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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 30, 2020 17:43:35 GMT
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Post by henry on Mar 30, 2020 17:43:37 GMT
“We need to go to their homes, test them, test their family members, their friends and neighbours, and all the people who test positive should be taken, if they are well enough, to accommodation centres outside their homes.” Marched out of your own home and loaded into the back of a van in full view of the street - nice.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 17:57:35 GMT
Is Decathlon still open and trading? I bought a touring bike from one of their stores (Coventry) about six years ago. I still shake my head and wonder how they could sell such a high spec bike at the price. Over six years I have never had a hint of a problem with the bike. Came with click gears, mudguards, lights and "dynamo", comfy saddle, rack ..... everything really.
For anyone reading this post who might be considering buying a bike (for excercise) - do not not touch BSOs sold cheaply by supermarkets. BSO = "Bicycle Shaped Objects". EDIT: having thought about it, I did change the saddle for an even more "comfy" saddle. I switched the pedals to clipless.
Yeah. Decathlon are a french owned business. Bulk of their bikes, certainly adult ones, are from Taiwanese factories. It seems to be the "norm" these days. I once spent, what was for me a minor fortune, on a road bike - sure enough, made in Taiwan. My main hobby isn't cycling - my musical instrument was made in GB (if you want to buy that same instrument now, it is made in Germany.)
It's a funny thing but when you meet other musicians, that you haven't seen for years, you shake hands, say hello, and then they look at what you are holding and say something like "Still playing the Prestige then?". I remember all of my old friends, and I can tell you what "brand" of instrument they play. Let us not start on mouthpieces ....
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Post by wagsastokie on Mar 30, 2020 17:57:38 GMT
Worrying that The thin edge of the wedge is starting to be widened But it could be a lot worse Hungary are about to have a vote to give orban excitive emergency powers And he's a renowned Liberal
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Post by zerps on Mar 30, 2020 18:00:32 GMT
Him too. There is no excuse for delivering what you feel to be an important message, on a visual medium, whilst looking as though you've been dragged through a hedge backwards. To think that there was a time when BBC Newsreaders would wear Evening dress, including bow tie, to deliver the RADIO news. Seems important
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 18:02:10 GMT
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Post by wagsastokie on Mar 30, 2020 18:03:59 GMT
Him too. There is no excuse for delivering what you feel to be an important message, on a visual medium, whilst looking as though you've been dragged through a hedge backwards. To think that there was a time when BBC Newsreaders would wear Evening dress, including bow tie, to deliver the RADIO news. Seems important It all started when teachers started to allow themselves to be addressed by name
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Post by zerps on Mar 30, 2020 18:05:41 GMT
It all started when teachers started to allow themselves to be addressed by name They should address the nation smoking cigars and slurring their words like Winston. He was dressed well though tbf.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 18:09:08 GMT
It all started when teachers started to allow themselves to be addressed by name Mmm yes times have changed. We always called the teacher "Sir". We stood when he entered the room. He wore his "gown" . Behind the scenes every teacher had another name
Ag - he taught science real name John Agrail. Really nice guy. He had had tough time with the Japs during the war.
Hitler - English teacher. Michael Walters - Initials MWMW - his signature on the school reports looked amazing. Again really nice guy, but had a tash and had been in the army (ran the Army Cadet Corp)
Trigger - taught RE. He had a nervous breakdown - we caused it.
JD. John Dyer, taught English.
Chrome Dome - he never taught me, but he was bald. ( He once stood in for a lesson and battered me around the head until I was almost unconscious - today he would have gone to prison for that)
Twiddles - again he never taught me - Latin I think
Hum Yah Pete - taught British Constitution (sort of said Hum Yah, before anything that he said)
Colin - music teacher. Extremely talented musician and conductor. Something not quite right in his head though. The whole class witnessed him kicking the shit out of a little lad. Handfulls of blond hair floating around the classroom. None of us ever knew what threw him into that frenzy. That assault really should have resulted in a long stretch.
Ralph - Ralf Junker, PE. Had fought with the Dutch resistance in the war.
Janet - taught History, a Scots women that scared the fucking life out of us - name came from Dr Findley Casebook.
Jake - John Harewood. English teacher - a bit bland, but but very good teacher.
Ronnie - Headmaster - Ronald Merrit, that guy was a total bastard!
George - deputy head - looking back he was ok. if you shouldn't smoke at school then you don't - he caught me a few times.
They all had their nick names....
