off school has put paid to fun afternoons |
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Post by danceswithclams on Mar 21, 2020 10:38:08 GMT
'What did I do wrong?' asks this tradesman. Well, you keep daubing statements on client's walls with what looks like human shit for a start. Don't hire this guy people (I'm going to try my best to get him kicked off Checkatrade). |
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Mar 21, 2020 10:40:01 GMT
I've got them all on a box set (as you can see from my handle I'm a fan). I'm going to be driving my missus crackers over the coming months. She hates them. I've genuinely just been crying laughing watching a few clips that are trending. Unbeatable and just what the doctor ordered. Timeless slapstick. It's hard to get your head round the fact that some of them are nearly 100 years old. |
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Mar 21, 2020 11:02:55 GMT
Not sure if it's been mentioned on here but I can't remember seeing it.
Sky are allowing customers to pause their Sky Sports packages until they start broadcasting any meaningful sport again ie football.
You simply log on to your account and go through the pause process so that you stop paying for sport. Then when they start showing live sport again it will automatically restart.
Well I say 'simply' but as with anything Sky related it isn't that simple. I've been trying to do it for a couple of days but the online service keeps crashing.
So this morning I phoned their customer service on 03337591018 and after a relatively short wait the youth at the other end couldn't pause it either because 'the system was down'. However, what he did do was cancel my Sky Sport subscription but didn't apply the cancellation penalty fees. So in effect it had the same outcome as pausing except that it won't automatically resume, I'll have to physically re apply the Sports package when I want to restart it.
Anyway saved myself ÂŁ34 a month for the duration. Which is not to be sniffed at in these hard times.
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Post by FranktheRabbit on Mar 21, 2020 11:11:13 GMT
I've genuinely just been crying laughing watching a few clips that are trending. Unbeatable and just what the doctor ordered. Timeless slapstick. It's hard to get your head round the fact that some of them are nearly 100 years old. When you put it like that itâs frightening how fast time goes. Your right though. No matter how many times you watch them, you still laugh regardless. Bottom was another one for me, makes me cry with laughter. Rik and Ade were absolutely brilliant at it. |
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Post by FranktheRabbit on Mar 21, 2020 11:21:49 GMT
Timeless slapstick. It's hard to get your head round the fact that some of them are nearly 100 years old. When you put it like that itâs frightening how fast time goes. Your right though. No matter how many times you watch them, you still laugh regardless. Bottom was another one for me, makes me cry with laughter. Rik and Ade were absolutely brilliant at it. |
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Post by OldStokie on Mar 21, 2020 11:31:01 GMT
Having read most of this thread (but I've forgotten most of it), I reckon we'll have to start having slots booked by the Sir Stan to settle some scores when this is all over. Either that or we can have a 'settling scores day' actually in the ground. I can just see it now. The ground is packed. 28,000 rabid Stokies, slobbering like wild dogs, packed into every seat. (Tickets were sold out in 24 hours after Mr Scholes introduced a range of rare element cards for priority seating.) That bloke who normally announces stuff gets ready. Pottermus is in overdrive trying to make things even worse - rabid-dogwise. Then a deathly silence comes over the place. "Laydeeeeeeees and Geeeeeeentlemen... we have our first bout. In the blue corner by the north scoreboard we have Old Clem... the chap who puts his bins out only when he sees the bloke who lives over the chip shop that cooks stuff using lard and not this modern oil crap do it. And in the red corner by the south scoreboard we have the rotund Sheik Momo, the left winger and Trotskyist of The Oatcake." The place erupts. Old Clem, fists raised in the air, gives the crowd a massive grin, revealing a set of false gnashers that he's honed to look like sharks' teeth with a double-cut and rasp file. Over in the other corner, Victor Momo does a sort of African tribal dance but falls over due to his rotundidity. But he bounces up again like a rubber ball, displaying his unbelievable agility for such a rotund person. "Laydeeeeeees and Gentleeeeemen.... let the battle commence" The two 'warriors' approach the centre circle... snarling at each other like a pair of complete Jack Russells. Round and round they go without encroaching into the circle. After thirty minutes of this and the crowd baying, "Handbags! Handbags! Handbags!", the bloke who announces stuff yells into his mike, "Laydeeeeees and Gentleeeeemen! The contest is a draw. (Both combatants retire to their respective scoreboards.) I now introduce the next opponents. By the scoreboard in the south corner we have Felonious...." OS. |
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Post by adi on Mar 21, 2020 11:34:25 GMT
When you put it like that itâs frightening how fast time goes. Your right though. No matter how many times you watch them, you still laugh regardless. Bottom was another one for me, makes me cry with laughter. Rik and Ade were absolutely brilliant at it. Very marmite. Iâm on the âI hate marmiteâ camp personally, but whatever gets you through these testing times đ |
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Post by FranktheRabbit on Mar 21, 2020 11:50:21 GMT
Very marmite. Iâm on the âI hate marmiteâ camp personally, but whatever gets you through these testing times đ Your in the same category as my wife then. Despises it. You want see her face when I get âThe Fast Showâ box set out. Itâs going to be a long isolation for her. đ
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Post by Etain Tur-Mukan on Mar 21, 2020 11:52:21 GMT