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Post by Northy on Mar 30, 2020 18:14:27 GMT
When are the Gov going to stop "RAMPING UP" and start delivering PPE /Ventilators ect... lot of talk .lot of Ramping but not much to see................. people are manufacturing them as quick as they can, the army were delivering them overnight while you were probably sleeping in your bed, apologies if that isn't quick enough for you but there's a world wide pandemic going on and every country is after as many as they can get their hands on.
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Post by somersetstokie on Mar 30, 2020 18:18:02 GMT
It all started when teachers started to allow themselves to be addressed by name Good Grief! When did this happen. At our school we pupils were expected to refer to each other as "Mr",in class and during school time. As in "Whilst I respect Mr Jones' suggested answer, I feel that he is mistaken in his interpretation of the facts". Almost like referring to MP's in parliament as"the Hon Member". Encourages respect.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 30, 2020 18:19:47 GMT
Yeah. Decathlon are a french owned business. Bulk of their bikes, certainly adult ones, are from Taiwanese factories. It seems to be the "norm" these days. I once spent, what was for me a minor fortune, on a road bike - sure enough, made in Taiwan. My main hobby isn't cycling - my musical instrument was made in GB (if you want to buy that same instrument now, it is made in Germany.) It's a funny thing but when you meet other musicians, that you haven't seen for years, you shake hands, say hello, and then they look at what you are holding and say something like "Still playing the Prestige then?". I remember all of my old friends, and I can tell you what "brand" of instrument they play. Let us not start on mouthpieces ....
When it comes to bikes, Taiwan offers the best components. Historically most bicycle components, good quality components at least, emanated from Taiwan. Once dumping duty taxes were applied to Chinese bicycle factories, taiwanese quality manufacturing came to the fore and bikes emanating from china became more cheap tat than before, if not illegal in many instances.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 30, 2020 18:23:38 GMT
Great bike store, especially for a serious cyclist.
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Post by stokeson on Mar 30, 2020 18:34:38 GMT
When are the Gov going to stop "RAMPING UP" and start delivering PPE /Ventilators ect... lot of talk .lot of Ramping but not much to see................. people are manufacturing them as quick as they can, the army were delivering them overnight while you were probably sleeping in your bed, apologies if that isn't quick enough for you but there's a world wide pandemic going on and every country is after as many as they can get their hands on. Whatever. They have pissed away 4 weeks with Herd ideology......
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Post by somersetstokie on Mar 30, 2020 18:34:57 GMT
Before we had even heard of brands like Muddy Fox and Pinarello, when I was a lad there was only one serious bike to be had and that was a Raleigh.
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Post by spitthedog on Mar 30, 2020 18:35:27 GMT
medium.com/@greenrupertread/the-coronavirus-letter-youve-just-been-sent-by-johnson-is-a-lie-transcript-824e71aa73bDr. Rupert Read The coronavirus letter you’ve just been sent by Johnson is a lie [00:00:00] Fellow citizens of this great country of Britain, I’m here to tell you that you’re about to be deceived deliberately by your own government. [00:00:11] A letter will soon come through your door from them, telling you that unless you get more serious about locking down, the government is going to tighten the lockdown that we are all under. They are trying to put the blame on you for this public health disaster of the Coronavirus and for the lockdown needed, it is indeed needed, in response to that disaster. In the letter, Prime Minister Johnson says, quote, “From the start, we, the government have sought to put in the right measures at the right time”. [00:00:42] The truth is very different. The truth is that the government have, for two months, systematically flouted World Health Organisation advice on how to deal with this pandemic and that in some respects they are still doing so now. [00:00:58] My name is Dr Rupert Read, a few weeks ago, I coordinated a letter; a version of which was published in The Daily Mail. It was signed by the editor of Britain’s foremost medical journal, The Lancet, and by the former chair of the House of Commons Science Select Committee. Now the government should have acted well before receiving our letter. They should have moved already to stop flights coming in from Italy and China. They should have quarantined those possibly having the virus. They should have ordered in ventilators and personal protective equipment for carers. They should have begun a mass program of testing. They should have provided enough to live on to all those tempted to work sick. But even after receiving a letter and even after being told firmly by the World Health Organisation that they were letting everyone down through their inactivity, they still did virtually nothing. [00:01:50] Now, of course, I’m not saying that dealing with this virus crisis is easy. Far from it. I don’t envy the governments and their advisers in their unprecedented task here. But the unprecedentedness of the task is exactly why we needed them to take strong action to protect us and to stay ahead of the curve and exactly why you deserve honesty from them now. The truth is, we didn’t get what we deserve. We didn’t get strong action to protect us. Instead, they