Having read most of this thread (but I've forgotten most of it), I reckon we'll have to start having slots booked by the Sir Stan to settle some scores when this is all over. Either that or we can have a 'settling scores day' actually in the ground. I can just see it now. The ground is packed. 28,000 rabid Stokies, slobbering like wild dogs, packed into every seat. (Tickets were sold out in 24 hours after Mr Scholes introduced a range of rare element cards for priority seating.) That bloke who normally announces stuff gets ready. Pottermus is in overdrive trying to make things even worse - rabid-dogwise. Then a deathly silence comes over the place. "Laydeeeeeeees and Geeeeeeentlemen... we have our first bout. In the blue corner by the north scoreboard we have Old Clem... the chap who puts his bins out only when he sees the bloke who lives over the chip shop that cooks stuff using lard and not this modern oil crap do it. And in the red corner by the south scoreboard we have the rotund Sheik Momo, the left winger and Trotskyist of The Oatcake." The place erupts. Old Clem, fists raised in the air, gives the crowd a massive grin, revealing a set of false gnashers that he's honed to look like sharks' teeth with a double-cut and rasp file. Over in the other corner, Victor Momo does a sort of African tribal dance but falls over due to his rotundidity. But he bounces up again like a rubber ball, displaying his unbelievable agility for such a rotund person. "Laydeeeeeees and Gentleeeeemen.... let the battle commence" The two 'warriors' approach the centre circle... snarling at each other like a pair of complete Jack Russells. Round and round they go without encroaching into the circle. After thirty minutes of this and the crowd baying, "Handbags! Handbags! Handbags!", the bloke who announces stuff yells into his mike, "Laydeeeeees and Gentleeeeemen! The contest is a draw. (Both combatants retire to their respective scoreboards.) I now introduce the next opponents. By the scoreboard in the south corner we have Felonious...." :) OS. That reminds me slightly of the old story you did on the rivals board :) Able seamen on the good ship Stoke or something...???? If you do another have me down as someone!! I did get a brief mention last time :) |
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on Mar 21, 2020 12:10:55 GMT
COVID-19 has now killed more people than the West African Ebola Epidemic of a couple of years ago.
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Post by musik on Mar 21, 2020 12:20:11 GMT
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Just heard the radio news.
An expert just said it's likely 40.000 individuals have it now in Sweden.
We don't test people.
At the same time, it could be a lot less, since the ordinary flu and ordinary cold are also present in the population - and to do the statistics all they have is what people tell them on the phone.
But there seem to be no SPECIFIC symptoms for the Corona Virus?
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Post by theincontinents on Mar 21, 2020 12:37:28 GMT
Most informative description I have read so far! Shared by an NHS colleague to a Coronavirus Group, set up to share advice and support for NHS staff đđ»
Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who donât understand...
It has to do with RNA sequencing.... I.e. genetics.
Seasonal flu is an âall human virusâ. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.
Novel viruses, come from animals.... the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then itâs a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isnât human, and the human immune system doesnât recognize it so, we canât fight it off.
Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years itâs only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats what decides how contagious, or how deadly itâs gonna be..
H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. Itâs RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.
Fast forward.
Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, âslipperyâ
This Coronavirus, not being in any form a âhumanâ virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket. And this was because, Humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.
And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs..
Thatâs why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza.... this one is slippery AF. And itâs a lung eater...And, itâs already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.
We really have no tools in our shed, with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.
Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Black Plague passed...(honestly...I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation...
And let me end by saying....right now itâs hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say, what it will do next.
Be smart folks... acting like youâre unafraid is so not sexy right now.
#flattenthecurve. Stay home folks... and share this to those that just are not catching on.
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Post by noustie on Mar 21, 2020 12:45:36 GMT
Corona positives. Laurel and Hardy trending on twitter Remember watching them on school holidays in 80s as old man used to put all the black n white stuff on bbc2 or channel 4. Loved Marx Brothers and all |
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 21, 2020 12:58:52 GMT
COVID-19 has now killed more people than the West African Ebola Epidemic of a couple of years ago. One of the coronavirus vaccines being tested is that which was used for Ebola and SARS. |
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Post by Clayton Wood on Mar 21, 2020 13:01:32 GMT
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 21, 2020 13:02:09 GMT
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on Mar 21, 2020 13:07:08 GMT
COVID-19 has now killed more people than the West African Ebola Epidemic of a couple of years ago. One of the coronavirus vaccines being tested is that which was used for Ebola and SARS. Thatâs the Antivirals isnât it? |
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Post by durbanscircus on Mar 21, 2020 13:11:49 GMT
Very marmite. Iâm on the âI hate marmiteâ camp personally, but whatever gets you through these testing times đ Your in the same category as my wife then. Despises it. You want see her face when I get âThe Fast Showâ box set out. Itâs going to be a long isolation for her. đ
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