wasted weeks on end and then cooked up their utterly disastrous herd immunity plan to infect most of us with this sometimes-deadly disease. And we’re still not getting honesty about all this now. The government are not telling us the truth about why a harsher lockdown may be needed. [00:02:44] South Korea came through this with no lockdown at all because they acted fast ahead of the virus to mass test, to contact trace, to physically distance. Think about that. South Korea showed the way. The difference between them and us; government policy. [00:03:05] The truth is that a hard lockdown is needed now, not for the reason the government is insinuating; they’re trying to blame us, the people, for the mess they created. Do not let Johnson get away with putting the blame for this horrific crisis that we’re now in, on you. The truth is that they, the government, are primarily to blame for the tsunami of infections and the torrent of deaths that Britain is still at the relatively early stages of. They, the government, have not done their first job. They have not protected us. A well-placed source has indicated to colleagues of mine that the Chief Medical Officer was ready some time ago to put in place tougher measures for physical distancing and so on and that these were vetoed at the last minute by the Prime Minister. A Prime Minister who showed leadership by shaking hands with hospital patients in a hospital where they were Coronavirus cases just a few weeks ago. [00:04:06] Now, if you happen to be someone who has privileged information that you could use to blow the whistle on the full truth about what our own government has done to us, then please go to www.truthteller.life. We all deserve to know the full facts. [00:04:26] We the people have led in this country and we’ve dragged our reluctant government behind us. That’s the truth. We led by pushing the government finally to act. We led already before that, many millions of us, by cancelling events, working from home, initiating physical distancing, before the government had done anything significant to protect us. And we’re leading now by being there for each other, by supporting our beloved NHS and by demanding that our carers get the personal protective equipment they so desperately need and deserve. We refused to go quietly and meekly into the tsunami of suffering that is coming, a torrent of death that is coming because our government fiddled while the world started to burn. And because for a while, our government’s ludicrous and deadly herd immunity plan meant that we had the most inactive and indeed actively harmful government policy in the whole world on the Coronavirus pandemic. [00:05:29] Why does all this matter? Am I just crying over spilt milk? It matters because thousands are dying unnecessarily and it matters because we’re still only at the relatively early stages of this emergency and we’re going to need much better leadership to get through it. We will get through this, though not before the government’s prevarication has cost large numbers of British lives. We’ll get through this together. And when we got through it, we’ll memorialize the dead by making damn sure that nothing like this deadly fiasco can ever happen again. And to make sure of that, we’ll need to start with a full public inquiry into how our government came to have the worst policy of inaction on Coronavirus in the whole world; a policy that will have killed many of our loved ones. A policy that means that a harsh and knock-down lockdown may indeed now be necessary. [00:06:27] It is government policy which has led to the desperate situation we are now in. If a fuller lockdown comes, this will be because they did not act and they must take responsibility for that. They must take responsibility for the need for any harsher lockdown soon to come. [00:06:52] Thank you for watching. If you agree with this video, then please share it. And please stay safe. When the government doesn’t protect, we the people have to lead the way. He appears to be advocating that we ignore government advice and do our own thing naively thinking "we the people" will all act as one in the most sensible manner possible. Really? The government have made some mistakes but everyone ignoring them and doing their own thing has got to be the dumbest idea yet. Comes across as an attention seeking knobhead miffed that his letter to the "Daily Mail" (?) has been ignored and he isn't the one on the telly leading the nation to safety. Shitbin? WTF!....He's not advocating that you ignore Govt advice!!! Totally the opposite. What an idiotic response and misrepresentation. He's saying that advice should have come sooner and saved lives. That the Government were warned clearly by medical experts. If you are going to respond to something then at least listen to it or read it! I, for example, was still working in a school with 500 kids on March 20th that was 9 DAYS AFTER this was declared a global pandemic for which there is no known cure while our PM was telling everyone it was ok to still shake hands. That's not a mistake that's a gross act of negligence. History will not look kindly on that fact. Nor will the relatives of those who have lost their lives. He's correct in his assertion that what the Govt are most interested in now is covering their own backs. Blaming the public for not following their mixed messages and of course China. We'll hear more on that I'm sure.
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Post by somersetstokie on Mar 30, 2020 18:38:30 GMT
It all started when teachers started to allow themselves to be addressed by name They should address the nation smoking cigars and slurring their words like Winston. He was dressed well though tbf. Sir Anthony Eden was even well known for wearing a hat!
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Mar 30, 2020 18:44:31 GMT
They should address the nation smoking cigars and slurring their words like Winston. He was dressed well though tbf. Sir Anthony Eden was even well known for wearing a hat! So was Benny from Crossroads.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Mar 30, 2020 18:51:04 GMT
For anybody that’s using the House party app because of this Coronavirus virus(seeing family) be aware of this
DELETE HOUSEPARTY!!!! ⚠️ They are hacking into spotifys, snapchats and even online banking!!! Delete your account before deleting the app
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Post by Cast no shadow on Mar 30, 2020 18:54:13 GMT
I see Terry Christian is being a cunt again.
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Post by danceswithclams on Mar 30, 2020 18:55:01 GMT
At our school we pupils were expected to refer to each other as "Mr",in class and during school time. As in "Whilst I respect Mr Jones' suggested answer, I feel that he is mistaken in his interpretation of the facts". Almost like referring to MP's in parliament as"the Hon Member". Encourages respect. Admin should implement that rule here to make things more civil. I can see it now... "Whilst I respect the right Honerable Poster's contribution to this thread I would also suggest that he's a collosal paedophile and invite said poster to a participate in a duel to settle this matter, to be held at 3pm adjacent to the sculpture paying homage to the City of Stoke on Trent's most famous footballing son. " (you are also only allowed to post if you are wearing a full dinner jacket like a 1930s BBC announcer)
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Post by whakka on Mar 30, 2020 18:55:09 GMT
He appears to be advocating that we ignore government advice and do our own thing naively thinking "we the people" will all act as one in the most sensible manner possible. Really? The government have made some mistakes but everyone ignoring them and doing their own thing has got to be the dumbest idea yet. Comes across as an attention seeking knobhead miffed that his letter to the "Daily Mail" (?) has been ignored and he isn't the one on the telly leading the nation to safety. Shitbin? WTF!....He's not advocating that you ignore Govt advice!!! Totally the opposite. What an idiotic response and misrepresentation. He's saying that advice should have come sooner and saved lives. That the Government were warned clearly by medical experts. If you are going to respond to something then at least listen to it or read it! I, for example, was still working in a school with 500 kids on March 20th that was 9 DAYS AFTER this was declared a global pandemic for which there is no known cure while our PM was telling everyone it was ok to still shake hands. That's not a mistake that's a gross act of negligence. History will not look kindly on that fact. Nor will the relatives of those who have lost their lives. He's correct in his assertion that what the Govt are most interested in now is covering their own backs. Blaming the public for not following their mixed messages and of course China. We'll hear more on that I'm sure. cant remember the government blaming anybody? Still pushing the same advice but certainly not blaming anyone
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Post by Clem Fandango on Mar 30, 2020 18:55:14 GMT
I've bought a couple of bikes and a few odds & sods online from these, and always got what I thought was a fair deal.... Rutland linkTa. Know this business. Will pain me to buy a bike from anywhere to be honest. Velo are open in Stone Dave if you ring and get an appointment. Cracking shop ran by some good lads.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Mar 30, 2020 18:55:52 GMT
I see Terry Christian is being a cunt again. He’s vile mate
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Post by thebet365 on Mar 30, 2020 18:55:53 GMT
For anybody that’s using the House party app because of this Coronavirus virus(seeing family) be aware of this DELETE HOUSEPARTY!!!! ⚠️ They are hacking into spotifys, snapchats and even online banking!!! Delete your account before deleting the app The tweet won't open, says his settings prevent certain people from seeing it
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Mar 30, 2020 18:56:23 GMT
For anybody that’s using the House party app because of this Coronavirus virus(seeing family) be aware of this DELETE HOUSEPARTY!!!! ⚠️ They are hacking into spotifys, snapchats and even online banking!!! Delete your account before deleting the app The tweet won't open, says his settings prevent certain people from seeing it I know that’s why I copied and pasted it
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 18:58:04 GMT
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 30, 2020 19:21:09 GMT
Ta. Know this business. Will pain me to buy a bike from anywhere to be honest. Velo are open in Stone Dave if you ring and get an appointment. Cracking shop ran by some good lads. I'm not local mate. Up near Burnley. Thanks though 👍
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Post by stokeson on Mar 30, 2020 19:22:21 GMT
Man of the people Zac . ramp ramp ramp it up....
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Post by zerps on Mar 30, 2020 19:22:53 GMT
Terry Christian is about 5 posters on this thread
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